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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-16
the High wood under rib of earth
windwall-crowned beyond Poizieres

windwall-crowned beyond Poizieres
have been stepped with blood of men
and mixed with flesh of men fallen
there under the longest and heaviest
orgy Of shell fire in the history of
the war, as experts agree.
German wrestled with Briton not
for piece of farm land, but for the
military and human mastery Today
the British advance was largely down
hill They put behind them the high
ground where the slopes give them
shelter for their guns and whose crest
gives them observation for their ar
tillery fire.
No Offensive Expected
Evidently the Germans did not ex-
pect the attack, considering that the
British offensive was overwhelming.
Never before was there such a bat
tie on any front than was on at this
point. The British made their adj
vances on July l., and they have con-
tinued their offensive with phlegm-
attic and logged persistence. The
Germans have kept bringing up guns
until they have thousand in this
short sector, and yesterday CORE
spondent, moving over the region of
devastated villages and shell torn
earth, saw how enormously they had
increased their artillery. Sun tanned
and weatherbeaten are the gunners
after their ten weeks work. There
seemed lines and parks and clusters
of houses. Rows of batteries were fir
ing with something like regularity and
mechanical workmanship of the need
les of loom weaving cloth
Batteries Side by Side.
Alongside each other were British
and French batteries. The gunners
of neither ally could speak the langu-
age Of the other, yet both were go
ing on with their parts, according to
chartered instructions.
At midnight, last night, the CORE
spondent saw the gunners' figures
Illuminated by the flashes. Except for
the guns which know no rest, the
army for the most part seemed silent
and asleep.
1--WE keep on learning; we of the
new army" said one Of the young Of
ficers. land with every show, we do a
little better. Battle is great teacher
The guns never stopped their ear
wrecking noises from daylight to
darkness and from darkness to dawn !;
only when dawn came, where here
and there some key of that strident
piano had been striking chord, all
the keys began to bang at once.
Stage HelIish Sideshow.
But before the general attack be.
gan there had been a hellish little pre-
liminary sideshow near Thiepval. The
Germans had constructed deep dug
outs and galleries.
Before daylight the British got in
the under cover of the fire and bombed
their way. They bombed their way
through galleries, which soon became
catacombs and made themselves mas
tiers of the position after hours of ugly
work. Then also before sun up and
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Eileen and Elnora Irene Rowe. $40 So.
9Th. n gallon ice cream.
Colored Twins (girls)-Margaret
and Isabel Davis. Greenwood Ave.
Jewelry.
Colored Children-(D Frazee Jer
ONE Owens, 1914 South street, $500;
(2) Marguerite Stevenson, 1921 North
J street. $500; t3) Rosie May Floyd.
61S South 10th, Dry Cleaning.
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WATER At FACTORY
CAUSES EPIDEMIC

ELGIN, ILL.,, Sept. 16.-The water
supply of the Elgin Watch factory,
which employs several thousand per.
sons has been found to be the source
Of typhoid epidemic which has puz
zled city officials all summer.
Eleven deaths and ITS cases have
been reported to the health board in
the last two months, and 1t is feared
the epidemic will become general
Health authorities today took steps to
check the spread of the disease.
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CHARLES EDWARD
[continued From Page One. I

Continued From Page One.
ID Charles Friedrich Bartel, $50 So.
Tenth, So certificate for baby cloth
ing; (2) Richard Turner, lilo No. J,
milk for thirty days; (3) George Bar
rett Foster, ILL So Ninth, shoes; a.
Robert Franklin Williams, 72O North
Tenth, 81 cleaning.
Third Class-12 to IA months-1)
Linus Earl Refs, 211 South Fourteenth,
rocker; GU Frederick William Thay-
er, 226 South Twelfth, leather goods !;
(3) Charles Frederick Wender, 22O
South Fifteenth, dress.
Fourth Class-Fifteen to eighteen
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HEALTH COMMITTEE
FINISHES ITS BILL

Health committee of the CONNER
cial club will turn the Full Time
County Health Officer bill over to the
legislative committee at a meeting,
Sept. 20.
This bill was compiled by John A.
Lapp, state legislative librarian. es-
pecially for the Richmond commercial
club. A draft Of the bill has been dis
tributed among the various CONNER
cial clubs of the state and all these
will cooperate to get it passed at the
session of the legislature this winter.
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lana for fall use. We have found out
there is no necessity for fearing an
increase in the price of sugar because
the refineries have not altered prices
and probably will not.
by getting at the food supply bases,
and by keeping in close touch with pro.
duce markets. we expect to cut out
high prices and to get the additional
advantage of buying at wholesale
prices. Railroad men have been doing
this on small scale for several years. -
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MEET At MORNING SUN.

OXFORD. O.. Sept. 16.-The annual
meeting of the First Ohio Presbyterian
U. p. church, closed at Morning Sun
last night with the election of these
officers: Moderator. Rev. G. w. b.
ward, Hamilton; vice-moderator, Rev
S. G. McChesney, Loveland; clerk,
Rev. Ralph A. Jameson, Morning
Sun.
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Palmer RELATES
TContinued From Pace One.1

which they took early in the morning
and are established in Martinpuich
and Courcellette.
.-. Work Brings Results
The slow plodding work of recent
weeks which included the taking of
Ginchy and Guillemont had for it's OBJ
ject the control of all the high ground
from the region Of Thiepval to the
junction with the French on the right.
The Germans fought hard for every
foot of it. Delville, or Devil wood and
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TROOPS ENTER FLORINA

LONDON, Sept. ia Salonika
dispatch to the Central News states
that French and Russian troops en-
tered Florina last night.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Team Captains All
Set for Campaign
For HOuse.of Hone

Considerable interest was mani
tested yesterday afternoon at meet
ing of the House of Hope building
fund campaign committee at Hotel
Fontenelle. Team captains are get
ting their crews lined up for the big
drive beginning Wednesday, Novem-
Der q, and lasting six week days.
Dr. Paul Ellis was released from
T. F. Strouds team, that he might or,
ganize a team of his own. c. Z.
(Hatty) Black, likewise announced he
would have strong team. w. B.
Cheek reported that he and associ-
ates would take care of the Union
stock yards in good manner. Robert
S. Trimble and N. H. Nelson are
ready to attack the Grain Exchange
building. A team is being organized
at iBurgess-Nash stores.
The campaign committee will meet
again at luncheon at the Fontenelle
next Tuesday noon at l2:15. Those
interested in the work are invited to
meet at that time and place. Next
Wednesday evening captains and
members of their teams will dine at
$50 at the Fontenelle for a rally
before beginning the real work of
raising building fund of $4,000. Ex-
PLANTATION is made that no part of the
building fund to be raised will be
expended for expenses of the cam
paign, as cost of luncheons, printing
and clerical help has been given BY
friends Of the House of Hope.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
EMPLOYMENT LAW
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Judge Holds it Impairs Right of
Contract and Smacks of
Glass Legislation.
MAGNEY Is SATISFIED

The law passed by the last legis
lature regulating private employment,
1agencies in the state was held uncon.
stitutional by Judge Sears OF the dis.
trict court, who handed down a de-
cision releasing three employment
agency managers in Omaha charged
with breaking the law
The following men, who were at
liberty under bonds, were released by
Judge Sears:
+. L. Spence, manager of the Co.
Operative Reference company.
Harry A. Knapp, manager OF the
Western Reference and Bond associa-
ton.
Fay NJ -. Watts. manager OF the
Watts Reference company
The feature of the law held uncon-
stitutiqnal by the Omaha Judge was
that it barred the registration fee in
advance, paid by laborers and others
seeking work through the employ
ment agencies.
Judge Sears ruled that the act in
question is broader than its title and
that it interferes with the right of con-
tract.
Other Objections.
Some of the other reasons given
by Judge Sears for his ruling were
That the law has a tendency to
create new executive officer in the
person of the deputy state labor COM
missioner.
That it assumes to control en-
ployers not in the employment agency
business.
That it gives judicial and legisla-
tive powers to the deputy labor COM
missioner.
That it grants the right to search
private records.
That it is class legislation, in that
all employments are not affected
alike.
Judge Sears advocated the passing
of labor agency law which could
be interpreted as being constitutional.
Averring that in all probability such
law would be passed by the next
legislature, County Attorney Magney
said that no appeal in the present case
would be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
NEW HOTEL ON
SCHLITZ CORNER
Harry Wolf Completes Plans to
Build Twelve Story Struc-
ture in the Spring.
HARLEY CoNANT IS LESSEE

A twelve-story hotel building is
soon to be erected on the Schlitz hotel
corner, northwest corner of Sixteenth,
and Harvey streets.
Harry A. Wolf, who obtained a
ninety-nine year lease on this corner
over year ago, has now completed
arrangements to build. Harley Con-
ant is to take the lease OIL the hotel
when it is completed, and is to run
it.
The first floor is to be used BY the
present tenants OF the old building
all having signed up new leases for
space in the new and larger building
for their stores.
The present occupants of the old
buildings are the Owl Drug company
one OF the Sherman Nc Connell drue
stores, the Schlitz hotel, the Partisan
Cloak company and the Shoe Market
The present leases expire April /
1917. 1t is intended to begin tearing
down the present buildings at that
time so that all may be in shape to
begin building by May !. John Nc
Donald is the architect.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19

avenue and other streets were con-
sidered.
The automobile dealers and the
automobile business have absolutely
made West Farnam street. said
Clarke Powell. Anybody knows what
it was before the automobile busl-
ness opened here. Now that the
dealers have made all important street
of it the landlords are holding them
to exorbitant rents"
President Powell was authorized to
appoint committee to investigate
the matter OF a proposed new loca
ton for the auto mart. He appointed
William killy. Herbert Pelton and
Felix McShane. They are to report
in about two weeks at a meeting to
be held at that time.
Harvey street was, OF course, seri-
ously considered at first as the logical
place to go, but later it was said to be
a question whether room enough
could be found there.
The dealers spoke some of building
their own buildings in the future,
wherever they decide to locate the
new mart. instead Of renting and per-
hitting rents to go up again Just as
soon as their presence and activity
in the neighborhood begins to create
a value in the locality.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Cambridge Claims
Southwest Title

Cambridge, Neb., Nov. 18.-(Spe.
cial telegram cambridge High
yesterday won from Harvard, IA to 7,
in the best game seen here this sea
son. Cambridge had the better Of it
from the start, the only time that its
goal was threatened being when Har-
ward scored. Including this game,
Harvard has scored 348 points to IA
by its opponents, winning from Clay
Center, Edgar, Aurora, Minden, SUI
perior and Hastings. >
Cambridge has won from Oxford,
Minden, Beaver City, Curtis Aggies,
McCook and Harvard. This gives
Cambridge the South Platte cham
pionship beyond doubt and also a
right for consideration in the state
championship.
Carroll.of Cambridge had his nose
broken. The Harvard team was ac-
companied by 100 rooters, including
their band and business men, who
wagercd considerable money on the
outcome OF the contest.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Borglum Art Now Shown in ON aha
With Other Treasures of Galleries

For the first time in Omaha, works
OF art created by Gutzon and Scion
Borglum, former Omahans, are being
shown, in connection with the Fine
Arts society exhibition of contem-
porary art at the Hotel Fontcnellc.
Thirteen or fourteen bronze, marble,
stone and wood pieces OF sculpture
by Scion Borglum are on exhibit, in
GLIDING a reproduction OF the celc-
brated Gallant Buckley O'Neill OF the
Rough Riders" a heroic statue, cast
in copper bronze, now placed at Pres
colt, Ariz. Blizzard" Washing
ton, 1888" Waters" Gods Com
mand to Retreat" "Prospector," "On
the Trail" "Bucking Bronco" Paul"
Ben Franklin" and "Monico" are
others.
By birth, training and sentiment,
Scion Borglum is a son of the west.
Having been cowboy himself, he
know him, and knows, too, the cow
boys companion, friend and slave,
the horse.
Mr.. Borglum did not give up ranch
me until twenty-five years of age,
when he left the frontier for the Gin
cinnati Art school. While there, he
spent all OF his spare time in the
study of the anatomy OF the horse.
Then came Paris-whcre honors
were bestowed upon him so long as
he remained. His Little Horse in
the Wind excited pronounced at
tention at the Salon the first year in
Paris. "lassoing Wild Horses"
Stampede Of Wild Horses" and the
Lame Horse all were received with
favorable comment.
Mr.. Borglum has given the horse
and the Indian the greatest attention
and is one OF the greatest sculptors
Of the red man in the United States.
In Mr., Borglum is united the i'm
aginative and realistic motive. His
irt is akin to great art, fresh in the
Inspiration, large in feeling, poignant
n repose or vigorous without exag-
'ration; moreover, it is unmistakably
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Cooperative Stores
Favored by Unions

Everything from politics to the high
cost of living was discussed at the
regular meeting of the Central Labor
union last evening.
The soaring prices Of food was the
chief subject of attack A committee
appointed some time ago to look into
cooperative stores declared favorably
on the matter and recommended that
a number of such enterprises would
be the real solution Of the high cost
Of living.
The Central Labor union went on
record as opposed to the city council
passing the light ordinance as now
proposed. After a great deal of dis
cussion over the proposal to have City
Attorney Rine appear before the
union and explain the merits OF the
light ordinance, the matter was finally
voted down.
G. c. Porter, who was socialist can
didate for congress, talked at some
length on the advisability of Omaha
owning its own electric light plant.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Creighton Literary Society
Holds Debate on Prohibition

A debate took place among the
members of the Creighton Literary
society over Prohibition" yesterday
The question, Resolved, That the
high license method is preferable to
prohibition for solving the liquor
question: was defended by Messrs
Beiterman and Robert Burns against
Messrs. B. Carey and E. Slattery,
who upheld the negative.
The arguments of the former that
the high license method has been in
the past more effective and is more
in line with the idea of human lib
erty had the effect Of obtaining an
unanimous vote from the members.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
ANGRY AUTO MEN
REVOLT AT RENT
Prices High and Nabobs of the
Devil Wagons Will Move to
Other Section.
TO BUILD A NEW AUTO ROW

Landlords who own auto row on
West Farnam street may be left
high and dry without tenants most
any day now. They have been rails
ing rents too high, the automobile
dealers say.
So the dealers are looking around
for a new street to which they may
move the auto mart bodily some day
when the signs are just right
The Omaha Automobile Dealers
association held a special meeting
Friday noon and considered this mat
ter. Many of the dealers expressed
themselves freely and frankly on the
matter of exorbitant rents along auto
row on Farnam street and favored a
bodily treking to better fields. How
ard street, Harvey street, ST. Mary's
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
D. W. Van Colt, Pioneer
JeWeIer, Died Eridav

David William Van Colt, aged
about Is years, died at noon Friday
at the residence, 6l2 South Twenty
seventh street, of paralysis aftetr sew
eral months of i'll health.
Mr.. Van Colt is survived by his
widow, Louise, and one son Wilbur
E., connected with the Orr Motor
Sales company. He was prominent
retail jeweler here before retiring
several years ago. When the Elks
established lodge MOI SO in Omaha,
Mr.. Van Colt became one of the first
members, and held at the time of his
death an honorary life membership.
He also was active in Masonic work
here during his business career.
The funeral will be held from the
residence Sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock with interment at West Lawn
cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
HECKLERS ANNOY
Ar AS HOWELL TALKS
Get Water Works Manager to
Admit Rates in New Light
Contract Are Fair.
WON'T PROMISE 8 CENTS

Considerable opposition was voice.
when R. B. Howell, general mana
ger OF the municipal water plant
Friday evening addressed the i'm
provement club section of the Cen
trail Park Social and Civic league If
the auditorium OF Central ParI
school. Mr. Howell is campaigning
against the fve-yesr electric street
lighting contract which will be sub
mittcd to a referendum vote on De,
cember 5. He wants this contract
passed by the city council, rejected
so he may go before the legisla-
ture this winter with the backing Of
popular vote as an argument
in favor Of his competing electric
light plant in connection with the
waite. plant.
Admits Rates Fair.
J. r. Healy questioned Mr.. Howell,
who finally admitted that the rates
in the contract were fair and even
lower than those charged in Cleve-
land, that Ohio city being Mr.. How
ellis favorite reference.
IF you should succeed in estab-
fishing competing plant here, would
you guarantee the city Scent ratc?'
asked Mr.. IIealy.
NO" replied Mr.. Howell. but
would give as low as any city i'll
similar circumstances.
ITO sustain the hve-year contract
would delay municipal ownership and
would prevent installation Of a COM
peting plant at Florence" stated Mr..
Howell.
Both Of those statements are in
correct" retorted Z. w. Sinnett,
prominent Improvement club official.
There is nothing in the contract to
prevent Mr.. Howell going to the leg
stature and getting all the legislation
he wants." added Mr.. Sinnett.
1t was the evinced sense of the
meeting that to renouncc the con-
tract and to accept Mr.. Howell's prop
osition, would be like dropping the
substance for the shadow. Members
of the club on a former occasion went
on record as favoring the contract,
committee having gone over it care
fully to make sure the city's rights
had been protected,
Hecklers Keep Busy.
Mr.. Howell was visibly perturbed
wher members of the club fired ques-
ton after question at him. ;.
"Of course" said one OF the heck
lers after the meeting. I'VE were
pleased to hear Mr.. Howell's side Of
the case, as we like to hear both sides
Of every question, but the more he
talked the more he convinced us that
he should look after the water plant
and leave electric light matters to
those who understand such affairs. As
Tor this hve-year contract, we are sat
shed it is for the best interests of the
city at this time, and during the oper-
alton OF the contract we can leisurely
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of taking oyer
the present electric light and power
plant
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Mrs. McGee Discloses
Some High Lights
Of Married Life

Some high lights in the married life
of Mrs. Cayton- Casey-McGee are
being thrown on the screen in Judge
Lesle's court.
Mrs McGec seeks a divorce from
her latest spouse, Hugh MCGEE,
whom she declares amounts to less
than zero as a hubby. Mrs. MCGEE
is 81 years old, but, as she testified
on the witness stand, "she is afraid
Of no man."
According to the testimony in the
case of MCGEE against MCGEE, the
plaintiff first took a chance in the
bonds of matrimony when she was
Is years old. 1t was a poor invest
ment, averred Mrs. Niece.
Her second husbands name was
Casey. And "shure" Casey figures
in the present suit. The court re-
porter has "Old Casey"-as he was
referred to in the testimony-down
in his stenographic notes many times.
In her suit for divorce against Nc
Gee, Mrs. Cayton-C asey-McGee
charges divers and sundry things.
Cruelty is one OF the mildest She
testified that MCGEE on one occasion
picked her up by the ankles and stood
her on her head in a closet. Mayhem
is another allegation.
Mrs. Niece, upon cross-examina-
ton on the part of Hugh's attorney,
admitted that she chased her hus-
band from the house with butcher
knife. She declared that Hugh was
not exactly what one would call a
teetotaler and averred that she took
a nip herself once in while "for
her stomach's sake" .... .
Did you ever see your husband
stagger" Mr.. McGee's attorney inter
rogated. "Oh Lord; hundreds and
hundreds OF times was the answer.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
COMMITS SUICIDE
AFTER PETTY 'SPAT'
Young Swift Employe, Chided
by Wife, Sends Bullet
Into Heart.
HIS HOME IN MISSOURI

George La Work. %, member OF
Masonic lodge No. ~, Elwood, Mo-,
shot himself through the heart last
evening at 7:H o'clock on the rear
porch of his fiat at 473i South Twen-
ty-fourth street, South Side. A petty
quarrel with his wife is said to have
been the cause.
The body was first discovered by his
wife, who had been in one of the inner
rooms. The young couple lived in two
rooms on the third floor, let by w. H.
Van Vie. They have lived there three
weeks, coming from Elwood, Mo-,
their former home, April g.
Trivial circumstances led up to the
shooting. La Work, according to his
wife, came home in happy mood
shortly before O'Clock. The two
had their evening meal fifteen min
utes later and joked on various mat
tiers.
Chided Husband.
Mrs. La Work said she chided her
husband for smoking, swearing and
drinking, and entreated him in seri-
Gus tones to Danish the habits. A
quarrel followed in which La Work
asked where his gun was. His wife
told him and he went out on the
porch. She followed to look for him,
but came back, after searching three
stories of rear porches and the yard.
AS sherc-entered her room she heard
shot and ran back to the porch
where she found her husband dying.
Captain of Police John Briggs con-
Quoted the investigation, assisted by
Officer Joe Baughman. LaWork was
an oiler in the engine room at the
Swift and Company plant. He was a
Mason and an Odd Fellow OF Forest
City, Mo. His mother, Mrs. w. R.
Williams, lives at Tyrone, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. West of Forest
City. Mo-, parents ok>the widow, were
notified last evening
Didn't Expect Deed.
The little woman was stricken with
grief, and for half hour was uncon-
trollable. She said she had least ex-
pected the shooting when it happened.
She is 23 years of age. The two had
been married year ago Ibis month.
There are no children.
Deputy Coroner Bernard Larkin
took charge of the body. The police
held no witnesses, but secured names
of several who saw the body immedi-
ately after. A coroncr's inquest will
be held. the date to be announced
later.
Neighbors testified that La Work
was an upright, wcll-meaning young
man and hard worker. His record
at the Swift plant is an excellent one
and the few acquaintance he had
made while here spoke highly of him.