Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 2

1 W. C. A. CONVENTION DELEGATES POSED FOR THE HERALDI Photo by International Stereograph Decatur, Ill. Town -Dr.

T. S. Hoskins, Dentist, 211-212 Millikin Building. -Dolly Madison, a good cigar, bc, at all dealers. -MAIENTHAL TAILORS.

-YOU PAI A LITTLE A MORE FOR CLOTHES THAT DENZ MAKES, BUT- -Apollo Player Piano for sale by C. Anderson, 225 N. Main St. Pianos tuned. Bell 3548; Auto 1014.

-Apples car of fancy Virginia hand picked Apples for sale as long as they last. Six varieties all guaranteed to keep. Best bulk Apples ever in Decatur. Car at East North street and railroad crossing. R.

T. Russell of Decatur. -C. W. Montgomery, insurance, 258 N.

Main. Both telephones. -We wish to thank those who in love and kindness helped us in our hour of great distress and bereavement of our beloved wife, daughter and sister. Thanks for beautiful floral offerings. ED ELLISON AND FAMILY.

C. L. KOLP AND FAMILY. STATISTICAL MATTERS BIRTHS. Born, to Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Wheeler, 1170 South Colfax street, Friday, Nov. 4, a son. MARRIAGE LICENSES, Jasper Tucker Darling, legal, of Chicago, and Sarah Katherine Harwood, legal, of Decatur. Cornelius K.

Chapin, 33, of Lansing, and Florence G. Armstrong, 26, of Decatur. WARRANTY DEEDS. Jacob H. Hoke to Catherine A.

McNulty, 40 feet off west side, lot 9. block 2, William Martin's addition; $800. W. C. Blossom to J.

L. Drake, lot 23, block 3, Riverside Place; $1. L. Clokey to C. H.

Leas, lot 54, in Elm Ridge: $250. Lev! Towle to J. W. Davis, lot 21, block 2, Towle's a $400. Malinda J.

Johnson to F. R. Ward, tract in township 16, north range, 1 east; $833.50. EVIDENCE CLINCHES EVIDENCE OF GUILT ON I. COMPANY Evidence submitted in the inquest into the death of J.

Bart Coulter, the street car conductor, who was killed in the collision of the string of coal cars pushed by Illinois Central switch engine and the Riverside street car Friday night, only tended to clinch the negligence of the railroad switch crew in causing the accident costing the death of the street car man. The inquest, conducted by Coroner T. C. Buxton in Moran's undertaking yesterday afternoon, was one 01 room the most thorough and searching investigations that has been held in county for several years. Attorthis, representing the widow of the dead street car employe, the Illinois Central railroad and the Decatur Railway and Light company, were present at the proceeding and in the record of the investigation secured answers to many questions asked by them.

Two stenographers recorded the testimony of each of the eight witnesses examined. The inquest was not finished yesterday owing to the illness of Motorman W. J. Cullens, who was unable to attend the inquest. It will be concluded Monday, convening at 12.30 o'clock.

Ed Miller, switchman, who was said to be near the Illirols Central crossing when the collision happened, contradicted himself several times in ing his testimony. He declared that he gave the stop signal to his engineer as soon as he saw the impending danger of a collision alter street car had started across track. but was too late to stop the long string of cars. There were sixcoal cars. three of which were loaded, in the string.

A. S. Taylor Frank Hays, the other two switchmen, testified, in substance saying that no air pressure was connected for the brakes in the engine. The five passengers in the car testified, but their evidence was not material in the cause the accident. Basil Miller, 13 years old, living in the 1700 block in North Monroe street, broke his left arm at the elbow Frievening just after leaving school.

day and another boy were having a He friendly wrestle match when the accident occurred. A. T. RISLEY DIES; AGEIS 98 YEARS To Older People He Was Recognized as a Widely Known Resident. VICTIM OF CHICANERY In Last Few Years Large Sums Lost By Him In Unwise Investments.

Within two years of celebrating his 100th- birthday anniversary, Abdiel T. Risley, 98 years died in the home Mrs. A. L. Brockway, a boarding house keeper, 561 North College street, night at 7 o'clock.

Death was caused by paralysis and infirmities of old age. five weeks, the aged man has been critically ill. On Friday he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and never regained consciousness. To the older residents of Decatur, A. T.

Risley was among the most widely known citizens of the city. For more than 55 years he has lived in Decatur, and although never prominent in the affairs of the city, he was widely known for his eccentricity and also for his successful career as a real estate. investor. Until few years ago, when he made a division of his estate among his several children, A. T.

Risley was reputed to be worth anywhere from $90,000 to $150,000. Following this division of property, the aged man met with versity until he became then heavily volved, financially, that court appointed a conservator to attend to the business of the small estate ret mined by the nonogenarian. Abdiel T. Risley was born in Ogdenburg, N. in 1812.

He came west 80 years ago, settling in Ohio, where he served an apprenticeship with a prominent surveyor near Cincinnati. He followed the profession of civil engineering for many years. When only a youth 20 years old, he settled a dispute near Covington, by surveying a huge pile of cobblestones near the levee on the Ohio river at this city. went to Bloomington in 1848, where remaintie ed for seven years. He then removed to Decatur, where he has since lived.

During his early residence in this city he followed civil engineering and held the office of county surveyor several terms. Investments in city property and Macon county land soon netted the surveyor a snug fortune and about 25 years ago he retired from active business life. In his dotage he was the victim of much chicanery. It is mated that he lost between $40,000 and $50,000 in unwise investments. The remainder of his fortune, conservatively estimated at $88,000, was equally divided among his children about ten years ago.

Mr. Risley was twice married. Hig second marriage was celebrated in 1893, when he wag married to Mrs. Sarah Parker in this city. Mr.

Risley leaves seven children. They are A. G. Risley, Mrs. G.

V. Loring and Mrs. I. H. Terhune of this city.

Albert Risley of Streator, A. P. Rialey of Bond county, A. D. Risley of Chicago, and Mrs.

Clara Willis Houston, Tex. The body was taken to the ing rooms of Monson Wilcox. No arrangements have been made for the funeral. IMOGENE GREENE. The body of Imogene Greene, the 17 months old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. W. Greene, who died in the family home, 1152 North Wood ford street, Friday night, of pneumonia, will be taken to Ramsey this morning at 9.18 o'clock over the Illinois Central railroad for burial. J.

BART COULTER. The funeral of J. Bart Coulter, street car conductor, who was instantly killed in the street car smashup at Wood street crossing Friday night, will be held in the family 516 East Waggoner street, Monday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The father, W. P.

Coulter of Guyman, telegraphed relatives in this city yesterday that he would arrive in Decatur Sunday afternoon to attend the funeral. ISAAC HARKRADER. The funeral of Isaac Harkrader will be held in the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. E.

Persinger, 651 Prairie avenue, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The funeral party will be taken to Maroa in a special interurban ear, where burial will take place. MISS ANNA HAZEN. The body of Miss Anna Hazen, who died in St. Mary's hospital Wednesday night, was taken to Cowden yesterday morning for burial.

IRMA ROSALINE PHILLIPS. The funeral of Irma Rosaline Phil- lips was held in the family home, 1090 St. Louis avenue, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. 0. Would Have Been 100 in Two Years A.

T. RISLEY. W. Lawrence. -Music was furnished by Miss Eva Baldridge and Miss Grace.

Graybill. The burial was in Salem cemetery. J. LITZ. The funeral of J.

Litz will be held in Moran's chapel this morning at 10.30 o'clock conducted by Rev. 0, P. Wright. The burial will be in Brush College cemetery. KILLIAN INFANT.

KILLIAN INFANT. The infant daughter nie Killian was buried 2 Short services ege cemetery, yesterday in the family home, 1085 way street. of Mrs. Minin Brush Colafternoon at were held South Broad- TWO DECATUR WOMEN ARE ON STATE PROGRAM Two Decatur women will give important talks before the annual meeting of the Illinois State Federation of Woman's clubs, which will convene in Peoria November 15 to 18. Dr.

Harriet Day Chandler will talk on "Public Health" at the evening session of the first day, Tuesday, Nov. 15, and Mrs. George R. Cacon will speak at the luncheon on Thursday. The discussion on Tuesday will be on practical methods of solving some of the problems of the day.

Dependent children will be discussed. V. R. Randall, military instructor, of Glenwood, will be present and give a tall! on the work done at that school. He will have many slides and show pictures of the different branches, in particular those showing the development of dependency.

Mrs. Charles Henrotin, of Chicago, president of the board of the Park Ridge school, which is to girls what Glenwood is to the boys, will tell I of her work. In the 23 years that the latter school has been in operation the best of results have been obtained. It is now the work of the people of Illinois to see that the girls are as well cared for as the boys. In years heretofore the girls were not the problem that they are today.

Dr. Harriet Day Chandler will give the principal address on health questions. At this time there will also be, if possible. a showing of the moving picture slides of the "Fly Film" and the Learned." The first film Man Who was recently exhibited at one of the moving picture shows in Decatur. If it will not be possible to have the view that evening the advisability of adjourning the session and all attending one of the moving picture shows to see the films Vill be discussed.

Both are the best of toeir kind and are described being "dramatic and striking." The luncheon on Thursday will be for the discussion of the needs of Park Ridge. The Illinois women have been asked to build a cottage there, and this will come in for a share of the discussion. One woman from each of the clubs in the state will be present. Mrs. Charles S.

Hankins will be the representative from Decatur. Mrs. Bacon will give one of the principal addresses. Mrs. Charles Henrotin will make a talk.

All of the luncheon are being made by Mrs. F. K. Tracy of Chicago. Between 500 and 600 delegates are meeting in is second expected to peattend, the federation time that that city has had the meeting, the first one being held there.

No other city in the state has had the federation more than one time. This is the sixteenth annual meeting. WOMAN'S GROWTH IS WONDER OF AGE Miss Helen F. Barnes Tells of the Place of Y. W.

C. A. In Rural Awakening. INDISPENSIBLE NOW Country Life Should Be Made as Attractive As City, Speaker Insists. Miss Helen F.

Barnes, secretary for the national board of the Y. W. C. A. addressed the members of the Y.

W. C. A. state convention in the First Methodist church last night, speaking on "The Place of the Y. W.

C. A. in the Rural Awakening." She said that the rural problem is! being generally recognized throughout the country as one of much moment, and that the Y. W. C.

A. should not confine its work to the large cities, but should percolate throughout the smaller communities of the nation. The Y. W. C.

A. she characterized as fulfilling one of the big needs of the time, and that to an extent unrealized prior to its existence. We live, she declared, in a wonderful age and the organization she represented was lone of its best products. Yet we are still in a state of evolution and the work of the association, marvelous as it already is, cannot be considered as more than in a pioneer stage. The progress of women during the last one hundred years was one of the wonders of the times.

A century ago woman's sphere was scarcely more than housework, she declared. In 1823 the first high school for girls was opened in this country and had to close because of a lack of attendance, and was not opened again until 1850. But conditions have changed wonderfully since then, and women secure as much of an education as they want, and every line of endeavor save a few are open to them if they wish to enter. "The women who are thought of less than any today are those who are idle," she said. "Times have never been so much like an Arabian nights.

The undreamed of is beginning to be realized, and the unexpected no longer startles. Yet we cannot afford to live for ourselves. The Y. W. C.

A. is the most democratic organization imaginaRich and poor, old and young, are welcome in it, and find there the blessings of being associated with it. There is work for every woman and girl in the association, and although they cannot all do the work of a secretary, there is individual work for every one there. Feminine Employment. "Not a person in this room could get along without girls working for them.

They help to produce the articles we wear, serve us behind the counter, and weigh upon us in our wait upon us in our homes, write for us in our offices and teach our children. "This country is awakening to the fact that there is a rural problem, and the entire nation is awakening to the seriousness of this problem. There is no reason why we shall not do in the small towns what we are doing on a big scale in the big cities. There is awakening among the women of this country regarding the rural problem, among church club women and others. The federation of clubs in Wisconsin recently met to discuss the rural problem." She referred to the necessity of the on tuberculosis by teaching the doctrine of prevention, and the small town offered a good field for the war.

Also the moral question and the mission of the association to young women socially. "We have solved the social problem in the cities, now we must solve the social problem in the small town," she declared. "The rural awakening is in relationship with the city work, and the two are interwoven. The city association loses its mission for the greatest opportunity unless it takes care of the rural problem. Girls Who Disappear.

"Last year, according to statistics, 1700 girls started from New York to Chicago, and were never heard of again. They disappeared somewhere between the two cities and all trace of them has been lost. In the same time 6000 girls started from New York to other parts of the country, and were heard again. Perhaps, a majority of them were immigrant girls, unable to speak English, yet they were never heard of by friends or relatives after they had left New York. "It is high time that the association of Christian women face the situation, meet wile by wile and brain by brain, and thus work against the forces of evil.

Y. W. C. A. is not in rescue work, but is in preventive work.

Every woman who believes in virtue and highest standards of living will not be satisfied until everything possible is done in the prevention of evil and every effort is made to make life safe and sane for her sisters, be they immigrants or not. "And then, girls are lured to the city from the country. They are fooled by superficialties of the city, and by the thought that they can make money easily in the city. "Country life should be made as attractive as city, life, so that the country girl might know that she is living in the best place in the world." Final Business of Y. W.

C. A. Meeting The final business of the convention was finished at the session yesterday morning. The most important business was the election of the members of the state committee. All of the mem bers terms expired at this time were reelected.

The names follow: Mrs. S. A. Best, Evanston. Miss Alice S.

Davidson, Highland Park. Mrs. George Foster, Evanston. Mrs. James Lyman, Evanston.

Mrs. W. F. McDowell, Evanston. Mrs.

L. Wilbur Messer, Chicago. Mrs. Russell Barr, Quincy. Miss Caroline Powers, Decatur, The other members of the state committee whose terms do not expire at this time are: Miss Ruth Carpenter, Evanston.

Mrs. John A. Cole. Chicago. Miss Dorothy Fuller, Evanston.

Miss Annette Griggs, Chicago. Miss Martha Harris, Evanston. Miss Martha Lyman. Evanston. Mrs.

J. O. Mason. Aurora. Miss Gertrude Murrell.

Chicago. Mrs. Irwin Rew Evanston. Miss Tessie. Snafford.

Rockford. Mrs. I Tufte Chicago Misc Carrie R. Wilson Chicago. Du.

Taserhine Voune. Chicago. Mics Dodge. Peoria. R.

F. Hieronvmous. Eureka. Miss Ressie Holmes, Knox College. Miss Florahell Patterson, Monmouth College.

Monmouth. Mrs. P. A. James Millikin Universitv.

Decatur. Miss Martha Weaver. Illinois Woman's College Jacksonville. Miss Tillie F. Salter.

of Carbondale is an honorary member. Treasurer's report was read by Miss Harriet Broad, and showed the associ- time the bill of particulars was filed ation to be in good standing, financial- during the summer. In another case it ly. 'There is a balance of $382.76 in was alleged in the evidence that two the treasury The report of the a state people in the family had already obcommittee was most pleasing. tained decrees.

At the reception in. the afternoon The divorce cases yesterday, which delegates had an exceedingly pleasant virtually cleans up with such lawsuits time. Miss Broad said the reception on the October term docket, were as was the most successful of any held at follows: the state conventions. Everything was Sarah Isabel Hays against George informal, and in this way was the more Hays; decree of divorce. enjoyable.

Inez Coppage against Elbert CopThe high school gilss' glee club, un- page; default; immediate custody of der gave the some direction excellent of- Miss selections. Minerva Some Hall CoMinnie Pygott against Artitut guests There was no def- Pygott; continued for service. sang. inite program, however. Some im- Genevieve White against Ira White; promptu Geneva "stunts" were given.

of and maiden name redecree divorce the Bible study hour stored. morning will be conducted by Dr. Warren P. Sarah J. Strope against John Behan, in.

the association building. Strope; cause heard. One of the most important meetings of Jesse B. Rawlings against Henry the day will be the vesper service this Rawlings; decree of divorce. at the building.

Miss Ella Grant against Emmet Granted deafternoon will have charge of the ser- fault; cause heard and decree at cost Barnes. bv Miss of the complainant. vice. Music will be given Mattie L. Hale against Edward Mrs.

Corydon 8. Edna Bunn, planist, Hale; cause heard. and Nicholson and Mrs. H. W.

McHose will Emma Morse against Heber Morse; give several vocal selections. A charge default. of ten cents will made for the tea Ida Grant against Frank Grant; deat vesper service to partially cov- cree of divorce. er the expenses. Trueblood against Charles The closing address will be at the A.

Trueblood; cause heard. First Methodist church this evening by Hallie Grebe against Carl Grebe; deDr. Warren P. Behan. His subject will fault.

be "The Supreme Task of Disciple- Amy Calvert against Frank Culvert: ship." The key word of the convention cause heard; bill dismissed for want was. addresses have been and 01 most kindred of sub- the equity. Edith Rhades against Ison: W. jects. Rhoades; decree at cost of the com- SIXTEEN DIVORCE CASES IN COURT Sixteen divorce cases were heard and six decrees' granted by Judge William E.

Johns in circuit court yesterday. To hear evidence took longer in some cases than in others, but in none of them was more than an hour devoted to the hearing. Virtually every one of them revolved around some marital muddle, and found the complainant eager to have the matrimonial bonds severed. In a large percentage of cases drunkenness figured. in others desertion was charged.

while a few brought in statutory charges. A number went by default, no defense materializing. In one case it was shown that one day of married life had sufficed. This case was extensively chronicled at the plainant. S.

Phillips against Nellie Phillips; cause heard. Johnson against Edmund A Curtis; rule to answer by Nov. 10 WOMAN EDITOR TO SPEAK HERE TODAY Mrs. Harry R. Albert.

of Dayton, Ohio, editor of the Woman's Evangel, will be in Decatur today and speak: in the First and Second United Brethren churches. She will talk especially of the missionary work which the women's missionary societies are doing. Mrs. Albert will be at the First church the morning nour and at the Seeat and church In the evening. T.

R. Gale of St. Louis, will preach at the First church in the evening. Mr. Gale is the evangelist.

His subject will railroad be "Our Religion-What Is It? en milliners to About two dozWinter Conceits Decatur's assist you in Largest selecting or de- IN Millinery signing and and Hair making you a Classy Millinery Goods Embeautiful hat. porium. At 50c, 60c and 70c for the $1.00 worth These trimmings, materials and untrimmed hats were just bought direct from New York importers and manufactures at their clearance sale and are made up in our work room to please the most fastidious tastes. These importers and manufacturers have made their profits and are willing to sell in large quantities to firms able to handle such quantities at about 50c 4 on the $1.00 in order that they may prepare for Spring goods. Even though you have bought one, two or three hats, you should investigate these extraordinary values.

Perhaps you can afford to buy and lay away for future use. TURBANS draped in velvet. messaline or silk. slightly trimmed or hiohly trimmed $3.95 to $7.00. REAL CT.ASSY TRIMMED HATS $6.95.

$8.00. $10.00 and un to $35.00. BEAVER HATS $3.50 to $6 95. CHILDREN'S HATS 69c to $2.45 and up. Our regular $22.00, $17.00, $10.00 and $5.00 Plumes (Remernber not fictitious prices but our regular prices) Sale prices $19,00, $15.00, $9.00 and $3.95.

Lower priced Plumes at still greater reductions. Untrimmed Hats and many materials all go at almost off early prices. and New Wholesale HI HITCHCOCK'S Citizens' Retail Millinery Co. Bank Bldg. 246-248 N.

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