Ligonier Banner., Volume 63, Number 18B, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 May 1929 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner Established 1858 : Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. (Zoth'en‘nan,-Manager ' Published every Monday and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter.-

Tax Reliei Diseussed : Mounting taxes on farm property | was responsible for a recent meeting of tax representatives of state farm bureaus of Indiana New York, Ohio Hliuni:;. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Towa and Missouri in the offices of the American Farm Bureau Federution at (thicago. =~ Tax ('X!"‘“‘“”“'*‘-‘; ciame in for the major part of the discussion as it was generally recognized that Scrutinizing and control of budgéts and bond issues offered the most dii‘(:rl and certain means of immediate tax relief. L In the successtul handling of ll_\es(n_ matters ln(li_zln:i was recognized as the leading staté - farm in advance of all others. All states are seeking new BOUrces ul"m.\:miimi. o o Hope in Concentration . 1. H Hull general manager of the Indiana Farm Bureaun Purchasing l)v;nn:tl ment at a meeting of 65 :lisn'ihuv,_m‘s! and representatives this week in indianapolis ‘expressed his opinion regarding future lope for the farmer when he said “Onr purchasing department has been giving a large service in the ;.vay of _})(ﬂpiug the farmers. "”,i account of thie extensive buving power of our organization which continues mj rapidly develop we have all of the trading advantages in purchasing farm supplies that the kn-:lin;n;v chain store can -boast. In addition we have the 'eas'e'(pt‘ selling because of the partnership idea which exists among our people and whicli no chain store can attain.. In the working out of our farm. problems our only hope lies in the larger concentration of our power- It is the day of merging. Our job is not so much the selling of tarm supplies but it is the selling to ourselves and to our farmers the idea of cooperation. llf we can.teach our farmers to merge their stupendous buying power, if we can teacl them to com‘bine their ‘inferests as other industries have- combined their interests, if we can teach them to suhdivide their responsihilities um'o'n;; the experts of _their own - choosing, we will then not need to talk abdéut trading equality -for agriculture for the organized farmer will be in a class by himself.” Y - Poppy Quota Sold » - Kendallville’'s quota of fifteen hundred poppies were sold without trou‘ble, Saturday hy members of the local .('}mptjer of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Boy Scout troops. The entire number sold annually on a day “as “Poppy Dav” were distributed before evening and the ladies and seouts had numerous requests for additional flowers. . :

‘ éﬂ’ NCE - Some of the greatest - Used Car values we have ever offered Due to the tremendous popularity of the new Chevrolet Six —we have had traded in to us an unﬁsually large number of good z used cars. We are going to dispose of this ~ stock in a sensational spring clearance sale. Come in! You will find the most rem‘ark(§ . able used car values e\'er‘oﬂ'erc‘zd lin this | town. Many makes and body types. Some 1 ' of the very latest 1928 models that are practically like new. Every car has been - ‘ thoroughly inspected. ‘Many of them have i been coémpletely reconditioneda and carry the famous red “O. K. That Counts” Tag* Spring is just around the corner—and now | is the time to get the car you want—at a price that will save you money. : Come in TODAY— - while you have such a wide - selection to choose from. -

~ Lincoln-Chrevolet, Inc. ’ ‘Phone 145 ‘ G.T. Whittaker, Prop. Ligonier

g (Consnmmate Patent Agreement - An item of more than ordinary interest to the radio industry and of special moment to The Sparks-Withing-tonl Company. and The Radio Corporation of America was learned in an interview today with Capt. Wm. Sparks, l'(’resi-:!e‘m of the Sparks-Withington Company in - which: after considerable negoiiations, The Radio Corporation has purchased from the Sparks-With-ingtcn Company various valuable patdenis on radio construetion, and . the

Radiv Corporation has granted to the Sparks-Withington Cempany a license under - all of their pateuts. , ' This ends litigation bhetween these two companies which has heen pending for vears. and which, no- doubt, will he of great- satisfaction to the custemers of hoth parties. - (‘apt. Sparks stated that. as far as his company was concerned he never siaw the industry look as bright as at the present time, His company has just purchasedl one. additional factory aud is now completing a big addition to their Plant Three which will more than double their capacity for the coming season. Injured in Accident ] Mrz. John Schermerhorn and son Junior age 11 years suffered severe cats and bruises Friday as the result a head-on collision: hetween the light fl«‘m'(l fruck in which they were riding luud i Parfection bread truck driven by George Azhifey of Fort Wayne, The accident ocenrred at a turn on the old canal road, southwest of Rome City while Mrs. Schermérhorn and her son were enroute home. i R Youths 'Held For Robbing Car - Vernon Hardin .and -Milton Sims, colored hoth nipeteen years of age who cave their address as Cleveland 0. were mirested hy N ¥ O detectives shortly after thev broke into a car of merchandise in a train standing at the ‘siding just west of the union station at Kendallville. ~ . Mrs, Willebrandt to Quit ’ Mrs. Mabel Walker Willehrandt assistant attornéy-general has decided to relinquish her post in the department of justice and enter private prac_'lice in New York and Washington the ll_’nitwl Pres learned at the department "of justice Monday. 0

Dies in Pennsylvania. - ' Alvin PB. Conlogue aged 73 vears, native of Rome (ity and for many yvears a resident of Kendallville died Saturday at midnight at his home 240 East Patriot street Somerset, Pa., following a second stroke of paralysis. - s | : H. L. Pulman Dead. ‘ Harold : 1.. Pullman owner of the {H‘nllm‘;m Monument works and one of Kendallviile's best known young business men is dead of tuberculosis. He was born in Kendallville in 1893 and spent his entire life .there. Never Too Old. Dr. David C. Barnett 90 vear old ciVil war veteran has just taken as lis bride Mrs. Elizabeth ~ Matlock 386 Hemlock at Kokomo. '

THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA

Car Is Recovered

State police headquarters at Indianapolis -announced Monday morning that the Bftick sedan belonging to H. E. Geddis of Kendall,vil'le and stolen a week ago Saturday night and used to haul away $5,000 worth of loot from a clothing store there and at Garrett has been found near Imlianapo]i!&'; ' The automobile a large seven passenger c¢ar was stolen from the J. A. Cain & Company garage after thieves entered the building’ by way of the rear door. Later the same night the entered the Julius Kann store at Kendallville and stole merchandise valued at $3.500. They drove to Garrett where they stole goods worth $1.500 from the Houser store. G They Are Wedded . Miss Anne Morrow daughter of Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight: W. Morrow and (ol Charles A. Lindbergh were married at the bride's home at Englewod New Jersey Monday afterHOOM. - The cedemony -witnessed by only a few friends and " the immediate family was performed by the Rev. Williamm Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary, New York city. ~ Immediately afterward Ambassador Morrow left for Washington. The honeymoon plans of the couple were kept secret, ' : : . | ~ Finds For Plaintiii i After deliberating for eighteen hours and forty-five minutes a jury in. the saperior court at Elkhart returned 1;1 verdict awarding Mys. I«‘l«‘)l'm](,~("'[%itler of Kokonia $2.000 in an action on, a contract agai¥®st A. E. Kundred, well known gladioli grower of Goshen and David, T. Swihart of South Bend. Mrs. Bitler had asked for $4,000 judgmen and the: verdict was in the nature ,of a compromise. Sb g R D BaNits in $5,000 Haul. Two well dressed young bandits ‘walked into the offices of the Parthenon theater at Hammond while the cashier and accountant weére checking over the Saturday night and Sunday '1'()(-eih‘ls and held them up. - Theyv ‘swopl over $5.000 into a bag and escaped. :

© Maytags Win Over Elkhart The Wolcottville Maytags .played headly bhall there Sunday afternoon to defeat Elkhart in a fast and well played game 5 to 3. The game was featured by heavy hitting of the Hamil ton brothers and fast fielding by both teams. Wolcottville meets the South Bend Browns Decoration day. Class of 450 At Notre Dame The 1929 class of the University of Notre Dame numbering 450 is the largest "in history. Commencement exercises will he held Sundayv June 2. The speaker will be Col. Willam Dongos'un ‘former assistant attorney gen-!m-al of the United States, . ‘ A B e e A e - Taken to Logansport - Eli Wagoner former business man at Wakarusa and wel lknown was taken to the state hospital at lLogansport hy Sherift Glenn Banks,

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~at these Used Car values 1926 CHEVROLET (COACH Duco finish like new good rubber and mechanically in the very bhest condition. $lOO.OO dqwu and balance $19.00 per month. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1927 CHEVROLET ONE TON - TRUCK - - Mechanically very good, five good tires and good paint.. Priced to sell. Trades accepted and terms if desired. : WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1926 WILLYS KNIGHT SEDAN. Five good tires, new finish, upholstery in fime shape, motometer, bumpers and other extras. Mechanically runs just like a new car. Small down payment and GMAC on the balance. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS : 1928 ESSEX COACH _ .This car runs and looks like new. Five good tires, good finish and upholstery, humpers front and rear. What have you to trade on this one. : WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1925 FORD TON TRUCK : Good grain body and cab. Five good tires and mechanically perfect. Just the truck vou need on the farm and priced right. . WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS - Several other good light cars to select from and prices are under the market values. We are open Sundays and evenings until nine thirty and will be open Thursday May 30th until noon. ¥

. THE ESSEX HUDSON-BESSEX SALES ' Ligonier, ‘Phone 48%

Europe was given another demonstration. of the all-around performance of which American automobiles are capable when American. entries carried off most of the prizes in the 2,730 mile tour of France organized by the Motorcyele Club of' France. The tour, which was for both automobiles and motorcycles consisted of nine-day runs of a’ppmximatel_\" 310 miles each, with intermediate dayf in the various provinces devoted| to speed contests, hill . climbs, starts with cold motors and other eventsl designed to bring out the real quaii-\ ties of the cars. = , ‘ The Ansaido Cup for allrmui(l‘per--} formance the most coveted prize ini the competition was won by an Essex driven by Andre Morel a noted French - driver. It finished without penalizations. Adding .to the performance was the fact that a second Essex driven by Lamy also finished with a perfect score, - THE CHEVROLET | * Chevrolet-Lincoln Sales Phone 145 Ligonier, Ind. A few figure rose to prominence on the automobile horizon a few weeks ago with thé appointment of H. J. Klingler as Vice President and Gemeral Sales Manager of the Chevrolet Motor Company. Mr. Klingler takes charge of a selling forme of more than 35,000 people and becomes the leader of an organization geared up to sell more than one million awtohobiles annually. : In his new position Mr. Klingler at 40 takes over the work formerly directed by R. H. Grant now a _,\’i)’('e President 'of General Motors. . Mr. Klingler was ‘born July 5, 1889 at St. Clair, Mich., where he lived until “tinishing at the St. (Clair high school in 1908. That fall he entered the l'niversity of Michigan becoming a member of the Lit-Law class of 1912, : 0 : : He left the L'ni\'érsit_\' before taking his degree to become associated with the Chalmers Motor Company, where he remained for a short time. His first introduction to sales work was in the summer of 1912 when he went with the Murphy Chair Company in Detroit, During his five yvears with this organization the new Chevrolet sales chici had a “hand in the company’s ' advertising work, served as traffic manager and later as sales manager. i o At the outbreak of the war he volunteered and dwas sent to the officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, TI., where he was commissioned a First Lieuteant of Infantry. He was transferred later to the Fourth Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Battalion with which he saw a year’s service overseas. !

After he was mustered out of service early in 1919 opnortimity beckoned in Dayton and he went to the Ohia city and joined the sales organization of the Delco-Light Company. In his five years with this company he gained a broad knowledge, of sales and adventising in varizl\é‘&pacities and in many sections of the country. This was his first contact with R. H. Grant with whom he was later to hecome more closely assiciated. :

Reminded of Old Times

' My outing of today was to visit my fsick brother James at Ligonier whose condition is slightly improved. A spec;ialist from Fort Wayne assures him he will be around in the near future, but that he is destined to go a little slow in all his future movements. We were able to get together wit ha few of his jokes he never forgets of my own experience. We four hrothers are not slow to remind each other of our short comings as boys together in the many yearagso. . - j ’

« The latest from my youngest brother Willis of Garden City Kansas is that he is slightly improved but he too never will be his former self again. Brother Edward of St. Joseph, Michigan has been with him for the past two weeks, a great pleasure for both of them.—George W. Kinnisonin Goshen News-Times.

Smallpox (ases in Elkhart

~ Smallpox quarantines ha\;i:‘ecn established by Elkhart City H@lth Officer Russell E. Qraggo at four Elkhart homes in the last two days. In one house there are fou rpersons aftlicted with the disease and another very ill from a chronic ailmen. In a.nothel; there is one recognized case of the disease and another member of the family in bed, diagnosis pending There is but one patient at each of the other two homes under quarantine, All the cases are of mild nature.

Dies Under Tractor Walter Knoblauch 29 son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Knoblauch was instantly killed on the J. F. Butt farm three miles northeast of Woodburn about 11 o'clock Monday morning. : ~ Knoblauch suffocated being unable to breathe when caught under a tractor and a cultipactor which he was operating when he fell from the trac‘tor seat. S : | : Buys Lake Lot. : J. M. Farrell of East Purl street has purchased a lake front lot at Lake Wa‘wasee near the Waco pavilion. Work has been begun on a cottage and the Farrells plan to maké: their home there during the summer months. Louis Kahn of Chicago formerly of the Ligonier shirt factory was in the city Tuesday calling on old friends.

19 Cars Quality

. Twenty-four worried drivers tinkered with their cars today in the hope of making them. just a bit faster before qualifying them for the 500-mile automobile race Thursday. _ , They had Monday and Tuesday in which to take their turns with a likihood that the officials might also let them try for starting places on Wednesday. The race is limited to 33 contenders. e ’ A : Heré and There Mr. and Mrs. Abe Berger and. Mr. and Mrs. S:un.‘lfmrnsteiu' spent Sunday in Ligonier. . Mrs. Shobe wife of Dr. Shiebe and Mrs. Sisterhen of Ligonier were callers at the News-Times on Monday. Mrs. Shobe s a sister of Mrs. Willis Kinnison of Garden City Ku‘i\-.\'as--w Goshen News-Times. Gypsy Robs Negress , It cost Anna Taylor Wegress of Indianapolis just $1.500 to give a gypsy woman some salt. : . Anna said the woman came to her door and asked to horrow. some of the condiment. ' : She added that the $1,500 was hidden in a mattress of her bed and that the gypsy was left alone in the room while she went to obtain the salt. - Fort Wayne Man Killed : James: E. Smith 45 of Fort Wayne was killed at Ju('ksk)vn‘ Mich., Saturday evening about. 10 o'clock when he was hit by a hit-and-skip automobile driver. Mr. Sniith died in . the street where he was injured before medical assistance could be given him, !

: Wawasee Hotel Opens The Wawasee hotel was opened Satyrday night for the’ banquet of the graduates of the Ilkhart high school. It will remain open for the season. Glen Vergon of Wabash 34 was ast week sentenced to serve from .one to three vears in the Indiana state pris son when he entered a pled of guilty. td)'amiily (10.‘\‘61'!‘“»11. » CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Services in Weir Block. Sunday school 9:45 A, M. Lesson Sermon 11:00 A. M. Everybody welcome. : - Notice of Settlement of Estate. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned The Cromwell State Bank, Cromwell, Indiana, - Guardian of Ulysses G..Lecount, a person of unsound mind, now deceased, will by order of the Noble Circuit Court of Indiana proceed to settle the estate. of said ward without administration thereof. The heirs of said decedent, the creditors 'of his estate and ‘ali other persons interested therein will be goyerned accordingly. Said estate is-supposed to be insolvent. ~ The -Cromwell State = Bank, G Cromwell, Indiana, Guardian. Bothwel & Vanderford, ; lLig‘miier, Indiana, :

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f l | I v 1 - of service in THE Model T was so strongly and sturdily built that it is still rendering reliable, economical service to motorists in every section of the country. Millions of these cars-can be put in shape for two, three and five more years of use at very smalscost. o So that you may have this work done economically and satisfaetorily, the Ford Motor Company is stiil devoting a considerable section of its plants to the manufacture of Model T parts. It will continue to do =0 as long as they are needed by Model T owners. The following list gives the approximate labor charges for reconditioning the Model T Ford :— . - Engine Tune motor (including replacement of commutsator case, brush and vibrator points if necessary) - - - £l.oo° Grind valves and clean carbon - - - - - $3.751t0 .00 Overhaul ecarburetor - - . - - - - - 1.50 Reline detachable car transmission bands < - - - 1.50 Install new pistons or conneeting rods. - - -v« 0 600 Tighten all main bearings - - “i o - . 6.00 Overhaul motor and transmission - -= - £20.00 to 25.00 : ' Rear System ' Replace rear axle assembly - .- - - y . £ 250 Install universal joint. - - : 5 o - . 3.00 Reline brake shoes S b e s . 1.90 Replace rear axle shaft, drive shaft pinion. or drive gear 5.00 Overhaul complete rear axle assembly . - - 4+ $5.7510 7.00 Rebush spring and perches - - - - s 1.5 oOil and graphite springs - - - - . - - _ 3.00 . ‘Froni System - Overhaul front axle - - - = = 2 - $4,00 10 5.00 Rebush spindle bodies and arms (both sides) - - - 2.50 Replace or straighten spindle connectingrod - - - A Tighten radius rod or steering ball cap - - - - .60 Tighten all sockets and joints of frontend - - - - 1,50 Replace front spring tie bolt or new leaf - siie - 2.50 Straighten hont axle. - - - . - .. . . 3.00 o thasis « @ Replace rear fender - - - - .. - - D Overhaul steering gear - - - . - - . . . 3.30 Repair muifler L o s sl s g o 1.00 Overhaul radisgtor = = <« s s a 0 e . - 7.50 Repaint Coupe e e e wniie e - 2500 Repaint Sedan e e R 235.00 Repaint Touring Car - - - - a i - 20.00 Reupholster Runabout. - - - -.- - ‘= = . £.OO Reupholster Touring Car - = e E el . - 15.00 Replace top deck (Coupe or Sedan) - - - = . 4,00 Overhaul starting motor - “g - - - e 3.00 Overhaul generator SR 2.60 ¥ These prices are approximate and are for labor ouly, because the need and number of new parts depend on the condition of each car. The charge for these parts is low, however, because of the established Ford policy of manufacturing and selling at a smull margia of proiit. : : : : > - ForD MOTOR COMPANY

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