The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-29
PAROLE LIQUOR LAW
VI0LATOR AT EATON;
IS AID TO SHERIFF

EATON. Ohio, Dec. 20. = John L.
Petry, Jefferson township. has been
"paroled" by the county commission
ers from the county Jail, where he has
been keld six weeks or longer for non
payment of 5000 fine for violating
the prohibition laws. He was released
upon condition that he pay the 5000
fine when he becomes financially able
Petry is said to have tipped off to
Sheriff George Jones an alleged plot
of George o. Bates. bogus state bank
examiner to escape from Jail. This is
said to have been largely responsible
for Petry's release. 1t is said Bates
planned to get the sheriff inside the
cell cage on some pretext, strike him
on the head with a cuspidor and then
make getaway, according TO Petry's
story, it is said
Confesses Burglary Attempt
Bates is held in jail in default of
81 900 bond on a charge of carrying
concealed weapons. He was arrested
on suspicion, after he represented him
self at the Farmers State bank at Ell
uOIduO DIS d UdIh lHSpStIOI anu dLLCi
the bank officials discovered he was
IN impostor. In an alleged written
confession, Bates said he had intended
TO hold up and rob the bank, and that
the credentials he carried as a bank
examiner were spurious.
Petry's conviction on the liquor law
violation charge was secured in
squire's court in New Paris and the
$500 fine was assessed Unable TO pay
the assessment, Petry was sent to Jail
on Nov. Il, last.
Grant Electrical Line
Right to erect and maintain an cleo
trical transmission line along the New
Paris pike has been granted by the
county commissioners to George Ball,
c. A. Paddock and others. The line
will furnish electric current to farms
near Eaton 1t will connect with
lines of the Eaton Lighting company
at a point near the county infirmary.
Many Licenses
Preble county marriage licenses:
A. Glenn Huston, 25 years old, farmer,
j Oxford. and Mae c. Steele, 20 years
I old. school teacher, Camden; Charles
G. Miller, As years old, farmer, and
Mrs. Daisy Heuemyer, 80 years old.
both of Camden; Myrl r. Heaven
ridge, 10 years old, farmer. Kitchel.
Ind, and Ruby White, Is years old
Camden; William Hartman, 81 years
old, farmer, and Verdi Fox, q years
old, both of Lewisburg; Paul j. Fox,
10 years old, laborer, Germantown
! Ohio, and Zelpha Barnhart, q years
| old, Gratis; Roy A. Coalter. 20 years
| old, farmer, Eldorado, and Mary Pearl
OH Nafo
! Edward Hevel. 20 years old. electri-
clan, and Vivian Lucille Williams, II
years old, both of West Alexandria;
Robert C. Moore, q years old. farm
er. Dixon township, and Helen NJ. Jel-
lison, % years old West Alexandria;
Otto A. Lange, "a years old, farmer,
and Myra Creager, % years old,
| school teacher, both of West Alexan-
dria
| Grange to Meet
| Preble County Pomona grange, en-
bracing 10 or dozen branch oranges
in the county. will meet Saturday in
the centralized school building in Mon
roe township. The grange of Monroe
! township will entertain the meeting.
| Will Discuss Institutes
Discussion of matters pertaining TO
farmers Institutes, both state and in
dependent, will be conducted here Sat.
urday morning at 10 o'clock in the
office of County Agent Turner by a
representative of Ohio State univer
sity Institute officers, committee
men and all others interested in farm
ers' Institutes TO be held this winter
in Preble county are urged to be pres
ent at the meeting.