Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 206, 11 August 1915 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1915

FUNERAL PLANS

MADE BY ERVIN FOUND IN DESK Engineer's Body Will Be ; Brought to Richmond for 1 Burial on Request Made j Years Ago.

FOE FIXED ' SWITCH

1 Winiam H. Errln, engineer of the

Ill-fated Pennsylvania railroad train who was killed In a wreck near Irvington. Monday night, wll be buried ,in Richmond Thursday morning with a brief service at the cemetery, the : body being taken directly there from the train. 1 William Z. Henness, the fireman 1 who was also killed, will be buried : tonight I Railroad officials advance two . theories as a possible solution to the i mystery surrounding the wreck. One ; is that the lock may have been broken and the switch turned by some former employe of the road for ' revenge, or, as suggested by Mrs. Ervin, it may , have been done by someone who was ' jealous of Ervin. Evidence Shows Malice. More evidence obtained yesterday convinced the authorities that the wreck was caused by a fiend. The battered switch lock and the iron bar that was found near it were convincing proof that some one forced the lock open and threw the switch so that the train would run into the siding. Ervin was prepared for death and bad made all his own funeral arrangements in anticipation of that event.

Among the effects found in his desk after his tragic death Monday night, when be was buried under debris at his post in the engine cab with his hand still grasping the throttle, was a paper, dated 1910, describing In every detail, just how he wished his funeral conducted, whom he wished to act as pall bearers and where be should be burled. Nothing was overlocked, and nothing was forgotten, instructions In Desk. Monday night, when the black cloud of tragedy, suddenly enveloped the cheerful little home on North Randolph street, Indianapolis, no one thought, for a time, to look in Ervin's desk. It was only when his married daughter, Mrs. William Craft of Richmond, and her husband, arrived in answer to a long-distance telephone message, and the funeral was being discussed, that Mrs. Ervin, out of her daze of grief, suddenly remembered instructions that her husband had left. He bad told her often that in case of accident or sudden death to himself, she was to carry out the plans left in a paper In his desk. Mrs. Ervin never dreamed of harm coming to her husband. He bad been in the service of the road so long and was known as such a careful engineman that it seemed impossible that any accident could overtake him. She never even had asked him to abandon the road. Some one went to the desk and got the paper. There was everything all neatly written out. Members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen were to have charge of the funeral; the pallbearers were to be from among his friends in Division 1, of the Pennsylvania division; there was to be a short service at the house, then the body was to be brought to his old home in Richmond and was to be buried in the cemetery here. These plans will be carried out exactly. The service will be held at the house this afternoon and at 7:45 o'clock tomorrow morning the body will be brought to Richmond, and taken directly to the cemetery from the station.

r.'ET.'DERS OF TfllKITY ELECT CEU OFFICERS The annual election-of officers and the departmental reports on church matters, was made at the congregational meeting of the Trinity Lutheran church last night The following are the officers chosen for the ensuing year: Elder, Henry Tubesing; deacons,Walter KleMoth, Everett Menke and Ferd Drifmeyer; trustee, .Charles Pike; secretary, George Deuker; treasurer, Oscar Plankenhorn. Approximately twenty-five members of the congregation were present. ; Rev. Joseph Beck, pastor emeritus of ' the church, presided. RELIEF CORPS PLANS DINNER FOR REUNION TO SWELL AID FUND

Arrangements have been made by the Woman's Relief Corps to serve the meals at the reunion of the Nineteenth Indiana regiment, which will be held here in September. This is one of the methods by which the ladies raise funds for the assistrnce of old soldiers and their families who are in destitute circumstances. At every city election they serve the meals at the different polling booths and make a eat little sum that goes to the general fund for the aid of the soldiers. The work carried on by the Relief Corps 13 a noble one and gone about in a quiet way. There is hardly a week in the year that some one is not given help and many an old veteran and his family would be without food and shelter if it were not that the women look after them. . While a home is providtd ' for the Civil war veterans many of them do not care to go there. Some of them look on it as many people regard the

infirmary and their pride keeps them from a comfortable old age. A generous government provides pensions, but the amount given is not sufficient to support them. Flag day which was held here last June netted $140.00 to the relief fund and this has been added to from time to time by the sale of various articles, but the calls for aid are many and no soldier Is ever refused help.

AGED RESIDENT CRITICALLY ILL

EATON, O., Aug. 11. Peter Eikenberry, about 68, well known resident, is critically ill at bis borne, Maple and Monfort streets, from the effects of a heart affection, and his recovery is regarded a matter of doubt. His health lately has been on the decline, but was not known generally, and the announcement of his critical illness has proved a shock to relatives and friends.

5,500,000,000 BUSHELS, YIELD OF TIIREEGRAINS American Farmer to Pocket Cash for Largest Wheat Crop in History ; Corn Runs High. - Prosperous conditions for the farmers for. the coming year are indicated by the August government report, showing a record breaking .yield of wheat and bumper crops of corn, oats, barley and hay. ".. The total wheat crop indicated -by the government report Issued yesterday is 3,000,OuO bushels more than was forecast In July,' 960,000,000 bushels, or 75,0005)00 bushels more than the previous record crop. While the harvest season has been unfavorable for oats and the season late for corn, the government figures show a promise for a crop of 1,402,000,000 bushels of oats, within-16,000,-000. bushels of the largest ever raised, and of 2,918,000,000. bushels of corn, which would exceed the corn crop of last year by 245.000,000 bushels. . Total of 5,500,000,000. Final figures for the year, when the estimates are given a final revision, may show easily 1,000,000,000 bushels wheat and 1,500,000,000 bushels oats, with around 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn, or a grand total for the three crops of around 5,500,000,000 bushels. Despite the long period of unseasonable rains the country will have an abundance of all grains to supply foreign needs throughout the coming year. It Is not expected prices will rule as high as during the last twelve

months, but fair prices appear to be assured the farmers in all sections. Two years of bumper crops at high average prices for the two years insure a degree of prosperity on the farms of the United States never before equaled, and this is expected to form the basis for prosperous conditions in all other lines of business, which naturally reflect to agricultural conditions. The winter wheat estimate for Indiana is 46,700,000 bushels; corn 195,400,000; oats 61,500,000 bu. The average yield per acre of spring wheat in the United States is 16 bushels.

TO HONOR RUSSELL Approximately twenty-five city officials and friends of ex-Councilman Elbert Russell, will be present at the special 7 o'clock dinner to be given as an expression of regret in his departure from Richmond, in the Westcott hotel this evening. The dinner will be an informal affair and brief, extemporaneous addresses will be made by some of those who attend.

Best Treatment lor Catarrh S. S. S. Removes the Cause Specialists in Catarrh troubles have agreed that it is an infection of the blood. The laboratories of the S. S. S. Co., at Atlanta, have proved it. Once you get your blood free from Impurities cleansed of the Catarrhal poisons, which it is now a prey to because of its unhealthy state then you will be relieved of Catarrh the dripping in the throat, hawking and spitting, raw sores in the nostrils, and the disagreeable bad breath. It was caused, in the first place, because ycur impoverished blood was easily infected. . Possibly a slight cold or contact with someone who bad a cold. But the point is don't suffer with Catarrh it is not necessary. The remedy S. S. S., discovered over fifty years ago, tested, true and tried, is always obtainable at any drug store. It has proven its value in thousands of cases. It will do so in your case. Get S. S. S. at once and begin treatment. If yours is a long standing case, be sure to write the S. S. S. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for free expert medical advice. They will tell you how this purely vegetable blood tonic cleanses the impurities from the blood by literally washing it clean. They will prove to you that thousands of sufferers from Catarrh, after consistent treatment with S. S. S., have been freed from the trouble and all its disagreeable features and restored to perfect health and vigor. Don't delay the treatment. Take S. S. S. at once.

17H1R7A1EB DA11D " WILL GIVE CONCERT , . - . . i - WHITEWATER. Ind.-Aug. 11. The annual home-coming band concert will be held . here , Aug. 14, on the main street and Indoors' in case of rain. There, wm be no collection. The eoncert i tree. The program follow: -Grand Opening March "3 Rings". . . - .. . . . i ; . . . Talbot Selection "May Flowers", . . .Laurens March "Show Boy'V. Huff Baritone Solo "Polka". . . R. T. Cooper Composed and Played by Mr. Cooper -Selection "All to the Good" MacUe-Beyer Intermission. - March "Booster" Klein Cornet Soto "Commodore Polka".. ' Chambers Waltzes '"Flowers of the Wildwood" .. Skaggs Waltz "Echoes of the Forest". Crumllng March "Belle of York".....Crumllns

DISCUSS TRADE PAPERS

The regular meeting of the members of the Union Clerks was held last evening in their hall. B. F. Williams presided and about ten members -were present. Most of the session was devoted to hearing Mr. Deichman discuss matters pertaining to the Labor Herald and a discussion of the coming picnic under the auspices of the Central Labor Council.

Tungsten, which only in recent years has come into general use, was discussed exhaustively by a Spanish treatise written in 1781.

Lime Treatment in Tubercclcsb la taa Mar 38, 1S12, laaac af taa Journal 9t the Aacrfeu Medical Aaaoclattoa appeared tala atateameat eaaoeralaa; calciaoa (llaae) atedlcattaa la tae trcataaeat of paUaaaarr taaerewloala (coaaaatptioa) I "Uaaer taa ay.tc-matic, coatlaaea aad peratateat regime of ealeiaa aaatatUatioa. Vaa Gteiai aaa mtmrn m a umber ot a is patieata laaprave, aaaerva am exadatloa or partial caaaolidatloa la the laaa;, walea taea reaolvtaa: waald appear ta eoatrlbata t the walllaa- all aad eloalaa; ef the lealoaa. Hud ta aaad with tale eearae ef areata, the epetaai eleare ef taherele bacilli, which SaaUy disappear, aad the patieata are discharged with healed falmoaary tweerealeals." Ethical medical Journals seldom speak so positively about a remedial agent, yet this testimony coincides with that from many consumptives who have secured like results through the use of Eckmu'i Alterative. Since calcium Is a constituent of this remedy for pulmonary tuberculosis and allied throat and bronchial affections, its healing power may in some measure be attributed to the manner In which this element Is so combined with other ingredients as to be easily assimilated By the average person and it does not irritate the stomach. Eckman's Alterative contains no opiates, narcotics or habit-forming drugs, so It is safe to try. If your druggist is out of it, ask him to order, or send direct to - - Kekaaaa Laboratory. Philadelphia.

GLEN KARN AND RICHMOND TRANSFER AUTO LINE Headquarters Colonial Building Annex South Seventh Street WELCH & SPENCER. Owners and Operators. Makes one trip daily between above points. Leave Glen Karn 7:30 a. m. Leave Hollansburg 7:35 a. m. Leave Bethel 7:45 a. m. Leave Whitewater 8:00 a. m. Arrive Richmond 9:00 a. m. Leave Richmond 3:30 p. m. Arrive Whitewater 4:30 p. m. Arrive Bethel .....4:45 p. m. Arrive Hollansburg 4:55 p. m. Arrive Glen Karn 5:00 p. m.

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