South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-18
GOSHEN NEWS
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in giving a county fair next August.
A vacancy in the office of asses
sor Of Concord township, caused by
the death of William r. Puterbaugh
of Elkhart, will be filled through
the state board OF tax commissioners
and Wilson II. Rood, county asses
sor. The place pays an annual sal
airy of $4,000. Mr.. Puterbaugh was
6s years old and died of heart all
ment.
In circuit court Friday Maude
Method Millep Of Goshen was grant
ed a divorce from Robert Miller and
given permission TO resume her
maiden name.
Walter G.. Walker of Elkhart, for
merly OF Deland. Fla, was admitted
to the Elkhart county bar. He was
graduated from John B. Statson uni
versity at Deland and practiced in
that city.
Within 10 hours after the Chicago
New York newspaper train on the
New York Central railroad had
struck an Oscar Miller company
dairy wagon at the Firth st. crooss-
Ing here, killing two horses and
wrecking the vehicle, company
agents had settled with Mr. Miller
by paying him 5000. The accident
happened so minutes before a cross
ing Waterman went on duty and the
crossing was not protected. Har-
vey Miller. who was driving the
team, saw the train in time to step
from the wagon. An instant later
the outfit was carried 200 feet.
A proposal from the Portland
Traffic Guide Post company to furn-
ish free markers at street intersec-
tions in Goshen has been rejected
by the board OF public works, after
acceptance had been voted Objec-
ton 10 the markers was raised when
it was learned they contained vari-
Gus kinds of advertisements The
city will place specially made mark
ers as an experiment.
Business at the Goshen postoffice
for the last quarter was the largest
i'm the entire history of the office.
Receipts were $14.76S.71. a gain of
about % percent over the CORE
spending period of 1920.
Robert Dempster Of Elkhart is a
prisoner in the Elkhart county Jail
here, charged with failure to sup
port his wife and child. residents
of Elkhart. His bond was fixed at
$500.
Charles a. Stein of Chicago is
mysteriously missing from his home
following a $4,000 pay roll robbery
at the plumbing and gas fitting
plant Of his father, Carl J. Stein. of
Chicago, a Lake Wawasee Cottager.
Many northern Indiana lakes are
TO be stocked with government fish,
according to word received from In
tiianapoOlis. Shipments have been
made to Lake Wawasee and other
locations.
A Studebaker automobile owned
and driven by b. ]. Johnson Of To
Iedo and travelling at the rate of
40 miles an hour, turned over when
Mr.. johnson tried TO get back on
the Lincoln highway brick pavement
at the Kunderd farm. two miles west
of Goshen, after one wheel had left
the pavement. The driver and one
OF his companions were hurt. They
were brought TO Goshen and pro-
lceeded from here to Toledo by rail.
The machine is badly damaged The
| Lincoln highway at the Kunderd
! farm has been the scene of several
fatal accidents. 1t was there that
I Mrs. Rose Hansel of South Bend
| lost her life when the car she was
driving turned over.
II has been definitely determined
that no effort will be made to hold
a special election under the Knapp
law in Goshen this year for an eX-
preston of voters on the commits
sion manager form of municipal
government question. Petitions ask
| ing the council to call such an cleo
ton at this time were signed by
more than 1000 persons, but the
council does not meet in regular
session until Monday night, May 2,
! the night before the day the pri-
mary election IS scheduled to be
held. and although L. S. Lesh, attor-
ney general, held that even at that
time the council could order the
election for this year, the committee
appointed to promote the project
has concluded TO wait until 1922.
Whether city officers who are elect
next November for terms of four
years can be ousted by a commits
sion-manager form of government
before their terms have expired IS