The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-11-09
SEEK TO FIND
OUT WHO BOUGHT
Gun FOR ROOT
Sheriff and Prosecutor In
vestigate Case at Hagers-
town.

HAGERSTOWN. Ind, Nov. 9.-One
OF the largest checks paid by Clarke
Brothers, elevator men, was that to
Park zimmerman, Thursday. for 1884,
$40 bushels of wheat. Its amount was
s5.94627 Mr. zimmerman, is big
wheat farmer. and his crop went SO
bushels to the acre.
Clarke Brothers have bought 10000
bushels of wheat within the last two
weeks They are the first to make
new corn meal from new white corn
delivered here This corn was in good
condition, and had little moisture.
Sheriff Carr and Prosecutor Strayer
have been looking up testimony re-
gar0ing the purchase of revolver al
leced TO have been carried by Everett
Root N the time he fired at Attorney
II. T. johnson in the latter's Rich
mond office revolver is known by
clerk of leading hardware firm
here to have been purchased by one
Of the parties who accompanied Root
to Johnsor's office. The Richmond
investigators will probably subpoena
this clerk as a witness.
The present council wound up cleo
lion affairs by settling the bills at
special meeting. Wednesday evening.
The condition of the streets was TAX
en- up, and recommendations made for
their imprcv ement. Council also took
10 the question of appointing mar
shall. the town having been without
nolice protection for four weeks. 1t
was resolved to combine that office
with that of street commissioner. E.
A Dixon, former marshal, was APP
pointed TO the dual job.
II developed at this meeting of
council that Elmer Allen, Democrat,
end Fred Murray. Republican, who
were defeated for council at the cleo
tion. ran under the banner Of the
Law and Order league, and that the
canvass made by leaders of the league
on their behalf led to their defeat The
new council. it is stated, will cut clear
of the Law and Order league.
Writing to his parents, Carl Ledbet-
ter, who has been acting as cook in
Co., 180th Infantry at Hattiesburg.
Miss. says the boys have been drill
ing in platoons. learning bomb and
trench work, and the use of rifle
that will shoot three miles. The gun
he adds weighs eight pounds. Luther
Hutchinson. who is in B Co., sends a
like letter. The boys says the days
are hot and the nights very cold.
new Snow engine, the latest type
of Diesel manufacture, is being in
stalled at the Tidewater pumping sta
ton. The foundations, which will be
10 feet long and 10 feet deep, are of
heavy concrete so as to bear the
weight of this engine. The new en-
CINE will increase the pressure for
pumping the oil. A new pump will
also be installed alongside the engine.
Ten head of mich cows, sold by Earl
Dougherty. realized the exceptional
price of S112.50 per head, being pure
bred Jerseys. H. NJ Scott sold ten
pair OF mules to a government in
spector for an average of 1885 head.
Z. Ledbetter sold three pair of mules
ranging in price from $3.50 to $3.50 a
pair.
The Varsity Harmony Trio, enter
tainers and instrumentalists, will ap-
pear here at the first Lyceum course.
Ralph Hughes, cigar dealer and
qool room manager, has sold out his
establishment to Oscar Fox who takes
immediate possession.
Ewell FORMER. who passed some
time ago for the mechanical depart.
ment Of the navy, has passed two other
examination in mechanics and is un.
decided which service to enter He
is % years old.