The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-29

GREENSBORO The common
school graduating class of sixteen
pupils is the largest In several years.
Every pupil Of the eighth grade passed
the High school examination. Pupils
who will graduate from the common
schools are: Irma Stackhouse, Des-
mond lavender, Wilma Black, Delma
Wilson, Basil Bright, Jewell Morris,
Esther Morris, Dorothy Gwinn, Edith
Pickett, Ida Retts, Horace Wilson,
Audra Haler, Clara Hill, Lena Nichol-
son, Edward Elliott, Orville Gambler.
Commencement exercises will be held
Friday, May 2 at the Friends church.
L. E. Brown of Rushville, will give the
address, and County Superintendent
c. o. Williams will present the diplo-
mas. Music will be furnished by the
Chapman orchestra. High school
graduates are: Mabel Wise, Lucille
Gentry, Grace Stanton, Lora Boyd, Ira
Nicholson and Virgil Hoover.
ELDORADO-Samu w. Grathwell
will deliver the address at the COM
mencement exercises to be held May
s at the High school auditorium. The
Rev. A. c. Barnhart will give the In
vocation and the Rev. J. H. Blackford
the benediction. Music will be fur
nished by the orchestra and Glee club.
Amanda Poffenberger will give the
salutatory and Joe Colvin the vale
dictory. J. H. Ware, president of the
board of education, will present the
diplomas. Glass Day will be held on
May Z. The program will be as fol-
lows: Glass History, Letticia KIM
mel; Grafton, Orlan Denlinger; Glass
Poem, Merrill Guenther; Reading, Joe
Colvin; Violin Solo, Joe Colvin; Sc
lect Grafton, Everett Emrick; Class
Prophecy. Olive Howell; Class VIII,
iris Smith. The Rev. w. A. Vorhis OF
Greenville, o., will give the baccal-
aureate sermon Sunday afternoon,
May 4.
GREENVILLE, O.-The funeral OF
he late Judge David Weller Bowman
was held Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
at st. Paul's Episcopal church, Rev
Leckonby officiating. The members OF
the Darke County Bar association at
tended the funeral in body. Among
the members of the bar from out-of-
town who attended the funeral were
Judge J. l. Allread of Columbus, and
Judge H. L. Ferneding of Dayton, of
the court of appeals; Common Pleas
Judge Risinger of Eaton, and Attor-
neys Phil Saylor and Cristler of Eaton,
and B. A. Myers of Celina.
MILTON - The churches of Cam
bridge City, Dublin, Pershing and Mil
ton are entering a go to Church
campaign for the month of May. A
union service will be held in each town
on each Thursday night. The service
will be in charge of a visiting minister
from one of the other towns, and will
begin May s.
Thirty-two young people from the
Connersville high school with their
teacher, Miss Mary Lowell Jones, Wis
tied the museum at Earlham college
Saturday afternoon. On the way
home they enjoyed supper and So
cial hour at the home Of E. p. Jones.
LIBERTY-Fires have been destroy
ing homes and barns near here in the
last few months. Many more than last
year have been reported. Saturday
evening the home of Charles brook,
just west of Liberty was burned to
the ground. A defective flue was the
cause of the fire. Loss was estimated
at $1,000. There was no insurance.
The entire roof of the home belong
ing to Mrs. Hesselbrock was burned.
Very few of the household articles
We're burned. The house is owned
by All Addison. Loss was estimated
at $1,000 entirely covered by insur-
ance Boys who built a fire near the
house were to blame for the fire.
Farmers here are very optimistic
over the harm done the crops by the
late cold spell. 1t is thought that
very little harm was done. The
fruit growers are not so sure about
the damage done fruit crops. It is