Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 September 1916 — Page 7
THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1916.
COAL CAR SHORTAGE
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Operators Beport That Failure of Transportation Facilities Is Keeping Hines on Short Time.
The operation of coal mines in the vicinity of Terre Haute is being hampered, It was learned Thursday, by the shortage of coal car* from which all the coal fields in the country are at the present time suffering. For this reason but few of the mines are working more than half time and a shortage of coal for home use this winter with the possibility of higher prices is forecasted.
Phil Penna, secretary of the coal operators' association explained Thursday that this is the most pronounced car shortage, the mines have experienced so early in the season and at preseht there is no outlook for a change. Many of the coal companies in' Indiana, said Mr. Penna, are not meeting their contract obligations. Around Terre Haute the mines are working less than four days a week and none of the roads are promising cars. In the opinion of Mr. Penna the coal cars have been diverted to other uses, which is largely the cause of the shortage. "In the northwest," said Mr. Penna, "they are more than 1,0*00,000 tons short and there Is no possibility of their making up a ton of It before November 1 when the lake traffic closes."
All Suffer Alike.
The statements of other local coal companies was practically a confirmation of what Mr. Penna said. At the Vandalia Coal company it was said production had been cut 60 per cent, and that the mines are being worked -leap than four days. The company is doing no more than taking care of its contract customers.
At the Coal Auff Mining cofnpany it wan said: "There is a large demand for ooal but we are unable to get the cars to take care of the increased usual fall, demand for coal, together with the1 usual steam industry and commercial coal demand. The mines are una.ble to •get over one-half time on account of the shortage of coal cars. The railroads give no hope of beterment of car supply conditions. While a number of roads are building more cars it will be some time before they are out of the shops."
At the office of the Glen Ayr Coal company it was said their mines had only worked three days and less. Last week three days was the maximum and this week only two days. An early cold snap, it was predicted, would stiffen the market.
J. C. Kolsem, general manager of the Jackson Hill Coal and Coke Co., said his company was operating only part time on account of the car shortage while all cars that could be secured were being loaded to capacity.
WOMAN TOO ILL TO APPEAR.
Case Growing Out of Burglaries Goes' Over for Week. The'case of Myrtle Cummins, arrested "Wednesday following the confession of Kenneth Rayhill, boy burglar, that jewelry he had stolen he had turned over to the Cummins woman, was continued for a week in City Court Thursday morning, as she was too ill at the Jail to be brought to court. RayhiU will be arraigned in Juvenile Court probably Saturday, and receive a sentence to the Plalnfleld boys' school,
NICK MARTEN HERE.
Nick Marien, a former Terre Haute boy, now connected with the Dayton Cash Register company, passed through the city Thursday afternoon with the Columbus (O.) machine gun company enroute to New Mexico. Marien joined the machine gun company in Columbus just a few days before the orders for the mobilization of the troops was ordered.
HBEKEN LOWER FLAG.
The 76-foot aerial fire truck was called into service Thursday morning after city hall attendants have attempted toy three days to take down a large American flag displayed oa a pole at the top of the building in honor of Labor day. The flag became tangled about the pole and ais the pole is not movable the truck was called into play to release it.
COTTAGE FOR CARETAKER.
Work -was begun Thursday on the erection of a cottage at the Highland Lawn cemetery which will replace "the large two-story house used as a home for the caretaker at the cemetery. The large house -will he razed and the site npon which ft stands divided into lots.
AFTER SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
The local suffrage association and the Chamber of Commerce Thursday wired Mrs. L. J. Cox at Atlantic City to invite the national convention here aext March. Detroit, Los Angeles and Saratoga Springs are .also seeking the donor.
FRIDAY ONLY
Most interesting is this offer, for the serge dress has "already been stamped as the accepted favorite of the Fall Dress styles— and here is a beautiful collection of them specially priced.
They are variously trimmed—all according to the new Fall styles, and there are many from which you may choose. Altogether it is a pleasingly complete assortment—especially at the 'low price quoted for Friday only
VETERANS ELECT REAGAN. Local Man Named Chaplain of Persimmons Brigade.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 7.—Annual' reunions of companies and regiments of civil war veterans of the Thirtythird regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry Twenty-seventh regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry Thirteenth Indiana volunteer cavalry and the persimmons brigade were held here and were largely attended. Officers were elected and routine business transacted. Officers clected are:
Thirty-third regiment—President, J. R. Owens (Franklin), and Secretary, A. J. Buchanan.
Twenty-seventh regiment President, R. J. Fesler (Indianapolis), and secretary, Major W. W. Daugherty (Indianapolis).
Thirteenth cavalry—President,
!W.H.
Brown secretary-treasurer, Rollin C. Irwin. Persimmons brigade President, Alonzo Murphy (Greensburg) chaplain, Joseph Reagan (Terro Haute), and secretary, Z. T. Landers (Indianapolis).
PUBLISHER'S DAUGHTER KILLED Crushed to Death Under Auto When It Overturns.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Miss Josephine Murphy,
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daughter of William J.
Murphy, millionaire owner of the Minneapolis Tribune, was killed when an automobile in which she was riding toppled over an embankment near Oak Forest, a suburb, early today. Miss Murphy, who, with her mother and sister, is spending the sumirier on a farm, was returning after accompanying a guest to a train.
Miss Murphy's body was pinned under the machine. The chauffeur, the only other occupant of the machine, escaped uninjured.
WIDOWS' PENSION BILL PASSED.
Fixes Rate qf $20 Monthly for Those 70 Years Old. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—A bill giving to widows of officers or enlisted men who served in the civil orNMexican wars or the war of 1812 and who have reached the age of 70 years, a pension of $20 a month instead of the present $12 a month, was passed today by the senate. It already has passpd the house.
Widows of civil war soldiers dropped because of marriage to another person are restored to the roll by the bill.
PUSH GET ACQUAINTED TRIP.
A meeting of the transportation committee an^ the committee on assemblages of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at the rooms of the organization Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, for the purpose of making final plans for the "Get Acquainted" trip which the organization will run over the Southeastern railroad to Bedford, Ind., on Thursday, Sept. 21.
NEW CLEANING FIRM.
Carney Chess aid John Schmidt have formed a partnership and opened a cleaning and dyeing business at 114 South Siyth street, having offices with the Chess Electrical company. Mr. Schmidt has just returned from Chicago, where he purchased the machinery for the equipment of their plant. Both are well known young business men.
SCHOOL SHOES
BOYS AND GIRLS
The time has come for Strong, Dressy Shoes for the Boy and Girl.
Boys' English Shoes.
Button and Lace Shoes.
Elk Soout Shoes. Solid
Leather Shoes at right prices.
Girls' Patent an Gun Metal Button ar i Lace Shoes.
Growing Girls' English Walking Shoe? Patent and Gun wn J5TA Metal «P^.DU
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NEW SERGE DRESSES
COUNTY COUNCIL PlfTS OFF TAX MET DEAL
Defeats $35,000 Appropriation— $10,000 Still Stands In Budget for This Purpose.
By the increase in the appropriation for the construction of county bridges from $60,000 to $64,000, and the reduction of the allowance for special attorneys in the Circuit Court from $1,000 to $500, the county council closed its work Wednesday. The remainder of the regular budget for 1917 was passed' without changes in the appropriations asked for.
The special budget presented by the auditor for the maintenance of the county offices for the remainder of this year totaled $52,600 and was passed, with the exception of an item of $35,000 for the Walton Byars company, tax ferrets, which was defeated, Coordes, -Ripley and Shultz voting against allowing the money. The vote was the same on the proposition of allowing an item of $10,000 for the tax ferrets in the regular budget, but It carried because the vote of four to three on the regular budget carries. In the special budget a vote of five to two is required for the passage of an appropriation,
During the discussion of the Item for the tax ferrets, a number of attorneys made short talks before the coiincll and the members of that body were confused by the citations of conflicting decisions handed down in the higher courts oh questions similar to this one. Attorney Carson Hamill appeared for the ferret company and explained that the appropriation' of the funds asked for did not mean that they were to be taken out of the county treasury unil after four times that amount had been placed on the tax duplicates and collected by the treasurer. In this way the council was asked to sanction the payment of one-fourth of the money collected through the work of the tax ferrets back to them for their services.
FACES CHARGE OF CRUELTY.
Mother Held After Boys Are Found Hungry in Rooms. Following investigations made by Court Matron Mrs. O'Donneli and City Court Prosecutor P. O. Colliver, a charge of cruelty to her children was placed against Belle Butler Thursday morning in City Court, and her case continued until Saturday morning.
The two small sons of the Butler woman were found Tuesday in a room where they had been confined for about twenty-four hours, the police say, Without food or attention. They Were turned over to the care of the board of children's guardians until the case is disposed of.
BABE DROWNS IN TROUGH.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 7. George, age two, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kehert, of near, here, fell in a watering trough at the home of his grandfather, Richard Marshall, and was drowned. The boy had gone to the yard to play, and is believed tohave crawled over the edge of the trough.
TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE.
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REPORTS.
Accepts Monthly Statements of Sealer and Building Inspector. The board of public safety met Wednesday night and approved the monthly reports of Building Inspector Scott and City Sealer Mogle. In Sealer ogle's report It was sho-vyn that 31 inspections were made during
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month, and as the result 10 weights, measures and scales had been condemned for repairs The report shows two gasoline pumps were Inspected and found to bfe correct.
Building Inspector Scott's report shows that there were 174 building operations under way, during the month, of which 53 were completed by Sept. 1. The report shows also that one residence and three sheds were condemned and ordered razed.
SUFFRAGISTS ESTABLISH BAR. Keep Out Organizations Not in Harmony With Policies.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 7.— The' National American Woman Suffrage convention today changed Its constitution so as to bar from membership all organizations not In harmony with the policy and constitution of the association. 'A report that this a-ction was aimed at organizations affiliated with the Congressional Suffrage Union or the Woman's Party was denied but it was admitted that it affects such organizations though not specifically aimed at them.
LITTLE GIRL FINDS HOME. Flve-Ye»r-Old Tot Adopted By Childless Couple.
After ten years of mafried life, to the day, during which they were not blessed with any children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar B. McKee Thursday moaning adopted Velve Ramsey, a five-year-old girl who has been in the custody of the children's guardians for some time Attorney George Davis appeared before Judge Pulliam in the Circuit Court and sanctioned the adoption. Mr. McKee is an employe of the V andalia railroad.
SCARLET FEVER SPREADS.
Health Board May Close Rea School for Fumigation. Following the discovery of two more cases of scarlet fever Thursday morning in the vicinity of the Rea school in North Fourth street, health authorities announced that the school would probably be closed for fumigation. Heripan Lowe, 1229 North
Sixth
street, and
Joseph Mayes, Jr., students of the Rea school were found to be suffering from scarlet fever Thursday morning while two more cases had been reported Wednesday.
The Tribune has been authorized by the AJ G. Barnes big four ring wild animal circus to give away thirty-five tickets to the bright little boys and girls of Terre Haute and here is the plan:
The Barnes circus will be here Tuesday, Sept. 12. The contest opens today and closes Saturday evening and the prize winners will be announced next Sunday morning. Mr. Barnes will distribute the tickets himself at the Tribune office on the morning of show day, Tuesday, Sept. 12. Boys and girls under fifteen are eligible. The tickets go to those children who arar able to make the most names of different wild animals out of the eighteen different letters in the words:
To the Wild Animal Editor:
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Ufl fiKS IN YtiOtt BUSIKIS9 US YOU DO IN YOUR NOME
W. P. I jams to Go Ahead With Road Project on Recovery. Word was received by County Treasurer Everett Messlck Thursday morn ing that the delay in the taking up of the bonds for $5,200 for the W. P. IJams road has been due to Mr. Ijpms' Illness but the matter will be straightened out as soon as he Is able to resume bis business.
At the time of the bond issue several of the foreign bond brokers bid for the bonds "but withdrew their offers when it was learned that Honey Creek township was up to its limit In bonded indebtedness and Mr. IJams agreed to take the issue at par in order to have the road improved from Seventh street to the Prairieton road on Margaret avenue. He was one of the prime movers in the proposition of having the improvement made and will furnish the funds to go ahead with the work.
TALBOTT LANDS RECRUIT.
Lieutenant laul Taibott, in charge of the militia recruiting station at 423% Wabash avenue, announced the acceptance of another recruit, George Reece, about 23 years old, Thursday morning. At the same time the application for re-enlistment of Bert Hedges, formerly corporal in Co. B., who was discharged after the company reached the Llano Grande camp because of a physical disability, was received.
Free Show Tickets for Girls and Boys in Tribune's Animal Contest
"A1 G. Barnes' Wild Animal Circus Prize Contest." The prizes are awarded according to the longest correct list.
First prize—Six reserved seat tickets to the circus. Second Prize—Four reserved seat tickets to the circus.
Third Prize—Three reserved seat tipkets to the circus. Fourth Prize—Two reserved seat tickets to the circus.
Fifth Prize—Two general admission tickets to the circus. Next Eighteen Prizes—One general admission ticket each, to the circus.
All prizes are good for either afternoon or evening performances. So thirty-five boys and girls in Terre Haute may see the circus free.
The Tribune's Wild Animal Prize Contest.
I hereby certify I am not over 15 years of age and I submit
names of wild animals in your prize contest for free tickets to the Al. G.
Barnes Big Four Ring Wild Animal Circus exhibiting in on
(Pin one of these coupons on your list)
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Teacher Gets School.
ROCKVILLE, Ind., Sept. 7.- -Maurice Murphy begins teaching in the high school at Homer, Ind., Monday. His subjects will be Latin and history. Mr. Murphy is a graduate of the Rookville high school and DePauw university, and has taught in the schools of this township. For several summers past he has been editor of a Rockville paper.
NICOLAI TO MOVE.
Emil Nicolai Thursday closed negotiations for the Pabst cafe, formerly the Linton, at 724 Wabash avenue. Nicolai sold his saloon and garden hear Fourteenth and Wabash' t? John J. Margason.
HE WAS WORRIED AND HOPELESS. "For ten or twelve years I was bothered with bad kidney trouble," writes T. F. Hutchinson, Little Rock, Ark. "1 tried many remedies and doctors, but grew worse all the time. I was worried and had almost given up all hopes. I tried Foley Kidney Pills and they helped me a lot. I have since used five boxes and am now a well man." Foley Kidney Pills drive out aches and pains due to kidney trouble: also sleep disturbing bladder disorders. •Valentine's Economical Drug Store, C34 Wabash avenue.
Call A. Fremme for Fence Posts
7th and Hulman 8ta. Phones 475.
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Packers:-
A gas-fired cauldron furnace will render lard.
1. In the cheapest way.
2. In the cleanest way.
3. In the quickest way.
4. In the surest way.
5. In the most practical way.
The price of one pound of the finished product will pay for the gas used to render 150 pounds of fat.
Lard "renders" at 240 degrees F. If you work b?low that temperature the lard will not keep well. A greater heat may boil the lard away.
Gas KEEPS it at 240 degrees.
It's practical.
We shall demonstrate the industria' uses of gas at .an exhibition of gas industrial appliances in our office from S3pt. 5th to 19th. The people of Terre Haute will find this demonstration interesting, instructive and practical. Come and SEE how gas will save momy, time and factory space in your business. Open evenings, 7 to 9 £. m.
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HUNTING CHARGE FAILS. Thomas Biggers Proves Dog Was Dead and He At Home. By Special Correspondent^.
ROCKVILLE, Ind., Sept. 7.—The case o£ the state vs. Thomas Biggers, of Howard township, was tried before Justice F. M. Bryant, and the defendant found not guilty. Biggers was arraigned for hunting without a license, on June 18, 1916, and having his dog with him.
It was proven that this date was Sunday, and friends appeared in his defense who had called at Biggers' home on that day and. visited with him. The dog referred to was killed on June 15, supposedly by
James
Clore,
one of the state's main witnesses.
New Agent Opens Office.
By Special Correspondent. ROCKVILLE, Ind., Sept. 7.—B. B. Adams, who succeeds H. J. Reed as county agricultural agent, will be in his office Saturday. Mr. Adams received his education for this work in Purdue university, and comes highly recommended. Mr. Reed, former county agent, leaves with Mrs. Reed this month to teach agricultural work la Purdue.
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Dauntless Coffee costs more to raise than coffee grown in the river bottoms and low lands, which on account of the rich soil is more profitable to the grower as its growth is much quicker' than mountain coffee, but it is usually rank and represents quantity not quality,
Dauntless Coffee possesses delicious flavor and is unexcelled In quality,' —it has been on the market 'for forty years, and the sales are constantly increasing. HULMAN & CO,
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•2:10, 2:46, •8:10, 8:30, gll:00 p. m. TERRE HAUTE TO SULLIVAN. d445, 6:36, 7:10, 8:40, *10:00, lid* a. m.: 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 6:00, 6:00, 7:80. 6:00, 11:00 p. m.
I TERRE 1IAUTE TO CLINTON. d5:00. 6:00,, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00. 10:00. 11:00, 12:00 a. m. 1:00, 2:&0, 3:00, 4 :mL 6:00, 6:00, 7:00. a8:00, 8:00, sl0:00. 11:00 p. m.
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NOTE—od Indicates dally except Sunday, Harmony only. L.* Indicates local to Brazil, limited beyond. Indicates limited. o Harmony only, Gre6ncaptle only, daily except Sunday, s Saturday only. The 11:00 p. m. trains wait for theatres.
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