The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-05
MEDAL CONTEST IN
PREBLE COUNTY IS
SET FOR APRIL q

EATON, O.. April 5.-Evening of
April % has been fixed as the time and
date for the county school literary
and music gold medal contest, which
will be held in West Alexandria, in
the auditorium of the school building,
under direction of the Preble County
High School league.
Elimination contests have been
held by the individual schools. The
winners are meeting in group con-
tests for eliminations for the county
contest. Already two of the group
contests have been conducted. The
first was held at Gratis, March 80.
representatives of the schools of
Gratis and Israel townships and West
| ElktOn competing.
The second group contest was held
| April in Dixon township, represent.
| atives Of the schools of Dixon and
Lanier townships and Camden COM
peting. The third group contest will
be held Tuesday of this week at New
Paris, with representatives of the
schools of Jefferson and Jackson town
ships and West Alexandria competing
The fourth and final group meeting
will be held Friday Of this week at
Verona. with representatives Of the
| SSDOolo " hOilloS lo"HSllip anu LC
isburg and Verona competing.
Funeral Services.
| Funeral services for Mrs. William
Lambers, 65. who died Friday at her
home in West Alexandria, after a
lingering illness. will be held Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock at the Reformed
church in West Alexandria and will be
in charge of Rev. J. W. Miller. Burial
will be at New Lexington, north OF
West Alexandria. Surviving her are
her husband, and one son, Harry Lam
bert, living near West Alexandria.
!. Funeral services for Miss Martha
Ehler, 90. who died Friday at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George Ehler, at West Alexandria
after an illness Of long duration. we're
held this afternoon at the Lutheran
: church in West Alexandria, with Rev
} S. Schillinger in charge. Burial was
at West Alexandria. She is survived
by her parents and one brother.
Tax Blanks Distributed.
, Blanks for voluntary tax returns o.
: personal property in Preble county
will be mailed out this week, accord
, ing to Scott Z. Fowler, in charge O
, the taxing department of the offices o
County Auditor S. G.. Hunt. Approx
iamtely 5000 blanks will be sent out
according to Fowler. Returns will bt
: received after April II and the time
limit for making returns expires OF
| May /.
Geek Funeral Held.
, Grant Geek, so, native of Eaton, wht
: died at his home in Hamilton, was
buried here Saturday afternoon il
, Mound Hill cemetery. He died Thurs
day night and the body was brough
here Friday to the home Of his mother
Mrs. Mary Geek, where funeral serv
ices were held Saturday afternoon
Rev A J. Bussard, Methodist church
officiating. The decedent is survived
by his wife and two children: hi
mother and four sisters, Mrs. Susal
Kemper, Mrs. A. L. Armstrong, ant
Miss Bessie Geek, all Of Eaton, ant
Miss Beatrice Geek, Of Detroit. Mich
He was a son of the late Larkin Geek
: pioneer operator Of the city fire en-
f CINE.
PrebIe Teachers Praised.
S More than one hundred teachers at
tended the spring meeting of tn
. Preble County Teachers association
I held Saturday in the central schoo
Y building in Lanier township. !
chicken dinner prepared by tn
Y domestic science department Of tn
l Lanier schools was feature Of Thu
meeting.
: DR.. B. F. Dyer, Boston, Mass, ant
2 DR.. Jesse Mcmillan, Miami university
n addressed the meeting. DR.. Dyer spOk
= on THE Ideal School, and the "Goo'
r Rural School" In this connection h
e highly complimented the Preble coun
l. ty schools, which he declared deserved
L. MI in tho front ran X {
4 The Lanier township central building
S is a model. he declared. DR.. Mcmillan
= spoke on "Socializcd Recitation ant
a The Perfect Teacher"
n To Be Buried at Eaton.
r The body of Marley Ellsworth. sol
t of Rev. and Mrs e. M. Earlsworth
formerly of Eaton, who died severa
n weeks ago at the home of his parent
n in Chicago. will be brought here some
e time this week and buried in Moun'
: Hill cemetery. Rev. Ellsworth va
l. pastor of ST. Paul's Methodist churcl
D during his residence in Eaton.
Turnpikes Are Returned
l Because the special road tax ha
|, expired and there are no provision
: for renewing the special levies, sew
: eral free turnpikes have been turned
; back to the trustees of their respec
e tive townships, according to minute
I of a recent meeting of the county com
4 missioners.
1 The pixies turned back to the trus
tees are: Fudge free turnpike. t.
l trustees of Lanier and Gratis town
ships; Backbone free turnpike, to thu
trustees of Somers township; Barnet
1 Mill free turnpike. to the trustees o
Casper and Lanier townships; Wash
1 ington and Casper free turnpike, t
the trustees of Washington and Gas
2 per townships.
Resigns as Manager
Ralph Truitt has resigned as man
: ager of the Eaton Pure Butter com
pany. creamery concern, with plant!
in Eaton and Eldorado, to accept man
agement of a creamery and ice cream
manufacturing concern in Piqua. H.
will remain with the local compan.
until about the middle of April.