The Cedarville Herald, Volume 40, Numbers 1-26

Prominent Young College Student Came Near Being Victim o f Negro’s Revolver—No Arrests Have Been Made as Peter Bruce Has Left Per Parts Unknown, Once more the village is called upon to read o f a disgraceful affair that happened at the A. M, E. church last Saturday night. Not only this, but the life of an innocent young man probably was spared by chance in that the bullets of a revolver in a wild man's hand missed him. Peter Bruce, colored, for many years* a resident o f this section and a man unusually ,prominent in color* ed church circles, figured in a very sensational episode which involves the wife o f another colored man, the whole affair taking place about mid­ night at the A. M. E. church. For the past two years a man by the name of Charles Paschal, who resides in one o f D. S. Ervin's houses and works at the quarry, has com­ plained to the officers of the atten­ tion Bruce was paying to his wife. It so happened that Bruce was able to evade both officers and Paschal as to wrong-doing. Paschal's wife xioi being home Sat­ urday evening, a search was started which ended at the A. M. E. church where the two were found together about midnight. Paschal instead of notifying the officers, became excited and started an alarm in the commun­ ity to arouse the residents. In the Bruce just recently was divorced by liis wife, he having left the home two or three years ago to board with another woman. Once before the of­ ficers investigated his case and re­ ceipts were shown as to his standing as a boarder. OHIO NEWS COT TO THE HOICK During 1916 there were 379 deaths and 627 births in Elyria. Over a year ago Paschal was taken' # „ ^ Sln<5BS mea Massillon have up .by the officers on some charge *°rmod a commercial club and was supposed to be in jail. This 1 Jamea Morris, forty, EaBt Ldver- gave Bruce fdll liberty of the Paschal Pool, was killed by a train, nomq. Not thinking ithatj Paschal Marlon is expecting 20,000 visitors might be liberated during the night at the state convention of Eagles it was seme surprise when the hus-‘ Juno is. ' band entered his home., Brece was | j„ iiua j, Bachman, thirty-three, was in bed and without taking leave by nuiod nt , , , the door went„out a window headfirst! nvp,.t„ rnru] etewn when his auto taking the entire sash with him. ■ « * « '" " > - Conditions at the A, M. E. church for the past two years almost war­ rants closing the place unless the members and church officials who do, not sanction what happened Saturday night take *a more decided stand. It has been common knowledge to many overturned. EUJalf Cain, a teamster, committed suicide by hanging In a cell in tho East Liverpool Jail, American Railway Equipment com­ pany, manufacturers of car registers, will locate in Dayton. Jewelry valued at $.400 Was . taken Mvs»*a vvriuuvji ivuuvv icuuu v iii u v , ». • » . i' « • * r ■ •■ people that the latch-string, was out * burglars ^rora D. Ausman’s to everyone,' seldom are the doors 3ewe’ ry store, St. Marys, locked, Bruce has had full sway at * D, M. Bare, Roaring Springs, Pa„ the church for several years and was has contributed $4,000 to a $15,000 instrumental in having several of ‘ 't‘ ‘ ' — - the best members, put out because they disagreed with him, A very serious charge will be placed against Bruce for the part he had at the church Saturday night, the fine being $500. Kis exit from the community will be a welcome as a fine. LIKES THE HERALD. Mr. R. R. Barber, manager of the Omaha branch of the Washburnmeantime Bruce and the woman! C b Co and former Cedaiville made exit from the church from a boy t£at made good ^ the com. rear window. Paschal claims that Bruce shot at him twice from the church, By this time a number of residents were aroused and became interested in the trouble. Paschal fearing to continue the search in the darkness, went home for a loaded shotgun. Upon his return it seems Bruce and he came nerr meeting but Bruce had the best o f the argument and Paschal started to rim. The course Was about various residences in that section. When Bruce-arrived at Bridge and Cedar streets he saw a form in front o f Stewart Townsley's residence and instantly fired,- thinking Paschal had emerged from between the houses. It so happened that Mr, George Smith, o f Spring Valley, college stu­ dent, was leaving the Townsley home just at that time. Hearing the shot he dodged back onto the porch just as another ytas fired.. Bruce being commander o f the sit­ uation. continued the search fo r the woman Who- been lost, in the darkness. Where she landed we have failed to learn. Paschal applied on Monday for an affidavit against Bruce but Mayor McLean being unabe to leave his.du- mercial world, keeps, in touch with home affairs through the weekly visit of the Herald. Mr. Barber states that he gets much pleasure out of reading about the happenings of home folks in whom he is always interested. He was much pleased with the likeness of the elegant new school building which appeared some weeks ago, a building that should be of great credit to the. town. Other improvements are also noted, such as the Main street paving. More factories are urged which.Will give the old town a real boom. SUIT FOR PROPERTY RIGHT. Mr. Andrew Jackson has brought suit against Mrs. J. C. Barber as ad­ ministrator o f the Robert Hood estate who recently filed suit in partition for disposition o f the real estate. Mr. Jackson claims that part, of the Hood estate came to the deceased by the will from bis sister, the wife of Mr. Hood, who died in February, 1915. Only one-half o f this estate is due the Hip$*l!£ft$< the remainder under .tK* law falling, to Mr. Jackson, the heirs, of d-oshua. Jackson, Mary Nash and Phoebe Reed who were brothers and sisters o f Mrs, Hood. W. L. Miller is attorney. > fund for Findlay college. Mrs. Jennie Thompson, Milford Center, was found dead sitting in a rocking chair at her home. Because of a coal shortage street lights at Newark are being- turned on only three nights:a week, Nineteenth annual reunion o f th.i Ohio Association of B. P. O, E. will be held in Columbus Sept 18-21. TIremakers and flnishqrs of the Re-, public rubber company, Youngstown, have been granted an eight hour day. E. O, Hubbard, manager of Rut Bellefontaine Examiner, died follow­ ing) a two days’ Illness with pneu­ monia. Tlie thirteen-year-old son of W. H. Rosen, Marion, applied a match to a blank cartridge. His left eye was blown out. , Richard Sliide, ninety-three, a wealthy pioneer, was found dead in. his yard at Newark. Heart failure was the cause. . An unknown than at Newark at­ tacked Miss Florence Green, who stabbed him three times with a knife before he fled. - A campaign has been started at Ma­ rion to raise $5,000 to pay off the in­ debtedness of the Young Men’s Chris*; tian association. Fifty persons fled from Are which partially destroyed the MIttelberger hotel at'-Cleveland, with a loss esti­ mated at $10,000. A posse with bloodhounds-falled to find the man Who attacked Fiorina Swartz, sixteen, at Tiffin,' and fled when the girl screamed. State board .ei„ health .. has , disap­ proved Newark's water filtration sys­ tem. The board Says the water unsafe for drinkimr purposes. Or, MUM* Antl-l>ain Pill* far all pain / ? Was Your Christmas a Mei rry One Didn’t you wish that you would have, had a little % , more money for HIS or ■ HER gift? 1 Tl THE ie Exchange Bank I ■. Will help you to haye more money next time. ** JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB ' , ( ■• t. In this manner you will he saving money without any effort. And just think of the fat sum you will receive next year. DROP IN ON YOUR W A Y DOWN TOWN / T h t ANO TAKE o u t a m e m b e r s h ip 5 E xchange Bank ' ! 1 ’AiHr'* Cedarville, Ohio i . a Some time ago at ifeknauet o f the Community Club .a vEiire was ex­ pressed and r®*oIatSSr passed that' there be a more enforcement of the law relative dmMia liquor sit­ uation as well as topfee modes and manner in which pawls were living here, President -S. C. V»f|jht ppoke for the Community ClubM jn his open- ing'remarks, explains gnat it was not the purpose to be <aa»fl*l of the local officials, but that H e p might be closer co-operation tcHkrda enforce­ ment of certain lam ; namely, the liquor, gambling,, aiEjvell as some others. No special Span had been devised by the BoafT o f Governors as to procedure, thw matter being . left to the officials, | Mayor McLean <a|SP upon a num­ ber of citizens for remarks. Mr. D. S. Exvin. stated that m w a s convinced that it was almost iilpjssible to con­ vict bootleggers oa&ccount of the kind of evidence f a tally offered. Men would make a davit one ‘ time and when called tipdi Pie stand would testify to somethin* ,different, Mr, Eivin referred to a peech Mr, Earl Crow made at the. i ommuntky Club banquet in which*hi fCrpw) alluded to him being instrui intal in asking the officers for the - iturn of a man named Wallace, who' ad been ordered out of town by the t Jcials, I f there is a sentence again .’ .that man, let it be enforced for I do npt want to keep a man o f that | nd. I have an­ other man who I t! nk is living as Wallace, is, but as king as men vote to license the liquorftraffic and help men commit murder, wd Cannot expect these men to live different. My ex­ perience with labor dp1that most of them drink arid the Responsibility is upon those .who Vote fbr political par­ ties that stand for ligsfeflse, making it possible for men tot get drunk and commit crime. Mayor McLean stiffed that so far as he knew the officers, had been con­ scientious in what had -been done. That a number of cases were not dis­ posed o f as he would like to have done but lacking id evidence there was nothing to do bpt dismiss them. To send cases to higher, courts on that kind of evidence Woi being thrown out. be committed we. proof. Member Ross of best speech o f the ev| well received, as w, loud applause. Mr, “ responsibility of til the officers. That much the duty o f to file charges on was the officers, and hear more There has been : along that M W Nearly every exchange that came to our desk last week made some ref­ erence to the coal situation in that locality. Xenia has been facing a serious problem for several days. It lias been necessary to resort to the use of cord wood to keep the Y. M. C. Ak.,building warm. Jamestown, on a coal road, is as bad off as most other towns, Last week people from that vicinity want­ ing hard coal, had to come here for it. Yellow Springs and Osborn people have been compelled to get coal wherever .they could, due to the shortage. Last week one of our local firms sent coal into, that territory. Mr. F, F. Hastings stated to the Herald Monday that .they still have Eo.me coal and are trying to make it serve as many people as possible. Seeing the situation, this firm went into the market and purchased any kind of coal they could get regard­ less of the price. Neither Andrew Bras, or D. S, Ervin have had coal for several days, . Wa.m weather and lifting the em­ bargo on freight on the C. & O. and Pennsylvania may relieve matters to some' extent. The cheapest grade of coal is said to be retailing around $7 a ton with hard coal from $11 to $14 a ton. result in them fore a man can Ive to have the cil, made the _ and it was evidenced by dwelt bn the ... Was just as itivate citizen irigdoirigasit t always see the officers. ep-operatiofi ... - ... complaints made to council, about matters' unknown to anyone other than tho one giving information, yet that same party would not permit his name to be used when the case was called in court. Council stood ready to pass the necessary ordinance for pool Voom regulation but what have Touching pointed out where most of the trouble of the village originates. The men who own the property'where these people live aud make it possible for this class to bte. fastened upon good people. Mr. Ervin’s attention was called to the fact that he has just rented a house to a murderer, a man that shot another in a drunken brawl on the Managan farm on the Federal pike some weeks ago. That he had rented his property to undesirable persons that have been a source of trouble for every officer in this town for years back. When the houses owned by Mr, Ervin, W. P. Townsley and the Har­ per estate are cleaned up, the prob­ lem of better government for Cedar­ ville is solved. Dr. Stewart of Council, emphasized the fact that people should be more cautious as to who they rented their property to and if they found that same was being used wrongfully, or­ der the tenants out. It is the duty of citizens to file papers as much.as the officers, Member McFarland reviewed the situation, having served at ong_time as mayor, and what he had to con­ tend with. The greatest trouble was not with the lower element but get­ ting the better element to stand by him, or to give him some proof that conditions were as complained of. The tendency usually was to want to hide behind the officer. Conditions cannot be bettered until the good peo­ ple of the town step to the front. I Dr. J, L. Chesnut saw the situation as others viewed it ancj he -wanted to heartily endorse Mr, Ross’ speech. More interest should be displayed by loyal people who should be hack of the officials who Were trying to do their duty. He knew of no place where liquor was sold, so far as actual evidence Was concerned. It would be impossible for him to buy a drink. It is hard to convict those who live in adultery. But we can do our best and apply a remedy that would keep such people out of the community. Let the officers notify Mr. Ervin and the others in a legal way to get rid of this class of tenants and all other property owners as well who rent to' such people, fo r if we are interested in this work, we will have these houses vacated and not let dollars and cents stand In our way. As a citizen I pledge my support in this work. W«ak Nature*. There arc natures in this harsh world so timorous, sensitive and help­ less In themselves that the utmost stretch of indulgence and kindness Is needed for their development—like plants which the warmest shelf of the greenhouse arid the most watchful care Of the gardener alone can bring into flower. Your last chance this year. Hear the ladies’ orchestra Tuesday even­ ing, There are tight charming young woman Jn tho organlwMon, LARGEST LAND DEAL. What is likely the largest cash land leal in the county is the reported sale it the 441 acre Clemans farm to Mr. Jeorge Little for $125 an acre, mak­ ing the consideration $55,125. The 'arm belonged by inheritance to Mrs. iesse Taylor, of Jamestown. ■In the iontract Mr. Little takes over a half nterest in the live stock, which will un to total over $60,000. Possession ■will he given in March. The farm has been occupied by Mr. ,?red Weimer and under his capable management is said to have proven in extraordinary investment. Large ;rops of wheat and corn are produced jach year and several hundred head of .•attle and hogs are fed. Mr. W. L. Clemans, the real estate man, made the deal. Mrs. Taylor ■till has over 400 acres that adjoins Jie land just sold. The local board of health some time ago stopped the cutting of ice on the D. S. Ervin pond at the quarry under the belief that the water was impure, there being all kinds of filth and garbage on the bank. Samples of the water were sent to the state board and the result was received a few days ago, The state board found tbye water to he impure and contaminated and unfit for domestic or drinking purposes. The last number of the Cedarville [lecture course will be given in the opera house Tuesday evening, Febru­ ary 20, The L. A. C. orchestra is composed of eight charming ,young ' ladies that are artists on their indi­ vidual instruments. Everyone likes instrumental muisc, so here is a good chance for an evening’s entertain­ ment. The ballots for the election of the next committee will be taken up at the door Tuesday evening. If you do not have a ballot, ask at the door. W . L . C U L M A N S Rea l Estate Can he found at my office each Saturday or reached by phone at my residence each evening. Office 36 PHONES Residence %d22 CEDARVILLE, OHIO. The new $80,000 school building at Cedarville was dedicated last week. It is credited with being one of the finest buildings of the kind in this section o f the state and is quite a credit to the people of that thriving village.—South Charleston Sentinel, FOR SALE—I have for sale a very f desirable, centrally located piece of property in Xenia, which will rent to ?ood tenant to pay 10 per cent per annum. The price is $6,000, hut time can be hod on pouch o f this, i f de­ sired. ' No better location, in town,' only one square from court house. As an investment this would be first clash. See A. W. Tresise, No. 39 Greene street, Xenia, Y.JM. C. A. Building. the feast H I ^ L P The JamesflUv^ No. 11 Sulky will do more work and better work, with less exertion, than any other Sulky— be­ cause of many exclusive features found only on this particular plow. /The plow that meets the soil more than half way. # Let us tell you why—well be glad of the chance. m r FORD ANNOUNCEMENT! Hundred of unfilled orders for Ford cars are still held by our agents in the cotton growing districts of the south. Our northern assembly plants ate working up to their capacity to fill these orders. Under normal con­ ditions we should have ioo Ford cars on hand for the spring rush, but naturally we are not permitted to stock cars while other dealers cannot fill their immediate orders. If you are contemplating the purchase of a Ford car in the spring, anticipate the shortage that will prevail and BUY NOW. The factory will fill your orders for immediate delivery for a short time only, after which time we can make absolutely no promise on deliveries, / Be Wise, Order Yeur Car T o -day .. R. A. Murdock Cedarville, Ohio.