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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
BETTER light
SERVICE, PLEA
OF FAIRv|EW
Gustav Schmidt Asks City
to Change System of
illumination.
DISTRICT IN SHADOW
Would Charge Property
Owners for Excess
CandIepoWer.
DISTRICT IN SHADOW

A system of charging property
owners for excess street lighting
over a certain standard of candle
power to the block, as a means Of
enabling citizens in poorly lighted
districts to get relief, was advocat-
ed today by Gustav G. Schmidt,
4205 North Illinois street, former
president of city council and for
mer president of the city plan COM
mission.
I'VE have been trying to get ade-
quate street lighting in the rapid
1y growing Butler Fairview district
for months, but they keep telling
us at city hall that the appropria-
ton for street lighting is used up"
said Schmidt. I'VE have on assur-
ance that the budget for next year
will take care of us.
by daylight this Is one Of the
most beautiful new home sections
of the city. BY night it is just q
shadow, about which We fear some
what to let our wives and daughters
travel.
Pay Share of Taxes
"And yet we Butler airview
property owners are paying our
share of taxes for street lighting the
city over. We are helping pay for
$4,000 candlepower of electric light
to the block in the business district
and we can't get enough light to
read the street signs by in our
neighborhood.
1--WE are just as bad off as those
folks living on Talbot street, who
have to light match to see whether
their ancient gas lights are lit.
why wouldn't it be fair to adopt
the modern system in vogue in Chi
cage, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Portland, Ore, and throughout
Montana and in our own neighbor
city Of Cincinnati?
l. Likes Cincinnati System
"'In Cincinnati the standard is an
arc lamp every 400 feet. If suf-
ficient number of residents sign a
petition, this lighting is increased
with ornamental standards, the
difference between the operating
cost of the ornamental system and
the standard candle power being
pro rated among abutting property
holders at a fixed sum a front foot
This cost is added to the tax
bills and is lien against the prop
erty and must be paid at the time
Of paying taxes.
"Out our way we just can't see
the justice of Washington boule-
ward being lit up like a circus mid
way all the way to the canal, past
acres and acres of vacant lots, when
we can't get enough to see what
time it is.
Thick on One Corner
'"Why, over at New Jersey and
Thirtieth streets they've got four OF
those great big light standards, one
on each corner. And the streets
are so narrow that people drive out
Of the way to avoid such corners.
Why, not long ago truck tried to
turn that corner and knocked over
one of the standards.
"We'd be grateful if they'd just
give us the standards that the
trucks knock over, whether they're
too thick for the automobiles to get
through"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
whitening Look

A T the head of the aisle she
N waited and cast one moro
glance at the boots f1ecked here and
there with mud. After this final
downward glance the large woman
looked me in the face and smiling
contemporary, walked away.
BY now I recognized her. 1t was
Fanny Hatton and though she may
have been something less than a
great dramatist there was no deny
ing the fact that her pantomime
was superb.
With that one sneering, contemp-
tuous survey she seemed to say,
And is the man wearing those
muddy boots the same fellow who
had the audacity to challenge my
intimate knowledge of the atmos-
phere in the great houses Of Long
Island?"
Now have surrendered. have a
stiff shirt, an uncomfortable collar
and even an opera hat. I wonder
what effect all this will have on my
handwriting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
MUNICIPAL board
TO CONDUCT GAS PLANT IS
PLAN ADVANCED BY CITY
Legislation Will Be Recommended at Next
Session of General Assembly by
Mayor and Aids.
COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION FRIDAY
Money Expected to Be Appropriated at
Meeting to Cover Cost of Hiring
Extra Attorneys.

Corporation Counsel John W. Hoffman will resign and
devote his entire time the Citizen Gas Company and
attorney Fred c. Cause 1900 Fletcher Savings and Trust
building will be employed to work with Hoffman for the
city, it stated authoritavely at city hall today Mayor
L. Ert Slack refused to discuss the report.
City council Friday will appropriate $4,000 to pay the
lawyers fees and expenses it was reported
Special Legislation creating municipal utility unit whereby
city operate the Citizens Gas Company probably will be
sought by the city in the coming general assembly
The public utility board which favored by Mayor L. Ert
Slack would be given authority manage control and handle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
Mailing Some Lies

DUT though I may have slipped
ID away a little from the very
strictest regulations about formal
attire never INDUCED in the eX-
themes which my friends aScribed
to me.
And If any body ever says that I
came to a Broadway first night in a
sweater that is also a lie. To be
Just. there was an incident which
served as foundation for those
libelS.
Some years ago Frederic and
Fanny Hatton wrote play called
Cup Stairs and Down." which pur-
ported to deal with society life upon
Long Island. I didn't like the play
and risked a mild surmise that It
was not a very faithful picture OF
existence among the social register
set.
My only Long Island friend was q
night editor who raised police dogs
and, smoked a corncob pipe. One
afternoon we went together to the
races.
That very night a new play
opened and on account of the rush
was not able to stop at the stand
where I got my shoes shined regu-
larly every two weeks, whether they
needed it or not, and just after the
fourth race a thunderstorm laid the
dust and also made it glucose.
AS I started to walk out during
the intermission at the end of the
first act I noticed that the woman.
just in front of me kept turning
around to stare with great interest
at my feet. That was embarrassing
did not know her but her face was
in some way familiar. Evidently she
must be sufficiently we'll known 10
have her picture in the papers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
CAR GOES INTO DITCH

After his automobile had plunged
into a ditch and overturned near
Flackville on Road So early this
morning, Henry Johnson, 48, of 81
North Alabama street, was arrested
by deputy sheriffs on charges Of
driving while intoxicated. He was
uninjured in the crash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
Secretary Is Charged With
Misleading Congress
and President.
BIZ United Press
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BIZ United Press
SHINGTON, Dec. 2O.--A
double barrelled attack is being
made on Secretary Mellon, because
of tax refunds to the United States
Steel Corporation and to other large
concerns.
Representative John Garner of
Texas yesterday devoted an hour on
the floor of the house of assailing
Mellon.
Senator Mcclellan has introduced
bill in the senate taking refund
powers out of Melons hands and
placing them with the commissioner
Of internal revenue, subject to ap-
prevail by board of tax appeals.
Garner said that Mellon ought to
be asked to resign for deliberately
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
PASTOR GOES TO JAIL
Leader of Valparaiso Congregation
Stole Coal.

BU tHttfd Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Dec. 20.
The Rev. Arthur Granger, Negro
pastor of Mt. Zion church here, was
sentenced to ten Gays in Jail and
fined $40 by City Judge Fred
Mitchell here when he pleaded
guilty to taking coal from a COM
pany near his home. AS result.
the church was without a pastor
last Sunday and probably will be
Sunday as Changers sentence eX-
tends into next week.
When August c. Heitschmidt OF
the Heitschmidt coal and feed store
informed police that during the past
week several hundred pounds" Of
coal had been taken from cars con-
signed to him, police investigated.
One morning they found shoe
prints which led from a car to the
basement of Changers home. H9
confessed, saying: Il thought by
taking the coal I could save money"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

a celebrity 10 be
aSSailed. Ev e II
columnists aren't
safe. Four or
five tim es a
week lie t t e + S
come in, enclos-
ing return post
age and request
ing a signature.
I always S t e a l
the stamps. No
good ever comes
of stolen stamps.
They stick to the
lining of your
pockets.
1 can't under
ST a nd VIII a /
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
HAWK TRIAL JAN. 23
Alleged Writer of Threatening Lett
tiers Refuses to Enter Plea.


tiers Refuses to Enter Plea.
BIZ United Press
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Dec. 20. -
Wendell G. Hessong, alias "the
hawk" and Jack Montgomery, an
alleged accomplice, charged with
blackmail, refused to plead when
arraigned in Hamilton circuit court
here and their trials were set for
Jan. %. Pleas of not guilty were
entered for them.
Hessong was returned to Jail and
Montgomery is at liberty under
bond.
A confession that he sent threat
ening letters to various Indinaa per-
sons demanding money has been
made by Hessong. Among those re-
ceiving the letters were Hal Purdy,
vice president of the Marmon Motor
Car Company; Lewis Rose, presi-
dent of the Capital Iron Works, In
dianapolis, and Bailey Hawkins,
cashier Of the Citizens State bank,
Carmel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
DOGS TEAR MAN TO DEATH AFTER
HE BEATS HIMSELF UNCONSCIOUS

Head bruised, battered, and
bloody, one ear torn off, clothing
ripped and slashed, the body OF
John Bucker, IS, of Elwood, Ind,
was found in a clunp of bushes
near the Brookside park shelter
house today.
Denatured alcohol killed the
man, and in the frenzy caused by
the poison booze, he beat his head
against stump until he was UNI
conscious, then stray dogs r ming
wild in the park tore az the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
LIMIT BILLS ON ALIENS

Mexican immigration National
Origins Only Action This Session.
Bu Times Special
WASHINGTON, Decf. 20.-Action
on immigration at this session of
congress will be confined to
Mexican immigration and the ma
tional origins provisions in the opin-
ion of Senator Hiram johnson Of
California.
IT look for only these two PROPOSE
tons to reach vote in the senate
at this session." Johnson, who is
chairman of the senate immigra-
ton committee, said today.
Last week the senate committee
reported out the Harris bill to put
Mexico on quota basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
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SEEMS
TOME
q =
By HAYWOOD
BROUN

A N OLD, bad habit of the young
N er generation is cropping out
again. In various parts of the
country people are collecting auto
graphs. In New York boys and girls
stand about theaters on opening
nights and hold out albums to pass
ing celebrities like beggars with tin
cups.
In fact, it is not necessary to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

This was the shocking death
scene police and Coroner c. H.
Keever reconstructed from the evi.
denee.
Bucker had been living at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. Curtis
Flanagan, 1857 Olney street. He
was drunk often, the daughter told
police.
Saturday he was drunk and she
took a bottle Of denatured alcohol
away from him, she declared. Sun
day he was drunk again. Monday
he returned home and Mrs. Flan-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

nigan told him he could not live in
her home unless he could be
decent" she told police.
She ordered him away and told
him not to come home again in that
condition, she said.
j. M. Driver, 500 East Eleventh
street, park custodian, and Clarence
Bell, 1921 Wood street, park en-
ploye, found the body today.
Buckner had obtained another
bottle of denatured alcohol. 1t lay
near the body, one-third gone,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

At first police believed he had
been beaten on the head and muir
dered. Then the belief that he had
battered himself on the ground and
tree stumps developed.
The outer pair of two pairs of
trousers ne wore had been torn
from waist to bottom. One ear was
torn off. The dogs did that, said
district police.
Several complaints Of packs Of
stray dogs roaming in the park have
been received they said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

citation with the Circle theater, will
give prize of SIS. For the person
whose answer is second most nearly
correct, an award of $40 will be
given. The third prize will be S.
and will go to the person whose an
swer is adjudged third best. A paic
of tickets each to the Circle will be
given to the next ten.
In case of a tie, equal awards
will be made.
Neatness will be paramount. All
contestants must have their replies
at The Times Office by o'clock
Saturday afternoon. To insure fair
ness. all emploYcs of First National
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

HERE'S opportunity for movie
Il l. fans with good memories to
earn Christmas money. Picture
goers who have followed the career
of Colleen Moore. one of filmdom's
most versatile actresses, who comes
to the Circle theater next week in
Synthetic Sin," will find this con-
test easy pickin'.
Above is a collection Of pictures
of Colleen Moore as she appeared in
a number of her pictures. For the
person who Identifies correctly the
pictures from which the particular
poses printed herewith were taken
The Indianapolis Times, in asso =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
GIRL JUMPS INTO SEA
Pianist Leaps to Death From Liner
on Way Home to Europe.
BV United Press

BV United Press
CHERBOURG, France, Dec. 90
Passengers arriving today aboard
the liner Deutschland from New
York said a girl, Palma Kerestesy,
who had been studying piano in
Chicago, jumped overheard and was
drowned last Tuesday.
A broken heart because she had
to leave her sweetheart in America
was blamed by some Of the pas
sengers for the act. Others said she
was respondent because the alien
law forced her to abandon her
hopes of becoming great pianist
when the period she was allowed in
America expired.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
RHODES NEW HEAD OF
SECURITIES DIVISION
Transferred From Auto License De-
partment by Fifield.

parCmenC Dy Flnelus
Mark w. Rhoads, Columbia City,
will be transferred as chief of the
automobile license department to
the position of state securities COM
missioner, Secretary of State Otto
G. Fif1eld announced today.
Wallace Weatherholt, who has
been serving as securities commits
sioner, resigned to accept a posi-
ton with a Chicago banking con-
Germ, it was announced.
RhoadS will assume his new
duties Jan. Is. Announcement of
his successor in the automobile Ii
cense division was not made.
Appointment of Miss Opal Evans
as private secretary to Fifield was
announced. Miss Francis Kunkle,
who served under Schortemeier,
will become his secretary in law
practice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

earthly use my signature can pos
sibly be to any one. Or even the
autograph of truly famous people. 1
am not referring to documents, let e
tiers, manuscripts and so on. The
true collector pays little attention to
a bare signature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
NAME ACTING HEAD
OF NURSING SCHOOL
Miss Jansen's Resignation Accepted
by Board of Health.


Miss Beatrice Jerrin today became
acting director Of the city hospital
nursing school following resignation
of Miss Eva Ellen Jansen, East
Sparta, o., director, who is ill.,
The board of health Wednesday
night accepted Miss Jansens resig-
nation and authorized DR.. william
DoepperS, hospital superintendent,
to appoint a successor.
Miss Jerrin is member of the
hospital staff, but will not retain
the position. She desires to finish
her education.
Temporary loan of $175,0O0 to the
nance board work until spring tax
money is received was authorized.
The board discussed the epidemic
of respiratory infections and de-
cided the number of cases is de-
clining rapidly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
ACCUSE DEATH DRIVER
Bloomington Police Charge Liquor
Smelled After Crossing Crash.

Smelled After Crossing Crash.
BV Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 90
ELIZA Boshears will face a variety of
charges in city court here Friday
following death of his cousin, Reige
L. Adkins, Helenwood, Tenn, who
was his guest here. A train struck
an auto in which the cousins wera
riding.
Police say they found broken
bottle which had contained liquor,
in q pocket of coat Boshears wore
and that the garment smelleG
strongly of liquor. He is under
sl,5OO bond pending tria..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
GRAND DUKE BETTER

Nicholas of Russia Still Seriously
Ill In France.
BN United Press
ANTILLES, France, Dec. 20.-The
lung congestion of the Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia had diminished
today, but the condition of his heart
continued to cause uneasiness.
The grand duke, leader of the
Russian white army, is seriously i'll
at his home here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20
SIN WILL COME OUT
Public Opinion Takes Mans Meas
ure, Y. M. C. A. Club Told.

ure, Y. M. G. A. Club Told.
public opinion finds out the size
of an individual so there is little
personal sin that a man can cover
up" the Rev. Homer P. Boblitt,
pastor of the Linwood Christian
Church declared Wednesday night,
at the Bible Investigation Club in
the Y. M. G. A. auditorium. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-20

Id e a s a n d
opinions ex-
pressed in this
cOlu m n are
those Of one
Of Americas
most interest
ing writers
and are pre-
scented with
out regard to
their agree
ment with the
editorial atti-
tude Of this
paper.
The Editor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07

In word delighted with the picture. Its accessories
fine indeed we'll dy true to fact We almost
hear the rmbng of the stage COACH and deeply sympahze
with the passengers who almost there We
friends the ball club the The cattle in the foreground
contented with their position Happy happy cattle,
thought The blue winding in and out natural
We glad to find waving ALL bravely defended old
flag On the WHOLE look to the picture of town,
exclaim, eve not out of the world after ALL"
Mr. Whteeld has conferred citizens debt of
lasting gratitude which hope will be manifested by large
purchases of the Autograph. Seldom have picture
that pleads eloueny for place than this work of
artist Not little will do with the bringing of capitalists and
settlers region 1t is in itself stronger appeal to the
mind than possibly could be produced by the ready
writer All honor to artist frendSauk Centre Herald
June H. 1868.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07
History of Sank Centre

year. The first election of officers
was held March 27, at which six
directors were chosen. The first
school building under the new char
ter was erected in 1870. Amelia
Wright was the first principal and
S. J. Robbins was teacher in the
intermediate department. This is
the humble beginning of an insti-
tuition which has since developed
to be one of the best of its kind in
the State of Minnesota. AS relic
of the old days, the first school
building at one time served
the triple purpose of a seat of
learning, a temporary home for
the Episcopal church organization,
and a place for the gathering of
the Sons of Malta local bur-
lesque lodge whose famous hoaxes
are frequently called to mind by
the old settlers.
In 1866 Moore & Mcclure
erected at the waterpower flour
ing mill of 75-barrel capacity.
This property passed into the ex-
elusive possession of the latter
gentleman in 1869, was subse-
quently enlarged to 200 barrels,
and remained in the ownership of
the Mcclure family until 1889,
when it was transferred to j. "A.
Dubois & Co., who in 1892 sold it
to T. D. Davidson of Milwaukee.
The business was later Incorporated
under the name of the Central
Minnesota Power & Milling Com
pany. w. M. Parker has been
president and manager of the
company for a dozen or more
years. In 1872 the kellogg Mill
Company built the Lakota Roller
FIGURING Mills, which met destruc-
ton by fire early in the sos.
In these early years several small
manufacturing enterprises were
begun, but they were short lived,
and it was not until Henry Keller
set himself to building tanning
mills that the first successful VEN
ture in the manufacturing line
became established. This proved
to be the foundation of the Keller
Manufacturing Company, so well
known in the Northwest, whose
principal productions were wagons,
sleighs, and harraws. This re-
manned a very successful institu-
ton until Mr.. Keller's death, when,
a little later, it was destroyed by
fire and was then relocated at
Minneapolis.
| Henry Keller was a soldier in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07

Directly after the close of the
Indian outbreak there located at
Sank Centre a gentleman whose
lot henceforth was so enwrapped
in the affections and interests of
the people of the entire region that
he left behind him a monument
more durable than bronze or
marble. Although now for over
40 years his labors on earth have
ceased, and many of the old settlers
to whose needs he so faithfully
ministered have gone into the
silence with him, such was the
reputation he established that
their children still mention his
name with fondness and reverence.
This man was DR.. Benjamin R.
Palmer, the first regularly quail
fed physician in Sank Centre. DR..
Palmer was cultured and possessed
fine medical education, portion
of which he received in Paris. He
| was a native of Pennsylvania. A
victim of pulmonary hemorrhages
and forced to leave his home eli
mate, he came to Minnesota and
/ its invigorating atmosphere. Nor
did he seek what in his day would
correspond to the idle isolation of
the modern sanitorium, incapable
as it is of being separated from a
morbid tendency to self-inspection
which itself is unhealthful. He
went directly to the frontier and
plunged into the arduous duties,
hardships and even perils that
characterize the labor of one of
his profession in a pioneer civiliza-
ton, prolonging his life twenty
years by devoting it exclusively to
the service of others. Stationed
at the old stockade as military
surgeon during the trouble with
the Indians, at it's cessation he
erected a home in the village and
continuously until his death in
1882 devoted himself to the de-
mands of the extended and thinly
settled region which was tributary
to Sank Centre. In this life there
was tragedy, there was pathos,
there was sacrifice, which in other
stations of society would have
called forth the Hottest tribute OF
the panegyrist. Many of the
homely incidents connected with
his career have made an indelible
impression upon the minds of the
people of this locality. His horse
Wilder. his dog, Don, the faithful
mcSMviaa o,2FmoremofxT tn tn /
attendants upon his long and weary
trips over poor and dangerous
roads, retain almost human place
in the memory of the pioneer fam
lilies. He was man inherently re-
sourceful and with the most meagre
of means at his disposal, met the
emergencies often thrust upon hin
with an ingenuity that was indee;
wonderful. Of type of character