Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 306, 6 December 1915 — Page 20

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

MANY ATTEMPT

TO MAKE PICRIC ACID FOR GUNS

NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The romance of picric acid ! Around that title might be woven a great romance of business and near business In this town. The story would have about a dozen J. Ru-

fus Wllingfords in it, every, paragraph I

would boast a spy or a counterspy, every chapter would tell of a fortune won or lost, and every line would bristle with action enough to satisfy the most exacting publisher of best sellers. For the yellow crystalline explosive which drives mammonth shells t wenty miles - and devastates a city block in an instant is mlghly scarce and mighty high in price. A thousand men are prospecting for it and another thousand are stalking the prospectors to jump every claim the minute it is staked out or to salt claims which will keep the seekers busy far from the real pay dirt. Every real manufacturer of picric is a center of mystery, and for every honest-to-goodness maker there are at least ten concerns which are either trying to concoct the explosive and can not, or are trying to get orders which they never intend to fill. The acid sold for 30 cents a pound In the far off days before the war. Now quotations for "spot" or picric for Immediate delivery are $1.80 to $2.20 a pound. But the quotations are an illusion, because, as to spot picric "there ain't no slch animal." , If you are a buyer for a warring government and get an alleged picric jacid agent to promise Immediate de

livery, of 10,000 tons, the chances are 99 to 1 you will get nearer 10,000 ounces. Real deals are few and far between, and when they do occur the recovery of a stolen Raphael in simple by comparison. "

PREACHES IN EATON

EATON, O., Dec. 6. Rev. Rue Burnell of Pleasant Hill filled the morning and evening appointments Sunday at the First Christian church. The pastor, the Rev. McD. Howsare, is in Pleasant Hill, where he has been assisting the Rev. Mr. Burnell in a seres of special evangelistic meetings.

GLEN KARN, O.

A pleasant surprise was given Thursday evening to Mr. and Mrs.; Earl Mitchell and daughter by their friends and neighbors. The affair was a farewell, as they soon will move to their new home south of Chester. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Dan "Cotter, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hough of Spartansburg, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Horn, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Southard, Mr. and 'Mrs. Stanley Downing, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson Cloyd, Mr. and Mrs. M. I Horn, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hoke, Mesdames Edith' Mlcheal, O. A. Downing, Misses Bernice Mlcheal, Ruby Downing, Garnet May Cloyd, Ella Roberts, Dorothy Mlcheal, Mildred Moore, Faye Southard, Ruby Mlcheal and Sylvia Mlcheal. Messrs. E. R. Thomas, Gerald Horn, Earl Cloyd, Gerald Koontz, Garver Roos, Aaron Downing, Henry Horn, Russel R. Flatter, Harry Moore, Norman Mlcheal, Chester Cloyd, Harry Downing, John Branson, Harvie Marker and D. L. Roberts.

Ontario's area Is 407,262 square miles.

SUFFRAGISTS TRAIN GANNON ON CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. All the big artillery the suffragists of the United States can unlimber is to be trained on Congress when that body opens its session today. "We want to make suffrage the big Idea of the opening of congress and drill It into the minds of Congressmen until they they can think of nothing else. We want to sweep Congress off its feet for suffrage before it can turn its attention to anything else." This statement was" made today by Miss Paul, chairman of the executive committee of the Congressional Union for the .Woman Suffrage and if .the, plans which she and her- associates have made mature properly,' there will be a large enough suffrage demonstration in the national capital the opening week of Ccngress to attract the attention of every member. Never before have the women suffragists been so confident of victory as this winter. They have practically abandoned all state campaigns and are concentrating all their forces to carry to victory through Congress their famous Susan B. Anthony Constitutional Amendment, which provides for national woman sufrage. This, the leaders belive, Is a short cut to woman suffrage.

ATTENDANCE GROW8.

That Christmas is coming can be felt in the Sunday schools or the city into which many of the smaller folks are coming in order to be counted as members at the annual entertainments which are annually given la most' of the churches.

LANDWEHR HEARS GUNS

- During his eight months' absence from home Ralph . Landwehr, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Landwehr, northwest of the city, heard the bis guns booming' in France, made five trips across the ocean in cattle ships,, narrowly escaped going to the bottom when a submarine chased one of the vessels, and still asserts that his travels were practically without thrills. Young Landwehr, who is well known in the city, returned to Richmond Saturday. WRECK FATAL TO TWO S

SEYMOUR. Ind.. Dec. 6.-Glen Bevins, 30, of Washington, Ind.. Is dead today and A.,W. Fields,: 30,' of Mitchell, Ind., Is not expected to recover from injuries sustained in, a freight wreck on the B. & O. S.-W. railroad, southwest of here. Bevins and Fields are said to have been stealing a ride.

WAR UPON PAIN! Pain is a visitor to every home and usually it comes quite unexpectedly. But you are prepared. for every emergency if you keep a small bottle of Sloan's Liniment bandy. It is the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Simply laid on the . skin no rubbing required it drives the pain away. It is really wonderful. Mervln H. Soister, Berkeley, Cal., writes: "Last Saturday, after tramping around the Panama Exposition with wet feet, I came home with my neck so stiff that I couldn't turn. I applied Sloan's Liniment freey and went to bed. To my surprise next morning the stiffness had almost disappeared, four hours after the second application I was as good as new." March, 1915. At Druggists, 25c. Adv.

Come Early for Best Choice

RICHMOND'S DAYLIGHT STORE

; no Approvals NO Exchanges

MANY f,MS SAVED BY SAFETY EFFORTS WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. One man in every 3,000, working in mines and quarries in the United States in 1914 was saved, . through the ; nation-wide safety campaign being conducted by the federal and state authorities as well as the miners and operators themselves.. Van H. Manning, director of the fed-

deral Bureau of Mines, announced today that 458. men were killed In the mines and quarries in US. More than million men were employed In these mines and quarries, yet the death rate for 114 was only 3.16 for each 1,000 employed. In 113 It was S.49. The total number killed in 1914 was . 3,193 as against 3.S51 In 1913. -c.v V;',

With the aid of an electric furnace, a London scientist has drawn glass tubes with an outside diameter of but one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch.

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MUCH OF THE SATISFACTION OF GIVING is in the knowledge that the gift will be received with pleasure and an appreciation of its worth. Just as "Sterling" marks the best silver, so the name "Drain's" is synonymous

ior me nest values in f urniture. Practical gifts for every member of the family can be found here.

An Extenshre Line of Ladies' Writing Desks Finished in Mahogany Fumed and Golden Oak

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Women

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Men

KID

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Children FELT 8LIPPER8 in Red and Puss-in-Boot style or with Fur Trimming. Comfy Slipper with Dutch Kid on them are delightful gifts. Prices. 85c to $1.25.

Cash your Xmas Savings Check at Fekman's Where Gifts Are Easy to Select and a Pleasure to Give.

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