Ligonier Banner., Volume 62, Number 34A, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 September 1928 — Page 1
TWICE WEEEKLY
2.00 PER YEAR
MACHINE VALUED AT $1,680 RE-. MOYED BY THIEVES WHO MAKE CLEAN GETAWAY Abandoned Wreck of Big Buick Is Found In Wouds North of T-C Pike by Road Workers
“After making their entrance through a back window three thieves moved two new cars out of the way took a third machine out »f the front show room o¢f the Hallie Butz garage at Kendallville Thursday night and made their escape before officials arrived on the scene.
The new car an Advance Six four door Nash sedan was owned by the Armstrong-Nash Motor company of Wawaka which has a branch in charge of Jacob Longnecker. The stolen car was valued at $1,680. Sam Marshall a farmer living north of the city noticed the two men stand ing across the street from the garage at 11 o'clock in the evening as he was enroute home. Suspecting that the men were loitering for no lawful reason Marshall turned his car east, and saw a third man crawling through a small window into the garage. He drove directly to the police station and returned to the garage with the night officers but no trace of the men could be found. Mrs. Butz was called and made an inspection of the garage and found nothing missing but later a checkup by Mr. Longnecker revealed that the new car had been stolen. In order to drive the car from the show room the intruders were forced to move several other cars including two new Nash models of less value than the one they took. The stolen machine was not equipped with license plates. Employees of the garage remembered this morning that a strange man was seen around the building several times during the day. A 1925 Buick touring car discovered in a thick weods north of MecClure’s corner on state road No. 9 Thursday by employees of the stale highway department has been placed in the garage at Wolcottville while Lieut William Donovan of the Indiana state police is attempting {o find the' owner of the machine. |
: Highway employees noticed the car hidden in the deep woods and called Lieut. Donovan who with the aid of a state truck and several men succeeded in pulling the car back on the highway. Both license numbers had been ripped from their holders and the car had evidently been stolen and abandoned according to Lieut. Donovan. :
Prisoner Tries Suicide.
Jesse James Jr., of Los Angeles Cal, who claims to be the grandson of the notorious Jesse James of reconstruction days and who is in the county jail at Albion charged with grand larceny attempted suicide it was learned today. Spurned by a letter from his sweetheart in Chicago James apparently meditating over his misfortune of recent days, decided to end it all. He drank a quantity of disinfectant used to spray the jail walls. '
Physicians were —summoned and first aid applied and James was carried to an upper floor revived and put to bed. An investigation revealed that he had drank almost a cup of the disinfectant. Physicians say he will recover. .
Bogus Check Floater
Warning has been received here calling attention to a man who has been forging and passing bogus traveler's checks on a wholesale basis: Filling stations have been the particular victims of the forger though he has victimized scores of other business houses. The checks are in $lO and $2O denominations.
Loses Valuable Cat.
While driving from their Diamond lake summer home to Goshen Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Swinehart lost their Persian Angora Tiger cat out of the car and they will pay a reward for its return. Finder address Mrs. John Swinehart at Goshen.
Repairing Highways
Charles Caldwell has a force ot‘ men at work repairing dirt roads in York and Elkhart townships in the vicinity of Diamond lake. The Diamond lake road in Perry township is in need of attention.
Klick ShPws Improvement
‘Wm. Klick who was taken to the Goshen hospital from Cromwell last week with typhoid fever is reported as showing some signs of recovery.
Some Fine TOmatoes
The Banner has been presented with a sack of very fine tomatoes grown in the garden of Mrs. Paul Joray for which that lady is extended thanks.
THE LIGONIER BANNER
LIGONIER.NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBXR 17, 1928
NEAR RIOT AT ALBION
Real Thrills Oifered Crowd When Angered Spectators Take Hand in Fight
~_‘Harry Wyatt age 38 6f Fort Wavne a member of a boxing show which is part of the carnival playing at Albion was badly injured Friday evening during a riot which started when Wyatt struck Francis Mann aged 16 of Albion as the other was boxing with Wyatt's brother Robert Wyatt, 30. Spectators angered by Wryatt's unwarranted attack on the local youth pulled the man from the boxing ring and beat him badly before local officials could.itnerfere. Several other showmen attempted to interfere and a large crowd of men were engaged before the battle could be halted.
The other Wyatt was seconding his brother in the fight against young Mann who had accepted the challenge to meet the carnival boxer. The local youth was punishing the professional fighter badly when his brother interfered, and struck Mann a . severe blow. Instantly the crowd surged to the ring and pulled Wyatt to the ground where he was kicked and beaten. Mob spirit flamed and the man was carried outside for more severe punishment when sheriffs deputies and lecal police halted the ciowd and tookk Mr. Wyatt to the county jail. A doctor was called to dress his injjuries and he was locked up for the night. No charges were preferred against Wyatt,
PAVING PIKE SLOW WORK
Lontractor to Finish Road Between Corunna and Waterloo This Year ~ BeHef Paving of the Toledo-Chicago pike between Kendallville and Waterloo is progressing slowly. The concrete is being laid between Corunna and Waterloo and this half of the 14-mile stretch will likely be completed this fall. On the other halfi from Corunna to Kendallville little progress has been made. Grading is going forward and it is believed that this half of the road will not be completely paved until some time next year. Delay in construction work was encountered when objections to awards for the proposed right-of-way were made by land owenrs. Considerable litigation was involved before some of the difficulties were ironed out and it is understoed that there are several deals still hanging fire. . Efforts are now bebing made Dby road boosters of this community to have the next stretch of the T-C pike from this city east to Kendallville included in the 1929 paving program. A big booster meeting is to be held in the near future to arouse enthusiasum and make a drive for the improvement. .
Seven Persons Killed
A Grand Trunk freight train ecrashed into a tourist automobile {pear Gary Wednesday. Seven persons were killed and a 7 year old boy was injured perhaps fatally.
The dead were believed to be D. S. Pollock 59; Lilboern Mo.; Howard Smith 38, Dearborn, Mich.; C. C. Main ord 35; Mrs. Mainrod; Mrs. Anna Jones 24; a baby boy about 20 months and a baby girl. All except Pollock and Smith were from Matthews Mo, it was believed. ;
,The party was driving into Gary when the accident occurred. The train demolished the automobile and ran more than a quarter of a mile before it could be stopped.
Marriage License.
Samuel R. Bell 21 farmer of Kendallville to Winona A. Brown 18 of Kendallville on Sept. 11. Edward Thurkette 31 laborer of Kendallville to Bessie M. Hurd 20 of Rome City on Sept. 6. i Earl Cooper 26 casting inspector of Monroe Mich.,, to Ethel Henningshaw 28 of ™Monroe Mich.,, on Sept. 1. : ' Clarence J. McDonald 27 farmer of near Kendallville to Blanche A. Clise 20 of Rome City on Sept. 6. ; Joe E. Trowbridge 22 mechanic of Kendallville to Ruth I. Becker 21 office worker on Sept. 6. : o | Druggist is Convicted
Richard Machette a druggist of Bourbon was found guilty by a jury in the circuit court at Plymouth of violating the liquor laws_ and was fined $3OO and sentenced to sixty days in jail. The defendant made no defense but has taken an appeal to the appellate court.
Ban on Tobacco at Winna. _ According to announcement made Wednesday no tobacco in any form will be sold at Winona lake following the expiration of business leases now in effect. Announcement was made at a W. C. T. U. meeting by Winona members : :
They Are Delighted
Mrs. Arlo Shearer came from Chicago Friday and spent Saturday with relatives. She says Mr. Shearer is pleased with his work in a bond house and both are delighted with their home in Oak Park. -
JACKSON IN WHITLEY
Democratic Nominee for Congress Speaks Wednesday at Washing‘ton Center
Samuel D. Jackson of Fort Wayne Democratic candidate for congress will open the Democratic campaign in Whitley county next Wednesday evening with an address at the Washington Center school in Washington township. - ; ; - James D. Adams district chairman, and Harvey Brown Whitley county chairman have announcéd, that they are expecting al arge and enthusiastic crowd at the rally. ' The Washingtofi Center Rainbow trio which is composed of Mrs. Herschel Pence Mrs. Cliff Newcomer and Miss Edna Smith will furnish special music for the occasion. '
Airway Beacon On New Stamp.
Uncle Sam’s new five-cent air mail stamp neat but not gaudy as the saying goes has the public wondering at what they construe to he a picture of a lighthouse. Evidently the puzzled public has never seen an airway beacon for the center design of the red, white and blue stamp is not a picture of an nil derrick, a windmill tower or a lighthouse at sea, but it is a view of the highest airway beacon in the world, located on top »f Sherman hili 30 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo. Stands 10,000 feet above sea level and asg the trans-continental mail planes ,cruise 100 miles an hour through the night it points the way to Cheyenne's field which is 7,000 -feet above sea level.
Injujries Prove aFtal.
Frank Huff aged about 55 years died in QGarrett hospital Saturday morning the result of injuries received when his Ford coupe was hit by a B. & 0. locomotive at Blackman’s crossing east of iKmmell last Thursday morning as described in the Banner, . The deceased leaves his widow and a number of children. Funeral services were held at two o’clock this afternoon at Pleasant Hill church with burial in Sparta cemetery. e e
“The {(ossacks”
- Liearning to ride in a Cossack saddle a queer high affair from the Russian steppes was John Gilbert’s strenuous preparation for this latest screen role .in Metro-Goldwyn-May-er's “The Cassacks” coming Wednesday to the Crystal Theatre = Gilbért rides with a troop of génuine Cossacks brought from Europe for the picture, and who stage sensational riding thrills in spectacular, settings. Renee Adoree plays the hervine.
Woman Killed in Accident
Mrs. Frantz Knull 39 of North Manchester was instantly killed Tuesday afternoon in an automobile accident at Gridley 111.,, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowers also of North Manchester who were in the same car were seriously injured. Mrs. Bowers Is not expected to recover. The accident occurred when a car driven by Mr. Knull skidded and crashed into a tree.
Six Couple Bridge Club.
Dr. and Mrs. C. G Keehn entertained six couples to a six o’clock picnic dinner Thursday evening folowed by bridge. High score was won by. Mrs. W. C. B. Harrison and W H Wigton, Second prizes went to Mrs W. H. Wigton and A. E. Kelley.
New C(ars Sported - - Following residents of Ligonier are out with new cars: o : W. H. Wigton, Elcar Eight in Line. Arthur Kelley, Graham Paige sedan Emily Wigton, Ford roadster ‘ Harry Inks, Graham Paige sedan. Young Forger Caught Richard Yant 18 of Wawaka was arrested at South Bend and confessed that he had cashed worthless checks for more than $l5O at Mishawaka and Osceola.
Captares Big Fish : While fishing in Diamond lake Saturday evening Ed Bourie captured a pike which tipped the scales at nearly six pounds. He landed the monster after a long struggle. :
Go To Michigan
Mr. and Mrs. Will Sharp are going to spend the next two weeks at Big Rapids, Mich., During their absence Job Sharp will be a guest of a niece in ‘Nappanee. ’
Buys Back PrOperty
Mrs. Catherine Ordung formerly Mrs. Will Gilbert who sometime ago sold her residence property here to C. V. Poyser has repurchased the place. '
Dies of Lockiaw
Ellen Rhodes age 6 died of lockjaw Tuesday night at Rochester as a result of running a thorn in her ifoot a week ago. :
Goes For Treatment.
Mrs. Emma Homan left Saturday for Rochester Minnesota where she entered the Mayo hospital for treatment.
VIGINITY SHOCKED BY SUDDEN DEATH
FAY LEMING SUFFERS HEART ATTACK AND PASSES AWAY THURSDAY
Funeral Under Masonic Auspices Held Sunday Afternoon at United... ! Brethren Church
The Ligonier community was shock ed Thursday evening when the news spread over the city that Fay Leming born in LaGrange county nearly 32 years ago and a popular young man had died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in the East End. Mr. Leming had been employed in the Refrigerator {actory but had been laid off and he spent Thursday as[sisting his father-in-law to haul poles. }The day was warm and when he reached home he complained of the heat. When he turned to place a piece of ice in the refrigerator it proved too heavy and he sank to the floor passing away in a few moments.
Mrs. Leming who before her marriage to Mr. Leming was Georgia Ott a well known trained nurse and their two little daughters aside from his parents Mr. and Mrs. George Leming and a brother Willis are left to mourn.
Fay Leming was an honorgd member of the Ligonier Masonic lodge ;’and members of that order had charge of the funeral direcied by Rev. G. H. EBacheler and held at the U. B. church Sunday afternoon The remains were laid in Oak Park cemetery. : 2 Wednesday Night Concert _Thel ast band concert of the season will be given Wednesday evening
Sept. 19th. : : The Tri-City band will present a program of unusual interest having several selections that will be presented that were intended for earlier in the season. 2 The Blue Danube waltzes by Strauss has been asked for mere often than any other number in the band’s library and the band is using this opportunity to satisfy the many requests for this famous number.
~ Miss Elizabeth Hire Mrs. Charles ‘Wagner and Mrs. Graham Lyon will appear in solos and trios and this part of the program will be” highly entertaining. - 3 Mr. George Dearstine formerly of the Lerner Theatre and a cornistest of some note will present a solo with a pleasing band accompaniment, The crowds attending the concerts this year have been larger and moore aprpeciative than in any other year since the Tri-City has been an organization and is a fine testimonial to this band’s ability. -
Boy Caught Under Disc,
Ned Farber eleven years old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Christian TFarber of three miles east of Wakarusa escaped serious injury Wednesday evening when he was caught under a disc harrow and held helpless there for mwre than an: hour. The boy after returning home from school at Southwest went to a field with a five-horse team and the harrgw. When he failed to return at supper time the father went in search of him and found his legs pinned under the drag. Brutally Assaults 13-Year Old Girl With only meager clews police today were unable’ to make much headway in their search for the motor ist who criminally attacked Katherine Poe 13 on her way to school at Michi-! gan City Thursday morning. } . The girl is in a serious condition suffering from concussion of the bhrain and a broken ankle and has been unable to describe her assailant, Her unconscious hody was found partly robed along the road. : - Pleads Guilty, Roscoe Hartman 35 of Elkhart pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Flkhart city court to charges of driv’ing while intoxicated. Penalty was deferred until it could be learned how much damage was done to a park ed car belonging to Robert Clipp of Elkhart which was siruck by Hartman’s auto. ‘ .. Meets With Mishap. - The automobile belonging to Mrs. P. J. Carney and driven by.her son James turned over when the machine struck a stretch of loose gravel six miles beyond Columbia City and turned over, rolling down an embankment. Mrs. Carney was quite badly shaken up but she and the driver escaped serious injury. The car was bidly damaged. . v o o
One Hundred Dollars Fine Amos Stutsman of Topeka was given a fine of $lOO and costs by Judge Clyde C Carlin in the LaGrange circuit court Monday for violation of the liquor law. A sentence of fifty days in the state penal farm was also presented the young man. o
GREENWOOD SLANDER SUIT
Former Noble County Man Sues Harlan Institution; Business Injured, : Is Claim
The Harlan State bank and Frank Miller an employee of that institution were sued for $5,000 each in superior court at Fort Wayne Thursday by Harold Greenwood of Harlan former resident of Kendallville. Greenwood alleges that his reputation and business have been injured by a statement he avers was made by Miller. In the complaint against the bank Greenwood sets forth that last June one of its employees and agents said to Greenwood in the presence of a number of persons: “You cannot null anything off in this bank and wreck this bank like you did the Grabill bank; I will put you in jail” ' Greenwood contends that the re‘mark constituted a slander in that it was understood by the hearers to mean that he was a “swindler and a crook.” » He asserts that he suffered injujry to his good name and that his garage business has been hurt as direct result of the statement. The suit against Miller charges he personaily uttered the Talleged slanderous remark. =4
§-Year-old Boy Is Injured
Mistaking a dynamite cap which he had found along the road for a whistle C. H. Kuglin six miles southwest of Columbia City had a narrow éscape from death. The lad placed .the explosive on a water pipe and began pounding it with a hammer. The fingers of the left- hand were almost torn to shreds and the right hand injured. There were several holes in hig forehead. The parents were away from home at the time and his sister Mary aged 15 hearing the explosion came to his aid. Anti-tetanus serum was given to prevent lockjaw. Both hands were so badly mangied that amputation may be necessary. - ~ Death of John Lemaster John Lemaster age 76 years well known farmer of Noble and LaGrange counties died at the home of his daughter Mrs. George Randol necar Woodruff Wednesday evening. Death followed an illness of more than a year resulting from heart trouble and complications. ' During his declining vears and since the death of his wife three vears ago Mr. Lemaster had been making his home with his children. ‘
Evansville Dector Shot.
Police investigated the mysterious shooting of Dr."W. O. Bohannon, who was found seated in his car in front of his home with two Dullet woundg in his body at Evansville He was taken to a hospital where his condition was said to be serious. Before lapsing into unconsciousness Dr. Bohannon told his wife he was shot by two bandits.
Man Escapes Death
. When the second section of the Twentieth Century limited on the New York Central railroad struckchis light truck on a crossing at Goshen Benjamin Yoder of near Elkhart miraculously escaped injury. The truck was wrecked and the train stopped. Yoder killed his engine while on the tracks and remained in the car endeavoring to start it. . .
Shot By Young Cousin
Emory Powell 55 of Kokomo spent 30 years as a soldier without a bruise but now is in a hospital recovering from a bullet wound inflicted by the accidental discharge of a rifle, fired by his cousin Ned age 9. The accident occurred while Powell and the boy were hunting turtles along the Tippecanoe river.
Seitle At New Paris
W. H. Seitle president of the Indiana State Farm Bureau will be the principal speaker at a picnic at the Elkhart County Farm bureau to be held at New Paris on September 22 it has been anounnced. The picnic will be an all day affair and will be held at the New Paris school ground.
Teacher Missing.
~ No trace has been found of Archie Brenneman of Huntington who Ileft there two weeks ago for Monticello, Ind., where he expected to resume his teaching duties in the city schools last Monday. He taught in the sum‘mer school at Terre Haute Normal.
Escapes From Penal Farm
The whereabouts of Victor Murphy of Garrett who escaped from the penal farm August 30 have not been determined. He was given six months sentence August 17, because of his annoyance of young girls at iAubuPn. G s e
“Peeper” Out of Hospital.
Wilford Warner 21 of Elkhart who was shot through the hip while peeping at Elkhart last Friday was released from the hospital this morning and is at liberty under a $5OO bond. . Nearby Deaths
Mrs. Otto Kiefer 51 indigestion, Decatur; Clara Greisch 36 tuberculosis. Columbia City; Rev:. J. M. Stewart 71 complications Warsaw. ,
THE AVIATION MEEYN
Thir{y Planes Promised For Alr - Stants at Walker Field September 22 and 23 :
The claim is made that thirty airplanes are to participate in the air derby at Walker field Saturday and Sunday September 22 and 23. = Following is the program. e . Saturday September 22
9:00 a. m—2 Model Plane Demonsiration by Bertram Pond. e 20:00 a. m—Aertal Parade over the city with passengers, S +11::30 a. m.—Parachute Drop
1:30 .p m-—-24 mile race for QYS planes over 3 mile triangular course. 3:00 p .m.—Parachute Drop. = 4:30 p. m-—Dead Stick landing. 6:00 p. m.—Parachute- drop by (vene Rock. 5 4
. Sunday September 23 1:00 p .m.— Parachute Droxn : 2:00 p. m.—Balleon Straffing Coutes{ ’ . .
3:00 p m.-—-Parachute Drop. - 4:30p .m.—24 mile free for all race over 3 mile Triangular course. ‘ 6:00 p. m.—Parachute Drop, . 1,701 Hoosiers Mei Death 106 Murdered, 303 Committed Suicide ~oand 1,292 Killed in , Accidents o '
_A total of 1,701 Hoosiers met death violently in the first seven months of 1928 according to figures bbtained by the safety council. - ‘ Of the 1,701, 106 were murdered, 303 committed suicide and 1,292 were killed in accidents. 5 ;
Motor car mishaps reaped a toll of 439 lives accidental falls resulted fatally for 258, while railroad accidentg ended 102 lives. L .
More drownings occurred in July than in the preceding months, fiftythree meeting death in that manner in the one month. Forty-seven drownings had been reported at the close of June. , e Bighty-five Indianians died as the result of burns twenty-six were poisoned accidentally twenty died from electric shock six froze to death and one, person starved to death.
Storm Takes Big Toll
A tornado which Friday afternoon: mowed a narrowswaththrough the Rockford Illinois distriet taci6 the Roekford Illinois industrial section and thé nearby countryside was known to have crushed seven persons to death and resulted in property damage estimated at $5,000,000.
Fifteen persons out of more than 100 emploved in the factories howled over still were missing and 34 were in hospitals seriously hurt while others less seriously injured had been removed to their homes. ‘
Those missing are believed to be buried under tons of debris of two furniture factories in the path of the storm and their names were singled out by checking the payroll lists of the plants with the list of survivors. A possibility that some of the missing still may be alive in their prison of wreckage developed early today. Rescuers workng at the demolished plants ordered the hundreds of spectators among them scores of relative; of the missing workmen to remain silent while they shouted inguiries into the debris. Some of the workers said they heard faint cries in reply.
Sehool Class Organization Senior Class Officers: President-—Bill Nelson , Vice President—Athol Herrman Secretary—-Wanda Cunningham Treasurer— Gertrude Surfus. , Sponsor—Miss Williams Junior Class Officers: j President—Don Cotherman ~ Vice President—Hobart Smith S_eéretary—’—Bdb Cunningham Treasurer—Forest Slabaugh | Sponsor—Miss Palin :
Accident Death to be Probed Coroner Carl C. Raifeis’ inquest into the death last Tuesday of John "Fombaugh, age 57 of Deedsville Ind.. who died of injuries received when his automobile was in collision with another driven by Mrs. Viola Cline iCamden, Ind., just south of South !Bend on the Dixie highway Sept. 1 may be held this afternono. It depends upon the arrival of the Clines who haye been summened by Dr. Carl C. Reifeis county coroner Telephone Meeting at Nappanee The annual fall meéting of the Northern Indiana Telephone associa/ tion will be held at Nappanee September 20. Business sessions will be held in the Methodist church. The sessions will be divided for men and operators with Martha Hossler of Nappanee in charge of the women and Roscoe ‘Poni;_iufs president in charge of the men. -
City Tax Rate $l.
President Bender in the absence of Mayor Calbeck presided at the meeting of the city council Thursday night at which aside from fixing the tax rate at $1 on the $lOO. valuation only routine business was transacted. President Bender fixes the total tax rate for Ligonier city if the state levy remain at 23 cents at $3.49. .
RORA THUREDAY
VOIL. 62 NO. 84A
TILE AND BRICK FOR FALTORY BUILDING
OVERALL COMPANY CHANGES PLANS AND WILL .’N()T‘l;}ll’l.OY - CEMENT BLOCKS
Big Structure Will Be Brick Veneer Over Tile and Will Cost. Fifteen _Thousand Dollars
[ The, Banner Thursday carried a description of the big factory building ..pfojected for the Overall factory The "E%r‘si draft was ']3 cement block affair but. the plans h[ave been changed and it has been decided to use tile and veneer it w{ith brick, makiug a much more sightly .job. = ~ At the meeting of ithe Chamber of Commerce Friday'no(ifn Charles Gljeelx chairman of the improvement committee e,fl;plained’ the progress inade .in raising the $4,000 by the city towards the building fund and W. H. Wigton explained that the smructure is to cost $15,000 leaving the Overall company tq raiséfill,tfl)fl.f "
. The Banner has a‘ix‘e;ady explained the ’b’nilding; project and the locacationr of the proposed -structure.
Mesprs. Green and }\\'igt(m eXPressed counfidence in the‘imL ability to raise the $4,000 required of the city. In fact the money is all raised but a matter of §3OO which will be sought from those who were not members of the- Ligonier {lndustrial Foundation and will benefit financally by the enlarged Overall factory plant. ~ Hold Train Over Hour. No little excitement prevailed at the New York Central passenger station at Waterloo when train No. 635 came in from the east. A bulldoe
being carried in the baggage car broke loose from its captivity and meade a jump from the car door. In a strange land apd with strange faces the dog made a face of its own and started on a ‘run, Station men started after the dog -and finally the section crew and other trainmen engaged in the pursuit but the dog was too fast for them and was soon lost sight of. The train was. held one hour and forty minutes waiting for the return of the dog, which was owned by a woman passenger enroute te Califoinia, and was said to be a valuable dog. Ii was stated that the owner carried $2OO insurance on the dog. =~ After a long search the dog could not bhe found and the frain left for Chicago. Later the. dog was found and sent on an afternoon train. X T st se o ~ Forger Attempts to Eat Check Attempting to pass a fraudulent check Wednesday afternoon on the Lindsey's Shoe store at South Bend Albert Dolman 52 'was arrested by city police after ‘the check had been found worthless. ‘Police were called and while waiting for them to arrive. Dolman attempted fo swallow the worthless paper but did not succeed in the attempt. Several other#similar- checks were found on his person. He later told police they had been given to him by another ‘man to pay a debt incurred by a poker game. G e ' Gives Money Shower. ' Ernest Hinkel aged 60 years of Fort Wayne had a busy time passing out his money Thursday evening and when he thought that all his obligations were settled e was confined to the Kendallville jail after Night officer Charles (}ilzhrért discovered a clinking suit case ‘in his car which contained eight guart bottles, flled with :prg\zvar’,’_ ’wim?.' -~ Columbia City Barn is Burned _ Word was received here Friday of the destruction by fire early that moi‘ixing of the I\Jeyers stock sales barn at Columbia City, owned by Meyers Bros:, large stock buyers who are well known here. Cause, of the fire and the e‘xtenz of the loss were not learned. B
Wins Many Prizes
E. B . Williamson of Noble county won 22 first 16 second six third and two fourth prizes and a sweepstakes "prize on vegetable and farm products ;'shgwn at the state fair. ; Bone in Throat Sauses Death Bern Rumbaugh 24 of Fort Wayne died in a hospital in'that city from complications arising when a bone from a pork chop - lodged in his throat. e Steal Hudson CCach . The Hudson coach owned by H. S. Logan proprietor of the Grand theater at Bluffton was stolen from its parking place on the street. It is thought two young strangers stole the car. - Bitten fiby ‘Dog. . | Joann Cole infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cole Union township near Bluffton was bitten four or five |places on the face and neck by a dog,