The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-03
THE CITY
IN BRIEF
SATURDAY EVENTS

sigma Alpha Epsilon luncheon, Cham-
Beta Theta ri luncheon, Board of
Boy Scout Rally. Tomlinson Hall, 7:45
| p. m.
]. Edward KrauSe, owner of Ed
ward and Washington Hotels, today
announced the appointment Of LATE
D. Weathers, local hotel man for
thirty years, as manager of the Ed
ward, 126 S. Illinois st.
Mrs. Narcissus TOlin. IA, of 3O8 N.
New Jersey ST., and Homer Taylor,
"a, Paducah, KY, were held to the
grand jury on charges of arson by
Municipal Judge Paul G. Wetter
Thursday. Mrs. Tolin, police charge,
offered Taylor $50 to burn her room
ing house so she could collect $1,000
insurance. Eleven roomers were
routed by the small fire, Jan. 20.
Several speakers are scheduled for
the weekly meeting of the First
Ward Republican Club at 8 o'clock
tonight at Compton Hall, 2001 Win
ter Ave. Club business be discussed.
w. H. ]. RitzmOnd. Van Zyver-
den, district agent of the French
steamship line, will speak at the
Kiwanis Club luncheon Wednesday
noon at the Claypool. Arrangements
for the address were made by Rex
P. Young, manager of the foreign
travel department of the Fletcher
Savings and Trust Company. The
speaker will give an illustrated talk
on Africa, the Dark Continent"
weighed in the Balance" will be
the subject of Merle Sidener, teacher
of the Christian Men Builders. Inc,
at the Third Christian, Church
Sunday morning. Miss Irna May
Steele, violinist will play, accom-
panied by Miss Dorothy Schaffer.
The program will be broadcast over
WFBM from $50 to 10:45 a. m.
Superintendent G. D. Campbell Of
the Good Samaritan Mission an
nounced today that the mission will
reopen in new quarters at 1101
English Ave, Saturday night. 1t
formerly was located at Shelby and
Bates StS., but has been closed for
the last year The mission was
founded by Campbell twenty years
ago.
A free lecture on Christian Science
will be given at 8:15 p. m. Thurs
day at the Murat theater by William
Duncan Fitzpatrick, G. S. B., Detroit,
under auspices of the Second
Church of Christ, Scientists, Indian
apolis. The public is invited.
Nine Terre Haute citizens have
filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of State for the Indi-
ana State Normal Foundation, to
manage money and property given
the school. Incorporators are: L. N.
Hines, president of the school; Mich
oils F'ilbeck, George R. Schaal, Clar-
ence A. Royse, Walter G. Ely, Frank
S. Bogardus, James S. Royse, Paul
N. Bogart and G. G. Connolly.
Formation of a national jewell
ers' organization was urged by B.
J. Doyle of Philadelphia in an adj
dress before about fifty members of
the Retail jewelers. Association at
the Chamber of Commerce Thurs
day night. Doyle is editor of the
Keystone Magazine, jewelers. pub
LEGATION.
Jesse II. Stafford, Anderson res
taurant proprietor, has filed volun-
tary proceedings in Federal Court,
listing liabilities of $3,157 and no
assets.
COnfiScatiOn and destruction of
49,500 sodium Salicylate tablets in
possession of the Carr Drug Com
pany Muncie, is asked in a libel
suit filed in Federal Court today by
Albert Ward, United States district
attorney, who charges the tablets
are below standard strength in vio-
lation of the food and drugs act.
Peoples Cooperative Telephone
Company of Clarks Hill petitioned
the public service commission to-
day for rate increases, alleging that
under present rates the company is
operating at loss and is in debt.
The problem of Calumet region
sewage disposal to prevent pollution
of Lake Michigan is to be attacked
by the regions mayors and indus
trial chiefs in a conference at East
Chicago Wednesday. The date of
the meeting was announced today
by DR.. William F. King, secretary
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