Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1940 — Page 16

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ADA SHEPARD OF Mr. Bradshaw Always Knows the Right Time; He Has 75 Clocks and ‘All But 2 Are Ticking

NORTH SIDE DEAD

Active Community Worker; Death Follows Motor Trip To Colorado.

Mrs. Ada Shepard, 4720 College Ave., died yesterday at her home.

She was 63. Mrs. Shepard had taken an active part in North Side community life, was a charter member of the Meridian Heights Inter-Se Club and a member of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist. She had just returned from a motor trip to Colorado. Mrs. Shepard -is survived by her husband, Harry S.; three daughters, Mrs. Ed Oghorne, New Castle, Mrs. Robert R. Steinmetz, Chicago, and Miss ‘Harriett Lucy Shepard, a senjor at Purdue University; three sons, Joseph K., police reporter for the Indianapolis Star; Sherrill T. a United States postal clerk here, and Lyman K., a freshman at Purdue; a brother, Charles Hutchinson, of Fowler, Colo., and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary.

Mrs. Stella M. Morgan

Funeral services for Mrs. Stella Morgan, who died yesterday at her home, 3141 Kenwood Ave. will be

held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the

Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial Services will be private. Mrs. Morgan was 75 and a resldent of Indianapolis for 15 years. She was a member of the’ Capitol Avenue Methodist Church. Her husband, Millard, two daughters, Helen and Mrs. Charles Ness, and | two sons, Frederick and Russell, of] Detroit, survive her.

Mrs. Maria E. Thomas

Mrs. Maria E. Thomas, an in-| dianapolis resident 60 years, died | yesterday at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Lavelle, 725 N. Tre- | mont St.. She was 72. She/ was a member of the First! Church of Christ, Scientist and the | Progress Rebekah Lodge. Mrs. Lavelle, a brother, Willard O. Robin- | son, and a niece, Mrs. Kathryn Richards, survive. Services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Royster & Askin Funeral Home. Burial will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Glenns Valley.

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One In His Collection Is 117 ~ Years Old, But Is Still on Job.

By FRANK WIDNER

Arthur E. Bradshaw is one person in Indianapolis who never worries what time it is. For one thing, Mr. Bradshaw is a retired businessman. He lives happily in his apartment at 3007 N. Delaware St. But the most important reason is his hobby. Mr. Bradshaw is a collector of antique clocks and he estimates there are at least 75 timepieces throughout his home. There are large, old-fashioned clocks, table clocks, mantel clocks, cuckoo clocks and just ordinary clocks. The soft-spoken, gray-haried former president of the Columbia Club inherited an interest in timepieces from his father, who was a watchmaker in’ Delphi more than 80 years ago. Reared With Clocks “I remember when my mother used to take me down to my father’s shop when I was a baby,” he said. “She used to put me in a drawer in back of the counter while she talked to my dad.” So it might be said that Mr. Bradshaw practically was reared with clocks all about him, “In 1880,” Mr. Bradshaw .continued, “I had charge of the town clock in Delphi. My duty was to keep it wound—once a week I did this—and to keep it well oiled and in good running condition. “Then, 20 years. later, in ‘1900, while I operated a jewelry store there, doctors told me I would have to give up my profession because my eyesight was bad. That was when I moved to Indianapolis.” Mr. Bradshaw was in business here for 28 years before he retired. Back to First Interest “When I retired,” he said, “Ij told my friends I was going back| to my first love—clocks.” Mr. Bradshaw started his collec-| tion a few years ago, but he isn't certain of the number he has. | “I don’t have to worry about counting them,” he said. “Two small children of my neighbors visit me about every week and each time they come in they start counting the clocks.

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“The ‘little girl, 8 years old, counts by dozens, and the last time she was here she said to me: ‘Mr. Bradshaw, there are six dozen and two clocks.” ” The oldest clock in the collection is one made entirely of wood. Even the mechanical parts, including the cog wheels, are made of wood.

One Is 117 Years Old

The clock was made in 1823 at Plymouth -Hollow, Conn., and still] keeps accurate time. Another old-timer is a tall “grandfather” clock that was made by hand. Mr. Bradshaw doesn’t know how old it is, but the design

on the cabinet and even the num-|

pers on the face of the clock were burned in the wood. Every summer, Mr. Bradshaw and a friend go what he calls “antiquing.” “We just get in the car and drive throughout the city, stopping at antique shops and buying what

E. 10TH TROLLEY HEARING OPENS

Utility Wants Line Extended To Arlington Ave.; Some Residents Protest.

A hearing on the petition of the Indianapolis Railways to extend the E. 10th St. trackless trolley line from Olney St. to Arlington Ave. was opened before the Public Service Commission today. The company is asking that the trolleys be substituted for the: E. 10th St. bus line. Company officials testified that patrons of the E. 10th St. bus line would be given the same service as they are now getting at a lower fare.

Residents to Protest ,

George Ihnat, research director for the company, said the added trackless trolleys on the E. 10th St. line would result in an increase of only one-half of 1 per cent in traffic on.-Massachusetts Ave. Several East Side residents were scheduled to testify against the proposed change at the hearing this afternoon. Mrs. E. N. Stehman, 968 Audubon Road, declared she was against the change because it would depreciate property values. Sees Slower Service “No one wants to buy a home with trolley wires. and poles in front,” she said. “The people on the East Side knew they were going to have to pay a dime bus fare when they moved out there and the only possible advantage from the change will come from the reduced fares.” She also contended that the company could not maintain as fast a service with the, trolleys as with the busses since the trolleys come down heavily traveled Massachusetts Ave. The present busses come’ downtown on E. New York St.

State Deaths

ALEXANDRIA — Mrs. Susie Stanley S Survivors: Son, Ezra. Stanley; Mrs. John Staschen; brothers, Hite; sister, abe; stepsons, _John stepdaughter, Mrs.

Hysong, 78. Survivors: Annie Humphries; sons, and Millard; brother,

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rt. Mrs. Luoisa Daughters, Mrs. Joseph, aniel Joseph Brown. EVANSVILLE—Mrs. 11, 172.

Survivors: James

s, Mrs. Lee Goss, brother, Clarence_S. Dye. rs. Rose McGinness, 82. Survivors: Daughter, Miss Irene McGinness; sons, Edward, William, Albert, Clem and Joseph; brother, Joseph Peters. . : Fred Wilhelm, 67. Survivors: Wife, Mary; sons, Frank and Ferdinand; stepson, gu Belo; stepdaughter, Mrs. Julius Winnecke; sisters, Mrs. Fred Buck and Mrs. Oscar Oestreicher, FOUNTAINTOWN-Mrs. Katherine Cass, about 60. Survivors: Husband, Leonard; daughters, Mrs. Paul Harley, Mrs. John Jack and Miss Lavonne Cass; sons, Marshall and Cecil; four brothers; sister; half-sister. JEFFERSONVLLE—Henry ‘L. Davis, 48. Survivors: Sister, Mrs. Ann Wetherow; brother, William. KOKOMO—Mrs. Maude Williams, 42. Survivors: Husband, Justin: sons, Daniel, Richard, John and Frederick; daughters, Mrs. Wilma Coles and Misses Martha, Mary Etta and Joan Williams; brothers, Gilbert and Walter Devine. LEBANON—Mrs. Barbara A. Whiffing, 81. Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. Wililam Soucers, Mrs. William Dunham TS. Riley son and Mrs, George Rhodes: Harvey Whiffing; - sisters, Mrs. mma Hancock.

MOUNT VERNON-—-Mrs. Emma B. Wade, 67. Survivors: Husband, John; brother, Elvis Bradley. !

SALEM—William B. Lindley, 79. Survivor: Wife.

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catches our eye,” he said. : The ticking of the clocks. in his home never bothers him, Mr. Bradshaw explained, and they never eep him awake at night. “Why,” he said, “if I was asleep and the clocks stopped, I'd wake up immediately.” Besides the clock made in Plymouth Hollow, the most cherished clocks he has are an old-time regulator which stood in his father’s shop and a pendulum clock made

lin 1860 which awakens him each

morning. There are but two clocks in his collection that are not in running condition. “One of these I am repairing now and the other—well, it is just worn out. It is. a ‘modern make’ clock, just a few years old,” he said.

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RHA) MEADE | 2 DEAD HERE AT 56

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* Richard C. Meade, surgical instrument manufacturer and distributor, died last night at the Methodist Hospital. He was 56. : Mr. Meade started in the surgical instrument business in Kansas City, Mo., later became president of the Penn Surgical Instrument Manufacturing Co., at Philadelphia, Pa., and in 1931 acquired the business of Emmerich Schmid, Inc. in Indianapolis.

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was an active member of the American Surgical Trade Association. Mr. Meade lived on the Ralston road, and was a member of the Columbia Club and the Ivanhoe Lodge, P. & A. M,, Kansas City. Funeral services will be held Friday at Bentonville, Ark. Friends may call at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary this afternoon and evening.

Mrs. Martha Liehr

Mrs. Martha Liehr, 819 N. Tacoma Ave. died Monday at St. Francis Hospital. She was 84 years jold and an Indianapolis resident for 60 years. Mrs. Liehr was born in Germany ‘and came to the United States in 1871. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical Church and the Ladies Aid Society. Surviving are three daughters, -Mrs. Elizabeth Sweet, of Alameda, Cal.; Mrs. Edith Bauer, Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Helen Parrish, Indianapolis, and four sons, Peter Jr, William and Edward, and Harry, of Philadelphia, Pa. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. The Rev. Frederick R. Daries will officiate and burial will be at Crown "Hill Cemetery:

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Arthur D. (Pap) Hoover, a life-

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William Murray Huse . . . Dies In Accident.

Funeral services for William Murray Huse, Indianapolis real estate broker who was killed in an auto accident yesterday, will be held ‘at 10 a. m. Friday in the Kirby Mortuary. Burial will be at Crown Hill. Mr. Huse was 46 and lived at 926 E. 44th St. He was fatally injured when his car skidded on the ice and overturned nine miles ‘south of Lebanon, Ind., on Road 52, :

MRS. WILK TO JOIN WILLKIES IN SOUTH

RUSHVILLE, Ind. Dec. 18 (U. P.). —Mrs. Phil Wilk, 78-year-old moth-er-in-law of Wendell L. Willkie, defeated Presidential candidate, leaves today to spend the holidays with

Mr. and Mrs. Willkie at Hobe Sound, Fla. : : Mrs. Wilk recently recovered from a fall in -which she broke a bone in her wrist.

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DEANNA BACK AT WORK HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— Deanna Durbin returned to the sound - stages at Universal Studio today after an attack of the flu. She was confined for several days.

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