Ligonier Banner., Volume 63, Number 49A, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 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 Thursda: and Sntered the Postoffice at Ligonier Indiana, as second class matter.
Improvement of Road 6 The Chicago Examiner of Thursday carried a dispatch from Indiana tc the effectt that State road N0..6 which is to be paved between Kendallville and Ligonier the coming summer wil also be improved from the west be. tween the pavement at LaPaz to Mii ford Junction the coming year. Tt seems the intention of the Indiane highway commission is to have a pav ed highway through northern Indian: from the Ohio state line to the Illonis state line. This is the highway proposed from Ligonier to LaPaz touching Milford Junction, Nappanee Bremen and Walkerton. The line will be a great value to Ligonier.
Desire Wawasee Road.
The road committe of the Ligonier Chamber of Commerce has been requestedW&e its best efforts to procure a better highway between this city and Wawasee lake. It is realized that trade from the lake ia lost to Jd.igonier on account of the bad condition of the roads leading from the lake to this eity. ‘ » &% An effort will be made to improve highway conditions. .
To Deliver Lecture Here
Judge Carlin of the LaGrange-Steu-ben ‘judicial circuit court will deliver his famous lecture on Indiana here on the evening of Friday January 24th at Hotell Ligonier. He will have for an audience the Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club an dthe American Legion with their ladies. The judge is a forceful and eloquent speaker,
Meeting Uneventiul
The last meeting of the Ligonier city council elected four years ago was held Thursday night and it was uneveéntful. There was a disposition to leave matters for the new council which will hold its first meeting Thursday evening January 9th.
Is Quiet Christmas
iChristmas was a quiet tday in Ligonfer. Business was suspended and the residents devoted themselves for the most part to family dinners. Big audiences witnessed the visit of Will Rodgers to Paris at the Crystal theatre at the afternoon and evening performance.
Wigton For City Attorney
It is understood that W. H. Wigton is the choice of the new democratic counci] for city attorney a position relinguished eight years ago. He will succeed Chester Vanderford who has served faithfully for the past eight years. .
Take Long Walk
The Jeffries orchestra headed by Carey Jeffries of this city furnished music for a dance at Skinner lake Christmas night. On the way home their car got stuck in the snow and the members walked into Ligonier a distance of seven miles. - Off For Florida. Rev. and Mrs. M. V. Grisso left by automobile this morning for Florida where they will spend some weeks. Having their car with them they will be in position to visit different parts of interest in the state. - : See and hear Marian Davies at Crystal Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Subscribe for the Ligonier Banner.
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Does Money Always Talk? “Dad, 1 think I must be more or: less of a rebel. Don’t know why I' e should be. Seems to! B me most boys are.” .. “What's the rebel-: o ] lion about now, Bob?” | H .+« asked Mr. Smithhough! L ¥ VYB 3 as he continued with . ¢ A~ his book. “Who has 4 ' been treading on your, 7 g | tocs now?’ f . 7 | “Well seehere,Daq, g,, here is 4 poor unfor-, “8 | tunate duck who was, . % ° . caught stealing coal—- - : had two bags full and, lie draws two years in the pen. In the! same paper, on the same page, in the! g:me city, is a bank president who de frauds an estate out of fifty thousand, dollars. He gets a new trial and will{ ultimately get off free. It doesn’t seem' gijuare to me, One man is poor, has no: resources of any kind, probably. stole; for the comfort of a family, not for' limself at all and this other edu-. cated crook was just adding to his: pile, has unlimited resources and can, liire the best of legal talent. Dad, the! Constitution of the United States) |'romises every man justice, doesn't it? 7: Well, he doesn't get it! It's money . that talks, and pull and power. All! you've got to have is a pull and you can pull anything—" . ! "“Now wait a minute, son. There| you go again—same old mistake. If| you keep on youwll hold the world’s record for jumping at conclusions, Ini no other nation in the world since| time began has justice for all been asg prevalent as in our own country. No doubt about it, sometimes there appar-, eutly is a slip, sometimes justice moves| very, very slowly, but, my boy, justice' is also a tremendously involved thing. Scarcely, if ever, are all the facts: given to the public and most certain-{ lv not in the average newspaper storys This old popular idea that ‘money talks’ is but another of the innumer- | able popular beliefs kept alive by the: ignorant and radical elements. How' many times before has this coal thief been guilty of the same thing or; other theftst Don’t know? Likely a dozen or two. His is vndoubtedly an aggravated case. It's just unfortunate! that he has a family, He, more than likely, never attempts to find honest work—just lives by his wits because it's easier and he has probably gotten by that way a long time, A judge dealing with such cases year in and year out accumulates a vast knowledge and. judgment of what is best for society and for the man &lso. He always braves, in his decision, the public opinion that knows nothing about the merits of the case whatever, yet he stands his ground. ~ "~ “Bob, did I ever tell you of the time Parson Horton came sailing into the village store, hot all over and excited and shouted to the storekeeper in a loud and angry voice, ‘Ben Hetherington, I've been robbed. I bought a paper of nutmegs here yesterday from you sir—been doing business with you these ten years—and when 1 got home I found 'em more’n half walnuts. Sir, that’s just right down crookedness and I ain’t agoin’ to stand for it. If you can’t be honest and square with your customers its high time we did our tradin’ elsewhere. I—-I—
“‘See here, John, said the proprietor, ‘if you had taken the trouble to weigh your nutmegs you would have found that I put the walnuts in extra for the kids. ;
“‘Oh, you gave them to me, dld you? sdid the minister somewhat mollified.
“‘Yes, I threw in a handful for that boy Davie of yours. He's a fine square, straight-shootin’ lad. ““Well sir, if you ain’t a good one, said the parson, ‘and here I've been making an idiot out of myself. Say, Just let me have a sack of spuds, a couple of pounds of butter and a peck of onions. T'll stop and weigh things next time!’ :
“And as for ‘money talking,’ say, Bob, I just thrill when I recall how Sergeant York, the famous one man army, turned down flat a theatrical offer of one thousand dollars a week for thirty weeks just to do and say what some one told him to say. His answer is typical of the best in America, ‘not for sale. :
“At the very heart of our republic fs justice as exemplified in our courts. There is always the chance of human error. There are many situations we cannot understand in detail but we must not surrender our loyalty to so fundamental an American institution. When courts of justice fail then civ{lization crumbles, and there are no such indications, my boy—not in America.
“If you, on the other hand, found yourself in the clutches of the law, you would want, expect and demand, that every possible consideration be glven you; that every single aspect: of! your case be carefully considered and I for one am firmly of the belief that' you would get justice klthough your! case might involve a jong involved, legal battle.” 3
“Dad, you sure help Me see things different. I wish all th@ guys could hear you explain things to me, If every fellow’s dad woul® do like you do the bunch would be 6 much better off.” .
“Well, it’s a pleasure to talk things over with you, Bob. I gct quite as much out of it as you do.” " (@, 1930, Western Newspaper Unifon.) CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Services in Weir Block. : SBunday school 9:45 A M. Lesson Sermon 11:00 A. M. Everybody welcomae. . Read The Ligonier Banner. _ RS, Pay your Banner subscriptions.
CLUB BANQUET NEW YEARS Program of Musi¢ Talks and Debate Planned With Meett At York (Center
The livestock club banquet to be held New Yearps night at York Center three miles west of Albion should be well attended by livestock lovers of Ligonier and vicinity. This banquet is given by the club leaders of the county who appreciate encouragement,
Features of the program will be i(‘lare Gilbert the lamb club boy who joined the first lamb club in Noble county and has since been a consistent winner at the state fairs and the international livestock show. Hear him tell how he did it. Then four Noble county boys now attending school at Purdue will take part in a debate that will be interesting and instructive. A quartette from Wolf l.ake those inimitable littles Walters sisters from Huntertown, the Frick sisters from Brimfield the Stuckman brothers from Long Swamp and a cornetist from Ligonier will provide entertainment. . :
The banquet will be served by theg York Township Home Division. Ches—f ter V. Kimmell county agricultural agent of Jay county a former Noble county boy .son of J. C. Kimmell of Lig oner and member of the first livestock club in Noble county will be the toast master. See any live stock club member for tickets.
Mrs. Alger Maintains Innocense
Mrs. Josephine Miller Alger maintained that ‘she is innocent of participation in the holdup of the.LaFontaine State bank. She is held in jail at Wabash awaiting trial on the charge of aiding her husband Gene Alger in the holdup of the LaFontaine bank last August. Her father Runnels Miller a Jeffersonville police sergeant and 'her attorney Claude Mcßride of Jeffersonville are attempting to obtain $15,000 bond for her release.
Mrs. Alger expressed loyalty to her hushand to whom she was married while he was on parole from the state reformatory. They met first while he was on trial at Danville for the slaying of a negro police officer in Indianapolis. ' Alger: was recently sent back to the reformatory to serve 15 years after pleaded guilty to holding up the Paris Crossing State bank in Jennings county. . i - ;
Identity 2 Suspeets
Peru bank officials identified as bandits two of the three men held there in connection with the $93,000 robbery of the First National bank this fall and partially identified the third. Efforts to obtain confessions failed. .
The men are John Nolan 29; Harry Cook 35, of whom the officials said they were positive and Jack Brest 21 W. G. Griffith Burns operative who was one of the questioners in today’s grilling stated that besides the identification of the men a secret source had revealed information connecting the trio with the robbery. Griffith indicated that further information might be had tomorrow. Search was continued for Merle Cox suspect in the slaying of Christ Toneeff, who is also linked with the Peru robbery. :
Trial Date Fixed.
Trial date for Lloyd Crouch former mayor of Columbia City charged with embezzlement of the Provident Trust company was postponed Thursday until Feb. 17. Special Judge Rex F. Emerick Kendallville granted the post ponement when the defense testified that the defendant was without funds to hire attorneys. - , The state then appointed C. A. Lincoln Fort Wayne as his attorney. Crouch is to be arraigned Feb. 3 on charges of executing loans without authority of the board of directors embezzlement of $l,lOO while mayor of Columbia City and forgery.- .
Many Hooks and Jabs.
Frankie-Jarr carried his professional boxing powers outside of the ring the other night to bring about the capture of a drug store robber singlehanded at Fort Wayne. He saw Lloyd Taylor 22 Chicago hold up a store and leave with $4OO. Jarr met him at the door with a few well-placed left jabs hooks and “haymakers” and Taylor woke up in thep olice station to find himself booked for robbery.
Ferry Used for 122 Years
Discontinuance of = ferry ‘service across the Ohio river between Jeffersonville and Louisville Ky. after an existence of 122 years will take place soon D. B. Rose vicepresident of the Falls City Ferry and Transportation company announced. . :
The ferry business was highly profitable until the opening of a new municipal bridge there Rose said.
. Marian Davies in ‘“Marianne” a Crystal Wednesday Thursday and Fri day. : . .
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Dutch Woman’s Costume | ~ ®Colorful and Ample”' The costumes of rurat Holland are, indeed unique. Women wear six ory more Skirts, lest the form be immod-, estly displayed, and a bright-colored walst with elbow sleeves, for strong, red arms are admired by men. The climax is a lace cap, the shape of, which distinguishes the province in which the wearer lives. ] ° Wives of rich farmers wear gold casques, like helmets, with ornamental gold curls. An anclent dame told us that hers cost a hundred guilders {about $4O). : . . Workingmen wear exceedingly broad trousers, oftentimes colored vests and short coats. Children and the poor wear klompen—wooden shoes. If you hear what sounds like a troop of cavalry passing down the street, it will more than Hkely turn out to be a group of school children returning home. Concealed weapons are not needed in Holland. In case of a row, a lad flicks off his klomp and wailops his adversary over the head. It has great weight in pettling an argument. —National Geographic Magazine.
Church Constructed to Resemble Giant Organ ° Scattered throughout the civilized world are churches of varying degrees of beauty—some gmall, some large and lofty, some with towering spires, others with beautiful domes, of exquisite glass windows—but perhaps the most unusual and original church in existence today is to be seen in Copenhagen. The whole edifice is shaped like a gigantic organ outlined against the sky, and at first sight is almost overwhelming, One almost expects to hear music coming from the pipes that constitute the roof of this wonderful building, so natural is the effect. While on the subject of Copenhagen, another curious sight to be seen in the city is a tower that rises above the Church of Our Savior. This remarkable tower is 288 feet high, and is bullt like a corkscrew, round which ‘are steps, on the outside, leading to the top! This tower was built in 1696, and has long been a special feature of the city.
~ Although he was new to the beat, it was not long before the young poiceman noticed that in one house lights were left burning in every room ‘until the early hours of the morning. . “Thanks very much, officers,” said the householder, on being informed; “‘but it’'s not accldental.” ! , “Oh?" said the policeman, susplcliously. : ; | - “You see, my wife has been on holi-: }day for a week or two, and I've writ-; iten telling her about the lonely nights| il've been spending at home.” S . Ywenyr ; “Don’t you sea? I don’t want the imeter to give ma away !I""—London Tit-{ Bits. - :
Church Bélls Gaming Stake
i In the reign of Henry VIII, writesi ;Satis N. Coleman in his book, “Bells,”; there stood in Bt. Paul's church yard: ia lofty bell tower containing four: ‘bells called “Jesus Bells,” the largest! !in London. In @ gambling game with' ‘one of his courtfers, Sir Miles Part-| :ridge, King Henry staked the bell ,tower and its bells. ; . Sir Miles won, and had the tower! ipulled down and the bells broken up.' tA few years afterward this gentleman? iwas hanged ; and gome of the old writ-i ers have said that it was a judgment| isent upon him for gambling for bells.’
In -the republic of mind, one i 3 g majority. There, all are monarchs, and all are equals, The tyranny of a majority even is unknown. Each one is crowned, sceptered aud§ throned. Upon every brow is the ti ara, and around every brow is the imperial purple. Only those are good citizens who express their honest thoughts, and those who persecute for: opinion’s sake are the only traitors. There, nothing I 8 considered infamous! except an appeal to brute force, and! nothing sacred but love, liberty andi Joy.—Robert Ingersoll. '
I believe, as men generally do, that; mothers are most responsible for man-! agement of children. It is in the na.’ ture of things: in their formative’ years, children are much more with mothers than with fathers. While the father is away hunting a dollar or a deer, he cannot possibly also control the children, and is somewhat incapable when he returns, and his wife says: “I can do nothing with them; you try it.”—E, W. Howe's Monthly.
Four-year-old Patricla was washing her hands in her mother’s bathroom. She had no towel of her own in there, so when she had finlshed washing she looked toward her mother’s towel rack, then hesitatingly toward her father’s; then coming confidently to her mother, sald: “I'll use your towel, mommie; we women must stick together.”—Parents’ Magazine.
. Fundamentally, a Cleveland doctor states, man is a sort of electric stor-age-battery Bear this in mind, and when, at home, you are being told something you don’t care to hear, remark: “My B battery has run down, 1 guess. You aren’t coming in very strong.”—Detroit News.
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Scions of Ancient Race of Mayas Still Exist
- Representatives of the ancient Maya race still live at Cozumel, nine miles off the coast of Yucatan, Mexico. They are direct descendants of that half fabulous and mighty race which built the ruined wonder cities of Yucatan; which offered human hearts to Kukulkan, the feathered serpent god, at Uxmal; which flung sacrificial maidens, decked with jade and gold and flowers, into the deep subterranean pool at Chichen-Itza. Having seen those mystery cities, those sacrificial altars and that pool it gives you a start—as if you had miraculously pulled aside the curtain of time—to behold Maya faces in the living flesh, faces that we so often call Aztec. Yet there on Cozumel those faces still exist by the hundreds. A short and stocky race, almost beardless and with coarse black hair, they remind you of the Japanese. Though all memory of their former imperial glory has utterly departed, they still speak the anclent = Maya tongue, for thousands of years even before the Spanish conquest. This tongue, by the way, is one of the very few aboriginal languages that have ever stood off a white man's speech, Even today, Spanish controls only the citles of Yucatan. The country -at large still conducts its business—especially the chicle business—in Maya, and on Cozumel you hear it everywhere. :
Wise Parent Will Stay " Young With Children
Whatever else parents do, let them hold fast to imagination. If they have ever believed in fairles, let them not shut the fairy people out now. Let them not make growing up like traveling along a level road where everything must eventually disappear behind the .iorizon, but let them make it like the ascent of a steep hill, where the view constantly widens as one goes higher and nothing once seen is ever again shut out. Then they will never say to their children, “You're too young to understand,” and what is quite as important, their ehildren will pever need to say of them, “They’re too old to understand.” What Is even more important, they will never reach the deadly dull state of being completely grown up, because they will realize that {if we have wings we can never reach the place where we cannot go higher.—Parents’ Magazine. ‘ .
Odd Scottish Structure
John O’Groat’s house was located on a spot on Duncansby road, the northeast extremity of the mainland of Scotland, marking one of the limits of that countiry. It is also the terminus of automobile and cycling record rides from Land’s end, Cornwall, which Is the southwest. extremity of England, a distance of 994 miles. According to tradition, in order to seftle a family dispute as to precedence an eight-sid-ed house with a door and window ‘in each side, which contained an eightsided table, gave each of the eight brothers of the Groat family the power to enter his own house and eat at his own table In company with his brothers. o
Short Canal-Boat History
The first canal boats were for freight only and provided quarters merely for the captain and crew. But the demand for passenger accommodations brought canal boats with two cabins, one at the bow and one at the stern, with cargo hatches amidships, the forward cabin for women and the after cabin for men, Within a few years passenger traffic became so heavy freight was carrled entirely on freight or cargo boats, while fast expresses were operated for passengers alone. The boats were drawn by two or three horses, which followed a towpath along the hank. The express boats averaged about 4 miles an hour.
Goldsmith Couldn’t Dictate
. Dictation is no new thing, though commoner today than of old. A friend of Oliver Goldsmith once suggested to him that he use the services of an amanuensis, to avoid the physical labor of writing. He tried it. It did not' work, He paced up, and down the! room while the amanuensis sat and: waited for the words to be set down.' At last Goldsmith turned to him, put: the agreed-on fee into his hands, and,’ dismissed him with these words. “It; won’'t do, my friend. I find that my’ head and my hand must work- to-, gether.” : i
Coueism Among Finns
The ancient Pinns, when troubledi by the hiccoughs, sought relief by ad-, dressing the hiccoughs as follows:fi “Go hiccough, to a clump of limes; I'll come to strip the bark: go, hiecough, to a clump of birch; I'll come to strip the bark.” This was repeated. over and over agaln—or was supposed. to be repeated—until the hiccoughsf became discouraged and took their departure. Gout, when making an attack, was greeted in this wise—“ Good gout, thou lovely gout, depart, turn’ back elsewhere.,”=—Gas Logic. :
Naturally Interested
A parson delivered a sermon based on an extract from the book of Maccabees,
At luncheon that day a rich new parishioner thought fit to compliment him on Lis address. i
“It was particularly interesting to me,” she gushed. “You see, I've got a delightful old Maccabean gideboard at home.”—Londom Tit-Bits,
: Gives $lOOO to Hospital ' A most pleasing: and substantial ‘Christmas gift to Lakeside hospital was received by S. H. Galloway formerly of Ligonier treasurer of the institution in the form of a check for $lOO. The donor who desired that his name be witheld explained in a letter that the gift was in memory of his mother and that the money be used for any purpose the hospital board sees fit. The gift is certainly appreciated by the board and friends of the hospital.—Kendallville NewsSun. . _ o - Game Wardens Pass Out Feed Fear that the snow which has blanketed the state for ten davs wil lcause death to thousands of quail and other game birds has prompted George Mannfeld chief state game warden to distribute sacks. of feed -to be set out in bird haunts. P
More than 50 game wardens have been equipped with bird feed Mannfeld said today and 156 hunters and sportsmens’ clubs have been asked to scatter bread crumbs and other food for the bids. ™ : Steals to Satisiy Hunger Donald Moore Butler youth has beeu arrested on a charge of stealing groceries. Moore admits he. burglarized the South Side grocery there on Saturday and Sunday nights. He had been staving alone in a house and said he was out of provisions. He ‘was sentenced to the reformatory for a term of one to ten vears on a charge of grand larceny, .
Deadline For E-service Men The service officer of the American Legion today warned all ex-service men that Thursday January 2 is the deadline for filing claims for adjusted compensation or government bonuses. All ex-service men are urged to give this matter imuanediate attention. Applications are available at the Legion hall or from the service officer, Fine Christmas Gt Members of the Plymouth Cougregational church at Fort ‘Wayne have given their pastor the Rev. Arthur Folsom and wife a trip to Europe next summer as a Christmas gift and testimonial of - their affection. The Rev. M. Folsom is known here where he has often appeared. s
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