The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-21
Short News Of City
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Grace Methodist church will enter
tain members Of the odd Fellows lodge |
at the services Sunday morning. The |
sermon will be delivered by the Rev.
A. H. Backus, pastor of the church.
sAcKUS TO Ia GRANGE
The Rev A. H. Backus, pastor of the |
Grace Methodist church, left early |
Wednesday morning for La Grange, !
Ind, where he will marry George Olds
and Ethel Hissong, two former mem
bers of his church. He will return
late Thursday afternoon or Friday.
BETHEL HOLDS REVIVAL
The evangelical services conducted
by Miss Ida Mae Miller, colored
evangelist in the Bethel A. M. E.
church Tuesday night, received mark
ed attention. No call was made for
converts to come to the altar. The
services will be held every evening
until April 80. The Rev. R. l.. Craven.
pastor of the Bethel A. NJ. E. church,
was i'll and unable to attend the serv-
ices.
DIR. RAE LEADS ROTARY
The Rev. j. J. Rae, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church. was elect
ed president of the Richmond Rotary
club at the regular weekly meeting
Tuesday. No choice of secretary and
treasurer has yet been named. This
will either be accomplished Wednes-
day or else will not be announced
until the next meeting.
u. 3. LADIES AID TO
QUILT THURSDAY
| The Ladies' Aid society of the Unit
ed Brethren church will hold an all
day meeting Thursday at the home or
Mrs. Will Henderson, 100 North Nine
teenth street The members will
lspend the day quilting. Each member
! is requested to bring a dish OF Vege-
tables.
TWO ENLIST IN ARMY
John Arlington of II Exchange
street, Buffalo, N. Y, enlisted at the
army recruiting station Tuesday, for
lone year in the field artillery, and
will be stationed at Camp Grant, Ill.
Robert Hartman, also OF Buffalo, en-
| listed for three years in the coast ar
| tillery.
L. L. THOMPSON RETURNS
Sergeant Thompson's brother, l.. l..
Thompson, of Battle Creek, Mich, re-
turned to his home Tuesday after
few days stay in this city.
BACK FROM INDIANAPOLIS
John H. Johnson, director of Indi-
ana Yearly Meeting, and Herman y.
Miles, National Finance director OF
the Friends Forward Movement, have
returned from Indianapolis. Mr. Miles
states that the local meeting there
was attended by several out-of-town
members of Western Yearly Meeting,
and that much enthusiasm and inter
est was in evidence.
FINED FOR CARRYING WEAPONS
Mike Post, an Italian living on the
north side, was fined SIS and costs in
police court Wednesday morning for
carrying concealed weapons.
DICKINSON MAKES CHANGE
Edmund c. Dickinson, son of Mr..
~ld Mrs. Edmund c. Dickinson Of East
Main street, who has been an instruc-
tor in the law department in the Uni
versity of Alabama has accepted
position in the law department of
Vanderbilt university at Nashville,
Tenn.
VIEWS AT SOUTH EIGHTH
Levi Pennington, director of the
Forward Movement of the Friends
church, will give an illustrated lecture
following the devotionals at the South
Eighth Street Friends church Thurs
day evening. All who can come are
invited The meeting will begin at
1880 p. m.
BEN HUR INITIATES
Eighteen candidates will be given
work Wednesday night by the Ben
| Hur lodges. The initiation will be fol-
! lowed by social and dance at the
club rooms.
WINDOW is BROKEN
| A large plate glass window, in the
Steinhart building at North Tenth
and Sailor streets, was broken We'd
nesday morning when a team of horses
| became frightened at the noise of an
engine and plunged the tongue of the
wagon through the window before the
driver could quiet them.
CAR JUMPS TRACK
! Street car service in Richmond was
halted for 80 minutes Tuesday night,
when Fairview car jumped the track
1T Fifth and Main streets. Four other
cars behind were also halted
EXPRESS EMBARGO LIFTED
| Announcement of the lifting of the
| express embargo to Chicago was
made by the American Express COM
! pany Wednesday. This means that
! conditions at Chicago have been
| cleared to a point where the expected
/ floods of express from all over the
| country will be taken care of. This
also means that badly wanted sup
plies from Chicago will soon arrive
here.
3 YESTERDAYS RAIN 2.o4 INCHES
! The rainfall in Richmond yesterday
until midnight measured 2.04 inches.
The rainfall after midnight and in
Guiding the hailstorm amounted to so
inches. The annual rainfall in Rich
mond amounts to about As inches
Thus yesterdays rainfall was approx
imately one-twentieth of the annual
average rainfall.
WON'T APPEAL MANDAMUS
The county board of election COM
missioners will not carry the Esther
Griffin White mandamus case to the
higher courts following the decision Of
| tho Nayne county circu;t court in