Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 26, Number 37, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 May 1918 — Page 4
RUGS fIND LINOLEUMS Nothing improves the looks of your home more than a nice new rug. Considering the prices at which we are now offering rugs, you cannot afford to wait any longer. A Large Variety of Patterns To select from. We advise you to come in before the stock is picked over. Improve your kitchen and bath room with anew , covering of , LINOLEUM x Very handsome designs. Quality the best and priced very reasonably. Pianos and Victrolas We can supply you with Pianos, Victrolas and Piano Players at the very lowest prices consistent with quality and on very favorable terms. We Invite Inspection. N. A. LEHMAN PIANOS, FURNITURE, RUGS BRUNSWICK PHONOGRAPHS PHONE 62 ’ NAPPANEE
Fresh Roasted Coffee There is real economy in buying a Fresh Home Roasted Coffee. * We guarantee that our give more cups to the pound with the same strength, than any package of coffee in town. Alway Fresh! Always Good! Try a pound of our 30c coffee, cut by our Royal Steel* Cutter. It is sure ta Please. Come in and get a FREE Sample. . Mullett Grocery KASH AND KARRY
| Brighten Up Your Home j | We have Interior Finishes for every room, | :i { walls, woodwork, floors and furniture | | We handle a full line of ij! | SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS AND VARNISHES j X Houle paints of all kinds. • ? Y * Kalsomine. ❖ | Flat Tone wall paint. 2 T Varnish of all kinds. T Y Floor paint. y | Graining color. •. . ■ 2 t Shellac of all kinds. , . -- | ❖ Wall paper cleaner. v 2 ' k Furniture polish. > . . 2 1 A FINISH FOR EVERY SURFACE | '& Things You Will Need £ ! For House Cleaning | *<J Mop sticks Wash boards f A Mops, cord Wringers ' ! 2 Oil mops Brushes of 411 kinds < y Carpet beaters Carpet tacks •|* Brooms >f Tack pullers ** J J | Pails * Tack hammers ❖ Y Tubs, wood and galvanized Carpet stretchers f. •> Mop wrintrers Flue stops j 2 Curtain stretchers Dust pans •{• Y Wash machines Clothes lines X. •> Wash boilers Clothes pins Y :> : ? | SHIVELY BROS, j I HARDWARE, HARNESS AND BUGGIES | | “That Buy Store” . ~ Phone 57, Nappanee |
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STEADY EMPLOYMENT. Actual figures offered on the loss to manufacturing concerns, railways, etc., eaused by the ‘'hiring and firing” habit are startling. A writer in "Engineering and Contracting” asserts that the railroads alone have paid as high as $#,000,000 annually for the wasteful practice of labor turnover. The turnover in factories runs from" 50 up to 400 percent of the total number of people actually needed for production. The railways employ annually a million more men than they have places to fill, this huge number of shifting employes representing a serious handicap and loss In money and efficiency/ , . It costs $lO to replace an unskilled laborer, S3OO to replace one skilled or with special ability, Multiply this cost by the thousands of changes that take place in a year in one industry alone! Facing such facts, employers are seriously studying the turnover pro* blem. They are coming to realize that it's cheaper to train an incompetent worker to fill his job satisfactorily than it is to keep on trying out :r series of incompetents, until the man for the job is found. The problem is of special importance in these dayA when labor jg essential to all our progress 1n winning the war.’ Steady employment is needed to prevent loss of time and materiaf and product. For the worker himself, his fapiily and. the community in which they live, the loss of this constant shifting from job so job is equally serious, although there is bo means of measuring it. Steady employment is his key to progress and self-respect.
TREATED SQUARE. An officer in the national army who has an eye for the human side of military life noticed a rooky who had come to the camp with a sullen and hopeless expression, who moved about as if always expecting to be jumped on for something. Gradually that man began to cheer up, to look the rest of the men straight in the eye and to go about his work with the energy and swing of a man who likes his work and his fellowworkers. One day he asked permission to devote some of his own spar'e time to doing odd jobs for the officers. Questioned, he replied that he had never in all his life been treated sguare until he came to the cantonments He had been cuffed about at home as a child. He had grown up with fear and resentment in his heart, looking for trouble and abuse and always find.:, ing it. Then he had been dafted. In the army he had been teate’d like every other man. He had been given work to do like else. But he had always received fair treatment like everyone else. It had made a man of him, and he was frying to show his appreciation in the most direct way that occurred to him—by giving his leisure to the officers who had been decent to him. That this man’s case is not unique points out one big difference between an autocratic militarism and an army raised to defend democracy.
- GOOD USE FOR COUPONS. - There is no reason why anybody should be troubled over what to do with the interest received from Liberty bonds. The natural and obvious thing is to spend that Interest sos War Savings stamps. Thus by one stroke the investor does a service to himself and to his country. He increases his own investment in the easiest way possible, and he helps to keep the government’s War Chest full. Secretary McAdoo particularly recommends- this method to those who have Interest falling due on May 15 for Liberty bonds of the second issue. If that interest Is diverted to private purposes It will siphon $160,000,000 out of the national treasury during the coming week. If the interest coupons are exchanged for savings stamps and certificates, that money will be turned right back into Uncle Sam’s coffers, there to create additional interest for the patriotic investor. The process will be made simple and easy. War stamps will be'Tjlaced on sale In the banks where bond coupons are cashed. Every investor who doesn’t absolutely need the cash should follow Secretary MeAdoo’s suggestion. HEATING PLANTS. \Make your winter home like summer by having E. E. Frevert install an Ideal hot water heating plant. Estimates cheerfully furnished and all work guaranteed. Adr.
THE ADVANCE, NAPPANEE, IND.
PRICES MAY DESCEND. The New York Times usually speaks with authoity when it discusses affairs. Now it records the encouraging thought that prices seemed to have reached the apex In their advance and that from‘now on thy must come down. There have been reasons for some prices Increases, but too generally the large producing agencies have been making profits out of all proportion to capital Invested, cost of raw materials.or labor. Uncle Sam has felt the pinch of the high prices. And it is because he objects to paying them that there Is hope for the rest of us. The war Industries board is preparing to make those undue profits come- down from their haughty heights. One suggested method of attacking the problem was that of fixing profits on raw materials and staple products. The industries board began with textiles and wool in particular. Wodl has been put on the basis of the market prices of July 30 last. Fears of higher prices in the clothing industry are therefore said robe unjustified. And in regard to various other commodities the situation is still more hopeful. RAILROAD MEN AND BONDS. When the final figures are in the country will he astonished over the generous way in which the railroad men of the country responded to the Liberty Loan. As long as Uncle Sam got t lie money we are not prone to be critical as to who gets the credit but enginemen and trainmen working out of Indianapolis have, we believe, subscribed for more than a million dollars worth of bonds which will not be included in the Marion county record. Many qf.-these subscriptions were taken out through the paymaster’s office of the .railroads and the sales are reported from the general offices of the railroads. New York will get the credit for thousands of dollars’ worth of bonds purchased by local railroad men. It will not be the figures are known if they show that the railroad brotherhoods have surpassed in bond purchases in the third Liberty Loan any other class or group of wage earners.
RED CROSS DRIVE FOR $20,000 SOON STARTED NINE TOWNSHIPS OF ELKHART COUNTY TO RAISE THIS SUM. Middlebury, Wakarusa, Millersburg, New Paris, Nappanee and Goshen/ Nine townships, Elkhart. Clinton, Middlehur.t, Hanison, Lockfe, Olive, Benton, Jackson and Union, are expected to raise $20,000 in the next Red Cross drive. May 20-27, according to publicity manager, Samuel F. Spolrn. This will include the towns of Goshen, Middlebury, Millersburg, Benton, New Paris, Nappanee and Wakarusa with adjacent territory. It means an average of SI per head for -a the population, men, women and children. The former Red Cross quota for this section was SIO,OOO, and without doubt this call for $20,000 will be oversubscribed and just as quickly as the first drive. LIBERTY GUARDS AGENT. Lester Wilson has been appointed as representative and soliciter for the. Nappanee Liberty guard for uniforms. All money payable on or before 11 to pur treasurer, Wallace Lape. Adv. Nappanee Liberty Guards. ADVERTISED LETTERS. There are advertised letters in the Nappanee postoffice for Fireless Cooker Cos., E. T. Hostettler, A,lva Knapp, Bert Neff, Marnelius Mast, Frank P. Miller, Mrs. Edward Shively, M. J. J. Yoder.
NEARING END. Assessors will soon finish their work. They have until May 15 to make returns to the county assessor. .Rounds were started March 1. SUSPECT YOUR KIDNEYS AToo Many Nappanee People Neglect Symptoms of Kidney Trouble. If your back is lame —if you feel dull, tired and all-worn-out— If you hard -headaches, backaches and dizzy spells— If the kidney secretions are., discolored — , Suspect your kidneys and “take a stitch in lime.” Use -Doan’s Kidney Pijls, the timetried, home endorsed kidney remedy. It may save you from some serious kidney trouble. - Make use of the experience of Mrs. A. Pfeiffer, 652 East Walnut street. She says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills and consider them a good medicine. My kidneys were inasUve and I had dull pains across the small of my back. I felt dull and languid, too. Doan’B Kidney Pills benefited me. Others of my family have also used them with good results.” Price 60 cents, at ail dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidrfy remedy—get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Pfpiffer had. Foster-Milbum Cos., Mfgrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Careful Housewives Will Investigate this OPPORTUNITY A RANGE ETERNAL and 7-piece set of Aluminum Ware for the price of the Range. We are making an unusual offer for a few days in giving FREE a TEN DOLLAR SET of ALUMINUM WARE with every Range Eterbal sold.
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blue steel of the body and the dull color of the top make this range a constant source of pride. Its spirit of shining cheerfulness penetrates to every nook and corner of your home. L The Range Eternal costs no more than other ranges but is twice as satisfactory. Anil don’t forget that for the next few days we will give away a Ten Dollar set of aluminum ware with every Range Eternal sold. Call at our store and.inspect this range even ifyou are not ready to buy. -It will-be worth your while. C. C. CASS & CO. CASH HDWPHONE 59 NAPPANEE
BIG IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADEAT INFIRMARY COMMISSIONERS AWARD CONTRACTS TO GOSHEN MENT $11,386.00 to Be Expended in Placing Modern Conveniences o,n Farm. , Two contracts totalling $11,38G for improvements and repairs on the county infirmary were awarded by the county commissioners Wednesday afternoon. The contracts for plumbing was awarded tp the Goshen Plumbing & Heating Cos. on its bid of $9,290, and the contract for the remaining work was awarded to Isaac Miller, o< Goshen, for $2,096. A complete new plumbing system is to be installed and other modem conveniences will be placed in the institution. All bids on bridges and roads were rejected by the commissioners, as was also the single bid on the coal supply for county use. The commissioners will ask for new bids on coal at once. ** - ~ . Jerry lferrold, of Goshen, was awarded the contract for placing fixtures in the county jail at Goshen for $141.45.
INDIANA’S FIRE LOBS FOR 1917 K 56,179,436 Indianapolis, May 13.—Indiana lost $6,179,436 from 5,764 fires in 1917, according to statistics compiled by H H. Friedley, state fire marshal. Os the total $3,294,067 was in buildings and $2,885,369 in contents. There were 116 / incendiary fires with a loss of $219,640. year 3,748 dwellings burned, the loss being $1,307,511 in buildings and $462,144 in\ contents. Defective flues and sparks caused most of the dwelling fires. 4 Lightning caused 257 fires and . a loss of $313,347. The per capita fire loss in Indianapolis in 1917 was $2.89. PRIMARY VOTES COST COUNTY NEARLY $2 EACH i The cost of holding the primary election, last Tuesday will ampunt to approximately $6,000 in Elkhart County, it was said Friday. All of the bills have not yet been filed, but they will be acted on by the board of commissioners at their next meeting. With less than 3,500 votes cast in the county, the cost of each vote will amount to nearly $2.00. The average cost in each of the 75 precincts Is about SSO, and this does not include bills for printing and general expense. i f._ STORES OPEN EVENINGS. Beginning next Wednesday evening, May 16, the stores will be open on every Wednesday evening until 9 o’clock.
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Fruits and Vegetables We get a fresh supply of fruits and vegetables every day. We have everything in season at prices that will make it advisable for you to buy here. Tell us what you want and we will select your order just as soon as the products reach t us. „ P. D. BURGENER The Market Street Grocer Phene 96
Special for 10 Days For the next 10 days we will make Special Prices on Corn Planters, Corn Cultivators, Plows and Harrows. We have on hand Cultivators, Shovels, Blanks, Sickles, Sections, Rivets and Guards. \ ' Come in and get your supply while they last. J.H GROSH PHONE 138 , „ NAPPANEE
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