Staley_Journal_Oct_1927

THE STJ1LEY
JOURNAL
OCTOBER'1927
DECATUR
ILLINOIS
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Uol XI
OCTOBER. 1927
no. 4
CONTENTS
Coal, Corn and Water
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Buck Takes the Leap
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Winter Entertainment
18
Group Three Wins
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Editorial
20
Household
22
New Grain Man
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To New York Office
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Man in the Moon
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Published monthly in the interest of the employes
of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, 111.
Editor, RUTH E. CADE.
Cartoonist, W. R. VAN HOOK.
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There s a Good Reason for Insisting On
POLAR BUTTER
and
POLAR BUTTERMILK
They re Better
Be Patient
"Petting" Larceny
"Dear Sir—I got your dune what I
owe you.
Now be pachunt.
I ain't f o r got you, plese wate.
When some other
fols pay me I pay you.
If this wuz judgment day and you wuz no more prepared
to meet yur maker as I am this account
you sure would go to hell. Hoping you
will do this, I remain yours very truly."
Exchange.
Clarence
Would
you—er—be
very
angry if I stole a small kiss, dear?
Winnie—That all depends on how long
it would take you to return it!
Prominent Foreigner—I feel just like a
loaf of bread. Wherever I go—they toast
me.
"I'd like a pencil."
"Hard or soft?"
"Soft.
It's for writing a love letter."
Time:
Mid-afternoon.
Dorothy's mother, unable to sleep, sends Dorothy upstairs to request Mr. Smith to stop hammering piano. Dorothy returns with pint
bottle.
Mother:
"What's this f r y ?
What did
you say to him?"
Dorothy:
"I
thaid,
'Pleathe,
thuh,
mothuh would like a little nap, thuh.' "
Mother breaks bottle of naphtha over
Dorothy's head and goes out to movie.
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Patient—Good morning!
I called to
see if the doctor couldn't give me something for my tonsils.
New Maid—I'm sorry, sir, but the doctor never buys tonsils.
The judge gazed with horrified wonder
at the accused murderer.
"Do you mean to tell me," he asked
indignantly, "that you killed this poor old
woman for the paltry sum of $3.00?"
"Well, you know how it is. Yes
Honor, t'ree smacks here, and t'ree
smacks dere; it soon counts up."
The Ever-Ready Scot
Sandy was a leader of the kirk.
His
increasing redness of nose very much
alarmed his brother elders, and a delegation waited on him to inquire the reason
for the increasing color.
Sandy explained thus:
"It is glowing
wi' pride at never putting itself in anybody's business."
Henry—I've just seen the world's great
optimist.
George—Who is he?
Henry A
fellow
out room-hunting
with a saxophone under his arm.
"Drunk
again.
What
excuse
this
time?"
"Ben Franklin's birshday."
Well, what excuse is that for you?"
"Poor devil ish dead.
Can't celebrate
himshelf, can he?"—Michigan Gargoyle.
Employer—What kept you from work
yesterday, acute indigestion again?
Typist
No; a cute engineer this time.
"Did you know that May married a
janitor?
"No.
How did it h a p p e n ?
"He just simply swept her off her feet."
"Was Joe drunk last night?"
"I dunno, but he was trying to get his
pants off over his head."—Colorado
Dodo.
If you do right you will be criticised.
If you do wrong you will be criticised.
You might as well do right.
"Yes, the mate fell overboard d u r i n g
the storm and was never seen again."
Old Lady:
"What a shame! I suppose
Tim: What's your hoss named?
he was drowned?"
Sam
He's named Regulator. All the
Sailor (patiently) : "No; he sprained
other hosses go by him.
his ankle."
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HOLSUM or KLEEN-MAID
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and CONVINCE YOURSELF of ITS GOODNESS
Nor Have We
Peggy—Was that p'liceman ever a little baby, mother?
Mother—Why, yes, dear.
Peggy ( t h o u g h t f u l l y ) — I don't believe
I've ever seen a baby policeman!
Jack—It must be heck to live in Miami.
They never have Christmas there.
Jessie—How come?
Jack—Haven't you seen that sign, "It's
always June in Miami?"
"Hi, there," bellowed a policeman to
an inebriated citizen, "you can't stand
there in the street."
"Yes, 1 can, orfsher," retorted the citizen proudly. "Don't you worry 'bout
me.
I been standin' here an hour and
ain' fell off yet."
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"Does Datzman own his own house or
does he rent it?"
"Rents it."
"How do you know?"
"He strikes matches on the paint."
Wifey—I see by this paper that in Sumatra a wife can be bought for $3. Isn't
that perfectly a w f u l ?
Hubby
Oh, I don't know! A really
good wife would be worth that.
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Will Rogers Says
"An absolutely certain way to solve the
p a r k i n g problems has been f o u n d : Pass
a law allowing only those cars that are
fully paid for to be left standing on the
streets.
If such a rule prevailed there
certainly would be plenty of room."—Aurora Progress.
The stingiest man we know of is the
one who gave his little girl a nickel not
to eat any supper, who took the nickel
away f r o m her while she was asleep, and
then refused to give her any breakfast
becase she lost it. Annapolis Log.
Speedy
An old negro, who was with the army
in France, was beating it for the back
areas as fast as he could go, when he was
stopped by a white officer.
"Don't delay me, suh," said the negro.
I'se gotta be on my way."
"Boy," replied the officer, "do you
know who I am?
I'm a general."
"Go on, white man, you ain't no general."
"I certainly am," insisted the officer,
angrily.
"Lordy," exclaimed the negro, taking
a second look. "You sure is! I musta
been travelin' some, 'cause I didn't think
I'd got back that far yit."—House Dope.
*
A real estate salesman of west Texas
had just finished describing the glorious
opportunities of that part of the country.
"All west Texas needs to become the garden spot of the world, ' he said, ' is good
people and water."
"Huh!" replied the
prospect. "That's all hell needs."
"What are you stepping out with Helen
for?
She wouldn't be good for anything."
"Well, that's the reason."
Arizona
Kittykat.
Teddy—Do you want to hear a funny
noise ?
Bear—Sure.
Teddy Well, let the water run in the
bathtub. That will be strange to you.
Michigan Gargoyle.
Norah, why haven't you brushed down
that cobweb?
Cobweb?
Lor', mum, 1 thought that
had somethin' to do with yer wireless.
Provided
right to Jress as they
Girls have
please,
A maiden remarked with vigor.
But some of them lack the nerve
It is impossible to express high ideals in
low language.
And some of them lack the figure.
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October
October is a larly
With a painted face;
She's fond of gaudy ruffles
And vari-colored lace.
Her lips are rouged with cunsets,
Her checks are sumac-red;
She wears a wreath of asters
About her haughty head;
Her hands are filled with flowers
And fruits of autumn-time,
And there's a song within her heart—
A rollicking gay rhyme.
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There was frost upon the ground
This morning when I rose—
O! October is a lady
With a frozen nose.
—Chicago Tribune.
STJILEY
Corn, Coal and Water
Edtior's Note:
The following article
on the three chief raw materials used at
the Staley plant, has been written by H.
T. Morris, C. M Cobb, G. F. Klein and
Dr. R. E. Greenfield.
Mr. Morris, now
in the grain d e p a r t m e n t , but f o r m e r l y
starch sales manager, has w r i t t e n the article on corn.
Mr. Cobb, our p u r c h a s i n g
agent, and the man who buys all our coal,
and G. F. Klein, engineer in charge of our
boiler house, have w r i t t e n the article on
coal.
Dr. Greenfield, head of our research department, and a recognized authority on water supply problems, has
written of our water supply.
CORN
Gold discovered in California!
Gold
f o u n d in the Klondike! How this startling news must have thrilled the adventurers and those in quest of f o r t u n e . This,
however, was not the first time gold had
been discovered in our country.
The first dates back to 1492 when Columbus discovered America and f o u n d the
native Indians m a k i n g use of a peculiar
grain
Indian Corn.
Upon the arrival of
the first emigrants to our shores, it was
quite n a t u r a l that they should a c q u i r e a
taste for this grain.
In fact, it was Indian corn which tided the settlers t h r o u g h
their first "awful winter" and since that
time Indian corn has been a dominant
f a c t o r in the development of our nation.
Always in advance of civilization, the
little patch of corn has been in the vanguard.
It carried the Plymouth settlement t h r o u g h the most t r y i n g times. It
furnished sustenance to the Virginian settlers and it blazed the trail into the n o r t h western territory, which later was destined
to become the corn belt of the world.
The influx of population f r o m our eastern shores westward readily took to the
raising of this nourishing food.
It was
better adapted to the virgin soil, made a
q u i c k e r crop, and was more easily cultivated than any other grain. Eventually
it was the basis of prosperity.
It led to
the gradual expansion and a c q u i r e m e n t of
lands until within a relatively short time,
the same stars and stripes which waved
over the original thirteen colonies were
paid
allegiance
over
many
thousand
square miles f r o m the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean and f r o m Canada to the
Gulf.
Botany authorities trace this plant back
to t h a t of a grass species, and for that
matter it still belongs to the grass family.
Through centuries it has been cultured
and bred up to its present nourishing and
diversified usefulness.
The weather is the topic most associated with corn. Prices fluctuate with favorable or adverse weather.
We get one
consolation out of sweltering weather—it
is good for the corn crop. The Indians
celebrate their corn dances as an appeal
to their deity for a corn crop.
Since the
b e g i n n i n g of our nation we have participated in Thanksgiving ceremonies in appreciation of a b o u n t i f u l corn crop.
We, of today, can h a r d l y appreciate the
super-structure behind our modern times.
World commerce, industry, education,
science and our general routine of living,
so to speak, runs along so smoothly that
we can scarcely comprehend or realize
that, in a measure, all can be accredited
to Indian corn. None of the marvels of
the past or present could have been accomplished without h u m a n life.
Life
could not have been sustained without
nourishment.
Indian corn sustained life
and has been the backbone of America.
It easily outstrips in yield any crop
raised in the United States.
Last year's
wheat crop amounted to 832,305,000
bushels against a harvested corn crop of
2,645,000,000 bushels. There were more
than three bushels of corn husked for
every bushel of wheat harvested.
The
immensity of our corn crop can be better
visualized when we consider that in bushel
units our corn crop was 7 71/7 ( <~ of last
year's world's wheat crop. Last year 3
corn crop in the United States alone, practically doubled the corn produced in the
rest of the world.
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There is special emphasis attached to
the fact that a f t e r the discovery of Indian
corn in America world famines became
fewer and fewer as the production of corn
increased.
Let any foreign country have
a crop failure or extreme wheat shortage
and there immediately springs up an export demand for starch or corn flour to
be used as a substitute mixture in making
the wheat crop last until another harvest.
We are seemingly becoming a manufacturing and industrial nation.
However, if we are to rely on statistics, the
heritage, handed down to us by our English ancestors, still prevails. The French
settled the northern part of America for
the fur trade.
The Spaniards settled the
southern portion for gold, silver and minerals. The English, possibly as a necessary means, took up agriculture—and we
are still an agricultural nation.
As manifested by the consumption of
each year's coin crop, only fifteen to
twenty percent leaves the farms and enters commercial channels, while eighty to
eighty-five percent is fed "on hoof" to
livestock on the farms.
On this ratio
basis, a maximum of five hundred twenty
nine million bushels were used in the
manufacturing and merchandising avenues, while two billion one hundred sixteen million bushels were used on the
farms, the usual carry-over into this season considered.
In the earlier days corn was used in
the form of meal or "parched". Science,
however, has made it into so many conversions that in our everyday life, we fail
to realize our dependency on this cereal.
However marvelous scientific methods
may appear, they are incomparable to nature in growing and reproducing the raw
grain. Through the agencies of nitrogen,
hydrogen, oxygen, and sunshine, in one
hundred to one hundred fifty days, this
wonderful edible cereal is produced. The
adaptability of the soil is the first requisite as the crop best thrives in sandy
loam or gumbo ground.
In the spring of the year, as quickly
as the ground is tillable, unless this operation was performed the previous fall,
the field is broken, that is, plowed to the
depth of about f o u r inches and the ground'
turned over.
Immediately after the plow,
before the ground dries out, follows a
harrow.
This is a steel frame implement averaging sixteen feet wide and f o u r feet in
depth. At intervals of twelve inches are
staggered teeth or spikes about ten inches
in length. Through a lever control thes.teeth may be set at any desired angle. If
the ground is cloddy or crusty the teeth
will be set perpendicular. The desired
effect is that of crushing the clods and
mulching the ground.
If this is not accomplished the field is disked.
The disk is an implement about eight
feet wide. At intervals of about six inches
on what might be termed the main drive
shaft, are steel cutters about twelve inches
in diameter. These cutters may be set
at most any side angle.
Under normal
conditions, this implement will pulverize
all lumps. However, the field is given
another harrowing as it is essentially necessary that the ground, to produce a maximum crop, must be a finely pulverizer!
seed bed.
About the same procedure is
followed on fall plowing, only that this
is preferable as the clods get the benefit
of freezing and thawing, which puts it in
excellent working condition.
An advantage lies in fall plowing in
that the work can be accomplished when
there is a lull in activities on the farm,
whereas the following spring, there is a
rush of work at a time when the weather
is most changeable and adverse to field
work.
The next operation is that of planting.
This is accomplished by a corn planter,
especially designed for the purpose and
by which grain farming on a major scale
is possible.
One man and a team can
plant from fifteen to twenty acres per
day, more or less, depending on the
length of the rows and how frequently
the check wire must be changed.
The corn planter is a two-wheeled implement with hollow runners set in advance of each wheel. Set on the frame,
just in f r o n t of each wheel, is a seed box
holding about a fourth bushel. In the
bottom of the seed box is a revolving perforated plate, geared to a fork on each
side of the seed box.
The width between
each runner is three feet six inches, or the
same as the distance between each button
on the check wire.
No doubt the reader will recall passing
a corn field, just when the corn peeps
through the ground and notice the perfect check, resembling a checker board.
The checkered precision, while good to
look at, has a far more important p u r pose.
It enables the cultivating of the
corn, not only lengthwise but crosswise.
It permits plowing right up close to the
plant, which would be d i f f i c u l t if the rows
were zigzagging.
The checkered effect is accomplished
by a wire with button joints at intervals
of three feet, six inches.
In starting to
plant a field the check wire is strung
across the field. Each end is fastened to
a coil spring, which in t u r n is anchored
to a stake.
Sufficient slack is left in the
wire to permit threading through the
planter forks on the f r a m e of the planter
just in front of the seed boxes.
As these
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Familiar Sights in the Corn Belt
Top—Modern corn crib. Center—Corn as far as the eye can see.
•ho wing seed corn f r a m e at upper right.
Bottom—Interior of crib,
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buttons come in contact with the planter
fork this pulls the fork backward. This
operation revolves the plates in the seed
box and three to four grains of corn drop
out. After the button passes through the
fork it automatically goes back to its normal position. This backward motion
closes the plates in the seed box.
In arriving at the end of the row the
operator resets the stakes, turns around,
rethreads the wire through the planter
forks, and drives back across the field.
To the left, attached to the planter, is a
marker, which drags on the ground and
makes a mark across the field. On the
return trip the planter straddles this mark
—the rule being that of citing the planter
tongue and keeping it in alignment with
the depression made by the marker.
The seed corn drops through the seed
box plates and is deposited into a slight
furrow created by the planter runners.
This seed is so timed that it hits the
ground simultaneously with the making
of the furrow and the corn is in the
ground as the furrow starts closing. The
planter wheels finish covering the seed
and slightly pack the ground above.
Under ordinary circumstances within
ten days after planting the corn, plants
start shooting through the ground.
In
the meantime the weeds are also growing
and as quickly as the corn is high enough
so that it will not be covered up cultivation starts.
This is accomplished with an implement
called a cultivator. The wheels are
about thirty-six inches in diameter.
A
series of s m a l l shovels or blades are fastened to shanks. They plow either one or
two rows, when the corn is small fenders
are placed on the shovels to prevent covering the corn. The fields are plowed
twice lengthwise and once crosswise. One
team and an operator will average plowing from fifteen to twenty acres per day,
depending on the length of the rows.
Weather permitting, the grower in this
section tries to plant his corn by May
20th, as by that time there is little danger from frost. He also endeavors to lay
by his crop, that is the last cultivation, by
July 4th. Ordinarily by that time the
plants will be horseback high and to attempt further cultivation more corn would
be destroyed than good accomplished.
The corn fields after the last cultivation are exceedingly lonesome and are left
to Mother Nature to perform her "wonderful phenomenon of nursing the tender
plants from slips to sturdy stalks, filling
and developing the tiny grains which look
like blisters on nubbin cobs with a m i l k y
starch substance, w h i c h solidifies and
makes a well formed filled out cob of
After the plants have acquired their
normal growth, the hot sun has a tendency to gradually dry out the stalks and
ears. Light frosts at this stage stop vegetation growth and dry up the sap, whereas killing frosts kill all plant growth and
dry up the foliage and sap.
With a usual season the farmer will
start "gathering corn" about October
1 5th if the moisture has sufficiently been
driven out of the ears so that it may be
stored. His purpose is to have this task
out of the way by Thanksgiving.
He
opens his field by straddling the row with
a two-horse wagon. He husks the two
rows nearest the wagon. At the end of
the field he will straddle another row and
return. This operation is continued until
the entire field has been husked and then
livestock is turned in to clean up all down
corn, leaves, and sometimes most of the
stalks.
Under ordinary circumstances
two loads a day are husked, as in the
neighborhood of one hundred bushels is
considered a fair days work.
From the field the corn is ordinarily
hauled to the crib on the farm where it
is dumped into a hoisting conveyor, carried to the top of the crib and dumped.
These cribs must have ventilation, which
is procured by a lengthwise space of
about two inches between the siding
boards.
Custom varies according to the locality
but a major portion of the corn first goes
into the farmers' cribs, from where it is
shelled out and hauled to the nearest market. Most of the corn is delivered in
shelled form, as it is in the farmers' favor.
Fifty-six pounds represents a bushel of
shelled corn, whereas it takes 70 pounds
of ear corn a difference of fourteen
pounds. Usually there is not that much
shrinkage, and by shelling on the farm the
grower thereby gains.
The shelling is accomplished by a corn
sheller, especially built for that purpose.
The corn sheller, like the planter, has
made corn farming possible on a gigantic
scale. Prior to their invention the laborious and primitive method of planting
and shelling by hand was in vogue.
A little over a half century ago, John
Beall, an inventive genius, conceived the
idea of the cylinder sheller, from noticing
two inverted funnels, one inside of the
other. Gradually the machine was perfected and improved to its present efficient
basis. This portable sheller is made in
three models capable of shelling from five
hundred to eighteen hundred bushels of
ear corn per hour.
The cylinder is cone shaped, running
on side bearings. At intervals of about
every three inches are lugs, about one
inch square and one inch in height.
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There are also lugs on the inside of the
casing, spaced so that the lugs on the
cylinder barely clear. The space between
the casing and cylinder will just clear an
average corn cob.
Just above and in advance of the cylinder is a hopper. The machine is located
near the crib to be shelled. Leading to
the hopper is a drag box. From the crib
the corn is scooped onto the drag chain.
This deposits the ear in the hopper where
it drops onto a screw conveyor.
The
pressure forces the corn up and forward
between the cylinder and outside shell.
The compact strips the kernels from the
cob, where they light on a series of
screens or shakers.
Geared to the machine are blower and blast fans, which
force the silks, shucks, chaff, and small
particles of cobs to an exit. The cobs
find their way to spouts and thence on
the ground, while the shelled corn is elevated to the top of the sheller and thence
spouted to tight wagon beds headed for
the market.
The motive power used is a traction engine or gasoline tractor. It will also no
doubt be of interest to learn that John
Beall's funnel idea and subsequent invention of the corn sheller also led to his
discovery and patenting of the Beall corn
degerminator. This machine revolutionized the dry corn milling industry, permitting the manufacturing of kiln-dried corn
goods on an exceedingly large scale.
Civic pride prompts us to mention that
Mr. Beall, until his death a few years ago,
was a highly respected citizen of Decatur.
The Western Portable Sheller is manufactured by the Union Iron Works of this
city. The manufacturing of this machine,
from its first inception and at the present
time, is one of Decatur's major industries.
Its product is shipped to all points in the
world where corn is raised.
Some of the larger farmers own their
own shelters but ordinarily there are "outfits" about the country who specialize in
that class of work. Quite often the same
party who operates a threshing machine
in the threshing season, also runs a corn
sheller, as the seasons do not conflict.
There is no particular set time for the
farmer lo shell—when, in his opinion, the
market price is "right," or for that matter, any time that suits his convenience.
After contracting his corn to the country
grain merchant, he engages a sheller and
delivers the corn.
The hauling distance varies, however,
on an average, there is a country elevator
within five miles of every grain farm in
the corn belt. The country grain merchant tries, or should at least, to buy the
corn on the same graded basis as he, in
turn, will sell, i.e., on graded basis established by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, under what is known as federal
inspection. These grades follow:
OFFICIAL GRAIN STANDARDS—SHELLED CORN
MAXIMUM L 1M1TS OF —
Min. Test Wt.
Per Bushel
Grade
No.
DAMAGED KERNELS
Foreign Mat.
«c Cracked Corn
Moisture
Lbs.
55
53
51
1
2
3
49
4
5
6
47
44
Sample
Grade
(I)
(2)
%
14.0
15.5
17.5
19.5
21.5
23.0
Total
Heat
Damaged
%
%
%
2
2
0.0
3
4
O.I
4
6
0.3
5
8
10
0.5
6
7
15
3.0
1.0
White corn, yellow corn, or mixed corn, respectively, not coming within the requirements of grades Nos. 1 to 6 inclusive, or which
has any commercially objectionable foreign odor or is heating, hot,
or is otherwise of distinctly low quality.
Grades Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, shall be cool and sweet.
Grade No. 6 shall be cool, but may be musty or sour,
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Illinois Cares for Its Gold
Top—Community elevator near Decatur.
e r n m e n L grain testing laboratory.
Center—Shelling corn on the farm.
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Bottom—Gov-
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In some localities, however, practically
all of the corn is delivered the country
station in the ear.
If it be right out of
the field, the grain merchant will store
the grain on the cob, and when he sees
fit to market it, the shelling takes place
at the elevator.
After hauling the last load and completing his contract, the grain merchant,
in the meantime having weighed each load
of corn over a platform scale, figures up
the gross, tare and net weight.
The
grower is then paid in full.
The country
elevators ordinarily have keen competii-'on, which is the farmers' safeguard.
The various railroads on which these elevators are located oft-times have rate advantages over a parallel line and the elevators located on a line with better rates
are in a stronger position to compete for
grain in their and adjacent territories.
The average country station will handle
250,000 bushels of both coarse and small
grain per year. They vary in size according to the size of their drawing field. They
are the connecting link between the
grower and the central as well as consuming markets.
From the standpoint of soil fertility the
same rule which governed our ancestors
rtill prevails.
It is impossible to continue year after year taking nourishment
from the ground, making no attempt to
replace it, and harvest a maximum crop.
The earlier settlers, as their ground began to weaken, migrated west to new
ground. This method cannot now be followed and accounts for our system of crop
rotation.
Corn cannot be raised on the
same ground year after year without serious consequences—"corned to death" or
a yearly letting up of yield.
Ordinarily to get the best results, corn
is grown on the same ground not over
two successive years—three years at the
outside. Then follows oats, which is a
shower crop and does not extract so
much fertility.
Clover is sown with the
oats and a f t e r the cutting of the oats, the
clover continues to grow.
The following
fall it is pastured and the following year
one or two cuttings are made, it is permitted to grow up again, and is plowed
under as a fertilizer.
The routine will vary, different localities considered.
Sometimes wheat replaces oats and soy beans are coming in
prominence more and more as a rebuilder
of the soil. Although in this section of
the country corn is the leading crop, a
farmer with 160 acres to get the best results, will not put out over 80 acres of
corn.
It usually takes four years to complete the cycle of crop rotation.
It is frequently said, in referring to our
National ensign—the eagle
"That bird
has never been whipped." Beyond a
question of doubt his conquest can be
credited, more than any one thing, to Indian corn.
It has played its predominant
part in all of our wars, furnishing sustenance and existence, not only at the front,
but at home as well.
The reader can
readily recall that during the World War
the enforced substitute law led to a tremendous call on Indian corn and again
our National Cereal worked hand in hand
with our National Bird.
Edward Everett emphasized the importance of Indian corn when he said—"Drop
a grain of California gold into the ground
and there it will lie unchanged until the
end of time, the clods on which it falls
not more dead and lifeless.
Drop a grain
of our gold, of our blessed gold, into the
ground and lo I a mystery.
"In a few days it softens, it swells, it
shoots u p w a r d ; it is a living thing.
It is
yellow itself, but it sends up a delicate
spire, which comes peeping; emerald
green, through the soil; it expands to a
vigorous stalk; revels in the air and sunshine; arrays itself more glorious than
Solomon in its verdant skeins of vegetable floss, displays its dancing tassels, surcharged with fertilizing dust, and at last
ripens into two or three magnificent
batons, each of which is studded w i t h a
hundred grains of gold, everyone possessing the same wonderful properties as the
parent grain."
COAL
The use of coal in industry is the
cheapest method of producing power, and
as all industrial processes require power
in some form, coal becomes the most important of all raw materials. This is especiall ytrue in a corn products industry
and the vastness of it can be realized by
the visualization of the use of fifteen car
loads per day throughout the year.
Coal is used in the Staley plant chiefly
for the generation of steam.
This generation of steam is obtained by heating
water under pressure in fifteen large boilers of an aggregate of 20,000 horsepower.
In the generating process, the heat in the
coal is transferred to the water in the
boiler, and thence to steam, the steam becoming a medium of distribution for the
heat originally in the coal.
Of the more
than 10,000,000 pounds of steam produced daily, the largest portion is delivered to the electric generators for the
generation of power to drive more than
800 motors on equipment of all sorts and
descriptions. Other uses for steam are
directly in the process work such as the
refinery, for heating water, for heating
air, for drying starches, feeds, etc. There
is also some coal burned directly in feed
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driers and bone black driers but this is
a small amount of the total consumption.
In order to handle 1 5 cars of coal per
day considerable machinery is required to
do it rapidly and economically. The coal
must be switched to unloading tracks, unloaded, crushed to proper size, transported and elevated to the storage bins immediately above each boiler.
Coal, upon
arrival at the plant, if in hopper bottom
cars, is dumped directly into a receiving
hopper below the track and if in gondola
cars is unloaded by a traveling electric
crane. On this crane a large clam-shaped
bucket taking a ton and a half of coal
at one bite, is dropped into the car and
does the same operation over and over
until the entire car is empty. A fifty ton
car can be emptied in this manner in less
than an hour with ease.
Most of the coal, however, is received
in hopper bottom cars, making the unloading process much easier. After unloading the coal it is carried by a conveyor into a crusher where it is crushed
to a size such that the largest piece can
readily pass through a hole an inch and
a half in diameter. This is necessary to
permit the proper burning of the coal on
the boiler stokers.
The coal is then elevated by an incline conveyor belt from
the ground level of the plant to the top
of the boiler room, some 60 odd feet,
where it is then discharged on a traveling
conveyor belt running from one end of
the boiler room to the other.
It is by
means of this latter belt that the coal is
distributed to the fifteen different boilers.
From the coal bunker the coal travels by
gravity to the boiler stokers where it is
burned and its heat converted into steam.
As all coal contains ash which does not
burn some comment is necessary concerning it whenever discussing the question of
coal.
For every f o u r tons of coal burned
there must be handled ash and refuse to
the amount of one ton. When it is considered that 900 tons of coal are burned
each day the problem of ash removal becomes important. There are handled at
the Staley plant close to 200 tons of ash
a day.
This must be removed from the
boiler ash pits by hand and then transported to the yard ash pits in small railway cars drawn by a gasoline locomotive.
A crane is used to lift the ashes from the
yard ash pit to standard railroad cars
for distribution from the plant. The cinders find many uses. They furnish material for park and street drives, railroad
ballast and fills, cinder w a l k s and drives
on private property, etc.
The state highway and park board trucks can always
be seen in the Staley yards loading up with
cinders. We find the demand exceeds
the supply even with five carloads avail-
able per day and no trouble is ever experienced in disposing of this refuse or
ash.
There are many grades of coal as all
householders know.
Illinois produces
many grades from the best to the worst
bituminous available. Under normal operating conditions coal is always purchased as close to the point of use as
possible on account of the freight rates.
Therefore it is logical that the Staley company purchase the bulk of its coal from
the Springfield district.
The worth of
coal in dollars and cents to a plant is reflected in the cost to produce steam, and
a cheap coal is sometimes an expensive
coal.
However, the Staley boiler room
equipment can economically burn low
grade cheap coal cheaply and, of course,
enjoys an advantage in this respect. Since
the coal strike has been in effect coal is
being purchased from Western Kentucky
and Indiana, but although it is generally
of a better grade than is customarily
burned, the freight rates due to the long
haul makes its cost high even though it
contains relatively more heat and less ash
for the money.
The regular run of coal purchased during normal times would analyze somewhat
as follows:
Water
15%
Combustible matter
749!
Ash
I 1%
Heat Units
10,680
Of the combustible matter about 3 1/7 %
is sulphur.
Unlike corn, which requires an expensive elevator to store it, coal can be
stored with very little expense on the
ground, exposed to all sorts of weather
without any danger of damage.
Prior to
the cessation of mining operations in Illinois, the company stored 100,000 tons of
coal, about four months' supply, and of
this amount, slightly more than 50,000
tons is still on hand, coal having been obtained from Kentucky and Indiana as previously mentioned.
WATER
An abundant supply of water is essential to a plant producing corn products.
Just how abundant this water supply must
be is not realized by most. That the A.
E. Staley Manufacturing Company receives enormous quantities of raw material in the form of corn, coal, and manufacturing supplies is appreciated by the
employes and is often a source of amazement to visitors, but few realize that for"
every ton of raw material received over
thirty tons of water are pumped from
Lake Decatur. This would amount to
enough water to supply an average Amer12
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Mining and Storing Our Fuel
Top—An llllnoli coal mine.
at plant.
Center—Some of our coal supply.
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Bottom—Unloading coal
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ican city of one hundred and fifty thousand people, a city approximately three
times the size of the city of Decatur.
Not all of this water needs to be of
the same degree of purity.
In this plant
the requirements for water may be divided into four general classes.
First, water is needed for use in condensers and coolers, such as the condensers on the vacuum pans used on corn
syrup and sugar, and for the evaporation
of steep water.
In addition there are the
r y r u p and sugar coolers and several other
smaller coolers around the plant.
For
this use the water need not be clear nor
purified in any way except the passing
through coarse screens to protect the
pumps from large objects. Most of this
water is not contaminated in use and may
be r e t u r n e d to the lake at a somewhat
more elevated temperature, but otherwise
not much changed.
Second, water is needed in the process.
This water must be clear and in this plant
is partially softened.
Third, water is used in the boilers. This
water must be clear and free from scale
f o r m i n g substances, in other words completely softened.
Because of the fact that
so much exhaust steam is used in the
process our power plant requires much
more softened water for the boilers than
do most other plants of similar size where
the exhaust steam may be condensed and
returned to the boilers as distilled water.
Fourth, water is required for fire protection.
The purity of the water for this
purpose is of no particular importance
but the supply must be infallible and the
pressure must be good. This plant is provided with an elevated tank which is filled
from the Decatur city supply.
All of the water for this plant with the
exception of that purchased from the city
for the fire system, the d r i n k i n g water
system and some other uses about the
plant, is taken from Lake Decatur. Large
pumps in the first floor of the club house
pick it up after it has passed a set of
screens and pump it to the factory
through a twenty-four inch pipe line.
The larger portion of the water is used directly from this line for such uses as are
listed in the first class.
That portion of the water that is to be
purified is in part taken from this Ine to
the water purification plant, but a considerable portion of the water used in the
water purification plant is first used in the
condensers in the refinery, where its temperature is raised somewhat.
In *he winter time the re-use of the warm water
from the condenser water in the water
purification plant results in a considerable
heat saving since most of the purified
water is warmed any way before it enters
the process.
When the water reaches the water purification plant either directly from the lake
or f r o m the down legs of the condensers
chemicals are added to it to remove the
hardness and cause the mud and dirt to
settle more rapidly. It is then allowed
to settle in a large sedimentation basin,
the sludge resulting from the water softening reaction and the mud settles to the
bottom
and
is
removed
periodically
through sludge blow off valves. The partially clarified water is next filtered
through sand filters to remove the rest
of the precipitated sludge and mud. These
sand filters are simply large open wooden
tanks provided with a system of strainers
in the bottom which are overlaid with
layers of gravel and fine sand.
The
water is run in the top and allowed to
filter through. These are cleaned by
backwashing, that is, passing clear water
back up through the strainers washing the
accumulated sludge off the sand to the
sewer. The water at this point is sparkling clear and fairly soft.
This water is
suitable for use in the process; for use in
the boilers it is put through a second softening process. The sedimentation and
filtration removes as well as all of the mud
and dirt most of the bacteria.
Most of
the time this water would be safe for
drinking purposes, in order to be absolutely certain that it would be sufficiently
free from bacteria at all times water to
be used for drinking purposes should be
f u r t h e r treated with chlorine, ultraviolet
rays or some other sterilizing agent.
Since only a small fraction of the water
for our plant would be used for drinking
purposes at most and since it is too warm
to be palatable any way, drinking water
for the plant is purchased from the city
supply and is carried to the drinking
fountains through a separate pipe system.
By the use of lime and coagulating
chemicals the water is softened from a
hardness of about fourteen grains per gallon to about four and as explained above,
the water is clarified in the same process.
By filtering this water through a special
water softening mineral which looks like
black sand the remaining f o u r grains of
hardness is removed.
This water softening sand is contained in another set of
filters much like the sand filters excepting
these filters are steel drums and are operated under pressure. When the softening
power of this mineral is exhausted it may
be regenerated by means of a strong solution of ordinary salt. The strong salt
solution a f t e r use is 'washed off to the
sewer and the filters are ready to furnish
another batch of soft water.
This completely softened water is at the present
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Our Filtration and Pumping Plants
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Staley Pumping Station on Lake Decatur
time used only in the boilers and locomotives.
Our water p u r i f i c a t i o n plant softens
and clarifies at the present time almost
one-half as much water as the Decatur
city plant.
Approximately o n e - f o u r t h of
this
quanity
is
completely
softened
through the B e r m u t i t niters.
For use
d u r i n g shut downs and as a supplement
to our supply, city water connections are
available to all of the more important
points of the plant. The amount of water
used through these connections although
it is only a fraction of the total used, still
makes the Staley plant one of the larger
consumers of the Decatur city supply.
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
Mrs. Bertha Chandler, plant nurse, F.
W. Stone, safety director and R u t h Cade,
editor, repreesnted the Ctaley company at
the National Safety Council in Chicago
the last week in September.
Mrs Chandler was interetsed in the first aid work
discussed and demonstrated and attended
several sessions devoted to treatment of
acid burns and gas cases. Mr. Stone attended the general safety sessions, while
the editor attended sessions for factory
magazine editors and also those for manufacturers of food products.
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The door of opportunity is not locked
nor even latched. Push is the only opener
you need.
SOME VISITORS
During the last six months, which embraces the well known tourist season, visitors at the Staley plant have been from
practically every corner of the United
States and one or two have been from
Europe.
States which have been represented at the plant d u r i n g this period are
California, New York, Washington, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Ohio, Arkansas, New Jersey, Kansas,
Maryland, Illinois and the District of Columbia.
E. P. Imboden, who takes the majority of these visitors through the plant,
finds much to interest him in what the
visitors say about the plant. Many of
them are people who are visiting in Decatur and through their hosts hear of the
plant. Some are customers who come to
Decatur purely for the purpose of seeing
the process, and some are tourists who
chance to hear of the plant and make it
one of their stopping places.
Henry Dubes returned to work late in
September after a two weeks vacation. It
was too hot to leave town during his holiday, Henry said, so he stayed at home
and worked in his beloved garden.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Starke and Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Leaser spent the Labor Day
week-end at Starved Rock and Chicago.
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Buck Finally Takes the Leap
Just when his friends were begin- But meeting the couple at the station
ning to fear that he was in for a life was only the start. Kind hands
of bachelorhood, our auditor, Ray helped them into waiting automoC. Scherer, suddenly jumped off the biles and they were whisked out to
deep end into matrimony. He and the plant. Here another informal
Miss Dorothy Hagen were married reception took place.
in New Orleans, Wednesday, SepWhen they were ready to leave,
tember 2 1. All plans for the mar- another car, this time appropriately
riage had been kept a secret from decorated in ribbons, shoes and nice
Staley people, the
noisy tin cans,
couple p l a n n i n g
was waiting for
to get into Decathem.
With the
tur b e f o r e any
bride and groom
one knew of their
in it this car led
wedding.
But
a long and loud
some one told—
procession t h r u
and they were
the business secroyally welcomed
tion of Decatur.
home.
Mr. and Mrs.
When
Buck
Scherer will make
took his vacation
their home in the
in September he
house Mr. Scherer
announced that
has been building
he was going on a
in Cantrell street.
business trip in no
The house has
way connected
been the cause
with m a t r i m o n y .
for much discusHis many friends
sion. Buck, after
at the plant susfinally admitting
pected him, howstep by step, that
ever, and were
it was his, that he
not g r e a t l y surwas going to live
prised when, on
in it, and that he
S a t u r d a y , Sept.
was going to be
married before he
24, a t e l e g r a m
The Bridegroom
moved in, refused
f i o m New Orleans told of the wedding. The tele- to give out any more information.
gram evidently was from a good but It is a fine home though, of brick
cautious friend, for while it said "R. construction and equipped with
C. Scherer and wife will arrive in every electrical appliance imaginaAs the mistress of such a
Decatur from New Orleans Sun- ble.
home Mrs. Scherer probably will
day," it was signed H. C. L.
But it was the tip which was find herself envied by many of her
needed.
Working with it Buck's friends.
Mrs. Scherer has made her home
good friends arose early Sunday
morning, and were all ready at the in New Orleans and Texas, where
station when he and his bride ar- she was an art instructor. She has
rived. Surprise is much too mild a visited in Decatur, so she does not
word to describe the expression on come as a stranger.
(In giving him this page we are keeping
Buck's face when he saw his friends.
our promise to him.)
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Winter Entertainments
ways they have disturbed the rest of the
audience.
We give these entertainments for the
enjoyment of our own people and their
friends.
If a person shows, by talking or
making other disturbances, during a program, that he is not interested, we feel
that in justice to other persons there he
must be asked to leave.
Please try to arrive at the auditorium
before 8 o'clock. If parents bring their
children it will be less confusing if they
will insist upon the children sitting with
them during the evening. No matter how
good the program is, one or two restless,
talkative persons in the audience can ruin
the whole thing. Please do your part to
make it enjoyable.
*
OCTOBER
Friday, Oct.
teers."
14 — "Three
Muska-
Saturday, Oct. 22 — "The
Upstairs."
Family
As they say in the circus world, our
lyceum season is opening this month with
prospects for the biggest and best programs we have ever had. This year wo
are offering nine entertainments on our
Fellowship Club course and of these nine
five are musical companies, one is a cartoonist, two are plays, and one is a magician.
The opening number of our course is
also advertised as one of the most unusual
and probably one which the greatest number of people will enjoy. It is a company of three men, all good singers, who
call themselves the Three Muskateers.
They give a varied program, partly in
costumes of the various countries from
which their numbers are taken. This entertainment will be given Friday night,
Oct. 14.
The next program, and the only other
one booked for October, is a play, "The
Family Upstairs," which will be given Saturday night, Oct. 22. This is a perfect
picture of American family life and has
many good- laughs in it. Both this play
and the Three Muskateers program will
begin at 8 o'clock.
Other entertainments booked for the
reason are Laurant & Co., magicians,
Nov. 8, Alton Packard, cartoonist, Dec.
14, Spanish Orchestra, Jan. 2, Chicago
Male Quartet, Jan. 26, "The Easy Mark",
Feb. 23, Swiss Yodlers, March 27, and the
Ladies' Rainbow Orchestra for which no
date has yet been set.
All of these entertainments will be
given in the Decatur High School auditorium and all of them, unless otherwise
announced, will begin at 8 o'clock. All
members of the Fellowship club and their
families are admitted free. As this n u m ber fills the auditorium we cannot sell
tickets to any outsiders.
As usual, we will have people at the
door to admit you, but if it so happens
that you are asked for your Fellowship
club membership card, please have it
ready to show. We have made this ruling to protect our own club members. A
few times persons who have no connection with our club have gained entrance
to these entertainments and almost al-
Bowling Season Opens
Staley bowlers have taken heart this
year, since last year's Fellowship club
came through with such an excellent record, and already three teams have been
organized at the plant. The first and second Fellowship club teams belong to the
city league while the other team, known
as the Starch Workers, is affiliated with
the Industrial league.
The first team is made up, with one exception, of men from the traffic office.
They are supposed to be red hot bowlers
and if they do not bring home the city
pennant next spring, their backers will be
disappointed. Al Crabb is captain of
this squad and his forces are made up of
Al Lukey, Orville Smith, Bus March and
Ed Larrick, all of the traffic office, and
Cecil Walker, credit manager.
The second Fellowship club is composed entirely of men from the plant, and
they are also starting out with great
hopes. On this squad are Leipski, Dehority, Rostek, Takash, Starbody and
Reich.
The Starch Workers are eoing pretty
well so far, although at their first showing
they discovered one or two comedy characters who had much to learn about the
gentle art of bowling. On this team ar^
Ed Smith, Hank Potrafka, Art Long, Doc
West, Art Watkins, Bill Delahunty and
Gene Roberts.
The most interesting incident we have
heard yet of any of the early games was
one concerning Hank Potrafka, of the
Starch Workers.
It seems that Hank
knew how to take hold of the ball, but
when the ball started down the alley Hank
went right along with it, rolling quite as
well and as far as it did. It was only
after some effort on the part of a teammate that he was rescued and righted.
Walter Grant, of the tool room, was ill
w i t h influenza early in September.
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Maybe the world at large knows the Black Hills chiefly as the place where President Cooiidgc
spent his summer vacation, but we of the Staley company have known of it for a long time as
the home of the Black Hills Mercantile Co. George Radasch, our rotund representative in that
part of the United States, recently persuaded the members of the firm and" their employees to
pose for a picture outside one of their buildings in Deadwood. S. D. In the picture o'ur George
is standing between two girls, and we might add, the only two girls in the picture.
Group Three Wins Banner
By Fred R. Stone, Safety Director
Group Three was the winner in the six
months "No Loss Time Accident" drive
which closed September I . This group
is composed of the men in the filter house,
the mill house and the women in the sewing room. For the six months ending
September 1 this group had no lost time
accidents and only 34 minor accidents.
Only by continued and complete co-operation of all the employees and their foremen could such a record have been attained.
Competition was keen t h r o u g h out the drive and Group Three has a right
to be proud of its victory.
Group Fourteen won second place with
almost as good a record as Three. This
group had no lost time accidents, but it
did have 106 minor accidents.
In this
group are the millwrights, blacksmiths
and brickmasons. Group fifteen takes
t h i r d place.
In this group are the men
from the corn oil and soy bean oil mills
and the t h i n boiling starches.
Group
Fifteen had one lost time accident and 96
minor accidents.
Because of the interest in this last drive
another drive, three months in duration,
started October 1 . The same rules will
regulate this contest which regulated the
f o r m e r one.
Many groups which were
slow in organizing for the first drive are
now well under way determined to win
that banner.
Let's see which group will be the next
to float the banner.
Remember every
day counts.
One accident might keep
you from winning the coveted banner.
Let's get lined out properly and start this
new drive off with a bang.
We have a
record to beat, but we can beat it. There
is plenty of room for f u r t h e r improvement.
Don't take chances; don't become lax or
indifferent in the application of the fundamental rules of safety we all know so well.
Keep "Safety" ever foremost in your
mind. Accidents breed unhappiness.
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The Other Job
"Ol" Alphabet Cobb"—that's what the neighbors called him, because
when he was graduated from college, back in '96, he came out with a string
of degrees as long as your arm.
He was poverty poor, an unsociable cuss with no worldly possessions except his old mules and a line of capital letters hitched onto his
name.
A friend overtook him trudging along the road to town one day and
offered to give him a lift.
He told his story.
It seems he'd had a job offered him when he was graduated. He took
it and soon found that there were certain things about it he didn't like.
Another fellow's job looked good to him, so he switched, but soon found
out that there were things about that job he didn't like either. And so he
went from job to job, forever discontented because he couldn't find one
that was perfect. As he himself admitted he never got anywhere and was
not much better than a hobo.
As we pulled into town he said:
"Well, there is one sure thing I've
found out in the 28 years that I've been working. There is some out to
every job no matter how rosy it looks from the outside. I might have made
good from the first if I'd known that."
The other fellow's job that sometimes looks so good may not be as
good as it looks. Nine times out of 1 0 our own job can be MADE just as
good and often better. A lot of us make the mistake of TELLING the boss
how valuable we are instead of SHOWING him.
Those who put into their job their best ideas and energy can usually get
out of it something in proportion. The job each of us is in now can at least
lead us to something a little better—if we handle it in the right way.—
Factory Facts.
Is It Possible?
"Approaching the Windsor road crossing of the Erie, an auto salesman, with a party of friends, slowed down the car almost to a stop.
The
crossing is protected by the latest type of signals, including swinging arm
and gong. Apparently no train was within sight or sound. The man explained : 'The signal might fail to operate. We will make sure that we
can cross in safety.' "—Newburgh (N. Y.) "News."
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Staley's Salad and Cooking oil, in pint, quart and gallon cans, was used to make up this attractive window display in the Parlor Market in Decatur recently. The Parlor Market, the largest
and most complete of its kind in the city, use Staley's oil in making the salad dressing sold
there, and in the salads which they sell. Therefore they have no hesitancy in u r g i n g their customers to buy the oil and use it at home.
ATTEND MEETING
MOSQUITO HOP
Under the auspices of the College of
Agriculture of the University of Illinois,
a meeting of soy bean growers and millers
was held in Urbana, Sept. 2 1 and 22. E.
P. Imboden, our educational director and
F. A. Wand, our soy bean expert, were
present for the entire time, while Howard
File, our chief chemist, attended one evening session.
Because John Kuhns is known in his
neighborhood as a quiet chap, persons residing near him were all the more startled
when they saw his house well lighted late
one September night. When they looked
in to see why the illumination they saw
a fantastic figure in gay pajamas dancing
about and making sweeping motions with
a fly swatter.
At first they thought it couldn't be, but
finally decided that it was, John. Later,
when he was asked to tell the reason for
his evening gambols he said that he was
killing mosquitoes. That, we claim, is a
good idea.
LEAVES COMPANY
Mrs. Claire McLean, who has been with
the company for about two years, left in
September to take a secretarial position
with the Equitable Life Insurance Co., in
Chicago. She has been a stenographer in
the manufacturing department.
Well, another idol falls. We had always thought Lowell Gill was the one
highbrow of the company, for on the
street car he reads only the "best" books,
but when he told us recently of some of
his favorite shows we were startled, to
say the least. He said that he found
"Gay Paree" a scream, Leon Errol in
"Yours Truly" a riot, George White's
"Scandals" one of the best of the year
and now he can hardly wait to get to New
York to see the latest edition of the "Follies."
^
As Ed Scheiter so often has remarked,
that hot weather in September was certainly fine for the corn, but, as he always added, it wasn't the heat anyway,
it was the humidity.^
Jack Parker, we hear, has traded his
pony for a Ford and now each day is
seen going down alleys to avoid the traffic cops.
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Why, we ask you, is Georee Reed so
deeply interested in the retail price of
milk?
Revenge is the most costly luxury in
which we can indulge.
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Some Old Autumn Standbys
When a u t u m n comes round again the
housewife finds herself going back to the
rame old fruit—the original f r u i t perhaps since we find it associated with the
r k ory of the first man—and apples take
their place in the family menu. Apples
are prime favorites in most kitchens for
they lend themselves to such a variety of
treatments and can be served with the
main meal or as a dessert.
This is the time of the year, too, when
the housewife who does pickling, is
checking up to see what she can finish up
with. Marie Rice is responsible for two
unusual recipes which are given below
and which are especially pood for this
time of the year. One is a saccharine
pickle and the other is a marmalade of
carrots.
SACCHARINE PICKLES
Let cucumbers stand in cold water for
about half an hour, then wash and dry
t h o r o u g h l y and pack into jars.
Let the following mixture come to a
boil, pour over the cucumbers, and seal:
1
gallon of vinegar (not diluted)
I
scant cup of salt
l £ teaspoon (level only) of saccharine
Spices as desired.
CARROT MARMALADE
1
2
3
lb. carrots
lemons
cups sugar
'. teaspoon salt
Wash,
scrape
and
choo
carrots.
Squeeze the juice from the lemons and
then grind carrots and lemon rinds.
Cover with water and cook until tender.
Add lemon juice, sugar and salt and coolc
until it thickens. Seal in jelly glassei.
This amount makes four or five jelly
glasses full.
PEAR AND ORANGE MARMALADE
6
2
3
large Bartlett pears
oranges
cups sugar
i cup water
Pare and slice pears and oranges then
dice both orange and pear peelings. To
this add sugar and water and boil down
until thick.
APPLE PIE
1 cup sifted flour
2 tablespoons fat
3 tablespoons cold water
Pinch salt
Mix fat and flour and add water and
mix well, handling as little as possible.
FILLING NO. 1
Wash and cut fine 6 medium
apples.
Mix with f r u i t one-half
rugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt and
fourth teaspoon nutmeg. Put into
and dot with butter. Put on top
and bake in moderate oven.
sized
cup
onecrust
crust
FILLING NO. 2
Slice apples. Into pan, which has been
lined with crust, sprinkle a cup of sugar
(unless apples are very sweet) and a l i t tle flour. Put in apples, dot with butter,
using about a tablespoon full, and pour
in a little water.
Cover with a top crust
and bake in moderate oven.
APPLE SAUCE CAKE
cup fat
egg (beaten)
cups flour
1 1 cup thick cold apple Eauce
1
teaspoon soda
i cup nuts
1
teaspoon cinnamon
5 teaspoon nutmeg and cloves
1
cup sugar
4 tablespoons hot water
^ teaspoon salt
1
cup raisins or dates
Cream sugar and fat, add egg and beat
well. Stir in apple sauce and hot water.
Add f r u i t and nuts and then dry ingredients sifted together.
Bake 45 minutes
to an h o u r in moderate oven.
DUTCH APPLE KUCHEN
Use any bread dough and arrange
dices of apples slightly overlapping and
cover with a paste of one-half cup b r o w n
sugar, one-half teaspoon cinnamon, with
sufficient cream to moisten to a thick
paste (about 2 t a b l e s p o o n s ) . Bake in a
moderate oven until done.
THE STALEY JOURNAL
GRAPE CONSERVE
APPLE CAKE
2 quarts grapes
1
Ib. seeded raisins
1
Ib. English walnuts
2
oranges
2i Ibs. sugar
Wash grapes and separate pulp and
skins. Cook half the skins in small
amount of water 5 minutes. Cook pulp
slowly until soft. Add pulp and rind of
oranges, sugar, raisins, and grape skins,
and boil 5 minutes. Add chopped nuts
and seal at once.
1 J cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat
\p milk
4 or 5 apples
J cup sugar
1
teaspoon cinnamon
Sift together dry ingredients, add shortening and rub lightly.
Add milk slowly.
Roll one-half inch thick and put in shallowed greased pan. Press pared, cored
and quartered apples into ton, sprinkle
with sugar and cinnamon and bake in moderate oven until apples are tender and
brown. Serve warm with cream.
APPLE ROLL
4 medium sized apples
1 i cups sugar
2 cups water
Peel, core and chop apples.
Cook
sugar and water in baking pan over slow
fire. Make rich biscuit dough and roll
about one-half inch thick, spread with apples and roll into long roll. Cut into
pieces about 1 \s
long.
side down in hot syrup, put small piece
of butter on top of each and sprinkle with
cinnamon and sugar. Bake in hot oven.
Serve with cream.
FRUIT SANDWICHES
Chop equal amounts of celery and firm
apples. Add some chopped green pepper
and carrots and enough mayonnaise to
make a thick paste. Spread between
slicescut
of nut bread.
Place
IN SALADS
Apples, if firm and not too sweet, can
always be depended upon for a salad
foundation. When chopped they can be
used with celery, carrots, pineapple, white
or red cherries, nuts, oranges, cream
cheese, or marshmallows in almost any
combination.
When apples are to be
used in a salad they should be mixed with
mayonnaise or covered with lemon juice
as soon as they are chopped.
Otherwise
they will turn brown.
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WATERMELON PRESERVES
Rind of one watermelon
2 pounds of sugar
2 oranges
1 tablespoon salt
2 lemons
1 tablespoon whole cloves
Remove one-fourth inch green rind
from melon. Cut fleshy rind remaining
into slices and soak over night in two gallons of cold water to which one tablespoon
of salt has been added.
In the morning put on to heat in cold
water and bring to the boiling point.
Make syrup of sugar and one quart of
water, cooking for ten minutes.
Then add melon strips, well drained
and cook ten minutes. Add sliced lemons,
oranges and cloves and boil till watermelon is tender.
WITH MEATS
Baked apples, apple sauce or stewed or
glace apples make a delightful addition
to pork roast, pork chops or roast fowl.
Spiced apple sauce is particularly good
to serve with pork. Use sour apples and
to each cup of sugar use 8 cloves.
Table of equivalent weights and measures:
1
salt spoon=J teaspoon.
3 teaspoons=l tablespoon.
16 tablespoons^! cup.
2 cups r=I l pint.
2 pints—1 quart.
2 cups granulated supar = l pound.
4 cups flour 1 ^! pound.
2 cups butter = I pound.
2 tablespoons butter^ I ounce.
4 tablespoons flour^l ounce.
1
square bitter chocolate=1 ounce.
3^ tablespoons cocoa^l ounce.
GRAPE MERINGUE PIE
4 cups blue grapes
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
Dash of ground cloves
Separate grape skins from pulp. Place
pulp in top of double boiler and steam
20 minutes, then press through coarse
sieve. Add unbeaten eszg yolks and dry
ingredients to pulp and skins and mix well.
Turn into pie pan lined with crust and
bake 45 minutes in moderate oven.
Cover with beaten egg whites and brown
quickly.
Claude Cox says there is no place quite
like St. Louis. He is especially enthusiastic about that blond beauty down
there.
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New Grain Man
Announcement was recently made of
the appointment of George J. Reed as
general manager of the grain department
of the Staley company.
Mr. Reed came
in August to ake over his work here and
has already made friends among the people with whom he comes in contact.
Mr. Reed came to the Staley company
from Hallett & Carey, well known grain
brokers, of Minneapolis. He is well
known among grain men and the Staley
company feels f o r t u n a t e in inducing him
to come to Decatur.
The personnel, aside from the appointment of the new general manager remains the same. W. H. Barnes continues
in charge of grain sales and H. T. Morris
in charge of the grain promotion work.
B. H. Muthersbaugh and Clarence Brewer
are buyers and Robert Roseberry has
charge of the wire.
Ten Years Ago
(These items appeared in The
Journal of October, 1 9 1 7 . )
Staley
The effects of the World War were beginning to show through the plant news
which got into The Journal. Mr. Wolf,
traffic manager, had just returned from
an eastern trip, and told of visiting the
Naval Training Camp at Berkley, Va.,
where he saw Ray Scherer and Louis
Brand.
In the same issue of The Journal appears a letter from those two brave salts.
It says, in part:
"We are still enjoying life and haven't
been dissatisfied with a thing up to the
present time and have had no inclination
to get out of the navy. I guess it would
do us a lot of good to wish to be back
in Decatur.
We are still washing our
own clothes and have developed into two
good washerwomen, with prospects of
making the rating of a first class Chinaman by the time we see four years of
soap suds.
"We got our first liberty Sept. 29, and
took in the city of Norfolk.
Though it
was sprinkling all day, it was our first
day out on liberty, and n o t h i n g could have
kept us in. You should see this burg with
all these sailors on the streets.
You can
see sailors from all different nations, and
they sure are a jolly b u n c h of fellows.
When it comes to looks, I believe the U. S.
has it on them all."
George J. Reed is the new general manager
of our grain department. Mr. Reed came to
the Staley company from Minneapolis.
WHEN PARENTS FAIL
Not that we have as many accidents
as we do, but that we do not have more,
is the wonder recently expressed by C. D.
Fletcher, machinist foreman in the plant.
The subject had t u r n e d to the n u m b e r of
children in Decatur who had been injured and killed d u r i n g the last year by
automobiles. Then he told of something
he had seen the day before.
He and his wife were driving t h r o u g h
one of the residence streets of Decatur
when they saw a child standing on the
curb talking to some one on the opposite
eide of the street. Claude slowed down
thinking the child might be intending to
cross and then discovered that the f a t h e r
on one side of the street was calling to the
child and urging him to come on across.
The child was evidently torn between
his desire to obey his father and his desire
to wait until the street was clear.
The
f a t h e r persisted and the child finally
darted across between cars. Safe driving
only saved the child,
A long letter to the editor told of the
bravery of one of the night watchmen.
He slew what he thought was a lion but
which later proved to be a rat.
No names
were mentioned.
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THE ST&LEY JOURNAL
When our cartoonist, W. R. VanHook, took his vacation in August, he motored through
parts of the country where Indiana still wander at will. He took a number of pictures of these
natives, but in justice to him let us say that he will be as surprised as you when he sees these
in The Journal. In the center is William Russell himself, as he look* on vacation.
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THE STHLEY JOURNAL
To New York
Otto D. Sutler has been transferred to
our New York branch, of which W. H.
Randolph Jr., is manager.
In addition to
his duties in the office, Mr. Sutter .will
have charge of the large new warehouse
recently acquired by the Staley company
in Brooklyn.
Mr. Sutter has practically grown up in
the employe of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., starting as a laborer one summer vacation.
In a few weeks he went
on as a sample carrier and since that time
his career with the company has been
varied.
During all of his vacations while
he was in college, and part of the school
year, he worked in various departments
of the plant, but most of his work was
in the laboratory.
There he learned the
process thoroughly and a c q u i r e d a most
useful w o r k i n g knowledge of the uses of
the various Staley products.
This wide experience in the different
departments gave him an insight into the
process which can only be gained by
actual working in the plant.
Coupled
with his experience was a natural ability
and a keen mind which made him stand
out as the logical man to select when,
about a year ago, the sales department
wanted an assistant to the starch sales
manager.
Mr. Sutter was given that position and
worked with H. T. Morris, then starch
sales manager until Mr. Morris was transferred to the grain department a few
months ago. Since then he has continued in the same capacity.
It is characteristic of him, that although his successor had been here for some time, he
found work to do at his old desk in the
starch sales department until a few minutes before time for him to take his train
to New York.
His successor here is Ivan
F. Wieland, who has been working with
H. P. Dunlap, starch sales manager, for
several weeks.
*
O. D. Sutter l e f t Decatur in September to
take up his new work in the New York office.
He has been with the company for several
years, recently as assistant starch sales manager.
LOST—AND FOUND
Poets are notoriously absentminded
folk, but we had always prided ourselves
upon the fact that our poet, Cyril Malcomb Cobb, was different from most in
many ways, and one of those was that he
never forgot.
But recently something
happened that put him in the absentminded list with a bang—put him almost
at the head of that clan ahead of John
Kuhns.
It was a warm day in early September
and the poet, who is by way of being our
purchasing agent, had worked hard and
late. He rushed out into the p a r k i n g
place south of the general office after his
work for the day was over—and lo—his
f a i t h f u l Hup was not there.
He searched
the s u r r o u n d i n g landscape with his eagle
eye, but nothing but Fords and Chevys remained.
In desperation he went to Ed Borchers,
that guardian of the parking place, and
enlisted him. But the search failed to
bring the car to light. Then suddenly
the poet halted. A light broke through
and it dawned upon him that he had left
the car down town that morning for some
minor repairs.
Rollin Staley, son of our president, and
Marion Pierce, who has been working in
our
auditing department,
were
both
pledged to Alpha Tau Omega at the University of Illinois this year.
Rollin is a
freshman this year and Marion, who has
been attending Millikin, is a junior.
+
Doc West stopped talking golf long
enough one day recently to announce to
the listening world that his son Bob has
cut his first tooth.
Doc was almost excited as if he had made a hole in one.
What's it a sign of when a girl buys a
complete set of table silver?
Ask Marjorie Robb—she should know.
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THE STRLEY JOURNAL
NEW BUSINESS
MARIE FLIES
Since side lines in business seem to pay
rather well, Mike, that slick little Irishman who drives the mail t r u c k , has picked
up one for himself.
So far there has been
little money, no glory and a lot of hard
work, but Mike hopes that things improve
later.
The business which he is starting is
known as a dog laundry. Peculiar, to
be sure, but most necessary.
Mike's activities so far have been confined to washing Shep, the garage dog, but he has been
successful and he hopes that Shep proves
such a good advertisement that other dogs
will come begging for baths.
Marie Rice, of Mr. Galloway's office,
took a real airplane flight while she was
on her vacation in August. It was while
she was in Detroit. She and Lindbergh
both happened to be there at the same
time, and both appeared at the air field
the same day.
They even flew in the
same plane, but, to Marie's sorrow, not
at the same time. Lindberg, with Henry
Ford and some others, took a flight in a
big passenger plane, and on its next trip
up Marie was among the passengers.
A
double thrill in one day, she says.
Alice Bonifield didn't know that concrete forms were sometimes dampened before they were used, so she naturally concluded, when she saw some wet ones lying
in Seventh street, that it was raining, and
went back for her umbrella.
"Lisle Brown," says Doc West, "is a
good fellow, but he is always late.
I had
a date to play golf with him one m o r n i n g
at 7 o'clock.
I got there at six and he
didn't appear for an hour.
The next time
I had a date with him he was almost two
minutes late.
I like him but he should
be more prompt."
Roxie Poland, of the credit office, spent
her vacation, early in September, at her
home in Fillmore.
Maggie Prell was late to work one August m o r n i n g for the first time in all the
years she has worked at Staley's.
She
insists that she got up on time but that
she was staying with Helen and that Helen
had made such good biscuits for break
fast that she couldn't stop eating in time
to get to work at 7.
L. B. Humiston says it's no use.
Unless he lives on lettuce and vinegar he
gains pounds every day, and as the Irishman said, who wants to starve himself to
death just to live a few years longer?
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Robert Fur man, whose father, C. Furman, works in the d r a f t i n g room, is entering the University of Illinois this year. He
has been a student at Millikin.
Marion McClelland, who has been working in the yard this summer, is returning
to Millikin this fall.
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THE STALEY t/OUQMU,
Harry Casley has stood about all the kidding h • wants to about Turkey Run. and when he
was there on his vacation this summer he took these pictures to show that it really is a lovely
lace. We will admit that his judgment is excellent. In the picture at the left, at the top, young
illy Casley is having a grand time with some of his Indian friends and their pony.
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THE STALEY JOUKpAL
Vera Robinson, of the restaurant, and Bert
Borders, of the table house, look like a bride
and groom in this picture, do they not. Well
—they are, for they were married in September.
Bernice Ellis and Elderick Jacobs were married in August. The bridegroom works in the
boiler room.
THORNBOROUGH-ALLEN
ROBINSON-BORDERS
Dora Mae Thornborough and Frank R.
Allen were married in Illiopolis, Aug. 20.
Rev.
A. B. Kettelkamp performed the
ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Thornborough.
The bridegroom is the son of N. C. Allen, also of
Decatur, and is employed in the machine
shop at the Staley plant.
For the eighth time in four years there
has been a wedding in the restaurant staff.
This time Vera Robinson wr\ the bride
and the bridegroom was B rt Borders.
Vera and Bert have both been at the plant
for some time, Vera w o r k i n g for Bob
Sattley in the restaurant, and Bert in the
table house.
They were married in Glasgow, Ky.,
Sept. 6, while Vera was visiting the old
home there with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Robinson. The bridegroom,
whose father also works in the table
house, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Borders.
For the present Vera is keeping her job
in the restaurant and the y o u n g people
are living at 2480 East Prairie street.
MILLINGTON-WYANT
Glenda Millington and John Wyant
were married Sept. 3. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Minnington
and formerly worked in our tray room.
The bridegroom, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wyant, is a switchman in the
Staley yards.
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WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
KAYHS-BORZIO
Our general superintendent, A. E. Staley, Jr., and Mrs. Staley celebrated their
first wedding anniversary Sept. 15. Over
the week-end following that date they
had as their house guests several members of their weddine party.
Bertha Kayhs and Richard Borzio were
married by Rev. Roy Catlin, pastor of the
English Lutheran church, in his home,
Sept. 18. The ceremony was performed
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The couple's attendants were Helen Hebel and K.
Krupka.
The bride is the daughter of Gottlieb
Kayhs.
The bridegroom works in No. 1 7
building.
For the present the couple
will live at 1 4 6 7 East Orchard street.
T. E. Shaw, west gate watchman, has
been mistaken several times lately for Major Hoople, famous Decatur Review character.
Something muat be done about
this. Brother Shaw says.
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THE STXLEY JOURNAL
CONNERY-RUSSELL
Although they were married Aug. 13,
Margaret Connery and Carl R. Russell,
both of the auditing department, did not
admit the fact to Staley friends u n t i l nearly three weeks later.
Carl had been at
Reserve Officers' camp the first two weeks
in the month, and upon receiving his discharge Aug. 12, went direct to Detroit.
Margaret met him there Saturday morning Aug. 13, and they were married that
day by the pastor of the First Presbyterian church.
They were attended by Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Coleman, of Detroit. The bride
wore a gown of dark blue crepe romaine,
with bois de rose hat.
Following the
ceremony a wedding breakfast was served
at the Statler hotel.
After a honeymoon they returned to
Decatur and both came to work, never
mentioning the fact that they had taken a
most important step during their absence.
But the secret slipped out and they finally admitted it.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. King, of Decatur.
Her f a t h e r
works in the Staley plant and she has been
employed in the auditing department for
more than a year.
The bridegroom, the son of W. T. Russell, has been in charge of the cost accounting division of the a u d i t i n g department for several years.
He and his wife
are livng in the Russell home at 1296
West Wood street.
Mrs. Russell is cont i n u i n g with her work at the office.
Until her marriage in August Mrs. Carl R.
Russell was Margaret Connery. Her husband
is in charge of our cost department, and sh-j
is in the auditing department.
Francis Harrold and Lynn Hettinger of
the laboratory are both r e t u r n i n g to college this fall.
Francis is entering the
University of Illinois as a junior, and Lynn
is r e t u r n i n g to Millikin university.
ATTEND CONVENTION
W. V. Cullison and Harold Baker, research chemists, both attended the f a l l
meeting of the American Chemical Society in September.
The meeting this
year was held in Detroit.
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Now why did that firm send Frances
Hines three packages of cigarets?
Did
they t h i n k she was a man or do they,
perhaps, know Frances better than some
of us know h e r ?
And what did she do
with the cigarets?
Marion Pierce of the auditing department is entering the University of Illinois
this year after two years at Millikin.
Fred Young, of the boiler house, was
ill in September.
Other men in the same
department who were ill were Henry
Lamar, Bill Wiedaur, and Jack Shaw.
Freda Seitz tells us about the Scotchman who was going to have a profile picture taken so he would have to have onlv
one side of his suit pressed.
James Galloway, Jr., spent most of the
month of August in Colorado. His mother
and the younger children had a cottage
in the mountains near Denver for the summer.
Joe Thompson, who has been w o r k i n g
in the civil engineering department, has
t r a n s f e r r e d to the personnel department.
William Price, janitor in the m a n u f a c t u r i n g offices, moved into his new home
late in September.
Bill and his wife recently built this home in the 900 block
in North Monroe street, and are justly
proud of it.
Harold Dunn, of the Purchasing office,
pot his new car just in time to enjoy it
during our September hot spell.
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THE STALKY JOURNAL
Liked Our Looks
"When you have finished dinner will
you tell that man back there something
about Staley's?"
This was what our friend the steward
on a Wabash dining car asked us one
Sunday evening not long ago.
*'He asked
me so many questions," that steward continued, "and I really know more Staley
people than I do about Staley busness.
More than likely you can answer his questions for he really is interested."
So when we were back in our car again
we sought out the man of whom the steward had told us and found him indeed
interested.
"Funny request, this," he said, "but my
home is in California and I make the trip
east several times a year. Ordinarily one
factory looks like another to me, but when
we passed through Decatur a while ago
my attention was attracted by the Staley
plant. I noticed it because it was one of
the largest factories we have passed on
this trip, and because it is by far the most
modern looking and busiest place I have
seen.
I want to know what you make
there."
The man who had found our business
home of such interest was E. J. Rose,
president of the E. J. Rose M a n u f a c t u r i n g
Co., of Los Angeles. His company manufactures scientific electrical apparatus for
laboratories and hositals, and Mr. Rose,
an electrical engineer, is the genius who
has invented much of the apparatus he
manufactures.
This last bit of i n f o r m a tion we got only by much questioning of
the most subtle kind.
We tried to answer his questions about
our plant, tried in our own unscientific
manner to explain to him how one grain
of corn can make starch and syrup and
oil and feed, and we believe, maybe not
too modestly, that we let him know that
the Staley plant not only looks busy and
modern, but is.
Just before we reached Chicago, and
necessarily the end of our impromptu lecture, Mr. Rose promised that he would
visit Decatur and the Staley plant later
in the year on his return trip west.
Sam Seibert took his wife and his
daughters with him when he went on his
vacation t h i s year.
They made the t r i p
by motor, visiting various interesting
points in Wisconsin d u r i n g the time.
Marjorie Hodgins, of the sales department, spent her vacation, late in August,
in Colorado Springs, Denver, and the
Rocky Mountain parks in Colorado.
Our idea of a foolish person is one who
argues with a friend.
It was a number of years ago that this
touching photograph was taken.
Surely you
recognize the young man, although he has
changed a bit since this, his wedding picture
was taken. Of course, it is "Mac" Jagusch
and Mrs. Mac in all their wedding finery.
Joe Pollock says he has quit fishing
for a while. Oh no, he is not tired of
the sport.
But he has caught practically
all of the worthwhile fish in the lake and
now he is waiting for the small ones to
grow large'r.
A n n o u n c e m e n t s of the reorganization
of the Staley Nut club has just been
made.
Hambalogny M i n t u n is being mentioned for president.
Some of our men don't care how much
money they spend.
For instance one of
our finest passed up all gas stations in
Decatur where gas is selling, because of
a local war, for 13 cents, and bought his
gas at the first station west of town where
it sells for about 20.
He was paying
for it out of his own pocket too — no
swindle sheet in it this time.
THE SWLEY JOURNAL
While we were having our belated summer in Decatur the Fred Young's family decided to
have a f a m i l y reunion in Nelson Park, Sunday, Sept. 18. Fred is a fireman in the Staley feed
house and is the man in the picture with the bandage on his head. In justice to him we must
say that the bandage is there because of an infection caused by illness.
Those who attended
the party, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Young, were Mrs. Mary Ernst and f a m i l y ; Mrs. Bessie
Lemon and f a m i l y ; Miss Dorothy Ryan; Mrs. Margaret Stephens and f a m i l y ; Mr. and Mrs. R.
McGuire; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. McGarry and family, of Taylorville; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ryan and
f a m i l y ; Mrs. Margaret McGuire; Misses Katherine and Anna Ball; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Slade and
family, and Charles Slade.
POOR FISH!
The quiet of Lake Decatur was broken
early one morning when a Chevrolet
loaded with eager fishermen rolled up to
the shore and stopped.
The first fellow
to hop out of the car (or should we say
crawl out) was none other than Tom
Hildebrand, and his gang followed.
They got to work at once, baiting their
hooks and tossing their lines over into the
water in the spots which they decided
were most favorable, and intensive fishing was the order of the morning. But
that was all. The bass were playful and
the bait disappeared from the hooks—but
no fish filled the baskets or pails or whatever it is that one puts fish into.
Finally Tom, who was fishing alone,
ran out of bait and called loud and long
for the sardines which had been brought
along.
No answer
so he went to get
them—and f o u n d that his fellows, exhausted and discouraged, had already
consumed the sardines.
So Tom, with no
bait, no fish and no sardines—went home.
GEMEPAU
OFFICE.
Edward Yochum is the new messenger
in the auditing department. He succeeds
Bernard Billings who resigned his place to
enter Millikin university this fall.
Edward is prominent in Boy Scout work, being one of the few Eagle Scouts in Decatur.
OLL STARK is THE REALOLD LIFE SAVER WHEN IT
LIGHTNINGS -PASK i~5iss
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To celebrate the w i n n i n g of th2 City Industrial League pennant by the Staley team, the Fellowship governors entertained the team at dinner in the club house.
RAYMOND TROVATO
Dinner For Team
Raymond Trovato, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Trovato, died in the Decatur and
Macon County hospital Sept. 20. He was
seven weeks old. His father works on
the track gang at the plant. Besides his
parents he leaves five brothers and one
sister.
Members of the Staley baseball team,
which won the pennant in the City Industrial League this year, were entertained
at dinner in the club house, Sept. 22. The
dinner was given by the board of governors of the Fellowship Club, which had
sponsored the ball team.
Aside from the
members of the team and the governors,
C. A. Keck, for many years president of
the club, was present.
The dinner, prepared under the competent direction of Charley Long, was
built around friend chicken, and was
thoroughly enjoyed by the guests.
After
dinner the men played cards until the
Dempsey-Tunney fight began coming in
over the radio, then cards were forgotten.
Mr. John C. Boyd and family acknowledge with deep appreciation the kind expressions of sympathy extended to them
d u r i n g their recent sorrow.
We wish to express our h e a r t f e l t thanks
for the flowers and expressions of sympathy sent us d u r i n g our recent bereavement.
Mrs. Minnie Skowronski and Family.
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When Otto Left
"Grandpa" Parr, as F. J. Parr, of the south
gate, doesn't at all mind being called that,
made a trip out to Oklahoma City recently
just to see this small grandson.
In the pict u r e , Arnold Parr is holding his son. Arnold
f o r m e r l y worked in No. I 7 building, but is now
•with an oil company in Oklahoma City.
THEN MID FAINTED
Mid Hodgins Warren, wife of John Warren, of ihe Chicago office, opened up ihe
aflernoon paper one day recenlly in her
Chicago aparlmenl, and saw spread over
ihe f r o n t page the slory of a big raid
made lhal day on a boollegging joinl.
She wasn'l parlicularly inleresled in ihe
slory bul she did glance at the pictures
and then she gave them a long look, for
right in the foreground, his hat on the
back of his head, and one hand on his
hip, stood her John.
He says he was simply an innocenl bystander, but how do
we know?
John While, yard superintendent, has
recently moved into his new home at 956
Easl Cantrell street.
The house, which
ihe Whiles buill ihis summer, is a Iwostory brick.
A slender, quiet, blond chap, who was
always polite to the girls in the office but
otherwise paid little attention to them
that is Otto D. Sutler.
Doesn't sound
like the sort of a chap who would leave
a string of shattered hearts in his wake,
and yet, if we believe some of what we
hear, Otto's trail is strewn with feminine
valvular organs which are crushed and
sore.
When Otto moved into the sales department someone played a dirty trick on
him.
Otto was notoriously shy with
women but his new desk was in a room
packed
with girls all good looking,
snappy and young, and all thoroughly
aware that Otto was there. He was most
vividly aware of their awareness, too, but
he recovered his poise so quickly and held
his position so firmly t h a t he soon was
known, most unwillingly, as the idol of
the office.
And then, through the mysterious
grapevine which carries so much news, it
became known that one girl in particular
was attracting his attention. At first no
one could believe that Otto, deeply dyed
misogynist, had actually fallen, but in time
even Otto himself realized it. Just t h e n
he was told he might be transferred to
New York and the world rocked and
reeled.
But he decided to chance it, and finally
on a hot September afternoon he departed.
Just here there is another good
story, but we will pass over that as they
do in the movies Several hours elapse.
Now Otto is on the train and the train
is speeding east.
Now it is slowing down,
stopping at a station.
Ah—what is this? The porter of Otto's
car comes in with a telegram, paging Mr.
Sutler. Otto opens ihe message, reads it,
looks anpry and puls it away.
Al each
slalion all ihrough ihe night the same
thing happens and each lime ihe mullerings from Olio become louder.
It is just
his peculiar way of showing his gratitude
for ihe care his friends in Decatur are
taking of him.
And so on until he reached New York.
That is another story, and as the Sat. Eve.
Posl says, To be Conlinued.
«•
You all know how the knees of Lynn
Davis' Irousers always need pressing, so
lei's proceed. He was slanding t a l k i n g
and swinging his arms ihe other day when
Doc West came along, viewed him f r o m
all angles and finally said, "For Heavens
sake, Lynn, why don'l you go ahead and
jump?"
•*
Resolved, like ihe sun, so long as my
days last, I will look on the brighl side,
THE STALEY JOURNAL
V/ALK RIGHT UP BOYS
Xy ONLY Two BITS PLUS
-^"^» . . \
WAR TAX T' 6E E LITTLE
- DIRECT
/THE
SHE NO SPIK ENGLISH BOT
CAN SHE DANCE
AND THERE HE WAS!
BIRTHDAY PARTY
The story is told of a woman in the
east end of Decatur who called the health
department to cut the weeds on the lot
next to her. They were terribly high, she
said, and had been so for weeks. There
seemed to be no one interested in the
place and she thought it was up to the
city to cut the weeds.
So the kind city, always accommodating, sent out a man and he started. He
cut for a day or two and then suddenly
he struck something hard, he kept on cutting for a few days longer — and then he
found not only a house and a garage, but
L. M. Banning himself sitting on the porch
and wondering why the sun was suddenly
so hot in his yard.
Mary Jordan, daughter of Gus Jordan,
electrician, gave a party in honor of her
birthday Aug. 1 7. The affair was given
in the Staley club house.
Gladys Pollard, daughter of W. C. Pollard of the filter house, is .teaching in the
Roach school, in Decatur this winter.
Gladys finished a two year teachers'
training course in Millikin university last
spring.
t
Have you asked George Klein about his
golf game lately?
Well. DON'T I
Roy Hartman, civil engineer, took his
vacation in September.
Most of the time
he spent on his so-called farm a few miles
east of Decatur.
*
Vivian Pierce, of the purchasing office,
spent her vacation, the first part of September, visiting friends in Iowa.
When Dean served Roy Ives' tea in the
restaurant the other morning she put the
cup on a small plate instead of a saucer.
Sez Roy, looking at it:
"How's a fellow ever going to drink
his tea out of that place?"
And sez Dean:
"I'm terribly sorry but
I didn't think about that. Here's a
saucer."
Then he HAD to drink it that way.
It would seem that our Scotchman, J.
H. Galloway, is no different from others
of his race after all. Here we thought he
was such a spendthrift (comparatively)
and now he burns a blister on his lip because he wants to make one cigar do the
duty of two.
^
Now why was it that Eddie Lahniers
made eight glaring mistakes in one morning? Eddie is a rather settled chap, but
there are some things which even he can't
stand.
Frank Kekisen wants to extend his
thanks to the sales department for the
flowers sent him during his recent illness.
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MUD BATH
George Reed, our grain buyer, was
properly initiated upon his arrival in Illinois. He knows a lot about this corn
which Illinois raises, but he learned, first
hand, about the rich black soil it grows
in. His initiation took place on a soft
detour north of Decatur when he got out
to see why his car slid off the road. Twice
d u r i n g his investigation he slid into the
same black soil, only it was black soil to
which just enough August rain had been
added. It is said that George had to have
his suit cleaned and almost ruined his
lovely straw hat.
Carl Waltens, of the auditing department, had the second week of his vacation in August.
He stayed in Decatur
and spent most of the week fishing.
Junior Randolph, our New York manager, may be a city man during the week
but on holidays he is a backwoods fisherman—the kind that really brings home
the fish.
•*•
Claude Fletcher, machinist foreman,
and Mrs. Fletcher, spent their vacation
on a motor trip into northern Michigan.
Mrs. Claude Thornboorugh is in this picture,
but she and Claude both admit that Virginia
Ruth, their charming young daughter, is th-;
most important one.
Claude is foreman of our
boiler house.
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dohm,
Aug. 19, a daughter. She has been named
Mary June. Mr. Dohm works in the
boiler house.
*
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hathaway, 2482 East North street, Aug. 3 1, in
the Decatur and Macon County hospital,
a daughter. She has been named Joanne
Virginia. Mr. Hathaway works in the
laboratory.
»
MRS. D. B. THOMPSON
Mrs. D. B. Thompson died in Decatur
Sept. 6. She was the grandmother of
Don and Dan Wise, who work in the laboratory and the oil refinery.
We wish to extend our sincere thanks
and deep appreciation to fellow employes
in the table houses for the kindness and
sympathy shown us and the beautiful flowers sent d u r i n g our recent bereavement.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker.
We wish to thank the laboratory force
and others who sent flowers at the time
of the death of our grandmother.
Don E. Wise.
Dan G. Wise.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baker always spend
their summer vacation at Kelley Lake, Wis..
and their daughter, Mary Ruth, likes the lake
particularly. Here we find her practicing for
a bathing beauty scene. Mary Ruth's father
is in the research laboratory at the plant.
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ALL DAY PARTY
Mrs. L. E. Leaser entertained her club
at an all day party in the club house
Sept. 2.
A pot luck luncheon was served
at noon and in the afternoon the women
played cards.
Helen Harder, of Mr. Augur's office,
spent a week late in September visiting in
Peoria and catching up on her sleep.
Peoria would be flattered to know that
Decatur people go there for a rest.
Hank Potrafka has always prided himself, quite audibly, upon his pinochle
game.
Perhaps that is why he didn't tell
about the game the other night when he
went set four times straight.
•»
The day before the state f a i r opened
in Springfield some one heard A r m e n t r o u t
singing:
"Then awake me, shake me.
Don't let me sleep too late,
For I'm going away in the morning,
To swing on the Governor's gate."
—-•
Homer Grider, of the boiler house,
spent his vacation in September visiting
relatives in Metropolis, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Phillips, 1 1 1 2 East Harrison avenue, are justly proud of what Mrs.
Phillips calls their little (?) family. Mr. Phillips is a yard clerk. Bernadine Mildred, the
oldest, is holding the baby, Norrna Jean. The
little girl down in front is Helen Louise, who
is holding tight to a penny she has in her
handkerchief. The other children are Dorothy
June, Phyllis Virginia, Harold Jr. and Walter
William.
J. H. Galloway called on the girls of the
grain d e p a r t m e n t one m o r n i n g a f t e r they
had all moved into one office.
"This is
a harem," they informed him, and those
who were near said that Jim ran out so
fast that they feared another cyclone was
on its way.
ENTERTAINS CLUB
Lucile Schulz, of the sales department,
entertained the M. R. T. club in the Staley
club house Sept. 12.
Cards and dancing
were enjoyed d u r i n g the evening.
John Kuhns came back from Camp McCoy Aug. 1 5 looking as fit as you please.
When John is in the army he is a captain
and rides a horse and he spent his two
weeks being the one and doing the other,
and had a grand time.
Jack Fletcher, millwright foreman and
his family, left late in August for a motor
trip to New England.
Dr. Greenfield admits that it was his
fault that he burned his hand at that picnic.
Oh, well, since his wife was the
other person involved he might as well
admit it now as later.
Andy Percival was telling about his
wedding.
Sezze, "After the preacher had
said the words I took a five dollar bill
out of my pocket and handed it to him."
Sez Ed Smith—"Did he give you your
change right then)"
Herman Rowlin Allen, Jr., is the son of Herman Allen, of the boiler hous,e. He is still
quite tiny, but that does not mean that he is
not the most important member of the Allen
household.
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THE STALKY JOURNAL
J. C. Flowers has worked in our starch grind building since 1 9 1 9 , but this is the first time
we have had a picture of his entire f a m i l y for publication.
In the picture, with Mr. Flowers, are
Joseph, Mrs. Flowers, Olive, Samuel, Alta, and the family dog, Rose Marie. Joseph is in the
sixth grade at Roach school. Olive is a nurse at the Decatur and Macon County hospital, and
Alta is a supervisor for the Bell Telephone company. Samuel at one time worked in the packing
house and the kiln house, but is now in the testing department of the Commonweaith Edison company in Chicago.
Whenever the people in the New York
office receive nice cheerful picture postals
showing pictures of hospitals, prisons or
cemeteries, it is a safe bet that Charlie
Boyden is on a vacation and is remembering the gang back home.
Inez, Gertrude and Mary, three of the
sales department queens, had the thrill of
their lives the other day when they took
an airplane ride. Gertrude said she had
to go without her dinner to get the money
but it was worth it.
During his vacation, H. P. Dunlap took
a foursome back to the old home town —
but the home towners t a u g h t him how to
play golf.
Mrs. W. J. Michl, of the grain office,
spent her vacation "down on the farm"
in Jasper county.
Well, two of the famous Four Horsemen have been located at the Staley plant
—Helen Harder and George Reed.
Bert
Muthersbaugh says he would join the
Riding Club, too, but the horses all have
such weak backs.
When Walter Cooley returned to the
New York office and announced that he
had just finished cleaning up his cellar,
everyone wondered what kind of a cleanup he meant.
Doris Hill, secretary to Mr. Scheiter,
took her vacation in September.
Part of
the time she spent with friends in Chicago
and the remainder with her sister in
Springfield.
_^
Warren Ichler has recently been added
to the stafT of the personnel department.
He f o r m e r l y was with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad.
A Bo»y
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JOURNAL
GIVES A DANCE
Marion Lawrence entertained a number
of his friends at a dance in the club house
Sept. 21.
Durward and Donald Pygman returned
to the University of Illinois in September,
entering their sophomore years in the
medical school.
Durward worked in the
Staley print shop d u r i n g the summer and
Donald sold magazines.
•*•
While Cecil Walker, our credit man,
was in New York recently, the force theresuspected that he had "hoof and mouth"
disease. They wrote us that much but
said to ask Cecil for details. You do it—
we are afraid.
Ferris Osborn, engineer, has decided to
live at Faries Park all winter. The Osborn family took a cottage at Faries in the
spring and have found it so lovely that
they have decided to follow the example
of other families and remain there during the winter.
Robert Reese, who has been working
for Leonard Smith, has given up his work
here and entered the University of Illinois, planning a pre-medic course this
year.
FORGET FOLK&- EARL
IS AN ARTIST AT PAPER HANGINGCEli-INGS A R E H I & D I 5 H J. A. Garrett, millwright, like all other grandfathers, is extremely proud of his small granddaughter.
M a r g e r y Hill, the important little
lady in question, is five years old and is the
daughter of Mr. Garrett's daughter, Helen Garrett Hill. Margery, by the way, has an uncle
at the plant, Gail Garrett, who is also a millwright.
Fred Kessler SAID that he went alone
on that motor t r i p to Kentucky, which he
took during his vacation in September.
Well, maybe he went alone, but post cards
he sent back bore messages about moonlight nights on the river and lovely southern maidens.
Cap Enlow says it does beat all how
things happen.
When he went to California this summer he t u r n e d his affairs
over to Doug Williams for safe keeping.
But while he was away, Joe Pygman
bribed Doug and carried off everything in
the west yard except the railroad tracks.
When Pete Powell comes in through
the south gate driving his open air special, all the dogs run to cover.
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That Fight
Just because we had only two representatives from the plant at the big Tunney-Dempsey battle, is no sign that we
were not interested. We were interested
down to the youngest, sweetest stenographer, and we bet everything from dollars to doughnuts. And some of us lost
and some of us won.
Ed Scheiter, our general sales manager,
and George Reed, our grain department
manager, were the only ones who made
the trip up to the big city for the battle.
The rest of us oassed up picture shows
and dances and bridge and poker for the
evening and stayed home close by the
family radio.
And it is a toss-up who
had the most exciting time. With "Mac's"
voice f a i r l y b r e a k i n g with the excitement
of the thing as he told it p u n c h by punch,
we at the receiving end had none too
calm an evening. "Mac" has an uncanny
way of making his listeners see everything
and he was going better than ever that
night.
Of course there were surprises and disappointments the next day. Every fellow
bet on the man he thought would win,
and no fellow likes to admit that his j u d g ment is poor.
Turkey Grant, who had
been broadcasting in favor of Dempsey
for weeks, was so silent the day after the
fight that his friends thought he had lock
jaw.
In the general office Joe Lahme had
such a grouch that timid office boys detoured rather than pass his desk.
On the
other side of the same room, however,
Tom Hildebrand was telling the world that
he had known all the time.
He was
showing proof of his j u d g m e n t in the f o r m
of a roll of bills, and passing candy to
the girls. When Tom passes out candy
to the gang, he IS happy.
Up in the traffic office every one wao
rather happy.
Al Lukey didn't bet.
He
is contemplating m a t r i m o n y and can't afford to risk even a dollar on a game of
chance. Bus March said his sentiments
were all with Tunney, but his instincts
told him to bet a hundred (pennies) on
Dempsey.
He did.
Of course our nurse, Mrs. Chandler,
won a bunch of dollar bills. She trusted
to her woman's i n t u i t i o n and Newt Simpson and a few others were out a few fifty
cent pieces.
Perhaps no one in the whole organization wore a broader smile than did our
chief chemist, Howard File. Some time
ago Mr. File had lost on a fight and had
been razzed considerably by various and
sundry at the plant about it. When he
announced several weeks ago that his
faith was placed in Tunney the razzing
began again.
It advanced through the
"A life on the briny deep for me," seems to
be the sentiments of Rodger Snelson.
Rodger
is the f o u r year old son of Ken Snelson, of ths
filter house, and the grandson of A. O. Snelson, foreman of the feed house.
various stages until our extremely goodnatured friend reached the point where
he determined not to place a cent on the
fight.
Then the day of the battle the temptation was too strong and he placed a good
bet with Claude Fletcher. He kept rather
quiet about it, though, and he had an
uneasy moment in the seventh round, but
the next day he was telling the world,
and especially John Rodger, that he knew
all the time.
Of course Jim Galloway put up a cigar
that seems to be the Scotch way of betting—and the day a f t e r the fight Chief
Larson was smoking that cigar and smiling broadly.
^
George R a n k i n is so t e r r i b l y interested
in his work in the grain department that
he forgot the other day that he had his
car in Decatur and came out to the office
on the street car.
Bill Bishop wants it known that he is
now the owner of a car.
He and Mrs.
Bill got tired of w a l k i n g so they have
bought 'em a Ford.
Frank Withrow, of the supply gang,
was a patient in a Decatur hospital for a
while in September.
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I Hear in the Moon—
That Fred Klumpp is going to advertise in the daily papers for his lost, lost and can'tbe-found head-miller and stone-dresser, Herman Herbert.
That Herman was seen at Soldiers' Field a f t e r the Dempsey-Tunney fight. He was
wild-eyed and rambling around looking for something.
That Fred will offer a fifty-dollar reward for Herman, dead or alive. Finder please
advance railroad fare or send by express prepaid to Decatur, Illinois.
That Cap Whitten is proud of his made-to-measure Morris chair.
That Albert H u f f m a n , when he tried to measure Whitten for his easy chair, was astonished at Cap't dimensions, especially in the lower regions.
That between the side arms the exact measurement is sixty-eight inches. A canvas
eeat and back for comfort is one of the features.
The legs are strong enough to
support one thousand pounds dead weight.
That several days ago Cyril Cobb was very much excited. When ready to make a
home run he discovered his car was stolen.
That he had Whitten and Borchers, the plant sleuths, r u n n i n g around the plant looking
for his Hupmobile that he parked south of the Main Office.
That after several hours' fruitless search, Cyril recovered his memory and broke the
news gently to the perspiring Hawkshaws, whispering to Borchers, "I remember
now, I left my car up town at the garage."
That the owl is considered a wise old bird. He sleeps in the daytime and prowls at
night.
That Nathaniel Smith is a bird of another feather.
He sleeps at night and prowls in
the daytime.
That Henry Dubes and Bill Morrison have tried to reform Nathaniel but without success.
It is common talk Smith sleeps with one eye open.
He will not admit he
walks in his sleep but the majority say yes he does.
That John Klumpp, Superintendent of the wet starch department, is enjoying his
vacation on his ranch in Mississippi.
That boll wevils have played havoc with his cotton this year.
He intends to hunt for
them armed with a safety pin.
That this year he •was a passenger on the Panama Limited. Last year he motored half
the distance in a seven passenger Nash. The Nash is dead and buried in a sevenfoot ditch, ten miles north of Carbondale, Illinois.
That Red Thornborough says he was for Dempsey.
He lost his money on Dempsey
and he wants the world to know it was his own hard-earned cash he lost.
That Red is advocating the repeal of the Illinois boxing law.
When a man is down
more than ten seconds he is out.
Marquis of Queensbury rules, says Red.
That to the victor belong the spoils reads the bulletin from Howard File & Company.
Right or wrong the decision stands "pay up and look happy."
THE MAN IN THE MOON.
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COBB&ODOR
Stop! Look! Listen!
A. M E R L E COBB
G. ED. ODOR
•—'For That Next 'Dance
Try Kennie Keck ana
His Orchestra
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239 WEST MAIN STREET
PHONE MAIN 1160
Fairview 2878
Page Mr. Lindbergh
Sudden Death
I was killing time at Montgomery, Ala.,
and went to a movie. A young lady,
with a lisp, next to me was most appreciative of my picking up her umbrella.
We became well acquainted — Ah! quite
well, and I offered to drive her home.
"Where shall 1 tell the driver to go?"
I said, as we boarded the taxi. "Theattle,"
was the lisping reply. - Northwest Exhaust.
Teacher — Johnny, if your father earned
forty dollars a week and gave your
mother half, what would she have?
Johnny — Heart failure.
If there is any person for whom I feel
a dislike, that is the person of whom I
shall never speak. — Cecil.
We simply must tell another Scotch
story.
It seems that there was a Scotchman walking down Main street the other
day looking for a cheap post office. — Boston Beanpot,
First Tramp (reading an old newspaper) — Here's a story about a cove who
did no work for thirty years.
Second Tramp (wearily) — Oh, don't
talk shop.
Salesman — Let me demonstrate this
vacuum cleaner to you.
Mrs. Coveloski — 1 don't want it, I ain't
got no vacuums in the house. — Colgate
Banter.
-•••-
"Gertrude Ederle is suing her business
manager."
"Ah, I see, a swimming suit." — Minn.
Ski-U-Mah.
-«•• -
"What made you oversleep this mornTalk about some fast acting! You
ing?"
should see a Hawaiian dancer with her
"There are eight in the house, but the
alarm was only set for seven." - Ollapod.grass skirt on fire. — Centre Colonel.
-"»
The teacher has asked Jimmy to name
"1 saw a horse on the street downtown
all the flowers he could think of. After
today."
some thought he replied:
"Great Scott, man I What have you
"Wild, tame and collie is all I know of,
been
drinking?" — Pennsylvania
Punch
Bowl.
teacher." — Tawney (Cat.
-*I gaze across the street so wide,
I start, I dart, I squirm, I glide,
I take my chances, oh, so slim I trust to eye and nerve and limb;
I scoot to right, I gallop through,
I'm here and there, I'm lost to view.
My life, I know, hangs in the tossAnother plunge — I am across!
Oh, give me pity, if you can
I'm just
a poor
pe-des-tri-an.
— T. R. in the Boston Transcript.
Only
much.
the
criticized
ever
"Is it true that statistics prove women
live longer than men?"
"Well, you know paint is a great preservative." — Denison Flamingo.
"What steps would you take if you saw
a dangerous lion on the campus?"
"Long ones." — Ollapod.
Sales Girl — Could I interest you in some
underwear?
Male Customer — I'll say you could. Colgate Banter.
Despite prohibition, whisky is not a
thing of the past. The fellows who make
it don't give it time to be.
Patronize Our Advertisers
42
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to
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Quite Unbecoming
The stewed one was vainly trying to
find the keyhole; for an hour he had been
poking and couldn't find it. A passerby,
seeing his predicament, said, "Say, old
chap, you can't open the door with that;
it's a cigar." The pickled one looked at
the object in his hand and stammered,
"Hully gee, mushta shmoked my latchkey!"
At the breakfast table the other morning he was relating to his wife an incident that occurred at the lodge the previous night. The president of the order
offered a silk hat to the brother who could
truthfully say that during his married life
he had never kissed any woman but his
own wife.
"And would you believe it,
Mary?—not a one stood up."
"George," his wife said, "why didn't
you stand up?"
"Well," he replied, "1 was going to, but
you know, dear, I look like hell in a silk
hat."—Oil Weekly.
"The next person who interrupts the
proceedings will be sent home," declared
the judge.
"Hurray!" yelled the prisoner.
Professor's Wife A truck ran over
your best straw hat!
Absent-Minded Prof.—Was 1 wearing
it?
"Black chile, does you all know what
deceit am?"
"Suttingly I does, Beelzebub."
"Den what is it?"
"Well, when I leans ovah an' heahs
somethin' rip, I knows dat's de seat."—
The Disston Crucible.
His New Car
Cop (to man driving past a stop sign)
Hey, there can't you read?
Motorist—Sure, 1 can read, but I can't
stop.
A little girl about four years old, who
v/as soon tired of the conversation, curled
up in the large chair with her kitten. Soon
the cat was p u r r i n g very low and it
brought forth this remark:
"You're parking now—why under the
sun don't you switch off your engine?"
Father There was something funny
about you last night, daughter.
Offspring—I know, but I sent him home
as early as I could. Boston Beanpot.
Distressed Prof.—Why don't you answer me?
Frosh 1 did shake my head.
D. P. Well, do you expect me to hear
it rattle way up here?—Burr.
"How did the Smith weddin g
off?"
"Fine until the preacher asked the
if she'd obey her husband."
"What happened then?"
"She replied, 'Do you think I'm an
and the groom, who was in sort of
replied, 'I do.' " Widow.
come
bride
ass?'
daze,
A little fellow left in charge of his tiny
brother called out: "Mother, won't you
please speak to baby? He's sitting on the
flypaper and there's a lot of flies waiting
to get on." The Open Road.
"Hey, what's that red light for?"
"That's a fire exit, stupid."
"What do they use it f o r ? "
"It's where they put the fire out, of
course." Stevens Stone Mill.
"Give me a sentence with the word
celery."
"Every time he goes down celery takes
a drink."
'jHow do you know he was drunk?"
1 hate those revolving doors.
"He was looking in the cuckoo clock
So do I, you can't slam them when
for eggs.
Rice Owl.
you're mad.
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