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HIE IXDIAXAPOLIS STXDAV STAK, APIUL" 21, 1029. DOWN IN THE HILLS 0' BROWN COUNTY WHAT I INDIANA POSTAL SUPERVISORS Henry J. Mueller, Terre Haute: W. Owners of shops who make a livir.g D. Hutson, Newcastle: Elbert renting these prewar symbols of so-son, Tipton: Davisson Brass, Koko- cial correctness are complaining that mo: Ernest Sioner.

Greencastle; Ella they are facing ruin. Massoth, Crown Point O. H. P.abe, The reason jg t0 be found, how- BY FRANK IIOHENBERGEH. the flight from Ormar.y.

Aunt Molly kept quiet until everybody at the ever not in the decreasing popu iaoie nau inpir sh, men pne quired: larity of frock coats and top hats but in the amazing popularity of these social accessories among the middle classes and petty bourgeois, who, seeking to ape the grandeur of the ruling social class before the war, now prefer to own than to hire them. No ball or dance even of workers in a soap factory is proper unless the gentlemen appear in full dress and top hats. liammuna. rcrry it. oneo, ciuiau, and Robert Connellv, Lafayette.

The state meeting last year was held at Martinsville. Frock Coats, Top Hats Dying Hard in Berlin BERLIN, April Service) Frock coats and top hats are dying a hard death in Germany. Takes NASHVILLE, Ir.d., April 20 I 0j TZT-j REPRESENT VnJk a Cincinnati lliC inviW cups REPRESENT ATI VK at the summer ho IP of Rich on branch trip: ard Liobc-r, on li Bald, in part, about "After dinner that nicht we sat before the cavernous stone fire-riare in thp main room of Whin- poorwill lodge, whore an oaken fire eombatted the chill of the surrounding forest. This room i had been a lo. cabin and then a barn on a distant road, and other rooms were built on to it when it.

was removed. Its interior lias been restored to a pioneer likeness. On the vail was a rifle; a pot of water from th; iriaue sieamru amu uie l'iaze. I the i the alley Padie Cuilen was filling a dishpan from the rain barrel. "I'm glad t' see this springy day a person kin git started on th' house-cleaning that's bin needm' attention fur some said Lizzie.

Sadie agreed with her and then added. "Winter is one visitor I never ask t' come back an' I guess I ain't impolite, either. I've bin waitin' a long time fur this rhanct wash my hair." I often wondered why a certain fellow about town was called a walrus but I happened to be close to him just as he announced that he believed he would go home and get in bed. He was awfully tired. The speaker had two, and two only, widely-separated teeth in Ins upper jaw.

Jirry Bond, village philosopher, says: "We thought we had a good many ton uv weeds in our back yard last year but th' way th' nuisances air gittin' started we'll have a fur sure crop this year. But they never worry me my woman won't let anyone else but her mow 'em down." 1 wonaer wncre tneyre gonna put nil mat trasii wnen In end of th world comes?" "Ef any artist ever got a pood likeness of Lizzie Thickstun they'd have t' put th' paint on with a spray 'cause she kaint set still long enough," Sorg Matthis 'lowed. "There ain't nothin' t' this workin' hinSSi iVs jiKt a scheme git. rich," is Charley Shnwers's excuse taking things easy. At.

the corner store when business was dragging along a man from Greasy creek called fur a pair nf gloves. The storekeeper's wife, anxious to make a sale, took the fellow in tow. Down from a top shelf came an assortment of gloves and she started to find a nair of rhov mivj nj (HohrnherKPr Photo.) B7U CONVENE Vaughn Wilkinson in Charge of Plans for Annual Session May 7 100 Expected to Attend. to The Indianapolis Star. NEWCASTLE, Ind April the direction of Vaughn Wilkinson, assistant postmaster of 'Newcastle, plans are rapidly going forward for the annual convention of the Indiana Association of Postal Supervisors, to be held in this city Mav 7.

Mr. Wilkinson is state president of the association three day engagement today at Zar-ing's Egyptian. In the whirl of New York's dizzy-high social stratum this $50,000 lasts Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill a very short time, indeed and $4,000 fur coats and $50-a-plate dinner parties help in the reduction process. HOWARD "The Trail of '98." "The Trail of '98" at the Howard today and tomorrow with a cast of stars including: Dolores del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane and Harry Carev. is a storv of the Klondike.

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when she had located one for the left "Environment shapes conversation. hand she returned to the remainder After permiting our host to sound of the stock for the rest of the "set." the praises of the people of Brown Joel Prosser, Helmsburg wit, hap-v-e talked about the Indian tribes to pened to be in the crowd of loaf-which we belonged by adoption, and era. Quick as a flash he substi-the frontier origin of the word 'Hoo- tuted a glove that had two thumbs. YOU DO (SEirs-Q'ir IS LANS, FINANCES, AT RIALS and CONSTRUCTION all handled directly through snow slide, the Chilkoot pass, one Tit AT NEWCASTLEl More than one hundred mail supervisors from all parts of the state will be here for the meeting. Newcastle is making elaborate plans for entertainment of the Federal forkers.

Speakers will include William R. of Washington, superintendent of the post office service, and Harry F. Folger of Pittsburgh, president of the National Association of Postal Supervisors. Inspectors on rrngram John W. Walburn of Cincinnati, postal inspector for Indiana, Ohio and Kentucy, and A.

S. Kelley of Winchester, district postal inspector, will be among the speakers. The Bondy hotel will be headquarters for the convention and registration is scheduled to begin at 10 o'clock in the morning. A business session is scheduled for 11 o'clock and a luncheon at noon. On the afternoon program talks will be made by Mr.

Welburn and Mr. Kelley, Postmaster Samuel J. Bufkin of Newcastle and Mayor Strod Hays. The principal address of the day will be heard at the banquet in the evening. Election of officers will be held after the banquet.

Tour of City Arranged. As a part of the afternoon program VAUGHN WILKINSON. an automobile tour of the principal places of interest here will be made, including the Indiana village for epileptics, Chrysler Motor Corporation, Hoosier Manufacturing Company, Indiana rolling mill, French Piano Company and Memorial park. At the Indiana epileptic village, Superintendent W. C.

VanNuys has volunteered to personally conduct a tour of the institution. Wives of the postal supervisors here for the meeting will be entertained by a committee composed of Mrs. Samuel J. Bufkin, Mrs. William Hutson and Mrs.

Vaughn Wilkinson, members of the local Post Office Auxiliary. Association Officers. Robert E. Connelly 'of Lafayette is vice president of the state association and Claud E. Cohce of Martinsville is state secretary-treasurer.

Members of the- state organization committee are as follows: Thomas D. Thorn, Vincennes; Day Thrasher, Bloomington; F. A. Roach, French Lick; Charles H. Brown.

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The bill also includes two all-talking comedies and three Vitaphone acts. Both Cooper and Miss Velez arc heard singing in the feature picture. The theme song is "Yo Te Amo Means I Iove You" and the attrac tive Mexican actress sings this nn several different occasions. Another high light of the picture is when a group ot nardy mountaineers sing "The Bride's Relations," featuring Johnny Burke, is one of the all-talking comedies while release No. 1 of 'The Collegians" in talking is the other.

CAriTOL "The Crash." "The Crash," with Milton Sills and Thelma Todd is being shown at the Capitol today and tomorrow. It is a story that glorifies the unsung heroes of the railroad. The second picture on the program is ihe Jazz Singer, Jolson. a Warner Bros, production ALAMO "Idaho Red." Possibly because of his giantlike physical proportions, Tom Tyler, who is starred in the F. B.

O. production. Idaho Red," to be shown at the Alamo theater today, and tomorrow, sometimes encounters timidity among the Dad men who are supposed to oppose him in fistic battles on the screen. Appearing with Tyler in "Idaho Red are Frankie Darro, Patricia Caron, Al Smith and Lew Meehsn. FOUNTAIN SQUARE "Weary Kiver." Richard Earthelmess singing and talking is the treat awaiting motion picture fans in "Weary Rivet" at the fountain Square starting today.

"Weary Kiver is a modern storv in which underworld life is combined with the radio. It is based on a short story by Courtney Ryley Cooper and was adapted to the screen by Brad ley King. Betty Compson appears as leading lady. Metro Movietone acts, Pathe talk ing news, synchro-song and Fable complete the bill. RITZ "The Doctor's Secret The 100 per cent talking picture "The Doctor's Secret," from the pen of Sir James M.

Barrie, and featuring Robert Edeson, Ruth Chatterton and H. B. Warner, is booked for showing at the Ritz today and tomorrow. This picture is a drama of London society, and its sharp dramatic contrasts shows to the audience the heights of happiness and depths of despair that can come to one woman's life in a short half hour. GRANADA "Starlc Mad." "Stark Mad," Warner Vita-phone mystery comedy, will be the feature at the Granada today, tomorrow and Tufsday.

Boasting an all-star cast, the picture recounts the adventures of a group of well-meaning people who join the hunt for a young hunter lost in the Central American jungles. H. B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Lionel Belmore, Claude Gil-lingwater and Warner Richmond play prominent parts. Two maids each were required by Jacqueline Logan and Jane Winton during the making of "Nothing to Wear," the Granada comedy feature Wednesday and Thursday.

"Clear the Decks," Reginald Denny's latest Universal comedy, will hold the spotlight at the Granada Friday and Saturday. R1VOLI "The Home Towners." Richard Bennett, born at Logans-port and for many years a familiar figure with a traveling medicine show in northern Indiana, has the leading role in "The Home Town ers," the Rivoli's feature showing today, tomorrow and Tuesday. Ihe picture is the screen revival of George M. Cohan's stage success. Lya DePutti and Kenneth Harlan play the leads in "Midnight Rose," Universal's colorful picturization of life on the gold coast, showing Wednesday and Thursday at the Rivoli.

Wallace Beery has the leading role in "Chinatown Nights," a mystery drama to be shown at the Rivoii Friday and Saturday. ZARING "Children of the Ritz." Many who have imagined how content they would be with $50,000 in the bank will have an opportunity to learn how quickly that amount can be made to disappear in "Children of the Ritz," the picture which opens a MRS. H1INTI EV R. No. 1, Box 20, Post, Tcxai "I was all run-down and could not sleep at night I was so nervous.

My sister took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 30 years ago and it did wonders for her so I am taking it and I can't praise it too highly I have a better appetite, can sleep at night and milk, churn, cook and work in my garden all day. I think it is the best medicine in the world for weak, nervous women." Mrs. N. Huntley, R.

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There's no gittin' around it that a person with a machine can gather in more gossip." "W'y, that woman can't be sick-she's bin hobbling 'round hero nigh onto thirty-five years an' didn't hardly evtn sneak a doctor in that time. I wonder wot's a-ailin' uv 'er?" was the beginning of a conversation at the corner of Plum and Vine. "W-all, I heerd she wuz sent up t' th' city t' look after a sick person an' not bein' used t' it got chilled from ridin' in one uv them flvin' yaller busses. I reckin she had her head hangin out uv th winder t1 see whirr she wuz a-goin'." "Have yuh bin t' see 'er?" "Yes, an' she's gonna be thar fur some time, tier folks says she bin on th' en so much her friends cnnlH nei-cr git t' talk er an' countin' on keepin' 'er there 'til all th' news gits pone over. She says fhe.

gittin wen in spots." ICELAND HAS RECORD IN PER CAPITA TRADE REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 20. tP) Iceland's total export trade increased amazingly in 1928. being valued at 74,000,000 kroner (about $19,250,000) as compared with the 1927 figures ot 57,000,000 kroner. These figures become all the more remarkable when it is understood that Iceland's ponulation does not exceed 100 000. In" fact, the foreign trade of $192 per capita is the greatest in the world.

This northern country takes great pride in its exports both commercial and cultural. While Icelanders point out complacently that they export more economic goods for each inhabitant than any other country, they also are proud of their unusually high production of poets and artists. Has Many Writers, Artists. Some of the greatest writers of today hail from Iceland. No other nation has a higher or more general taste in literature and art.

But the export figures show that the Icelanders also know how to weave their dreams into a wonderful fabric of production and sale. Their oommrcial leaders say laughingly that "queer fish, such as poets and artists, are not the chief export of the country, but dried cod and salted herrings." MERRY LONDON HAS 'COCKROACH TRIAL' LONDON, April Service) London's now famous "Cockroach Trial" is even making Scotch laugh. Learned entymologists have taken the stand either for or against Mrs. Violet Frances D'Arcy in her suit against owners of her flat because, she it was overrun by man-eating cockroaches. Servant girls have told dreadful tales of a cockroach terror.

Hall porters have kissed the book on their oath that the cockroaches in Mrs. D'Arcy's flat could jump two feet. Here are some of the salient facts in the testimony before the learned Justice McCardie: Cockroaches and bedbugs first appeared in England five yetrs before the time of the Spanisn armada. The cockroach's dressed-up name is Blatta Orientalis. Cockroaches are cannibals when they feef like being so.

Cochroach eggs hatch in eight days and it takes twelve months for a boy cockroach to reach voting age longer for a girl. Cockroaches do not bite humans, that is. ITALIAN PRINCESS GIVES "SPAGHETTI" BANQUET ROME. April 20. (Universal Service) Princess Jane San Faustino, formerly Miss Jane Campbell of New York, recently entertained at her home with a real "spaghetti" party, at which all those who attended ate an extra plate of this national Italian dish.

The party was given after a "Hollywood" show, in which most of Rome'a aristocracy took part. the White Horse rapids, the burning of Dawson City and other items of historical interest are shown. OBPHEUM "The Butter r.nd Egff Man." The screen's new love team, Jack Mulhall and Greta Nissen in "The Butter and Egg Man," is the bill for today and tomorrow at the Orpheum. It is a story of a small town boy who outwitted the wise boys of Main street. ARCADE "Excess Baggage." "Excess Baggage," starring William Haines at the Arcade today and tomorrow, is a story of romance backstage.

Romance and success clash in this picture of life, love and laughs in vaudeville. Supporting Haines are Josephine Dunn and Cortez. STRAND "The Rescue." From the pages of a master storyteller, Joseph Conrad, springs the drama of "The Rescue," starring Ronald Colman, the attraction at the Strand today, matinee and night, and tomorrow night. It is a compelling narrative of warring hearts, primitive hates and the eternal struggle of civilization versus savagery. This picture marks the initial appearance of the foreign star, Lily Damita.

ORIENTAL "The Cohens and Kellys In Atlantic The ever-popular screen comedy team, Cohen and Kelly, have broken out into noise, dialogue, arguments and repartee in their latest comedy, "The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City," playing the Oriental today and tomorrow. George Sidney again Is the featured star in this laughable story and Mack Swain, the veteran comedian, portrays the part of Mr. Kelly. Vera Gordon and Kate Price are in the supporting cast. UPTOWN AND ST.

CLAIR "Desert Nights." A vivid and gripping story of three individuals at the mercy of the primitive wastes of an African desert is unfolded in "Desert Nights," John Gilbert's latest screen success, showing at the Uptown and St. Clair today, matinee and night, and tomor row night. Gilbert is seen in an entirely new find different role, that of youthful diamond mine manager in the heart of darkest Africa. Ernest Torrence and Mary Nolan are in support, WALKER "The Wages of Sin." (All-Colored Cast.) The Walker next week brings to the city two of the stellar attractions playing race theaters today. One is the all-colored photoplay, "The Wages of Sin," produced by the Oscar Micheaux Company, which has many nims to its credit and which has been in the game since the first pie-slinging comedy flickered on to the old-fashioned cambric sheet.

"The Wages of Sin" is rated as the best production of the company. It will be featured four days, beginning today. The other star attraction is H. L. Stewart's unique musical stage attraction, "Broadway to Hades," which will hold forth all the week, opening tomorrow night.

This tuneful offering is filled with comedy served up by' "String Beans" Price. Whistling Rufus, a music-making master, is equally as well known over the big wheel burlesque time. Completing the week on the screen bill will be Clara Bow in the film version of Elinor Glynn's famous novel, "Three Week-Ends." id win MRS. IOHN FILER 138 Bickford Avenue, Buffalo, N. took Lydia E.

Pinkham's VegetableCompound for nervousness, tired feelings and underweight and it helped me to general good health. My nerves are much better, I have a good appetite now and feel well and strong. I am a housewife and do my work every day. I am willing to answer any letters I receive from women asking about the Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Mrs.

John Filer, 138 hicklord Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. and about back logs and red sassafras, and New England bean-pots and egg-butter, and the technique of poke greens. Also we debated the etymology of the word whereot our host discoursed learnedly in Latin, High Dutch, Low Dutch and Gothic. "Coming back to red sassafras, the berries of which we had seen on Weed Patch, I learned that in tea the bark thins the blood that you Bleep sounder in beds of the wood: that floors fabricated of it will keep out the smr.ll varmints; that chicken perches should be made of the poles, and that, the best soap is obtained when you stir the kettle with sassafras stick." Jim Hodapp, berry picker, who looks after little jobs in the village in the winter, was asked what he was doing.

As he turned his nickels and dimes over and over he remarked, "Jobs that no one else will do." In the southern part of the count lives a coupie that get. along just 1 about so-so. The woman does a lot I Of washings and the husband tries to eke out a pan of the pr.nenr.es with a roadside store. On his shelves he carries nothing that, can be used in the home and it is not uncommon to see the wife bringing groceries from Nashville. The husband decided he wanted to build an addition to his store and being shy on cash for a sash of glass asked for a loan from his woman.

There was nothing doing on this proposition. However, when she went to the county seat he removed the necessary window from the house and inserted it in the store opening and the patient wife made anotner trip to Nashville, "Yep, I've bin up th' artist pit painted," said AVoolev Hart, "an' th' pitcher is s' speakin'-likc that once in a while the oainter would come nigh usin' th' brushes on me instid uv th' e0th." "I'm sellin' Christmas cards," said Millie Cox's little daughter' when Becky Neumisler opened (he door. "Well, I'm awfully sorrv. Ruby, but I gave my order to a little bov aDout an nour ago. Ruby reeled on a heel a few times and then said, "But I'm gnttin' or- ders fur next vear." The owner of a restaurant, who has a- keen eye for business, stations himself within view of hi? place of business and when a tourist comes along and inquires for a good dining room he directs them In his place.

He makes no mention of his connection with the eating parlor, hut emphasizes this: "It's a good place -I eat there ail the time." When there was tion about the big lot nf rommo-airrhin mr.kin.T I When the sabslady returned and examined what she thought was the left glove she decided she had made a mistake. Another trip to the top s-helf was started. The glove was flopped again and she gave up in despair. Her husband told her to count the eggs a woman was tot ing to the rear of the store while ho fished out the gloves. When a man on thhe Helmsburg road lost a valuable cow he announced he would buy a less expensive one next time.

Cows was cows to him and he figured all of them had to be fed. He didn't get much sympathy uptown because losses of that kind have to be reckoned with from time to lime in the farming business, A woman who heard the plaintive tale said it reminded her of a little neighbor boy who cut the inside out of a large button and made a ring. He valued it highly. He lost winie crossing a nrmge. lewing i the spot where it hit the water the lad said Them that has loses "Some artists ran see the landscape and neithc can some of the viritors," was a part of an argument when a prospective buyer shrugged his shoulders and walked away.

"Seems like they've got bigger elephants now than they used to have," said Allie Wilkerson when she returned from the circus at Blooming-ton. An illustration of how attached some folks can become to each other was found in Brown county last summer. i ranees Hoag, 3a, died at her home on Skeersity Fat ridge in August. Her body was shipped to Strawberry point, la. Harriet M.

Kersey accompanied the body. Both had taught school together, went through college side by side and agreed to stick to each other until death separated them. When Miss Hoag conracted tuberculosis they came to Brown county where they lived for three years in a loosely-constructed cabin-like home. I nan a hard time convincing a customer that it wouldn't look just right for me to insert the photo- graph of a greatgrandfather tn a copy job of a group picture. "Yes.

I know he wasn't livin' w'en this little feller in th' front row wuz born but ev'rybody wouldn't 'spicion it, do yuh think?" was the final question put to me. "Maw wunts a vial uv Tollgate's toothpaste an' hurry up 'cause th' last, bell's a-ringin'," was an early morning order at the drug store. Lizzie Thickstun was hanging a feather tick on the clothesline. Across AIN YOU have, no doubt, used Bayer Aspirin for headaches and you know how promptly and completely it relieves the pain. But until you try it for some deep-seated pain such as neuritis or neuralgia you will not know its full effectiveness.

Try using it to ward off a summer cold, or to break-up a cold that has a start. Or use it as a gargle for sore throat or tonsilitis. Then you'll realize why millions of denend on it. These tablets are utterly harmless, as any doctor will tell you. Every drugstore has the genuine product, with Bayer on the box and on each tablet.

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