South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 246, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1916 — Page 3

5.Tl"KI).T ATTllfTVOON', SKI'riTMTlTTn 2. 101. HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN

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Mayor May Encounter Trouble in Making Appointment of City Judge. Coniderril!1 l'Pal trouM- . may arise out of hf appointment of th' Bueccsror to City Jiuijjo Hcrf rt I . Warner, wlio?? rc.-U'natiorj wwl into effect Oct. 1. W. i:. Millar, juvenile officer of the circuit court, Ki teen .ppointef ty Miyor Krllt r to fill '.he vacancy. Mr. Miliar hi accepted the appointment ar;l his wired Gov. R.ilston to this rffVrt. Although Mayor Keller his made the cipo:itrnent. there i.s considerable difference of opinion a to hh Appointive power. Some attorneys contend that the governor has he-en piven this power and others hold that it was never taken away from the mayor. City Atty. i:ii Seel.irt says that the power to appoint a city judnc in case of a vacancy was iven to the mayor under the cities and towns net of 110." and was not taken from the city executive by an amendment which was passed by the legislature in lfj03. Apparently the 1903 amendment was pased to Kive the governor the appointive power, but it was not broad enough in its ficope. according to th; city attorney. Conflict Ins: Statutes. Sections 4r., SO and 21 s of the cities and towns act of lvZ Kave the mayor the power to fill all vacancies in city offices sith th exception of his own and the city council. The first two sections are practically the same, rivir. the city executive a. general appointive power. Section 218 specifically drives the power of appointing a jud.e to the mayor. In 190!. an amendment was made to section 1T, taking the general appointive iiwcr from the mayor and pivinff it to the governor. This amendment was suttstitutetl for section 4 5 of the cities and towns act. It has been held by courts that when an amendment of this kind is made that the act can he considered in two ways. TTie amended section may merely replace the original section and the entire act may be considered as one passed :it the time. On the other hand. Mr. Seel.irt said, it could b considered as an entirely new act passed at the time of the passage of the amendment. When the amendment to section 4T was made in I ' 0 i, the legislature did not put in a clause repealing all other sections that were contrary to the amendment. This left iCtiori3 0 and 21 S standing as they were originally, one giving the mayor a wrt of reneral power and th other specifically stating that the mayor had the riirht to appoint a city judge, according to Mr. eeblrt. Work n Ow Jdr. Feebirt said Friday afternoon, that he was working on the case and had not satisfied himself as to which of the two executives have the appointive power. He said that an far as his investigations showed the mayor has the riht, fur it has been held that the last of two conflicting sections is the one that governs and in this case the mayor is given the appointive power. Other attorneys say tint in one Indiana statute the governor i.s given the power specifically. The exact reading of the text, they say. follows: "In the event of the death, resignation or removal of any city judge, such appointment shall bo made by the governor of the state". These attorneys declare that the last intention of the legislature is effective. George Sands, i.s one of the candidates for the office and it is understood that he has fled an application for the judgeship with Gov. Italston. L. M. llammerschmidt. !an Pyle and I. W. Hammond are other attorneys that have been mentioned in connection with the appointment. TO iiot.i ivuuuxti:. Members of the A. M. K. Zhn church, will hold their f'.fth annual barbecue dinner Monday. at the corner of Camrtu and lall r-t. After the dinner athletic contests will "be. staged. Tbey do the one thin; you have always wished a cigarette would do; they tatitfy and yet they're MILD.

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I .'- than one ineh of rain fMl in South llend during last month, although in thi- locality August usually averages r, 1-2 inches of rainfall to the Miuarc foot. Not since IS'j'j his there been such a drought in this country during the momh .f Auurt. In that year the crops suffered with but . inches; while this year .S2 inches kft the ground parched and dry during the erf iter part of the month. Added . the drought August brought an exceedingly hot spell starting with a maximum of 'JZ degrees on the 17th and culminating in the maximum of the month, 10' degrees on the 2 1st. This latter maximum is the highest ever recorded in the government observatory presided over by Henry Swaim. In previous ears the mercury has never ventured above the 07 degree mark. The mean temperatures was also unusually high for the month. It registered on an average 74. f.n. However the minimum which w;us reached but one week after the maximum, August 2S. fell nearly to the freezing point. On the last mentioned date the mercury hesitated at the 40 degree mark, just 12 degrees above the freezing point. August, which usually claims as it's share one loth of the annual rainfall of 35 inches, contented itself with less than 1-lCth and saw not on" wholly cloudy day. On several occasiems clouds lent a pleasant shade but the sun always got in a couple of hours of good work either liefere or after the threatening storm. COMEDY SKETCH IS WARMLY RECEIVED Playing to a large and enthusiastic audien :e, a group of young people from Elkhart presented the comedy sketch, "How the Vote Was Won", last c-veninsr at Mcville hall, and made a decided hit. The affair was given for the benefit of the IVanchise league of this city, was tinder the elirection cf Miss Helen Stanton of Elkhart, to whom the success of the production is due. Helen P.oss, as Ethel the wife of a young clerk, made the most out of her- part and .scored the hit of the evening, while Miss Eeatrice EmmPalish was close second for the evening's honors. The same play has been presented on the Elkhart Chautauqua platform and at the lfth district convention held at Eag'e lake. Following the playlet a musical program was presented which included selections by Mrs. Pyle's orchestra, and several vocal solos by Miss Clara Ehrhart. The following were the characters in the play: Horace Cole (a clerk) J. Raymond Conley; Ethel (his wife) Helen Poss; Winifred (Ethels sister) Frances Stanton: Agatha Cole (Horace's sister) Mary Houseworth; Molly (his niece) Cora Kran; Cerald Williams. Millard Fleming; Madame Christine. Marie Purhans: Maudie Spark, Mary Jane Parmater; Miss Lizzie Wilkins. P.eatrice Prumbaugh and Lilly, Miss Ellen Parney. TO SHOW VIEWS OF YELLOWSTONE PARK Stereopticon views of Yellowstone national park will be shown at the Pertrand school house. Handay evening, accompanied by a talk describing the pictures given by John Iloth. Special music is also on the evening's program. The meeting is under the auspices of the Pertrand Social Center club, and an invitation is extended to everyone to attend. nm; i)..m.(ii: small. Companies from the central. No. 4 and No. S stations answered an alarm from box J11 at 1:7.0 o'clock Friday afternoon, calling them to the home of Frank Smielski. 4:'. 7. S. ProoktieM st., where a tire started from the chimney. The was about $70. was loss MOTH UVV EN DEE FLAKF-S Keep Away Moths, Vermin of All Knds, and Leaves n Pleasant Perlume. 10c & '21c at Coonley's. Advt.

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With As a t-eneht performance to raise church funds the young ladies and young men's classes of the I-p worth church presented "A Perplexing Situation," a two act comedy, before an enthusiastic audience In the l church auditorium last night. A play without hero or heroine the piece gave ample opportunity to the embryo actors to display j their talents in the creation of j character roles. To Kev. A. II. Kenna, pastor of the congregation, who assumed the leading role, belongs the greater pn.lse for his interpretation of Uncle Kpitumas. "A perplexing Situation", tells of a family of four women who wager that they can keep silence J for a day. Their experiences, which to say the least are perplexing, constitute the plot. The ardent lover. Kverett Miller, first fird a rebuff in the silence of his la; love, portrayed by Mildred I,ane. Similar in FESTIVAL WILL I jVVill Show Playground Work at Leeper Park Today Big Crowd Expected. An opportunity to see the work accomplished by the municipal playgrounds during the summer months will be afforded South Penders this afternoon when the grand annual play festival will be held at Leeper park. During the past week each of the playgrounds have held preliminary exhibitions which were well attended. Every activity which has been taught at the playlields will be reviewed in this festival. Each playfield has been assigned to present certain parts of the work, and some special stunt will be presented by each one. Opening the program will be grand march participated in by children from all the playfields, which will be reviewed by Mayor Keller, councilmen, members of the park board and the recreation committee. Junior girls from all the playgrounds will present several singing and circle games, while the Laurel lassies will give two Scottish folk dances. Other playfields will present folk dances of other nation. Oliver playlield boys will present a wild west show featuring a fight between United States cavalry and Indians as one of the special stunts. They will also present a white and black race war. Howard boys will have & playground duel, while the Studebaker lads will present burlesque boxing and first aid work featuring Jess Willard, Jack Johnson and Doctor Pones. Athletic contests in which the playgrounds will he pitted against each other will form one division of the work, while the girls will give several dances. Calisthenic drills and exercises will also be offered. Winning teams in the playfield leagues will be presented with their prizes by L. M. Hammerschmidt, chairman of the municipal recreation committee assisted by Mrs. Clem Smogor and Mrs. Homer Miller. A parade of the teams and individual prize winners will follow. All the playgrounds will unite in i a big flag drill and the singing of patriotic songs as a closing numbers. During the afternoon the Z. P. Polish Falcons band will furnish music. MAY BE BIGAMIST l'at her of ThelniA Ivoulinger Fears llubaml Commit t Ina Fraud. That Thelma Poulinger, the 1" er old girl o this city who eloped with Otis Nutting to Kankakee, 111., last Saturday where they were married, may be married to a man who already has one wife, is the latest development concerning the affair. This fact was brought out when the girl s father, Charles Poulinger was seen in regard to the elepment. Mr. Poulinger received a letter from his daughter, but no information concerning future plans were mentioned. Mr. Poulinger and his daughter have been living with the former sister at 120." S. Main st. Neither the father nor sister had any knowiedee of the intended marriage. Pefore leaving, the girl told her aunt that she was going to Grand Rapids or Detroit. However the two went to Kankakee where they were married by Justice Peterson, and a man who represented himself aj Boulinger's son-in-law swore that the girl was 1& years old. According to Mr. Poulinger her correct age is 13. Nothing definite could be learned about Nutting, and whether he had a divorce from his first wife is not known. He is a painter by trade, and formerly lived at 01 S. Lafayette St. win: cilim;ks iii:uticn'. Lloyd Pennett. IZZÖ E. Powman st.. was arrested late Friday nicht on a warrant charinc Iiim with child desertion, which was taktn

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cidents follow till the denouncement at the stroke of six o'clock. Mrs. John Hay in the creation of the village gossip, Mrs. Nosie. showed unusual discretion in the handling of a part that is so often overdone. C. W. Hopkins, who was also responsible for the toneful stage setting, carried through the first act with an almost professional stage presence. Scone? Modern City Home. Coach A. H. Kenna Stagings C. W. Hopkins Cat of Cljaracicrs. Mr. Middleton C. W. Hopkins Mrs. Middleton . Tom Middleton . Jessie Middleton Sue Middleton . Lucy Fair .... Evelyn Ityer .... Carson Smith . . . . Mildred Lane Irene Fisher . Martlena DeVries Maud Hazel Puckingham Mrs. Nosie Mrs. John Hay Alexander Wilson . . Hverett Miller Mary Cora Emeriek Fritz Jay Miller Uncle Epitumas . . I lev. A. H. Kenna Health Officer .. Charles Reynolds Woman s Story Is Proven To Be An Untruth Th.U Mary Fawcett. 1005 E. I-iw-rence St., Mishawaka. who claimed that a negro assaulted her, early Thursday night, was injured In a drunken brawl in which Mrs. Fawcett. her husband and a man named Isaac Wells participated, was the statement of Chief of Detectives Kuespert, Friday afternoon. According to the story told by the woman she had gotten off a car at Emeriek st.. when a negro attempted to stop her and beat her up when she resisted. She staggered to the South Pend Motor Car Co. plant and called for help. It was there that she told her story. Kuespert's investigation into the affair brings to light another story. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett and Wells had been together all evening, drinking heavily. They left a saloon on S. Michigan st. and went to a house on Hill st., where they Joined another party of carousers, according to Kuespert. Neither of the Fawcett's had money and kept stinging Wells for the drinks. He finally rebelled and left the couple. It was then that the fight resulted in which Mrs. Fawi sett beimr the weaker of the trio received the worst of the encounter. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett were before Judge Feig in the Mishawaka citscourt not more than 10 days ago on intoxication charges, while Wells has served two terms on the penal farm, according to information re- ' ceived by Kuespert. SIGNED CONFESSION MADE BY STEWART Signed statements from Jack Stewart, alias Delbert Gillis, Ralph Paxter, Frank Ooheen and Otia M. Harold, that three South Pend loan companies had been victims of his fraudulent notes, were secured by Chief of Detectives Kuespert, Friday afternoon. In his statements Stewart confesses to defrauding the Provident Loan Co., C01 S. Michigan st., the Security Loan Co., room No. 12, Odd Fellows block, and the State Loan Co., room No. 0. Merchants National bank building. Resides confessing to these three frauds. Stewart told Kuespert that he hail been arrested in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, in August, 1915, for passing a fraudulent check for $131. He was tried and convicted and sent to the prion .it Ionia. Mich., for a term of six months and not more than 14 years. He did not go to the prison however but was let out on probation, or parole. Kuespert says that the man will be prosecuted here, anel that after local authorities get done with him, the Michigan police can have him. In view of the man's confession it is probable that Judge Warner will bind him directly over to the grand jury. Stewart offered to pay for the notes if given a chance. BATHING BEACHES WELL PATRONIZED Forty thousand bathers enjoyed the privileges furnished by the Ieeper park bathing beach during the summer months, according to a report made to the park board Friday night by Eduard Koenig, instructor at the beach. The place was open from June 10 until Aug. The attendance figures ran from 200 to 6Ö0 during the bathing hours. Another bathing pool may soon be installed in the city parks, according to an announcement made by the board after its meeting Friday night. Plans and specification? of large bathing pool which is being installed at ClranJ Rapid??. Mich., were received by the board from Supt. of Parks Coble of Grand Rapids. The pool which will te installed here will be modeled after the Grand Rapids pool. The location of the pool has not been yet decided upon. r.;uo is .riutf.i. Oscar Lin a rugro. 21 T Pird.;ell st., was arretted Friday niuht on a charge of public indecency. Ilia wife

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WILL BE OPEN List of Government Examinations Reveals Number of Profitable Jobs. Government positions for "00 male stenographers and typists are now (pen according a circular sent from Washington. D. C, to I. f. Tipton, clerk of the local civil f-enice hoard. These positions pay salaries ranging from $900 to $1,000 per year and have excellent opportunities for advancement attached. Examinations for these positions will be held at the post othce here, on Sept. 12 and 26. Seventeen cooks and bakers for Indian service are asked for in the circular and examinations will be held on Sept. 19. On this date examinations for the following positions also will be given. Specialist in grain exchange practice, office of markets and rural organizations, department, of agriculture, Washington. D. C investigator in grain exchange practice, and mechanical draftsman, ordnance department, Frankfort arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa. Other positions open and the date of examinations follow. Leather chemist, bureau of science Manila, P. I., and aicultural assistant, bureau of entomology, department, of agriculture, field duty, Sept. 20; mineral examiner, general land ofhee, Washington; laboratory assistant, department of agriculture, junior computer, bureau of mines, Pittsburgh, and junior fuels chemint, bureau of mines, Pittsburgh, Sept, 20-21. Four vacancies for positions of aeronautical mechanica'. draftsman, three in Washington, and one In San Diego, Calif., will be fdled on Sept. 26. An examination for tho position of senior highway bridge engineer, paying a salary of $2,400 to $3,300 will be held on Oct. 2. On Oct. 4, the following examinations will be held, highway bridge engineer, junior mechanical engineer, junior civil engineer, grade I, junior civil engineer, grade II, Junior structural engineer, grades I and II, and blue printer for forest t-ervice, Albuquerque, N. M. Further information regarding these examinations, as well as application blanks, may be secured from the United States civil service commission, Washington. I). C, or from I. L. Earhart, district secretary. 403 Government building, Cincinnati, Ohio. BUYS DEPARTMENT H. N Roche to Control Cleaning Establishment Here. Announcement was made yesterday to the effect that R, N. Beebe has purchased the dry cleaning department of the New Process laundry and the new company will be named the P. P. Cleaners. R. N. Peebe, to be the proprietor and manager. Mr. Peebe is well known in the local circles, having been in the dry cleaning business in this town for four years. UIPLF CLASSUS 2HKI7T. The Allbright, Golden Rule and Perean classes of the First Evangelical church, held their monthly business and social meeting last evening. The social hour following the business session was in charge of the men arid the program included songs and comic contests. L. Worth winning the prize for the latter. The refreshments were served by the men of the Allbright class. The next meeting will be held the first Fridav in October. HinX'IlXS TO CTTY. Mrs. Rose Hillman, 104 N Hill st., has returned to South Pend after a long absence. For the past year Mrs. Hillman has managed the culinary department of the Grand Peach hotel. Grand Peach, Mich., and previous to that was connected with t'ae Canterbury tea room at Seattle, Wash. R0UMANIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST TURKS CONSTANTINOPLE. SepU 2. Iloumania lias declared war against Turkey. The declaration of war was issued in Bucharest on the night of August 30, owing to the interruption of wir communication between Roumania and Turkey it was not until today that the Roumanian charge d'affaires notified the Turkish government. MUCH Ilt'ILDING ON" I01CTAGI Thre Js much building activity in the Samuel Good addition on Port-1 age avenue at the present time. J Fifteen or 20 houses are either in j process of construction or will be started soon, and many ar to go up this fall. Lots are selling fast on Portage in the Good addition. A real building boom is on. Secure your lot before all the choice ones have been sold. Adv. WEDDING BLOSSOM PERFUME Finest Odor Made 21c, 50c. A: T5o Dottles Sold Only at Coonley's. Advt. WATCH US GROW

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