The Bremen Enquirer from Bremen, Indiana • Page 1

I AN ENQUIRER WANT AD If Is the best little investment FOR QUALITY PRINTING The Enquirer has the Moit Modern and Best Equipped Printing Plant in the County "A Good Paper In A Good Town" BREMEN, MARSHALL COUNTY. INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, i -yi i.io '-I've sul i yru can make if you want to Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent. VOLUME 39 17 NEW MEASURES IN RESOLUTION Farm Bureau Asks Legislature To Defeat Bills Now Pending. The Marshall County Farm Bureau, through its board of directors, is on record as opposed to two new measures now pending before the legislature bodies of the state and nation. The new child labor law and the proposal to divide the forty-first judicial circuit, now made up of Marshall and Fulton counties, are both opposed by the farm body in resolutions recently adopted by the directors and given to the press of the county for publication.

The resolution concerning the proposal to change the child labor law by a constitutional amendment is touched in th3 following resolution: Whereas. Coneress has passed an TOWN HARD HIT BY BANK CRASH Pall of Gloom Covers Milford As Bank Loss Grows. amendment to the onstitution winch brought farmers of this state an adJ-would give that body power, to pro- ed 12 minions last year, the report Tnhit the labor of persons under the states. This compensates in a cnoas- Gloom that seems all out of place! a11 other towns but Nappance, so far at the Christmas season hangs over "a ers concerned, until Tuesvlay, when a line to Lnpaz was the town of Miliord as the peop i opened, giving connections to f.outh there realize more and m-re fully Be and Plymouth. what the failure of the Farmers State The sleet caused heavy property Bank there means.

losses in this community, the Bre- ITomes. that had planned big cele- Uome Telephone Co. being the j. i heaviest losers. Manner C.

E. brations of the holiday season will t- Koontz estimates the loss at rbout be forced to save their celebrations $3,000, which does not take into ac-until a more prosperous time. Esti- count the unpleasant extra work mates from the most reliable sources ne-cessary to repa'r the fallen lines. now indicate that depositors will re- The country lines in dirpctions I are down, most of the poles haing ceive only about thirty or thirtv- 1 i miiiy or umij broken under the heavy load of ice. five cents on the dollar in their set- Mr.

Koontz stated today that he tleiment. All of which means that expects to repair the toll li nes as soon WILLIAM GREEN IS ELECTED TO TAKE PLACE OF GOMPERS William Green, who has been secretary of the United Mine Workers union for twelve years, was elected president of the American Federation of Labor at New York Saturday, succeeding the late Samuel Gompers. James P. Noonan, piesident of the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers, was named eighth vice-p vesivk nt to fill vacancy on the council caused by Green's pro- motion. Upon Green's election, James Duncan the first Yico-m'es-ident, at once resismcd.

A cloc associate of the late r-muei Gompers for 40 years, Dur-can lold his colleagues he felt entitled to the offce brcause of sen- iority and of long service His res ignation will ik acted upon until the executive committee meets again at Mi-vni, about February 3. Duncan, former head of th.e Granite Cutters, says his decision is "irrevocable." Plymouth High Coming For Game Next Week Bremen high school will resume her basket ball activities Friday evening, Jan. 2, when the fast Tlymouth high school squad, coached by Capt. Woods last year's champion Franklin college five, will invade the local gymnasium. Plymouth won at the county seat in the first tangle.

Both the boys' and girls' team will start in the program arranged for the opening of the new year, the girls' game coming as a Airtain raiser for the boys' affair. Everybody reads Enquirer want ads. many careful savers will lose in a moment what they have been years in accumulating. Thomas- J. Nye, former auditor of l-t i .1 INDIANA GAINS IN SMALL GRAIN Oats and Wheat Brought Better Profit Than In Previous Year.

Indiana fanners realized more on small grains this yenr than in 1023, according to a report b'1" exnerts which shows that the national increase in grain values amount to Oats alone were responsible for a gain of 13 millions iK5a ure for the 33 2 million corn loss suffered by Indiana farmers this year. The three milllion bushel increase in the wheat crop in Indiana this year brought the value up to as compared with $32,000,000 of 1923. The oat crop of this state, this year is. up to Go1 2 million bushels as compared to 48H million the year before with the result that farmers will have taken in thirty million dollars on this crop as compared with IT millions the year before. The yield per acre on com in Indiana, the report dropped to twenty-three bushels per acre as a result of unfavorable weather.

The wet days on the other hand, were a great help to the wheat and oats production, the former rising to 17.9 bushels per acre as compared with 16.5 the year before, and the latter to 37.9 from 28 in 1923. The profit per bushel of wi eat this year was 8 cents where a loss of twenty-five cents a bushe1 was taken last year and a 2 cent profit in oats for the twenty-four cent loss of ths preceding year. The increased yield per acre of small grain and the increased price per bushel a'l rravns had aided materially in restoring the farmer to a better financial basis, the Foundation report concludes. The higher grain prices have resulted in higher live stock prices and this has brought a new vitalitv to agriculture. Thomas Anders Dies After Paralytic Stroke Thomas Sanford Anders, eighty-one years oH, diet! early Tuesday morning at the home of his brother, William Anders, after an illness of two weeks.

Mr. Anders had been in failing health for about a year. Two weexs ago he suffered a paralytic stroke and pneumonia developed later resulting fatally. Mr. Anders was born December 7, 1S43, at CVIansfield, Ohio, and came to this community when he was a boy.

He has lived with his brother, William Anders nearly all of his life. Surviving are two brothers, William Anders, at whose home he died, and James Anders of near Plymouth. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at l.oO at the First Evangelical church. Rev. II.

H. Sonne officiating- Burial was in the Bre- men cemetery. Mrs. Boys To Conduct Woman's Civics School Mrs. Florence Riddick Boys of Plymouth will have charge of a school of government in writings for the National Republican of Washington to begin shortly.

One lesson in government will appear in each issue of the national organ for fifty-two weeks, constituting a well rounded course in government study. The plan is for these courses to be utilised by women's clubs particularly political and civic clubs. Mrs. Boys has conducted a page in the National Republican for some time on topics of interest to women. The purpose of the course of lessons is to help give the women of the country a better idea of their relation to the Kosciusko county, has been appointed Ice covered limbs1 of trees receiver of the ruined bank.

The fel1 over the voltage wires and final hearing on his appointment will Put manv of the? country lines out of be held at Warsaw Monday. The commission. Supt. Doty of the elec-receiver was appointed after State tric aT1fi his helpers were out Attorney-General Lesh had filed a 1 most of the niht Thursday repairing petition on behalf of the state bank tn? lines and removing the dangerous examiner. 1 i wires.

They al3Q worked The grand jury which has been through the storm Friday to get the probing the failure of the bank in Unes in shape for service Friday an effort to place the blame where niPrht. The town was without cur-it properly belongs returned several rent all day Friday, indictments against persons alleged Tn? cold snap, which had been to have been involved in the wreck- prophesied by the weather men for dng of the bank. Warrants were several days, finally came Friday placed in the hands of Sheriff Milo night. Fair weather without high. Maloy, who was sworn to secrecy un- winds made the cold spell less severe POLICE PATROLS FOR THE STATE Executive ITr-e Thn R'lrl! LXlCUineUlaes ma, Districts Be Guarded i By State Police.

With a vigorous indorsement by! Governor Emmett F. Branch, in his speeches at meetings of the pub- Mean members of the legislature, of the plan for the establishment of a department. of state police, and with a favorable attitude indicated by many of the legislators in their discussions of the coming session, the prospect, for the passage of the bill seem most hopeful, says a bulletin issued by the state police committee of the Indiana Bankers' Association. Governor Branch in his speeches at the meetings of the legislators, outlined informally his program of legislation and among the first in Continued on Page 8, Col. 3.

ARCO PLANT GETS "GO AHEAD" ORDERS; TO START JAN. 2 Good news for Christmas reached the Bremen plant of the American Radiator Co. yesterday in the form of an order to resume work at full time on Jan. 2. The order means that the men who have been working on short time will now get six full days every week, beginning with the new year.

i VfJ i s- ss's? i SS (ssSsSsS s-s I SS-- 1 1 I 5 s- ssi ss SS ss s.s sC SSS ss ss s. -s Js stv 41 sss. s. ssfcssV. NUMBER 52 COLD WAVE HITS US AS BLIZZARD SWEEPS MIDWEST Telephone Wires Fall Down Under Heavy Load of Ice and Sleet.

Sub-zero weather, direct from Medicine Hat but several days behind schedule, caught Bremen and thi3 community as it swept the middle western states i Friday night. By Saturday morning the mercury nan dropped to seven degrees below zero. The cold wave follow, a sleet orm that demoralized telephone and telegraph communication in many places. Bremen was isolated from as possible, so that communication with other towns may be resumed. Electric light service was also badly interrupted Thursday night and i- nugnt nave oten.

i ne com wave continued through Sunday and Monday, but by Tuesday had moderated. The serious damage to telephone! Bend. Especially between South Bend arid Lakeville, on the Michigan road, were the telephone companies hard hit. Many poles were down south of Plymouth along the Michigan road, but the sleet and ice were not so heavy toward the south. Fruit trees suffered heavily in the storm.

Cherry, apple and peach trees, as well as many of the ornamental shade trees in this part of the state were split down by the ice. In Bremen many trees broke under the heavy load. Death stalked in the wake of th.e storm, according to telegraph reports from many places. Three persons were reported dead is the Rocky Mountain region, one in Oklahoma and two in Chicago. Scores of fires were caused by overheated stoves and furnaces.

In Fort Wayne a fire menaced the business district Sunday, starting from an overheated furnace in the Boston Stoie. Injuries from falls on the ice and from automobile collisions due to slippery streets were reported from many localities hit by the storm. Ice on the trees is causing the death of thousands of birds in Michigan, it is reported. Another report states that thousands of deer are perishing north of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. They refuse to be herded to greener pastures on the south side of the gorge, and die aa the vegetation fails.

Legion To Hold Big Open Meeting Jan. 1 The American Legion will hold a big open meeting at the Legion hall Thursday evening, Jan. 1. All ex-service men are invited whether members of the Legion or not. There will be an interesting program and eats for everybody.

The Holy Night at Bethlehem URGE YOUNG FOLK TO ATTEND MEET AT TYNER JAN. 24 Young peopl3 01 this community are urged to join those of the rest of the county in the annual conference to be held at Tyner Jan. 24 and 25, according to notices being sent out by the P1110' mmittea of the organization. The caI! 5ss this week says: "Let's keep in mind the 10th An- nua! People's Conference to be held nt Tyncr U. B.

Church Jan- 21th and 25th, 1025. This con- 'erence will be something worth while as entertaining and we hope our young people will keep this date in mind and be there. If vou have n't made up your mind to attend do it row, and ve can assure you that you will not be disappointed." Raymond Moseley Had Shot up Another Place Raymond Moseley, age twenty-two, who two weeks ago went on a rampage at South Bend, killing two men and wounding five others while under the influence of liquor, was committed to the Letterman Hospital for the Insane, at San Francisco, in April, 1921. Information to this effect was received at South Bend by the local authorities, The information from the hospital is to the effect that Moseley is "constitutionally mentally deficient" and in need of restraint. While in the hospital Moseley was considered violently insane at times.

Previously to his imprisonment he had shot up the town of Carmel, Cal. Although he terrorized the residents of Carmel by shooting wildly into the air he did not hurt any one. SS ,4. S4 SS isJssJsjSs'V s. i As.

sss sss sS sss ss ss s-N s- 4, 1 ''s; -j 4 9 sS ui tne arrests were made. JNone of i the names were revealed. Mrs. James Shepard, wife of the cashier of the bank, is left penniless by the crash which is blamed on her husband, now serving hij sentence at lines was very general over this sec-Michigan City. Mrs.

Shepard has of the state. There was heavy turned over to the authorities all her damage on the lines around South age of IS years and to prescribe the conditions of such labor and the rati-, cation of this action is now before the State Legislatures, and "Whereas, the proposed amendment will give the Congress blanket authority to pass stringent and farfiung laws on this subject which is already covered adequately and according to local conditions in a majority of states, "We hereby urge the Indiana Farm Bureau to use its influence to defeat the i-atification of this child labor amendment when it is up for consideration before the Indiana Legislature, and, we ask our State Senator and Representative to oppsyje this measure. Respectfully submitted. Marshall County Farm Bureau Directors. The proposition to make a separate court circuit of Marshall county and another for Fulton county also arouses the disapproval of the farm federation, as indicated by the following resolution: "Whereas, there will be introduc-c-d in the next session of the Indiana Legislature a bill to divide the 41st ju.licial district; Therefore, be it resolved that we as officers and directors of the Marshall County Farm Bureau, and representing the largest taring unit in the county, are unanimously opposed to this measure, and ask our State Senator and Representative to oppose this measure, and be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to each county paper to be published.

Respectfully submitted. Marshall Coun-tv Farm Bureau Diiectors." Mrs. George Grise, Answers Final Summons Mrs. George H. Grise, one of the id and well known residents of this community, died at her home on East North street Sunday night after an illness following a stroke of paralysis.

Funeral sei-vices were held in Graca United Brethren church Wednesday afternoon, Revs. W. P. and Alice Xohle officiating. Burial was in the Bremen cemetery.

Mrs. Grid's maiden name was I.y.h'i Stahn. She was born in Madison St. Joseph county, May 1851. Her age at the time of her death Sunday was seventy-three ye seven months and eighteen I iays.

Practically all her life she was a resident of this On Dec. IT, 1872, she was united In marriage with Joseph Deatrle, who died March 17, 1920. On June 2, 1021, she was married to George H. Gri.e, who survives her. She leaves also sister, Mrs.

Margaret Schwa'm of Wakarusa; one half-brother, A. H. Fries of South Bend; several phews and nieces and many other more distant relatives. Cnrrcnt Events Club Entertains School Children The Current Events club gave a Christ ma party for all of the school children rnd families of the mem-lrs of club at the gymnasium Monday evening. Three hundred guests were present for the gaanes and treat which featured the -f the evening.

5 jWV 55 Xir It i 4 SSS s. ft. x. VsO "ss ss.S i 1 belongings, including a sum of money which she received as a legacy. Shepard also turned his property all over to the authorities before he was sent to prison.

Three farms were included in his holdings1, totaling more than four hundred acres. He also owned an interest in Swine-hurst farm two miles south of Mil-ford, where he bred iis pure bred hogs. The property was heavily encumbered, it was said. Dr. J.

F. Peterson, a director in the bank, was also charged with violations of the banking laws in making large overdrafts and in borrowing $2,500 from the bank in October, giving Shepard his personal promissory note, payable personally to Shepard. Petersen has made the assertion that all depositors will be paid in full. He estimated that the Shepard property would yield the directors wouM put up and the investments of the bank would imake good the balance within a year. The bank examiners are not of this opinion, however.

Business has been at a standstill in Milford as a result of the failure of the bank. The prosperous little town isi hard hit. It is estimated that about eight hundred people will suffer losses. All amusements are at an ebb. The farmers' institute was called off.

Tv-n Jve Christmas programs at the churches were arranged on a far less elaborate scale than usual. One woman who lost all her savings has been admitted to the county infirmary as a result of her losss. Bremen Woman Marries Culver Man Wednesday- Mrs. Ella Boss of Bremen and Ira J. Faulkner of Culver were united in marriage at Culver Wednesday.

They will live in Culver. I v'' fife s- v'' Ns.v, ssf ss jtss-; MS? i.