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SCHOOL POPULATION OUTSIDE CITY JUMPS DURING DEPRESSION , That there is a tendency for the population to move to the country In times of business depression, return ing to the city when times get better, is evidenced by figures compiled from the school enumeration of pupils be tween the ages of 6 and 21 years In wayne county. The count Is complete except for figures from Center town enip, and this report Is expected with in a day or bo. The period of business depression Just ended has had a visible effect on neighboring counties, as well as this, according to County Superintendent u. Williams. Townships of Wayne county have shown an increase in many cases in the number of school population, while the city of Richmond has shown a loss of 196 in the past year. Townships of the county which have Bhown a gain in the past year, and tneir population as determined by this year's census are: Abington, 150; gain four; Dalton, 138, gain 26; Harrison. 96. gain four; Jackson, 323. gain 38; Jefferson. 289, gain five; Washington, 332, gain B7; total gain. 134. Townships which show a loss are: Boston, 230, loss 18; Clay, 220, loss 17; Franklin, 275, loss three; Greene, 266, loss seven; New Garden, 302, loss six; Perry, 186, loss 21; Wayne, 1,192, loss 109Gn: Webster' 94' loss 30 5 total loss, Cambridge City with a school popu- 1,? of 443 8hows a loss six; Dublin with a school population of 159 snowe a loss, of one, and Hagerstown with a school population of 223, shows a loss of 13. The city of Richmond has a total population of 5,988 and has lost 196 since last year. CRATIS. Ohio. Norma Darrah is spentling the week at Mlddletown with her slater Mrs. Laura Graham and family Paul Zimmerman and Eur- hel Glaze who are working at Miam isburg spent Sunday at home with relatives Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Scoti of Camden called on friends in town Sunday afternoon William Karicofe and Steward Karicofe of Bridgewater, are here visiting their mother who has been seriously ill the uast couple weeks Vera Albaugh and family of Mlddletown called on relatives in town Sunday afternoon.... Mrs. Kate Focht spent Sunday at Farmersville with her son Jesse Focht and family Mrs. Neva Schaffor and Mrs. Myrel Fulton of Mlamia burg attended the alumni banquet here Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller and daughter Theda went to Eaton Saturday Mr. and Mrs. William Wearner and family of Germantown called on relatives in town Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Willio Graham of Mlddletown called on her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Darrah Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs.1 Suburban J SPORT OXFORDS ARE POPULAR Our display comprises the new grey and black, white and black, with rub ber heels. g; .. " ' n Ij ...... - , -n) . ATURD Boiling Beef, lb. . ... . . .. . . . . . . . 7 . JT . . . .Sc Beef Pot Roast, lb. 12c & 14c Pork Sausage, lb. 12Y2C Fresh Ground Hamburger, 3 lbs 25c SMOKED MEATS No. 1 Cured Bacon, sides, lb .20c Smoked Shoulders, lb. . 16c Fancy Creamery Butter, none better ....... .35c Pure Lard, 5-lbs . .-. . 60c J? uehler Bros 715 Main THfl Walter Stubbs and baby spent the week end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reddick. Mr. and Mr3. Marton Carr and son Freddie of West Alexandria and Mr ami m nionri Carr and daughter Agathat of New! warnsie called on their parents Mr. aua airs, tienry Carr and other fnend3 in town Sunday.. .. .Arthur Coleman who is working In Dayton spent the week-end at home with his parents and attended the alumni and com mencement Lewis Reddick, Cha!- ner Essig, George Meller and Russel Burnett are working In the Rolling mill at Middjetown.....Rev. Thomas and a boy ifxnd of Germantown call ed at home on his sister Mrs. Love Tuesday afternoon Mothers' Day will be observed here at the Brethren church Sunday morning and at the M. E. church Sunday evening. The men of the M. E. church will enter tain the mothers with a basket din ner at the church Sunday noon..... The high school commencement was conducted here at the community hall Saturday evening. May 6. A A. May sillls gave the class address, music was furnished bv th Germantown high school orchestra, Misses Leona Houser, Mayme Holcomb, Elizabeth Karicofe, Ralph Brown, George Macy, Bruce Barklow, Morris Focht were the graduates There was a mothers' club meeting at the school house Tuesday afternoon The first meet ing of the girls' canning club will be held Wednesday afternoon. Mav thn 10th, Mrs. Ada Kinnel will be in charge of the club during the summer months Miss Elizabeth Karicofe returned to her school at North Man chester, Ind., Monday after spending the week at home to attend the com mencement and other social affairs of the school. Miss Karicofe was one of the graduates this spring. MOORELAND, Ind. Mrs. Susan Dennis is home the past week.... Mrs. Mrs. Jennie Lilly has been visiting her sister Mrs. Mary Dennis this week.66Mrs. Henry Lilly called on Mrs. Jennie Holcomb Saturday after noon miss aiaoei Petro visited Mrs. Gertie Downing and sons Robert and Noah, Saturday, Mrs. Downing and sons accompanied Miss Petro home to spend the week-end at Hag erstown Mrs. Jennie Holcomb call ed on Mrs. Gertie Downing Friday aft ernoon Mrs. Leala Gable was in Mooreland Friday.. "...Mrs. Jane Lamb visited Mrs. Myrtle Parker Saturday afternoon Mrs. Jennie Hplcomb visited her daughter Clydia Wood and daughter Lois last Saturday Miss Freedith Holcomb spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wad man of Newcastle Miss Lucile Bouslog came home from Richmond Sunday..... Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hol comb entertained Sunday dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and daughter Lena, and Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Hol brook and four children all of Carlos.: ..i.Miss Mary and Robert Pierceson! was in Mooreland Monday afternoon. ....Miss Lena Smith of Carlos is spending the week with Miss Freedith Holcomb Miss Mildred and Vera1 Conwell was in Mooreland Monday aternoon Mrs. E. J. Holcomb and daughter Freedith and Miss Lena Smith was in Mooreland Monday aft ernoon Prayer meeting was at Ed ward Holcomb Wednesday night Garth Wing of Losantville called on 'SHOE STOME Street AY H1CHMQND PALLADIUM AND COMPLETES NEW PLAY. ii"rr'"r-fiirriiii"i"iiMiiiliiil7iiiiiiiiM i Willis Steell, famous play wright, whose most recent work, "A Juliette of the People," has been translated Into the French, will have its world premiere in Paris on June 12, at the Opera Comique, of which M. Albert Wolff, who composed the music, is director. Miss Cora Wood Saturday and Sun day Miss Stella Grim of Newcas tle spent Wednesday night with home folks and attended the commencement ..: 1 1 ; ... I 1 bUN - iKLEGKAM, RICHMOND, at Mooreland..... Mr. and Mrs. Ben ton Ridgeway were Mooreland' visi tors Tuesday...:. Mrs. Carl Burtt call ed on Omer Grim and family and Mrs. Harvey Brown Friday..... Miss Lena Huffman spent the week end with Miss Rachel Hawkins George Man ifold and daughters made a business trip to Hageratown Saturday Mrs. George Turner was shopping in Mooreland Saturday afternoon. . . . Mrs. Roy Reece a-d children were shop ping in Newcastle Saturday.. .. .Miss Rebecca and Susan Grim called on Mrs. James Lykins and children Sun day afternoon. Mis Edith Wise hart spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Orla. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. A, D. Luellen entertained to dinner Sunday the following: Mr. and Mrs. Orvillo Luellen of Richmond, Mr. and Mr3. Marshell Ridgeway and Misses Ruby and Mary Brown of Newcastle, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Luellen and son Rich ard and Miss Lucile Veach of Mt. Summit, Howard Luellen and family, Mrs. Archie Brown and daughter Al ice Marie were afternoon guests..... Mr. and Mrs. John Hand of near Mt. Summit and MiS3 Berneatha and Mit dred Houser spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sheets Mr. and Mrs. Linton Ridgeway of Muncie visited Philip Snider and fam ily Sunday Mr. and Mrs. David Dakins and daughter Berniece of Mooreland called on I. T. Houser and family Sunday evening -of Rogers- ville Frank Harter was a guest of Harold Houser near Blountsville Sun day Mrs. E. J. Houser and son Harold, Mrs. L T. Houser and daugh ters Berneatha and Mildred and son unarles spent Tuesday with Mrs. C. TTHE man who pays rent is performing an task witnout a prospect or reward. He who tried to sweep back the tide with Rent paying is a treadmill of debt year in and yelr out flavored with the bitter gall of despair a nd the constant rear of being put into the street. If the property is sold or the owner finds a more desirable tenant out you go. It makes no differr ence whether you have lived m the house a year or ten years. You may have paid the price o the property three times over m rent, but as long as someone else holds the title you are a renter and subject to the whim of the owner. Banish the Rent Problem by BUILDING With a clear lot or a few hundred dollars as a start it is as easy to build as to pay rent. Euilding conditions are more favorable at this time than they have been for many months. Materials have dropped perceptibly and 'abor ccst has been reduced while efficiency has man who builds during 1921 Get off the treadm wuuoui Miaignt rcaa tnat leads to comtort, peace of mind and the beginning ot financial independence. Miller-Kemper Co. Phone 3247-3347 Bertsch Bros. Drain THe and Building Blocks. Phone250 Hackman-Klehfoth Co. Builders' Supplies Luken Drag Co. Paints and Supplies IND., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922. M. Cross of Muncie W. A. Snider and daughters Fern and Erma and Thelma and Miss Pauline Johnson visited Joseph Johnson at the Home hospital at Muncie Sunday.. .. .Missea Marian and Grace Davis, Berniece Dakin and Reba Kerr visited Mis3 Lucile Bouslog at the Craln hospital Sunday Samuel Scott was in Cen- tervlUe Sunday. WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO HEAT ST. PAUL. Minn, ' May 12. One death from heat yesterday was re ported here today. The temperature reached 86 degrees. , The victim, an unidentified woman, died on a street car. Only Powerful Medicine Will End Rheumatism Rheuma, a Physician's Prescription, Contains No Narcotics Harmless and the One Remedy That Has Forced Rheumatism to Disappear. It matters not whether you have had agonizing: pains from rheumatism for 20 years or distressing twitohings for 20 weeks. Rheuma is strong- enough and mighty and powerful enough to drive rheumatic poisons from your body and abolish all miserv or money back. A. G. Luken Drug Co., and all drug grists are authorized to sell Rheuma on a no-cure no-pay basis. A large bottle is inexpensive, and after you take the small dose as directed once a day for two days you should know that at last you have obtained a remedy that will conquer rheumatism. 11 of rent paying and make a Richmond-Greenville Gravel Co. Phone 4132-4032 Harry . Pinnick Contractor and Builder. Phone 2132 Mather Bros. Lumber" and Builders' Supplies Old 10-12 S. COPYRIGHTED 1921, ARTHUR R. KL1NG DONATES PLAYGROUND SITE CONNERSVILLE, Ind., May 12. Mrs. Emma McCaift, of Oonnersville, has deeded a two-acre tract of land, within the city limits to the city to be used as a playground. She donated the use of the playground last year and expressed the opinion that the Playground has proved so successful Oat she wished to make it a perman ent gift to the city. CHICAGO U. COEDS WEAR KNICKERBOCKERS TO CLASS CHICAGO. 111., May 12. Knicker bockers are no longer a fad at the University of Chicago but the accept ed form of dress for both the coeds For over ten years throughout Amer ica Rheuma has released thousands from agony, pain and despair. This is what it did for one sufferer it should do as much for you: "After a long time I found something to cure me of rheumatism. Less than one bottle of Rheuma relieved me of my trouble, and now I am without pain for the first time in eight years. I was so bad that I could not get up without pulling myself up with my hands, and could not get out of bed without roll ing out. The trouble was all In my back." P. N. Riiee, Urbana, Va. Advertisement. n. - endless and a hopeless is like the old woman a broom; always toiling will get more for his money than has been possible since the war sent prices soaring. Any building contractor, architect, lumber man, banker, real estate man can tell you hov easy it is to finance the building of the Kin Ti CiT nrmo r-tt Um I . I i juu iia v t aiways wanted. fresh start on the Richmond Lumber Co. Phone 3209-3307 Richmond Gravel Co. Phone 4751 Klehfoth & Niewoehner Co. Builders' Supplies Reliable Paint Co. 7th St. H. C. Shaw, Mgr. CO. and the men. When the men .first came to class in, the more or less Ju venile attire, it occasioned some star ing, but it soon became accepted as the stylish wear. Lately the women also have been wearing the garb to class and now a goodly percentage of the students wear the short pants.- Paint for 1 cent a iquare foot two coats use . , SHERWlH-WlLLlABS 7 PAINTS A. G. Luken Drug Co. 628-628 Main Street GRAVEL Thoroughly washed and properly screened makes better concrete and doesn't cost any more than the OTHER kind. The Richmond-Greenville Gravel Company Phones 4132-4032 m