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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-23
HOW OTHER CITIES
PLAN TO OBSERVE
CHRISTMAS TIMES

GREENSBURG-A huge Christmas
tree standing thirty-five feet high and
brilliant with electric lights will greet
hundreds of Greensburg folk who ara
expected to attend the community
Christmas celebration here Thursday
night Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Pulse paid
the expense of erecting the big stand
for the tree which was donated by II.
z. Day. One hundred and thirty
school children under the direction Of
Miss Louise Enlers will sing Christ
mas carols.
! MINGTON-Through the ac
tivity of the promoters of the Good
! Fellows Movement in Bloomington
good Christmas dinner will be served
in the home of every poor family in
the city Boxes of gifts will be dis
tributed among poor children on
| Christmas day.
! FORT MAINTENANCE than $500
poor children of this city will eat
/ Christmas dinner at the expense of
! Mrs. William H. NOll, who each year
contributes to the happiness of hun
dreds of little children. Mrs. Noll will
give presents to the poor children
also.
( WABASH-The first municipal
Christmas tree celebration will be
held here Christmas day. Presents to
needy children will be distributed
from the huge Christmas tree.
GARY-The police and fire depart
ments of Gary will provide free din
ners for homeless men on Christmas
day.
PRINCETON-The big Christmas
tree in the court house yard will be
dedicated Wednesday night. Hun
dreds of electric lights illuminate the
big tree. Every child that visits the
Elks home on Christmas afternoon
Will be given treat
KOKOMO-Eight automobiles with
trumpeters will speed over this city
Christmas night to summon everyone
to the municipal Christmas tree cele-
bratiOn in the public square. A chorus
of several hundred voices under the
direction of Prof. Eckart will furnish
music. The kokomo band will give a
concert.
BLOOMFIELD--A municipal Christ
mas tree, purchased and placed at the
expense Of q popular subscription fund
will be lighted every night for a week
beginning Thursday evening.
SHELBYNILLt--F Fifteen hundred
electric lights, decorations and Christ
mas emblems have been placed on the
big municipal Christmas tree in the
public square. The tree is being light
ed every evening.
BOONNILLE-FCcm Judge Ros-
coe Kiper will deliver Il Christmas adj
dress before the community tree erect
ed in the court house yard here on
Christmas eve. Poor families of this
this city will be supplied with food
and clothing at the tree.
DECATUR-Ben J. Waggoner, a
dairyman. is spreading the spirit OF
Christmas in Decatur by sticking a
Red Cross Christmas seal on every
bottle of milk that leaves his dairy.
FAIRMOUNT-The Merry Christ
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-23

SHELBYNILLE-- Fifteen hundred
electric lights, decorations and Christ
mas emblems have been placed on the
big municipal Christmas tree in the
public square. The tree is being light
ed every evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-23

BLOOMFIELD--A municipal Christ
mas tree, purchased and placed at the
expense Of q popular subscription fund
will be lighted every night for a week
beginning Thursday evening"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-23

We show over 200 designs in Rock.
ers; priced $500 to $500. A ssuod
Rocker makes an ideal gift and is
good for lifetime.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-23

A Solid Oak Pedes-
tai Stand, SO inches
high, has 12-inch
top and base, Gold
en- or Fumed Oak
Finish.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Lost Arm, $4,000; Life, $4,000.

Denver.-Two thousand dollars dam
ages for death and $4,000 for the
loss OF an arm in accidents which oc-
Cured on the same day IN 1918 were
verdicts returned almost simultane-
ously by injuries in two divisions of
the District Court. Five minutes aft
er they had been returned came the
filing OF suit by Mrs. Sarah Moores
to recover $4,000 for the loss of an
eye against the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad. Frederick Kalkman, twenty
five, coffee roaster, was awarded
the $4,000 verdict against the Inde-
pendent Coffee &c Spice Company in
Judge Denisons's division. Across
the hall in Judge Aliens court few
minutes later a jury awarded Mrs.
Mary De Yorio $4,000 for the death OF
her husband against the Denver City
Tramway Company.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Juarez, MeX.-General Villa took
over the four principal banks of Tor
'eon, according to report which he
:elegraphed to this city with the re-
Iuest that 1t be given to the press of
the United States.
His prize does not include money or
negotiable securities. however, as the
oankers took the precaution of ship
ping these out when Federal General
yelasco evacuated the city.
He has the buildings and the furni-
cure however The banks affected are
the Banco Nacional, the Banco de La
guna, the German and South Ameri-
,an Bank, and the Bank of London and
Mexico
The most important property left
behind by the Spaniards was cotton
said to be valued at $15,000,000. Word
was received from Torreon that ST.
100000 was being loaded on trains for
shipment to Ell Paso by General Villa.
1t is stated that the Spanish owners
cannot touch the property if it arrives
here in bond, as is frequently the case.
If it comes bonded for transit through
the United States for shipment abroad
it cannot be recovered, it is said. A
precedent to this effect was estab-
lished sometime ago in the case of a
consignment of hides confiscated by
the rebels and which the former own.
ers attempted to recover through the
United States courts.
Among the refugees were three
priests. There are still in the Lag
una district $50 planters on their
farms. They will be gathered togeth'
er at Torreon and also sent out of the
country.
General Venustiano Carranza gave
out a statement dealing with the sub
ject of the expulsion of foreigners
justifying Villas action and stating
that Spanish property would not be
confiscated.
A similar statement on the subject
of confiscation was made by Isidro
Fabela, Carranzas minister of foreign
relations.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

A woman lives in Philadelphia who
has seen three centuries; who has
been an eye witness of the changes
they have brought; who has herself
been most thrillingly affected by them.
Her name is Mrs. Kate Whitehurst.
and her century and more of life was
most of it lived as slave in the South
long years before there was a dream
of questioning seriously the rights of
slavery to exist
Her home is at 2237 oxford street
with her daughter, Mrs. Caroline
Mitchell. She is still able to move
fered a serious nervous shock few
weeks ago, when fire broke out right
in her bedroom, and she was saved
by policemen when she was not very
far from suffocation.
She is known to be in her one hun
dred and fourteenth year, but she may
be somewhat older and one estimate
gave her age as one hundred and sew
enteen. But the recollection of her
age by a daughter of her old master
in the South, based on the record in
her sales papers as a slave, is that
she was born at the end of the eigh-
teenth century, and she may be the
senior by few months of Aunt Ma
hala Ayers, whose one hundre' and
fourteenth birthday celebration has
been planned as an event this year
at the Home for Aged Colored Peo-
pie. Mrs. Whitehursts own memory
of dates in her long life carries her
back as far as 1911, when the great
comet, from whose year the most
famous wines of Europe have been
dated, was visible and gravely af-
frighting all over the world.
Il saw the great star fall she says,
when she refers to that overshadow-
ing event in her childhood, the one
thing which could leave an indelible
impression on the mind of girl slave
not yet in her teens, when all the
ignorant, startled throng around her
lived in terror of the great stars fall.
She still sees herself standing in
the midst of other slaves, at night un-
der the soft southern sky, staring up
at the awful portent and wondering,
while her elders in that doubly hap
less horde argued its consequences
of pestilence and war.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
STERLING MILK PLANT
NEARLY 1000 COWS PLEDGED
FOR coNDENsoRY.
Dairy Advantages Considered, Commit
tee Is canvassins Conditions and
Contracts Are Being Signed.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Sterling, Colo-Every day brings
greater assurance OF the establishment
of a condensory at Sterling. During
the last week, County Agriculturist d.
C. Bascom, special representative of
the Sterling Commercial Association,
has heen visiting the farmers tribu-
tory to this city, and without excep-
ton, all have given their hearty as
surance that they will cooperate in
the success of the proposed milk
plant.
During the visit here a short time
ago of Gilbert Landell, manager of the
Colorado Condensed Milk Company,
enthusiasm was manifested by the
merchants and farmers Of the county
and nearly 1000 cows were promised
in case the condensory is established.
Bascom has been making personal
visits throughout the county and pre-
senting contracts for signatures.
Books of contracts have been placed
at the banks of the city and else
where at convenient points. Indica-
tions are that a sufficient number of
COWS will be guaranteed to assure the
installation of the plant by next fall.
For the first year, only 1,500 cows will
be required.
The activity in establishing the con-
densory here has suggested many
changes that will necessarily ensue. a
more convenient tram service will be
necessary between here and the Peetz
section for the accommodation of
those who will ship their products.
And, in many cases. for the benefit OF
those who will haul by wagon, road
Improvement will be necessary.
Dairying advantages are declared to
be ideal, and it has been pointed out
frequently by dairy experts from other
sections and other states that the re-
sources at hand are much greater than
in many regions where great wealth
has resulted in the maintenance of the
dairy industry.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
LEASING PLAN RouNDLY SCORED
Permanent Prosperity of West Must
Come From Ownership.

Denver.-Positive positions against
the principles of leasing public lands
and public resources were taken in
the conference of Western governors
by Governors Oddie of Nevada, Spry
of Utah and Ammons of Colorado.
They went on record as opposing all
such leasing whenever it is in any way
avoidable.
Leasing. they argued, tends to make
tenants instead Of owners, whereas
the permanent prosperity of the west
ern states must be built up on basis
of ownership rather than of leasing.
Another clash of ideas resulted at
this, for A. A. Jones, assistant secre-
tary of the interior, defended the leas-
ing policy. Ownership instead of leas-
ing, he declared, would tend to cause
monopoly, the thing it was most de-
sirable to avoid.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
s25,ooo,ooo FOR PANAMA CANAL.
Diplomats Sign Paper to Be Ratified
by Senate and Central Americans.


Washington. - Twenty-Five million
dollars is the amount the United
States agrees to pay to Colombia for
the partition of Panama and the ac-
quisition of the canal zone, in the
treaty signed in Bogota by American
Minister Thompson and the Colombian
authorities. This was stated here at
the Colombian legation.
No rights for new interoceanic ca
nal across Colombia, by the Atrato
river route, and no coaling privileges
on San Andreas and Providencia is
lands, off the Colombian coast, 1t was
added, were contained in the treaty
The boundary between Colombia and
Panama is to follow the line laid down
in an earlier treaty which was signed
but never approved by the Colombian
Congress.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

Lindsay Winslow, born a slave. for
AZ years a messenger in the war de-
partment, body servant to a success
sion of commanding generals of the
army, and known to every officer in
the military service, died from a
stroke OF apoplexy at his home in
washington. Messenger Lindsay was
fifty-nine years old, having been ap-
pointed in the government service
when youth of seventeen years.
Lindsay was born in 1885, the prop
erty of the Temple family of Fred
ericksburg, Va. Miss Temple, one
of the daughters of the family. who
now lives in Richmond, Va, never
came TO Washington without calling
on the old family slave, whom she
held in great esteem and watched
over.
1t was during the Civil war that
Lindsay first made acquaintance with
the army, with which he was to be
associated for the rest of his life.
In 1866, when ten years old, he used
to sell pies to the soldiers of the army,
encamped near Fredericksburg. One
of the veterans of that campaign, now
an official of the war department, tells
of an attack of Indigestion which he
charges against a bit of pastry bought
from Lindsay
A year ago Lindsay made his first
appearance as an actor. In the role
of himself, playing the part of a mes
senger to the commanding officer of
a fp n Lot rrit hv
Captain Mccoy of the army, he ap-
peared when the play was presented
at the dinner of the Carabao society
Lindsay saw service in Cuba during
the Spanish-American war. Detached
from the war department he accom-
panied General Bell, in command of
the army of pacification, and was his
personal attendant throughout the
campaign.
Appointed laborer in the war de-
partment July 1. 1872, Lindsay was
given a fireman's job November l..
the same year. July IT, 1S79 he was
made a messenger. Transferred to
the door of the adjutant general of
the army, at that time the command
ing officer of the military service, Mo-
vember 4, 1879, Lindsay was given the
rank of an assistant messenger be-
cause of the change of service. June
16, 1898, he became a messenger at
$S40 year
When the office of adjutant general
of the army lost its directing infiu-
ence. and the Office of chief of staff
was created, Lindsay was transferred
from the one Office to the other, main
tanning his dignity and responsible
ties. He was relieved for temporary
duty in Cuba October 6, 1906, when he
accompanied General Bell. He re-
sumed his duties as messenger Janu-
ary 4, 1907.
Lindsay served as messenger and
personal attendant to every adjutant
general of the army from incumbency
of General Drum to that of General
Corbin, and of every chief of staff of
the army since that time.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Heroic Women Fight Fire.

Greeley,-Forming bucket brigade
and fighting the flames like veteran
fire fighters, the women of the neigh
borhood saved valuable property from
destruction in fire that destroyed
the big barn and contents on the T.
T. Wilson place, sixteen miles from
here. The loss of the barn and con-
tents was about $1,000, partly covered
with insurance.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Tuskegee institute was opened July
4. 1881, in a rented church. mere
shanty, with 80 pupils aud one teach
er. To bring a school with such
beginning as that up to what it is now,
and to gain for it more than national
reputation in the lifetime of one man,
is a marvellous WORK. Back of it all
is a master mind. There are scores
of well-trained teachers, preachers
(from Phelps Hall Bible training
SCHOOL,, farmers. mechanics, trained
nurses, seamstresses and good house
keepers sent out every years from this
school, carrying with them the spirit
of Tuskegee to uplift the race.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Banker Mcbride Gets Five Years.

Denver-Will R. Mcbride, president
OF the definct Night and Day bank,
convicted of obtaining $4,000 from an
aged miner by means of false pre-
lenses, was sentenced to from five to
seven years in the penitentiary by
Judge Butler in the West Side Court.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
100000 Pine Trees Gathered.

Colorado Springs.-Students of the
Colorado College school of forestry
have gathered for the government
over 100000 young pine trees from the
United States nurseries north OF here,
and shipped them to the forest reserve
station at EIalsey, Neb. AS many
more are to be sent to North Dakota
for replanting.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
U. S. Attorney Rldeley Removed.

Cheyenne.-H. S. Ridgley was re-
moved from the United States dis
trict attorneyship by telegraph. Judge
Riner of the United States Court ap-
pointed w. f. Mullen, Ridgley's assist
ant, acting attorney. Charles L. Rig
don will be appointed Ridgley's sue
cessor.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Woman Accused of Lootine Homes.

Cripple Creek.-Charged with hav-
ing looted and stripped the homes of
Mrs. Daisy Manghan and Mrs. Dora
Grill while they were visiting out of
the city, Mrs. Jennie Dwyer, fifty-four,
property owner and taxpayer OF this
city,, was arrested on complaints OF
grand larceny and burglary.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Lonomont Wants MIX Plant.

Longmont.-At a meeting of the di-
rectors of the Longmont Commercial
Association movement was started
for the location of a milk condensory
at this place. The work OF making a
survey of this section to ascertain the
amount of milk and cream that can
be contracted will be started at once.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
coloradoan Weds in London.

Colorado Springs William f. Rich
ards of this city was married at Christ
church, London to Miss Leora Moore,
an American girl whom he met while
travelling abroad. After an extended
tour they will return to this city to
reside.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
Girls Slayer Given Ten Years.

Pueblo.-James Williams, convicted
slayer of Alberta Serfting. 3 years old,
here last September, was sentenced
to serve from ten to twelve years in
the penitentiary at Canon City.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Villa confiscates five banks in
the city of Torreon and takes
charge of cotton valued at $15,00O,-
600
Torreon bankers anticipate con-
fiscation and ship $1,000.0 in bonds
to the United States
Carranza upheld the expulsion or
der issued by Villa, driving 500
Spaniards out of Torreon.
Washington puzzled by defiance
of rebels, realizes America must
care for deported Spaniards.
Battle of Tampico RACES with
neither side in apparent advantage.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

In Denver woman can sign her
husbands name to a check even when
the bank account is in the latter's
name.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Wyoming mines and oil wells in 1913
had an output valued at s37,o00,o00,
and live stock gave the states ranch
ers revenues totaling more than $685.
900, 900
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Not many years ago Russia was a
strong rival of the United States in
the production of petroleum. Now the
Russian empire yields only about 6S
per cent as much old as California
alone, and not much more than Okla
homa.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

A bill providing for women judges
in the children's court has been intro
duced in the New York Legislature.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Vancouver recently received ship
ment of 125 cub foxes from Skagwayi
Alaska, valued at 100000.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Two carpenters and plumber from
England have recently been travelling
in Belgium. Vocational scholarships
were awarded to them, by means of
which they are investigating old and
new methods of house construction.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

The United States has become thu
heaviest buyer of South African dia
monds.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Boston is planning to establish mu-
nicipal lodging houses.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

There are two wage-earning women
to every five wage-earning men in
Great Britain.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
General Wood Sees U. S. War Near

New Haven, Conn.-Gen. Leonard
Wood admitted the United States ex.
poets war and must prepare for it.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Margaret E. Mcnamara has been ap,
pointed chief matron of the Industrial
School for Girls at Delaware, Ohio.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Gas City, Kan, has a population OF
1,2OO, but abolished the office Of city
marshal for the reason that there has
been nothing for him to do in long
time.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

From little farm owned by John
Jones, former slave in Shelby county,
Tenn, has come to the Supreme court
of the United States the question of
whether former slaves are entitled to
inherit from their brothers and sis
ters who likewise were in servitude.
The supreme court of Tennessee
had held that ex-slaves have no in
heritable blood. One of John Jones
brothers has taken the case to the
United States Supreme court seeking
a reversal
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

1t is estimated that rs per cent of
the laws have to do with the home in
some way.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

The colored man in America has
gone through the same experiences as
the white man. He gave $50 years of
unrequited toll to build up the ma
tion. In the Revolutionary war Girls
pus Attucks, mulatto. was the first
man to shed his blood that white men
might be really free.
One hundred and nine of the 425
dauntless sailors who fought with
Perry at the battle of Lake Erie were
colored men. Nearly 100000 colored
soldiers fought with white men in the
Shareholders rebellion in defense of
their common country. In the Span
ish-American war the colored troopers
did their duty splendidly at Ell Caney.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11

Sweden this year will import coal
from Spitzbergen.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
VILLA TAKES
FIVE BANKS
AND Sis, ,ooo, 900 IN COTTON, TO FOIL
REBELS, AS TAMPlcO BAT
TILE RACES.
CASH SENT TO Ell PASO
9ENNlLEss sPANIARDs RELY ON
UNITED STATES FOR FOOD
AND SHELTER.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-02
Grade Crossings
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author OF @At Good Old siwash.g

RADE crossings form one reason why
the population OF America does not
NJ increase more rapidly.
A grade crossing is one on which a
railroad. a wagon road and usually an au-
America has about half OF a million grade
crossings and most Of them are watched
over and protected exclusively by Pr0vi-
dence. Providence IS very busy attending
to other necessary matters and as a result
several times a day in various parts OF the
country q buggy OF automobile or pedestrian
gets on a railroad track and tries 70 hold
a train for no gain Tn result is summed
up by the coroner IN a few well chosen
words and the census report suffers another
setback
IN smaller and more populous countries
railroads are required TO bu-rOw over or
under the streets and roads. But most OF
the railroads in this country were built
first and the roads followed a~fterward- It
would take about half q billion dollars 10
eradicate the grade crossings OF this country
and as no one has been able 70 lay hands
on this sum Of money uptodate. the grade
crossings have continued TO flourish like the
unloaded revolver. the typhoid microbe and
other enemies OF the race.
In the last 50 years grade crossings have
killed many more American citizens than
war has On one street in New York City
alone where a railroad prOmenades down
the center, enough people have been killed
10 make as big q scandal as the 1rOquols
fire. The trouble IS they have been killed
IN instruments and not all at once. Usually
a grade crossing is abolished or protected