Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 30, 17 December 1917 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, DEC. 17, 1917.

Soldier Dependents Will Get Checks in the Holiday Season WASHINGTON. Dec. n.Christm& cheer will be brought ' to thousands of homes - whose breaJwioners are now tn the army or navy through the redoubled efforts today of the war risk Insurance bureau to make ,he first family allotment and allowance payments before Christmas day. Within a week, bushels of envelopes containing government chocks for wives, mothers, or other dependents, will be dumped into the mails, to act as material messengers of comfort to eoldiers tomes. The payments represent the sums due the first of the month, but delayed by the enormous crubh of clerical work thrown upon a new and hastily organized bureau Applications for government voluntary insurance, also administrated by the bureau, today nubmreed 238,000, and the aggregate of insurance bought passed the $2,000,000 mark by $73, (.00.000. The average amount of in-

mrance annlied for was $3,679. The!

maximum which may be obtained is $10,000.

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German propagandists have little trouble getting sympathizers among the many bands of opponents to govern ment or law and order in Russia and her provinces. The photograph shows the result of an attempt to wreck the special train bearing the W. B. Thompson Red Cross commission through Siberia. The bridge was blown up a few hours in advance of the train.

WAGES UP 25 PERCENT

LONDON, Dec. 17. The average increase in wages in industry in Ger

many up to the end of 1916 may be reckoned to be about 25 percent, says the Board of Trade Labor Gazette. According to official statistics food prices

were 116 percent higher in June, 1917, than in July, 1914.

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WORKERS SELECTED FOR FOURTH WARD

Workers in the Red Cross drive in the Fourth Ward have been named. Mrs. Frank Drultt is captain of this ward. " In the eighteenth precinct, Mrs. Sam Fred is ' lieutenant; Mrs. George Fox. Mrs. Charles Haner. Mrs. W. N. Johnson and Mrs. Edward Ryan are workers. . . Nineteenth Precinct Mrs. Frederick Hicks, lieutenant; Mrs. Walter Dalbey; Mrs. Linus Meredith. Mrs. A. E. Dicher, Mrs. Edward Ryan, Mrs. Frank Glass, Miss Mary Austin and Miss Nina Bruce. Twentieth . Precinct Mrs. Fred Charles," lieutenant; Mrs. George H. Eggemeyer Mrs. George Hayes, Mrs. Leslie Cook, Mrs. Oliver Knode, Mrs. E. G. CrawfordMrs. Marc Fennel, 'Jr., Miss Caroline Carpenter, Miss Rachael Iredell, Mrs. E. R. Beatty and Mrs. A. L. B ram camp.-Twenty-tirst Precinct Mrs. J. T. Giles, lieutenant; Mrs. Fay Holiday, Mrs. W. Zeek, Mrs. Demas Coe, Mrs. E. A. Un thank, Mrs. L. E. Hart, Mrs. Richard Wigmore, Mrs. H. S. Maltby, Mrs. Watson, and Mrs. Clifford Piehl. Twenty-second Precinct Mrs, John Marshall, lieutenant; Mrs. Edgar Mote, Mrs. A. S. Rost, Mrs. Charles Runge, Mrs. Shartle, Mrs. Fred Klute, Mrs. George Bartel, Mrs. Will Balzer, Mrs. Jesse Welchman, Mrs. Karcher. Mrs. Will Meerhoff, Mrs. John Eggemeyer. Miss Bell Schults, Mrs. F.

Hoosier Happenings

GIVES UP XMA8 TREE HUNTINGTON, Dec. 17. Richard Shields, ten years old, has decided he would not have a Christmas tree this year. He has turned $1.25, his allowance for that purpose, over to the charity fund which cares for many needy families each year. TORE FLAG DOWN SOUTH BEND. Dec. 17. Mrs. Anton Kohler had her German husband arrested when he tore down an American flag she had hung on the wall of

W. Rohlfing, Mrs. Lon Jones, Miss Elizabeth Drifmeyer, Mrs. Guime and Miss Ricka Von Pien.

their home. He is in jail awaiting a hearing. Mrs. Kohler is of American descent FOX OUTWITS THIRTEEN MEN HARTFORD CITY. Dec. 17. Thirteen men and five dogs were outwitted by a lone fox in a chase southwest of this city. The fox was still running at dark, long after the men and dors were exhausted, The fox. which ia said to be the finest specimen ever seen In this county, has been making nightly raids carrying away young pigs and chickens, and fanners decided to organize against the animal. The fox was followed thirteen miles before the chase was abandoned.

Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Hayea Pope Benedict XV, through Cardinal Gibbons, has appointed the Right Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, auxiliary bishop of New York, as chaplain general for the priests serving in the U. S. army and navy. There has never before been a military bishop in this country.

CORK IN HIGH ESTATE

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 17. The humI'.s cork bottle stopper has risen to h!$a honor in Germany, Heads have icen broken in restaurants over the Question who owns the cork, the proprietor, the head waiter, or-the customer" who orders the bottle of wine. The magisterial verdict has been returned that while the head waiter has a right to the cork by tradition and custom, he must not disobey his master the proprietor should the latter drmand it being handed over to him. The customer, it appears, has no claim

at all. High prices are being paid for j

CorkB, especially ror tnose or cnam-

pesne bottles.

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