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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
EARLY CITY
HISTORY
Contributions on the pioneer
days Of Richmond will ap-
pear in this column daily.
TWO EARLY STOVES.

In 1886 or 1887 gentleman by the
name Of Grover came to Richmond
and proposed to establish Q foundry,
provided he could ind q partner with
some money to back the enterprise.
/ think the partner he found was
Achilles Williams an early pioneer.
They prepared to cast the plates for
. cooking stove which Mr.. Grover
wished to introduce in Richmond. This
stove would be curiosity II one could
be found at this time.
The stove had . hrebox which was
an oblong square. On top there was
q circle with a groove on the inside.
The plate which formed the top Of the
stove was laid on this groove In such
way that 1t could be made to re-
volve. There were four openings in
the top to receive the kettles, and
each Of these openings had an ele-
waited rim which supported the kettles
and prevented them from reaching the
fire.
When not in use these openings
were closed with a lid such as we
have on wood stoves at the present
day. BY passing an iron poker across
the top Of the stove with one end
resting on the right side of one Of the
rims and the other end pressed against
the left side OF the opposite rim. by
pushing on the poker the top could
be made to revolve. Two OF the open.
ings were always directly over the
IRE and the other two were toward
the back Of the stove where there was
not go much heat.
A perpendicular stove pipe rested on
the top OF the stove at the back and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
Utilizing Its Best Asset.

You may pirate about civic pride and enter
prise, laud your city's wealth and commercial
strength, boast about the wise administration of
its municipal affairs, point to its low tax rate
and advertise it's industrial advantages, but all
these are as sounding brass and tinkling GYM
bal if your city does not utilize and encourage its
greatest asset-MEN.
What does it profit a city if it possesses un-
told resources, but does not exploit the latent
resounses of it's MEN? What does it bring city
even if it draws on a rich agricultural district,
but does not capitalize the initiative skill and
energy Of it's MEN? How do booster trips into
unexplored trade centers help city If it does
not boost within its own gates the inventive, pro-
fessional and mechanical skill of its own MEN?
The development Of trade resources the locat-
ing of new factories the increase Of business are
important but the arousing of all the MEN Of
a community to the need and value Of LOCAL
spirit is infinitely more essential and funda-
mental The human element must receive atten-
ton if the material welfare Of the city is to be
promoted.
New Orleans has taken coenizance of this
fact. A Young Mems Branch of the New Orleans
Association Of Commerce has been organized and
500 young men, representing nearly every kind
of business enterprise in that city have been en-
rolled. The Association Of Commerce recently
gave banquet to welcome these striplings and
to inspire them with the New Orleans spirit and
to urge them on to greater endeavor and ultimate
success. The promoters of the New Orleans move
ment hope to make the Branch civic training
school,
The human element is too often overlooked
in civic affairs. Commercial organizations speak
in facts and figures, dollars and cents, receipts
and expenditures, dividends and losses. They
seldom consider the dominating human equation
in business and civic affairs. The best asset of
any city is its MEN. Develop, encourage, vital
ize MEN, and many of the other things-more
factories, more business, more dividends-will
follow natural sequence.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
Learning Lessons Here.

The American city seems to be coming into
it's own. Usually foreigners look upon it as the
weakest element in the American form Of gov
eminent. The Department Of Commerce, has
just completed for one important South Ameri-
can city, study Of the financing Of improve
nents in American cities. Another South Ameri-
can city asked for the official publications Of cit
les on public works, constructions laws and NUM-
cipal organization or reform. It is hopeful sign
that out Of the agitation for municipal reform
IN the United States has come a tangible better
ment that is attracting the notice of some of our
Latin.Adherican neighbors.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

conveyed the smoke into the chimney
fue. At the front of the frebox there
were two doors and wide hearth
covering an ashbox. The hearth could
be pushed in and out like an ordinary
stove hearth.
This was an admirable place for
broiling beefstake and for toasting
bread over bed of Goals from the
wood stove.
There was no oven In this stove,
but at the back was q rack to support
q large tin reflector and smaller re-
Hector could be placed on the hearth.
These redectors were sometimes call
ed Dutch ovens. They had q box frame
to which was attached a hood some
thing like buggy, top. This was
hinged at the back and could be turn
ed over to enable the cook to see how
her roast was progressing. The open
side Of the hood was placed against
the back plate Of the hrebox and suRi-
cient heat was retained to roast
turkey or bake ham or to bake
loaves of bread. The reflector on the
biscuit and cookies. =.
had no opening. Two new bricks were
laid side by side on the top and over
this was turned q reflector shaped
like the cover q srocer uses on his
cheese block. only it was higher. This
was q good place to bake a chicken
pie, a peach cobbler or pound cake.
You see an entire dinner of meat,
vegetables and q dessert could be pre-
pared with one fire. This was great
improvement over cooking on the
hearth by side of the blazing fire.
The heavy iron kettles were hung
on hooks suspended from a crane and
this could be turned out to receive
them and then returned to hang them
over the fire. The wrought iron crane
that I remember cost $1,000
This stove did not come into general
use and the foundry proved failure.
The stove that followed the first
was called a step stove" Standing
in front of 1t you would see three ele-
vations like the steps In a stairway.
The first step was a broad hearth with
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
The Boosters Of James Eli Watson,

The Indiana Business and Prosperity League
is backing Watson, candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States senator. It's men,
bership includes manufacturers and business
men in indianapolis and other cities. > It's Off
GERS are: Fred C. Gardner, president; Arthur
Jordan, Harry B. Gates and W. H. Freeman,
vice presidents; J.. F. Richardson. secretary.
There is no treasurer. -@ E*= .5
When the league was formed there were pre-
sent many men who were members of the In
dianapolis Employers association, under whose
auspices Co.. M. M. Mulholland came to Indiana
in 1908 to help Watson in his gubernatorial cam
paign.
Watson and Mulholland! A good combina-
tion. The two names bring up recollections of
unsavory history that is not so old that the po-
litical antiquarian has to bring out musty files
to refresh the memory.
j Watson and his connection with big interests !!
The same Watson and the same crowd backing
his candidacy and making plans to boost his as
pirations for the senatorial toga. 1.s..E T.
Watson and the voters! Have they forgotten
the Mulholand disclosures? Have they forgot
ten in few years Watson's avowed connections
with the most potential reactionaries in Ameri-
can politics? Hardly ID
Watson and Wayne county! Have the voters
here forgotten the district convention where
Watson dictated the choice of Republican nom-
nee for congress? Have they forgotten how the
staunchest Republicans in Wayne county de-
nounced Watson's interference in the race and
how they condemned him as political boss?"
Watson has gathered about him men who
brought Mulholland to Indiana in 1908. Press
dispatches say there Is no need for money. His
campaign has been financed. The men who form
ed the new league need not put up the coin. When
the invitations to the meeting were sent out.
they carried the sentence: "No dues, no assess
ments, no money wanted" ...-.,-.. =. ....--..
Watson has the money for his campaign All
he needs, seemingly, is votes. Well, voters may
remember Mulholland the men who brought him
to Indiana and the men who are now backing
Watson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

two doors OPENING from the frebox.
The step above contained two open
tngs for kettles and the third eleva-
ton also had two openings. With IN
oven in the stove the renectors passed
out OF use. The plates Of this stove
were very heavy and altogether II was
considered quite an Improvement over
the first stove / have described.
think these two stoves were In use at
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
TAKE THAT. RuNrl

Runt Stanley thinks he is some
kidder, but he can kid just about as
good as he can play football and that's
just his best average. Lay of, my
boy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
MONEY AND BOOZE,

Fred Pickford and Lavina Beer were
married In Decatur. Some names!
Picture shows and breweries, mixed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
FIT FOR KINGS SUBJECT

After receiving a complete list OF
the causalties of the Richmond Cam
bridge City football game on Thanks
giving day, We have come to the con-
clusion that football is indeed a rough
game.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
To coax the *tSandman"-
Edge1nont Crackers

Nothing is so characteristic of childhood
as the bedtime hunger-and nothing so
conduces toshealthfui, inyigorating sleep
as a little nibble'' Of really good food.
Your children will more than enjoy Edge
mont Crackers at bedtime-just as they
will enjoy them at any time of the day.
The delicious taste appeals to child just it does
to you. And that taste is the natural taste of the
best quality of wheat flour and the purest shorten
ing, mixed and baked by expert bakers in our
model bakery, where there is world of sunshine
and pure air.
Edgemont Crackers contain the very elements
which nature demands for making healthy muscles
and bones for growing child.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
WI Ter E7

With short skirts and fur topped
shoes In style the bow-legged girl is
surely at disadvantage. Rubber!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

The importation Of silencers for fre-
arms has been prohibited BY Australia
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
Masonic Calendar

Wednesday-Webb Lodge No. "a. F.
and A. NJ. Called meeting; work in
the Master Mason degrees. commenc-
ing at o'clock
Thursday-Wayne Council, No. 10,
r. and S. NJ. Stated assembly; annu-
al election of officers
Friday-King Solomon's Chapter.
No. 4, r. A. M. Called meeting, work
in Royal Arch degree, commencing at
Z o'clock; refreshments.
Saturday-Loyal Chapter, No. 4, o.
e. s. Stated meeting; annual election
of officers. u.-.-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
LAY DOWN, BRUNO!

What beautiful dog. Miss Ethel"
exclaimed her bashful admirer Els he
affectionate ~ ~ IL
Us he affectionate?" she asked arch
". Indeed he is. Here, Bruno! Come
good doggie and show Charlie Smith
how to kiss mel"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
SAVES FuMIGATjOh

John Emery has imported several
barrels of stogies from Pittsburgh and
does much to keep the air at the
Pennsy depot perfumed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
LOOKS PRETTY GOOD.

Casey Horn is anxious to see his
name in the paper. Well, here you
are, Casey.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
EatOn.Richm0nd Line
Richmond and Centerville

Owner-W. Henson
Leave Richmond-7:0 90 a. m; 500 a.
M; 1880 a. m: 100 p. m: 800 p. m:
500 p. m; 700 p. m.
Leave Centerville-S:00 q. m; 1890
a. m; IL noon: 2 p. m; 4 p. m: 6 p.
m: s p. m.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
Richmond. Hagerstown Line
lille and Richmond
Owner-O. Darnell
PHONE 1869

PHONE 1868 LEE HARLAN. Mer
mond For Information -
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
III, WE SEE

OH, WE SEE.
To the Editor-Why has fish fms?
IT. C..
of feathers.
Considerable building is being done
in Naples, despite the European con-
flict.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
COME AROUND, JOHNNY.

Johnny, the Hagerstown kid, ap-
peared yesterday in a shirt and tie
that made an awful splash on North
Ninth street. Really. that boy is
wonder SO far as colors go.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
TABLE AUTO HACKS

J. PALLADIUM BUILDING
Liberty Richmond Taxi Line
Cliff Snyder, Owner
Leave 700 a. m. Liberty Ar. ll:l5 am
Arrive 7:46 Richmond Lv. 1880 am
Leave l p. m. Liberty Ar. 4:45 pm
Arv. 1:4O Richmond Lv. 400 pm
Headquarters in Liberty or Bonds
Garage
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

Switzerland spends more on relief
of the poor than does any other
country.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
AN AUDIT DEMANDED.

Well, anyhow, we are glad to see
that we have another reader. That
makes three now. Our circulation is
growing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
QuCh!!l

did you drop that towel on my face"
Barber-"Because It was hot. sir.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

my home for Is or 20 years. Stoves
of improved patterns came gradually
into use.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30

NOT A CLASSIC. ri
Oh, Diddle, your Town Gossip is
rotten,
Everybody reads it, but it's soon
forgotten.
Brooks, the Barber Poet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-30
Oxford and Richmond
Owner-H. w, Otto
Horse Hack

Ownet@Ik6 AmmeTm00
Monday. Wednesday and Friday
7:00a.m. Ov).. Liberty Tar. d: OOp m.
10: GOA. m. (ar.) Richmond Nv. -: O0p. m
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-22

skates or hikes or plays hockey will
be severely plain, if she is true
sportswoman, but its colors will rival
the rainbow.
Here's a suit you'll often see on
Kinks this winter-a heavy skirt of
black and white check, a bright
green sweater and cap to match, a
green scarf striped with white, and
white angora gloves. The skirt, of
course, may serve for general street
wear, so the suit is by no means ex-
pensive.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-22
N. Y. WILL SOON BE EATING
HORSE MEAT STEAKS

New York, Dec. 22.-Horse steaks
are in prospect in New York. Board
of health repealed section of code
prohibiting slaughter of horses for
food. Paris eats horse, why shouldn't
New York, was the attitude of health
officers in placing Dobbin on the
butchers counters.
Horse meat is without objection
as food" said Health Commission
er Emerson. ct can be made a val
liable and cheap addition to the ia
bles of thrifty persons and a horse
generally is so free from diseases as
to need less supervision than COWS,
hogs or sheep"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-22
MAYNARD GIRL KILLED BY HER
MOTHER

Cincinnati, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Geo.
Schmitz awoke her husband early
today and told him she had killed
their daughter Gertrude, II. Schmitz
found the girl was strangled with a
necktie. The police say Mrs. Schmitz
told them she had killed the girl be-
cause the latter had been hayward.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-22
HE'S A SPEED MERCHANT!

HE'S A SPEED MERCHANT!
Ho humi
~ P. D. Armour, the third, elected d.
rector in the old mans great butcher
shop and swell slaughter house.
Started in at the bottom to work
himself up about two months ago.
Pretty fast!
Trust press all excited about il
Ho hum!
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
BE SURE TO VOTE.

OF course you are patriotic, wide
awake citizen, prizing your privileges
as a asofereisn voter so'liighly that 5ou
would not wilfully neglect going 10
the polls tomorrow. but there is a
bare possibility that you may be 50
busy during the day that you will for
get it. That is why we are handing
out this gentle reminder.
Whether you are Socialist, Repub-
lican or Democrat, you owe it to your
self and the community to perform
your duty at the ballot box. OF course,
being of the Democratic persuasiCa,
we would naturally be inclined to
worry less about the other fellows
failing to report at the polls than we
would If Democrats were to overlook
this important matter, but at the same
time the balloting business is Of such
vital consequence that we want to
urge every citizen to attend to it,
A complete set OF city officials, in
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
HABIT OF LETTER WRITING
One of the Best That Can Be Acquired
and Is One That Makes
Friends.

Don't get into the habit of saying
that you hate to write letters Many
friendship has been broken by neglect
ing to answer letters.
Letter writing is decidedly not a
forte with some women-they think
it bore and keep their correspond
ence as far as possible within the very
narrowest limits. Others don't trou-
BILE even to answer letters when they
get them.
HOh you know I'm a wretched cor
respondent" they viii say in excuse.
The woman who can talk on paper
to the person to whom she is writing,
almost in the same way and with the
same fuency as she would talk to her
were they together in the same room,
is by far the most successful letter
writer.
A good corr espondent nearly always
writes as she speaks.
It is one of the rnwritten laws OF
etiquette not to begin letter with
the prorCun Il
This is always a point which should
be remembered in letter writing.
1t is always a wise plan to answer
letters within few days. In this way
there is no danger of your laying them
aside and forgetting them. This is
especially important where invitations
are concerned-Camden Daily Cour
ier
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
The Hurry.Scurry World.

If you saw company OF pilgrims,
wailing as If .of wager, each with
his teeth set, and if you happened to
ask them one after another: Whittier
they were going? and from each you
were to receive the same answer: that
positively they were all in hurry.
they had never found leisure to in
auire into the nature of their errand-
confess, my dear sir, you would be
startled at the Indifference they ex-
hibited. IN going too far, If say
that this is the condition of the large
majority of our fellow men and al
most all our fellow women?-Robert
Louis Stevenson.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
THE WATSON VERDICT.

In the face of the admitted testi-
mony in the case of Col Watson. mem
her of the corporation commission,
who was removed from office by i'm
peachment proceedings, it is difficult
tc see how different verdict could
have been returned by the senate
without surrendering the high ideal
that every state should uphold with
reference to public officials.
TO admit that the Judge of a court
may have financial dealings with liti-
gants in his court, the effect of which
Is to place him under obligations to
them whether those obligations are
ever discharged or not, would he to
establish dangerous precedent and
one that is not in consonance with
ideals OF public service which the
highest considerations Of morality de
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05

mand Absolutely no compromise can
be made in a case which involves a
principle so vital 10 the public veal
II must be plain to all that member
of the commission is in a position simi-
liar to that of the Judge OF a high
court
The mere fact that Col Watson, ac-
cording to his own testimony, was not
conscious Of the fact that any moral
turpitude" was involved in his accept
ance OF loans from men interested in
proceedings before the commission,
can by no valid argument be set up
in defense OF his conduct. On the con.
trary, 1t must be regarded as conclu-
sive evidence of deficiency in the
ability to make the fine discrimina-
tions which public official must
make. Whether this deficiency is In
tellectual or moral, can make no es-
sential difference insofar as his fit.
ness for office is concerned. To ad-
nit that a man holding such ideas is
qualified TO hold a high position OF
public trust is TO recognize a stand
ard which would be freighted with
consequences of the gravest peril TO
public interests.
Our heart goes out in sympathy to
Col. Watson as it does to every man
who is weighed in the balance and
found wanting" but we are glad that
the senators have said by their verdict
in this case that the highest ideal Of
plIblic service shall be maintained in
Oklahoma
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
Porto RIco TeIenhon. Plants.

The telephone plant" ie not easy 70
explain, nor to uproot 1t is a growth
OF most peculiar habits. preferring
electric wires to The nourishing earth.
1t Is an air plant something like an
orchid. It has no roots, but derives
It's nourishment from the air, the seeds
evidently being carried by the wind or
birds and insects to some substance
where they lodge and sprout. This
growth is found most frequently on
insulated wire. although It has been
observed on bare iron wire that has
rusted 1t has never been seen on
new bare iron, copper or wire cable.
and causes little trouble. as the mass
is seldom large enough to cross two
wires. Telephonlng.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
A Specific Against Colds.

IT there is such thing as a spe-
cihc against colds, it is to be found in
the sleeping porch or the open bed
room Next to that comes the cold
sponge hath in the morning says the
Youths Comparion. BE as carefui is
you can you viii occasionally take cold
and when you do you will find Cham
berlain's Coueh Remedy great help
in enabling you to get rid Of H. Try
it. Obtainabie everywhere ADV
d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-05
EXPRESS PAcKAeETTEs.
! + + J. + i = + = + 4 = = + +

There was little girl who had little
bug
Right IN the middle of her coco;
She pined for a car to go kerchug,
But she hadn't the dear doughreeno
Don't believe any last hour dope.
The country must be saved--go to
the polls tomorrow.
However, you don't just have to be
wicked now simply because Lent Is
past.
With the battle on at Havana, the
European warriors won't get q look-in
to-day.
Regardless of war times, on the
whole the millinery show was about
as fine as usual.
Personally we confess that we coult
not tell the new ones omsthose that
had been trimmed over.
But how could you expect milady K
remember the text of the sermon wher
it kept her busy studying the new
bonnets?
Uncle Hi admits that he is no friend
Of the bagworm but he says it doesn'
bother him as much as Mas want
worm.
If there are any other high state
officers who have symptoms of mora
turpituie in the incipient stage, ou
advice tc them is to see the doctor a
/ once.