Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 12, 1927

TWO KILLED IN ’ AUTO MISHAPS; DOZENJNJURED Man Fatally Hurt in Parked Car Crash; Child Run Down; Dies. Two persons were killed and twelve seriously injured in traffic accidents in Indianapolis over the week-end. Charles M. Grubb, 46, of 1541 S. State Ave., died at city hospital Sunday night. His skull was fractured and he suffered severe internal injuries when the auto in which he was riding crashed into a parked car at 821 Buchanan St. Leonard Gemruer, 40, of 1143 Lexington Ave., driver of the auto, was arrested on charge of manslaughter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a. M. at his home. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Surviving him are four sisters, Mrs. Sarah E. Harvey, with whom he had been living; Mrs. John J. Hans, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Frank A. Walsh, Grand Rapids, and Mrs. S. L. Murbarger, Indianapolis; and two borthers, William H. and Theodore Grubb, Indianapolis. Child Run Down; Dies . Stella Winegar, 9, daughter of | Mrs. Solomon Margison of Mars Hill, was injured fatally Saturday night when she was struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Thelma G. Smith. 20, of Mars Hill, at the Mars Hill turn on the Lafayette Road. She died a few hours later at Riley Hospital. Mrs. Smith, charged with manslaughter, told deputy sheriffs that the girl ard two other children, their arms locked, skipped into the street in front of her auto. Claude Conner, 9. son of Mr and Mrs. Henry Conner of Mars Hill, one of :**; girl’3 companions, ruffered a broken nose, the loss of several teeth and severe lacerations. The third child escaped injury. Frank Williams, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, 3116 W. Vermont St., seriously injured when he was thrown' from an ice truck and run over near his home, is in a critical condition in city hospital. Truck Crushes Boy The boy was riding on the rear of a Charles Dugger Ice Company truck, driven by Paul Inabit, 1429 Haugh St. -His elbow was resting against a tree and when the truck tarted, he lost his balance and tumbled over the rear wheels. He suffered fracture of both hips, the pelvic bone and possible internal injuries. He first was treated at Indiana Christian Hospital and sent home, but when his condition seemed serious he was taken to city hospital. Others injured: Mrs. Goldie Evanoff, 37, of 1121 W. Mew York St.; Faul Stafford of Brooklyn; Robert If Redpath, 1423 Ashland Ave.; Miss Ruth Miller. 19, of 2138 N. Jefferson Ave.; Miss Lilljan Gorelick. 19, and her brother, Ralph. 6; Pauline Lynch. 5, of 2229 Langley Ave.; Floyd Hargis, 30, of 639 Eugene St.; C. E. Parsley, 30, of M 27 N. Denny St.; Fred Schulze, 55. of Goshen, N. Y.; Rose M. Cheshier, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cheshier, 539 Dorman St. STUDY SCHOOL BUDGET Slashes Will Be Recommended at Meeting Tuesday Noon. Recommendations for school budget slashes will be made by the Chamber of Commerce budget committee at a meeting Tuesday noon. The committee will consider reductions proposed by William H. Book, civic affairs director, after a conference with school officials Saturday. Recommendations agreed on by the committee will be submitted to he school board at the public 'nearing on the proposed budget and $1.45 levy Wednesday at 2 p. m. MILLERS DISCUSS SEED .'•lceting of State Association Called to Study Oobjcctionable Variety. Seed wheat will be discussed at a meeting of the Indiana Millers’ Association at the Board of Trade Tuesday at 10 a. m. i Several varieties of seed wheat be- ’ ing used in the State are objectionable from the millers’ standpoint, T. C .Riley, secretary, said. Purdue University experts and representatives of Indiana Wheat Growers’ Association, Indiana Grain Dealers* Association and Indiana Corn Growers’ Association have been Invited. HIDES AFTER CRASH Motorist Is Charged With Driving While Intoxicated. After driving his auto into one driven by Oscar Smith, 531 Vinton St., at Shelby and Minnesota Sts. Sunday night, Jesse Hollingsworth, 431 N. Illinois St., is said to have leaped out and hid in a clump of shrubbery. Smith and other motorists held him until police arrived. Charges of driving while intoxicated were preferred. Jack Hess, 51, of R. R. N was arrested by deputy sheriffs for drunken driving. PLAN CIVIC FESTIVAL Riverside Association to Hold Celebration on Sept. 23. The Riverside Civic Association. T nc., will hold its third annual fall festival the night of Sept. 23. on Burdsal Pkw;v.. one block west of Harding St., John Mutschler, president. announced. ' Band concerts, vaudeville acts , r,nd dancing will be features of the 1 festival. Harry Schopn ts executive chairman. A meeting to complete arrangements will be held Tuesday ntnrht at the South Grove golf course clubhouse.

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FLOOD LEVEES TO BE FIXED Money Lacking but Davis Hopes to Find Way. Du l nited Veres WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Repair work on the Mississippi flood levees will continue, despite the prospective shortage of funds. Secretary of War Davis predicted today. He said he did not know where the department would get the necessary $2,000,000 which Comptroller General McCarl had ruled could not be borrowed legally from the general rivers and harbors fund. But the situation amounts to an emergency affecting life and property, he said, and therefore the department will find some way cf continuing reconstruction work. The department will have the support of the President and Congress, Davis said. FAIR BROKE RECORD \ Paid Admissions Totaled 255,494 This Year. Attendance at the diamond jubilee celebration of the Indiana State Fair broke all records last week with a total of 255,494 paid admissions. More than 5,000 persons, entering the ground to see the annual A. A. A. dirt track automobile races, boosted the attendance over the 250,000 goal set at the start of the fair. “This is by far the most successful fair that Indiana has ever held,” said E. J. BaVker, secretary of the State board of agriculture. "Persons from over the State as well as Indianapolis people have cooperated for the success of the fair.” Plans for continuing the building program and making other improvements on the grounds will be taken up at the meeting of the board in January. Anew grand stand of concrete and steel will be the most important addition.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Willard Holliday, 420 N. Garfield Ave., Ford, from Senate Ave. and Ohio Sts. Lester Rains. 101 Koehne St., Ford, 587-601, from in front of 150 S. Warman Ave. Elmer A. Crews, 1129 N.. Alabama St., Chevrolet, 142, from Pennsylvania and North Sts. Dr. J. 0. Ashley, Tipton, Ind., Buick, from Riverside Park. Charles B. Black, 2235 N. Rural St., Auburn, "from in front of that address. < #

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: John Eberhart, 1413 Nordyke Ave., Ford, at Garfield Park. Ford touring car, license 587-601, at 201 S. Harris Ave. Maxwell touring car, license 983430, at Thirtieth St. and White River. Harlan Rawlings, 14 S. Euclid Ave., Ford, at S. Serman Dr. and Troy Ave. Poultry to Panama Bit Timex Special PORTLAND, Ind., Sept. 12.—The Everlay farm, poultry breeding establishment here, has shipped ten Brown Leghorn cockerels and pullets to Eric Grant, Boreas del Toro, Republic of Panama. The poultry was sent to New Orleans, La., by express and there will be placed on a steamer for the Panaman town.

PASTOR SHOWS WHAT THE GREAT COMMISSION IS The Rev. Line Defines the Gospel of Jesus as One of Friendship. “We go back in thought to that Master teacher, preacher, friend, as he gave to his disciples and theii successors the great commission, commanding them to go into all the world and preach the gospel,” the Rev. Fred A. Line said Sunday at the Central Universalist Church while preaching on “The Great Commission.” “We reflect upon the way,” the Rev. Line said, in which men and women down through the years have accepted this commission and have proclaimed most effectively by word of mouth and by their lives the gospel of Jesus. “What is this gospel we are to proclaim and how are we to proclaim it? I make bold to affirm that it is the gospel of friendship. The late Washington Gladden says, ■religion is friendship—friendship first with the great companion of whom Jesus told us, who is always nearer to us than we are to ourselves, and whose inspiration and helps is the greatest fact of human existence. To be in harmony with His purpose, to be open to His suggestions, to be in conscious fellowship with Him—this is religion on Its Godward side. Then turn manward, friendship sums it all up. To be friends with everybody; to fill every human relation with the spirit of friendship; is there anything more fnan this that the wisest and best of men could hope to do.’ ” “If the church would accept this truth—religion is friendship— and build its own life upon it, and make it central and organic in all its teachings should we not see a great revival of religion. The Real Way The most effective way of preaching the Christ gospel is by proving friendly, by cultiavting the spirit of friendship in the life of the world. Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. “It doesn’t make much difference what denominational or political or national label your friend wears. If he be a true friend you never think of him as a Methodist or a Republican or a Frenchman, but rather as your friend, ready to stand by you in the horn of testing and the time of trial, to minister to you in sickness and in sorrow, to fight with you for the things most worth while. Some of our choicest friendships are garnered from among those who do not think as we think along religious or political lines, but who love and grieve and serve in much the same way. As liberals we should be the great apostles of friendship in the life of the world. We should rejoice in the increased friendliness manifested toward us by those of other households of faith,” the Rev. Line said. Christ ‘Real Investor’ Arthur Humphrey, assistant secretary and .treasurer of the Inland Bank and Trust Company, speke on “Investments” before the Christian men builders’ class of the Third Christian Church, Sunday. He declared Jesus was the one man in all history, who invested all. “His example shows we have to invest in our fellow men In ord'-r to own securities in eternity,” Humphrey said. __________ New Pastor in Pulpit The Rev. William F. Rothenburger, new pastor of the Third Christian Church, delivered his first sermon Sunday on the subject, “The Functions of the Church.” Mr. Rothenburger succeeds the Rev. T. W. Grafton, who resigned early in the summer. He has served as president of the College of Missions and as a member of the executive committee, United Misisonary Society. More than two thousand attended the church service Sunday and 1,458 attended Sunday school. ASK LONGER BUS LINE Petition Is Filed few Extension Through Southport. A petition requesting extension of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company bus line to Union St., Southport and thence west approximately one-half mile to the Pennsylvania Railroad, was filed today with the public service commission by 200 residents of the vicinity. The bus line now runs to Stop 6 on the Shelbyville pike. CAUGHT IN STOLEN AUTO Detetcives Barnaby and Purvis arrested James Baker, 31, of 3045 School St., on a vagrancy charge near his home today in an auto belonging to Murel W. Franklin, Somerville, N. J„ stolen from St. Clair and Illinois Sts. Franklin, an attorney, is visiting friends here.

Boy Hangs 25 Minutes to Tail of Mail Plane By United Press / NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ Sept. 12.—Vincent Taylor, 17-year-old Hackensack youth, today was qualified fully as an aerial stunt artist. His introduetkm to the role came unwillingly. For twenty-five minutes last night Vincent rode on the tail of an airplane. L. Ponton De Arce, air mail pilot, knew nothing about it until he brought the craft down at Hadley field, after the short flight from Teterboro airport. The youth has been somewhat of a nuisance around the aviation field here because, to use his own words, he “is crazy about flyin’.” But occasionally he is useful. De Arce was unable to get his six-passenger Fokker Universal into the air. He yelled to Vincent; “Swing the tail around, will you, kid?” The boy leaped forward with a grin. “Sure,” he said, and turned the plane. He held to the tail to steady it and Vincent soon found his feet were off the ground. The plane soared 3,000 feet above the ground. Vincent held on. For twenty-five minutes he rode and when the plane landed so did Vincent, unhurt, but slightly flustered.

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Hangs Clothes on Limb; Camera Near the Water By United Praia HAGERSTOWN, Md.. Sept. 12.—A pretty and socially prominent young woman here has recalled that hot day earlier in the summer she yielded to an impulse to take a swim alone, even though she had no bathing suit with her. The freedom and the water were delightful? and the girl finally waded with reluctant feet toward the deserted bank. As she approached a clump of bushes she saw three men. One of them leveled a camera at her and all fled, leaving behind a pinkly embarrassed July morn. The sequel came when the girl, whose name was withheld, complained to police that her suitor had told her the snapshot was on display in a local poolroom, and that men were hawking the picture about town at $2 a copy. Authorities don't know what to do, because while one law prohibits possession of an indecent picture, another statute makes indecent exposure a house of correction offense and they do not wish to take action against the girl.

RIVER GRAVEL ISSUERAISED Bartholomew Land Owners Want County to Pay. Bii Tmrs Special COLUMBUS, Ind.„ Sept. 12.—Bartholomew County may be made defendant in several suits as a result of removing gravel from White River at points where it touches privately owned land- The gravel is used in repairing roads. Counsel for Jesse Newsom, farm owner, raised the question, saying that a suit would be filed unless Newsom was paid. County officials contend that White River is a navigable stream and therefore persons owning land touching it have title only to the water’s edge. It is further asserted that deeds give only such title. Discussion of the issue brought up several points, including a statement that even though the county’s contention as to title is right, it should pay for the privilege of hauling gravel : emoved across farms.

PLAN FUND CAMPAIGN Employes’ Fellowship Hold Meeting Tonig'nt. The Employes’ Community Fund Fellowship, an organization of employes of concerns in practically every phase of the business life of Indianapolis, will meet onight at the new Boys’ Club Bldg., English Ave. and Laflrel St., at 7:30. Following inspection of the new building Walter O. Marmon Community Fund campaign director, will speak on plans for the fund campaign, Nov. 4-14. Earl Beck Fellowship president, will preside. Marmon cancelled a fall European trip to take charge of the Community Fund. Dick Miller will be back at his old post as chairman of special gifts committee A, while Theodore E. Myirs, secretary-treasurer of the Indk napolis Motor Speedway, will head special gifts committee B. Upon Mrs. Brandt C. Downey will fall the important duty of leading the Women's Army of about 3,000 workers, in charge of house to house canvassing for the fund.

proved mightily of her and has never voluntarily been ten feet away. “The neighbors are mightily amused watching them,” said Mrs. McGuff. “Sometimes the chicken jumps up on an old chair in the back yard. The duck is always much agitated at this and tries to join her. When he sees he can’t, he gets over a few feet and quacks enticingly and pretends he’s finding things in the grass. That always brings her down.”

CHEVROLET TO COMBAT FORD Wall Street Hears Battle Will Start Soon. ißy Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Renewal of the competitive struggle between the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation is foreshadowed in a report in the financial district today, and accepted as authentic, that the latter company is preparing to bring out anew Chevrolet car designed and priced to challenge the new model which the Ford comp.iny is preparing to market. General Rotors, it is understood, will not announce its new Chevrolet until after the introduction of the Ford model. Its plans are being closely guarded but the car is said to have been designed and the necessary materials assembled so that the company will be ready to go into production on reasonably short notice. The new Chevrolet, according to Wall Street’s information will be sold at a figure within SSO of any price that the Ford company may fix for its new product. It will be a six-cylinder car with a number of new improvements and refinements.

FIGHT OVER TINY BOY Mother’s Friend Tries to Take Lad From Father. A 2-year-old boy was the cause of a free-for-all fight Sunday. The boy, Enid Eanes. police reported, was brought here by his father, William O. Eanes, when the father and his wife separted in Chicago. They were living with the father’s brother, Charles Eanes, 631 N. New Jersey St. Sunday, according to police report, Erwin Christensen, brother of the boy’s mother, and a friend came here for the boy. The fight developed. All were charged with assault and battery and William Eanes with drawing a deadly weapon. The father still has the boy. CITY COP UNDER FIRE Pastor to Prefer Charges Against Alleged Beater. J. C. Moore, pastor of the N. Capitol Ave. M. E. Church, was expected to prefer charges of conduct unbecoming an officer against Patrolman Ollie Henry at the board of public safety meeting Tuesday Moore, in a personal complaint made at police headquarters, told Capt. Herbert Fletcher, Henry viciously beat Henry Coomes, 2326 N. Pennsylvania St., arrested at Capitbl Ave. and Thirtieth St. A preliminary investigation by Fletcher and Major Lewis Johnson absolved Henry, Chief Claude M. Worley said. Boy Suffocates in Ice Box By Ignited Press CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Neighborhood children found William Weber, 6, dead in a discarded ice box after their elders had conducted an allnight search for the boy. He had apparently been caught in the box by a spring latch while playing and suffocated.

‘RED’ SHANNON THUMBED NOSE ATJIRY CZAR Florida Terror Delighted in Ramming Coast Guards Boats—And Died. This Is the second ot five stories by Rodney Duteher. Washington representative ot The Times and NEA Service. on the war in Florida between the United Staws Coast Guard and rum smugglers. BY RODNEY DUTCHER (Copyright. 1927. by NEA Service. Inc.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The life and death of "Red” Shannon, rum runner, furnished a vivid eptomization of the defiance, terrorism and desperate methods which the Coast Guard faces on the shores of the peninsular pfeyground, the Coast Guardsmen say. One thing about “Red” Shannon —he had nerve! While General Lincoln C. Andrews was still in charge of prohibition enforcement, Lieut. Com. S. S. Yeandle took him down into Florida waters on a Coast Guard cutter so that he might observe conditions for himself. Shannon cooperated with Yeandle most effectively.

Thumbs Nose At Andrews Just off the entrance to Miami, Shannon came out in his fast rumrunning speed boat to greet Andrews with yells of derisive defiance. Shannon circled around the cutter, sometimes coming within 200 yards of her, and thufnbed his nose at Andrews and picked up cases of liquor on board his craft for Andrews to see. Shannon had a penchant for ramming Coast Guard boats when he came to close quarters with them. He tried this stunts once too often and was killed by a Coast Guardsman before he succeeded. Slayer Indicted All this, of course, is based on reports to the Coast Guard- Shannon had many friend?., some of whom staged a public demonstration for him after his death. An indictment was returned against the commander of the Coast Guard boat who is yet to be tried. A favorite stunt of the rum-run-ners is to blow up their Vessels as soon as they are captured. This not only destroys evidence—an especially wise precaution when drugs are part of the cargo—but prevents the Coast Guard from using the boats against them after confiscation. Just recently two guardsmen were badly burned when the captured rum-runner Phantom exploded off the Palm Beach inlet while being towed to Fort Lauderdale. Gas and a Match In an explosion which occurred below Savannah after the small cutter Tybee had captured a rum-run-ner and taken her crew on board, one smuggler opened the gasoline cocks ard as a Seaman stepped aboard the captured craft to take possession the smuggler threw a lighted match into the gas. The seaman was thrown into the water, miraculously escaping death, and the rum-runner burned and sank. Sabotage against Coast Guard boats is frequent. One man even swam out to a patrol boat and bored holes in her beneath the water line! Hand-to-hand deck battles with axes, guns or nautical instruments are not infrequentNext: A blow-by-blow, shot-by-sbot account of a deadly battle between smugglers and Coast Guardsmen aboard a patrol boat, MEDIUM’S TIP WRONG Woman Falls to Find Missing Husband near Peru. Bn Times Special PERU, lnd., Sept. 12.—Mrs. Isaac W. Zufall, Logansport, disappointed in a search here for her husband who disappeared nearly six weeks ago, still relies upon clews given by spiritualist mediums and declares she would consult a medium at Lafayette for more suggestions. The wife has been told her mate was being kept prisoner in a shack near here, marked by a willow tree and a boat. Accompanied by ah officer and E. Holcom, head of the Peru Spiritualist Church, she found the shack, tree and boat, but no trace of the missing man. Chinese Put Ban on Recruiting By United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 12.—A proclamation issued by the local martial law headquarters declares that orders have been received from Chiang Kaishek prohibiting the recruiting of soldiers here.

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Bn Times Special r— IAPORTE, Ind., Sept. 12. I Agnes Forgette, 16, arrest- | led in boy’s clothes here with William Jones, 24, would rather go to the State Girls’ School at Clermont, than return to her home at Pontiac, Mich. This is why: “I like my home and I love my mother and my brothers and sisters, but if I went home I know the kids at school would laugh and make fun of my two younger sisters” Two weeks ago Agnes and Jones left Pontiac on a hike to Arkansas where she says Jones told her they would be married. Garbed in overalls and a leather jacket, and with her hair in a boyish bob, Agnes successfully passed as a boy until the couple reached here. Jones was sentenced to six months on the State farm on a delinquency charge. He will be taker, to the farm and the girl to the State school early this week. CLEW TO PLANE BRANDED'JOKE' Note in Bottle Purports to Be From Sky Princess. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 12.—Police at Irvine, Scotland, believed today that practical Jokers had placed a bottle on the shore there containing a message purporting to have come from the missing monoplane, Saint Raphael. The message indicated that the bottle had been dropped in midAtlantic. It said the motor was troublesome, but the fliers thought they would be able to complete the trans-Atlantic flight. In a telephone conversation with the Irvine police the United Press was informed that the message apparently was a practical joke. Four words were spelled incorrectly in the massage and the writing appeared to be that of a schoolboy. Princess Anne Lowenstein-Wer-theim, F. F. Minchin and Leslie Hamilton were aboard the Saint Rahpael. METHODISTS TO MEET State Conference Convenes Here Next Week. Appointment of a successor to the Rev. Oren W. Fifer, pastor of the Central Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church, probably will be among important matters before the sixtyninth annum session of the Indiana conference of the church here next week. Mr. Fifter was appointed district superintendent on the death of the Rev. H. A. King. It is understood the appointment of Mr. Fifer probably will be made permanent. He is now serving in the two capacities. The conference opens Tuesday morning at the Irvington M. E. Church with the examination of candidates for admission. Mr. Fifer will preside over the opening session. Address of welcome will be made by Everett C. Johnson, vice president of the Irvington official board, and response will be made by the Rev. C. D. Wilson, Lawrenceburg. Appointments to all Indiana churches and other official positions will be announced by Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, presiding bishop of the conference.

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COUNTIES PLAN I FAR AHEAD FORi CENTURY DATES Elkhart and St. Joseph First in Northern Group. ‘ Several Indiana counties have already held centennial celebrations and many others are planning as far as three years ahead. Tippecanoe held her celebration last year and Warren County just a few weeks ago. Elkhart County, the date of whose organization falls in 1930, is already planning its celebration, and since the county is fortunate in having an active histdrical society, the celebration doubtless will be conducted on a large scaleElkhart County will be one of the first of the tier of counties on the northern boundary to attain the age of a hundred years. It and St. Joseph County were created at the same time. LaPorte, Lagrange and Steuben counties were organized in 1832; Porter in 1836, and Lake County in 1837. Elkhart County derived its name from the Elkhart River, flowing across the county from southeast to northwest, the name said to be taken from the shape of an island at the mouth of the river which, to the Indians’ fancy, resembled the heart of an elk. Known for Beauty Its prairies in early days, were said to be very beautiful, and it is recorded that in 1815 when Col. John Jackson, under the command of Anthony Wayne, aided in the destruction of the Indian villages, ha was so captivated with the beauty of Elkhart prairie that he selected a. location for his future home, and fifteen years afterward went to live upon it as one of the first settlers. An early historian has recorded the fact that the first settlers “found a goodly land; the earth teemed with fatness.” The sponsors of the centennial celebration will find much of historical Interest and much that is picturesque in the early annals of Elkhart County, for use in a pageant, should the celebration take that form- LaSalle at one time passed through this territory; its earliest settlers were French traders; its Indian inhabitants were of the Pottawotamie tribe. The first emigrant wagons bringing permanent settlers to the fertile prairie land came from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Within the county’s limits was an Indian mission founded by Isaac McCoy. Its citizens took part in the Indian wars, the Mexican War. the Civil and the World War. Within the limits of the county were many old-time craftsmen. A resolution passed at the fall meeting of the Elkhart County Historical Society, requested the president, H. S. K. Bartholomew, to prepare a volume entitled “Stories and Sketches of Elkhart County,” from materials he has long been engaged in collecting- This probably will be completed by the beginning of the year 1930. This society is also considering a proposal for a permanent home for the society, and establishment of a historical museum. REVIVAL IS PLANNED Tabernacle Seating 3,000 Persons to Be Built on North Side. The Rev. E. E. Violette of Kansas City, Mo., will conduct a north side evangelistic campaign Oct. 16 to Npv. 16 under auspices of the University Place Christian Church in anew tabernacle at Thirty-Eighth and Illinois Sts. A corps of 150 volunteer workers will construct the tabernacle in one day. It will seat 3,000 persons. Long Trip; May Wed Bn Times Special BLUFFTCN, Ind.. Sept. 12.—R. F. Vaughn has journeyed here from Ja? maika, South Africa, to meet for the first time Susan Leist. the woman who may become his wife. They exchanged letters through a matrimonial bureau.

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