The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-22
FACTORIES ACT
AS SANTA CLAUS
TO employees
Richmond Underwear Com
pany Gives More Than
$1,000 to Workers.

Several manufacturing concerns OF
Richmond have or will distribute
Christmas gifts to their employees.
The Richmond Underwear company
distributed more than $4,000 among
its employees Saturday.
The checks were prizes In the sec
ond year Of the Atlas Christmas Club
for those having the best record. in
attendance, punctuality. and interest
in the work
The contest started January 2. and
all employees entering between that
date and January Is became a mem.
Der OF the Atlas Christmas club and
were eligible to the first contest.
$50 Started Contest.
Two hundred and fifty employees
started on the contest and at the fin
ish. Saturday $50 we're still in the run
ming.
Regular Christmas club checks also
were given out. Every person in the
employ Of the company received a
check
Persons employed at the factory
since last year received the amount
of their bonus last year plus $12.s4,
the amount Of this years savings. The
checks are valued at from 81 to
$25.6s.
Saturday afternoon at one thirty
o'clock the annual Christmas party
was held in the dining room. The fol-
lowing program was given:
Assembly.
Orchestra-"Sunset Land"
Violin Solo, Miss Inez Hough ac-
companied by Miss Estella Thomas.
Girls Quartette-Iva Brescher, Es-
Their Sloan. Bernice Detmer, Thelma
Trissel.
Piano solo-Jessie Nook.
Enter Santa Claus.
Distribution of prizes. Christmas
checks, candy and bulletins.
Dancing.
List Of Winners.
Following are the prize winners:
Irwin Moore, $50; Ed Thistlethwaite,
$50: Margaret Shade, $50; Julia
Bratz, $50; Leona Howard, $50; Hazel
Bennett, $50; Beckwith Stephenson,
$25; Verl Newton, SOS: Leonard Ham
ilton. $25; Delphia Buchanan. $25; Ma
RE Combs. SIS: Rosa Hackett, s25;
Emma Tiemeyer, $25; Anna Nichter,
$25; Bertha Olmetzer. s25; Elizabeth
Menke. $25; Elizabeth Gegan. $25;
Burnadena Hoppe, s25; Howard Ball.
$3.50; George Cones. $3.50; Harry
Curtis, $12.50; Curtis Spencer, $3.50;
Alfred Thornton, $3.50: Vint loops.
$3.50; Anna Blansett, $3.50; Lethel
Coulter, $3.50; Florence Schweizer,
$3.50: Nettia Bulla. $3.50; Sarah
Ferguson. $3.50; Catherine Conner,
$3.50: Gertrude Meyers. $3.50;
Mary Epping. $3.50; Mary Heitbrink,
s12.50; Thelma Duvall, $3.50; Eliz.
abeth Case. S1250; Ruby Tingle.
$3.50: Lillian Schultz, $3.50; Rosa
Robson. $3.50; Irene Dingley, $3.50;
Viola Earnest. $3.50; Ruth Wine.
$3.50; Anna Robe, $3.50.
Second contest--Wilbur Dickinson,
$50; Ida Shaffer. $40; Wanda Dubbs,
$50.
Also at A. S. N. Plant.
Santa Claus also visited the Ameri-
can Seeding Machine company, Friday
and distributed $4,000 worth of war
and thrift stamps among the en-
ployes.
Thrift cards containing two dollars
worth Of stamps were given to the
factory employees and a five dollar
war saving stamp to the office en-
VIOyeS anu IOEeIudu Oh the Inherent
departments.
1t has been the custom of the COM
pany for several years to remember
It's employees at this season and this
year It was decided to add patriotism
to good will.
Friday 2S5 unsolicited Red Cross
memberships were taken out by en-
ployes OF the manufacturing concern.
6arteis Remember EN-.
The Adam H. Bartel company re-
membered all of Its employees Wednes-
day with Christmas Savings checks.
One thousand dollars was distribut-
cd among the sixty employees.
The employees were entertained with
a dinner at the Arlington Wednesday
evening when the gifts were present
ed.
At the National Automatic Tool
company Life Insurance policies were
given the employees.
Thrift stamps we're distributed
among the $50 employees OF the
Swnyne-Robinson company.