Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 81, 15 February 1915 — Page 7

PAGE SEVEN By Stella Flores GERMS LOSE LONG TRENCHES NEAR DETIIUHE SOLDIERS HEAR TRIBUTES 'FOR GREAUEADER Sol Meredith Post and WornBashful Bob The amusing adventures of a shy young man. French Announce Gain cf 250 Yards in Fight Along Road . Between Bethnne and Bassee. en's Relief Corps Attend Lincoln Memorial Services Sunday. USE HEAVY MORTARS ' METHODISTS SPEAK

THE RICHMOND- PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1915

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Devote Special Hours to Memory of Liberator of Many Slaves. Lincoln memorial services were held at the morning service at the Grace Methodist church, and the evening ser vice at the First Methodist church yesterday. Members of Sol Meredith post, G. A. R.. and the Women's Relief Corps attended both services. The Rev. U. S.'A. Bridge delivered a stirring address on "Lincoln the Man." at the Grace church. He said 'In Llnceln were certain latent pow ers which he impressed and exercised He had a genius for hard work aud was willing to pay the price of human excellence. He spoke great truths and did good deeds, but his best service to posterity is his example of a self-made man. It was always the man he saw loved, thought of, plead for, worked for and protected. "There never was a greater need than now for men who will adopt the Uncoln Ideal. Then a man will bo placed above the dollar. Lincoln's Principle!. "Lincoln was a man of unfailing moral integrity. Not a penny would be keep that was not his own. He would not take a case unless he believed his client was in the right. In his political campaigns he would not resort to schemes that were made in the dark. For more than forty years the searchlight of investigation has played upon his life and he is revealed a man 'who stood four square upright without reproach." "His crowning act in giving freedom to one race and liberty to another, put a new song into the mouths of men, and they have been singing the sweetest, most soul-stirring song of the ages." Addresse were made by Paul A. Beckett and the Rev. Harry Harman at the First Methodist church in the evening. Mr. Beckett spoke of Lincoln as the "Great Deliberator," and developed the history of his crowning work, the emancipation of the slaves. The Rev. Mr. Harman said that Lincoln was distinctively a religious character. "He was a profound student of the Bible," he said. "His addresses to the jury, his state papers and inaugural addresses were viewed from the angle of the brotherhood of man and the doctrine of God. By prayer, he worked, lived and died. His faith in the infinite power of God was fine and of the highest type. He had mastered to a very high degree the art of right living, and is still the best loved American, living or dead." CLAIMS $1 BOUNTY ON LARGEST HAWK William Merkamp Catches Thief Measuring Four Feet From Tip to Tip: William Merkamp brought in the biggest chicken hawk today and made a claim with the county auditor for $1 bounty offered by the commissioners. He also received the thanks of his neighbors for capturing the king of chicken hawks and doing away with the biggest and most elusive chicken thief in the neighborhood. Merkamp lives south of Abington. His neighbors have lost dozens of their best hens and have shot at the big hawk repeatedly and while smaller ones were brought down, the desired one continued to sail through the skies just out of reach. He measured four feet two inches from tip to tip. CENTURY OF PEACE COMES FROM VISION Rev. Lightbourn Says People Made Conscious Effort to Avoid War. "I would not preach a war sermon," declared Rev. J. S. Lightbourn, pastor 3f the Episcopal church who said he lid not believe It good policy for a preacher to take up this subject today. ".There are too many people in my congregation sympathetic with their side as I am with mine." The Rev. Mr. Lightbourn preached i peace sermon, using as his subject, 'Human History and Its Message." It was commemorative of the close of a ;entury of peace between the United States and Great Britain. The Rev. Mr. Lightbourn showed low the forefathers were guided and influenced in different ways from the aeople of today. It is an entirely tvrong idea, he said to try to say that :ne hemisphere can exist without the jther and without studying human history of the other. He expressed the belief that the cen:ury of peace between the two coun:ries was the result of a dream which Jie people then bad striven to fulfill. DRUID ORDER OPENS MEMBERSHIP LIST The Druids lodge began a special lispensation membership campaign tolay. Every attempt will be made to inlarge the membership of the local odge, Including a reduced Initiation fee. At the close of the campaign it probable that a banquet will be fiven In honor of the new members.

It was a seven days' wonder that Bob at last was calling on a girl He found her one afternoon, all alone, taking care of her friend's baby while shaswas out. She had seen him coming just soon enough to send away CORONER REVIEWS CAUSES OF SUICIDE Dr. Morrow Tells of Raymond Oswald's Self -Destruction With Gun. The story of the death of Raymond Oswald who killed himself on his twenty-first birthday at the home of ai relative, John F. Schroth of Dublin, January 31, was retold in a coroner's verdict filed today . by Dr. Morrow. After a week of neuralgia which settled in his face, Oswald was seen on the night of his death stirring about his room. He said his teeth hurt him. He waited until others again went to sleep and then he fired a revolver placed slightly above and back of his ear. He died within a few hours. The death of George W. Rife, 52, one mile south of Boston January 27, was caused by a fatal hemmorhage brought on by a fall while at work in his barn. E. B. Osborne, 78, Economy, who died February 4 unattended, expired from natural causes. Mildred K. Steinbrinck, fifteen days old, who died February 11, died from natural causes of infants. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Steinbrinck, 525 South Sixth street. CALL INQUIRY COURT TO INVESTIGATE FIRE State Officials Subpoena Witnesses in Connection With Centerville's Disaster The first court of inquiry ever held in Wayne county under the new fire marshal law will be conducted at the court house tomorrow for the purpose of inquiring into the causes of the blaze last week which destroyed four buildings, including the 98 year old court house, at Centerville. Deputy Fire Marshal White will preside and will be assisted by Prosecutor Reller. The prosecutor said today that witnesses to appear before the inquiry court were being summoned. There have been no new developments concerning the peculiar origin of the fire but some interesting facts may be developed at the inquiry. BOARD TO PURCHASE TRASH INCINERATORS Mayor Robbins, Health Officer Smelser and the three members of the board of public works decided today to install the Wagoner incinerator at the city crematory. It is estimated that this new system can be installed at a cost of less than $5,000. Council had appropriated $7,000. No advertising for bids will be done as under the plan decided on the city will do the work itself, employing Mr. Wagoner as superintendent. . . . - Three incinerating unites will be installed at the crematory. They can be operated individually and their capacity will be considerably more than the daily collection of garbage, trash and refuse. Four and a half tons of refuse can be cremated with only one ton of coal. The University of Maine has established a four years' course to train men to become -specialists in "paper manufacture.

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CLEAN ELECTION BILL PASSED BY INDIANA HOUSE Democrats Take Counsel for Action on Jones Primary Bill Without Causing Split in Membership. INDIANAPOLIS; Feb. 13. Without a dissenting vote, the Indiana house today passed four bills. They were the Cleary measure for clean elections, which provides for the destruction of all blue pencils about a voting place at the close of the polls; Durham's bill permitting the removal of state prisoners to the penal farm; and the Reeves and Lyday measures making changes in the appellate court practice laws. A blow was aimed at theatres at which musical dances are staged, when Representative Mendenhall offered a bill prohibiting the exhibition of "immoral, disgusting, swaying-the-body dances." The caucus of Democrats of the house which was called for tonight at the Denison hotel, has resolved itself into a meeting of organization Democrats it was learned today and by tomorrow morning the administration members of the lower house will have mapped out plans for their action on the Jones primary election measure, the several workmen's compensation bills and bills that have been introduced, and the bills affecting the city of Indianapolis. SHOOTS IMAGINARY THUG FIVE TIMES Albert Pontell, 821 North Sixteenth street, aroused neighbors from early Sabbath morning slumbers and frightened some of the women almost into hysterics by bombarding an imaginary housebreaker five times with a 38-cal-ibre revolver. Albert shot through the window of his home. Some one called the police and they made a hurried run to the Pontell home. There the man explained that he thought some one was trying to get into his home. Neighbors assert Albert was having bad dreams. . . In

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HAAS RESIGNS JOB; RUMOR GIVES HIM SECRETARY'S PLAGE A sealed report to be given directors of the Commercial club tomorrow night is said to recommend E. M. Haas as successor to Charles W. Jordan. The members of the committee are sworn to secrecy. The contents of the report will not be revealed until the directors' meeting tomorrow night. The rumor that Mr. Haas is the choice of the committee is borne out by the fact that he resigned his position as traveling salesman for the Richmond Casket company three weeks ago. PATTERSON ACCEPTS CALL OF MINISTERS Former Governor of Tennessee Will Address Temperance Meeting on March 14. Ex-Governor Patterson of Tennesse, will deliver a temperance lecture In Richmond March 14, under the auspices of the Ministerial association. A special meeting of the Ministerial association was held this morning at the Y. M. C. A. to make the arrangements. The every-member canvass, which had been set for March 14, was given up as it conflicts with the Patterson meeting. The canvass probably will be taken up at a later date. The Patterson mass meeting probably will be held in the East Main Street Friends' church. Formerly a strong worker against prohibition in any form, ex-Governor Patterson has been an enthusiastic campaigner for the anti-saloon forces since his conversion. His appearance is expected to bring new life to the dry workers of the city. DISMISSED SUIT. The suit of the Richmond Loan and Savings association to foreclose a gage held against Martha Allen for $600 was dismissed from circuit court today.

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HOLDS UP CONTRACT FOR LADDER TRUCK President Bavis announced today that a contract for a motor aerial ladder truck would not be let until Chief MilleT had compiled the data on the various bids submitted. A petition for cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters and a macadam roadway on South Twenty-second street from A street to B street was submitted. A petition for a sewer in Center street was submitted and the board also ordered the engineer to prepare plans for cement walks on that street. The board also issued orders that Main street from Third street to Eleventh street be flushed every day before 7 o'clock in the morning. CHURCHILL ANSWERS GERMANY'S BLOCKADE LONDON, Feb. 15. "Germany will not be allowed to adopt a system of open piracy and murder without active reprisals." This emphatic declaration was made in the house of commons today by Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the British admiralty. It was England's answer to the German admiralty's proclamation making the waters around the British coasts a war zone and warning ships of neutral nations to keep away. News that Mr. Churchill would make a statement, setting forth Great Britain's attitude toward the German proclamation brought an enormous crowd to parliament. Mr. Churchill announced that the British naval losses in the war so far have been 5,500 officers and men of all rank. Most of them were killed by German submarines. EVANGELIST TALKS. Rev. Thompson, an evangelist from Cambridge City, Mo., preached at the Central Christian church last night for Rev. W. R. Motley, who went to Lynn. Rev. Thompson was visiting Rev. Motley here yesterday and missed a train to Indianapolis, where he had an engagement to speak last night He delivered the sermon here instead.

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"I didn't ask you to come, anyway," she replied, her cheeks scarlet.' Ahd neither knew that the other was sorry two seconds later. HASEMEIER EXPLAINS ALLEGED SHORTAGE Answers Filed Assert Dead Cashier's Monthly Bal ances Falsified Figures. Answers made to the Interrogatories of the attorneys for the estate of Louisa F. Bentlage in circuit court today, indicate that the shortages charged by the H. C. Hasemeier company over' a period of six years were made en monthly, semi-annual and annual balances. In one reply, Mr. Hasemeier, presi dent of the company, said the books had never been audited or gone over by any members of the firm or any emnlove while Miss Bentlage waJ bookkeeper and cashier, and the first knowledge of the cause of the shortages was received in a note Miss Bentlage sent on the day of her death, August 12, 1914. Hasemeier also said there was no insurance or indemnifying bond to protect the company against shortage. He said the exact amount of the shortage, $9,300 was found by an auditor, Ralph Slatterback, since Miss Bentlage's suicide. The daily accounts were found to be correct, he said, but the monthly, semiannual and annual accounts were incorrect. LIGHT PLANT DATA GOES m ENGINEER All data in connection with the taking of the inventory of the municipal electric plant has been secured and forwarded to Engineer Watts, who has been employed by the city as consulting expert, for compilation. What plant valuation there is will not be known until figures have been compiled. The inventory was a most complete one. when Mr. Watts has completed hi3 work the inventory will be filed with the state utilities commission. The commission engineers have com-: pleted their work of appraising the electric plant of the Richmond Light.! Heat and Power company, and have j been making an appraisement oi me city plant for the last two weeks. Will (6) nnn nr mm Phono 2501

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Smash Allies Artillery in the Eastern Theatre of War. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK PARIS, Feb. 15 Another setback for the Germans attempting to cut through the allies' lines between Bethnne and La Bassee Is announced in an official statement Issued at the war office this afternoon. It states that on the road between the two towns the French have succeeded in capturing a trench about 250 yards long. The statement also reveals that the Germans have brought into action in this zone of fighting their heavy mortars. It declares however that the heavy French artillery has shown its superiority over this bradch of the German artillery. In Lorraine, the French have succeeded in driving back the Germans who captured Norroy. GAIN IN FLANDERS. BERLIN. Via Wireless. Feb. 13. An important gain for the German troops operating in Flanders is announced in an official report from the German general staff given tut here today. It says that the enemy's positions along a front of more than half a mile were captured near St. Eloi and that they were successfully held despite counter attacks. British troops are believed to be opposing the Germans in this region, which is soutn or Ypres. LADY GREGORY COMES Miss White Announces Lecture and Reception. Lady Augusta Gregory, the famous Irish writer and dramatist, will appear in this city on Sunday afternoon. February 21, at the Westcott Hotel in a lecture on "A Possible American Theatre," under the direction of Esther Griffin White. At the close of the lecture a reception will be given for the Drama League and City Federation of clubs and all members of the audience FIND NO CLUES. The police so far have not been able to find any clue as to the identity of any of the men whom Clarence Gagen, a non-union employe of the Reliance foundry, says set upon him in the old covered bridge near the Rumely factory.' beat him unconscious and then threw him into the river. F. 0. Y. Hair Restorer An unequalled preparation for restoring Gray or Faded Hair to its natural color and brilliancy. IT IS NOT A DYE But acts directly on the roots of the hair, restoring it to original color and keeping it in a healthy condition and promoting growth of the hair. Perfectly harmless. Satisfaction or your money back. KIELHORN MILLINERY CO. 525 MAIN STREET. SPINAL ADJUSTMENTS For Chronic Stomach and Liver Trouble. J. C. Bockman, Chiropractor, Knollenberg's Annex. South Sth street. Second Floor Phone 1S68. Quit Working your eyes when they plainly tell you they are straining. Edmund's Toric Lenses take off the strain and make both work and play easy. Edmunds Optometrist. 10 North 9th St. Phone 2765. CarlF.Weisbrod Piano Tuning and Repairing. Phone 2095. WHIPPING CREAM H. G. IIAPLEY Received Dully. GROCER. Phone 2292. 1035 Main.