Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 208, 13 July 1914 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 208 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

RICHMOND LEADS STATES IN WEST AS ARTJENTER Special Writer for World's Work Declares Progress of City Attracts Attention of Entire Country. Democratic Art Spirit Exceeds Boston and Gains Attention of Critics in Eastern Centers. , "Richmond people should be proud f what they are doing along art, tnusio and school lines and should know that the other parts of the world are beginning to look up to them and model after them." This was a significant statement xnade Saturday by Walter A. Dyer, special writer for the World's Work, Who was in the city making an investigation, of the methods used in Richmond along music, art and schools. He is preparing a series of articles on art and music in the Middle West and on account of Richmond's predominance in these lines, this was the only city in Indiana visited by Mr. Dyer. The writer was formerly managing editor of "Country Life in America." A series of articles on similar subjects on the Southern states, is now running In "World's Work." "Richmond is doing something no other city in the United States is doing. She is more of a music and art center than Boston in the real sense" of the word," said Mr. Dyer, "in Richmond these things are democratic, like they ought to be, while in the East, it is only the chosen few that can really appreciate art and tnuslc." Attracts Wide Notice. When asked the reason that he picked Richmond out of the whole Middle West as a field for study and Investigation, he said, "No real movement toward advancement can spring up in any community but that it is watched everywhere if it really has any merit. A city can't hide its light

under a bushel any more than an individual. The movement in Richmond, which has been going on for the last twelve or fifteen years, is significant and consequently has attracted the attention of the world." "I heard of Richmond's activity for art throngh the Richmond Art association's reputation in the East, and especially through the activities of Mrs. M.-F- Johnston, who Is well known throughout the United - States. - I heard of 'Richmond as a music center chiefly through the reputation of Prof. William Earhart, who is now at Pittsburg. The schools of Richmond have a reputation that is widespread and Richmond's reputation along social center lines is reported in a book written by Ward, of Wisconsin university." During Mr. Dyer's visit here, he interviewed Mrs. M. F. Johnston, former president of the Art association and prominent in art and literary circles of the city, Lee B. 'Nusbaum, director of the Richmond Symphony orchestra and former member of the school board who has been interested In the musical activities of the city tor many years, S. R. Lyons, pastor of the Reid Memorial church and prominent in literary circles of the city. Mr. Dyer also had short interContinued on Page Six. MAY SUE COUNTY ONJLTON FILL Klemm Declares Change in Roads Means $5,000 Damage to Mill. Threats of a $50,000 damage suit against the county have been made by residents of Milton in the event the county makes a fill and changes the course of a road approaching the Milton bridge. The threat was made by Mr. Klemm, owner of a mill north of the bridge on the west bank at the river. Klemm's mill is situated so the lower part fills at high water. He claims the making of the proposed fill will result in the water being thrown from the east side of the river across to his place. The big Milton bridge is practically being wasted under present conditions. Bridge Engineer Jack Mueller of New Castle stated Saturday when the county commissioners were discussing the situation that in the course of a few years, three or four, the river will have changed its course from under the high bridge for a new channel which would be formed about 400 feet east of the bridge. To Eliminate Curve. The commissioners proposed to eliminate a curve in the approach to the bridge. The land for the new road, a piece about 500 feet long, was donated to the county by Mr. Brown, owner of the property. The old road is washed out and is practically impassible for heavy hauling while the approach to the bridge is a steep hill. The fill will eliminate these conditions and remove two short steep grades, making a level high road. The commissioners have practically decided to allow the thirty days left for remonstrance, open for Klemm Bnd then to build the road. They were advised by the county bridge engineer that a suit by Klemm on the supposition that he would be flooded, probably would be thrown out of court. His only resort until after a flood had proved his contention, would be an Injunction to stop the fill. The property which Klemm claims would be damaged to the extent of $5,000, he purchased several years ago for $1,860. His milling business Is said to be small. Klemm' says he has been caught by floods four times (when he was unprepared and was forced to shovel flour out of his basetnent in tne xorm or paste.

Nath Edwards Writes

ECONOMY, Ind., July 13. Nathan Edwards has the following to , say about sparrows, blackbirds, squirrels, pigs and turtles; DEATH TO SPARROWS. Farmers are complaining of the devastation that the English Bparrows and blackbirds are committing to the wheat in shocks and the oats that has not been cut. Oliver Scantland stays in the field with a double-barreled shotgun in order to save some grain from the birds. Charley Mendenhall said fully twenty-five bushels of wheat had been destroyed by English sparrows. They never have been so numerous in this part of the country as they are this harvest. HE CAN SEE THEM. Thomas Cain is not a hunter, but he knows a squirrel when he sees it. While motoring to Hagerstown recently he saw sixteen squirrels cross the road between Economy and Hagerstown. It is said the little animals are numerous in the thickly wooded tracts along the road. IMMENSE TURTLE CROP. The turtle crop is immense this year. Ora Edwards caught thirty-five in three days along Martindale and Margon's creek. The largest one weighed fifteen pounds. PIG KILLER, BEWARE! The man who ran over a pig with an auto last week and killed it at the Edwards Bros', home, had better settle for it to avoid being arrested. MOURNS THE PIG. Ezra Frazier mourns the loss of a pig which either wandered into the creek to cool of fnad was drowned or is hiding under a shed until the hot weather is over. WORK OF PRISONERS SAVES COUNTY $60 FOR THRENWONTHS Road Superintendent Reports Employment of Twice as Many Will 'Save Price of Truck. The use of six prisoners daily for three months saved the county road system $670 net and as a result of the showing made in his first semi-annual report, County Roard Superintendent Jones will be able to show that with the use of twice as many prisoners daily, enough can be saved in a sum-1 mer to purchase a big automobile truck. Some interesting figures are shown in the semi-annual report which Mr. Jones has just completed. It establishes the practicability of the new road system beyond question. Even though it was necessary to work out various phases of the law and institute new practices, the 240 miles of county road have been placed in better condition at less cost than ever before. The total expenditure of the department for material, wages, equipment and general expense was $7,959.89. It cost $800 to clean off the snow late in March so the road expenditure was practically little more than $7,000. Included in this, is also the cost of re pairing the estimated $2,000 Liberty pike washout. Under Jones, this cost 600. Repair Cost Low. Lumber and cement cost $416.68. This was for building up old sewers. New sewers cost $416.46 and road machinery cost $556.23. Old claims against the county for road work done prior to the time the law was in force amounted to $354.20. These claims, ucuucted as being not entirely belonging to the road work, would leave the cost of maintenance of roads at less than $4,800. For this sum, 240 miles of county road was worked. Some of the more traveled roads were gone over as many as three times. The National road was put in traveling condition the whole width of the county, except to the Ohio line. In the county road fund remains (Continued on Page Five) REV, DAVIS DISCUSSES CRIMINAJJTC CAUSES Presbyterian Pastor Explains Attitude of Young People of Church. Because of the interest which young people of the Second Presbyterian church have taken in persons sentenced to the county jail in the city court, the Rev. E. E. Davis, pastor, discussed "The Problem of Criminality" in his Sunday evening sermon. People are growing away from the old idea of punishment, he said, and are studying the eauses of criminality with the idea of removing causes which make criminals. Among these causes are improper training, bad environment, associates and drln&. Society is going about remedying these conditions, he said, by removing the causes, rather than according to the punishment theory, which was based on the idea of reforming the prisoner, preventing him from committing further misdeeds and regulating crime. Cities legalizing institutions which make criminals are moving in a circle, declared the Rev. Mr. Davis. They legalize the institution. When the criminal his been made he is arrested and thrown into jail at the expense of the county. Referring to the recent action of the Young People's society, the Rev. Mr. Davis said they would not insit that Davis said they would not insist that but wished to manifest a sympathetic interest, especially for first offenders, and to express their willingness to co-operate with the city officials.

TRIBUTES FALL TO J. F. MILLER ON NATAL DAY " y ii mil ii m Former Pennsy Railroad Chief, Benefactor of City, Celebrates I Eighty-fourth Birthday, July 16. Personal Friend of President McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna Enjoys National Reputation. BY GEORGE W. B. CONRAD. "Respect old age within whose silvery hairs honor hath evermore reigned." On July 16 comes the eighty-fourth birthday of Colonel John F. Miller, one of Richmonds' most illustrious citizens. Mr. Miller's life as a beneficial and worthy citizen and capable railroad man. if published in a volume,

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COLONEL JOHN F. MILLER. would prove highly interesting to the ambitious young American anxious to make the most of his life. Although deprived in old age of the companionship of the one whose sympathies went out to him in his early struggles and successes, his mind still remains active, cheerful and hopeful, and no man ever visits him and listens to the story of his life as a practical railroad man. without becoming inspired and feeling-that no man has a right tP say that the "world is against him," and that he hasn't a chance tm iSke the . best 1 of his oppWtWnltfe'f; Mr. Miller is an optimist in all, that the word implies, and has the greatest contempt for the man who goes through life whining and complaining of the lack of opportunities afforded him. He does not believe in waiting for something to turn up but that the individual by his character and ability should create his own opportunity. Some of His Maxims. Some of the virtues characteristic of Mr. Miller's life and for which he has always contended are: Honesty, sobriety, truthfulness, faithfulness, loyalty and self-control. He always urged upon his subordinates the necessity of living up to their promises; in other words, never make a promise and not live up to it even though it afterward redounds to one's disadvantage. After all, the afore-named virtues are a poor man's asset. If he forfeits any one of them he sacrifices hia character. Mr. Miller's ability to judge men's character correctly was remarkable. He rarely failed in this respect. The writer has known of cases where men have entered his office in search of employment, and would be loaded (Continued on Page Nine.) TEN PERSONS UNITE WITH GRACKHURCH U. S. A. Bridge, Pastor, Announces Fifty Accessions During Pastorate. All the services at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church were well attended Sunday, and especially so in view of the excessive heat. Ten persons united with the church, completing a list of fifty accessions in three months. The Rev. W. B. Freeland, district superintendent preached at the evening service on the text, "And I, if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me." "Jesus made frequent use of the personal pronoun I in speaking of himself or his work. It was perfectly proper for him to do that, for he was the Gospel," he said. "There is considerable difference between dragging and drawing. Jesus will not tear anyone away from his sins, but he will draw him as a magnet draws steel filings. "That which gives Christ his great drawing power is his death. Frequently men are thrust down in defeat only to rise to the greatest success. He died, but he rose with power to draw men to himself. It is not as an example or model that he helps men. He does that when their lives are fashioned by him." Next Sunday evening the pastor will speak on the theme, "The Man Who Drove Furiously, or The Evil and the Good of Speeding." FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not so warm in west and south portion. TEMPERATURE, Noon 70 YesterdayMinimum 63 jMaximum .. ........ .......100

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$847,508 RETURNS TO WAYNE FARMERS FROM 1914 HARVEST Value of Wheat Estimate $262,500 ; Oats $60,000 ; Clover $25,000; Corn $500,000. BY A. O. COBB. Wayne county farmers will market $847,500 from their farms this season. Almost before the reaper in the field Is silenced, the stream of golden grain has started on its way to the elevators and mills, and the threatening shadow of hard times and dull business is fading In the glow of a bounteous harvest. The coffers of the banker will be replenished, the laborers in factory and field will be fed, and a blanket of plenty will spread over the land. At a conservative estimate of 25,000 acres of wheat harvested in Wayne county, with an average yield of fifteen bushels to the acre, 375,000 bushels of wheat will be the contribution given by farmers to Wayne county's prosperity. This crop marketed at 70 cents a bushel will mean the placing of $262,500 in circulation. This money will be expended by the farmers for clothing, implements, building material, food stuffs, automobiles, fertilizer, and in this way will be distributed to those engaged in every branch of local industry. The oats crop at the very lowest estimate should be valued at about $60,000, most of which, however, will b- retained on the farms for feeding purposes. A little later the clover seed should add another $25,000. Some hay will be sold, but it is impossible to estimate the amount. The present outlook for corn, indicates not less than a 2,000,000 bushel yield, which,' at 60 cents a bushel, would be valued at a cool million dollars. The farmer's farm is his bank, and the greater part of his income is always invested in improvements, and restocking. This means that the money received from these crops will go into immediate circulation, and already a universal feeling of optimism is developing in trade circles.

MRS, ELLA MURRAY WINS $5 PRIZE FOR BEST CAKE RECIPE : Mrs.- Etta'Mufraylt. K: Nor T.'nras awarded $5 today for submitting the best recipe in the Palladium's devil's food cake contest. Awards were made by the judges, Mrs. A. D. Cobb, Mrs. Benton Addington and Mrs. Harry Mather, without trying the recipes. In considering the recipes the following points were taken into consideration: Manner of mixing, using unbeaten eggs, uniting the dry soda, softness of butter, baking in a Blow oven. The recipe submitted by Mrs. Murray complied with these points in the opinion of the judges better than any other. Speaking for the judges today, Mrs. Cobb said the recipes were ex ceptional, however, since there was not one that did not have some point of excellence. Mrs. Cobb commented especially on the use of dry soda. She said it had long been a belief that soda to be mixed properly should be dissolved. This is not good practice, since soda when placed in water spends its effervescence, which is the primary purpose for putting it in the cake batter. She said best modern practices had proved that best results were obtained by sifting the mixture with the flour. The recipe which won the prize fol lows: Put in pan one cup brown sugar, one cup grated chocolate (or cocoa), one-half cup sweet milk. Place over fire to thicken while beating one cup brown sugar, one-half cup butter, three unbeaten eggs, stirred in thoroughly at one time, one-half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, measured before sifting, into which has been put one even teaspoon soda. Add thickened chocolate mixture slowly. Flavor with vanilla. Bake in layers in moderate oven. Other recipes which were considered good by the judges will be printed later. COMMISSION RAPS HAVENJRECTORS Sixty to Ninety Millions Wasted by Mismanagement of Road. Washington, July 13. That the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad system during the period of Charles S. Mellen's presidency was a corrupt monopoly, that two directors were criminally negligent in the discharge of their duties, that the subsidary corporation of the system should be condemned for the part they played in the system, that the remedy for the evil lies in the public conscience and the better laws, was the report made by the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Senate today on its investigation into the affairs of the railroad. The commission declares that the loss of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad are reasons of waste and mismanagement will amount to between sixty and ninety million dollars. The splendid property of the railroad itBelf will be called upon for many a year to make up the drain on its resources resulting from the unpardonable folly of the transactions outside the proper field in which the stockholders supposed their money was invested, continued the report. Directors should be made individually liable to civil and criminal laws for the manner in which . they discharge Qhelr trust. ' A

RAIN COOLS CITY WITH LOW LOSS AFTER HOT WAVE Fierce lightning Display and 'Wind Accompany Downpour Which Brings Relief to Suffering Citizens. Gale Crashes Glass at Grand Leader, Injuring Employe, and Tears Limbs From , Many Park Trees. Richmond was the center of a severe storm which swept this section of the county shortly before noon today. Several minor injuries were report

ed. Fhe wind blew large limbs from trees along the streets and in the parks. . (The heavy rain which fall filled storm sewers to- their capacity and flooded many cellars In the north end. During the rain storm large balls of hail fell cooling the air considerably. -' Charles Greenstreet, 18 years old, an employe of the . Grand Leader store1, was severely cut about the head when a glass transom in the front of the store blew in. . Greenstreet was standing at the door in front of the store. The cuts in the boy's head are. not serious. After the storm he was taken to a physician's office and his wounds were treated. The glass in the front door of the store was broken When' the transom fell. The crash was heard for more than a block. Suspends Court Work. Judge Fox temporarily suspended a case he was hearing in circuit court. : When the storm broke, a witness in the county circuit court room jumped from" the witness chair and women witnesses huddled together in a corner of the room. The wind carried a sash from the court house about 100 feet around the corner of the building, where it fell with a crash. A wagon belonging to Jack Goodwin was hitched on South Fourth near Main. The first gust of wind lifted the high topped vehicle from the ground and moved it about two feet. throwing the horse. The top of one of the big trees In the east ard of the court house was blown to the ground, partially block ing the east entrance. The top of the fountain was blown off. The top of a tree "falling on North A between Ninth and Tenth missed an automobile by a few feet. Occupants of the car,' running from St Marys, O., were drenched, and forsak ing the machine took refuge in nearby homes. The sewer on South C street, which I overflows ' ever? time there is - the slightest flood, overflowed again this morning and filled the cellars of the houses in the vicinity of South Eleventh and C streets. The water at this place covered the street and sidewalk and backed up into the cellars of the houses. This is the sewer which carries all the water from Reeveston and was complained about (Continued on Page Two) STORM DOES SMALL DAMAGE IN COUNTY OUTSIDE OF TOWN The storm which raged in Wayne county shortly before noon today spent its strength in Richmond. At no other place was the downpour so near a deluge; nowhere else did the wind blow such a gale; nowhere else were the flashes of lightning s vivid. Two persons, Rebecca Louck and Ed Llchtenfels, narrowly escaped serious injury, if not death, at New Paris, when a large tree was uprooted by the wind. While corn was blown down by the wind and beaten down by the rain, farmers believe it will straighten up without loss. A. D. Cobb, agricultural editor of the Palladium, today estimated that the rain had been worth thousands of dollars to farmers, since the corn crop was beginning to show the ffects of the drought and the unusual heat. ENDANGERS TWO LIVES. NEW PARIS, O., July 13. The wind and rainstorm here came near causing the death of Mrs. Rebecca Louck and Ed Lichtenfels when a large tree near their houses was blown down. Mr. Lichtenfels had just stepped into his back door and Mrs. Louck was getting ready to step outside to catch some rainwater' off the roof of her house when" the tree came crashing down across their back yards. The rain was not hard enough to damage the corn, but was of inestimable value. RAIN HELPS CORN. FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind., July 13. A heavy rain, unaccompanied by wind and with only a little display of lightning, fell here about noon today. The rain will be of great value to corn, although farmers say enough has not yet fallen. DOES LITTLE DAMAGE. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., July 13. Outside of beating down a small amount of corn, no other damage was don by the rainstorm. NO LOSS REPORTED. MILTON, Ind., July 13, A rain, which was of great value to growing corn, fell here today. No damage from wind or lightning has been reported. TELEPHONES OUT. WHITEWATER, Ind., July 13. The play of lightning during a severe storm here today put a number of telephones out of commission. Aside from that no serious damage has been reported. WHO'S ELIGIBLE. AURORA, 111., July 13. A love-making club, the purpose of which is to perpetuate the old-fashioned way of making love, has been organized here M?5-b?r Stouns JJSS' ; "

AUTO HURTS THREE III 20-FOOT PLUNGE

DOWN EMBANKMENT Driver Backs Car Over Grade Making Turn on Wrong Road Near New Paris Sunday Night. A second serious automobile accident in the vicinity of Richmond within ten days occurred at 9:30 o'clock last night on the New Paris pike, about a half mile west of New Paris, when a touring car driven by Wilbur Miller, of Cincinnati, backed off the side of the road plunged down a twenty-foot grade, which slopes at an angle of about 45 degrees, turned completely over and alighted on its wheels. Three people were seriously injured. Mrs. J. E. Parker, Eaton, O., rendered unconscious by a blow on the head and bruised about the left side of her face, neck and shoulders. Mrs.' Joseph Acton, Eaton, O., right wrist broken, ligaments torn from left ankle and badly bruised. Joseph Acton, Eaton, O., left shoulder broken, right shoulder dislocated and painfully bruised. The driver of the car, Mr. Miller, and the fifth occupant of the machine, Mr. Parker, escaped with only a few scratches and slight bruises. Rushed to Hospital. Two cars were nearby when the accident occured and Dr. Bevington of New Paris, was summoned by tele phone. He called a Richmond ambulance and had Mrs. Parker removed to the Reid hospital. She was accompanied nere by her husband. The other injured anu Mr. Miller returned to Eaton in automobiles. The machine in which they were taking a pleasure ride after dinner at Cedar Springs hotel was badly wrecked. The scene of last night's accident was within a quarter of a mile from the scene of the terrible railroad crossing tragedy several years ago when Charles Sherer, Miss Mary Hill (Continued on Page Three) ST, ANDREWS' NETS $7,000 FROM SALE OF PEWS 111 CHURCH There was no indication of bard, times in the bidding for lews at the St. Andrew's church yesterday and the average paid was far higher than last year. Almost $7,000 was realized from the sale. There is a minimum of $50 for choice seats along the center isle. These seats have capacity of five persons. A number of families who had been back farther in the church or at the sides desired to change their seats, while last year's holders desired to retain them. This brought up the prices and soon seats were selling at $70 to $75. Henry Steens, who paid the highest price last year, ran up against a stiff bidder and paid $77 for his seats. This was the highest price paid. The bidding followed the service. There was no sermon, but Father Roeli made a short talk preceding the auction. He expressed the hope that everyone would purchase a seat, as that is the chief means of the support of the church. He then declared all seats free and ready for purchase. In anticipation of the auction the church was crowded and almost every family of the church was represented. MOOSE TO DAYTON Local Lodge to Attend TwoDays Outing. Local Moose are preparing to turn out in large numbers. to attend the two days' L. O. O. M. outing in Dayton Tuesday and Wednesday, and probably a special car will be secured to take the Richmond delegation to the meeting. Governor Cox of Ohio, will be one of the speakers. John L. Zimmerman, candidate for the United States senate, and John J. Lentz, also a candidate for the senate, will be speakers. The outing will be in Lakeside park. Tomorrow night there will be a parade in which about fifteen hundred visiting Moose are expected to take part. DRUIDS GIVE DEGREE Many out-of-town Druids and state officers of the order attended the session here last night when seven candidates were given the second degree. The following state officers were present: Noble grand arch, Charles Gra ham, of Richmond; deputy grand arch, Charles Schaefer. of Anderson; grand treasurer, Gabriel Brown, grand secretary, C. G. N. Geider, grand marshal, John Stelneger, grand sentinel, Mr. Eggert, grand herald, Mr. Van Blunt, all of Indianapolis, and supreme representative, J. H. Aring, of this city, and grand trustee, Harry Parke, of Hollandsburg, O. Following the work short talks were made by the state officers and a luncheon was served. BOY NEARS DEATH The physician in charge of " Carl Bowmaster, the eleven-year-old son of Mrs. D, C. Harlan, who was accidentally shot with a rifle on the Fourth of July, said late this afternoon that there Is no hope for the recovery of the boy. His condition has become continually worse the past twenty-four hours. Blood poisoning has set in and complications have arisen which have jL?ravated biscondltlon,-

PURTELLE COMES WITH CHECKERED COURIMjAREER Commercial Club to Entertain Apostle of Frenzied Finance Interested in Traction Line.

Promoter Managed Bucket Shops, Sued by Frankfort Banks, Files Petition in Bankruptcy. Eugene Purtelle of Chicago, with a career as checkered as J. Rufus Wallingford, is planning to visit Richmond, view the golden fleece, and be entertained by the Commercial club. Central figure in a number of high finance promoting schemes that have brought him into courts, Purtelle sees in the projected north and south traction line out of Richmond, an opportunity to exercise his promoting genius. Court records show him a traction and subway promotor, bucket shop manager and operator, and stock broker. A hotel keeper at Dyer, Indiana, recovered nothing when he sued him for $600 due on a board bill for a surveying party. Arrest at Frankfort. Labor claims against him and his companies total $8,000. On June 4. 1913, Purtelle was arrested and jailed at Frankfort, Indiana, on a charge of defrauding two local banks of $1,200 worth of worthless checks. He was acquitted and went to Chicago to promote a subway project. Trained in methods of promoting companies, chief of which was a scheme to get French capitalists to finance a $130,000,000 subway for Chicago, Purtelle. In his letters to the Richmond Commercial club, shows no lack of confidence in his ability to put across the local traction deal, provided his survey shows the feasibility of the line. His letters tell nothing of bis financial backing, but they leave the impression that he has money to build the line. Officials of the Commercial club said today they know nothing of his career. He is expected in Richmond this week. Record for Purtelle. The following is as complete a record of Eugene V. Purtelle, the traction promoter, as can be found in published accounts of his activities: In 1902 Purtelle was the Milwaukee manager for George P. Sullivan, a Chicago bucket shop operator who owned a string of bucket shops in the middle west. In. 1903 be went to Chicago , to become ., manager of ,. the Sullivan backet shops, remaining un(Continued on Page Three.) LITTLE GIRL SINKS III DEEP POOL AT MORTON LAKE DAM Dangerous holes in the river below Morton dam almost cost the life of 10-year-old Harriet Mulbolland. daughter of Mrs. Rorse Mulholland, 1104 North I street. The little girl had gone down for the third time yesterday afternoon off a six-foot step-off when Charles Baer, who lives on the New Paris pike, waded to his neck and seized her hand, the only part of her body show ing above the water. The little girl with her companions sought relief from the heat by wading in the shallow, shady part of the river directly west of Morton lake. Here the sluceway from the body of water above had washed deep holes. When they were close to the dam Harriet called to her companions to hurry. "Come on," she called, waving her hand, and started to run in the shallow water toward the big wading pool. Suddenly she sank from view. No grown persons were close to her and those who saw her disappear thought she had stumbled and fallen into the shallow water. When she did not appear, they can to the place, reaching there to see her disappear the second time. Baer jumped into the water, but the body had drifted a few feet in the undercurrent. He was searching for her when she appeared again. He went as rapidly as he could, but the girl sank again before he reached her. He was preparing to make a hasty dive when he saw the hand of the upraised arm. He rescued her with little difficulty after he had seized her hand. - She was unconscious and her face and lips were blue. With no telephone near, Baer resorted to his knowledge of resuscitation. Mrs. Mulholland, her mother, was immediately summoned and t arrived just as the girl was recovering. Be--ing young strength was regained and she was taken to her home. BLOCKS LIGHT PLAN John McMinn Stops Infirmary Improvement. With the contract let for the erection of an electric light line from Centerville to the county poor -farm, the plan is Diocnea py w McMinn, a farmer, to permit the counnnlw on the corner of hia W vw - w ' land. The county commissioners obtained the approval of all farmers along the right of way, including McMinn. McMinn, however, informed the commissioners last week that he had changed bis mind, and now believes a pole would damage him to the extent of $50 aouars. - , The commissioners probably will not pay the $50 which the fanner demands but hare made other plana,' . - -