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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
Iarch 4 and 1I. 1e2B.
CITY ADVERTISEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
OFFICE OF TIE BOARD


OFFICE OF THE BOARD
Indianapolis. Ind, March 3. 1925.
TO WHOM TT MAY CONCERN:
Public Works of the City OF indianapolis
Indiana. that Il is desired and deemed nee.
public improvements in the City of Indi-
annapolis. as authorized. by the following
numbered Improvement resolutions:
Feb. 25, 1928.
Improvement Resolution No. 1880.
NEWMAN STREET.
From North West Property Line Of
TO Southeast Property Line of Massa-
chusetts Avenue.
over Pogue's Run and the intersection Of
Brookside Avenue.
BY grading and paving the roadway
phaltic-Concrete. laid on o. 6-inch gravel
concrete foundation from curb-line TO curb
line to uniform width OF "a feet; grading
street and alleys in a similar manner and
TO the widths as shown on plan; curbing
both. sides Of the roadway with stratified
6x24inch Concrete curb; curbing the
wings, OF the intersecting street and alleys
in similar manner and to the widths az
gift. radius granite corners providing 40
lin. #. of loft. radius granite corners:
eS Co Nm Marsu al srs
ing 2 concrete outfalls as shown and az
specified on plan: providing. 6lnew iron IN
pipe with connections made to iniets and
outfalls shown on plan; providing 80
lin. II. of 12-inch combined curb and
butter and % Gu. yds. Of gravel to pro;
Rowland Avenue. as shown on plan; re-
laying 80 50. yds. of brick pavement with
side Avenue. as shown and as specified on
plan; and resetting manhole tops to
grade.
other private service connections to prop
erty-line, where not already in.
All 70 De as shown on plan and as
The contractors bid price per lin; II.
shall include all of the above named items
and the work necessary thereto.
described public improvements shall be IN
Of the Improvement Resolutions. as num-
Works s on the sSoye I named day. and the
fications which are on, 'fiIe and may be
works of the City Of Indianapolis.
x The Mo sd BOs Tsrss e BSc Works has
time and place for the public consideration
Of the PROPOSED improvement at which
All ps srso SO ntsresed Or wboss uroper
ment and win determine whether the
benefits to the Dopy liable ssa e os s
the estimated cost thereof.
By order OF the r.. Bc : Of Public Works.
". y s FPREEEGcMHN'
Board Of Public Works civ Of Indian
Mech < II. 1888
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
Prices on Coal

Anthracite. $3.50 a. ton. coke. $40;
IsSSnRo i1D fsScs6SPs ss mine
indiana mine run, $4.50@ so. wheel.
ing 300 ton extra-)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
n ENGINE ous
Yaara PInns Discussea

Wallace O. Lee. chairman Cham
Der Of Commerce athletic committee,
presided at 4 luncheon Of the COM
mitteo today ri the Chamber when
<ana TOR the year we're discussed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
Local WAGON Wheat
TTNNERs, sUPPIIEs

Indianapolis grain elevators are paying
81 .e2 tor No red wheat. Other grains
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

BY United Press
CHICAGO, March 4.-Grain futures
went into sinking spell in mi
tial business on the Board Of Trade
today Apathetic demand and low.
or foreign markets brought brisk
selling in wheat.
Weakness in corn fully reflected
Blackened cash business and lower
wheat. Poor cash demand had sim
liar influence in oats. Provisions ad-
faced with hogs and cables.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

Northwest, north and east, freez-
ing or slightly below; west and south,
freezing or above.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

TIN O 20x2s coke. Sl450: charcoal.
S22 90 q25 ternes. s14@1s: old styles
zinsc-sbeet, sia3.S0 Der Der f RSpn pounds.
soft .s alc-oSS 2Ss gs sni r. ~.,,.,,-sn ~ *
Tf.96 per 100 pou1da; o o Il. Sab
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

record high. Average price OF twenty
rails wac 10000, up 30 to new 1925 high.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 4.-Railroad
traffic figures for the week ending
Feb. 81 showed the Nations rail
roads were continuing to handle an
unprecedented volume of traffic with
an increase Of 22,41S cars over those
loaded the previous week.
This brought fresh buying into
the market today and advances
were made by a wide variety of
stocks. American Betting opened at
1oSss. against yesterdays low of
1OOb.
After absorbing heavy selling,
stocks snapped back in convincing
style around noon. B. & o. assumed
the leadership Of the railroads, squirt
Ing up ~ to SIN. Car and Foundry
was the feature Of special strength
among the industrials up Az from
an early low OF 251.
Local Bank CIearinqS
Bank cearings Wednesday were So. Oeb,-
600. Bank debts amounted to &0. $685.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
GRAINS DECLINE
AT TRADE START
Lower Foreign Markets Are
Responsible.
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
BT United Press
CHICAGO, March 4. - All
grains closed sharply below
Tuesdays final level on the
Board Of Trade today. Slack de-
mand and lower foreign markets
were bearish factors throughout
the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

.xINsEED OIL AND TURPENTINE
Al Nal dealers are quoting the following
on lfnseed oil Raw, 81. 20 q gall
10h@ boiled. $126. TurDentine--@l.l2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
Chicago Grain Table

-MIcn r.
WHEAT Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close close
May 1.ps 1855 1.9I u 1874 1,e9 sc
July 1.h2h 1.73A 1873 1.6S% liza
Sept LOS 1858 1.53A 1897 1.56H
CORN
May 1.34% 1854 1.31 1.31M 1854
%S XII I;sSs 1852 i..siS i.sfS i.sS +"
July .b6% SO "a $50 SO
sepi .6SN Ban .53% .53h Ban
LARD
May 1857 1870 1850 1856 1852
RIBS
Nay 1887 1870 17.46 1857 1892
May 1875 165% 157 159H ga
July 1.4sh 1.44E l.37% 1.39 1.44h
CHICAGO. March 4.--Car lot receipts
were: Wheat. 2l2; oats, 20; rye. 1; corn.
NO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04

Local wholesale prices on iron and steel
bars are; Structural. 1926 100,lb
% 6as sSe Su SS sans aSdn sSess 49, O
base. $3.50 a lob: galvaI red sheets
2S-gauge base S5.65 100 lbs: black
sheets. $3.50 100 lbs: iron bars. S3.15
l00-lb. base.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
STOCKS ADVANCE
s0N FRESH BUYING
Rail Traffic Figures Set New
Record.
Average Stock Prices

stocks Tuesday was 1855 up 80 to
record high Average price OF twenty
rails wac 10000. up 20 to new 1925 high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
HOW RUM RUNNERS
OPERATE IS TOLD
CONTINUED From Page One)

danger OF a raid by Federal agents
or by rival bootleggers who ''hi-
jack" outfits which are engaged in
legitimate" booze-running.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD

CITY ADVERTTsEMENT4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-04
Local Bank CIearings

Bank clearings Wednesday were SIS. 0q5,-
goo. Bank debts amounted to $685.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-08

A daughter was born Sunday, Oc-
tober 4, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Hill.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Mueller last Friday, Oct.
2.
Mrs. Mary Cowan and son, Eugene,
left Saturday for Michigan where
they will spend the winter.
A petition for the city manager
form of government is being circu-
lated and freely signed in Eau Claire.
Glad Tidings Sale at the Golden
Rule. Great values in underwear,
silk hose, outing flannels and blank
ets.-adv.
Mrs. f. B. Armstrong and Mrs. H.
J. Elliott left Sunday evening for
Milwaukee to attend the Grand Chap
ter Of the o. E. S.
Mrs. Alice Davenport returned to
her home at Eau Gale Sunday af-
ter two weeks visit at the home of
her brother, F. B. Drake.
A national monument is being err
ected at Adamsville, R. l., to the
Rhode Island Red breed of chickes.
The design is bronze rooster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Zimmerman
were last week arrested for the
twenty-frst time for operating their
movie theatre in Cumberland on
Sunday. They were fined SIS.
Re sure to some to the Ellsworth
Fair Ground Pavilion on, Friday
night, October IS, for that next
dance. Epstein's orchestra will play
at this dance. Dance under our
beautiful decorations and subdued
lights.-ady.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-08
Local News

Ellsworth high nosed out Spring
Valley last Friday to 6.
+. B. Carisch made business trip
to Whitehall the first of the week.
See the new No. rs Radiola Super.
Heterodyne st c. w. Heidbrink's.
adv.
Nh. and Mrs. s. R. Morse spent
Sunday at the home of the latter's
parents in Eau Claire.
Miss Pearl Andrus. of Spring Val
icy and Mr.. Guy Kinsman of st. Paul
were married in st. Paul Sept. 20.
Golden Rule Glad Tidings Sale.
The last big shipment of Millinery
for this fall just in. Don't delay.
adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Cucricr left
Tuesday morning on . motor trip to
Kew London, Wis, to visit Mr.. and
Mrs Harley Clark
Louis Epstein's Orchestra-Octo-
Der is, Friday night--at our regular
dance-at the Fair Ground Pavilion
New decorations. COME.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Salvels son and
! daughter. Miss Lois, of Superior,
visited from Saturday to Tuesday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs, Arthur
Striebel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-08

Mrs. Grace Pratt left Friday for
Chicago to visit her son, DeForest.
In final counts La Follette's lead
in the senate election was increased
to about 10000 votes.
Miss Marian Van Marter, who il
teaching at Hector, MINI, spent the
week. end et her homo here. ~
Mrs. Otto H. Sombke underwent
surgical operation at Miller hospital
St. Paul, Tuesday. She is reported
as doing nicely.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-08

Mr.. and Mrs. C. v. Scott spent
Sunday at Amery and Diamond Lake
James d. Reid of Chicago spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Louise
Reid.
Mrs. H. G. Walker of Eau Claire is
visiting at the home CT Mr.. and Mrs
c. G. Glass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Phcnning
visited relatives in Pennington
Mimi, Sunday.
Tobacco Dust, for worms and lice
for poultry. Nothing better. Curtis
Johnson has it for sale.-ad
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Drake and son,
Robert, OF townsville, spent the
weekend at the F. B. Drake home.
C. N. Wiger left Monday evening
for visit with his brother, DR.. N. N.
Wiger, in Seattle, Wash, who is re-
ported quite i'll.
Mrs. A. P. Foster and brother, w.
Earl Hunter, left Sunday for Che
banse, H., called there by the death
of their aunt, Mrs. Porch.
James Beggs, aged 68 years, for
mer resident of" Hudson and for 30
years locomotive engineer on the
Omaha railway, died recently in Sup
erior.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-08

Carl Skog of Hartland is about to
open, a radio shop in Ellsworth.
Misses Ida and Hattie Ripple are
visiting Mrs. Voltz (nee Eleanor Ap
Roberts) at Shell Lake.
Mrs. Lucy Wasson has had an at
traetive electric sign installed in
front of her Home Eat Shop.
Miss Laura Peterson, who teaches
at Tony, spent the weekend at the
tome If her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Pc <" Jefferson.
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The Washington times., 1925-05-16

length is a different matter. 1t is
not enough for the cloth to reach
just to the sill. You should allow
an extra six to nine inches so that
when your shade is all the way
down, there will still be plenty Of
cloth on the roller to start the
spring.
If the spring happens to be loose
and run down a little after you
have set the roller in the brackets,
pull the shade down about half
way. Then take the roller out of
the brackets with the shade hang
ing. Roll the shade up in your
hand, put the roller back in the
brackets and see how things work.
If the spring still feels too loose,
draw the shade down part way
again and do the same thing over.
Sometimes new spring feels a
little too tight. You must remedy
this because it brings too great a
strain on the cloth and has a ten
dency to. wrinkle it, Roll the shade
UP to the top. Take the roller out
Of the brackets, and holding the
roller in your hands. unwind the
shade a few turns, then put the
roller back in the brackets. You
zee it is just the opposite Of the
other operation,
The Washington times., 1925-05-16
WOMAN Is DIVORCED
ON ENOCH ARDEN COUNT

NEW YORK, May 16.-Annul.
ment of marriage under the
"Enoch Arden" law was granted tc
Mrs. Estere D. Won Leuck, Of
White Plains, for a man she de.
scribed as a German count. by Su-
preme Court Justice Seeger, in
White Plains.
Mrs. Van Lueck was married in
Hoboken in 1894. She said her
husband deserted her and her thrcc
children in Hoboken, in 1908, and
she last saw him in 1912, in front
of a saloon in 187th street, the
Bronx. She believes he is dead.
The Washington times., 1925-05-16
BREAKS WINDOW JUST
AS GAS OVERCOMES HIM

NEW YORK, May ia moment
before he was overcome by gas in
lis home, Dominick Basile. of Viii
liamsburg, threw shoe through
a window and attracted the atten
ton of a policeman. who found
Rasile and his wife unconscious
The man was revived, but his wife
is in a serious condition.
Mrs. Basile rose early in the
morning to heat some water, but
fell asleep over the stove. The
water boiled over and extinguished
the flame. Basile awoke, and realiz
ing that he was being overcome
threw the shoe through the window
The Washington times., 1925-05-16

would have resulted in a Confed.
crate victory and the entire COM
plexion of the Civil War vitality
changed
An interesting side light on this
particular engagement, outside its
national Importance, was in the fact
that President Lincoln was person.
ally present in Fort Stevens during
8 part of the battle and was for
a brief period, actually exposed 10
the enemy fire. An army surgeon
was wounded while standing near
him at the time.
Fort Stevens, now obliterated by
time and city expansion, was during
tho Civil War a formidable barrier
against invasion. It had strong
stockade surrounding it, having q
total perimeter of over a thousand
feet, in front of which was g. dense
abatis, and q series of rifle trenches.
The fort mounted nineteen guns
and two motars, which were sup
piled from a large magazine located
to the south on the old Seventh
street pike, now Georgia avenue.
The Washington times., 1925-05-16
$3.50, 900 TEST TO SHOW
IF METALS GROW TIRED

NEW YORK, May 16.-Research
funds aggregating $3.50, 900 have
been set up by the engineering
foundation IN an attempt to solve
the age-old question. do metals
grow tired? Alfred d. Flynn, direc-
tor of the foundation, announced at
the quarterly meeting attended by
leading engineers from the coun-
try's industrial centers.
An arch dam costing 100000 will
be constructed in California, Mr..
Flynn said, and then destroyed by
gradual wear and tear in the most
exhaustive series of tests ever un-
dertaken. Fatigue failures Of air
plane parts, Mr.. Flynn explained,
led to the study of this problem
The Washington times., 1925-05-16
NEW HOMES To
Be BUILT BY
8, R. HARRIS
Shannon & Luchs, Inc, Have
Been Appointed Exclusive
Agents for Houses

Building expansion, which is
rapidly eliminating many of the
historic spots in and around Wash
ington, is taking further toll with
the beginning recently of new
home building operation on part cs
the site of old Fort Stevens, of
Civil War days, off Georgia avenue,
by Samuel r. Harris Construction
Company. Mr.. Harris has already
broken ground for the first of a
large group of attractive semi-de-
tached dwellings,, for the sale of
which Shannon & Luchs. Inc, real
tors, have been appointed exclusive
agents.
Foundations have already been
started for several of these homes
at the corner of Ninth and Tucker
man streets northwest. The houses
will be of brick and stucco con-
struction, OF varying attractive
front elevations, and win contain
every modern convenience includ-
ing built-in garages. Prices have
not yet been announced, but It is
expected that the figures will be
exceptionally moderate, present con-
ditions considered.
some tnere pFoDdDly are YET duNS
in the city who may recall this
spot and how on July II, sixty one
years ago, the Confederate troops
under command OF the famous Cen
eral Jubal A. Early, marched on
the Capital from the Shenandoah
Valley, and got as far as Fort
Stevens, one Of the chain Of sixty
eight forts built by the Union about
tho cifv At that narticIIor time
it so happened that there were but
very few troops In Washington,
and had it not been for a rapid
movement of the veteran Sixth
Union Corps from a point in lower
Virginia by water to the city, the
battle fought that day probably
The Washington times., 1925-05-16
MINERS WIN POINT IN
WEST VIRGINIA EIGHT

WHEELING, w. Va, May 16.-
United Marine Workers in the
Federal district court here, won
their second fight today, in their
court fight to unionize the coal
fields of the Panhandle district.
Judge w. E. Baker handed down
an opinion in the case. brought
by the West Virginia Pittsburgh
Coal Company, in which score
Of officers and members of the
miners organization were cited for
contempt, finding for the miners.