Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 184, 15 June 1917 — Page 12

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PAGE TWELVE THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1917

MB THREATENED "TO KNOCK CLOCK OFF," SAYS JEIVETT

INDIANAPOLIS, June 15. A ecore of witnesses, called by the government today In the Indianapolis election conspiracy case In Federal court, testified regarding -what they described as efforts to close the registration places early in order to prevent the negroes from becoming eligible to vote, in the 1914 election. Pat Glenn, former assistant street commissioner said that he told one member of the registration board that he "could make more money by closing the registration place tomorrow, than by keeping open," but that he was unable to get the registration office closed and reported bis inability to Mayor Bell, who, he said had previously told Mm, "to see what he could do," toward an early closing. Several negroes testified that they were allowed to register but that when they went to vote they were told that their names had not been registered. Charles W. Jewett, present Republican candidate for mayor of Indianapolis in his testimony, said that he went to one registration precinct after receiving report of trouble there and that he was surrounded by a crowd who threatened to knock his block oft if he started anything." Court Records Marriage Licenses. Ert N. Turman, farmer. Tufts. Ind., and Anna L. Otte, fitter, Richmond. MAN ARRESTED HAS CHICKENS IN SACK After an exciting chase, Charles Mil ton, alleged chicken thief, was arrested this morning by Patrolman Vogelsong and Sheriff Carr. When arrested, Milton was driving south on Fifth street in a buggy. He . had two sacks in which were sixteen ( chickens. Although he admitted the I theft of the fowls, Milton refused to ' tell the police where they were stolen, i He was placed In the county Jail , pending action of the grand Jury. LORD ROTHEMERE REFUSES ! LONDON, June 15. Some of the : morning papers say that Lord Rother- : mere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, has .refused the food controllership. Lord iRothermere was the fourth person to be offered this difficult and thankless position.

Haig Driving Tnrough Belgium

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Despite the prophecy that the British had reached the limit of their effort, after taking the Wystchaete-Messines right last week. Field Marshal Haig made another tremendous smash at the German lies yesterday on a front of two miles east of Messines. Trenches were stormed and the village of Gaspard was occupied.

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Put Waste Paper on Front Porch, is Plea of Leaders

The campaign for waste paper still is being waged.Leaders in the drive report splendid progress. The ways and means committee of the Domestic Science club is anxious to turn over a neat sum of money to the Day Nursery. July 16 is the day set for collecting the paper. House wives are asked to tie newspapers, magazines and waste paper separately. If they are placed on the front porch on that day, the boys can collect - them without any trouble. ' Men in One Regiment Give $55,100 to Loan EL PASO, Texas, June 15. One thousand men of a single regiment subscribed for $55,100 in Liberty Loan bonds last night at Fort Bliss. The subscription was completed in thirty minutes after Lieutenant Colonel E. A. Lewis had addressed the men in behalf of the loan. TEACHERS SELECTED FOR CAMPBELLSTOWN SCHOOLS EATON, O., June 15. Selection of a corps of teachers for the Jackson township centralized schools at Campbellstown has been made by the board of education. Joseph S. McDlvitte of Eaton, has been elected superintendent to succeed C. R. yCoblentz, who resigned td become superintendent of the Jefferson township schools. George McClellan, of Eaton, who was graduated with the 1917 class at Miami university, has been made principal. Others teachers follow: Clarence Thompson, manual training; W. H. wlsman. Miss- Hazel Dafler, Miss Grace Miller, Miss Blanche Plummer, and Miss Lulu Beachlor, domestic art and drawing. The corps is complete with one exception, that of a history and English teacher, to succeed Miss Blanche Rinehart, who resigned after three years' service. FLAG DAY SALE NETS CORPS MORE THAN $90 Members of the Women's Relief Corps, which sold flags all day long yesterday on Richmond's streets, expressed much satisfaction with the success of the sale, more than $90 being realized. Proceeds will be devoted by the Corps to 'relief work and to the Red Cross. b ROA.D3 PRESENT tikiE

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CIVIC COUNCIL OF COLORED WOKEN TO HAVE MASS MEETING The Woman's Civic .Council, an organization to promote the best interests of women-of the negro race in this city, will hold a mass meeting next Monday afternoon In the Second Baptist church, South . Ninth and A streets, for the purpose of discussing the new suffrage law and for information and Instruction in women's new civic duties. The Council works with the Legislative Council of Women of Indiana. Mrs. M. F. McCurdy, the president, and one of the best known workers in women's activities in Indiana, will preside, and give an address on "The Spirit of the Hour." and Mrs. R. M Coins secretary, will lead the devotion. Mrs. Grace Ferman, assistant secretary, and, Mrs. Katherine Artist, treasurer, are the other officers. , Miss Esther Griffin White, chairman of the Women Voters Association, will talk on registration and the general question of suffrage and a special 'musical program will be given. , While the meeting is called primarily for the Negro women of Richmond, the general public will be welcome.

Masonic Calendar Saturday. June IP Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O. E. S. Stated Meeting. GOLF CLUBS TO HOLD LIBERTY TOURNAMENT Rnstnv. .Tune 15. Plans were be ing made today to hold "liberty golf tmimn mints'' on .Tulv 4 on the links of all the golf clubs in this district as part of a nation-wide movement, started by the United States Golf association to aid the American red cross. Howard F. Whitney, secretary of the association, in a letter received today urged the clubs to respond to the opportunity for service to the country and suggests that the entrance fee of the tournaments, which will be turned over to the red cross, be fixed at not less than one dollar. The red cross, Mr. Whitney said, will present a souvenir medal to each club holding a "liberty tournament." GRACE CHURCH TO BE HOST TO LEAGUERS Richmond banners and a speech by Miss Pearl Hibnor of this city. won the 1918 Richmond district Epworth League convention for this city, according to an announcement made by the seventeen local representatives who attended 'the meeting at Farmland this week. A strong fight also was put up by Ridgeville. Grace M. E. church will entertain the leaguers. Miss Eva Phelps, of the First M. E. church, was elected fourth vice-president. THOUGHTS TO THINK ' ABOUT When confidence is dead the world is a desert; the withered tree cannot produce fruit. If you disregard the opinion of another you will see the other "going into the air" without the use of a flying machine. Goodness is every way to everybody, everywhere, everytime is profitable. The Palladium Want Ad columns open up a field for fairness in dealing a "Common Ground", where people may meet and trade honorably and honestly. Read the Want Ads in today's Palladium. Wash Skirts Beautiful line large selection. You will find the Skirt you want. $1, $1,25, $1.98, $2.98 Silk Skirts Striped Taffetas $398 Hirsch's 15-17 N. 9th -?ni e e

Liquor Stills Are Flourishing In Hills of West Virginia CHARLESTON, W. Va.. June 16. Federal revenue officers are co-operating with state prohibition authorities to ferret out liquor stills which authorities believe ax flourishing In the mountainous sections of the state since .the so-called . "quart-a-month" law became operative. Authorities say prohibition law violators prefer the risks involved in old time "moonshlnlng distilling" to those of bootlegging since a systematic campaign against the latter course has been in progress.

UNIVERSAUST TO LECTURE IN EATON EATON, Ohio, June 15. Rev. Mary Adams Hersey, of Foxboro, Mass., one of the best known ministers of the Universalist denomination, will deliver a lecture in the local Universalist church next Monday evening. "The Next War" is the subject of the address. Dr. Hersey is superintendent of Temperance Education and is making a tour of Ohio under direction of the : General Sunday School Association of the Universalist church. . . WalterFishback. instead of Earl Fishback, is accredited with the sale of more than 1 1,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. The lad is a member of the local troop of Boy Scouts.. .Bids will be received June 27 by the State High way Department for the construction of a portion of the Eaton and Greenville road. The improvement stretches for a length of 5236 feet. Bituminous macadam will be used. The estimated cost is $10,199.06 .For the benefit of the Civic League, an entertainment will be presented Thursday, June 27, in First Presbyterian church by three entertainers. , One - is Mrs. Leota Fudge Creager, of Laramie, Wyo., who is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Catherine Fudge. Mrs. Creager is a reader and impersonator of note. The other two are Mrs. Harriette Young, pianist, and Edwin Price, vocalist... Classification of the 1672 males registered in Preble county has been made by Clerk W.' H. Arnold, of the election board. The classification follows: Executive officers, 1; totally disabled, 30; dependent relatives, 966; occupational exemptions, 115; no exemptions, 600; aliens, five. London's annual fall of soot, according to careful estimates, amounts to from 25 to 35 pounds for each inhabitant of the city. i - urn. flf 724 MAIN

CHAPLAINS RECRUITED - BY PITTSBURGH CLERGY

PITTSBURGH, June 15-A special commltte of, minister of the Pittaburgh Presbyterian, the largest unit of the Presbyterian ' oborch In the United States, are recruiting a large number of minister to serve as chap, lains In the army camp to be established throughout the country. ' It la proposed to replace those who volunteer their esrrloee with , seminary students who will serve unUl the return of the chaplains. Swoboda Again is Held by French; Accused of Spying PARIS, June 15. Raymond Ruff Swoboda, who was held for some time by the Paris police in the spring of 1915 on suspicion of causing a fire on board the French liner LaTouraine, has been arrested by the Zurich police, according to the Zurich correspondent of the Petit Parisian. Swoboda is accused of recruiting spies to work against France and is alleged to be in close relations with a Geneva business man who was recently sentenced to life Imprisonment in Paris, for espionage. Raymond Ruff Swaboda when arrested in March, 1915, had an American passport and claimed to be an American citizen. At his trial it was said that his real name was Schwlnd and that he was a German reserve officer. He was anally discharged and ordered expelled from France. He appealed to the American ambassy against his expulsion but after an investigation, the American authorities refused to interfere. TEACHERS EMPLOYED IN JEFERSON TOWNSHIP HAGERSTOWN, Ind., June 15. William H. Porter, township trustee; has employed the following teachers for the two rural schools in Jefferson township: Miss Maude Sparks and Frank Harris for the school west of town, and George Townsend and Miss Florence Kirtley for the school east of town. HILL TO MORNING SUN Rev. J. S. Hill has gone to Morning Sun, O., where he will preach Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. These services are preparatory to communion services which will be held there Sunday. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY mm n rra

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YALE MEN TO JOIN

CAMBRIDGE, Mesa.. June 15 One hundred Yale students will join the Harvard reserve officers corps here on June 26, it was announced today. The Yale contingent will bring the to tal enlistment of the camp to nearly 1,400. SOUTH EIGHTH STREET CHURCH TO HAVE EXERCISES Children's Day will be observed Sunday morning In 1 the South Eighth Street Friends church. The regular Bible school wfll begin at 0:45 o'clock Instead of 0:10 as usual. Church services will be combined with the Children's service. The program to be given is as follows: Orobestra; devotional exercises; song by primary class, "Let Them Come In;M recitation. Junior Hole; exercise by primary class, John Keats, Stewart Mann, Emily Jenkins; song, Robert Dennis; exercise by Elizabeth Jenkins, LI la Truman, Louise Overman; recitation, Mary Adams; song. Marcia Dennis; recitation, Margarite Cox; short address by John H. Johnson, superintendent of the school; exercise by Marjorie Quigg, Janice Smith, Harry Murray, Louis Hessler; recitation, Margaret Hlatt; song,, two classes; recitation, Pauline Butler; promotion day exercises; orchestra selection; decision day exercises. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

I have just returned from Chicago where I purchased one lot of Hats that will be sold Saturday only for less than regular wholesale. It being late in the season we have bought this line at a sacrifice and will be sold at a sacrifice. All goods are new, consisting of the latest white and black Hats with the latest trimmings. One lone of Sport Hats that sold at $3,00 for $1.00 each. Middle-aged Ladies' Trimmed Hats for $2.50 and $3.00 that sold at $4.00 and $5.00. Choice of one line of Children's Hats for $1.00, worth $2.00 and $2.50 Saturday only. Store Open at 8:00 A. M. Mrs. C. A. BREHM 35 N. 8th St.

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Women Make User of Odds and Ends . to Make Blankets

Women of Richmond are , making nee' of their odds and ends of wool, of all qualities, sizes and colors. . Pieces are tied together and , crocheted or knitted Into nine-inch squares which are set together to make blankets. These blankets, now badly needed, will be sent to France. Women having any pieces of any color of yarn or wool are urged to bring them to the "sock shop," which is to be located on Main street. Those who can either crochet or knit are needed at the shop to help knit socks for the Indiana soldiers who are to go to France. , Instructors In knitting will be at the headquarters to teach persons who may not already know how to knit. Leaders In this work are asking that every woman' In Richmond offer her services, send In some bits of yarn, or better stin, send the nine-inch square already knitted. An Illinois Inventor has patented a harrow attachment for gang plows to enable a farmer to do his plowing and harrowing at the same time.

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