Walkerton Independent, Volume 49, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 August 1923 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Bt«T Ttairadny by THS 15DKPKXBINT-NEWB CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH eg WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudrea, Bueineae Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear.. Btx Months.. ~••••»«*«••**••••••••••* ••• Three M0nth5.,.,......A4 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. Ind- as second-class matter. । • 1 : Seen and Heardi; I• ' ' In Indiana 4+m*H*++*H*H*++**+* Monticello. —Two recommendations of the state board of tax commissioners tor Increases in assessments on personal property in White county were rejected by the White county board of review. The board accepted the third recommendation for a 40 per cent increase on milch cows in Princeton township. The two recommendations rejected by the board were the 20 per cent increase on corn and the 16 2-3 per cent increase on oats. Corn was . assessed in White county last spring , at 50 cents a bushel and oats at 30 cents a bushel. The action of the board will be certified to the state tax commissioners. Shelbyville.—Tangible evidence of the damage to wheat caused by black stem rust from the common barberry plant 1 was pointed out recently by 11. K. Snively of the United States Department of Agriculture, who has been In charge of the anti-barberry campaign in Shelby county. A large barberry bush, 15 feet high and heavily infected with spores of black stem rust, was found in a yard northeast of this city. A field of wheat, dfrectly across the road from the bush, was heavily infected with black stem rust. Seymour. —Thomas A. Mott, superintendent of the public schools here, filed a report showing that the average | per capita cost of maintaining the schools last year was $50.66. The ' per capita cost of the grades was 1 $40.86, while that of the junior high i school was $63.95. The exjrense of keeping each high school pupil in the : class room was $72.02. Mr. Mott said I the average cost is much lower than in many Indiana cities where the same courses are presented. Terre Haute. —Indiana state normal school students in the carpentry class during the summer term recently finished the construction of a five-room modern bungalow, complete in every detalL The property, valued at $6,500, was built by twenty students in fifteen class periods of two hours each. The house has five large rooms, breakfast nook, bath, built-in closets and cabinets, a small hall and a colonade between the living room and dining room. Indianapolis.—With a view to protecting the highways of Marion county from damage by heavily loaded motor trucks, the Marlon county commissioners issued an order limiting the combined weights of trucks and loads that may be driven on all the roads of Marlon county. The county attorney was instructed to file suit for damages against violators of the order or to bring suit for injunction to prevent repetition of the violation. East Chicago.—With 46 national and state banks in Lake county, it has more banks than any other county in the state. Marion county is second with 35. The combined resources of the Lake county financial institutions exceed those of any other county in the state with the exception of Marion, according to the county treasurer, who says that the combined resources of the Lake county banks are $52,009.389.01. Anderson. —Preparations are being made by trustees of the Indiana state reformatory to remove all inmates at the Jeffersonvi”e reformatory by September 15, thereby getting the bonus of $50,000 offered by the Colgate company. The reformatory wall will be finished soon. It is planned to move tUX) inmates to Pendleton and 400 to the Michigan City prison temporarily. Terre Haute. —Leonard Parker, fif-ty-eight, of Rosedale, died in a hospital here as the result of gunshot wounds sustained while hunting near Rosedale. He had set his gun against a fence. He started to climb the fence when one of the wires became entangled with the trigger, discharging the weapon. Shelbyville. —Assessors In five townships in Shelby county plan to file suits against the county to collect money for work done in the spring assessment period. The Shelby county council, in a special session, refused to make appropriations for the work. Terre Haute. —The police force of West Terre Haute was discharged by the town board when the “force.” consisting of Herman Harms and Henry Claire, refused to quit when they were asked to do so. Columbus. —The Columbus school board issued an order that scriptural readings be made a part of the opening exercises in all of the school rooms in the city throughout the coming school year. Lafayette.—Employment of a nutrition specialist to study the nutritional side of manv agricultural and crop problems was announced at the Purdue university agricultural experiment station. Jasper.—The Fan Tan Chib Detective association filed articles of incorporation in the county recorder's office here. The association Is incorporated under the Horse Thief Detective association act. fJosheu. Eugene Haberstich. sixtyfive. Elkhart county farmer, committed se.ieide in a barn by shooting himself. He owned acres of valuable land and was the father of ten children. His wife found his body on the barn fl< or when she sought him to help her milk the cows. Gary.—John H. Sanders, barber, having a shop at 1732 Adams street, reported to police that he was sitting In a chair of his shop when six shots came through the window. He could see no one and does not kwm- who could have Aone It.

n— ———————n । । ■ ■ A BridegroomBride ■ ■ By MARTHA WILLIAMS ■ ■ a---™— IkS). 11*23, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) “Say, Jim-Jams! Game for a great lark ?” Alice Drake asked for her rival, Jamietta Moore, named thus mistakenly by the doting grandmother for her only son. She was Jim to everybody but Alice, who hatefully tacked on the Inebriate Jams. Except for that she didn't in the least mind the name. She would have been ungrateful to mind, since it meant inheritance in fee of Granny Moore’s rather considerable jointure. Mrs. James Moore, Jr., had married again, almost before her weeds lost gloss. Jim was rather sorry for Mammy—she had chosen so ill, a scrappy, straggle-bearded scrub, after having had a real man. The straggly one had been kind enough to Jim what time she had been left in his house. Granny Moore had made that time as brief as possible, and when the girl was coming eighteen, adopted her legally so to quite shut out any other heirs. There was a string to the adoption, as yet secret. “Moore you were born; Moore I Intend - you shall die,” said Granny. “Whoever marries you must take your name for keeps; he can join it to his own, if those split names do seem affected. Didn’t matter with my daughters. I knew when they were born they’d change their names or else die old maids, and I couldn’t see girls of mine doing that. James, my boy, so wanted a son, and you disappointed him, though really it wasn’t your fault. But you can make up to him the way I’m telling you. And unless you do it—well, maybe I’ll ha’nt you when you think I’m safely dead.” Jim laughed at the threat, though pretending to rebel. “Moore! It’s not such a tine name, even if Tommy Moore did save Irish melodies. No kin of ours—so what good are they?” “You’ll find out by the time you come to my years,” Granny said with her properest frown. Jim made a face at her, but immediately began: “O’Rory O’Moore courted Catbaleen Dawn, He bold hs the hawk, and she soft as the dawn.” which Granny stopped by a feint of boxing her ears. A breath after the set-to Alice burst in. her eyes dancing, her hands tremulous. Jim, after a sidelong glance at her, answered brightly: "I’m game for anything but i another molasses candy stew. Got I my eyes and hair so full of it at the I Dranes last Saturday night had to stay in soak too long to get to church—” “So you don’t know?” Alice broke in. “I’m glad. But candy-stews. No thanky. I’m not tacky enough for any such things. What I want of you is real easy—Just to be my bridegroom,’’ smiling at the amazement in the listeners’ faces. “Getting up a play—for the church.” She ran on: । “Only girls to act. Sort of pageant thing. I’m going to be the old-time bride—in that little bitty white satin frock that was ever-so-many grannys back of now. And you must wear the Colonel Moore regimentals! Won’t you be swell in ’em? I always have said it was a shame not to show legs like yours clear to the knee.” “Alice!” Granny boomed —but there was a smile ambushed in the booming. It tickled her clean through to think of thus showing off to the haughty new rector, and his conceited wife, garments worn by an aide to Colonel Byrd of Westover. Os course she had never bragged over having them — Alice knew only through playing much with Jim in the big attic. Ami really with skirts as they were, knee-breeches would make but little difference. Jim was just the shape—tall, slim, and limber. Aiice was running on: “You know

you’ll let her. Granny —and I know you’d never let anybody but a Moore put on those regimentals. Don't blame you—not a bit —they’d live under glass if I had them —" “I like the private uniform GreatUncle Tim wore at Yorktown better,” Jim interrupted. “But that wouldn’t show so well—of course you’ll have electric lights.” Alice nodded. “We'll have everything—footlights, and grease paint—and a real actor to make Us up. The rector’s nephew-ln-law—he's coming tomorrow. Mme. Flean asked him by long distance —and be said he'd tie charmed. Os course she'll charge the call to expenses—it's going to be fifty <ents admission, and reserves seventyfive. But it will really he worth while everything as near historic as we can make it —the rector is reading up church history, and wants us to be more local than even locality.” With that she danced away. Granny looked after her chuckling. “Alice has her megs set already for the actor man,” she said. “She is really beaucrazJ- —wants every fellow she sees to

BRITISE YRE BUILDING UP UGANDA

® African Territory Rapidly Developing Under the Protectorate That Has Been Established. On the eastern coast of Africa, about half way between Cape Town and the entrance to the Red sea. is Zanzibar. The hinterland of the Zanzibar coast is the Uganda protectorate, administered by Great Britain, a vast region of great possibilities, and already well started on the road of development. Here are those lakes which form the headwaters of the River Nile. One lake' the Victoria Nyanza, with a length of 200 miles and an area of 06 20'1 square miles, is the second largest body of fresh water in the world, the first being Lake Superior, w’th an area of 31,200 square miles. It was in this Uganda country that David Livingston, the famous missionary. traveled and labored. His planting has been watered by many successors, and the work is bearing fruit. 1 The total population of Uganda Is given as 3,066,327. More than three

fall in love with her, or at least pretend to.” “You’d hate to have me that way," Jim said, nodding. Granny glared at her. “I’d spank you soundly if there was any sign of that," she said, then, chuckling again: “But you’ll never get the chance—the fellows all fall for you, fall hard—almost before you see them.” The pageant-play went with a bang, albeit Bride Alice pouted at finding herself eclipsed by Bridegroom Jim. Things had gone without a hitch from the start. Then the receipts were amazing. A mysterious Cash had bought most of the reserved seats and filled them with the old folk, and children otherwise without a chance of being tliere. Add that five yo'ung gentlemen had bid against each other for the privilege of carrying Jim and Granny back and forth, the winning bid being S2O; also that the lights were free by grace of the company, which was more than half St. George Talbot’s property; that George himself had laid down the law that anybody charging for anything done in behalf of the good work would , be held thenceforth a pariah if not a | public enemy, and you begin to understand. St. George had appointed himself treasurer —a more vigilant one never J chased a vagrant penny. When be re- i ported the total —a more than respect- । able one—Mme. Flean began to say it would be nice to give her nephew. Don ' Harris by name, something for his invaluable help. He had thrown up an engagement to answer her call but she got no further. St. George growled: “If he wants pay, where’s his contracts?” Which, of course, settled matters adversely for the budding Hamlet, who stayed on as successfully as the play had gone ; off. Aunt Flean saying with a regret- | ful sigh, since she had cost Dan his summer’s work she felt that at least she owed him a long, restful vacation. ■ Possibly she felt she owed him some- ; thing more. Certainly she told him , things he might never have guessed— j I of Jim’s prospects, for example, and granny’s obsession ns to the name. 1 Trump cards both —If you know how to j play them. Don thought he knew to the letter. Therefore, though ho played up to i Alice in her manifest desire for flirta- i i tlon, he was careful to keep it always |in the lightest, lively vein. Not so j with Jim. There his motif was awed adoration. He sat and stared at her with the air of a devotee telling beads before the highest shrine. Granny liked the motif; she also liked the mannikin. Don had a fine voice, beautifully controlled; a handsome face and a । pleasant |*ersonality. But cruel fate I 1 had so stunted his stature that he was. I in countryside phrase, real duck-legged. ' Hard, considering St. George Talbot’s 1 six feet two, and the fact that Jim had ■ a fancy for looking up rather than । down. She knew something of what was in Don’s mind, but the whole of It did not dawn upon her until St George enlightened her, saying angrily, “He wants to be Mr. Harris Moore. Are you going to let him be. or else ; i break with Granny?” “Would you mind a lot?” Jim flung back at him—“about the property?” He rumbled: “i’ll show you how I much I care. Ride along with me to , town —sooner this thing is settled right j the sooner 1 can get my mind on busi- ! ness,” chuckling over the last word; sc , hard Jim laughed with him. That was around eleven. At three j that afternoon Lena, Granny’s house- I maid, came giggling to her mistress.; who sat absorbing details of what Don ; : thought of her scheme for the name, । saying : “Comp’ny waitin’ on de po’ch, Miss Sary—dey says, pleasem you hurry.” Granny hurried, with Don In her I wake, to be met with: “Present my wife, Mrs. St. George Moore-Talbot. Aunt Sarah. I hope you’ll be as fond of her as you’ve always b^en of me.” Granny truly was. though all she said । then was, “You wretch ! I wish I had I strength to beat you.”

Why He Refused. A negro was taking dinner at the home of a friend. The dinner consisted chiefly of hash, and. on being offered some, he refused. The host, not I wishing to see his guest go hungry, insisted that he take some. Upon that I the negro replied that he never ate { hash, not even at home. “Why is that?” asked the host. “Well,” answered the negro, “I never eat it at home because I know j i what’s in it, and I don’t eat it away I from home, because I doan’ know | what’s in it.”—Judge. — It Scatters Yellow Fever. j The frightful disease, yellow fever. Is : carried and spread exclusively by a > | species of mosquito, the stegmoyia, ; , I which is the common house ’skeet of , I the tropics. It is very tiny—so small, < i indeed, that ordinary wire screens will ; not keep it out —and strikingly marked —a silvery white lyre-shaped pattern J on the thorax, white stripes on the ab- ! domen and legs banded black and । 1 white.

► millions are natives, and among these natives approximately 640.000 belong to the Intelligent, civilized Baganda race, converted to Christianity by British missionaries. Under British protection marked development has taken place. Uganda has good railways and steamboat services on the chief lakes and the upper Nile. It is a rich country, and the value of its exports each year amounts to about $7,000,000, the exports including cotton, coffee, oil-seeds, rubber, ivory and hides. The Devil and the King. The devil is very near at hand to those who, like monarchs, are acaccountable to none but God for their actions.— Gustavus Adolphus. Not Much of an Advantage. One of the advantages of living on Long Island is that on one side of the island you can see the sound and on the other hear the sea.

TO SAVE LIVES OF PEDESTRIANS " ^7 x JL 7^ ' T .. " i“~” ■ ; This new bumper is being tested by the Chiiago safety oomuil in its efforts to cope with the deadly results of “speedmania.” By means of a mechanical device the driver is able to drop the bumper as a fender and a furled apron is extended upward at the same time, thus making a canvas hammock on the front of the automobile which literally scoops the unfortunate victim into it and carries him along uuhurt until the car can be brought to a stop. Photograph shows the new bumper us it looks when opened and picks up the endangered pedestrian unhurt and carries him along.

PIPE SUPPORTS SIMPLE GARAGE Solution of Serious Problem for Man Who Is Constantly Moving Around. The garage question Is a serious proposition for many men who do not own their own homes or who are compelled by their business to move from | place to place. After building five | garages in as many towns or locations, > I designed two knock-down or portable garages and constructed the one Ulus- 1 trated, writes R. C. IJebe In the Popular Science Monthly. The fmtnework consists of \ in galvanized pipe and fittings. There are three separate frames, one on each end and one in the middle. The , pi|>e Is thoroughly braced with wooden Strips bolted on with stove bolts. Holes 3-16 in. in diameter are drilled In the posts and roof sections about 14 . In. apart throughout, and 4-in. dressed | ♦s'eiL woonew strips I bRACC WOOOEN BRACES k tO’-O' ' Garage Frame Made With Pipe and Fittings. wooden strips are bolted on to form the sheathing. The roof is covered with heavy tar paper, and the sides and ends with 8-oz. tenting. The duck is then given a coat of auto top dressing. so that the color of the garage throughout is black. With a helper I can make this ga- ; rage ready for my car in several hours, and it takes even less time to pull it down and pack it up in bundles for shipment. The piping required for a garage 10 ft. wide. 8 ft. high and 16 ft. long consists of six posts 8 ft. long, six “rafters” 6 ft. long, and nine 45-degree ells. For a Ford car the garage can be j 1 ft. less both in length and width. The diagram is practically self explanatory. The builder can brace the garage as much as he thinks necessary to meet weather conditions. Iron spikes driven into the ends of the posts and then set into the ground i serve to anchor the structure. If a | wooden floor is to be used, a sufficient number of sleepers should be laid I to support the heavy planking. Each of the three pipe frames is held ! together by a %-in. rod bolted through I the posts and tightened from the outI side. Canvas curtains can be hung i on this rod to form the cheapest kind | of door, or other doors, which are pipe ’ frames covered with canvas or wooden । strips and tar paper or both, can be j used.

AUTOMOBILE GOSSIP^ More tires are worn out in August J than in any other single month. Crank or crankshaft misalignment will also cause improper meshing of gear teeth. Retarding the spark to slow down the speed of an engine causes carbon । formation. ♦ * * A motorist will save dollars in tire | expense; if he will coast to a stop, em- | ploying his brakes very gradually. * • * Water in gasoline can be determined j by the irregular misfiring iff the engine. If much is present, it causes it to stop and makes starting difficult. * ♦ * To prevent hood squeaks the joint formed by the hood and the body cowl of your car should be lubricated from time to time with grease. • * » A leather fan belt should be cleaned with gasoline and then soaked over night in castor oil. This treatment will revive the grip of even the oldest belt

HARDEST USE GIVEN TIRES IN SUMMER — Inspection Necessary Before Tours Are Started. k — I Not only during the warm month* is the average passenger car driven at least twice ns far daily as in the winter season, but it usually is driven very much faster. For these reasons tires are subjected to more severe serv--1 Ice. and troubles with them come very ! much closer together. In point of time, I during this period of heavy driving. ■ ’ which calls for a careful inspection • and revision of the equipment before | long distance trips and vacations are to be made. In considering the stock of tires on hand the mileage already delivered by . each and its age form the best guides j as to whafi future service may be ex- : । pected of It. Knowing how fur acer- , I tain tire has run and subtracting this I distance from the average mileage ob- ' talned from similar tires on the same ’ ■ car gives the most dependable guess as ' to its "expectancy”—to borrow’ a i term from the .life insurance man. A useful check upon any such estimate is obtainable from Its appearance, and an exj»ert tire man, if he i has a casing off. sJ> that a thorough ex- ' amination is possible, may make some quite accurate predicthms. but much less can be learned from inspecting a . casing on the wheel. If the tread has cut through it in places which have been long neglected i > and have begun to raise sand bllsters; if there are any swellings in the : , surface or any indications of approach- ■ ing failure along the side walls, no great dependence for future service . should be placed in it, but if the tread • is practically perfect, barring normal 1 j wear, and no signs of weakness are j apparent, the casing can be relied upon ■ ; for the additional mileage indicated by service previously rendered and past experience. The chief reason for estimating the j expected mileage that remains in the ■ casings on the wheels is in order to provide requisite spare tire equipment, it going without saying that the”! extra casings carried must be more i numerous and of better qualitY if tha I tires in service are old and wern than ; as if they are all new. RESPONSIBLE FOR BLOWOUTS Difficulty Often May Be Traced Back for Months When Casing Received Hard Jolt. It Is not always easy to trace the I cause of a blowout. The tire may | have been kept carefully inflated at the proper figure, tread cuts tilled and , beads watched, yet the casing givei out. More often than not difficulty oi | this kind must be traced back foi ; months when the casing received a . ; severe blow, weakening the fabric ; j structure and then, ns time wears on ‘ 1 the entire casing becomes affected ; ! i and blows out when least expected.

LENSES GET OUT CF FOCUS > Vibration May Loosen Glasses in Their । Rims and Diffusing Properties Are Lost. Many of tiie light-diffusing devices , now popular are designed to operate when in a certain fixed position. Vibration may loosen the glasses in their rims so that the whole lens creeps around and the diffusing properties are lost. Some of these glasses have a ■ means of anchoring them firmly in place, but others have not, and it is up to the car owner to see that they are : properly in place. Screws may be used for fastening them, and a lock washer should be inserted under each of them. Have Long Rope. When it becomes necessary to tow I a car out of a mudhole or ditch, the towing line should always be long enough to enable the car that is doing the towing to keep on solid ground, so that it can secure the necessary traction for a heavy pull. Take Out Carbon. Have the carbon removed immediately upon noticing a carbon knock. The operation is not expensive and the engine bearings will be relie'rsd of j much unnecessary abuses

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The Way It Was. “A girl over beyond Mt. Pizgy ran iway with a feller night before last ind got married,” related Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. “She’s got a father, Ihree uncles, two gran’fathers and four brothers, all of which took down their pins as soon as they heered about it, and —” “Great grief!” ejaculated his hearer. “And follered ’em and shot ’em both to pieces?” “Not presizely. In fact they all went ever and shivareed the young folks as loon as they got back from marrying.” •—Kansas City Star. Fame may come to a man suddenly ind leave just as quickly.

^er stopTo^^^^ think of this / We are what we eat! It’s a startling fact, yet a simple truth. This is the reason every one should know that his food is really nourishing— not merely filling. Grape-Nuts—made from wheat and barley—is one of the few cereal foods that includes the vital mineral salts so necessary for supplying proper nourishment for nerve and bone structure. In Grape-Nuts, too, is retained the important vitamin-B of the wheat. No food has greater influence in strengthening the body of a growing child than Grape-Nuts. And remember, children need the very best there is in the way of nourishment. Grape-Nuts is just as delicious as it is healthful, whether served right from the package as a breakfast cereal with milk or cream, with fresh or stewed fruit, or made into an appetizing recipe. Try the suggestion given below. -a-— - ■ ■ I B GRAPE-NUTS ICE CREAM Prepare plain flavored ice **^l*^^,*** **' * \ cream in the usual way. Just before the cream hardens in freezing, add Grape-Nuts as \ * r it comes from the package, in the proportion of one-half cup of Grape-Nuts to one quart of ice cream. Ifyou buy Where you don't find Grape-NutS, ice cream ready-made, add you won’t find people—• Grape-Nuts in place of nut w meats You’ll find the result- S CL RCOLSOYL

Size Did Not Matter. The doctor on his round of golf wu ' crossing the field with his small negro caddie, when the latter opened the conversation with, “Doctor, ain’t you got some shoes up yonder In yo* locker you don't want. I needs some bad.” “Maybe so,” said the doctor. “What size do you wear?” “I dunno. suh, ’cause I ain't never bought none dat-er-way—l either kin , git in ’em or I cain’t.”—Life. i An elevator sometimes enables a man to rise to the occasion. r It takes a lot of good luck to enable some men to reach the top.