Nineteen Applicants Pass Common School Diploma Exam
Nineteen candidates earned passing grades in the April common school diploma examination. The list of names and grades is provided with the overall pass mark.
30 May 1919
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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1919
Page
1
Nineteen candidates earned passing grades in the April common school diploma examination. The list of names and grades is provided with the overall pass mark.
Clifford Chapman 18 returns to his home at 507 East Market Street after a year away serving in the Canadian army. He enlisted in Windsor Ontario in 1917, served in England and France with the Third Canadian Reserves and the 19th Battalion, saw action at Lyons Cambrai and Venice, was slightly wounded near the armistice, and moved back to New Albany quickly. He was born and raised in English and moved to New Albany about four years ago.
Five doughnuts with dollar bills attached reach Salvation Army in Union Square on the first day of the Home Service Fund campaign. Dave Ryan, a 30 year veteran of the U S Army and former Chateau Thierry cook, buys five doughnuts to donate $5 66, saying he promised the fund before leaving France. The tale, told by the Religious Telescope, mentions Dillman church Indiana and Henry Jenkins, caretaker and accountant, and notes parish reports of butter fat proceeds and scarce Red Cross work in English.
Local items report Perry Houser and others traveling to Tower and Louisville. Residents visit kin in Louisville and Decatur. Salvation Army drive succeeds with notable collected amounts. Leavenworth M E Church outlines missionary Sunday events and services for all ages next week.
The pastor will fill his Fredonia appointment in the afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. A cordial welcome is extended to all services. I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord.
More than two hundred acres have been leased near Taswell and Eckerly. L. C. Frey sold leases to the Southern Indiana Oil Company. Wells reached over a thousand feet previously. a deep test well of four thousand feet may be drilled this summer to reveal oil beneath Crawford county. Prospects look good amid Indiana and Kentucky field activity. a seven-barrel well was completed at Oakland City last week.
The Crawford county regular June term of court convenes next Monday and runs about three weeks or until business is complete. Trials are scheduled for Kres versus Sternberg, Kaiser versus Kaiser and Grimes, Aetna vs Southern Railway, Mahan vs Smith, State versus Flanagan, Hopskins vs Jacobi, Smith Asken vs Corydon, and new cases including multiple divorces, separations, and civil actions listed for trial.
Property in north English near Christian church. Buildings in good repair with a good ware room and outbuildings. Includes bottom land suitable for truck patches and garden. For details call Thomas S. Austin in English.
Repair advertisement offering watch clock and sewing machine fixing with guaranteed service text from M. L. Ott inviting readers to call at his home in English for repairs and assurance of work.
An old classified note offers a Ford Touring Car for sale from Alson Rob erts in England. The text mixes a product offer with a wry, unrelated aphorism about honesty and thirteen to hint at humor or social tone.
A reader asks why some local scouts who otherwise pay on time neglect the newspaper man for years. The note hints at faded contact and missed updates in town reporting.
S K Clement in Louisville Thursday and many residents visiting relatives or shopping in Louisville Danville and Cincinnati trips noted. A son born to Mr and Mrs James B Riddle. Local residents from Taswell Milltown English Jeffersonville Marengo incur frequent travel for trading visiting friends or attending events.
A. J. Goodman attended the funeral of Mrs. Jacob Mosier in Milltown. Hazel and Pearl Froman of Grantsburg left for relatives in Princeton and Evansville. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Muir and son returned to Louisville after visiting John H. Luckett. Mrs. Ralph Canady visited Marengo relatives with Sam and Celia Hazlewood. Clifford Chapman, recently discharged after 22 months in France, visited his grandmother. Mary Ethel, daughter of Fred and Mrs. Dantic, arrived in Cincinnati May 2. Edwin and Mrs. Ewing returned from Leavenworth and will spend summer with Mrs. Steele in Washington. Charles Hubbard, chief petty officer on the U S S Von Steuben, arrived for leave and reenlisted for four more years.
English citizens are invited to join a Memorial Day parade forming at Benz & Son's store led by Civil War veterans. The procession includes army and navy members, township service flag carried by Sunday school boys, girls as Red Cross nurses, ending at English cemetery for speeches by John H. Luckett and S. A. Beals, and several musical selections.
Jessie June daughter of Charles and Goldie Osborn was born June 21 1918 and died May 15 1919. The family notes her short life with a prayerful verse about eternal rest and love that endures beyond death.
Mr and Mrs Charles Osborn thank friends for kindness during illness and death of their child and for floral offerings. They also thank Rev Catt for comfort and hope. A humorous English saying about house cleaning and store advertising is included.
Local society column lists Marengo residents and visitors. Names include M. Stewart in English on business, Charles Veatch and Omer Froman discharged from service, Dave Jones of Columbus visiting W E Wyman, Miss Nellie Budgeman to University Heights, and attendance at Indiana Central University events. Also mentioned are travels to Louisville, French Lick, Detroit, and translations of church and memorial activities, with notes on a G A R memorial service and a Ladies Aid event. births, illnesses, and family visits are interwoven through the week.
M. E. Church notes list services at Wesley Chapel on Saturday May 31 at 8 00 p m Taswell on Sunday June 1 at 10 30 a m Mifflin on Sunday June 1 at 3 00 p m and English on Sunday June 1 at 8 00 p m
Miss Blanche McMahel formerly of English was part of the City Hospital Louisville nurses graduating class. The commencement exercises took place in the institution’s auditorium on May 29.
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