Walkerton Independent, Volume 47, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 January 1922 — Page 4

j Advertis- j I ingaSale! j {*W™yOU don’t leave ]; F^X vour rig in the ;• middle of the *; road and go to a fence- ;; ;• post to read a sale bill ;• ]; do you? Then don’t ;l ;> expect the other fel- ;! lio wto do it. ; I Put an ad in this paper, then, I[ regardless of the weather, j • the fellow you want to ,[ reach reads your announcements while seated at his fires!' % b If he is a prospective buyer ][ u you'll have him at your sale. ■: ![ One extra buyer often pays J 'i the entire expense of the '> ]; ad. and it's a poor ad that ] । won't pull that buyer. An ad in this paper reaches ' । the people you are after, i; Bills may be a necessity, but ! [ 11 the ad is the thing that does u ]; the business. ![ Don't think of having ■ ]* |> special sale without using <[ advertising space in this 2 ; > paper. ; > ;i One Extraßuyer i; at a sale often pays the entire expense of the ad. p Get That Buyer i ^#\e^>***'^*^>e*se************J 1 ■■wnaMßsaaßmßasMnwaec: ! I ARE YOUO| GUILTY i —IL lIZZ A FARMEK carrying an ** express package from a big mail-order house was accosted by a local dealer. "Why didn't you buy that bill of goods from me? I coaid have saved you the express, and besides you would have been patronizing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and builds up this locality. " T^e farmer looked at the merchant a moment and then said: "Why don't you patronize your home paper and advertise? I read it anddidn 'thnow thatyou had the stuff 1 have here.“ MORAL—ADVERTISE

RANSACK SALE NOW ON I Clean-up of Broken sizes, Odd Lots and Remnants all grouped at sharpest reductions for quick clearance. > end. Li icuan a

THE INDEPENDENT 1 t Published everj Thursday by t THE INDEPENDENT=NEWS CO. £ lINCORPORATED' 1 — t Publishers of the j WALKERTON INDEPENDENT ( NORTH LIBERTY NEWS \ LAKEVILIaE STANDARD 1 CLEM DeCOUDRES, Business Mgr. 1 W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. 1 i Entered at the postoffice at Walk- 5 erton as second class matter. January 5, 1922. 1 In commenting upon the present tendency of people to hunt up every 1 excuse possible for dodging work i (and it hits the majority of us) the ( Bremen Enquirer editorializes as fol- ; ' ows: “One is reminded of the tendency of the time by the general disposition to observe Monday as ' Christmas, since that holiday came on Sunday. Apparently the chief ob- ' ject in life of a very considerable i number of people is to discover as ( 1 many reasons or excuses as possible * for not working. That is not a pretty thought, but it is none the less a fact. ( Young people especially require more ( amusement, more rest, more entertainment, more conveniences than , ' ever before, and the tendency appears to be increasing. It will not aid in restoring the world to normalcy. ‘ I There will have to be a decided re- , turn to industry, to more work and 1 i less playing, before the world get>. , 1 over the headache resulting from , 1 the awful debauch of the past seven ! or eight years.” Some of the irreconcilables, particularly Borah and LaFollette, are ( ■working themselves into a frenzy . over the four-power treaty, predict- j j ing all sorts of dire consequences . ! should it become operative. These , I fellows are evidently “seeing things” | 1 after night, as there is nothing in the , ' plain, simple articles of the document j to warrant any fear of entangling . 1 alliances. There is no coercion nor ■ ‘ military obligations imposed upon , ■ the signatory powers, but simply a 1 clear, straightforward agreement to . ‘ respect the rights of each in the . Pacific area and in case of dispute to : get together and arbitrate the que»tion. The object of theArqaty is to 1 get away from the milita^ idea as 1 far as possible, and it evidently sue- 1 ceeds in this respect. It is the ■ greatest stride toward world peace '1 .that has yet been devised. The < proposal of a ten year holiday in the 1 manufacture of naval armament is alone of vast importance and very acceptable to the world. France, the brave and invincible, ] which fought her own and the ’ world’s battles at the outset of the 1 late war (not forgetting gallant 1

little Belgium), and with a courage that was superhuman held in check the Kaiser’s bloody hordes until hei allies could rally to her support and thus save civilization from a fate that one fears to think of, is now being vilified and besmirched with the charge of being in a conspiracy witn Japan to rnTerfere and overthrow America’s influence in Siberia. The French government formally denies the charge and says it is a story without foundation. And one can well believe this, as the accusation is plainly illogical and in sharp contrast to the spirit of fairness and open-mindedness that is characteristic of France’s dealings with her sister nations. It is not like France, and she will doubtless prove her innocence of the serious charge. Senator Owen of Oklahoma wants the Federal Reserve law stretched so the United States can establish a bank in Europe to stabilize the currency. Sounds a little dubious on the surface. We are already pretty well involved in Europe’s financial chaos, and while we are vitally interested in the early restoration of Europe, it is not advisable to hazard our own financial security beyond certain limits. The majority of our leading financiers and economists will doubtless taboo Senator Owen's proposition. The death of Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania removes from the senate one of its solidest and most useful members. A conservative, yet always open to progressive ideas of a national kind, he gave valuable service to the nation, in the making of sound, substantial legislation. His was the conservatism of cool judgment and long years of experience. More of his kind are needed in the senate to serve as a safeguard against hasty and unwise legislation. Senators are lining up for a debate on the Pacific treaty and its opponents are beginning to cry universal alliance or none. So it looks like a pretty fight in prospect with the fate of the four-power treaty hanging in the balance. But there is likely to be something beneficial come out of all this fuss. Hiram Johnson also is warning the nation against the horrors of the four-power treaty. Queer that such men as Secretary Hughes, William Jennings Bryan, President Harding and many oher statesmen of similar calibre are unable to see such terrible things about the proposed treaty. The prospect of favorable actiort by the Dail on the Anglo-Irish treaty loo'ks favorable at this time and will probably be settled within a Tew days. The main question now seems to be as to the size of the majority favoring the treaty.

| Their Dream Farm By KATE EDMONDS (©, 1921, Western Newspaper tnwnj John Robinson lay on his bed in tiie hall room which he occupied in the cheap lodging house, reading a letter from his folks up-state. It was signed by his mother and his two sisters. “We shall all be thinking of you next Sunday when we eat our dintier.” they wrote. “Father sends you his love and hopes you are well. He is glad you are getting along so nicely. We wish you could be with us I but. as you say. business is business, and you will have to be at work Monday morning.” John Robinson was only twentyfour, but he knew that if he were for- ; ty his prospects would be no brighter. He was just an ordinary clean-minded country boy, caught in the machinery of the city. z and just now earning a wage of fifteen dollars a week as a grocer's clerk. That was as well as he could do. , He wished he were back on the farm again. But he could not swallow his pride. He had gone off amid the salutations of the half envious village lads of his own age. and to go back would mean a terrible downfall in their estimation and a confession of failure. A strange and yet familiar smell assailed his nostrils. He knew what it was. The girl in the adjacent room was cooking a turkey I He knew her to nod to on the stairs when she came home in the evening from the department store in which she worked. Fanny—that was the only name he knew her by—was pretty and gentle and had a s«rt of frightened look in her eyes which haunted him. .since it was so like the look which he had worn for the first few months after his arrival. He had never had the courage to speak to her. That odor was very tempting. He opened his door a little. Then he saw that her door was ajar also, and. as he went softly out he came face to face with her. Her hair was disheveled and her face red from bending over her gas stove. “Oh, won't yon —wouldn’t yon like to join me?" she said timidly. “It’s my dinner,” she continued, with a little laugh. “I thought—l was afraid you might be hungry. Mrs. Higgins said you cooked all your own food,” she continued. John’s heart was beating quite violently for some reason or other, as he followed her In. Upon the stove was a frying pan that sent forth the appetizing odors which he hud discerned ; and in It lay a quarter of a delicatessen store turkey. After they had finished eating John looked at Fanny, and his heart began beating fast. How nice it would be to have somebody like that —as nice as that—as pretty as that—to cook every meal for him! And how he had hated to see her start out so early and come backup late from the department store! Before he realized it he had forgotten all his shyness and they were talking learnedly and delightfully about their homes. She, too, was farm bred, and she had come to the city in just the same way he had come. And she. too, had bad a letter. And it said just about the same things as his. They thought of tiie free country air and the roads and fields white with snow, and the peacefulness of a little farm of their own. Ami the stuffy little lodging house room became filled with romance for them, and they looked wonderingiy upon each other and thought that fate wa: very kind. “And it’s this way.” said John. “I know that I was a fool to leave the farm and come here. There was just the one thing I knew all about and could have succeeded at, and I threw it up to take something I never can succeed at.” “Same here,” said Fanny briskly. “If you knew how tired I get of trying on ladies’ shoes!” And then as they sat there side by side John found courage to draw his chair so close that it actually touched hers, and before he knew what he was doing he found himself holding her little hand in his. And she let him hold it —that was the astonishing thing I “Fanny,” he said—it was the first time he had called her that—“if I could save up three hundred dollars I could buy a little place and make it pay. I know I could make it pay. But I can’t save a penny and never shall, for I can’t earn enough. But if you would go into partnership with me for just one year, and we had one room instead of two —and two could live just as cheaply ag one—and after a year we had saved up three hundred dollars, do you think—” But It was more astonishing still when she let him kiss her. And their poor little arrangement seemed like a financial miracle and the heavens were opened in her little bare hall room. “Next year we shall have our home for ourselves.” he said presently. ‘Doesn’t it make you happy? Can you be as happy as I am, Fanny? Do you know, I don’t know what your other name is. Isn’t that strange?” “I don’t want to tell you, John.” “But don’t you think I ought to know?” “Well, but what’s the use of telling you when you say I’ve got to lose it so quickly?” Overweighted Dog. There is a farther in Virginia who for a long time good naturedly complied with the requests of amateur hunters for the loan of his dog. Finally, however, the farmer’s patience was exhausted and he thus delivered himself to a man who asked for the dog one day: “See here, my friend, there wasn’t a better water dog living until you shooting gents took to borrowing him. Now his hide is so full of shot that he’d sink to the bottom like a brick.” —Philadelphia Ledger.

81x90 86x96 3“" Robertson Sheets store Opens A Saturday Spreads 8:30 open sl-35 Closes 5:30 Till 9:30 54.95 each. south bend, Indiana . each Our Linen Department Has Much To Offer In The January Whit. Sale LINEN DAMASK AND PATTERVLOTHS. 70 inch Pure Linen Damask—sl.9B aard. 68 inch Pure Linen Heavy Damask-42.50 a yard. 72 inch extra heavy Linen Damask-42.98 a yard. 69x69 Pure Linen Cloths —$5.00 each - 72x72 Pure Linen Cloths—ss.9s eadi ( 72x72 Pure Linen Cloths—s6.7s each 72x72 Pure Linen, Cloths—in circila’ designs—s7.7s each. Napkins to match—slo.3s. COTTON DAMASKS AND LAPKINS 64 inch Mercerized Damasks—69c yard. 72 inch Mercerized Damasks—7sc yard. 72 inch Imported Damasks—sl.oo yard. 24 inch Imported Napkins— $2.95 doz. 18 inch Hemmed Napkins—sl.so tisl.9s a dozen. AIRPLANE LINEN 36 inch—suitable for Underwear ad fancy work of all kinds —$1.25 value for 59c a yal 36 inch natural color Airplane Lini for Suits, Shirts, Children’s Dresses, Curtains ad many other practical purposes—sl.oo value at 41 a yard. TOWELS AND TOWELIG Pure Linen Kitchen Toweling—29c3sc and 39c a yard. Absorbent Cotton Toweling 10c to sc. 17x33 Pure Linen Hemmed TowelspOc each. 20x36 Pure Linen Hemmed Towels,:9c each. 20x36 hemstitched Linen Towels—soo each. 20x36 Bleached Turkish Bath Towe—2sc each. 22x44 extra size Turkish Bath Tovls—loc each.

V Open /n Account \ DuA' I 1/ « ^*^ -1 Jy in our Savings DepaU^ent. Interest at 4% compounded semi-annuall Safety, Service ardSatisfacticn guatanteed to all \x < customers. V FARMER' STATE BANK

LOCAL NOIES j The Studebaker factory in South Bend is increasing production rapidly and men are being taken on daily. Give the Ford a fair chance with the WILLARD ALL RUBBER BATTERY. You’ll be surprised! QUALITY Vulc. & Battery Co. Phone 92. They take the hills on high and gain speed all the way, they use less gas and oil and they ride easier. Chevrolet Model 490 ,$585 delivened. Itjswn C. R. Folsom returned home Wednesday from St. Joseph, Mich., where he took a course of mineral batn treatments. A. E. Nye, superintendent of schools of Coal City, 111., was here Wednesday looking after his farm, south of town. Grocery stores’ on wheels are the latest innovation at South Bend. The i ; Lockwood Auto Stores, incorporated, will place ten to twenty trucks in operation in that city. Each will be a complete little grocery store and will cover a regular daily route. If your farm light plant batteries do not seem to perform properly, bring them in. The Quality Vulc. & Battery Co. Opposite Leßoy's Garage. Dr. Grigsby has been appointed tuberculin tester for accredited herds in this territory. This will be a convenience to cattle raisers in this locality who have heretofore depended upon the services of a tester from a distance, which caused delay and extra expense. We could never see the reason why, but a lot of people think they must talk a little unnatural when they have anything to say over the phone. One word in particular—“hello” —seems to be a hard one to k t ; handle. Sixty job printers wen out on > strike Monday in South Bend. The 4 4-hour week proposition is the bone । of contention, and both sides to the controversy are standing firm in their convictions. There is a strong probability that the job printing In dustry there may be at a standstill , for several weeks.

It is painful for some people to ' think. Our efficient methods of vuln- • izing and repairing will help t»se old tires through the winter. QUALITY Vulc. & Battery Cc Rev. Thompson Turner, wife nd daughter Madeline, of Chicago vited with relatives here a few dayshis week. Thompson reports his chir* ' which is a mission church, as hang had a very satisfactory year. Probably most people regard fintain pens as a comparatively rent invention, but they were used Dre than 300 years ago. They arreferred to in an advertisemei in 1788. Mayor Seebirt and the rest ohis official family were sworn into (rice in South Bend Monday. The pice force has been given its instruesns and a general clean-up of all onnized vice in the city is promised. Frank DuComb of Hammond re visiting here with his mother, rs. M. Thompson. Frank reports busfess conditions improving in the Emtuond district, a number of faetdes having recently increased their vtking forces to meet the inereasinfiemand for products. : Using a battery in a half ch®ed condition, has a tendency to suliate the plates, thus materially shdening its life. Don’t wait, drive in tiay. FREE TESTING AND FILLING The Quality Vulc. & Battery o. Opposite Leßoy’s Garage. PUBLIC SALE D. D. Mangus, administrator ctne estate of Solomon Thornton ftrU, will sell at the late residence o the deceased, Li mile south of Ricey's grocery, 1 mile west of the star church and 4 miles northeas of North Liberty, Saturday, Jan 7, commencing at 10 a. m., horsescat,tie, farming implements and ther property. Frederick Hoffman will hoi a i public sale at his residence onemile ! north and two miles west of Mke- ■ ville on Wednesday, Jan. 11, Joraniencing at one o’clock p. m.. siling chickens, grain and household -.was.

WALKERTON MARKETS Corrected Every Thursday. Eggs .40 Butter .30 Lard .18 Potatoes |1.50 Timothy Seed $3.50 Clover Seed $11.50 Alfalfa Seed $12.50 Wheat, No. 2 .99 Oats. No. 3 —2 -27 ■Rye, No. 2 56 lbs. test .64 Corn, per 100 .48 Beans, hand picked $3.00 Onions, bushel $2.00 ■Chickens, young, per lb. .18 Chickens, old per lb. .20 Ducks -20 Fat cattle, per cwt. $3.00 to $5.50 Cows, per cwt. $3 to $5.00 Calves, per cwt. $_6.00 to SB.OO Hogs, per cwt. $6.00 to $7.50 Sheep, per cwt. $3.00 to $4.00 Lambs, per cwt. $5.00 to SB.OO Green hides -04 - . ■ For Coughs and Colds A known and proved ; cure for coughs, cold in the chest, throat and head. A safe palatable medicine for youn? or old, made to our own zormula. We re commend it as a safe and 'eliable ronedy. k 3 A RTERS-WHITE PINE AND CHERRY COMPOUND Meitholated 50c per Large bottle. CARTER’S Dri^, Store ■