Ligonier Banner., Volume 64, Number 50A, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 December 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 Monday and Thursday &nd entered the Postofiflce at Ligonjsl;. Indiana, as second class matter.

Eight Found Guilty : Eight men were found guilty and two were -acquitted on charges of conspiracy to violate the national px‘o‘. hibition laws by a federal court jury at Fort Wayne after %en and one-half hours of deliberation. » ‘ Those convicted were Dr. Guy Emrick former Allen county sheriff; _George A. Biemer cafe proprietor L. Blakely former deputy sheriff of Allen county; Elmer Kerns, Cecil Needs John Dornick and John Kelly all of ‘Fort Wayne. . : F Those acquitted were (Claude Mason and IL.eo K. Miller of Fort Wayne. © ~The eight men wit lbe brought before Federal! Judgze Thomas W. Slick for sentencing. : At the autset 22 persons were indicted but 12 cases were dismissed for lack of evidence. Defense for Emrick presented Mrs. W. S.%\ason Wavnedale past president and present vice-president of the W. C. T. U. as a character .witness for the former sheriff. . =~ ¢ Several prominent Fort Wayne citizens testified for the defense as to the ‘character of Biemer. .

Teacher Aqenitted of Charge. Orrin Shaw, Madison township, Jay county school teacher. was acquitted of assault and batiery charges that were filed after he is alleged to have forcibly ejected Martha Milthaler a student from a gymnasipm class when she did not wear rubber soled shoes as required. James Adams has rabbits for sale at 18 cents the pound live weight. ' 49atf -

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, Chicken Thieves In Court. - - Prosceutor R. W. Probst was called to Brimfield Wednesday and found something like this: Justice of the Peace F. B. MeCarty and Game Wardens Hevel and Fox were questioning Fern Conrad of Brimfield who was charged by Mrs. David Weaver west of Brimfield of stealing of her chickens the night hefore. - Conrad denied the charge. But when he went after the chickens he dropped his knife-—the same knife the officers had seen before when Conrad was in trouble. In the meantime Fred Cravens had confessed to being with Conrad when ithe chickens were stolen So. a. vigit was made to the Conrad home where Mrs. Conrad was just preparing a fine chicken dinner. “Here's your chickens; I don’t want ‘'em,” she said. So Conrad was found guilty and bound over to the Noble circuit court in the sum of $2,000. Lravens pleaded guilty and was bound over in the sum of $l,OOO on- the charge of petit larceny. The charge against Conrad was burglary.

Wheat Falls to Lowest Level | July wheat fell to 68 to 68%%c as the board of trade at Chicago opened Wednesday morning, the lowest levels since 1901. Old crop deliveries were unevenly steady to higher farm board buying advan¢ing December sharply in the face of the weakness in July and the reclines in foreign markets. Liverpool was very weak on liquidation and hed?ing for Australian account while the Argentine exchange again was low er, Corn was fractionally lower in sympathy with July wheat and easiness in stock. Oats followed corn.

Indiana Bank Closed Closing of the Trust and Savings bank at Rensselaer was announced late Tuesday by the state banking de‘partment which said the bank was closed by its directors as a precautionary measure. The institution was capitalized at $lOO.OOO with deposits of $830,000, oans of $770,000 and undivided profits of $lO,OOO. E. J. Randle is president and Judson J. Hunt secretarytreasurer.

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‘“Whoopee” which comes to the Crystal Wednesday, Thursday -and Friday is one of those pictures which gives the public its money’s worth in almost any direction you wont to. think of. Hilarious comedy from such experts as Eddie Cantor, the sfar, and Ethel ‘Shutta, tunefu] songs of every variety, beautiful girls galore as only Zieffeld can pick them, an effecting love-story, and a general air of satisfying laviShness make it a picture in a million, . L The story taken from Owen Dayvis’ famous farce, ‘‘The Nervous Wreck"” is concerned with the adventures of an imaginary invalid on a western

- Dismal News Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Morris of Cromwell and Mr. and Mrs. (iell Buchtel and Miss Anna Buchtel attended a funeral near Sidney Wednesday. . Mrs. Mary Gants attended teachers meeting at Warsaw Saturday. ¢+ Mr. and Mrs. Claus” Bobeck visited relatives in Albion Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Grimes were shopping in Ligonier Saturday. : Mrs. Irma Lung called on Mrs. Linsey who ig ill at her home in Cromwell. : : : Mr. and Mrs. Ira Jackson of Middle point 0., were guests over the week end of the ‘latter’'s parents Mr. and Mrs. I.on Burley and son Frank. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Beck and children spent Sunday with JMr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith of Auburn. \ Dean Carlson wife and daughter spent Sunday with Dora Clingerman and wife. S

Four Hamlet Robberies Officials- of two hamlets taoinAOl Officials of two counties Wednesday were investigating four burglaries at Hamlet Tuesday night and the fifth in Bourbon believed to have been perpetrated by the same band of thieves. After looting the four business establishments and escaping with a small amount of money and clothing there they stole an automobile from a garage. The car was recovered in Bourbon by police who were unable to capture the band as they were frightened away from a garage in that eity. i . In the car was found a Springfield rifle taken from the Walter Jorcesen garage a traveling bag containing women’s lingerie burglars’ and garage tools.

Trial To Start December 29

~ After a conference with Harley Hardin, Grant county prosecutor Merle Wall deputy attorney general said he had been assured officials will be ready to start on Dec. 29 the trials of four men held on charges of lynching at Marion. : :

E The four were arrested an affidavits filed by Attorney-General Og?den following an investigation of the lynching of two negroes on the court ‘house lawn at Marion last August. ~ Either Robert Beshire or Chester Pease will be tried first. Wall said ‘The other two held are Phillip Boyd and Everett Clarke. ; Approve 20 Games During Year By a referendurny vote the Indiana High School Athletic Association has approved the proposal that each high school be permitted to play 20 basketball games a season. Under present rules each team is limited to 18 games a season. The vote showed 290 members of the association . favoring the 20-game iimit and 244 favoring retention of the 18-game limit.

The provision for 20 games will become effective for the 1931-32 season. ‘ ; | SR R | To Oppose Income Tax ~ The Indiana Manufacturers Association will oppose passage of legislation enacting a state income tax law. ag proposed in the recent report of the Indiana tax survey commission. A resolution to that effect was passed by the organization at its annual meeting at Indianapolis. =~ ; All officers of the association were re-elected. : S . La s _ i Christmas Matinee at 2:30 at Crystal

Charged With Passing School Bus Oagie Emmons Elkhart is awaiting trial in Warsaw city court on a charge of driving an automobile past a school bus which was disecharging pupils. Ralph Liggett state policeman who made the arrest first filed the charge against Elias Sherman Elkhart owner of the car. Shermai insists he was asleep on the back seat of the car and Emmons was driving. i

Injuries Prove Fatal Albert Nifong of Indianapolis (\lied, in the city hospital there after being injured in an automobile accident near Stillville. His truck collided headon with a truck in the National highWAy ; s : Killed in Crash = . Albert Clift 55 of Detroit was kill. ed when his automobile in which' he, was riding struck a truck said to have, been parked in the national road two miles weat of Greenfleld. . . ' e T A . Ao e bR Dear Santa—send us a ton of Iguitd ] to make us happy on Christmds day.

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ranch who finds himself called on to lrescue the ranchman’s daughter from an unwelcome marriage. After:turning he-man--and doing g satisfactory job of getting her married to her real love, he finds himself in the hands of the domineerg nurse who wants to marry him; but he has been anything but an' invalid for a few days and refuses to thihk himself one any longer. . . This. plot, with Eddie Cantor as the imaginary invalid; offers a million opportunities, none of which are missed. “Whoopee” is one of those things that no lover of sheer entertainment can afford to miss. i

Christian Science Services: . ®ls the Universe including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?’ was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ Scientist on Sunday December 21. : e ‘ Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermpn was the following from the Bible: “Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever” (Ps. 146:5..6€). ; 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 creates and governs the universe including man. The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them” (p. 295). “In the Gospel of John it is declared that all things were made through the word of God, ‘and without Him (the logos or wqrd) was not anything made that was made. Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful He did not make,—hence its unreality” (p. 525 -

| Kimmell News - . Mr. and Mrs. B. Wooten are parents of a son born Sunday. i ~ Joe Bortner and Heib Long have taken over the business at Shorty’s pool room. : Christmas will be observed at Kimmell school by appropriate exercises Cordial invitation extended to all. - After three weeks’ sickness Malvina Spring is again able to attend school. Miss Anna May Kimmell a student at Depauw will spend holidays at )home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Claud Kimmell. _ Mrs. E. J. Glendening has been ill for several days. \ 1

Miss Evelyn Shew was a guest of Miss Dorothy Maggert. at Cromwell over Sunday. }

~ Mrs. Marion Growcock and daughter Maxine were Fort Wayne shoppers Monday. : Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Werker of Colorado Springs Col, who have been vigiting here for some time have returned to their home Gary Bowman entertained hig son Charles of Columbia City and friends from south of Columbia City Sunday.

Still and Three Men Taken Miami county’s largest confiscated distilléry capable -of pro’ducing approximately 150 gallons of sugar alcohol daily was taken in a raid Wednesday afternoon at the Frank Russo home in Peru. Russo, William Gaffrey and Homer Buckalew were captured in the raid. ?They were taken to South Bend and released in federal court on high bonds. ' o It took seven raiders six hours to destroy the distillery.

Councilman Tries to Kill Self. ~Claudins N. McCully a Garrett city councilman attempted to commit suicide Wednesday morning by asphyxiation. He is expected to die. Mr. McCulley went to the basement of his home lay on an improvised bed made of a sled and a box and placed a gas tube in his mouth or in close proximity to it. When he was discovered by members of his family he was unconscious -and apparently dying. ~ McCully was formerly a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive engineer. | - Farm Home SDestroyed - Fire of mysterious origin destroyed the home of Arthur Maybee two miles tnorthwest of Stroh Wednesday entailing a loss of $3,000. : .. The LarGange fire department was called but upon arrival the house, was in shambles. Neighbors saved a portion of the furniture. |

_ Fire also damaged the Mrs. Ethel Anspaugh home at LaGrange. The fire was extinguished before much damage resulted. The loss is $lOO.

. Destroyed Muskrat House George Eppert of near Syracuse was fined $l6 by Justice Frank Leas on Wednesday afternoon at Warsaw after he entered a plea of guilty to the charge of destroying a muskrat house He was arrested by Game Wardens David Rippey and James Durham. r_' _Buy gifts that are different at the Art Needle Shop, 307 Martin Street. ' ~ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY ‘ Bervices in Welr Block. wmw AN " Lesson Sermonm 11:00 A. M.

- State Police to Have Plane At least one airplane will be added to the state police equipment for combatting lawlessness accordinig to Grover Garrett state police chief. “If funds permit, more than one plane will be added” theé chief said, following yesterday’s attempt to assist in the capture of five bank bandits with airplanes. : “If we had been equipped to carry on the pursuit from the air immediately after the robbery occurred the capture could have been brought about much sooner,” Garrett said, ¥

Kreldler Store Is Robbed : The Kreidler Pharmacy in South Bend in which the former owner Louis C. Kreidler was killed in a holdup in 1926 was again the scene of a robbery Tuesday night. Two bandits hoth arm ed held up Frank D. Stribel a clerk while a third member of the gang waited outside. They obtained $4O. The store is now. operated by Mrs. Kreidler widow of the slain man. e : * Jail Three in Elkhart. ~ Three youth alleged fo have cut. down evergreen trees on farms near Elkhart and sold them for Christmas trees were arrested Wednesday. They are Clarence Yarbrough 21; Ervin Curtis 18 and Leopold Scheidler 18 all of Elkhart. Police recovered 12 trees.. : | : s | Notice of Appointment ~ Notice is hereby given that the udersigned has been appointed Ad‘ministrator of the estate of Susan Hoak Andrews deceased, late of Noble County, Indiana. S S Said estate is supposed to he solvent. 6 Harvey E. Hoak, Administrator W. H. Wigton, Atty. ‘ 49%9a3w

- NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Board of Neble County Commissioners will at ten (10) o'glock A. M. on Tuesday January 6 1931, at their office in the Court House, in the' town of Albion, Indiana, open sealed bids or proposals for the furnishing of the following supplies for the needs of Noble County. during the calender year 1931. 1. Bridge plank: , 1 Creosoted penetration. . 2. Culvert pipe: : < Said pipe to meet State Highway specifications for corrugated metal pipe. 3. Gasoline and Oil: : - To be used as fuel or motor power and lubrication in Noble County Highway Machinery. - 4. Calcium Chloride for use on the public highways of Noble County. 5. Material to be used in filling cracks in road pavement. 6. Cement to be used by Noble 7. Gravel for use as surface material on Noble County Highway. Grave] to meet the approval of Noble County Board of Commissioners. 8. For digging gravel Landgraff pit in Swan township and Forker pit in York township. .

County Highway Department. Bids for above to be based on Noble County needs and material to be delivered any place in Noble County according to the needs. - - Bids for above may be filed with the County Auditor on or before the time mentioned above for the opening of the bids and must be accompanied with a good and sufficient bond to meet the approval of the County Board of Commissioners or a certified check for $50.00 as evidence of good faith on the part of the bidder that he will within ten (10) days thereafter enter in a contract for the furnishing of the supplies bid for and furnish an approved bond therefor. Bids must be made in form as required by law and be accompanied with non-collusion affidavit and in all respects must comply with the laws of the State of Indiana concerning such matters. - If satisfactory bids are not received on the date above mentioned for the opening of the bids said bhid or bids will be continued from day to day until satisfactory bid is received. "~ Given by order of the Noble County Board of Commissioners this 2nd day of December, 1930. : e BEdwin Smith 5 " Auditor of Noble County Indidna.

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