Ligonier Banner., Volume 63, Number 24B, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 July 1929 — Page 2

Ihe Ligomer Banner . Established 18566 . Published by - i 1 E BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotherman, Manager e e i i i {’ublished every Monday and Thursday tn:d entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, indiapa, as second class matter. Games At South Bend. l.ouie Batchelor’s South Bend Indians, who have won 12 out of last 13 g'.imes including victories over the Cincinnati Reds i 0 to 0 and the Philadelphia Nationals 2 to 2 wilt hook up with Josh Devorcs Grand Rapids clab sunday afternoon at Plaviand I‘,lls}\' in South Bend. Devore is none other than the former New oYrk Giant and Boston Brave outficider. Lefty Sullivan will hurl for' the Benders while Hearne ec¢x-Boston Brave will do the pitching for Grand Rapids. Several other former National and American leaguers are on ‘the Grand Rapids roster. | ' Other games booked for July at plavland include the f‘hivuf:n White Sox, Detroit Tigé}‘s. Kansas City Monarchs, Washington Senators. New Yoik (Giiants and Cuban Stars. A great boxing show with 50 rounds of bouts an’a low pfrice of 50 cents admission has been arranged at Playland for Tuesday night, July 16th. Pee Wo Jarrell Baby Joe Gans and other head liners will be on the bill. i Stunned by Lightning Bolt Robert Thomas 16 and his father Howard Thomas living east of Urbana were knocked unconscious Thursday when a bolt of lightning struck a barii on the Thomas farm where they were working. The elder Thomas recovered in a few hours but the younger member of tire family was only semiconscious and was still in a serious condition Friday. L The bolt set fire to the barn but neighbors rushed in and pulled the two men to safety They also managed to save most of the live stock in the barn at the time.

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S AB Illinois farmer writes a Chicago radio station that he has placed a loud speaker in a -cherry tree and by this means has frightened birds away from the ripening fruit. He has requested the station to broadcast howls and screeches to aid in frightening the birds away. We have known times when our radio would have scared all the birds in the feathered kingdom away and it was not a special program either.—Columbia City Post.

Family Reunion Held

Ninety-eight members of the family attended the Annual Garber Family Reunion which was held Sunday at Tri Lake Whitley Noble and Kosciusko_ counties and Indianapolis and Chicago were represented at the annual affair. A big dinner was served and an informal program was glven. The reunion is always on the first Sunday after July 4th and will be at Tri Lake again next year. : South Bend 105,000 South Bend accepted as ludiana’s second city has a population of 105,000 while Gary which early thi€ spring claimed a popixlution of 113.000 hus but 87,354 inhabitants according to Walter R. Arnold who declaves that his figures are based on the estimated ratio of school census to the federal census of 1910 and 1920. Blames Death on Liquor Asserting that her husband cowmmitted suicide because of an unsound condition of his mind due t ointoxication Mrs. Grace Cherry widow of B2z Cherry has filed suit in Martin ecircuit court against Leander GQGrisler demanding $lO,OOO because of the death of her husband . She alleges Geisler sold Cherry liquor.

Hand is Saved

G. Thomas Keller who was severely injured Saturday morning when he had his right hand caught in a corn cracker at the Mayer Grain company Churubusco had the fingers of the hand amputated at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Although the hand itself was badly cut it was not necessary to amputate the hand at the wrist. o

Moving Van Destroved

A large moving van operated by the Red Ball Transit Co.. of Chicago loaded with household goods was completely destroyed by fire along with the contents early Sunday morning while traveling along U. S. road 20 one mile east of the intersection of the Goshen-Bristol roada : Mishawaka Boy Is Rrowned Niles Michigan police late Friday were dragging the St. Joseph river a mile south of the Bertrand bridgs where Edward Bermingstall 16 had dis appeared. at 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon while swimming in deep water. Making Survey - ~ Yost Brothers bridge contraciors “have their engineers here makinz surveys for the Martin street bhridge which they will construct across the Elkhart river at that point A force of men will begin work on the structure next Monday. ‘ ~ Whitley Old Settlers . President Fred Yontz of the Whitley County Old Settlers Day association announced Monday that the of“ficers of that organization were pre- ' paring to get busy and arrange a program for Old Settlers Day which falls this year on Thursday August 15th.

UNKISSED HUBBIES ! "IN DIVORCE COLURT, Experiment in New Style ; Matrimony a Failure. | Los Angeles, Calif.—-Flaming youth’s ! latest innovation, the “kissless.” p]fb% tonie marriage, has been tried in Los | Angeles. r . s And did it work? Well, perhaps the | rwo young men selected for the cx-g periment were npot esthetic enov<h. | They appeared in local courts und | asked to be released from their cul- | lege girl wives and their new sy nff matrimnony. Both were granted n-| nulmients on the grounds that they hud | teen defrauded. o g "The two girls. who had :Ltrvn.p:{‘*di to tevolutionize marringe and snlna'li-f tute an ideal platonic l‘c'i:iliutr'z‘}p‘ sins all caresses, did not appear ia | court 1o witness the failure of their experiment, #lt was a great little plan, but tiat was a 11.,” =aid A. A. Anderson, one of thie younz husbands. When he appeared in Judge Leom- | ard Wilson’s cour! he told how he tad lived with his wife for two year= :nd had never received a kiss or a cive s, “She told me that she loved iae,| bit “<he just would not kiss me. el explained. - “Kisses,” she said, “wire| repuisive to her.” I Almost simultaneously Richard V.i Witson, a voung banker, was réela: ngi a similar story in the court of Julze Eliiott Craig,.® : 1 met her at a University of! Southern California sorovity don 'l “Watson said. “She was the proit st girl there. She seemed fto care f{or me. \We were married in two dnys “Then 1 - discovered her stracize ideas about marringe. . She refuced to kiss me. Kissing was dodriacing to women; it typifies the subjeetonl of the female to the male, she = id, I liveidl with-her for half a vear :ind could not change her viewpoint.” Coson Cat Adopts Baby Foxes on Master’s Farm| Holbrook, Mass.—The eredit for q:!(—'s of ‘the straifgest “adoptions” on rec 1 belongs to “Betty,” an intellicent caoon cat, and her master, Lester \\'ils(»_.i uf; this town, owner of a silver fox ra:ch, | who -has persuaded “Betfy” to nuise three little silver black foxes |n“~'§vh‘:“ one of her own children, { This strange exhibition of mothcr! love pleascs Wilson, who may be En-‘ debied to “Dletty” in 500 or more. the 1 value of the trio of “reynards” if ;:.t-_\"f sursive ! The cat loves the little black feljows as thouch they were her own, and by sharing the fawmily milk supply with ! theny, has tided them over.to the point! where there is good reason to hope they will survive. !

“One morning a month ago | visited the pen and discovered the trio of new -horn pups,” Wilsoh related. “The next morning it appeared thut the mother of (he pups could not nurse therm. 1 was at my wit’s end to know how to solve the problem. Then 1 re called that my pet eat had had a litter of Kkitiens the previous. day. “Although I believed there was only one chanee in a hundred thit the cat could be persuaded to nurse the foxes, I resolved to try out the exj:eri ment. [-took all except one of the kittens away from the cat. I took one of the little fellows and euddied his beside the eat. ‘The first move was made by ‘Bettv.' . She spifled ithe strange hidiy, then she kissed him, and the battle was won.” .

Dine Leaves Town It Buried 400 Years Azo Koeslin, Germuny.—Afier having becn buried 400 yvears under a giant wandering dune, the fishing villuge Lonzke on the Baltic shore is bheina given up by the sand mountains. In teresting finds, including coins frow before the Sixteenth century, are being made in the first buildinzs which have reappeared. Summer guesis af seaside resorts are focking to Lonzke to view the spectacle. ~ The giant dune, the wanderine ot which centuries ot effort have heen unable to retard, engulfed the ‘village around the year 1540 Since then it has slowly traveled or and is now on the opposite site of the littie settlement. | Sunday School Teacher Has 15-Year Record Watsonville, Calit.—H. A. Hyde, prominent local florist and teaclier of a Sunday school eclass at the PFirst Methodist church here, prides himself on the record he has established tor teaching a class every Sundax for the last 15 years. Even when Hyde broke his leg and was confined to his home he notified the class of his injuries and Sunday morning at the regulai hour ' the cluss members presented themselves at his home. e

2OOOEOEOLIOCOREOELERRE Cloud of Sparrows £ 9 ’. s Stops Band Concert § ® Regina, Sask.—lnvading the '4 @ “ladium rink at Estevan, where ¢ @ ihe Regina Symphony orchestra b g was billed to stage a concert, 2 © ihwusands of sparrows made il & & ‘wpossible for artists to con © @ tiuue. Chirping loudly and fiy- % % sng over the heads of the audi- f&; g cnice, the birds refused to be < driven out until the hall was {? cleared and a number of the (;< o feathered invaders shot. % ®, r - 'E@Q@@@:&

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Al AT FRmMCE Bmu‘fg | - FRONTIER FORTS Impregnable Barriers Are ~ Being Built on East ~ and Southeast. : . Paris.—France's fortified “wall of China,” a sapposedly impregnable bar rier to separafe her froin her neigh bors to.the east and southeast, is slowly arising in the forth of fow foot thick steel and concrete piil boxes, unbreakable .gun shelters and bowb-proof ammunition Stores deep underground. - S : : : Work was slowed up by the hard winter, hut has been pushed rapjdi since good weather: altowed a contin uation of labor, Mnd before the ond of the year the, tirst unit of the de ferise system will have heen complet ed and fhe first credit of 230000000 francs spent. , - ' The 1930 budget, which the minister of finamce. M, Cheron, wil] place on the desks of pariiamment, will contain a second great credit, probably he tween 400000000 and SGOO.OOOO MR francs, As soon as the sum is fised and voted the general staif of (i army will draw up a definite program of building far 1920, ' Use German Materials, : In building the great system of for tified defenses along the Germag fron tier, German materials have been used These were furnished by the German government under the Diawes plan. as payment in nature and really repre sent no actual invesiment of . money by Erance. The work now' is being: centered areund three: of ihe groatest strong holds of the Germin frontier, north of Metz and diviiding Alsiace from Ihe Palatinate. All of the secondary de fenses still to be huilt will be hased on these outstanding strong points, At the same time work is progress ing on the defense of the Alpine fron tier, where. much :Hrviul) has been done and only the Hnking up of the strongholds. reinains to be completed Despite the develepment of heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, the French general staff appears to put much confidence in fortifications, has ing its judcment on the fact that the Verdun fortress was never taken by the Germans, although the outer ferts there were pounded to pieces by gub fire, : . \Withstand Shelling. ' Likewise, the josses suffered by the Germans before the forts of Namur and lLiege so weakened them that the Seventh army arfrived at the first bat tle of the Marne greatly shattered Pompelle was another of the old forts almost _ohsplete at the start of the war, which was put in shape by the French and held the Germans off for WO vedrs ek L In those forts none of the bomb proot shelters for the famous 758 was pierced and only one of the shelters in the fort of Vaux was. destroyed by a mine. Fven the great 420 mm. shells of the Germans failed to dent them Basing their plans on such thor oughly tested shelters, the FrencH ven eral staff has complefely planned the great- defense line which will extend from Dunkirk to Pontarlier; a dis tance -of nearly five hundred miles This fortification is purely defensive and is Intended to provide a frontier battlefield to keep enemy (roops from ever again desiroving fthe rieh ip terior of KFrance. ; v France is not aloue. to fortify itz frontiers, for Germany consecrated the equivalent of 23.600,000 francs in her current ‘!m(fgvt for the upkeep of fortifications, and Italy, in her 192728 budget, bad ecredits of 52,700,000 lire for similar work With the completion of the new frontier fortifications, many forts in the interior will bhe declassed. and there is now a,project before parlia ment to declass such famous old ferte as Pompelle, Brimont. Witry. and No gent I'Abbesse at Reims, and the old Roman camp on the Meuse, _

Maine Planning to Kcep Native Sons =t Home Augusta,, Maine.—Maine has taken definite steps to keep its native sons within the state. The Maine develop ment commission has appointed ‘an employment committee to aid younc men, through the co-operation of the various ' indusiries, in finding jobs Thus it is hoped to discournge Maine youths from’ secking their life work outside the borders of their native state. s ) :

?’W*Qzﬁ** eTerlesetesTefests ox;vb sefeferis oxtox«?':‘ t 3 3 .Zx. Pontoon. for Salvage 44-5 % Work New Invention & % Stockholm.—An entirely new & & kind of pontoon, -id to be of k 3 %% great importance for marine S :f: salvage work and far easier to & ** nandle then tiie old type which ? :’:: is bulky and unwieldy, has jusi & :Xx: been invented by a Swedish en % gineer, Ragnar Blomquist. The & i new device is collapsible and can :g ¥ be folded together and thus % Eé easily transported. When sub- - & merged, it opens into its natural % Size and is filled with air through 3 % a hose leading from the¢ com : pressor of the salvage ship. The :§j z new invention, which has been ¥ % patented in all seafaring coun- % :i: tries, has aroused great interesi :3: % among shipping experts in :g Sweden and abroad. . b%: ‘SesteTeateol oot eeetT BT o est et oot

. To Produce Sacred Play Sunday evening July 14th the Richville Sunday school will precent the Biblical Drama, “Ruth” the cast is as ifolo.iv_s: = ‘ | Boaz—Harold McDaniel , ! Elimelech-—Sidney Harper - = f Mahlon—Harold Hire » Loy I Chilion - Emer Hanshew - i Benjamin--Harold Nelson g' Ruth—Ardath Furst . | Orpah—Alice Roach = ‘ % ..\‘:uu.nimlmth Harper - ' % Other members of the Sunday ‘school have minor parts. ; l Following the presentation of the § rama a pantomime of “‘The Ten Vir'ging” will be given. - : i This brogram is given as the an‘ndal Children’s Day®service and will ‘begin at 7:30 Standard time. The public i 8 cordjally invited. | [l e e e - P Arm Severed In Wreck. = | Warreh Tenne of near Warsaw was severely injured .\[Qndziy in an anto‘mobile c¢ollision with John 1. Huut jalso of near Warsaw. His right arm ibelow the elhow was nearly severed hmd lie Auit’cx's from loss of blood and %shock,_ The accident ()('étﬂil‘({d at o ‘cross road north of there. Tenney lis lin’ 'Lvh‘e McDonald hospital. Chester _('()1)1(>11 was slightly cut aihg:ut the tace in an: antomobile collision there. with i(‘harle_s ;:“.t’.mlor. Others in the cars lwere un’iinjured.' i %l::lkhurt Man Injured . LaFayette J. MeCutcheon well known real estate man at Elkhkart I'..snstaind(i a fracture of ‘his left leg- in %zm autpmobile accident on Federal §J{.qa(l 21‘+ near Rolling Prairie. ‘He alEsc) sul"x,‘jred a concusion of the braiu, ‘but is |[recovering from that injury. !I{s carf'wus struck by a ma('hine driEven t‘ro%n a side road by two women. ; -M. Kimmell Speaks | Business men. of Kendallville who !pledg_ed; themselves to be sponsors for hleurhy live stock an(t‘pntato 4-FH clul__) 'members met the club members at the }connuunity building TueSday evening. !Joscphf Kimmell of the Ligonier {(,lllillllbel‘ of Commerce and ‘Earl Butz %c!nb leader of Wawaka were thie prip_%cip‘al speakers. ’ i ] : 5 e e e S | Wendell Lantz Killed In West. i Wendell Lantz 23 vears old son of IMr. and Mrs. W. H. Lantz of Fish | Lake east of .Goshen was killed in an jaccident in.a lumber Lamp near Coeur |DeAlene Idaho Sunday: according to la message received by his parents. fNothing is known of the nature of the ‘a'ccideut.. 1 . ~ : | ; Seen . This Poeochi ‘ . Reward of $5,000 for the return of (Snowtliie §lOO,OOO vaudeville dog who lleaped out of the baggage car of an ieastbound train in Union station Indianapolis Saturday morning was post ed today by Irving Howard one of his owners.. ’ v o L ~ Dog’s Bite Fatal. = - E Jimmie three-year-old son of Mrs. {bD. €. Protsman' of Mishawaka died !Monday morning at the home oif his Iparents in Mishawaka. The bey wes ibitteu' by a dog a short time ago; ]lnfection set in causing his death.

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A. E. Kelley on Eist. * Rev. Arthur J. Folsom 'pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, Fort Wayne will make the address at the official dedication of Camp Limberlost the Boy Scout camp oi the Anthony Wayne area next Sunday afternoon at Sylvan lake, : The a(llili!listl"x_ltiOII coffice of Boy Scout has issued invitations to the general public of northern Indiana to attend the ceremonies at the camp. The program Sunday afternoon will be in charge of the foilowing committee: e o L. H. Moore, chairman: E. G. Hoftman, A. H. Schaaf, B. F. Geyer, Merlin 8. Wilson' all of Fort Wayne; C. H. Kimmel, léemlallville; E. W. Lankenau, Decatur; W.'S: Painter, Garrett; H. E. Wilder, Angola: A. E. _K_e'lley‘ “Ligonier: - Howard Ulhman BBluffton. - . Miliord Man Found Dead Emanuel Dubbs 64 was found dead in his home in Milford Sunday evening at seven o'clock by a grandson Harry Gawthrop He was in bed and apparently had died sometime Saturday night of a cerebral hemorrhage Mr. Dubbs a vetired farmer had lived alone in Miliord since the death of his wife who was killed in -an autgmobile accident several vyears -ago. Mr. Dubbs who was driving the car at the time of the accident was also injured and had never entirely recovered. from the shock. .

' Beware of Typhoid e Vacationists not familiar with sanitary conditions of tlie'il'_ milk and water supply ‘should be inoculated agzainst typlmi(l_fpv‘e_r, Dr. Herman G. Morgan Indianapolis superintendent of health said. e Most of the cases of typhoid in the summer are traceable to vacation trips Dr. Morgan said. Insane Woman Hangs Seli. Strangling hetself with her apron which - she - had knotted around her neck and to the bars of her cell Hazel Lott 40 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam T. Lott Mishawaka committeed suicide in the insane ward of the County jail Saturday morning -at South Bend. S ~ Man Ends Life by Leap Into River - Antoni Slaby 57 jumped from the Grand Trunk and Western railroad bridge into the St. Joseph river at South Bend Saturday night and was drowned. Kenneth Bennett 16 saw the man jump from the bridge. The body was recovered several hours later. | Pay your Banner subscriptions. . e See - v DWIGHT MCCK . - for ‘ - Vulcanizing and - Acetylene Welding Battery Charging and Repairing Row Boats, Motor Boats and Canoes ‘ ~ South Side Lake Wawasee ' 3 . on Cement Road Phone 504 - Syraense

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