The Cedarville Herald, Volume 41, Numbers 1-26

,*.V % *..^X JVj'— .m -t'P „ x * - i t j.■>?.■ i! tr 5 / HiV n » d m * * m * t n m iftu t to :iiw i « u | m Sitof^arWr i |L a -^HlM t E * * 3 5 * tiu w tii^ r IWWPlliWNi^^ jDH| |^|n^N^MMS» VWVVWWWVW VVVWWW W 538*91 it o ty - fisust year no , 5 * JHbenrd Sweeps I t Section! W*r*t Storm In F ifty Year* I* Bxpe- jtoiMsad—Tr*n*iKHrtati<m Tied Up By S«U and Ctonatvy lo a d—Hit- ■ * w *»d Pathos Mark Events - ■ #f to# stow*. A blizzard wcojttipanled. ta r a Se­ mite wind «nd th* mercury steading below zero sen t n u n and beast muter , e w e Saturday, the like pf Which bud never been, experienced by the yemng- «y generation. The a tom started Friday evening with a rather heavy jbmw and the mercury a t 28, h u t by midnight a high southwest wind gradually gave ■u* aero, while hy morning the popu­ lace awoke to find a new record of from 20 to 30 below, * Saturday- was -the worst day in ■yeato* Few people ventured out. Kht many o f the business houses op* m p trap .fl.o an instrument th a t gives a correct record of storm event* . Ray Hagler and Isaac Shaw, m » ployees of toe Dayton Power ft lig h t company, became stranded West of [town in the storm Saturday. They Iunhitched toe horses and led them here, returning to Xenia by rail, Both were nearly frozen.. _ Mr. Harfjr Wilson tost "four fa t hogs Weighing 260 pounds each, all being smothered in an effort to get away from, toe storm th at w as pour? ing into .a shed th a t faced th e south, Mr, O. Jg. Bradfute lost several head' •ass*Wf. C E D A R V I ^ L E , O S K ) , E T O A Y , JA N U A R Y 1 8 ,1 9 1 8 PRIOR, *1-00 A YEAR ened in knowrn .the'U sual way there would he fo r hut ■#» little. f t v . * 1 n * Cj. MSS™ » higk wind and fine Snow made it wmble to 'keep homes warm even though there was plenty o f coal or gas. Among to e poor fereat suffering was reported, v^especially-w ith chil* ^ ^ \ ^ \ ’ntr ' -s^ 1 Farmers, found i t a jh rst impossible to get th eir feeding done,0 In many cases- where stock Was exposed- the animals would refuse to e$t or drink. PunmS froze hy to e hundred, while th e ‘families, th a t had little fuel were towed to hunn th e ir fences and such humbug* a s , could’ be demolished. There was her coal to be had, . al­ though Andrew Bros, secured, a car a dhy o r so previous. < , The railroads,almost gave* up toe ta sk o f operation.' Many of the regu- tpains were withdrawn late Safc- snd Sabbath. Hundreds of caught in toe-storm ; were by the companies in th e d ty Pullman oars were kept warm mOny quartered- in them*. *’ ■ onday toe township trustees with j& force o f meh and teams on- most 0f. th e im portant toads, lie snow, sms' drifted from two ,'fe#t dteSsp. By night to e ^ ,ll|S i s-of„-good travel, bat- before ■'sitowstonUiVisitod -iiJboufcSI S wUll?*d in toe woodiu - [company that.loaned a car. There was no church, Sabbath, not one o f the congregations attempting to hold services. It'wA s impossible to boat large bidding*, and then peo­ ple could not leave to e ir firesides. The R. F, D , men did not attempt to travel th eir routes Saturday, Monday o r Tuesday,, although a fte r the Clifton pike, was opneed Monday, Mr, Spencer took the mail to th a t ■ullage. - Mis* Georgia Heitzman suffered from to e cold and fro st bites Satur­ day when she attempted to 'go to h e r home on , toe Clifton pike after* completing her*work a t toe telephone exchange' as n ight operator. -Miss- Beitxrhan braved to e storm Until pearly homewhen she could not wall; th rough '.a snow d r if t' By’crawling quite a distance she was able to reach home bu t not until nearly frozen and exhausted, ’ , ' . *One farmer reports a number Of rabbits have been found ih the snow frozen. Another, found 15 quau-m a coin shock th a t could no t brave the placed where quail could -get it. I t must be small g ra in .« - • [Passengers- on the evening train Saturday^ night did not arrive here Until a fte r midnight, A number Were cancelled. were canceled. , , - > -i, *>i *H 4 J. ^ „ hf if More gasoline h a s been'conserved the p a st six weeks than was possible under legislation. Few automobiles have braved - th e .ste rm . The phy­ sicians have had a try ing ’time ,,get-, ting to ’th e ir country patients; Dr. M- I . Marsh bad a fifteen m ile drive Monday afternoon. ■'Wnu Anderson, and Moitdn 'Cres-, well', had experiences,th a t- will al­ ways keep January 12, T8 fresh in their memories." Both hadjbeen mak-: ing their Friday evening’calls un­ mindful of what the elements had scheduled for the night. But toft time arrive*'« when -♦‘even ’•toe best Vof toads{must p**t^ an# i t dSusned-tip' on tottnjft* to tlte ,«on«ttoa Of, ** ' th irty below. Then came toe ans­ wer th a t such was the case bu t there was no snow and toe sun was bright, But toe fellow who knew of the cold­ est day went bade to 18*3 when i t became so cold in toe south the sol­ diers had frozen fee t and hands. The fellow who racked his memory to r a sure date laid claim to February ’84 and so on down until the present day. The 0 . 0. ft B. O. Home came near reach ing ,toe suffering point when two cars o f coal >were secured Sab­ bath. The institution was aided by a Passengers on the D , T, ft .I. near Washington C. H. were forced to leave th e tra in Saturday afternoon and retu rn to to u t place by farm sled over four miles of country roads. Ap Plattsburg and London the Big Four clu“et* ln “ '®b ro tf, had. trains stalled in the snow drifts. Store* Close Following C o a l, field** order a ll: as amusements wl0>.l and lor the foil other than stores drugs, Manufact five days. V i brings a $5000 fin# prisonment. Store** using any other km Mr. Frank Bull, who has been rep­ resenting his paper, the Indianapolis S tar, a t th e Hew York .automobile show, reached the F ifth stree t moss­ ing o f toft Pennsylvania in Dayton, Saturday morning. A telephone mes­ sage from hijn Sabbath afternoon a t one o'clock informed the w riter .th at ■his train, was still .there pot even be­ ing able to get down into th e city. The passengers of two other stranded trains were placed on his train and good accomodations furnished by too railroad’company. The ,hotels in the city being crowded forced the passen­ gers to remain on the cam a t a coal yard in toe Eastern.-part of the city,. CEDARVILLE PEOPLE HAVE * MUCH TO BE THAHKFUL FOR IN GAS SERVICE 1 With toe Worst storm in fifty’ years, shortage of coal, local patrons have beep very'loud In their praise o f the sdrviete .rendered by the Ohio Fuel ft Supply Co. Only at times wasotherO any variation of the pres­ sure?..-'' -**■_ ' ’ ' / ’ 1 t r, ' . Last’ summer, toe Company realiz­ ing the Coming situation,’ spent sev­ eral hundred thousand’dollars imgrowv ing toe bn# .so .toat better pressure couldb e put on-the line without dan­ ger of blowout. Itisto .aR this, im­ provement that We have not had a blowout in toe line so far thisWinter. We understand that blowout* are most frequent in toe winter a t the very tone gas is most needed. With such service, it is not out of place that toe Herald voice toe ssati- mettt o f the locm .pateons in wtteod- to# m GARFIELD'S ARE ALL T&A1 ■The associated p t patch Saturday jnor a car Of bard coad V a t Mentor,.O,, toft field families. Tbs’! between to# two field, U. S. < tlw».w inter a t bote#, J vyashington1, playing caretaker ,of toe ] a reporter th a t t kept warm With L himself must burn of Mentor h*ve be ly fo r the lack of to know th a t ,some coat, even i f .l t is ily ,' It-is real pro to, be found, londayi *: .. stor G*r- >pJacss M well d Monday Mondays foods and closed for the order year’s lm- g*s or “foci are in 3ARY* v;to*t inrffr i S i . ita&z. ir mother* Ram spending doctor is in administm- while toe 1%..* The itotod to te n a t'b i while he j p m m re oar# glad a !*■*■> ms HEWS OT TOTOEQUICK HO SCHOOL The board of public schools,for^ as toe 'roads on possible fo r th« While a car of Jamestown, i t only about Friday.- T to e building M ». C, M. ed the . auch -it im - out ipens to i Mayor Boyd MRohefi waa ra-atected to r two, y**r» by to* JMwduaky city commission. , 'On# out of t r a y to n * person* tot Fkyfttto county has membership in to# Rid 0 * 0 **, . 1 ' Ghsrdon, Geauga county, voted to tow* 125,000.in bauds to build a new fighting nfftUL Edward » , ,My#ra,.-toBB#r GaWa county sheriff, was named city man­ ager of Gallipoli*. . Tmaao Ghbifte, I f , a t on# ttteft *•#- ’*#*nb*barm* of to # Ohm sftnat^ftM l f t Washington C, H.- • ’ - ' At Van ,W#rt # grain Kriftrator ba- longing to 0. D. Brand was destroyad by fire. Loss 130,000. • Ten-y**r*oW ton OK to F t CitOord, lftncaster, received a fractured skuR a. epastin r accldeut. .■iTn a pfoclamation Atoveroor C#a arges c ll Ohioans, iodudlng children,' to purchase1 th rift ateteps, • Rev, I, W. Icenbargor, 70* died a t itoyton of paralysis, iie was in too active ministry to r 50 years. Fcotpads - shot and robbed Law. idnce Smito Thacker,, to, to Coiuim bb», th e wound proving fatal; , <[■ Coi shortage forced ldlentoa upon 2O0.00O men fir Ohio, moet of. them workers In .munitions plant*, •George W» Roberts of Marion, ser­ geant in Company D, Rainbow divi­ sion, is in in. a hospital to France- 1 ‘ML TOrnoU bank? will permit free use by pufcflc of their safety deposit vaults fim. deposit of war savings cer­ tificates. r , Frozen body Gwced Wolff, 4S. shoemaker, w*a found 'in a Sitting postur# on a trunk ahb iS horn# to Daytemt. t John Galvin took, the oath of offle® a* mayor, o f Cincinnati, George Puen­ te, the retiring mayor, administered thd jto to . . - , ' y j f"< . Struck by a tree h* and hie "eon were to the a c t/o f felling, Thomas Walter, 72, Was instanUy killed at. hi* bom#' near. UsbohJf ' ■ , 1 - t - 'Jam es A. Barrett, 55, w#U known' «nn e# near ’Gteenfieia,,was’asphyxi­ ated by gasoline fume# white trying to repair hl« a«to. '* , U sd of fhegm esto todkb.tovlitodi'*' _ *. — tfi« release e rg s tmtod', iW & fa .'' A j m itted Iftree ihmgi ar^ imjwrttnt— to th e m an w ith som e su ip ltu i nwajey to in v e s t, T h e a e c u ^ ty m u s t h e tto^rfitetiomtoT-jPOu w a n t to | « 0 l th a t th e m oney i s n o t on ly#*#*now—b a t w ill b e j u s t m id fieH ftve y e sg s from fww. T h e in te r e s t r a te shou ld b e n s h ig h a s is c o n s is te n t w ith th is s ta n d a rd o f se c u rity . A nd th e m oney sh o u ld b e av a ilab le a s c a sh—a n d w ith o u t d iscoun t—i f you shou ld n e e d it. ,You w ill find th e s e th re e f e a tu re s ex cep tion a lly Well com b ined in a d ep o sit a c co u n t w ith u s—w h ich G u a rs „ , # , « W % $ 9 h t f- ~ $ % G e m C i t y I B u i l d i n g ; A L o a d A s i ' n ” ’ RESOURCES S MUUUioNS f ‘ - •* 0 N . ‘ , 1 o. '.ri;i dozen in trade or 53 cents in- cash for CLEAN, 'FRESH EGGS Saturday and .Monday, ■ ■ ! ' ’ ' ' . . . . ; R r i n g u s j o u r S u r p l u s * . to®;. ... • Itod , y e t . ............ wk store longed fo r a tigh t ' a s a dumge from the holrand- ted s# fam iliar to us all. There many e rio ts to connection wififi Hie storm th a t bad the humorous fea- te riy b u t mot# th a t bordered on the fllrtous, • * > \ ' Friday evening ]r. O, E . Bradfute called us to know i£ the evening pa­ per* predicted stem # to his barem- ■had reached a new low record ot Thft jmsviou* low record was the Galveston storm, when it a to 28-80, These records indicate th a t Mr, Bradfute ha* i'*&aar and W iliaw aeariy frotoft took refuge teem fo r fh# n il^ t leaving th e au to along th# road, Morton ^bad - h is troublea but they Were' o f a different nature. I t Was fonnd th a t a l l ' fou r cylinders were frozen, The madun# was placed in the Owens garage a fte r some effort and Morton continued,his stay on Bridge street fo r a day or so before he could g e t home. The stenh gave the older citizens a chance to brush up to eir memories.' More than one argument was started when th is subject was mentioned as to the coldest day on record. One would say thatNew Years to 1884 was the coldest fo r the mercuty reached Paper MiBsr!g The Hagar Straw Board ft Paper Oo., plant-has been closed due* to the fac t that* -th# government operating the railroads' has placed an embargo on m o lt everything except eatables and coal. I t is impossible to ship to o r out and the mill wsis forced to close. The dispatches Stated Satur­ day n igh t th a t all board paper mills would be compelled to'close down, two days each week to help in conserving coal. While a certain low grade of coil is saved thousands o f men will be thrown out Of employment in the midst of Winter. eazSi, . j ana’ „ largest ns seen to town: w a r tru ly * 'S tJ^ftfr * JT 500 pounds fo r HOME BURNS WHEN COAL OIL STOVE EXPLODES t ‘ - 1^/ K * M. W E I N V I T E , ■ • ^ ■ "• & .* - ■’ .• . The Pbople o f the Com­ munity to visit O U R -NO LIVE STOCK With the mercury Sfemdteg 18 be­ low zero and. a high wind tea bom# of John Haag na*r Goat Station was burned to . a few mfimtea the resu lt o f a coal oil stove exploding Satur­ day morning. The famQy. escaped with only a few cloth®* and th e loss i t only p a rtly cowersd by insurance. CAN BE SHIPPED SIX SIDED SNOW CRYSTALS, pSvsrti£ & £ & & • ■*# * m h » can be stopped from here until the order is, lifted. So long ss the rose* are to the present conmtid be almost On it .would __________ I fxnpowiible to get hoga to towin. Mr, Friuok ToWniley stopped rto P ittsburg last Friday ana fo r a ca 1 ______ a time was quite worried fo r fea r the stock would perish in Saturday# s tem . The car arrived Monday and only two head were report# ddeftd. ; And inspect the renewed and re­ arranged stock which is first class and up-to-date. We ask for a share of your patron­ age and assure you fair and court­ eous treatment, guaranteeing the prices to ‘be right and everything satisfactory. L. H. Sullenberger Odwlolle, Qbb l? ADDITIONAL NAMES FOB FIRST CLASS WITH REGISTERED CONSCRIPTS The following local men have been listed by th* local board to first class: Odice Broadice, Alfred L. Walls, Walter L. Huffman, Fred A. Powers, Floyd Thom, Samuel Chapman, S tan­ ley Reed, Paul Ltokey Ramsey, Carl W. Spr&cklen, Thomas Franklin Johnson, W alter L. Graham, Fred McKinley Irvin, W. C. Williamson, Daniel Lawrence Kennon, Oscar Lee, Delmar Corry Jobe, Charles M. Coop­ er, Samuel Franklin Cretwell. NO CLUB FEAST, The annual banquet and election of officers fo r the Community Club sat fo r Tuesday wto postponed until fur­ ther notice. The ‘excessively cold weather, mad# it impossible to insure WinsTVMjriww VRVf MM law o f six. Th«y are six sided jewels o r six pointed stats. Thay n®Vor an ­ swer to the law o f four o r frr«. Snow is -crystallised water, and w ater al­ ways crystallises in tec toted forms. Why? No one «v*r will know. Them is no more apparsnt reason fo r ..the sixness Of crystallised water than there fs fo r the monocline prism* o f sugar crystals. Water, and sugar and the complex minerals which make the granite rock all follow tows which are u tterly unchangeable, bub Which are, to fa r to We can a®#, with-, out any, special reason. I t is profit­ able to speculate why th* chlorophyll of vegetation is g rton Sad why the blood o f animal to red* ft- * t The whiteness o f the snow to un­ derstandable* I t to du* to th* fusion of prismie colors scintillating from ' the countless surfaces o f minute crystals* Human setose* compre­ hends this. I t also comprehends the fac t th a t snow is a poor conductor of heat and thus prevents terrestrial ra ­ diation and keeps the earth said th e th ings in .th e earth snug and warm under the white blanket* which Is softer and fito r than lamb's wool or eiderdown. Science knows why snow to white and why i t to beneficent, bu t i t cannot explain the law of six. I t Is well th at snow cannot be al­ together explained. I t is one o f th# earths most beautiful mysteries. I t Would lose all its mystery.—Cleve­ land Plain Dealer. ^.. J.0R q u ic k SALE ■ . A dark chestnut itelHon, King Btttv toll, f jwara weight IOTP Potods, BOARDS'WILL GET *9 CENTS S T ^ ^ l f h r ^ a h m j J S S tow, lawn flower vase, folding eouoby buggy, mitt, i«fc of buggy hmfiwM, carpet «wvep«r, toocuam ekmtttr, b am l chum, creek*, .cove*, I f toon According to new regulation* mem­ bers o f the county boards o f regis­ tration will b* allowed SO cent* for each registrant as compensation by tto goveremant. Under a iom o r rul# tea salary was $160 a month* Undto bote, tea elerieal h®lp to addi- A* ,'thtoe wto# iftout $4000 m & A m fo to te * « o m it te a m ir n w® b® arou»d |720 fo r **ch »*m ton . Do not put off ordering your daily papsf. Today to wm i too hftft G*t a ftrily p#|to? a t to## « * t than aome id to** tom dafly '<Sw tto |nw to^ Tb# H m EH oOmbbwtiou wflfe te a (H i# ■f j a i d i y . Theft of totutetoted whisky aterai ip tea fodoral biUkOng at Gotembu# was Ohatged agatoat W. E. Thomp* •on* a night fireman a t the buiidiht. , Ohio Bleotrio railroad will ran mod® limited trains to save mlleag# Wd fuel. Patronage of local trains has fallen off, according to Superin­ tendent Moore. . - ■ ’ Governor Cox, announced he had’! Ordered th# State, utilities commis- *?on to start hearing protests against tee proposed rate# In the toleptaohl tote In Cleveland. !A new system, Whereby the city Cleveland will deposit its funds lm aaverel different banks Instead Ip one, wifi enable the city to draw 4,2$ pet cent interest, ■ - ’'Fifteen minutes after his insurance policy, amounting to *1,600, had be­ come void* Kelly. N. Walsh was kilted whftd struck by. an engine in the Co* lumbu* railroad yards. Herman Schneider, dean of tee un** terslty of Cincinnati engineering col- lege, was appointed director of Indus* trial sortie# section of th® ordnance department, Washington, John A Mayer,Democrat, succeed­ ed H. F* Repass, Republican, as may­ or of Lancaster. He appointed O. F Justice eervloe director and W. D, Nothacker safety director. , Captain James A Garfield, grand­ son of the late President Garfield, and Mias Edwina Glenn, daughter of Ma­ jor General Edwin F. Glepn, wet® married at camp Sherman, Ohio has aMott 100,600 mors abto* mohllto than a year ago. Stats Auto! Registrar' McCurdy told ha hid is­ sued 250,414 tags laat year* compared with 254,000 the year befOrs* Fire a t Cincinnati did damage to th# extent of $125,C00 to the building decupled toy Phillip* ft Richter* wholesale Jewelers, Barton ft Bauer, manufacturing jewelers, and the Nat- Ural Gas Supply company* • John Holmes, a rigger* toot and Jdiled’hto wife„Katie Holmes, 65, and his Stepson* John Hambrock, 40, at their rooms in Cincinnati, HambrOoE waa a soldier stationed at Syracua# N. Y., home on a furlough. • A suit against the town of Marion for water rental* which has bean buf­ feted about In the court, was settled by the City council, the city agreeing to pay $10,000' and the water oom< pan/ agreeing to discount 1 per cant. Mills throughout Erie county. Ilk# others over the country, will begin making "run-of-mill** flour in accord­ ance with the government's wheat conservation program. Patent flouts,' it is said, will Soon ba a thing of tea past. Guilty of murder in tee first degree was th# vardet .returned hy the jury at Wautoon in th* Frederick Leh­ man murder case. The jury tooted* mended clemency. This will save Lahmafl* who waa eonriteed of th# murder of tote ywjng Wife Grace fo# ihe love of another woman, from the electric chair and the penalty will be ’tte imprisonment, Lefcman'a attorney* •viil file a motion ter a .new trial, ■W’ ' !. d # , J u s t T h is - - t o J A N U A R Y 1 9 T H T O F E B R U A R Y 2 N D . I — I s t h e r e e l d e p e h d - a b l e “ S a v i n g E v e n t ” . y o u w i l l b e g l a d , t o a t t e n d • * ‘ ■ ..... •' Extra Special Values Each Day n fi The Elder & Johnston Co., D A Y T O N , O H IO * t e # « e e e * « e e e # # # # # e # e * e H W . L . C L E M A N S R e a l Es tate Cbmbe found a t toy office eftcht Saturday or ttodhed by phos# a t ■ ' ,'toy residence *#ch atening. , ;■1 ■ Office as PHONES ‘ RStetettfi® 2-U2 CEDARVILLE* OHIO. teffa 9M S m m m m m M M m m r n m m im New Grade Flour (Govenamwit Yormuk) •^Hoover Bread (T Jn d a r G o v e r u o ie n t L ic p n p e 1 7 ^ 6 6 ) 8 c or 2 for 15c Dutch Mills Pancake F' ' ' ' 1 - tokRtoUl'teJiltohlL ■ WfmW0m9WWWW •••re' 3rwtow ifMMm fta. «6 mw aatoyate mm #*•_«to» im r U M t x K U y & K x f t H A I w w i I »ammw>» M '- *,«w*v toA*i , ,«*