The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-02
COMMUNITY MEET
TO BE HELD At
EATON MONDAY
All Service Boys Urged to At
tend Conference-Talks to
be Made by Soldiers.

OS NAoOC Wy OOlO1SIo.
EATON, O., Aug. Arrangements
practically are completed for the
Preble county community conference
assembly room of the courthouse The
conference will open at o'clock. 1t
will deal with after-war conditions as
they affect returned soldiers and sail
ors.
Objects of the conference will be
set forth in an address by F. E. Welt
stein, of Cincinnati, Y. NJ. C. A. de-
mobilization secretary. Mayor Harry
L. Risinger of Eaton, will deliver an
address of welcome.
The meeting will open with commu-
nifty singing Of war songs. led by AL
fred w. McBriar Of Cincinnati, a de-
mobilization secretary of the Y. NJ.
c. A, who has been in the county
for some time working up interest and
arranging for the conference.
Lieutenant F. F. Patton, of Cincin-
natl, will recount his experiences in
the late war as commanding officer OF
the Seventh machine gun battalion.
Lieutenant Patton was one of only
two officers Of his outfit who escaped
injury, although the outfit, a unit OF
the Third division, was in four fierce
engagements.
Delegates to the conference have
been named in each township and a
sort of QUESTIONABLE has been sent
throughout the county. Reports on
conditions referred to in the question,
naire will be made by the various dele
gates.
An open discussion of the question:
What shall be done to make our COM
munity life more attractive to the re-
turning soldiers and sailors?" will be
conducted.
County School Superintendent w.
>. Fogarty, of Eaton, will preside at
the conference.
All returned soldiers and sailors of
the county have been invited and
urged to be preesnt at the conference.
Sues for $4,000.
Suit for foreclosure of a mortgage.
securing promissory note for $4,000
has been instituted in common pleas
court by Nettie c. Pierce against U.
F. Buckley, prominent lawyer, of Ham
ilton, o. Plaintiff AYERS there is owing
her the sum Of $19,4O4,33. The note
was drawn at Hamilton, Ohio, May 1,
1872 and several interest payments
are set forth in the petition for fore
closure of mortgage. The note, the
complaint AYERS, is secured by 357 &c
acres Of land in Somers township
Preble county.
Chautauqua Guaranteed.
With the seventh annual chautau
qua just closed, the Eaton chautauqua
roitton has cicynp o.
course next year. Secretary L. l.
Brown states that 730 season tickets
for next years course have been
pledged. The required number Of
tickets to reach the guarantee re
quired by the chautauqua bureau fol
next seasons course was 700, he
said.
Tickets for next years course will
sell at $3.50 each, plus the war tax
If such is required The price pei
ticket this season was So, plus the
war tax. Next years meeting viii
extend over seven days, the same
length of time covered by the chau
tauqua just closed. Secretary Brown
reports a balance of $32558 In tn,
trea sury.
Mrs. Goodwin Asks Divorce
Declaring that her husband stay
out late at night, and goes automobil
riding with other women which ha
gained for him undue notoriety, Jose
phine Goodwin filed suit Friday Il
common pleas court for divorce fror
A L. Goodwin and also for custody G
their two children, Janice, aged Is
and Mary, aged II months. The Coco
wins live in Eaton.
Mrs. Goodwin, in her complain
AYERS her husband began to lose int
est in his home and grow cold towar
ner about two years ago. Since tina
time, joyriding at night with othe
women and staying away from HON
until late in the night has been hi
custom for the most part, his wifi
ayers. She AYERS, too, he has an III
eovernable temper and Is given to fiji
of anger. The Goodwins were ma
ried March %, 1900, according to til
Tife's petition.
Turkeys Do 1894 Damage7
Suit instituted in a justices cou
for $294.35 damages for injury allege
ly done to crops by trespassing tn
keys has reached common pleas cour
appeal being taken upon error. D.
and Rosa Shirley are plaintiffs in tt
suit and A. l.. and Laura HOckma
are defendants.
The Shirleys obtained judgment f
$15S85, after they, upon their motto
struck out an item Of S102 for or
acre Of wheat, representing 81 bus
els, allegedly destroyed by the often
ing turkeys. Other grain, tomatoe
cabbage, etc, We're destroyed by Il
turkeys, the plaintiffs claim. The
aver they notified the Heckmans
keep their turkeys on their own PREF
ises and not to permit them to run
large on plaintiffs farm.
Appeal to the higher court was take
by the Heckmans, who were require
TO furnish S400 bond.