Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 174, 5 May 1919 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919.

LOCAL RISK COMPANY IN OWN HOME AFTER 45 YEARS OF PREPARATION

Just forty-seren years ago this tpring, the Citizens' Mutual lire Inturance company, now having more tban 1,000 members and having 1,600 policies in force, was organized, on March 22, 1872. The company was made up ot citizens, mostly of German descent, who foresaw the possibilities and advan

tages of a mutual fire insurance pro

tection on their homes and household goods. The John C. Bayer home. South

Eighth and B streets, has been pur

chased as a permanent home for the company, and improvements in tbe

company's new headquarters will be

made Immediately.

The Citizen's Mutual Fire Insurance

company was organized in 1872 under

the name of the German Mutual Fire

Insurance company. The first board t Anm K 1874

and at the first meeting. April 22, 1872,

o fleers for the coming year were elect

ed as follows: H. H. Meerhoff, presi

dent; 'William H. Battel, sr., vice-

president; John E. Hugo, secretary;

Henry Cutter, treasurer; G. Schnello,

O. Schneider and David Feltman, ap-

jpralsers.' and T. Macke, G. Iichten-

fell and Louis Range, trustees. Increase Membership drive for members was started im ! mediately, but great caution was ex-

J .excised not only In the appraising and

I Insuring of property, but also in the

compensation of officers. The first

loss by fire was a livery barn belong-

' lng to G. Heltbrink, who lived on

j Franklin, now Seventh street. It was a total loss amounting to $100. A

epeclal meeting was Immediately call

ed and a committee was appointed to

make investigations. A report was

made and the money was paid prompt

ly. This incident set an example

that has been followed by the com

pany.

At the third annual meeting of the

company, forty-five years ago, the advantages of a permanent home were first discussed. A committee was ap

pointed to make Investigations but the committee reported that it would be less expensive to pay rent for the : time being.

UP W III IS lUflB Lilt? UBCBOiUCUl V system had been in force but a new plan was adopted at this meting whereby a cash deposit of one per cent of the amount insured was made on all property and a certain per cent of the cash premium as an annual . premium. This plan proved satisf acL tory to the company and its patrons, - and is still in force. It also met with the approval ot the insurance depart- , ment of the state Auditor's office afr ter some minor changes were made. In the last forty-seven years the following citizens ave held office in the

Louis Schlefner,David Hoerner, Henry Cutter. Henry Greiwe, Chris Bar-

- tel. and A. "W. Blickwedel; secretary, John Hugo, H. Humps, H. Greiwe, John M. Nolte,D. Hoerner, Fred Krone, August Wickemeyer, John Cutter, A- Boes, J, Henry Bode; '. treasurer, Henry Cutter, G. Schneider, i A. Metz D. Hoerner, H. Rosa, H.

Bartel, A. Boes, E. Bettenbrock, Geo.

scnneiaer ana jonn xsiewoenner. Name Is Changed

TVhen the United States entered

the war, the name of the company ; was changed, by an unanimous vote,

t from the German Mutual Fire Insur

( ance company to the Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance company. A new constitution and by-laws was adopted and articles of corporation were filed

with the auditor of state.

Up to this time the business of the

company had been conducted by various committees. The company had grown so extensively that it became necessary to make some changes in Its management. It was decided to employ a man who-could devote all

of his time to the work. The secretary of the company, J. Henry Bode, I was thoroughly acquainted with the . affairs of the company and who had " served as director for twelve years, ; was chosen for the position. His

term expires December 31, 1924.

t Members of the first board of. di-i

, rectors who are still living are H. H. ' Meerhoff, president; William H. Bar- ; teL vice president; Henry Cutter,

treasurer; David Feldman, appraiser. The cash reserve of the company has been Invested in first mortgage : loans, Liberty bonds and gravel bonds ; and other first class securities.

4 Surviving Members of First Directorate

Brunswick Phonograph. Strike U Settled

Lucius Harrison, secretary of the!

Central Labor council, today received official notice of the settlement of the strike in the Brunswick Phonograph company's , plant ; by the Metal

Polishers' union.

ex-'lO, former Instructor in violin at the college, was united in marriage to Elwood. Grieet by the Friends ceremony in Paris, with a French girl to furnish the ? music and an English Friend to offer prayer.; They are both In the Friends' reconstruction service. Josiah Marvel, '17, -was among those present at the wedding.

The Phoenix Literary society met

According to the communication, , . ?' ' ' , i f.

mands of the union: Recognition of

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the union, union scale of wages, short

er work-day, i re-employment without discrimination, of every man who went on strike, none but union men to be hired in future, Immediate discharge . of every strike breaker. Improved working conditions of the factories.

H. H. MEERHOFF

Tbe program was extemporaneous and

consisted ot several impromptu speeches, a digest of current events by Fran

ces Thomas, and some numbers by a

special orchestra. A committee was

appointed to select the play which is to be given by Ionian and Phoenix on

Monday night of commencement week.

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EARLHAM CLASSES TO ENTERTAIN MAY 10

The Sophomore-Senior banquet and the Freshman-Junior frolic will be held

next Saturday night. May 10. The for

mer affair will be held at the Arling

ton hotel and will consist of a six

course dinner followed by toasts and some amusements. The Freshmen and

the Juniors will journey to Jackson

park five miles west of Centerville, for their frolic. The trip to the park will

begin at 5 o'clock or immediately fol

lowing the track meet, and will be made in auto trucks or on the interurban. About one hundred and ten

persons are expected to be present, and according to Mildred Henly, committee chairman, a camp supper menu is being prepared. Following the feast will be given the characteristic pro

gram of the evening. Prof. Edwin Morrison, head of the physics department of the college; was in attendance at the meetings of the American Physical society at Washington, D. C, recently. The program ot the convention was devoted chiefly

to the reading of reports and consider

ation of the war research work in physics. Military reasons prevent any publication of the work done by the society but its magnitude may be realized from the fact that 51 papers were read, each one dealing with one specific war problem and 180 others presented by title. Also reports of the most recent discoveries in physics were read. The membership of this society is made up of the professors of physic in colleges and universities and commercial research workers and all physicists "and scientists of the

country. , J. Donald Peacock, '16, has a position as membership and activities secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Evanston, 111. He has recently returned from France where he was Y. M. C. A. secretary with the Rainbow Division on the front line for ten months. He was wounded at Chateau-Thierry and received a French citation for work done during an enemy offensive near Toul. He did work with the F. R. U. after twelve months with the Y. M. C. A., and returned to this country in January. On February 8 he married Miss Lucile Yarlan of Napanee, Ind.

Dr. J. H. Coffin attended the confer

ence of the American Collegiate Regis

trars which was held at Chicago last

week. Representatives from one hun

dred and eight colleges were present

Dr. Coffin reports that the purpose of

the association is to create a uniform

system of work for the registrars la

all institutions of higher learning in

the country. Among the men who of

fered plans for carrying out these poli

cies were Dean Brabrock of the. Unl

versity of Illinois. Mr. Hannah of the

U. J3. bureau of education, and the re

gistrar of Columbia university.

Cambridge City Banker

Gets Newcastle Place

CAMBRIDGE CITY, May 5. Captain Fred Huddleston, for five years

connected with the Wayne National bank of this place, will succeed Claude

M. Bartlett as a member of the Citi

zens State bank staff of Newcastle

Bartlett has resigned to accept a position as state bank examiner. At the

beginning of the war Huddleston enlisted and was asigned to duty in the paymaster's department. At present he is paymaster ata Fort Thomas, Ky. and will be discharged from the ser

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VITil THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY

This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear daily In the Palladium. Contributions irlll be welcomed.

Benjamin O. Lawrence, 323 Field Ar

tillery, has arrived at Camp Mills

from overseas.

George Mason has arrived at Camp

Mills following several months' ser

vice abroad.

Mr. and Mrs. George Wettig have

received word that their son, Myron Wettig, has arrived In the United

States on- the transport, "General Goethal." Private Wettig has been

overseas six months, and Is now at

Camp Mills, N. Y.. awaiting his honor

able discharge.

Lieutenant Robert Thornburgh, son of Mr. , and Mrs. Walter H. Thornburgh, 21 South Twentieth street, is sailing from Brest, France for the States today, according to official orders announced in Washington.

reached his objective, lor when the lines are held up" by machine gun fire and we have to wait until the tanks come up, or a party of men go out to flank an enemy machine gun nest which is causing us heavy losses, then the men become restless. " "When the tanks come up we form a line on both sides of them and go forward again. The men who go with

the 'baby tanks' are what I would call

a 'body guard, who kept the Huns from wanting to take a ride. Of course we would not have cared for them riding only that they might have bothered the boys who were .using onepounders and maehlne guns."

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Dr. Joseph Mills, former president of Earlham college, and his daughter, Miss Gertrude. '98, now of Pasadena, Calif., have for some time been visit ing -friends in Indiana. In one of the most unique weddings of the season, Miss Carolyn Hutton,

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Philomath, Ind. . Dr. and Mrs. Berry of Muncie and Roy Berry and Claude Berry and family of Spring Grove were Sunday guests of W. E. Berry and family here. The "Excelsior" class of the M. E. Sunday school gave a "weiner roast" last Wednesday night ' in honor of Mahlon Dalzell, a member of the class who revently returned from a year's service in France. The following young people enjoyed a most delightful evening: Misses Harriet Hart of

Richmond, Bonnie Carinas. Carrie

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Boerner, Frances Berry, Blanche Carman Marjorie Pickett, Clarence Alex

ander, Herman Shaffer, Maurice Hin-

shaw, Mahlon Dalzell, Loren Buroker, Ralph Buroker Miss Marjorie Pick

ett visited Mrs. Ralph Kittle in Richmond Monday ...... Luther Hinshaw visited his mother this week. She has ben seriously sick at her home near Winchester A number of relatives from Ohio attended the funeral of Solomon Huffman, here, Tuesday.... W. E. Berry and family visited at Lynn, Wednesday evening.

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