Ligonier Banner., Volume 66, Number 6B, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 February 1932 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner Established 1856 Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING (0. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotherman, Manager

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Wawaka News

J. E. Herald was a business visitor in Topeka Thursday, Ly Mrs. Elva Herald was the . guest Thursday afternoon of Mrs. Cleo Foster in Ligonier. . Mr. and Mrs, Chester Dent Rochester, Minn., were here Thursday. Mr. and Mrs, Frank Johnson were recentiy in Mishawaka., - Joe W. Smith transacted business in Kendallville Tuesday. Wednesday March 2 the Wawaka Ladies’ Aid give another hot meal at the noon hour for the public and school children and teachers, Miss Gola Schick is ill. : Mrs. Jennie Winwright who has heen ill the past few days is improving.

The Ladies’ Aid of the Wawaka M. E. church put a beautiful pink and white quilt in the frames at the Mrs. Emma Masters home Thursday. Members of the Wawaka Pedro club motored Wednesdafleveniug to Millersburg and were guests of Mrs. Modelle Brill at a pedro party. A delightful evening was spent, At the close of the party refreshments were served. Mrs. Emma Molen is able now to walk a few steps with flée aid of a crutch.

Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Gerkin and family Middlebury and Mr. and Mrs. B. Lee of Battle Creek Mich, were here Wednesday attending the funeral of Isaac Gerkin.

Noble Township Farm Bureau and Home Division members come to Wawaka in March and will put on an entertainment for Elkhart Township Farm Bureau and Home Division.

Willis Gerver is home from Fort Wayne, s KR The World Wide guild Conrad chapter will meet March 7 at the home of Melisse Rice in Elkhart township. Sunday at the Baptist church a George Washington service was held. Rev. Floyd Smith spoke on ‘“The Religious Principles of George Washington” The community male quartet will sing, In the church on exhibit wag the wonderous collection of antiques of Elkhart township. A. Riperton of Ligonier and Fred Hartley of Coldwater Mich.,, were here on business Tuesday. John Kitchen who has been {ll is improved, :

~ Joe Palvorde was at Mishawaka on business Wednesday. The Noble-LaGrange association conference was held at the Cosperville Baptist church Thursday. A missionary from India gave an address.

Funeral services for Isaac Gerkin held Wednesday afternoon were largely attended. Rev. Roy Broy officiated Pall bearers were Ralph Schlotterback, Alton Loower, Charles Shannon, Roy Kitchen, Harry Frick and Frank Knepper. Interment Wolf Lake cemetery.

Mrs. Kate Burket and Mrs, Charles Wemple donated a quilt and comtfort top for the Ladies’ Aid all-day quilting hee at the U. B. church Ligonier.

J. W. Stager of Rome City was here Friday on business, Mr. and Mrs. Regula of Ligonier were guests of Mr and Mrs J. E. Herald Friday,

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Phares are guests of Mr. ang Mrs. Cecil Phares and family, ;

Rev B. E. Hoover attended the Washington birthday party at Legion ‘hall, Ligonier Monday evening. : Merle Ransom Berea, O, was here Friday. : The funeral of Alva 0. Osborn form er Wawaka citizen was held Thursday afternoon at Brimfield M. E. church, Mrs. Kate Burkett and Miss Marie Burket attended the meeting at the U B. church in Ligonier Sunday afternoon of the Women’s Missionary Association. The Wawaka Junior class play

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‘,‘Hg’& My Pal” is being rehearsed and will be given early in April, oble county superintendent of schools Roma Milnor of Albion visited Wawaka and the North school Wednesday. ‘ Washington’s birthday was celebrat. ed Monday afternoon at the high school with a fine program. A Washington birthday supper was given Monday evening at the Baptist church by the Ladies Aid. A feature of interest aside from the supper was the fine exhibit of antiques on display, The little daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Smith was ill Friday. At the Ladies Aid noon meal Thurs day given to the delegates of the No-ble-LaGrange Association convention at the Baptist church, Rev. Huntington of Indianapolis was present, At conclusion of the meal he gave the ladies a $4 offering. .Clark Graves Leesburg was here Saturday. Clarence Frick Elkhart township school hack driver is ill and confined to his bed with an attack of rheumatism.

Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Gerver, Willis Gerver, Mrs. Jesse Riddle and Mrs. Mary Frick Mr and Mrs. Harry Frick and family attended the funeral of Alva O, Osborn at Brjmfield Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Mawhorter of Fort Wayne were at the Mr, and Mrs. Lioyd Gerver home and attended the Alva. O. Osborn funeral at Brimfield Friday. : Mrs. Irma Shumaker spent the week end at Angola. Dale Edward Gard spent the week and at Topeka with Mr, find Mrs. Cary Gard. :

Holds Up Eleven

A 17-year old girl wearing a red be. et and carrying a toy pistol was raptured Tuesday after she allegedly leld up and robbed 11 persons within an hour.

Calmly puffing a cigaret Miss Vera Wood high school student submitisd ‘o arrest at city hospital. She was ‘aken there with an arm fracture suffered in a fight with Harry Pattrum a taxi driver. Pattrum police said over-powered the girl when she attempted a robbery in the fair building.

After hospital attaches set the broken arm Miss Wood a sophomore at Shortridge high school quietly faced her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Henry D. Wood and admitted the series of seven holdups. Joe Hottenrock 32 her alleged companion was arrested and charged with auto banditry and robbery :

Hurt in Triple Collision

Fred Gardner 50, Elkhart was severely injured in an accident at an #Elkhart street intersection which involved a ecity street department tractor. a coal truck and an automobile, Gardner suffered injuries to his right ankle and leg. Louis Woodford of Elkhart was driving the tractor. Gardner was with him. As the tractor entered the intersetcion it was struck by a sedan driven by Mrs, Dora Parrish also of Blkhart. After striking the tractor the Parrish machine continued and struck a coal truck driven by H. M. Bussard, Others involved in the accident were badly shaken up. . The front wheels of the tractor ‘were broken off and the radiator of lthe Parrish machine badly damaged. .

To Act as Committeeman

George Ball Muncie manufacturuer has been named acting republican national committeeman from Indiana to succeed M. Bert Thurman according to advices received from Washington. Ball it was said was appointed by Simon D, Fess chairman of the reépublican national committee. Thursman resigned last week to become- a candidate for the republican nomination as governor of Indiana. _ Ivan Morgan state republican chairman was expected to call a meeting of the state committee within a few days to elect a successor for Thurman,

Fire at Terre Haute

A spectacular downtown fire at Terre Haute destroyed the James Wolf company store was estimated to have caused damage of from 3575,000 to $lOO,OOO. Joe Cartwright driver of a fire truck wag injured seriously when the truck answering an alarm that called all equipment in that city, collided with a truck. Two other firemen were injured less seriously,

Lad Hit By Car

Henry Clapp Jr., age 9 of LaGrange was seriously injured while on' his way home from school when he was struck by an gutomobile drivemn by Mrs Ellis Wilson 21 also of that city. The lad was taken to a hospital at LaGrange for X-ray examination. Police are investigating the accident.

Smilin’ Charlie Safi ’ { : /] i / ’5~ >\ 7/ rfl\ "y \\!&y ;-/ ,; : ““-f‘:‘v"-; “Let me tell you—. | our ggfim didn'¢ . | gt s their predecessors!”

Colcrs Not Important _ in Emotional Effects In a recent popular article, similar to others which have appeared in popular or pseudo-scientific journals, we are told that green and blue-green are quieting, blue sobering, purple repressing, yellow cheering, red and orange exciting or stimulating. It happens, however, that this sort of systematization is mostly what might be called boloney, with just enough basis of fact to make it seem sensible to the layman, :

The supposition that red is generally exciting (based entirely on assoclation) runs contrary to the affects of roses and many other flowers, not to mention the sunset. Red cloths excite the bull, but black cloths are just as efficacions, for to the bull red actually looks black. The conventional red signal checks the motorist and green stimulates him to go. The reverse system would work Jjust as well, if it were conventional. Under the deep blue sky of summer people are stimulated more than by the gray of winter; but they are cheered as much by the green landscape of Maryland as by the yellows and browns of California. Purple grapes and green watermelons are as appetizing as are yellow apricots, red cherries, or oranges, and if the sea were persistently yellow it would have the same emotional effect it has now. —RKnight Dunlap in the American Mercury.

Cold Chickens Sought - Warmth of Footlights

A London actor who toured in his ‘early years, writes Peggy Wood in the ‘Saturday Evening Post, tells a story of a road company of an English pig-and-chicken play—you know, ‘Shore Acres” and “The County Chairman” tvpe we used to have in America—where they “traveled” a lot of chickens who were taken from their coops, which were always relexated to the dressing rooms up in the flies—and the ones, of course, without heat—and let loose on the stage in Aet IT to peck about at the corn scattered for them by the property man. - This was for stmosphere and held great advertising possibilities. The only trouble was that their legs were always so cold from their bitter dressing rooms that instead of pecking at the corn so temptingly spread, while the actors said their lines, the hens made a break for the footlights and sat on the electric light bulbs until they got warm, making pitiful clucks all the while.

The leading lady complained that those wretched chickens were ruining her scenes, but the impresario knew they were worth & dozen leading ladies to the audience.

Perpetuating Old Symbol

» Did you know that you are being religious when you write to your best ‘ girl and put several crosses near your i signature at the bottom of the letter, says an article in a Portland (Ore.) paper. The origin of the symbol dates back to the days when only the priests and the favored few could write. Oth‘i ers made their mark on wills, deeds - and other documents. The signer - made his mark in the form of a cross, ~ which was equivalent to swearing by the cross that he would be faithful ' to the pledge he had made. Just as today the President kisses the Bible ; when he is inaugurated, so in those ~ days the man who signed a will or.a ~ deed made his mark in the form of a cross and kissed it, out of reverence. ~ Kissing the cross thus became associated with kisses.

Ancient Bridge

What is probably the oldest bridge in the world lies some hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific ocean a few miles south of Behring straits. This is not a bridge fashioned by the hand of man, but was a strip of land of unknown width connecting: the continents of Asia and America, once above the surface of the sea and densely forested with redwoods, but submerged so.long ago that sclentists talk about it in seven figures. Dredging on this recently discovered ridge has brought up fossils of redwoods. Like fossils have béen found on land in both Alaska and Siberia, and it is quite clear that this was at some remote period a connecting link between them, J

#“Cork” Limbs

It is belleved by some that the first artificial limbs were invented by a Doctor Cork. Another theory is that they were first made in Cork, Ireland. And it has been said that the name came from Cork street, London, where there were shops selling surgical appliances. ‘These explanatnons are, however, not borne out by investigation. It is reported that an elderly Engiish manufacturer of artificial limibs believes that the name was applied to them because they were once made largely of cork. In any event, this history of the term seems to be generally accepted. .

A Game of Chance They were tulking of the parsons of their respective villages.

_“Our man is go strict he won't even perform a marriage ceremony,” said Hobden., : :

“Good heavens! Whatever is his reason for that?" questioned his compaoion. : “He says that his consclence won't permit him to participate in any game of chance,” Hobden explained.—Lon‘ don Answers. @@

Mother-in-law }f Daughter

Mrs. Phena Musser of Coldwater, Mich,, has become her.own daughter’s mother-in-law as a result of her marriage to Melvin Johnson Batavia farmer. The daughter Irene is the wite of Johnson’s son Howard., -

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Naturalized Briton Not - Locked Upon With Favor

So far from wanting foreign residents to become Englishmen, we Britons discourage naturalization, Theodore Maynard writes, in the American Mercury. Englishmen, like poets, are born, not made; and if Frenchmen or Germans or Americans Insist on renouncing their own nationality, well, that is their own affair, but they cannot expect us to be anything but suspicious of their motives.

Indeed, we narrowly regard our fellow subjects of foreign extraction, or with foreign connections. I have often heard Ford Madox Ford (whose name was once Hueffer) refefred to as “that German fellow”; and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt once said acidulously to a friend of mine: “How is it that the two best known Sussex poets happen to be a Breton born at Versallles and a babu born at Bombay?’ :

Blunt for all his eccentricity and his wanderings .in Arabia, remained very much the English squire:; and the fact that about one-quarter of Belloc's blood was French and that Kipling (though of pure English stock) was brought up in India, prevented him regarding either of them as true blue.

Origin of Lamp Veiled in Mists of Antiquity

Authorities on the subject say the origin of the lamp is unknown, S. E. Spicer writes in the Cincinnati Enquirer. It i{s known, however that lamps were In use 6,000 years ago, for the excavations of the ancient cities of Babylonia and other countries of the East yield many specimens indicating that they were in common use there at that time.

At first lamps probably were made of clay and dried in the sun. Then, in the passing of the centurles they were made of iron, tin, copper, bronze, brass, glass, alabaster and other materials. In Rome and Greece, where the fine arts reached a high degree of accomplishment, lamps were fashioned in great beauty of form and variety of detail and were used for decorative as well as utility purposes. - The spread of the Roman empire carried these lamps with it to the remote corners of the earth and they-became known by the nation in which they originated. Eventually some of them came to America with the Pilgrims.

Moon Superstitions

The moon was in ancient times an object of worship and has remained to the present day the center of many superstitions. The times for sowing seed, gathering herbs, killing animals for food, taking particular medicines and treating various diseases were all regulated by the phases of the moom. Modern science has studied this supposed influence with generally negative results in regard to crops, weather, etc. The superstition about the moon affecting sanity is perpetuated In the name “lunatic,” from the name of the moon, Luna. This is an old belief, as shown in the line of a Sev-enteenth-century English play, “When the moon’s in the full, then wit’s in the wine.” : .

Excavating Old Germany

Digging in Germany might prove a profitable pastime. Within one week a householder of Marionburg dug up a keg of 697 silver coins of 1625-6, which were probably buried during the 30 years’ war; a tourist discovered the skeleton of a bear in a cave near Karlsruhe, where none have been seen for 300 years; graves of ancient Celts have been found with bones five thousand years old; at Konigsberg the oldest find was a stone ax dropped there before the glaciers came down over Europe 8,000 years ago; under the altar of Speyer cathedral the stone sarcophagus of an early Christian saint was brought to light.

They Had Company

Billy spent a week with. his grandparents in the country. While playIng in the back yard he noticed a hive which contained bees and, being of an investigative turn, he picked up a stick and began to pound on it. Immediately hundreds of bees rushed out and little Billy was severely stung. When reprimanded by his grandmother and questioned why he did such a thing, he replied: 4L knocked on the door to see if there was anybody at home and I think they had company, gramdmother.” :

Eggs-actly!

Marie always spent Thursdays with grandma, where she had a wonderfual time because she always had her own way.

One evening when big brother Harry came as usual to take her home, she set up a mighty tumult. Grandma, in order to quiet her, gave her an egg to take to mother.

When ' they were outside, Harry said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself te act like that at grandma’s?” But Marie said, calmly, “Well, I got the egg, didn’t 1?”

Finally “Beautified”

Several Pittsburgh clubwomen are enjoying a snicker at the way of the world. For two years they campaigned In a futile effort to have certain vacant lots around the town beautified. And the other day a tour of the places they had marked: for improvement revealed that every one was wearing the swell scenery of a miniature golf course. 7

' Woman Hurt ‘{Mi's. Anna 8. Johnsom of Elkhart was slightly injured when she was struck by “an automobile driven by Leßoy Whitsler of Blkhart in that city. She was taken to her home by the driver. S

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Give Spectators Thrills

A number of ice fishermen took a chance Sunday trying to land a few fish at Sylvan lake. There was one stretch of ice ‘several hundreq feet long near what is known as the Porter woods that had not broken up during the recent thaw. It was at this point that fishermen went onto the ice venturing out to a point a hundred feet from shore where there was a half-inch coating of ice, from which point they fished, Few fish were caught.

Several venturesome anglers furnished thrills for the crowd when they secured several boards and scooted out over the thin layer of half-inch in hopes of locating the fish. Others stood by watching the “nervy” anglers, expecting at any moment to see them plunge into the lake for a cold bath and possibly death. However, all of the venturésome anglers escap¢d any such experience.

Justitiable Homicide

Mrs. Harry Lyle of Muncie who shot and kileld Arnold Johnson after* he killeq her hushand was cleared by a report of Coroner Clarence Piepho who returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. The Delaware county prose cutor«said he would not present the case to the grand jury, T

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Elcar Plant May Be Sold.

Negotiations for the sale of the Elcar Carriage & Motor company factory, Hlkhart, were revealed by the filing of an equity action in the Elkhart superior court asking the removal of William H. Knickerbocker as mortgage bond trustee,® The complaint was signed by James A. Bell Myrtle Carpenter Margaret Bixler Ben Bixler Bonnie Darling and Guy J. Shirley, ‘ : ‘One paragraph of the complaint states that a definite offer has been made by a certain person for the purchase of the real estate through Attorney Ethan L. Arnold. Attorney Arnold is not in position to divulge the name of the person, However the party is willing to post $25,000 in cash as a binder.

Entefed At Speedway

Juan Gaudino champion of South American has entered his car an eight-cylinder “Golden Seal Special” in the International 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May, .Gaudino’s entry.arrived by air mail from far away Buenos Aires in the Argentine where he is just as much a coddled hero as Luis Firpo was after his thrilling battle for the world heavyweight boxing championship with Jack Dempsey,

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