Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1920 — Page 7
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1920.
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END LIVES WITH GAS
MRS. LAURA E. REDD AND MRS. RUTH SMALLEY VICTIMS.
SOCIETY
CORONER IS INVESTIGATING
Mrs. Laura E. Redd, age forty-nine, whose husband Is proprietor of a grocery store at 137 Indiana avenue, committee suicide early today at her home, 949 Locke street, by inhaling gw. She was dead when her daughter. Mrs. Alice Brattain, of the same address, found her. I Dr. Paul P. Robinson, coroner, and ‘ Bicycle Policemen Bastlan and Wilson, who investigated the case, **id Mrs. Redd inhaled the fames by attaching a small rubber hose to an open gas jet. They said relatives told them she had been suffering from cancer for several months and apparently was despondent because of her
condition.
Mrs. Ruth Bmailey, age fifty-two, wife of Charles W. Smalley, 1197 North Alabama street, ended her life late Saturday afternoon by Inhaling gas from a cooking stove In the kitchen of her home. She was found dead by her husband when he returned
home from work.
Smalley told Coroner Robinson and Motor Policemen Harris and Morarity that hfs wife had become despondent
of a ; ' 1iK‘
Mrs. O. B. lie* has returned from
a month's visit in the east.
Colonel and Mrs. L. R. Gignilliat. of Culver, are spending a few days
with Mrs. George R. Moore.
Mrs. Merle N. A. Walker has returned from Washington. D. C.. where she attended the D. A. R congress. Mrs. M. E/Brown, of Haaard. Ky.. is spending several weeks with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. John H. Talbott. Dr. and Mrs. Edmund D. Clark and daughter. Miss Helen Maag Clark, have gone to New Orleans for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. G. H- Herplck, who have been spending the winter in Miami.
Fla., have returnedvhome. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Greenburg an nounce the engagement ■ " taaar ~
j the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana last Saturday, will be shown at the I centennial luncheon of the Seventh district, Indiana Federation of Clubs, next Friday at the Hotel Severin. A ecmmittee from the press club, composed of Mrs. Frederic Kruli. Mrs. Cora Young Wiles and Mrs Samuel M. Ralston, will have charge of the exhibit. The members of the committee will be in nineteenth century costumes.
Drama League Nates.
The annual meeting of the Drama League will be held Wednesday evening at the Art Institute. Annual reports of officers and committees will Se heard and officers will be elected.
The nominating committee is made up of Miss Augusta Mering. Mrs. T. C. Hood, Miss Sue Howe. Harold Haven
Brown and Sidney F. Daily. There
NINTH DISTRICT CONGRESS League of Voters Nantes Officers at
Session is CrawfordsTllle. !Special to The Indianapolis News]
CRAAV FORDSVILLE, Ind.. April 26. —Mrs. Katherine M. B. Rowland, of this city, was elected president, and Mrs. John Brown, of Ladoga, vicepresident, of the Franchise League of Montgomery county at the first congress of the Ninth District League of
« *£££ ,X.t ur,ns ,h -
poll*’Benbri3c* n 5f Terre Haute, former president of the YV oman s Franchise League of In ^^^were wnoug ihe speakers Mrs.
will be a play.
Catharin
ngage
daughter. Miss Lillian Hyman Newman, of Marion.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Metzger an- this year, nounce the engagement of their
“Th/BeUer y Self‘""y 1 „‘ w , 0f ”«*n in In
who
, , • .Miss Catharine Kiefer, who has]^fnbridge’s topic
i* year. icratic candidates for th* ^ ■ l> * ra - U,u.«-toH, k .re M. G .r„«r, i
of Washington, D. C. The wedding Mrs. Leo Fesle will take place !n June. rums, and tak
tumes and take charge of an * nisode
Mr. and Mrs B. Brown, of 133S ’ in tha pageant. , North Alabama, street, announce the The fpnior drama leagues also, a re engagement of their daughter, Esther active The league of school No. 9 Msriorie and A. Arthur F^rh. nV. »-The Belter
fortsville. in behalf of Warren T. meeting in a local theater in^the McCray, and Mrs. Claude Stitts, of evening. Wabash, for James W. Fesler, Republican candidates for the nomination , foTaovernor. Decatnr County Marriages. John O. Lee, an attorney of Chi- lSpecial to The Indianapolis News] cago. »Pok« for^Leonard Wood, can-j GREENSBURG. Ind M April 26—Mrs.
dhfate for the Republcan” presidenLowd ' a - ' 'a^'7: iFESLER IN GRANT COUNTY —
bride's mother. The bride la a gifted musician. v Mr. Bellows is a member of the D. L. Auld Manufacturing Company, of Columbus. O. Emmett J. Heeb, of Indianapolis, was among the out-of-town guests at the wedding. The bridal couple left Saturday afternoon
on an eastern tour.
Delbert E. Platt and Charlotte E. Walker, both of this city, were mar*
county treasurer and world war overseas.
served la the
Moble^VasPettea Kagagemeat. Imperial to The Indianapoiis New*? ANDERSON, Ind„ April M—Mr, aj;d
Mrs. 8. I* VanPetten have announced ths engagement t of their daughter.
anPetten. of Andei •
WOTPVMHPHHHHPPmip Miss Margaret
tied Saturday night at Covington, j »on, and Merrill E. Noble, son of Mr.
Ky. The bride is the daughter or Mr. iand Mrs. J. H. Noble, of
and Mrs. John D. Walker and Is popu- Ivtlle. The wedding ^wlll take place lar in social circles. Mr. Platt is a.In early summer. Mr. VanPetten is Democratic candidate for I>ecatur 1 treasurer of Madison county.
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Evening Meeting nt Marion to Close
* Day's Sehednle.
ESpecial to The Indianapolis News! MARION. Ind. April 26 —James W. j
Fesler, Republican candidate for the ■ nomination for Governor, was mak- | ing a tour of Grant county today. Mr. f FYsler was met at Fgirmount in the
forenoon by a delegation of
and was taken 'o
m^bnt. Fowlerton. Matthews. L plgnd.
j'varty
Fair
Arthur Fairbanks,
The wedding
because oi
In ad-
llngering Illness
dition to the husband; Mrs. Smalley Is survived by one daughter, Margaret SmsHey. who ik, attending National Park Seminary* m Washington; three sisters. Mrs. fva Rogers, of Indianapolis; Mrs. George Buckles, of Dunkirk, Ind., and Mrs, H, E. Garilng. of Cleveland, O., and one brother. It. H.
Brothorton. of Dunkirk.
Irish Po«t Lectures
A thoroughly responsive audience gave William Butler Teats an enthusiastic greeti ag when he was presented at the Murat yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Association. Mr. Yeats, who was introduced by George Somnes. director of the Little theater, is an Irish poet and dramatist, on# of the founders of the Abbey theater in Dublin, and p man ,of Imagination.
■M ■ Irish theater
>y Mr. Tel
dramatic stru
movement, as g ts a serle* of tween accept# mereial theati
as disclosed by Mr. Yeats,
■Rm gfi
d standards in the
ties be-
er and a romantic the-
money and the
■s put in the way
* of the Abbey from skeptics, iter, which was r leaders, was
of the the-
public. However, Ijidy John Hynge and Mr. Yeats eved as close an approximation Sha^kespearean theater^as snee. . Hi# playthe Abbey theater of; life and from
nlty. an<l a
audience claps and hisses, ■ss things when it has a mind,
enjoy* tterlf
admiration for leidy Nlregory John hynge. both of whom he from a personal, intimate view, lov# for the Irish of
folk
r. love for i islands, the ik the Gaelic
pie d a
who^l apeak the Gaelic, and a vlgorouo contempt for abstract ideas as opposed to the facts of Mfw character-
h$o loot known planatk nsr of
talk. In concluding
his lecture he read a few of his best-
ems. giving an amusing exion of the reason for his man-
rsadlng them.
ESSSWr&figSsi! the direction of Miss Flora Love.
Mm r Jot
of Kan--a City. Mo. will take place soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey M. Sweenie. of Detroit, Mich,, who came to attend the wedding of Mrs. Sweenie s son. Frederick Shaw Patterson, and Miss Nora McCulloch and have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geiger and John IX Geiger, have returned home. * |
Mrs Charles 8. Voorheer and Mra. speaker at the closing sendee Sunday ESfta of |» ‘-o «*» some time at White Sulphur Springs. . Tenth Methodist Episcopal church. At M»a. George Kahle. formerly of Indi-i the Sunday school services 1.139 peran a polls, gave a tea at her cottage ? sons were present. Next Sunday ja
for Mr* Voorhees and Mrs. Collins - -
recently.
Serlee of Meettag* Cl^e*. The Rev. A. P. Gouthur was
membership day.
Mrs. Ray
luncheon Saturday
Mohler entertained at
. In the Ayree tea-
room for Miss Marie Jeffries whose marriage to George Moody will take place Slay S. The luncheon was followed by a theater party at the Mural for which Mrs Charles Hartman.
Jr., was the hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolven an-1 nounce the marriage of their daugh- ^ ter Valeria and Ralph Day. which took j place at their home Saturday evening at S:39 o’clock, the Rev, J. H. Ferris ! reading the service In the presence of; the families and a few intimate! friends. The bride wore pale blue Georgette crepe. Mr. and Mrs. Day tK* for th « Primont Iti9 i
West Ohio street.
Mrs. Gertrude Hertwack Wald and j Miss Freda Griffin gave a misrel-1 laneous shower at their home Satur- i day evening for Miss Blanche E. Fause whose engagement was recent - J ly announced Little Dorie Vivian Adams presented the gifts in a small whselbarrow decorated in the bridal colors of pink and white. Spring flowers were used for decoration. Mias Nora Cain aasisted ths hostesses. 4'nsafas-Stvtagley. % 1 Spent*1 to The lodiaaspoti* New*} MUNC1E. Ind., April 26.—Miss Jessie L. Swingley. daughter of Mrs. Ida Thornburg, of Selma, and Dr. Ooorge Crust us were married Satur*»r svening at the home of the Rev. P St T phe, ?* 0n , T be bride was r. 0 .*?* ? .* "ft 1 hospital. Dr. Crusius
Prices realised dn Swift * * sales of carcass beef in Indianapolis for week ending Saturday. April 24. on shipments sold out ranged from IN to 22c per pound apd averaged 17.S2e per pound.—Advertisement.
Aatfgwee to lie Shows.
A .° f th * of antiques
centennial teo of
on exhibit at the
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BECAUSE OF LABOR TROUBLE All Owuetractlw* W**rk an OIDcr
* Hawning Movement I* Swapcndvd. (ftpMUl la the indlanapott* New*] MOUTH BEND. Ind.. April S€.—Be-
cause of the labor trouble* of the Ideal building trades, all construction
on ths OlfVer housing movement
St noon Saturday. One fifty partly built house*, to "have been u*ed diy the he brought here to man » of the Oliver Chilled remain unfinished It ntention to erect 1,000 year and to erect a num-
of tl
worn on tne vmi waa auepended hundred and fif which were to ’
three succeeding year*, that all building will her* unleas the trouble
common laborers, who are I from 75 fo 55 cents an a closed shop, la settled
the naxt few day*.
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supplemente i by our
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TjAVE you scolded your boy or gii* because of low marks at school ? Possibly the reproof was not justified. It may not be his, or her, fault. The lack of interest, or apparent dullness, may be caused by defective vision. Poor vision makes children dull, and one child in four has defective vision. Your child may be one whose eyes are not giving normal sendee. Now is the time to correct the trouble. Proper attention, now may enable the child to overcome the weakness or defect altogether. Even if this can not be accomplished, proper glasses will hold any muscular or focal defect in check, which if uncared for, may easily develop into a serious handicap later on. The optometrist is the man to see. He will examine your child's eyes and measure the defects of focus. In other words, he will find out in a positive, accurate, mechanical manner without pam or discomfort, how much the eye lacks of performing its function properly, and then he will prepare lenses with a correction which will make up for the'error of the eyes. Go to an optometrist who displays in his window or office the emblem of the Indianapolis Optometrical Society. He will render you honest, conscientious, scientific service.
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To the Critics of the Gas Company During- the emergency caused by the widespread railroad strikes which have been tying up the industry of the country for over two weeks, a great many criticisms have been made on the service rendered by the gas company. Sorrie of these have been malicious but most have been simply thoughtless. The facts of the case have been made public from time to time, but we desire now to summarize them: 1. Tke difficult? of the present time grows oat of tke' eoal strike la November a ad December. At tbe berlnntnK of tbe eoal strike tkl* company was la a strong posR'on. It hhd coal stoeka on hand sufficient for full operation for at least 4ft days, and was able to assist tbe other public utilities wbleh were then »* distress. We urged economy In the use of gas, but we maintained 100 per rent, servlee throughout that atrtke. 2. \ot only bad we provided reaaoaable stocks of eoali we had also been exceedingly prudent in providing for tbe strike which we had foreaeen. Whem tbe coal strike begaa, ia addition to stocks on hand, we had over Ift.OOO tons la tranatt. Fnrthermore. In addition to our regular contracts we had bought for shipment In November and December f large quantities of eoal from nonunion mines. Ia spite of disturbed mining conditions and dispersion of railway cars, we bad shipped to ub during November and December 102,000 tons of coal. i Yet onr prudence and vigilance was fatlle. Most of this 117,000 tons of eoal waa aelned by the government and diverted to ether places. We used 119,000 tons of coal during tbe two months, hut by January 1st our stock had been reduced to leas than one-tk'rd of the amquat we had on November lot.
ft. The end of the coal strike did not cause ns to relax onr efforta to bnlid up onr reserve stocks. We went into the market at once to buy eoal to replenish our stocks and supplement our contract shipments which were reduced by tbe lucrensed oar ahortage. Rut here o'omea In tbe Interesting consequence of government price regulations. Vatll sfter April 1st, we were not permitted to pay# and eoal operators were not permitted to. charge more than certain prescribed prices, while there were no sack restrictions on sales for export. Our contract mines continued to ship at contract prices, but why should mines which had free cbnl sell to us at prices ranging from lOLtlft to *0 00 when French and Italian buyers were offering fift.00 to 9ft.S0f From earty 7 ^in December until the end of. March there was no coal for sale to domestic buyers unless they were prepared to buy the mines. Our government would not permit us to pay a price sufficient to get the eoal. t'oasequeutly, our 15 days’ supply of January 1st was reduced to ft days’ supply on April
lOth. when the strike began here.
4. From being In a stronger.position than any othef public utility In the state at the beginning of the coni strike, we were reduced to a weaker position than any other at the beginning of the railroad strike. All other public utilities In Indianapolis use Indiana coal. Indiana coni has not been plentiful, but ft has bee* obtainable at goxernment prices. Indiana coal Is not wanted for export. France and Italy are not competing for It. We can not use Indiana coal except In very limited quantities. We have, used a little in this, as in previous emergenrles, hut with no gain la gas production, hat rather with losses. The reasons^ for -this are related to problems of ehemleal engineering wh’ch ran not he
The gas sup-
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restoration of normal gaa service depends not only on the restoration of fall railroad
servlee, hut also on the resumption of mining operations. v
•riven here, bat which will be given to anybody who cares to ask for them
ply of Indianapolis depends primarily on coni from mines o
w. railroads—two of which have been completely cut and th^ other badly crippled
5. When the present emergency arose. It was onr hope that normal pressure could he maintained and that consumers would co-operate In reducing the nae of gas. On Monday, April 12th, an appeal for conservation was made by the chairman of the Public Servlee f omuilsslon, the Mayor of Indianapolis, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and the «eneral manager of the gaa company. There was no general response, hut, on the other hand, the consumption of gaa on the,following day arose about 50 per cent, above normal winter demand. We were then confronted with two alternatives! (1) to let the people take all tke gas tkey wanted as long as It lasted, and tken shut dowat 42 to control the consumption by regulating «ke pressnre. The former would have been much t® the advantage * *■* company because the present method of operation ts exceedingly expensive. The latter would save the community from unparalleled suffering, because without gas the population wonid starve. We chose the latter alternative. Many homes and industries have been aertoualy inconvenienced by the character of gaa service maintained since April tilth. For this we have the greatest regret, hnt In view of the conditions as outlined above we * have no apologies to offer. CITIZENS GAS COMPANY
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You Can’t Help Liking This Range
The GOLD MEDAL GLENW00D is in reality a combication range consisting of two complete ranges using different fuels, with neither one interfering in any manner with the other. Coal supplies the fuel for one, arid gas for the other. So far as the use of these two fuels is concerned, it is exactly as though you had a coal range and a gr~ “ ■* ' ,iJ !i * ^ A ^ same floor spaoe inst parts of the kitchen. You may use the coal and the gas at the same time, or either one without the other. You have gas in warm weather and coal in cold weather. have
It
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cooking is one of the greatest pleasures in your home.
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