Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 6

CATURDAY, DECEMCER 12, 1914 1 1 ornnn the cub 17 KILNED DIES III By "HOP" Only Thirteen Days More Till Christmas J01K1 HQflf. WHO LIVED liEAHMGOLT.ISDEAD Suite and VOvcrcoatb i and Furnishing! to be found in the city fcJVsUlSi REPORTER GAR PENTERS BEGIN TO GONSTRUGTPLATFORM Illinois Central carpenters began to construct this morning just east of the east rail of the north' subway main a new eighteen foot platform, which, when completed, will- extend from a line south of the Charleston avenue bridge to a line north of the Big Four trestle, total length about 00 feet Workmen this morning completed an extension to the north end of the platform built In the west side of the subway, the new north end of the platform being about thirty north of the Big Four trestle. -1 Bridge work, work on the- subway tracks and: drainage system and the final work of the subway contractor is being pushed with full force regard-, less of the'' weather. k. At DeWltt avenue the work of building forms for the new permanent bridge Is being kept up the regular hours.

In Charleston avenue a fun force of men Is being used on the work of building an abuttment and a retaining wall.1 The material used is heated before mixed. The steam trench digger, which is being used In the laying of the north section of the subway drainage sye- tem. Is working in the vicinity of DeWltt avenue. A gang of men is at south of the MX trestle digging trenche and laying tile, The railroad company contracted to lay tile north from Afterward the plans a ere changed and a contract was let for laying tile as tar south as Lafayette avenue. The Lynch forces are at work near Richmond avenue, where they are excavating by hand at the base of the in-cltie for the Big Four transfer track.

REFUSES. TO ISSUE;" RESTRAINING ORDER Special to Journal-Gazetted Shelbyvllle, nU Deo. 18. Judge Rose of the Shelby circuit court made hla finding on Friday in the injunction proceedings filed by the defendants in the mandamus case of J. H.

Wallace against the Citizens State bank of Windsor and Its officials, refusing to grant a temporary restraining order. The result will be that the mandamui proceedings will be tried during the next term of court, which will be In March. 1916. The petitioners for the injunction claimed that Wallace and tho officials of the Windsor State bank are seek ing by the mandamus proceedings to put the Citizens' State bank of wind sor out of business bf gaining control of its stock. Wallace Is attempting to get an or der from the court mandating the Cltl zenii' bank to transfer stock 'certlfl cates covering 126 shares of that bank now owned by Wallace and others.

JT. W. ft B. C. Craig of Mattoon are attorneys for Wallace and his party.

The Citizens' bank Is represented by Vause, Hughes ft Klger of Mattoon. BRADY REFUSES TO MAKE ANY COMMENT International Newe Service. Springfield, III, Dec 12. State Audi tor Brady toddy refused to discuss the awarding of a' $60,000 "Judgment against him in the case of Mrs. Kuhn Brady yesterday.

His friends say that he failed to contest the case, because he was advised that this was the best way out. His salary cannot be at tached aqd there is no other, property on which collection can be made. At the rame time be is avoiding the scan dal of a public trlaL1 Dispatches from Chicago today state that Mrs. Brady will sue for adequate support as bis wife. 1 Stie says she must and will be recog nized as such.

1 The visitors af the Panama-Pacific exposition are not to be annoyed by any realization of the flight of time. Clocks are not to enter Into the architecture any of the buildings. High Quality PHOTOGRAPHS at Reasonable Price 1 I am now equipped to make pictures at night as well as day, and will ps open every "evening from 'now until Christmas. Studio hours every day, Including a. m.

until Seebold Picture Shop Upstairs Lehman Bldg, lfith nd Broadway, Matteen, f'J. Former Mattoon Man Makes. Request That Hla Body Ba Burled In Mat toon and Will Be" Granted. International News -Springfield. III Deu.

12. Once prominent socially and In the business world, but for 'more than, nineteen years an Inmate of the county poor farm, Walter B. Kllner formerly a well-known druggist and author of "Kit ner's Formulary." Is dead today, aged sixty-five, and authorities are making a vain search for any relatives he may have had. i In all the years that he had been a county charge he has never mentioned any but he requested that he be burled at Mattoon, and this request will be compiled with. No Near Relatives Survive.

There resided here at one time two men who bore the tame of Walter Kll ner, the two men being cousins. Walter B. Kllner, the man who died today in the poor house In Sangamon county, was the son of a photographer, who for a number of years bad a stand on the property where now is located the Demareebuildihg, Sixteenth street and Broadway. This part of the kllner family removed from here to Sullivan and from Sullivan to The other Walter Kllner was a son of George Kllner, who formerly owned the four buildings now occupied by Milter Jones, Flnfrock's drug store, Dolan's barber shop and Joseph's jewelry store. This Walter Kllner died several years ago.

He like his father was a druggist. Am, far as Is known bers there are no near survivors of the Kllner family, The few distant relatives are said to be living in the eastern part of the state of New York. HURRY-UP RUN SY AN 1 AMBULANCE UNNECESSARY The Campbell-Schilling ambulance this afternoon made a hurry-up run to Twenty-flrst street and Marion avenue to pick up a man said to nave been injured by an Illinois Central train, the call having been sent In by a woman who urged that haste be made. When the ambulance reached the place the man had picked up bis baggage and had departed. MERCHANTS, ATTENTION.

During the approaching holiday son there will doubtless be occasion tor many rush orders of printing, special circular, bills, cards, besides the regular run of commercial stationery. It will be our aim to reserve certain of our Job presses for rash orders, and we solicit and will take care of this class of work to the very best of our Holiday goods being perish able property, our facilities are at your disposal to help you move them. Phone 146. 12 12 GAZETTE PRINTING CO. AfterSupper Or a rainy day would be a good time for you to come up to our place to sit for your picture.

We are completely equipped with electricity to make pictures at all times and are altogether independent of'dayllght We also can make your pictures your own homes by flashlight at any hour. Why not have your family group after supper while daddy is at noma We have a supply of pretty little picture frames and number of purses, vanity cases and other leather specialties that would be fine for Christmas presents. Come In and look our gcods over be fore you purchase all your presents. WhiteselPs Studio 1704f Broodway Remember dark days are'ss good as any at our studio. Public Sale Having' quit farming to go into the stoclc raising business, I will at pabllo pn "what is known as the Henderson Gam-mill farm, leven '-miles south of Mattoon, one and one-half miles north and three-fourths jnlle east of Trllla, on 1 WEDNESDAY, Dec.

16 Beginning at 10:00 o'clock a. the following property 13 Head of Horses And All My Farming implements U. O. GR ANT JOHN McCALMSTER DEL. BJkiNMKTT, Auctioneer i CHAMPION, Clerk ffissmiBKsaiKsiss SOCIAL AFFAIRS WffilRIRWKSRLsllfiffilfi 8IX O'CLOCK DINNER Mr.

and Mrs. T. a Pasklns, 1105 South Sixteenth street, on Friday evening entertained at a six O'clock dinner Mr. and Mrs. C.

S. Dobson of this city, Mrs. O. Smith of Montlcello, Miss Caroline Smith of Storm Lake, Iowa, and Charles Roslne of Stras- burg. ENTERTAINS GIRL8 Miss Jessie Ballard entertained the girls of the B.

Y. K. class on Thurs day evening at her home, 2713 DeWttt avenue. After a period of sewing and music a luncheon was served. The guests were Misses Violet Wh It- son, Ruth Ballard, Ella Haskell, Leonal Fuller, Leona Carlyle, Lola Robb and Ella Waggoner.

hi BRIDGES-8NAPP WEDDING Ralph Bridges and Miss Cleo Snapp, both young people of this -city, were married In Charleston on Thursday evening by Rev. A. L. Caaeley, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of that city. Mr.

and Mrs. Bridges have returned to Mattoon to make their home. Mrs. Bridges formerly resided at DeWitt avenue. a a INDOOR PICNIC The members of the Rcbekah lodge held their first indoor picnic of the season on Friday evening In Odd Fellow hall In Charleston avenue.

The affair was for the members of the lodge and their families only and was attended by about one hundred and Bfty persona At six o'clock the picnic dinner was served. This was followed by a social hour. The lodge convened for the routine business. The remainder of the evening was passed in dancing. AITAMONT COUPLE MARRIED Effingham Record: Edward fl.

Bhl era and Miss PpalWtlfclnsoh, both of Aamit. were united In marriage atj Tk o. -i. jl JIUHII.U1IVU. WIU VI Cates at the' Methodist Episcopal parsonage.

Miss Ehlers, a sister of the groom, and Miss Mabel Wright were the witnesses. Mr. Ehlers haa been in the train service of the Vandal la; but Is now employed on the Illinois Cen tral They Immediately west to Mat toon, where they have gene to house keeping at 905 South Eighteenth street BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY Mrs. Samuel Milburn entertained a number of relatives and friends at din ner on Friday noon in celebration of her fifty-fourth birthday anniversary. Mrs.

HUburn waa presented with a number of gifts as tokens of her anni versary. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Do- shur Milburn, Mr. and Mrs.

Dall Mil Mrs. Ella Daggy, Misses Helen Harned. Hazel Jewel. Dorothy Milburn, Messrs. Haroia Hiiourn, ft.

HUburn and Oscar Early, the last named of Evans vllle. icj jf; tg AID SOCIETY MEETING The Ladles' Aid Society of the German Evangelical church was enter tained on Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Phillip Wollung, 617 North Twenty-second street. Mrs. Wollung conduct ed the business meeting, after which a social hour was enjoyed and the hostess served refreshments.

Mrs. Chris Sheckell assisted the hostess In serving. The guests were Mrs. Louise Kael berer, Mrs. Henry Dahllng.

Mr. Hen. ry DeBuhr, Mrs. Charles Leudke, Mrs. Ernest Ohme, Mrs.

Hugh Comer, Mrs. John Herring, Mrs, Chris Sheckell, Mrs. H. H. Warner, Mrs.

Hans Hen- richs, Mrs. Maggie Newcomb and Miss Rose Thode. St ENTRE NOUS CLUB The members of the Entre Nous club held their final dance of the club year on Friday evening at Fitzgerald halL There were about twenty-five couples In attendance. The Cole orchestra furnished the musk) for the numbers. It Is the Intention of the members of the club to reorganize for another year.

If a sufficient number of members can be' pledged to attend the I funeral Services on Sunday Afternoon, puriaL Following' Jn Odd Fallow fcsmetery at Humbolt poclat to Journal-Gazette. Humbolt, nu IS. John Hons, an old time resident of this place, died at his home about six tnllea north and east of Humbolt on Friday night at nine o'clock. Death was due to stomach trouble, tiring been failing for several years. The funeral services trill be held at the home on Sunday afternoon at on o'clock.

The burial will be made In the Odd Fellow cemetery at Humbolt. Rot. H. W. Cuppy Kemp will of-'i Hclate.

Mr. Honn had lived virtually all his I life at the place where death occurred. He was one of the moat prominent i residents of the Humbolt vicinity and a was known by the entire neighbor-f Mr. Honn to survived wife and three daughter and cons. There also survive thr "iers, Peter Honn of Mattoor loan, resides on the farm t.

that of his brother, and Isaac who also makes his home on a hum in this Vicinity. FAIRBANKS PREDICTS RETURN OF G. 0.: P. Dee. 12.

"The recent elections are full of significance," aaid Charles W. Fairbanka In an interview today. "The elections emphasise the fact that the country is dissatisfied with Democratic policies, and that it In- tends to restore Republican policies and return to a Republican administration. The return of Progressives to the 'Republican colors, of course, accounts for much of the tremendous gain, yet a very large number of Democrats rare their support to the Republican cause. "Since the election many Progres- Ive eome of, then conspicuous In the, organisation of the new.

party- have openly disclosed their purpose to affiliate with the Republican party In the The opinion la gathering force through the country that the Re publican cause will win two years hence. "Immediately following the election i a more optimistic feeling pervaded trade centers. This was due to the greae progress wnicu io nepuuueau cause made through the country; and to the assurance it gave of coming trl- umph. "Tk. itnimtrv has Vdln3 ronvift.

tlon, founded upon past 1 experience. that -Industrial and commercial eue- cess ere -baaed upon Kepuoucaa prin ciples, and that the Republican party, better than any other, possesses the governing faculty." I TROOPS OF THE ALLIES AREOHTHEOFFEIISIVE International Nevrn tervlcei. I Berlin. Dec, 12. All attacks by the allies In the western theater of war were repulsed yesterday, according to an bfflclal statement Issued here at four o'clock thla afternoon.

It shows that the Franco-British troops are on the offensive along almost the entire l. irvnv out BK1I U1M IUV UP1 UAW hae made progress at Airaa. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. l)ondon-A cigar presented by the kaiser to Lord Lonsdale was sold for $72.60 at auction In aid of the local Red Cross hospital, A local Arm of butcher bought the weed. New York.

Burlap trousers have fceen fitted to the trees in Ralney park to save them from bark-eating goata. North Bergen, I wUl not marry any one under the influence of liquor, especially after i a. Is new placard on the home of Recorder Medina. Foarth Entertainment Given By 1 Century Lyceum Bureau CENEHT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TDESDAV, 15tn At First H. E.

Chnrch igo- Ilusical Club Persoqnel MART LtTTZ, Violinist. MIS3 String Baas Soloist 1 MISS GUTHRIE, Trombonist MI33 GERM AND, MISS MITCHELL. Flutist. -MR. I1ARHT, WGBEB, BROOKS, i Soloist Single Ticket" 35c Eilcjcy Ticket 25c.

rates for last three entertainments tor this season's course, It. V. Adams, IS ilonry Clark, it 'loven Male Quartette. at HilsabecR MAY HEAR CONCERT AND ALSO SEE WAR PICTU Chfcuo Mualcal' 'lirt. COmea tO the First Miha4 next Tuesday evening, Is probably neaa uner number of i course which la being offered this ter ior tne benefit of Memorial pltal The management of th if lawmeni course has arranged to bf tne concert earlier than usual so 1 those who desire mar tir port unity to view the Belala w.r I tures which ar to be shown ur the auspices of the local Elks Id for the benefit of the Belgian sufferf Tne concert is scheduled to bl promptly at 7:30 o'clock and will cl In ample time for those who wisH see us second snow of the war tares.

SPECIAL NOTICE. For the next sixty days I will ni special prices on an dressmaking I 12-16 MISS CASSELi JournsMlaxette want see get res TOO LATE TO CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Th. Pml teas Sisters will hold a bazaar and! change all day Saturday, DecembeJ at 1404 Broadway. Ready-made forts and quilts, ladles' house dresj aprons, children's dresses home-el iignt Dread, plea, and many other i cies for sale. xil MILLINERY Bar rain I.

12 so tn i untnmmea ananem ior ti cs in 1.50 shapes for 60c: trimmed hatl half-price. Mra. 9rig8V ri ne avenue. iu SAVE YOUR HAIR COM Bl NO. 3-1 make switches and puffs: hair swil es dyed for fifty cents; have your dressed at Murphy's, 1200 Prairie nue.

Phone (67. xil CLEANING AND PRESSING SJ overcoats, bats and skirts of all kl promptly "dona All garments ea for and delivered. Mattoon Shin Parlor, 1511 Broadway. Telepli 663. all MONEY SAVING SPECIALS fail to call phone 1425 when you pi your groceriee tomorrow.

Oct share of bargains we are offering, please particular people. F. 8 fer, 31S North Twenty-second 'stif Xl FOR SALE Fry chickens, one one-half to two pounds; also brd turkeys, good for breeding purpof Phone 9843. 1 11 FOR SALS Five areat baraal Three ladles' long coats, sises tbu six and thirty-eight; two ralncf silk' lined, sizes thirty-eight and fcf and fifty-six Inches long; balf pil McVays, tailoring. all FOUND A bunch of keys.

Owner have same by calling at The Jourl Gazette office and paying for this Oca. II FOR SALE 3108 DeWitt avenue; room bungalow, with basement; sonable. Robert Cbettle. 3100 11 avenue. II FOR RENT One four-room bd and one six-room bouse; also Round Oak beater and cook stove I sale.

Inquire at 1420 Richmond nue. Phone lioi. ll MARRY Hundreds of wealthy ml bers wishing tr marry soon; desn tlon free. Reliable. club.

Mrs. bel. Department 14. Box 36, Oakld Cat FLORIDA. DELANO Idfal winter! sort amidst orange groves; unlverl center; twenty-live mile hard road Atlantlo ooeanr i beachesv "4, Booh Secretary, Business League, Delt Fla.

SPECIAL NOTICE We are now o) and. ready for business with a new stock of groceries at the Men! stand, 3901 Cedar avenue, Give i trial. Phone 1010. Hyten Hln liter SPECIAL Ladles' and Children's FUR8 CLEANE Plumes Dyed Cleane Orders called for and delivered. I Office Phone 151.

Rea. Phone fj ERM1SCH DYEING AT, CLEANING COMPANY a MRS. 8. It KVANH, Agent! MILLAR SAYS HE WILL NOT JAKE AN APPEAL 8peclal to Journal-Gazette. Charleston, 111., Dec 12.

While the attorneys representing W. Ed Millar notice that their client would takean appeal to the higher courts In the contest brought against him by O. L. Minter Of Qakland, Mr. Millar stated this afternoon1 that he would not carry the matter, to the higher courts and that Just as soon as Mr.

Minter could receive his commission from the secretary of state and could arrange his official bond, he would step down and turn the office over to the Oakland man. "It la clear to me," said Mr. Millar, "that Mr. Minter waa elected by the people to the ofTlce of superintendent, and I do not Intend to get the office for myself through any mere technicality of law. I feel certain that the supreme court would reverse the decision of Judge Harrah, but those 159 voters in Precinct three In Mattoon are entitled to their choice in the matter.

There fore I shall not appeal the matter and Mr. Mister will take over the office of superintendent of schools Just as soon as he can arrange his affairs." I. i ANOTHER SLIDE IN THE CULEBRA CUT OF CANAL International Newe Service. San Francisco, Deo. 12.

Another big slide occurred In the Culebra cut of the Panama canal today, according to a telegram received by W. R. Grace ft Company from their Panama agent GOVERSTONE IS GIVEN JUDGMENT FOR $17.50 Judge Branan of the city police Court beard this afternoon the evi dence in the $200 damage suit filed by Charles Coverstone against the city of Mattoon, Chief of Police Scheef and Patrolman Hendrix. Coverstone, is his -bill of particulars, stated that the police department Is withholding from him whisky worth $17.60. which was taken from him when be was arrested on a charge of Intoxication.

Judge Branan returned a verdict for fir.BO against the defendant, the city of Mattoon. City Attorney Powell gave notice that he will take an appeal to the city court In the meanwhile the booze will still be held by the police'. City Attorney Ira Powell, who defended all three defendants, contended that the whisky claimed by Cover stone la the property of a second party and that the liquor was Intended for a bootlegging business. The police believe the liquor belongs to Jake Berry. It was brought to the city In Berry's buggy.

Berry made the trip to Slgel with Coverstone, but he returned home on a train instead of In hla buggy. PLANS WAR CLEARING HOUSE Herrlek Would Eetablsh Bureau to Take Charge of Relief Work for War Sufferers. Cleveland. Dec, 12. Myron T.

Herrlek, former ambassador to France, plans to establish an Interna tional war relief bureau with headquarters in New York, according to an announcement made by Pannley Herrlek, his son, and Francis Drake, assistant president of the American Chamber of Commerce In Paris. Drake came to this country to assist Herrlek la the project, he said. The plan includes the establishment in New York of an internal tonal clearing house committee to have charge of sending abroad all the funds and articles gathered in this country for the relief of war sufferers. Herrlek will try to interest government officials In the plan when he goes to Washington next GIRL POISONS MOTHER'S WINE 6L Louis Child of 13 Trlee to Bsy Side, L. I Woman Who Adopted Her.

Kill New -York. Deo. 12. In Kings County Hospital, sent there by the Children's Society, Is a pallid faced, dull-eyed little girl, who has admitted without a whimper or a sob that, eue tried to kill her foster-mother, Mrs. Celia Moore, of Bay Side.

L. wife of James B. Moore, traveling salesman. The child to Virginia Maxwell, formerly of St Louis. She Is 12 years old.

Embittered against the woman who had adopted Virginia dumped the contents of a bottle of bronze shoe polish and another of wood alcohol In-to a decanter containing sherry out of which she knew Mrs. Moore nightly drank f- Journal-Gaxstta want cor art results. HI i PERSONAL KKSaKKitiKWSIfilKSHiK A. F. Burwell of Springfield waa vis iting friend In the city today.

Mra. Charles Kruger of Areola visit ed today with friends in the city. Mr. and Mrs. A.

G. Apperson of Etna visited Friday with friends In the city. Mrs. M. Black and Miss Mary Black of Humbolt were, visitors in the city If It Is groceries that you want, call 1010.

Hyten ft HlnderUter, 2901 Cedar avenue. 12-18 Mrs. George T. Duane has gone to Terre Haute for a Sunday visit with her mother. Jesae Colbert of Princeton, Is visiting Mr.

and Mrs. John Colbert for alewdaysr New mid-winter hats, prices reason able. deGroodt Millinery, Room 4, Buck building. Phone 2132. 12-17 Mrs.

W. K. High of Indianapolis Is In the city visiting her daughter, Miss Georgia High. Mrs. Lena Stansberry Young of Janesvllle was a guest of friends in the city today.

Mrs. A. C. Wilcox is home from Springfield, where she visited her sis ter, Mrs. Ackerman.

Tatting trimmed, hanl-made band' kerchiefs. Ella Rke. Phone 157. 12-12 Misses Ethel Gardner and Honor Barney are new clerka In the Thomp son ft Bratton store. Mrs.

W. H. Jackson will depart on Monday for Denver, where she will make her future home. Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Klllem of Shelby vllle are visiting for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. J. McFarland. Mrs.

Claude Nichols Is home, from Charleston, where she visited her mother, Mrs. Sonoma Monfort. Miss Luclle Pollen went this morn ing to Chicago, where she haa a posi tion and will reside In the future. William Downing waa called to Dan ville today by the serious Illness of his mother, Mrs. Martha Downing.

Mra Thomas Highland has returned home from Casey, where she was called by the death of Mrs. Z. B. Brant Mrs. D.

P. Rose has departed for Bellefontalne. to make her borne with her daughter, Mrs. W. A.

Shafer. Our Christmas Savings Club closes December 7, 1914. New one opens the same day for 1915. Central Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. 12-2U Mrs.

Jesse Cook of Syracuse, who waa visiting Mrs. Fred Whist, went to Decatur today for a visit before returning to her home. Mrs, G. A. F.

Raland and little daughter Frances Helen of Chicago will arrive Sunday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. James.

G. H. Cokendolpher arrived home Friday from a sojourn at Attica, Ind. Mr. Cokendolpher, who haa been suf fering from rheumatism.

Is much Im proved in health. Chicago Musical Club that win ei tertain. we hope, a very large and ai preclative audience at First Methodist Episcopal church Tuesday evening, December 15, hospital benefit, nave been selected from soloists of wide concert and lyceum experience from sucb organizations as the Metropolitan Ladles' Orchestra, the Chicago Ladles' and Kryl's Band. 12-12 Mrs. C.

A. Woollen returned home from Toledo, where she was called by the death of bet father, Andrew Brewer, who passed away on December 2. Mr. Brewer was a well-known resident of Toledo, The cause of demise was hardening of the arteries. CITY COURT APPROVES 330 ST.

CERTIFICATE Judge McNutt of the Mattoon crty court approved today the final certificate -of the Improvement of Thirty-third street from Western avenue to Prairie avenue and from Prairie avenue to the north line of the city, find ing the Improvements made are the Improvement planned and contracted for." Thirty-third atreet from Western avenue to Prairie avenue was paved a width of twenty-six feet The remainder of the street Is built of brick and macadam, the brick pavement being nine feet wide with, macadam on each tide three and a half feet wide. The new pavements have been in service for several weeks, having been turned over to the public at soon asltheywere completed. There were no objections made today to the ap proval of the final certificate. The only objections made came when the assessment roll was presented In court for hearing. A slight change satisfied all concerned.

A gum has been discovered in large quantities In the Malay peninsula that yields from ten to twenty per cent pure rubber. dancea. It la thought that the dances will be continued. A membership committee waa appointed by the new president Carl' D. Klger, which will solicit members.

This committee Is compos ed of Hadley Baldwin, E. R. Stark- wether and R. M. Lytle.

H. Q. Casper was elected secretary-treasurer. CONCERT A SUCCESS A large and an appreciative audience attended the concert given on Friday evening at the Broadway Presbyterian church under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor society. The program committee was composed of Miss Flora Six, Miss Florence Ohme and Miss Mildred Easter.

The program consisted of several selections given by the Easter orches tra, which were well received. Mrs. Gall Weber, who has appeared frequently before Mattoon audiences, gave two numbers and again showed her ability as a reader. Mrs. Ruth Kin-cald Bockleman, Mrs.

W. T. Avey and Walter Easter gave vocal aolos. Miss Elsie Gannaway delighted all with a piano number and Miss Harriett Len-hart and Miss Flora Six played a piano and organ duo, which was highly appreciated. The -society realized quite a little sum as a result of Its efforts.

jU jaj isj DR. LORD AT 8CHOOL The patrons of the Lonafellow school were entertained on Friday aft ernoon by the teachers of the school. About one hundred and fifty were pres- i of which was theeddress of Dr. L. C.

Lord, president of the Charleston normal school. Pink snd white carnations were given out by the teachers. The program waa in charge of Misa Anna Pape, the principal. Dr. Lord pleased all by his talk, which waa highly entertaining.

He spoke of the Influences of the home, the teacher and the general disposition of the child In its education. He said that the child Is taught reading, writing; geography and the other rudiments of education, but that the most Important factor Is arithmetic. He said that no child can get along with out some knowledge of figures. Con centration of thought waa also spoken of as a good asset In a child's educa tion. Spontaneous concentration can often be secured, but attention Is required.

Dr. Lord also said that the province of the school was to teach, train and educate the child, and it is the province of the home to give him strength, health and moral training. The home must do the rest after the education of the child haa been look ed after. The talk was educative and of great value to teacher, child and mother. TRAIN KILLS LABORER.

South bound passenger train No. 5 of the Illinois Central Railroad com pany was one hour and five minutes late this morning In reaching the city, having run down and killed near Gal-ton, a station midway between Tuscola and Areola, one of the company's foreign laborers. The man atepped off the north main to get out of the way of an approaching train and step ped in front of the passenger train. CARRANZA PREPARING TO LEAVE HI3 COUNTRY International News Service. Washington, Deo.

12. Rumors In Vera Crus are to the effect that Car-ransa Is preparing to leave Mexico, the state department waa advised by United States Consul Canada at Vera Crua today. Some of the spiders of Java have webs so strong that a knife Is required to cut them. The curriculum will consist of two years in physics, chemistry, zoology and modern languages; then four years of epecjal training in which students will learn for Instance, how a town may get clean watery how to make a sewage farm safe and profitable; how flies, mosquitoes and other germs may be suppressed; what people ought to eat; how. schools, churches and public buildings ought to be heated and ventilated and many kindred subjects.

TEACH HOW TO KEEP EVERYBODY WELL San Francisco, Dee. 12w "Grad uate in public health" will be the de gree awarded by the TJnIveoty-Tr: California at the end of a six-year course In a new profession that of keeping welL For a long time the universities have been teaching how to cure the sick, but the aim of this hew course in preventative medicine Is to, train experts whose whole purpose shall be to pre vent-any one from ever being sick enough to need a doctor..