Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1951 — Page 10

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“In Friendly

Miss. Mary Hatfield

: ‘In Business 40 Years

By DONNA MIKELS “Now Henry, you know well enough that package would never

go through the mafls like that,

You get right over there and tie some more string around it.”

The speaker, a- woman whose white hair. was piled. high and

tumbled over a black "‘postmas-’

ter's” eyeshade, might have been scolding a small, careless boy as She rapidly untwirled some sturdy twine. And the grown man who stood outside the scréenéd postal cage every grinned a mall bay's

“caught in thé act” grin as he atcepted thd twine: and went to a’

corner to''re-tie his; package.

It was nothing new to him to he Miss Mary. Hatfield, the woman: behind ‘th ghying him “a little talking to.” e co inatjon | Hrety ‘and evelt “Awe. ; could probably

remember back x, the days when:

she ‘uted’ to 1gét after” him ‘for everything 1 ‘a in teo full of bubhleg ako loitering én the, va bo o from school. © [+ big town which prides ft0 off a' ~efficient, chromeated ‘postal ‘system, Miss Ha eld’s neighborhood station is ost a ‘into the! pleasant, eountiry store 'atmobphere ot yesterday.

Friendly—snd Bffictent he's as efficient as the imost erfsply impersonal clerk » fn 2 hig main ‘ postoffice. But Miss Hatfield blends “getting it done right”

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with friendly nighboriiness ,

reminiscent of a ‘smalltown postmaster, Her "Postal Station No. | 20} started some 16 years ago-as a “sideline’” to “Miss Hatfield's Dry Goods Store — Millnery—Notions, | Ladies’ and Gent's Furnishings.” But it's grown to whére Uncle] Sam’s business takes ‘almost all! her time. She sells “a spool of thread) here, a writing pad thére” and a few hats, “It doesn’t seem like much on Monday but at’ the end | of the week it adds up” bays the |

self-made woman who started out |

from: her farm home near Cincinnati with only “a clean conscience and a will to work.”

To Greensburg in 1811

sewing ‘and millinery from her widowed mother, In 1911 she heard from.a hat salesman there was a place for a good milliner in Greensburg, Ind. With only train fare to get her) there, the Ohio farm girl went to Greensburg, borrowed enough) money to buy “one good mirror, and to hire a trimmer.” Three weeks later she ‘had paid back the loan and had a one-room!

. shop.

“You really ‘had a, market in those days,” she reminisces. “Why it was a disgrace for a woman to be out on the street without a hat then. And oh, the hats we

Ad Club Will Hear Cleveland Executive

Richard M. Rairigh, Cleveland, 0., "advertising = executive, will speak at the noon meeting of the Indianapolis Advertising Club Thursday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. ‘Rairigh, who is director of production and account executive

With the firm of McCann-Brick- Before Local Lodge

son, will discuss the problem of reducing Bdvertsig production costs.

Teachers College Grads

To Meet Tomorrow

The Marion County Alumni Association of Indiana State Teachers College will meet at 6:15 p. m. tomorrow in the YWCA for a dinner and business meeting. _ Featured speaker will be Dr, Eugene Dycke, chairman of the department of philosophy at the college:

Classes for Adults

Adults now are eligible for be-

hind-the-wheel . automobile ‘driver instruction through the public| Those who desire the)

schools. course ;may register at Technical, Shortridge orsCrispus Attucks

postal window, . like other customers in the vr

ostal station-mil-’ notions shop at 1547,

{flowers and ribbons. Not like the her beau”-in; the same shop.

Neighborhood Store. For Rose Halling

Operdted Dry Goods Store for 27 Years A Bequiem High Mass for Miss |Rose Halbing, who operated the| Halbing Dry Goods Store, will be

{dung at 9 a. m. tomorrow in St. {Catherine's Church. Preceding ‘will be services at 8:30 .a. m. in

: : HT INDIANAPOLIS ies

| orery, Mail, Efficiently Mixed {Mass Tomorrow

Scandinavian’

Is Brainchild of Retired Indianapolis’

Edward B. Taggart = Promoter of Show =»

THE SCANDINAVIAN arts crafts: exhibit coming to Herron

Art Museum next Sunday owes its,

inception to a local man's hobby interests. Edward B. Taggart, retired Indianapolis businessman and a di-

ithe Lauck funeral home, Burial {will be in St. Joseph cemetery. | { A lifelong resident of Indiamaplolis, Miss Halbing died Thursday | in Lyndhurst Nursing Home. She {was 53. She had lived at 918: N. {Garfield Dr. She was a member | {of 8t. Catherine's Church. | Operator of the dry goods establishment for 27 years at 2222

favorite ‘with the children of St. Catherine’s School, which ig right across the street from the store, Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Nard and Mrs. Anna Mullin, IndianapoMs.

Enrollment Drop Shown at Franklin

Tishes State Service | FRANKLIN, ‘Ind. Feb. 3+!

| Registration and enrollment for|

[the second semester at Franklin |College braught:' a total enroll ment of 434 students. | Enrollment has dropped from ey {504 in September to [434 for this v |gemester. This drop of 70 stu-| dents is slightly above the normal] |rumber - of withdrawals and is due, to enlistments apd recall of Reserves to active Ady. i

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Wanda Fay Crowd and Miss Mary. Hatfield + +. The hands which graced milady's head with bonnets naw turn out haitbows, for, "my girls."

Protest Wage Freeze .

{little bits’ of nothing today.” Throughout the shop fire, CHICAGO, Feb.' 3 AIP)-CIO| After almost 16 yeard in Gréens- signs of the neat; preciséness that! packinghouse workers will stage! {burg, Miss Hatfield decided to used to go- into making elaborate new work stoppages next week!

|made, Big “ones, loaded with buy the stamps for “letters! to!

{move to Indianapolis, to save the hats, The precisely-printed signs, | to protést the nationwide wage thrilling experience, Mr. Taggart crafts

fday of traveling time it took: ‘her “Fragile Showcase. Please Don't to reach the wholesale market/Lean On It” the quilt she made’ {here- from scraps of satins and bro-| She first settled In one room cade, (“I never saw any use in| at 1544 ‘Roosevelt Ave,’ But ‘hér/throwing anything away.) the |sharp husiness eye soon noted large-scripted reports she makes] that about 50 times as many peo- out daily for her well-run postal ple passed on the other side of station. Even the clock fits in the street, where the bank and with Miss Hatfield's shop—instead grocery were located, compared of a modern electric wall clock to her side. |she uses an old-fashioned grand- | Moves to “Sunny Side” |tather’ 8 clock that chimes the day/

It was almost eight years later AWay. that she was able to purchase’ When she isn’t on her feet in and move into a building on the the postal cage or behind the big “sunny side,” her present loca- antique glass showcases, Miss Ition. EX Nl Hatfield eases back into one of] the big rockers at the back of the,

freeze, it was reported today.

extent reflects its owner's per- inh pg She saps sonality. Her “notions” counter Paring : ae ly y. 2 lions oun arms. “They'ré old but you don't

has no “‘geegaws’’ no '‘sales comeon” devices that decorate most counters nowadays. ‘'I stock only sensible things. that people need” SPent rocking. Miss Hatfield just

she gays, “They neve hat isn't the “sitting still” type. She BAYS: a E Push that "Since the death of her mother]

Tn her counter there are rows uring her days in Greensburg,

of thread, rickrack, elastic and all Miss Hatfield says she has been] sewing needs but no sequins or all alone in the world.” But .{ fancy trim, The “ladies’ unmen- When the clock chimes 3 p.m.) tionables,” discreetly folded in a, ending a: school day and the door box, are all of the sturdy cotton or ls Sung ou by flying-haired payon Yatlely* go sheer. nylon, “Miss Hatfield's girl” or “Miss

Little Time for Rocking | most: un-alore “all The nearest thing to ‘“foolish- son in the world. ness” is her stock of pretty satin ~— ribbons. Since the ready made trend halted her millinery mak{ing, she gets the thrill of making something “pretty” by making big hairbows for “my girls.” Nowadays Miss Hatfield often finds herself making a big bow for a little girl whose mother used to to

find them like this now-days.” | But very little of her time is

| Hatfield's boy,” she becomes the| alone”

per|

Texas Lawyer to Talk |

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rector of the Art Association of Indianapolis, whose pastime experiments with the difficalt craft of weaving have won considerable notice, thought of the exhibit idea early last year. Aware of the intense Scahdinavian interest. in handicraft (“We call it a hobby in Amefica. It's craft work over there.'), Mr. rector Wilbur D. Peat on the feasibility of; the Jmparied show,

WITH an oficial go- -ahead, Mr Taggart visited Sweden, Norway, Finland ‘and Denmark for about 10 weeks last fall, studying art and crafts methods and persuading museums and organizations to lend ‘material for the forth comi show. ‘“As] hobbies are increasing in { America, it was my feeling that an e ing,” Mr. Taggart explains. “I'm interested in.people using their lives [to advantage, especially oldér people. Too many

of us have frittered away our God- |.

given talent. Every man has a talent — even If sometimes 'it seems to be only a talent for) drinking. i “With the doctdrs helping them ‘to live longer, older people should use their ability Wisely, fo as not to become a burden to their chil: jdren,” he’ adds,

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Sh __ our ma Arts Crafts Exhibit Coming to Herron

Business Man

Visited Europe

4 > Promote Venture most warm-hearted towards the United States. Yet Finland cure rently is in the worst situation. . | As losers in the war with | sia, the Finns have had to pay L enormous reparations in Amerie can dollars, They've been coms pelled to build cargo ships. for

+he™SSR, with whopping fines in American dollars every time ‘a

ship was delivered late. “On the street in Helsinki, £4 can't open your mouth about t Russians,” he said. = With the Russian border 150 miles to the east and a powerful Russian fortress within artillery range to the west, Helsinki is a conquefed city. The Russians arrogantly occupy the city's best hotel and have a large apartment full ot their agents.

wonder what we can ever do for then,” he said, adding that when the United Nations forces doing well in Korea, the Fin radio had to keep mum. when our side began to suffer reverses did the Finns get any news.

” ” MR. TAGGART'S hobby ini i terests, besides weaving, include Edward B, Taggart and Scandinavian handicraft items., | music.

In their home at 5695 N, Delaware St, Mr,'and Mrs. Taggart have two Mason & Hamlin par-

“Those - countries are clean .ialmost any kind of skilled work | They're literate. ‘They're moral,” that serves ‘not only as a hobby, he commented, adding that the but also as a means of earning end-of-tour plane flight from added income. lor-grand ‘ pianos, on. which they

lay the rather sparse {Denmark to Paris brought him| From Sweden he went to Fin- love to 'p 'back to an atmagsphere. of luridly land as an exchange student. classical literature composed ; for the two. instruments.

exploited stimulation he definitely/ That arrangement provided for: ls Of the Parisian night!him to be met at the boat, a| “We like to think we're wonders life he observed, “Isn't it a pity? great convenience in Finland, ful, put I rather suspect it sounds It's just sad.” {where “the language barrier is atrocious,” Mr. Taggart said, with Scandinavia ‘was different, with simply terrific.” : \charhcteristic shy humor. an immense interest in arts and " = ] “Anyway, we play loud enough, and state-supported OF ALL the Scandinavian so maybe we don’t notice the mis« ‘schools where people ‘ean learn! Soumtyies, Finland, he says, is the takes,” he concluded, ’

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