South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-07

home OF her son, ]. c. wachtel, il
Shreve. Ohio. Mrs. Wachtel was the
widow of Geogre W. Wachtel. who
died in 1891. Her parents were
Elias and Elizabeth Carpenter,
among the very early residents of
Goshen.
Carl r. White of Ann Arbor
Mich, has leased the March room.
on East Washington street here and
will open a modern bakery.
County Clerk. Charles W. Foulks
has a severely cut left hand, the
result Of a knife closing on II.
Mrs. Ellen Brumbaugh, e5, died
at her home IN New Paris. after
illness of a few days of double
pneumonia. Surviving Mrs Brum-
baugh are three sisters Funeral
services were held Sunday.
The March term of the E1khart
circuit court opened here Monday,
with Judge Drake on the bench.
Forty cases have been set for trial.
Arthur W. Fonda, sheriff OF Elk
hart county, returned from Joliet,
ILL.,, with Herbert Shank, John Wogo-
man, Henry Bartlett, Harry Shaw
and Fred Hall, Elkhart boys who
stole an automobile belonging TO
Walter Hostettler OF Goshen from In
front OF the First Christian church
here while Mr.. Hostettler was
listening to a lecture in the church.
All Of the defendants pleaded not
I
circuit court. II is expected they
will be arraigned Monday.
In tho first two months OF 1921
the Goshen fire department answered
80 calls, compared with IS Tor the
same period of time last year. The
big increase in the number OF calls
. is believed due TO the great amount
of poor grade coal that is burned
and the unusual dry winter. Most
of the fires were -blazes. Dur
/ ing 1920 the department answered
/ 9S alarms, but there were but s.
/ fires serious enough to cali for
/ throwing water or use Of chemicals.
/ Frances Werner. widow OF John
Werner. and who died here recently.
/ left a Will in which she beQueathej
]
nephews. with the exception OF
$1,000 which she gave to her pastor.
Rev Hiram Forney, of tho German
/ raDtist church. She also bequeath-
cd $500 to her farm tenant, Joseph
w. Grippe.
Neru Miller OF this city, a Spanish
American war veteran, has gone to
| Brooklyn, y. Y, where he VIII visit
his son, Floyd Miller. formerly OF
Goshen. From BROOKLYN Mr.. Mil
Ter will proceed to Washington. y.
c., where he is TO become u cook
in the L. s. soldiers home.
Roy Davenport, a lineman en-
ployed by the Hawks Electric COM
pany At the Middlebury branch, has
badly burned hand and arm, the
result of coming I'm contact with a
wire carrying $500 volts OF cleo
tricity.
Fitzpatrick & McE1roy of ChicasO.
who leased the Jefferson theater
here of Oscar Hansen for 10 years
with privilege Of renewal for a like
period Of time. have a circuit of 40
motion picture. vaudeville and co'n-
bination theaterS. The concern is
negotiating for a lease on the Lin
coin, o Goshen movie house owned
BY Samuel l. Spohn, and which was
opened last June. with Newton 4.
CalbecE, Of Nappanee as lessee and
manager. Mr.. Calbeck retired last
January. The Lincoln lease has not
been formally closed. Fitzpatrick q,
McElroy are 10 make improvements
in the Jefferson costing about S10.-
600. The building is owned by Mr..
Hansen, who acquired II OF George
Harrup Of South Bend, a contractor.
The annual rental To be paid 10y
Fitzpatrick & McElrov is reported TO
be about five times what Harry G.
Sommcrs OF New York City paid
during the first FIVE years Of his
lease, which started when the build
ing was completed in 1905. At one
= time the theater was offered for sale
at S3S. 900 and Il Is said the total
rental for the ten years IL about
three times that amount. Fitzpat-
rick & McElroy paid Mr.. Hansen
$4,000 for a Kimball organ he I'm
stalled less than a year ago. In
three years Mr.. Hansen. who came
, hero from Benton Harbor Mich,
made PROFITS from the Jefferson
sufficient TO buy the building at cost
of about $4,000.