Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 216, 23 June 1919 — Page 9
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY", JUNE 23, 1919.
Harry Pritchard, veteran railroader oyer thoroughly and the entire Inte-
and foreman of the air testing crew at the Pennsylvania railway station, has
been in the service of the railroad for 34 years, 33 years of which time he has been on hU present job. Pritchard entered the service of the Pennsylvania when a young man and soon was assigned with two other men to test airbrakes and repair cars on trains passing through the depot, besides cleaning np the cars. In those early times three men handled the day work and one or two worked at night while thirteen men are now required. There are 82 trains locals, accommodations, through trains and others
passing through the Richmond depot regularly, not counting extras, spe
cials and troop trains, which require the same service.
"But now we have an eight hour day shift three shifts working the
entire 24 hours." explained Pritchard,
Every train that has passed through
Richmond for the last 33 years, dur
ing Pritchard's shift, must pass under his vigilant eyes before leaving the Richmond terminal. Each truck has to be carefully Inspected for broken
parts, hot boxes and other troubles. So thorough has Pritchard become that t now needs only a glance at a truck to assure him that it Is exactly as it should be, or that a piece Is broken. Most of the trucks now are twelve wheel trucks and require closer scrutiny than the simpler trucks of
Out of the 82 trains coming into the local depot, air tests must be made on at least 75. Every train is broken and cars added or taken away, a test of the airbreaks must be made by Pritchard and his men to assure the safety of the passengers and see that the brakes are working correctly. In' odd moments when trains are
not being Inspected the crew thor
rior of the car Is cleaned and disinfected. The outside of the car is washed and every month cars are sent to the yards to pass through an even more thorough cleaning process. In December, Pritchard will complete his thirty-fifth year as a railroad employe, and bis thirty-four years in
his present position. Pritchard said that more men were already needed to aid in the inspection work and that if much more was added the crew would
have to be enlarged. The present crew is taking care of the work, he
said, but more men could be used
even now and be kept busy.
VALUE OF COUNTY AGENT AS LEADER
SHOWN 111 HENRY
NEWCASTLE. Ind June 23 The
advantages and benefits of a county
agent were j clearly shown last week when Henry county fought the army
worm and won, after a nara ngni. The first thing the fanners thought of and the most natural one, was to call on the county agent. . Ralph Test, county agent, never saw one of the worms before, but was
willing to lend all possible assistance
It was a natural thing to tmua , tne
trenches and in a very short time thej county agent had a gTeat crowd ofl
farmers on the scene.
Test kept on the job day and night. Hia office was the seat of all Informa
tion. Farmers by the dozens f JockedJ
to the office for advice, or to consult him about the possibility of the pests
stettln on their lands. Tuesday morn
T.it xtraa 4n PrnfriA tnwnhfn at 3
oughly cleans the cars that are left! 0lock to the morning aad he neveH
here. The cushioned seats are gone
Milton, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith and Miss Mary Zalene Bryan and Captain Bruce Bowen of Rosevllle, Ind., were guests of Miss Mary Lovell Jones Saturday. Captain Bowen was in five major battles in France Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kinese and family of Cambridge City, and Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy were guests at a fish dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Beesons Sunday. Mr. Beeson caught some fine bass in Murray lake near Pershing . .Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nixon, a baby girl Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crull, Saturday, a baby boy Miss Margaret Thurman of Cambridge City is spending a week with her grandmother, Mrs. Frank Doty Mr. and Mrs. Linvllle Wallace were at Richmond Saturday .Mrs. Otto Crownover is recovering from an attack of appendicitis Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. Alice Greats. Mrs. Mary Sands, Miss Mary Lovell Jones and brother, John Posey, were at Richmond Saturday night. . ..Miss Navonl Squier is entertaining Miss Lois Guthrie of Princeton, Ind.. .Miss Elizabeth Scott and Louis Johnson of Indianapolis were week-end guests of Mrs. Will Bragg and Mrs. Carrie Johnson Charles Johnson and Miss Gertie Crull were married at Rushville last week.... Mrs. Willis Leverton Is very ill. Her sister, Mrs. Harrison Hicks who has been very 111 is recovering.
left the scene until late at night. The
farmers answered his appeals for hel and the county farmers' association got behind the fight In an organizesd method of extermination.
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Sure," Answers Groom, I Briskly Chewing Gran,
If you think you are going to "be nervous during your marriage caremony purchase a package of chevring gum before the ceremony. A gremm, entering the holy bonds of wedlock in the office of a justice of the peace, Monday, chewed gum throughout 'rth service. However, he was, from, all appearances unafraid, for he answtered each question put to him with a -convincing "Sure!" The bride was not so nervous.
Canadian Metal Workers Start Sympathy Strike fRv Associated Press VICTORIA. June 23. Union, metal
workers, said by their leaders to number 5,000, walked out here today in
sympathy with the Winnipeg sttniie.
Conner sville, Ind, Misses Rachel Ball and Allene Henry and Klyde Kennedy motored to Richmond Thursday evening and visited friends Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
McConnaughey and Mike Conniff of Hagerstown attended the funeral of Perry Bottles at Connersville, Thurs
day Mrs. Douglas Elliott of Indi
anapolis Is visiting the home of Miss Josephine Elliott east of the city, for a week Miss Esther Carlos has gone to Oldenburg where she will be
the guest of Miss Linda Peine and attend the commencement at Oldenburg school.". . .Mrs. Hazel Henry and son, Jean, have gone to Waterloo, Iowa, where they will be the guests of relatives for three weeks -Miss Geraldine Ferrier has gone to Detroit. Michigan, to spend the summer at "Ferrier Lodge,' 'the summer home of her aunt, Mrs. F. W. Blair. . . .Miss Kathelecn and Emma Helen Carlos. Catherine Fettiig motored to Richmond Thursday and visited friends. . . .Mrs. Albert Hudson of Indianapolis. Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. D. Williams in this city Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Sherry, Mrs. Roy Robinson p.nd son Gall, motored to Richmond Friday and spent the day with friends. Edward Jamison, who has been over-
reas for several months, arrived home Friday morning, discharged from service.... Frank and Ellis Bottles have returned to their home in Dayton, O., after spending Friday with relatives in this city.
Social School Raided
By N. Y. State Troops
(By Associated Press) NE WYORK, June 23. State troopers, acting for the Lusk joint legislative committee investigating alleged seditious activities in this state, raided the Rand School for Social Science this afternoon at the instance of the
state attorney general, and opened a
safe believed to contain "written and printed matter of a revolutionary and seditious nature."
NEBEKER IS NAMED.
WASHINGTON. June 23. Appointment of Frank L. Nebeker, of Salt Lake City, as assistant attorney general in charge of the public lands division of the department of justice was announced today by Attorney General Palmer.
Sinking Of Warships Is Not To Effect Peace
(By Assoc" fed Press PARIS, June 23. The sinking of the German warships by their crews, it was apparent today, does not affect the general situation regarding peace with Germany.
THRESHERS RAISE RATES
(By Associated Press) SEYMOUR. Ind., June 23. Five cents a bushel for oats, twelve cents for rye and nine cents for wheat, Is the new schedule of threshing prices adopted by the Threshermen's association of Jackson county. The executive committee of the Farmers' association attempted to effect a comprmlse but without success. The new schedule does not provide for threshing crews being furnished.
No man is worth a' good woman's jealousy and from the number of divorce suits they're filing, a good many good women seem to be finding it out. A woman is never old until she arrives at the age where she asks friends kindly to omit candies from the birthday cake.
You didn't have a great deal to say about your coming into the world and you'll have just the same amount to say about your going out.
News Dispatches From Surrounding Communities . i . . . . : ; -
NEW PARIS Town pumps came up f OXFORD Mrs. Agnes Rusk Low-
for discussion at the recent meeting of city council and it was decided that . the town would provide only three, one at the traction station, one at Samuels' meat market and another at Bryant's restaurant. Another resolution adopted provided that all unmuzzled dogs are to be shot by the constable. Coasting on the sidewalk by children was ordered stopped. ' A social session of Whitewater Valley grange will be held Saturday evening. New candidates will be Initiated, and a banquet will be served. Visitors from other granges are expected to attend. A surprise party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ginger Saturday to observe the 75th birthday Kniversary of Mr. Ginger, and the homecoming of their nephew, Orville Mogle, who recently returned from overseas. A talk on his experiences In France was given by the soldier. Fifty guests were present.
" REMEMBER THE WINTER OF 1917-1 S ? .- v -. -diO
(By Associated. Press) -t WASHINGTON, June 25 William ' E. Gonzales, cf Charleston, S. jCV bow minister to Cuba, was nominated today by President Wilson to be ambassador to Peru. Boaz W. Long, of New Mex-
Jico, former chief of the Latin Ameri
can division of the state department, was nominated to be minister to Cuba and Benton C. McMillan of Tennessee, to be minister to Guatemala. Frank L. Polk of New York, counselor of the state department and now acting secretary of state, was nominated to be under secretary of state.
a new office created under the 1920 legislative and judicial appropriation bill passed by the last congress.
U.4S- Geological " Survey Reports Probability of Another
Fuel Shortage Next Fall and Winter-Production
For First Five Months of This Year Twenty-Five Per Cent Below That of Same Period Last Year- Labor and Transportation Problems May Further Reduce
me Dituminous uutput.
The United States Geological Sur-. vey announces from Washington, the probability of another general 'coal shortage next fall and winter. The announcement is based, the survey
states, upon a nation-wide study of conditions in the bituminous field. Unless steps are taken at' once, the Survey says, to place the onines upon a basis of increased production there is every prospect of a repetition to some degree of the situation thafc prevailed in the United States durtfig the winter of 1917-18. The only way production! can be stimulated at the present 'ty.ie, it is said, is by placing orders with the mines for coal which will jbe needed later on, "Productiontdurisig the first five months of the ear, reads the statement, "fell 57,29000net tons, or approximately 25 bclo production during the first five .months of 1918. Mines are producing cafel now at the rate of from B,O0Q,0Ca to 8,500,000 tons a week. An av&age output of 10,700,000 tons a weeltmust be maintained from June 1 tv January 1 next if the country's estimated needs of 500,000,000 tons th&, year are to.be met-- - - ' . ( - Et3 of DUred Order. At no time durAig this year has the rate of productfr approached the required tonnage. The tendency on the part of buyerx to hold off placing their orders isLmiting production, as the mines caniot store coal at the
point of production, and when the rush of orders for the winter's needs comes next fall there is grave danger that the mines, with depleted labor forces and the probability of less adequate transportation, will be unable to meet the demands. The result of such a situation would be an insufficient supply for the requirements of domestic consumers, public utilities and industrial users generally. . "It is believed that requirements for this year," reads a Survey statement to Fuel Administrator Garfield, "will be about 530,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, of which approximately 30,000,000 tons have been used from stocks accumulated last year, leaving 5OJ,000,0O0 tons to be produced. Of this 500,000,000 tons 178,000,000 tons were produced during the first five months, leaving 322,000,000 tons to be produced in the remaining 30 weeks, or an average of 10,700,000 tons a week. "Thus far this year production has been at the rate of 8,200,000 tons a week. In 1918 production was at the rate of 11,300,000 tons a week. "This production will be difficult of accomplishment The capacity of operating mines at the present time with labor now . on the payroll is about 10 lower than it was last year. This deficiency may be made up in part or wholly if the mines have orders sufficient to run them five or six days a week unless the
COUNCIL TO NAME DELEGATES TONIGHT
For the purpose of electing a delegation to attend the annual session of the Indiana Municipal league, which begins at Fort Wayne Tuesday, a special meeting or the city council has been called for tonight. Although it has Been the Intention of the council to send a delegation to the meeting, the matter was not brought up at the last meeting. The session of the league will last for three days, and will include addresses from some of the most prominent city officials of the country. The council will also be called upon to act in regard to the purchase of the building on South Eighth street, now used by the Municipal Light and Power plant at Its office. The city holds an option on the building, and is able to purchase the building from the Dickinson Trust company at this time. The option price of the building is J22.5G0.
Buy Your goal? now I
threatened exodus of foreign-born I tricts it would appear certain that "not-
labor occurs.
Peace Means Wage Dispute. "Present wage agreements expire between operators and miners with the proclamation of peace by the President. A suspension of mining operations while a new wage agreement is being negotiated would, of course, seriously interfere with the production of coal and if it should occur during the fall wou:d cause a panic among buyers and consumers of coal." , There is no use in gambling upon this or any other contingency, fuel administration officials say. The firm or individual who wants to be sure of an adequate coal supply next winter can be certain by buying coal now. There is no other way such assurance can be obtained. Transportation also promises to be a limiting factor if the flood tide of demand comes at a time when the country's record crops arc being carried. In some dis-
withstanding the utmost endeavors of the Railroad Administration and the utilization of its experience last fall, car shortage will be a cause limiting bituminous coal production, and for that reason it is problematical whether the expected production of 500,000,000 tons can be attained this year. Shortage of labor already is a factor that is cutting down the output in some coal producing sections, according to the Survey's report. The operators report that 36,000 to 40,000 foreign-born miners expect to return to Europe as soon as they can get passports and that many have already returned. If continued this movement will be capable of producing but one result a reduction of the amount of coal mined in districts where the mine labor is largely foreign-born, and there are many such districts. He who needs coal should hesitate no longer. Now is the time to order coal.
She Accuses Wealthy Cave Man of Abducting Her at Midnight, Clad in Just Her Nightie
RAILWAY PRESIDENT CHARGED WITH THEFT
(By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS. June 23. Robert McCulloch, president of the United Railways company of St. Louis, today was charged with burglary in the second degree and larceny in connection with the theft June 15, 1918 of referendum petitions against the Street Car company's franchise ordinance in an information issued by Circuit Attorney Lawrence McDaniel. The circuit attorney also announced the case would be taken before the gran Jury today
BRINGS "BABY YEAR" TO SUCCESSFUL END
ney, 62 years of age, widow of Rev.
Charles E. Lowney, a Presbyterian minister, died yesterday at her home
here of paralysis.
Mrs. Elmer Abbott, aged 50 yeaxs, wife of a prominent farmer living six miles west of here in Franklin county,
Ind., was stricken with apoplexy Sat
urday evening while sitting in an automobile in front of an Oxford store. She was removed to her home, where she died yesterday morning about 5 o'clock. MILTON Funeral services for Mrs.,
Carrie Boyer will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Metho-J dlat church. Mrs. Boyer died SundayH
morning at the home of her grandson. Robert DuGranrut, north of Richmond., CAMBRIDGE CITY Charles (Young arrived home Wednesday from 'Camp, Sherman at Chillicothe, where he was
honorably discharged, having trecentlyj
re milieu uvm uveiBeao.
Mrs. Helen C.
Waterman.
People of Brooklyn, New York, are following with interest the case of Mrs
i.Heleni C. Waterman of that city who accused John E. Carey of 17 Livingston
place, Manhattan, of having broken into her home at midnight and carrying
her off in a taxlcab. And that was not the worst of it. She claims that she was not given time to change from her sleeping garments to suitable attire
for an evening taxi ride. Carey is a manufacturer of surgical instruments.
He will be tried on an abduction charge.
BLOW PLANNED AT HUN GOVERNMENT?
PARIS, June 23. The movement for military dictatorship in Germany Is gaining ground, according to advices received by the American military authorities here, quoting the one Berlin newspaper. An independent Socialist paper declares that the counter revolutionary element is preparing to strike a blow -against the government. -
GRENADES KILL FISH
(By Associated Press)
usuiAisAfULiis, June 23. A new use for hand grenades has resulted in
affidavits being filed against three former soldiers of the world war from
Marion county. Richard Lieber, chair
man of the state conservation com
mission, asserts that he has evidence
that the young men have been explod
ing the grenades in Fall Creek, near
Fort Benjamin Harrison and caused
the death of hundreds of fish.
Cambridge City, Ind.
Harry Cutter, manager of the Cam
bridge City Lumber company, is im
proving his home with a new coat of
paint. Mr. Cutter recently purchase!
the J. T. Reese home on Church street.
..Mrs. M. L. Rowe visited friends in
Richmond Friday. ... .Forrest Danner and family are visiting Hartford City
rnenas.. .. .Mrs. carl Boyd and son, 01 Atlanta, Ga., are visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Roby and other
relatives.. . . .The services of the Presbyterian church next Sunday will be changed from 3 p. m. to 4 p. m., and
will be held at this hour throughout the
remainder of the summer.. .Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Reese left Friday to visit their son Carl at Front Royal, Va., later to visit their son Herbert and family at Middleboro Vermond.. .Miss Marjorie Morgan and Harry Boxtette of Richmond, motored to Cambridge Thursday and spent the evening with Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Rowe .Dr. and
Mrs. Charles Kniese attended the stockholders' meeting of the Quality Rubber Tire company, at Anderson, Thursday .Robert Bertsch has arrived home from overseas . Mr. and Mrs. Russel Cox of Richmond, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Rowe over Sunday..... Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marson spent Sunday with her sister at Richmond The Masonic reception on Friday night was well attended. An excellent program was presented by the ladies representing a Ladies' band. Refreshments were served, followed by music and dancing. A good time was enjoyedV by all Prof. E. E. Oldaker, superintendent of the schools at Chester, West Va., well known to Cambridge people, has returned to his home in Pennville to spend the summer.
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Mrs. Ins J. N. Perkins. Mrs. Ina J. N. Perkins has been acting chief of the child conservation section of the council of national defense. She has directed the activities of women's committees al lover the country in the campaign to "Save 100,000 babies." The "Chil'lren's Year" which was set aside for this work will be brought to a successful close July 1.
Anti-Italian Sentiment
Is Charged In France (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 23. The Italian dele
gation to the peace conference has been much disturbed by frequent suggestion in the French newspapers that
German influences are affecting Italian
politics and also by Intimidations that
the Italians have supplied arms and
ammunition to Beta Kun's soviet government in Hungary. Members of the Italian delegation say the alleged anti-French feeling against Italy is easily explained by the
work of French propagandists, who
are blamed by the Italians for the recent unfriendliness of the Italians to President Wilson and the United States. The delegation has been advised from Rome of the designation by King Victor Emmanuel of Signor Nitti to form a new cabineL Up to the present, however, the members of th delegation are without official information as to the actual selection of any members of the new government.
Richmond Factories Still Need Over 200 Laborers
Practically the same employment situation exists in Richmond this week as last week which means that several factories needing three or four men have filled their needs and several other factories are now in need of a few men. " Employment managers report a total need for over 220 men, divided equally between skilled and common laborers. Factories needing over twenty-five men have not yet supplied their demand, employment managers announced Monday morning. iFive Richmond factories will soon take on twenty to fifty men, but right now at present need no more they report. Transient labor is yet a problem. Men seem dissatisfied with "sticking to job" long, said several foremen." On the other, others said we have men who have" never Bhown'as much fidelity." -
Milton, Ind. M
Llnville Hussey and daughter fcouK entertained Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Harmier and family of Cambridge City, Mr. and Mrs. William Hussey and family of Hagerstown, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hussey and Miss Luclle Morrison of Darlington, near Crawfordsville. Miss Morrison is on her way home from Leavittsburg, Ohio, where she teaches In the high school. ....Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ryder, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Benton Wissler and other Wayne county relatives, left Sunday evening for their home in Chattanooga, Tenn..... . Isaac Bryant, who has been in France for many months, reached home Saturday night-
Nobody ever can do exactly what he pleases, but some of them get a good deal of pleasure in bragging about how they do it
722 MAIN ST RICH MONO, iff
Wife's Mail Opened By Censor; He Gets Divorce fBy Associated Press) LONDON, June 23. Captain A. J. Cunningham, British postal censor at the little town of Cyprus, some time Ego came across a letter addressed to his wife that aroused his suspicions. He did not exert his prerogatives as censor, however, and delivered it to her unopened. But he did use his censorship power on the next one that came. . He petitioned for divorce, named the writer as corespondent, and was quickly granted legal separation when the letter was produced in court.
Economy reaches its highest state if the family practice it.
MONEY TO LOAN on second mortgages Aetna Mortgage and Investment Company V 608 Fidelity Trust Bldg. " Indianaoolis. Ind.
PILES! PILES! PiLES!
WILLIAMS' PILE OINTMENT . i For Blind, Bleeding and Itching Pile, t For sale by all druggists, mH 50c and 1.00. WILLIAMS MFG. CO Prom. CWvaia4.0U For Sale by Conkey Drug Co. '
Household Economy Economy without reason Is always out of place. Buying things because they are cheap is poor economy. There's a good reason for offering you this Sheffield Silver. It has merit and worth value and usefulness. It is wonderfully good. Just such silver as proves wise economy for use in your home. We'll be glad to show you the different patterns.
Haner's Store 810 Main St.