Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 246, 27 August 1917 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1917

REALTY VALUES IN WHITEWATER DISTRICT GROW Twenty Percent Increase in Farm Land Prices is Seen in Whitewater.

WHITEWATER. Ind., Aug. 27. There has been a twenty per cent Increase In land values in this locality within tho past year. This astonishing increase in realty valuations has affected almost every farm in a circle drawn about this town as a center, with a ten mile radius, acording to S. A. Addleman, of Addleman and Jones, reel estato agents. Ctoneral increases in grain prices and live stock, coupled with a purely local successful crop season are causes of the unusually rapid advance. Within this circle crops this year have been as a whole better than usual. Outside it, the crop average has fallen below the standard of the last ten years. Marked Up Stiffly One farmer near this place followed his 1916 corn crop with wheat. These two crop3 netted him a return of $163 an acre. The farm could have been bought a year ago for slightly more than $130 an acre. The owner has decided that his valuation is too low and has given it a stiff marking up. . Another farmer sold a 46 bushel per n?re wheat crop for $2.23 an acre and ia!sed his selling price accordingly. "With assurance of two more years of high prices and successful crops, unybody can buy and pay for a farm," Addleman says. Closed Many Deals This firm has closed the following real estate deals within the past fifteen days: Caleb Duke. 110 acres, two miles north of Richmond, to Frank Bowman, 5125 an acre. Emmet Hensley, 160 acres on the Union pike to Howard Baker, Palestine, Ohio, $1,700. Howard Baker, 40 acres near Bethel to Emmet Hensley, $5,600. George Hodgins, 80 acres, six miles north of Richmond, to Jess Addleman, $3,700. George Bowen, elevator at Crete, to Ben Richards. $22,000. Augustus Chenoweth heirs, 141 acres north of Glen Karn, to George Bowen, 5150 an acre. Sam Petry to Daniel Miller, 15C feres, $24,500. Uaniel Miiler to Sam Petry, 60 acres $175 an acre. Ivan Richards to Ed Carman. 100 acres south of Arba. $11,000. Carl Thompson to Bert Reynolds, G8 acres north of Hollansburg, $6,500. Bert Reynolds to Carl Thompson, 10 acres near Savona, Ohio, $1,750. City Statistics Deaths and Funerals TAYLOR Frances May Taylor, five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Taylor, died Sunday morning at their home la Dayton. O. The body arrived here Monday afternoon, and was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Pettibone, 224 North Seventeenth street. Funeral services' will be held Tuesday afternon at 2 o'clock from the Pettibone home. Rev. E. E. Davis will officiate. Burial will be in Earlhara cemetery. Friends may call at any time. BOLLMEYER The funeral of Mrs. R. J. Bollmeyer will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock from the home,

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That was the tribute paid to Captain J. W. Mattes (at left) who was killed at the Houston riot by Col. M. J. Foreman (at right) the commander nf hia regiment.

Here is an Ideal Comfort Kit

This is Mrs. E. D. Fickett of Chicago, designer of a prize-winning comfort kit for soldiers. She is displaying tlie result of her efforts, which has been accepted as a model to be followed in future by all members of the woman's committee of Council for National Defense. Included in the kit are: A fountain pen and stationery; soap in box; a pencil; razor holder and shaving paste; a complete manicuring set; spools of thread and needles; a hair brush; a new Testament: safety pins; Military Irir brushes, comb and whisk broom; tooth brush and paste.

231 North Eighteenth street Rev. E. E. Davis will officiate. The body will be forwarded to Dayton where it will be buried. HUFF Mrs. Dora Huff, 65 years eld, died at her home, 808 South Eighth street, Sunday morning. Mrs. Huff was bcrn in Germany but has lived in Richmond most of her life. She is survived by her husband, Henry Huff, and three sons. Funeral services will be held from St. Paul's Lutheran church, of which she was a member, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. F. W. RohlBng will officiate. Friends may call any time Tuesday afternon and evening. Postal saving departments are to be introduced into the more important postoffices for the purpose of encouraging the Chinese public to save.

SHU URGED

Y BARON LONDON, Aug. 27. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Adoption of a six-hour working day for labor and general establishment of copartnership between British employers and workingmen after the war are urged by Baron Leverhulme, formerly Sir W. H. Lever, a large employer of labor and formerly a member of the Central Board of Control to deal with the drink problem. "Whatever attempt is made at settlement of industrial troubles," said Lord Leverhulme in a statement on labor conditions after the war," I think the wages system cannot be abolished, it must continue to be the basis of the new conditions. But it needs im provement and modification. Wagesi should be on the highest possible scale, but no change ought to impair the supremacy of management. "The first thing we must note in any ; effort at improvement of working conditions is the tediousness of mechanical work. The remedy I propose is the shortening of the day's task from I eight to six hours. I think six hours at monotonous work is long enough for any man cr woman." Two Richmond Boys Enlisted in Navy . Word was received by the local navy recruitina station in the cost office I Monday, that all recruits for the navy who had been sent home, preparatory to the enlarging of training stations were Deing ret-anea ana soon me entire list of apprentice seamen will be in training Two Richmond young men enlisted' in the navy lasts Saturday and left j Monday for Indianapolis, irom where they will be sent to a training station. They are Cyrus Fitzgibbons, 241 South Seventh street, and Carl J. Hanning, 416 . South Ninth street. Hanning is the son of William Hanning, of the Richmond police force. A package containing $7,000, sent from Philadelphia to a trust company, lay on a depot truck in Vineland for more than an hour before M. Greenblatt, thinking it might be a workman's lunch picked it up. pening

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Individual instruction in Bookkeeping, Shorthand and once to enter on the opening date. Night school classes Office open Friday, August 24 and August 31 , till 9: 00 Richmond Business W. L Stump Manager.

I.W. W. Chief Denies He Lynched Little

BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 27. "It's r. frame-up. They can't connect me with the crime," was the assertion made by C. A. McCarthy, an officer of the Butte Industrial Workers of the World, who is in jail here today pending an investigation of a charge that he was a member of the party that lynched the I. W. W. leader Frank Little, near this city three weeks ago. McCarthy, when booked on a charge of vagrancy, gave the name of Charles Albright. He denied that he was guilty of any participation in tho Little lynching and said that on the night in question he had visited with several friends until 11 o'clock and had then gone to his room and to sleep. It has been calculated that a ton of tobacco withdraws more than a hundred-weight of mineral constituents an acre of land. NEW G. A. R. HEAD - -i tcurirt. . Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo, In diana, who has just been elected Com-mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of . ,. . ., . . . e RePUDllc at-tlle reunion in Boston. The candidacy of Mr. Somers, who served throughout the Civil War in one of the Indiana regiments, was unopposed. KORNILOFF TO REPORT PETROGRAD, Aug. 27. General Korniloff, commander in chief of the Russian army, informs the press that he intends to make a report on the military situation to the conference at Moscow and hopes that important resolutions will be adopted. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY Week

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ENGLISH WOMEN RUSH TO SERVE IN THEIR ARMY

Difficulty is to Find Houses . for Female Workers Who Have Gone to France. HEADQUARTERS OF WOMEN'S AUXILIARY CORPS. BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, Aug. 27. (Correspondence of The Associated Pdess.) When it was decided to employ women with the British Army in France the main difficulty that arose lay in the question of housing. Ac commodation in France had been pre- j pared solely in accordance with the requirements of male troops, and modifications and adaptations for the use of women required careful consideration. The camps and hostels for the women workers had to be fully equipped, within reasonable distance from the places of employment, and on a somewhat higher standard of comfort than was required then for the men. With the co-operation of the military authorities, preliminary arrangements were so rapidly carried out that within a month after the decision to send women to France, everything was ready for the first groups of workers. These crossed the Channel at the end of April this year. At present the women's quarters are principally in hutted camps, and in hostels taken over by the Corps at some of the bases. These camps accommodate i from 28 to 500 women each. Their to- j tal accommodation has reached a figure over 4,000. Each camp, however small, is under the charge of a women administrator responsible for the comfort and wellbeing of its occupants and for their discipline outside office hours. The question is often asked, is the discipline of the women workers very strict? The question of discipline was a subject of careful consideration. The women of the Auxiliary Corps cannot be treated as children; they are carefully chosen in the first instance and are doing responsible work. For this reason a great deal of liberty is given them and the rules and regulations 8 re not stringent. Members of the Corps must wear their uniforms on all accaslons; there are certain restrictions regarding admission to cafes and estaminets in France. There are occasional rollcalls at the hostels, but out of office hours the women are allowed a great deal of liberty. The administrator may sanction invitations to men to the public recreation rooms of the hostel. The idea in enforcing discipline among the women workers is that they thould be led not driven and that much depends on the administrator who acts as leader, still more on the manner in which the individual members respond to the trust reposed in them to keep up the personal credit and the honor of the Corps. It speaks well for the success of the system that after an experience of three months in Frar - only three girls have been returned to England and they for an act which showed more stupidity than dliberate indiscipline. The administrators are carefully chosen, being in many cases teachers in girls schools or housekeepers in schools or large institution. Other are women trained in welfare work or univerity women who have had experience in similar work. To fit them for their special work in France, all women chosen for administrators receive instruction before being sent out to take up their duties. Recruits for the Women's Army are very carefully selected in England. Each candidate must furnish two references, which are carefully consulted. Then the candidate is sent before a selection board and a medical board, both of whom have set a fairly high standard. Approved candidates are "called up" to a receiving depot after a short time allowed them for making preparations. On arriving at the receiving hostels the candidates are solemnly enrolled and required to sign their formal agreements before a military officer. They stay at the receiving hostel about three weeks, during which time they are inoculated and vaccinated, fitted with uniforms and taught some elementary marching drill. They also attend lectures on the work before them. These three weeks are very valuable; the women make friends among their future associates and, begin to get a little of that valuable "esprit de corps," pride in their work and understanding of its value and importance. When the first batch of recruits came to take possession of the big receiving hostel in London they were told that the beds had not yet arrived and that they would have to sleep on straw filled mattresses streched over planks. No a protest was made, although vaccination and inoculation soon gave aches and pains to several J of them ; on the contrary they rejoiced in the temporary discomfort as "part of the game." Plans are under consideration for the , erection of an electric lighting plant capable of providing 5,000 private lamps, 700 public lamps and 1,000 fans in tho city of Madura, India. American supplies will find a good market if tliese plans are carried out. rrr erm Stenotypy. Arrange at start Wednesday, Sept. 5. p. m. for enrollments. College Phone 2040

FIRE THREATENS AN ENTIRE BLOCK

NEW MADISON, O., Aug. 27. An entire block was threatened by fire which destroyed three barns here early Monday morning, doing damage estimated at approximately $2,000. One barn first caught fire and when two others were aflame calls for help were sent to Greenville and Richmond. Shortly after the calls were sent out however the wind lessened its velocity and the fire was gotten under control. The fire had a good start when discovered shortly after 2 o'clock. Its origin is undetermined. Two automobiles and one horse burned. Two of the barns were owned by

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Five More Days of This Great Sale

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Is the talk of the town. Built with solid oak frame. Opens out to full size bed. Black or Spaniah chase leather upholstering; a $25.00 value. Cash Raising price only $18.50. All Davenports at a big saving balance of this week. Select yours tomorrow. We'll hold for later delivery if desired.

Beautiful Rocker Special This Week

Very aassiva design. Built strong with spring construction Upholstered in good grade of chase leather. Come in and bargain. Cash Raising price Cellular ( cuaranee LIQUIDPROOF'HEATPROOF'

Set ol Six Diners During Cash Raising Sale Only

Built of hard wood to last a life time. Finished in beautiful golden oak gloss finish. Set of six during Cash Raising Sale; $8.50.

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THIEVES HAVE TASTE FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES

Thieves with a taste for good cigars and cigarettes broke Into George Muey's saloon at South Fifth and H streets early Sunday morning. They entered by breaking a window. They took thirty cigars, six package of cigarettes, several packages of chewing gum and a pint of choice whisky. Police were notified. Rufu3 Clark.. The other belonged to Mrs. Margaret Haspel. All three were totally destroyed. ELL-AW Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. Reed's LZLjM YOU'LL DO EETTER AT REED'S Save 15 to 30 Week 3 I Davenport $18.50 very seat. Spanish see this $8.95. After Sept. 1 the price will be $2.00 Buy Now. Save 50 cents. Extra Leaves, 25c Any Size Vernis Martin Bed

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H Washer t Saves Hours of Hard Labor for the wife. COSTS LESS THAN 2 CENTS , 'y Per Hour to Operate Our Vestibule. Richmond I