Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 26, 12 December 1917 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 1917.
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5ITY T0 ACT ON COMMUNITY TREE
.City council will decide next M onlay night whether Richmond will lave a community Christmas tree this rear. Mayor Robbins said Wednesday foat he would take the matter before jouncil at that time.. While it is probable that the city Kill have a community Christmas :ree, there will be no Christmas treat" of candy for all children this rear if Mayor Robbins has anything to do with it. The mayor said Wednesday that he Iocs not believe that the city officials jhould solicit funds to buy candy for shildren with sugar as scarce as It is ind the government calling upon the people each day to conserve. - The mayor, however, Is in favor of having a community Christmas tree, ind the tree lighted every night during the Christmas week. - It has been customary in the past to give a sack of candy to all children .who gather around the Christmas tree Dn Christmas night. .
Sons Are Burned, Father is Frozen
.FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 12. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Orin Shelly, farmers, living in the northeastern part of Allen county, are not expected to live as the result of burns received while asleep when the house burned. The father also ia In a serious condition suffering from frozen feet and legs, and it is possible that amputation will be necessary. The two boys, age eleven and .thirteen, were unable to get out before the fire caught them, and when they escaped they leaped from a window with the flames roaring in the room behind them.
Man's Present Duty Subject of Talk "A Man's Duty In the Present Crisis," was the subject of a talk made Tuesday by Dr. David Edwards of Earlham college at the weekly luncheon of the Rotarians at the Arlington hotel. Dr. Edwards said eighty-five percent of the men in the cantonments are college men. He added It Is the duty of professors and teachers to train the men who are now in the colleges to meet the situation. Fifty-five members were present. , .. - . FRIENDS DIVIDE COAL SUPPLY
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind.. Dec. 13. Neighbors here, more fortunate than some in having a supply of coal, are dividing with those who nave bten completely out of coal and unable to get more. The situation here was partially relieved by the arrival of two coal cars cf Indiana coal. Many are still without fuel however, and their houses cold. The mercury here dropped to twenty-three degrees below zero Tuesday morning, the coldest mark of the present cold wave. , , The selective army board for the Wayne county district No. 2 are preparing for mailing the first questionnaires to registered men. Saturday. All registered men, who have not actually been inducted into military service, will be compelled to answer the questions under the new regulations. CATES TO LEAVE
Julian Cates will leave in about a week for Camp Johnston, at Jacksonville, Fla., where he will train for the quartermasters corps.
Revelations of a Wife BY ADELE GARRISON
HOW LIL MANAGED TO SAVE THF. EVENING Whatever her other faults may be Lillian Gale is a tower of strength in an emergency. I discovered this fast when Katie, my maid of all work, uttered a frightened Mttle cry at the sight of Mr. Lester coming through the door and then stood, like a statue of far. gazing at him. Lillian was standing at my side when the Lesters came in. With a quick, unobserved whisper to me: "Get Mr3.
Lester in your room nulckly," she mov-:
ec swiftly to Katie's fide. Dicky said afterwards that the lruttered "Hush! Come with me," with which Lll pro
pelled Karie to the kitchen, was third-
act-to-the-rescue stuff. I could not see what she was doing, however,, for I was too busy trying to obey her Whispered Injunction. - ; " ; i- It was a hard task, however. Of course I had to wait until Dicky hau Introduced me to both Mr. .md Mrs Lester. As I murmured tho conven
tional things and started to escort my
guest to my room, Harry T'nderwood barred the way. "Nay. nay, my child, you do not pass me this way without a word or look that I may cherish." he said grandilo quently to my guest. Mrs. Lester dimpled and gip-gled. "You awful man. I'm not going irt talk to you at all tonteht. Frcink sajs you are a bad man for I'ttle girls to know." "Please unsay them croo-et words," he burlesqued, and then turned to me, as he saw me trying to draw Mrs. Lester toward my room. "Aha, my proud beauty; you do not like to hear me make pretty rpeeches to another. I shall humble your pride yet." He bowed mockingly, and I reached my own room with Mrs. Trter. As T crossed the threshold I drow a deep breath of relief. The danger of an unpleasant scene was over. Katie was safe in 'the kitchen, where, if I gauged
Mrs. Underwood's powers correctly.;
she would soon be reduced to sanity, while my guest, all unsuspecting," as I hoped, was removing her wraps.
Of course I had grasped the significance of Katie's frightened cry. I remembered the night she first came to work for me, her terror at sieht of Dicky, and her sudden flight. We had brought her back, and Dicky had learn ed the reason she was in such fear ol him was on account of the -noney he had givpn her with which o pay a bill. When she was maid of all work in the bachelor apartment which TVckv and three other artists shared shf had disappeared with ih? money and he had never seen her again untt he met her in our anartment. The memory of her broken words of explanation of her flight came back to me. "You know when you left that morning, Meester Lestalre, he ' was painting too? Well. Meester Graham, I always good girl in old country and here. I go to confession. ...I always keep good. MeestfifXesfalrp heMdss me, say bad things to me. He frighten
me. I afraid if I stay, I no be a good girl. So I run queeck away. I never dare come back. Dot Meester Lestaire he one bad man, one devil " Of Course Lestaire was Lester! I had thought nothing of the coincidence of names until Katie's cry had thrown a flashlight upon the situation. I looked at Mrs. Lester who. fortimately. had heard and seen nothing. She was a pretty creature, hirdlike in her smallness and daintlne.-s, and a certain chirpy brightness. I judged that, her mentality about equalled the calibre of a sparrow, but I : dmltied also that the fact did not detract from her attractiveness. She was the sort of woman to be protected, to be cherished. She was loving, innocent, helpless. And her husband had amused himself ty persecuting an ignorant, alient servant! I felt a rush of sympathy for her. I remembered Dicky's comment upon Katie's revelation:"So that was it! Well, that was just about what that pup would do. That was one reason I got out of cur housekeeping arrangements He set too swift a pace for me, and that was going some in those days." To be continued
HOW YOUR DOLLAR HAS SHRUNK
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Chart of how purchasing power of a dollar has shrunk since war began in 1914.
Students of economy have figured out the shrinkage of the American dollars' buying power in figures upon which the accompanying 1 chart is based. The war has gone into every household and every breadwinner is helping to pay the expense of the war. The decrease in the dollar since the struggle started in the summer of 1914 as shown by the chart is based upon ad
vances in prices of fifty foods which
are regarded as necessities of life, and of clothing, fuel, etc. Whatever the causes assigned by merchants to the higher prices the causes analyzed lead back to the one word war. Peace is the only thing which will fill In again those huge chuncks which have been cut out of the dollar as we used to know it and even peace will put back more slowly than war took away. .
SCHOOLTEACHER JOINS ARMY
HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 13. Prof. C. E. Hostetler, who is one of the teachers of the Hagerstown high school, will enlist as clerk and typist in the aviation corps. He left for Indianapolis Thursday. From there he will go to Fort Thomas, Ky., and then to Texas. Mr. Hostetler's home is at Westport, Ind Forrest Carpenter, who is stationed at Camp Funston, Kan., in a letter to his parents, Mr.4 and Mrs. James Carpenter here, says he expects to eat Christmas dinner at home. Forrest enlisted in the army last summer and is now a sergeant Before going to the army he was an employe of the Teetor-Hartley Motor company. . . . Miss Florence Starr and Mrs. Ellen Allen were hostesses to the Women's History club Monday afternoon at their home on North Washington street. The next meeting will be the first guest day of the year, and will be held at the home of Mrs. John Hartley on West Clay street. Each member of the club, is expected to invite one g-aest.,. . .Charles Teetor went to Washington, D. C, Monday on business and will be gone a week. Clarence Willard, of St. Louis, now at Camp Funston, received by parcel post a letter from his friends which was 300 feet long.
City Statistics
Deaths and Funerals BECKMAN Jennie L. Beckman, 67 yeara old, widow of John B. Beckman, died Tuesday morning at her home, 236 South Eighth street She Is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Roydon Parke. The funeral will be. held Thursday at 10 o'clock from the home. Rev. Andrew i-F. Mitchell of the South Eighth Street Friends church, will be in charge. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time. SCHUERMAN Elizabeth M. Schuerman, 60 years old, died Tuesday afterroon at her residence, 322 South Seventh street, after an illness of, four weeks. She was born in Richmond and has lived here all her life. She was a member of St. Johns Lutheran church. She is survived by her husband, Henry J. Schuerman; four sons, Albert, Herbert, Rudolph and Karl Schuerman, all of Richmond; four daughters, Misses Mary, Emma, Ida
end Alice Schuerman of Richmond: two brothers, William Sieck and Geo. Sieck of Richmond, and two sisters, Miss Ida Sieck and Miss Alice Sieck, also of Richmond. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, 1:30 o'clock, at the residence and at 2:00 o'clock at St. Johns church. Burial In Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at any time.
The exiled czar of Russia is a great whist player. He formerly used more than 1,200 packs of cards a year at $7 a pack. ,
$1,000 DAMAGE DONE BY FIRE
The largest fire in Richmond in several months occurred Wednesday morning when damage estimated at more than $1,000 was done at the Swayne, Robinson and Company's factory. The fire was caused by an oil furnace in the smithing department The fire did not start in that part of the factory where government contracts are being worked on. An oil furnace in the smithing department burned the floor and spread to the second floor. Firemen were handicapped In fighting the blaze because of a dense smoke caused by the burning oil. The damage is partly covered by insurance. The damage to the building is estimated at $500 while about $500 damage was done to lumber stored in the eecond floor.
TELLS OF DAILY EXPENSE
LONDON, Dec. 12. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, introducing a vote of credit In the House of commons today said he estimated the present vote would carry the expenditures to the end of March, 1918. He said the average daily expenditure in the last 63 days, was 6,794,000 pounds sterling, and for the period since the end of the last financial year, 6,686,000 pounds sterling.
Times Demands Probe Into Cambrai Loss
LONDON, Dec. 12. The Times this morning prints conspicuously an editorial demanding a prompt and searching inquiry into the battle on the southern end of the Cambrai sallent on Nov, 30 and on the following day. Owing, it says, to disquieting first hand amplifications of censored accounts. These are said to include charges of blundering and assertions that the British were caught unready.
PERMANENT WAR BOARD PLANNED
A permanent organization In Wayne county for the purpose of collecting war funds was discussed Tuesday evening by Richmond men at the Commercial club rooms. The following committee was named to assist with organization in the
townships:
James A. Carr, Frederick S. Bates, George Seidel, Leroy Browne, William
F. Bockhoff and Howard A. Dill.
Another meeting will be held within a few days when all plans will be
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