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Newspaper
Richmond Daily Register
Location
Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1921
Page
5
An unusually large class of teachers takes state examinations at Eastern Normal this week. Supervisors include County Superintendent B F Edwards and professors B Akin Long Jewell with lecture staff guiding the tests for Advanced and Elementary State Certificates.
The bond issue election passed off very quietly all day Friday. It did not feel like election day, though in the afternoon the citizens' campaign committee mobilized to urge vote for the bonds. Officials expected results soon as ballots could be counted.
In Frankfort Kentucky on June 17 the May teachers examination results show 2,830 applicants with 1,378 passing and 1,443 failing to reach the necessary average.
Grace Rust two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Elza Rust of Lawrenceburg Indiana was drowned in the Ohio River near Bromley while camping. She wandered into the water and was swept beyond her depth.
Ruthton Bro Rogers of Paint Lick delivered a sermon at Corinth church Saturday night. Mr and Mrs Leslie Agee were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Major Hamm. Mr and Mrs J H Moores visited Richmond, staying with the former's parents. The Moores were guests of Mrs Edward Roberts and children with Mr and Mrs Clay Long. We are glad to announce.
Miss Minnie Shooler died in Cincinnati and her body was brought home for burial on Tuesday June 7. Daisy Burton of this city is her sister and mourns with many friends as the family endures bereavement. Local updates note Rev Presley Black’s return from Winchester, Cecil Yates’s recovery on crutches after a horse fall, and Georgia Walker’s sister Gertrude recovering from a serious operation in Cincinnati. Reports also mention Mrs Nannie Evans’s improving health, Esther Mary Baker’s illness with grandparents in Irvin e street, and a social gathering of the Laine family on Irvine Pike. A fire at Central City College in Macon Ga started by an insane colored woman caused $100,000 damage but all 300 students escaped unharmed. Primitive Baptists held a meeting with four ministers present, led by Elder W H Willis of West Tennessee, Elder S J Hopkins of Indiana, and Elder P R Black of Winchester, Madison county’s earliest ordained colored minister. The gatherings provided gospel tidings long awaited in Richmond.
Judge William H. Field testified before a Louisville grand jury that the life of Judge Harry Robinson of the Criminal Court was constantly in danger. The report notes the Nebraska scene near Crawford, where the investigation or remarks reference place.
A passenger train named the Northwestern fell through a bridge, resulting in four deaths and forty three injuries with several more expected to die. Allied forces contemplate seizing all German aircraft in response.
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