South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-19

gram for Friday afternoon. The
strains of The American Legion
last spring when he fell from a
Goshen & Michigan Branch rail-
road bridge into Rock Run Geek.
His body was recovered four weeks .
after he disappeared.
Charles F. Leonard and Miss |
Florence E. Beck of Goshen were
united in marriage Wednesday.
A scarlet fever epidemic is In pros /
pect here.
Benjamin F. Hahn, former owner
Of the Maple cafe in Goshen, was ar I
rested In Syracuse on a charge of
giving William r. Bartram of Gosh .
en, a travelling salesman and former Z
owner of the cafe. a bad check for
$14.5O. Soon after Hahn was
brought TO Goshen and lodged IN
Jail, the matters was adjusted with
Bartram and the prisoner released. /
Marshall Showalter OF LgOnier
has started war on bootlegg1ng II
is claimed that large quantities OF
booze are being hauled from Adrian.
Mich, TO Ligonier in motor cars.
Harold Murnor OF Adrian, who
drives an automobile carrying a New
York state license, is accused OF
bootlegging. He and Charles Kne-
bush were arrested at the home OF
Thurlow Crockett in Ligonier. Crock
EFT was also taken into custody when
Royce McGuin, a neighbor, COM
planned of noise at the Crockett
place. Crockett and Murnor each
paid SCI and KnebuSh was assessed
ST.. Iigonier police who have been
watching the Crockett house state
that large quantities o. booze have
been received there a. q disposed OF,
at rs cents and 81 per drink.
Reginald and Maxwell Miller. IL
and nine years old, sons Of Clarence
Miller of Goshen, who robbed the
home OF Mrs. Alfred Kane in this
city hid their loot in Old shack
on the race bank. All the property
was recovered. The 12-year-old boy
has served time at Plainfield school.
Mrs. Clarence Kinney of Ligonier
has entered the Mayo Bros. hospital,
Rochester MINI.
Miss Eloise Stephenson. daughter
.-of Mr.. and Mrs. willard L. stephen
son Of Goshen, is seriously i'll at the
Hotel LaSalle. Chicago. She was
recently under treatment in an
Evanston, H., hospital
Harley Peffley OF Goshen and
E.lkhart, under arrest on charge OF
selling white mule to Otis Winters
Of Goshen. who became drunk on it
and fought Goshen police when they
arrested him, has been released from
the Elkhart county jail here on
$500 bond signed by Tom DeShone,
former Elkhart salOonist. The bond
was reduced from $1,000. The Elk
hart place at which Pefley is al
,ged TO have dealt in white mule
has been sold by Peffley TO an Elk
art man. Penley Is a former vaud-
lille performer and cafe owner.
An unoccupied Dodge Sedan au-
mobile which was struck by New
1rk Central train when It was left
n the Berkey church crossing east
II Goshen, was stolen car, accord
ing 10 Ligonier police. The car was
dragged 500 feet and completely
wrecked. Z. T. Hurst Of Toledo. en-
gineer: and Fireman Cook OF To-
edo are convinced it was driven on
to the crossing and abandoned by
thieves. First reports were that the
machine was owned by LigOnier res
idents.
Raymond NJ Hall OF Kendalvine
and Miss Clara NJ. Melbourne OF
South Milford were married at the
Lutheran parsonage in Lagrange.
Arrangements for organizing a ma
tiOnal guard company in Goshen are
being completed. It will be COM
manded by Frank Abbott. who was
instructor in artillery fire in training
camps in the United States during
the world war.
In 1900 Eugene Wickham. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Wickham OF
Middlebury was sent to the Philip
pine Islands as a soldier in the United
States army. Several years after he
went TO that country he married a
native of the islands. Two children
were born to the union. They are
Eugene and Louis WiCkham, age IA
and II years respectively. At the
age OF five years each child was sent
to the home Of Wickham's parents
at Middlebury 10 acquire an Ameri-
can education. Their grandfather
took them TO Chicago a few days
ago, where, unaccOmpan they be-
gan a long trip 10 Manila-their
home. They barely remember their
parents.
Goshen police place no credence
whatever in a theory advanced that
Pleasant I. Immel, 81. whose body
was found IN the bottom OF the by
draulic canal. one mile south OF GO
shen, was murdered Immel was
gate tender for the Hawks Electric
company OF this city at the dam.
His face was badly cut about the
eyes. but il Is believed he either fell
into the canal while on duty or that
ne committed suicide. He had long
been separated from his wife and
had three daughters and one son,
all grown. Immel was addicted TO
excessive use OF stimulants. One OF
hts brothers. Cassius NJ Immel,
was formerly recorder Of Elkhart
county and IS now a wealthy resident
/ OF Denver, Col