Ligonier Banner., Volume 64, Number 3A, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 February 1930 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner Established 1856 - : Published by : THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotherman, Manager |

Published every Moniday and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter.

Road Program Gets Attention

In the commissioners court last week, road improvement was given much consideration. : In the matter of the road improvement on the township line between Green and Jefferson townships, petitioned for by _George Campbell an}l others, the petition was approved and referred to Arlo Fryer of Allen township, and Grover Renkenberger of Swan township as viewers and to H. H. Mortorff as engincer. | The petition for county aid in Nobie township by the trustee was approved the same action being taken in like petitigns from Orange Jefferson and Green townships. The petition for road improvement in Noble towhship petitioned for by Wm. Beesecker and others was approved and the roa ordered -constructed. The Bond of B. H. Burnworth highway superintendent was approved. ,

Home Division Meeting

Wednesday afternoon the Perry Home Division held their first meeting of the year with Mfs. June Borger as hostess. Thirty one members responded to roll call, this was f'oj—lowed by discussion of “Colonial Customs and Fashions in old New England” the manner of living much in contrast to our methods of todaﬁ. Mesdames Werking and Slabaugh wili be projejct leaders in “Home Management and Mrs. Léeming and Miss Margaret Beckner will supervise the Girls Club work this year. Mesdames Leming and Coburn assisted the hostejs in serving refreshments at the clo € of the meeting. : “l

Filling Station Robbed

Two bandits robbed the Diamond filling station near the county ‘eourthouse at Warsaw and escaped with $6O after forcing the attendant I. U. Clouse to face the wall at the point of guns . Clouse was alone when t.h"e robbery occurred. : i\ The attendant was counting his day’s receipts when the holdup oecurred. 'The bandits are believed to have ¥led in an automobile parked several blocks from the court house.

Kentland ScQ:ols Closed A spinal meningitis threat has resulted in the closing of all schools and postponement of public .meetings at Kentland. i

Jerome Brown 17 meningitis suffer er was in the Wauteseka hospital. He was not expected to recover. il

Woman Junk Collector Struck

Anna Titus of Elkhart a junk collector was cut and bruised but not seriously injured at 5:30 o’clock Friday morning when a_ cart she was pushing along the Osceolo road was struck by an automobile driven by Charies Ammerman. {

The farm hguse of W. R. Zimmerpan near Skinner lake was destroyed # fire Monday night together with the contents of the tenant Blaine Perry. : .

Christian Science Services

“Spirit” was the subject of the Les-son-Sermon in all Churches of Christ Scientist on Sunday February 9. Aniong the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: “And. it came to pass as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisses to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharises saying, Is it law ful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go” (Luke 14:1-4). : ! The Lesson-Sermon also included the folowing citations from the Christian Science textbook “Science and Health- With Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Mortal sman will be less mortal, when he learns that matter never sustained existence and can never destroy God, who is man’s Life. * *_* Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquereed. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew” (p. 425 3 i

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Destinies of Manufacturers InflueneR RNy Welln ° The hand that rocks the cradle infiuences the destiny of many a manufacturer. At least the destiny of those manufacturers who are engaged in making articles either for use in the home or for the family’s personal use. Women are, the guilding power in the purchase 6f 95% eof the furniture and. musical instruments sold - in America. 83% of the clothing for the family, 61% of haberdashery for hen and 909 of the automobiles. It is estimated that 849% of the women who drive the family car have have the final word in deciding even 'the kind of gasoline the car should have. Thesc fignres were given by Mr. Diveley of the Indiana & -Michigan Electric Company Distributors of General Electric Refrigerators. 4

“Fortunate indeed is the manufacturer who has a product with an appeal distinctly feminine,” he said in an interview. e

Mr. Diveley then illustrafed ~his point Ly giving as an example the tremendous popularity of the General Electric Refrigerator. | A “When the General Electric Company ‘gathered 4round leading engineers sixteeil yvears ago and decided to desicn a refrigerator which would give efiicient’ service be economical in operation and need no attention, it did not rely solely on the judgment of the engineers. General Electric called in women to assist in the designing The’result is a refrigerator which is appealing ‘to women -because of its simplicity of design, quietness and efficiency of operation cleanliness and economy of running cost. } “All moving parts are sealed in one unit piaced on top of the cabinet. There is no machinery under the cabinet or inside or in the basement. This siniple all-in-one unit eliminates fans pipes stuffing boxes and drain pipes. A permanent supply is sealed ‘nside the unit at the factory. One never need to bother oiling it. In fact some of the original machines built about 25 years ago are still running perfectly the original supply of oil never having: been replenished. “Because the mecHanism takes up so little room, the refrigerator actualIy makes a minimum-of floor space vield a maximum of food space. : “Then, too, women said that a refrigerator should be quiet. The General Eleetric is unusually so according to the reports of the many pleased owners. L

“Women @id not overlook economy of operation when they assisted engineers. The revolutionary design, which was developed after so much experimenting with many different models makes it possible to use very little current, as the heat from within the refrigerator rises above the cabinet and not through it. . General Electric was designed portable and easy to install. After the unit has been lowered into the box all one has to do is to plug it into the nearest. convenience outlet and it starts, oids “The influence of women in deciding: the popularity of the General Electric Refrigerator cannot be overlocked. : R

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Dancing elephants that will stage a tango contest will be oné of the many big features of the Shrine Circus in Fort Wayne the week of February 10 at the Shrine auditorium. Two performances will be given every evening at 7 and 9 o’clock with matinees at 2:30 on Wednesday and Saturday only. lln addition to the big circus a merchants’ exhibition and free shows will be offered in the exhibitién hall. In addition to the act mentioned above other big faetures from the John Robinson shows to be seen in the Shrine Circus this season will be the Famous John Robinson four military elephants; three Larconians, comedy acrobats; the Aerial Kelleys: Edna Curtis’ animal athletes; the : Great Shubert, world’s greatest aerial contortionist; the Shannon Trio, featuring the youngest kiddies in acrobatic circles; Keyo Namba and Princé DeHoshi Japanese performers; Melvin Hollis and Troupe of Rideérs five in number; Ben Tahar Arabian acrod bat; Upton-Whiteside troupe of wire walkers and Bert Clinton of movie fame who will pérform funny stunts on parallel bars. The clown section will be headed by the popular favorite Bily Lorette, that comical policeman, So that the kiddies from~surrounding towns can take in the Shrine Circus the various traction lines will carry the little ones to Fort Wayne Saturday February 15 from any point | for around trip rate of 50 cents. T Al kinds truckifig and mm Ties Phone 781 Ligonler Wewaka 33

“ IAKEIT & | FROM DAD cheley PO PFE PGP P TSOFDIIPPP FF PP PP PIEE Are All Politics Rotten? - The -Smithhoughs, father and som, were seated In thelr usual after-dinner S ~corners, Bob at his books and father wlt:}l e ~ his trade Jjournal, ”’%‘% ] magazines and paAR TR, Ders. i 7 “Dad, I'm golng to A @ be a Ilawyer after B W all” Bob’s opening g W(%M “So,” replied dad, ¥ laconically. ; W@ = “I was going In for L% ] Doublic life—possibly - be a senator,” sald Bob, seriously, “but I've about come to the conclusion it is not desirable after all, Dad, are politics rotten?” “Been reading the papers a bit -eh, Bob?’ queried dad. “Well, I can hardly blame you for coming to such a conclusion with all the graft and scandal in bigh places, yet, Bob, the law is a very highly respected profes. sion and just because here and there, now and then, a man high in public office sells “his birthright for a mess of pettage you must not conclude .that all of our vast army of public officials are crooks, by any means. America is what she is today as a nation, largely because of her type of government;| a type of government which makes! possible tremendous initiative on the part of officials, plus the fact that we still bave vast natural resources easily ' exploited and wealth is so comparatively easily attalnable by falr means or foul. A

“Remember how we all enjoyed the box of salted nuts the other evening. They were unusually fine until _you bit into a rancid one and then you didn’t want any more. It would have been too bad to have. concluded that you would never eat salted nuts again because of one bad one to a box. “Let's go a little further, Bob. The strength of American life is the quality of its citizenry. Most men are honorable and honest. Of the probably more than'one hundred thousand public officials, a large part of the leaders of which have a legal training, there is a very small per cent but that have rendered their day and time and constituency thoroughgoing honorable service, many, at large personal sacrifice. Here I was just now ‘reading a splendid quotation from Roosevelt that has an exact bearing on the point. !

“‘ln our history there is now prac-; tically no mention of any great finan-, cler, of any great business man, who| merely made money for himself, It at some crisis in the nation’s history, that flnancier rendered a great .na-! tlonal service, or if he identified himself in useful fashion with some great! movement for good, whether in art or: philanthropy or otherwise, then his| name remains. But even under. these conditions it remains as a secondary value. America’s contribution to per-! manent world - history has been made! by the statesmen and soldiéers whose: devotion to the country equaled their’ efficiency. by men of sclence, men of art, men of letters, by sane and honest reformers and social workers, who' dld great work and treated that work! as In itself a great reward.’ “The history of our growth and development as a nation is largely the; story of the lives of high-minded men, who have devoted themselves to the. service of their fellows in some one of the thousand ramifications of our public life. “True it is, my boy, that we have an oversupply of ‘small fry' in the legal profession, but it is also true in the other professions. Human nature. is no different in politics than in business or medicine or the other scit ences. s 3

“Som. one has told us that the real value of great lives is to fertilize the. imaginations of our youth., When you think politics, think of the great game that Washington played with his Con-_ tinental congress; think of the great game that Lincoln played with mill Hons of human lives at stake, Think of the great and fascinating game that Herbert Hoover played to feed the. starving children of the world. Do not let your ideals and conclusions, be reached by dwelling too much on. the petty graft and mistakes of the! greedy and overly ambitious few. “True American citizenship means loyal service to God and country.; Boys of sterling quality must be trained to enter politics—jyes, to become fighting politicians; live-wire: citizens who do their share of the pubHe work, and Bob, you don’t need to walt until you are a senator. Be a good straight-shooting, hard-hitting politician in school; in your club; In your camp; yes, in your gang. - .%We must recognize that there are defects in our land and weaknesses in our systems; that our plan of things is not perfect ; that all our institutions can be beitered; and. that only by preparation and co-operation to make America the- great democracy where there is less and less fear, more and more confidence in each other and a united hope. for even better things,: will a new day come. : =

“Good and bad politics, Bob, bring. gv‘apother point, -too, that it is well to consider. Good politics is simply loyalty. Everybody likes the fellow, who stands up for his family and bhis. ‘school, his friends, his team, and his }éonﬂtrp-au of that is not so hard ito do.” ca : ; Sf!;ﬁr' =) Rlsier e , aa . o

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Deposits of Péat Due | to Carbonizéd Plants The plants giving origin to peat aré mainly aquatic, reeds, rusfies, sedges and mosseés. The vegetable tissues die and begin to rot, becoming waterlogged and sinking to the bottom of the pool. As this deposit beconies thicker, the lower layers become compressed and carbonized. The formation of peat seems to require a moist atmosphere and a low mean tempera. ture. Peat winning is done by cutting & trench about a foot deep with a peculiarly shaped spade, called in Ireland a “slane,” and removing sods from 3to 4 feet long. When one layer is removed the next 18 attacked. If the deposit is very‘solid, step working is employed. The sods are allowed to drain and then are stacked for drying, a progess which may take six weeks. They are sometimes turned so as to dry evenly. Dried sods are called “dug peat.” In modern times excavators and dredges are sometimes used and drying is hasténed by heated chambers. Peat is used as fuel, and as a source of fuel gas, ammonin, fertilizer and a process for making paper of it has been developed.

Will of Egyptian King . - Carved on Marble Slab A marble slab with the Inscribed testament of Ptolemy VII, king of Egypt and Cyrenaica, in which he bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans. in the event of his dying without an heir, was found during the archeological excavations by the Italian government in Cyrenaica. The marble slab is perfectly preserved and the finely engraved inscription Is easily readable. Ptolemy died in 116 B. C. (1. e, 2,045 ‘years ago), and was succeeded upon the throne of Cyrenaiea by his natural son Apion, upon whose death in 90 B. C. thp Romans took possession of the kingdom. The document, it is explained, is exceptionally important as illustrating the policy of the Romans in the eastern Mediterranean, and definitely solves the question of the man ner in which Cyrenaica passed under ‘Roman rule. The tradition of Ptole ay’s testament was held to be false by histories of the ‘last century.

Feat of “Walking” on Water

It is a fact that a man did “walk” from St. Louis to New Orleans on the Mississippi river. This fact {s- attest ed by old residents of New Orleans and of several of the smaller cities be. tween New Orleans and Vicksburg. ‘Miss. . The tlme of his arrival at New ‘Orleans is approximately fixed as being in the month of May, in the year 1917 or 1918. No record-of the man's name or previous history is avallable. ‘His “walking” was accomplished by means of small pontoons or 'boats, probably 3 or 4 feet long and 1 foot wide, strapped to his feet in much the ‘same manner as would be snowshoes, .and he shuffled along the surface of :the water as one would on snowshoes. 'His wife followed him closely in a Bkiff, and, wherever possible, they ‘stopped at night at the most convenient town or settlement en route.

~ It 18 not possible to create an absolutely perfect vacuum, This is at ;present a mere intellectual concept. ‘No physical or chemical method has been devised for effecting the absolute removal of every trace of matter from any portion of space having finite ‘measurements. - By the use of a good modern air pump a degree of exhaustion can be obtained which is so perfect that no residual matter can be detected except by the most delicate ‘testing. The Sprengel pump, jnvented -.about - 1865, -is ‘able to produce a vacuum seo nearly perfect that the ‘residual pressure probably dees not exceed the 400,000,000 th part of an atmosphere. Lo :

Boards That ‘“Groaned”

Although the phrase *“groaning ‘boards” is usually associated with the heavy meals of older days, the phrase .Beems to have a double origin. For boards that really groaned” were the ‘wonder of London in 1682. There was exhibited to the king an elm iplank which, when touched by a hot iron, produced a sound -resembling -deep groans. The mantelpiece in the ‘main room of the Bowman tavern in i Drury lane responded In the Same way .to the treatment and it was thought ito have been made from the identical jelm tree. The dresser at the Queen’s iArms tavern, St. Martin' le Grande, 'was found to possess the same quality.

. Most of the holiday supply of spruce ;and evergreen is grown on Christmas tree farms, an industry concerning _which little is heard. One Obio nur;sery has more than 400,000 trees :growing on 75 acres of land, ranging .in size from tiny year-old Norway ‘spruce seedlings to trees 30 feet. tall, ‘says Popular Mechanics Magazine.

.- All of the trees come from seeds, jand when the seedlings are two or 'three inches high they are planted in 'beds, being arranged tweo inches apart :in rows one foof from each other,

Despite Lack of ’Pedigrn

-- An outcast dog—a yellow one, at ‘that—up at Blind River, Ont., res‘cued a Kkitten that was drowning in a ;vat of wster, and then went on with ‘being an outcast and » wanderer. Evi: dently, a 8 with the human race, a long pedigree is not recéssary to the perforinance of coursgeous and un: ‘selfish deeds.—Toronto Globe.

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£ 406 unaer ed will sell at public E auctiofi at the Le 6 Loéser farm 1 mille _ southwest of Ligenier, sale commenc|ing 8 11 oeloek snarp on TUBSDAY | FEBRUARY 18. : | The Following property towit—- | 2 Head Horses—One 8 year old and {one 12 years- old. i 4 Head Cattle—Holstein cow § years old, be fresh July 30, Red cow 5 years old be fresh September 12, Spotted cow 6 years old be fresh | April 25. These cows are extra good ones. One Durham bull 18 months old a gbod one. : 26 Head Hogs—3 brood sows due to farrow in March, 22 fall shoats weigh from 50 to 75 pounds one boar. - 29 Head Sheep-—2B ewes 4 years old old due to lamb March 1, one buck. Farm Implements—Fordson tractor and .plow, cultipacker good as new, grain binder in good condition, wagon and rack, double dise, cultivator, hay -loader feed grinder, sulky plow, gang plow, end gate seeder, set | heavy harness, set heavy fly nets. _Shock corn in the field. , 200 bushels of Oats. ; Some Alfalfa Hay in mow. ; | Terms of Sale--All sums of $8:00 and under cash in hand. All over $5.00 a credit of 8 months will be given at 7 per cent interest from date of sale, : : ‘

, ~ LEE MOQDY Harley Longcor, Auctioneer o H. E. Hoak, Clerk. , The Ladies of the Christian church will serve lunch. :

Robbery at Logansport

Burglars in the Bailey Clothing store. at Logansport. tock 30 mens suits 30 overcoats and a quantity of shirts and caps when they forced open the front doors: Thursday night. The $2,000 loot was hauled away in a large auto. : e

Dies of Acute Alcoholism.

Samuel Mayhausen 62 a resident of Elkhart for 42 years and for many years well known as a bookbinder died Wednesday night of acute alcoholism in his room on the third floor of a business block in Elkhart. {

Dies at Rome City.

Morris Burnham aged 77 died at his home at Rome City Thursday noon following a stroke of paralysis Monday from which he never recovered consciousness. i e

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A treasured ;msessxon of many a local boy and girl is this auto- ' grax’ahed ,ﬁxctumostc”ard of “Uncle ob” Wilson feeding peanuts to the elephant. “Uncle Bob,” famous entertainer of Station KYW and children’s radio favorite, is %resident of the Sinbac Radio Club, which

‘Home Realty and Investment Co. ~ ROOMS 3 AND 4 SECOND FLOOR _ LEVY BLOCK, LIGONIER, IND. Real Estate, Federal Farm - Loans and Securities ' ~ ALSO | v Ufficial Indiana Auto License e s 1930 License Plates will be on sale at this v branch, December | 6th—come early o and avoid the rush. B » Ample Room for Yoor 'Comfort : | | and convenience. o J. L. HENRY Manager

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