South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-26
NILES

Alfred Earl has sold his cigar
store. THE Earl" y. Second St. TO
/ =. Eugene Meyer & Co. Mr.. Meyer,
/ who has been employed as an as
sembler at the plant Of the National
| standard Co, will be In charge Of
the store.
The St. Joseph Valley Shipping
/ q association has shipped 100 carloads
of livestock from Niles, Buchanan.
! land GlendOra during the past year.
/ and has turned over about 5000, 600
/ 10 the farmers. according to an an
nOuncement made by r. 5. Arney.
I manager. The cooperative way OF
selling livestock has proved very
! profitable and satisfactory 10 the
farmers.
/ Harry Taylor. Of the firm OF Tay-
| Tor and Hildebrand, has sold his in
terest in the restaurant at lis IL
Main at. to his partner Frank Hill
( debrand. Mt. Taylor VIII be in the
employ of Mr.. Hildebrand for the
/ present.
! Mayor + y. Bonnie has been
asked TO appoint three delegates 70
represent the city officially at the
! Good Roads Congress 20 be held at
J the Coliseum in Chicago Feb. 9-12.
= Delegates will attend from every
section OF the United States and
} Canada and from Cuba. Porto Rico,
4 Hawaii. and Alaska
With railroad freight rates on
/ crushed stone up 10 40 cents a ton.
l Berrien county Will pay an increase
/ Of S105.300 in freight costs alone in
the construction Of the proposed 81
miles of new rIad this year. New
| freight rates put the cost of haulagc
B mn. To "A f-
/ per cubic yard. An average of $500
/ cubic yards Of stone are used in the
! construction OF each mile Of II II.
road.
I Deputy Member Ray Durham Of
/ Michigan accident board viii con
( duct an arbitration hearing i'm Niles
on Feb. 1 in the case OF Joshua a.
( Street versus the Garden City Fan
! Co. the latter being insured 10y tho
/ Liberty Mutual co.
! The preliminary hearing Of thu
charges against Andy Humphrey OF
/ Niles and Albert Swartz and James
Nicholson OF South Bend has been
! postponed until Tuesday morning
Ian. -. Two OF the men are charged
with selling moonshine whisky on
/ the streets OF Niles on Jan. >, Hum
phrey having directed deputy
~
selling the liquor at IS per quart
! Humphrey was held as suspect.
The citys street and bridge fund
/ is exhausted and can not be re
lplenisheO until the summer taNes
are available next August. The con-
tingent fund il also practically eX-
hausted, Notwithstanding that the
council borrowed $4,000 about a
week ago 10 replenish this fund
The salary, fire. interest, sinking
and other funds are sufficient TO
/ take care of the current expenses in
those departments until additional
funds are available next August
y. c. Keyt of Chicago Will succeed
I r. +. Broaden as manager Of the
, WoOlwOrth Five and Ten cent store
in this city. Mr.. Broaden has ac-
cepted a position with Butler Broth
ers Of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs Carl Wedel. 1915 y
Eleventh st. are parents OF a ten
pound son, Norman Paul, born Fri
day.
Announcement has been made Of
the marriage OF Mrs Leona STRAIT
ton Fink, 1908 oak ST.. and Joe
Graham, former repairman on the
Michigan Central railway. which
took place at the county seat on
Jan. 10. Mr.. and Mrs. Graham are
at present living at the home Of the
grOOm's parents. MIR. and Mrs.
Thomas Graham. y. Front St
The Keck family OF Milton town
ship. all Of whom have been quaran-
tined with smallpox. have been re-
leased from quarantine. The six
cases We're unusually severe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Albright.
Main St. are parents OF daughter,
June Vivian. born At Epworth hos
pital IN South Bend.
Or. L. K. Hunter. 70 years old.
died at his home near Barron lake
after a short illness with pneumonia.
He IS survived by one brother. La
mont Hunter Of Niles. by daugh-
ter. Miss Jessie. who made her home
with him. and by q son. Or. Edward
Hunter OF Chicago The body will
be inferred in OLakwood cemetery.
Chicago.
Charles +. White and c. r Pam
mel president and secretary respect
lively Of the Niles Chamber OF COM
noerce. have been invited 10 attend
the conference OF the National Coun-
Gil 81 the Chamber OF Commerce 60
De held in Washington Jan. OPS