Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 89, 14 May 1908 — Page 4

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STATE. Governor JAMES E. WATSON. Lieutenant Governor FREMONT C. GOODWINE. Secretary of State FRED A. SIMS. Auditor of State JOHN C. BILLHEIMER. Treasurer of State OSCAR HADLEY. Attorney General JAMES BINGHAM. State Superintendent LAWRENCE McTURNAN. State Statistician J. L. PEETZ. Judge of Supreme Court QUINCY A. MYERS. Judge of Appellate Court DAVID MYERS. -Reporter of Supreme CourtGEORGE W. SEIF. DISTRICT. Congress WILLIAM O. BARNARD. COUNTY. Joint Representath ALONZO M. GARDNER. Representative WALTER S. RATLIFF. Circuit Jurtfre HENRY C. FOX. ' Prosecuting Attorney CHAS L. LADD. Treasurer ALBERT ALBERTSON. Sheriff LINUS P. MEREDITH. Coroner DR. A. L. BRAMKAMP. Surveyor ROBERT A. HOWARD. Recorder WILL J. BOBBINS. Commissioner Eastern Dl8t.HOMER FARLOW. f Commissioner Middle Dist.BARNEY II. LINDERMAN. -Commissioner Western Dist.ROBERT N. BEESON. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Trustee JAMES H. HOWARTH. Assessor CHARLES E. POTTER. Look at Others Now and Then Editor Palladium: Dear Sir The matter of the Munic ipal Light Plant making or losing money Is one that will take some time to settle inasmuch as there are those Who give the plant credit only for the cash in the drawer at the end of the month, while there are others who credit it with rates and privileges we enjoy now in comparison with what we had before the city built its plant In so far as losing money is concern ed, the whole department of city works Is a loser. There is probably more money wasted and lost on the streets In our city than the light plant can lose, and still one does not see much In the papers regarding it. Instances can be cited by the score where the gas and water and phone companies have ruined, just newly macadamized streets ind the street department comes out In the paper occasionally with a big bluff as to what it is going to do, and It all ends in a lot of hot air. In other words the corporations in the city tear up our streets and the citizens pay the bills and keep still about it. So far as municipal ownership is concerned there is no doubt that a company in Richmond could be organized to run the entire city in every department, give the city as good service as It gets now and have a fine surplus left to divide at the end of each year. If you want to run any kind of a business don't hunt up the cheapest man you can find, but get a good one and pay a salary worth while for him to hustle to hold his job. and you will get results. The light plant is worth probably ,'J,..M, and there are not many establishments in Richmond capitalized for this amount that are controlled by $l.Jtx men. Three to five thousand a year will get a man that knows his business and wich the business men of the city giving him support, the city plant will have ninetenths of the business in. a year. If it then can not be made to pay out, it tan be sold for as much as it will bring today, because of the franchise the city has to give with it. Will some one please answer the following conundrum? If the city light blant had had as many boosts as it has tad knocks, would it be a raying investment today? SUBSCRIBER,

Editor of the Palladium: W. W. S. is determined to stand by his statement, "That the interests with which he Is connected could have no selfish interest in the present power and current rates, in as much a3 they maintain their own plant," and he invites Mr. Citizen to como down to the Wayne Works and ko through the plant to verify the above statement. It is not necessary for Mr. Citizen, or any other party, to make a needless trip, for W. W. S. very plainly states in his communication, published in all the papers Monday, that the Wayne Works uses City current for light at night, and al.so for power when ever necessary and that he pays the city bur. 2Vz cents pf-r K. W., for all current used for power purposes. He states that he operates a 1 horse power motor for which he purchases current from the city and pays but 22 cents per K. W., and that "there are times for eight months at a stretch, when this motor d not turn over, having nothing to do." Suppose that W. W. S. runs ihis motor twenty-four hours, each and every day, during the month, It would consume but 537 K. W. According to the published rates of the City, he would have to pay at the rate of 5 cents per K. W., for the above amount, but he states that the motor Is seldom in use, therefore you can readily see that his rate for power ought to be 6 cents per K. W.

The above conclusively proves that W. W. S. and the Wayne Works are amongst the favored few who aro willing that the majority of the tax-payers shall go on and help pay for what current W. W. S. and the Wayne Works use for light and power. The examination of the consumers ledgers, at the office of the City plant on Main street, will show just what the balance of the favored few are paying for their light and power. I agree with W, W. S. that Rich mond has many competent bookkeepers who could take off a balance sheet and tell whether the books were correct, but I doubt their ability to analyze, and properly classify, the different items encountered in the electrical, or any other business, that they had no training in. To the building and equipment account, so extensively used by the city plant, are charged many items belonging to the repair account, which naturally cuts down their operating expense, and builds up an asset that I doubt very much W. W. S. could find. Turn on the light, have a proper ex amination of tho plant and books, and see where we stand regarding our City Light plant. Yours very truly, A CITIZEN. Woman's Sorrow. Did you ever notice those small holes in your beautiful table cloths or underwear? Those holes grow Uuser and larger. There is a remedy, stop your laundress from using strong rosin laundry soap at once. Get a couple of cakes of Easy Task soap, the standard laundry soap of America. All good grocers sell it. PARENTS JO VISIT Night Session at Garfield School to Be Held Friday of This Week. CHILDREN ARE INTERESTED Friday evening, there will be a regular session of school at the Garfield school. r This night session is to be held so that the parents and guardians of the children attending school there can have a chance to visit the school and see how it Is conducted and also see how the prides and hopes of the various families conduct themselves. "Didn"t the children object to hold ing school at night';" asked a wonder ing reporter. "It was at the suggestion of the pupils of the school that Prof. Heironimus decided to hold a night session Friday. The children took a vote on the proposition and it was unanimously in favor of the evening session," was the answer of Miss Winchester, private secretary to Supt Mott. OVERHISER A DELEGATE. Cambridge City, Ind., May 14. W. B. Overhiser rocs as the representative of Cambridge post to the State O. A. R. encampment at Kokomo. May U to 21. Rev. Hawley, Joseph Weigle and others will also attend. MASONIC CALENDAR. Thursday. May 14. Wayne Council Xo. 10. R. fc S. M. Special Assembly ! Work. R. & S. M. degree. Refresh- '. ments. i Saturday, May 16. Loyal Chapter, ' Xo. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting and I work. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a sreat many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing- to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the onlv constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in .loses from If drops to a tcavponnf ul. It acts directly on the Mood find mumiis surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials Address: F. J. CHKNKY & CO., Toledo. Ohio. Sold by DrujTK'sts. 7-,.. Take Hall's Familv Pills for constipation.

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Come to the market at once. Something doing in our Silk Department. The above paragraph is a copy of a telegram received by us from the largest handlers of silks in the United States. Our silk buyer left on the next train. The goods are here and now on sale. It is the greatest bargain sensation in our fourteen years of merchandising. The assortment consists of fancy hairlines, checks, plaids and stripes in every known color. For Suits. Waists. Petticoats, Comonos, Etc., Etc. Our remodeling does not permit of window display. This Ad. and a visit to the store will have to do the work. Every woman should drop her work, it matters not what that work may be, and come and see these goods on our counters.

SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE GARDENERS Whitewater and Fairview Children Plant Seeds On Vacant Lots. MOVEMENT ORIGINAL HERE. SCHOOL BOARD HAS ENCOURAGED YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR WORK OF TURNING WASTE GROUND TO AN ADVANTAGE. There was a happy bunch of boys and girls at the Whitewater school, in the north end of the city yesterday. Following the example of tho Fairview school, these children turned out and planted a lot near the school building with various kinds of seeds and they confidently expect that they will have about the finest garden that can be found in this part of the county. If these lads and lassies raise as big a crop of garden truck as they anticipate, they will place the output on the market, and the money they realize from tho sales will be devoted to the use of the school. This school garden movement was originated at the Fairview school and last year the Fairview school garden yielded such an abundant crop that the school children realized quite a handsome sum of money. The movement has met with favor in the eyes of the board of education and it is encouraging the further growth of the movement. This system teaches all the school children the fundamental principles of gardening and is valuable for this reason alone. It is expected that in the course of the next year or two nearly every pub lic school in the city will have a school garden. Like many other educational movements the school garden scheme is original with the Richmond public schools. HUMAN FILTERS The function of the kidneys is to strain out the impurities of the blood which is constantly passing through them. Foley's Kidney Remedy makes the kidneys healthy so they will strain out all waste matter from the blood. Take Fole.Vs Kidney Remedy at once and it will make you well. A. G. Luken & Co. SUCCESSFUL FLIGHI Again Wright Brothers Through the Air. Fly BOTH ARE WELL PLEASED. J Manteo, X. C, May 14. Over the j narrow and forsaken stretch of coun- : try that puts out in sand dunes into i the Atlantic Ocean, the aeroplane in- ! vented by Orville and Wilbur Wright, i Dayton, O., aeronauts, yesterday made ! two flights with apparently the most ; successful resuks. The inventors who sailed their own machine, the Wright brothers, seemed greatly pleased at the results accomplished by the day's, experiments. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eliason of this city are visiting relatives in Indlanap-

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C. WAS NOT BASHFUL Bank Cashier's Defalcations Now Reach $1,350,000. MORE IS DISCOVERED. Pittsburg, Pa., May 1 l.-Bank Examiner William L. Folds, has discovered additional defalcations by William Montgomery, former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, amounting to $1hmH which brings the amount of the known shortage up to i?l,;iTiO,(KX. Mr. Folds is still working on the books, but he believes that he has discovered most of the peculations. L T SHOOTS HIS WIFE All Was Not Happy Household. in His Logansport, Ind., May li. George Hill shot and killed his wife at the home of her mother last night. He then shot himself and it is thought the wound will prove fatal. Domestic trouble is supposed to have been the cause. He filed suit for divorce a short time ago. It is said he had been drinking. This is the third murder in Cass County in the last month. SANDERS IS HERE. D. W. Sanders, author and publisher of tho manual of civil government of township and county and town and city, was a recent caller upon County Superintendent Jordan. The work of Mr. Sanders is very comprehensive and contains matter concerning civil government of local institutions that is not taught In the Richmond city schools. These books are in use in the district schools of the county. Millions use Gold Medal Flour. LCCRETIA. Field Seed Lawn Seed, Flower Seed, Garden Seed all kinds. Lawn Fertilizer OMER G. WHELA Feed and Seed Store 33 S. 6th St. Phone 1679 I have the BEST Vacant Lot in the BEST Block on Pearl St., West Richmond, that I will sell cheap to some one who wants to build a residence. Fred McManis 323 Pearl St. Old Phone 163. Automatic 3195

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HOLD THE STRINGS Bryan Men Will Get Shabby Treatment in Minnesota State Convention. NO CONTEST IS LIKELY. AT PEERLESS LEADER'S ADVICE IT IS CLAIMED HIS FOLLOWING WILL NOT STIR UP A RUMPUS TODAY. St. Paul. Minn., May 14. It is doubtful whether the followers of William J. Bryan will bolt the democratic state convention today. Two days ago it was tentatively agreed among them ; that such action should be taken if J their contesting delegates were not; seated in the convention. Today, however, the sentiment against, such a stop has largely increased. The altered state of feeling is due partly to a report that Bryan has advised Xational Committeeman Hudson that he does not deem radical action as favorable to his interests and also to the pronounced opinion of many Bryan people that the sending of a contesting convention to Denver would be "bad polities." Xational Committeeman Hudson will neither affirm nor deny that he has been urged by Mr. Bryan to take none but conservative action. He admits having received recent letters from Brj'an and allows it to be inferred that matters in this state have I been left almost entirely to the discre tion of Mr. Bryan's lieutenants. There is a strong feeling among the Bryan people and it is shared to some

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slight extent by a few Johnson men that it may be possible to indorse Bryan as a "second choice-'. There is, however, only an infinitely small chance of tliis being done. The Johnson men have such an overwhelming majority of tht- delegJites in today's convention that there is no chance of the Bryan prop It' getting anything beyond what the Johnson following is pleased to give them, and

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the Johnson following is disposed to give them nothing. The temporary chairman of the convention will b Martin Hughes of Mibbing. Extraordinary values in White, Cream and Ecru Net Waists at Knollenberg's on Friday and Saturday at the tempting price of $3.38.

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