Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1941 — Page 14

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MEACHAM RITES Sparrows Rule the Roost SET TOMORROW /n Grandaddy of Birdhouses

lliness of Two Years Fatal At 75 for Native of Bridgeport.

Mrs, Ida May Meacham will be buried at Crown Hill Cemetery following 2 p. m. services tomorrow the residence, 3935 Park Ave. Mrs, Meacham, who was 75, died yesterday at her home after a twoyear ill Born near Bridgeport, Ind. had lived here for more than half ry. Her husband, William A eacham, died in 1938. She was a member of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Chureh and the North Side Study Club Survivors include three sisters Mrs. Hattie Enners and Mrs. Emma O'Malley of Indianapolis and Mrs Mart and several nieces and nephews

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By EGAN LECK If you should be driving by the home of J. P. Merriam at 2801 Sutherland Ave. and see what looks to be (a state capitol building high in the air, dont be worried about your jeyesight. Its really there. Or at least, a model of one. It's the grand daddy of all birdhouses. The house sits atop a 20-foot pole, and is 6 feet high itself. It has 94 units, or apartments, which are nearly always full of assorted string, straw and sparrows. Originally built for purple martens, the house has lately been popular with sparrows and starlings. When the migratory martins return in May they find the place crowded with their enemies, who have been there all winter Mr. Merriam isn’t sure just how long the birdhouse has been there. All he knows is that it was there eight years ago when he bought his home.

Martins Discouraged He's sure about the weight, though

[SERVICES TOMORROW FOR MRS. SHERMAN

i Services for Mrs. Katherine Sher{man will be held at 8:30 a. m. to{morrow at the Kirby Mortuary, 2238 'N. Meridian St, and at 9 a. m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Burial | will be at St. Joseph's. | Mrs. Sherman, who was 84, had \been a resident here for more than {60 years. She was a native of Ger{many and died yesterday at the {home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma {Stich, 1905 Holloway Ave. She was a member of St. Mary's | Church. | Besides Mrs. Stich, survivors in clude two other daughters, Mrs. [Lena Widmeier and Mrs. Emma Fry; three sons, Frank, John and Wil liam, all of Indianapolis; eight grandchildren and one great-grand-child.

HELD IN FATAL BEATING

BLACKWOOD, N. J, April 25 (U. PP) —Robert Cox, 45. WPA worker, | today was held for grand jury aetion after he confessed, according to police, to beating to death Mrs. Agnes McBurney, 38-year-old former rodeo rider, with a baseball bat.

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James Hankins Dead Here at 53

SERVICES WERE to be are ranged today for James Egbert Hankins, 332 N. Bolton Ave, who died yesterday at his home after several months’ illness. He was 53. Mr. Hankins, a native of Lexington, N. C.,, came here in 1908. He attended Mars Hill College and Wake Forest College. He was a member of the Irvington Methe« odist Church. Survivors are his wife, Floy; a son, James of Indianapolis; a daughter, Miss Alice C. Hankins, a senior at DePauw University, and two brothers, Blair D. Hankins of Fredericksburg, Va. and W. B. Hankins of Wilmington, N. C.

ARMY HOAXER JAILED

DUBUQUE, Ia, April 25 (U. P).! —Marion L. Taylor, 38, who

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as a recruiting officer in taking 35! boys from an Iowa reform school P.) Mrs. to enlist them in the Army, was near Anderson died last night of sentenced yesterday to three years injuries received in an automobile in prison on charges of impersonat« collision on Ind. 9 south of here LL a Federal officer,

{where they are. Schools must find

SEES SHARP CHANGE IN EDUCATION NEEDS

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 25. «Since 1900 there has been more change in the demands of education than the whole previous history of education in America, Dr. Paul R. Mort of Columbia University told Indiana elementary school supervisors assembled at Indiana University today. “Prior to 1900 we were concerned with the task of financing schools, of bringing more children into the public schools, of increasing the months and years of educational training,” he said. “Studies of human learning show that children grow not like a brick wall, perceptibly bit by bit, but like plants, each day imperceptibly from

where each child is mentally and {socially and to guide him from ‘where he is.”

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| 700 pounds. He tried to take it | down once to clean it. Before the house was cleaned and back on top : of the pole, a contractor with two “helpers had been called in, and Mr. Merriam had spent about $40. So now when he wants to clean the house, and thats about every = fall, he goes up a ladder with a basket and sweeps out all 94 apartments. It isn’t such a job, Mr. Mer« riam says, but it's a little discouraging, because by the time hes fine ished, the birds have carried all the § junk back into the house and have set up housekeeping again.

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given up and have found some other place with a view and no SPArTowWs upper ledge, looked into No. 62, which is on the third floor front, facing Fall Creek, and was immediately ejected by a cross mother spars = er N RR Sparrows have taken over this elegant bird house, . , . Miss Caro- | Iyn Jones keeps up appearances by tending flowers at its base,

row. The martin took his injured dignity and flew away. The little MRS. PACETTIL, ILL NM MONTHS, DIES AT 78

mama sparrow stood on the ledge and scolded him all the way across Mrs. Estella Weikert Pacetti, an Indianapolis resident 11 years, died

Fall Creek. During the summer of 1938 a pair yesterday after an illness of 11] months. She was 78. :

of mourning doves decided to move i Mrs. Pacetti is survived by her

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