Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 50, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 August 1928 — Page 1

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NEW BUILDING ON t WALNUT STREET NEARING COMPLETION

Workmen are now putting the -ftjii.-itiia? touches on the new garage built by P. W. Stuckpiau on \V -i Walnut street and the building i ; rat improvement tor that part .r city. The structure is built of vitr:tieil tile frontage and sides ohiam a in the vicinity of Brazil, Ind., an ,j t,he tire wall Is laid with tile manufactured at Bremen. The front ~f • tie building is steel braced and four targe plate glass, seven by nine jo.-r topped with smaller glass makes ai: .in posing front. At the west side in ['rout a double entrance will admit pa'runs to the garage building and th- plate glass in the front as well as mother large plate glass window in rite east side makes an excellent display room for new cars. Mr. Stuckman has supervised the work and Judd Claus did the carpenter work while Mervjn Stuckman did the cement and tile work. A selfsupporting roof covers the building i, : )ff ice rooms in'f’he rear of (he new iCructure adds to the strength by the; walls coming under the center of. the roof. All electric wiring is to he placed in metal conduit and a ceiling and concrete floors ~n ak o practically a fireproof building. T ■ Stuckmans purchased the pro rty where the new building is located of a Mr. Bechtel in 1913 and a structure was on the premises. The same year Cal Stuckman made trips to several cities where sales barns were located and got the plans and built, the present sales barn, which in that day was considered one of the best in the entire district. The rear part of the old building remains s Mr. Stuckman built it and com-

muaity sales will be continued in this part. Arrangements have been made with M. S. Pletcher to use this part of the building for storage except on the days of the sales and it is probable that monthly storage will be taken care or In the structure. M 8. Pletchev, dealer in Hudson-Eshi-i, Plymouth and Chrysler cars, has leased the building from Mr. Stockman and is moving his equipment and supplies to the new location A grand opening will be held in the near future and Mr. Pletcher will have one of the most up-to-date and modern garages in Nappanee. Mr. Pletcher states that he has sold in the jeighborhood of sixty cars during he present year and expects to reach the hundred mark before it becomes necessary to write 1929 on his checks. Doing more business on less margin is the policy laid down, according to the dealer and quantity Sales will have its reward. Mr. Pletcher came to Nappanee tw . years ago from Goshen, where he bad been making his home while acting in the capacity of general sales manager of this district for the s . s lard Oil Company and took up Chevrolet agency, which he continued for about six months. Last y-ir rhe sales of Chrysler was taken oyer tad early this year Hudson-Es-"x ars were added to the Chrysler hue md these makes are his special-

:i Addition to the sale of cars a *eral repair shop and service start >u is at the disposal of car owners. ! reace Ruch, a well known young n, -manic of this city has been given i nge of this department of the • vge and good service can be exp, ~i xhte' repair room is located '■ directly behind the office rooms H : is easily accessible to any one w dung to get in • touch with the mechanic. ’die front of the new building will -ise.d for the display of new cars V h the exception of a space at the ‘st end where a stall has been left d M n for the showing of used cars, ice is allowed for the display of fee used cars in the west end while the east three new cars can be '*' to excellent advantage. In .the *r of the new building a fire proof "or admits entrance to the sales -n and this is to be used for cold *‘orage. Used cars can be shown to 'spective customers in here at any 'no and as this building is 64x92 t in size ample room is allowed !or . the automobile dealer. The front Port of the building is 36x64. thus - ing a building 64x128 feet at the disposal of Mr. Fletcher. According to Mr. Stuckman it is ' e intention to paint the old struc'llrp and in the front of the building Rletcher will probably install

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tvo gas pumps and an air pump. Ju- 1 what the final arrangement in the front of the building will be has not been definitely decided but if plans are carried out the two pumps will be placed back from jihe walk and a cement driveway will be at the disposal of customers wishing lo get gas or oil at the new garage. RURAL MAIL BOXES TO RECEIVE COAT OF PAINT Mail boxes on routes 1. 2,3 and 4 out of Kappanee are being repainted, which adds very much to the appearance of the surroundings. The boxes are being painted with aluminum and the owner’s name is painted in black letters, while the flags are touched with bright red. The post office department has been requesting rural delivery patrons to have the boxes painted and their names placed on them because of the movement to beautify - the country roads, besides tt is a great help to the substitute carrier if the name is painted thereon. Since this movement was started a great deal

of effort has been expended in having this work done. The local carriers are cooperating in this movement and W. P. Miller, of Fort Wayne, Ind., started work in this vicinity on Monday morning. Patrons wishing to have the boxes painted can do so by notifying the carrier and a very small charge is being made for the completed job. Mr. Miller paints the box for thirtyfive cents: —in reality less than the cost of a can of paint and the boxes will be uniform in appearance. ELDERLY GRAVELTON MAN CLAIMS YOUNG BRIDE Miss Lottie Devere Thomas, 20. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Thomas of Gravelton, who has been making her home with her sister and brothep-ln-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack 'Rlobljßon, tor ithe past number of years; and; William Perry Sharp, 73, also of Gravelton, were married Friday by the Rev. C. E. George, pastor of the Church of the Brethren of Goshen.

Mr. Sharp has been employed on the farm of Cal Stuckman, east of town, this ummer. The couple will make their home at Gravelton. For the present they are living with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Robison where they were given an old fashioned belling by a number of young people Friday evening. NEWTON CALBECK TO MANAGE MILFORD THEATRE Newton Calbeck, former manager of the Auditorium theatre here, assumed the management of the Cornu? theatre at Milford August 1. Frank Parrish, the former owner of the theatre, caused great dissension in Milford operating Sunday shows. His last Sunday show was run the 29th. Mr. Parrish has taken a position with the Miller Chevrolet Sales

at Milford. Mr. Calbeck has considerable experience in the show business and is sure to give Milford patrons . the best pictures that the size of the town will warrant. Since ceasing to operate here, Mr. Calbeck has been showing pictures at the Community House at Syracuse. BERNARD SHIVELY LEAVES FOR SOUTH BEND POSITION Bernard Shively, who for the past number of years has been employed at the Shively Bros, hardware and furniture store as clerk and assistant furniture buyer, has accepted a position with the Staples-Winkler Cos. at South Bend. The firm handles builder's supplies and coal. Mr. Shively has charge of the coal department. He started on his new work Monday, and moved his household goods to South Bend Tuesday. FLOYD CARL MINT STILL BURNS TO THE GROUND The two-tub mint, still of Floyd Carl, of east of town, was burned to the ground Friday night. The fire Was not discovered until 2 o'clock in tjhe morning and It was impossible /then to save the building. The origin of the fire was undetermined,

JUST A GLIMPSE HERE AND THERE UNIVERSITY FUND CAMPAIGN Bred C. Pritzlaff: Milwaukee. Wis.. has accepted the '..chairmanship of a campaign to raise a $500,000 endowment fund for Valparaiso university. This announcement was made by the educational board of control of the Lutheran church of America. S2OO SET ASIDE FOR PARROT—- ■ The . income from S2OO, is to be set aside for the comforts and needs of a parrot owned by Mrs. Ella M. Ferguson, of Brookston, whose will has been filed for probate in the White Circuit court. Mrs. Ferguson bequeathed $7,000 to the M. E. church of Brookston. Her estate was valued at $15,000. CHILD EATS “CANDY” TABLETS; DIES Mistaking for candy, sugar coated tablets containuig a powerful drug, Phillip Lantz, 2 years and eight months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lantz, of Millersburg, ate them and shortly afterward died in convulsions. The tablets had been left by a doctor for Mrs. Lantz, who kt ill. The tinvlly just recently moved to Millersburg from Bronson Mich.

DEAN SKINNER IS NAMED TO SUCCEED G. I. CHRISTIE— Prof. H. Skinner, dean.of the Purdue school of agriculture, has been named as new director of the agricultural extension department of the experiment station at Purdue. He will succeed Dr. G. I. Christie, whose resignation becomes effective September 1, Christie will become president of the Ontarion agricultural college at Guelph", Ontario. FINED SIOO ON LIQUOR CHARGE —William Knapp, age 25, of Goshen, was given a suspended sentence of 30 days at the penal farm, and fined SIOO and costs In the Goshen city court Saturday, when he was found guilty of a charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Knapp was arrested at his home on North Main street several weeks ago, when the police raided his home and found a large quantity of beer. ETNA’S GOLF CLUB—A number of young men of Etna Green have organized a golf club and have secured the old Sparrow farm, north of Etna, on which to conduct operations. The residence thereon will be fitted up into a splendid club house and the farm itself is ideal for a golf course of 10 holes. These young men, employed in the stores and offices of Etna, will certainly enjoy the outing they may get as opportunity affords them, and are to be congratulated on the modern step they have taken to get out door exercise.

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LOCAL LADIES ATTEND MEETING Os WOMEN'S W Mrs. Aerial Warren, president of the local Business ami Professional Women’s club, and Miss Florence Miller, attended the 13th district n t'cting held at Winona, Sunday. A In (heon was heid at noon With o ghty ladies present, and a business fission followed. -Mary Jane East, president of the Warsaw club, gave the address of welcome from the Warsaw girls, who were hostesses, and .Dr. Bell, of Winona Lake, welcomed them to Jennie Kae Hij-sch, of Portland, gave a report of the National Convention held at New Orleans, Ija., last month. 624 members registered at the business meeting of the club, and it was learned that at present there are 51,000 women enrolled in the 900 clubs organized. The National Convention will be held at Mackinac Island next year, the last year for the annual convention. It was also announced that after 1929 the .conventions will be held biennially. The Indiaan delegation to the National Convention had won the prize for the state, having the most striking costume. The distinctive dress consisted of blue capes lined with gold and with gold lapels, made military style. Members of the club who are holding a Home Management Bureau at Winona Lake this week gave short talks befqre the club. The speakers were Ida Anderson, Evansville, Marie Tudor, second state vicepresident of the club, and Ada Switzer, of Indianapolis. Bonnie Darling, of Elkhart, the 13th district director, had charge of the meeting. FAIRY THEATRE TO HAVE ANNIVERBARY NEXT WEEK The Fairy Theatre will celebrate its second anniversary next Wednesday. Asa special honor for the day, the unusually good picture, "The Cossacks” featuring John Gilbert and Renee Adoree will be shown. John Gilbert and his supporting cast In this version of the great Tolstoi drama, brings here spectacles and theme that are well worth seeing. GOSHEN GREYS TO PLAY BENDIX BRAKES TEAM SUNDAY The Goshen Greys have joined the Northern Indiana baseball league and will play their first game of the second half of the season Sunday at 3 o'clock at the Goshen city park. They will meet the fast Bendix Brakes team.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST j* 1928

MANY REUNIONS TO BE HELD AT COMMUNITY PARK The Nappanee Community park has been in great demand this summer for reunions of families and organizations. Facilities at the park are convenient and may he reserved by seeing Harry Price, secretary of the park board, and paying a fee of $5 as rental. The community house tables, benches and kitchen with utensils .and stoves are included in the equipment. The grounds furnish entertainment for old and young with croquet, horse-shoe, slides, and swings. Following are the reunions and dates already booked for August and September:

August 2—Reed-Weaver August s—Holdeman August B—Smith-Adams August 9—Farmwald August 10—Walters August 11—Wm. Hepler August 12—Becknell August 16—Minor August 19 —Troup August 24—Slabaugh August 25—Hepler August 26 —Cox September I—Loucks September 2—LougfLeM September B—Johnston September 9 —Pippenger September 16 —Newton county. September 23 —Hunt

L. O. KIEFER PRESENTS GLADIOULUS TO OFFICE L. O. Kiefer of route one, Nappanee, sent two dozen slikes of lovely gladiolus blooms to the AdvanceNews office yesterday. White, red, orange, pink, yellow, and mottled blooms are noted in the bunch. Mr. Kiefer has a two-acre field of the gladiolus which are now In bloom. Last Friday, 2500 spikes were cut. Visitors are welcome to visit the field. NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES DISTRIBUTED AND IN USE All the new telephone directories have now been and every telephone user should refer to the directory, No. 31, for new numbers and changes in old numbers. One mistake was discovered in the directory, but too late to make the change in some of the books. Ora Guiss, who now lives in Auburn, Indis listed instead of Adam Guiss. The latter’s number should be 91. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Levi R. Detweiler, southwest of town, a daughter, born Wednesday, August 1. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cripe, a soil, boru Tuesday, July 31.

COACH LONGFELLOW TAKES POSITION AT HARTFORD CITIf

COPPES MARMON SEDAN IS DITCHED MONDAY MORNING morning as John Coppes, Sr„*'“was returning from his cottage at Pickwick park, I,ake Wawasee, his Marnion sedan was ditched at the Turkey Creek bridge, seven miles east and one-half mile north of town. Mr. Coppes had crossed the bridge when he lost control of the car which hit the abutement on the right side of the road. The impact either locked the front wheels or smashed the fenders and bumper back into the steering apparatus in such a way as to preclude guiding of the car to the right. Unable to turn the wheels, Mr. Coppes applied the brakes but too late to prevent the car crashing down the left bank of the road. Mr. Coppes was not injured but the cor .received smashed fenders, a broken bumper, aud damage to the mechanism. It was taken to Indianapolis Tuesday for repairs. WELLS-SNIDER WEDDING HERE SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Long announce the marriage of their nelce. Miss Lillian Verda Wells, to Donald Franklin Snider, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Snider, of south of town. The ceremony was read Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by the Rev. S. M. Whetstone, at the Long homo on East Market street. The double ring ceremony was used. The bride was attired in a pink chiffon frock over pink silk and carried a bouquet of snapdragons and candytuft. The couple were unattended. The bride is a graduate of the Nappanee high school in the class of ’2B, and was employed at the Guteiius store. The groom is employed at the Coppes factory. For the present, they will reside at the home of the groom’s parents. BOY SCOUTS LEAVE TODAY FOR CAMP Eighteen Boy Scouts left today for the annual two weeks camp at James lake in charge of the Scout Master, Rev. R. L. Fletcher. The boys and tents, cots, and equipment were taken down in one of the Coppes Bros. & Zook trucks. They were equipped with a radio donated lor the two weeks by the Milter Radio shop. The boys that will spend part or all of the two weeks at the camp are; Carlyle Mullett, Leslie and Glenn Field, Wayne Dunham, Wayne Fletcher, LaMar Reed, Bill Price, IJanson Shaum, Wilfred Troup, Carl Knobel, Charles Lehman, Joe Lape, George Hershberger, Earl Graham, George Walters, Marion Rensberger, Reed Newcomer, and Merle Calbeck.

APPROACHING WEDDING IS ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY At the regular meeting of the M. U. M. club Thursday evening with Miss Letha Miller, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J, Miller, Miss Miller announced her approaching marriage to I>an Metzler, soil of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Metzler, of this city. After an evening of bridge in which honors were awarded to Miss Louise Lapp and Mrs. E. J. Swajin, refreshments were served,, accompanied by favors which, announced the coming event. Each guest was given a doll dressed in pastel crepe paper, and on the arm of each was a slip Os paper bearing the words, Let ha and Dan, September. WILBUR HARTMAN FINED IN JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT Wilbur Hartman was fined SI.OO and costs, amounting to $9.80, Thursday in the court of Justice of the Peace Ulery on a charge of attempting to provoke the commission of assault and battery. The charge was filed by Ed Himes, Hast Market street, in behalf of his son, Lowell Himes, who -is under age, and therefore unqualified to tile charges. * LIBRARY BOARD MEETING TOMORROW EVENING 8:00 A meeting of the library board will be held at the Library tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. All members are. requested to be present.

READ THE ADVANCE-NEW ’ Nappanee'* Home Paper i Almost Fifty Year*.

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Nappanee high school receives a hard blow in the resignation of John Longfellow, athletic coach and instructor of Physical education. Mr. Longfellow has signed a contract with the school board at Hartford City, the county seat of Blackford county and a city of about 6,000 population to assume the duties of coach and instructor for the coming two years. Hartford City is located about twenty miles north of Munde and is about in the center of the hotbed of basketball territory in the state. Mr. Longfellow has been a teacher in the local high school for the * four years aud has won an enviable reputation for himself. The first two years of the coach’s term here the city took first honors in track and at that time county track meets were discontinued. In addition te honors von in county meets each year men have been entered in the state track meets and while no successful candidates have been retimed from the state a good showing has been made.

Handicapped with a very small gym the instructor lias worked untiringly to place a first-class basket bait team on the floor and in the past two years has won about seventy-tve per cent of the varsity games played. The first string men showed exceptional ability in working out plays at the opponents and the entire credit can be laid to the door of Mr. Lonefellow. The genial coach was a friend of the boys as well as being the instructor and the athletes am sorry to see him leave although rejoicing in the fact that a larger opportunity is being offered to him la make good. Along with the goad work of the first basket ball team an excellent second string team waa developed last year and everybody is looking forward to having the boat team this year that has ever been on a local floor. Bach year a bigger and better schedule has been arranged for the local high and with the small gymnasium more and nm games must be played away from home but the teams have been developed to take care of the largnr scope of work and the coming yenr will need the services of a first-dans coach to keep the local high- on a footing as solid as that set forth bp the departing instructor. Baseball endeavor has not been as successful as basket ball but a team

has been placed in the field of which no coach need feel ashamed and Mr. I.ongfellow lias played the bpya against many larger schools and came away with flying colors. The Nappanee school board of education had signed up Mr. Longfellow for the coming year but an opening being presented at Hartford City the Board willingly released tjho coach to the larger city, that a| better opportunity was being presented than this city could possibly afford. A bigger school—and a substantial increase in salary tempted Mr. Longfellow and while the local school board would willingly have increased his salary it would have been impossible to meet the tempting offer of the city located to the south aad a release was given the instructor. Athletic fans in this city as welt as the athletes wish Mr. Longfellow success at this new post and arc glad of the opportunity offered to him. Very seldom does a coach from the north part of the state succeed in getting a berth to the south, as in basket ball especially, a larger and better bunch of players are developed and a northern coach usually does not have the necessary qualifications to fill the bill. Mr. I.ongfellow is an exception to this rule and is expected to make a very creditable showing this coming year. 115 AT BECHTEL REUNION HELD SUNDAY One hundred and fifteen members were present at the Bechtel reunion which was held at the Community park, Sunday. Officers elected at the business meeting in the afternoon were: Maurice Long, uorth of town, president; Ivan Bechtel, Dunlap, vice-president; and Mrs. Maurice Long, secretary-treasurer. The next reunion will be held at the Community Park the last Sunday in June. 1929. ' ■■