The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-27
PRIZE WINNING CALVES
SENT TO GREENVILLE
FOR BOYS and GIRLS

GREENyILLE. Jan. 27.-A carload
of prize winning calves, purchased by
commission merchants for the Darke
County Fair board for use in the Boys
and Girls Calf Feeding contest, have
been shipped from Denver, Colo, and
should arrive in this city very shortly,
according to advices received here yes
terday. These calves are all choice
Herefords, and took second and third
prizes at the big cattle show which
hams just closed In Denver. The young
people of Darke county desiring to en-
ter this contest are requested to com
municate with members of the fair
board or with Supt. j. A. Cotterel, and
arrange to take care of the calves
Immediately upon their arrival in this
city. .gg.sss s..-. .-ss..ss.........
Mrs. ctapp succurnhs..
An attack of inward goitre Is given
as the cause of the death late Monday
night at Ansonia. of Mrs. Helen Black
Clapp, former well known teacher of
this city, but who for some time past
has been living in Dayton. Mrs. Clapp
had come to Ansonia Saturday to
spend the Weekend with her parents
when she was suddenly seized with an
acute attack, and lived but a short
time afterwards. She was, until her
marriage little over a year ago, a
we'll known Darke county school teach
er, and is survived. by her husband
mother and father. Short services will
be held at the home of her parents in
Ansonia tomorrow afternoon, after
which the remains will be taken to
Lewisburg for interment.
Attend Conference.
Chairman Orel j. Myers, together
with several other members of the
Committee for Relief of the Near East
of this county, will go to Columbus
Friday, when a statewide conference
of county chairmen and members will
be held with Herbert Hoover, national
head of the movement at the Hotel
Hartman. Mr.. Myers states that the
outlook for a favorable report from
this county is very good, as excellent
reports have been coming in from
solicitors in the various DISTRICTS
Trouble Over Feed.
Y The Case of Harry Yohe VS.. E f.
Studebaker was to be heard in com
mon pleas court before Judge Teegard
en-. The suit started from some trou
BILE over payment for feed and stable
rent, and is an appeal from the docket
of J. .@Mudhenk.s The justice before
whom the case was tried, died last
fall in Arcanum. The transcript in
common pleas court was filed Sept. S
1917.
Ask Dismissal.
Broomhall and Broomhall, attorneys
for the P. G.. C. and st. l.. railway
have filed an answer in common pleas
court here to the suits brought some
time ago by Charles Moore for $1,000
damages and by Moore and Flatter, fol
S390553. The attorneys ask that the
suits instituted be dismissed at the
cost of the plaintiff. The first suit is
for personal damages suffered by
Charles Moore when a truck he was
driving was struck by P. c. c. and
st. L. train near Bradford, and the
latter covers the cost of a motor truck
milk cans, etc. destroyed in the acct
dent. Moore alleges that the collision
was due to negligence on the part OF
the employees Of the railway in theil
failure to give warning of their ap
proach to the crossing, and also thai
the view~of the crossing was obstruct
ed. The attorneys for the line state
that the driver Of the truck did not ex
ercise proper care when approaching
the crossing.
Fire Destroys Restaurant.
" The restaurant of Charles Green, il
the village of Ansonia, north of here
was almost totally destroyed by fire
Saturday, morning, an overheateC
stove in the kitchen being the cause o
the blaze. The rear part of the build
ing. containing the kitchen, was com
.pletely destroyed before the flame:
were brought under control. and the
dining room was also badly dam
aged. 4s-s ~
The citizens formed fire brigade tt
assist the local firemen and by heroic
efforts confined the flames to the res
taurant building The building which
is owned by E. E. Vance. was fra ms
structure, and the total damage ha:
rot yet been estimated, but is partial
ly covered by insurance. The damage
to the fixtures will amount to severa
hundred. dollars, and is also partially
covered by insurance.
Postpone Ditch Hearing.
The Darke County Commissioner:
met in their Office in the court house
here Saturday for the purpose of hear
ing matters relating to the Byrd ditch
After meeting il was decided 10 post
pone the preliminary hearing on the
ditch, which is located in Richlanc
TWP, for thirty days. The final hear