Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 305, 3 November 1917 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1917

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$2,000 RECEIVED AT STOCK SALE

The sale conducted at the Harma Jaqua farm naar New Paris, Friday, by I.awler H. Deitmeyer, realfeed $2,C00. The stock offered was grade, the 14

head of cattle ranging in prices from $75 to $90. A prime Jersey cow fetched $95. ; Fancy prices went with the 28 head of porkers, the bows fetching $50 apiece, and the males, $52. Feeding pigs went from $10 to $23, a high price for feeders. Tbe best male hog was bid up from $35 to $54. The five-year-old mules went $300 a team, the bull fetching $52. Oats for seed fetching the highest price recorded this week, namely 67 cents. Corn

in the shock went from $35 to $50 per acre. An odd sale of implements ranged from the modest 50 cents to $20. Luncheon was served on the grounds by the farm folks. Colonel Tom Conniff was auctioneer, with Jake Wetchman as clerk. Among the buyers present were the Wilson Bros., C. E. Wilson, Ollie Hodgin, Oat Leach, Will Farlow, John Turner, Emmet "Hensloy, George Miller, Luke Bradley, Raymond Lawley, Fred Mitchell, Chas. Waitrick, Frank McMahon, John Wien-

ker, Wm. Wolf, George Wilt, Wm. Rallsback, Elmer Studham. P. E. Huddleston, Henry Balrd, and Elmer Fulton. Attendence 100.

AUNT IS DEAD

Mrs. Olive Allison received word Friday of the death of her aunt, Mrs. George W. Bishop, Sr., at Walton, Indiana. Burial will be at Walton.

MISSIONARY SOCIETY WILL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY

The Home and Foreign Missionary society of First English Lutheran church will have special service at the regular preaching hour Sunday morning, celebrating Its thirtlets anniversary. An interesting program has been arranged by the women. The public U invited.

Hoosier Happenings

MARION, Nov. 3. James Hodge, who claims he has been arrested more times than any man in Grant county, announces from his abode In the county jail where he is serving another sentence that he has forever severed his connections with John B. Booze. Hodge's figures show that during the last fifteen years he has consumed

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WOMAN KILLS HER FATHER GOSHEN. Nov. 3. Werner Carlson, a former resident of Clinton township, was shot and killed by his daughter, Alice Carlson, 24 years old, at their home in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, She says she killed the father in order to save the family which is composed of the mother and four children.

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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID BY THE CITIZENS TICKET

Who stands for lower gas rates, Bavis on Doc?

The old rate for gas was 40c net. The rate now being fought out in the Wayne Circuit Court is 70c.net. Bavis is making this fight in the Court in behalf of the of the consumers to force the gas company down to a 50c rate maximum net rate. It is believed a 50c rate is reasonable to the consumers and fair to the gas company. Bavis says higher rate than 50c is not fair to the consumers. Let us see if He is right. The gas company and its big New York lawyers together with local attorneys and friends of the gas company appeared before the old Utilities Commission and demanded a 70c net maximum rate, or an increase of 30c per 1000 feet. As shown by the. papers filed in the case the reason they wanted an increase was because the gross income from the sale of gas in Richmond was $25,000 too low. In other words they asked permission to raise the price of gas so that they could make up a $25,000 shortage in their gross receipts from the sale of gas. They claimed they could not make a profit on the value of the plant unless they received $25,000 more each year from the sale of gas in Richmond. Nim Johnson, superintendent of the gas plant here, testified before the Commission and swore that the gas company sold 325,000,000 cubic feet of gas in a year in Richmond. If the gas company got 10c more on each 1000 feet of gas it would give them $32,500 increase in their returns for gas sold to make up the $25,000 they claimed to need to make a profit. This 10c per 1000 added to the old rate of 40c would give the consumers a 50c net rate and would provide the gas company with $7,500 more than the shortage they claimed. Bavis, in a spirit of fairness all around, was willing to grant the 10c ' raise which would give the consumers a 50c net rate. The gas company refused that and demanded the outrageously unfair rate of 70c, or 30c increase over the old rate. The friends of the gas company and the attorneys now backing Doc for mayor then offered to take a 60c rafte instead of a 70c rate, being an increase of 20c per 1000 on the old rate. This would make the consamers pay to the gas company $65,000 to make up the shortage of $25,000 or $40,000 more than they were entitled to on their own statement. This happened before the old dis

credited Utilities Commission which was sience ousted from office. Bavis refused to fasten this $40,000 on the gas consumers of Richmond. What Would you have done, Mr. Gas Consumer, under the circumstances? Had Bavis granted this outrageous increase of 20c, making a 60c rate, he would have betrayed his trust of office to the gas company and helped this greedy company to rob the consumer of $40,000 a year and there would be no legal redress in the courts or otherwise. Do you see how easy it is for a public official to legalize extortion from the unassuming public? If Bavis didn't have intelligence and nerve to stand by the people he would have fastened for all time this obligation of $40,000 per year on the consumers of gas in Richmond. Baviswasfare to the gas company, concenting to the 10c increase. He was willing to' give them $32,500 to make up the shortage they claimed of $25,000; but the gas company wanted 20c increase which would give them $65,000 to make up the $25,000 shortage, or $40,000 more than they admitted was necessary to give them a fair profit. To this proposition of the gas company Bavis said, "No, you can't rob the people with my official consent." Was he right? Then the gas company and its attorneys and friends, who are now backing Doc, got a 30c increase through the old discredited Commission. This was obtained one war or another. Then Bavis took the case to the Wayne Circuit Court where it will be fought out to the bitter end by the city in behalf of the consumer if Bavis if elected. If Bavis is not elected you can judge for yourself what will become of the case, and the gas company will have succeeded it taking out of the consumers' pockets, if they maintain the present 70c rate' about $75,000 each year more for gas than they are intitled to on their own statement. Why don't Doc and his political backers and the attorneys who are interested in the gas company put something in writing and tell where they stand on the gas qustion for the information of the public? Their only answer so ir has been "gum-shoe" stuff; They , dare not go into print in this matter.

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