Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1920 — Page 12

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LIGHT SAVING UP IN CITY COUNCIL Backers of Extra Hour to Boost Measure Tonight. Supporters of the proposed daylight savings ordinance are expected to fill the city council chamber tonight, when the measure will come up for consideration. Notices of the ordinance’s forthcoming consideration have been sent to all employers who wrote letters favoring moving the clock up an hour In the straw vote of the Associated Employers and other organizations. Os MX) letters received 409 favored the measure. Representative of the Associated Employers, the Chamber of Commerce the Board of Trade, the Merchants’ association, the Scientech club and other organizations will appear In support of the ordinance. Central Labor union leaders are expected to oppose the change. The Merchants Heat and Light Com pany and many wholesale and retail coal dealers have joined In the movement to save an hour of daylight each afternoon, although the change might be calculated to Injure their business In some degree. City and state health authorities have been invited to attend the council meeting and express their views on the health betterment feature of the plan. It Is asserted by supporters of the ordinance that allowing working men and women an extra hour of daylight each day for recreation will prove beneficial In supplanting other forms of recreation which •Involve late hours. LEGION, YEAR OLD , MILLION STRONG Veteran Organization Now Has 8,475 Posts in U. S. Today Is the first birthday anniversary of the American leaglon. From a conference of Yank soldiers, sailors and marines, held March 15, 1919. in Paris, the organization has grown to more than 1.000,000 members. It was an nounced at national headquarters, Meridian Life bnildlng. A previous conference had been held In Paris, but the first formal step toward organizing the legion was taken at the March 15 meeting. This caucus appointed a “committee of seventeen," which called a conference In St. Louis on May 8, 1919. The first formal convention was held In Minneapolis, Nov. 11. On this day the membership was 750,000. There are today* 8,475 American legion posts. New York leading with 891 posts; Illinois second with 553 posts; Pennsylvania third, 511; lowa, 462; Minnesota, 448; Ohio, 382; Missouri, 291; Michigan, 271; Indiana, 270; Massachusetts, 252. Seven Cities Unite to Fight Gas Boosts Benjamin Perk, public utility accountant of the firm of Coffleld & Hedrlch, to day Is engaged In reducing the financial statement of the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company to a form that will enable municipal officers of seven cities to oppose the company's petition for rate .increases before the state public service commission. Mayors and city attorneys of Logans port. Wabash. Peru, Frankfort, Lebanon. Plymouth and Crawfordsville have held one conference here to consider plans for opposing the Increased rates and will confer again before the case comes up for hearing. The officials are making a close study of the company’s audit reports and expect to appear before the commission with as complete and clear an analysts of the situation as the company will be able to offer. South Bend Crash Kills One, Hurts Eight gpedal to The Time*. SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 15.—-Mrs. Luella Sucbanek, 32, Is dead and eight others are seriously Injured as the result of a street car crash here late yesterday, when a south-bound Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Inter urban plunged into an open switch near St. Mary's college and academy. The switch near the college had teen left open and the ltval car was backing into the switch. Tbe interurban car crashed into the local car. klllling one passenger and injuring eight others. Some of the passengers attempted to escape by jumping from the car as they saw the approaching interurban. All of the Injured passengers were on the local ear. Terre Haute Utility Seeks Rate Increase Needed improvements at an estimated cost of $400,000 for the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company'* light and power plant in Terre Haute are set qut in the company's petition for new hates, on file with the state public service commission today. The petitioner asks for restoration of higher rates in effect prior to April 30, 1919, pending a hearing on the petition. The value of the plant, as, determined by the commission In 1919, was $925,000. The company offers a present valuation of $2,225,000, on which to base new rates. i

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SUCH IS LIFE (Ml l ■ Julius was the man that knew it. Knew that there was nothing to it. Knew the actress In the show. Knew her well and told you so, How she got her Job and why ; Also knew the very guy Who—of course It's Inside stuff ! Julius always knew enough, If you chanced to be conversing. To enchain you. helpless, cursing Johnson Willed him in h!s fury. Got a medal from the jury. • -1- -I- -!- What probably Is tbe lowest type of landlord unearthed in America was found In Brownsville, N. Y. He Inserts this clause Into leases; ‘‘To be used and occupied for dwelling purposes only by father, mother and not more than two children.'' Mothers of two children, expecting another baby must more out of these tenement homes, for ''Babies are not permitted to be born In this house,” decrees that landlord. Never before in human history has any human set himself up as .the dictator of families. None other has presumed to limit human offspring, -|- -|. .|. Mrs. Evelyn Lewis, a wealthy widow of New York has sued Isaiah Lidz for breach of promise, alleging that although he had proposed to her 111 times be Dually re fused to marry her because hi* wife wouldn't let him. -!- -I- -|- Waiters belonging to the ‘‘workmen's council” of Berlin refuse to serve Prince Joachim, the ex-kalser's sixth son, because he won't work “and produces nothing but escapades." -I- -I- -!- What’s coming to our schools? All the little boys are going to grow j up and be Ty Cobbs or Babe Ruths. All the little girls are going to be Mary Plckfords. And all the teachers are going out and get Jobs tbst pay 'em enough to live on. SPP/MC PQW£ Follows His Wife’s Advice on Divorce George ,T. Rubin claims that his wife wrote him from Chicago, giving her address as general delivery, and advised him to get a divorce. Saturday Rubin filed suit for a divorce from Martha B. Rubin on the grounds of desertion at South Bend, Ind., on Sept. 4, 1918. They were married Aug. 31, 1918. The suit was filed In superior court, room 2. ROSEBUSH IN BUTTONHOLE. LONDON, March 15. The effort pf an Irishman to put a rosebush in bis buttonhole landed him in Jail here. The bobbles say he was drunk. He says he thought the bush bore Shamrocks. irF.NN. AICD WASH. STS. MADISON AM) RAY. FOUNTAIN SQUARE. MERIDIAN AND MORRIS. GREER-HAHKiNS LBR* GO. AppUer* and Retailer* VULCANITE ASPHALT SHINBLES and BOLL ROOFING tM MASS. AYE. Main 747. Phones. Auto. 22-21S.

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OHIO CHURCH WORKER TORE HEARD TONIGHT ‘Outlook in Religious Education’ Topic of R. M. Hopkins at Mass Meeting. NEW ORGAN DEDICATED Robert M. Hopkins, Cincinnati, 0., geueral Bible school secretary for the American Christian Missionary society, will speak on "The Outlook In Religious Education” this evening at a mass meeting of Christian Sunday schools In the Central Christian church, Delaware street and Ft. Wayne avenue. It is expected more than 2,000 persona, will attend. A silk flag will be presented to the school having the greatest number present. DESIGNER DEDICATES NEW CHURCH ORGAN The new qrgau of the First Church of the Evangelical association. New York and East streets, was dedicated Sunday with concerts by Hope Leroy Baumgartner, designer of the organ. Mr. Baumgartner, who Is a son of Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Baumgartner, 418 North Sherman drive, gave selections at morning and evening sendees. Mr. Baumgartner was formerly an organist of the church, but Is now instructor in organ playing and theory of music university. The church organ was Installed at a cost of $9,000. CHURCH FILM TO SHOW ‘ WAYFARER ’ The pageant, ‘‘The Wayfarer,” staged at the, Centenary Missionary exposition of the Methodist church at Columbus, 0., last July, will be shown In motion pictures at the Central Avenue Methodist church, April 18 or 23, according to an announcement by Rev. O. W. Fifer. A later announcement will disclose the exact date. The pageant depicts the progress made by the Methodist missionary movement in all parts of the earth In the last 100 years. MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS TOMORROW The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Central Avenue church will hold an all-day meeting at the home of Mrs. Henry J. Coerper, 2130 North Delaware street, tomorrow. The book. “The Path of Progress,” will be studied under the leadership of Mrs. H. F Holland. Mayor Jewett will address the young men’* Bible class of the church at a dinner to *‘e held April 7. The district standard Bearers will meet at the church March 24. BROTHERHOOD MEETS TOMORROW NIGHT St. Mark's English Lutheran cbtirch brotherhood will meet at the home of George Hansen, 1602 South East street, tomorrow night. TIBET TO BE MISSION AR Y TOPICS A discussion on Tibet will be led by Mrs. .1. G. Kitzing at a meeting of the Woman's Missionary society of tbe Third Christian church. Seventeenth street and Broadway. Thursday afternoon. "A Business Partnership" will be tb subject of an address to be delivered by Robert A. Brown to the Brotherhood f-xer Good Oleomargarine—Gtossbrenner's.

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Wife Dogs Hubby by Doggone Dog AURORA, Til., March 15.—Hedley Jobbins' dog was like Mary’s lamb— It followed him everywhere. That's how Mrs. Jobbins knew when be visited other women, she claimed In ber divorce petition. of the First Baptist church, Vermont ttnd Meridian afreets, this evening. Dinner Will be served at 6:30 o’clock. Mrs. Claude Titus will sing. NORTH PARK CHURCH BURNS MORTGAGE The mortgage on property of the North Park Christian church, Twentyninth street and Kenwood avenue, was burned at a ceremony yesterday celebrating the church's freedoom from debt. W. C. Garten, treasurer, applied the match. Reminiscences of the church’s ten years of history were told by a number of speakers. A conference In the Interests of the church's campaign for 1.000,000 members will be held b.v the Greencastle district of the Methodist Episcopal church Friday at St. Paul's M. E. church, Eugene and Rader streets. Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago will be present. The conference will begin with devotional exercises at 10 o’clock In the morning. NEBRASKANS OUT FOR PFJRSHING 5,000 in Home State File Petition for President. LINCOLN, March 15. —The presidential candidacy of oln. John J. Pershing, commander of the American expeditionary forces in France, was formally launched here with the filing In the secretary of state's office of a voters' petition signed by 5.000 Nebraskans, asking that his name be placed on the primary ballots. In filing the petition Mark W. Woods, chairman of the Pershing campaign organization. said: “Gen Pershing will accept the nomination If he Is the choice of the people. He ha*, however, refused personally to seek this honor." Hiram Johnson and Gen. Wood are the only other candidates who have entered Pershing's home state. Children like to come to our studio because we [ A know how to make them feel at home. KTpw e IcS WT mm Ninth Floor Kahn Bldg C^jSllMAfr Main 5555—Auto. 28 654 1118-1120 N. Illinois Street.

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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1920.

Baby ®l Farms Portable houses! Pretty nice wrinkle the Chicago real estate men have advanced, Whatche think? It’ll doubtless fall on the ears of those profiteering landlords, who have raised rents from 50% to 150%, like a “clap of thunder out of clear sky.” The Chicago real estate board is doing those people a real service in building those portable houses, the maximum cost of which is $1,425, house, plot, ’n everything, and can be paid out in three years, according to a News statement a few evenings ago. —TAkiag those people out In the open spaces “away from the fire district,” etc. —inoculating them with the home spirit serum—Why! by the time a few month’s payments have been made they’ll have contracted the home owning disease permanently and that’s an epidemic In which landlords can’t thrive long —Chicago, Indianapolis or otherwise. Have YOU contracted the home owning disease yet? It’s bound to be rampant in Indianapolis—it’s the only disease worth while exposing one's self to. If you'd see STERLINO FARMS (our 15TH ADDITION) you'd soon catch it. Call \u for details. Do it NOW. Orin Jessup Land Cos. NO SUNDAY SELLING 705-10 Occidental Bldg. Phones—Main 2957 and 2958, Auto. 23-482.

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