Indiana daily times. [volume], January 12, 1920, Home Edition, Page 12, Image 12

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STRENGTH
Statement of the condition of the Fletcher Sav
ings and Trust Company as of
December 31, 1919.
Cash on hand and in bank $3,138,990.03
Real estate loans 1,850,213.60
Demand collateral loans 1,589,908.02
Bonds and stocks 5,807,445.01
U. S. government securities 1,588,063.74
Bank building 644,539.14
Advances to trusts 476,192.13
Due from departments 80,472.98
Accrued interest receivable 192,075.60
Total assets $15,367,900.25
Deposits 13,307,908.37
Excess of assets over liabilities... $2,059,991.88
jFletcher
j&atofogs anti Crust Compan?
Northwest corner Market and Pennsylvania
FOOD DOUBLED,
MINERS CHARGE
Prepare Table of Living Ex
penses for U. S. Board.
Prices of food and other commodities
in mining towns have increased more
than 100 per cent since 1914, according
to figures which will be presented to the
government soft coal commission by the
United Mine Workers of America in their
plea for increased wages. They point to
the fact that Secretary Wilson favored
r 31.61 per cent increase in wages based
on an increase of 79 percent in food
values. They say this percentage is low
for mining towns.
As an example of the increases the
miners have sent out the following list
which was based on one town, but which
the miners say represents fairly the in
creases in the prices of commodities
miners must buy:
Commodity. 1914. 1919.
Flour, 100 lbs $2.75 $ 7.50
M. R. bran 1.20 2.50
Shelled corn, per sack 1.50 3.50
p’-n-s r pp r
EShorts, per sack 1.50 3.00
ii. .. per lb 15 .40
Host smoked meat, per lb. .24 .60
Best hams, per lb 21 .10
Navy beans, 4 lbs 25 .70
Pink beans, 4 lbs 25 .70
Butter beans, 3 lbs 25 .70
Pr Kn'-H'-b nms 5 *bg
Post toasties, two f0r...... .25 .50
\\ usUuigUm cri’P, c-itc ror ,~o ... /
Rolled oats, three for 25 .50
Rolled oats, large, each... .22 .40
Clarlette soap, seven bars. .25 .58
Kirk soap, seven bars for. .25 .5.8
White laundry soap, six.. .25 'toS
Cheese, per lb .20 ..V)
snow Drift, 10-lb. pa 11.... 1.23 2.75
now Drift. 5-lb. pail 50 1.35
Compound lard, per lb 10 .32
Compound lard, o-lb. pall. .50 1.30
Compound lard 10-lb. pall .90 2.60
Compound lard. 50-lb. can. 4.00 14.00
Cranberries, per qt 10 .20
Dr. apples, three lbs for... .25 .75
Dr. peaches, per lb 10 .25
Dr. apricots, per lb 15 .25
No. 2 tomatoes, per. doz.. .95 185
No. 3 tomatoes, per do*... 1.30 2.90
No. 3 kraut, 3 for 25 .00
Milk, small cans, 6 for 25 .60
Milk, large cans, 3 for 25 .60
Package salt, 3 for 10 .20
Aunt Jemlna pancake flour,
per pkg 13 .20
16-oz. Dottle catsup 22 .35
Best red salmon, per can.. .20 .40
Citron, orange and lemon
peel, per lb 25 .40
Pure honey, 15-oz. glass... .22 .40
No. 2 sliced pineapple, can .18 .50
No. 3 best pears, per can.. .22 .50
No. 3 best peaches, per can .22 .50
Loose pickles, per doa 07 .15
Potatoes, per bushel 90 2.75
Sugar, 17 lbs for 1.00 4.25
Good bulk coffee, 6 lbs for 1.00 2.00
Good peaberry coffee, lb.. .25 .40
Onions, per lb 03 .08
Cabbage, per lb 03 .07
Coal oil per gal 10 .20
Best creamery butter, lb.. .35 .85
Union carbide, 4*4 lbs for. .25 .37*4
The miners- say that similar increases
have been made in the prices of clothing.
Hoyne’s Son Drives
Hogs to Break Strike
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Thomas Maclay
Hoyne, son of State’s Attorney Maclay
Hoyne, is driving hogs at the stock yards.
Last Tuesday a number of hog drivers
went on strike and Hoyne and a. number
f other men employed at the yards took
their places.
The Building Contractors Association
and Builders Exchange
HARRISON WALTERS, Pres. ARTHUR SANFORD, 3rd V. P.
E. C. STRATHMANN, Ist V. P. FRANK C. JOHNSON, 4th V. P.
CLAUDE McELWAINE, 2nd V. P. C. C. PIERSON, Secretary.
ANNOUNCE
The Greatest Assemblage of
Builders Ever Held, Clay pool
Hotel January 12, 13, 14, 15
All Local Builders should assist in extending Genuine
Hoosier Hospitality to our guests from all parts of the
United States.
Executive Convention Committee:!
J. E. Hali Walter W. Wise Claude McElwame
*IA>CE entertainment reception
El C Strathmani Fred W. Jungclaus n \ Porter
T. E. Hatfield Geo. Maas Wm. F. Off (
HOTEL PIBI.ICITY REGISTRATION
S' a' D Ur £ ay Harrison Wa,ter Arthur Sanford
B - Foenner RobL Berner Frank Sink
Women Aid Blind
Man; Nip His sl7
Charles Linerick, a blind man. today
knows that there are good and bad peo
ple in the world.
Two negro women offered to help him
across the street at Indiana and Senate
avenues. While doing this they ex
tracted his purse, containing sl7. Kind
hearted men at the traction terminal
station took up a collection to enable
him to reach his home at Shelbyville.
Cheese Knife Murder
Brings One Arrest
Special to The Times.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 12.—One
man is under arrrest today and a city
wide investigation is on in connection
with the slaying of Frank Fields, who
was stabbed to death with a cheese knife
in his soft drink parlor Saturday night.
Elmer May, the man under arrerst, was
employed by Fields. Police earlier had
worked on the theory that Fields met
his death at the hands of an unidentified
thief.
What Are Our Assets
In This Great Country of Ours?
"We have our soils, our cities, our mines, our
factories, our ideals and ambitions.
Let us strike off the chains of our own slav
ery and once more be free. Nothing then
could stop our advance, or diminish the full
ness of our domestic and foreign trade.
Let Us Cure
our nerves; our unrest, “all of our own mak
ing,” and just relax —quitiwondering, worry
ing and worshiping false lights—just cease
troubling.
Here, again, are the fields, the factories,
the pleasure of doing a full day’s work.
Let us forget our mental maladies and quack
doctors and work and save.
Let us resolve that 1920 shall not only be a
working year, but a Saving year.
We Pay 44% on Savings
Meyer Kiser Bank
136 E. Washington St.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
WIDOW’S MITE
AWAKENS ECHO
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Chester Ave. Woman Among
Many to Write to North
Carolinian.
BRIDGES YAWNING GAP
Special to The Times.
! ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jan. 12.—1 t may
seem a far cry from the smooth resi
dential streets of Indianapolis, Ind., to
the rugged almost inaccessible coves of
western North Carolina, but the ipails
span the distance in the space of a few
short hours, bringing into intimate touch
a distant city and a simple mountain
cabin near Craggy, N. C., where sits Mrs.
Margaret E. Parris, an aged Christian
widow, upon whom constantly, since
Christmas, there has been showered a
steady stream of presents, post cards,
and heart-touching letters, typical of
which is the warm, cheerful message
from Indianapolis.
And all because in the fullness of her
heart, she walked through a drizzling
rain to the city of Ashville, N. C\, many
weeks ago to lay upon the altar her
widow’s mite —a 30 per cent contribution
to the Baptist $75,000,000 campaign. It
was all she had ; she gave it freely and
j gladly, returned to her lowly home to
pursue her dally work in caring for a
; household filled with her children, grand
children, and two orphan girls, never
I dreaming that out of her meager gift
would grow a movement embracing the
| lives of many persons la far away cities
of the United States.
But the story of her sacrifice became
known. One day she was surprised
1 to find a special writer from Wasblng
j ton dropping in at her cabin- With him
■ was a photographer. Her deed and her
; history were then and there transcribed
|to paper. Over night she became known
1 in Rlmost 400 scattered cities.
FLOOD OF MAIL
STARTS ON HOUSEHOLD.
Then, in a brief space of time, there
becan to come to her and to her chil
dren and grandchildren vast bundles of
j letters and packages the like of which
! bad never been seen before in that sim
; pie home. Messages of heartfelt sym
pathy, of good cheer, and of outspoken
love and affection they were, from young
and od, from millionaire, bankers end
working folk, from lawyers and doctors,
nearly all of whom backed up their writ
ten utterances with some holiday gift-
Typtoal of tills hearty, wholesome
| spirit of these letters is the communi
cating coming from Mrs. George C. 'Wil
liams of 49 South Chester avenue, In
i dianapolis:
“Will you accept this little gift?
I know that Is Is not much—not as
much as I would like to send, but
such as it is it is given in the spirit
of love, and I trust you will accept it
as a small token of good fellow
ship.
“I am sure our dear Savior means
for us to help one another while we
are here on earth. If I can be of any
3fn&iatta Uaitaj Simce
Why Indianapolis
Is Best City to Live,
Work and Grow In
Indianapolis is the capital of In
diana and is In the geographical
center of the state. Twenty-nine
railroads and electric railways ra
diate out over the state. Indian
apolis Is a good city for a travel
ing man to make his home. In
dianapolis is a convenient city.—
Prepared for The Times by the
convention board in charge of ar
rangements for the convention of
the Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World, to be held here
June 6 to 10.
further service to you, my dear Mrs.
Parris, won’t you let me know? I
shall be more than glad to do what
ever 1 possibly can.”
Could Mr3. Williams look Into that
simple mountain home for a few brief
moments, her heart would be tilled to
overflowing in the knowledge that "the
spirit of love" in which her thoughtful
gift was sent had come to pervade the
cabin with peace, Joy and contpntment.
SHE WILL LEAVE NO
LETTER UNANSWERED.
But the day will come when a letter,
composed and written with much care,
will be finding its Way to her from the
mountains of North Carolina. For Widow
Parris, although she can not read or
write, is not going to rest content until
every one who has so kindly remembered
her has been sent in return a message
of thanks. The oldest daughter, also a
widow, has taken upon herself the gi
gantic task.
Nor Is the end In sight. Each mall
brings its quota of letters, packages and
post cards to swell the store already
received. At the Craggy postoffice a
special box has been set aside to hold
the widow's daily mail that now makes
up the greater portion of the receipts in
the little office.
There is one letter, however, upon
which Widow Parris does not look with
favor, although she can appreciate the
spirit that prompted the writer. From
a lady in a neighboring stnte. it contains
a request that one of the little grand
children be given her for adoption.
“Why, I’d work my finger nails plumb
to the bone before I’d see one of them
Music Loyers Choose the Bruns r wick
N/TUSIC lovers choose the Brunswick
Phonograph to play their favorite
records, for it plays all records at their best.
The Brunswick Method of Reproduc- m
cion makes this possible. It consists jffigßßiil|ss
of two outstanding, exclusive features raKffijSl
the Brunswick Ultona and the Bsllfniliis
Brunswick Tone Amplifier.
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T 124 North V W ~
aHTn, Fenn. St. a
I :: i:!'' ■ I WllW 1, ,
The Home of the $4.50 Eye-Glass
Lenses with any desired mounting in 1
stock, case and cord complete
Kryptok invisible bifocals for
( \l Ttf 1 FAR and NEAR vision (ground
I together, not cemented), com-
V J V J plete, with your choice A
of mounting $8 to
A splendid complete assortment of mountings to select from.
Hoosier Optical Company
148 N. Illinois St. Open Saturday Evenings
Manufacturing Opticians. No Charge for Examinations.
FIND A FLAW
in our dentist work and we will
cancel the charges.. Our laboratory I \SBMV
work is the best in town, and our
chair work is not excelled by any tr' jT
dentist in the business.
DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR TEETH V T/yA
for you will get no more where V 1
those came from, and it is nicer to \/^V
have your own than false ones. J&'\
Bridge over the gap in the row, and T''jr §
let us do it for you at fair prices. I
Estimates on work free of charge. \k v _ I j
EITELJORG & MOORE c = iT-ST*
nITWTICTC Ground Floor.
UHIN 11313 Lady Attendant
sent away,” she declared with emphasis
her eyes snapping aa she referred to
this offer. “They're just about all I've
got and there’s nothing that could make
me give them up,” she added, watching
the grandchildren playing before the big
fireplace in front of which stood a row
of flat irons.
HER FAITH NOT
MISPLACED.
“I’ve lost four of my children in the
mills before I came here,” she continued
reminiscently gazing upon an enlarged
photograph of her family taken shortly
after the death of her husband. “When
the war came on they took my eldest
boy, but do you know I never felt one
bit afraid he'd get shot or hit with
those shells over there. I knew the
good Lord would take care of him, and
He did.
“The Lord says he won’t put on us
more than we can bear, either of good
or bad, and It looks like be surely
won’t send me more than I can rightly
bear,” said Mrs. Parris with a glad light
shining in her eyes, her hands fondling
with almost reverent touch the last batch
of letters received.
Turning, displayed thq. hats and
dresses sent her for the robust grand
children gathered near her knees.
“They's so much about I can’t rightly
keep track of It all,” she admitted with
a warm smile.
Cloth Machinery
to Be Put in School
Machinery for the manufacture of cot
ton and woolen fabrics will be purchased
for the Indiana boys’ school at Plain
field and put Into operation at once, ac
cording to plans of the trustees of the
school. Maurice C. Shelton, state pur
chasing agent, and Charles A. McGon
agle, superintendent of the school, will
go to Massachusetts next week to In
spect the machinery and arrange for
ita purchase and shipments. The boys
are e tpeeted to manufacture blankets and
coarser cotton fabrics used In all the
state institutions.
State Grain Men
Arrange Banquet
Plans have been completed for the
annual meeting and banquet of the In- i
dlana Grain Dealers’ association to be
held Thursday at the Claypool hotel.
MaJ. Gen. F. C. Marshall Os jCamp
Tayor, Ky., and Judge Raymond S. |
Springer of Connersville, Ind., also state !
commander of the American Legion, will I
be the principal speakers at the banquet
Thursday night.
Good Luck Oleomargarine—Glossbrenner’s
Fesler Club Will Be
Formed Wednesday
A meeting for the purpose of organ
izing a “Fesler for Governor club” will
be held at the Claypool hotel Wednesday
evening. All Persons favoring the nom
ination of James W. Fesler on the re
publican ticket have been asked to at
tend. Women as well as men will be
admitted to the club membership. There
will be short talks by friends of the
Fesler movement.
The committee which has arranged the
meeting consists of Caleb S. Dennny,
Charles A. Bbokwalter, A. M. Glossbren
ner, Dr. Sumner A. Furniss and Dr.
E. D. Clark.
Plea Wins Y. W. Aid
in Far East Work
A substantial financial response Is ex
pected to result from an appeal made
here by Mrs. Sherwood Eddy, national
board representative of the Y. M. C. A.,
for support of the work of the associa
tion in the Orient and the far east. Two
addresses were made here Saturday by
Mrs. Eddy, in which she outlined the
work being done in the east.
CARTOONIST TALKS TOMORROW.
Chic Jackson, cartoonist, will give a
chalk talk on "Goldnh, a Member of the
Press” at the Tuesday noon luncheon
of the Indiana Press club of Indiana.
Following the luncheon, a business pro
gram will be held.
MELLETT PRINTING CO.
Particular PHntarm
4th Floor
CENTURY BUILDING
Main 4756 Auto. 23-241
QUALITY AND SERVICE
r— ■'
ft. Washington St
■■■■ ..
Cups and Saucers up
Dinner Plates 10£ up
Fancy hand-painted Plates.39£
30-piece Dinner Set $4.95
Little Furniture Store
211 E. Washington St.
Mending TISSUE - SSTSSSI
No swln,*Sr darning. Repairs clothing,
•ilk, satin, cotton goods, ribbons, labrtes
of all kinds, kid gloves, mackintoshes,
umbrellas, parasols, stockings, etc. Peck
postpaid. 15 cants, two pack.igci, 25
cants Address PENN PUBLISHING CO.,
WairerMw. Pa.
'&&& The E. W. Steinhart Company
is pleased to call attention to a
Special Exhibit of High Grade Used Cars
on the Main Floor Salesrooms
Meridian Street at Eleventh
■* '*• >
This display, which offers a wide
range of choice, has been espe
. dally priced for early sale.
Open Evenings
Army Goods Sale
134 SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET
Repaired marching and field shoes, newly soled
and heeled by U. S. CQ
government VW*"V
New army Munson last $5.00
New infantry Munson last $6.00
Overalls and jumpers (Rec.), 7
each *
Woolen underwear 7
(Rec.) *
at ew . b ! anket ! $6.00
New woolen QC/i . fiAd*
socks and vVL
2SS W ° 0 *.?:. D : ..- $4.00
QUEEN CITY SALVAGE CO.,.KS.
I Qmilh lllinnk SffrAfil , Special Attention Given Mail Orders
I WIIUIII lIIIIIVIw UIIWI when accompanied by each, certified check or order.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1920.
Yea, those Kodak pic
tures of yours certainly
are worth while. But s
when yon want a real f WA
record of character and
personality, you can get rJITV
It in photographic por- yffTW
Ninth Floor Kahn Bldg.
GREER-HANKIHS LBR. CO.
Appliers and Retailers
VULCANITE ASPHALT SHINGLES
and ROLL ROOFING
04 MASS. AYR.
Main 747. Phones. Auto. 22-213.
for
Steamship Tickets
Europe
Bermuda—Japan
South America
GENERAL TRAVEL INFORMATION
Call on or Address
STEAMSHIP DEPARTMENT
Merchants
National Bank
Frenzel Bros.
INDIANAPOLIS.
Electric Washing Machines
/f Guaranteed te waah 100 per cent cleg*.
II Sold on convenient terms.
“*■ HATFIELD ELECTRIC CO.
CLOTHING ON CREDIT
PEOPLE’S CREDIT CLOTHINB CO.
46 N. PENNSYLVANIA ST. 2nd FLOOR
IF IT IS IN THE LINE OF HARDWARE
YOU CAN GET IT AT VONNEGUT’Sg
ISO TANARUS 124 EAST WASHINGTON STREET A
ALL INTERURBAN ROADS LEAD TO
D. N. FOSTER FURNITURE COMPANY
117-lin-ltl Weal Market It Across Market Street Front the Terminal Station.
Reissue O. D. wool shirts, practi- tfQ AA
cally new
S ew BWBa * er “ $2.00 to $4.00
New slipover 0-4 f A 60 AA
sweaters 9A*vv to d'MtVV
New gas-mask raincoats, made of gas-mask
material, officers’ style, with 619 AA
belt, $25.00 value
New Goodyear raincoats, with belt, 67 C A
plaid lined, $15.00 value VmvV
Army raincoats, slight-^Q CA 6A AA
iy used (Rec.) and
New woolen union 69 AT A
suits.:
Army overcoats 6fi AT A
djed blue vOuU
New serge raincoats with belts, 60 ff A
$17.50 values sv*vv
MEN’S REGULAR $1.29 V
Jersey Sweaters
97c
—Come in navy blue only. Sizes
36 to 44. While they last, 97^.
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