Ligonier Banner., Volume 63, Number 47B, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 December 1929 — Page 3

SERVICE. A special characteristic of our service is the careful attention given every detaill no matter how small. : Stanley Surfus Funeral Director Phone 495

° ° ’Sh' ’A ’ Ligonier Shippers’ Ass'n. " MARKET YOUR LIVE STOCK ' €O-OPERATIVELY “‘ln the Hands of a Friend From Beginning to End.” WHEN YOU HAVE LIVE STOCK TO SHIP, CALL T. J. Spurgeon Phones: Ligonier 834 or Topeka 3 ond 40 - Harry W. Simmons Crustee Perry Townshsp Oiiice at Farmers and Merchants Bank Saturday Afternoon and Saturday Evening Wind Mills, Tanks, Pumps, Water Systems, Etc. Well Drilling one 333 LIGONIER Dr. Maurice Blue VETERINARIAN ‘ Office: Justamere Farm. 1 Phone: Ligonier 857 } SAt—— o e oetel<te et 1‘ H. E. Robinson Plumbing 1 Hot Water Steam Heating Phones: 453 or 218 Ligonier Harry L. Benner : Auctioneer ~ Upen for all engagemends 3 - Wolf Lake, Indiana - Both Noble and Whitley County Phones W.H. WIGTON : Attorney-at-law Office in Zimmerman Block - LIGONTER. - WD

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Flkhart Policeman Discharged - The Elkhart city board of police com -missioners yést.erday afternoon discharged Robbie R. Wyatt 32 from the police force for neglect of duty. He had been suspended last week. ' ‘ The charged was filed as a direct re !sult of the robbery of the Lloyd Bros., {lNo. 3 grocery at Main and Franklin streets a week ago Sunday. Wyatt who was on duty on this beat at the time of the robbery hetween 4 and 6 o'clock .at night is alleged to have failed to test the doors of this and other properties on his beat before dark in accordance with orders. Bonds Stolen Recovered. Officials of the First National bank of Peru report they had recovered $3,’OOO in bonds stolen in a holdup of the bank October 18. The bonds were éfirst located by the Ha.ris Trust Company, Chicago who in turn had secured them from an eastern coiicern, No trace has been bound of the persons who first sold the bonds. Bank officials also said that $20,000 in stolen securities part of them from the Peru bank were offered for sale ‘by a St. Paul Minn., brokerage firm. Officials of the firm are being quesliioned by detectives.

| Arrested for Carrying Weapons, | Mayor Ernest Kellogg Lynnhurst, canie to the defense of his office with a 6-shooter when threatened with being ousted at a town meceting Monday night. but found that after all ‘he wasn’t stronger than the law. : Kellog was arrested on charges of carrying concealed weapons and drawing a deadly weapon after he had held the town marshal seven trustees and a corporation attorney at bay with his revolver, whiie he attempted to adjourn the meeting. He was released on his own recognizance. : * Whitestown Bank (losed. The Peoples’ Bank at Whitestown is closed today and directors have asked Thomas D. Barr deputy state hanking commissioner to take charge and liguidate assets. Announcement of the closing was accompanied by a declaration that depositors would be paid in full. L (Catehes Badger. . Orval Inbody, 12 vear old son of Chas. Inbody living two milés west of Goshen bagged a 121 pound badger last Saturday. Badgers of this size are very unusual in this locality and proved quite a surprise for the young trapper. .

Shelbyville Store Robbed Police today were seeking burglars who looted the Doodman department store at Shelbyville of merchandise valued at $3,500. The stolen goods included 125 men’s suits 26 ‘women’s cloth coats and 11 fur coats. : Ken Maynard he talks, he sings, he loves like no other western character on the screen today. See him at Crysta] Friday and Saturday. '

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Four Policemen Named In Racket, Four South Bend policemen’s names are said to be included in a list of alleged “rake off” collectors in the Calumeht slot machihe racket, prepared by Merle Cox in an affidavit that will be presented the grand jury now investigating the murder of Christ Toneff, racketeer. : ' Harry 8. Taylor prosecuting attorney said Cox had signed an affidavit charging four policemen with collecting protection money from the racket. Cox lis a government stoolpigeon who disappeared shortly arter Toneff’'s death last Oct. 26. He is sought for questioning in connection with the death. ‘

Authorities feel -positive that rival racketeers killed Tonneff. : The affidavit is said to set forth that 350 slot machines were being operated at an average profit of $lOO a week each and that officers were collecting 20 per cent for protection afforded the racket making their weekly tribute $7.000 a week. : ~ Smallpox Increasing in State There were 170 cases of smallpox in the state last week as compared to 113 the week previous and 44 cases in the corresponding week a year ago the state board of health announced today. o :

Smallpox was reported from the following counties; Adams, 12 cases; Allen, 16; Benton, 19; Clark 21; Delaware, 19; Elkhart, &; Fayete, 1; Floyd 1; Grant 1; Greene, 4; Hamilton, 1; Hancock, 1; Henry, 20; Knox, 6; Kosciusko 8; Madison 4; Marion 1; Marshall, 2;: Pike 1; Randolph 12: Bt. Joseph 4;; Warren, 1; Wayne 7. Forty-seven cases of diphtheria were reported in the state as compared to 39 cases last week and 38 cases a year ago.

- Three cases of Tularemia were reported from Daviess county and two form Vanderburg. . '

MeNaught to Succeed Shumaker, Samuel Parks McNaught, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League in lowa was selected to become superintendent of the league in Indiana filling the vacancy created recently by the death of Dr. E. S. Shumaker. MeNaught was unanimous choice of the board of trustees after Dr. C. H. Winders- acting superintendent withdrew his name“for the sake of harmony.” . McNaught was the only nominee of Dr. F. Scott Mcßride national superintendent. : 4 “1 cannot guarantee that McNaught will accept,” Mcßride said. “However, I think he will not decline.” He added that McNaught would not become ac tive dry head of the state until after the national Anti-Saloon League convention. : Prediction Verlfied. The weather man actually foretold the cold wave and blizzard which prevailed Wednesday. The rain and mist which held for several days turned to SNoOwW.

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INDIANA SIXTH IN GAS TAXES $11,653,962 is Collected on Three Cent Levy During the Year : of 1928, : Indiana ranked sixth among states in gasoline tax collections in 1928 with a total of $11,653,962 on a three-cent tax, and with a four-cent tax now in effect, the 1929 total is expected easily to mount to the highest figure in history, according to figures compiled by Leland K. Fishback, state gasoline tax collector. ' ‘ : :

The states that surpassed Indiana last year were California first, with $32,276,918; Ohio, with $25,818,985; Pennsylvania with . $21,889,064 and Michigan, $20,200,021 and Texas, $17,945,637. - Indiana in 1928 with its more than eleven millions in collections, had a total of almost as much as the entire United States cellected in 1922, when the nation paid in $12,000,000 for its gas. In 1921 only $4,700,000 was collected. lln 1929, it is estimated that the total will be $400,000,000; Gasoline tax collections are distributed with three-fourth of the total going to the state highway department and the remaining quarter to the counties, cities and towns.

In the enormous production of petroleum, from which gasoline is refined to keep the nation’'s automobiles running, Indiana in 1928 produced 1,053,000 barrels, or 12 per cent of the nation’s t0ta1—900,364,000 barrels. A total of nineteen stat s produce petroleum, while 20 refine it.- Texas produces the largest’percentage of the total, which is 2853 per cent; Oklahoma is second with 27.72 per cent and California is third with 25.76 per cent, Indiana refines a daily capacity of 147,000 barrels, the 1929 figures show. The state has a total of 2,060 wells, producing an average of 1.1 barrel. Less than two per cent of all the total number of wells in the United States however, produce 50 per cent of the oil. . .

Christian Science Services

“God the Preserver of Man” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ Scienfist on Sunday December 15. ; Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: ‘“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved” (Psalms 55:22) “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (f Pet. 5:6. 7).

The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “God is the Life or intelligence which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men” (p 550). “The divine Mind that made man main tains His own image and likenes. . . . All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal” (p. 151).

Accident Injuries Fatal

Injuries which he received in antomobile accident on state road No. 27 near Berne last Friday evening proved proed fatal to Theodore Trier 17 Ft. Wayne. He died at the Adams county hospital at Decatur Sunday morning. Trier was injured when he swerved his automobile across the road to avoid striking an unlighted wagon during the heavy fog and drove directly into the path of a truck.

Nearby Deaths

Mrs. Bessie Wolfe 21 tuberculosis Whitley county; Mrs. Sarah Clevenger 71, Larwell, George Harris 30, pneumonia, Bluffton, Mrs. Jeanette Libur 82 practically lifelong resident of LaiGrange county. 2

First Day of Winter

Saturday December 21st is the open ing date of winter and the shortest day of the year. Next Wednesday is LChristmas. :

“Lucky Star” featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell at .Crystal Sunday Monday and Tuesday.

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~ WOULD TRAIN TEACHERS o S : Head of State School at Work on Course on Handling Retarded Puplls In the Publle Schools ~ Plans for a speclal summer training course for teachers to prepare them for handling retardeed and backward children in the grade schools ‘are being formulated by Charles A. MeGonagle superintendent of fim State School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Fort Wayne. ' | This became known at the annual meeting of the Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene Tuesday. ‘ ~ Miss Catharine Filmer principal of ischools at the Fort Wayne institution referred to the proposed program in a. talk ‘before the society. She said that the management hopes to start the special course on a six ‘weeks’ basis next summer. The instruction would ‘be in the hands of the present faculty at the state school with a number of specialists added. Mr, McGonagle said that many Indiana teachers go to special training courses outside the state for this work. Affiliation with the Indiana university extension center at Fort Wayne is a possibility.

| Divorce Complaint Filed A divorce complaint filed against George M. Sunday son of Billy Sunday the evangelist at Los Angeles cliarges him with misconduct in his relations with other women Mauryne LeSalle Hollywood model was named a corespondent. Mrs. Harriet Sunday recently obtained a warrant for her husband who reported seen with Miss LaSalle in cities along the coast. Officers have been unable to locate the couple. Held For Sheep Theft. George Carpenter 24 and Ralph Prap er 26 both of Decatur were arrested by Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth and confessed to the theft of five head of sheep at the Ollie Chronister farm southeast of Deactur and the sale of the sheep under a fictitious name at the Fort Wayne stockyards. Hospltal 811 l Is Passed ... This newspaper is in receipt of the following message from Congressman David Hogg: - : “Bill has nagsed house giving Indiana a new 150 bed veteran hospital costing $500,000. ; ; .DAVID HOGG, M. C.”

Truch Users of South Bend and Vicinity Friday. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 20-21-22 Ford Coalbox $125 1925 Ford Stake $l5O 1926 Reo 1i ton $295 1926 Reo 1: tonst’e $350 . ‘ 1928 Chevrolet Tonel $325 | 1928 International Tonel $295 | i 1928 Reo 2 ton stake $550 ' o 1928 Federal ton Tonel $695 1928 Reo 2 ton stake $459 1927 Dodge 2 ton sta.ssoo 1928 Reo 2 ton $1175 1929 Reo 3 ton $1495 | 1929 Reo 3 ton $1550 1929 Ford Model A. 1; ton $6OO EVERY one of THESE ‘are in GOOD SHAPE and READY TO GO! Also Real Bargains in Dump Trucks | ~ AND LOOK AT THESE BARGAINS IN ~ PLEASURE CARS

1925 Ford Roadsier $6O 1925 Ford Touring $25 1925 Ford Tudor $4O 1924 Oakland Sedan $lOO 1925 Jewet Coach . $75 1926 Chrysler Sedan $250

1925 Willys-Knight Sedan $295 ' | 1928 Pontiac Coach $395 _ . And Many Late Models At Almost Ridiculous Prices Such As 1929 WHIPPET ROADSTER $325 CITY AUTO & TRUCK EXCHANGE ‘, 1010 Lincoln Way East, where Sample crosses Lincoln Way Open Evenings and Sunday. | South Bend, Ind.

Big Catch of Honey, | George Sisson of Columbia City reports that he took 160 pounds of honey from between the siding and plasterering of one wall of the Ralph Hickman home seven miles east of there. A swarm of bees had lodged there and had made a comb which was seven feet long. ; Dies in Fort Wayne : Louis Long 39 a resident’of Churubusco died suddenly of acute dilatation of the heart as he was entering the Duemling clinic in Fort Wayne at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. ) Dr. Raymond Berghoff deputy coroner gave the verdict after an autopsy. | Sixteen Pounds of Twins, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Miller of near Larwill are the parents of twin girls born to them Saturday morning. One babe weighed 7% pounds and the other 812 pounds. The babes have not been named.

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1925 Ford Coupe $65 1927 Ford Coupe $95 1925 Dodge Touring $4O — 1926 Chev. Ro’dster $95 1924 Jewet Touring $7O 1926 Chev. Coach $135

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