Walkerton Independent, Volume 48, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 May 1923 — Page 4

(“Chevrolet” I 5585 Touring Car 5585 I We were very fortunate in receiving a 1 large shipment of these classy little touring cars and can make immediate delivery on them for the next 15 days. | TERMS | One third purchase price down, balance on terms to suit. 1 BEISTLE AUTO SALES CO. I North Liberty Branch Rhea Wright Wm. Baughman Roy Goheen ! Walkerton Teegarden Lakeville ! V * ” The Indiana Title Abstract Company J. WILLI - COTTON, Mgr. Prepares modern abstracts to Lands in LaPorte, St. Joseph. • Starke and Marshall counties. .Office Over State Bank Walkerton, Ind. * uiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu I TRY IT FREE! | | TORRINGTON | Vacuum Cleaner | DURING SPRING HOUSECLEANING | i Let us deliver to your borne on free trial this wonderful vacuum X — cleaner. Cleans easier and faster and carries longer guarantee than = — any other make. | Only $5.00 Down Monthly Payments = If after free trial you want to keep it, simply make the small X — • down payment, then pay the balance in easy installments. STILLSON & FLOWERS Walkerton, Phone 225 * S ASK THE LADY WHO OWNS ONE v

Ellsworth’s * South Bend ■■— EOjJS2 Furnishing the Home •I At Ellsworth’s you may obtain, without obligation, the assistance of our Interior Decorators. They have the skill, experience and knowledge to be of real help and can assist you in determining the proper style and colors for your home. Estimates cheerfully given, no matter how small or how large the order may be. New Reed Furniture New Draperies New Rugs-Carpets New Furniture New Lamps Refrigerators Kitchen Cabinets Gas Ranges

» THE INDEPENDENT May 3, 1923. § A, BIBLE THOUGHT J | —FOR TODAY — I B Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove a H B g priceless heritage in after years. I: I I THE TEMPLE OF GOD —Ye are' I the temple of the living God; as God * hath said, I will dwell in them; ana ■ I will be their God, and they shall bu | my people.— 2 Corrinthians 6:16. | THE GREAT AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. | Every now and then some enter- । । prising journal figures out the value I to the nation of the great American . * hen. Again we learn how much we I owe to the lowa hog or we burst ' I into melodious song over the virtues lof some insect. Maybe we timidly ( | venture the suggestion that it is ' I time we gave a little thought of the I | value to the nation of the great | American housewife. We dare not । let fancy roam into the field of her : sacrifice, her unending love, her ' mothering of the nation, for we I would never conclude this writing, I but we do not hesitate to say that ) her actual contribution to the na- ( I tion’s wealth is worthy of consideration. , There were approximately twentyminion of housewives in this counICE CREAM ■ohm this X 0 ^Thursday's Card Party Oake it/feme in a Sealright Paper Container Keeps better-looks better Easy to carry Sold At Will’s Drug Store

Ellsworths South Bend FREE Girls! win a beautiful big Doll Here’s How—Get a McCall printed Doll pattern at Ellsworth’s free. Use any desired material or trimming in making a doll dress —when dress s finished return to Ellsworth’s some time before May 25th. The three girls lie tween ages 6 to 12 making the best dress will be presented with a big doll absolutely free. Three competent judges will decide the winners. Hundreds of little girls are entering this sewing contest—Get your doll pattern Now! Get Your Doll Pattern NOW! Ellsworth’s McCall Pattern Section

i try in 1920. Undoubtedly that num- , ber has increased. What was the j housewives’ contribution to the national income worth on the average? As much as the average pay of domestic servants? May we say SSOO before the war and proportionately more than that after the wages of ^domestic servants rose? Based on I this ratio we find that in relation to i wages paid for' menial labor the housewives of America who in group formation seem so rarely to be considered contributed to the national income eighteen and onehalf billions of dollars. Perhaps these women be visualized in terms of money value we may gain for । them more respectful attention. Sil- । ent, patient guardian of the home, I the housewife grinds out her weary day, gently and unostentatiously ( shaping the destiny of the nation, and as we view the nation she seems , to have made a pretty good job of it up to date. (WXTKY NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. Many students of advertising say that the country newspaper is the best advertising medium in the world.* This is so because such the home paper contains. The folks । are more interested in the announcements of their home tow/n merchants, than in any piece of news in the paper, local or general. This gives the country town business man a wonderful chance to communicate with the people at a , low cost, and get their support foi enterprising moves that he may de- , sire to make. If he has an opportunI ity to buy a large lot of goods at a specially low price, he can feel confident that he can promptly turn them into money, because through the country paper he can inform the whole neighborhood that he has placed such a lot on sale at low prices. The merchants in our town who have not thoroughly tried out the results of advertising special values in this paper are missing splendid opportunities to draw in new trade and enlarge their business. WAITS AND WEIGHTS. A patient, wan-faced little man, stood in front of a counter in a department store. He carried so many bundles, he look»*d like -a delivery wagon. A clerk approached him and said • —“Are you waited on. Sir?” ”My dear girl.” replied the meek little fellow, “I am not only waited on I am weighted down!” The late Pat Rooney, famous Irish comedian us«*d to say among other funny things: "I can take a joke as good as any man but when

I’m sick in bed with the pneumonia. Off I don't want th’ undertaker comtn up under me window whistlin’ “IWu ra Waiting My Darling, For Thee!" § Since the subject of this article is S, “Waiting and Wait” we might just S as well come to the point now and Esay: “Don't lay aside this paper—l g wait and read every advertisement g in it." S There’s a weighty reason for dog ( ing this there is profit in reading @ the advertisements. & These warin days have brought S us into its spring and summer mood, ' ® and, unfortunately, some of the mani . ® festations of this mood are not grat § ifying to civic pride. Os course ours s cannot be a spotless town; human g nature is not built that way. But. it e can make a real effort to keep its § streets and alleys reasonably clean, ® as well as the backyards.

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S It Happens in the Best Regulateu Families. .Ah, what is so lovely (?) as a § day in May! Then, if ever, come days s of gloom and dispair. In fact they B are the melancholy days, the saddest S of all the year, and for why? We reS peat it, and for why? Why is it that g when all of nature is budding forth & in all her glory anfd majesty, when @ the little flowers are putting forth K their tiny heads to greet the spring, a when the trees of the forest are ( decS orating themselves with leaves a which shall shelter man from the © burning rays of the sun, when the g little brook runs clear with water @ pure and the little fishes frisk an S frolic in the joy of springtime, why g is it that at this time of the year s when the great Creator himself, has a set evejy thing in motion that will s go to make man happy and contents ed, man finds himself in the deepest ra dregs of dispair. Why? There is but g one answer. Friend wife is cleaning a house! ® Yes, that explains it all. It woulda not be so bad if she used any judg g ment in her cleaning. The male of S the species enjoys a clean house, too. a Perhaps the rugs do need a little S air and sunshine and the windows, a a spring bath—but ye Gods —why S declare war on every nook and creva ice, every shelf and drawer, every trunk and box on the place? I rW^^l And then, too, there’s another

— — — — . 1 I— -TT on w ni»i ■!..■inilMlliiMliiHiiMlinil ROBERTSOtnS|^^ 7/Msi/vik s, °"’ Open »:3O Till 9:30 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Closes P-30 The Finest Wash Fabrics From Foreign and Domestic Looms The new Wash fabrics foretell their great popularity for summer by wav of their many novelty striped patterns new plaids, small figured designs and plain colors with rainbow loveliness. Because of purchases made early—before the late increase in the price of cottons, we are in a position to quote prices of unusual interest Note the following: - - -. >

Ginghams MANY PRETTY PATTERNS—in numerous color combinations and plain colors. 2 7-inches wide. Yard l»c 27-INCH GINGHAMS—in a choice range of new patterns and colorings. Closely woven grades, yard 25c 32 INCH GINGHAMS in patterns so much in demand for dainty morning frocks, porch dresses and children’s apparel, yard 35c 32-INCH GINGHAMS of excellent .quality. In plain colors, small plaids and neat checks. Yard sOc TISSUE GINGHAMS in 32 and 36-incb widths, showing the new ratise stripes, heavycords, silk stripes. Delightful for summer frocks. Yard. 75c, 65c and 59c APPLIQUE GINGHAMS in blue, green and lavender. Small checked background with squares of’larger checks in same color or contrasting color. 32-lnches wide. Yard S9c IMPORTED GINGHAMS made of the finest long staple Egyptian cotton. In blue, green, lavender, brown and pink. 32-lnches wide. Yard HVc Cotton Crepes JAP CREPE in orange, yellow, tan, brown, helio, lavender, red. pink, blue, gray, and green Yard 29c DRESS CREPE in cerise, rose, almond, green, copen and pink. 36-inches wide. Vari!

The fact that robbers carried away a 2 500 pound safe out of a Star City, Ind., bank last week and then waited until 8 o'clock for the time lock ■ to permit them to open it and take 1 out the S4OOO, said to have been in it, would surely put to shame such desperadoes as Jesse James. He was ’ a mere piker in the art. I Medical authorities say that it is probably fatal to hold the presidency 1 of the United States. Any man whs undergoes its grueling routine an,d carries its weight of big responsibility will have to be tough if he retains more than a small fraction of his initial vitality. But then don't let this fact worry you too much.

thing wrong with the whole system = of house cleaning. The wife is not E content to go ahead with it anu - work it out alone as a man does his a problems, but she must drag friend E husband into it. Just when business = is most pressing, the telephone rings a an/1, "I'm ready for you to beat that = rug and scrub the floor now. Come z right along.” Business must go hang = when the wife cleans house. Six o’clock comes and after \ E long, hard day’s work at the office S we venture home for a good suppev E and a quiet evening’s rest, only to = be met at the door with, “Don’t = come in this way. Go around to tne = back door. Can't you see I’ve varn- E ished the floor?” We gain admission E at the rear only after climbing over = the cook stove, hurdling the electric E A-asher and crawling under th« E table. The floors are all bare, the E furniture, pictures, books, and every- z thing is piled in the center of the “ room. And there’s about as much = chance of getting a good supper and = a quiet evening’s rest as there is of = consolidating the schools of Lincoln = township. = We try to lend a hand, but find = we are constantly doing the wrong = thing in the wrong way. “Don’t put E that picture up there, it belongs tn E Mabel’s room. Take that old box of E Mary’s play things up in the attic E and put John’s sled and skates up E there too.” After a few minutes rest, — in which to carry out the above — orders, we sneak quietly toward the — cellar door thinking to escape furtn- ~ er trouble by getting out of sight. Rut no such luck. “Ed, carry this mattress upstairs and put it ou — Mary’s bed and bring her’s down here for the front room. Its better’n this one and will be better" for the spare bed.” And so the day ends, only to start all over again the next morning.

DARV From best laying strains of Pure Bred 1 VIHVIKO Stock. Order direct from this ad or ask for free catalog of 10 leading varieties. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Barred Rocks or S. C. Reds, per 100, $16.00 —White or Brown Leghorns, per 100, $15.00. Mixed for Broilers, all large breeds, (no Leghornsi per 100, $14.00. All prices pre-paid. Rosedale Poultry Yards & Hatchery, Knox,lnd. boxF

I I 'Ji sCHtOSSERsX^ I HqaWW) \ I “Don’t forget--’’ E The wife won’t have to tell you that if you take home Family Brick Ice Cream ONCE. She’ll always want it, and you’ll always know she want’s it, this | Schlosser Brothers Oak Grove E Family Brick Ice Cream. = You can’t go wrong, because you | can always get the flavor she E likes best. And then—it’s so convenient to carry—put up in a nice, neat | carton. E Your dealer has it. Made by the makers of the famous E Oak Grove Creamery ‘Butter I SCHLOSSER BROS.

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C HINESE CREPE—a very beautiful fabric in pastel shades—French blue, lavender, almond green, tangerine and dark tan. Drapes well. Yard sl-5o Ratines 38-INCH IMPORTED RATINES in tan, mohawk, reseda, yellow, lavender, helio, rose, copen, brown, pink and jacTe. Y’ard $1 38-INCH FANCY RATINE in neat stripes Tan and copen shades. Much in demand for entire dresses. Yard 8*1.50 NOVELTY WEAVE RATINE; 38-inches wide. In gray, tan, peach, rose, copen, green, gold and lavender. Yard $2 and $1.50 New Voiles 36-INCH A GlLES—light grounds with embroidered figures in delicate shades. 36-inches wide. Yard $1.25 and $1 •38-INCH VOILES —- dark grounds with white checks. One of the best voiles made. Weal for summer frocks. Yard 95c 38-INCH PLAIN VOlLES—imported from France. The latent in soft pastel coloring and darker shades. Yard $1.95 36-INCH VOILES with large ratine check. In rose, gold, light navy and green. A’ery smart for summer dresses and blouse