The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
The City in
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Reports will be received tonight
on the campaign to raise $4,000
to be used in reconditoining the
West Side Christian Mission, 1924
w. Ohio ST., at a meeting of the
Marion County Christian Sunday
School Association at the Univer-
sity Place Christian Church.
The Rev. Henry L. Davis, former
superintendent of the Greencastle
district of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and DR.. A. T. Briggs, in
cunbent superintendent, we're the
principal speakers Sunday at the
Homecoming of the Mt. Olive M. E.
Church at Ben Davis. Accomplish
ments of the church during the
year were reviewed by the Rev. A. S.
Bradenburg, the pastor.
E. F. Kitselman, former Repub-
lean State chairman, and his
brother, A. L. Kitselman, both Mum
Gle manufacturers, are recovering
at st. Vincent Hospital from OPP
erations for the removal of car
buncles. E. F. Kitselman underwent
an operation Wednesday. His
brother was removed from a train
on which he was returning from
Laredo, Texas, Sunday and also I'M
derwent an operation.
District and county Republican
organization heads and party work.
ers will address the Colored Wom-
ans Republican Club, Inc, at 8 to-
night at the Shiloh Baptist Church.
Speakers will include George V.
Coffin, Omer Hawkins, Mrs. Curtis
Hodges, Ernest C. Tidringson, di-
rector of the Colored Republican
Voters Bureau; Frank Beakwich,
William H. Jackson. Mrs. Ida P. Lis
ton, Mrs. Dance Donnell Wines and
Arthur Whitlock of Gary. The pub
lie is invited.
indianapolis eight Piggy WiggIy
stores will observe the first ami
versary of their ownership by the
Piggy Wiggly Ellis Company by
the observance of an anniversary
week, which begins today. Many
specials" will be offered at all of
the stores. Robert H. Ellis, presl-
dent and general manager of the
local chain of stores, planned the
anniversary.
The William II. Block Company's
fall and winter fashion show, which
opens this afternoon in the Riley
room of the Claypool, and closes
Tuesday night, promises to be one
OF the most elaborate such affairs
ever staged in Indianapolis, accord
ing to plans now nearing compile
ton.
Milton Van Cleeve of Darlington
was slugged and robbed of $40 Sun
day night by an unidentified asSail-
ant, he told police today.
Lulu Buchanan, Negro, 642 Blake
ST., and William Rowland, Negro,
SOL N. California ST., were arrested
on charges of keeping a gambling
game when Lieut.. Patrick O'Connor
and squad raided the Blake st. adj
dress Sunday night. Twenty two
other Negro men and women were
arrested on gambling charges.
Others escaped by jumping from
second story windows, police said.
Extensive alterations Of the mu-
nicipal court presided over by Judge
Clifton r. Cameron have made ne
cessary the courts temporary re-
moval to the first floor of police
headquarters.
The Plymouth union of the First
Congregational Church meets at the
church Tuesday. The board meet
ing at 1880 a. m. will be followed
by a general luncheon at 1890.
Two Negro bandits late Saturday
night held up Allen Peters, 2113 w.
Michigan ST., and robbed him of a
check for $11, he reported today to
police.
A victim of heart disease, the
body of M. L. Rosenberg, so, New
York, was found in his room at the
Washington today. Mr.. Rossen-
berg, a salesman, represented a
New York plumbing fixture con-
Germ.
Clarence G. WysOng, Indiana in
surance commissioner, and his as
siStant, zell Swain, will head a
delegation of Indiana insurance
men attending the national con-
vention of insurance commissioners
at Rapid City, S. D., commencing
Monday. The Hoosiers will join
others on a special train leaving
Chicago Sunday night, Wysong an
nounced. He has been placed in
charge of transportation for the
meeting.
Five farmers living on State Rd.
81, seven and one-half miles from
Peru, Ind, today asked the public
service commission to order the In
diana Bell Telephone Company at
Peru to give them service.
Produce Markets