Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 86, 26 February 1916 — Page 3

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, FEB. 26, 1916.

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DEALERS GUT PRICES; 10 PER CENT REDUCTION AUTHORIZED FOR DAY

Next Tuesday is bicycle day. Do you know what this means? Do lyou know how general this celebation will be? If you believe the celebration is restricted to Richmond, abandon the noi tion at once. Bicycle day is a national event next Tuesday., Every city and town In which there is a bicycle agency will observe the day. Richmond will take part in the celettratlon. The bicycle dealers of this cily are 1U6 wires. The local dealem asKociation, has decided to help tell part of the one million bicycles

that are to be disposed of next Tuesday in the United States. Who Is going to get the benefit? If you are thinking of buying a bicycle, you are one of the million persona in the United States who is going to share in the 10 per cent discount that will be offered on every bicycle in any 'shop in the city. To buy a biciycle at a lt per cent discount, buy on next Tuesday. Here are the places where the 10 per cent discount will be offered: Frank Brunner, Wesley Brown. William Dunins. C. K. Routh. Frank I. Smith, Elmer S. Smith. William Wak

ing, Carl Wright and the Brown-Darnell company." These men have slocked their shops full of new 1916 models. Tuesday is the time and opportunity. Today their windows were filled with the brand new models. The New Departure Manufacturing company, operating through the local dealers association. Intends to prove next Tuesday that the automobile and motorcycle have not driven the bicycle from the market. The war has shown that the bicycle can be used where the . auto is impracticable. Hundreds of men who ride bicycles in Richmond show daily that the "wheel is holding its own. To the dealer who makes the best display and sells the most bicycles, suitable awards will be given. Read the advertisements in today's issue and also next week. Prince Bicycle is in town and he will make his grand appearance next Tuesday.

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$100 FUND MISSING.

MARION. Ind., Feb. 26. The Missi newa Motorcycle club hasn't material

ized. The secretary, Clinton Chaney,!

is missing. So is $100 of the club's J funds which were to be used to furnish i quarters. ,

The Jefferson township trustees are seriously contemplating the purchase of a steam roller for road work, at h cost of almost $3,000, though no aetN nite arrangement has been made for the purchase. . : .Miss Katherine Marrinan has returned to her home here after an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Julia Browne at Richmond.. . .Miss Mary O'Dea is the guest of Mr; and Mrs. John Cahill near Camden. The Cahills are preparing to remove near New Paris in a few days.... Merrill Mitchell has made the purchase of the W. L. Hahn property on Washington street, occupied by B. F. Kemp, and will take possession as soon as Mr. Kemp can find a suitable dence and tailor shop Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wolf, recent newly-weds, were the victims of a serenade one evening this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Noakes, where they, had spent the day. The merry conspirators gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clement I Jones, and from there proceeded to the Noakes' home

?in a hay wagon, completely surprising

the young couple. Those in the party were Messrs. and Mesdames Harry Baumgardner, Adam Reid and family. Thomas Rice and family. O. R. Davidson and family, John L. McWhinney and family. Clem Jones and son, Mrs. Cora McWhinney, son and daughter and Messrs. Richard Morrow and Homer Brown. A serenading of the good old-fashioned noisy kind was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Wolf The Literary Society of Jefferson Township High. School will give a circus in the K. of P. hall on March 3d. with program of

.which is replete with "screams."....

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Melody .removed Thursday from the Roberts farm to the Miller property vacated by Roy Drew, who has moved to the Pickett farm vacated by John Wolf. The latter moved back to near Fountain City ....Mr. and Mrs. Omar Mikesell. who were wedded in Florida, have returned and are living in the G. A . Bogan home until the return of Mr.' and Mrs. Bogan from Florida in April.

FRIENDS CHALLENGED BY DEFENSE PLANS

Urgent recommendation that Friends act and act quickly in their attempts to defeat President Wilson's preparedness program in Congress, is contained in an editorial in the current Issue of the American Friends. Personal letters, telegrams and petitions are suggested as mediums through which the society should make its desire heard. -. "Friends In America have probably never faced a more definite challenge to their cherished principles," is the wording of the editorial. ; . .

STOVALL TO REPORT ON DAYTON MEETING

Report of the committee appointed to consider the advisability of organi; zation of a Richmond Church Federation will perhaps be made at the regular session of the Ministerial association at the Y. Mj C. A. Monday morning. The personnel of the committee consists of ministers appointed by the president, Rev. E. E. . Davis. Rev. W. O. Stovall will make a report on the recently-held Dayton, O.. Laymen's Missionary convention.

URGES EFFICIENCY IN HIGHWAY WORK

"An assistant road superintendent i as much a public servant as a high padd county official. said Rod Superintendent Jones, before a group of rocid assistants Thursday afternoon at a meeting in tae court house. , Mr. Jones urged the importance of systematic work in road repairs. Road meii should give all their time In "working roads, thinking roads and talking roads." ; Alpha Lang ton, ex-commissioner of Ifienry county, addressed the meeting Tbursday afternoon. He complimented the system used in Wayne county, paying the roads in W'ayne county are butter than hi any other county. ' 'I believe . that the Wayne county system of keeping roads ia superior to the Ohio system under the road commission." said C. W. . Bloom, of New Paris.

PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

Ttmesday, Febraary 23 will be Bicycle ay 66(Q)2n MIM(0)2i !My! Isi S9&(E99 .

Is the slogan of The New Departure Mfg. Co., of Bristol, Conn., makers of the world's famous New Departure Coaster Brake. They will offer through the following dealers next Tuesday, February 29," a 10 Discount on any Bicycle bought that day. We want to sell One Million Bicycles in 1916 and the following dealers in Richmond will do their part to make this a success. We vyant you to go and look over their stock, buy a wheel and get the benefit of the 10 discount Remember the discount only holds good Tuesday, February 29. After that you pay the full pric for the wheel. There is nothing made today that will give you as much real healthful pleasure as riding a bicycle equipped with a New Departure Coaster Brake, "The Brake that Brought the Bike Back."

Brown & Darnell Co., 1020 Main Frank Briinner, 1029 Main Street Wesley Brown, 122 State Street

Wm. H. Duning, 43 North 8th Street E. C. Routh, 185 Fort Wayne Ave. Frank I. Smith, 603 South 12th St.

Elmer S. Smith, 426 Main Street Wm. Waking & Co., 4th & Main Sts. Earl Wright, 31 South 5th Street