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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-07-08

two boarding houses where he has re-
sided in this city information was OBJ
tanned that Carr was very quiet man
and never caused any trouble.
Astonshment was expressed that
he should have been guilty Of such
a crime. At the freight station fellow
workers stated that Carr was a quiet
man, Of few words, and not addicted
to making trouble.
II was added, however, that he was
a periodical drinker, and had been
drinking considerably two days prior
to the killing Of the two police Of
ficers.
Story of the Murders.
Night Foreman DoWdy has made a
statement concerning his experience
with Carr, which was the prelude to
the murder of the police officers. E.
T. Woods, known to his friends as
Daddy" night watchman at the
freight station, was the only eye wit
ness to the murder of Little and
Stephenson. He also has made a
statement
Reported for Work.
Carr reported for work about Z
o'clock last evening. He had been
drinking. About 10 O'Clock he return
ed from an errand, still more intoxi-
Gated. Dowdy ordered him to go
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As. NJ. GIVES $500 CHECK
TO FAMILIES OF OFFICERS

this generous contribution and
any others which may be received
so that the families Of the dead
officers will receive the maximum
benefits from the same.
Appreciation Fund Started.
The Palladium Printing com.
pany announces a donation of S25
to a fund for the families Of
Officers Little and Stephenson.
The Palladium will also receive
donations from any Of it's readers
who desire to contribute to such
a fund and will present such con-
tributions to the police board.
President Eversman will sus-
eest that whatever funds are con-
tributed shall be invested in some
profitable securities the returns
from the same to be paid over to
the afflicted families.
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"We are greatly grieved by the
deaths Of Officers Little and
Stephenson in the performance Of
duty. We shall be glad, If you
will accept, the inelosed check on
the First National bank. this city,
for $4,000, to be used as your
board may desire toward the
lessenine Of the sorrow, II poss.
ible, Of their families.
Very truly yours,
"ey James A. Carr, President"
"Ameriean Seeding Mch. Co., Inc-
The above letter, addressed to
William Eversman, president OF
police board, was received at
police headquarters this morning.
President Eversman will call a
meeting OF the board to decide
what disposition shall be made Of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-07-08
BELIEVE STEPHENSON
ANTICIPATED HIS FATE:

The question has arisen in the minds of the Stephenson
family today whether Officer Elmer Stephenson had
of his death yesterday evening before
ing to work.
He did say anything indicate this but the family
explained that though he had felt that something
going to happen to him. he would not have told his wife
because of the worry which would have caused her.
Officer Stephenson usually went away to work with
laugh and jolly goodbye his family the wife explained
But last night he different He did not want to 60
Several times he told his wife
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TVo Ministers speak.
The Rev w. o. Stovall, pastor OF
the First Baptist church, will pro-
nounce the funeral services over the
body OF Officer Stephenson. The Rev
r. 8 James. pastor OF the United
Brethren church. will officiate at the
services over the body Of officer Lit
tie.
Az a testimonial Of the appreciation
OF the services OF these two officers
who met their deaths while CALAMITY
performing their duties the police
commissioners invite all civic and
fraternal organizations to be official
" represented and request the pres
ence Of the general public. Every city
officer will be In attendance.
Police Will March.
Following the services at the church
the funeral cortage will form behind
the two hearses and will parade for a
distance west on Main street 1t is ex-
pected that this cortage will be the
largest in the history OF the city. The
entire police force will parade. also
several fire department companies.
The body OF Officer Little will be
taken to Goshen, Ind, for burial. Of
fcer Stephenson's body. will be laid
10 rest in Earlham cemetery.
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parently Of experienced yeggmen,
tracks in the court yard to the rear of
the Peoples bank, marks that indi-
d!cate that the intruders drove up
to the building in a wagon, and that
therewere at least two of them were
TContinued On PAGE Ski
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OPENS FIRE ON MEN WITHOUT WARNING
Foiled in his first attempt to kill Dowdy the des
perado remained at the freight station in the hope of
curing another opportunity to shoot the night foreman
When Officers Little and Stephenson arrived he opened
fire them before word had been spoken killing Ste
phenson almost instantly. He shot Little twice. that
officer dying twenty minutes later following his arrival
at Reid hospital
CARR'S INJURIES NOT REGARDED SERIOUS.
Carr ten minutes after he had shot Little and Ste
phenson in turn shot down by Officer Charles Kuhl
while attempting to escape. Kuhmans bullet passed
through the feshy part of Cars hips but he not
seriously injured The head injuries received from
the of the dying Little and from the blows of
of the three coored ruckmen Orvle Ross who came to
Ltles assistance prior to kuhlmans arrival the
SORRY HE MISSED FOREMAN DOWDY.
"Are you sorry you didn't get Dowdy?" inquired
Isaac Burns railroad detective who in Carrs cell
this morning about o'clock while the Jail physician
attending to the murderer's wounds.
Il wish could have got him." Carr replied angry.
Il wouldn't give damn if he dead He going to
report me to the boss and get me fired"
Don't you think it would have been better if you
had been fired instead of killing two police oficers?"
questioned Burns.
"Perhaps" replied Carr, indfferently.
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ATTEMPTED ROBBERY THWAR7ED;
THUGS JIMMIE BANKS REAR DOOR;
APPARENTLY FRIGHTENED BY NOISE

Excitement attendant upon the dou-
BILE murder last night in all probapil-
ity frustrated wouldbe yeggmen, who
managed to get into the Peoples Home
and Savings bank on North Eighth
street, but were frightened away by
the unusual number of people abroad
as the result of the double murder on
North ID street
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PERSHING
IS WITHOUT
AER0PLANE

COLUMBUS, N. NJ. July 5.-The
American expeditionary force into
Mexico again Is "aeropIaneless." Re-
ports reached here today that the last
machine under General Pershing's
command went out of commission
while scouting from the southernmost
base yesterday. Cavalry patrols once
more are the only means Of recon-
noitering in the field.
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WIVES OF DEAD OFFICERS
CONSENT TO one SERVICE
AT EAST MAIN CHURCH

Upon the request of Chief of Police H. D. Goodwin
Mrs Lulu M Little Sc South Sixth street. and Mrs Their
esa Stephenson All North Sixteenth street. widows of
the two police officers murdered early today at the Penn
syvana freight station have consented to public funeral
for both men Monday afternoon at o'clock at the East
Main Greet Friends church.. Some time Monday the two
bodies will be taken to the Friends church.
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BUYS GREENHOUSE.

Thomas D. Kenworthy, Of Rich.
mond. has purchased the greenhouse
at Liberty, Indiana from Ed Culley
Mr.. kenworthy will remain in Rich
mond, the greenhouse will be man
aged by Osa F. Coryell.
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Final Edition
CARR UNDISTuRBEO BY DOUBLE DEED
REGRETS HE DID NOT GET D0WOY:
GRAND JURY Will Convene MONDAY

Tossing about res cot cell at the Jail
himself occasionally groang the bullet
from badly battered head Eli Carr 80 residing 36 Fl Wayne remarked
for the had killed police
Little Elmer N that sol Well
getting them getting I'm they died They ddnt
Carr who has been resident Richmond for has been employed
years tuckman the North
Stephenson killed short
midnight today after Carr had attempted murder Dow night
the Title
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is GRANTED DIVORCE

Almeda Adkins received a divorce
from James Adkins in circuit court
this morning. The plaintiff charged
the defendant with cruel and inhuman
treatment
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Weather Forecast

United States report: Fair tonight.
cooler north portion. Sunday fair.
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HOME
EDITION
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-06-01

country, while ninety-one said there
seems to be no such imitation.
only twelve reported the people in
their sections were not co%nstructively
active, while 105 reported activities in
building, improvements and enlarge
ments.
only one man was opposed 10 plac-
ing the tariff in the hands Of a. tariff
commission and three favored such a
move. Eighty-siX reported the real
estate market reflected prosperity and
is becoming active. Twenty-four dis
agreed. Only ten reported that antag-
onism toward the railroads is persist
ent, while l05 said such ~antagonism is
abating. S~ixty-six thought an advance
OF 3 per cent in freight rates could be
paid without serious protest by ship
pers and c%onsignees, and forty-seven
disagreed.
Sixty reported wage carners are
saving and thirty reported increased
wages have led to greater e~xtrava-
gance.
"On the question of preparedness
only twelve reported their commune
ties were opposed to it and ninety-nine
said their communities favored it.
Ninety-six said the European war has
increased the sense of civic RESPONSE
bility and American nationallsm in
their communities and thirteen said
they could notice no such effects.
Twelve believed foreign trade ex-
tension possible wen though the gov
eminent did not afford adequate pro-
lection to American citizens resident
or travelling abroad. Nincty-six
thought protection necessary to extend
trade. Forty-one found sentiment in
their districts favorable to intervention
in Mexico and ffty-eight found senti-
mcnt opposed 10 such Intervention.
The summary of replies from the
when compared with replies
from other sections of the United
show that this section is among
the most prosperous, that nonemploy-
lnent is reduced to the minimum and
peace in Europe will make for a
continuation Of this condition. The
people Of the Northwest. if these big
business men are correct, are TO be
congratulated on their choice of resi-
1ence."
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When You Become a
"COnsciOuS" Reader
of Advertising
Rv J. II. HAMILTON
Former Advertising Manager Of Wanamakers, Philadelphia

When you learn to read your advertising as you read your
news, the cost of everything you wear or use is going to be lowered
for you.
If you knew how much money it takes to soak an idea into
your mind subconsciously you would be ashamed of your mind.
1t actually takes as long as two years sometimes to get you to
think and say a certain word.
It's like teaching a baby to talk.
Every known trick of psychology is brought to bear on you.
Advertisers have even been known to print their advertisement
upside down, hoping, perhaps, that if you had to stand on your
head to read it you might remember what they say.
And what you so often refuse to receive with your will the
camera of your eye records in spite of you. So that 96% of what
you buy you buy through advertising whether you know it or not.
And yet, in the face of all this, the advertising method of
selling things is twenty times cheaper than any other method
known.
Think how much cheaper still it would be if you would only
read your advertising consciously instead of buying through it
in spite of yourself.
The merchant who doesn't advertise hasn't even a chance
with the one who does.
Your eye is taking photographs every time you turn these
pages. You couldn't get away from these advertisements if you
tried. Even the man who claims not to see them at all is record
ing them all the time. Every merchant who appears here is
telling you his story every day whether you know it or not.
All we are trying to do is to make you conscious readers of
advertising instead of subcOnscious readers. This is being done
equally for your benefit and for ours.
Every time you look for the advertising in this paper instead
of making it look for you you bring down your cost of living, you
increase the buying power of your money and you get a better
quality for the price. This is true because the men who advertise
are always the best merchants. They are the ones who last. The
others flicker up for a little while and then 60 out. That's the
proof.
On the other hand, every time we get a hundred more Of
our readers to turn each day with a conscious mind to the adver-
Using news as well as to the general news, we make this a better
medium for our advertisers. We give them more for their money
because we give them your will.
And before we are through every subscriber we have will be
reading his advertising consciously day by day-never fear. For
this is another psychological law.
COpyrshted)
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ITS EFFECT ~HEREABOUTS

or all the sections of the United
States none are more favored thar me
Great Northwest. Political and social
unrest finds little favor and business
stagnation is all but unknown. The
steady growth of this section has given
the Northwest an important position
with respect to business generally. It's
growth and activity is summed up in
an interesting n in the following
from the st. Paul Dispatch:
What's t%heopinion of the bust ess
men of the Northwest on American
business as affected by peace and pre-
paredness? A New York brokerage
concern has obtained a symposium
which it asserts answers the question.
1t includes opinions by such business
leaders as James ]. Hill and BENJAMIN
Sommers of st. Paul. Hovey C. Clarke.
J. w. Daniels, T. B. Walker, Acklev
Hubbard and James C. Young of Min
neapolis, and other well known mer-
chants, manufacturers, bankers and
railway men in the Northwest. The
composite opinion of these men is es-
peclally interesting at this time. when
peace INT preparedness are national
issues.
For the Northwest, including the
States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
the Dakotas. more than one hundred
business men contributed their opin-
OF this number forty-eight said
their business would be affected by
peace in Europe and sixty-two said Eu.
ropean peace would not affect their
business. Nineteen said the consump.
ton of goods they distribute is reduced
by relatively high prices prevailing.
and eighty-one said the consumption is
not reduced by high prices.
only nine reported unemployment
OF labor in their respective districts.
n lOS reported no unemployment of
labor. Seventy-three reported labor
contented with present wages and
forty-three reported labor dissatisfied
with present schedules. Sixteen re-
ported probabilities of labor trouble
and seventy-one reported no probable
ties of strikes.
only i've of the Northwest business
men. reported dissatisfaction with the !
operation of the Federal Reserve law. /,
104 men said they were entirely
satisfied with the operation of this sta
tute. Sixteen felt there Is some inna-
ton OF currency and credit in this
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NATURES

James J.. Hill has paid Natures last
debt and in doing so this country has
lost n Of It's greatest men. The
Northwest has lost the one friend who
spent his life and energies untiringly
for a better country and a greater and
better people. His labors have not
been in vain.
The name Jim" Hill has long been a
household word in the Northwest and
has meant more toward the develop
ment Of this section than the names Of
any ten q Mr.. HIPS constructive
genius and keen business insight made
him Americas greatest railroad bmId-
er and operator and earned for him
the title Of the empire builder" He
was a plain ordinary mar and his rise
in the world was due, doubtless, to mis-
early acquired habit of saving. Often
in his utteranccs he admonishcd the
young men of the country by saying:
THE man that can not save will never
succeed. The seed Of success is not
in him."
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THE CROW'S=NEST

From present indications the usual
conditions in financial and ether cir
clcs will prevail as in former rresiden-
tial campaign years. 1t is hard to keep
a whole people keyed ur to the limit
III several activities. If the campaign
deyelopes into an old time series of
heated discussions of political issues
several interests are sure to suffer in
consequence of the fact. Ordinary bus
mess will pursue the even tenor of it's
way but before the year is over the un-
certainties of what effect a change ul
administration will have upon new en-
terprises may have a tendency to creek
EXPANSION somewhat. Money will be
conservative as it always is in national
campaign years. 1t is likely to be a
hard year upon national sporting
events and on other forms of amuse-
nent. The more exciting the campaign
the less interest will there be in ether
things that occupy attention in the off
years. The primary campaign was a
starter and the party convention pre-
liminaries have already showed tie war
news from the front pages of our
dailies. 1t is well to be prepared for
eventualities.
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SHALL WE MAKE OUR ARMOR?

st. Paul Dispatch:-The Bethlehem
Steel company seems to have learned
the lesson of taking the public into its
confidence and frankly talking over
matters in which both are concerned.
Other big corporations, which, with or
without justification, have fallen INTO
a doubt almost reaching suspicion,
might try with success the plan of a
candid conference with the people
through the columns of the news
papers. If the points they make are I'M
answerable, criticism is stilled and sus-
picion ended; if their ground is UNI
sound, the perceptive public will be at
no loss to discover the weak points.
Upon its face, the proposition of the
Bethlehem concern seems absolutely
fair. 1t offers to produce for the Unit
ed States the best quality of armor at
any price the government itself shall
name as fair. But the question at once
arises: Is there any reason why the
government should not install its own
plants and produce its own armor
plate? Can the government save money
by making its own armor? The Beth
lehem company answers this by repro
ducing the report of June %, 1913, of
the United States Bureau of Ordinance,
part of which reads:
THE success or the failure of a gov
eminent armor plant will depend, in a
great measure, on the character and
ability of the civilian exper. employed.
Unless the government is prepared
to pay large salaries, it cannot expect
to operate a successful plant.
Processes of rmo manufacture re-
quire a high degree of metallurgical
knowledge, which must be paid fol- al
a high rate.
UNLESS competent metallurgists,
open-hearth superintendent, carboniz-
ing superintendent and inspectors of
heats are employed. the quality of
armor produced will necessarily be be-
low the standard of that produced by
private parties by whom high salaries
are paid"
1t seems to be the assumption that
the government, in the nature or
things, will not pay the rates that
specialists and experts demand. AS a
matter Of fact, the public service sell
dom pays as high as private service.
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MEDARY

Fl. O. simon and family were fishing
at Lane Campbell last week.
Fred Hill and daughter Gladys were
visiting relatives in Trenton Sunday.
W. y Atkins purchased some hay of
K. a. Nagel last week.
Carl Nelson was motoring in these
parts Monday.
Mr., Roth was hauling fence posts
through here from Bookings for his
Moody county farm Tuesday.
n. T. Nelson and family were Brook
ings visitors Saturday evening.
Jas. Maher and daughter Julia were
in Trenton Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman R%udebusch dt-
tended church in Trenton Sunday.
Con Ahcrn was a Medary visitor
Monday.
Elmer Sochrist was a Bookings
visitor Friday.
Mrs. r. ;. Carter was a Moody coun-
ty CallCr Friday.
Everyone took his wife or best girl
to the circus last week, and all report
a fine time.
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CHURC NOTES

. Q
THE items in this column are furnished
the Register by the press orrespondent
OF the various churches and societies. All
churches and societies have the same
privileges In the use Of this coiumn.l
st. PauPs Guild will be entertained
at the home Of Mrs. Wallace Purdy,
Thursday, June Sth.
q q q
The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. e.
church will meet Thursday, June Sth
in the church dining room The June
committee will entertain.
q = =
The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Presbyterian church will be held in
ne church dining room Thursday after
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But that does not answer the question
entirely. The government can pay the
price, if necessary; if it should under
take the armor business undoubtedly
it would have to pay the price. The
point goes much deeper than that and
has several angles. 1t may or it may
not be wise for the government to 20
into the manufacturing business. And
it may not be wise for the government
TO be left at the mercy of a private
corporation for armor or any other
war material.
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. . Z
This department is edited by Mrs. Ria L.
ziegler and anyone having social news OF
interest VIII confer a favor on the Register
by 'phoning Mrs. Ziegler. 316.
Dinne-One of the most beautiful
social events of the week was a dinner
party given by Miss Ruth Browning on
Wednesday of last week. Covers were
marked for eighteen at the dining room
table. A large May pole having a
large basket of apple blossoms at the
top adorned the center of the table,
and streamers of pink ribbon were
stretched from the favors dainty bas-
kets holding apple blossoms) to the
basket on top of the May pole; and
on pulling these strings cards were
brought 20 view announcing
Ruth Browning
and
Winfred Ray
June II
The delicious menu was served in four
courses. The colCr scheme Of pink and
white being carried out very success
fully.
T. c. Cuba most enjoyable after
noon was spent by this happy com
pany-the T. c. Club, with Mrs. Dun
bar on Monday afternoon. After a
pleasant season of fancy work a de-
licious two-course luncheon wGs serv-
ed.
8 O O
Complimentary Dinner-Mrs. e. J..
Ray gave a very pretty affair in COM
pliment, to Miss Ruth Browning on
Monday at a six o'clock dinner party.
Covers were laid for ten-dainty violet
cards designating places. Streamers
of lilacs were arranged very effective
ly from the chandelier to the corners
of the table. A large bouquet of pur-
pie and white lilacs adorned the cen
ter of the table. The elaborate repast
was served in four cources-lavendar
and white being the colors used.