The Tribune from Hicksville, Ohio • Page 3

TRIBUNE HE TRIBUNE The Ntwrictt Newspaper In Defiance County. SECTION TWO Eight Page Edition VOL. XXXVI HICKSVILLE, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921 NO. 12 THE IHE AJNIVERS At CAR i The Prices, F. 0.

B. Detroit, are now as follows: Touring Car $415.00 Runabout -Coupe -Sedan -Chassis -Truck-Chassis Tractor April Fool's Day. April Fool's day has long been known as the time to play Jokes on one's neighbor. Just how long the custom has prevailed Is not known. Some ny that It started back In the beginning of time when Noah sent the dove out of the nrk before the flood had abated.

The date of th'i Is supposed to correspond with our first day of April. And, Inasmuch as the bird went out upon an Ineffectual mission, the custom gradually grew of sending one's friends on bootless errands. 370.00 695.00 760.00 345.00 495.00 625.00 MASTIN SON Mason Bee's Substantial Nest. The mason bee, as Its name Implies. Is a builder of structures of stone and together with mortar.

The house consists-of many cells of oval shape, and Into each an egg Is laid. The cell li lined with silken webs by the mother, who gets out of It by a bole In Its top. Itefore leaving, however, ahe hermetically seals up the cell Sold only by dealers The best fabric tire made for heavy service or rough roads RED-TOP Extra Ply Heavy Tread 30x3! $22.00 Reduction on all styles and sizes A New Low Price on a Known and Honest Product INTERESTING ITEMS FROM NEARBY US HAPPENINGS OF WEEK AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS IN CONDENSED FORM VAN WERT Emanuel Good, aged eighty years, a wealthy furmer hanged hlniRolf in his room at a brother-ln-law's home. Lonesomoness and poor health were the reasons for the act. DELPHOS Emanuel Good, aged 75, a citizen of Pleasant township, hanged himself last Thursday, at the home of a brother in law, using a rope made of bedclothes.

Poor heulth led to the art, NAPOLEON Mr. It. Coy, 6fi, died here from complications which developed after parts of his right let; hud been ampututed twice. Dr. Coy stepped on a needle three months ago.

It broke off in his foot and gtrgrctie IIRYAN While on a visit with his 1.... 13. National Buy-at-Home Bulletin These Special Articles Appearing Weekly are Reprinted From The Official Organ Of The National Buy-at-Home Movement Original articles copyrighted, owned and controlled by National Buy-At-Home Movement, National Headquarters Executive Omces, Fort Wayne, Indiana. FOR A BIGGER AND BETTER TOM PATRONIZE YOUR LOCAL MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN They are Part of Your Community and Deserve Your Patronage i to tell them where they could find Woml, of tha, eom. I Education Inopiration Entertainment You'll find thtm allot The Ohio State Fair COLUMBUS Recognized at America's Greatest Agricultural Exposition 6 Days Aux 29 Sept 3 6 Kiikti Good Roads Railroad Rates $123,638.00 In Premiums it waB driven by P.

II. Roth, the family chauffeur. All witnesses agree that the car wu moving slow and tho horn had been blown. The child suddenly stepped sideways right In front of the car. LATTY A large hay barn and tool shed on the A.

E. Hunger farm near town, was destroyed last Wednesday by lire, supposed to have cuught from a tractor which had Just been housed there. A quantity of hay nnd all the farming implements were burned Including the tractor. Henry Hill farms me place anil the equipment was his property, which means a heavy loss, tune as by last fall. NAPOLEON When Mr.

und A HELPS IRE 101:, men Why will the business men or Wm. Damnum and their children were This labor naturally spends returning from a visit with nomo Us aKPg locally-nll conditions being friends, they did not notice that their faVorable. What right, moral or other-two and one-half year old daughter, wlKei hag anv man to proflt thereby, Helen had been Jolted out of tho Beat. without contributing his share In the Another auto following them found investment that is In his patronage to and took It to a farm house. They rMi nlt.

lnBiiimnto then followed the Damman machine ifll investments their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. th who drpw thp)r mann had been sitting In the front waKe!) tnerei Bpellt wUh tne MaM seat and allowed the children to sit In Houses? In other words, sup-the rear. jmse all or SO per cent of the money of VAN WERT Women Jurors com- your community was sent to Chicago plained In court here that they could or New York not turned Into local not give their undivided attention to channels of business.

How long would the court and evidence because their It be before wages would go down, skirts were so short that their silk clad real estate nnsUple, business dead or legs were being stared at so much byl't-isky?" Mall Order Houses don't the men folks. Instead of lengthening help your community. They are the their skirts, the aimple way to have leeches that suck your community's cured the trouble. If It really was life blood. objectionable to them, they had the court have a board screen built in Why Is real estate and farm property front of the Jury box.

What then Is more valuable In and near a large the use of wearing short skirts, Is the 'city than a small town? Because the question that naturally cornea up In trade Is greater there. Therefore, the the masculine mind? more trade your city or town has, the VCiUT rltv 7" holding bark the real truth In the matter of the Bowser plant, no doubt seek ing to minimise the extent of the wage reduction and lay off. Many were laid off In the office departments and 'those who were not are reduced twenty per rent In wages. In the factory departments wages have not been reduced per hour ur day but the hours and days hav been reduced from fifty to seventy-five That Is to say that'instead of working ail days a week the men now only work two to three days a week thus cutting their pay a half and three-quarters times as the case may he. Men who made 1120 per month are now making hut $60 or less, and many of them have a half of that to pay each month on homes they purchased under the so called "Bowser Plan." A particularly much criticised feature of the case Is that men who stuck to the Bowsers during the bid strike and stood for Insult, damage and assault are In many cases laid off while later employees who refused to help them oat or at least did not take the Jobs during the strike, are retained.

Hun dreds of the men are greatly Imhlttered urtth what they term their shameful treatment, the matter being heard all over me cut Limy cigarette 1 4 III HOW FAKERS BAIT Oh, this Is the day We give sugar away, If you buy our unknown lea! Such might well be the refrain of the fake, grocery mall order houses, says a bulletin from the1 Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, which lias recently mnde some Investigation of the methods of such concerns. To miike I'll the prices on their ru-valled "on1 Your loyalty to the home town Is price" list look low, they will cut measured by your loyalty to homo bust- the price of sugar, or some well known or some other article of known (it Motim nl hit ui linn-1 'iii iu iii'i tiuiiii fv uiimvi in i ni-iiiM Heading. became violently "Ht 11 ut ton: Re loyal to the home "'P- over to Michigan authorities. TOUT WAYNE About fifteen gal lons of rye liquor were found on the lilt llV SelHtll! insane. lie tried to jump from the town the same as you are to the nation.

un. second-story window. Otllccrs took neighborly. Merchants and pro-'known value, at a price that will make him to Hillsdale, where he was turned nlhP rinn't 'ili whnln nnemiinn nnv nmili share vour lovs and sorrows home 11 in bear two things In mind. town men do.

It's enlightened Belflsh- 'says the bulletin. First, beware of the man who offers you a staple product premises of Zack nodlgan, Rolling Mill ness. Your prosperity Is linked with like WIKHr at a proe Bevernl grocurymun. Me talks loud of fighting the case and our courts function so feebly in cases of the kind that if the offender puts up much resistance he will probably escape dead easy. PLEASANT LAKE George P.

the prosperity of your community, and your community Is Just you and your neighbors. Merchants and professional men In other cities don't help you below the price at the refinery. He will make It up in something else. Second, no business man will give his goods away, nor lose money on a staple article which does not go out of maintain churches, schools, parks, and wnlch l8 g00(1 untlj uson 1)kn Harvey of Indianapolis, aged 33, was streets, roads, or help you solve drowned in the lake here last Tuesday, community problems home commun The body was not In the water over'ty 0k twenty minutes urn. me coiiiu iiut ue restored.

He was a good swimmer but sugar. He is not a philanthropist. will make up his loss. Some of the oldest tricks work best nnri rnntlnnp in wnrlr over nnrl over It Every citizen owes It to himself, to Hwm had eaten a hearty dinner and to this nlB fellow citizens and to the commun- U-hen all the people had been bitten is blamed the cause of tho futility. HeMty to do ull he can to make the home! by the house that offers a thing of was single and was studying for the Ifown a bigger and better town in which known value at a very low price und ministry.

FORT WAYNE Clydo Thomas of Detroit was arrested here, caught dls- to livo and do business. It is your duty as a good citizen to do your part. mortar. 1 he nest I. poslng of smuggled booze.

He made duty to try to get others to most any solid structure and "'ly! fc their of citizenship and does conslKt of small atones cemented iwu uuio miius it in mo iihhi ttniMw ivnuer mi assistance possioie. of weeks and the result of It was I Tle work of muklng the home town appurcnt easily in police court by the! i a bigger and better town is not the number of drunks. If more serious "'w Icharges are not pressed against him 'work of a few people and cannot be ac- at Detroit he will be prosecuted here, compltshed by a few. Is "The Work FORT WAYNE Fred Hringham, of ALL for the good of All. aged 40, a skilled moulder of the Bess Foundry, hanged himself in a summer then compels the customer to take something whose price Is unknown (such as bulk tea or coffee, for example) in the same order.

It is safer to buy from your home merchants. Ten Commandments of the Mail Order Houses 1. You Bhall sell your farm products Retail stores are necessary to every for cash, where you can, but not to us. kitchen attached to the home on. Oay community.

Spending money at home for we buy nothing from you. street, last Thursday night. He had Is a necessity to the prosperity of every 2. You shall believe us, and buy all worried much over the employment community. Sending money away from 'you can of us, for we want your best.

situation but It was not supposed ho home for articles that could be we do not know you person- would do so rash an act. His aged chased at home Is a direct blow not ally. father found his body over an hour only to the local merchant, tho local 3. You shall send your money to us after the act. The father, three broth- bank and newspaper, but to the entire In advance, so we can buy tho goods ers and two sisters survive him.

city or town and your own personal from the factory with your money; FORT WAYNE While walking on welfare. you may have to wait a few weeks, but the pavement on New Haen avenue, that business method. east end of the city, Wednesday of The money you send to some mall 4. You shall get help from your near-last week, Leola Hathaway, aged three order house will never return to your est city or village to build good roads, was hit by an automobile and Injured community. Your home town will be so you may easily haul our goods from so badly that death soon followed, forever short of Just the amount of the depot, but do not ask help from us Mrs.

George Latz was In the car and money that Is sent out of it. 'we don't help to build good roads. B. You shall buy church bells and alter utensils from us, and send the money in advance that Is our rule. 6.

You shall get all the help you can! for your church from the business in your nearest village or city fori hough we have more profit from you than they. It is ngainst our rules to give to your churches. a i 7 Yon Rhnll cnlivprt vnlir neighbors Commercial Club of a town or city aiKO (0 yr H0 they make every effort to locate a new fnc- by U8 for we have room for tory within Its borders? Simply nnd more money. solely that the labor or the town and i j. You shall look at the pretty plc-communlty may be given an oppor- tures In our catalogue as often as you tunlty to market Its product; that 1 can, so as to strengthen your desire -hnn tttn Inj-n! nnil tmnnrtnH tnhor Is i 1.

1 jn .1 H.t.,..l. nnd la nnrtlcularlv lamentable at this 1 f. t. lven employment It means that ev-iy you may order with other goods to save Mr. Hill lost bis house fire man having business connections with freight.

Send us all of your ready that town and vicinity will benefit f.s so that you may not have any of well as labor. It is a Community In-'it loft to buy necessities from your home dealers. 9. You shall believe us rather than your home business men, for we want your trade. We get to be millionaires on your support.

Don't be bluffed. 10. You shall call on the business the child lying In the road, uninjured Iocal merchants, enhancing local mar- people of your own vicinity for help and credit, if you meet with hard luck, trouble or sickness. It's your money we want; we don't know you unless your orders are accompanied by cash. MICKIE SAYS ven-ru! aiutJt psucr.

wvju 1 Mte, BEND feoilS' First Nunnery Founded In France. The first nunnery In Europe was established In France. SL Mareelllna. sister of St. Martin, Is credited with having created the first of these Institutions In 8DO A.

D. Borne historians claim that Germany was next In line, but according to the best author Itles It was England that sanctioned the establishment of Europe's second nunnery. This edifice was erected at Folkestone by Edbald, king of Kent, In 630. MORTUARY MABREV The remains of Ralph Mabrey arrived at Hicksvllle from France, Sat urday, and were given a military funeral Monday morning by the American Legion. He was one more of our brave lads who matJr The greatest sacrifice that man can make.

Private Ralph Emerson Mabrey, son of G. J. and R. L. Mabrey, was born at Hicksvllle, April 15, and spent his whole life In this community.

He was kind, obliging and always will ing to do his duty, and was a friend to everyone both young and old. He answered his country's call and left IVflance for Camp Sherman, June 24, 1918, where he was assigned to Co. Infantry. There he remained un til Aug. 23, 1918, when he whs sent to Camp Mills, Long Island.

N. Y. Shortly after he was sent to France with the Kith Division, arriving there In the early part of September. Octo ber 23. IMS he Joined Co.

3fin In fanny, Division, and from this time till he made the supreme SHcrl flee be was In the thick of the fight October 23 he was on the Mouse Argonne front, nnd November 1st and 2d he was In the drive on what was called the Ftvyastclllng, near Dun sen-Meuse and about two hundred yards to the left of a little French vll lage called Vlllon-dovant-Dun. It was at this place while advancing up a hill against a raking machine gun fire from the enemy that he met his death November 2, being in active service only nine days. He died Instantly without saying a word to anyone. Thus he died a true Amer ican soldier nnd died like a mnn for his country. The next morning he was buried on the top of this same hill, but was later disinterred and reburled in the Argonne American Cemetery.

Romagne Mont aeon, Meuse. Surviving him are his father and mother, two brothers, Ray of Auburn, Harry of Lansing, and one sister, Vlda at home. One brother preceded him to the Great Beyond. Funeral services were held from the home on Milford Road, Monday morning by Rev. J.

W. Lilly. Interment at Forest Home. CARD OF THANKS We take this means to express our thanks to our neighbors, friends, the American Legion, the Ladles Auxiliary and all others who helped in any way. Also the doners of the flowers, the pastor for bis comforting words and the singers for their beautiful music.

Mr. and Mrs. George Mabrey and Children. Recommends that the Building Should Wait The committee having In charge the matter of a memorlnl building has rendered a report and find thnt the proposal should be postponed until some future time. The report is as follows: Gentlemen: The undersigned committee has made a careful survey of the financial conditions of this community and It Is the unanimous opinion of the committee that: although this community Is anxious to perpetuate the spirit and tho heroic deeds of "THE BOYS" in a living memorial In a Community Memorial High School, the project should be postponed till conditions are more favorable.

Tho committee stands ready to this proposition at a more opportune time. Respectfully, Com. Farm Bureau, C. C. Howenstine.

Com. Chamber of Commerce, C. A. Waltenberger. H.

M. Hartzler. Com. American Legion, Forest R. Clark Fred I.

Rowe Political Cards Now on the Table Only a few people bothered either their heads or time' last week about the primary, but the tickets got in the field and the cards are now on the table. The Republican ticket as it will appear on the ballots In November Is as follows: Mayor, A. M. Richards. Clerk, Merle Wort.

Treasurer, O. L. Wldney. Marshal, D. M.

Driver. Council J. O. Longsworth, W. H.

Brlcker, Frank Snyder, George B. Wllderson, F. C. Buck, P. J.

Murphy. Board of Public Service Elmer Kimble, T. F. Moore. DEMOCRATIC Mayor, Frank Griest.

Clerk, Cloy Rodocker. Treasurer, Delia O. Kyle. Marshal, Ed Sinn. Council Carl Hart.

F. F. Clark, W. Miller, D. Olen Miller, C.

D. Hubert, C. A. Waltenberger. Board of Public Service W.

E. Walker, W. R. Engle. Assessor J.

H. Maxwell. Banana Flower Box. Flowers are always welcome In Hawaii. The man who has flowers Invariably shares them with his friends, (n the days before cold storage formed part of the regular transportation equipment, gifts of flowers were successfully conveyed from one Island to another In an ntmsusl manner.

The trunk of a newly hewn banana tree served the duul purpose of refrigerator and florist box. The long leaf stems forming the base were ctit to the desired length and unwrapped. Wllhln the casing were placed sprays of dcw-sprlnkled blossoms gathered at early dawn. Around tlce-e erc wrapped other rsslntt, excluding heat and air. Protection from bundling was secured by adding layers miter wrappings, securely tied at each end.

In' this cool, succulent "heath, roes. gardenias, ginger, hello-trotie. tuhortmea, or double violets renched their destination as fresh is when they were plucked. Chrlstlnn Science Monitor. Tribune Want Ada do the business.

'-fi3t. "Latitudlnarlan This name was often applied to school of English writers In the seventeenth century who sought to reconcile the Church of Englnnd and th puritan element upon the basis of subordinating differences In doctrines tc the broad essentials of religion. Choice FRUITS. I i Eat lots of fruit; it Is delicious, nourishing nnd healthful. At our store you aro always sure of getting the very best fmlls nnd vegetables.

We keep them coming In dally, because our customers know this and come to us for them. We keep our store clean and what you buy from us Is fresh and wholesome. Fresh Milk every day in pints and quarts Cured Meats of All Kinds Shrider Grocery iSi (M SPECIALS Granite Dish Pans, each 69c Granite Water Buckets 69c Granite Tea Kettles, each 69c Granite Chamber Pails, each 69c 5 qt. Granite Preserve Kettles, each 29c Flour Sifters, each 25c Our cups and saucers, cups and St. Dennis cups and saucers have arrived at bargain prices.

Well-Worth Variety Store KARL HOFFMAN, Proprietor "Beverage Plants." Beverage plants are those from the products of which some of the common nonalcoholic beverages nrc prepared; Among them are: The coffee tree (eoffea arablca), the cacao tree (theohroina cacao) nnd the tea shrub (camellia thea). Legal-Safe -and Costs Less "Sun -Ray" Lens Meets every requirement of the new Ohio law and every demand of safe night driving-yet sells in all sizes for only, per set $2.5 The clear glass of the Sun-Ray Lens permits all the light to pass through affords abundant driving-light. The scientiffcally arranged prisms bend this light DOWN on the road where it is needed and spread it to illuminate the sides of the road. The Sun-Ray beam rises at no point more than 42 inches above the ground, making night driving SAFE for all on the road. COMPLY WITH THE LAW-EQUIP YOUR CAR TODAY W.

B. BRICKER Studebaker Dealer HicktTille Hoq Cholera Immunize your pigs at weaning time, while they are healthy. It costs less than later, and ends worry against the time when the outbreak comes. D. F.

KELLER, D. V. M. Office Phone No. 22 Residence Phone No.

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