Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 304, 3 December 1915 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.
SOUP KITCHEN PLAN OF SALVATION ARMY PROPOSED TO POLICE
, A "soup kitchen! to feed tbe poor lot the city and wayfarer who stoy at the city hall over night for ahelter, may be started by the Salvation army jthls year, providing consent is gained (from Chief Goodwin. Officials of the I local army corps announced today that 'if the police did not follow their cua-
' torn of feeding the city ball basement i lodgers, the soup kitchen would be ' opened shortly before Christmas. Last
year food was given the unfortunates by Patrolman Vogelsong, who receiv-
1 ed numerous contributions for the
work from merchants and individuals.
Decision is expected from the chief
today.
Few questions would be asked by
strangers who applied at the army's
kitchen for food. If the person were hungry and in unfortunate circum
stances he would be helped and fed
regardless of race or church affilia
tion.
STORES WILL OPEN
NIGHTS OF WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Announcement was made by several of the retail stores of the city that they will' not keep their places of business open of evenings until tbe week preceding Christmas. Since ' Christmas
falls on Saturday this year and since
it is tbe custom of all the stores to
keep open on Saturdays, the stores will be open six evenings prior " to Christmas. Practically all of the stores will close on Christmas day with the exception of grocery stores and
meat shops, which may be open Christ
mas morning-to supply the Saturday
and Sunday trade.
WERNLE BOARD TO MEET.
Members of the Wernle Home Board
will meet in regular session at the
home of Rev. A. J. Feeger, pastor of
St.- John's Lutheran church and trans
act routine business tonight. The resignation of Miss Dora Ricker which
has been handed in and goes Into ef
feet the last of the year will be dis
cussed. Just what action tbe board
will take Rev. Feeger was unprepared
to say today.
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ASVUia AOTWITIES
FACE OAT SIMTA6E
Unless prices of torktys drop p
tlents at the Eastern Indian Hospital
for the Insane may have to sat chicken or some other substitute tor turkey at the annual Christmas dinner, said Dr.
S. EL Smith, superintendent, who Is
today estimating the amount ot gro
ceries necessary for the dinner.. He
will ask bids on 700 pounds of turkey
and fifty-five gallons of oysters. (The
asylum farm has raised a large num
ber of turkeys, but not enough to supply the needs. Celery, potatoes and other vegetables that will be used are grown on the farm.
PRESENTS TOBACCO TO
W. R. C. SELECTS MRS. JONES HEAD Officers as follows were elected Thursday when the Woman's Relief Corps met in the post room at the court house: President, Mrs. Paulina Jones; senior vice president, Mrs. Maude Vogelsong; junior vice president, Mrs. Harriet Wigmore; treasurer. Mrs. Minnie Hall; chaplain, Mrs. Mary Markley; conductress, Mrs. Ruby Smith; guard, Mrs. Fannie Smith. Delegates to the state convention will be Mesdames Emma Ranks, Mary Bond and Mary. Rogers, with Mesdames Laura Kitson, Anna Evans and Cora Etters as alternates.
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MRS. M. F. JOHNSTON
STRAT8 FOR RICHMOND.
After spending the summer in San
Francisco where she was senior decent
in the art department at the Panama-
Pacific exposition, Mrs. M. F. Johnston
will return to Richmond next week
She is expected to arrive Thursday. j tobacco to every French soldiers.
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ARMY POTS KETTLES
ON STREETS DEC. 11
The merry Jingle of the little bells
attached to the Salvation Army's
Christmas kettles will be heard on the
streets, beginning Saturday Dec. 11,
it was announced today at army -headquarters. Nickles, dimes and quarters
tossed through the wire netting .will be .used for relief work, not one cent of it going for salaries or living expenses of the local officials. Part of the proceeds will be used for ." the Christmas tree which is given annually for the poor children, and for the d'nncr. If the soup kitchen, proposed
to the chief of police, is opened, a special dinner will be served at the army quarters. If, however, the kitchen is not opened baskets filled with turkey and other good things will be distributed.
GILES DISCUSSES :- ' SCHOOL SURVEY -The plans and purposes of the coming vocational survey to be made In Richmond, were discussed In s thirtyfive minute address by Superintendent J. T. Giles of the city schools, at chapel held in the auditorium of the high school building this morning. He told of the changing responsibilities which
are resting upon the schools and the means being taken to fit students for life occupation. ' The public schools, he said, are now arranging for the stu dents to earn a comfortable' living beJ sides entering any one of the various professions.. : I
According to French statistics, only one-fourth of the aviation accidents are due to defects In aeroplanes.
TEN MEN APPLY FOR JOBS.
The gifts of Mrs. George Washington Lopp to the smokers of the French
army inclue ten million - cigarettes, 240,000 pounds of tobacco and fifty
thousand pipes. Mrs. Lopp, whose husband is a prominent American in Paris, has thus supplied two and a
half cigarettes and several pipefuls of
Ten men applied for work at the em
ployment department of the social ser
vice bureau this morning. Only two jobs were open and they were filled by the first two men applying this
morning.
This is the first rush that has been
made by men out of employment. Not over three or four men have applied
for work during the past two weeks.
A smart, close fitting hat of black velvet with narrow rolling
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Anthracite Nut $8.60 Anthracite No. 4 or Egg .....$8.35 Pocahontas Lump or Egg $5.75 Pocahontas Mine Run $4.50 Jackson Lump $5.75 Tennessee Lump $5.25 Jewel Lump or Egg $5.00 Yellow Jacket, Lump or Egg.. $5.00
Coke, Stove or Nut $7.00 Winifreds Lump $4.75 Carbon Splint Lump $4.75 Hocking Valley Lump $4.50 Indiana Lump $4.00 Nut and Slack $3.00 Cinderela Lump $5.00 White Ask $5.00
PLANS FOR DINNER FOR POOR KIDDIES
Poor children will be given their annual Christmas treat and dinner by
the Penny club at the Pythian temple
on December 29, acocrding to announcement made today by Mrs. Mil
lard Warfel, president of the organiza-j
tion. Mrs. Anna Dowell, chairman of the executive committee, will assist
Mrs. Warfel in making the arrange
ments. This dinner, at which hundreds of poor children get a talste of all the
Christmas eatables, has come to bei
looked forward to from one year to another. -
RICHMOND MINISTERS
ON CHURCH PROGRAM
Richmond Methodist ministers are
on tte program for the annual settlement day exercises, to be- held at
New Castle on Dec. 7. The Settle-1
ment day is held in each church district at the close of the first eight months of the conference year when general financial conditions of the different pastorates are discussed. Reports are made on evangelism, finances, Sunday school work and benevolences. Rev. U. S. A. Bridge and the
Rev. Harry C. Harman are speakers
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BRIEFS
ATTENTION ELKS! Annual Memorial Services at Elks' Club House, Sunday, December 5, at 2:15 p. m. 3-2t
Fresh supply Mrs. Austin's Bag Buckwheat now on hand at your grocers. Adv.
Price's own make of walnut taffy. You will like it.
FRIED OYSTER LUNCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PATTERSON, 14 SOUTH 9TH ST. 16-thur-fri-tf
Try One of Price's oyster stews or ffrys. You will enjoy it. Fresh supply Mrs. Austin's Bag Buckwheat now on hand at your grocers. Adv.
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Black walnuts, hickorys, pecans and almond meats at Price's.
Buckwheat now on hand at your groFresh supply Mrs. Austin's Bag ters. Adv. Hot chocolate with wafers served at rice's.
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