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INCREASE III TAX REVEIIUE ASKED BY THE SCHOOLS Indiana University Will Ask Lump Appropriation of $250,000 to Relieve Congested Conditions. LARGER SALARIES FOR " INSTRUCTORS IS ASKED
State Board of Health Considering Advisability Providing Medical Inspection for the Schools of State. Palladium Bureau, Indianapolis, Dec. 31. The state educational Institutions are going to ask the coming session of the leglslatwe to give them large urns of money for enlargements of their plants and also for an increase In their tax revenue. For Instance, it has been learned that Indiana unrrexslty will ask for a lump sum of $250,000 with which to root a building to relieve the crowded condition of their institution. It is said that the oapactty of the university Is mote than taxed by the unusually heavy attendance of students and that more room is necessary. The university will also ask the legislature to Increase its revenue. Indiana university now receives from the state one cent on each $100 of taxable property In the state and it will ask that this bo Increased to two cents, just double What it gets now. Normal Asks Increase. The 8tate Normal school at Terre Haute will ask that its levy be raised from 2-3 of a cent to one cent on each $100 of taxable property and that the legislature appropriate $175,000 for the erection of a new building for manual training purposes. Purdue will also ask for an increase In its tax levy. It now receives one cent, and while the amount of the in crease to be asked for has not been stated, it is understood that it will ask for two .cents. Purdue also wants a science building and will ask the legislature to appropriate a large sum for this purpose. Legislature May Refuse. Just what the legislature visitation committee will do In the way of mak ing recommendations for these institutions is not known and will not be known until the report is made dur Ing the session of the legislature. But It Is seldom that any institution or department of the state government ever gets all it asks for. The commit tee has been visiting all the institu tlons and looking into their needs. President Bryan, of Indiana university, says that the legislature ought to do something' for the university to Increase salaries so that instructors will stay and not leave for more profl table employment in other institutions of the kind, which he says is now one of the drawbacks of the university. He has this in mind in asking for large appropriations at the hands of the leg Islature. For Medical Inspection. A bill that will compel medical inspection in the schools of the state is under consideration by the state board of health and will probably be intro duced in the legislature. Members of the board believe that such a law, compelling an examination of the phy sical condition of each child at stated periods would prevent many epiaeni' ics of child rens diseases. The executive committee of the Re tail Hardware Dealers association of the state met here and made a study of the merchants platform of legisla tion for a uniform system of bookkeeping and business management in the county offices and other public offices of the state. They decided that such a plan is needed and they came out in ' lavor of Its enactment Into a law They said that all fees in public office should be eliminated, and that if there .must be fees in any office then a fee book should be kept. They also favor ed the bonding of county commission era. A legislative committee was appoint ed, consisting of the following mem bars: Charles Hall, Indianapolis; Hervey Trueblood. Washington; Fred Bartholomew, Mich'igan City; M. I Corey, Argos; Walter D. Creed, New Albany. The proposal to hold an international aeroplane competition in Russia next summer has been abandoned on account of the lack of funds. This is the trademark which is on every genuine bottle of Scott's Emulsion sold in nearly all the countries of the world. Nothing equals it to build up the weak and wasted bodies of young and old. Send this advertbcraeat together wfch Mm of paper In which it aippcars, year wMre and four cents to cover postage and wt will mm! you a "Complete Handy Atlas of the Work?" :t :: :: j; SCOTT & BOWNE. 409 Pearl
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THEATRICAL CALENDAR. GENNETT. Tim Murphy New Year's Eve. The Devil Jan. 1. NEW PHILLIPS. Vaudeville all week. "The Cow-Puncher." One of the strongest dramatic situa tions ever seen on the local stage takes place in "The Cow-Puncher" which opens at the Gennett theater on January 5. In the fourth act a band of cattle rustlers headed by Carlos Mendoza. a sworn enemy of Tom Lawton, the Captain of the Rangers and Black Hank, an all around bad man. have captured Billy Lawtou, Tom's brother, and are trying to force him to join them by starvation and threats of death, when they are suddenly sur rounded by Lawton's men. Lawton believes his brother guilty and sentences him to death with the rest. Carlos Mondoza swearing Billy guilty. The scene where Lawton pronounces the death sentence on his own brother is one that the author. Hal Reid. has taken full advantage of, between his love for his brother and his sense of duty, Lawton rises to the height of dramatic possibilities. Black Hawk with an inborn sense of honor, tells Lawton that his brother is innocent and the brothers are united at the brink of death; When the Rangers return after hanging the balance and announce that Black Hawk has escaped and that they couldn't see to shoot because the dust got in their eyes, the audience feels that he deserved to get away. Watch for the man with the rope. "The Devil." Henry W. Savage's sole authorized VICTIMS OF QUAKE Two Prominent Martinsville Women Thought to Have Met Death. WERE ENR0UTE TO SICILY Martinsville, Ind., Dec. 31. It is feared here that Mrs. Ella A. Parks and daughter, Miss Ethel Parks, form er residents of this city, were among the victims of the earthquake in Sicily. Miss Parks has just finished a course of voice culture under Lamperti in Berlin and had started her career as an opera singer in Milan, Italy. Mrs. M. Hite of this city, received yesterday a letter written by Mrs. Parks dated Milan, Italy, Dec. 9. in which she said she and her daughter would leave that city the following week for Palermo, Sicily, where Miss Parks would sing the leading roles in three different operas, the engagement to continue until Feb. 28. The operas were to be given in the Massino Vittorlo Emanuele Theater. From Palermo Mrs. Parks and Mis Parks were expecting to go, March 5, to Moscow, Russia, where Miss Parks has an engagement to sing in grand concert. Writes of Home. In closing her letter Mrs. Parks said: "I wish that we were coming to America nex week. I want to see my darling children there, our own country and to hear our own language." Miss Myrtle Parks, teacher of piano in Los Angeles, Cl., Messrs. Earl Pearcy Parks and Francis S. Parks of Indianapolis, are the members of the Parks family living in the United States. Mrs. Parks went to Germany one year ago to be with her daughter and expected to remain to chaperon her in the foreign tours during her engagements abroad. A PERSONAL APPEAL If we could talk to you personally sbout the great merit of Foley's Honey and Tar, for coughs, colds and lung trouble, you never could be iuduced to experiment with unknown preparations that may contain some harmful drugs. Foley's Honey and Tar costs you no more and has a record of forty years of cures. A. G. Luken & Co. Surmised Hi Rout. "Last Memorial day," related the veteran, "I had a vision of tolerant secondary love. Our cemetery was crowded and conventionality abandoned. " 'The grave of a loved one?' I asked kindly of a woman who sat most disconsolately by a well kept mound. " 'Oh, no, not at all, she said, getting up and startling me with her l vehemence. Then she continued more kindly: " This is the grave of my husband's first wife. He and I have become separated In the crowd. I feel assured, though, that just for old time's sake my husband will visit this spot before he leaves the cemetery. " New York Times. The Cold Winter. The winter of 1709 Is called by distinction "the cold winter." All the rivers and lakes f Europe were frosen over, and so was the sea for several miles from the shore. In England the ground was frosen nine feet deep. Birds and beasts died in the fields, and men perished by thousands in their houses. In the south of Prance the olive trees were killed and wine plantations destroyed. The Adriatic sea was frosen, and even the Mediterranean about Genoa. The citron and orange groves suffered In Italy. A year's death rate from tigers in India numbers 69S human beings and
version of Franz Molnar's Hungarian play. "The Devil," which has caused the greatest sensation in the history of New, York theatricals, will be presented New Year's day at the Gennett theater with Wm. Abingdon and a distinguished cast. While not exactly a problem play, this comedy offers an interesting physlcologial study in the author's fanciful efforts to make his Satanic Majesty human and sympathetic. "The Devil" is portrayed as a cultured, cunning gentleman, with just enough evil in his makeup to suggest the davil of tradition. Once the audience accepts the possibilities of the character, the bizaare events of the drama follow naturally and excite an increasingly absorbing interest till the last curtain fall.
Tim Murphy. Tim Murphy, always most welcome in this city, is to be at the Gennett theatre on Dec. 31 in Charles Jeffrey's comedy. "Cupid and the Dollar." As a dramatic offering it presents many unusual opportunities and gives this distinguished comedian occasion for some of the most pronounced dramatic work he has yet done. Though in its dramatic form it is very strong, there is at the same time a thread of enlivening and amusing comedy running through it. Characteristic of all this artist has heretofore done the presentation of this play has received the most careful consideration for as a production it stands forth very prominently. It has been costumed and mounted most lavishly. Mr. Murphy's players number many excellent comedians, among them being artistic Dorothy Sherrod, who has the principal and opposite role to him. EARLHAMJGRL WEDS Miss Grace Randall Quietly Marries and Surprises Her Friends. GROOM A NEWSPAPER MAN Miss Grace Randall surprised her many Eaton friends last week by being quietly married at Christ church in Xenia to Mr. V. C. Robertson, of Toledo. Miss Randall is the daughter of Auditor-elect J. F. Randall and wife, and had been a teacher in the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia the past two years. She is a graduate of the Eaton high school, and one of Eaton's popular young ladies. Mr. Robertson holds the position of telegraph editor on The Toledo News Bee. They left immediately after the ceremony for Toledo, where they will make their future home. Eaton Her ald. Miss Randall is a former student of Earlham College. She. is well known in this city, where she was quite pop ular during her college career. ALL THE WAY ROUND. An Odd Sort of Dinner and the Rea son of It. Lord Polkeramet, a Scottish lord of session, usually retired to his country residence during the part of the year when the court does no business John Hagart, the Scottish advocate. equally Idle from a similar cause, went to shoot, and, happening to pass Lord P.'s property, he met his lordship, who politely invited John to take, or, as he said, to tak', a family dinner with himself, bis wife and daughter. John accepted the invitation, and they all assembled at the hour of din ner. There was a Joint of roasted veal at the head of the table and stewed veal at the bottom, veal soup in the middle, calf's bead on one side of the soup and veal cutlets on the other. cairs foot jelly between the soup and roast veal and calf's brains between the stewed veal and the soup. "Xoo," said his lordship in his own blunt way, "Mr. Ilasart, you may very likely think this an odd sort of dinner, but ye'H no wonder when you bear the cause of lit. We keep nae company. Mr. Hagart, and my daughter here ca ters for our table. The way we do is Just this: We kill a beast, as It were, today, and we just begin to cook it at one side of the head, travel down that side, turn the tail and just gang back again by the other side to where we began." Europe has 20,000 newspapers, with Germany in the lead. England, however, has the greatest number of daily papers. The Generat Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com ponent part are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its ex cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remark able success. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-informed To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all lesti- iruggtsta. Price fifty cents
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Bradstreet's Review of Business Year Emphasizes Rapidity of Country's Recovery from Depression. LATTER PART OF YEAR SHOWED A RECOVERY Buying Became More Confident and Crops Sold at Good Prices, Swelling the Collections. New York. Dec-, ol. Bradstrect's review of the business year emphasizes the rapidity with which the country recovered from the financial depression of 1007. The induslrial outlook for 19tt is declared favorable, although a boom is not predicted. The great yield in agriculture was a big factor in the general revival. "Nineteen hundred and eight par took of most of the phenoment of an after-panic year, with its full quota of early weakness, doubt, and uncertainty,' says the review, "but guiding forces and ultimate results were toward recuperation and repair. This, at first slow, later hastened to a point where conservative optimism ruled general business. Its early months witnessed a heavy volume of insolvencies, the aftermath of the financial storm of 10O7; saw business sharply reduced in volume, an immense amount of transportation facilities of the country unused, public buying ability greatly reduced, low levels touched for most securities, and a vast number of idle operatives iu all lines. "Later, particularly in the last half of the year, a marked recovery of strength developed, confidence was largely restored, money was easier to borrow, industrial wheels revolved faster, idle cars decreased in number. buying became more confident, larger crops sold at good prices helped to swell connections, employment was more plentiful, wage reductions and ruinous strikes were largely avoided, labor proved more efficient, and altogether the contrast between the early and late months of the year was strik ing. Agriculture Not Affected. "Explanatory of this, the early diagnosis of the 1007 trouble needs to be borne in mind. To all appearances the cause of the collapse was largely financial, though perhaps partly political, in that hostile legislation and legal proceedings against corporations were additionally disturbing factors. Industry at the beginning of the panic was not widely involved, but became unsettled through the dislocation o financial affairs. Stocks of commodities were not large, and fortunately the trouble affected the agricultural interests of the country only in a remote degree. "Most of the damage was visited upon, first, the financial community, and secondly, and later, the manufacturing and commercial elements of the country. Through it all the great food producing interests, aided by good domestic and foreign demand and extremely remunerative prices, felt the effects only indirectly, and here, with restored confidence in financial lines, were furnished firm foundations for the later revival, the recuperation, and the renewed upbuilding so notable in the second half of the year. "The American farmer, with flattering profits in 1007, found large and insistent demand for his surplus prod ucts at good prices in 1008. Agricultural values as a whole were the largest ever known. Strength of Securities Helps. "Unquestionably the strength manifested by securities from the middle of February onward was an important element in bringing about the revival later shown in trade and industry, and the expression 'the ticker tells the story found frequent employment among that large class of sanguine people who believed, as it turned out justly, that the growing strength in American securities foreshadowed a considerable amount of recuperation and repair. This same ease of money, too, made it possible for the railroads to borrow funds at less exorbitant rates, thus facilitating improvements and repairs, and investors proved more willing to take municipal and other bond issues that proved almost unsalable in 1007. "Perhaps the most notable features brought out in the statistical exhibits in 1008 were the slightly increased yields of mo6t leading crops, which commanded higher prices at times of heavy marketing than in the preceding year of shorter yields. Exceptions to this were found in cotton and hay, where lower prices offset enlarged yields. Cereal prices were aided by exhaustion of old supplies, European war talk, and a strong speculative movement. Farm values as a whole were the largest ever recorded. "The strength of cereals and food products generally was notable and brought increased strain on poorly employed or paid labor. Cotton was an exception to the strength of most products, dropping 3 cents from the high price at the opening of the year. Strikes were comparatively few. one large co?,l dispute going far to swell totals. Immigration fell off sharply, but later began again to increase. Railway building was small, but, on the . other hand, bankruptcies were
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wamaaimMiiagiB BOOZE SELLS CHEAP Eaton Grog Dealers Trying to Dispose of Their Stock of Wet Goods. WHISKIES GO AT COST Eaton. Ohio, Dec. 31. The local newspapers in their issues of today carried advertisements inserted by lo cal saloonists offering to sell whiskies and beers at reduced prices. One saloon keeper inserts a notice to the effect Wiedenian beer bottles will not be redeemed after January 13, the date all saloons must close under the local option law. Another dealer states he will sell all kinds of two-stamp whis kies at cost. It is expected there will be a grand rush on the part of the drinking men to lay in a full supply of wet goods in order to tide them over the first few weeks of the flry spell. Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, the anti-noisee crusader, is the wife of the president of the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company. She sold her beautiful home on Riverside Drive, New York, because the tugboat captains, against whom she began her anti-noise war, took special delight in tooting their whistles at all hours of the night when they passed her house. NO ALKALI OR ANY OTHER LIE Mechanics who have used the socalled Mechanics' Soaps know that they remove the dirt, but likewise the skin. It's because they are too strong contain too much alkali. "Whiz" is different contains no alkali. It removes the dirt, but preserves the skin. It makes the skin healthy by cleaning out the pores thoroughly. All grocers sell it. WE WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND NEW YEAR 710 MAIN Going South : To Florida? t I The C. C. & L. R. R. t I Offers Very Low I X Round Trip Rates $ During tne winter Season to I Jacksonville, Fla. 136.95 De Land, Fla. 142.15 I Melbourne, Fla. $44.63
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Palm Beach, Fla $54.25 J J Pensacola, Fla, $29.50 f New Orleans, La. $32.50 Winter Tourist Tickets good for t return until June 1st. 1909. ; Round Trip Home Seekers' Tickets (21 day limit) on sale I 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each 1 month, to the South, East and 1 North East. For particulars call on I C. A. BLAIR, X Pass- & Ticket Agent. Z Home Tel 2062. Richmond, Ind.
DTI PREBLE COUNTY MAN IS DEAD Gen. Anderson Dies This Week at Greenville. Eldorado, O., Dec. 31. Gen. C. M. Anderson, member and secretary of the board of managers of Soldiers Homes died this week at Greenville, O. His death was due to heart failure. Gen. Anderson was one of Ohio's best known men. A widow and two sons survive. They are Robert, an attorney; Major William Anderson of the United States army, in the Philippines. Charles M. Anderson, was elected to congress in 1884 when the Third congressional district was composed of Montgomery, Preble and Darke counties, being opposed by John M. Sinks. Anderson was a staunch democrat and was active in the affairs of the party. ...The Passing of 1908... The end of 1908 found business gradually improving everywhere. We are all grateful that things are as well with us as they are. Let us be grateful that we can have a grate full of good coal. Such coal as we sell. H. C. Bullerdick & Son Phone 1235 529 South 5th St. H. G. Sommers. Lessee and Mgr. GENNETT Thursday Eve'g, Dec. The Distinguished Comedian
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Cupid and The Dollar By en., Jeffrey Splendid cast. Including DOFOthy SlteiTOd An unusually elaborate scenic production. Beautiful Costumes. PRICES-fl.SO. 1.00, 75c. SOe and 25c Sale box olllce. 10 a. m.
PHILLIPS THEATRE I High Class VaudcvICo Prampln Four Demenro & Delle Sir General, John P.. Reed Educated Pony Songs and 'Pictures ADMISSION 10c
GENNETT THEATRE Harry G. Sommers, Lessee and Mgr. Phone 1(83. - New Year's Matinee and Night Mr. Henry W. Savage's Own Company In the Worldwide, Wildfire Comedy Success
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(Der Teulel) by Franz Molnar. With the Distinguished Actor W. L. ABINGDON and m splendid company. Including Mr. Edmund Elton, Miss Marguerite Snow, Miss Marion Shirley, .Mr. F. Percival Stevens, Mr. William J. Gross, Mr. Arthur Hurley, Miss Bertha Livingston, Miss Cecilia D'Arcy, Miss Marie Reynolds, Miss Diana Oste, Mr. Dallas Cairnes, Mr. George Loane Tucker, and MISS JANE OAKER. Sale Box Office. 10 A. M. Prices Matinee, $1.00, 75c, 50c, 23c Night $1.50. $1.00, 7-,. ic-
Did You Catch Cold Bowling. Roller Skating, or isowbere the other night? Gnard your health, get a bottle of Conkey's Flaxseed, Wild Cherry and Menthol Cough Syrup, 25c. The Conkey Drug Co.. 9th and Main Streets. Under new and correct, management. Up-to-the-minute. PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY. "Hotter Than Sunshine" TRADE X .Raymond Coal! MAKH Lump, per ton .:.$4.25 Egg, per ton $4.00 Accept no substitute. We ara the exclusive agents. ALL HEAT SPLINT. Lump, per ton ....$4.00 Best In town for the monsy. GOOD HOCKING COAL Lump, per ton ..$4.00 All other grades at prices as low as the lowest. Richmond Coal Co, West 3d and Chestnut Phone 3121 THEATRE Telephone 18S 31 New Year's Eve.
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