Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 164, 19 May 1913 — Page 8
THE CHMOND PALL ADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1913 OBSERVE PEACE DAY AT FRIENDS CHURCH LOW POINT INN IS FOURTEEN RECEIVED DIPLOMAS SATURDAY Commencement of Abington and Center Townships . Held. TO BE TAKEN Havoc' Played by War is Shown in Talks and Recitations. 7 Houses to be Built at 23rd and Main and 16 on Bungalow Hill.
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The significance of May 18 as the Peace Day of all nations of the world represented at The Hague peace tribunals, was shown at the Peace Day meeting at the East Main Street Friends church last evening when special exercises to observe the anniversary of the movement for universal peace were held. The growth of the peace movement from 1899 to the present time, with statistics showing the havoc played by wars, was shown in talks and recitations by members of the church. The first peace conference was called May 18, 1899,.by the czar of Russia, and twenty-six nations of the world sent representatives to the meeting. The empress of Holland, then but 18 years old, offered the use of the "House in the Woods," at one time a royal palace, for the meeting of the peace delegates. At this time the permanent home of the peace interests of the world is being built at The Hague, with an endowment of $1,500,000 given by Andrew Carnegie. It is conservatively estimated, said one of the speakers last evening, that two billlon dollars each year is wasted by war or spent in preparations for war. The loss of human lives was shown in a startling manner by one figure alone, that of the nineteenth century, when fourteen million men were killed in war. ; Miss Lavinia Baily addressed the assemblage on "The Importance of Peace." She was followed by Jesse Parshall, who gave extracts from exPresident Taft's speech on "Dawn of Word Peace." Orville Boone gave extracts from the "Cost of War," by David Starr Jordan, and members of Mrs. Isaac Wilson's class gave reasons for the celebration of May 18 as Peace Day. Mrs. Emma Hadley's class of four boys gave facts of peace taken from speeches of noted men of the day. Miss Bessie Buell and Miss Mildred Edwards gave recitations. At the morning services at the church, Timothy Nicholson presented a drapery for the pulpit, which was given by one of the prominent members of the congregation, on the condition that the pulpit be repaired. The offer was accepted, and the pulpit has been placed in good condition.
The old hotel building known as the "Low Point Inn" one of the oldest landmarks in this community, located at the southeast corner of Twentythird and Main streets, will be torn down and seven houses will be.erected there under the supervision of the Miller-Kemper Co. This announcement was made this morning at the board of works meeting. The building has not been used as a hotel for several years and is now occupied as a family residence. The hotel consists of twenty-four rooms and occupies grounds on which five houses can be constructed on the Main street side and two on Twenty-third street. Sixteen new houses will 'be constructed on Bungalow hill on Pearl street between Fifth and Seventh streets. The houses will be constructed so that each is a uniform distance above and from the house next to it.
1,500 PERSONS AT 1ST DRUID PICNIC
Affair at Beallview Park Yesterday Was Largely Attended.
At the first annual Druids' picnic, held Sunday afternoon and evening at Beallview park, it was estimated that almost fifteen hundred, persons were present. Dancing and music were the features of amusement. The festivities were- in charge of a committee of the degree team, and was composed of A. N. Grice. H. Bettilon, H. R. Van Zant, W. R. Bloom, A. Hodap, William Brokamp, Edward Doran and Harry Parks. Dancing was held in the pavilion, i.xusic was furnished by Mrs. Eva Morrey and Paul White. Lunch and refreshments were served. It was decided to make the event an annual affair. The lodge has a membership of about three hundred.
EPWORTH LEAGUES' REPORTS ARE MADE Departments of Methodist Episcopak Churches Hold Meeting.
Reports for the fiscal year just ending were read at the twenty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the Epworth League in this city, last evening at the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal church. The meeting was a most successful one. There are four chapters of the Epworth League in Richmond, at Fifth Street, Third, Grace, and First M. E. Churches. Lists were presented showing the number of members in each, and the amount of money sent to foreign missions, the amount of clothing and other supplies collected and distributed, together with statistics of the work of the year. A plan is being worked out by each of the branches in an attempt to secure better results in league work. The leaders of the movement believe this will stimulate the growth of the organization and tend to increase the active membership. Follwing the reading of the reports the Rev. B. E. Parker, of First M. E. church, addressed the meeting on "The World's Debt to the Dreamer."
ROUTINE OF THE BOARD OF WORKS
COURT NEWS
IS GIVEN DECREE. A divorce was granted Ethel F. Keene from Asa Keen this morning by Judge Fox. The plaintiff was abandoned by the defendant two years ago she alleged and at present ' it Is not known where he is located.
JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. Judgment was rendered by default In the case of Geo. W. Rohe against Fred Hoover. The claim was for $670.09.
Resolution for the improvement of the first alley south of National road between Third and Fourth streets to Southwest D street. Modified and width of roadway changed. Petition of school board for vacation of alley between Southwest First and Second streets from D street to E street, passed with $15 benefits of school board; ordered assessed. Sewer between Crosshall and
Green streets accepted, assessment
roll ordered. Sewer between CrosshaU and Green streets accepted, 'assessment
roll ordered.
Piatt of Pleasant Hill addition, approved. Ground platted between Chestnut street and Richmond Avenue from West Fifth to Wrest Eighth street. Improvement resolution for sewer draining territory surrounding South H and Sixth streets, confirmed. Assessment roll of prospective benefits
amounting to $300 to be divided
among property owners. Cost of sewer $2,300. Resolution for improvement of South Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets in Reeveston Place, confirmed. Resolution for improvement of West Pearl street from West Fifth street to West Seventh street, cement curb, gutters and six-foot walks and grading and graveling of roadway.
Lconfirmed.
CLAIM FOR $286. The case of the Commonwealth company against Watson and Watson was set for trial this morning. Default and judgment was rendered. The claim was for $286.87.
CASE DISMISSED. The ejectment suit of B. A. Kennepohl and Amelia Kennepohl against Maria and Lucy Gregory was dismissed this morning for want of prosecution. The complaint was filed in 1910.
Philadelphia is soon to abolish all railway grade crossings.
"A HINT" TO GOOD DRESSERS There are two kinds of tailoring "high class" and "cheap made" tailoring. "High Class" Tailoring holds perfect shape as long as the suit lasts. "Cheap Made" tailoring soon loses its shape and Is not worn by good dressers. W"e do '"high class" tailoring the kind good dressers wear. You can tell a wearer ot Emmons Tailoring it is classy and up-to-date. Call and see our Spring line. We make fine suits $15.00 to $30.00. Corner Main and 9th St. (Advertisement) : 4 .
WOODEN CANNON.
Crude but Effective Weapons Wound With Strips of Rawhido. Any one familiar with the construction of modern weapons of warfare and the high explosives used in them would naturally suppose a cannon made of wood would be of little or no value as a weapon. Wooden cannons have been used with considerable success nevertheless iu recent revolutions in Cuba, in Haiti and hi the Dominican Republic. The wood used in the construction of these crude weapons is a very tough variety, having a twisted graiu that curls about the log in such a way that to split the timber with the ordinary means is almost impossible. The best trees are selected, and a piece of the log five or six feet in length and about one foot in diameter is cut. After the bark has been removed and the log made perfectly round it is swung up on a crude truss, and a hole Is burned into it from one end. The log is wound with strips of rawhide cut from the skin of a steer. When the cannon is covered with the strips of hide another layer is wound on, and this is continued until the weapon has increased several inches In diameter. rfter the log is covered and the bore is finished the weapon is treated to a hot draft, .which tends to contract the hide binding, which becomes almost as strong as wire. These crude cannon have been used with success In a number of instanced, and it is astonishing the number of times they may be fired before they burst or become otherwise disabled. Harper's Weekly.
(Palladium Special) CENTER VILLE, Ind., May 19. The annual commencement exercises of the Abington and Center township schools was held Saturday evening in the town hall at Centerville. ' There were fourteen graduates who were presented with diplomas by County Superintendent Williams. Of this number three graduates completed the township course in Abington township. Chas. W. Jordan, formerly superintendent of Wayne county schools, gave the main address. The pupils were praised for their excellent work. The following is a list of the graduates: Harry Foley, Mabel Gower, Belva Lamott, Elsie Smith, Violet Henwood, Edna Aultice, Esther George, Geneva Smith, Alph Spotts, Nova Shadle, Frances Colvin, Alten Reynolds, Etta M. Lamott, Trilba Dye. The teachers of the schools are: Callie Tremp, Hilda Sanders, Forrest Macey, Rosa Gates, Ollie Castetter, Leota Scott, Edith Weaver, Ethel Harris, Ruth Tremps, Imo Haywood, Nellie Jones, music teacher. The following program was given: Invocation Rev. Ryder. Music School. Address Chas. W. Jordan. Music School. Presentation of Diplomas Chas. O. Williams. Music School. Benediction Rev. Ryder.
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GIVEN A BEATING Elmer Mattix of Eaton Resents P. Webber's Attention to Mrs. Mattix.
(Palladium Special) EATON, Ohio, May 19. Philip Webber, of Richmond, was assaulted and seriously but not fatally, injured last night by Elmer Mattix, of this city, while Webber was out walking with Mrs. Mattix, who has been living apart from her husband for several weeks. Mattix met his wife and Webber near the court house and promptly attacked the Richmond man, striking him twice on the head with a club, inflicting ugly scalp wounds, and then kicking in three ribs. Webber was taken to the home of Mrs. Laura Davis, mother of Mrs. Mattix. Mattix was arraigned in the court of Justice, L. T. Stephen this morning on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. He entered a plea of not guilty, and was released on bond of $500. Webber is a married man and has a family, it is stated. He has been employed at a Richmond factory. It will be some time before he will be able to leave the Davis home.
Every Department Teems with Timely Specials BRINGS SOME REMARKABLY LOW PRICES A Few Suggestions for- Tuesday Shoppers
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More for This Week's Selling 2,000 yards more of those pretty 10c Chambra Ginghams, while they last at 5c 25c Beautiful Fancy Voiles, neat floral designs, rich colorings, special, per yard 19c TUESDAY, ONE DAY ONLY One case 10c Bleached Hope Muslin, 6 Vic Yd.
AMI TIM Week.
Important Muslin Underwear Offerings. Women's Silk Hosiery at Special Prices. Remarkable Glove Values.
Yes, this week offers hundreds of unusual May Day Purchasing Opportunities Throughout the Store You Can't Really Afford to Miss.
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Petition Will be Presented to Make Them Wards of
County.
The four minor children of the late Alice Smith, who committed suicide Thursday by drinking carbolic acid, will probably be taken in charge by the Board of Childrens Guardians. Elizabeth Candler, probation officer, will present a petition to Judge Fox in juvenile court that they be made wards of the board or that something be done to provide a better home for them. They do not receive proper care and their environment is not what it should be, the officials- believe. One child is but a month old. Mrs. Smith was subject to epileptic fits. The other children are Russell, 11, Catherine 12 and Henry 3.
Cultivators to Suit You
Wasted Medicine. "There is one loss sustained by druggists that very few people know about," said the experienced clerk. "That is in the prescriptions that have to be made over, the same as clerks, stenographers, writers and artists, no matter how painstaking, occasionally have to do their work over. The most careful drug cierk in existence is bound to make mistakes sometimes in measuring and mixing. "He may pour in too much of some kind of liquid or sift in too much of a certain powder. In most cases the overdose would not really affect the value of the medicine, but the conscientious clerk is not going to take chances on murdering anybody, so he throws away the whole mixture and makes up another prescription. New York Times.
The Neighborhood Traveler. It Is written, and the world believes it, that travel is the infallible, exclusive cure for provincialism. Perhaps! Ultimately that depends on what the man takes with him la his wanderings. Merely to go accomplishes naught In fine, one need not travel at all. If the man with the common eye will but use his eyes he may bring all the world to him. The Alps and the Rockies are worth seeing, indeed, but the man w ho is capable of really seeing tbem. if among them, is capable also of behold tag landscape and glory in his own neighborhood. Bookiovers Magazine.
The Celebrated Janesville "If you have been accustomed to using an all-round Cultivator of standard or ordinary gauge in cultivating narrow row crops you will be glad to know of the perfecting of the Little Janesville. ' It was designed for use in cultivating potatoes, beans, tobacco, and similar crops. "By means of an ingenious though simple adjustment it is possible to cultivate growing crops, planted in rows as close together as 24 inches. "It is a low wheel machine, and as the shovel gangs extend back of the wheels, the frame may be narrowed so as to set the wheels down to a distance of 36 inches or out to a distance of 48 inches. "A special feature is the center lever with which, operating through the spreader arch, you can instantly and without stopping bring the shovel gangs in or out as desired. On the other hand the gangs may be made rigid with the frame, an advantage for certain kinds of work, especially in cultivating rolling or hilly land. "It is of the Pivot Axle Type but embodying eertain exclusive improvements. The greatest of these is a strong and substantial method . of pivoting the wheel axle to the frame standard. In the ordinary Pivot Axle machine there is considerable strain on the axle in turning the wheels in or out. Our improved device takes up all lost motion in these joints, as you will clearly see by examining the end view given on the next page. "Another improvement is the pivoting of the foot levers which swing the wheels in or out, in a way which gives almost direct leverage on the axle. The operation may be seen at a glance but it is difficult of written description. The effect, however, gives you a much shorter swing of the foot lever to throw the wheels in or out than if a stiff connection were used. "Owing to our improved construction you do not swing the gangs Mith the swing of the wheels. This would not only be hard to do in very solid soil, but would result in covering small growing plants out of the direct line, or if in crooked rows where the seed had. been drilled. , "Wheels are 34 inches in diameter, with 2 1-2 inch concave tires. Bearings are furnished with a cup for hard oil, and one filling will lubricate for an entire season. See our line of seven different Janesville Cultivators before you buy. Every Cultivator fully warranted.
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