Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-03-27

visiting friends
The ladies of the G. A R. viii meet
tonight at their hall.
Arthur J.. Meeks of Muncie was in
the city today on a short business
trip.
Prof. Wineburg and Trustee Bishop
are making their final visit to the
township schools today.
The Rev. Alexander Gilchrist was
in the city lass night on his way
home to Pittsburg from Chicago.
John L. Grifiths of Indianapolis
was in the city this morning, and
was a guest at the Arlington for
breakfast.
Louisa f. White has been granted
permission to build a frame stable in
the ear of $2A south fifth street, to
cost $500.
The show last night at the Gennet.
was poorly attended, but was a fair
attraction, the scenic effects being
especially good.
Miss Nellie Lamar viii leave Sat
urday for Pontiac, Mich, to spend
the summer with her sister, Mrs.
WILDER F. Sheridan
There was a still fire alarm from
% south ninth street last night.
Chimney burned out, no damage.
Number l company responded.
The Rev. L. j. Naftzger of Muncie
was in the city today attending to
some business matters connected
with the coming NJ. E. conference.
Perry Williams has retired from
the monument business, and hereaf-
ter the works at the corner of fifth
and Main will be managed by J. W.
Ting'e and his son Carey.
The GA. K. hall is to be repapered,
painted and generally repaired in the
near future. After next week there
will be no nor meetings in the hall
until the improvements are made.
DIR. Andrew Stevenson of the state
university will deliver the address at
the Washington township commence.
ment, at Maple Grove next Saturday
night. Subject, "Our Citizenship.
The Democratic city committee
met last night with M. W. Kelley as
chairman and d. II. Kuth secretary.
The election commissioner chosen is
B. f. Wissler. There will be another
meeting next Monday night.
The Magazine club was handsomely
entertained yesterday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. ]. S. Ostrander,
north fifteenth street. Articles were
read by Miss Mendenhall, Mrs. ]. W
Barnes and others. The next meet
ing will be with Mrs. Barnes.
All the Methodist ministers of the
city are busy this week closing up
the work of the present conference
year. They will leave next Tuesday
for Elkhart, where the first session
will begin Wednesday morning. Ell
wood will try to cur the next con
ference session.
There is general, earnest and vo
ciferous complaint made over theday
street cleaning. The filth-dust is
abominable and if microbes exist al
all for the propagation of disease
each breath of a pedestrian on Mair
street during sweeping hours con
sumes about three millions of the lit
tie creatures.
There were t~hirty-one of George E
Williams S militia recruits examined
last night for fitness for the service
and only n was rejected The
others will be examined soon. AL
most every 'jay"stown in the state
has its militia company, and il is {
matter of local pride that there should
be a company in good old Richmond
and that it should be a good one
Mr.. Williams has kept at this thing
with commendable patience and per
sistence, and the effort should bt
sustained by others until it prove
entirely successful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell to
day celebrated their f~orty-ninth wed
ding anniversary at their home OF
Fort Wayne avenue. The event i:
celebrate with a family dinner
Mrs. Campbell was Miss Elizabeth
Gaar, sister of John NJ. Gaar, Philip
Gaar and the others, and they were
married here and have resided here
ever since. Mr.. Campbell is a nativ,
OF Center county, Pennsylvania
With their present health and pros
poets it looks much as if one veal
from today would be celebrated {
golden wedding anniversary.
IL thS Iodi NOdtS VI WI. 1Aolldt
service in the Office of county record
er he taxed up as recorder S costs
the sum of so ,SS6.31, of which be
collected SO, S66. SO, leaving an un
collected balance of 1914 The en-.
tire amount ($10, SS6. 81 was turned
into the county treasury, and out OF
that the salary of the recorder,
$4,000, Oh s., 900 per year, was paid,
leaving a profit to to the county, on
Mr.. Lamar's four years of faithful
stewardship, of 1855. 81. The four
years of Mr.. Lamar's term ended
March Is, 1900. His was the first
term of the office under the salary
law that gives a straight salary re-
CARELESS of the amount of fees taken
in.
Miss Gertrude Simmons, the Sioux
Indian maiden who obtained her edu-
cation at Earlham college, this city.
and who was brought fresh from the
reservation in Dakota to Whites In
stltute ten years ago, has just ac-
cepted an invitation to recite Long
fellow 5 "Hiawatha" and to play a
selection on the violin before : lead
ing literary society at Washington,
D.. C. President Mckinley will pre-
side at the exercises. Miss Simmons
lately has been An instructor in the
Carlisle Indian school at Carlisle,
Pa She is now writing a series of
sketches of Indian life, which are APP
pearing in the Atlantic Monthly, over
the nom de plume Zitkalasa.
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