The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 7

THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1922. LUMBER! LUMBER! FOR SALE. complete seta of siding and roofing for 10:18 garage SO Dew No. yellow pinedressed. watebed and beaded.

$30.00 a Set. Other dises proportionately, MORRIS TICK CO. CALL PHONE 864-J FOR SHEET METAL AND FURNACE WORK SPOUTING. PAPER ROOFING, GENERAL REPAIRING. BERRY KINGSTON 223 LAST FRONT STREET.

Frank Morrison's Sons PLUMBING AND HEATING NEW PHONE 180 206 East Front Street, Phone 2875 FOR THE COMPLETE Plumbing Shop on Wheels Brings all tools and materials right to the job. A time and money saver. HERMAN G. PETERSON HEMSTITCHING, YARD Button Covering Covering-Skirts-Pleating-Braiding Tucking--Pinking and Buttonholes, PRICE'S BUTTON SHOP Mail Orders Handled Promptly, Over 4 408 North Main St. Phone 3069.

N. M. CAMPBELL SON INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE ROOM 318 EDDY BUILDING, BLOOMINGTON, ILL. Notary Public. Kinloch Phone.

DR. ATKINS Osteopath UNITY BLDG. R. LOUDON Eagle Machine Works PLUMBING Steam and Hot Water Heating GAS FITTING Large Stock of Gas Fixtures MACHINE WORK OF ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY Both Phones Stylish Stout Wash Dresses In the Basement. Ginghams or Voiles $3.50, $3.95, $4.50, $5.95, $6.95, $7.95.

We can fit any large woman-41, 45, 47, 49, 51 up to 56'8. W. H. Roland Exclusive Agency For Sveltline Garments Little Tots' SoxThousands of Pairs All sizes and colors including the new English halt hose -25c, 29c, 35c, up. Children's Gordon hose in white silk for firmation or graduation.

ROLAND'S Largest Hosiery ment In Middle West. Stylish Stout Silk Dresses All colors, all sizes $25.00, $29.75 $35.00, $39.75 $45.00, $49.75 $55 up to $74 W. H. Roland "The Store That Sells Wooltex" Pantagraph Want Ads Bring Best Results Local Notices Phone 400 for fuel: Kuhn Coal $04 S. Robinson St.

Guy Carlton, "Everything Electrical." Dinner, 35c; business lunch, 25c. Acme Cafe, 521 Nc-th Main. Get acquainted with Boquet de Paris cigars. You'll them. "For the man who really cares." Try our fine corned, 15c.

lb. Cooked pickled pig's feet, 10c. lb. Fresh beef tongues, beef tenders, pork tenders, sweet breads and brains. Newmarket Meat Dept.

corn" is housewife of th. realizes that "canned one economical and satisfactory vergned, foods she can serve. It's reasonable in price this spring and your grocer can make you special price: in case lots during the nex: thirty days on "Happy Hour" Country Gentlemen. It's deliciously tender and fine flavored, and all th family will like it and call for more. Griffin Marquis for wall paper.

Dollar Day Tomorrow, At Normal. Bargains in dry goods at Douglas', 20 Per Cent Off on Coats and Suits. Big sale now going on. Newmarket. Two- -Piece Light- Weight Suits.

Will be all the go now soon. We have just what you will want and at a reasonable price. Bloomer. Three Rug Salesmen Wanted at My tore. Three rug and linoleoum salesmen wanted at once.

oly third floor. My Store. Mfgrs. Store-Aprons, 15c. We always have the best values in aprons and dresses.

3c sure to look lines over before buying anything that we make. $13.50 dresses, $9.95. $10.00 tissue dresses, $7.50. $5.00 gingham dresses, $2.95. $1.25 aprons, 85c.

$1.50 extra size aprons, $1. Over Shorthose Drug Store. Skinner School Free Recital. This evening at 8:00 o'clock in the school recital hall in the Eddy building. Piano duet played by Misses Bierbaum.

Reading, Miss Anthony, Piano, Helen Maloney. Violon solo, Omar Ward, Reading, Mildred Fryer. Piano, Margaret Kinsella. Vocal, Misses Larkin, Molloy, Quaid and Flinspach. Piano, Mary Louis Maloney.

Vocal, Loraine Lowrey. Piano, Esther Bierbaum. Violin, Myra Adler. Reading, Virginia Johnston. Vocal, Julia Larkin.

Reading, Nadine Miles. Piano, Ruth Bierbaum. Hawaiian Guitar Music, Francols Williams. Reading, Cora Norwood. Vocal, Martha Hochrack.

Violin, Nathan Rosenbluth. Vocal, Berenice Gummerman. Piano, Dorothy Graff. Rotary Follies Cast to Leave for Chicago The Bloomington "Rotary Follies of 22" with a cast of thirty-two people, will leave Thursday morning for Chicago, where they will appear at Orchestra hall that evening in a benefit performance for boys. This performance is given under the auspices of the Chicago Rotary Club, who guarantee the Boy's Welfare committee $3,000 from the box office receipts.

A supper after the performance and a regular "Rotarv night" is being planned at the College Inn by the Chicago Rotarians. The noonday luncheon of the Bloomington Rotary on Thursday promises a worth program, altho the specific features have not been announced. George P. Goforth's orchestra of ten pieces will accompany the Rotarians. In addition to furnishing music for the "Follies," the orchestra at the College Inn the Chicago will play for the danice to be given Rotary Club following the performance.

The orchestra will also play Friday at the South Shore Country Club. MISS ADA LOUISE VOSS GIVES PIANO RECITAL 'A large and appreciative audience attended the splendid piano recital given last night at the Presbyterian church in Danvers by Adah Louise Voss, assisted by Miss Mary Stephenson, reader. Miss Voss played as her opening number "Sonata, Op. 27, No, 2." by Beethovan, in a most Interpretative manner. 'Impromptu in Minor," by Schubert, bearing mostly the form of a fantasie, was played lightly and gracefully with pronounced accents, bringing out the composer's idea beautifully and with much pression.

"Hark, Hark, The Lark," by Schubert-Liszt, known as the "Shakespeare Serenade," was given in a most charming manner, which brought out the melody tones clearly and artistically. Miss Stephenson, a talented reader, did herself justice in "Breaking the Ice." which was very much enjoyed. In closing, Herman Schwiemann presented Miss Voss with a teacher's certificate from the Sherwood Music School of Chicago. Miss Voss be. came A Sherwood pupil over two ago.

Recently she won the years silver medals reward for good work. SENDS QUESTIONS FOR GRADE EXAMINATIONS B. C. Moore, county superintendent of schools, yesterday sent out 800 sets of examination questions to the various school centers in the county. The questions are for the nations to be held the seventh grade on Friday and for the eighth grade on Saturday.

Mr. Moore believes that the examinations, which have been are ranged by him, will not be so long or tedious, hence a less physical and mental drag on the pupil, but at the same time more complete. Much time has been spent in the preparation of the questions, which it is expected will be highly satisfac tory in form and substance, and Mr. Moore hopes that the results may be reported at least three weeks after the examinations. All papers will be returned to the county superintendent's office for grading.

stolen while the car was parked at Wesleyan college, Mrs. Benson reported to the police yesterday. The board of directors will meet of. the Musical club this morning at 10 o'clock at the library Tire is Stolen, A tire from the car of 'Anna Benson, 602 West Mill street, was SIXTY-ONE YEARS AT BARBER CHAIR Frederick Hoffman of Blooming. ton is Perhaps Oldest Tonsorial Artist in Illinois.

SHAVED FOR SIX CENTS Sixty-one years a barber: Longer than any other man in Illinois, perhaps in all the United States. may be a world's record. Such a remarkable distinction goes to the credit of Frederick Hoff. man who may be found every day at his little shop on North Center street. Born in Germany and emigrating to America with his parents in 1856, the voyage requiring seventy -two days, somewhat different than the speed attained by the modern liner.

Hoffman and his folks first settled in New York and came to Bloomington in 1877, and he has resided here since. He was a boy of 13 when he commenced the tonsorial profession and has kept it up steadily. Hoffman recalled yesterday that when he first started to wield the razor and scissors that only six cents was charged for a shave. A few years later the price was raised to eight cents, as the barbers were compelled to pay the banks $1.10 for 100 pennies, the latter being very scarce and commanding a premium. Early in the sixties the price was raised to a dime for shave and continued at that figure for many years, For four years Hoffman was employed in the barber shop of John Schulmerich, in Newark, N.

J. The wanderlust seizing him, he decided to take a job on an Ohio river steamer as barber, traveling between that port and New Orleans. He recalled yesterday that boat was the first that reached New Orleans from the north after the surrender of Lee, marking the end of the Civil war. For a number of years, Hoffman was employed on river boate and was then variously at Cincinnati, Covington, and Newark. It was on the 7th day of May, 1877, that Hoffman reached Bloomington.

He later yielded to the tractions of a blue uniform and brass buttons and laid aside the razor and brush for four years to serve as policeman under Mayor E. H. Rood and also Mayor J. G. Trotter.

Tiring of the beat and the star, Hoffman returned to the barber's profession, and for thirteen years, conducted a shop in Turner hall on South Main street, now known A8 Eagles' hall. For eleven years following, he conducted a shop in the basement of the old Newmarket building. For three years he was located in the basement of the Griesheim building, and for the past five years, has been located at his present stand, 404 North Center street. The years have lightly settled upon this veteran and now in his 75th year he can handle a razor and scissors with the skill and dexterity of the more youthful followers of the trade. It has been his privilege to note the development of the profession from the primitive days of before the Civll war up to the ent time.

In the early days, the barber's craft was dignified with the title of a profession, being conjoined with the art of surgery. They were finally limited to the minor operations of blood letting and drawing teeth. while the surgeons were prohibited by law from barbering or shaving. With the later years, the two professions drew still farther apart and the Barbers restricted themselves to shaving and hair cutting. Mr.

Hoffman recalls in the early days, barber shops were provided with some kind of musical instruments for the entertainment of trons. The sign in the early periods consisted of a striped pole from which was suspended a basin. The pole alone survives of the ancient sign of the tongorialist. The idea of striping the pole grew out of the symbol of a bandage. applied to an arm before the process of bleeding.

The basin symbol indicated the receptacle to receive the blood. Mr. Hoffman can recall many interesting incidents of the early days not only in Germany as a child, but also in America and particularly of Bloomington. He greatly enjoyed his experiences on the Ohio and Mississippi river boats hut they cured him of wander fever and his happiest days have been spent Is Oldest Barber FREDERICK HOFFMAN in Bloomington, In his long residence of forty-five years in the Evergreen city he has been privileged to watch the development from the early days to the present time. Now in the sunset, he is able to look back over the years that have passed and recall the changes, not only in the tonsorial profession, but in the times and customs in many other directions.

The record of sixty-one years at the barber chair is extraordinary. While Hoffman has never attempted to figure how many persons he has shaved or treated to a hair dressing, yet based upon 300 working days in the year and 3651 in the earlier years when Sunday work was barred, and figuring an average of twonty customers per day, perhaps a fair rating he has taken care of 6,000 trons per annum. In sixty-one years the total is approximately 350,000. Barrels of lather and barrels of hirsute, may lie computed, if the statistician wishes to indulge in some estimates. The fact remains ever that in Fred Hoffman, BloomIngton has a man who may hold the world's record for consecutive service in his profession.

He would like to know if any other living man can show a longer record at the chair. ARRESTED FOR THEFT, YOUTH DENIES GUILT Earl Rousey, youth arrested yesterday for the alleged theft of a gold watch from the store of Ben Berman, 207 North Main street, in July last year, strongly protested his innocence, stating that he could name the person in truth who committed the crime. Complaint against Rousey was sworn to by Mr. Berman, who said he saw Rousey filch the jewel. Rousey dec'ared the watch was stolen by another person who was in the store at the time.

He said he saw this person take the watch while pretending to place some shirts behind a counter for safe keeping. He also stated that he had been in the store on several occaisions since the crime but that no one has raised voice against him until he was suddenly arrested yes- terday. E. W. T.

Club Will Entertain. Members of the E. W. T. Club will entertain with a "stag" party this evening at the home of Mrs.

James Novacek, 803 West Jackson street. The party will be unique, as there will be no men present, yet it is to be a stag party. The affair is given as a courtesy to Mrs. Walter White, who is leaving the city in a short time. Dancing and games will furnish diversion and a twocourse luncheon will be served.

Clark Infant Dies. William Everett son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

Clark, 706 North Mason street, died at the Brokaw hospital at 8 o'clock last night after an illness since Saturday with pneumonia. He was five months old and is survived by his parents. The remains will be taken to Braceville for burial. Mrs. Mary Donovan, 501 South Roosevelt avenue, has been at a hospital for an operation, is now at her home and is improving.

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Clara Smith of 422 North (Main has received word of the her sister, Mrs. Belle destreet, Blecker of Bristow, who died when the boarding house where she lived was destroyed by fire. Her 80n James and wife were badly burned about the head and hands. The first knowledge of the fire was the cries of Mrs. Blecker in her attempt to arouse the occupants of the house and warn them of the im pending danger.

All escaped but Mrs. Blecker, who had gone back to her bedroom for something and was suffocated by the heat and Her body was found lying face down and just her head and hips was all that was left. The fire is believed to have originated from gas. Some lights were left burning when the family retired for the night. Belle Barr was born at Leroy, 44 years ago and was the daughter of Hamilton and Mary Barr, who preceded her in death.

She leaves one son, James Blecker, of Oklahoma, and the following sisters: Clara Smith, of Bloomington; Edith Milton, of Farmer City; Grace Evang of Reinsback, Helen Wilson of Allegan, and one broth. er, Harry Barr, of Holder, Ill. Two sisters, Hattie Taylor of Clinton, and Jennie Carlisle of Leroy, preceded her in death. Mrs. Blecker was buried at Bristow, beside the body of her husband.

Engine Tamer Peter McDonald, gave the 652, fresh from the shops, a shakeup trip to Atlanta yesterday. RUPTURE We make and ft spRelief low pliances down for and hard Ruptures to hold, post operative, navel ruptures in fleshy people, and all forms of ruptures, in men, women and children, If you a truss safety and want the best, wear the wonderful COMFORT APPLIANCE Without leg straps, elastic bands or torture springs holds after all others fail. dreds of Peoria endorsements. Don't take chances with ill-fitting store and worthless mall-order trusses. Come here for expert individual truss fitting service.

We invite comparison of our trusses and our Atting of them. RUPTURE APPLIANCE CO. 201 Apollo Theater Second Floor 311 Main Peoria. Hedding-Wesleyan Merger Voted Down A special to the Pantagraph from Peoria last evening conveys the formation that the proposition to merge Hedding College with the Illinois Wesleyan was voted down delegates representing the Central Ilinois conference of the Methochurch, who met in Peoria yesterday. The conference voted to send the college to Moline, providing that city lives up to its agreement to raise $800.000.

The results of the informal ballots follow: To permit Hedding to remain at Abingdon, 93 against 13 for, to merge with Illinois Wesleyan, 69 against 37 for, to transfer Hedding to Moline, 78 in favor and 28 against. Always Delicious Always Refreshing SALADA" LEA Sold in sealed aluminum pacKets: only Never in Bulk. BLACK -GREEN-MIXED PANTAGRAPH WANT ADS BRING BEST RESULTS CENTURY The Big Massive Full Size Non-Skid Tire FORD SIZES GUARANTEED FOR 7500 MILES! Century Tires are known to nearly every Tire user as the Big Mileage Tire, and are guaranteed firsts in every respect, even though priced exceptionally low. EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH-GRADE AT LOW PRICE. SEE THIS TIRE.

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