The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-31
DARKE COUNTY ROAD
PROPOSAL ATTACKED
BY FARMERS TUESDAY

GREENvILLE. O., Aug. Sl-Darke
county farmers TO the number OF ABOUT
two hundred thronged the court mouse
and county commissioners oftice mere
yesterday, protesting against the pro- |
posed action of the commissioners In
selling $42S,000 worth OF bonds the
proceeds of which were to be used In
constructing three highways.
The bonds for the proposed improve
ments. the Greenville-Ft. Jefferson,
Greenville- Palestine and Greenville-
Union City highways, were not sold.
owing to the fact that they were not
ready, although representatives. OF
local banks and foreign bonding
houses were present TO negotiate for
them.
Upon proceedings being instituted
by Henry Conn and other farmers re-
siding along the Greenville-Ft. Jeffer-
son inter county highway, temporary
restraining order against the county
commissioners, to prevent them from
selling bonds in the sum of S12S000
for this particular improvement, was
granted by Probate Judge Younker,
in the absence of Judge Teegarden.
Bond was given in the sum of
$4,000 A number of reasons were
given why the road should not be i'm
proved at the present time, among
which were the fact that the bonds
had not been properly advertised.
The high price of road building ma.
terials, together with the low prices
being received at the present by the
tax payers for their farm products,
was emphatically stressed by the Wis
itors TO the commissioners office.
There was no remonstrance against
the proposed Union City
improvement, but the farmers residing
along the other two highways are out
in force to prevent their being i'm
proved now, and from present indica-
tions, the bond sale will be postponed
for some time.
Trys TO Pass Forgery.
After making two separate attempts
to purchase a camera from Union City
merchants, offering a check on Dav-
export, Ia, bank in payment, young
man giving his name as E. w Nc
Kay, of Crown Point, was apprehended
by officials at that place, and taken
before Prosecutor Dunn.
Mckay, alias Leroy Harrington,
alias j. c. Jones, admitted upon ques-
tioning that the check, which was for
"
TO pass it on account of being out OF
money No legal action could be TAX
en- against the crook, however. owing
10 the fact that the check had not
been passed. the Union City mer-
chants refusing to accept it. He was
ordered out of town.
Hearse Brings Booze.
Rumors are afloat in Greenville to
the effect that a large cargo of whis-
key was shipped in during fair week
in a gray hearse, which came from
the north and was followed by two
touring cars. 1t is said that the cars.
including the hearse, bore Indiana Ii
cense numbers. and that they were
travelling in procession through the
city.
The caravan is said to have stopped
on side street, and number of cases
and boxes transferred to the cars from
the hearse. Residents in the neigh
borhood noticed the proceedings, but
the machines completed the transfer
and escaped before their numbers
could be noted. 1t is said that much
liquor was afloat around Greenville
during fair week, and that the gray
hearse was the source.
At the concluding session of the
Miami conference of the United Breth-
rem church, which was held at Day
ton last Sunday, Rev. S. E. Rasey, pas
tor of the local church, was reappoint-
ed to act in that capacity for another
conference year. Rev. Rasey is very
popular in this city, where he has
served for the past four years, and his
reappointment meets with public APP
proval. Other pastors appointed in this
vicinity are as follows: Arcanum, J..
c. Armstrong; Abbottsville, E. p.
Huddle; Eldorado, D. S. Eshelmean;
Ithaca Verona, J. A. Pantle; New
Madison, C. w. Snyder; Savona,
Dwight Arnold; Springboro, Calvin
McNeilley; Union City, G. T. Powell;
Hillgrove, Perry Wolf. Pastor for
Yorkshire and Nashville are to be sup
piled.
Through his attorney, W. D. Brum-
baugh, John Reed has filed cross
petition in common pleas court here
TO his wife's petition for divorce which
was filed few days ago. In his cross
petition, Reed denies all the allega-
lions of his wife, Maggie Reed, except
ing the date OF their marriage, which
was on the Nov. Is, 1919, and that no
children were born of this union.
In addition to asking the court to
set aside his wife's petition and grant
ing him the divorce on his cross petit
ton, Reed wants their property rights
adjusted. Mrs. Reed has three chill
dren by a former marriage, and Reed
has four