Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 37, 24 December 1914 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1914

PAGE SSVEXt FIRST GLASS MAIL SETS NEW RECORD ALLIED GENERALS MOVE TROOPS TO MAKE TERRIFIC BLOWS AT BOTH ENDS OF FRONT OFFICERS ALLEGE MISUSE OF MAILS CLUB GIVES CANDY A donation of fifty stockings filled with candy was made to the North End Mission today by the Dorcas society to be given members of the Infant classes at the mission's Christmas entertainment next week. The stockings were made by the members of the Dorcas society. It is an annual donation. -i

Post Office Handles 45,000 Pieces in Single DayMails Increase.

Christmas mall handled by the post office yesterday and today exceeded in quantity the mail of last year, according to Superintendent of Mails I fandley. Yesterday 45,000 pieces of first class mail were handled and half as many pieces of parcel post matter. The business until the late trains tonight is expected to be heavier. The usual trouble with tinsel post cards is being encountered and many will be sent to the dead letter office

which were intended as Christmas!

remembrances. The office is compelled to follow strictly the law which says tinsel post cards must be in an envelope with the stamp on the Mivelope and not on the card. The packages are wrapped better this year than last and there is less lost ruction and breakage. Along with packages and bundles of Christmas

presents, the greatest number of:

i hickens and turkeys the office has handled, are being distributed.

BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent The International News Service. PARIS, Dec. 24. It is learned from an authoratative source that Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British expeditionary force in France and Belgium, and General Joseph Joffre, commander-in-chief of the French army, are gathering their forces and are moving troops and artillery for two terrific blows, which will be administered against the Germans at both ends of the SOO-mlle battle front, probably in January. The French government recently received from the government arms works a heavy consignment of new guns fully as effective as the 42-centl-metre guns of the Germans, which are being rushed to West Flanders and to the battle field east of the Meuse. The offensive of the allies, which

Mrs. Austin's Bag Pancake, delicious light cakes for breakfast.

ALLISON TO SPEAK AT MEN'S MEETING Dayton Man Returns to Address Y. M. C. A. Services at Theatre.

L. K. Allison of Dayton, O., will be i the speaker at the men's meeting att the Gennett theatre Sunday afternoon.! Mr. Allison will be remembered by the men who heard him last year, as an enthusiastic speaker, with a wide experience as a traveling man, around ; which he will build his story of "The Man "Who Couldn't Come Back." Mr. Allison will be assisted in the meeting by Peter Quartel, who will King. Mr. Allison and Mr. Quartel appeared iu Richmond last, winter. The doors will be open at 2:45, and

the meeting will start promptly at ''clock.

FIRST METHODISTS ENTERTAIN SANTA

The Sunday school of the First Methodist Kpiscopal church, will have its Christmas entertainment this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the auditorium of the church. A large Christmas tree has been set up in the church and very beautifully decorated lor the occasion, it will be electric lighted and afford old Santa Calus a fine opportunity to display the contents of his pack. A Christmas gift la ready for every member of the school and abundant provision has been made for all. A delightful program, the "Christmas Cantata" has been prepared and will be rendered for the entertainment of all of whatever age and size.

Free lunch tonight, turkey with oyster dressing. Harry Minck's, Cor. 6th and N. D. Egypt is adopting modern agricultural machinery after using the most primitive kinds for thousands of years.

For a Weak Stomach. Mrs. P. P. Tritsch, Rome, X. V., rites, "About live years ago my stomach was very weak, f could nut eat solid food. Friends told me that Chamberlain's Tablets were just what 1 needed. I took three or four bottles of them .and my health has since been of the betn. For wale bv all dealers Adv.

The German beet crop this year is expected to produce not less than 2,iioo.OUO tons oi raw sugar.

SURPRISES MANY IN RICHMOND The QUICK action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka, the remedy which became famous by curing appendicitis, is surprising Richmond people. Many have found that this simple remedy

drains so much foul matter from the i system that A SINGLE DOSE relieves j constipation, sour stomach and gas on ' the stomach almost IMMEDIATELY.'

Ar!Ier-i-ka is the most thorough bowel cleanser ever sold. Thistlethwaite's drug stores. Advertisement

actually began more than a fortnight ago, is expected to reach the climax of its effective pressure, within the next three weeks. Purpose of Drive. The object of this double drive will be two-fold, as follows: First, to drive the Germans from Belgium. Second, to hurl the German forces operating in Alsace-Lorraine back to the Rhine line of defenses. Official dispatches from the front announce further small gains north of Dixmude, near Arras, on the Aisne, and particularly in the district lying between the Argonne forest and the Meuse. Hundreds of French officers and privates arrived in Paris today from the front on a short leave of absence for Christmas, for it is expected that there will be but little fighting tomorrow, Christmas day.

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A Merry Xmas and a Prosperous New Year T) INDIANA RUSTXFSS COLLEGE STUDENTS. ITS PTROXS AND FRIENDS EVERYWHERE. PRESENT, PAST AND PROSPECTIVE of Richmond, M uncle-. New Castle, Anderson, Indianapolis, KokiMiio. Marion, Lafayette. Logansport, Vincennes. Crawfords'ville, Washington and Columbus and all persons who have ever been connected w irti the Richmond Business College in any way is the sincere

wish of both faculty and management of the

Richmond lysine

College

We Extend (bree tines

And thank you for the excellent business during the vear 1914.

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PURTELLE TO START CONSTRUCTION WORK

Construction work on the HamiltonConnersville traction line will begin within two weeks, according to John Fitzgibbons, one of the Purtelle party. Mr. Fitzgibbons returned home from Hamilton today with Mr. Purtelle, who went to Chicago for the holidays. The local man said the contract was sublet by Engineer Clawson, also of the Purtelle party to the J. W. Newman and Sons company, two weeks ago and the contractors are ready to start work on five days notice.

9Y LEASED WIRE.1 NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Charles L. Cele, who has been stopping at the St. Paul hotel, was arrested today as he stepped from an automobile in front of the hotel and was taken to police headquarters. He is charged with being a fugitive from justice, the police alleging that a warrent has been issued for his arrest by the federal authorities charging him with misuse of the mails.

Turkey dinner at the Arlington Christmas day, 11 :30 to 1:30.

Natives of the eastern slopes of the Andes, in Bolivia, scatter the juice of a certain tree on streams to render the fish insensible, so that they may be caught in the hands.

For Anyone in any Season

T soften or allay dry, rough or

chapped face and hands. The appearance and odor suggest roses the effect is soothing and wonderfully pleasant.

Your druggist will supply yon.

CItoosttinmais (Gireefltajp And Many Thanks We are pleased with business and desire to hereby thank our numerous friends

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and patrons for ttiffiiii

Come. See Us Often

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W. E. JAMESON, Prop.

The Second National Bank Extends to All

Let Our Christmas Savings Club Make You More Prosperous . . Next Year

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Happy Flew Year

We Thank You for Past Patronage

From the World's Master Workmen Gomes the Starr"

nd of the Season

And the end of the year 1914 finds this great instiution to be highly pleased with the amount of business which it has enjoyed during this past year. Local conditions in the world of business, unlike those away from us, have enabled us to make the year 1914 a prosperous one but then we do not give to ourselves all the credit for we owe that to our many patrons and friends who have patronized us during this past year, and to them we extend

e&sn9s Best Greetings

May this Christmas time bring happiness and good cheer to each and every one of you, and you can feel assured that the best wishes of this institution are extended to you with the utmost pleasure.

The Starr. IPi&nb Co

Main Street, Corner Tenth

Richmond, Indiana

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