Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 118, 28 March 1914 — Page 10

THE KICjjlOTOJVD PALLADIUM AND SDN-TELEGRAM, SATO KD AT, MARCH 28, 1914

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TO REMOVE FRILLS FROM EXERCISES State Superintendent Disapproves of Elaborate Exercises Which Characterize Commencements.

SIMPLICITY IS PLAN

Says He Wants to Find Boys and Girls on School Platforms Who Are Neatly But Simply Dressed.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 28 The state department of public instruction, through Superintendent Charles A. Greathouse, expressed disapproval yesterday of elaborate exercises which have characterized most of the high school commencements of the state, lie declares that graduation events have assumed such proportions that they have grown to be almost a "white elephant." Pupils, teachers, parents and the public generally will be urged to cooperate -with the state department in causing simplicity to mark the 1914 commencements both in the high schools and grades.

"Simplicity in exercises, simplicity In dress, with no parade of costly gifts and other nonessentials, should characterize commencement exercises in all the public high schools," declared Mr. Greathouse. Statement May Arouse Interest. Mr. Greathouse's statement is expected to arouse especial interest among members of the Southern Indiana Teachers' association now gathered in convention here. His statement follows: "It is exceedingly gratifying to note the growing sentiment and actual movement toward reducing the expense of commencement and its attendant functions in the public schools. "The closing exercises of the year celebrating the completion of certain outlined courses of study have grown to be almost a 'white elephant all over the country. "From the simple presentation of a certificate testifying to the good conduct and scholarship of the pupil in the work presented, graduation events have assumed such proportions as to cover almost an entire week of festivities, each one of which is in itself, perhaps, entirely appropriate were it r.ot for the fact that it carries with it a vast expenditure of money to meet v.hat seem to be social demands.

"No one person or group of persons

Is responsible for this

WALSH REFUSES INCREASED SALARY

David Walsh, the new governor of Massachusetts, has just won distinction by refusing an increase in salary. The salary of the governor has been $8,000, but the legislature recently voted to increase it. to $12,000. Governor Walsh has just sent a special message to that body declining the increase, because he feels he was elected to get the former salary, and that his election was a contract with the people to serve for that remuneration. He is of the opinion, however, that the present salary is inadequate.

SILL DEALS MARK TRADE IN REALTY

REDISTRICT TOWN PLAN OF OFFICERS

Large Local Option Election Vote May Cause Several New Precincts to Be Added to City.

11 PRECINCTS TOO BIG

Auditor Holds Down Big Job; Now Performs 1,200 Duties

According to Law No Precincts Should C o n t ain More Than 250 VotersBoard Meets Monday.

other objectionable features that accompany events good in themselves, the elaborate surroundings of graduation have insensibly increased from year to year, until their dangers and injurious effects are very generally apparent. Bulletins from other state departments of public instruction are making pleas for simplicity in corn-

Continued dull trading characterized the realty market for the past week. Richmond property, a few small farms and several town lots were disposed of and in no case did the prices range high. A fifty acre farm, southeast of Centerville, was sold by Roy Creager to Catherine Boval for $5,750. A small farm in Washington township, near the county line, brought $4,000 when sold by John Stokesberry to Everett Trook and A. Adams. John McChenoweth sold to Kzekiel Gullett an eighty acre farm northest of Bethel for

Like many , $7,500.

An apartment house at 245 South

Fourth street was sold to Robert A. Campbell by Richard Cutter for $4,00. The building is divided into two flats and has been remodeled within the past few years. The transfers recorded for the week follow:

E. Ella Pattison et al. to Oliver M.

mencement exercises and urging that j Deardorff ; $2,750; part of lot 1 and 1he hiring of carriages for graduates, the south half of lot 2 in block 1 in

the practice or sending cosiiy guts ! the town ot Hagerstown.

Richmond will be redistricted into new voting precincts Monday by the county commissioners, it was announced today by Auditor Bowman. It is the first change planned since 1905, when the Thirty-fifth precinct in the Eighth ward was added, largely through the effort of Mr. Bowman, who was county chairman at that time. Although the law of 1889 says that the election inspectors shall report to the commissioners any cases where precinct electors number more than 250, it is not done, it is said. The lo

cal option election of last Tuesday brought the matter before the auditor and the commissioners. There are eleven precincts in Richmond having more voters than the prescribed 250. In the Twenty-second, Twentyfifth and Twenty-seventh precincts there are more than 350 voters. Although the districting of the city in 1905 was done according to the law, certain sections have grown to such an extent in the last nine years that more than three fourths of the precincts are not in conformity with the law, some having too many under 250, and in others the excess being too great. The commissioners will take up the work at a called meeting Monday morning. It is probable that every precinct will be changed, although no new precincts necessarily will be added. The redistricting will be accomplished on a basis of the vote cast at the presidential election in 112. The various precincts in the city counted the following number of votes in the local option election: Sixth, 220; Seventh, 273; eighth, 206; Ninth, 22G; Tenth, 162; Eleventh, 186; Twelfth. 123: Thirteenth, 161; Fourteenth, 188; Fifteenth, 183; Sixteenth, 177; Seventeenth, 163; Eighteenth, 140; Nineteeth, 119; Twentieth, 190; Twenty-first, 256; Twenty-second, 350; Twenty-third, 193; Twenty-fourth, 274; Twenty-fifth,

353; Twenty-sixth, 177; Twenty-sev

enth 393; Twenty-eighth, 198; Tyentyninth, 260; Thirtieth, 264; Thirty-first, 299; Thirty-second, 294; Thirty-third, 273; Thirty-fourth, 192; Thirty-fifth, 185.

The busiest office in the court house, or in fact in Wayne county, the official information bureau, "catch all" and the fort of the county's general utilities man, is the office of the auditor. The office is run at "high speed' at all times. An extra notch was advanced during tne days prior to the election. Auditor Bowman's latest addition to his office to facilitate the dispersing of information to the general public of Richmond and Wayne county, is a new filing case. All matters not readily secured for telephone queries has been placed in the filing case and can be found within a minute or two. For the more common questions, Mr. Bowman has a list containing answers hung by the side of the telephone. This has been augmented from time to time as new issues form. Webster's definition of auditor, "one authorized to adjust accounts," is carried out in its fullest but forms only a small part of the "hundred and one" duties connected with the office. When Indiana was young, according to history, the auditor was merely an adjuster of accounts. General Utility Man. Sine that time, the office has been the target of legislators at every session of the state legislature, until the phrase used by Albert Sahm. former auditor of Marion county during a speech at Indianapolis recently, that the county auditor is really the "county's general utilities man," has become characteristic of the office. One of the first duties of the county

auditor is apparently to remain neutral on all points, as he is almost always the third member of a board made up from two factions. Not only that but he is an arbitrator, advisor and judge. And when things go wrong with county employes it is usually the auditor who acts as pacifier to ruffled tmpers. In addition to his being clerk of every board and council of the county, he Is an assessor, an appraiser, a referee and collector. He is also a contractor, a computer, a secretary and an adjucator. At times he becomes a tax ferret, and perpetually is a reviewer and an attestor and makes duplicates and transfers and sells realty. He also issues the liquor, warehouse, horse thief detective and other licenses. He is in the concrete, gravel, macadam and brick highway business and dabbles in bridge repairing and the making of fills. These are a few of the duties which recently have been said by actual count to number more than 1,200. Instead of being the county's bookkeeper, the auditor is the "whole show" in county business, but seldom gets credit for what he does, because his duties are so many that he himself could not enumerate them in a day. The auditor as a member of the board of review, is forced to Btand for

equality of assessments and as clerk of the connty commissioners, to act as advisor to that body. His influence on county affairs has an effect that is felt in every county office. Ho is also the clerk of the county council and keeps the councillors informed on the mass of business that comes before the body. As he is supposed to have the condition of county finances at his easy grasp, he figures largely in determining the county tax. He is also clerk of the county board

of finance and because of his extensive knowledge of financial affairs, usually figures as the central head. Takes Neutral Position. Although few know it, the auditor is also the representative of' the people and usually intercedes for them, being required by virtue of his office to defend them or see that they get a square deal. Recently Auditor Bowman became an inventor, but has refused to accept the title. Because of the necessity of keeping permanent typewritten records with the loose leaf system, which was ruled against by the state board of accounts, he devised a means to overcome the objections, and as a result the system is still in use. The records are made permanently bound by removing the steel posts of the covers and pouring in their place hot lead, which cannot be removed after it has become hard without mutilating the record books. This was pre-

1 sented to the state board of accounts 1 by Mr. Bowman and approved.

13-YEAR-OLD GIRL SOUGHT BY POLICE

CAMBRIDGE CREWS WIN FROM OXFORD

LONDON, March 28. Cambridge defeated Oxford today in their seventy-first annual race over the 4 mile course from Putney to Mortlake on the Thames river. The Cambridge crew shot to the front at the start and kept the lead. Cambridge won the toss for position and gained the advantage before the race, selecting the Surrey side of the river, whence the wind was blowing. Cambridge thus had the shelter of the bank and smooth water in which to row, while Oxford had the rough water.

Nothing Wanting. Some time when you have a bad cold give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a trial and you will find nothing wanting in that preparation. It loosens a cold, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration and enables the system to throw off the cold in much less time than the usual treatment. Mrs. L. R. Allison. Logansport.. Ind., says, "I have never found anything that gave me relief like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy does." For sale by all dealers.

INDIANAPOLIS MEN WILL VISIT TOWNS A Tislt to all towns between Indianapolis and Centervllle will be made in a special car by the wholesale trade division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce April 7,

finishing the trip at Centervllla and returning for lunch at Cambridge City, i The purpose of the trip will be to tnterest merchants in buying from Indianapolis wholesale bouses. Stops will be made as follows: Cumberland, twenty minutes; Phlladel- ; phia. twelve minutes; Greenfield, fifty ; minutes; Charlottesville, twenty tnlnutes: Knightstown. forty minutes;

Dunrelth, twenty minutes; Splceland. twenty-five minutes; Straughn. twenty minutes; Dublin, twenty minutes; Centervllle, twenty minutes, and Cambridge City, one hour and thirty minutes. Noon luncheon will be served at Newcastle, and in the evening dinner

i will be served at Cambridge City. The party will arrive In Indianapolis on the

return trip about 9 p. m.

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The earliest riser of bird family is ! the greenfinch which sometimes be- : gins to Fins at one o'clock on a sumjmer morning.

CHICAGO, March 28. Lilliam Uream, aged 13, who has been missing since last Wednesday, is being sought by the police today. They are also seeking an actor who appeared in a cheap theatre near the girl's home a week ago. About February 1, when the father of the girl missed $32 of his savings, Lillian admitted taking the money and said she was spending it attending moving picture theatres.

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TO HOLD RECEPTION IN PASTOR'S HONOR

aiul flowers to the graduation platform, the extravagance of dress shall ai be relinquished. High School Teacher Leads.

'In Indiana, a high school teacher j

ha? taken the initiative in leaning the pupils to see for themselves how inappropripte these extravagances are and to declare for simplicity in the graduation exercises of 1014. This is an ideal solution of the problem. V.'hen young boys and girls are led to declare the right methods for themselves, the results must always be wholesome and permanent. "The state department of public instruction not only puts its stamp of approval on such movements, but heartilv co-operates in them.

"Our public schools are the r-t ' democratic institutions we have, ""-rv i differ from private schools, from --ol-; legos and universities in tb---ir py.i-.-it j and Intent, and the practice of brir-.T-j ine; into them the nece?ary arccm-1 panying customs of such inFtitutiors ; makes a sort of hybrid that is diffi-1

cult to describe and define. "These schools were created as a common meeting: ground for children of every socinl proup and should be held sacred to their trust. "The approaching spring months already are sounding the commencement note and it is to be hoped that

not, one sc hool alone, but many

schools; not one group of p'ipils, but many groups of pupils, will declare fipainst an elaborate 1914 commencement. want to find on our platforms girls and boys neatly, simply and tastefully attired, as becomes thfir Bses. with exercises that so far as possible are an expression of what

the high school has added to stature durir.fr the years they been a part of its student body.

Joseph Stevenson to Richmond

Home Builders; $1.0f); lots 2 and 6 in Glen View add. Richmond. Richmond Home Builders to Charles F. Oren: 51.00; lot 6 in Glen View add. Richmond. Henry H. Love to Thomas J. Bloom; $1,200: part lot 3 Caleb Cowgill s add.

( Fountain City.

Mary McMnhan et al. to James A. Baldwin; $2,r,50; south half lot a.

block (1. C. T. Price's add. Richmond, j Roy K. Creacer to Catherine Boval; i $5.-r,0; part S. W. Q. 2S-16-14. j Jos en h Mooro to John A. Beck- ' man; 1.00; part X. V. Q. 23-14-1. j Orla B. Fulghum, receiver, to John I A. Beckman; $2,123; part X. E. Q. i

L 23-1 4-1.

! Alwilda Schmidt et. al. to Edward ill. Wuenker et al.; $1.00, part west. : half of Sec. 17 and 20 in town. 13, range 1 . Alwilda Schmidt et al. to Mary Elizabeth Hockett et al.: $1.00, part i Sec. 17, town. 13, range 1.

Roscoe E. Kirkman to George W. Reid; $1,400; lot 16 Kirkman's add.

Richmond. j Harry C. Delcamp to Paul Bietry; ! $1.00; part Sec. 36. town. 14, range 2. ' Paul Bietry to Clara M. Delcamp; i $1.00; part Ric. 30, town. 14. range 2. j Richard Cutter et al. to Robert A. i Campbell; $4,000; lot 63 John Smith's I

' add. Richmond. j

Jennetter B. Scb.iltne.ek to Charles j

Members of the Bethel A. M. K. church will hold a reception for their pastor, the Rev. F. M. Ovelton, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of his ordination. The affair will assume the nature of a silver jubilee. It will be held at. the church next Monday night. The silver jubilee committee of the church is in charge of the anniversary celebration.

their have

RAILROAD NOTES

ill. Minor; $1,400; north half lot 15 in

C. T. Price's add. Richmond.

j Mary M. Munehhoff et al. to Frank j T. Frohnopfel et al.; S4r;n; part lots 1 and 2 in block 3 in Cambridge City. ' John B. Stokesberry. trustee, to i Everett W. Trook and A. Adams; ?4,0(0; part Sec. 10, town. 15. range 12. ; Hazel Ij. Meek to Oma B. Meek; j $1.00: part X. W. Q. Sec. 9, town. 15, ! range 14. ! Christian Spidle to William H. ! Boughner and wife, Amanda; $1,500; lots 7 and 8 in East Germantown. George A. Doney to trustees Amerii can Methodist Episcopal church. Camj bridge City; $32.00: lot 8 in block 1 I in the town of Cambridge City, i John Atkinson to Carl E. Smith et

al. ; $1,500; lot 3 in Leonard O. Lemon's subdivision. Richmond Home Builders to Charles IT. Shumaker et al.; $1.00; lot 2 in Glen View add. Jeannette X. Smith to Martha Rebecca Ammon; $1,000; lot 20 in John Fohl's eastern add. to the town of Dublin. John W. Townsend to Elizabeth M.

Mary J.

The railroad companies of the United States claim that data compiled by the Post Officp department, properly interpreted, shows the railways to lie underpaid by $29,000,000 annually for carrying the mails. This statement is made in a pamphlet issued by the Committee on Railway Pay, representing 2fi4 railroad?, handling mails en 21S,f00 miles of line, through Its chairman, Mr. Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island

uanroaa comi.nn. Harvey: $1.00; lot 14 in The railroads point out that where- q;,.1K' n(i,i

as post otnee revenues increased over $63,000,000 from 1907 to 1912, the railway mail pay in that time actually decreased over $300.000 before the parcel post was established. The pamphlet also directs attention to the fact that the Post 'Office department estimates a further increased annual revenue of about $60,000,000 on account of the parcel post, and in spite of this, no practical action has as yet been taken adequately to compensate the railroads for carrying the increased burden.

SPECIAL Cream to whip. Try ou. Coffee roasted today. H. G. HADLEY Phone 2292

Elizabeth M. Harvey to John W. Townsend et al.; $1.00; part S. W. Q. Sec. 17, town. 14, range 1. John M. Chenoweth et al. to Ezekiel Gullett: $7,500; part X. W. Q. Sec. 1, town. 15, range 1.

Baby's Things

It's Great To "Do Things" But the doing power of both brain and body depends largely upon the right kind of food. There are certain elements in the field grains that Nature uses to build a strong working body and brain. Grape - Nuts FOOD made of wheat and barley, contains all these strength-making elements including the vital mineral salts (Phos-phate of Potash, etc.) particularly for the nerve centres and brain. Grape-Xuts food tastes delicious, is easily digested and its power is proven by trial. "There's a Reason" and a profound one for Grape-Xuts. sold by Grocers.

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Our New Millinery Department Is a Surprise Such a display of Spring Millinery, Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, Plumes, Ribbons and Laces was never before seen in the city. This new Millinery Section is a veritable Art Gallery where the best products of the world's best milliners pass in view, being admired and bought by style loving women. Every hat shown here has an individuality of its own. If you buy your new hat here you need not fear to meet duplicates on every street corner. SPECIAL OPENING VALUES FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY These two days should undoubtedly be interesting days in the new millinery section. The special offerings embrace a superb lot of beautiful Spring Hats, the newest of the new indescribably trimmed and exquisitely finished.

$5.00 and $6.50 values, Monday and Tuesday

Beautiful Ostrich Plumes in ail of Spring's Rich

$3.00 1 8-INCH OSTRICH PLUMES in all shades white, black, lavender, tango Wilson blue, green and all the new two-tone and three-tone shaded effects, Monday and Tuesday

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$5.00 and $6.50 18-Inch OSTRICH PLUMES in all shades; special Monday and Tuesday . . . .

$3.00 amd $4.75

Come see them whether you wish to buy or not. You are always welcome. Examing the styles. They are so varied and different one wonders how all were evolved in one season. New Millinery Section 2nd Floor. No charge trimming service.

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