Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 315, 16 December 1915 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY. DEC. 16, 1915-

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DEAD WORMS IN DRIED FRUIT CAUSE OF SUIT State Inspectors Start Proceedings Against Clem Roberts and Otto Kemper, Commission Merchants.

INDICTED IN PLOT AT SAN FRANCISCO

Clem Roberts and Otto A. Kemper,

who conduct a coEamIsBion..houae at Fort Wayne avenue and .North ID

street, entered pleas of not guilty in city court today to a charge of having

Violated the state pure food law by

emns adulterated dried apricots,

The case will be given a hearing to

morrow morning.

The charges were filed at the insti

gation of two -state '-.officers; Lou Hutchins, a deputy of the state de

partment of pure foods and drugs, and

John Willette, a deputy state sealer of

weights and measures. Following arraignment the two com

mission men indulged in a protracted

wrangle with the state officers. Ad

mitting that there were dead worms

in the boxes of dried apricots which

aad been sold to two peddlers Rob

crts and Kemper both insisted that

twe fruit was good to eat when proper

ly cleansed. Roberts also charged

that Dr. Hutchins when be inspected the apricots yesterday had asserted that it would be a shame to throw

fhem away. Inspector Grows Angry. "Ever since we were told that the fruit was not fit to be sold we have made no effort to sell it and have been holding it waiting for an order to dispose of it." said Roberts. "Then Dr. Hutchins tells us it would be a shame to throw the apricots away." Dr. Hutchins replied that he said it would be a shame to throw some of the apricots away because they appeared to be good. Roberts insisted that the inspector declared all the stock was good whereupon Hutchins

became angry and warned Roberts not

o call him a "liar any more." Both commission men declared that hey were first informed that no barges would be preferred against

them and that the same day affilavits were filed against them. Prosecutor Reller explained that he had not ntended to prosecute them 'but that .he two state officials had advised :uat charges be preferred. Asks Fixed Standard. Roberts wanted to know what standard they were to employ in selling the goods they handled. "Suppose we should sell some fresh apples that bad worms in ,them, wouldn't that be as much a violation of the law as selling dried apricots that had worms?" abktd Kemper. This point was not discussed. '. Roberts then made the assert? n that wormy apricots were no more unpalatable than apricots that had toDacco spit on them, adding that the packers had a habit of expectorating tobacco juice on the fruit as they Jilled the crates. " City Inspector McKinley denied Roberts' assertion that no worms were inside apricots which had been purchased of the commission company's peddlers. He said one woman found dead worms in the syrup after she bad cooked some of the apricots.

GRACE METHODISTS

NAME NEW OFFICERS

Officers to direct the activities of the Grace Methodist Sunday-school have been elected as follows: Superintendent, Clarence Kramer; first assistant superintendent, G. F. Hamilton; second assistant superintendent, C. E. Thomason; secretary, E. E. Reid; assistant secretary. Miss Leona Weaver; treasurer, J. K.-Deem; assistant treasurer, T. W. Hadley; chorister, Hugh Foss; assistant chorister. Mrs. C. E. Thomason; orchestra leader, Hugh Foss; assistant, Mrs. Grace Gormon; pianist, Miss Gennette Kramer; assistant pianist. Miss Lena Hivnor; librarian, Orville Price; Temperance department, D. P. Owens; Missionary department. Miss Georgia McSVhinney; Home department, Mrs. Maggie Miller; Cradle Roll department, Miss Lillian Yost; Primary department, Mrs. A. M. Leach; Junior department, Mrs. A. B. Price; Intermediate department, Mrs. C. E. Thomason; Senior department, Mr. Frank Ward.

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county progressives want to form ticket

A political announcement of great interest to several thousand Wayne county Republican and Progressive voters will be made not : later than Saturday. This statement was made today by one of the most active Progressive leaders. He refused, however, to outline, even generally,, what the purport of this announcement would be. In the interim it will be necessary for the voters to continue to speculate on what transpired- at the meeting held Tuesday afternoon at the court house between L. S. Bowman. Republican county chairman, and a delegation of Progressive party leaders, Clifford Price, Progressive county chairman, M. D. Doddridge, a member of the county board of commissioners, and former sheriff, Jacob Bayer. Those who attended the conference persist in refusing to either confirm or deny the report that terms upon which an amalgamation of the Republican and Progressive parties in Wayne county were discussed.

Roy Fry of this city, secretary of the Progressive county organization, said

today that although no steps had been taken ma yet toward placing a Progressive ticket in the field next year that there was much sentiment favorable to such action throughout the county, especially outside of Richmond. Mr. Fry said there were hundreds of Progressive voters in the county who were insisting upon maintaining the party organization, men who would refuse to participate .in a Republican primary election even though all obstacles against them taking such action,, as represented in the state primary law, were removed by the supreme court .. "I think that in a very short time members of the Progressive county central committee will be called together and some definite action will be taken concerning the nomination of a Progressive ticket in this county next March," Mr. Fry said. In the- event no Progressive ticket was nominated in the county neit year Mr. Fry- expressed' the opinion that former' Progressives aspiring to-placet on the Republican county iicket. would be knifed right. and) left by Republican voters. .

PHILOMATH

. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Plankenhorn and Mr. and Mrs.- "Ora Hendrix were shopping . In Richmond Thursday.'. - .John Leietner made a -trip- to ConnersvUte Friday... . .Walter McCasbland of Pea

Ridge spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. R McCashland..... Misses Mabel . Whitsel and Fern Rose of Brownsville, spent the week-end with the letter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Rose and family Mrs. Samuel Fisher and daughter Darlie, and Mrs. Tell Eckman and) daughter, Bethelene.

were Sunday evening callers atf Earl Doddridge's... Mrs. Noah Plankenhorn called on Plankenhorn sisters Thursday afternoon.

If the sea were to rise or the land fall twenty feet the Delaware and Chessapeake hays would disappear.

Baron George Wilhelm von Brincken (top) and C. C. Crowley, named by San Francisco grand jury as conspirators to destroy ships carrying arms to the allies.

MASONIC CHAPTER CHOOSES OFFICERS Officers for the ensuing year were elected by the Williamsburg lodge of

Masons last evening in the lodge ball.

The officers will be installed with

special ceremonies, Deo. 27. Victor

St. Meyer was re-elected worshipful

master. Several new members have

been addedto the - lodge during the

past year due to the work of Mr. St. Meyer. Special work for the next

year will be planned at the meeting Dec. 27. The following officers were elected : Victor St. Meyer, W. M.; Elmer Johnson, senior warden: Verl Shafer, junior warden ; Wilfred Griffith, secretary; William Lewis, treasurer; Chester Wright, senior deacon; Clarence Duke, junior deacon; Frank Reynolds, tyler.

ETUDE PRAISES WORK - OF DR. CARLO taORA

GRANTED PENSION.

"Margaret L. Roach of Cambridge City, has been granted a pension.

MILTON; Ind., Dec. ; J6. Carlo Mora is the subject of a write-up. in a re

cent number of v the Etude, in which is published a piece Of music entitled "Felicitia," of which Mr. Mora is the. author. Prof. Mora, who is now in the south, "is well-known here, being the son-in-law of . Mrs. Jennie Summers of Milton. His little son, Scott, is staying with his .grandmother .and attending school here. Prof. Mora wsb at one time engaged as professor of music in a college at Muncie. KING SOLOMON'S CHAPTER, R. A. MASONS MEETS

The. degree of Mark Master will be conferred Friday evening at a special convocation of King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons. It is urged that members attend.

FIRE THREATENS VILLAGE

CATSKILL, N. Y., Dec. 16. Fire swept Catskill Point, a mile from here yesterday, and for a time threatened to destroy the village: Loud's hotel, in which the blaze started, the ticket office of the Hudson Bay line and four Catskill railroad coaches were burned. The loss was $50,000.

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Prospectors for gold, who have been locating claims in the Rice lake district, 100 miles north of Winnipeg, report that the territory is rich In minerals.

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