Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 108, 18 March 1915 — Page 1
ATX A IDT VOL. XL., NO. 108 Palladium and Sun-TeUgtam ? Consolidated. Jtf7 - RICHMOND, 1ND., THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS 7& (o) ill SIM cienee Society Rents Home For Nursery
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SCIENCE SOCIETY STARTS NURSERY IN OWN BUILDING Association Financing Visit' ing Nurse Decides to Rent House as Quarters for Expanding Activity.
WORKS OUT DETAILS Increased Demands Make Necessary Employment of Assistant to Mrs. Linton and Large Offices. Work of the visiting nurse under the direction of the Domestic Science association has reached such proportions that' the society yesterday decided to accept the offer of one of the members to rent a bouse in which to conduct the work and a day nursery which will be added to the list of activities. The headquarters will afford rooms for the nursery, an office for the visitIns nurse, Mrs. Linton, a rest room, a home for the nurse, her assistant and the matron. Plans for Nursery. j Members of the association believe ; the day nursery will be a great con-j ewieuce IQ uwuieio wuu iuubl icavc their small children during the day to go out and work. Competent persons will have charge of the children who may be left at the nursery all day for a nominal charge. Details of the plan will be worked out at once. Cramped quarters which the visiting nurse and her assistant have been occupying with the Commercial club have made it necessary to expand to meet the demands which are being made for relief and assistance of all kinds. - The visiting nurse work which was started in Richmond little more than a year ago through the efforts of the Domestic Science association has become so heavy that provision was (Continued on Page Two.) CLUB CONTRACTS AAAT I II tlff rUK 5UUII LHNU AS GOLFJOURSE Richmond Organization Releases Rettig. Farm for Ground Nearer City Will Erect $10,000 Building. The Rihmond Country club last night approved the action of the officers in surrendering a contract which had been entered into with Otto Rettig for the purchase of a sixty acre farm on the National Road, four miles east of the city. The officers were instructed to enter into a contract with Mr. and Mrs. Augustus C. Scott, this city, for the purchase of fifty-five acres bordering on the north and west of the old Driving park race track, about a mile east of Glen Miller park on the National road. This site is regarded as an Ideal one for a golf course and the club was able to purchase it at a lower figure than the price Mr. Retting placed on his property. It is mostly rolling ground and is very accessible to the city, being only a short distance from the city car lines and reached by the traction line. The property for years has been used as a pasture and as a result the turf is in particularly good condition and can be placed in condition for golf playing at very small expense. In the center of the property is a high knoll and from its summit a wide expanse of territory is visable. Country club officials announced today that on this knoll a club house to cost between $8,000 and $10,000 would be constructed. There was considerable opposition on the part of club members to the proposed purchase of the Rettig farm because of its distance from the city but at the time this was contracted for it was the only satisfactory site available. Later Mr. and Mrs. Scott offered to sell a section of their farm, which proposal was enthusiastically accepted by all club members. A satisfactory arrangement was made a-ith Mr. Rettiz to secure a release to the contract be held. GIRLS MAKE APRONS Each girl of the sewing class in the Whitewater school has made a large apron, which she wears in the cooking iepartment. All of the girls are now working on dresses which will soon be completed. They have done all the work themselves, under the Instruction
of Miss Von Pein.
Women's Fight For Vote Grows
as Sentiment of Men
(From. left: to right) Mrs. Frank H. Roessing, of Pittsburg, Pa., president of the, Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance ; Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, and (below) Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, President, of 'the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. -Roessing is leading the fight in Pennsylvania, where the voters will probably pass on woman suffraee this fall. Mrs. Catt is the chief of the women's forces in the Empire State and also
the most influential member of York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
oi the isay estate leaders, lvira. jacoos nas tne qisiuicuuu vi uemg uic juumjesi, wuxnau m me United States ever to be president of a State suffrage organization.
There are -several big things happening right -now favorable to' the woman suffrage movement. These are: the change of the prohibition question from a force hindering suffrage to a force helping the women; a sweep of
VIGOR OF SUNDAY SCHOOL GIVES CHURCH ITS POWER Bible Schools Generate Force which Drives Larger Movements of Religion, Says ! Marion Lawrance, Addressing 1200 Persons at Tour Party's Mass Meeting in Main Street Friends1 Church.
ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE. Pastors' conference 50 Business men's lunch ... 200 Afternoon meeting 450 Children's , meeting 650 Mass meeting '. 1200 Total. 2550 "The Sunday school is a powerbouse; it is the armory and the West Point of the church; it is the laboratory for the work of advancing Christ's cause." - Thus was the conception of the power of Sunday scboor work brought home to more than twelve hundred persons, who attended the final session of the Sunday school meetings held yesterday under the. auspices of the international touring party of the International Sunday school association. Marion Lawrence, secretary of the association, was on the firing line at the meeting at the East1. Main Street Friends church last night, and poured forth broadside after broadside about the growth of Sunday school work in America. "The hope of the world is with the young folks," he 6aid." "We must look to our young men-and women for work. The Sunday school is a new organization, and is getting newer every day. Organization is the keynote of the day, closely followed by efficiency. "I want to talk tonight about some things that must be, that other things may be," said Mr. Lawrence. "And what I say applies . to individuals, churches and all church organizations. The Sunday . school is the best channel for the f church's ' community life. Nlnety-flve per ' cent - of the ' ministers came from the Sunday schools, and
the joint campaign confmittees of
and Massachusetts. Miss Blackwell is one of the most prominent
suffrage sentiment through the men of ten south which v has astonished the suffrage campaigners themselves; a good-natured, tolerant attitude on the part of male legislators displaying active hostility or brick-wall indiffer 85" per cent of the church members by conversion came through the Sunday school. "We need a conception that we never had before. Sunday schools are growing at the rate of two-thirds of a million ' people " each year, and are growing more rapidly by the addition of those over 21 years of age than of those under. Every Sunday there join the churches of 'America nearly seven thousand people out of the Sunday schools. The. Sunday school is the greatest evangelical organization in the world, because the ' material is there to work on. Mr. Lawrence said that he had once heard that the automobile had divided (Continued on Page Six) CAMBRIDGE CITY MAN HELD FOR STEALING On a charge of stealing climbers and other property owned by the Cambridge City town board two years ago, John Ora Bell was arrested yesterday by Marshal Chapman and brought to the county jail here. Bell left Cambridge City after making the theft. He was gone almost two years and : the affidavit was held without hope of making the arrest. As soon as Bell returned he , was captured. The stolen property was. used by the Cambridge City, light . plant. . SICHLER SEEKS DIVORCE. Suit for divorce has . been filed in circuit court by Will Sichler against Bessie Sichler. 1 Sichler says he was married , on New Year's day in 1919 and three years and thirteen days later his wife deserted him without provocation. , .
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ges the eastern "Big Four" New ence; and a movement in the north to demand womans' right to vote for presidential electors as a precursor to full ballot privileges. It is well recognized that when the (Continued on page six.) WOMAN ENDS LIFE; MATE FINDS BODY Coroner Believes Despondency Led Mrs. Ollie Davis of Eaton, to Strangle Self. EATON, O., March 18. More than three hours after she had committed suicided, the body of Ollie Davis, 22, wife of Reece Davis, residing near New Lexington, six . miles east of Eaton, was found Wednesday when the husband returned to his home for the noonday meal. In a fit of despondency the woman tied a . rope around ber neck and pulled it so tight that strangulation resulted. When the lifeless body was found the face and neck were badly discolored, and so swollen that the rope, was imbedded in the flesh for half an incbr. When the husband left the home in the morning the wife was apparently in her usual health and spirits. She had not given the least intimation of her intention of suicide, and when the husband found the body he was nearly overcome. Coroner Beane of West Manchester wa-s summoned and viewed the body, and it is probable he ' will indicate Mrs. Davis grew despondent. She was a daughter of Mrs. Susan Rust, living near Eaton, and is survived by two sisters and five brothers, all residents of this count They are Misses Margaret and Mellie Rust, David, George, Jerry, Con and Melvin Rust. : Funeral arrangements are unannounced. TRANSFER 5 CLAIMS TO CIRCUIT COURT -; Five claims disallowed by the administrator of the Isaac Houck estate of Centerville, have been transferred to the trial docket in circuit court. Bertsch' Brothers enter a r bill for $9.50 for installing a pump on the Houck farm; John" M. Fouts,!; $7 for professional services; Lark Lemmons, $10.37, and Richard Blue, $21.60 for carpenter,; and repair-work; Clarence D. . Houck, . $lj4.7 0 for work on the Houck farm.
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HANER RECOVERS JEWELS STOLEN FROMJS HOME Richmond Man Gets Confession of Colored Man Held in Muncie Charged With Burglary. VALUABLES RESTORED Edgar Winslow Tells How He Robbed Thatcher, Swayne and Haberkern Homes During February. After a brief talk with Edgar Winslow, colored, of Logansport, Ind., while in Muncie yesterday afternoon, Frank H. Haner of this city, whose home was burglarized on the evening of February 24, secured a confession from him that he was responsible for all the recent series of bouse breakings in this city. Winslow is held by the Muncie authorities on a charge of burglary. Mr. Haner secured a valuable gold bracelet which the negro bad taken from his home. This was recovered from a colored barber in Anderson, who had purchased it from Winslow for a dollar. Mr. Haner also identified among the valuable In Winslow's large collection of loot a diamond oroocn taken from the home of Edward Thatcher, South Ninth street, and a woman's gold watch, taken from the home of 'William Haberkern. South Ninth street. - Jewels Pay Beard BUI. Winslow also informed Mr. Haner that he had left some valuables stolen in Richmond at the home ot Harry Scott, colored, over a saloon at S17 North E street. He said he had given these articles to Mrs. Scott In payment for board and lodging. When Mr. Haner reported this to Chief Goodwin he sent officers to the (Continued on Page Two.) HESS DESCRIBES ALLEGED ORDER TO GET BALLOTS Jack Hines Says Roberts Or dered Him to 'Work" for Registration or Close Saloon at Once. INDIANAPOLIS, March 18. Mayor Donn Roberts apportioned the number of registrations he wished returned from each precinct in Terre Haute and told Frank Hess, saloonkeeper, to see that he got them. Hess testified In the Terre Haute case today. In Precinct A, Sixth ward, Roberts wanted 800 votes, about twice the number of voters, it was testified.. Hess, owner of a notorious saloon, was recognized as Roberts' right hand man, and was charged with offering a government witness $500 to skip to Mexico after the investigation was started. Hess then became a government witness. Hess', wife also testified that she assisted in making false registrations. Among the charges today were that Jack Hines, saloonkeeper and politcian, said that Roberts ordered, him to work on registration and that 600 votes were bought in one precinct and that he was ordered to "work" or close his saloon. Jack Hines resumed the stand at the opening today. Roberts told him, he testified, that Precinct A, Sixth ward, in which Hines' saloon was located, could stand 7500 or 800 votes. Hines swore that Roberts told him "to get them from Frank Hess', Murray's and Evans' saloons." "Were there 750 or 800 votes?" asked Dailey. "There are between 450 and 500 votes there," replied Hines. John Nugent told Hines to send the fellows from his saloon to the city hall for registration work, testified the . witness. His bartender, Harley Frazee, laid off because he could make more money working at registering. Hines swore that Thomas C. Smith and others made out applications for about 250 colored men. EXAMINERS ARRIVE. Examiners King and Orr from the state board of accounts arrived here today to make the annual examination of the books of the city treasurer and city controller. '
BY ATTORNEY
Richmond Works Board May Meet Expense Out of General Fund or Assess Cost of Improvement Against Benefited Property Owners Under Decision by State Official. PURCHASE OF A CITY OIL WAGON IS SUGGESTED City Attorney Bond Held that Assessment Could Not Be Made Against Property Owners McMinn Expresses Opposition to any Plan for Officers to Take Up Oiling Proposition. That any city has the authority , to oil streets by meeting the ex. j pense out of the general municipal fund, or to assess the cost of audi improvement against the benefited property owners, was the ruling made : today by the attorney general. Richmond people interested In the movement to have the city of Richmond Incorporate street oiling as function of Its street department, re ; quested the state board of accounts for Information as to the city's au- ' thority In this matter. In turn, the state board asked the attorney gen- ; eral for a ruling. He Informed the board that the law was perfectly : plain that the city could do this work and assess property owners for ! the cost, or could do so at Its own expense.
RUSSIANS AGAIN IN EAST PRUSSIA PETROGRAD CLAIM London Dispatch Says Przemysl Taken by Czar's Troops After Long and Stubborn Resistance. AUSTRIANS RETREAT Muscovites in Northern Poland Prevent Von Hindenburg From Deploying 500,000 New Reinforcements. BULLETIN. LONDON. March 18. A Press As sociation dispatch from Petrograd says the outer forts at Przemysl have fallen before the Russian attack. BY FRANCES LAVELE MURRAY, Staff Correspondent The International News service. PETROGRAD, March 18. Russians are again fighting on German soil. A dispatch from Warsaw says that the German forces in East Prussia have been driven back by the Russians af ter a fierce attack. The Muscovite troops are advancing to Prussian territory. Battering away at the Austro-Ger-man lines over a battle front six hun dred miles long, the Russians are making progress in both Poland and Galicia. In the Carpathians. although lighting under terrific difficulties, the Russians have forced back the Austrians, capturing hundreds of prisoners and some. gunB. Isolated fighting is reported from Bukowina. The Germans have relied mainly on their heavy artillery to stem the ad vance of the Russians in northern Poland, but even with their enormous number of big guns the Germans could not check the smashing drive of Grand Duke Nicholas' army. Russian strategy has triumphed in the Polish campaign. Although five hundred thousand reinforcements were 6ent to -Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the Russiau commander maneuvered in such fashion that the German leader could not deploy his men. TO CHARGE LARCENY. John Sanders and Arthur Scaggs. both colored, were arrested last night by Detective Burns of the railroad police. He says the men were attempting to steal coal. Charges of petit larceny have been preferred against them. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Unsettled tonight and Friday. Probably local rain or snow tonight. Temperature. Noon 41 Yesterday. Maximum 40 Minimum 21 LOCAL Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with occasional local rain ad snow. GENERAL CONDITIONS Unsettled weather now covers the United States east of the Rocky mountains due to an area of low barometric pressure over the great lakes and the eastern states. JV'arm weather covers the southern part of California and Arizona with temperatures of 90 degrees at Los Angeles and Yuma. A warm wave covers the extreme south west, W. E. MOORE. Weather Forecaster.
GENERAL
OIL STREETS imz Monday tne suggestion was made to the board of public works that a street oiling outfit be purchased for the street department, thus providing what was termed the only sensible solution of a vexatious question which arises every year. City Attorney Bond expressed the opinion that the street department could oil all macadam and gravel streets, if the expense was met out of the general fund. President Bavis said he favored having the street department do this work, providing the cost could be assessed against the benefited property owners. Mr. Bond, however did not think the law would permit the city to take such action. McMinn Fights Oiling. No further consideration was then given to oiling plans, beyond adopting a motion for the clerk to inquire of contractors if they would do any oiling under private contracts, because Mr. McMinn of the board declared that he would stand firmly by the previous decision of the board that the city would have nothing to do with street oiling this year; that, so far as he was concerned the streets Would be oiled under private contract or not at all. Most city officials realize, however, that there will be very few streets oiled this year If contractors have to depend on private contracts. Their previous unfortunate experiences with private contract work has made them very reluctant to attempt it again In this city. Can Assess Owners. Therefore, as the situation is now. there will be many miles of dusty.' disease breeding streets in Richmond the coming spring, summer and fall unless the city decid.es to take over street oiling itself. A street oiling wagon can be purchased at small cost, which would be about the only expense the city would be put to under the ruling of the attorney general, as the cost ot oil and the expense of putting it down can be assessed against the property owners. STREET OILING PUTS END TO DUST MENACE Anti - Tuberculosis Society Will Demand Some Action to Protect Health During Coming Months. Street oiling is the only practical solution of the dust problem which will soon menace the health of the city, according to Dr. S. E. Bond, secretary of the Anti-tuberculosis society, which will take some action demanding that the dust nuisance be allayed at the postponed meeting Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Commercial club rooms. Whether the society will go on record as demanding oiling under public contract or not. Dr. Bond could not say. Members, however, are unanimous in their , belief that the streets should be oiled as they declare that sprinkling with water Is detrimental to the macadam. Shall the Anti-tuberculosis organization affiliate with thl Central Charity bureau? This question will be threshed out. Although co-operating with the bureau the society has maintained its independence financially. The fabt that the association is a county organization has been cited as an obstacle to the merger. - Dr. Bond said the society would at all times take necessary steps to see. that officers and physicians carried! out the recent state law wrich pro! vides for the ' quarantine ot whltdj plague sufferers. An effort will be made to have a man from the national j association come to the city for a lecture.