Walkerton Independent, Volume 63, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1937 — Page 1

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Did You Know That— | Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. I-5- I - 5 Don’t ."orry! If the situation can be changed, change it; if not, forget it. 5-5- 5 - 5 At Racine, Wisconsin, thieves stole 22 of the city’s 50 “no park-; ing” signs. 5-§- 5 - § The value of an idea depends on the enthusiasm of the man who carries it into execution. 5-5- § - 5 The average salary of 87 Washington. D. C., news correspondents is $5,987.56 per year; about $125 a week. |-J- J - 5 Os course, you have seen ‘ the three Marx Brothers” in the movies. There are five of these brothers, but only three of them team together. I-I- 8 - I One person we know expects to go to heaven but worries that the ceaseless mus’cal program there may become tiresome; she doesn’t like music. 5-5- S - § Some worry about almost anything and others about nothing at all. There are 800 texts in the Bible that encourage rejoicing and gladness. 5-5- 5 - 5 Exceptionally “long" men are short lived. Medical science records the cases of a number of men with heights from 7 feet 6 to 8 feet 7. Age 45 was the longest that any of the group lived. I-5- 5 - I Japanese soldiers are still marching against the Chinese, bombing Chinese cities, killing hundreds and injuring Chinese by the thousands. However, according to dispatches from Toaio officials, this Japanese effort is all in self-defense. 5-5- 5 - 5 Meat prices have advanced until they are at the highest point in 18 years. In some butcher shops sirloin steaks are selling at 50c per pound. Even the Thanksgiving turkey will be mucn more expensive this year, since the 1937 crop of turkeys is very small. J-i- 5 - 5 It is customary for rulers and leaders to place their own relatives and best friends in the best possible positions whether capable or not; even Napoleon made this mistake. Out of Napoleons nine relatives that were made kings or queens, only one did any good. 5-5- 5 - 5 In a divorce suit in a Los Angeles court, Edwin Pope asserted that his wife deserted him because she didn't like his cooking. The wife is a school teacher and by mutual agreement at the time of the marriage she was to continue her teaching and Mr. Pope was to do the housekeeping. S-§- S - 5 Mrs. Alex Mickey, of Hamilton township, Ohio, has asked the state police to broadcast a missing person's alarm for her husband. Alex's whereabouts have not been known since the autumn of 1921. We expect that there are husbands here that would not be missed by their wives much sooner than that. 5-i- s - s The cost of the average new home in the United States is $3,800 but during the eight years that the average original owner struggles with the payments and interest it has cost him about $5,000. Then he “gives up the ghost” and the home goes to a new owner or to the mortgage holder for about $2,400. j-i- 5 - 5 At Staten Island, New York, one may see one of the wealthiest charitable institutions in the world. It is the Sailor’s Snug Harbor, a home for decrepit or worn-oirt sailors. This home is valued at from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 and started from a bequest by one Robert Richard Randall nearly 14 0 years ago. 1-i- i - 5 Trailer shows are causing more excitement than automobile shows. At a recent trailer show in New York City there was a large variety of trailers exhibited at prices ranging from $295 to SISBO each. It is estimated that there are now ( about 1.000,000 people in America living in these trailer houses and that number is increasing rapidly. 5-5- 5 - § Recent surveys show that from the average group of 100 people on the WPA or direct relief rolls of a larger city that 56 of that group have at some time or other been i gainfully employed and that the; other 44 never did have a job. Sev-i enteen of the 4 4 are now too old to work and it is guessed that most of the remaining 27 are not even in- i terested. 5-5- 5 - 5 Things are not going so good for Mussolini down in Ethiopia. So! far the dividends on that African j investment have been nil. Italy is forced to keep a standing army down there to keep the Ethiopians from revolting. Mussolini Is about to withdraw all attention from both the Spanish revolution and Japan-ese-Chinese conflict and attempt to get affairs quieted at home before the winter rains. §-5- 5 - S “If any little word of mine May make a life the brighter. If any little song of mine May make a heart the lighterGod help me speak the little word And take my bit of singing, And drop it in .:ome lonely vale To set the echoes ringing.”

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News of the Churches Presbyterian Church Garth B. Salmon, Minister j The Stone Church with a warm, friendly and helpful spirit. Sunday school 9,: 30, lesson subject, “The Christian in God’s Keeping.” A. L. Dupler is Supt. Morning worship at 10:30. Theme ’ of sermon, “Blessed Are the Meek.” In this beatitude Jesus says that | the meek will inherit the earth. By ■ this statement does He mean that j the meek as we think of the meek 1 I today, the one who is quiet, the one j ■ who is unassuming, the one who is humble, shall at some future day be given the title to the whole earth? Do we not find that the one who is meek according to our standard, is pushed aside and even that w r hich he has is often taken from him by the more bold, the more courageous, by the one who is not humble? Can it be possible that Jesus was thinking of the meek as being those who are of a retiring nature, as we think of the meek? Certainly not. He must have had a different definition for the meek. As we think of the word meek as it was used in the day in which Jesus was here upon the earth we learn that it meant one who was well trained. one who was teachable, o re who w as obedient to those in authority over him. As Jesus is saying that the meek shall inherit the earth he certainly means those who are willing to be taught and led by His Divine Spirit. A well-trained, a well-disciplined people. Are we willing and striving to be such a people? God's desire is for such a people, a people who shall be to Him a people for His own possession. The regular meeting of the Ladies Aid Society will be held next Thursday afternoon, Oct. 14, in the social room of the church. Members please notice change of date. United Brethren Church L. E. Eaton, Minister Church school at 9:30, Joseph Smith Supt. This Sunday will be observed in the school as promotion day. An appropriate service has been arranged, with members of the primary and junior departments taking part. Morning worship at 10:30. Evening worship at 7:30. An interesting service is in store for those who attend. Bible study at the church on Thursday evening at 7; 30. The local church will be hostess to the fall W. M. A. Rally and group meeting Thursday, Oct. 21. Chruch school and Christian Endeavor at the Teegarden church at the usual time. Pilgrim Holiness Church Lonnie E. Cole, Pastor Sunday school 9:30. Preaching at 10:30 and 7:30. Prayer and praise service Tuesday evening at 7:30. Cottage prayer meeting at the parsonage at 7:30. Y. P. M. every Sunday evening at 6:30. Vera Norton, leader. You are invited to these services. Big Season Predicted For Indiana Hunters With the arrival of thousands of ducks and other migratory waterfowl at the Jasper-Pulaski state game preserve marsh and at other lakes, Indiana sportsmen may anticipate some exceptional hunting durI ing the November open season, reports Virgil M. Simmons, of the Department of Conservation. In Indiana the open season on ducks, geese, Wilson’s snipe or jacksnipe and coot begins Monday, November 1 and ends on Tuesday, November 30. There is no open season in this state on Ross's goose, wood ducks, canvasback ducks, redhead ducks, ruddy ducks, bufflehead ducks, swans or mourning doves. For ducks the bag and possession limit is ten for geese and brant, five, for Wilson’s snipe or jacksnipe fifteen, and for coot, twenty-five. Shooting ducks, geese and coot is restricted to from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Central Standard Time, while snipe can be taken from 7 a. m. until sunset, Central Standard Time. Noted Talent Booked For Osteopaths’ Meeting More than 200 physicians and surgeons from Indiana and three adjoining states will assemble in South Bend Oct. 13 and 14 to attend sessions of the 39th annual convention of the Indiana Osteopathic Association. Every disease of mankind will come under the scrutiny of the convention during an elaborate scientific program, according to an anI nouncement by Dr. L. O. Rausch, of ; South Bend convention chairman. Osteopathic physicians within a radius of 150 miles of South Bend i in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan have । been invited to join the Hoosier | delegates in the convention. Among the principal speakers will be Dr. Edward A. Ward, of Saginaw, Mich., president of the American Osteopathic Association, w T ho will address the annual banquet Oct. ; 13, and a trio of distinguished scientists from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, Dr. Otterbein Dressier, professor of pathology; Dr. Ralph L. Fischer, professor of clinical osteopathy, and Dr. Paul T. Lloyd, professor of radiology. The three Philadelphia scientists will conduct a joint symposium on bronchogenic cardinotna, and the use : of Roentgen diagnosis and management, outlining latest developments in the fieht against cancer. Tlere is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.—H. W.

WALKERTON, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1937

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Club Women Enjoy Guest Day Friday Mrs. Elmer Funk. Warsaw, Delighted With Her Address on “Fine Art of Living” Reciprocity Day was observed by the Walkerton Woman s Community Club Friday afternoon in the club rooms, with 78 members and guests present. The rooms were very attractive, fall flowers being used in abundance. Mrs. Elmer Funk, of Warsaw, gave a talk on “The Fine Art of Living.” "Our lives,” said Mrs. Funk, "should be lived much as a painter would do a masterpiece, so that in the end it may be viewed from a distance as a piece of work well done.” Mrs. Funk also stressed club federation work as the I means for any club to keep up to the minute. Music for the afternoon was furnished by Miss Enid Wenger, violinist, of Sumption Prairie. She was accompanied by her sister. Miss Wenger is also chairman of Junior clubs. The guests w’ere received by Mrs. C. D. Linton, Mrs. Claire Sellers, Mrs. Ray Wolfram and Mrs. Charles Finch, and included the North Liberty club and representatives from all the clubs of St. Joseph county. Mrs. Perry Hartman. South Bend, county president, Mrs. T. H. Nori man, Mishawaka, Mrs. Geo. Phillips, South Bend and Mrs. T. W. Bridenthal, Warsaw, were also guests. Tea was served from a table centered with white dahlias in a crystal bowl. Mrs. Claire Sellers and Mrs. Ray Wolfram poured. The committee in charge included Mrs. Albert Shultz, Mrs. Claude Stull, Mrs. Arthur Grote and Mrs. Acta B. Ross. DEATH RECORD Lydia Ann Crowe Burial service for Mrs. Lydia Ann Crow former Walkerton resident, will be ueld at the Walkerton cemetery Friday afternoon at four o’clock. Mrs. Crowe died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Chester, in Niles, Mich., early Wednesday morning, age 79 years. Death was due to heart, trouble and the infirmities of old age. Mrs. Crowe was born August 31, 1858, at Butler, Ind., the daughter of Jacob and Mary Funk. She was married to John B. Crowe, who died in 1922. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Chester of Niles, and two sons, Harry, at Garrett, Ind., and Fred, at South Bend. One brother, Noah Funk, of Butler, Ind., eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Crowe came to Walkerton i in 1895 and lived here until 1916 : when she moved to South Bend, j She united with the Christian I church at Butler when a small girl. She was a member of the Walker- ! ton Rebekah lodge. i Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at three o'clock at | the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred i Crowe at 1522 East Colfax Ave., s South Bend. i J Death goes on parade for a lesson - to reckless drivers. Birmingham puts on a pageant of horror in the hope that it will scare dangerous drivers into sanity. A page feai ture in the AMERICAN WEEKLY, I the magazine distributed with Next . Sunday’s CHICAGO HERALD and EXAMINER. wn

। Hold Home Coming At Tyner U. B. Church A Fall Festival and Home Coming will be held Sunday, Oct. 10 at the Tyner I'. B. church. Plans are being made for a treat day and old time friends are invited to come and worship in the old home church once more. Special programs for both morning and afternoon services. There will be a basket dinner at noon. Everyone welcome. Peers in Entertainment Here Friday Night I > LUCILLE ANDREANO Prominent among the cast of the Hollywood Roundup benefit performance to be presented at the Methodist church, Friday evening, is Miss Lucille Andreano, LaPorte, violinist and instructor. Miss Andreano plays opposite Howard DeMeyer, also of LaPorte, who impersonates a cow-boy character in search of talent for his show. The program will include an all-girl orchestra, violinist, reader, male quartette, baritone solo and soprano solo. The following program will be given: Impersonations of Jeanette MacDonald, in Filipino, Japanese and Scotch costumes, Marian Wilk. Baritone solo, "Three for Jack,” Paul Johnson, impersonating Nelsor Eddy. Readings and impersonations of Mary Pickford, Bea Morrison. Male quartette: Maple City Four, Al Levandorski, Don McCarty, How--1 ard DeMeyer and Paul Johnson. Violin solos, Evelyn and her vioI lin, Lucille Andreano. Readings, Bea Morrison. Vocal numbers. Marion Wilke, t with male quartette. Miss Delma Lockwood, acccmpanI ist. The program is sponsored by the I Classmates class. Miss Ethel Bierly, teacher. Sediment in Mississippi River The sediment discharged in the Gulf each year by the Mississippi river is estimated at 406,250,000 tons. In excavating the Panama Canal 432,000,000 tons were dug to connect the two oceans. Lightning in South Africa So conscious are residents of the 1 dangers of lightning in South Africa 1 that a current saying is "at least ’ one life per severe storm.” And 5 the storms are many and severe. , Speaking much is a sign of vant ity; for he that is lavish in words is 1 a niggard in deed.—Sir Walter Rali eigh.

South Bend Police Chief To Speak Here l^rry l<ane Will Address Chainber of Commerce at Shirley’s Case October 1 4th Members of the Walk€»rton Chamber of Commerce will be permitted to take a pe-*p into the inside workings of a detective bureau in a big city next Thursday evening, Oct. 14, when Larry I^ane, Chief of Police in South Bend, comes here to address the club in its regular monthly meeting at Shirley’s Case at 6:30 o’clock^ President Earl Ward is promising the boys a real evening of interesting high-lights in crime detection. Chief Lane has had a world of experience in dealing with criminals and should have some real thrills to tell his hearers. Following the speaking. President Ward will meet the club directors in a short business session at which some matters of importance will be discussed.

| U. B. Church Holds Evangelistic Retreat The Commission on Evangelism of the St. Joseph Conference, church of the United Brethren in Christ, will hold its fifth annual Evangelistic Retreat in the First United Brethren church, Plymouth, Tuesday and i Wednesday, October 12 and 13. Sessions will be held morning, af-* ternoon and evening. All sessions ■ are open to the public. Special speakers for the retreat include Rev. B. H. Cain, D. D., of Warsaw, Conference Superintendent; Dr. H. A. Ironside, pastor of the Moody Memorial church. Chicago and Rev. I. E. Runk. D. D., pastor of the First United Brethren church, Grand Rapids, Mich. Rev. J. W. Miller, former Walkerton pastor, is president of the Commission on Evangelism. Auxiliary Plans Community Work The September meeting of the ' American Legion Auxiliary was held at the home of Mrs. Wilder Burnside. Due to -he generosity of local people, our Auxiliary was able to present to ‘.he library of Lafay-j ette Soldier’s Home a fine proper-1 tion of the books received there • during Book Week from all over the i state of Indiana. We decided to ; present a good book to the Walker- ' ton High School library, and the ; sum of $5.00 to the School Lunch Fund. We are still collecting newspaper comic sheets and children’s books and magazines for Knightstown Orphans Home. Anyone having suitable reading matter to contribute, may leave it with Mrs. Faunt Leßoy. Especially desired are such magazines as American, National Geographic, Life, Photoplay or other good movie magazines. Reader s Digest. Radio Digest or Magazines on Aviation and Mechanics. The October meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Arthur McKesson. wn Odd Container for Shipping Probably the most unusual container used in this country for shipping a product from factory to retailer is the calf bladder, about the size of a football. In many sections . of the South, negroes will not pur- . chase snuff if it comes wrapped in any other w r ay.—Collier’s Weekly.

Main Street Gossip This is Fire Prevention Week and everybody is to prevent as many fires as possible. Claude Cannonball Stull, postcard reader on route one. Walkerton, has agreed to help all he can and has quit smoking all week. That means about 63 fires prevented. Frank Fetzers wife, Fanny, over at North Liberty, wanted him to rake the leaves and burn them at their house, but Frank begged off, on account this is Fire Prevention Week. Frank will probably skip next week, too, aince it is, “Take-a-rest” week. Sid Sprunger, Expert Auto Mechanic, says his wife burned his work clothes Monday in place of washing them, because she read in the paper that this is Fire Prevention Week and all greasy rags should be burned. The slogan adopted for Fire Prevention Week is “Lend a Hand.” “That may be all right,” stated Louie Gerber, big bank magnate in these parts, “but we’d have a heck of a time making money by lending Wayne’s hands. I think he’d be willing to give his hand to some sweet little thing, but not lend it.” Mrs. Harry Holland stood looking at her tall handsome son, eyeing him from head to foot, while he sat in the living room with his feet cocked up on the table, as he practiced learning to smoke his new pipe. Said Bob, “Mom, what’s the matter with me, you keep looking at me so?” Said Bob’s Mom, “Well, it says here in the paper that this is Fire Prevention Week and everyone should examine their fire hazards

and eliminate them at once, so, out you go.” Kids, better start saving soap . . there’s a lot of windows up town ■ that need washing . . and it’s soon Hallowe'en . . Oh Boy! — ■■■'■—i— 4 Not “Way Down South” As we approached Hodginsville in Kentucky and the birthplace of Ab-! I raham Lincoln, we called to mind ' I the scriptural admonition given by ‘ Jehovah to Moses when he said, | "Unloose the shoe from off thy foot. I for thou art standing on holy > j ground.” We approached the beautiful memorial made of granite and! placed on the exact site of Lincoln’s । birth cabin, with the feeling that we were indeed on holy ground. A 1 place so rich in association with one of America’s greatest statesmen i could hardly have been regarded * otherwise. There it stands a last- ! ing memor.al housing an exact replica of the log cabin in which the । great Lincoln was born. As we entered we noticed a sign, ; “No Smoking,” and before we had gone far, we wished for a sign, "No . Talking.” A party of sightseers - followed us into the memorial and ; at once, four of them started to > read aloud the various inscriptions that are carved in the side walls, i With the place thus flooded with s 1 echo and re-echo, it seemed more i like a boiler factory than a place to - be reverenced. A uniformed guard , stood half secluded back in one 1 corner as if waiting for the closing

hour. We left with a feeling of disappointment, not in the memorial ’ itself, but in the atmosphere which prevailed. Our next port of call was Chat-1 tanooga. Look Out Mountain and Chicamauga National Park where we soldiered for over a year during the World W ar. Wanted to go ! back to the place where I had "fit I j and bled” for my country and see ! how it all looked again. What a change. All the old barracks had long since been torn down and removed and it was only by locating old Snodgrass Hill that I could find the place w’here I had been quarter- * ed. A lot of old memories were stirred up, some pleasant and some not so much so . . . Those days when I quit a good job teaching high• school in South Bend to take on a new one at "thirty dollars every month, deducting twenty-nine,” so | that some tough top-kick from• "toity-toid” street. New York, could instruct me in ‘he fine art of doing I squads east and west. I wouldn't I even spit on him out in private life. many’s the time I’d like to have put i my boot in his face during those months. But every soldier had such exj periences and believe you me, mighty few of them ever want to' ; have anything to do with another i war, and emphatically so if it ' means having to go abroad to get i i into one. Talk about “following! । the flag” and protecting our inter- i ests abroad,” if those Americans over in China had to fight their own battles, they’d forget their "interests abroad” in mighty quick order, and scamper home like nobody's business. As that Marine Smedley Butler puts it, "When folks don'i come out of a burning building of their own accord, the firemen go in and drag them out. and that's exactly what the government should do with those interest holders over in China. Drag them out or let them get burned.” That’s our sentiment, too. Why spend millions of dollars and thousands of lives protecting Americans and their property in China? They took a risk in making their foreign investments and if thev can't take a loss they had better invest their money here at home. Some wedding couples who said "I will” so cheerfully a few weeks ago, may be saying "I won't” by this time.

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Fire Chief Gives History 1 of Local Dept. Many Interesting I;.-Uent« Revw-w---ed As Development of Ihpa.-t- S went Is Noted ws (By Charles Cripe, Jr.) The first organized fire department in Walkerton was in 1880 wit* Ed. Vincent, undertaker and furniture dealer, as the chief of the Department. At this time the tow® did not have much fire protection except a bucket brigade. This department made history when they j were called out at night to fight a i fire in the Hotel where Claude 1 Stull’s residence now stands. The firemen cut the building into ani managed to save half of it, which was a teat that as yet has never b^en equalled by any fire department. Mr. Vincent convinced the tow® that they should have better fire equipment so a four-wheeled Hook and Ladder wagon was purchased which carried ladders, small chemicals and lots of buckets. This cart passed out of the picture whe® a two-wheeled cart came into service with chemical tanks and hand pumps to furnish the pressure. This cart wss destroyed by fire when Dr. Arlington’s barn burned down which was located where Lippman s poultry house now stands. After this fire the department became “re-gusted” as Andy would put it, and soon broke up. Later the town purchased a twowheeled hose cart with 200 feet of fire hose and a new Fire Depart- ( ment was organized, with Harry Hardenbrook as chief. Harry was a great chief and the organization

progressed rapidly. Os course, bad luck had to bit Harry’s department when their first fire was at Leßoy’s livery stable where the new hose cart was kept. When the fire was | over the livery stable, a number of valuable horses and equipment, the new hose cart and hose went up in smoke. This did not discourage the newly organized department. Harry and his men soon had another new hose cart with hose, obtained by raising money through public . subscription. By this time the town dads felt 'so sorry for Harry and his men • that a new Town Hall was built ' that they might have a place te keep the new hose cart. This town house was built where the Gleaner Hall stands. A few years later Harry had te leave town to venture into the big city to do big things and without his leadership the fire department soon dissolved. The Town Dads contracted "Old Ned” under the able guidance of Ben Pratt to pull the hose cart to every fire for a fee . of SI.OO. "Old Ned” was always ( on the job day and night and at the s stroke of the fire bell, "Ned” was [ the first to be at the fire station te ) do his duty and soon the hose cart 5 ’ was on its way to the fire. Follow- . ing Mr. Pratt s death, Sam Baker i took over his duties as driver of the j Hose Cart No. 1. > In 1918 the Town Dads thought i we should be more up-to-date on j our fire equipment so a model ‘T” r Ford chassis was purchased. Vern

Hardenbrook who was a member of the Board, did some very neat underhand work with one of the largest fire manufacturing plants in the world and euchered them out of a set of blue prints of a fire truck and from this, the model “T” was built into a regular fire truck. The whole town was mighty proud of this job and it served well for the next 15 years. With the town progressing, il was decided that we should have an organized fire department. Six young men were selected to comprise the department, with Jesse Wolfenbarger as Chief. Jesse claimed he was overworked and was relieved by A. J. Kennedy who will always be remembered as a great Chief. After serving four years bis railroad job was threatened and. he was transferred to Bremen and the Chief s job was handed down to “Chuck” Cripe. In 1935 the Town Dads decided we needed more and better fire pro- : tection and they purchased a new V-S with pump and 70' feet of new i fire hose. In 1937 a new num tr was pur|chased by Lincoln Johnson and Polk Townships, which is housed in the i local station and may be used for n • in the town limits, which gives Vv <erton adequate fire protection at all times. Walkerton is one of ।55 towns and cities in the state ; with a paid fire department, leaving i 353 towns solely dependent upon i volunteer firemen for protection. Today we are mighty proud te , have one of the best equipped small I town fire-fighting departments i» । the state of Indiana. North Liberty Girl In Purdue ( hoir Five young people of St. Joseph I County have been chosen from a ■ large number of aspirants as m« m- • bers of the Purdue University choir i of 150 voices. Purdue choral or- | ganization*. under -1, direction of 1 Albert P. Stewart, are we s . known ! throughout Indiana f ‘n^ir excellent concert perform ar. - Tie y ’ are: Ruth E. R nfroe. *' -* Libcrt tv. soprano, whe i .J a J of the Concert Choir. Mar’ a Voorhead, alto, Ellis Verin.- -n >r I Frederick Verink. bas> I Bend, and Richard Mishawaka. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. —- ngele.