Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 134, 16 April 1914 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914

PHYSICAL CULTURE

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Kelly Cites Statistics to Shaw Students Fifty Per Cent More Healthy. At the Wednesday morning chapel exercises, President Kelly spoke on the campaign for the new gymnasium, and touched particularly on the value of the gymnasium in the conservation of health of the students, thereby mak

ing the school more efficient. He quoted figures given by the nurse In charge of the hospital ward at the college which showed that in the past two years, stacshysical culture has received more attention from the college authorities, the number of hospital cases has decreased more than fifty per cent, and especially is this true of the young women for whom physical culture in the Freshman and Sophomore years has been made compulsory in the last two years. President Kelly urged the seniors, who have inaugurated the campaign for the gymnasium, and the other students of the college to enter into the campaign which will soon be definitely organized and launched. Reads Letter. A letter from Fang Chung, a Chinese student, who is being sent to the university in Western Vhina by contributions from Earlham students and professors, was read by President R. 1,. Kelly. The letter, written in English, told of the studies at the university, and the outside activities such as the football game with the Y. M. C. A. team, ending with the terse statement "they are beaten by us," or the English club, where the Chinese students are made to talk only English and if they break the rule, the letter says, "we fine them some cash." The letter closed with the expression of gratitude on the part of the Chinaman for the kindness of the Earlham students.

Married Life the Third Year

FIRST MEETING NEXT SUNDAY

The first of the township Sunday school conventions to be held preliminary to the county conventions, will be at Greensfork Sunday under the leadership of Rev. Lee Chamness and Mrs. Cummins. The following Sunday, the township convention at Williamsburg will be held. Next week the program committee of the county convention will meet to arrange a program for the big event, which will take place in Hagerstown in May. A state worker and his assistant will be at the convention for one day.

For Carpet Cleaning Phone 2690. 1430t

"What's all this?" asked Warren, glancing around the restaurant, which waa placarded with big black-lettered signs, "Don't Forget Thursday Amateur Night" "Why, this is Thursday! exclaimed Helen. "But do they have amateur nights at cabarets?" "Seem to have 'em here, and we've struck the night." Then turning to the head waiter, who was standing back of their table, "How about this amateur business? Any good?" "Yes, sir; you Gould hardly get a table here Thursday nights during the winter. But it's getting late now everybody's going to the beaches," and he hurried off to seat a party of four that had just entered. "Ladies and gentlemen," suddenly announoed 'a brisk young man, who had mounted the raised platform in front of the orchestra, "the firBt number of our amateur performance this evening is Miss Rose Martin. She is a"

"Singer! Dancer!" called out several of the diners. "She is SOME songstress," ended the announcer with a grin, as a young woman, in a rusty black skirt and cheap white shirtwaist, mounted the platform beside him. In a high nasal voice she began to shrill a popular song. With the second verse everybody was laughing or whistling derisively and shuffling their feet. "Oh, why doesn't she stop?" murmured Helen. "Can't she see they're making fun of her?" "That's what she's here for. You don't think she's a real amateur, do you?" sniffed Warren. ' She's some cheap vaudevillan trying to sing through her nose faking the amateur game." The Game. The man who did the announcing stood back of the girl, with a broad grin and his hands over his ears.

Every now and then -he would stoop to pick up and put in a plate the small coins the diners threw on the red-carpeted platform. When the girl had ended her song, amid loud whistles and shouts, he gave her the money and bowed her off mockingly. "But surely she gets paid?" asked Helen. "She wouldn't make such a spectacle of herself for the few dimes on that plate." Warren shrugged his shoulders. "You can't tell. These poor devils out of a job may be glad to sing for their supper." "Our next number," announced the man from the platform, "will be Miss Emma Kelly. She is a" pausing in the same way for the response he evidently expected from the diners. "Singer! Dancer!" again shouted the. men at various tables. "She is a a LADY," he finished with the same mocking grin. "Dear, how silly! Why does he announce them like that?" murmured Helen. Miss Emma Kelly was a very unattractive looking "lady," with her old black satin gown, rusty shoes and untidy hair, and he voice, while not

as nasaL was eeually as bad as the first. She received her same share of hoots and jeers and the same sprinkle of nickels and dimes. It seemed to Helen . that she furtively watched the man as he picked

1 them up for fear they would not all

be deposited in tne plate. Even Helen could see that she was not an amateur. There was a certain boldness and indifference In her manner that spoke loudly of the stage. And she was overdoing the part she was singing too badly. He off-keys were too frequent. "Oh, this is all faked up,'! muttered Warren in disgust. "There won't be a real amateur here tonight," , "Why not? Why don't they -have them?" insisted Helen. "They'd be much more interesting." Cut and Dried. "Guess they can't get 'em or can't get enough to depend on. This thing is all cut and dried. I'll wager that fellow who calles 'em off is a sort of agent who furnishes these people for the night. , That right?" turning to the waiter, who was now serving

their planked steak. "Yes, sir, that's right. He brings down a whole bunoh of 'em every Thursday night." "But he pays them, doesn't he?" asked Helen. "They get something besides what's thrown at them?" "I don't know, m'sm. Some of 'em gets a lot of money on the platform. girl here last week got a five dollar bnl. It's Just owing to the crowd we've got and the way she strikes em. Would you like some chili sauce with your steak, sir?" Then came a girl who played on a harmonica, and who, like the singers, plainly faked the "amateur." After this the manager announced a recess oi ten minutes. The bored-looking musicians left their Instruments and retired to a table back of the platform, where one of the waiters brought them some beer. The place was filling up now. Two tables had just been put together for a party of eight. The hum of voices, laughter and cigarette smoke it was a typical New York restaurant scene. The intermission over, the musicians left their empty beer glasses and came back to their instruments. Again the manager mounted the stage. He announced a "Miss Tessie Williams" as "some song bird." The diners were now in a more generous mood, fqr as "Miss Tessie" sang, her black skirt was pelted with small coins. Suddenly a dollar bill fell at her feet, and she sang more lustily than ever. She was younger than any of the others, and would have been pretty had it not been for the hideous .black dress, which evidently all "amateurs" must wear. Not Shy. But there was no shynesB nor timidity in her first appearance, for when the second dollar bill fell before her she left the platform and came down singing among the tables, staring boldly at the men and shrilling loudly. "She'll want to come here again

the - aaoatev -performance for-this pleasant, for-her... Wednesday, , her evening. I thaak you for your atten- i husband. Richard 8111s. also reached tlon. We hope to see you all back j his eighty-seventh birthday annlvernext Thursday night. We shall hare sary. Mr. Sills is in very 111 health.

next week, all right," laughed the manager, when he emptied the plate with the two dollar bills and the many small coins into Jier hands. The gtrl took it greedily and ran off. -

Then a board was placed over the red-carpeted platform, and "Mr. William Murphy," a "clog dancer," was

announced.

"Oh, that poor -old man!" exclaimed

Helen. "Surely he's not going to

dance!"

For the man who now came up to shuffle about on the board was whitehaired and shabby, and his clog dancing was most pathetic. The diners were in no mood for so aged an entertainer and Helen saw only

three dimes fall on the platform. "Oh, dear! DO throw him something! I'm sure he doesn't belong to the others. It's too pathetic. Throw him a quarter." Warren felt in his pocket. "Here's the quarter do your own throwing. I'm not going to encourage such imbecility." Helen threw the coin with such bad aim that it fell on the piano, and at first no one seem to notice it. Her heart sank. He would not get it after aii. But a waiter pointed it out to

i the pianist, and it was finally lodged 1 in the plate at the old man's feet. I The party of eight, who were drink

ing freely of champagne and who had been tossing coins at all the other singers, had not thrown this poor old man a cent. "Why should.they? They came here to be entertained," declared Warren, "not to have their feelings harrowed. This is no place for that old piker. And I'm not so sure that he's not a fake with the rest of tbem." At times Warren could be very hard. He was not uncharitable, but he resented any unexpected demand on his sympathies, while Helen was always emotionally sympathetic. Already her imagination was tracing signs of refinement in this old man's face. What had brought him to thiB? Then she thought of how difficult it was for an old man to get work.

I She knew that the bread lines were i made ud of lust such men. It was

certainly better to do a shuffling clog dance for a few cents than to stand in line for half a loaf of bread and a cup of coffee. His dance finish ed, the old man now took the few coins and shuffled off the platform in a sort of shamefaced way that made Helen feel that at least his act was genuine. The next number was a pert, uppish, tough-looking youth of about seventeen, with a striped shirt, a red necktie and a sham diamond pin. With his hands in his pockets he sang in a horrible imitation of Harry Lauder. "Oh, he's AWFUL," shuddered Helen, as he strutted about with a self-satisfied leer, while the diners showered him with coins. When this youth had departed with his money, the manager stepped up to the front of the platform with a final announcement : "Ladies and gentlemen, this ends

an entirely new set of amateurs to

entertain you. "AMATEURS! " scoffed Warren

Well, he needn't to have announced

The members of the Rebekah lodjre

enjoyed a pleasant social time Tuesday evening after the close of the

lodge. There were thirty members In

the new bunoh for next week. 1 attendance and each member had the Shouldn't think anybody here would '. privilege of inviting one guest. mak

want to come again. One dose of this .,n aooui nrxy in aitenaan

ought to be enough."

The Woman's Cemetery association

is agitating cement sidewalks to the Westslde cemetery. Mrs. Phoebe Michael has returned

to Richmond. Her daughter. Miss

Why It Is a Favorite. There are good reasons why Cham

berlain's Cough Remedy is a favorite j rrrt i. "-nf;,. ,tf' " with the mothers of young children. ! arrte' ,8 Sradua,ly improving in Read what one of them says of it: , , . "There could be no better medicine L1,,"' Huddleato1n "as over than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. ; 5 L"" -251 "I" T

My children were all sick with whoop-; . ' '"tTm, ' t, r S aaT . ' ing cough. One of them was in bed. w,,?- ""ddi5"ton- u, had a high fever and was coughing TlM"-J- U Wlke w" 87 oW up blood. Our doctor gave me Cham-( IueBaaberlain's Cough Remedy and the first ! Mr- a11 Mr- Albert Newman. Mr. dose eased them, and three bottles and Mrs- Charles Davis, attended the cured them," says Mrs. R. A. Donald- K- of p- dancing party at Cambridge son, of Lexington, Miss. For sale by I City Tuesday evening, all dealers. i Mrs. Will Little and baby, of An(Advertisement) derson, are visiting her husband's parents, Mr. and Santford Little, and a a 1 other relatives.

;rs. iiBBBay nussey is very low at her country home west of town. Her

FIVE TO GRADUATE I FROM DUBLIN HIG1 Commencement E x e r c isc Arranged for Friday Evei ing at Friends Church.

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Mrs. Charles Morse and son, Rob-1 David Nugent was taken to Indianaert, were guests of her parents, Mr. ; polls Tuesday for a surgical operaand Mrs. James Revalee. at Cam-1 tion.

! bridge City, Tuesday. H. D. Huddleston and sister, Miss j Mrs. Elisabeth Ferguson, 93, died I Laura, were at Dublin, Wednesday, ! at her home in Milton, Tuesday night. I to attend the funeral of the late HenShe is survived by two children, Mrs. ry Huddleston, and the late Charles ! Oliver Thornburg and Charles Fer- i Howren. ! guson. She was the widow of the ! Miss Kathryn Hosbour is home for ! late LInville Ferguson. Mrs. Fergu-! a short time, from Indianapolis, son was born in Fayette county, near j Harper Lindsay and John Man love, , eBntonville, and was the daughter of ! Jr , were at Cambridge City, Tuesday j John and Isabel Rin gland Loder. She ! evening to attend the dancing party would have been 94 the coming July ! given by the K. of P. entertainment , 1st. The funeral services were con- i committee. I ducted fro mthe home, Thursday af-1 Mr. and Mrs. John North and

I ternoon, at 2 o'clock, the Rev. F. C. I tehir daughter, Mrtr. W. H. Brown,

DUBLIN, Jnd., April 16. The cot mencement exercises will be held t the Friends church Friday evenln, April 17. with class day exercises i the school house the same afternoot The graduates are Ralph Chamn.

' Evelyn Hayes, Lucile Johnson. Ra. I mrvnf C'hnm a nn anil 1 1.1 om

son. W. Money of Indianapolis spei Sunday with his brother A. P. Mone and family. Mary Dell Williams of Liberty, w the guest of Miss Inez Funk Sunday. : M. C. Cox spent Sunday in Knights town with his brother. Miss Elva Wiker of Pendleton Is vli

iting friends here.

The junior class of the D. H. S. gav' a reception for the senior class Ft day evening at the school building The freshmen and sophomores wer; invited and each bad a stunt at th expense of the seniors. Music, the clas prophecy and a general good time fui nished enjoyable entertainment. Th', entire building was decorated in th class colors and sweet peas were give as favors. Refreshments were served

McCormlck, pastor of the Christian j church, officiating. The interment was in the family lot in the churchyard at Bentonvllle. ; Lewis Klmmer, of Bentonvllle, was in Milton, Wednesday, greeting his j many friends. j Miss Clara Houseworth returned to ! her home in the Doddridge settlement ! recently, with the grippe, but is re

ported somewhat better. Miss House- family.

whom they have been visiting, went

to Portland, Wednesday to visit relatives. Mrs. Frank DuGranrut was at Connersville, Tuesday to visit her mother, Mrs. Green. Mr. Border, of Richmond, and his daughter, Mrs. Purnell, of Cincinnati,

came Tuesday to visit the daughter and sister, Mrs. George Murley and

The Misses Lois Dailey. Lora Bee-

son. Irene Crook. Florence Daniel. Mary Sills, Cora Kellam and Augusts

worth Is a student at Ohio Wesleyan ; University. I Mm T R fnrlov rntnmaH frstm a

pleasant visit with her son, Owen J Miller, high school girls, made a hike

Murley, at eKndalvllIe, Wednesday. to Cambridge City Monday evening. Mrs. Delia Williams, of Cambridge j Mr. and Mrs. John Ingersaan had City, was greeting friends here, Wed- as their guest, Tuesday, his mother nesday. Mrs. Williams is a deputy at ! and sister, Mesdamea Angelina Ingerthe Cambridge postoffice. ; man and George Stombaugh, of CamG. A. Borders is suffering from an i bridge City, absees on his head. j Mrs. Mary Benninger Is spending Fred Lantz and daughter. Miss De- a few days with her daughter. Mrs. borah, of Pendleton, spent Wednes-1 J. A. Morgan and family, west of town.

I day with his parents, Mr. aud Mrs. j Elmer Lowry has secured the Lake L. F. Lantz and family. j Erie and Western coal btas at this j The pupils of the township schools 1 place and will open a coal yard, j at Milton are preparing tor an elab- J The board of review appointed by orate program for Arbor day, Friday ' the county board of commissioners . afternoon. If the weather permits, j viewed the approach to the river , the exercises will be held outdoors, j bridge at the east side of town, that I If not they will be held inside. Every-! they might pass decision upon the

under the auspices of the Cary clul

j and will ebmrace "the Influence o

transmitted weakness from parent U child, and its bearing on the genera health, physical strength and menta capacity of the race." Mrs. Walter Templin and children also her father, W. P. Moore, were a Richmond to spend Tuesday with Mr and Mrs. Edwin Moore. The town trustees will have severs' streets surveyed for cement sidewalks. Mrs. R. P. Lindsay was at Richmond Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Dewey, of Richmond, were guests of her sister. Mrs. Lute Lantz. Jr.. Tuesday. The Cary club will meet with Mrs.' Mallnda Barton. Thursday afternoon. Frank Morris, who has been the carrier on route 17 out of Milton postoffice since the route was established several years ago. has giv-n his res-; ignatlon to take effect April 30. The mercy and help department of the Epworth League of the M. E-, church here, carried a large number of magazines and other literature to the inmates of the county infirmary

' at Centervllle Monday. The league

was represented by Miss Agnes Ward and Mrs. C. A. Roark. The ladies also visited Richmond before returning home.

' body is invited to attend.

Mrs. Sills was 76 years old Tuesday

A number of her relatives came Tuea-

site.

Dr. H. C. Sharp, of West Baden, will talk on "Heredity and Eugenics" at

day afternoon to spend a few hours j the Christian church Friday evening, with her to make the occasion more ! April 17. The lecture will be given

Canada has established a forest pro ducts labratory in connection with Mo gill university, at Montreal, on the lines of the United States institution of the same sort at the university of Wisconsin.

C. W. GARDNER

CHARLES HOFHEINS

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The Hoover-Bond Company

Big Furniture House Makes Wonderful Record in Past Five Years of Business

The Increased Business Which the Hoover-Bond Co. Is Having Each Year Shows that the Citizens of This Community Appreciate a High Class Store.

This wonderful store was unknown a few years ago to the Richmond public but it has only taken these few years to make this store the leader in furniture. When they opened up their store in the building at 925-927-929 Main street, but few people realized that in their midst had come one of the best known furniture concerns in America. What they did realize a few weeks ago was that this concern was the most progressive that had ever come to this city. In opening a store in Richmond they knew that it would only be a question of time until they would have to find larger quarters. For the past two years they had been looking for an ideal location for their store which was found in the place they now occupy at Tenth and Main. This section of the city has so progressed that it is now the very best in the city. Finer business blocks occupy the four corners of Tenth and Main than other corners in Richmond. When the doors of this new building they now occupy were thrown open to the public on April 1st, it impressed every one who visited it the absolutely open and above board methods. There are no secret signs and if an article is advertised at a price, you are sure of getting just that article. As Mr. W. Penny explains it is a daylight store with daylight methods and if business can not be done honestly it can not be done at all.

W. M. PENNY, GENERAL MANAGER

Well Known Furniture Man Has Made Rapid Rise in Business World. W. M. Penny is the general manager of the Hoover-Bond Co. of Richmond and although still a young man, is probably the best known furniture man in Richmond and also the Jivest wire in business. Mr. Penny is well known in Richmond and vicinity, having taught in the county schools for years. He is an Indiana University and Earlham College post graduate. He entered the employ of the Hoover-Bond Co. in the year 1909 as a salesman and his rapid rise to general manager of the store shows his ability as a business man. Mr. Penny is proud of the new store and expects the next year to bring a great increase of "sales.

Beautiful New Store Filled to Overflowing With Choicest Stocks of New Furniture

Four Floors, Largest in the City, Now Ready With One of the Handsomest Expositions of Furniture Ever Shown in Richmond.

The Hoover-Bond Co. of Richmond, with its modern and splendid building and up-to-date methods is a concern that this city may well feel proud of. It is one of a chain of stores that now operate in 16 different cities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. To illustrate just why the Richmond store has progressed so rapidly is that it can sell furniture twenty-five per cent cheaper than other stores. It is only necessary to stop a moment and consider. Of course all furniture dealers go once or twice a year to the furniture markets, but where nine-tenths of them buy for their own single store, the HooverBond organization buys for sixteen. The furniture manufacturers dealing with th one man sell him goods for sixteen stores. And when the small dealer buys one or two pieces, this company buys forty to fifty pieces of the same pattern. Who wouldn't make the price cheaper? Where this concern buys by the train load and not the car load, and since they are such desirable customers and buy such immense quantities, the manufacturer caters to them and offers every inducement to hold their business. By buying cheaper, they naturally sell cheaper and not only that, but they guarantee every piece of goods that leaves the store if it doesn't prove to be exactly as represented, there is never any argument, the piece is taken back and you get a new one or your money is refunded. Just now the store is an exhibition of the newest designs and patterns for Spring selling and it will be a "treat for those who haven't seen it. One of the things that is unique is the fourroom Miniature Outfit furnished complete for comfort and convenience there is a living room, dining room, bed room and kitchen.

(Photos by Bundj.)

CHALMER PENNY

FRED R. ROSSITER

Salesmen of Hoover-Bond Co. Who Have Helped to Make it What it is The pictures on this page are splendid likenesses of the sales people, who are all well known locally. C. W. Gardner is head salesman and Mr. Penny's right hand man; he also is advertising manager and credit man. J. C. Hampton is also a salesman and has been a valuable man to the . firm for the past two years. Miss Ruth Hunt is the bookkeeper. Fred R. Roasiter, Charles Hofheins, Charles Weber, N. A. Kirkman and Chalmer Penny, salesmen, are all well known locally and as loyal a lot to their firm as can be found in Richmond.

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RUTH HUNT

CHARLES WEBER