The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-24
News Dispatches From Surrounding Communities

CAMBRIDGE CITY-High school
will close here on May %. The Rev.
e. E. Davis of Richmond will preach
the baccalaureate sermon at the Pres
tyterian church Sunday evening, May
Is. The graduating class is the largest
In fifteen years. Fifteen members will
receive diplomas. They are: Ruth
| Campbell, Pauline Morris, Sophrona
Martin, Roscella Keever Gladys Add
F, son, Wayne Daniels, Sherl Winters,
Ivan Graves, Walter Jacobs, Robert
Cornthwait, Walter Tiefenthaler, Olin
Furgason, Earl Peel, Frank Frohnap-
fel and Wilbur Murray.
Members, of the Helen Hunt club
will hold rummage sale Friday and
! Saturday. April 25 and 26, in the Arma-
trout building. The proceeds will go
! toward the library fund. Persons
wishing to donate articles may leave
them at the Armatrout home Thurs
| day afternoon. A market will be held
Saturday afternoon.
An allday meeting of the home de-
partment will be held at the Christian
church May II. Rev. Mr.. O'Connor
and Rev. Mr.. Shultz will be in charge.
Arch Hobbs Of Indianapolis, great
| chief Of records of the Red Men, ad-
dressed members Of the local order
Tuesday evening.
UNNECESSARILY Victory loan
drive for this county is making sat-
isfactory progress according to state
ment given out by Chairman o. e.
Ross today. Greensboro and Franklin
townships subscribed their quotas on
Monday evening. The Women's sec
zion of the drive under the direction
of Mrs. G. G. Markle has a perfect
organization throughout the county. 1t
is expected to have the county's quota
raised by Saturday night.
A. A. Hoover, a teacher in the
! Union City. Ohio, schools for the last
thirty years, has resigned on account
of i'll health. Mr.. Hoover will go to
Massachusetts, where he will take a
much needed rest during the summer.
The school board did not accept the
resignation but gave him years
leave of absence. For nineteen years
Hoover was principal of the High
school and for the last five years has
been superintendent.
A demonstration of farm tractors
was given Tuesday, three miles east
OF here. There were eight different
tractors entered and while there was
no prize offered, yet there was COM
mittee of judges to determine the
amount of fuel used by each tractor.
A crowd estimated at five hundred
people witnessed the demonstration.
Over IL acres of ground was plowed,
each tractor having two or three gang
plows attached.
CAMPBELLSTOWN O.-The high
school commencement will be held on
Saturday evening, May II. The fol-
lowing are the members of the senior
class; Kenneth Swisher, James Nc
Clellan, Clarence Renner, Jesse Bank
err Marie Sieweke, Hilda Stegall Mon
lea McGill, Malvin Pryfogle, Edna Fur
man. Mary McWhinney and Ruth
Campbell.
The Central school will close May
16 with an all-day program.
MIDDLEBORO - Common school
graduation will be held in the high
school auditorium May Z. Clarence
Brees and Helen Huffman are the only
graduates.
A reception for the Rev. l.. F. III
mer and family will be given here
Thursday evening Members of the
Chester church will be guests.
CONOMY-Members of the high
school senior class We're entertained
Tuesday evening at the home Of DR..
Loop. Forty guests were entertained.
Games and contests occupied the eve
ming.
Seats for commencement will be on
sale at the Beckman store Friday
morning.
store room said to have been
built before 1928 is being torn down
by Seward Beard. According to Duke
Swain, the first part of the building
was built by Macy Williams but no
records have been found to learn the
exact date when it was built. The
first postoffice was in the building and
later Dan Robbins had a store there
Mr. Beard has occupied the building
of rtwenty years.
OXFORD. O-The editorial staff of
THE Oxford Spirit" the monthly pub
LEGATION of Oxford College for Women, |
last night subscribed to the endow-
ment fund for the institution the sum |
of $3.50 to be paid before the year
1880.
Mrs. James S. Hughes, wife of
Mayor Hughes, was informed by coun-
Gil last night that she must not screen
a porch which she is building on the
towns sixteen feet in front Of her
adjoining the Green Tree
Inn, operated by her husband Also
she was told that she must limit the
railing around the porch to two and
one-half feet in height, and make 1t
open. Mrs. Hughes conducts a tea