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| first of the week.
Andrew Mullen and family of Ak
ron were the guests of Burch YMillen
and family part of last and this
week.
| Lyle Terry and family of Mansfield
are the guests of the Terry-Stinemet
relatives here this week.
Mr.. Roland Van Pelt of Leesburg
spent Sunday with friends here
Miss Stella Zieg will entertain a
company of young people at her home
on West College street Friday even
ing honoring Misses Dorothy Gould
and Marian Hosack, who soon leave
to enter Oberlin college. and Mr..
Virgil Ravennaugh, who leaves Mon
| day to enter Muskingum college, at
New Concord.
Mr.. Clyde Newman and wife of Ak
ron, Mrs. Leonard Newman of Jack
sonville and Thayer Newman of New
ark, N. j., have been the guests of
Mrs. Harry j.. Croft the past week.
Mrs Rose Leedy has returned home
from two weeks visit with relatives
and friends at Columbus and Celina.
Lorin Marple has few more gal
Ions of floor varnish for $3.50 per gal
lon; six gallons of house paint to sell
for $500 per gallon.
Wilmot Taylor of Cincinnati is
spending his vacation with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Taylor.
Mrs. Gail Daniels left Monday for
Battle Creek, Mich, where she VIII
enter sarfitarium for treatment.
Miss June Mann entertained a COM
pany of young people at her home
north OF town last Monday evening.
Refreshments were served and fine
time had.
The public schools opened Tues
day with the largest enrolment in the
history of the schools, the high school
building being so crowded that one Of
the recitation rooms has to be uti-
lized as a study room, the other two
study halls being filled. New seats
had to be put in and 1t was expected
that about 115 would be the limit, but
much to the surprise of Supt w. L..
Davis and the teachers, when 1t came
time for opening, there were 1872
there. Besides Supt. Davis in the
high school are Misses Marian Men
ough, Dorothy Balduff and Patience
Leonard, all of whom taught last
year. or the 1872, there are 26 Sem
iors, rs Juniors, 81 Sophomores and
80 Freshmen. In the grades there
are 207 pupils as follows: First grade,
taught by Miss Grace Cooke, 30; sec
ond grade, taught by Miss Merle Faw-
cett, 33; third, taught by Miss Mar
gnret Ledman, 20; ourfth, taught by
Miss Lillian Bish, "a; fifth, taught by
Miss Edith Blue, 81; sixth, Nina Bak-
er, teacher, 1S; seventh and eighth
grades, taught by Prof. II: A. Knox,
AZ. s. M. CARRIER, special in muisc.
William Murphy is the new janitor at
the grade building.
In the passing of Louis Rarton Ack-
erman, Fredericktown lost one OF its
most hOnored citizens. We have been
personally acquainted with Mr.. Acker-
man for about AZ years, having been
a pupil In the Fredericktown schools
when he was superintendent of the
schools, and in all that time we have
never seen Mr.. Alderman other than
in a pleasant mood and accommodate;
ing to the last, many times discom
moding himself that someone else
might be benefited. For 30 years he
taught school and then engaged in
the insurance and real estate business
here, through all of which he proved
himself the true man that he was. He
had no enemies, everybody was his
friend, and he friend to everybody
Such q qSs will linger in the memory
of all who knew him in the years to
come and many shall call him bless
ed
Quite numer of the Blackburn -Ew
ers families took we'll filed baskets
and went to the country home of M
X. Blackburn and wife last Sunday
where, they had fine dinner and
spent a pleasant afternoon.
w. w. Parmenter and family OF
Youngstown visited his brother, b. f
Parmenter and family the past week
Fay Whitford of Chicago has beer
visiting his mother, Mrs. Epleta Whit
ford, the past week.
Eighteen auto loads of high school
pupils with the lady teachers held q
picnic at Jackson's bridge, Wednes
day afternoon and evening.
VIM. Beard, who has been spend
ing the summer In Columbus, has re
} turned to high school here.
Il. w. Mendenhall and family OF Co
lumbus, and l.. G. Mendenhall and
wife of Lima, have been guests in the
family of b. +, Parmenter. the pas,
week.
The ceiling and sidewalks of the
Sunday school room at the M. Il