Ligonier Banner., Volume 68, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 October 1934 — Page 4

SCHOOL BUS OPERATION 196,756 Children Transported To School At Cost of $l9 Per Pupil There is a large variation in the cost of school transportation in Indiana. A study was made of costs per pupil in 341 townships where the range was found .to be approximately from $8 to $44. These townships represent a variety of conditions and considerable differences in transporta tion costs are to, be expected. However, the range ig individual counties of this group is almost as great as in the whole group of townships. The Indiana state committee on governmental economy is convinced that the chief cause of varation is transportation costs is the organization of routes. Indiana ranks first in the country today in the total number of vehicles operated at public expenses for -the transportation of school children and first in the total amount of money spent for this service. Transportation, therefore is an important item in the cost of education. During the school year 1932-33, 196,756 children were transported at a cost of $3,733,898. The average cost of transportation per pupil per year was approximately $l9. Indiana is thirty-seventh among the states of the Union in size and eleventh in population. : Cities and towns are logical school centers. A study of the school centerg was made in 35 counties ofl north ern Indiana where there are practical ly no natural barriers to transportation. There are 823 rural school centers in the area studied. Of these 340 are one-teacher elementary schools, 190 are two to four-teacher schools 43 are graded elementary schools with five or more teachers, and 25v are consolidated elementary and high schools. There are 575 of these rural schools within eight miles of one or more urban centers. There are 33 schoolg in Woble coun ty. Within an eight mile radius ot Ligonier there are nine schools In. cluding this school center there is 1 rural elementary one-teacher gchool. Three consolidated rural elementary schools with two to four teachers, no consolidated rural elementary schools with more than four teachers, four consolidated rural combined elementary and high 'schools and no other school centers. ‘ln 1934 the number of rural elementary one-teacher schools had been reduced to 1624, This study does not include LaGrange and Elkhart coun‘ies and therefore the schools in those counties within the eight mile radius. There are 438 urban comnporations in Indiana in which the population: is less ‘than 3,00, None of these cOTporations is large enough for an economical and efficient school system unless it receives pupils transferred from surrounding townships. It is not uncommon for pupiis residing als most within city or town limits to be transported several miles to a rural school. In many instances pupils reside much closer to a school in another corporation than to . the one which they attend. Real Estate Transfers Barbara Snider et al to Arthur Rider out lot 100 Ligonier. A. B. Mier et al to Wm. Brown and wife pt. sec, 16 and pt. sec. 21 Sparta township. ; Ida A. Hathaway to Clifford B, Duesler land in sec. 32 Elkhart towno ship. ; ' Levi Flinn, to Gertrude L. Taylor part. sec. 9 York township. Cornelia Flinn et al to Earl Taylor land part sec. 9 Yerk township.

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World’s Fair Special Five-day round trip tours to the World’s Fair at. Chicago, including bargain rate admission to the Fair and a number of™ She principal concescions are announced b ythe rail« roads for the month of October. One cent a mile is the reduced rate for the Fair round trips. They begia Friday, October 5 and are offered for every week-end throughout the month. The low rates begin on Fridays and may be taken advantage of until noon Sundays with the return trips from the Fair leaving Chicago ary time up to the following Wednesday midnight. With ‘the round trip tickets each possenger will receive a card entiling the holder to a special one day rate at the Fair. On presenting the card and one dollar at any ofi the Fair gates the bearer will be given admis~ sion to the Fair and tickets to six ot the principal concession attractions. These ‘nclude the 628 foot Sky Ride observation towers, highest @ structures west of the Atlantic coast; rids alove the lagoons in the Skyride rocket cars; tour of the Lagoons in the Hxposition motor launches; Frank Buck’s (Bring ’em back alive) Jungle Camp; the Horticultural Ex. hibit Building and outdoor gardensj and “Merrie England” the old Eng. lish Village. j } The federal reserve board sharply rebuked the federal advisory council for urging important changes in the administration’s financial policies The action of the council was “entire ly outside their jurisdiction” the beard said in a resolution. |

JOHNSON SAYS GOODBY TO NRA General Makes Farewell Address To His Former Employes 'With tears in his eyes, Gen. Hugh S Johnson said farewell to the NRA. The ordinarily hard-boiled general in a speech urged his &mployes to stay with NRA and said his resignation had been a foregone conclusion and seriously urged by him since May. Standing alone on the vast com merce depantment auditorium platform the former cavalry leader told 2,000 workers he had reached “the saddest and happiest moment” of his life. He said he was sad lbecause of the end of his NRA job, but happy because it was “a job well done” and he was free for the first time in 16 months from his trials and tribulations. Miss Frances Robinson his executive assistant resigned. She always has appeared with Gen. Johnson on the platform at every public meeting but not Monday. She will remain at NRA with Johnson until Oat. 16, ' ; Quoting freely from the classics and the Bible, then reverting to war time language, Gen. Johnson gave a colorful farewell greeted by rising ovations which lasted ten minutzs. + XNew Roof Monday C. E. Compton and his force of workmen put a new tar roof on the Brown funeral home at the corner of Cavin and Second street

/ TO DISCUSS TAX ISSUES Statewide Meeting at Fort Wayne; | Noble County to Be Repre- ; sented Representatives from about sixty countiey of the state are expected to attend a convention of Hoosier Taxjpayers Union to be held at Fort Wayne next Saturday in the Moose auditorium. Members of the Noble County Taxpayers Association in response to an iinvitation will attend the meeting. Those who plan to atend are Robert Brennan of Kendallville Joe Smith, ‘Wawaka Theodore Gartska Swan and BEphriam Kreiger of Avilla. The question of repealing some of the existing tax laws will be discussed by prominent gpeakers and persons familiar with taxation. Plans will probably be advanced to have repre. sentatives at the next session of the General Assembly and to provide that ‘a record be kept of the legislative members and how they yote with reference to tax measures, having for their purpose the reduction in costs ofi government. ' Sees Ending of Depression “Today, both 'in the United States and throughout the world there are many hopeful signs indicating that the world is slowly working its way out of the depression,,”’ declared Prof. George W. Starr, director of the Indiana university bureau of business | research in his address to the Lions club of Fort Wayne. : Prof. Starr after citing many of the dangers of monetary inflation, and giving a brief history of the havoc previous jnflation has brought to the different countries of the world, warned the members of the | club that inflation of currency is the one thing the government of the United States must guard against. Continuing in his vein ofi hope for this country getting out of the depres sion, he stated: “Business only awalts the signal to go ahead—only to be assured that we are through tinkering with our monetary system, and that the bwdget will be balanced and that the mnational government will confine its activities to the normal functions of government. “Foreign trade can be brought back to life if we take the lead in Teestablishing some form of an international gold standard which will warrant the confidence of the business men of the leading powers. We can take this lead if we take definite steps toward the re-establishment of a gold standard within the United States and assure our business men and the Test of the world that we are through with monetary experiments. “But this can- be done only if we convince the incoming congress that recovery awaits the assurance of a sound financial policy. This can be done only by you business men. ‘We college professors cannot do 1.

wneatr nulng vUuNLLSRIUvAS Three concessions in wheat rulings in the CorniHog Contract which may help some Noble County farmers were received at the County Agent’s Office Albion Saturday as follows: A wheat producer on whose farming unit there is no wheat base or a wheat base of less than 15 acres ' may plant there on in 1934 not to exceed 15 acres of wheat to be harvested ag grain. The grain from the additional acres planted pursuant to this interpretation must not be sold or otherwise transferred but @hay be fed to livestock on the farming unit. : In all cases where wheat is planted under this interpretation (except when the farm is covered by a wheat reduction contract) there must be submitted to the (County Allotment Committee a statement setiting forth the total wheat acreage. i

TO BE TRIED ON MURDER Separate Trials For Chas, Howenstein and Louise Schmitt In ; Poison Plot Case - Separate trials will be held at Fort Wayne for Charles Howenstein 57, and Mrs. Louise ‘Schmitt 24 his: al. leged paramour on charges of murdering the latter’s husband, Urban Schmitt last March, with a glass of poisoned orange juice. The widow’s case was set in Allen circuit court for Oct. 24. Howenstein’s trial will follow WNov. '2O. Both Mrs. Schmitt and Howensteln an eccentric pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Judge Clarrence R. McNabb who denied them certain pre. liminary motions.

“Howenstein asked to have indict. ments against him quashed completely while Mrs. Schmitt sought to force the state into producing a statement she allegedly signed at the time of her arrest. ' : In that statement the prosecution “claims to have the admission that she gave her husband cyanide,in a glass _of orange juice the night of March 23 after a months-old illicit love affair with Howenstein and at his insistence, ‘A grand jury in June. indicted the pair on charges of first and second degree murder three months after the husband was reported to have, died a “hatural death.” [Relatives ‘at the time, said they were dubious of the manner in which Schmitt died and had authorities disinter the body for further investigation. : : No trace of poison was found however chemists said, after analysis of vital organs. In the meantime, before the report was filed, officials claim Mrs. Schmitt had confessed and implicated Howenstein. :

Skull Fracture Proves Fatal. Edward Burgess age 62 resident cottager at Pretty lake the past 10 years mormer resident of Bluffton died Friday morning at Lakeside hospital where he had been a patient and critically ill since Wednesday ‘evening. When brought to the hospital he was suffering from a skull fract‘ure, sustained, it was reported last Saturday night while at a Big Long lake cottage. The immediate cause of death, according to Dr. J. M. Kercheval Wolcottville LaGrange county coroner was meningitis. An investigation was being conducted by Coroner Kercheval and the outcome of the investigation is expected to determine whether any criminal action will result.

Cromwell Marksman Wins H. H. Hontz Cromwell won the annual 200-target registered shoot of the Wabash Gun Club at Wabash after a shootoff with L. S. Horn, Hunitington. : : Hontz hit 25 straight to Horn’s 24 in the shootoff after they had tied with 195 each in the first round. Two men arrested at Albion as burglary suspects confessed to Sheriff Irvin Cazier and Prosecutor Glen Thrapp. The pair Ralph Lites 30 ofy near Kendafilville and Wade Huyss of Mongo admitted a robbery at the John McMean home in Brimfield last May in which $6O, a typewriter and clothing were stolen. : * They implicated a third man, Harold Luttman now serving a term of six months at the penal farm in con‘nection with a hardware store robo s ee S SR R R

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JURY AWARDS $2OO DAMAGES $lO,OOO Asked For Death of 14-Year Old Girl Killed In Automobile : Collision After deliberating four hours a jury in the DeKalb circuit court at Auburn awarded damages in the amount of $2OO against Jacob S. Varner, Wilmington township, DeKalb county. The amount asked in the case was $lO,OOO. George McComb of Allen county was the complaining witness and the case was the outgrowth of an accident in which his daughter Muriey, age 14 years, was killed in a collision July 3 1931 at a road intersection two miles east of Auburn. She was riding in a truck owned by H. D. Weaver of Auburn and driven by her brother George Jr. The latter was proceeding north and Varner approached from the east in a light car. The collision occurred when Varmer’s car ran into the side of the truck which went over an embankment, through a wire fence. Muriel was hurled fro mthe truck and instantly killed. The plaintiff claimed his expenses for his daughter’'s funeral were $5OO and that he was deprived of her servjceg until she reached 21 years of age, and demanded $lO,OOO damages. The defendant claimed he had the right ot way - and was not liable for the accident. : ‘

Christian Ccionece Service. “Reality” was the subjec: of the Lesson-Sermon .n a'l Churches of Christ, Scientists, on Sunday, September 30. The Golden Text was: “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; i there be any virtue, and if there be ‘any praise, think on these thiugs” (Philippians 4:8). ‘

Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: “Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throna from generation to generation” (Lamentationg 5:19). , The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Seience and Health with Key to the Seriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “All reality is in God and His creation harmonous 'and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made” (p. 472). “The spiritual reality is the scientific fact in all things” (p. 207). “Hternal things (verities) are God’s thoughts as they exist in the gpiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the gpiritual and eternal” (p. 337).

¢“Succotash” Wheat Mixtures 1 The mixture of wheat with rye or barley is permitted in any acreage but the mixture shall not contain more than 50% seed wheat by weight. ' The mixture of wheat with oats or flax shall not contain more than .25 per cent wheat seed by wieght. Nothing in ' this interpretation shall be construed to remove restric tions contained in the contraot, administrative rulings and interpretations thereof relating to the planting and harvesting of wheat for grain. - A producer on whose farm unit there is no wheat base may plant thereon in 1934 not to exceed two acres of wheat to be harvested as grain for home cosumpaion.

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