Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — COMPLETE PLANS FOR GATHERING [ARTICLE]

COMPLETE PLANS FOR GATHERING

Program for Conference of Social Welfare Issued. Janies F. Jackson, Superintendent off Associated Charities of Cleveland, 0., Will Be Among the Speakers. • i Indianapolis.—The prdgram for the conference on social welfare of the Seventh congressional district, which will be held at the Claypool hotel February 1 and 2, has been completed and invitations have been sent out to many active workers in the charities of the city. The conference .will be open to the public. James F. Jackson, superintendent of the Associated Charities of Cleveland, 0., and one of the best-known charity experts in the country, will be among the speakers. John H. Holliday will preside at the session on the afternoon of February 1, which will be given up to the discussion of “Child Welfare.” Speakers, at that session will be Dr. J. W. Putnam, J. A. Brown. C. B. Welliver, the Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, the Rev. *M. M. Feuerlicht and Frank D. Loomis. At a supper session at ‘Six o’clock the subject will be “Mental Defectives.” Talks will be made by Judge James A. Collins, Dr. Wilmer Christian, Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Miss Katrina Myers and others. Mayor Bell will preside at the evening session, at which Mr. Jackson will be the principal speaker. The evening subject will be,. "The Practical Co-operation of Local Charities.” Dr. C. C. North will discuss the purpose of the conference. "Relief” will she the subject at the morning session on February 2, at which Charles W. Moores will preside. Speakers will be Doctor Putnam, Demarchus C. Brown, George M. Beaman, Mrs. O. S. Runnels, Mr. Jackson and James W. Lilly. The committee on program is composed of Miss G. Henry, Mrs. I. N. Halpern, Charles S. Grout and Judge James A. Collins. The committee on arrangements consists of James W. Lilly, Mrs. George C. Hitt, Capt. C. J. Murphy and Judge James E. Deery. A committee on publicity consists of T. C. Howe, Miss Laura Greely, Frank D. Loomis, Ralph W. Douglass and Judge Frank S. Lahr. The general committee follows: James W. Lilly, county member; Miss Vivian Greene, Miss Isabelle Somerville, Mrs. George C. Hitt, Capt. C. J. Murphy, Mrs. I. N. Halpern, the Rev. M. C. Pearson, C. S. Grout, Miss Edna G. Henry and H. J. Dethrick.

Plumbers Go on Strike. Lafayette. Twenty-five union plumbers employed on the new Hotel Fowler walked out on account of a grievance against Harry Wherry, who is directing the installation of the plumbing. The union men assert that Wherry is not a bona fide subcontractor, but is an employee of the general contractors of Columbus, and that under the terms of the agreement with the master plumbers of Lafayette they can only work for a genuine master plumber or subcontractor. The contracting firm says that Wherry is a genuine subcontractor and has taken in the contract on a percentage basis. The plumbers have also asked for an increase in wages from fifty cents to 55 cents an hour with Saturday half holidays. This has been granted by Caldwell & Drake. Among the plumbers who quit were several at Indianapolis, and who have been working here for six weeks. William A. Holt of Indianapolis, who is to manage the new hotel here, is here assisting' in adjusting the labor trou; ble.

„ Accused of Check Fraud. Lafayette.—Noyes E. Price, a son of Mrs. Ellen Price of West Lafayette, was arrested at Danville, 111., three weeks ago for passing a bad check on a dentist. After pleading guilty he was released, when Ralph Forth, son of Fred Forth of West Lafayette, appeared. Forth said he was a cousin of Price and settled with the dentist. Forth then went to Mrs. Price, it is said, and, telling her that her son was in trouble, obtained $125. which he and Price spent in St. Louis. Price formerly was a taxicab driver here. Fall From Derrick Results in Death. M. Wright, age thirty-six, of Muncie died at St. John's hospital of injuries he received when he fell 37 feet from a gas well derrick, near Littell, last week. Relatives of the dead* man could not be found, but it is believed his-mother is in Virginia. Men with whom he was working said he come from Muncie. He is supposed to have been unmarried. -1— . . Woman Burned to Death. Princeton.—Mrs. Cassy Oat , age sixty-five, colored, was burned to death at her home here. It is supposed that she had been carrying hot coals, on a shovel from one stove to another, and that clothing hanging from a line became ignited. When frying to extinguish the flames, it is believed that her clothing caught fire. The room was in flames when the woman’s son : in-law, Louis Nibet, arrived. He found her dead on the floor. The house was considerably damaged by the fire.