Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1926 — Page 7

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MAKES REPORT ON ATTENDANCE County Superintendent Os Schools (iives figures For December T I, P enrollment In the public q , of Adams county durinj? the I]io(lth ()f December. 1925, was 3.005. according to the report of Clifton utnkcr. county superintendent of Lhools This is a loss of six pupils the enrollment figures for the month of November. The average .iiilv attendance for the month of Member was 2.956.33 or 95.92 per ( . pnl . Following is the report from each township. The figures' preceding the teachers nalll e represent the number of the ,l H ,iet. the first set of figures following the name represent the enrollment. the second set represent the average attendance and the third H ..( represent the per cent of attendance: Union Township Rudolph Weiland, Trustee 1 Marie Hrodbeck 34 31.9 93.3 •> May Jewell Falk.... .17 16.3 96 r, Esta Fleming 38 32.9 89 6 110 Johnson 27 ?5 89 3 Parochial — „„ ... (I, J. Schmidt ~..63 61 96 Root Township A J. Lewton, Trustee 1 Esther Zerkel Kelly 30 28.5 96.8 2 Lois Fuhrman ..........16 15.9 99 7 G Root Township High School, Paul Graham. Mrs. Paul Grpham. Hansel Foley 33 32 9, G Mary Kenny 22 19.6 97.9 G Lvdia Hoerger 36 30 93 7 Florence B. Rice 24 22.9 95.4 I’uiochial. Paul Dorn .36 34 97 Rom. A- 20 19)5 97.1 Preble Township August Scheimann, Trustee 4 Ella Worthman 31 29 94 f. Edward Jaberg 20 19.8 99.37 G Milton Werling 24 235fi» 98.12 Parochial — If. F. Nielson .. 51 55.7 97.3 Rudolph Stolp 48 46 97 Miss Frieda Buuck 23 22 98.9 A. W. Rossman 41 40.7 96.6 Ida Gunsett 29 28 96.4 Kirkland Township W. H. Dettinger, .Trustee IR. M Houck 24 23.5 97.6 2 Bmtrice Detlinger .25 24.8 99.3 3 William Griffith 32 27.3 93.9 4 Vernon Arnold 25 24.78 99 1 5 Alton Corson 31 29 9 96.4 6 Lloyd Bryan 44 42 96.3 Central High School (’. O. Johnson. Frank Null, Ruth A. Barker. Ruth Barker 76 '73.7 97 Washington Township Glen Cowan, Trustee Il Wildus Lenhart 25 23.55 94 5 5 Vera M. Owens .7. 26 25.4 97.6 G Mary Thomas 19 17 96 6 William Noll 21 18 96.4 7 Gladys Crownover .28 26.6 94.9 8 Albert Coppess . 25 23.9 95.15 St. Mary’s Township Mrs. Si R. Bowen. Trustee 5 Pleasant Mills high school E. V. Shierlisg, Lester C. Wisner, Cenerva Stick. Vteronica Anker 50 47.55 95.1 SH. M. Crownover ... 27 25.15 96.7 5 Bernice Masters ~..21 19.66 98 5 Leland Steel 30 29 97 5 Flossie Everett 36 33.6 98 4 Bobo Schools— Bessie Carter 27 26.87 99.5 Della Ixmgenberger .37 36.75 99.3 Blue Creek Township H. L. Sipe Trustee 1 Catherine Frave| ... 25 23.7 95.1 2 Amos Ketchum 22 21 7 98.75 3 Beryl Merriman ... 13 12.35 95 4 Russell Steiner 29 26.9 96.05 5 Andrew Cook 28 26.95 96.25 6 Eldon Sprunger 32 30.65 95.78 7 Chalmer Edwards . ..26 24.8 95.3 Monroe Township Vance Mattax, Trustee 1 Dennis Moser 22 20 6 96.4 2 Gorden Holmes 18 17.05 94.7 3W. O. Shoemaker 30 28.35 94.5 4 Veda Andrews 31 30.2 97.6 5 Electa Oliver 28 27.1 96 8 6 Harvey Haggard . 20 18 93.6 7 Ezra Snydw 38 36.6 97.4 8 Myron Lehman 38 37 97.3 9 Louise Hilty 38 37 97.9 10 Monroe high school — R- J. Mann. Basil Montgomery, Agnes Over ■7O |W Mears Success W jj JI Couqhs dnd Colds /

Shoemaker, Ivn Gatllt f>9 55 93 Grades—- . Mary McCullough 25 24 5 98 Sylvester Everhart 38 30.1 95.6 Ruth Gilbert 40 39.2 96.9 Parochial—J. It R. Schwartz, Amos Steury .. 57 56 98.3 1 French Township Martin Moeschbergor, Trustee 1 Gerald <). Runvon ..20 19 3 97 . 2 Jesse W. Snyder 32 31.2 97 32 J 3 Mary A. Jhisey 18 17 95 6 4 Frandlle Oliver 28 26.8 95.6 , 5 f eci) Meyer 25 28 6 94.5 | 6 Dan O. Roop 24 23 96 Hartford Township h. A, Studier. Trustee 2 1 Grovk Schools — Victor Eicher 19 17.89 94.2 Lester Reynolds . .35 34.7 99.35 Wilma Spichiger 41 89.25 98.3 7 Fdna Glondoning .15 14.6 96.8 . Central High School, E. S. Christen, Chas. Kizer. Esther Munro. | Mary Thomas 65 63.8 98 Grades— Juno Lybarger 24 23.7 98.8 Clyde Romey 23 22 97 Mary Schlagenhauf 32 30.2 94>3 Wabash Township J. F. Felty, Trustee 1 Madalena Hirschey 22 21.1 95 93 1 Helen Atz .. .....24 23.15 96.49 2 Dorothy Sprunger . 40 38.2 95.6 3 C. F. Fink 17 16.45 96.76 4 Ada Hall 22 21 4 95 6 J. E. Mann 15 14.95 99.7 11 Alva Fenstermaker 35 33 94.4 Geneva Schools— Don Collom. Ramond Hunt. Nellie Knipe. Margaret Batton, Edyth Chew 80 77 96.25 Grades—--1 Blanche Aspy . ,26 23 5 9R3 2 Gladys Long 40 34.32 85.8 3 Addie Hoskinson . .35 32 8 93.9 4 Blanche Shephard .30 26.9 94.9 5 Ruth Linton 33 31.25 95.4 6 Irpoll Hall 35 337 96.4 Jefferson Township J M. Bollenbacher. Trustee Central School— Olen Marsh. Mary Godfrey, Ernest Heistand, Agnes Shoemaker 51 49.67 97.4 Madelinn Robin 37 36 97 47 Leona Miller 31 29 95 96 Helen Kenny . 4S 45 95 Ray Duff 27 25.15 93.15 0 — Wills Ready To Meet Dempsey At Any Time New York, Jan. 13.—(United Press) —Hurry Wills, negro heavyweight challenger, is ready to fight Jack Dempsey for the championship at any time and at any place, Paddy Mullens, his man-i ager, said today. Mullens said he had hoard nothing about the offer made to Dempsey by a Los Angeles syndicate, but that he and Wills were ready to jump at any reasonable offer made by a reliable 1 promoter. So many offers have been made for the Dempsey-Wills fight in various] ports of the country that the hard boiled boxing circles here were in-! dined to laugh off the report. Fire Company Called To Put Out A Sunset Tulsa, Jan. 13. —(United Press)— Attention was called to the brilliance of Oklahoma sunsets when the fire department was called here to put one out. j An apartment house resident rushed out screaming. “Fire.” The fire department was summoned. Women in var-_ ious stages of treatment hurried panicstricken from a beauty-parlor on the ground floor of the building. Firemen thronged into the building. On the top floor a bright glare was visible through a crack. Hooks aud axes ripped the ceiling away to find the light was the setting sun flickering through lattice work of a gable.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 13, 1926.

TO SPEND LARGE SUM ON HIGHWAY About $1,250,000,000 To De Spend On Hard-sufaced Roads In 1926 Chicago, Jan. 13.—(United Press) —| • Approximately $l,260,0t)0,000 will be spent in the construction of hard surface droads in 1926, William H. Conriel, president American Road Build-1 iors Association said as the associationT I opened its annual conference hero today. More than 35.000 delegates from all parts of the two Americas are expected. In discussing the plan of expending this sum, Connel stated that this country now has 123,000 miles of hard surfaced roads, 180,000 miles of improved roads ami 2.000,000 miles of roads on which little or no work has been done. “Improvement of these roads," he said, “will not only relieve the dangerously and destructively crowded

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arterial highways, but, by spreading I I out our system of good roads, will i cause a more equal determination of ; wealth." Another matter of Importance to jeomo before the committee will be j the mapping out of a plan for an international highway that will connect th»- Province of Ontario, Canada, with the republic of Colombia, in South America. . — —.. o'-—-Would Dismiss Complaint Os Indiana State C. Os C. Washington, juu. 13. — (United ; p resM )_lhterstate commerce commisFsion examiner Fuller, today recomI mended that the committee dismiss the complaint of the Indiana State chamber of commerce against middlewestern railroads, charging unreasonable rates on bituminous coal. The complaint said that rates to Indiana points from "Inner crescent" mining regions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky were prejudicial and excessive.

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FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR DUNES PARK State Has Half Million Dollars For Development Os Project Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13. —(United Press) —The state now has available, u hah’ million dollars for development of the Dunes Park project in Porter county, it was announced today by the state conservation department. Gifts, of $250,000 from the United States Steel Corporation and $59,000 from Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of directors of Sears. Roebuck and Co., have been pledged to Governor Jackson. The special fund raised by taxation uow amounts to $200,000, acording toi state officials. Charles Sauer, assistant director of

the conservation commission, announced work on Improvements in the park will start early In the spring, * With the funds available it Is also planne dto complete purchase of land within the park Hite. A check for $135,000 from Elbert Gary has been received by Governor Jacks noas part payment on the gift ui' the United States steel Corporation. Many Firms Expected To Seek Road Contracts Indianapolis, Jan. 13. — (United Press)—lndications are that a large ; number of contracting firms will seek contracts for the construction 1 of the 46 miles of hard surfaced highways to be awarded January 27, officers of the state highway commission said today. The road contracts to be awarded on that day are a part of the 1926 building program by which it is hop-j ed to complete 250 miles of hard stirI face highways. Members of the commission are

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