Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1923 — Page 12

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BULLETINS SHOWS . REELSVILLE GAP OPEN 10 TRAFFIC *1 Continuous- Pavement From Terre Haute to Indianapolis Promised, The ReelsvlUe “cut-off" on the National road west of Indianapolis is completed and open to traffic, new pavement east of Mt. Meridian will be laid about Sept. 1 and the road will be open all the way between the Hoosler capital and Terre Haute, John D. Williams, director of the State highway commission, announced dayMaintenance forces now ere engaged in building up the shoulders along the new pavement and resurfacing the Putnamville gap, which is to be replaced with an overhead grade crossing, and in a few days the road will be in condition to handle the winter and spring traffic. The condition of State roads entering Indianapolis follows: \No. 1 (New Albany, Indianapolis. South Bend, Michigan Line)—Closed from Crothersville to five and one-half miles north of Crothersville. Bey-mour-Crothersville traffic take Dudleytown detour. Detour from Scottsburg to a point five miles north around construction. Closed from Carmel to the concrete pavement just south of Kokomo, and from three miles south of to three miles north of Lakesville. / No. 3 (National Road, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Richmond)—Detour on angling road northwest out or Mt. Meridian ’ through Greencastle and back to road at Manhattan, This gap will be opened Sept. 1, eliminating detour.) Detour two miles west of Richmond is bad. Under construction from Richmond to Ohio line. Traffic proceed carefully. No. 5 (Vincennes to Mitchell) —- Bridges under construction at three places between Washington and Loogootee. Drive carefully through the White River bottoms west of Washington, account of widening pavement. Weakened bridge west of Wheatland. No. 6 (Madison, Indianapolis, Monticello)—Closed just north of Flackville to two miles north of Royalton. Detour just out of Indianapolis is- extremely bass Lebanon traffic advised to go via Michigan road. No. 15. leaving Indianapolis oh Capitol Ave. and Thirty-Eighth St. New stone between Osgood and Greenshurg and heavy grading between Greensburg and heavy grading between Greensburg and Shelbyville. Drive St. Omer runaround carefully. No. 15 (Indianapolis. Logansport, Michigan City)—Closed from one and one-hajf miles south of Logansport and through Royal Center account street construction, and between La Porte and Michigan City. Closed one mile south of Boyleston to one mile north of Boyleston. Detour marked. No. 22 (Bedford, Bloomington. Martissvllle,, Indianapolis)—Closed - between Bedford and Oolitic. Heavy grading between Martinsville and Centerton. Bar Association Elects By Times Special COVINGTON, Ind., Aug. 13.—The Fountain County Bar Association at its annual meeting elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: O. S. Douglas, Covington, president; O. W. McGaughey. Veedersburg, vice president; H. R. McKinney, Covington, secretary, and W. N. White, Covington, treasurer.

Seventh Day Adventists to Hold Annual Meeting at Bethany Park Next Week

At Bethany Park, Aug. 23 to Sept. 3, the Seventh Day Adventists of Indiana will hold their annual camp meeting. This is a time-honored custom with this denomination, and every year the people gather together to hear the ministers tell them of the progress of the message, and to receive spiritual inspiration. Ministers from all over the land attend these camp meetings including even men from foreign lands and returned missionaries. The Union Conference send representatives, as does also the General Conference. This year those who will attend the entire session will be H. A. Lukens, at present of Indianapolis, but formerly of Australia; Hugh Williams of New Albany, formerly of South J.frica; M. N. Campbell, assistant secretary of the General Conference, and formerly in charge of the work in Britain and the British Isles during the World War; William Guthrie, president of the Lake Union Conference; C. J. Wiest, president of the Indiana Conference; C. W. Beech, returned missionary from China, besides a number of other men who .will attend for a few days. The departmental work will be in the hands of the local secretaries, assisted as they desire by the ministers. The departmental leaders for Indiana are: Mr. Foote representing the Tract Society, Mr. Maris, the field secretary; Mr. Porter, home missionary; Mr. Abbott, young people and Miss Sheppard, Sabbath school and educational Music to Bea Feature of Meetings The music for the meetings has been intrusted to the capable supervision of Prof. Rowland F. Pitts. A large orchestra will.be formed, and a choir of many voices 'will heh\ to make the music a first attraction of the meetings. The president of the conference. G. J. Wiest, has sent out a number of letters to all the churches In the State calling this general meeting, and these churches have appointed delegates to he seated In the business sessions which will be held In the mornings. At these business meetings, all the important business of the conference is voted upon by this representative body. special Work for the Young People'' The meetings win be held In the lag* pavilions of the park. Special _

Three Routes to Ft. Wayne and Historical Country of Kekiongas

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Why not go to "Clipped-Heads some week-end? Keklonga, the name of an Ottowan tribe of Indians, meaning “clippedheads," Is the name by which the territory surrounding Ft. Wayne is known. Ft. Wayne Itself Is known as "Keklonga,” a corruption of the original name. Ft. Wayne lately has become notorious because of the Federal prohibition raids. But that is nothing new. As far back as 1793 General “Mad Anthony” Wayne Issued a prohibiting order in Ft. Wayne! The order, in part, says, "The intoxicated and beastly situation in which a great number of the soldierly are in makes it my duty to prohibit the passing of non-commis sjoned officers and privates beyond the line of camp except by special permission." The first French fort in Indiana was established on the sight of Ft. Wayne in 1656. A British forFwas erected in 1760. Ft. Wayne was a between the Americans and the Indians in 1790. It was named Ft. Waypt* In 1794. In the war of 1812 Ft. Wayne wns attacked, but it resisted the siege. A new* fort was erected In 1814. Ft. whyne has a truly historical significance. But the pleasure in visiting the place is also ennanced in the monuments erected to tieneralS Wayne and Henry W. Lawton, who was'killed in 1899 in the Philippines. _ General Lawton was a resident of FT. Wayne from early childhood. There are three good ways to

work will be carried on for the young people, the children and the adults as well. So large a number of the constituency is expected to attend that it will be necessary, in addition to the accommodations which the park affords in the way of hotels and cottages, to pitcfi a small city of family tents. Judging from the plans on foot, this camp meeting promises to be one of the laj-gest ever held in the State of Indiana, it is said. • • REV. HORACE A. SPRAGUE of the Hall Plaoce M. E. Church will preach Sunday morning on .“The Meaning of Baptism/’ A baptismal service will be held. At night, the Rev. Percy James will preach. The soloists will be L. E. Schultz, Mrs. Charles McHatton and Miss Lois Anderson. • • * "THE NEVER FAILING WORD OF GOD” will be the morning theme of the Rev. L. C. Fackler of St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church. No night service. The willing Workers will meet Tuesday night at the home of Clayton Littell, 2360 English Ave. The teachers of the Sunday school will meet Wednesday night. v , • • • DR. M. B. HYDE will preach at the Grace M. E. Church on the following subjects Sunday: “The Sanotiflcation of Jesuai’ and “Our Foe* Within.” j* • • AT ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH. Dr. B. F. Ively, pastor Emeritus, will preach in the morning on “The Man of Galilee—His Human Nature.’* Hugh M. Glasson will have charge of the night service, his theme being “Meditating With God." The Rev. J. J. Davi3 will address the men at 9:80 a m. • • FLOYD R. DEAL, formerly a student at the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky„ will speak at the Brightwood Church of Christ Sunday morning and night. W. T. Lynh will address the members of the Flemming Gardens Church of Christ Sunday morning. B. W. Bass will speak each night next week at the Flemming Gardens Church. At the Garfield Park Church of Christ Sunday Alva N. Clark will speak both morning and evening. ,* • • THE REV. E. E. TURNER will preach his farewell sermon, Sunday at

leave Indianapolis. The one on the above, map, which deviates from the Pendleton pike slightly In order to go through Fortville, is not necessarly the best of the three. In fact, "all routes are about the same. It is possible to go on the new paved road to Noblesyille and • then east tt> Anderson, or east on Washington St. to Greenfield and thence north to Pendleton. Follow the road through Anderson, Marion, Huntington into Ft. Wayne. PHOEBE HILL MEMORIAL Mayor Auctions Off City Property to Pay for Fountain. City officials admit Mayor Shank has not lost the art of auctioneering. In an auction sale of the Pnoeba Hill property at 416 E. New TPont St. ihe mayor came to the rescue of Ray Wright, city purchasing agent, boosting the price nearly SLOOO and obtaining a final sale of $4,350. It was papraised at $3,250. The plot had been donated to the city in the will of Phoebe Hill. The property was sold to John FV Barnhill, who plans erection of an addition to the Celeste Apartment adjoining. The city will use the money for erection of a Phoebe Hill memorial fountain at Fountain Square. A special citizens committee headed by John F\ White will make arrangements.

the North Side Nazarene Church. He and Mrs. Turner will leave for Owensboro, Ky., on Aug. 24 to begin evangelistic work. •• • • Many former residents of Clermont and vicinity are expected to return Sunday for the home-coming of the Clermont M. E. Church. The program will begin with Sunday school at 10 a. m. The morning sermon will be delivered at 11 o'clock, after which a basket dinner and social hour will bo held in the dining-room of the church. The afternoon session will begin at 2:15 p. m. Dr. U. G. Leazenby, the Rev. IL L. Mcßride, the Rev. H. C. Riley and the Rev. Raymond Earl will bo among the speakers of the day. * • • The ninth annual district assembly of the Nazarene Church of Indiana will convene next Tuesday at the First Nazarene Church, corner of E. Washington St. and State Ave. The six Nazarene churches of the city are all co-operating in the entertaining of 500 or 600 delegates and vlstlors. General Superintendent Rev. H. F. Reynolds, D. D., of Kansas City. Mo., will x'reslde at all the business sessions from Tuesday- to Saturday. The Rev. J. W. Short, district superintendent of Indiana, will have charge of all meeting*). The Rev. T. G. Martin of Pasadena. Cal., will be the evangelist, and will preach each evening beginning Sunday at & large tent pitched In the lota near the church. These meelngs are open to the public. * • • THE REV. CHARLES H. GT7NSOLUS will preach at the Brlghtwood Congregational Church Sunday morning and night on the subjects: "The Religious Affections” and “The Battle of Life.” > “THE NEARNESS OF CHRIST*’ will be the morning subject of the Rev. Charles V. Martin of*the Brookside Park United Brethren Church/ At night “The Young Man’s CalL" * * * THE REV. W. W. CLOUSE will preach Sunday morning at the Wesley Chapel M. Ej Church. Ap night he will speak at the King Ave. M. E. Church on “Grasshoppers and Giants." • • • THE EPWORTH LEAGUE of the Brlghtwood M. E. Church will hold a fair at Station and Twenty-Eighth Sts. on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Funds obtained will be used for the new church.

The Indianapolis Times

What I Was Doing at 20 - —By— Philip Zoercher, State Tax Commissioner

mWAS In my second year at the Danville Normal School, where I was taking a teacher’s course. I had^saved enough money In five' years’ work in a cabinet factory to pay for my education. GAS PRICE UP IN SOUTH DAKOTA % Four-Cent Increase Gets Approval of Governor, By United Press PIERRE, S. D„ Aug. 18.—Gasoline prices in South Dakota were Increased 4 cents to 20 cent's a gallon today with the approval of Governor W. H. McMasters, who started the midwestern price war by selling gasoline at 16 cents. McMasters declared there Is no excuse for the Standard Oil Company raising prices from 16.4 cents a gallon In other States, however. Ho called attention to the fact the 20 cent price In South Dakota is 6.6 cents lower than before ho started his campaign, and corresponded with the reduction that puts the n.-.ld-west-ern average at 16.4 cents. PRIZES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AT FAIR, $4,970 Agricultural and Home Economies Clubs to Compete Nearly $5,000 will be offered In prizes to members of the boys’ and girls’ agricultural and home economics clubs who compete in the various classes this year at the State ffifr. Development of the boys’ and girls' competition began a few years ago with the establishment of the Pig Club. Nearly $1,600 In prizes are offered this year for this class alone. * Prizes for the different classes this year: Pig Club, seven classes, $1,590; beef calf, three classes, $750; dairy calf, two classes, $200; lambs, five classes, $455; com, $140; upples, s2Bf); total Boys' club, $3,385. Boys’ judging contest, $950; girls' panning club. Girls’ Sewing Club, total girls, $625. Total, boys and girls, $4,970. FORTY YEARS OF WAITING " Woman Seeks Wliereabouts of Husband After Four Decades. After forty years of waiting,for her husband, Reginald Pacham Waters, to return to his home in Pieasantville, N. J., his wlfe.fMrs. L. J. Waters, requested today by letter that the Indianapolis police search for him. Mrs. Waters stated in the letter that her husband was the eon of the late Dr. Charles Waters, who was connected with the St. Vincents hospital. Efforts to find or communicate with other relatives has failed, the letter added. VMAN FACES OLD CHARGE Edward Baxter Arrested on Affidavits Filed in 1921. Edward Baxter, 32, of 18 S. Baker St., faced Judge Delbert O. WlDneth in city court today charged with burglary and vehicle * taking. Affidavits for his arrest were filed in 1921 after a machine stolen from the Buchanan wagon shop. 802 3. Market St., was found on June 10 of that year abandoned In a ditch near Southport, Ind. Baxter, according to officers, admitted stealing the car and after running it into the ditch continued on his way to Kentucky where he has resided until recently.

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MRS. STOKES WILE FIGHT ‘DEFAMERS’ Files Million-Oollar Suit Against ‘Weddie,' Author of 'My Darling Pop' Letter,

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, whb Is fighting the divorce allegations brought by W. E. D. Stokes today declared she Intends to force the "las tof my defamers to clear my name.” - "Every person involved in the conspiracy to defame me will be prosecuted," she said, in explaining a $1,000,000 suit her attorneys here filed against Wi E. -D. “Weddie" Stokes, Jr., her stepsun. Young Stokes -was author of "My Darling Pop" letter whivh .figured prominently In hearings of the case. It was purported to have been written

A Puzzle a Day < r 1 Y Y X X r Y Y V ... Thu cross shown above contains twelve separate squares. Fill In the squares with the numbers 1 to 12, inclusive, using each number only once. The numbers must be so arranged that each of the two vertical horizontal lines x-x and each of the two vertical lines total exactly 26. The four blank center squares *must add up to a total of 26; and the four | squares marked "x”; and the four squares marked "y" must each total 26. Several answers are possible. Yesterday’s answer: —■ 1. HAND 2. HARD 3. LARD 4. I.ORD 5. FORI) 6. FORT 7. FOOT Above are shown the -seven steps necessary to change the word "HAND” into “FOOT." One letteF is altered In each step and anew word is fo’rmed each time. *

BOARD GIVES MANSFIELD FIRM MORE CONTRACTS Protest on Twenty-Ninth St. Paving Fails to Affect New Awards. Despite protests on acceptance of Twenty-Ninth St. paving constructed* by the Mansfield Engineering Company, the company has been awarded contract for paving two sections of Thirty-first St. from Northwestern Ave. to the canal, records of the board of works showed today. The Mansfield Company was given the contrace from Northwestern Ave. to Clifton Bt. on a bid of $16,209.05. and from Clifton St. to the canal for $26,536.92. J. N. Morgan <S- Son were aawrded the contract for the section east of Northwestern Ave. to Capitol Ave.. on a bid of $26,481.19. The Congress Ave. improvement, from California St. to the canal, was awarded to the American Construction Company on a bid of $48,170.75, and Catnerwood Ave., from Washington St. to a point 500 feet south of Sulian Ave., to the Union Asphalt Construction Company for $8,200.02. Perfection Butter Make* Klddlea Grow.—Adv.

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by the son to Stokes and “confessed” that "Weddie” and Mrs. Stokes were Intimate at Narragansett Bay. o~ly the praecipe of the suit has been filed. „ “Certain accusations have been made against me by young Mr. Stokes,” said Mrs. Stokes. “They are baseless. I communicated with the young man before filing the suit and gave him every opportunity to confess that his statements are not true. I had no desire to disgrace him.” Hal C. Billig, a Chicago realtor, named by Stokes in his allegations, recently sued Stokes for $60,000 for slander.

‘CRUELTY’HEARINGS WILL BE RESUMED MONDAY Parents Demand Release of Son From Chicago Truancy School. By United Frees CHICAGO, Aug 18.—After testimony of youthful Inmates of the Chicago Parental (Truancy) School so "degrading and revolting" women and children were excluded from the courtroom, Judge McKinley an nounced he would resume his hearing of cruelty charges Monday. Judge McKinley is hearing a petition of habeas corpus for the release of Phillip Denny whose parents declare he was cruelly treated at the institution. The proceedings are closely linked with an inquest to be resumed Monday Into the suicide of James Wright, 16, who hung himself in the solitary confinement cage at the school.

FRIEDA’S FOLLIES

By M. E

—Copyright, 1923.

He always worked in his garden, While the most beautiful flower, He possessed flirted outrageously, With the other <pan. Unsuspecting, he dug away, Planting rose bushes. This morning I stood by pityingly. "Who is the man,” I inquired, "Who seems so constantly. In your wife’s society? A relative, I presume, They are so affectionate.” I hful made up my mind. That morning at least Something besides rose bushes Was to be planted. It was. ‘ New Custodian for Marlon Club Frank E. Garrabrant, former custodian of the courthouse, has been ap pointed manager of the Marlon Club by Frank A. Sympes, receiver for the club. He succeeds John A. Moriarlty.

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ROMANCE STARTED IN ST. LOUIS WORKHOUSE ' Girl In for Larceny Falls in Love With Picture Operator. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18.—Love at first sight kindled when William Mangold, 29. saw Miss Viola Potts enter the city workhouse led today to marriage of the two Inmates. Viola, serving a sentence for larceny, streaked for a marriage license when she got out early this week. She Is pretty and bobbed-haired an cl convinced the warden the rules ought to be suspended. Mangold, a motion picture operator from Flint, Mich., will flnisji his stretch In a month. BRICK THROWN INTO CAR Frank Slieets Severely Cut by GlaHi From Broken Windshield. Frank Sheets, 1112 Central Ave., was cut on the face and hands by broken glass early today when a mar. hurled a brick through the windshield of his automobile as he and his brother, Fred Sheets, were riding in a coupe at California St. and Kentucky Ave. Threg men were standing near an automobile parked at the curb. Without any apparent cause one of the men hurled a brick through the windshield of the coupe. The men were pursued by Sheets. At Merrill St. and the elevated tracks Sheets lost the trail.

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INDIANA BUILDING LOWERFORJUUI Total Construction in State $86,950,400 Jan. 1 -Aug. 1, Building contracts In Indiana during July totaled $10,764,300, as compared with $27,323,000 in June, according to a report of the F. W. Dodge Corporation. The June figures Included an $18,000,000 power plant contract, the report says. Despite this fact, however, the July figure Is far beltfw that of July, 1922, the corporation reports. According to the report, total construction in Indiana frojn Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 was $6,950,400. Last month’s record included $4,669,600 for residential buildings, $2,068,60# for public works and utilities, $1,278,700 for business buildings and $1,172,000 for'social and recreational projects. Prominent Sullivan Man Dead. By Times Special SULLIVAN. Ind., Aug. 18.—Charles W. Welman, 64, prominent in Democratic politics of this county and the Second Congressional District, died at the county hospital here Friday of cancer of the stomach.