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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29

ed that he had been robbed of 5000
while In the hospital, month ago
One of the sisters. in cleaning the
room after his departure, noticed a
small bit of green paper sticking out
of a radiator. It was part of q bill.
The patient in delirium. had torn up
his money, and stuffed it IN the
radiator.
SULLIVAN-Robber broke into the
dry goods store of Roy Cowles. here,
and stole $1,000 worth of silk shirts,
hose and underwear. The loot was
taken away in trunk.
EVANSVILLE - George NJ. Daus-
min, 70 years old, is dead at his home.
He was president of the Cook brewing
company and had taken an active part
In Evansville affairs.
FORT WAYNE-More than 1000
workers in the S. F. Bowser tank
works here were dismissed and the
plant closed. The men had delivered
an ultimatum demanding a 44-hour
day and heavy increases in wages
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29

with Miss Hood for an indefinite visit.
-. Miss Lora Henly arrived home
Wednesday evening from Greensboro,
N. c., where she has been teaching
school. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Marsh
Of Winchester, Ind, were brought here
Monday to the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus Hill. Mrs. Marsh has been SER
iously ill. but is thought to be slowly
improving. Mr.. and Mrs. Carlson Of
Centerville spent Sunday here with
relatives. i. Mr.. and Mrs. John Cope
land, Mrs. Conner, Mrs. Byba and
Miss Reata Smith,, motored to New
Castle Tuesday afternoon. ;. Mr.. and
Mrs Fricker, Mrs. C. F. Herbst were
in Richmond Monday. Bide-a-Wee
club met Tuesday evening with Mrs.
C. E. Mckee. j. w. Sparks returned
home Tuesday from Franklin county,
where he has been for several weeks.
-. Classes four and five of the M. E.
Sunday school entertained all Of the
Sunday school in the social rooms of
the church last Wednesday evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
Indiana News Brevities

CONNERSVILLE-M Elsie Ray,
81. mother of two children. was per-
haps fatally wounded when hit over
the head three times by an auto crank
in the hands Of Carl Smith. 16 Jeal-
ousy Is said to have been the cause of
the attack.
WABASH-Jack Higgins, 101, Is the
oldest man who ever rode in an air
plane. He was taken up by pilot Hol-
lingsworth Of the Service Aviation
company.
SULLIVAN-Mrs Mary c. Hays,
81, widow OF John T. Hays, and moth
er of Will H. Hays, republican ma
tional chairman, is dead at her home
here. Her death is partially attribut-
ed to the shock of that Of her husband.
ELWOOD-Mrs. Lena Resinger, IS
years old, cashier at the Sellers Kitch-
which her doctors say is the result OF
handling paper money. Her hands
and feet are twice normal size.
MUNCIE- Edward Mccoy, convict
ed murderer, who was captured in
Alexandria, La, after a year and a
half of liberty, was sentenced in cir.
! cult court to life Imprisonment Nc
Coy said he did not believe he had a
fair trial.
FORT WAYNE-A tiny bit of greer
paper has cleared mystery at st
Joseph's hospital. A patient complain
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29

-. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Champ and
son of Richmond spent Sunday here
with relatives. :. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Smith entertained the following
guests Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ellabarger and children of Kokomo;
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Vornauf, Sam
uel La Mar of Hagerstown; Mr.. and
Mrs. Ivan Starbuck and daughter of
Greensboro; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Vor-
nauf and daughter. Mrs. Mary E. Vor-
maui, of Richmond; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Rhoades of Cambridge City. Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Conner entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Money at dinner
Sunday. Miss Una Wonnell spent
Sunday night and Monday at Pershing
with Mrs. NJ. N. Brouse. -. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Tweedy entertained Rev.
and Mrs. Rector at dinner Sunday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
Hawker and Navigator, Saved From Drowning as
Plane Lights IN Ocean, Are Idolized by English

Star on map shows where Harry
Hawker and Mackenzie Grieve were
picked up. Dotted line shows rout.
they tried to follow and black lin
shows route they had flown before
forced to descend. Photo ID of
Hawker.
harry Hawker and his navigator,
Mackenzie Grieve, are being lionized
by all Great Britain on their virtual
return from the dead. The daring
aviators who essayed to fly direct
from st. Johns, N. F., to England with
out stop in an effort to beat the
American seaplanes across, were given
up as lost three days after they left
st. Johns, when no word was heard
from them. Then, week after the
start of their flight, came news that
they had been picked up 500 miles
from their goal by little tramp
steamer, Mary. The men were forced
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
"SPRING FEVER" AND COMMON
SENSE

If man or woman feels heavy, dull,
languid, lazy-lacking in ambition and
of giving up and say
ing he has spring fever it is more
sensible to take good, wholesome
rhysic Biliousness, sick headache,
sour stomach, gas, bloating, coated
tongue, dyspepsia-all are relieved by
Foley Cathartic Tablets. B. B. Haw-
ard, Unadilla. Ca, writes: Il find
Foley Cathartic Tablets give me quick
er relief than anything | ever tried"
For sale by A. G. Luken & Co.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
SCHOOL BOY CARRIES GUN

OXFORD, O.. May 2s-Carl Holsey.
II, a pupil Of the McGuffey school,
was before Mayor Hughes yesterday
charged with carrying concealed
weapons. The youngster had % cali
bre revolver with him at school, and
shot the gun off in the manual train
ing room. He was released after re-
ceiving severe lecture.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29
Army Experiences Are
Discussed By Doctors

Several Richmond physicians are
attending the meeting of the Sixth
District Medical society in Cambridge
City today. The principal address OF
the melting was given by Dr. C. c..
Bitter, of Newcastle, on Post Influen-
zal Nervous Manifestations" and dealt
largely with DR.. Bitler's experience
with the disease in the army, during
the recent epidemic.
In addition to DR.. Bit1er's address,
army experiences while servin COVER
seas were given by other physicians.
Officers of the society are: F. J. Du-
bois, Liberty. president; DR.. G. H.
Smith, Newcastle, secretary; DR.. ].
N. Study. Cambridge City. treasurer,
and DR.. o. ]. Gronsndyke, Newcastle,
councillor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29

to DESCEND when the water filter in
the feed pipe to the radiator became
clogged. Ninety minutes later they
were sighted and rescued. Being
without wireless, the Mary could not
flash the news of the rescue. Nearing
the Butt of Lewis, the crew wigWagged
the news to the coast guards.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-29

Policemen surely do not take the
worlds troubles as seriously as you'd
suppose or there wouldn't be SO many
lat ones.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
CUPID ON THE COAST

Cupid certainly is having exciting time the
Pacific slope. He has projected himself Oregon
politics. and the State Legislature with
the problem of love and legality Here's how:
There lot of old ladies in Roseburg who hang
around the old soldiers and marry them order
to get home at the Oregon soldiers Home" charged
Representative Brand a meeting of the Joint Ways
and Means Committee
That is slam the old ladies' retorted Mrs
Alexander Thompson representative from Hood River
That isn't what they told when down there
They told that the old soldiers hang around the
young chickens and marry them"
As neither representative would recede from their
contentious, the proposed admit wives of old
soldiers to the home when there is had
SO much for Oregon. but listen tale from Ry-
erside California, a little to the south:
Following the repeal of Riversides famous anti
kissing ordinance prohibiting nand from kiss
other publicly Mayor Horace Porter has issued
official proclamation denying his administration was
too puritanical and stating he favored legitimate
making. Reports reached the mayors that March
Field soldiers had dubbed him long hair" and de
cared they had been compelled seek amusement in
other cities So today there lid ovemaking
Riverside but the former pastor has let it be
known that frowning eye would upon persons
who sought 10 take advantage of the privilege and toy
with the affections of Riverside's fair daughters
Young people made to love and be loved" the
stated. 'Lovemaking perfectly natural
and normal phenomenon. should certainly hate to see
any city la which would interfere with legitimate
The and influenza epidemic have left Us TOO meIan-
choly People should seek amusement of any and
all kinds providing il is vicious. I'm in favor of
dancing if it is conducted in the proper manner"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
YOUR wAR-YoU MUST PAY.

The Victory Loan campaign should find the people
of Lake County prepared for that it may made
as short possible It should be an intensive cam
paign for there is longer any of proving to the
men, women and children of Lake County that Uncle
Sam expects them all to do their duty
Four campaigns of bond selling have already taker
place They were all readily oversubscrbed The fifth
the Victory Loan, will be the and should be over
subscribed more than any Of its predecessors
There is only one -commonsense way of looking at
this coming loan It is to pay the expenses of the war
the war which this country waged against desposm or
the most shocking kind 1t your war because Il
was war for your country Your country won your
war and asked to give, but loan your
money to tide the government in paying for it.
Look at it in the other light. Let US suppose our
enemy had the war. What would have been the
fate of the people of this country in that event2
worse fate could not be imagined years and
years Germany would be levying high tribute on Amer
ca; she would have taken her as security her
people, perhaps, for Then you would have had
to give your money to foe Of lending it TO
friend.
The only question for you to decide in your home
is. how much you AFFORD to lend the government to
help it meet its obligations
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
SIBERIAN PRESS cR1r1c1zEs AMERICA

The action of this country in sending troops TO 81.
0era mas according to Vladvostok Dispatch caused
an active campaign OF criticism By the Siberian press
IL is said that the newspapers there contain many trades
and missatemens of facts likely to cause discord be-
tween Inc Russians and the American and their allies
starting with the disappointment experienced be-
cause OF Americas failure intervene mistrust and
outspoKen hostility towards Americans is steadily in
creasng and unfortunately there seems to be no effective
means OF preventing the rapid extension Of the nropa
Sanda which is causing this unfortunate situation
It appears. however. that the facts in the matter
have been for some time under consideration b, the
ota'e department at Washington and instructions have
been issued to our commanding officer in Eastern ST.
IBERIA TO avoid carefully any acts which would tend 70
asgravae the difficulties Of the situation As regards
the japanese phase OF the situation State Department
ofnclals say that the party Japan to which At
least partial responsibility for the situation has heen
ATTRIBUTED IN reports reaching this country has been
superseded by the Peace Party and consequently
friction between Japanese Americans is lessenins
mus making the situation reference TO JapanAsa
influence in Siberia hopeful
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
From Forest Ragon.

a letter TO his father f. E. Ragon.
at Gary, from Private Forest \. Rag
on. who is now in Fifth Division
Casual Camp over in Luxembourg un-
der date of March 81. relates that he
has not received any mail from home
in seven months and on sccount OF
his service records being lost. hss not
received but one months pay in six
months, He is now at the intersection
of four nations over in the old world.
Extracts from his letter follow:
Dear Father.
VIII drop you few lines tonight
10 let you know that this is your
birthday and I have not forgotten it.
but for the life of me l can't remem-
Der just how old YOU are hope
am home bv the thirteenth OF March,
next year, working in the old steel
mills ct Gary. ] am still at the Fifth
Division Casual camp and probably
viii be for some time. ] have no
refular outfit now any more. am
we'll and hope you. mother. wife and
darling baby girl are too. There igI
certainly something wrong that I do
not get any mail from home for the
last seven months and / know you are
writing me. When I arrived at this
camp nearly two months ago 7 wrote
YOU my address and have written
Eve times to the central postoffice
and stl no mail comes to me. am
waiting patiently for news from home
md perhaps ! viii get some sometime.
wrote brother Chandos the does not
know that his brother has arrived in |
the states) again last night-one let |
ter 10 the Fifth and one TO the Sixth /
Marines To certainly is in one OF /
these outfits as they are the only TWO |
marine outfits In the service. J drew |
one months casual paw last week. the /
first I have had in six months I I
would have drawn all my back pay
L nv service record had been here. but
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
From Jimmie Loviu.

Lear -hOinti+
Wei. mother. we left camp Robinson,
Wis. before I could let you know any =
thing about il and we were not allowed
70 write or send anything on the train.
on Dec. .. 1919 NE entrained a Camp
Robinson. Wis. for Hoboken. n J.. ar
rived there Dee -. 1917
Boarded transport Covington for
France Dec. 10. 1917. Disembarked
from transport and entrained for Camp
Voldehon. France. Dec. 81. 1917. Ar
rived al Voldeh hon Jan. s. 1918 Had
our training there until March II Left
there at midnight Of 18th FOR the front
Marched 81 kiIometers to Besoneors and
entrained for Lemmy. Arrived there
March 10. Marched from there to Rupt.
Arrived a. Rupt on March q and put
guns into positions at 1870 p. m. Fired
on the enemys lines March 25 Left
Rupt May IA and Went into big drive st
Chateau Thierry June 3 and helped
check German drive on Paris. Left
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
sENTnzxrrs or THE A Z. r.

] UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION"
When Percy fillmore WibbIe learned
that he must work or night
| II made the boy so nervous that he laid
awake all night.
But his maiden Aunt Patricia quickly
banished every fear
/ sfhen she suggested that he Join and
I do his soldering over here.
! Now his neighbor. Mickey Fadden, who
lived across the street.
Didn't give damn for Boches nor for
Flanders snow and sleet.
IF my Uncle Samuel needs me for that
job across the sea,
Hob-nailed hell and Corned Willie
don't look so bad to me"
So Mickey saw the trenches and that
gas-infested hell:
lie took his Job and did il. and by God
he did ii we'll:
While the only hikes that Percys shin
ing russets ever,made.
Were when they needed more material
for the Labor Day parade.
When Die wacht am Rhein" was I'm
ished and the Hun was down and
out,
1t was then. oh kindly reader. that our
Perc began to pout.
This lilly-handed warrior who never
heard gas-alarm
Was jealous Of the chevrons that adorn-
ed Mick Fadden's arm.
And when dear Aunt Patricia saw the
lad was growing i'll.
She said it wasn't fair at all, wen have
congress pass a bill:
Wen put the ban on service chsvrons
regardless Of the fact
That two million men have won them
where the 6. l. Cans were stacked.
Then the senator whose son had also
done his bit al home
In the quartermasters orfics. just be-
meath old Freedoms dome.
Commenced to preach "discrimination"
with a senatorial wall
That made the pictures of the warriors
In that sacred place turn pale.
SO Mickey ripped away the chevrens
that adorned his old o. D.
he threw away the helmet he had worn
acsoss the sea.
He gave them back the rife that he
loved with all HIS hesrt.
As part OF the price a doughboy pays
who has gone and done HE part.
lis divisional insignia also. came be-
meath the ban.
They made him take off everything that
showed he'd been a man;
md he wonderen, as his thoughts went
back TO the Argonne trail
T this the nation that shouted 80
when the Huns began to fail.
Unfair discrimination" to the ones who
had to stay,
'ut what about the lads who marched
UP and sailed away7
VERY bird in the A. E F. knows that
those who stayed behind
'ould have used the self-sarne pull 10
get up where the Berthas 1hined.
by a Soldier of the Nine
tieth Division A T. F.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
THIS MAY BE A LOCUST YEAR

II is being predicted that the "seventeen-yeAr" 10
Gusts Wli appear perhaps in large numbers dur
ing the spring and early summer of the present year
throughout large portions United States +
said OF this socalled locust that il is not locust At all
out Is one OF the members Of the grasshopper family
Moreover appears that it has thrteenvear neiod s
well as a seventeen-year period
The fact that this troublesome insec, suddanl,- an
pears IN vast numbers at intervals thirteen or
teen years Is regarded by many very mysterious and
has long caused supersttions among uncivlized
however when is understood that it REQUIRES froo tb
teen 10 seventeen for these to deveIoo be-
meath the ground their sudden appearance at the end Of
such priods is cleared of much of its mystery
The year 1868 the greatest locust year in the his
tory OF this country In that year brood known as
nineteen. which Is the largest of the thirteep.vear
PROOFS appeared together with brood thus causing
an unprecedented locust pest While it is not expected
that there will be any repetition OF such conditions
ing the present it suggested by those who have
made study OF the that the danger OF destrnc
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
Letters from Soldiers
Written to the Home Folks From This Side and tbe
Other Side of the Water

e has not arrived yet from the central
records Office where II went when left
Company slst Infantry for the hospit-
al 1T is very interesting Dad to tell
you that where | am now in the small
country of Luxembourg 1 am at the
intersection OF three foreign countries
~ the old world--Lu&emburg. Belgium
and France am about ten miles
from the border OF Belgium and four
miles from -Alsaace- Lorraine ] have
also been in Switzerland. making to-
tsl Of four countries ! have been in.
and oh, III have lots OF experiences TO
relate 10 you when I get back. if that
time ever comes Dad. are YOU still
with the Tines How I would like
70 see copy once more Write all
the news YOU know to me and keep on
taking chance in getting mail to me
and may be I VIII get it some time.
We are having pretty fair weather up
here the last f. wdays. warm like the
springtime
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
y y - y v y -
GOODBYE TACKl

'nere was only some way OF begging Jack Frost
10 KISS US all good bye how nice it would be Jacks
nice Fellow along about the time the pumpkins arc
ripe Dut 10 finger in unmannerly fashion IN Miss
springs lap is not only uncourteous but it is rude
Inc other day Jack around very boiserous and the
~s niue buds shvered in their trundle beds We who
"atch the birth OF all these tender little things must
say these parlous times
Last night the sun went down about seven and he
IS Just over the equator where he is fumbling around
10 resurrect few flowers and trying get some straw
berries 20 peep out We for him and yet if we were
sun We wouldn't let Jack Frost come around who're
We shine Just think of the responsibility he carries
about with him There the spring lamb and meas
me enerry pie and the gentle asparagus in the ho
low OF his hand and yet he around with his old
trosts knocking them all just they were nothing
more than Missouri dawgs and ne no more respons
Utility than legislator hope he will behave better
from on
The gentle rains that make the robin hover around
10 yank fat worms the ground We are also for
bat Jack Frost we just hate YOU
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
NO SALOON, NO SALVATION NELL

The demure Salvation Nell with her cllnking tam.
BOURNE who has invaded saloons thoroughares and pub
lie places In search aims for years will soon be no
more This decision reached recently at an execI-
tive meeting of the Salvation Army officers The Army
decided to also abandon the free-will' Offering
boxes installed in public places
OF course there is for it, Wise in its own
generation the Salvation army knew full well that with
the passing of the saloon all the to which fl
used to contribute viii seek elsewhere now The
saloon favorite visiting place Salvation Nell
and IT was very seldom that the patrons turned her
down. Charity viii miss the saloonman in many ways
To supplant the passing of the picturesque Saliva
ton Army lassie and her tambourine it been
cided 70 hold annual drives" which money needed
for the year will be raised. The these drives"
will take place in May, when a $10O00000 campaign will
be conducted throughout the country.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-05
From Alfred Ehlers.

! Mrs. Verta Sheffield Ehlers. of Ham
rnond. has received the following from
! her husband Corp. Alfred EhIers. 18Th
infantry. 1st division, now in Army OF
! Occupation stationed a. Bannbenshed
Germany.
ARGONNE WOOD.
Toll me. my man. with the armless sleeve
And the limp in your step as you walk
a tale Of the bolt that srnote the Hun
When his aircastles powdered to chalk.
I've read the stories, and heard recount
OF the deeds that were done in France
But want a frst-hand tale from you.
That breathes Of battle romance.
Wen. comrade. I'm ripe with the stun
you crave.
I've been where the best men fell.
And III spin you tale of the old Six
teenth
And its part IN the Argoune Hell.
a tale Of conflict unparalleled
In the shadows of Argonne Wood.
Where the Prussian cur in his recessed
hills.
sneering and arrogant stood.
The Sixteenth was hurt1ed into the line
On the wings of the night and the rain:
Just few short minutes till zero hour
Before them an unknown plain:
And the fog closed in. and the smoke
screen hid
The face OF friend or foe.
But the hour had come and the word was
passed
The watch-word then was 60"
And 80 we did. in the pitch black morn.
Rocked by the thunderous fire.
Thru the shrapneI's hail and the gas
that choked.
Over, and thru the wire.
Then the gray day broke and we found
ourselve
Where we had no right to be
We had passed thru the nests Of ma /
chine guns there.
In the dark We could not see. !
50 they scared our stern and we turned
and snarled
As dog in a fight will snarI.-
You've seen q cur with his fangs exposed
In the heat Of a canine quarrel
Ne charged the fiends. and We rushed
their posts
While they called on their Colt for aid.
3ut we barred their CUTS with the bsyonet
And the use OF our hand grenade
anne blasting breath of flaming death
From Hill two-seven-tvvo.
rom their pits the rats hurled forth
their lead ~
III say those Huns shot true:
sut the stuff in our veins turned to moi
son fire.
We siavered in cold. grim hate.
he lust Of the kill was in every eye:
we charged where they lay in wait
Forward and on, az true and sure