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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25
TUE ELECTRIC CLEANER YOU
SAW

AT the Fair. YOU can try in yo;.r
cWu home by phonins O. W. Schan-
rer. Bell 2Si. Home 2sl3 Opposite
Fost ONCE on Jer erson BLVD.
Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25

viii rot ne responsible for ans
debts contracted by my wife on AMI
after Sertember 22d 1917.
Adv. GEO w WERNTZ.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25

There Playing Billiards at Bain's.
Finest place in the state. Union
Trust Fldg., Michigan and Jefcr-
son st. adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25

ASSESSED VALUATION: Real estate
improvements personal property $32,15s, zee.
CITY DEBT: Bonded debt. S449, 500
Sinking fund ..... 40,234
Net debt s45s.26s
CITY PROPERTY AND NET ASSETS:
s2,30S,a79.
CLUBS: Chamber of Commerce with ex-
elusive club house and equipment Indiana
Club. Knife and Fork Club Press Club. Prog
ress Club, Rotary Club, Ad-Sell League. Uni
versity Club, and recently formed Country
Club with a most complete house and golf
course now under construction. Also an un-
usual number of other clubs and ORGANIZATIONS
which provide for intellectual needs and social
life.
DEATH RATE: 100 per l 900
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: Eighteen
grade public schools, valued at $1.26O.O)O.O0
A s45O,OOO High school vocational
school Twelve parochial schools School
enumeration Is to q years 1857 Isi5J
School attendance approximately 1900
Free public night schools are conducted IN
four of the ward buildings and IN the Hign
school with attendance Of about ore thou
sand. Night school work is also provided by
the Y. NJ c. A and Y. w. g. A. The Univer-
sity of Notre Dame is located inst north of the
city St Mary's Academy another larEe Cath
Ollie institution, provides for the academic and
collegiate training Of girls In addition 70
these are the following special and technical
schools: Three business colleges. kindergarten
training school, two schools o. music
FACILITIES FOR NEW INDUSTRIES: AT
important inducement to new industries that
may not at once require an individual plant is
furnished by a Manufacturers Plant and
Power CO. Space and power suit can be
had in the buildings of this company at low
rental. Rental includes water heat watch
man and elevator service Many excellent
sites and few buildings procurable Write
South Bend Chamber Of Commerce for list and
photos
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Ten banks
and trust companies with total resources OF
s13,226.6S3.OO.
LABOR: South Bend is what is ciassed in
labor circles open town" There is an
abundance of both skilled and unskilled labor
and plenty more TO draw upon In the smaller
adjacent towns WAGE scales furnished on r.
quest. A large proportion of workingmen own
their homes.
POPULATION: The following comparative
figures most significant as showing that
South Bend has never had a boom but
steady. normal, though rapid growth such A
growth is positive evidence Of the natural ad-
vantages of the city industrial and com
meTcial center.
Population. IT, s Census: 1880 1920:
1890. 21.s1e: 1900. 35.sss; 1910. 53.6s4; G1ocal
Census) 1912 $500, and 1915. $1,000
POWER: The ST. Joseph River is now de
velopiag approximately $4,000 hydro electric
horsepower from four dams in this vicinity
most OF this power being available for South
Bend The obvious advantages OF electric
power. and the low price at which it is fur
nished here. practical inducements no
manufacturer can overlook
Cost CT power and light: Electric os 70
ooSl per k. w. hr Average cost Is to Is h.
D.. $24.00 per n. .. per year
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25

Gas, as cents to 80 cents per NJ cubic fee,
net
PUBLIC SAFETY: Fire Department-Ten
stations; ffty-four men: sixteen pieces OF ap-
paratus; auto equipment included The eft
cieNcy Of the fire department IS shown by the
following figures.
Value of buildings and contents
at risk in the last ten years. s.. OTs. 017.OO
Total FIRE loss last ten years. 33O.72O Sc
Average loss per year for ten
years OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 33.O72.o 90
POLICE DEPARTMENT: Sixty men and
two police women. Police ambulance. auto
patrol and motorcycle squad
RELIGIOUS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS:
Fifty-four churches including all leading de-
nominations; Y. VI. c. A costing with equip
ment about 5000. 10000. and a 800 600 90
Boys Branch Y W. c A costing s75.-
10000 Museums-one in the city and one at
Notre Dame Two hospitals and a county in
Urinary and orphans home
STREETS: Total length of streets, alleys
and avenues in the city limits. 2l3.3 miles.
Total length OF streets alleys and avenues
paved. 749l miles. Complete boulevard
system being developed.
STREET LIGHTS: Total public ugbts
1.O12. including 400 electric magnetic arc and
other incandescents and magnetic Cost,
SIS. 900 per year Many streets are illuminated
With the improved boulevard cluster lights
TELEPHONES. Central Union--5.s17 sta
tons; average call per day. 5000. Long dis
lance calls per day. $50. Direct connection
with New York, Chicago san Francisco and
all intermediate points
Home-6.114 stations. connected with ok ex-
changes. Miles Of wire MAY l. 1870. I1,G5a
and the total average calls per day was so 600.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. South
Bend has eight steam and three electric roads
The steam roads are the Lake shore & Mich
igan Southern New York CENTRALLY. the Grand
Trunk the Michigan Central Ctwo divisions).
the Vandalia pennsylvania SYSTEM the Chi
cagO. Indiana & Southern, and the New
Jersey Indiana q Illinois An eighth road.
the Lake Erie & Western supplies Through
passenger service between South Bend and
Indianapolis, entering the city the tracks
OF the New York Central TWO belt roads en-
circle the city and switching charges are alb
sorbed by the railroads. The electric lines are
the Chicago. south Bend K Northern indiana
the Chicago. Lake shore & South Bend and
the Southern Michigan. These lines provide
service between this city. Chicago and Indirn-
apolis, and important points or the shore Of
Lake Michigan.
FREIGHT RATES tC.L): South Bend &c
following points
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25
Revised I, by souhB Chamber of Commerce
Facts Worth Knowing
About South Bend

SOUTH BEND located eghx miles east Chicago the where
9P Ver Americas
its South Bend and turns nOthwam to the lakes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-25

PASSENGER SERVICE Steam and cleo
trio roads provide about 40 trains daily-7C
in and 20 out
WATER SUPPLY. The City's ater supply
is drawn from about 100 artesian wells PLANT
valuation. SISOo.550.00 Normal pumpiDs
capacity for "a hours % 600. 900 gallons
South Bend drinks and puts out fires WITH
pure cold. sparkling water that Is the sny,
OF less fortunate cities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
ADMITS OLD MURDER.
Convicted Man Escaped Only Because the
Moose Slipped.

Columbia, Miss. March PA death
led confession by Joseph Beard, farm
81, announced by the sheriff's office al
Columbia, cleared of suspicion Villa n
Purvis, who % years ago ESCAPED death
by hanging after conviction fo~ murder
only because the moose about his neck
slipped when the scaffold trap was
sprung. Purvis was found guilty of kill.
ing from ambush William Buckley.
When he fell from the scaffod unframed
after the rope slipped, the spectators,
who thought it an Intervention of provi.
denee, induced the authorities TO put him
back in Jail and an appeal to the gov
ernor brought Communication of SEN
tence. Several years later Purvis was
pardoned. He now lives in Lamar eoun-
ty, Miss. Beard, dying of pneumonia,
confessed a week ago Sunday that he
and two other men killed Buckley. The
sheriff said he knows where to find the
Others, but declined 70 say whether ac-
ton would be started against them
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
COMMITTEES
In THE MAKING
Washington Marks Time
While House Control Is
Still a Puzzle
SITUATION AS REGARDS
GERMAN INTRIGUES
In Central and South Amer
lea May Bring De-
velopments

Washington, March l2.--An unevent'
full day. OF the character that used to
prevail before war times, marked the re-
taxation Saturday from more stirring
events. Committees of the two parties
in the Senate have been busy making
up committee assignments, which are of
very great moment to the new men Of
the upper legislative branch. The edge
OF interest over German war prospects
because of armed neutrality seems TO
have worn off and offieialdom refuses to
get much excited till war actually comes.
Il half the reports about encourage
ment in Mexico to German intrigues
prove true, it is believed the administra-
ton may shortly feel impelled to remon-
strate. But the situation in all Central
America and South America with regard
to those intrigues seems to have bear
ing on pan-American unanimity. These
conditions are certain to have influence
upon general sentiment and may lead
to more strenuous representations on the
part of the United States. The DISPOSE
ton of certain Latin American contin-
gents to emphasize their aversion to
United States influence is recognized.
MANY senators and representatives are
hurryiag away from Washington now
to obtain little respite before Congress
comes into extra session.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get at
the Cause and Remove 1t

Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets. the sub
stitute for calomel, act gently on the
bowels and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
quick relief through DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. The pleasant, sugar.
coated tablets are taken for bad breath
by all who know them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act gen.
tly but firmly on the bowels and liver,
stimulating them to natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifying
the entire system. They do that which
dangerous calomel does without any OF
the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sickening,
gripping cathartics are derived from DIR.
Edwards Olive Tablets without grip
ing, pain or any disagreeable effects.
DIR. F. NJ. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of prac-
tice among patients afflicted with bowel
and liver complaint with the attendant
bad breath.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are pure-
" vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil; you will know them by their
olive color. Take one or two every
night for a week and note the effect
l0c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
General Sporting Notes.

Manager George Stallings thinks pref
ty strongly in favor OF Miami for 4
training camp.
Goose Egg Foster, the little 0klahoma
farmer, has signed his contract at last
and joined the merry crowd at Hot
Springs. Foster assured the boys at the
Springs that he thinks a good deal Of
Frazee. and Frazee likes Foster; so base
balloon can expect lot from the ''shut
out king"
The Braves in practice always throw
low to Konetchy, because it is one OF the
big first baseman's weak points. He will
improve through the training season
with this kind OF work.
Babe Ruth has commenced his smuggling
for the year by rapping out two home
runs in the first practice of the year.
Sherrod Smith of the Brooklyn Ma
tional league champions agreed with the
terms offered by the club management
Friday and is now at Hot Springs.
For the first time in years the Pitts
burg Pirates have gone South without
the services of the greatest shortstop the
world has ever known, the great Honus
Wagner.
Reports come from the southland that
Washington 4 Lee simply idolize AL Per
rotti, the husky highlander who worked
with the Barre ]. A. c. few games last
summer Perrott. is called one of the
best all-round athletes in the South. Be-
sides being q star pitcher, he is track
man, football and basketball player.
George Davis, the twirler, who won a
No hit, no-run game on one of his first
appearances in the box few years ago,
has decided to return to the game for
another season AT least.
Nate Hall won the amateur billiard IL
tle thursday afternoon. when he defeat
ed henry Clarkson of the B. A. A. 1t
was the first time that the Boston play
ers had met and il was the chance of
liiet.me for Clarkson to be hero. lark
son took lead in the early part OF the
game. but in three innings Hall accom-
plished one of the greatest feats ever
performed by an amateur and at that
time took the lead, never being oyertaken
by his opponents.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
FIVE MEN
ARE HELD
Smuggling Is Charged in
Arrests Made in Phil
adelphia
MUNITIONS
MUNITIONS
MAY FIGURE
Wholesale Grocer Is Alleged
to Have Received Merchan-
disc from German Raider

Philadelphia, March l2.--Charged with
committing customs frauds against the
United States" in receiving merchandise
Struggled from the informed German com.
merce raiders prinz Eitel Friedrich and
Kronprinz Wilhelm at the Philadelphia
navy yard, Henry Rohner, president oil
! the Henry Rohner company, wholesale
grocers OF Philadelphia; Adelbert *
Fischer, president OF the Schultz koert-
ing company, machinists, and his wife,
Mrs. Helena Fischer, We're held in $4,000
bail each for trial by United States Com.
missioner Edmunds Saturday.
Floyd Williams, a chauffeur, and Ber-
thold Fichelis, helper, employees OF
Rohner, were held in their own reeogniz.
ance as witnesses. A sergeant of ma.
rines who had been detailed to guard the
gates at the navy yard is said to be un-
der arrest there in connection with the
alleged smuggling, and other arrests are
expected
Federal officials Saturday night would
neither confirm nor deny a report that
munitions had been Struggled into the
yard and placed aboard the two interned
vessels in exchange for certain articles
sent out from the ships.
These articles, according to the afiida-
Wits sworn to by Frank Garbarino, head
of the Philadelphia bureau of inyestiga-
ton of the department OF justice, on
which Commissioner Edmunds issued
warrants for the arrest OF Rohner and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fischer, included 10 chron-
ometers valued at several thousand dol
lars. Government agents would not dis
close whether the articles were sent out
of the yard in a business barter for gro
Gerry supplies from the Rohner concern or
whether Rohner merely provided trans
portation for Fischer to remove certain
articles. The authorities are retieent in
making public at this time all the facts
in the case.
Rohner and Fischer waived hearing
at the June term of federal court and
surety company furnished bond Tor
their appearance. Mrs. Fischer. because
OF illness, could not be brought before
the commissioner, and hearing in her
case was Also waived
Beyond asserting his innocence OF any
wrong doing, Rohner, on advice OF coun.
sci, would make no statement, although
he had announced his intention OF SO do.
ing prior to the hearing, when he was
closeted for more than an hour with |
Commissioners Edmunds, Garbarino and !
other agents of the department of JUS |
tice.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
FOR MORE WOODEN SHIPS.
Federal Shipping Board Issues Call to
Builders.

Washington, d. c., March l2.-Steps
looking to the speedy construction of
wooden ships of from 1900 TO 1900 tons
register in American yards on the Allan
tic and gulf coasts, to aid American in
dustry in meeting the international emer-
gency were taken at Washington Satur-
day by the federal shipping board in the
issuance of call to the chief builders
of such craft for a meeting with the
board at Washington Wednesday. The
boards program calls for the adoption of
one or more standard sizes, the training
of unskilled labor should skilled labor be
requisitioned by the government - a
course thought likely in case of war
and cooperation of lumber interests and
the railroads in furnishing and expedit-
ing materials.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
EIGHT ARE SENTENCED.
German Officers Get Year in Jail and
$500 Fine Each.

Florence, S. G., March l2.-Eight off
GERS of the German steamship Leibenfels
sunk in Charleston harbor the night oil
Jan. 81, Saturday were sentenced to Q
year in the Atlanta penitentiary and tc
pay fine of $500 each. They were con.
victed Friday of sinking vessel in q
navgable stream in violation of the nav.
igation laws.
The defense gave notice of an appeal
Nine officers of the vessel were indicted
but as Capt. Klatenhoif was i'll in
Charleston his case was postponed. Those
convicted are Johann Lubken, first Off
Ger; George Sunkel, third officer; J. f.
Jansen, chief engineer; Heinrich Wat
tenburg, first assistant engineer; Johann
w. Buse, second assistant engineer
Moritz Won Thulen, third assistant engi-
neer; August Neuse fourth assistant en-
gineer, and Wilhelm Schwarting, ma
chinist. All are Germans except Jan
sen, who says he is a Dane.
The government charged that the men
not only opened the Leibenfels' seacocks,
causing her to sink, but that they
wrecked the machinery and opened the
wireless plant, officially sealed by Unit
ed States officers.
Bonds were fixed at $4,000 in each
case, which the defendants were not inn
mediately able to give. While efforts
were being made to arrange for bonds,
the prisoners were kept in the federal
under guard.
The Liebonfels' officers were taken Sat
urday night to Charleston, where they
hope to obtain money for their release
on bond.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12

medals and prizes. In one competition,
for instance, four parties of fifty men
of the Grenadiers and Chasseurs bril-
gade started off at fixed intervals from
a point just outside the Hague They
had first to skate about fifteen miles,
then proceed ON foot for four miles,
and give evidence on arrival at their
destination of complete marching and
fighting fitness. In another case eight
patrol parties of ten men, each led by an
officer, had to cover distance of TWEEN
ty-seven miles, including about a mile
and half on foot. The winning patrol
did the latter trip in three hours six
minutes. The queen has further provid-
ed medals for public competition in every
separate province.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
Take When Bilious, Headachy, for Colds,
Bad Breath, Sour Stom-

Instead of nasty. harsh pills, salts
castor oil or dangerous ealomel. why
don't you keep Cascarcts handy in your
homer Cascarets act on the liver and
thirty feet of bowels so gently YOU don't
realize YOU have taken a eathartic. but
they act thoroughly and can be depended
upon when a good liver and bowel cleans
ing is necessary they move the bile and
poison from the bowels without gripping
and sweeten the stomach. You eat one
or two at night like candy and YOU wake
up feeling fine, the headache, biliousness,
bad breath. coated tongue, sour stomach,
constipation. or bad cold disappears.
Mothers should give cross, sick. feverish
or bilious children whole Cascaret any
time-they are harmless and safe for the
little folks-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
BOSTON HUNGER PROTEST.
Hundreds Tramp Through Streets in ST.
lent Demonstration.

Boston, March l2-Hundreds of men
women and children tramped through
sushy streets in the Back Bay and bust
ness sections of Boston Saturday in a
demonstration termed as hunger pro-
test, carried out by the Greater Boston
Mothers league. There was no music or
vocal demonstration. Some of the pa
raiders carried such signs as: What
does potato look like?" Boycott on
ions, chickens and potatoes" Are you
able to live on investigations ?" "Starve
the war and feed America! I" The parade
dsbanded at Faneuil hall, whore resolu-
lions were adopted calling for municipal
markets and food distributing stations
throughout the state,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
You Cannot Expect.
To Have a Clear
Complexion
BY Constantly Massagiug It With
So-caIled Skin Foods or Creams,
Often Rancid or Germy.
Substitute Cuticura
For One Week

And make Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment your everyday toilet preparations.
They cannot possibly injure the pores.
Contrast the purity, fragrance, comfor
and convenience of these super-creamy
emollients with beauty fads" so COM
mon, tiresome and expensive. A bath
with Cuticura Soap and hot water on
rising and retiring thoroughly cleanses
and stimulates sluggish pores, giving
the complexion a fresh healthy glow.
II signs of pimples, redness or rough
ness be present smear them with the
Ointment and let it remain five minutes
before bathing. Nothing purer, sweeter
or more effective for your skin and hair
than Cuticura no matter how much you
pay for II.
For Free Samples by Return Mail
address postcard: "Cuticura, Dept. q,
Boston" Sold everywhere.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
WON'T SANCTION HANGING.
Spokane Asked to Have Scaffold Built
ON Federal Building Roof.

Washington, D. c., March l2.-Treas,
ury department officials Saturday de-
clined TO permit the custodian Of public
buildings at Spokane to use the roof of
the federal building there as location
for scaffold for the execution of Ed
ward Mayberry, sentenced to die the
Goth by the federal court Capital pun.
ishment being forbidden in Washington,
federal reservation is the only place
where the man could be executed. The
request had been referred to the attorney
general, but Saturday, without waiting to
hear from the department of justice, Act
ing Secretary Newton absolutely de-
clined" to grant the authority requested,
on humanitarian grounds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-12
NEW ENGLAND DEFENSE.
Training Camps to Be Established a
Marblehead and in Maine.

NHAAARS " D% ASolabliSANu az
Marblehead and in Maine.
Boston, March l2-Franklin d. Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the navy, dis
cussed plans for organizing the defenses
of the first naval district, extending from
PASSPORT, Me. TO Chatham, with Com
mandant William II. Rush, his staff and
civilian aids at the Charlestown navy
yard Saturday. Special attention was
given. naval officials said to arrange
ments for summer training camps for
the volunteer patrol boat service and the
enrolment of men in the naval reserve.
II was decided to establish training
camp at Marblehead, an important yacht
ing center, and another in Maine and to
send the United States scout cruiser
Chester along the northern New England
coast to encourage enlistments in the ma
val reserve. Mr.. Roosevelt planned to
leave Saturday night for New York TO
confer with the commandment of the
Brooklyn navy yard before returning to
Washington.