Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-04-23

Orange Peters OF Marion, Ind, Is
here today arranging some business
matters.
Mrs. Eugene Hatch OF Detroit i.
the guest of her brother, Mr. Johu
| Robbins.
There will be a Red Men 5 excur-
sion to Cincinnati on the c. r, * VI.
Sunday, May Il.
Mrs. Will Skillman of Winchester
wall De the guest of friends in this
city for few days.
+. Nuggent Goddard. D. D. S oil
Philadelphia, is in the city and regis
tered at The Yves scott.
Mr.. Peters, agent for the Starr
piano at Marion, is in the city today.
He reports business good.
Miss Clara Mason. who has been
visiting friends in Hagerstown, ar
rived home last evening.
Mrs, Bessie Coffin and Mr.. Harry
Ross were in Cincinnati last week at
tending the grand opera.
Mrs. Eliza H. Keller OF Wabash.
Ind, is visiting Mrs. NJ. B. Ballard
and other relatives in this city.
Robert E. Farmer of north twelfth
street, who spent the winter months
in the south, has returned home
The Wednesday society of the
First Presbyterian church will meet
tomorrow afternoon with Miss Lily
Paige.
There will be an important meet
ing of St. Paul's Guild Wednesday
at 3 o clock. A large attendance is
desired.
Walter Eggemeyer, president OF
the state oritorical contest, will pre-
side at the contest ia Indianapolis
April 20.
A building permit was issued this
morning to William Cooper for a
frame addition at Al south eleventh
street to cost 500
The first engine of the C, r. & NJ
passed under the Panhandle bridge
this morning. The rails will soon be
laid to the new bridge.
Will Schnurr, for some time day
clerk DIT the Arlington. will leave to-
morrow morning for Buffalo, \. y.
He has in view there a good paying
position.
The Argus, the high school paper,
was issued today. 1t is an excellent
number and contains much of i'm
portance not only to the school but
the reading public in general.
Contractor Fee is getting along
nicely with the improvement and re
pair of the south end engine house
which when completed will be very
neat and commodious building.
The local office of the Stoddard
Book concern which has been oper-
ating here for some months removes
tomorrow to Elwood and then to Fit
Wayne. They did a very satisfac
tory business here.
For the convenience of persons de-
string to make affidavits for mort
gage exemptions of taxes the county
auditor S Office will keep open from
! to o CLOCK D. On. every evening for
the balance of the month of April.
The bad weather is interfering a
good deal with building operations
and stopping work of architects also.
One of the architects who had sew
eral buildings under way was notified
yesterday to stop work on the plans
until the weather clears up.
The track laying for the c., r. &
Nj. under the Panhandle tracks at
the bridge was completed yesterday
and if there should be week of good
weather soon it would see the track
Laid across the bridge. The wet
weather is holding them back very
BADLY just now.
Invitations are out for the mar
riage of VIII Eggemeyer and Maud,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs, Charles
Marlatt. The ceremony occurs at
the home of the brides parents.
May /, and the happy couple will be
at home to their friends soon after at
their new home on south fourteenth
street, which is already finished for
occupancy.
1t begins to look as if we should
have several automobiles on the
streets here this summer. Moore &
Brown now have the one belonging
to Al. Spekenhier and will use it
more or less for exhibition and sew
eral are talking of getting them. The
one being shown on the street so
much the past few days belongs to
an inventor who is trying to get cap
tai interested here in its manufac
uure.
The city authorities assert this
morning that there is no foundation
whatever for the report that it is in
tended to use a part of the street
ines of the Light, Heat IL Power
IN the city lines to be built |
The city attorney says that neither |
council nor Mr.. Nelson has any such |
dea; that Mr.. Nelson has no such |
power under the contract with the |
.ity; that it all lies under the control |
IF the council.
Several of the council COMMITTEES |
net at the city clerk Office last even
ng in the matter of buying coal for |
he coming year, beginning in May. |
They were the committee on public |
and grounds, committee on |
ire department, and the crematory |
committee Councilman Gem a. ted |
IS clerk 1t was decided to con
ract 70. 100 tons of anthracite for |
he city building; 200 tons of soft |
.oal for the fire department, and $50 |
ons of mine run for the crematory. |
The city clerk will advertise for bids
t an early date.
Prof Max Winkler, professor of
German in the University of Michi-
ran at Ann Arbor, was here to see
hat the high school maintained its
tandard. His visit was iu an Off |
ial opacity, the object being to ad-
nit our students to that university
Without examination He expressed
himself as well pleased with the
york. He delivered an address TO
he high school teachers at t o clock
he subject was university degrees.
nd the kind OF work TO obtain them.
fe goes from here to Fort Wayne.