The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-01
SALE OF RED CROSS
! SEALS DEC. II TO 20
! IN PREBLE COUNTY

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EATON, Ohio, Dec. From Dec. II
to 20 the annual campaign for sale OF
Christmas seals in Preble county will
be conducted, according to announce
ment iast made. County Health Nurse
Miss Mary Ewalt and ]. E Parker and
Homaa Roger, of Eaton, will manage
the campaign, which will be carried
on Trough the schools, the children to
max. the sales almost exclusively.
Revenue from the sale is devoted tc
combating tuberculosis. Eighty pei
cen of the money will go to the coun.
ty and this will be expended in estab-
Using permanent diagnostic clinic
wlere persons can receive free exam
iDition for tuberculosis. The clinics
Tobably would be held once each
Ionth in the quarters of DR.. G. W
4omsher, county health commissioner
n the couI thouse
In order to add to the effectiveness
OF the campaign organization, these
women have been selected to look af.
ter publicity work in their respective
communities: Mrs. A. j. Murray, New
Paris; Mrs. c. H. Andrews, Lanier
township; Mrs. George Whitesell, Is.
rael township; Mrs. Harry Price and
Mrs. j. G. Duval. Dixon township. and
Mrs. Martha Saylor, West Alexandria
Appeal from decision of the county
commissioners to locate and construct
a county ditch in Jackson township
has been taken by William /. MCoy
from the commissioners court to com
mon pleas court. The ditch was pc
titioned for by John A. Mcclure.
Mccoy AYERS the ditch does not rep
resent the natural flow of water from
petitioners lands; that no outlet for
the ditch can be found in Preble coun-
~, but that 1t will have to empty into
ditch in Wayne county, Ind; that
the ditch was not wholly surveyed by
engineers of Preble county: that is is
not necessary to public health and well
1are, and that the assessment against
plaintiffs land is excessive.
mccoy alo AYERS a remonstrance
was filed by himself and the follow
ing persons at the time of the hearing
on the petition, but that location and
construction of the ditch was granted !:
Frank and Viola Brandy, William E.
Austin, John L., Frank, Nora and N S.
Druly. Ollie, l.. D., Albert E. and Al
bert B. Parks, trustee of Boston town
ship, Wayne county, Ind: Lawrence
Fleisch and Daniel p. Kitchel.
After having held forth the last
three weeks or longer, Evangelist ].
b. Pickel and his party will close their
season of meetings Friday in the Bar
ron Street Christian church.
Fay Gardner. postoffice clerk, and
his brother. Fred Gardner, have
Joined the evangelistic party and ex-
pect to tdevote their lives to the work.
The party goes from Eaton to Toledo
for season of meetings.
]. d. Hampton, member of the Pick
ell party, is remaining in Eaton to fill
temporarily the Barron Street Chris
tian church pulpit. He will divide his
time between Eaton and New Paris.
Thanksgiving services were held on
Thursday evening in the Christian
church, the congregations of the sew
eral churches uniting The Rev
Charles F. Irwin, Presbyterian church,
preached the sermon Special music
featured the service.
Sixteen boys are now registered in
the local Boy Scout troop, according
to the Rev. V. E. Busler, seoutmaster.
Memembership in the troop is limited
TO 80. DR.. H. Riley Splitter, assistant
scoutmaster, is giving the boys their
first aid tests. Troop headquarters
have been established in the Method
list church for the present
Annual membership drive of the
Preble County Red Cross chapter will
close Dec. 8, it is expected. The drive
opened Nov. 49, and is being carried
on through the schools of the county
Preble county's quota is $4,000, accord
ing to Miss Myrtle Benham. executive
secretary of the county chapter. Miss
Benham is completing a program of
Red Cross activities for the winter in
the county.
In the Red Cross membership cam
paign in Preble county, the county Red
Cross chapter is offering three silver
cups to the three schools in the coun-
ty bringing in the number of member
ships. A bulletin board is being in
stalled in the courthouse for the pur-
pose of posting the results of the con-
est from time to time
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