Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 March 1949 — Page 1

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Thursday, March 31, 1949

Scenes Of Oldtime Ligonier

CAVIN ST. during the great blizzard of 1914. (Editor’s note: We need more pictures for our

County Extension Group Elect Officers For Year

Mr. Fred Geiger of Sparta twp. and President of the State Muck Crops Growers Assocation was elected President of the Noble Co. Agricultural Extension Committee at their re-organization meeting last week. Carlyle Herald of Perry township was elected vicepresident; Mrs., Carl Marquiss, secretary; and Directors, Irma Hoffman, J. D. Parker, Orval McLallin and Joseph Adair. This group will comprise the executive committee for the next two years. They ‘- will meet frequently with the personnel of the County Extension Office ito advise in the

ALL-TIME HIGH SET BY MARCH OF DIMES GROUP The March of Dimes set an alltime high in Noble County with collections totaling $5633.90. After deductions for supplies and postage, a met profit of $527.19 was turned over to the County Chapter Treasurer. One-half $2628.59 has been sent to the National Foundation to assist in research, and for aid where needed, and a like amount was added to-the County Chapter Funds. Noble County citizens and organizations were generous. The Chapter officers are very grateful to all who assisted in making the campaign a success.

Special events that helped swell the total were: The Screwball Snowball Golf Tournament, $1727; the Elks Club March of Dimes Ball, $210; Strand Theatre collections, $401.41; Girl Scout Troop 2 gave $25 and the Schools of Noble County, $808.68. The collections from canisters in business places were $365.22 and the balance was from returns of Dime Cards and other contributions by individuals and organizations. “The people have decided there will be no curtailment of research work, or of assistance to those afflicted,” A. M. Milnar, Chairman, said. “Your County Chapter will continue the program ,due to your support.”

REVIVAL TO BE HELD IN NEW CHAPEL The Ligonier Church of the Nazarene will hold their first revival meeting in the newly constructed chapel beginning Aprl 5 and continuing to April 17 it was announced this week by Rev. L. E. Shoemaker. : . Evangelist L. E. Toone of Muncie, Indiana, will conduct the meeting, which will be held each evening. - There will be special singing and music each evening. : Mr. and Mrs. Richard Summerville and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huffer attended the funeral services for Rev. O. S. Rardin in Renssalear, Ind., Sunday. Dr. Virgil L. Levy, Chicago, _spent the week end here with ‘his family. Mrs. Levy accompanied ~her husband back to Chicago on

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Program and Policy to be followed. Mr. Hugh S. Heckard, assistant county agent leader of Purdue, discussed the possibility of the committee formulating a “Long Time Agricultural Program for Noble County.”

Mr. Gurthrie reviewed the Co. Summary of the questionnaire used in the township leaders meeting and 1948 program.

Projects listed by the group to receive major emphasis in 194950 were Soils, Crops, Dairy, Swine and Utilization of Electricity. Two projects, Poultry and Forestry, were classed as minor and will receive some attention but not as much as the major projects. Other members of the County Committee are Joe Schermerhorn, Lee McDuffee, Ira Wright, Alton Parker, Harmon Harper, Clarence Mawhorter, Ray Glass, Ellsworth Peterson, <Carl Marquiss, Ray Addis, Vern Steckley, John Hull, Harold Thomas, Warren Imes, Dale Schinbeckler, Herman Butz, Frank Uhl, Claude Surfus, Lester Keefer, Roy Kimmel, Herman Frick, Clair Swogger, Mrs. Grace Rogers, Mrs. Edith Barker, Mrs. Mary McKee and Miss Brittie Baker.

RABIES SHOTS SHOULD NOW BE GIVEN AGAIN

One year has passed since the quarantine against dogs was put into effect, and it is now time for dog owners to get their dogs vaccinated again against rabies.. Dog owners were warned that dogs picked up without this years’ tag are subject to impoundment. Contrary to popular belief, rabies are contracted during any period of the year, and are not necessarily more subject to the desease during the summer ‘“dog days.” :

Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Biddle returned to their home Tuesday after spending several weeks in Dallas, Texas. / ‘

Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bink returned to Ligonier Saturday after spending nearly a year in Florida.

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Junior Class To

Present Annual Play Friday

“Western Union, Please” is the title of the junior class play to be given tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. at the high school auditorum. The play is a comedy, dealing with, the rather unusual situation of a man who had been declared legally dead but who returned just in time for his lodge memorial services, Danny Daley had been sent by his wife, Jennie, after a loaf of bread. Ten years later he returns with it. At first, Danny decides to remain dead, but to save his wife from becoming swindled in a real estate deal, he comes to life again. The daughter’s love affair and hard-of-hearing Aunt Aurora add further complications to the plot. -

The cast of characters is as follows: Danny Daley, Forest Feightner; Jennie Daley, the wife, Joan Harris; Alice Daley, her daughter, Lois Mullen; Aunt Aurora, her aunt, Sharon _Fergus“on; Joe Grayball, the boy friend, Rex Leaman; Hal Stoddard, the scheming real estate dealer, Carl Folk; Mr. Thaddeus Taylor, a lawyer, James Trowbridge; George Gillespie, a contractor, John Eytcheson; Brian Foley, good friend of Danny’s, Jerry Crockett; Messenger Boy, Bob Hoover; Melinda Hicks, friend of Alice, Evelyn Smith: Betty Edgington, friend of Alice, Joyce Rouch; Gertrude Grant, a friend of Betty, Maxine Cook; Lodge brothers of Danny, Roger Deary, Bill Stultz, Jim Wallace, Dick Cox and Siegfried Kahn. - Technical Staff, Stage Manager, Bud Archer; Advertising, Jim Wallace, John Trowbridge and Bob Wolf; Tickets, Roger Deary; Ushers, Manfred Kahn, John Trowbridge, Paul Thurman, and Dick West. ;

There will be singing between acts by the First Grade and by the high school girls under the direction of Miss Kelley. :

Red Cross Starts Fund Drive In City Tomorrow

The Red Cross will being their annual drive in Ligonier Friday morning under the sponsorship of the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. William Furkis, chairman of the drive, announced the goal would be the same as last year, and urged everyone to make what contribution was possible. Team captains were named by Mrs. Furkis and Miss Gladys Baker, co-chairman. They are, Edna Yoder, Zone 1; Rosalie Dickinson, 2; Erma Grimm, 3; Gladys Baker, 4; Veva Reed, 5; and Mrs. Staton Vance, 7. The business district will be canvassed by Oscar Barch, Ben Glaser, Miss Baker and Mrs.,Furkis.

STATE TROOPERS ATTEND SCHOOL IN INDIANAPOLIS

Lt. Blain B. Schang and Trooper Samuel Patton of Ligonier who are assigned to the Ligonier State Police post, are this week attending a refresher school in traffic control at department headquarters in Indianapolis. Arthur M. Thurson, superintendent of State Police, said the course was arranged to prepare troopers and commanding officers for an anticipated increase in traffic during the warm weather months. o E

The lectures, which include automobile and airplane accident, investigation, traffic control techniques, enforcement policy and the rules of evidence, will be repeated until all police personnel have completed the school. ' “We are doing everything humanly possible to reduce the toll in deaths and injuries due to highway collisions,” the police official said, “but we need also the continuous cooperation of the people who walk and drive”

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HIGH SCHOOL

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by Charlotte Bink

The Hi-Y will have a meeting Tuesday, March 29. During this gathering, there will be eiection of officers and also a plan to go to Elkhart for a swimming party will be brought up. '

On April 6, the Spring Conference of the Hi-Y and the Tri-Hi-Y members will be held at Butler, Indiana. The conference theme will be “It’s Your Life.” The discussion will center such topics as choosing a vocation, responsibility to self, christian caliings. Joan Harris and Quentin Stultz are to take part in the program.

The members of the senior class will appear in the broadcast “City Desk” at 7:00 p.m., April 19. T'he Station WKJG of Fort Wayne is sponsoring this program. ~ The inter-office communication system has been, installed in many of the rooms in high school connecting them with the office. This was given by the sophomore class.

SPORT NEWS by Roger Deary

Thirty boys are working out for the coming track season. Coach Craig is trying to arrange for a meet sometime next week.

The physical education classes are beginning to work on the May Day Program whith will be held on April 29, .

Next Wednesday, April 6, is the Perry Central-Ligonier get-to-gether when the 6th, 6th, 7th and Bth grades of the two schools will meet each other in basketball games, Following these games, the fathers of the boys will play a volley ball game. The bsth, 6th, 7th, and Bth grades of Ligonier have been practicing at noons,

SOUTH SIDE ELEMENTARY NEWS

Both Connie White and Edward Hornung celebrated their 7Tth birthdays this week by giving a party for the Ist grade. Refresnments of ice cream and cake wers served. . ;

The Airplanes have finished their readers, “Our New Friends” and are starting a health reader, “Good Times With Our Friends.” Mrs. Roland White visited the Ist grade last Friday. Judy Trowbridge has been absent fr®m the Ist grade the past week because of an eye infection. The second grade made a new spring border for their blackboard using chicks and Easter eggs. The third grade has started a nature book describing the animals and birds studied during the school year. The pictures are in colors and some of them are lifesize. : - ;

Judy Senif had a birthday party Friday, March 25. She was nine years old. Guests went to the movies and all had a very delightful time. : ‘

Mrs. Julia Iler, the fourth grade teacher from LaGrange, visited the fourth grade last Wednesday.

The fourth grade girls had perfect attendance last week. ' Last Friday, Rita Johnson played a trombone solo and Adrian Bobeck played a trumpet solo for their fourth grade classmates. The fifth grade activities committee has arranged a musical program for this week. Anita Bowen and Mary Kay Nelson will play the piano, Evelyn Brode and Carol Garvin will play clarinet solos, and Janis Rex will play a selection on her cormet. Audrey West will sing a solo. . To herald the coming of Spring the fifth grade has made a border of jonquils and butterflies. - Art work of tulips, eardinals and red birds alsc lend a gay note. Elsie Freed won the headmark in the fifth grade spelling contest et week, ™ .. - The spring decorations for the 6th grade room carry out a Holland theme. Wind-mills, storks, tulips, ete., make with gay colored paper help make the room more

Business Census Explained By State Bureau

The extent and nature of credit practices in ithe nation’s distributive trades will be determined in the Census of Business to be conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census during the spring months of 1949. This census, the first of its kind since 1939 will cover 1948 business operations of the three million wholesale, retail, and service trade establisnments in the country. / _One of more than 300 district field offices of the Census Bureau through which the business Census will be conducted has been established in Fort Wayne, Ind. Census enumerators working out of this office will intérview owners and managers of all retail, wholesale, and service establishments in the Ligonier area to obtain information on local credit practices as well as other facts about business operations. Louis B. Bashelier is the Census district supervisor in charge here. Retail stores whose annual sales exceed $lOO,OOO will be asked to report amount of net sales for 1948, subdividing the total into:

a. Cash and c.o.d. sales. b. Charge accounts and open credit sales. . c. Instalment or deferred payment sales.

Data also will be collected on balances due from customers using charge accounts and open credit, and from those who made their purchases on installment or deferred payment plans. Wholesale establishments will report:

a. Amount of 1948 credit sales. b. Accounts and notes receivable outstanding as of December 31, 1948, and December 31, 1947.

¢. Number of credit accounts December 31, 1948. ~ d. Bad debt losses (receivables written off during 1948 as uncollectible). ' Statistics to be published upon completion of the Census will reveal changes and developments within the credit structure that have occurred during a decade of business expansion augmented to unprecedented dimensions by consumer spending. Credit information will be available on a national scale, and for those states, areas, and county groups where business concentration is sufficient to provide summaries that will not reveal the activities of indivig dual establishments,

COMMUNITY SALE PLANS PROGRESSING IS REPORT

Plans for the community sale, sponsored by the Rotary Club, to be held Raturday, April 9 at the corner of Fourth and Cavin Sts., beginning at 1:30 p.m. are progressing it was announced this week by Hamilton Green, chairman. L

-All items from clothing to furniture and household goods will be offered for sale with Ray Addis doing the auctioneering. People in Ligonier are asked -to contribute “anything and everything” they might wish to dispose of, and may have the items picked up by calling either The Banmer or Leader offices, : . For those who wish compensation from the items contributed, the Rotary Club will return fifty percent of the purchase price. On the committee with ‘Mr. Green are -R. D. Orewiler and Merrill Hire, Jr. ,

Mr. and Mrs. James Shull of Rome City are the parents of a son, Robert Douglas, born Friday, March 25 in McCray Memorial Hospital, Kendallville. ;

pleasant, ‘ . The 6th grade pupils are memorizing Wadsworth’s poem, “The Daffodils.” : ‘ :

Marianne Moses spent the week end in Chicago. . : The 6th grade boys had perfect attendance last week.

LITTLE STORIES o/ OUR TOWN

The Kappa Sigma Tau Sorority met last Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. R. J. Stoelting for a pot luck supper and election of officers at which Mrs. Eldon Smith and Mrs. Herbert Galloway were co-hostesses. The newly elected officers are President, Bernice Weirich; vice-president, Mildred Green; secretary, Mildred Swager; treasurer, Marjorie = Galloway; social chairman, Eleanor Slaymaker; publicity chairman, Dorothy Stoelting; welfare chairman, Helen Botts, and historian, Bernice Cochran. Following the election, the evening was spent at bridge and hearts at which Ruth Miller and Lauralyn Atz were high scorers in bridge and Athol Harris and Elizabeth McDonald were winners at hearts. ;

Brownie Troop 9 had a “Robin Walk” at their meeting on March 23. Two captains chose teams, going in different directions to see which side could spot the most robins. They met again at the Northside School to compare notes. KEstella Hutchings served the treat and outdoor games were played. In closing, the Promise was given by all. -

The National Council of the Kappa Sigma Tau Sorority will be held Sunday, April 3 in Huntington, Ind; Mrs. Carmon Miller and Mrs. Hamilton Green are delegates from Theta Chapter. Mrs. Eugene Atz, Miss Eunice Sack and Mrs. Milo Weirich will also attend. ; ‘

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Creps returned to their home Saturday after spending a month in Florida.

The Order of Eastern Star will hold a regular stated meeting on Tuesday, April 5 in the Masonic Hall at 7:30 p.m. _

Graham Lyon was returned to his home Saturday after being hospitalized in the Methodist Hospital, Fort Wayne.

Dr. and Mrs. James. B. Schutt will return from their Florida trip Friday. Dr. Schutt will be back in his offices Saturday, April 2. L v

Season Tickets Go On Sale To Aid Building Program

Plans for remodeling the seating capacity of the local gymnasium are progressing and Mr. Craig has been appointed by the Board of Education to oversee the work and to plan for the sale of at least 100 pledges at $lO each. These pledges will be good for a regular season ticket with re-

This Week TONIGHT: = - Eagles, 8 p.m.. , FRIDAY: i " W.R.C.,, 2:30 p.m., Tall Cedars Hall. : Junior Class Play, 8 p.m., High School Auditorium. MONDAY: Rotary Club Basketball Banquet, 6 p.m,, Methodist church. TUESDAY: | Order of Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Hall. COMING: . - Community Sule, April 9. "' Don’t miss JUNE BRIDE

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Vol. No. 83, No. 13

Two Noble County students, Henry Irven Jacobs, 516 N. Main St., Ligonier, and Shirley M. Renken;be}ger, 703 Mott St., Kendallville, are. included among the 502 new students <who enrolled this semester for the first time on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, : ~ The number of new enrollees is more than three times as great as that for the second semester of any pre-war year and is only five percent under the all-time record high of 528 a year ago. The prewar peak of 165 was reached in 1938.

The Noble County Federated Clubs will have their annual meeting Thursday, April 7th in the Albion Methodist Church. Registration is at 9:30 a.m. Luncheon served at the Church. Have registrations in to Mrs. Russell Duckworth by April 4th. :

- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bleile will attend the District 3 Millers meeting in the Hotel Van Orman, Fort Wayne, Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hayden are the parents of a daughter, Anne Marie, boyn Saturday, March 26 in McCray /Memorial Hospital, Kendallville. :

Parents desiring to enroll their children for the Kindergarten classes of next year may do so by calling Mrs. Darold McDonald before June 1.

The W.R.C. meeting will be held Friday afternoon, April 1 at 2:30 pm. in the Tall Cedars Hall because of the Junior Class Play which will be presented that evening.

CITY BOWLING LEAGUE : STANDINGS Team Won Leost Koon’s Restaurant 36 12 Master Garment 86 15 Essex Wire Corp. 27 21 Eagles Lodge 26 23 Elijah Motor Sales A 24 24 Janes and Co. 18 30 Orewiler Chev. Co. 18 30 Kidd and Co. n % High Series, Moore, 645, 200 Games, Hull 204, Hagen 202, 203, Moore 201, 223, 221.

served seat privileges. : Seats, however, will be reserved for the eight home games only. No seats may be reserved. for tourneys. ‘

~ Regular season tickets will be sold mext fall as before at the usual - price but without the reserved seat advantage. The purpose of this sale at this time is to raise funds mecessary to finance part of the work. = Pledge books are nmow in the hands of Dick Mathew, Leah Shell, Madena Wisner, Mayme Eubank and Mr. Craig. “Any one who wishes the advantage of a reserved seat and who would like to see the seating capacity of the gym increased may buy a pledge from one of the committee,” Mr. Craig said. “No high pressure will be used in selling these pledges,” he added. ROTARY TO ENTERTAIN BASKETBALL TEAM - The Rotary Club will entertain the basketball team Monday evening in the Methodist Church at 6 pm. : ' ~ All members including Coach Dave Craig will be especially honored at the banquet, which will be prepared and served by the ladies of the Church. - Al Lipman of the Chicago WLS toe Wel Disay Seiie .