Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 36, 11 February 1922 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

What you do, do gladly. RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922 Sincerity Makes Servlc

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ill GRAFTS Pupils in the fifth and sixth grades of the public schools and in Garfield and Dennis Junior High schools, will visit the exhibit, one of the most colorful and interesting of the year, -which is now hanging in the Public Art gallery. Visits will be given by these . -r-i-t- to tit:,,. groups Juonuay, ieu. ic. mioa Williams, art supervisor, has announced, t In this exhibit, one of arts and crafts, we see many decorative wall hangings, vases and "other ornaments, furniture and china, made in beauty of. line and color. Many beautiful works of art are exhibited by Mr. Herman Sachs, of Dayton, O. Mr. Sachs is a Roumanian. On Wednesday eveninc when thft exhibit onened. Mr. Sachs showed haw batiks- were made. A simple art, it seems, of tying and dipping silk in dyes. But in the hand of the artist who knows-just how to tie the silk to make it come out in- beautiful design after it has been dipped in color, and untied, and to know how to mix and combine bright, rich colors, the result is beautiful, indeed. ' "City Beautiful" Plans Shown Pictures showing plans which may be used and are being used in some places, to make cities more beautiful, are hung in the south room of the gallery. -These show us plans made by some cities and ways which their people are beginning to use, to make their cities more attractive places in wnicn 10 live. Streets and parks, a general plan, buildings to suit in with the plan, more sunlight in buildings, and homes, are some of the things shown in the pictures. Many people in Richmond interested in making our city a prettier place and a happier place for its people to live in, will study these pictures and talk about them Sunday afternoon, Feb. 12. MRS. GRIFFIS TELLS - STORIESJF HEROES Stories of Heroes were planned for the story hour at the library on Saturday, Feb. 11. Mrs. Bran don Gnffis was to tell the stories. Several new books have arrived in the library which are especially foj the storytellers and the "story listeners" as well. Whenever you come down to the story hour, you may probably be able to see these beautiful books. One of them is "An Argosy of Fables," It is just f ull-of them, and I is a large book, too. ; In this book) are many pictures in splendid col ors., "The King of Ireland's Son," by Padraic Colum is another of these story hour books. It is a charming I story and the illustrations by Willy I Pogany are funny and attractive and are scattered all through it. "My Book of Best Fairy Tales" is a large book of fairy stories, the ones Charles S. Byrne thinks are the very nicest ones. Harry Rountree drew the pictures for this book. . i , CUPIDS WIN FROM MIDGETS IN GAME On Wednesday, Feb. 1, the sev enth grade Cupids defeated the sixth grade Midgets in a baseball game by the score of 46 to 14. Kahle was the bright light of the winners, with 12 field goals to his credit. Rothert was next, with 10 field goals. Beaning was the bright light for the Josers. The summary: ... ' . Kahle F. Beaning Rothert F. Maddox Geier ... .f. .... C Buche Smith G Holthouse Balling G Oler By St. Andrews School reporter.

MISS MAVVKOOD BACK

Miss Mawhood, one of the teachers of Vaile school, whom we like very much, has returned from Battle Creek, Mich. ,k. She has been very ill. Before she became sick she taught the 4A ! and tho 5B. liss Retherford is taking her place now. We hope : that she will soon be well enough to come hero and teach again. Edith L. Webb, Reporter for Vaile school. 1EEVES GIVES BEST REVIEWST. MARY'S Richard Harrington, last year's base ball captain, promises a good strong nine to battle their opponents this spring. The girls of the . Eighth grade consider themselves an exceedingly good basket ball team. It is being handled by Mary Helen Pfaflin, captain. Let them play the boys and see where the long score lies. The Eighth and Seventh grade boy3 had "Book Reviews" last Tuesday. The one of Alvin Reeves was considered the best, it being the "Last Martyr of the Coli seum," written by Rev. A. J. O'Reil ly, D.D. The best in the Seventh grade was given by Charles Quigley. John Gerard Harrington, re porter St. Mary s school. ANNOUNCE PICTURE CONTEST FOR MARCH A Famous Picture contest will be held soon In Richmond for boys and girls, and grownups, Mr. Slocum of the Community Service bureau announced Tuesday. This contest -will last about three weeks and will probably be held during the month of March. It will be something with pictures (instead of music) like the Music Memory contest held last November, in which so many Richmond children and juniors took part.

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Mr. Johnson, Old Resident of City, Tells of News of Death of Lincoln

Can you imagine large fields, part of a big farm on the corner of eighth and Main streets? That is the way it was in Richmond when Lincoln was- in Washington as president. Instead of the Union National bank building there wa3 MARY HAYWARD REPORTER FOR JOSEPH MOORE SCHOOL Z11 Y ' V. Photo By Bundy Mary Hayward We wish you, Junior readers, to meet Mary Hayward, and we know if she could speak right out of her picture, she would say, "I'm glad to meet you." Mary is reporter for. Joseph Moore school; that Is, she writes the news from her school for the Junior Palladium. Mary is nine years old, and is in the 5-A grade, Mrs. Seller's room. Her daddy and mother's names are Mr. and Mrs. George Hayward and she lives at 432 South West Third street.

a farm which extended far south along Eighth street and several squares east along Main street. This is Bhown on an old map in the first directory of Richmond, published in 1857 and owned by Mr. Benjamin Johnson, 201 North Eleventh street. Mr. Johnson will

be 90 years old his next , birthday and he remembers many tnings about Richmond when it was much "littler" than it is now. He has lived in Richmond since Sept. 26, 1854. On the north side of Main street, the town only went as far as eleventh street. There was an oldfashioned hotel where our Dickinson Trust bank now stands. Tenth street used to be called North Broadway. Old Awnings Torn Off. Do you keep a diary? Mr. Johnson has for many years, and he has written about the great fun people had In Richmond when the Civil war ended, just as we had parades and noise and a holiday on Armistice day. On April 8, 1865, Mr. Johnson wrote in his .diary, "Richmond, Virginia, has been surrendered to the United States army." ' On April 10, he wrote, "Lee has surrendered to Grant. Great rejoicing. No work going on. All the stores are closed." It was on this holiday that the. people in their great joy that the war was ended tore down the wooden awnings over the stores (wood was used for awnings hen) and threw them in the street. Remember the pans and tubs and buckets that were tied to automobiles and bumped along the streets on Armistice Day? Lincoln's Funeral Train - Went Throuoh Richmond Five days later the great rejoicing was dulled. ' On April 15, Mr. Johnson wrote: "Received this morning at eight and one-half o'clock, the sad lntelll(Continued on Pape Three)

CITY'S LIBRARY FOR JUNIOR READERS

Many new books arrived last week in the city library and among them are quite a large number of, books for the children and Juniors of Richmond. Isn't that fine? You will want to read them right away, won't you? "The Donovan Chance" byErancis Lynde, is one of the new books and it tells the story of ;what bap pened to Larry Donovan, who was son of the watchman at Brewster's, Crossing and Dick Maxwell, whoso father was general manager of tha railroad on which the boys worked. Many exciting things happen, In whicji Donovan proves himself a leader, because he is so quick to see dangers and to win over them. A mystery story about boys and. girls in a New England towh is the story of "The Windy Hill," by Cornelia Meigs. There are two copies of this book. ' ' Nancy and Daniel as "The Puritan Twins," seem to be as likeablefolks to read 'about as the other (Continued on Page Three) WARNER FIFTH IS MAKING VALENTINES In Miss Murphy's room at Warner school, boys and girls are making Valentines and putting them in'u a box. After they are all hidden in the box, we expect they will each draw one. j' ' . Miss Payne, supervisor of the grade schools, taught the geogra- ; phy lesson every day during the past week to the sixth grade pupils In Warner school. Boys and girls in the fifth grade of Warner are studying art now with Mr. Brown and they are planning to make posters.