Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 December 1920 — Page 4

r— ■ ' ■ n । When in South Bend Make Wyman's Your Headquarters GEORGE WYMAN a CO. —COME AND SEE US— Store Closed All Day New Years Day A Wonderful Sale of | Domestics and Bedding First Week in Jaru try Thousands of dollars worth cf new fresh goods direct ! ( from the market at prices lower than we have known for years. I I T ^' o ! Watch South Bend Papers! E Watch South Bend papers for notice of this sale and January Clearance Sales to be put on as rapidly as circumstances will permit. A Growing Rug and Drapery Department for a Growing City . I — WWW * I X&fe I | Happy New Year | I wish to take this opport unity of thanking all customers and friends for their patronage and kindly interest during the past year, prices in nearly every line has been reduced quite X The peak in prices is behind us. Wholesale = materially. My selling prices during the decline, will be based on the current wholesale prices, so you "ill be fully protected. Circumstances seem to be such that no further reductions will take p?ace X until next season (rug season begins .June Ist, furniture July Ist). Evidently there will be no — gain in putting off spring buying. It will pay you to look through my stock. By (taying cash, you can find merchandise at 20% ofi marked prices. X “ With a promise of bending every effort to give X you the best merchandise and service at the lowest X X price consistent with safe business I wish you a a Happy and Prosperous 1921. x I TO Gilmer | X IhEyD 8 l ce P doming x| North Liberty , Ind. s E TiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiimiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT

| Fifty Years In Business In | I South Bend I I , 1871 1921 | = = I I Ellsworth’s Golden Jubilee Year I will be celebrated by giving our customers merchandise at prices that show our appreciation of their loyal patronage during the half century. | The first of themanv special features during the year is: I I I The Goiden Jubilee Year J i | Ransack Sale | | Commencing January 3rd, Monday, at | i | Nine O’clock | H Sale continues the entire month of January, until = E Inventory. January 31st = I | | g 11 = T7/Z7 TOWN n El I SOUTH BEND, IND. E

THE INDEPENDENT Published every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. (incorporated) Publishers of the WAL K E RTON 1X1) EPEN DE X T NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD CLEM DeCOUDRES, Business Mgr. W. A. ENDLEY. Editor. — Published by the Independent- j News Co. at Walkerton, Indiana. । Entered at the postoffice at Walk- i erton as second class matter. I >ei ember 30. 1920. \WKWARD \\ Us WASTE ENERGY. । From buttoning shoes to washin” dishes, there is an easy and awkwarc । way of doing all work, as everyone j well knows. Now, along comes th i scientist, who says his experiments ( show that, aside from teeiin- , . ; looking more comfortable when yet do your work in the right way. y< I also have considerable energy. This fa>l r one of several whi j recent exp- riments made by the O j fice of Home Economics of the I ni ■ < j (States Department of Amiculiu-- | have disclosed. These experiment: j I have been made for the purpost J determining the energy rvquirem- :. ।of an individual in the various et [cumstances of his daily life and for I use in estimating the amounts a 'kinds of food required by him to • meet the needs of his body lot ener-> gy- | It was found in the homely everyday task of dish washing that, when woman washed dishes on a table so ^low that she was obliged to bend i over, her energy output was (calories per hour. When she washed ; ( them on a table that was a little too ( high for comfort, it requited 25 caio ( ries per hour, while onlv 21 calm 11 ( were used when the working surfam | ( was of the right height. ( It doesn’t take long to saw off j I legs of a table or to put blocks und'-r | ; it which will make it the ri (' height. ( I IE ALL HIGH SALARIES WERE | REDUCED. Geo. E. Roberts, in the American Magazine, gives facts on high salaries which are enlightening and not gen 'erally known. He says: "If all sal,aries over $5,000 a year, in the Belt (Telephone system, were cut to that amount, and the money thus saved • iwas distributed among the workers iwho have been receiving less than '55,000 a year, the average pay m i those workers would have been rais led only 17 cents a week, or $9 a (year! If no one in the Bell Telephone , system should be paid more than $3,000 a year, and the amount saved । should be distributed among the workers receiving less than s3.cm , their pay would be raised only f j cents a week, or sls a year! And j

you made the top limit of salaries! $1,500 per annum, ‘he increase re-I ceived by those who had been receiv ■ ing less would be 6< cents a week, or $33 a year. “I believe that these figures wiF be startling to the people who he been thinking that the high salaries ot officials and malingers have im poverished the other workers. These highly paid men get what their services seem to be wnph to the business. Bm even if they were paid so ! ilittle as $1,500 a year, the gain to! (the other employees, would be almost j nothing.” — NO CROPS WITHOUT THE Blßus One of the most valuable assets I our nation has is ^its native birds , । 100 much cannot be said or written ' Jn their favor. Destroy them, a ! in a tew years the injurious in. , jwill have multiplied to such an ex(tent that trees will be denuded their foliage and ‘plants and cruos cannot be produced, is the warning ,<>l a contributor th’ the Thrift Magazine. , ’rhere are more\ytn 1.200 specieot our native birt^'-aml millions <>• j individuals. A s Result of the examination of ove stomach (Ot birds, it has b< ®lwwn beyond a .reasonable doubl that birds tire o (economic value, fi v t, in eating-harm-ful insects, their e£ks and ia.va* second, in eating the seeds of noxious weeds; third, in devouring field mice, and other small rodents that injure the crops; and. fourth, in acting as scavengers. While the economic vainof birds should be.kept in mind, th [esthetic value .should also be co. . ered. Man does nest livj by h:. 1 alone. | We should protect birds for •' graceful forms, their charmit beauty, their delightful melody, a d their joyous activity. The chief factor in the sncc«-ss of ■each man wage worker, farmer and capitalist alike—u^ast ever be the । sum total of his o^h individual qual ities and abilities. The slightest study of business conditions will satisfy [any one capable of forming a jmh jment that the personal equation |the most important factor in a busijness operation'; that the busim-s ability of the man at the head of any business concern, big or little. is usually the factor which fixes th-

Store Hours s a ^ e Garments Fo^- The Week ROBERTSON BrO^JIIvKS COMPANY On Second Floor Open—B:3o a. m. Excepting Boys ClAe 5:30 p.m. mh h urxn. ixphm Suits Which Are On Main Floor Bigger and Better Than Ever Continuing from December 27 to December 31 FUR COATS, $250 to $795 Values for $l5O to SSOO CLOTH COATS, $45.00 to $69.50 Values for $25.00 to $45.00 PLUSH COATS, $35.00 to $65.00 Values for $25.00 to $50.00 DRESSES, $50.00 to $79.50 values for $23.95 to $39.75 WINTER SUITS, at Half Price MILLINERY, Reduced to $3.95 to SIO.OO Furs at a discount of 25 to 50 pct. ‘ SWEATERS—ONE-FOURTH OFF THE REGULAR PRICES I BLOUSES—SS.OO AND $6.95 VALUES FOF. 51.50 AND . . 53.95 ( WHITE JEAN MIDDIES—REDUCED TO 52.25 HOUSE DRESSES—S6.9S VALUES FOR 84.75 HOUSE APRONS—S2.9B VALUES FOR 51.59 BRASSIERES AND BANDEAUX—SI.SO VALUES FOR 59c CORSETS—SS.OO TO $7.00 V ES FOR $2.00 TO FLANNELETTE GOWNS—B2.7S TO $8.98 VALL ES FOR SLSO TO___ $2.50 MUSLIN PETTICOATS AND GOWNS—S2.SO TO $8.95 VALUES FOR BLT) TO $5.39 ENVELOPE CHEMISE—SI.9B VALUES FOR 81.00 CHILDREN’S COATS—VALUES T ’537.50 FOR $5.00 TO 525/M CHILDREN’S SWEATERS—ONE-FOURTH OFF REGULAR PRICES CHILDREN’S WAISTS—VALUES TO $3.50 FOR SI.OO GINGHAM DRESSES, ROMPERS AN CREEPERS—AT HALF PRICE CHILDREN’S MUSLIN GOWNS AND SLIPS—SI.SO TO $3.50 VALUE FOR SI.OO TO $1.89 CHILDREN'S FUR SETS—AT ONE-THIRD REGULAR PRICES CHILDREN’S SHOES—AT ONE-FOURTH REGULAR PRICES CHILDREN’S FLANNELETTE GO’. NS AND SLEEPERS—VALUES TO $3.50 FOR 98c TO $2.50 BOY’S SUITS—SIO.OO TO $37.50 VALUES FOR $5.00 TO 818.75. rrwiiai ■ HIM - miiiiMTn.il. Mninnmniu nrr-—

(gulf between striking success and I (hopeless failure. Each man must 'work for himself and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.—Theodore Roosevelt. A big coal graft has been unearth■ed and unwarranted profits mounting into the millions are said to have been filched from the people wit hi । (the past-tew months. The government (is investigating, but it is hoped Avill not end there.

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1 It is predicted thar we’ll touch I bottom in the price slump in two or three months, followed by a slight rebuond until we reach “normalcy.” ; France doesn't need outside help, says General Nivelle. That is a sample of the spirit that saved Verdun. Harding will find it as easy to p a cabinet for himself as to choose one from the many that editors have picked for him.

An Illinois man advertises that he । owns a dancing ape. Must be a shim- . my-panzee. I Even if it is a time of unrest. why wouldn’t it be a good thing to let the other fellow do the unresting. Nothing seems to disturb the een-|tury-old "normalcy” of Turkish tnasisacres of Armenians. As soon as he knew the worst President Wilson’s health began improve.