Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 283, 6 October 1913 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, MONDAY, OCT. 6, 1913 ""STOCK TELLS Manuel Calera' Former Mexican 0fficial INCREASES IN RECEIPTS Longworfh's Opponent and Ambassador to Spain OF G, A. R, ACTIONS Post Office Takes in 6,87 in September.

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Although the resolution was voted j down almost unanimously, it was with- j out any spirit of animosity and show- J fl the closer bond of brotherhood be- j tween the two sections of the country, j a snort nietory ot the a. a. k. was given by the speaker who told of its organization and the many illustrious men who have been at its head. He declared many people have mistaken its purpose and that instead of being an crganization intended to preserve the animosity if war time its sole aims are to tester loyalty to the country and to dispense charity to comrades in need. PAY OFF PREMIUMS Festival Committee Is Now Closing Books. Members of the office force of the Commercial club are engaged in cleaning up work incident to the closing of the Fall Festival books. Those who were in charge of the various exhibits have paid most of the premiums that were awarded and have turned their check books over to C. W. Jordan, who will pay the prize money to the winners. While all bills have not been paid, it is estimated that there will be a surplus of between $1,000 and $1,200 when the books are closed. What will be done wjjh this money nas not been decided. Its disposition will rest largely with the advertising committee of the Commercial club, which had charge of the festival. The Hatch shows did a very good business. The 15 per cent of their gross receipts, which went to the Commercial club, amounted on Saturday night to $46. MAY HAVE SPECIAL ARBOR DAY PROGRAM In order to accommodate the rural school students in the observance of Arbor and Bird day, Governor Samuel M. Ralston, recent y issued a proclamation setting aside Friday, October 31, as the day to observe the school holiday. The local schools, according to the statement of Superintendent Giles, have not arranged a program for the day's celebration,- but he expects one afternoon late this week a meeting of the teachers will be called, when the matter will be broached. It is expected that a program including speeches by publicspirited citizens, special musical program by the students and various other numbers -will be arranged by a committee from the teachers. It has been the custom of the local schools to make a celebration of Arbor day, but this year the program will be more elaborate. TEACHERS PLAN TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Teachers in the public schools are making preparations for the spring meeting of the Northern Indiana Teacher's association, which will be ' held in Indianapolis, April 2, ?, and 4. The executive committee of the association recently completed arrange ments for the meeting and in all probability the sessions will be held in the Chamber of Commerce. Although the program will not be issued for at least two months, it is expected that Richmond will not be represented in the speakers' lists. One of the features of the meetings will be the address by Norman' Angell, an Englishman, author of "The Great Illusion." and a noted advocate of world-wide peace. lie fills the place of Langdon Davis, one of the Continental peace advocates who declined an invitation to address the meetings. SMALL HAT IN BLACK DULL SILK SE.) . ;ilA. The . v ,l,uj tie head very nario. the right side and over the crown at the left side the top of which is trimmed with a splendid blacK aigret. Thnund--rowH9.-'ltSf-draoed with black Bilk. ,

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Manuel Calera, former Mexican am-1 p on the Liberal party's ticket. At bassador to the United States, who j Washington he attracted great attenhas been named for president of Mex-jtion.

STEINER WILL" SPEAK Immigration Authority to Address Local Teachers. The chief speaker for the Wayne County Teachers' association meeting to be held October 18, in the high school will be Prof. Edward E. Steiner, of the Grinnell college in Iowa, it j was announced today by County Superintendent Williams. H'will deliver two lectures on the immigration question on which he is said to be the greatest student in the country. The subject for his forenoon address will be "The Struggle for Brotherhood" j dealing with the relations of immi-1 grants with other immigrants and with the citizens of this country. In the afternoon, he will speak on "The ; New Immigrant; The New Problem," ! which deals with the qualifications of j immigrants under the new acts passed j by Congress. The musical program for the teach-1 ers' meeting is in charge of Prof. R. C. Sloane of the high school. The program committee for the day is composed of Charles O. Williams, county superintendent, W. C. Conrad, Mrs. Clara B. Gravf Miss Kate Stanton and .1. O. Outland. The annual election of officers will toke place in the morning. The association has a membership of 260 Uachers. including 145 from the county schools and other schools outside of Richmond and 115 Richmond school teachers. The present officers are: Kate Stanton, president; J. W. Outland, first vice president; Clara B. Graves, second vice president; W. C. Conrad, secretary; Charles O. Williams, secretary. RIGHT-OF-WAY IN GOOD CONDITION With i crew of sixty men working on the right-of-way between Richmond and Cincinnati that stretch of track on the C. & O. railroad has been put in excellent condition for winter traffic. The track has been ballasted, defective ties removed, bridges strengthened, and the whole right-of-way perfected for heavy traffic. The repair gang will leave this week to repair the line north of Richmond. RAILROAD PERSONALS. Kngineer C. J. Houts, of the Pennsylvania lines, is visiting in Chicago. NINETEEN ACRES PLANTED IN TOBACCO Wayne county last year raised nineteen acres of tobacco producing 1 6.5(H) pounds of the noxious weed, according to figures that have just been compiled by T. W. Brolley, state statistician. Neighboring counties gave more attention tq the cultivation of smokers' delight, Randolph county farmers planting 51f acres, producing 390,200 pounds of tobacco. CHINA TO NAME NEW PRESIDENT PEKIN. Oct. 6 Although President Yuan Shaik-kai received 471 of the 759 votes in the assembly today in the first constitutional presidential election in China, he failed of election and a second ballot then was ordered. There were twenty candidates. KAISER HEALS FEUDAL BREACH BERLIN, Oct. 6. Princess Victoria Louise, only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm and bride of Prince Ernest August of Cumberland, is to reign as a lueen after all. It was learned today from a state source that the dispute between the houses of Gttelph and Hohenzollern over the claims to the Hanoverian throne has been compromised. , ' . -!. at CITY STATISTICS Deaths and Funerals. ! GODSEY James W. Godsey, the two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Godsey, mo ,North I street, died yesterday afternoon. The funeral will hp hsiH TuAorfoi. . . t n ; .i 1 a Imade in Earlham cemetery.

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TERM DOCKET HEAVY 204 Civil and 25 Criminal Cases to Be Heard. With 204 civil cases and twenty-five criminal cases, the October term of the circuit court opened today. The court precedure was slightly changed, Judge Fox deciding to defer setting dates for trial until tomorrow, thus giving the attorneys time to file probates today. The docket is an unusually large one. Judge Fox says he will rush as many cases through as possible, and set down for October all the cases that can be handled, it is probable tnat no cases will be tried this week, however. The case of Richard Brown, of Webster, charged with assault and battery withintent to kill, will not be set for trial until Howard Starr Is able to appear. Starr is recovering, and it is expected he will be able to be in court within three weeks. The case of William Circle, of WinChester, venued from Randolph county, will be tried November 3. Circle is charged with murder. " The damage suit of Edgar Pallard, who asks $10,000 from the Citizens' telephone company of Cambridge City, was set for trial Monday November 3. TAX PAYING RUSH EXPECTED SHORTLY The annual rush to pay taxes before delinquency is declared, is expected to begin next week and continue until November 3, the last day for tax paying. The treasurer and deputies in the treasurer's office are prepared to take care of the tax payers when they come. A number of persons have already paid the fall taxes. MILLER CONSIDERS FILLING VACANCIES To fill ac jnc'.es in the crews at the No. 1 ;si;d No. o lire stations, made by the resignations of Charles Carter and Thomas Boyce, Fire Chief Miller is considering the appointment of Elmer Bird and Ernest Spalding. COMMENT ON FLOAT From the standpoint of real art, one of the best floats to take Dart in the j big parade during Fall Festival week j was the exhibit of Bayer's bakery, ad vertising Kremo bread. The float consisted of an old fashioned Dutch windmill done in chrysanthemums and white petaled flowers, with a woman clad in the garb of a Holland peasant seated in front of the mill holding a wand. Much comment has been made on this float. COUNCIL TO MEET An ordinance for the improvement 1 of South G street between Sixth and Seventh streets, will come up for the third reading at council meeting tonight, and probablv will be passed, i The ordinance provides for a brick t street and cement, curbs and gutters. Other routine business wfll come before the session tonight. SHOW INTERESTING One of th most tnter?stine exhibitions of th horse sho'r last "welt was the wnrif of lttveTU ridrs and drivers rf Weleb fj'nft - Scotland nonies. .Ttitip T?nbirson cpritnre' t-v ririres. tvtnr ! for th best bov or girl Hder. First i rrir for t het H-around ponv went to Eileen Fitteibbons. j i DEMANDS DAM4GFS i v Damans of $31.9? are demands bv HfiTpoi" V. MoTeland. a cornrptsslnn merchant, from the .Adams d Southern express companies. The complaint was filed todav In the office of the conn rv clerk, alleelnsr that goods whth MeT-eland shipped were damaged to that extent. DENY - SPENCER'S STORY. KALAMAZOO. Mich-, Oct. 6. Sheriff Soulee, of Van Buren county, today declared that insofar as the confession of Henry Spencer related to the killing of two girls in Paw Paw lake, last Aucust. it is untrue. il aHaOllim Want AdS Fay

Increase over the receipts for :er tember, 1912, is shown in the monthly report of the postoffice. The September receipts amounted to $8,871.86, giving a surplus to send to the treasury department of $797. Adding $l,Slt paid out to railway mail clerks which is not an expense of this office, the books show a month's surplus of $2,615.45. The business of the office last month amounted to over $3o more than it did in th corresponding month of last year. Postal savings during the month showed an increase in deposits of $S3S over the month of August, there being $9,082 on deposit at the end of the month.

ALLEGES HUSBAND ABANDONED HER Abandonment was charged by Etta Whitaker in a complaint for divorce from Isham Whitaker, filed today in the office of the county clerk. They were married in 1104 and lived together until September, 1910. when Whitaker is alleged to have left his wife. He is now living in Anderson while she resides in this city. SCHOOL CHILDREN MAY SEND POSTALS "Although no organized observance of the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley, the great Hoosier poet, has been made in the public schools, it is probable children of the lower grades I will devote a part of the day to read ing some of the Riley poems, said Superintendent Giles, of the Richmond public schools. It is quite true that hundreds of the school children here will fall in line with the proposed movement to give the writer a poetry postal card shower. GENERAL RAINFALL IS PROMISE GIVEN General rains beginning within the next 24 hours and continuing for a couple of days, to be followed by a drop in the thermometer close to the freezing point are forecasted by W. E. Moore, a local weatherman. The precipitation is expected to begin at any time, coming from a low pressure area in the Southwest and moving rapidly in this direction. It is probable that the center of the climatic disturbance will pass through this state. While there will be no severe storms accompanying it considerable rain is promised. There was only one clear day last week, Saturday, all others being marked partly cloudy by the local office of the government weather bureau. Last week's temperature reached its maximum on Tuesday when the thermometer registered 80. It was at its lowest on Saturday night when it dropped to 39. Approximately one-tenth of an inch of rain fell during the week. STREET STORIES "With affection and loving kindness Bishop, whom we hold in high esteem, we hereby present this loving cup as a token of our friendship and good will." This "epitaph" was scrawled on a card fastened to a tincup, which was I tied to a radish three feet long, and j placed on the desk of Truant Office Bishop. The radish had been entered in the educational exhibit at the court house by one of the school children. It was awarded one of the ribbons of the exhibit. It was presented to the truant officer by County Superintendent C. O. Williams and Wayne Township Trustee James Howarth and several other township and county officials. Blushing like a school girl. George accepted the gift. .He choked when he attempted to express his apprecia-1 tion, despite laughter of the jokers. He said he would have his day before long. SECRETARY OF FALL FESTIVAL Charles W. Jordan, secretary of the j Richmond Commercial club, and sec-j retary of the Fall Festival executive committee, deToted much time to make1 the big attraction a noteworthy one. Let us figure with you on FILING DEVICES Our Prices Will Surprise You. BARTEL 4. RCHE, 321. .Main. Street v

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CINCINNATI DEMOCRAT WHO DEFEATED NICHOLAS VIRGINIAN LONGWORTH FOR CONGRESS

Stanley K. Bow die, the Cincinnati Democrat w ho defeated Nicholas Longworth by barely a hundred votes and took his seat in Congress is a lawyer, but narrowly missed becoming a machinist. He was somewhat of a prodigy because he graduated from a law school and engaged in the practice of law at the age of twenty-one after serving for some time as an apprentice in the machine shops of the Cramp Shipbuilding company at Philadel-

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him to graduate in law. pass the bar examinations, and enter the active practice of law at twenty-one after spending time in a machine shop, was rather unusual.

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RETURNS TO BAST1LE Eugene Ashcraft Carried Concealed Weapon. Charged with carrying concealed weapons, Eugene Ashcraft, of Winchester, was arrested late Saturday night, the. officer's attention being attracted when Ashcraft w,as knocked out of a saloon on North E street for creating a disturbance. Ashcraft carried a deer handled dirk with a four and a half inch blade. He appeared in police court with his left eye swollen shut this morning as a result of the blow which put him out of the saloon, i leased from Jail where he had served twenty-five days for assault and battery. He was sent back to serve a fine of $1 and costs. FOUR GET FINES ON DRUNK CHARGES Four men were fined $1 and costs for public intoxication in police court today. Joe Kelley, of Hamilton, O., did not know where he was or how he got here when arrested on North E remembers he was in Hamilton, and does not know where or when he boarded the train, or when jhe arrived in Richmond, where he soj bered up in jail he said. Two Virginians, who were observing the spirit of the Kail Festival on Sailor street, Saturday evening when officers arrived, were Harvey Turner and Norman Hauser. Wandering around in an intoxicated condition, David Williams was arrest ed at the corner of Sixth and Main Saturday night. NO ONE UNDER 18 CAN DRIVE AUTOS ' i To protect persons on the streets. ! Chief of Police Gormon has instructed; all patrolman to enforce the new state! law, which provides that no person under eighteen years of age shall drive motor vehicles ' on the streets. All chauffeurs must ; have licenses, to obtain which they mu6t pass an examination given by the secretary of state. Upon success-1 fully passing the examination a driver is given a license and a badge. No person under eighteen will be granted ' a license. j Chief Gormon feels that while children may be able to handle machines, ! they are not to be depended upon in a crisis. i BIBLE CLASS MEETS AT Y. M. C. A. TONIGHT The first meetinc this season of 1 Prof. Elbert Russell's Bible class will be held this evening at the Y. M. C. A. Weekly lectures will be given in the j International Sunday school lesson lasting for three months. The charge for the course will be 75 cents. Most of those who attended the lectures last year will enroll again and a number of new members are expected. The lecture will start at 7:30. GAYLE ATTENDS Albert B. Gayle, president of the First National bank, left last night for I Boston, Mass.. where he will attend j the meeting of the National Bankers association. Mr. Gayle w ill be the only i Richmond banker at the meeting

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TO SPAIN. Joseph Edward Willard of Richmond. V . t th American Ambassador to Spain, that Ik, he will b wHa the Department of State raises our legation In Madrid to an embassy as is planned. Mr. Wlllard'a appointment was confirmed by the Senate a few day a no aad he is soon to leave America for his new post whw he will succeed Henry Clay Ide, the present Minister. Vr. Willard U a lawyer by profession and is about forty-fir years old. During the Spanish American war wm a captain of volunteers and was on the staff of Gen. Fltihugh Lee. From 1S94 to 1902 he was a member of the Virginia, legislature and for four jeara after that was Lieutenant Governor.

education and for CHAIRMAN OF FALL FESTIVAL W. II. Romey, chairman of the executive committee, which handled the management of the 1913 Fall Festival, worked unceasingly to make Eastern Indiana's biggest event a great success. MEXICAN ELECTION MAY BE DEFERRED MEXICO CITY. Oct. 6 The congressional committee appointed to Investigate the situation as regards the presidential election scheduled for October 26 has decided to report this afternoon, recommending that the . election be postponed. There Is little doubt that congress will adopt the report. President Huerta may order congress adjourned and assume the diciaiorsnip.

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FALLS OH PAVEMENT C. G. Carpenter Bruises Left Shoulder. While alighting from a city car at Thirteenth and Main streets. C. Q. Carpenter. S5 South Thirtenth street, slipped 'and fell heavily to the brick street. Hia left shoulder was bruised but he was not seriously Injured. Mr. Carpenter stepped from the car while it was In motion and the slippery condition of the bricks was responsible for the accident. STRICK GILLILAN TO RETURN HOME Strickland Glllilan. national humorist and former city editor of the Palladium, has returned to Indlananolis to make It bis home, after ten Ions years' sojourn in the East. Mr. Glllilan will live in Indianapolis. In speaking about the East, Baltimore, and comparing l-.fe there with, the democratic, understandable West, Mr. Gillilan says: "I don't know how I have stood it. As near as I could find out the neighborhood where I Jived was a good one but I wanted to leave and come back to the soil that raised me." TO IMPROVE PLANT Additions will be added to the heat Ing plant of the Home for Friendless Women, It was decided today by the county commissioners, after a visit to the building. They found the home in good condition, although every cell is filled, except one. The commissioners granted six liquor license renewals and two transfers. A number of others will be passed upon tomorrow. A large number of bills was allowed. WEEK ONLY Lbs. For To purchasers of 25c worth of Tea Coffee. Baking Powder, Spices or Extracts. invitation to and Ninth Sts.

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