Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 30, Number 39, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 November 1909 — Page 1

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MILLERSBURG SWEPT BT FI THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SUFFERS HEAVY LOSS. VERY LIGHT* INSURANCE Prohibitive Insurance Rate in Wooden Buildings—Explosion of Gas Plant in Barnard Store. Millersburg, in Clinton township, has suffered greatly by a disastrous lire which occurred in the business district Friday afternoon. The loss is variously estimated to be from $25,000 to $40,000, while comparatively lit- ' tie insurance was carried. The insurance rate in Millersburg is $4.00 per SIOO and this prevented many property owners from carrying adequate protection, though this rate is not so high as in Nappanee’s wooden buildings, where for some time it has been prohibitive at $lO on the SIOO. The lire started in the general store of Barnard & Son by the explosion of a gas lighting System. The store was a two room, two story frame building occupied with a general stock and one room was occupied by Mr. Barnard’s newspaper, the Millersburg Grit, which'he had published for some 17 years, and the office was completely destroyed. * The town has only a hand Are engine and the firemen were unable to check the flames fanned by a strong wind. The Goshen and Elkhart departments went to the scene on the Lake Shore and assisted in checking the flames, but not before the business district was almost wiped out. On account of having but little insurance the business men of the town are badly crippled financially, it is said, though that people will make a heroic effort to recover from the great loss. The several losses computed by the News-Times are as follows: Wm. B. Barnard, owner of general Store and editor of Millersburg Grit. Loss SIO,OOO, Insurance $3,000. Barnard’s indebtedness will equal his insurance. Dr. Sider’s office fixtures and household goods. Loss $1,500, no insurance. Mrs. A. L. Weyburn, landlady of Weyburn hotel, owned by Milo Roderick. Loss $3,000, no insurance. Peter Boomershine, owner of building occupied by Ed Musselman, the meat dealer. Loss SI,OOO, no insurance. Musselman lost $750, no insurance. George Beck, general store and restaurant with warehouse and bakery in rear. Loss $4,000, insurance SI,OOO. Joel Potter & Son, livery barn. Loss S6OO, no insurance. S. L. Thomas, office and residence, occupied by Dr. Sider. Loss SI,OOO, no insurance. Knightsof Pythias hall. Losssl,ooo. E. E. Gary barber shop. Loss $2,000. Peter Boomershine, ice house. Loss S2OO, no insurance. John Troup, household goods. Loss SSOO, no insurance. Samuel Koll, household goods. Loss SSOO, no insurance. Buildings damaged by fire but loss fully covered by insurance, were those belonging to John Juday, residence; S. L. Thomas, hardware store; Chester Strine’s barbershop; Millersburg State bank;, T. P. Stiles, drug store: F. M. Myers, residence; Wm. Barnard, resideiice. ... TARIFF FALLS OFF. First Week of “Dry” Town Does Not Affect Interurban Line. Goslien Democrat. - Claims were made. at. She .iime, ofi the county option election that business on the interurban lines to South Bend would be greatly increased, should Elkhart county vote “dry.” During the first week after Goshen became “dry” the Indiana company’s passenger traffic between Goshen and Elkhart fell off $14.50 and from Goshen to South Bend it was $14.87 less than the week prior. Sacred Concert Sunday Evening. The subject of the service at the M. E. church next Sunday evening will be an evening with six hymns. The. pastor will speak briefly on six hymns and their writers. The congregation will sing the-Jiymns discussed.- An elaborate musical program will be given in connection with this service. You are invited. Nappanee Firm Wins. The Nappanee Drainage Company secured the contract for a big ditch in Gibson County this state. The ditch with its laterals is over seven miles in length. Willis Reed who is connected with the company went to Princeton last week and made the bid. The ditch will cost about $21,000. Married by Justice. Justice Whisler, Thursday, at Goshen, married Wallace M. Copeland and Myrtle May Jones of Nappanee and Theodore E. Cory and Maude W ortinger of Syracuse.

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and. W. SLEAR WINS AT ELKHART. Defeats Elliott by Nine Votes at Special Election. At the regular city election in Elkhart on Nov. 2d, John W. Slear, Democrat and Ira E. Elliott, Republican received a tie vote of 350 as candidates for councilmen from the Ist ward. Last Tuesday there was held a special election and Slear received 309 votes and Elliott 300, giving the former a plurality of 9. The vote was lighter than at the regular election, Sleardropping4l and Elliott 50. Work received 3 votes and Keene 21. The council will stand Bto 1 Democratic. Mrs. Murray Recovering. Mrs. Murray, wife of the News publisher, at the St. Joseph hospital South Bend, is recovering as rapidly as, perhaps, the nature of her terrible injury will admit of under the most careful and excellent treatment. She lias grown much stronger during the past week as to be able to sit in a chair and walk some about her room each day. The slowness of the skin grafting process is caused by growing of the flesh over places on the head where the skull was entirely exposed befuie tlie grafting may be finished. The last process will be ready for completion the surgeon believes by next Sunday, perhaps, This will necessitate a small sacrifice on the part of some others among her good friends of Nappanee who are praying for her early home coming, which will no doubt follow within a few weeks thereafter. She continues to be a patient but intense sufferer, caused by the growing process. School Supplies. The. News Bookstore carries a hig and complete line of school supplies—everything excepting text books. ON A LITTLE GIRL. LIGONIER IN.STATE OF WILD EXCITEMENT. Sheriff Arrests the Culprit and Hustles Him to The Albion Jail to Avoid Lynching Bee. Ray Smith, 24 years old, son of Mrs. Henry Smith of Ligonier and a deserter from the U. S. navy, is in the custody of the Noble county authorities and must answer to the charge of criminally assaulting Bertha Girten, the seven-year-old daughter of Ira Girten, of Ligonier. Smith denies the charge against him. It appears that a strange man to the little girl stopped her on the street and induced her to go to a lonely spot where the fiendish crime was committed. The little girl was missed from home and a search was immediately instituted, a large number of people joining in the search. Someone had seen a strange man leading a little girl by the hand towards the cemetery, and with this information In their possession a hundred or more men started out in pursuit armed with various kinds of weapons. They soon found the child in a helpless condition where she had been left by the brute. The men then made a thorough search for the man but failed to find him, 1 which seems to have been lucky for the man as the e'xcitement and indignation was at such a pitcli that he might have been an interested party at a lynching bee. At noon on Saturday, however, the sheriff apprehended Smith who was recognized by a citizen as having been the man he saw leading the little girl by the hand toward the cemetery. The officer knowing the probable outcome.if he allowed the public to get sight of the prisoner, hustled him off to tiie Albion jail. B. & O. Changes Time. The new time card on the B. & O. took effect last Sunday morning. Very few changes were made and these that were made will be of greater convenience to the patrons of the road at this -place, - • No. 14 theiate Right train but. of Chicago will not stop here but No. 6 due here at 8:24 will be a flag stop to let off Chicago passengers and to take on passengers for points east pf Nappanee. No. 7 will remain a flag for Chicago passengers and according to the new card may be flaged at stations east of here for Nappanee. No. 11, the looming milk train will arrive at 7:25. The evening milk train No. 12 and trainsl6andl7 remain unchanged. Elkhart Ball Players in Fast Company. Harry Wilkinson of Elkhart, signed up with the Oshkosh team in the Wisconsin-lllinois league and will hold down the middle garden with combination during the season. Nelson Beck, the Elkhart first baseman, will also wear an Oshkosh uniform during the coming summer and Charles Rowley will play with Racine. A Religious Author’s Statement. Rev. Joseph H. Fesperman, Salisbury, N. C., who is the author of several books, writes: “For several years 1 was afflicted with kidney trouble and last winter I was suddenly stricken with a severe pain in my kidneys and was confined to bed eight days unable to get up withpjjt assistance. My urine contained -a thick white sediment and I passed same frequently day and night. 1 commenced taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy, and the pain gradually abated and finally ceased and my urine became normal. cheerfully recommend Foley’s Kidney Remedy.” J. S. Walters. —Tablets at the News Bookstore.

NAPPANEE, ELKHABT COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1909.

THANKSGIVING TO BE OBSERVED HERE UNION SERVICES AT THE M. E. CHURCH. WITH PRAISE AND'PRAYER “The God of This Nation is The Lord” Said the Martyred Lincoln —Sermon at 10 O’clock. Thanksgiving Day will be observed by Nappanee people with the usual union services to be held in the M. E. church at 10 o’clock a. m. The business houses will observe the day generally, the most of them closing during the forenoon, and at tne hour of service, especially. Rev. Borkettwill preach and a union choir will sing. A collection will be taken at this service for the benefit of the poor of our town. Thanksgiving Day this year finds the citizens of this country with unusual causes for universal thanksgiving. The financial depression has passed away, business is everywhere being resumed on a greater scale than before and this iias been a banner year for most of the crops. It is befitting that in the midst of this great prosperity we forget not that the God of this nation is the Lord, to employ a fine phrase used by Abraham Lincoln. The proclamation of out President and especially of our gifted and good Governor reminds ds that the day is one to be celebrated not, by self indulgence but by praise and prayer to Him who is the author of our prosperity. To that end the chu relies of Nappanee are arranging to hold a union service in the Methodist church at ten o’clock in the morning. GOVERNMENT ISSUES WARNING. Smooth Band of Swindlers Fleecing The People. The News received a communication from the Department of State asking us to warn our readers against the operation of a smooth band of swindlers that has been operating quite extensively in this country. Their method of procedure is as follows: A letter is written to the intended victim purporting to come from a rich and distant relative who is in prison in Spain. The prisoner has a large fortune in cash on deposit in an American bank, but the’ certificate of deposit is concealed in a secret compartment of the prisoners valise. This valise is held by the court that tried and condemned the prisoner until the costs of the trial have been met. The rich relative is ill and lias a daughter with him in the prison who is not being properly cared for. He lias no friends in Spain to whose care he can intrust the daughterand no relatives in this country but the one who receives the letter. Os course he has never seen him, has only heard of him through the family history. Will this relative kindly assume the guardianship of the daughter and incidentally her fortune of $30,000 if the prisoner will reward his relative by giving him one-fourth of his fortune? The prisoner’s ready money has been exhausted but a certain priest has befriended him and will bring the daughter and the certificate of deposit to this country if the relative" will only advance the small sum necessary to secure the possession of the valise. Tills is the first letter which is followed up with a Series of pathetic and plausible letters until the required cash has been sent. Os course the priest, beautiful daughter, and $30,000 never appear. Many have bitten on this attractive, bait In. the. past few years and the Department of State assisted by the Spanish Govt, is trying hard to run the swindlers down. But in the meantime If you hear from Spain keep your money. Miss Neher Married. Miss Emma Neher, who has been clerking in the Ellsworth store In South Bend for some time but who formerly worked in Ponader’s store and the postotflee here, left Bremen Tuesday after visiting her brothers, B. F. and W. A. Neher, for ten days, for Kansas City, where she was married yesterday to G. W. Thornton, a rural route carrier out of Oklahoma City. They will make that' city their home.—Bremen Enquirer. Miss Neher is a sister to J. L. Neher, tiwT Nappanee merchant tailor, and Homer Neher, formerly of Nappanee but now residing at Seattle, Wash. Miss Neher Is & most excellent lady and Is well known here. Appointments Announced. Ellis M. Chester, mayor-elect of Elkhart announced Friday that he would make the following appointments: City’Attorney— R. E. Proctor. Com. of Public Works—E. L. Burns. City Engineer—A. M. Smith. Com. of H. Williams. Members of Board of Health—Dr. J. C. Mast, Dr. G. Hoopingarner and Jas. Braden. No changes will be made In the police commissioners until terms now being served expire.

lecture ’course opens. Successful Sale of Season Tickets —Concert of a High Order, The opening number of the lecture course was given at the Auditorium Wednesday night and greatly delighted the large audience that heard it. The attraction was Ramos’ Spanish Orchestra a musical organization of very high merit. The program was well selected and artistically interpreted. The solo numbers were especially well received. Mr. Irving baritone captured the audience while Miss Freeman violinist and Sr. Regina cornetlst responded to several encores. The orchestra was conducted by Prof. Ramos in a manner ’that reminded the audience of Creatore. Prof. Miller reports the sale of .about 275 season tickets. Nearly 200 single admission tickets were sold. This insures the success of the course. At The Auditorium. That great comedy-drama, The Fiddler and The Girl, with that well known and successful actor, Alan Villair, also Lillian West and a first class company is coming for one night at the Auditorium, Friday, Nov. 26th. As the coo), good natured German, • Mr. Villair makes a genuine hit. Miss West, a very pretty girl with natural blonde hair, not a wig as many people think, plays Della and captivates the audience from her first entrance playing ball. Managers all along the line write the attraction is very good and highly recommend it. The play contains a pretty love story with plenty of good, clean- comedy, a few tears and strong dramatic situations. Pleasing specialties are given, Including Miss West in her “Kid” impersonations. Seats on sale at Stoops’, Adults 35 and 50 cents, school children 15 cents. HELP WIDOWS ANDTRPHANS NAPPANEE CHURCH COLLECTIONS TAKEN SUNDAY. Over S4O Sent to The Chicago Tribune Fund For The Cherry, 111., Sufferers. At the beginning of the service Sunday morning in the M. E. church Rev. Parker announged the rescue of the miners in the St. Paul coal mine at Cherry, 111., and suggested that while the Christian people are praying for the widows and orphans in that stricken city they might help answer their prayers by sending a cash expression of their sympathy. The idea met with instantaneous favor and on the suggestion of members of the congregation a collection was taken amounting to $31.55. It was also announced that for the convenience of those who had not come prepared to contribute an opportunity would be given to contribute at the evening service and several dollars additional were thus secured. The Presbyterians who were unable to hold services in the morning on account of Rev. Evans’ inability to make the necessary train connections availed themselves of the opportunity to contribute at the evening service. The total collections for the day which amounted to $40.00 were sent in as one fund to the Chicago Tribune. Due recognition of the receipt of this money was made in Tuesday’s issue of the Tribune. GETS BACK PENSION. Leesburg Soldier is Ahead Several Thousand Dollars. Daniel Kuhn, an old soldier whose home is in Leesburg has been granted an increase in pension that dates back thirty years and that will bring him several thousands of dollars in back pay. Mr. will receive sl2 per montli from April 12,1876 to Dec. 14, 1877 and sl7 per month from that date until the present time. During all this time Mr. Kuhn has been receiving a very small pension and the amount he has received will be deducted from th,e total amount due him in accordance with the schedule given above. The amount of back pay ills expected will be between $3,000 and $4,000. Old Rival Suspected. F. Stofer, of Elkhart, was one night last week viciously assaulted by an unknown man who slashed him with a knife and beat him with a club, though none of the injuries inflicted were dangerous. The attack was made on Stofer near his own home. “I think I am right in suspecting that the man who attacked me is a former suitor for the hand of the present Mrs. Stofer, and he’s jealous,” said Stofer in relating his story to a newspaper reporter. “The case was reported to the police, but no arrests have been made. Three times during the day the man called at the house and inquired for me. He planned to waylay me ahd when I went outside, just after dark, I was slashed in the arm with a knife and knocked down.” New Lake Shore Shops,. Specifications for the new Lake Shore shop extension in Elkhart which have been filed in the office of the Indiana Railroad commission at Indianapolis place the estimate of the cost of the buildings alone at $600,000. This, it is said does not include the massive and expensive equipment of the proposed new plant. —Secure the Nutts premium.

HOW CITIZENS, BOOMED A TOWN STORY OF NEWCASTLE’S PROSPERITY AND GROWTH. > V—POWER IN ORGANIZATION. From a Town of 3,400 to 12,00.0 In Seven Years—Manufacturing Business Did it—No Chronic Kickers. Here is an interesting story of how a town may succeed in creating a •healthy growth by co-operation, organization, and a sticktoitiveness on lines looking toward the locating of new capital in a town. While Nappanee has always maintained the most progressive spirit of any town of its size, perhaps, in the State, yet there are suggestions in the story, all the same as fairly illustrating what may be accomplished when all the citizens take a pull at the industrial ropes. Here is the interesting story as taken from an exchange: What method to take to make a dead town progressive is perhaps best told in the story of the remarkable growth of Newcastle, Henry county, Indiana, which lias set a pace such as has not been often equalled hereabouts and which several Indiana cities with progressive tendencies are now trying to duplicate. Newcastle seven years ago had a population of 3,405. Today it is estimated that there are over 12,000 inhabitants in the town. Industrial concerns are flourishing. Business enterprizes are prosperous. Products of Newcastle are shipped to all parts of the country and in some instances abroad; hundred of laborers are given steady employment and good wages in the numerous factories located in the town and the merchants are making money. There are no empty rooms in Newcastle and residences are in such demand that it is said not a few people are living in tents. Everywhere about Newcastle there are evidences of thrift and prosperity. Statistics show that at present there are 22 factories in operation. They employ 4,423 men, who receive approximately $49,325 per week or $2,044,900 per year. The total suip invested in the industrial enterprises is $2,494,000 or a sum slightly in excess of*what the employes receive in their annual wages. Today everybody in Newcastle is hopeful of tiie future. There are no chronic kickers. Everybody Is working for Newcastle and they have as the’ir goal a population of 20,000 people. Prior to the time it was decided to make Newcastle a city of importance, the town was so dead that it had to rely solely upon the agriculturalists for its prosperity. This resource limited in its scope, was not sufficient. Under the conditions Newcastle was simply a quiet county seat. Public spirited men concluded It was time to act. An organization was formed, a leader wasselected in Charles S. Hernly and then it was agreed to act together, no factional differences being permitted to enter into any of the. matters taken up. A fund was raised by conducting an auction sale of building lots and the money obtained in this manner was used in securing new factories. Everybody helped. Wealthy men gave material assistance, while the poorer classes gave in propor tion. In every instance the community was protected against bonus seekers and only strictly first class factories were encouraged. The result is that Newcastle is no longer a dead town. With nearly 5.000 men employed in its industries things have taken a prosperous turn. Instead of being a sleepy county seat where farmers only .come to pay-their _ taxes. Newcastle has developed Into mSrked iW dustrial importance and this coupled with its agricultural advantages makes of it a thrifty city. There is no room for knockers in Newcastle. Only boosters are wanted there. One great stroke of enterprise wa* shown when the Maxwell-Brisco automobile plant was secured. Elkhart wanted the industry but Newcastle got it because tiie people there knew a good thing and did not permit it'to* slip away. Today Newcastle is working on locating a conceru backed by $50,000,000 of capital and wliicfi will require 200 acres of land on which to erect its business. Barney Driving Park Firfe at Elkhart. Three hundred feet of stalls at the Barney Driving park in Elkhart burned Tuesday evening. The blaze started at tiie west end of tiie line of stalls, it-is supposed to have started from a spark from a bonfire built by boys at play. Tiie stalls had not been occupied for a long time. The club house, which is occupied by Mrs. Samuel Barney, who is aged and nearly blind, was threatened. The Elkhart firemen had to lay over 2,200 feet of hose to reach the blaze. In driving to the fire, the cart of B. F. Leader, the fire chief, collided witli a coal wagon. Fireman Geo. Wilson, driving, was thrown out and badly bruised. The fire chief escaped serious injury.

NEW STUNTS FOR HOLD-UPS. In Which Automobile Drivers Are Intended Victims of New Ruse. Attempts have been made on two recent occasions to holdup Elkhart aulomobillsts near Osceola. In both instances a siiarp ruse was adopted by tiie wouldbe highwaymen to entrap tiie tQurists. The first victim of tiie attempted holdup was a well known Elkhart attorney. In company wlthhis wife and two other ladies he was returning from South Bend late at night. Suddenly the driver noticed a man lying in the road as though injured and prepared to stop the machine. At that instance two men stepped from tiie near-by bushes. The three ladies in their excitement arose and the robbers fled. It is thought that tiie apparel of the women who were dressed in long automobile coats led tiie thugs to believe that they were men. The same ruse was tried on an Elkhart real estate dealer a few nights latter. He suspected that something was wrong and quickened tiie speed of his machine and drove around tiie body. As he did so the man leaped to his feet and was joined by tvo companions who had been concealed in tiie buslies. Elopers Caught in Elkhart. The Elkhart police acting on information from Geneva, 111., Friday night arrested an eloping couple in arooming house in that city. The man was Rastillimi, alias Seslerina, and a 16-year-old girl, Jessie I’tola. They had dispensed with tiie marriage"ceremony, but tiie officers having received the consent of the girl’s parents, ordered the man to take out a license and marry the girl at once. On his promise to do so, they were allowed their freedom. GARS TO RUN* IN JANUARY. GRADE OF BUCKLEN LINE* NOW FINISHED TO BRISTOL. If Weather Conditions Are Favorable Elkhart and Bristol Will Soon Have Trolley. If tiie weather conditions remain any ways favorable Elkhart and Bristol will have trolley connections. The grade of the Bucklen line is now completed as far as Bristol and the ties and rail 9 are being placed. Though no rails have been, laid between Bristol and Middlebury it is planned to complete this seven miles in the early spring. It will require some time to complete the bridge over tiie Elkhart river. According to arrangements alreadymade the Valley line cars have the privilege of operating over the Northern Indiana company’s lines in Elkhart and the Northern Indiana company will also be privileged to operate its cars over tiie Valley line in tiie corporation. The Valley line is doing a good business from Middlebury east. Steam locomotives and motor cars are being used on this portion of tiie line. The road was chartered as a steam road from Lagrange east. Since this portion of tiie line was placed in operation considerable freight iias been handled. This class of work was considered too heavy for motor cars and steam locomotives are being employed to handle freight. The company expects to make a feature of handling freight from Elkhart east and the line will be specially equipped for this purpose. The distance from Elkhart to Angola is sixty milts and from Middlebury to Lagrange seventeen miles and from Middlebury to Angola forty-four miles. ■ k The places now touched by the St. Joseph Valley-sj-ailway company are Middlebury, Shipshewanna, Voder, Lagrange, Pleasant Hill, McNally, Mongo, Custer, Orland, Lake Gage, Inverness, Crooked Lake, Angola Juncand,Angola, Hamburger Man Nearly Burned to Death. John Stotts, a cripple vender of hot sausage sandwiches on the streets of Goshen came near being burned to deatli when his wagon caught on lire from the gasoline stove therein. A man. near by at the critical moment lifted the man fjom tiie wagon and thus saved his-life, though not until* he was so badly burned about the face and neck and his hands that he had to be taken to the hospital. Meetings Continue Over Sunday. "The series of meetings which have been in progress at South Union for some time will continue over the coming Sunday. There will be Thanksgiving services at 10:30 a. m. in connection witli these meetings. Won’t Slight a Good Friend. -“If ever I need a cough medicine again 1 know what to get,” declares Mrs. A. L. Alley, of Beals. Me., “for after using ten bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery, and seeing its excellent results in my own family aqd. others, I apa convinced it is the bekt medicine made (or coughs, colds and lung trouble.” Every one who tries it feels just that way. Relief is felt at once, and its quick cure surprises' you. For bronchitis, asthma, hemorrhage, croup, lagrippe, sore throat, pain in chest or lungs is,’s supreme* 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by J. S. Walters.

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NIGHT BUSK Os SUPERIOR HIT JUDGE WILL ATTEND CASE AT SOUTH BEND. MORE DIVORCE CASES Helen Bishop Miller Granted a Decree * —Mrs. Hartzler Seeks Divorce Alleging 15 Years Cruel Treatment. J udge Van Fleet called attention to the fact that he had been engaged last week in the trial of a suit at South Bend for five weeks and that the hearing lias not yet been completed. He announced that he had decided to hold court in Elkhart Tuesday morning, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and Friday morning and in South Bend Monday and Tuesday afternoons and Wednesday and Tiiursday all day and Friday afternoon. At tiie Wednesday night session Helen Bishop Miller was granted a divorce from Chas. F. Miller on the grounds of non-support, and given authority to resume her maiden name. Upon special request of the parents Mrs. Miller’s four-year-old child; of which she has the custody, was changed from Miller to Bishop. This order seems tb be out of the ordinary. Ida Tlartzler-has filed suit for divorce from Ephriam Hartzler. The parties reside in Goshen. They were married Aug. 15, 1890 and separated Nov. 16 1909. The plaintiff alleges that on Nov. 16, the defendant’ beat and struck her because she took $2 from his pocket to buy necessities. She asks for $3,000 alimony and the custody of their four children. After carefully going over affidavits submitted in connection with a motion for an allowance in the divorce case of Viola Adams against Christian Adams, Judge Vanlieet declared that somebody had committed perjury. He called attention to the fact that one affidavit charges that Mrs. Adams ran around with other men and that another affidavit filed by Mr. Adams recites that there is no truth in the allegations made in the other affidavit. The suspended sentence of Bert Cole, who was given one to eight years for grand larcency, was today revoked by Judge Van Fleet, the young .man having completed the minimum sentence. At the time of being paroled tiie defendant was placed in the custody of Harley Holben. William A. Joyce, 23 years of age and an ex-convict of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in the Elkhart superior court and was sentenced to Jeffersonville reformatory for a term of from 10 to 20 years. He will be taken as soon as tiie papers in the case are prepared. Joyce is the man who entered Landlord Sherman’s apartments In tiie Hotel Bucklen, Elkhart, and who getting away from there without being arrested was caught 15 minutes later trying to break into the rear part of an Elkhart pool room. Jacob W. Kantz was named as guardian for Hiram Kantz and filed a $2,000 bond. Ethel Christner was given judgment for $2,949 against M. F. Cotton on foreclosure. Andrew Edmonds of Benton township was appointed drainage commissioner in the ditch petition of Nelson Robeck of Benton township. The commissioners will meet Nov. 29th and report to the coltrt Dec. 6th. The account case brought by ThomJ. Dye & Sons against Edward E. Whitehead, was today dismissed and the cost was paid. The Warren Hill Cos. was given judgment agaigst Cynthia Brpwn. on foreclosure' proceedings for S4O. . The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Eckleman of Elkhart, made in 1870, was probated. Everything was left to the husband, Dr. Eckleman. One of the witnesses to the will is dead. Society flotes. A charming home wedding was solemnized Thursday evening at the home'of Mrs. Ella Jones on North Clarke street. Tiie contracting parties were Leo Smeltzer and Miss Grace Mackey two of Na'ppanee’s popular young people. The .ceremony was witnessed by the immediate relatives of tiie bride and groom and a few invited guests. Rev. Flora, of Chicago, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Smeltzer will reside on West Nappanee street. Tiie Epworth League will give & Thanksgiving social this Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Sarah Hochstetler. Admission ten cents. The Current Club will meet with Mrs, Amsa Kaufman at. 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. There will be a meeting of the W. C. T. U. at the home of Mrs. J. O. Kantz, Friday afternoon, Nov. 26th. Presbyterian Service. Rev. Alex R. Evansi, of Linton, Ihd. f will conduct service in the Presbyterian church here next Sunday, Nov.. 28th. Morning subject: “Wliat must l do.” Evening subject: “How to build a bouse.” All are welcome.

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