Ligonier Banner., Volume 63, Number 47A, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 December 1929 — Page 2
The Ligonier Banner Established 1856 Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, ’Editor M. A. Cotherman, Manager Published every Monday.and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter.
Rival Youths: in Melee, A seventeen-year-old school student was in a critical condition today at Indianapolis from wounds suffered at the hands of his sexteen-year-old rival for the company of a fourteen-year-old girl. Carl_Cupp fell unconscious after heing stabbed five times in the body by Edgar Ruff. Cupp was unarmed. Youthfu] witnesses, who had gone “down the alleyv” in the belief they were to see a fist fight, said Ruff held the knife conclealed in the palm of one hand, and that his adversary had no knowledge of the weapon until it had pierced his body. Ruff ran, with a crowd of angry boys in pursuit, but eluded them in the Monon railroad yards. He was later arrested and held by the police. 258 Arrests by Game Waardens, ‘Game wardens of the state department of conservation arrested Zss persons during October for violations of fish and game laws, according to announcement by Rirchard Lieber. de-
partement director. Two hundred and forty were convicted and paid fines and costs amount ing to $4,967.69, which went into ine various school funds of the counties wherein the offenses were committed. Sixteen cases remain to he tried and only two were dismissed. Leading offenses were for hunting, fishine o trapping without a license. Rob Bank of $25,000. Three young bandits entered the Farmers State bank at Gays, 111., lined up two officials and two customers and took their time in getting all the money in sight, approximately $25.000, The bandits were pursued in an automobile to Tattoon, where thev were successful in evading capture hecause of the heavy fog. The car they were driving was said to have been stolen. '
Fire Losses in State,
Losses from fire in Indiana during the year ending October 1, increased $1,152,504, compared to the proceding vear, it was shown in the annual report of State Fire Marshal Alfred E. Hogston.
The loss for 1929 totaled $8,026,767 against $6,874,263 for 1928, the report showed.
There were 5,005 fires in the state and the greatest losses were in rural districts and unincorporated towns.
To Spend Winter Here,
Mr. and Mrs, B. F. Ditman are leaving today to spend the winter with their son, Vernon Dittman and wife of Ligonier. Mr. Dittman who was injured when he fell down celiar is recovering nicely.—Topeka Journal.
Buried in Ligonier,
Mary A. Dunlap, 58, died Wednesday afternoon at the home of a niece, Mrs. James Gunderman at Goshen, following a lingering illness of complications. The funeral was held Friday afternoon and the remains laid in Oak Park cemetery this city.
Nearby Deaths.
Jacob Killian, 67, Whitley county: Miss Ruth Lorber, 46, one of Columbia City’s popular women died after a three years’ illness; Mrs. Fannie Ulery 61, Goshen; Henry Klingelsmith, 77, paralysis, Bristol; Mrs. Charles Rugman, 69, cancer, Auburn. : {
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Aged Pair Clubbed to Death. George F. Heath, 85, wealthy Delaware county farmer and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Heath, 70, were found dead in their homes four miles south of Muncie. hey had been killed with a club which was found near the bodies. The throat of Mrs. Heath had also bee nslashed with a knife which was found in the house. The bodies were discovered when an investigation was instigated by Ralph Whitley, a milkman, who neticed for the second successve morning there was no activity at ‘the Heath home, It is believed that the Heaths were slain sometime Tuesday night. : ~ Rum Rummer Hi-Jacked, Elmer Gage, rum runner is in a Sturgis hospital recovering from 4 serious gun shot wound inflicted when he was attacked by hi-jackers near Angola and relieved of thirty cases of beer. He refused to identify his assailants.
Gage admitted lie was hauling a truck loaded with thirty cases of bveer when he was shot by hi-jackers. Unless Gage makes a clean breast of the matter and identifies the attackers he will be prosecuted on liguor charges by Indiana authorities. , Transierred to Whitley Jail, Sheriff J. M. Havnes of Whitley county Thursday returned Joe Sareceno, held in the jail in Auburn since Sunday noon, to the jail at Columbia City. Sheriff Armstrong released Saraceno to the custody of the Whitley county sheriff on a court order and by direction of Ralph W. Probst, prosecuting attorney. Two Young Qifenders ' Two boys Paul Folk 13 and Freeman Taylor 14 confessed Wednesday to a number of robberies which have occurred at Huntington during the past few months. Chief of Police €. Guy Payne and Sheriff Fred Hamilton returned the boys from Peru where they were arrested for train-riding.
Moose Organizer Hurt.
Michael Mahoney, 60, of Indianapolis state organizer for the Moose lodge, was seriously injured and two Kokomo youths were slightly hurt in two automobile accidents involving a bus, two automobiles and a-truck five miles south of Peru.
Car Takes a Turn.
The Cromwell correspondent says: “Albert Deardorff and a Ligonier car salesman figured in an automobile acciden tnear here Saturday evening. The car turned over. There was no serious damage.
Have New Piano.
The public schools of Kimmell have purchased a new piano. There will be a Christmas program rendered in their auditorium Friday evening, December. 20th.
Y. N. (. Calendars.
The 1930 New York Central system calendars, now being distributed, show sections of the 20th Century Limited in the new station at Buffalo, N. Y.
“The Fall of Eve”, is a howling success. See it at Crystal Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
GENERAL ORDINANCE No. SO,
An ordinance prohibiting interference with Radio Reception and providing for the grounding of all radios and providing penalties for the violation thereof. .
Be it ordadined by the -(,‘vommoq Council of the City of Ligonier, Noble County, Indiaan: . Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partner-ship, association, or corporation, to operaté, or cause to be operated, any machine, device, apparatus or instrument of any kind whatsoever, the operationof which shall cause interference with radio reception within the city limits of said city of Ligonier, Indianaa, between the hours of six o’clock p.m. and twelve o'clock midnight of the same day, after the taking effect of this ordinance, save and excepting only such as may be necessary in the making of X-ray pictures, examinations and treatments. Section 2. ‘That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to install, operate, maintain or use any radio receiving set, instru‘ment or device used or intended to be used for the reproduction of sound waves which is not grounded hy a proper ground.
‘Section 3. That this ordinance shall not be held or construed to embrace or cover the regulation of any transmitting, broadcasting or receiving instrument, apparatus or device used or useful in interstate commerce or the operation of which instrument, apparatus, or device is licensed or authorized by or under the provision of any act of Congress of the United States. Section 4, Any person, firm or corporation, violating any provisien or ‘provisions of this ordinance, shall cn conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one dollar and not more ithan one hundred dollars. ~ Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law.
Ordained this 12th day of December 1929, - : Presented by me to the Mayor of said City for approval this 12th day’ of December, 1929, f J. C. KIMMELL, City Clerk. Approved by me’-this- 12th day .of December, 1929, _ . R. CALBECK, L Mayor of the City of Ligonier, Indian«. I Attest: J. C. Kimmell, City Clerk.
Dorothy’s Christmas; the - Resolution It Brought D OROTHY PORTER, beautiful, dignified, cultured and wealthy, was known in her community as Proud Dorothy. She was popular enough in her exclusive set, but to those of a iower social status she was considered a cold, unfeeling, moving statue. On Christmas eve Dorothy pushed her way through the seething crowd into one of the ten-cent stores for the forgotten tissue paper and tinsel cord to be used in wrapplng her gifts. As she was caught for a moment in a jam by the stocking counter, a piping childisb volce rose above the din: “Please, mamma, buy me a new pair of stockin’s. . I ain't got a decent one to hang up tonight.” Dorothy listened as her heart suffered a queer little quirk. “I'll mend up one,” said the shabby woman at her side. “Santy won't care about the darns.” The mother wiped away a tear as she turned from the poorly clad little girl and' caught Dorothy's fixed gaze. Under her breath she whispered: ' : “You see, mam, I'm more concerned about gettin’ somethin’ to put in the stockin’.” Before Deorothy realized what she was doing her hand was finding its way to her purse. *“Here, madam,” she said, slipping a bill into the woman’s. hand, “take this, please, and get the stockings and the filling, too. Get busy while I amuse the child at the toy counter. What is her name?” ~ “Oh, oh, oh, it’s Mabel, mam.” “Come with me, Mabel, to buy a nice toy while your mother waits for her package, won't you?” : “Sure I will, miss,” and Mabel slipped her hand into Dorothy's as she looked up at her mother and smiled. They tarried .a long time by the toy counter and Mabhel finally decided on a doll. Dorothy wrote down the child’s name and address so she could make and send her some pretty clothes for the doll. - : After a while the mother came for Mabel. She had only a few small packages in her hands, but a whisper to Dorothy told that much had been bought and sent home by a friend. Dorothy said goodby and left with only paper and tinsel in her hand, but in her heart there was the richest experience she had ever known. Mabel got her trunk of doll’s clothes before the holidays were over, and the proud Dorothy resolved never to let another Christmas pass without taking cheer into some neglected home. This was the happiest Christmas she had ever known.,— Lily Rutherford Morris. (®. 1929 Western Newspaper Union.) :
W&&%%MM%&&&%&!&&% - Christmas Stockings 3 [ MANY, many years ago there & i lived in Germany a very s . wealthy man named St. Nich- % ~ olas. This German fellow liked & nothing better than to help poor g ~ people, but disliked very much ' being thanked for his gifts. One g ~ Christmas eve he wished to give 5& ~ a . purse of gold to an old man ~and his little daughter, and ip g ~order to escape being seen, he ~ climbed to their roof and ~ dropped his precious gift down ~ the chimney. Instead of landing ! ~on the hearth, however, the purse fell right into a stocking, g which was hung up to dry, and the next morning the purse was fis discovered in the stocking. When other people heard of the strange happening they also hung up their stockings and soon ell over Germany and in & this country it became the cus- ® tom on Christmas Eve to hang ;’% up one’s stocking for St. Nich- § olas to fill.—Detroit Free Press. &
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Christmas Good Wishes
At Christmas time one Is proffered more good.wishes than at any other time of the year, and it is certainly the time when one needs them most. ~—The Tattler.
Children and Christmas
It is good to be children sometimes. and never better than at Christmas when its Mighty Founder was a Child Himself.—Dickens.
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'Find Relation Between { : Moon and Earthquakes! ! After studying the records of more ;rthan 1,200 earthquakes in Californ!n! iwhich have occurred since 1812 a Pu-f 'eific coast sclentist comes to the in, ,teresting conclusion that all the quakes came when the moon was in a cer: ‘taln quarter, The quakes occur on u! ’fault~line,» or crack in the substructure ‘of the earth’s crust. It was found that when the fault-line ran in a north-! westerly direction the earthquake would come when the moon was between the meridian and the western horizon, or when it had not yet ariseni and was in the directly opposite PO+ sition. . 2 1
- When the quake occurred on a faultline running east and west, it was' found that the moon would be in the corresponding quadrants of the sky. Four out of flve of the strongest shocks occurring in one place would come when the moon was in the same position it had been in during the main shock. Just why this re lationship between the moon’s position and earthquakes 18 so consistent has not yet been explained. :
Took Pessimistic View of Wire Communication
A number of prominent men of Professor Morse's period were dubious ‘about the practicability of the telegraph and belleved it to have very restricted limits. In view of the development of this form of communication and its present high efficiency it is interesting to note some of these early comments, J. Fennimore Cooper, ,author of the famous Leather-stocking. Tales, wrote to Morse on January 31, 1838, as follows: “My dear friend: I ‘'wish you all success with the tele.graph, which might be made very useful for long distances, Your difficulty will be in communicating between more than two stations, for half a .dozen sparks traveling on the same wire will play the devil with the reg(lsters.” - The Western Union today {sends as many as eight messages over ‘one wire at the same time by ingenilous automatic devices,
; Chocolate Ancient Beverage ¢ Chocolate was a favored drink on .this. continent long before the arrival ‘of the white man. It was extensively :used by the Aztecs and before them ‘the Toltecs. A Florentine who had -resided in the West Indies finally introduced chocolate into Italy, whence ts use gradually spread through Europe, though not without opposition. Jts Introduction Into Prussia was pro;hibited by Frederlck the Great. A faymous Paris physician, Bochof, on the ;otber hand, proclaimed cacao one of ithe most noble of discoveries, far ‘more worthy to be the food of the fgods than nectar and ambrosia, and ‘Linnaeus, noted Swedish botanist, who lgave cacao Its sclentific christening, .colned a name, “Theobroma,” from. itwo Greek words, meaning “food for ‘the gods,” which remalns its scien-: %tific name today. :
. Although she had never been mar‘riled at all her views on remarriage! !were very strict. 80, of course, she .had to call on the young divorcee and tell her so. !
{ Frankness was one of the virtues on :which she prided herself, so the conivngsation had not progressed far be-i ,fore she declared to the young bride,, *Pardon my saylng so, but don't you jthink you might have waited more ‘than a month after your divorce to, marry your second husband?”’ !
{ “Oh, do you really think so?’ re'plied the bride, “I'll make it a point! Ito wait longer next time.” :
. Australia has more than 100 varleties of animals in which the mother carries her young in a pouch on her stomach, says James T. Nichols in Successful Farming Magazine. : ~ “The most noted of all these animals is the kangaroo,” he writes, “of which there are a half hundred varieties. Some kangaroos are small as a rat and others are so large that when standing on their toes they are taller than & man. Although a kangaroo is a hardy animal, at birth It is very small, often but little larger than a mouse.” ;
A rather unusual man once said to the writer: *“I let most of my mail lie on my desk 30 days unanswered. After that time I generally find little of it needs to be answered.” This habit is not without its drawbacks, but there is something in it. Most of the things that worry us are really trivial. If we had the patience to go slowly, to let them wait, to hold our tongue, so many things would settle themselves. So many things we argue about and even quarrel about would disappear if left alone.—Philadelphia Star. .
- Rural Japanese housewives roll up their beds and store them away every morning. The Samoans have no bathtubs. They bathe daily in the cool mountain streams. Their furnishings are limited to pots or gourds. Pebbles on the bare ground replace carpets. The Egyptian peasant along the Nile lives in a clay house. His bed and chair are a ledge of earth on the side of the room., In Arabia, dinner is served in a huge pot into which the diners dig with their hands and bring forth their portion. ;
A Promise
Midget Kangaroos
Patience Is a Virtue
Primitive Home Life
Urges Fands Sonserved, ~ Conservation of funds already available as the most logical solution to the state school aid problem was the censensus expressed at the quarterly meeting of the state budget committee, . e . Members of the committee pointed out that conditions were much better when the state board of accounts scrutinized the xpenditures before they were authorized. While the committee had no direct supervision over the state aid expenditures, it pointed out that sensible conservation of funds would go a long way toward relieving the situation.
The board authorized a number ‘of salary increases ‘and adjustments for minor employes in 10 different departments, authorizing a total of $4,350 in increases. . The calary of John A. Brown, secretary of the board of state I(:}lax'ities, was increased $lOO.
To Build Elevator.
Deckard . and Steman, grain firm of LaGrange, are planning to engineer the building of a new farmers co-op-erative elevator at LaGrange some time. before March, they declare. It is planned to shape the organization to meet the approval of the federal farm board. A local board of directors would have control of the business. A plant would be put in for the manufacture of poultry and dairy feeds. o
To Speak at State Meeting,
The Indiana state beekeepers organization will hold its annual convention in the house of representatives, state house, in Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday, December 26 and 27. Ross B. Scott who owns the apiary immediately west of LaGrange, has been asked to address the assemblage on Friday, and will speak on the topic, “Long Distance Bee Keeping”.
Striking Nurses Return.
Student nurses who refused to take up their duties at Indiana Central hospital early Wednesday were back on the job with their “personal difticulties” settled, Charles. Young, hospital superintendent announced.
Thirty-two student nurses were understood to have gone on the “strike” because of il] feeling toward two hospital sub-executives.
Shellhouse Appointed.
Appointment of Elmer Shellhouse of Marion as a deputy state fire marshal was announced by Alfred M. Hogston, state fire marshal, also of Marion. Shellhouse is said to have had an active part in editing a publication known as Farmer Dick’s Pitchfork, which was circulated during the last campaign. A
Landis to Speak.
Fred Landis, former congressman from the eleventh district and candidate for governor in 1928, will be the speaker at a meeting of the Young Men’s republican club which will be held in Fort Wayne Monday evening in the Pennsylvania clubrooms at Jefferson and Harrvison street.
Big Power Scoop Shovel,
A mammoth power scoop shovel belonging to the Moelling company of Fort Wayne passed through the city Friday mounted on a caterpillar truck. The machine will be used in the improvement of state road No. 6 which is being paved next yvear between Kendallville and Ligonier.
Albany Garage Burns.
. The City garage at Albany, north of Muncie was destroyed by fire early Thursday with a loss estimated at $15,000. A wrecking truck and two automobiles were destroyed. Thelb;)uild~ ing was the property of Edward\Baird of Portland and the equipment was owned by William Hults of Albany.
Makes Telling Talk.
The twenty-nine members of the Chamber of Commerce who assembled for luncheon at Hotel Ligonier Friday noon listened to a telling talk by J. J. Petrilla, New York Central railway agent on the ‘subject of patronizing home industriies. His remarks were generously applauded. :
Hale to Go on Trial.
Mayor H. P. Hale of East Chicago and forty other defendants, including police officers and alleged bootleggers, will go on trial in federal court at Hammond January 7th before Judge Thomas W. Slick. They are charged with copspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
Next . Picnie Party.
The next picnic party at the Elks temple will be held Tuésday evening, December 30th. The delay is occasioned by the holiday activities in the city. The committee in charge is anxious to make the gathering December 30th a successful affair.
School Building Burns,
The school building at Blountsville in the northern part of Henry county was destroyed by fire Thursday. Loss was estimated at $5,000, partly covered by insurance. Origin of the fire was not determined. .
Dedicatory Service.
~ Goshen’s new Masonic temple, erected at a cost of $lBO,OOO will be formally dedicated Tuesday afternoon, December 17th at two o’clock by the Grand Lodge of Indiana. s
.. Secure Marriage License. Chalmers Station and Marry Dellinger of Ligonier have procured license to marry. Subscribe for the Ligonier Banner.
Held on Arson Charge. J. W. Carter, 52, and his son Roy, of Whitley county are held in Chicago on charges of arson in connection with the burning of the farm home of Washington Jones near Columbia City last May. The elder Carter confessed that his son burned the home to collect $5,500 insurance. Sheriff J. M. Haynes has gone to Chicago toreturn with the men, : . Poison Tablets Fatal, : Mrs. Opal Eckerle, 22, of Fort Wayne is dead from taking a bichloride of mercury tablet by mistake. She arose during the night to take an aspirin tablet and instead swallowed the merCUry. . “The Fall of Eve’, that all talking, rollicking farce is a wow—aand how. See it at Crystal Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. S
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