Ligonier Banner., Volume 64, Number 20A, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 June 1930 — Page 2

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Published every Monday and Thursday end entered the Postoffice at Ligonier. Indiana, as second class matter. e . YORK WINS FIELD MEET

Takes 283 Points; Albion and Washington Township Tied For Second Place :

Some fifty eight grade athletes from over Noble county were entered in the county field meet held at Albion Weédnesday’ afternoon at the high school field,“in connection with the annual county commencement. York township won the meet with 2815 pointis. Albion and Washington township were tied for second place with 13 points. Orange had 7 points; Sparta 1, and Swan and Noble 14 point each. It was possible to make a total of 63 points. Keen rivalry was manifested with some 24 thin clads entered in several of the events. Considering their youth some good records were made. Riley Smith was chairman of the meet. The various events an the order in which they finished follows:Broad Jump—Charles Prescott, ‘Washington; Gilbert Clouse York; Walter Nesbitt, Orange, Distance 16; 5. High Jump—Prescott, Clouse four tied for third place including Conrad and Phares, York; Bair, Noble and Hall Swan, Height 5 feet. , Pole Vault—Nesbit, Ray Hiatt Aliobn; George Butler Albion, Height 8:11. : 60 Yg Dash—John Beckley, Albion Berlin Conrad, York; Clouse. : 100 Yard Dash—Conrad, Prescott, Nesbitt. : o 220 Relay—York, Albion and Sparta. 3-Legged Race—York first and second; Albion third.

If Possible to Magnify a Pasture If it were possible to magnify a pasture several hundred or thousand fold—and all the parasites in .the same proportion—so that blades of grass would appear as tall bamboos and small forage plants as great jungle trees, it would be easier to convince livestock growers of the desirability of careful attention to sanitation and of the importance of‘ constant watchfulness in comba,ting! the ravages of parasites that live ini the pasture and attack the various kinds of gyaéstock. | Such a magnified pasture would stand revealed as a place of life—and of death. Many of the livestock _parasites are tenacious of life and are able to withstand the most unfavorable conditions. Yet the great proportion of them die without ever having the opportunity to attack an animal. However many of these paragites have “powers of reproduction and multiplication that seem marvel‘ous. Thousands' of - immature forms wil] come from a single adult parasite. Many live through complicated life cycles and many have One or more intermediate hosts on which they live between their attacks on horses, cattle sheep or swine. Unlike the jungle hunters many of the pests in this magnified pasture would seem sluggish and inert—barely alive, perhaps. The stomach worm that infests the sheep, for example, emerges from the ground and finds a resting place in a tiny curl in a blade of grass. There it remains while the grass develops. If no sheep bites off the grass the stomach worm in time dies. If a sheep crops the grass the stomach worm enters and becomes active within the sheep’s stomach, poins with other stomach worms and preys on the sheep, which is likely to become unthrifty and unprofitable, : e : Fortunately for the livestock growers most of these parasites are able to live and reproduce only when they are able to attack domestic animals of the same or closely related species. The danger from parasite-infested pastures is by no means so great if it is possible to use this year’s horse pasture for cattle or sheep next yvear and for hogs the third.

Murder Case Is Closed

The story of the roadhouse murder of Edward J. Blankert Mishawaka poolroom operator was closed when the last of the criminal indictments growing out of the killing were dismissed in Judge Orlo R. Deahl’s court at South Bend by Assistant State’s Attorney Glenn M. Thompson. Of the six true bills returned by the grand jury after the Kkilling of Blankert in the summer of 1929 ‘five were dismissed by the prosecution, and the other was lost when the defendant was acquitted by a jury om manslaughter charges.

May Have Another Park.

John Ruple appeared before the city council Thursday evening with a proposition to establish another public park for Ligonier. The grounds he would have devoted to this purpose is the plot lying vacant at the foot of Third and Fourth streets adjoining .the Elkhart river on the east. The ‘ground was formerly owned by the Straus Brothers Co., and would make an ideal park. :

2 Youths Injured . Harold Lehner 16 suffered a fracturer collar bone and Robert Reyher 15 suffered a broken rib in an automobile accident at Kendallville Thursday afternoon when the auto in which they were riding oollided with an automobile driven by John S. Taylor. The blame for the accident has not been officially placed.

PLANS FOR 4-H CLUB CAMP

Voeational Leaders From Five Counties Meet at Kendallville to Dis- . euss Program

County agents vocational teachers and club leaders from the five counties of Allen, DeKalb Elkhart Steuben and Whitley nearly 100 in all met at the city hall in Kendallville Wednesday afternoon to plan for the boys' and girls’ 4-H club camp to be held at Camp Potawatomi, Blackman ;lake. a.gaixz this year d_uring the week beginning August 18 the same d&ie as the Kendall¥ille fair. Representatives from Noble and LaGrange counties, right in the circle of this group of counties were conspicuous by their absence—a fact which caused some comment. :

The meeting was presided over by B. V. Widney county agent of Whitley county, the session being purely a business one throughout. Committees ‘were appointed on grounds, sports, water, swimming, points commissary and other necessary divisions of the work., These committees were made up as a rule of persons familiar with what is to be done at the camp. The attendance this year is expected to be even larger than last year, or in the neighborhood of 200 children. The camp fee was left as it was last year $5, or the child may bring his own food in - accordance with_a specified list. Not a single child last year brought his own “cats” as it seems to be better all around to pay the $5 and settle the problem in that manner. Children of club age only will be admitted—from 10 to 20 years. . :

Culling

. The culling of the laying flock has been talked about, and written about, and practiced so ‘much that it has been over done. Many good birds have been sold.- Many poor pullets have. been kept over so that the poultry houses would be filled for winter. So much has been said about culling that many farmers and poultrymen think. it is a very complicated thing ang,'pnly for experts to practice. I hope that I may be able to simplify this business. Of course, culling should be ‘practiced from the time the chick is hatched, every day until all the pullets are eventually sold as hens. Many poultry raisers have been taught that one culling a year is enough. Every lay+ ing flock should be culled in the spring when the price of eggs is low and the price of fowls is high. There are always some undesirable birds to be sold at this time. As soon as the hatching season is over the males should be sold. This saves feed and unfertile eggs are best for the market. : ; :

It is best to cull often and to start as early in the summer as the egg production begins to drop off. Culling the heavy breads is easy if done right As soon as the broody hens begin to show up in the spring, begin to sell them. With the breed such as the Rocks, Reds and .Wyandottes keep up culling in this manner until two-thirds of the flock is sold. Keep the. other third over the second year. There is a belief a,gpong' some people that a broody hen is not good to eat. Keep this in mind. Nature has built up this bird's system so that she might }set for three weeks with little to eat. ‘The first time a hen goes broody she is in the best conditiofi that she is going to be in for a long time. Broody hens are good eating. Some say that the fever makes them unfit for eating purposes. A broody hen’s temperature is subnormal. . Culling the Leghorn flock is nearly as easy. As soon as the production begins to drop off in ‘the spring start culling. One night every two weeks, or oftener, go over the flock while they are on the roost. Remove all birds with a dry, shrunken rough comb and put them in a crate. The next morning look them over carefully. | They will be the birds that have stopped laying. Sell them. Continue this until half the laying flock is sold. Keep the other half over the next -winter. -

There are several reasons for early culling. It saves feed -tli‘é"fggns sell at a higher price, and it makes room for the early hatched pullets. Hand in hand with early culling goes careful feeding as a means of making money from the laying flock. Careful feeding means dry laying mash before the birds at all times—lots of feeding space; lots of green feed; not to much scratch grain. Feed scratch once each day. Starting in May the birds should be fed about 12 pounds of scratch per hundred each day. Each month reduce this 2 pounds per hundred per day. A moist laying mash mixed with milk will produce mpore eggs than anyone thing. Give the birds all they will clean up in 15 minutes each day. ‘ | Culling is easy if it is thoroughly lu@nderstood. . |

oo 1 | No Soldier Deaths ‘ | No deaths among Civil War veteransbhave occurred -during the year at North Manchester which is quite unusual when one thinks how rapidly the ranks are thinning out throughout the country. Nineteen Civil War veterans are still lliving in and about North Manchester. : | | Mrs. John Van Houten of Columbia Qity suffered severe and extremely painful burns to her left hand when kerosene she had peured upon :coals in the kitchen range in order to start a fire exploded and burned her hand up to the wrist. mmfigsm e Lowon grz'g'*na Av - DVOIJOUNY 000 i A e

“ TAKEIT By FROM DAD caey

Is the Church Really Dying? “Another evening wasted away,” sighed Bob from his corner just as - Dad put dowr his - paper and reached i for his magazine. 3 “How come,” asked . 4NN Mr. Smithhough, not fi% £ 7 quite understanding, . . W ‘“lessons a bit irk- & W some?” ~ ; %=W @ “Sunday school les. . BF | sons, yes” replied 8 @ Bob half reflectively. i | ‘Dad, I'm about ™ | through- with Sune day school and church. Seems to me it's just wasted time when there I 8 so much a fellow wants to do. Besides the church is dying. In a generation or two there won't be any such a thing at all, will there? - Dad smiled indulgently, “Bob you are always so cock certain in your conclusions. I suppose you have gathered dependable facts for that statement. It's very dangerous to allow one's thinking to be based on mere opinions, or worse, casual impressions. : ; |

“It's ‘a very popular indoor sport -nowadays' among certain very wise folks never to lose an opportunity to give the church and all it stands for, a good kick in the pants, unconscious, no doubt, that such talk advertises to the high heavens their total ignorance of facts. Some things in our modern ‘life, my boy, are far too big to judge from a few scattered facts. 'Much the same situation as your ‘rotten politics.” No doubt that we do have too many little struggling ineffective churches and I share heartily the idea that we have vastly too many sects and creeds and denominations. It would be a marvelous forward step for all modern life if an effective gettogether program could be arrived af, but just because here and there you find a half-dead church and an old moss-back preacher who hasg outlived his day and his usefulness—don’t gen--eralize too soon on little or no data. ~ “Bob, I saw some facts the other i‘day_whlch tended to show that the modern church is the greatest business in the world. It has absolutely world-wide scope. It has branch offices in every community in every civilized country in the world. If has more paid employees than the greatest industry. Its hospitals and orphan homes, its schools and colleges; its organized agencies of hope and love and mercy add more to our modern peace and happiness than any other given single factor, :

“Bob, if you and your gang would catch some of the historical values out of your Sunday school lessons instead of just spending your time arguing some minor point for the sake of argument, things would look much different to you. ‘Why take this fact alone, boy, pretty much our whole modern attitude toward women, and that means to us our attitude toward mother, is the result of the tremendous efforts of this church which. has from its beginning championed women and motherhood and any boy who is not too old to feel a love for his own mother is not too old to support an institution that is making life more worthwhile for mothers all over the world. : ; “And Bob, going to college? Sure if you're ever going. to be a senator. But, say, where did the colleges get thel? start? Did you know that Harvard was founded by a Christian minister? Yale was founded by a group of Christian ministers and supported by the church largely for many years. Fully a quarter of a million of college students in America today are attending schools founded and deveioped and supported by this ‘dying church.’ Sort of surprises“you doesn't it, boy? “Well, another thing to remember, boy, is that the church of today is quite unlike the church of yesterday and very likely the church of tomorrow will be different again. Change and progress are always at work. We know a great deal more in eyery realm of thought today than even a hundred years ago, and just as rapidly as folks with their prejudice and deep ingrown convictions will allow it to happen, the church, too, will adjust her thinking and teaching to the best that is known by men. Keep in mind as you consider your attitude toward the church that religion is neither apart from life nor a part of life but life itself, lived at its very best. Any agency that devotes itself to such a task cannot die, it can only re-adjust and re-adapt itself to new times and new conditions. So don’t be a ‘wise guy’ my boy, and try to ‘blow out the moon! “The best of men in all times, men of world travel and very large experience have supported and do still support the church at work with their personal allegiance and their time and their money. Hand me that ‘Life of Roosevelt’ there, I marked a passage in it not so-very long ago. Here it is: ‘I think it is the duty of every man to go to church. Frequently I have to listen to sermons that bore ‘me, but the church Has contributed 'SO enormously to civilization; its service to moclety lis so great that irre_gpective of all other considerations I feel T ought fo mpportlt and to attend whenever I can - _ “There you are, old boy, and such _argument migh 't[k!)'o!"l.prés"éfitedfo‘nb and St L o e . (@. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) =

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e to Mirrors, Long Ago Mirrors in ancient times were not as nowadays dedicated exclusively to the service of vanity, but also largely to that of magic. : : . Thelr power of reflecting real things in vague silvery depths bred an awed wonder, which echoed down the centuries in mystle rites wherein they played an important part, A mirror was used to focus the scattered beams of midday heat in one dazzling point of flame, drawing the pure fire of heaven down te the altars of this ‘earth, - Or hung up at evening dusk in the foliage of high trees, it was left to gather dewdrops from the cool radiance of the moon. For fhe dew gathering on objects, as it were out of infinite space, seemed full of sacred significance. : Sl

Ham Wu Ti, much given to -belief in the occult, erected a pillar of bronze on the Terrace of Fragrant Cedar Beams, On the summit of its 200 feet a spirit with outstretched hands held a shallow dish, to receive the preclous moisture. And there were psychic mirrors for evoking apparitions, for reflecting shadows from the events to come. Often they were buried with the dead, to dispel the gloom- of the grave, for the light they had so faithfully reflected on earth was by some weird process supposed to dwell in them still.—From “Porcelain Pagodas and Palaces of Jade,” by A, E. Grantham, . ; ‘

Take Us or Leave Us, Says Ed. Howe to Women Women know perfectly well what they are getting into when' they marry.. All their lives they have heard the supject . discussed, and witnessed over and over all its phases. They know precisely what men are; they know they cannot be anything else. ‘They may say they do not, but they do; they cannot- help learning a lesson presented without variation for thousands of years; therefore I object to their threshing the same old straw over and over, in finding fault with men, Let them take us as we are, or let us alone. Every month, every day, .every hour, I hear of marriages failing and women chattering that wives always get the worst: of it. Why do they not talk this way to brides, instead of. acting as marriage agents? Women get precisely what Nature provides, and they know it before they make the contract.—E. W. Howe in Howe’s Monthly, - : .

Rubber Is Not Elastic

Rubber is one of the most inelastic of substances, points out ‘“Time, the Newsmagagine.” The extensibility of rubber is usually confused with its elasticity. An absolutely elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretching. Rubber does not do that. Pull a ‘piece of rubber, release it, measure it, It is deformed. Old rubbers are bigger than new ones. Steel igfffar more elastic than rubber, but of course much less stretchable. Glass is probably more elastic than steel. Quartz is an almost perfect elastic.’ Hence ‘its use in nice measuring instruments such as telescopes.

The original bay rum is made by distilling the juice of the leaves of the bayberry, a tree which grows extensively in the West Indies. No particular attention is given to the cultivation of the tree. The making of bay rum was formerly chiefly a seasonal, local industry in the islands like the preparation of maple syrup in this country. : : The distilled oil of the bay, however, 18 only one ingredient of the commercial bay rum of the present day. It includes also alcohol, water, oil of orange peel and oil of pimenta. Most of that sold in the United States is mixed im this country by drug firms, hair tonic manufacturers, etc.

Thomas Jefferson recorded the growing of tomatoes in Virginia in 1781, yet it 18 said that an Italian could no&persuade the people of Salem, Mass,, to taste the tomato in 1802. But the “love apple” or “gold apple” of the herbalists soon after began to appear as a market vegetable. In the early part of the Eighteenth century the tomato. was a subject of general fleld culture in Italy and it is to the people of that country that we must accord its highest and earliest appreciation, -

Heron Honest Fisherman

.If a vote was ever taken among trout fishermen there would be a continuous open season on great blue herons for this brigand of the trout streams (so named for the reason that fishermen won't become convinced the “heron eats anything but small trout), annoys the fly casting and plunker by its mere presence on a trout stream. As a patlent, honest ‘fisherman, however, the'heron has it all over his human contenders and it fishes for food alone, not sport. . e

- All in all, this is an age of remarkable talent. We quote: “The shoplifter made his way through’'a crowd of women shoppers and escaped.” When they get around to making the final All-America. football list, they ought to remember the unique performance of this bird.—Boston Her-

Bay Rum

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Ranks Thinning.

The swift moving years are killing with more dreadful certainty than all the Civil war battles—have thinned the ‘ ranks of the blue-clad Union veterans to a mere handful of 50,749, pension bureau records at Washington disclose. : . ‘Since last Memorial day, death has claimed 8,317 of the army of 2,000,000 “Unionists” who fought their way to Appomattox sixty-five years ago. The same twelve months, according to Oscar J. Randall, chief of the bureau’s finance division, claimed the last survivor of the Mexican war. He was Owen Thomas Edgar, who died at the John Dixon home in Washington last September. o - Nine widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are still drawing government pensions, although the war ended 114 years ago. 5

Decatur Man Killed.

. Owen Davis, 39, of Decatur, died at 6:25 o’clock Wednesady evening at St. Joseph'’s hospital] in Fort Wayne of injuries. received three hours earlier in'a traffic accident eight miles south east of the city of Decatur.’ His companion, Bernard Eiting, also ;ot Decatur, escaped serious injury when the automobile which they were driving crashed into a team of horses " Henry Smith, driver of the team of horses, said he saw the automobile coming toward him, but thought he had time to cross the pavement ahead of it, and turned left into a driveway.

State Democrat Heads Meet

~ French Lick where many a political conference of nation-wide import has been held in the past will be the center of Indiana Democratic leader population over the week end. State Chairman R. Earl Peters members of the state committee and women high in the ranks of the party were invited to be guests.

Truck - Farmer Killed.

Franklin A. Steight 71 truck farmer was instantly killed while walking along a highway near his home at Hazelton, when he stepped in front of an automobile being driven by Frank Free, Indiaanpolis. : '

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