Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 277, 7 October 1916 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, OUT- 7, iyu

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LARGE CROWDS HEAR SPEECHES OVER COUNTY

James P. Goodrich, Republican candidate for governor, and Judge D. W. Comstock. candidate for congressman, .were today making an automobile tour of Wayne county speaking in the majority of the towns. The two candidates were accompanied by a number of Richmond Republicans in fifteen automobiles. Every place where a meeting was held, good sized crowds were assembled to hear the speeches. This morning meetings were held at Whitewater, Bethel. Fountain City, Economy and Williamsburg. This afternoon Mr. Goodrich and Judge Cornstock are to speak . in Hagerstown, Greensfork and Centerville. This evening both candidates will address a meeting of Union county Republicans to be held in Liberty. Judge Comstock confined his remarks for the most part to a discussion of the issues of the national campaign. Mr. Goodrich discussed state Issues mostly and delivered quite an Important address on the budget system, which he strongly advocates, at Greensfork. BIG FUND PASSES THE MARK SET Richmond' hundred thousand dollar factory development fund went across the Jlne last night. Final reports brought the total to $103,280 In the hardest and biggest campaign ever held here. A new significance has been given to the movement. Richmond is celebrating her hundredth anniversary. She starts the second lap of her history as a municipality and simultaneously begins a new era of industrial, civic, school and cultural history. John Lontz Elected. Prior to the meeting in the high school chapel last night, the directors of the Richmond Industrial Development company organized and voted to make the first call of ten per cent of pledges. John M. Lontz was elected president. George Seidel vice president. S. E. Swayne treasurer and E. M. Haas, secretary. ' The directors then met at Commercial club rooms and elected John M. Lontz a director and vice president of the Commercial club. From a standpoint of attendance, the meeting in the high school auditorium was a keen disappointment to Chairman Lontz ard others. Later' it was regarded as the most novel and Interesting meeting ever held here. The attendance was about 300 persons. Calls for Enterprise. A new spirit must be instilled into the citizens of Richmond. Mr. Lontz paid. He spoke of the city's standing in art, music and culture and then asked that a spirit of enterprise be raised. L. S. Bowman, president of the Commercial club, pledged in behalf of the club directors to try to make ev-r-ry dollar of the fund bring back one hundred dollars and closed his talk with a warm eulogy for Mr. Lontz. Principal Frank G. Pickell of the high school made one of the principal speeches in which he declared the fund means better, greater and broader things for the young people of Richmond, an expansion of the school pystem and power and facilities for Increasing the scope and efficiency of school work and life. Teachers Vote Help. "Do you men appreciate what it means when teachers vote to support a movement?" he asked. "I was pleased when the federation voted $100 to the fund. The teachers of Richmond that I know of have given almost $500.". The first three committees to report fell well below the $300 mark to which every committee had pledged a week previously when the fund stood at $05,800. Then E. R. Lemon's committee reported $745. C. H. Kramer's $641 and O. G. Murray's $540. With ten more committees to report, it was then plainly seen that the fund would pass $100,000 and the meeting became enthusiastic. Three other committees averaging $400 each brought the total to $99,541. Bond Robbed of Honor. "Our committee will have the honor of putting across the hundred thous and mark, said Dr. C. S. Bond. He reported $350 and members of the other committees laughingly caned nis at tmtion to the fact that the fund was still short. "I will pledge enough to make the hundred thousand," said James M. Carr. The figures were totalled and Masonic Calendar Saturday. October 7 Loyal chapter No. 49 O. E. S., stated meeting. Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1916, Richmond Lodge, No. 196, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in the Entered Apprentice Degree. Wednesday, Oct. 11, Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in the Master Mason Degree; commencing at 7:00 o'clock. Thursday, Oct. 12, Wayne Council, No. 10, R. and S. M. Special assembly; work in the Royal and Select Master'c Degrees. Friday, Oct. 13. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R- A. M. Stated Convocation. PAUL JACOBS DIES. Paul E. Jacobs, age one year, died at midnight at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jacobs, 419 North Fourteenth street He is survived by his parents. The body will be taken to Bradford Junction Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock where iburial will be held.

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POLICE CAPTURE GAMING BOARD

It was a simple little device and a money-maker. When folded it resembled a sample case. When opened there was one section marked off in squares where gamesters placed their coin and each square numbered. The other section was arranged to stand upright when the case was open. This was studded with a number of brass tacks. At the top were two slots for a wooden ball the size of a small marble. When this ball was inserted in a slot it would bounce from tack to tack until it reposed in one of several slots numbered to correspond with the numbers on the squares. Then in the back of this case, obscured from the eyes of the player, was a slide, to be pushed back . or forward, the slide controlling the way the ball would descend. This slide was for the convenience of the operator of the game. The handy contrivance for the fleecing of the come-one is now in the possession of the police. It was being operated yesterday by a man who was stranded in Richmond after the most recent carnival company departed from our midst. He was doing quite a lively business when Chief Goodwin made his appearance. The man was released when he promised to leave town. He had been operating the game in the field opposite Glen Miller park. RICHMOND PULPITS MAKING STRONG BID TO BOOST INTEREST Richmond ministers have begun a vigorous winter campaign to increase attendance and interest in all church services. In their sermons, founded on scriptural truths, they are aiming at the abuses of modern life and are outlining a constructive course for living. Subjects for sermons which are announced for each Sunday have a strong appeal to the average man. Here are some striking 4;opica for discussion tomorrow. If you do not attend church, find out where these sermons are to be preached by the church announcements and then swell the attendance there tomorrow. "The Present Political Situation." "How Money Helps." "The Church's First Business." "Forward Lookers." "The Savior of Others Could Not Save Himself." "The Lord's Time to Work." "Wisdom for Babies and Strength for the Weak." "Tests Applied." "Adam and Eve in Hiding." TO URGE RAILROAD TO ALTAR OVERHEAD BRIDGE AT DALTON Efforts will be made next week to get the C. & O. railroad to change the overhead bridge- over its . right-of-way on the West River Pike, Dalton township, west of Economy. Attorney Hoelscher will write a letter to the railroad officials next week explaining the law and stating that the bridge is unsafe for traffic. If the railroad company does not comply with the requests of the coun ty, the matter will be brought to the attention of the railroad commission. The bridge was built last month to replace the one which .burned a short time previous. BROTHERHOOD HOLDS SUPPER AT CHURCH The monthly meeting and supper of the Men's Brotherhood, First Presbyterian church, will be held in the church on Monday, October 9 at 6:30 p.m. An address will be presented by Dr. Joseph John Rae, entitled, "A Man I Have Met." Members and their friends are urged to attend. Tickets, including Eupper, 35 cents, can be secured at the church Monday evening. JUDGE FOX LOWERS DE VINNEY'S TERM. When Robert DeVinney entered a plea of guilty in the circuit court this morning to having operated a "blind tiger" Judge Fox fined him $100 and thirty days in jail. The case was appealed from the police court where the trial was held by jury and where the verdict was $250 and six months on the penal farm. FILE PETITION SUIT. Petition to have Judge Fox set the inheritance tax for the estate of Henry F. Morris, Cambridge City, was filed in the circuit court today. The value set is $14,095.76. AUTHORIZES CARRYING MAIL IN AEROPLANE WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. Second Assistant Postmaster General Prager today issued a formal order authorizing Victor Carlstrom, aviator, to carry two bags of United States mail by aeroplane from Chicago to New York. Carlstrom plans, to make the trip between sunrise and sunset in a nonstop flight between October 7 and November 17. 23 BOYS ENTERED Twenty-three boys are entered in the Wayne township State Dairy contest. Ivan Beck, township agriculture advisor, has a list of prizes for the township winners which he will make public soon.

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,J3Jfeg'J03EI-,.H C. JM5 cue Mrs. Le Due is the wife of a prominent Chicago business man, and was shot in a room In a Philadelphia hotel by Mrs. Harry Belzer, who shot and killed Joseph Graveur and then committed suicide. The tragedy has furnished a mystery which the police of New York and Philadelphia are endeavoring to unravel. Mrs. Le Due denies that she went from New York to Philadelphia with Graveur, who was a wealthy garage owner of New York, and said she did not know the woman who fired the shots. She asserts that she went Into Graveur's room to get a handbag she had left there while she went to the theatro with him. BREAD LOAF SIZE VARIES FOR YEAR WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. Statistics showing the rapid rise in the retail price of bread were made public today by the bureau of labor statistics, giving the range of bread prices from August 1913, to August, 1916. Most of the increases, according to the report, were in variations in the size of the five-cent loaf rather than in the price. The increase ranged from onehundredth of a cent to one cent a loaf. The figures have been placed before the federal trade commission for use in its investigation into the cause of increase in prices. WITH DOG AWAY THIEVES GET $5,000 CHICAGO, Oct. 7 Miss Helen Morton, divorced two days ago from Roger Payley, Virginia gentleman farmer and horseman, is $5,000 poorer today because she took a police dog she took along for protection vhen she went on a walk which ended at a movie show last night. During her absence thieves entered the home of Mrs. Stuyvesant Peabody, where she is a guest, and got Miss Morton's jewels, in spite of the fact there were five servants in the house. MARTINDELL IS DEAD. Richard Martindell died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Davis, East Plum street, Centerville, Ind., at the age of 82 years. Funeral services will be held at the Friends church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. LOST AD. FINDS $250 NECKLACE ."It pays to advertise especially in The Palladium," said Mrs. L. L. East of Greenville, O., who announced today ' that through the medium of a "lost" ad inserted in the classified advertising page of The Palladium she had succeeded in recovering a diamond necklace, valued at over $250, which she lost over a week ago on South Eighth street near the traction station. "Claude Wickersham, who resides two miles north of Webster, wrote to me that he had found a necklace and presumed it was the one I had advertised for in The Palladium," said Mrs. East. "I wrote to him describing the necklace and he replied that the description tallied with that of the necklace he had found. We arranged to meet each other at a hotel here today." Wickersham received a . liberal reward from Mrs. East who greatly prizes her necklace. She dropped- it out of a purse which she had neglected to close after making a payment in a restaurant. Wickersham found the necklace on a sidewalk. Mrs. East is the mother-in-law of Walter Brown, publisher of the Greenville Advocate. HOLD PROHIBITION RALLY. A Prohibition rally will be held at the First Pentecostal church of the Nazarene, North A and Fifth streets, at 7:30 o'clock next Tuesday evening. The address will he delivered by Bishop Taylor. EVANGELIST TO SPEAK. t has been made of a series of meetings by Evangelist L. J. King at the Vaughan nan, wain sireei, during October. Meetings on Monday and Huesday nights will be held at the K. of P. temple. The services begin Sunday at 2:30 and continue at 7 o'clock each evening thereafter. King announces himself a3 an ex-ramanist.

JAY IS SELECTED COLLEGE, PRESIDENT

J. Edwin Jay, Earlham college, '95, has been elected president of Wilmington college, Wilmington, Ohio. REPAIRS MADE WHILE SLAYER SETS IN CHAIR OSSINING. N. Y., Oct' 7 Despite urgent eleventh hour pleas of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne and many prominent bankers, Thomas Bambrick of New York, was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison today for murder. Requests for a reprieve were made to Governor Whitman almost up to the hour of execution, but all were rejected. Bambrick shot George Dapping, a New York policeman, at a political picnic on September 23, 1915. After the first shock was administered a wire connected with the head electrode became detached. The unconscious form of the condemned man sagged forward in the death chair and executioner Hurlburt was forced to make repairs before the second shock could be given. WOMAN'S SCREAMING FRUSTRATES ROBBERY COVINGTON, Ind., Oct. 7 Two bandits, one of them wounded, today are in jail because of the quick wit of Miss Lura Ward, a bookkeeper who caught them in the vault of the Citizens' State Bank, screamed to attract attention, then led a posse which captured the robbers after a revolver battle. Miss Ward, entering the bank by the back door, found Samuel P. Gray, the cashier, unconscious on the floor as the result of a beating with a club and the bandits gathering up the money in tight. As the robbers fled with $2,000 leaving behind other packages of currency they had picked up, Miss Ward followed, still screaming. STEAMER SHELLED 3Y GERMAN WASP GALVESTON, Tex., Oct. 7. The De Layland line steamer, Merciam, arriving here today, reported being shelled by a submarine in mid-Atlantic. Capt. C. G. Walker exhibited the visor on his cap, which he said had been sylit by splinters from the shell as he stood on his bridge. None of the Merciam's crew was injured, nor was the vessel materially damaged. The submarine, Capt. Walker said, submerged at the appearance of a British warship. DEAD MAN DRIVES CAR TO SAFETY OMAHA, Oct. 7. Mrs. F. S. Trulinger is alive today because the hands of her dead husband safely guided an automobile down a steep hill , and brought it to a stop against the rear end of another car going in the same direction late last night. Mrs. Trulinger, discovering her husband was dead vainly tried to remove his hands from the wheel and his feet from the brakes. Tmlinger died of apoplexy. OBSERVE RALLY DAY AT FRIENDS SCHOOL Raljy day will be observed in the Bible school of the East Main Street Friends church Sunday morning. The primary department especially, will have a prominent part in the exercises presenting several special numbers. An unusually large attendance is expected. CITIZENS RAID JAIL. AUGUSTA. Kans., Oct. 7. Enraged by the arrest of six prominent citizens, arrested on charges of violating traffic ordinances, a mob early today stormed the jail here, ran Marshal Crowe and his three deputies out of town and liberated the prisoners. GERMAN SOB NOT BREMEN REACHES PORT NEWPORT, R. I., Oct. 7. The German fighting submarine U-53 commanded by Capt. Lieutenant Hans and a crew of thirty-three men, arrived here this afternoon from Wilhelmhaven. It left there seventeen days ago. The vessel has two guns mounted, one fore and one aft, and a wireless outfit. It carries supplies for three or four months. All on board are in the best of health. It expects to leave tonight. SMITH WILL MEET WITH I. U. TRUSTEES Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the hospital at Easthaven, and newly elected trustee of the Indiana university, will meet with the board for the' first time in the next session which will be held at Bloomington on Oct. 25. CHAMNESS SENDS LIST County Treasurer Chamness today sent a tax bank list of $2,318.96 to the First National bank, Dublin. People who are included in the list will pay their taxes at the bank instead of at the treasurer's office.

PENNSY'S WORK BOOSTS TRADE IN SOME LINES

Bradstreet's review of trade conditions for Richmond follows: Sudden change in weather conditions has made a decided increase in the retail trade in all lines of wearing apparel during the' last weekClothing and shoe houses did capacity business. Wholesale grocery and pro- ! vision market steady: collections somewhat better. Retail groceries report good business; collections normal. Retail and wholesale hardware houses report market rising with no relief in the shortage of some lines. Collection normal. Lawn mower manufacturers report the heaviest season i in their history. Factories worked, to capacity during the months of June, July and August. Demand for the better grade of machines; collections good. Outlook for next year's business ahead of this year. Live stock market about the same. Work on the $600,000 improvements being put in in this city by the Pennsylvania railroad progressing nicely; this means more brisk trading in the local lumber, clothing and provision, market During the last week there has been a campaign waged In this city to raise $100,000 to be used as an industrial development fund in bringing new industries to this city. The demand for rentable houses exceeds the supply and next year will see much activity among the building lines locally. Car shortage still felt here with no relief in sight Demand for loans at local banks about normal. WILSON CLAIMS HE INTERVENED IN HOUR DISPUTE ON BOARD THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 7 President Wilson, in a declaration to the newspaper correspondents, said today that he had not "surrendered" on the eight hour controversy, but rather had "intervened." Reports emanating from New York that James W. Gerard, the returning American ambassador to Germany, is bringing peace proposals, lack confirmation on the presidential train. President Wilson knows nothing of such proposals. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to this country, is expected to be a visitor at Shadow Lawn on Monday, but his mission is to present a letter from the kaiser to President Wilson on Polish relief work. BOWMAN REPORTS ON SCHOOL FUNDS Auditor Bowman in his report to the county commissionars today on his settlements with school corporations made public the standings at August 1, and the amounts expended during the previous year. They follow: Cambridge City tuition fund, expense, $8,727.79, balance, $6,684. Special school, expense, $3,116.76, balance, $4,171.14. Centerville tuition fund, expense, $3,829.50, balance, $1,514.06. Special school, expense, $3,116.76, balance, $4,171.14. Dublintuition, expense, $3,200, balance, $2,392,73. Special school, expense, $1,859,49, balance, $542.68. Hagerstown tuition, expense, $4,482.23, balance, $1,662.94. Special school, expense, $2,600.04, balance, $859.49. Richmond tuition, expenses, $89,422.73, balance $51,952.33. Special school, expense, $76,382.30, balance, $12,170. Tuition refers to money spent for teaching and special school means money needed for maintaining buildings, etc. SUES PENNSY LINE IN DAMAGE ACTION Attorney Slaymaker, Indianapolis, appeared in circuit court today In the interest of the Insurance Company of. Pennsylvania in the suit which has been brought against It by Marshall M. Knapp, Hagerstown. The case was set for trial, Tuesday, November 14., The suit is brought on a policy which Mr. Knapp carried with the insurance company for $3,500 which burned two years ago. He claimed that his loss was $4,000 and asked that the full amount of the policy be paid him. The company offered to pay $3,000 but says that there are not claims sufficient to prove that the property was worth any more. Mr. Slaymaker will try a rery similar case a little later in November which was brought here on a change of venue from Randolph county. Burroughs vs. The National Fire .Insur. ance company. CONFIRMS REPORT OF PEACE MOVES NEW YORK, Oct 7. President Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co., today admitted that it was he who yesterday gave out the Information that Ambassador Gerard Was making peace proposals from Germany. Banker Sabin today telephoned his secretary to confirm and reiterate his statement The Guaranty Trust company Is the second largest financial institution in New York- The announcements of possible peace negotiations is made so that in the subsequent steps there vould be no upset in the financial world. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

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