Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1926 — Page 2

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PETITION ASKS MERGER OF TWO INSULL FIRMS Consolidation Sought by Northern Indiana Utilities. Merger of the Northern Indiana Gas ar.d Electric Company Into the Northern Indiana Public Service Company Is proposed In a petition died today with the public servloe commission. Both companies are controlled by Samuel Insull, Middle Western utilities king. Operating revenue of the two companies last year aggregated $10,000,000. Their combined capitalization will be $44,928,000, the petition showed. Both companies operate In the same general terirtorles In northern Indiana, serving twenty-five counties with a population of 660,000. The petition proposes converting of common and class A preferred stock of the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company Into common and preferred stocks of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, share for share. It Is estimated that after the merger, the revenue received from the sale of electricity will be 49.21 per cent of the total; 49.46 per cent from the eale of gas and 1.33 per cent from the water and steam heat branches of the business. \ The Northern Indiana Puhllo Service Company has gas manufacturing plants at Elkhart and "Valparaiso. The Northern Indiana Gas and Eleotrio Company has gas manufacturing plants at Hammond, Miohlgan City, South Bend, Plymouth, Ft. Wayne, Peru, Lafayette, Crawfordsvllle and Frankfort. Some of the larger cities that will be served by the two companies to be merged, in addition to those named above, are East Chicago. Whiting, Mishawaka, Logansport and Wabash. DRINK WATER WHEN KIDNEYS IST YOU Take Glass of Salts if Your Back Aches or Bladder Troubles You. 'When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it may mean you have been eating foods which create acids, says a well-known authority. An excess of such acids overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels, removing all the body’s urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatio twinges. Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys may then act fine. This famous salts is made “ from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with llthla, and has been used for years to help clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the system, so they no longer Irritate, thus often relieving bladder weakness. Jad Salts is Inexpensive, can not injure and makes a delightful, effereseent llthia-water drink. . Drink lots of soft water. ’ —Advertisement. Miller's Antiseptic OH, Known as Snake Oil WIU fesltlrsly Believe Pain in a Few Minutes. Try It right ndw for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Bore, , stiff and swollen Joints, pains in the head, back and limbs, corns, bunions, etc. After one application pain usually disappears as if by magic. Anew remedy used externally for Coughs, Colds. Spasmodic Croup, Influenza, Sore Throat and Tonsilitts. Tbia oil is conceded to be the most penetrating remedy known. Its prompt and Immediate effect in relieving pain is due to the fact that it penetrates to ‘ the affected parts at once. As an illustration, pour ten dropß on the thickest piece of sole leather and It will penetrate this substance through and through In three mlnuteA Astonishing how thousands of Rheumatic sufferers are being relieved bv use of this new oil treatment, which contains essential oils from Europe. It's known as "Snake Oil.” Refuse imitations. This great Oil a golden red color. Mfg. only by Herb Juice Medicine Cos., L. 8. A. Every bottle guaranteed, 85c, 70c and sl. Get it, your druggist’s.—Advertisement.

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EWO hundred and fifty men went on a fox hunt near Grandview and caught—one fox James Harris bought the fox for SB. Each hunter’s share was less than 8 cents. Preparations are being made for several hundred visitors Friday to Lincoln Park at Lincoln City, where the mother of Abraham Lincoln is buried. Clyde H. Jones, public service commissioner, In a speech at Purdue University, predicted one great public utility company would eventually control electrical energy In Indiana. Kessler of Monon leads the honor roll at the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. Flora Smith of Rockville and Evelyn Williams of Wheatland tied for second honors. William R. Elwood, 61, Is dead at Connersville in the first fatal accident the Connersville Blower Company has had In thirty-three years. Elwood was struck by a heavy steel beam which fell from a crane. it r JELL WEEK" activities of IT — ll Wabash fraternities have I* * I been hampered by an order of Police Chief Shields that freshmen must keep out of grave yards. One freshman reported he was fired at when he attempted to copy an epitaph from a tombstone. Warsaw children are hopeful The Pango Milk Chocolate Company of Toledo, Ohio, will take over the old Winona Traction Company power plant as a factory building. Lee MoDuffee, Ft. Wayne, has been elected president of the Ft. Wayne District Colt Club. Students at Goshen College have donated SI,OOO toward maintenance of Brethem missions in Indiana and for furnishing a social room at the college.

FARM PROGRAM MADE { Conference at Purdue Works Out Relief Plans. Bv United Pre LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—Indiana business men, farmers and civic workers today had before them a plan designed to Improve agricultural conditions in the State. The program was adopted by various leaders, who Aet here in a joint conference to discuss the farm situation. The program as adopted calls for Increased soil fertilization; growing of more legume; more live stock; sponsoring more boys and girls clubs; more economical production: better leases for farm renters, and encouraging intensive production. PERSHING SPEEDS NORTH Will Deliver Report to President CoolidgeBv United Prei* KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 10—Gen. John J. Pershing today was speeding northward via train to Washington, where he will deliver hla report to President Coolidge on the Tacna-Ariea boundary dispute, in which*he was neutfal commissioner. He is not well and plans to enter a Washington hospital soon. HIS STOMACH TOO WEAK He Couldn’t Drink Water, He Had to Have WTne. Bit United Preet HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 10.—A weak stomach, so weak that it could not stand water, was given a a the reason for the possession of 200 gallons of wine, by Steve Hursty in court here. Today Steve was under suspended center ce with a heavy fine to pay. CLUB TO START TERM Bible Investigation Group Lessons Are Announced. The winter term of the Y. M. C. A. Bible Investigation Club will open this evening. Lessons to be studied include: Lavs and institutions of the Old Testament; history in the making; the form of Hebrew poetry; the minor prophets; the major prophets; review of the life of Christ; organic development of the early church and scattering and revelation. The Rev. F. A- Hayward, executive secretary of the Federated Baptist Churches of Indianapolis, will be the instructor. The class will meet each Wednesday.

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KLAN FACTION REVOLTS! Member* Opposed to New Dragon Will Meet Sunday. Northern Indiana members of the Ku-Klux Klan, dissatisfied with the appointment of W. Lee Smith of Evansville as g£p.nd dragon to suoceed Walter Bossert, will meet Sunday at Kokomo, it has been announced by Rollle Granger, deputy State fire marshal, who resigned from the Klan Tuesday. Alfred Hogeton, State fire marshal also resigned. Hogston formerly was great titan of the northern province and Granger was eyciops of the Logansport Klan. WIFE TAKES POISON; DIES Hnsband Witness —Man Attempts Suicide. Mrs. Melvlna Stafford, 19, of 862 Guffey St., died at city hospital Tuesday night, shortly after she was taken there suffering from the effecte of poison which police say she drank at the Traction Terminal Bldg. Officers state she asked her husband Ted Stafford to buy her a paper cup. She drank the poison from this. Her husband saw her take the potion, but was unable to reach her in time to prevent the act. No motive was given. The condition of Charles Workman, 89, of 2108 Jackson St., remained serious at the city hospital, where he was taken late Tuesday suffering from the effects of a slowacting poison said by police to have been self-administered with suicide intent, SHANK AT RICHMOND Bv Timet Bveeial RICHMOND. Ind., Feb. 10.—Prohibition today stands branded as a "farce,’’ by Samuel Lewis Shank, former mayor of Indianapolis. In an address before the Rotary club here Shank also made a plea to take ’’all Judges out of politics.”

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