Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 227, 4 August 1921 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., THURSDAY, ALU UST 4, 1921.

CITY WILL PURCHASE FOUR CARS OF COAL FROM EACH BIDDER Four car loads of coal from each of

the four bidders who submitted bids to the board of -works last Monday, will be ordered by the light plant superintendent for trial before bids are awafded. The coal to be supplied is for the needs of the municipal electric light and power plant. v Superintendent Dillon, in making a recommendation to the board Thursday, said: "I recommend that in all faimM to the coal bidders we run a

test on four cars from each company bidding." He said that he hoped to have sufficient information to place contracts intelligently within two weeks. The board approved the recommendation. City Engineer Davis report on the work of the contractors in laying the South Seventh street sewer was accepted. The total cost of the job amounts to $42,573.50. With the work completed, the city is to pay 85 per cent of the contract price, which amounts to $36,187.47. : Approve Assessment Role. The board approved the final assessment role for the laying of the sanitary sewer between Ridge and Boyer streets, from School to Stevens streets. Z. B. Pyle was awarded the contract for cementing the alley between South Eleventh and Twelfth streets, from South D to South E streets. His bid was 22 cents per square foot.

J. U Teegarden bid 29i cents per square foot, and Daniel G. Burkhardt,

24A cents Ter square foot.

Notice of the hearing of the Liberty lifrht plant's petition tor taking elec trie current interchangeably from the Dayton company's lines gave the date

of hearing as Friday, Aug. 12, at 10 o'clock, before the public service commission in the State House, Indianapolis. The matter was referred to the city attorney. Instructions have been given the city attorney to fight the petition.

Strict City Ordinances Make Every Citizen a Lawbreaker Mayor and Police Officials Are Culprits Housewives

shopping, Auto Drivers, Children and Property Owners Numbered Among Guilty.

Every man, woman and Richmond is a lawbreaker.

MIDDLEBORO COUPLE ENTERTAIN FRIENDS

BETTER G. & 0. BRIDGE, RAIL MILEAGE BOOKS, BEFORE C, OF C, HEADS

Securing of a better bridre over the C. & O. tracks at South Ninth street, and an endorsement of the proposed legislation before congress relative to the interstate commission resuming

the sale of railroad mileage books, were the important features discussed at the Chamber of Commerce directors' meeting, held at 4 o'clock Wednesday. Arrangements are to be made for the superintendent of the Indiana division of the C. & O. to appear before the board of directors Aug. 15. Representatives from the Chamber rf Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis and "Woman's clubs. South Side Improvement association and city officials will compose a committee to escort the Michigan farmer tourists to thei? camping site in the Glen park, Sunday, Aug. 21. Ask Engineer to Talk. Reports were made by the Free Employment division, and on the proposed rural marketing plan devlsoii by the secretary-manager. The board

authorized the secretary-manager of the chamber to invite the city en

gineer to speak at an open forum

meeting, to be held In September, on

the subject of city planning.

It was reported that definite action

with officials of an industry negotiat ing for a site bere had not taken place Walker Land announced that a com

mittee would be appointed in several

days to meet and entertain Arthur Nash, of Cincinnati, who is to speak at the chautauqua Tuesday night, Aug. 23, under auspices of the chamber.

First Neighborhood Night at Fiidey School Tonight All Is set for Richmond's first "Neighborhood Night," to be celebrated tonight at Finley school grounds. The community service, working in conjunction with the parent-teachers' association of the school are In charge. Games and community singing will be the main events in which all will participate. Five reels of moving pic

tures will be shown; two reels of

comedy, two reels depicting an epi

sode from the life of Lincoln, and a one reel Red Cross picture. Parents are especially invited to attend the

evening's entertainment.

child in; At least

that is the opinion of city officials Interviewed on the subject. Just how many thousands of dollars would flow yearly into the city treasury If the police department took It upon itself to enforce city ordinances now in existence cannot be estimated but it is probable that the revenue would be almost sufficient to run the city of Richmond for one year. The busy housewife doing her shopping is violating a city ordinance when she places two of her purchases in one package and throws the rontainer

of the one purchased article upon the

The tobacco chewine man nrnhaW

vioidi.es a cuy orflinance oftener than

any omer mortal. Every time he

turns his quid over and spits on the

biaewaiK or in a public place he is violating a city ordinance and is liable

to a tine. Autoists Common Offenders.

There are thousands of autoists In Richmond. Out of these thousands there is probably not a one who does

not violate some clause in the traffic

ordinance. I Even the most careful driver is bound to drive his car more than 12 miles per hour on a down town street. When the speedometer creeps past the 12-mile mark a city ordinance Is being violated. How many autoists are there in Richmond," who have not cut a corner, have not stopped in front of their homes for a few minutes facing the wrong way or have parked their cars

in front of their homes after dusk

without the tail light. Children as well as brown-ups are violators. ' The youth pedaling hi3 bicycle along the sidewalk is subject to arrest. The gang of boys who congregate under the street light on the favorite corner in the evening are quite often , guilty of disorderly conduct : Must Clear Sidewalks. $ The householder who fails to clear his sidewalk of the snow in the winter time is liable to arrest. - It is safe to say that this one certain ordinance is violated by 90 percent of the citizens of Richmond. Permitting weeds to grow on proper

ty is a common offense as evidenced by the hundreds of complaints made

to the police department. The prohi

bition law has made violators of nun

dreds of people. The man or woman

making a little dandelion wine for the

"liver" is as liable to arrest as the

professional "moonshine" distiller.

Mayor W. W. Zimmerman admits frequently that he drives his car of

well-known make at a greater rate of

speed than the law allows, and that

he parks where he please, he declares.

"You see I violate the ordinances but I don't let it get out and therefore I

get away with it." the mayor remarks

Sergeant Advises Caution. Police Sergeant George Staubach was a little bit reticent in discussing violations of the law. "I don't drive a car, and if I did I would know better than to try to get by with the stuff some people do here in town," he said. "It may be they could haul me in once in a while for the slip of my tongue with a little profanity attached thereto." "Everybody violated ordinances or

laws of some kind," one official stated. "A person cannot walk a block without violating some ordinance," he went so far as to say. Many ordinances are being violated which people have no idea are in ex

istence. Many of the old ordinances

have never been printed but are writ-

en in long hand and are preserved in

the vault in the board of works office. These ordinances aflect conditions

which no longer exist and regulate everything from the speed that a horse

drawn car may be driven to the time of the day when a housewife may dash water against the windows of her home.

The ordinances are not enforced, but

they are kept in existence to permit prosecution if necessary. Bill Brown

may be driving 12 miles per hour down Main street and he will not be molested. Bill Brown may drive 12 hours per hour down Main street and endanger the. public with his careless driving and he will be pinched for speeding and prosecuted under the eight mile per hour ordinance. Often when a speeder is brought into police court he will testify that he was

not going as fast as stated by the

motorcycle officer. The eight mile per

hour law comes in handy for the

motorists will, without exception, admit that he was going more than eight miles permitting the judge to assess a fine under the ordinance. Tbt city council is passing ordinances at every session. None of the old ordinances are being repealed. This makes it likely that in years to come there will be a sufficient number of ordinances in existence to regulate his every step from the time he gets up

in the morning until he goes to bed at night

MIDDLEBORO, Ind., Aug. 4 Mr. and Mrs. York Little, a newly married

couple, were victims of a "surprise J

serenade" at their Home Tnursaay evening. The bride was formerly Miss Edna Burk.

The crowd was treated to cigars and candy by the groom. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Hector Urton, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rankin. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hawkins, Misses Nellie Williams, Bernice Urton, Dorothy Williams, Violet Hawkins, Gertrude Urton and Mildred Hawkins; Mr. W. B. Williams, Worner Pemberton, Eldon Boyd, Lyndsay Canaday, Cleo Hardwick, Avery Cook, John Hawkins, Alca Clark, James Urton and Charles Williams.

Lorrean McBride, Infant, Dies Thursday Morning Lorrean McBride, nine months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter McBride, 1800 North F street, died Thursday morning at the Reid Memorial hospital. - f

She is survived by her father and mother. Funeral services will be held at the home Friday morning at 10

o'clock. Rev. Probst will officiate. Burial will be in the Earlham ceme

tery.

CAROLINE NICHOLSON ENDS STAY ABROAD

Caroline Nicholson, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. S. Edgar Nicholson. 614

HATFIELD, CHAMBERS DEFENSELESS, WIDOWS

TELL NEWSPAPERMEN

By Associated Pres'-

M ATE WAN, W. Va.. Aug. 4. Sid

Hatfield and Ed Chambers, Mingo mountaineers who were killed on the

steps of the courthouse at Welch, Me

Dowell county, in a gun fight last

Monday, were unarmed, their widows

told newspapermen here today.

Both Mrs. Hatfield and Mrs. Cham-

Rnnth wsr A etrept. has returned oers accompaniea tneir nusDanas 10

home after sDendine 18 months in the court last Monday, where Sid, for

Europe working, with the Hoover re- mer chief of police at Matewan, was

lief feeding organization.

Miss; Nicholson arrived in tnis country last Monday, and was met by

her mother who accompanied her

to have answered a charge of being

the instigator of the "shooting up" of

Mohawk, McDowell county, last year,

The widows said that they or their

home. Not only was Miss Nicholson j husbands did not anticipate trouble In

GLEN MILLER PICNIC

PLANNED BY COUNCIL

An all day picnic i3 now being plan

ned by the Central Labor Council for

Labor Day, to be held in the Glen Mil

ler park. The plans have not been complete but it is thought that games of various kinds will be held.

All laboring men will be invited to attend this picnic whether he be a

member of a union or not. All kinds

of athletics will be held during the day for both the men and the women. The Council at its meeting Wednesday night expressed its opinion as being opposed to the proposed amendments for the state constitution at the election to be held on September 6. This message was received from the secretary of the Indiana Federation. of Labor. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, expressed his regrets that he could not be present bere to speak at a mass meeting, but he would be glad to appear here in the fail.

one of the first to leave here for ser

vice abroad, but she was director of relief work in the Hamburg, Germany, district. While- in Europe she visited Italy, France and Switzerland.

Welch and that Hatfield locked h'.s pistols in a traveling bag and Cham

bers laid a6ide his arms "bet ore start

ing for the courthouse:

The women declared that C. E. Live

ly, Baldwin-Felts detective charged

with being implicated in the killings.

boarded the train, on which they were

going to Welch early in the morning and followed them about the town until it was almost time for them to appear at the court

Mrs. Chambers describing how she

and her husband, and Sid and his wife

went to courthouse and started for

the entrance, said : "I heard a shot

fired. I turned and looked at Sid and

he was falling. Then I looked at my

husband and he was falling loose from

my arm. The shooting then became

general. I saw only two men shoot

ing and they were C. E. Lively and a

short, heavy-set man who wore

glasses." The description of the lat

ter fitted William Salter s, who wa3

held with Lively and George Pence, a McDowell county deputy sheriff, ia

connection with the shooting. Loses Consciousness

Mrs. Hatfield said that she lost consciousness while the shooting was going on. She charged Sheriff Bill

Hatfield with negligence in not pro

tecting her husband.

Hatfield, a principal figure in tbo industrial controversy in Mingo, was buried yesterday in Buskirk, Ky., on

the same lot as that of Mayor C. C

Testerman killed in the May battle at Matewan in 1920, and who was th?

former husband of Mrs. Hatfield

Space for another grave separated the

two bodies. Chaim Chambers was

buried closeby.

RELEASED PRISONERS

IN BERLIN, RECALL SOVIET EXPERIENCE

(By Associated Pressl BERLIN, Aug. 4. Capt Merlon C.

Cooper of Jacksonville, Fla.,.who es

caped from a prison in Moscow after having been shot down during fight

ing between the Bolshevik! and the Poles arrived here from Warsaw yes

terday to see Mrs. Maurgerite E. Har

rison, the American newspaper corre

spondent who was recently uoeratea by the soviet authorities. Captain

Cooper declared Mrs. Harrison had saved his life by supplying him with

food and clothes at the Moscow pris

on before she was herself arrested. -When the two Americans who had such trying experiences in soviet Russia met in the lobby of a Berlin hotel there was an affecting greeting. Expresses Gratitude "I would have gone around the world to see you," exclaimed Captain Cooper, "and tell you I should never have lived to escape if it had not been for the supplies you sent me. The news of your release gave me the greatest thrill of my life." Mrs. Harrison, Captain Cooper and Alfred Bonl of New York city, all of whom were prisoners In soviet Russia for considerable periods, had dinner last night with' United States Senator Joseph I. France, of Maryland, who is returning to the United States after a visit to Moscow.

News of the Counties

SPARTANBURG. Ind. The "Jennings Brothers" of Whitewater will give an entertainment at the Christian church Friday, August 5.

HANNA'S CREEK, Ind. The Harrison township farmers' federation

will hold a picnic and Bocial meeting

August 10.

HANNA'S CREEK, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey LaFuze entertained in honor of their 6on, Harvey, Sunday,

the following persons: Misses Pauline,

Jennie, Eloise, Portia and Rowena La-

Fuze. Mary Elizabeth Creek, Edith Larsh, Mary Harmeyer, Mildred Little,

Charlotte LaFuze; Messrs. Merlin, Albert, Justin and Archie LaFuze, Rich

ard Creek, Glen Williamson, Hadley

Ballenger, Arthur Harmeyer and Har

vey LaFuze. . A picnic dinner was

served at 6 o'clock.

Eldorado Chautauqua Comes Again Next Year (Special to The Palladium) ELDORADO, O., Aug. 4. Arrange

ments have been made for chautauqua here again next year it was announced by the local committee today. The 1921 program was considered a success and 52 citizens have made a guarantee to assure the return of the company next season. A deficit of $60 was incurred by the association this year. Next year the

contract calls for a Sunday late which

it is expected will enable the guaran

tors to come out ahead..

ELDORADO, O. Misses Ruth Mc-

Kee and Letticia Kimmel left Monday for Athens. O., where they will at

tend a five weeks' normal course.

Miss Grace Pottenger. of Boston,

Ind., and Miss Mebel Starr, of Harveysburg. O., have been the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ullom during the past week.

Harold Hamilton, son of Mr. and

Mrs. A. J. Hamilton, has returned to his home after having an operation

performed at Reid Memorial hospital

in Richmond.

Ruby and Florence Wolford. daugh

ters of Mr. and Mrs. David Wolford, are convalescing at their homes after

suffering minor operations at their home Monday. " ' - : Samuel Miller is seriously ill at his home south of Eldorado.

TAKES GARE OF 5 CHILDREN

Mrs.Taylor' Sickness Ended

; by Lydia ft. Pmkham's Vegetable Compound

: Roxbury, Mass. "I suffered continually with backache and was of ten de-

sponaent, naa aizzy

spells ana at my

monthly periods it

was almost impos

sible to keep around

at my work, oince my last baby came two years ago my back has been worse

and no position I could get in would relieve it, and doctor's medicine did

not help me. Afrient?

recommended Lydia E. nnknam's veg stable Compound and I have found grea relief since using it My back is muc better and I can sleep well. I kee. house and have the care of five childre so my work is very trying and I am ver thankful I have found the Compoun such a help. I recommend it; to m. friends and if you wish to use this lette. I am very glad to help any woman suf fering as I was until I used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "- Mrs. Mauds E. TATXOS, 6 St Jame! Place, Roxbury, Mass.

Backache is one of the moat commoi

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APPROVE URUGUAYAN LOAN.

MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Aug.. 4. The national executive council has ap

proved the acceptance of a loan of

$7,500,000 by North American bankers

through the National City bank, of New York. This loan to the Uruguayan government -vvould mature in 23 years. -

HART FAMILY REUNION

HANNA'S CREEK, Ind-, Aug. 4 Sunday about 50 members of the Hart families met at Glen Miller park. The

forenoon was spent in getting acquainted and at the noon hour the company surrounded the long tables where a delicious repast was served. The afternoon was spent in seeing different attractions on the grounds.

REMOVAL NOTICE The Brower Auto Sales Co., Studebaker dealers, have moved from the K. of P. Bldg. on South 8th to their new salesrooms at 21-23 So. 7th St.

REMODELING SALE! OUR ENTIRE FRONT IS TORN OUT But business is going on greater than ever. We must dear the way for the carpenters and in order to do this all merchandise in stock has been Reduced to the very lowest Price.

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Dresses! Choice of any Wash Dress in our stock; values up to $25.1 Only 150 of f these. left. Voiles, Organ-1 dies, G i n g-1 hams and Linens, all shades. To clean up I $2.98 None reserved!

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Wash Skirts Gaberdines, up to $3 values; to make room, choice $1.00

'Blouses Georgette, Trico I e t te. Canton Crepe; all shades; up to $10 values $2.49

Gingham Aprons Gin g h am?, Percales; all shades ; $1.50 values 69c

Hosiery Buster Brown all-Silk Hoseall shades;. $1.50 values 88c pair

Skirts Satin and Tricolette Sport Skirts, up to $20 values $3.95

Camesoles Silk and Satin Camesoles, up to $2 values; special . 2 for $1.00

Ladies' and Misses' Jumper Dresses, aU shades; Linen and Ginghams; special $1.29

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Chenoweth Electric Service Grimes Garage Boggs & Semler, 20th Century Vulc. Co.

Bethard Auto Co. Webb-Coleman Co. 20th Century Tire & Repair Company

Bargains in FURNITURE for Friday and Saturday

TAPESTRASUIT For Friday and Saturday we will offer your choice of any overstuffed suite in stock at way below the former prices; loose cushions and spring edge, is now re

duced as low as

$19.40

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Sanitary Couches We have a large showing of Sanitary Couches, that we will offer Friday and Saturday at the special ! J QQ price of ...tP'x.iO

Special Sale of Brass Beds Your opportunity to buy a brass Bed at a big savings. The best bargains in Braes Beds in Richmond. Specially priced Friday and Satur

day as low as

$19.75

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505-13 Main Street

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