The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-17
TWO WILL SPEAK AT
joint FARM PICNIC
IN EATON THURSDAY

EATON, O., Aug. 17.-With all ar
rangements completed, members of the
Preble County farm bureau and Preble
County Pomona grange are anticipat-
ing big time at their joint picnic
Thursday at the fairgrounds. 1t is to
be an allday countrywide affair and
the public Is invited to participate in
the festivities.
. Speechmaking will be a feature Of
the picnic. Murray D. Lincoln and A.
P. Sandles, both of Columbus, the
latter a. former secretary of the state
fair board, are to make addresses, the
former to speak at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon and the latter at 1880.
Band concerts, horseshoe pitching
contest, baseball and Juvenile sports,
along with basket-dinner, are among
the entertainment features offered.
The horseshoe pitching contest, for
prizes, and the ball game will be in
charge of a committee made up OF
Homer Charles, Ben Vernon and Harry
Sullivan. The ball game will start at
2 o'clock.
The juvenile sports, to start at o. 80
o'clock, include three-legged race, pota'
to race, pie race, jumping the rope,
baseball throwing, etc. Cash ppizes
will be awarded the winners. The con-
tests are for children under IA years
of age The Rev. Mr.. Harris, Mrs
Harry Fultz and Mrs. Howard Burdsall
will have charge of the contests.
Accident Victims Unidentified.
Identity Of a man and woman who
figured in an automobile accident late
Sunday night on the Richmond pike,
just out of Eaton, could not be learned
Neither was seriously hurt, SO far as
could be ascertained.
The car, being driven westward
crashed into a guardrail of a small
bridge near the Van Doren farm. The
woman in stepping from the car after
It struck the bridge, in the darkness,
stepped between the wagon bridge
and a traction bridge and fell to the
bed of branch, diNance of perhaps
~ or IA feet. The crash OF the car
and the woman's screams attracted
persons living in the vicinity to the
scene, but by the time they arrived the
woman had scrambled out to the road
way. A passing automobile took the
man and woman in and took them in
the direction Of Richmond.
The car, a Mitchell roadster, receiv
ed a badly damned radiator. bent axle
and lesser damage.
First arrivals upon the scene say the
couple seemed to want to avoid reveal
ing their identity, as they refused an
invitation to go to a nearby house and
have a doctor called to ascertain II
either was hurt.
1t is said the man claimed hs was
blinded by the lights Of car coming
toward him and was responsible foI
his striking the bridge.
Judqment to Denlinger
Judgment for $392.25 was awarded
in common pleas court to Orval Den
linser against Harry V. Kline. The
suit was based on a note given in
payment for an automobile. and a
farm tractor engine securing the note
was ordered sold by the sheriff.
Close Contract for Fair.
Contract has been closed by the
county fair board for the free attrac
ton for the county fair the last week
in September. The board also has
contracted for all straw to be used
on the fair grounds during the fair.
Order Sale of House
Public sale of four residence pro-
perties in Eaton, ut guardians sale
has been ordered for next Saturday
The properties belong to Francis
White, an infant. Three of the prop
critics were sold recently a GUARDIAN
public sale, but the sale was vacated
because two of three persons appoint
ed to appraise the properties were not
real estate owners. In such cases a
law requires that the appraisers must
by realty owners, it is said