The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
The City
i'm Brief
SATURDAY EVENTS

| in Brief |.
SATURDAY EVENTS
=, Beta Theta ri luncheon, Board of
Trade.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon luncheon, Cham
Der of Commerce.
Street car traffic on North I'LL
nois street was delayed twenty-five
minutes at 1880 this morning when
motor on street car No. 230 blew
out at Thirteenth street. Many
downtown workers were delayed in
reaching offices.
Apartment house operators will
meet Jan. Z to discuss possibility of
heating houses from d central plant.
A survey will be made to determine
the cost Of the central heating sys-
tenn. The movement is sponsored
by the Smoke Abatement League.
Packages for former service
women and men will be prepared
by the Hoosier unit of the Women's
SfCIS oCl WIG hCdS AC dS VIC
Chamber of Commerce tonight.
These packages will be sent to the
Danville UlI) National Soldiers
Home, Cragmont Sanitorium, Elgin
CID and the Ft. Harrison hospital
World Trade Club will announce
the results OF the balloting, con-
Quoted through mails, at a dinner
at the Chamber of Commerce to-
night. S. J. Dyer and William Hig-
burg are presidential candidates.
E. o. Snethen, chairman of the
boys department committee of the
Y. M. c. A., will be host at the
eighteenth annual Christmas party
at the Y. M. c. A. at Gas Saturday
night. Messengers and all under
privileged boys Of the city will be
guests.
Portfolio Club held its annual
Christmas dinner at the Propylaum
Thursday night The feature was a
soap sculptoring contest, which Rob-
ert Dawson, local sculptor, won.
More than eight hundred mem
bers and guests attended the an
nual Christmas party of the Cara
van Club, Murat temple booster or
ganization, at the Murat theater
Thursday night.
appointment of receiver for the
Motor Transit Mutual Insurance
Corporation, Chicago, is asked in
suit filed in federal court by Con-
solidated Coach Corporation, Lex
ington, KY, and several individual
policy holders, all of Kentucky. The
insurance firm is alleged to be in
solvent.
Suit for judgment on a $4,000
war risk insurance policy has been
filed in federal court against the
government by Mrs. Rebecca
Hancher, mother of Clarence
Hancher, deceased.
ACCOUNTS of his travels in the
Holy Land will feature Bishop H.
H. Fouts lecture on the Christmas
lesson before the Mems Brother
hood class of the First United
Brethren church, Walnut street and
Park avenue, Sunday morning at
$50.
Clerks in the Big Four railway
stores and equipment accounting
office will banquet at the SEVERN at
1880 next Wednesday.
Appointment of c. A. Mckinney,
president of the Retail Coal Club of
this city, to the executive council
of the National Retail Coal Mer-
chants Associations nation wide
coal slogan contest, was announced
today by Harry Turner, Topeka,
Kan, general chairman of the cam
paign.
A Christmas fund collected by the
Mercator Club at its luncheon on
Tuesday in the Columbia Club, has
been turned over to the Family We'll
fare Society for needy families.
The Rev. Henry Ostrom of the ex-
tensiol department of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago will lead
a series of religious meetings at the
Wheeler City Rescue Mission begin
ming Jan. 5. H. E. Eberhardt of
the mission will cooperate.
Voluntary bankruptcy petition has
been filed in federal court by Lewis
E. Kinsey, Wayne county farmer,
listing s8,363 liabilities and $3.50
assets.
Memorial services were held
Thursday afternoon in the chapel
at Teachers College of indianapolis
for Mrs. S. edward Henry, who died
Tuesday. Mrs. Henry was sister OF
Miss Emma Colbert, dean OF the col
lege, and was former faculty men,
Der.