Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 187, 19 June 1917 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917
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FIVE THOUSAND SEE RED CROSS MARCHERS PASS i Spirit, of City Aroused by Column of Enrolled Men and Workers. :
More than five thousand spectators lined the sidewalks and ooMttom windows on the impressive Red Cross parade which roused Richmond spirit
Monday night lor me neu v. ..in
More than a thousand marchers were in line. About 500 of the registered young men of the county, were In Una
Perry township, with thirty-five young men registered under the dratt law. had thirty-five in line. Led by Miss La Verne Jones ana uiu June ' Robinson, mounted on
horses, clad in the Red Cross uniform and carrying big American flags, the
parade moved at :40. rwfieuia Head Column.
City and county officials headed the marchers, and were followed by memhtni nf th fire department, the po
lice department, several squads of the
National Guard on duty in ine cny. a at American flag carried by many
men. into which the spectators showered money, a band, the 500 young men marchers, about fifty members
of the Red Cross, ambulances, another
band, and the Army and Navy or me rh Cro workers.
Boys bearing placards with patrimottoes were scattered at fre-
innnt intervals. Especially impres
sive was the sight of a group of men
learrying stretchers. I Flaa Collects $29.
Twenty-nine dollars was the total
amount thrown into the great American' flaff.
Passing from Ninth and North A, the starting point, down to Fifth, up Fifth 10 Main. East on Main to Fifteenth,
North on Fifteenth to A and thence to
the starting point, where after several band pieces and patriotic songs, it disbanded, the parade gave every one in
Richmond a chance to know of the
work it advertised.
Papils Are Champion
Swatters of Fly; 42 of 'em Kill 1,861 Sanitary Inspector McKinley claims
he has a record of the champion liy swatters of the city. - ' . -
Several days ago he received a let
ter from a teacher In one of the city
schools where early In the spring he
made a visit urging the pupils to "swat
the fly."
As a result of his appeal, in one
room where there are 42 pupils, 1,861
tiles have been killed. The report was made out by the teacher wh'o declared that in some instances where the number of flies reported by the
children were unusually large she re
corded one-half the number given.
The campaign against the fly was
conducted by the children without promise of reward other than that the
teacher would write to the sanitary inspector and tell of the work in the school. '
RED CROSS WORK IN JACKSON TOWNSHIP
IS WELL ORGANIZED
fAMRRIDGE CITY. Ind.. June 19
A thorough organization for the ad
vancement of the Red Cross work in Jackson township was formed Friday
venln. with Jack Harper as town
uhlp chairman, and precinct chairman
06 follows: NO. 1. will wooawara; No. 2. Dr. C. E. McKee; No. 3, W. H
Donev: No. 4. O. L. Callaway; No.
Will Judkins: No. 6. Everett Roden
berg. A committee was -named for
pRch district to solicit members and
funds. The work has been actively legun....Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Ohmit, Dr. and Mrs. Rov ' Pelton.. Mr. Will
Griesincer and sister. Miss Rose, Al
bert Ohmit and Miss Alice Bradbury
motored to Muncie Sunday and spent the day with relatives.'. . .Mrs. Jessie Cornell, representative of the Home
Department of the Wayne county Sua
day schools, is at Terre Haute, attending the state Sundayv school con
vention E. V. Wheian ana sister,! Miss Elizabeth, entertained Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Jones of Newcastle, Mm. Katie Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kirby and children of Millville Superintendent A. H. Hines is at Terre Haute attending the rummer term at the Indiana State Normal school.... A Red Cross meeting was held at Hurst's theatre, Sunday afternoon, where Rev. F. W. Rohlflng of Richmond and Clarence Roots of Connersville addressed a large enthusiastic audience. Mrs. F. J. Scudder and children spent Monday and Tuesday with relatives in Knishtstown The remains of Rudolph Schoff were brought from Lebanon, Indiana, to East Germantown, Monday, and interred in the Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Schoff was a brother of Mrs. J. L. McDaniel of this place.... Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marts, Mr. and Mrs. JoBeph Dimmick, and Mr. Donald Demree. of Indianapolis, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Martz Sunday. .. .The news .of the death of Father Spellman of St. Anne's church Newcastle, was received .with much sorrow here, where he had rendered faithful servloe many years as pastor of St Elizabeth's church Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ebert ot New York City,
came Sunday to spend a month with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emll Ebert, and other relatives Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Banker of Shelbyvllle, were Cambridge City visitors Sunday The funeral of the aged Mrs. Ella O'Connell will be held at the St. Elizabeth church Wednesday morning, Rev. M. J. Gorman officiating... Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Miller were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Grany
Heck, or Bentonvllle. Eugene Green, a former Cambridge City boy, now a Quartermaster Sargent in the regular army, and stationed at Chicago, is here visiting , his uncle, Robert Hughes Miss Alice McCaffrey entertained at her home on West Main street, Saturday afternoon, in honor of two brides elect. Miss Hezel Bertsch and Miss Edith Bertsch. She was assisted by Mi6S Daisy Ayler and Miss Mary Bertsch. In the decorations of the living room was shown the color scheme of pink and white; in the dining room, where a buffet luncheon was served, yellow and purple. Attractive corsage bouquets were presented the honor gueets. Those present as guests were the Misses Esther Straughn. Helen Filby. Carlyle Diflenderfer, Julia Boyd, Helen Doney, Jeannette VanMeter. Daisy Ayler, Mary Bertsch, and the honor guests, the Misses Hazel and Edith Bertsch, and Mesdames Abiram Boyd, John Dora. Moran Whittlinger, Fred Wright, Carl Caldwell and John Peele. CASE VENUED 'AGAIN The suit of Delia Harvey against Harry Harvey, of Newcastle, for divorce was changed from Wayne circuit on venue to Randolph, county. The case was brought here for trial from Henry county.
BELGIAN KING
LAUDS AMERICA
WASHINGTON, June 19. The per
sonal letter to President Wilson from King Albert, delivered yesterday by Baron Moncheur, bead of the Belgian mission to this country, was made public by the state department today and is as follows:
"I commend to your excellency's
kindly reception the mission which bears this letter. This mission will
express to the president the feelings
of understanding and enthusiastic admiration with which my government
and people have received the decision reached by him in his wisdom. "The mission will aso' tell you how greatly the important and glorious role enacted by the United States has confirmed the confidence which the Belgian nation has always had in free America's spirit of justice. "The great American nation was particularly moved by the unwarranted and violent attacks made upon Belgium. It has sorrowed over the distress of my subjects subjected to the yoke of the enemy. It has succored them with incomparable generosity. Full Justice Seen "I am happy to have an opportunity again' to express to your excellency the gratitude which my country owes you and the firm hope entertained by Belgium that on the day of reparation, toward which America will contribute so bountifully, full and entire justice will be rendered to my country. My government has chosen to express its sentiments to your excellency through two distinguished men whose services will command credence for what they have to say Baron Moncheur, who for eight years was my representative at Washington and Lieutenant-General Leclercq, who has earned high appreciation during a long military career. "I venture to hope, Mr. President, that you will accord full faith and credence to everything they say. especially when they assure you of the hopes I entertain for the happiness and prosperity of the United States of America and of my fanthful and very sincere friendship. (Signed) "ALBERT." YOUTH GIVEN TERM
FOR CHICKEN THEFTS
CROWDS CHEER RUSS MISSION IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, ' June 19. The special diplomatic mission from Russia was received upon its arrival here today with every possible effort to reflect America's profound hope and confidence in the newest European democracy. The highest officials of the state de
partment, including Secretary Lansing,
Counselor Polk and Assistant Secretary Phillips met the envoy's special train at the end of their long journey halfway around the world and greeted them formally in the name of the government and people of the United States. Crowds cheered them as they went under double cavalry escort past the Capitol, up Pennsylvania avenue, be
tween the White House and the treas
ury department to the David Henning Jennings home, which is to be their headquarters. ,
WOMEN LEARN HOW
TO BE SUPERVISORS ' , Lectures for supervisors in surgical dressings are being given this week by Mrs. I. O. Allison in the Red Cross headquarters. A course of ten lectures will be giveni The same lecture will be given two times each day. More than twenty women will take the course which will last two. weeks.
At the end of that time an examination will be given. These supervisors after passing the . ' examination, can
, tk charge of the different
IUV11 u
tables in the headquarters here.
Mrs. Allison has recently taken her ,aino- in Indiananolia. She is now
registered as an instructor in Wash ington. TAKING BICYCLE TOUR
-070,-M.n Hnhhel. clerk at the Bee
Hive grocery is taking an extended trip over Wayne county on his new bicycle. He left Monday evening and
will return Thursday.
ON GENERAL STAFF:
P h I life & if it'H
w n i.
Child Victims of War in France,
Maimed, Blind and Deranged, Are Being Revived in Great Hospitals
Ashur Winters was sentenced to one to eight years in the state reformatory by Judge Fox today on a charge of petit larceny. Winters was one of the gang of chicken thieves that was arrested recently by Sheriff Carr. His home is in Cambridge City. Winters was the youngest member of the band, being only 20 years old.
MRS. CANDLER MOVES FROM MELPOLDER'S OFFICE
Mrs. Elizabeth Candler, probation officer, has moved her office from the headquarters of the Social Service
Bureau on the third floor of the court
house, to the office of the sheriff on the second floor. It is understood there was some difficulty between Mrs. Candler and John Mel polder, social service secretary over the use of the rooms by Mrs. Candler.
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, June 19 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). The French children found in the villages of northern France evacuated by the Germans under pressure of the British and French offensives, present a picture of the savagery of modern warfare as characteristic as the Somme forest, shattered and broken by months of shell fire. Many of these children are orphans, without home or relatives. Many have been greviously wounded. Most of them suffer from a peculiar species of shell shock, which afflicts them generally with a sort of tremor not unlike St. Vitus dance.
They have had life and death, hor
rors human and inhuman, revealed to them in guises so terrible that they will never be quite normal again. All are underfed and frail from confinement in cellars. Cut off suddenly from
relatives sand friends perhaps two years ago, they have continued to live within a few hundred yards of the front lines, listening always to the thud of shells and the crash of explosives, until their idea of heaven is
"a place that is very quiet." Gathered Up by Troops. The condition of, peasant men and women who have been living under the shadow of the invader through these long month sand years has been bad enough, but the condition of the half starved, wounded and mentally deranged little children has been far worse. All the children were collected and shepherded by the first entente troops iato the newly occupied area. Everything that can be done to cure and care for them is now being done, constituting one of the most important
immediate tasks of the French commit
tees on reconstructtion. The first step was to remove them well behind the front areas. Those who were orphans were taken far away from the sight and sound of shells, many of them to the south of France. The mildest cases were under the care of farm mothers. The more serious cases must of course, be kept under close medical supervision in special institutions.
Children who were not orphans were
not usually taken from the district.
Mothers or grandmothers, could not
bear to part with them altogether, so
they were placed on farms nearby
where it is possible for the parents to visit them frequently. Rapidly Waste Away. One French organization has a hospital with 400 child patients, all under twelve years of age. Most of them are wounded. Some have lost legs or arms, others their sight, others are suffering from brain fever or a puzzling anemia
under which they rapidly waste away. "They are the victims of the ruthlessness of modern warfare," said the head of the hospital, a French woman wearing the uniform of the French Red Cross. "There is no better argument
Major-General Tasker H. Bliss is one of the best-known officers of the line. For a time he was in command of the troops along the border and is new on the General Staff.
FT. WAYNE RAISES
$20,000 IN MEETING
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 10. At a meeting here last night to inaugurate the movement to raise Fort Wayne's allotment of the $100,000,000 Red Cross fund $20,000 of the $80,000 portioned to this city was subscribed. URGUGAY REFUSES TO REGARD UNCLE SAM AS BELLIGERENT POWER
MONTEVIDEO, Urgugay. June 19. President Viera has decided to make a declaration that Urgugay will not regard as a belligerent any American nation at war with nations of another continent. Although Urgugay has decided to remain neutral in the war between the United .States and Germany at the executive and legislative branches of the government have expressed approval of the action of the United States. A dispatch from Montevideo last week said American warships in Urgugayan waters would not be considered as belligerents.
EAST GERMANT0WN
COUNTRY CLUB MANAGER THANKS FIRE DEPARTMENT
against war than to see these little
mutilated victims, who will never play
or enjoy life as other children do. They are mere shadows of childhood. It is difficult to make them talk and they tremble and start at any noise or sudden movement. Women are always gentle with children, but with these children we need a special gentleness, as if we. were handling something more fragile than the most delicate china. No Change for Seven Weeka. "One of the patients, a five-year-old boy, who had been rendered dumb from shell shock, showed no improvement until after he had been in the hospital for seven weeks. Then -one day, he opened his eyes after a long sleep and said with a twisted smile to the nurse: 'It is very quiet here; I like ft ' Cases like that encourage the nurses. But there are many sadder cases child Datients whose wounds must in
evitably prove fatal, paients who despite every effort grow steadily weaker, patients who are gradually losing
their reason and whom notmng can save.
CENTERVILLE, IND.
More than 500,000 packages of fruit, chiefly pineapples, will be shipped from Porto Rico before July 1.
Mrs. William Kempton entertained the missionary society Thursday afternoon. . Eighteen were present The usual order of program was followed after which election of officers was held.. The following chosen: President, Mrs. Belle Peele; vice president, Ella Dunbar; secretaries, Grace Smith and Bertha Dunbar; treasurer, Minnie Wright Mrs. Donald Lantz returned with her mother from Indianapolis and Mrs. Dunbar is much improved in health. Mrs. Ben Lantz
also came with them Mrs. Cora Norris spent a part of last week as
the guest of Nimrod Parrott and wite Carl Sanders in a trade with Bry-
on Nixon in an air rifle deal tried the trigger with the barrel of the gun toward him, the result was that a B. B. shot went clear through young Sander's tongue, and caused him a great deal of pain The Grange will have a social meeting in the Odd Fellows' hall Thursday evening. The committee in charge has secured an entertainer from Liberty to provide a part of the entertainment.
John F. Cook, manager of the Coun
try club, asked the press today to ex
tend his thanks to the Richmond fire
department for the efficient manner in which they responded to the fire
alarm and extinguished the flames that threatened the club house yester
day.
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEMBERS ANSWER QUESTION AIRRE
Returns from the questionairre sent out to 00 Richmond professional and business men are beginning to pour in to the Commercial Club. Two questions were asked from each man: what he considers the thing of first importance to be undertaken by the Commercial club; and what he believes the Commercial club should first undertake for the good
of the city at large, including the
amount of help he can give to this end. ' Those who have not yet answered
these questions are requested by the
club to do so. as a definite plan of
campaign for the future for Richmond
is to be mapped out very soon.
Forrest Kocher of Indianapolis spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kocher Miss Mita Bough-
ner of Dayton, Ohio, spent a few days with Miss Elizabeth and Ella Boughner....Rude Shoef died at his home in Lebanon Saturday, he was brought here and buried Monday morning.
PHOIIIB CANDIDATE
TO HOLD MEETING AT CIYTH AIM MAIN
; J Omer Hufferd, of Shirley. Probibi-J tion candidate , for . representative In I Congress from the Sixth District, will
speak at Sixth and Main streets,; Thursday at 10 a. m. . , '
If the weather prevents an open-air f
meeting, the nominee will speak in. the south court room.- -A
J. Raymond Schmidt, state chair- J j t m,A Cool ia crilnict will '
man, anu j. nuju accompany Hufferd. who is making atour of the district in an automobile.' f
Local Prohibitionists are working.
hard to make the meeting a success.MRS. LINA PERSONETTE i ! DIES NEAR HAGERSTOWN . . ; HAGERSTOWN. Ind., June 19.Lina. 62 years old. wife of Joseph Per sonette died at her home Saturday or, . acute indigestion. Mr. and Mrs. Per-i sonette came here one year ago. They bought Mrs. Mary Keever's farm, three,' miles north of town. They lived f or; twenty years on the large Boyd farm.i between Germantown and Cambridge City. The funeral was held yesterday r'nt-montntt'Tl
PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY
TO ORGANIZE HOME GUARDS.
EATON, O., June 19 A meeting of local boys will be held Thursday evening at the armory for the purpose of organizing a company of home guards. Henry F. Kinnear, one of the leaders in the movement, is in receipt of a letter from Congressman Gard, who states legislation will be taken sometime in the near future to provide guns and ammunition for organizations of this nature.
In Arabia the pay house servants ' runs $18.20 a month.
of cooks and from $8.30 to
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$7.50 VALUE SILK SKlRtS.
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FINE WASH SKIRTS-flftO 98cfTah 50WashWaits $3.50 value $1.50 VALUE Snmmer Uresses A All Colors 2 tor $1 1 gi.98
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Cover-All APRONS 49c
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PONGEE SPORT SUITS 5.00
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PROHI CANDIDATE TO SPEAK IN CAMBRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., June 19. Omer Hufferd, Prohibition nominee for representative from the Sixth District in Congress, will speak at the Christian church here next Thursday at 8 p. m. He will be accompanied by State Chairman J. R. Schmidt and Soloist J. F. Seellg. The party is touring the District in an automobile.
Kodak Films developed Free Prints 3c each, thwaite's Drug Stores.
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