Ligonier Banner., Volume 66, Number 29, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 August 1932 — Page 5

Eternal Water Power e | Assured to the World | A curious provision of nature is that ‘she made scarcely any sign of her imJuense stores of petroleum until the automobile was invented. But some ‘day, the automobile will have to go electrically; and the water powers that furnish the electricity will never collapse, The first American petroleum found in Pennsylvania did not appear in a large area compared with the newer flelds of the Southwest and its use for fllumination did not totally extinguish the candle. The first real substitute in cities for the more prifiiltive lights was artificial gas. How it blazed and effluviated in the good old days, before it was mantled and otherwise subdued to its present pleasing servitude. Even at its -earliest, gas provided the real glare necessary at public gatherings and on the dramatic stage. At last, people could really see objects after dark. : : When electricity came in, the llumination became still more vivid—although the terminology and the formulas still harked back to “candlepower.” “So long as grass grows and water runs,” electrical power will hold out; and the rivers are timeless. Besides, there are yet the tides of the Ssea and the calorific energy of the sun, to reckon upon.—St, Louls GlobeDemocrat.

Frozen Meat Brought to England Long Ago New Zealand celebrated thé jubilee of the first shipment of frozen meat to Great Britain, but it may be recalled that an interesting experiment of the kind was made as long ago as 1816, writes a columnist in the Manchester (England) Guardian. In January of that year three Eskimos arrived at Harwich bringing five sledges loaded with ptarmigan, blackcock and other game, frozen and packed in airtight cases. The enterprising northerners had to pay £5O (nominally about $250) duty on the cargo (the wicked Cobden had not then interfered with the. sacred principles of protection) and, another £lO for conveyance to London, but the game was in such excellent condition that it found a ready sale at high prices, so that they were able to remain in England, spending their profits In royal style, for several months. Despite its success, however, the venture was not repeated,

: Tinker's Dam o The origin of this expression, as glven by Sir James A. H. Murray in his “A New English Dictionary,” is: “Not to care, or be worth, a tinker’s curse or damn, an intensification of the earlier ‘not-to care, or be worth & curse or damn,” with reference to the reputed addiction of tinkers to profane swearing. ‘Not to care a straw’ is similarly intensified. A tinker's dam is a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder. The material can be used but once; belng consequently thrown away as worthless, it hag passed into a proverb, usually involving the wrong spelling of the otherwise Innocent word ‘dam.’*—Literary Digest, :

Katydid Night Singer

Because of its pale -green color, which makes it almost invisible when resting on a green leaf, it is difficult to find the katydid. They do all their singing at night, so there is no call to attract the eye. The singing, incidentally, is done entirely by the male and is atcomplished by means of rubbing the forewings together, The sound carrieg as much as a quarter of a mile and at a distance has a remarkable resemblance to the human voice, Of all the insects, the katydid seems to be the least harmful to vegetation, and because of this not so much has been written of its habits. Its “Katydid, Katydidn't” Is well. known, however, on hot summer nights,

Oh, Pshaw!

Another of the legion of Shaw sto--ries ‘has it that he once missed his umbrella from the stand at his club. Subsequently he posted a notice 4n the - hall requesting the nobleman who had ‘removed his umbrella to replace it. “Why do you say the nobleman?” . @asked a friend. “Isn’t it rather crude ‘garcasm?”’ : “Not at all,” answered Shaw. “The constitution of this club states that At is composed of ‘noblemen and gentlemen' He couldn't be a gentleman and remove my umbrella, could he?"— lMew York Morning Telegraph,

Gold Not Heaviest Metal

@old is one of the heaviest metals, but not the heaviest. A cubic foot of gold cast-hammered weighs 1,205 pounds; a cubic foot of platinum welghs -1,380 pounds; a cubic foot of irldium, 1,383 pounds. The rare metal osmium weighs about as much as® iridium, and tungsten is about as heavy as gold. A block of pure gold the size of an average brick, 21 by 4 by 8 inches, would weigh approximately 55. T pounds (avoirdupois), or about 67.8 troy pounds,

Eggsaggerated Supply . Deploring the dearth of intellect under the dome, a reader of the ‘Ohi State Journal inquires “what brand of philosophy (if any) congress employs in grinding out their grist of laws?” “Phe same, doubtless,” opines the edftor, “as that of the old hen when she lays an egg+ ‘Oh, well, they'll he broken sooner or later, anyhow,’ e Bxchange. : ‘ e -’~-/" ~ ‘Mr, and Mrs. Von Kaufman and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwilght Whitner, all enroute from Detroit to their home in ‘Roanoke, received.serlous inJuries :near Auburn .when. their auto ~in & field. All are receiving treatment

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~ ASSEMBLY ENDS WEEK. Period Sees Passage of Advance- ) ment of Actual Tax Relief : - Legislation. . ¢ Both houses of the Indiana assembly - were. in week-enq adjournment Saturday after having completed a week in which more work was ace complished than in any other since the special tax relief session began July 7th, ; . Leading off the first of the week with passage of the bill repealing the ‘Wright “bone dry’ law and substituting a modification of the state proh!bition laws, the house passed a number of important bills, winding up the week with the bill slashing the bienniel budget appropriation 15 per cent, representing an estimated saving of $1,600,000. ; The senate also did some of its most important work with the passage of the two house bills giving counties, cities and towns one-half of the gasos line: tax collections and one-half of the automobile license fees so that county road levies may be wiped out, unemployment benefitted and road bonds retired.

One of the most significant develpments of the. week wag the second appearance of Gov, Harry G. Leslie bes fore the joint session. Going before the legisllators voluntarily the governor made it plain that he would not give his approval to an income tax measure of the questionable constitutionally of such an act, ‘and that he dig not favor the bill, now far advanced, limiting the property tax rate to $1.50. ain " By inference at least the governor rebuked the legislature for its failure to speed up legislation which woula rduce taxes andg lower the cost of government. He reminded that before he issued the call a majority of members of both houses had agreed to the “17 point’ program for tax relief that wag drafted by the Citizen's Tax committee. He scolded them for giving much ofl their attention to such a large number of bills that either had no bearing at all on tax relief or which coula easily await action at the next regular session of the assembly, which convenes in January. : il " Some persons interpreted the gover. nor’s remarks as meaning that he will veto the bill moedifying the prohibition laws even if that measure survives the course it must run through the senate, altrough it has been rumored for some time that the governor wil? favor the measure, :

~ _Public Sale The undersigned administrator will offer at public sale on the George C. Stage farm one mile north and two miles east of Ligonier . four miles south and l2mile west of Topeka, sale to begin at 12 o’clock noon on Thursday September 1. _ Tre following personal property towit: Team of mules and one horse, 8 head of cattle, three cows, two heifers, two calves, one Jersey calf, Hay andd Grain—hay in mow; corn in field, bean hay in field, clover ana timothy seed. gt Ford Car 1927 Model, e Farm implements—One horse wagon wagon and box, low wheel wagon and rack, corn planter, mower, one-horse cultivator, single and double shovel plow, riding plow, manure spreader, spring tooth harrow, dise, grain dril, corn plow, spike tooth harrow, walking plow, stone boat, two 3-horse eveners, set harness, third-horse harness, collars, pads and partg of har« ness, log chain, ferice stretcher, cross cut saw, set tire chains, sledge hammer, saw vice, shovels, forks and pick number of sacks and container, bark wire gtretchers, grind stone and auger parley fork, two tank heaters, big can~ vas, wheel barrow, double trees, garden implements, cream separator, butchering tools, scythe, copper kettle, some household goods and many other articles too numerous ‘to mention. Terms—All sums under $5.00 cash; all sumg over ‘that amount a credit of six months wil lbe given with six per cent interest from date, purchaser giving note with aproved security, waiving valuation and appraisement laws and providing for attorneys fees, - Jesse Squires, Administrator, Harley Longcor, Auct. < o Jesse Swank, Clerk. N

Two Barns Destroyed d - Fire starting apparently from the threshing outfit of Zopher Randaly on the north farm of Bert Winans one and oen-half miles northwest of Cochrans corners in LaGrange county, Saturday destroyed two barns and 2a large suply of hay, grain and some farm tools entailing a loss estimated at $2,800. The loss is covered by insurance, Mr. Winans stated he planned to rebuild at once. : . S—— b oy - 'Will Rest Case e When Attorney Vermont Finley receiver for the defunct Noble County Bank & Trust company of Kendallville completes his story of the ramifications of Samuel K, Jacobs of New | York fugitive from justice and ormer president of the bank and ‘his affairs which it is alleged resulted In | the closing of the bank the state charg |ing Milton K. Jacobs a former vicepresident of ‘thebank with em- | bezzlement will rest its case. £ S s A * i ;*—~ ~ Henry B. Reyher a lifelong resident {of“the Kendallville community dled ‘Sunday morning at his home, in KenOalpE o R s e 4 B