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‘Bathket’ Grows Into Brithk Bithness [pcre or 8

LOCAL DEATHS

Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Carra Albert Lashbrook Denney, French Lick; four brothFuneral services for Albert

ers, Everett, and Robert LashLashbrook, 920 E. 46th S8t.,, will brook, both of French Lick; Elvis be held at 10 a, m, tomorrow|Lashbrook, Bedford, and Herbert in the G. H., Herrman Funeral Lashbrook, Indianapolis, and a Home. Burial will be in Crownigrandson. Hill, . A resident of Indianapolis 11/Mrs. Alice Deford Hart years, Mr. Lashbrook died Thurs-| * 3 day in St. Vincent's Hospital. Help ‘inci at. will be butied in was 71. Crown Hill after services at 2:30

He was a retired payroll clerk and during the war worked for De, ow In Moore, Sirk

e Alr Force Unit b ne Ar State Unt fen the Mrs. Hart died Friday in her : home.

Surviving are his wife, Oma; . la. m. Tuesda 4 ’ . . ssday In the Farley a daughter, Mrs. Fraces Wadell,| Born in Allisonville, Mrs. Hart | - Auber niat lived all her life in Marion funeral home. Burial will be in

on Washi Park. Mrs. Elmo LC. Eby Souy. SHS os 3 Iousy Melies ashington bo her husband Dies in Oakland

|are three sons, John and Virgil Mrs. Lucile Mower Eby, Indi-

Mrs Hightshoe

Wife of Conductor

For New York Central Mrs. Elva Hightshoe, wife of Bates Hightshoe, conductor for the New York Central System, died yesterday In St. Vincent's Hospital, She was 57. Her home was at 1245 8. Sheffield Ave. She was a member of Rosehill United Brethren Church. Private services will be at 10

Dies Here at 81

. Eddie E, White, Marion County farmer for many years, died Fri day at his residence, 7600 E. 10th St. He was 81 years old. Mr, White was born in Marion County and lived here all of his life. He was a member of the Indiana Farm Bureau and 8t John's Evangelical and Reformed Church. . y Services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Shirley Bros. Irving Hill Chapel. Burial will be in Anderson Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Catharine; two sons, Carrol and Harold, and three daughters, Mrs. Goldie Apple, Mrs. Lora Rumford and Mrs, Catherine Maxwell, all of Indianapolis.

Julius Evan Edwards Dies Here at 70

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Barbara Holder . . . she put her nest egg in this "bathket."

IU Grad Markets Grandma's Idea

Handy Toilet Kit Finds Ready Market

By DONNA MIKELS BLOOMINGTON, Feb, 10—A blonde Indiana University coed who put all her nest egg in one “hathket” has hatched herself a business of her own, at the tender age of 22. Petite Barbara Holder, pretty enough to get away with babytalk, isn’t lisping when she talks about her “Bathket.” That's the trademark of the wicker and plastic toilet article container Barbara perfected and marketed, ndw on sale in major department stores in some 70 U. 8. cities and half as many colleges and universities. . ~The young miss who is justa year graduated from Indiana University 1s h&lf-owner of a ng business because she commercialized a grandmother-to-mother-to-daughter tradition in her own family.

on ” JUST BEFORE Barbara left Pittsburgh, Pa., to enter Indiana University in 1946 her smother, Mrs. O. A. Holder, made pera little plastic cloth-lined wicker basket, with pockets $id flaps to hold all her toilet

Bathket-ers all ; . . her sisters in Alpha Chi Omega at IU were Barbara's first big sale,

It didn’t take the other gals in Barb's I. U. dorm long to notice that while they ran to and from the showers dropping bobby pins’ and spilling powder, Barbara totaled all her toilet necessities neatly arrayed in the ruffled wicker basket.

story of the order slips.

ders for more than they could manufacture on the rented sewing machine in Alice's dining room. : se, = ” THEN the blonde and brunet héads got together and decided to take a flyer. They borrowed

Barbara and partner Alice Lee . . . the happy looks tell th

happens to be driving or to towns where relatives or friends can cut expenses.

At this point the dainty carry-alls, improved now with a drawstring arrangement that turns” the lining into a travel

Julius Evan Edwards, 329 Minerva St., will be buried in New Crown after services at 1 p. m. Wednesday in People's funeral home, 5 s Mr. Edwards died yesterday in his home. He was 70. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Edwards lived in Indianapolis for 28 years, He was custodian at Kiefer-Stewart' Drug Co. and a member of Bethel AME Church, Survivors Mary; three sons, Isaiah, Indianapolis, Adolph, Lafayette, and Pvt. Leo, Ft. Riley, Kas.; seven daughters, Miss Julia and Miss Marjorie: Edwards, Mrs. Hazel Bell,” Mrs. Rosa Watson, Mrs. Ruby Johnson, Mrs. Marie Thomas and Mrs. Maxine Leslie,

anapolis native and former mathematics teacher at Technical High School, will be buried in Oakland, Cal;, after services there tomorrow, : Mrs. Eby died Thursday in Oakland, where she moved 15 years| ago. She was 50. Mrs. Eby, one of the first aduates at Technical High

versity after attending Western Women's College, Oxford, O. She was active in ‘Baptist Church work and was a member of Or-

ters of Nile. Survivors include her husband, Elmo C. Eby, and mother, Mrs. Kathryn B, Mower, Oakland, and

all Indianapolis, and 11 grandchildren.

her father, Royal E. Mower Indianapolis.

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> shoe, all of Indianapolis; seven Survivors Include a son, Glenn prothers, Ray, Guy and Emerson

D. Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. ywhitesell, New Goshen; George Elizabeth Metsker, Indianapolis, and Vernon Whitesell, Terre

and two brothers, George DeFord, | ;yayute; Oren Whitesell, Indians Indianapolis, and Carl DeFord, gnolis, and Jack Whitesell, Chi

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Michigan State Office A ¢hool, was awarded a B.A. de- Building Fire Doused (M's: Cordelia Hare

gree’. at Chicago University and

included’ his® wite jan M.A. degree at Columbia Uni-

cago, and two sisters, Mrs, Mary (Clark, Indianapodis, and Miss |Mae Whitesell, Mattoon, Ill.

: | Mrs, Cordelia C. Hare died LANSING, Mich., Feb. 10 (UP) | Friday at her home, 3329 E. New

—Firemen doused the smoulder- York St. A resident of Indianaping remains today of a $5,000,000 olis for 60 years, she will be burfire that burned out the top three jed tomorrow in Crown Hill, Servfloors of the Michigan State Office jces will be at 2:30 p. m. at

der of Eastern Star and Daugh-|Pulléing,

seven-story structure,

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| Shirley Bros. Irving Hill Chapel. The blaze was brought under| Mrs. Hare was 81 years old and

control last night after 30 hours was an active member of the during which firemen battled sub- Englewood Christian Church, zero weather to confine the in-|

Survivors include her husband,

ferno to the upper levels of the| George W., and a stepson, Walter

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: kit, are sold as far east ps i | g¥titles. It was much the same’ So. TIggY of the girls asked ; got lists of plastic and New York City; south to a Also Sold ‘on Sears Easy Terms 2% the oil cloth-lined affair Mrs, ~Whete they could bug one that ‘basket manufacturers from lanta, Ga.; west to_Lincolng . . a ’ : Holder's own mother had made a once Ki r moth- reference books im IU library, Neb, and north to Detroit.” © Attractive double-well sink cabinet with gleaming white, boked-

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for her when she left her home . town of Seymour, Ind, to attend St. Vincent's School of Nursing in Indianapolis in 1915.

er: “You should go intp the business.” But it took a couple of more years and an attack of measles for Barbara to get the “brainstorm” of going into the bath-basket business her-

and started mailing out letters. Barbara, a campus beauty queen, brought along a sample when she came to Indianapolis to model at the Wm. H. Block Co. The notions buyer was in-

The gals are proud of their success, So are Barbara's moth-

er and her dad who always ad-}' 1

vised: “Go in business for yourself.” But even prouder is Mrs.

on enamel finish wood. Plastic top in gray or red pearl-effect finish resists boiling water, fruit and vegetable stains under normal usage. Sink has swivel faucet, aerator, pull-out rinsing spray. Chrome-plated hardware.

Henry Werning, former] in self. terested and soon the girls had Be and ng, of erly 12-In. Size with 4-In. Splash Back ane manesl 85:88 i ¥ : : vo VER at their first big retail outlet. Ky, Barbara's 79-year - old 84-In. Size with 4-In. Splash Back __________184.95 . @ O YEAR AGO, just before Now they have sub-contrac- grandmother whose 1915 oil- 96-In. Si ith 4 : or li | Easter vacation, as Barbara ted manufacturing of the lin- loth t «In. Size wit -In. Splash Back ra —— --- 186.95 ning i was ready to 1 f tri d sh Sloth: ereation was Wie start of 18-1 J : was ready {o leave for a trip ings and. ‘shower cape a it all 8-In. Matching Wall Cabinet, 30-In. High _.___18.95 . ; a — S notice e tell-tale re elbyville firm. Baske rom 4. Special MARRIAGE LICENSES splotches. A doctor told her the Mexico and the finished linings 24-In, Matching Wall Cabinet, 30-In, High ____.20.95 ALL Earl Thrasher, 20, 2413 N. Capitol: Venus) worst—she had measles. Both are stacked up in the Lee living | sc Lower Overhead Means LOWER PRICES! 30-In, Matching Wall Cabinet, 30-In. High enema d0:90 John W, Pe 2%, L950" Pavette: Hiawatha) ‘the university dorms and in- . room and the girls} friends | Drive a few miles, SAVE the differencel : 5 Polk. 31 541 W. 32 th 2383 N. Goodlett: | firmaries were closed for the often stage “bow-tying parties” | * Pleaty of FREE Parking Space! > . Clan. “powell, 18, 1448 Perry Mies 2 holiday and Bloomington hospi- to help assemble the’ ‘bathkets.” * 8 Jesse R. Ford, 24, 1475 Roos a ‘| tal wouldn't accept a contagious vo £n oma r i C en n m 9 2 . North. sanforized ans, 2. "a3, 1638 Draper; Bet'Y case, ALICE 0 3 Wi { th BOB STERN ralue. odaDpring. 18 502 Neils: W. Morris; Barbara was just saved from ‘© Be de Rl 14e . . aan a Ofer yak ip, gt, Aah | having her measles on a street- Dooke whie Barbara crew || FURNITURE Plastic Tops — Wood Construction Ep or kins, NC 1s pia. ¥ "108 : LOSSES } | . 88 - p Bdmonds, 23 330 N-,g36 N_ Lyndburst;| Se hen er Hose jriepd. sales outlets. Although their (| & APPLIANCE STORE Virginia 1 Jones. 29, 4863 Sunset BRv.| © 5 : gton, initial investment is -paid off i Gilbert 8. Swindler, 25. 928 College: sent her own small son to a d the b ks in the bach 3333 Clifton SI. | 66-1 E bi Ne SGoster, 23, 1547 W. New Yorki| relative and took in the and the books are in ne lack, Cor, Clifton & -in. Ensemble ° Patricia L. Bindhamer, 18, 1820 N. Belle speckled Miss Holder. the girls still work on a small W. 34th St. _— Clarence E. Gray, 40, 506 Douglass; Flora' 1 wag while Barbara and Be 2 Onn . Barbara {} Phone WA-8783 Complete for Only Revert, V. Bidwell, 37, 320 E. 31st; Helen, Mrs. Lee, the former: Alice USUaly traveis tie way a Hien I R. Hoss, 27. 3817 N. Rennayieo ne K.| Heine of Indianapolis, chatted | UM . 43, 1026 Elm; Sarene K p ’ | Rood. 25, 216 8, Orient during the quarantine, that they Also Sold on Sears Easy Terms

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k, brown. Robert E. Gainer. 45, Pittsbursh. Pail name Barbara had chosen for y oS . . , Madeline F. Becher, 40, Camp AUEI“k Cop 0 an, AMERIC A'S resists boiling water, fruit and vegetable acids and stains. Has bury, 21. 1250 8. Belmont: Jane] ~ Amite tb ng. Mitchell Ereel, 2317 Lee, With a 75-cent initial invest- en: . : modernistic chrome-plated hardware. arbiter, 19 3317405. oth; Maud L.| ment they bought wicker basket | PAIN AND SWELLING in muscular and joint conditions were :

ye . _VanOsdol, Shirts Wee. “Mendows. 37. 1332 N, Dearborn, | Fred E. Van Devander, 21, 4320 Rockville; | Mary A. Canner, 18,

il, 20, 951 8. Capitol. : { Dame Groene, 21, 933 Hawthorne| Lane; Joan McNeely, 21, 2439 Broadway. Robert E. Beach Jr. 21, 730 Madison; |

and part of a plastic shower curtain to start experimenting.

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