The Cedarville Herald, Volume 41, Numbers 27-52

fern 1 ^ifcWSSa w wto m " H a v a Y e t i A m w e f e d tK e R e d C t a t s X m a s R o l l C a l l? ffhi FORTY -F IRST YEAR NO. 51. OCCUPATIONAL T A X ALMOST CERTAIN. Xerald. How About a ¥&tt’k Su lacdp to a Friend! as an Xma* G ift? ■■rrtnii i CEDARYILLE , OHIO, F ^ tD A Y , DECEMBER 20, 1918 The Supreme Court o f this state is hearing argument on an ordinance passed by the Cincinnati city council providing for an occupational tax. A test suit has been filed as to the constitutionality o f the measure. The court could not decide the mat­ ter until the state was represented and the attorney general was asked present arguments in hehalf o f the state, The object o f the new tax is to provide funds to replace the loss o f the liquor taxes, A number o f southern states have a similar law and almost every class is taxed fo r the privilege o f doing business. In Alabama there are 250 different interests taxed- Attorneys pay from $15 to $125 a year, Bankers $50 to $200. Barbershops $3 per chair, Bil- lard and pool tables, $80 each. Con­ tractors $35 to $300. Newsboys, $25. Newspapers,’ $100. Physicians, $15 to $125, Restaurants, 3$5 to $150. Hotels $2 a room* Real estate dealers,. $35 to $65. Undertakers, $50 to $250. Local Buyers Find Slow Sale For Hogs Lately. It is reported that all the hog mar­ kets o f the country have been flooded and that buyers, have been holding . back. The government has fixed a j minimum price and it is said that the new price is somewhat lower than fo r this months One report was that Frank Townsley. our local buyer had $20,000 worth o f hogs in the Pitts­ burg market Saturday and no buy­ ers. Com fed hogs in the Pittsburg market costs $2.50 a bushel. BIG LEGAL BATTLE IN SIGHT. PRICE* $1-50 A .YE A R jOHIOOLE *••••••«» The girl will live, Mr. and Mrs. Frank %■ Hughe* and Uttle daughter and god Mra. Wal­ ter Guthrie narrowly ***aped death when their automobile -was wrecked a n * a d o l l - b u g g v , a n ’ g o m e e a u d }*— a n ’ _____ a n ’ d o n ’ t f o r g e t t h e p o o r o r p h a n s o v e r t h e m , Lieut. Paul Creswell 1SHERIFF JACKSON Finds Pocket B ook .! WILL RETIRE SOON. The big talk around Xenia at th e ; present time is the fight bejng made 1 against an ordinance recently passed by the city commission prohibiting the use o f certain kinds o f signs and awnings. The issue was before the people at the, last election by referen­ dum and was sustained. Part o f the merchants favor the new ordinance while others- opposq. H. E. Schmidt secured a temporary injunction a- gainst the commission enforcing the ordinance against his steel awning which would have to come down. - Chief'Justice Nichols has. named Judge Willard Wright o f Lebanon t o hear the case as Judge Kyle asked to be excused. The case is one- that will be hard fought and regardless of who wins in the lower court it will go to the highest court on account o f a constitutional question.being involved Schmidt claims the right o f the steel atvning from the fa c t that it has been a part o f his property for 40 years. It is claimed that other property is on the sidewalk, notably the city building and the Xenia National Bank building and that some o f the largest office buildings in the state have steel awnings over the sidewalks. J. A. Finney and M. J. Hartley will repre­ sent the city and Marcus Shoiip- and F, L. Johnson, Mr. Schmidt. i A letter has been received from Lieut. Paul Creswell, St. Maxient. France, telling of the theft o f a pock­ et book containing 2,900 Hers, $543, just before he left Foggie, Italy, for France. ! He had gone into a restaurant fo r a ! meal when he missed his pocket book. He immediately called a British M. P. and the Italian^police and an Ameri­ can interperter, and had the whole outfit arrested. I t wa snecessary fo r him to ‘ leave shortly with his company but accord­ ing to the letter he has been informed that his pocket book was found and was being sent by courier* a distance o f 1,000 miles. Paul is now located near Paris and did not get to s,ee active service at the front as the flu groke out just as his company had been ordered to leave. Shortly afterwards the armistice was signed. SUBSCRIPTION COMBINATIONS. SELLS TOWN PROPERTY Mr, J. D, Mott who sold his farm south o f town, has purchased through G, H. Smith* the A, T» Finney prop­ erty on North Main street, ocupied by Walter Cultice. Possession is given next March and the consideration is placed at $2,000. LIEUT. GORDON ON VISIT. _ First Lieut. Ralph Gordon of Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., spent the week end here on a visit with his aunt, Mrs. Clarence McMillan. Ralph was in a militia company from this county and aaw service in ..lexico before being inducted*into the army fo r foreign service# He did not get to see the big show as he drilled the new recruits in the Southern camp'. PURGHASES POOL ROOM. Wm. Reed has purchased the pool tom and cigar store o f G. E. Boyd, r . Reed will hold a public sale o f very stock and some cows and hogs ; the Boyd livery barn, Saturday.Mr. oyd has been in poor health and may ) south fo r the winter. CHURCH SERVICES. fL P. Church, Main street. Teachers meeting Saturday evening st 7 p .m . Preaching by Rev, A. L. Benson at 10:30 a. m. M. E , Church, J. W. Patton, Pastor. Sabbath School at 8:30, G. H. Hart- man, Supt. Preaching by the pastor at 10:30. Union services will be held in the M. E, church, address by Rev. W. A. tViftftt, D. D. Subject/' With Goner- »1 Allenby ffi the Holly Land/’ Everyone welcomed. —Hog oil, $0.00 per barrel o f 50 gallon, plus freight. A club order nill cut tb* freight one-half# See Howard C. Creswell. We have had numerous requests fo r combination rates fo r daily papers and stock journals. The War Indus tries Board has held up this matter and from information received -yester­ day a r port is*to be handed down in a few days! The'Herald upon receipt o f this information will be ready to announce the best combination rate that will be permitted in compliance with the board’s ruling.’ CHAS. TAYLOR DEAD Chas. Taylor, aged 66, died Tues­ day morning at his home near James­ town, death being due to heart trouble. 'He is survived by. six sons and three daughters, Robert and David Taylor o f this place being sons and Mrs. RuBSel Chapman, a daugh­ ter. *" UNCLE SAM’S HORSE SALE. The government will sell 1,000. head o f horses at public sale at Camp Sher­ man at some near date. The horses are no longer needed and will be dis­ posed o f in this manner. FELL FOR HIS COUNTRY. Joseph F. Foody o f Xenia was kil­ led in action November 10th, one day before the armistice was signed. The young fnan was 28 years of age an^ is survived by his mother, two bro­ thers and aslater. He was formerly employed at the Xenia Shoe Factory. FEED! PEED!! Meat scraps for Poultry, Union Grain Dairy Feed, Winter Wheat Middlings, Oil Meal and Tankage at E# A# Allen"* Elevator# Give Him somfehing to wear from The Criterion, Xenia, Ohio. -—You know you will need heavy clothing this winter. Why wait when you can go to C. Kelble's, W. Main, Xenia and get your needs supplied at the lowest prices. j Cut Glass and Chinaware' R. Bird & Sons Co. DOLLS, GAMES,. TOYS, SLEDS, WAGONS and KIDDIE KARS# R. BIRD & SONS CO. Sheriff F. A. Jackson has served two term in that office in this .county in a very creditable maimer and will retire the first of January with a re­ cord for efficiency that can be looked to with pride. The present deputy, Lincoln Funderburg becomes sheriff and takes over the office with four years experience as deputy, and 'his work will not be new to him. He has selected George'Birch for bis deputy. This will be the only change in the county offices as the others are hold­ overs ’ or were re-elected, for their second terms to succeed themselves. WORTH THE PRICE Just by the way o f appreciation o f what the world has escaped suppose for a moment that the German plan o f world einpire had been carried o.ut successfully. And that Germany today was dicta­ ting the-terms o f peace. Would King Albert o f Belgium be back in Brussels ? . Would stricken Roumania be hold- in her head up once more wtih a smile of hope? Would devasted Serbia be gathering together the remnants o f her for­ mer government and preparing J;p re­ build her burned homes ? Would the Venetians be bringing back to Venice the art treasures they hurried away when the Austrians ad­ vance crossed the border. Would France be jubilating over the probable early restoration o f A l­ sace-Lorraine ? Would England have the Union Jack floating from every flag pole in the land and Harwich harbor full o f docile German U-boats ? Would Russia be freed o f the terms o f the atrocious Brest-Litovsk traty and at liberty to reorganize her gov­ ernment along the broadest lines of liberty ? And would Uncle Sam be prepar­ ing to go out and pick the juicle&t plums in foreign commerce or would he be arranging to pay a $40,000,00,- 000 indemnity and to bow to the Kai­ ser's yoke for the next, half century? And what of the world at large? Would it be rejoicing today at the prospect o f unfettered democracy and liberty ? Not if the Kaiser retained his fac­ ulties. For the Kaiser had planned n lit­ tle privately managed world protec­ torate with the world paying substan­ tial tribute to the new Germany. It cost the allied nations sofnethii. * more than $100,000,000,000 to escape this fate. Not forgetting a tremen­ dous blood toll. But it was worth it. And if Uude Sam is compelled to add a few billions more to round out his obligations his independence will be cheap-at the price. So get ready to buy his next bond issue. ORDER FERTILIZER NOW. Get your order in at once fo r your spring fertilizer. We handle the cele­ brated MF. S. & R.” There is nofte any better on the market. E. A . ALLEN. NOTICE TO HUNTERS. No hunting with dog or guft will be permitted on ^ny farm. Hitnters are also forbidden to keep o ff the place at flight and nofrapping is permitted. George Powers. train at but not three police- six sailors vat training th* business residents of .ujtte health state laws,’ arfment of health re- glslature is winter .rat health cy to that on the ticket vote, al­ and another .Work shanty pany, near a light, the which one ox, 13, was itly by his toyed with ^Ninety-fifth is expect- 10 days, process will aplete. oU and abu? wdre jty hoard of also were iSnza cases iclnnatl at* tl represen* ie demand FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TUESDAY MAN FLEW IN AIRPLANE FOR FIRST TIME. by a Big Four yasi Marion. All were seriously. Fifteen civilians men were bruised from the Great Lai station ran amuck district of Toledo. Rural and small Ohio are not getting protection- under pr< j declares the state, health. In plana for organization which expected to const methods for making machinery equal in of the cities are outl Three defeated Franklin, county R demand a recount p, legiog fraud and e A foreigner was kli seriously wounded a t! of a construction. Youngstown, during g result of a robbery, workman lost $2,009, At ChllHcotbe, Orvif shot .and killed i i ' brother Delbert, 11, a small caliber rifle. Demobilization o f division at Camp Slier ed to start within- tlifl Army officers believe : require two weo^s tp Grade schools, fafgg parochial schools in ordered closed by the health. Sunday school put under the ban. are increasing. Aaron A. Ferris,- a torney. acting as the Is tative of Ohio wets, ____ ___ __- on Attorney General Mdthee that he "without delay" bring aa'ault either in a federal or a state Spurt to pre­ vent the governor from JCumlng the federal prohibition amendment over to the legislature. Fetjjrls contends that the amendment wasteOt adopted by a two-thirds vote o f ^ c h house, hence It is not legal. . Delirious with influents, Herman Rorcliers, Jr., 34, junior member of the firm of Herman Borehers A Son, Columbus, cut bis throgj; and died while police were taking him to a hospital. - George R. Irwin has ifeMn nomi­ nated for postmaster a&sljgMr Ban-. flush*. Arthur Male. 26# burned"t* death in Trimble village (Athens coUnty) lull. ’ Don Blotter, 17, was accidentally shot and killed at. McArthur by his father, who shot at a hog while butch, erlng. Influensa closing ban is renewed at Ashtabula, where many new cases have developed. 1 Fire at East' Liverpool destroyed the three-story business and apart­ ment block owned by Robert Btirford. Loss $75,000. - , . Hundred barrel oil well was struck on the Elasel farm, near Tiffin. At Bellefontaiae George W. Jack- son, a rural mall oarrier, killed him­ self. Cleveland's traffic and much of its business was paralyzed by a strike of 1,500 streetcar men, tying up every streetcar In the city, Many shop* closed because of inability to get their employes to work. The men demanded immediate removal of women conductors from, the cars, John Gratz ,55, Lima, was instantly killed at a motor truck plant when * coal bin gave way on which ho was working. Claude S. Baker, 35, drum major for the Erie Railroad band and the Eagles’ Drum corps, was killed la the Marion yards by an engine. Streetcar local unions of Youngs­ town, Warren, Niles, Sharen and New Castle, whose members are a * - tormen and conductors for the Ma­ honing and ShenUngo Railway and Light company, announced that un­ less a wage advance is forthcoming by Dec. 15 they will go out on strike, Tiffin will lose its streetcar systsm { unless a 7^4-cent car fare, now in ef- jfect, will produce enough revenue to meet operating expenses, Demobilisation of the Student anpy training corps at Okie fltaU univer­ sity is expected to be oemplete by Dec. 20. Railroads operating in Ohio will pay their usual taxes without legal contest. This will mean millions of dollars for the state. As she had alighted from a street- qar at Columbus, Dorothy Nader, 15, was struck by aa aut* driven by iAwrsncd-Muth, 13, and killed. Metn is held. State Highway Commissioner Cew- en announced that as wgny highway Improvement contracts as possible I will be awarded neat year, so Sf to haston work la the spring. Contracts aggregating $1,100,M l wifi be award­ ed In January. The price ef milk will remain the same for households, but iwbduoer* j g 00(i control made sufficiency from in Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland shortage, kept the rein on food prices, Man first conquered the air just fifteen years ago Tuesday when Orville Wright njiade his flight at Day- ton in a heavier-than-air machihe. On that date the Wright by-plane stayed in the air just one minute at a speed o f 35 miles an hour. Tuesday in honor o f this event there flew one o f the latest monoplanes at a speed o f 145 miles an hour over' the same ground covrilred by Wright. A t the same time there was a Haridley-Page machine up that can carry 40 passengers# Newtons laws o f gravitation have been set aside and civilization wili frormnow on witness as great an expansion as has come fronr the railroads,Steamships and automobiles. Two Dollars A n Ounce For Duroc Male Hog. ifThe recent Sale o f Orion King II, to R. A. Long o f Kanshs City for the princely sum o f $10,000, the famous Duroc hog, is said to figure about $2 an ounce. The hog sold at auction at the International Live Stock Show. Another big sale was that o f a sow to Thomas Johnson o fColumbus for $2,225.. -H#_W,—Mumford o f Hlinois sold 56 brood sows at an average o f o f $428. It is said in Duroc circles that 60,000 hogs o f this breed have been recorder so far this year. INCREASE BURIAL FEES. . The county commissioners have in­ creased the fees paid to undertakers for the burial o f indigent persons. The undertakers asked for a $30 fee for children and $50 for adults but the commisioners raised the fee fo r children from $20 to $25 and adults from $30 to $40. Trdes and Shrubbery Are Now Budding. Whir go south fo r the winter when nature is sending, out buds on the trees and shrubbery in this section? The open winter has disturbed the usual order o fplants and the long winter rest seems to have been brok- for many o f them. Buds on the trees are swelling and shrubbery likolilac bushes promises to ahoot forth leaves if this weather continues, Iris in the flower gardens is taking on a new form o f green fo r winter and dandelions are in bloom every­ where. The warm rain last week’ are responsible for this new growth o f plaflt life. Farmers say that wheat never looked better, in. fact at no time this fall has it quit growing. Gardners say that if heavy freezes come soon great damage will befall all fru it trees. ' NO ONE SUFFERED HERE. The marvel of our voluntary food­ saving, now that We are “ getting re­ sults,” is that no one ever actually suffered any hardship from it; that we all are better In liealtn and spirit and better satlsfle l with ourselves be­ cause of our friendly self-denial. Food control in. America held the price of bresdstuffs steady, prevented vicious speculation and extortion and preserved tranquillity at home. In no other nation is there so willing a sense o f voluntary self-sacrifice as In America—that whs shown in the abstinence from wheat JAMES GAINES DEAD. James Gaines, son o f Capt. Alex. Haines, formerly of this place, died Monday at his home near Ridgefram, 111. James and his four brothers went to Illinois in the fifties and pur chased land for $3.50 an acre that is worth $250 now. The deceased own ed several thousand.acres at the time o f his death. 80 DAYS OF SCHOOL. When school closes Friday evening there will have been 80 days o f the schobl year past. Of the 80 days the first six grades o f the school will have only had 32 days in school. The epidemic has caused the lower grades to be closed down most o f the time. Find more wheat, It came; more pork, It came; save sugar, it was done. So Americans answered the challenge of German starvation. Good will rules the new world as fear governed the old world. Through sharing food America helps make the whole world kin. will get an increase of 25 cents for each 111 pounds from distributers, as a result ef aa agreement reaohefl ha­ ter State Food Administrator Crex- ton. At Cincinnati the producers will get aa increase o f i# cents fr o * the distributors. Herbert Howard of Melvhi, a*M gave else. the nation's full strength exer- Starvatlon by Germany challenged all the world; food conservation In America answered the challenge. Food conservation in America has Wilmington, has been eited to* brer, been the triumph of individual devo- ery tot having captured single hand- tloa to the national cause, •d 14 Germans and for maw** aa j officer of the famous Prusslaa ftoarda Auctioneering—terns reasonable— bite the dust# TARGET RIFLES—42 caliber. R. Bin! & Sons Co. get dates. Call CedacviU* Phene 21*2 on 151. H .C . WILSON. M i d OYSTERS—-Per quart 60c. R. Bird & Sons Co. Prepare your piano for the winter. Have itjuned and regulated. Call phone 2-lfiO. Knox Hutchison. MINISTERS OPPOSE' BRYAN ’S OFFER. The ministers o f the county are al­ most a unit in opposing the accept­ ance o f the John. Bryan farm aa a park either by the state or the county under the terms o f the will that pro­ hibited religious services on the land, at any time. If the state did not accept the farm it was then to be offered to the coun­ ty on the same terms. If the county declined the farm is to be sold and the money added to the proceeds o f the estate. Protestant and Catholic clergymen have registered a strong opposition which means that this county will not accept the farm even if the state was to decline. Weather Man Ig Regulating Coal Sale*.- The county fuel administration has, passed out o f existence due to the fact the war is over and also that there is - ' no longer need o f coat regulations as the weatherman has that in charge. Last summer warning was sent put fo r everyone to lay in a supply o f coal’ and this was done in most cases. This year in contrast with the zero weather o f a year ago we have a very mild winter which does not require much fuel. The coal dealers all have an abun­ dance o f coaj oh hand and Very few sales are being made. - The' govern- ■’ ment is not a heavy buyer of coal at present and it will be but a short time until we can have hard coat as well as the smokeless coal. The weatherman ' is the only power that is likely to be responsible fo r a return’to condition’s as we had them last winter. A NEW BUSINESS FIRM. S. A. T. C. DEMOBILIZES The S. A. T. C at Antioch college was demobilized Monday and 55 men given their release and honorable dis­ charge, Hary Wright o f this place en­ tered this branch o f army training and. has returned home to enter college- here. —We can now give you the genuine Vienna bread made from all wheat flour. . . The Home Bakery. CIDER—Fresh and sweet made of strictly sound Apple#. Per gallon 56c. R, Bird & Sons Co# Mesdames Elias and Masters have rented the rooms on Xenia ave,j just off Main street, formerly oc upied by the Hinton restaurant where,’ rifte*' some repairing they will open a first class and- up to the minute millinery - store. Both ladies are thoroughly ex­ perienced in their line of. work "and • no doubt will -be able to please <the. people’ .o f Cedarville and vicinity#. Watch these columns fo r the notice o f the opening which will be about the first o f February.' The Circuit Gourt handed down a decision this week affirming the Coni-' mon Pleas Court in the case o f David Cooney against Rachael McMilian# Suit had'been grought to enforce con­ tract ,bnt the lower held there Was no cCntract. 83RD. HOMEWARD BOUND. According to press reports the 83rd Division under the commond o f Gen, Glenn, is .homeward bound from some port in France# Mrs, John Burris has A letter from her son, Cecil, who is in that division, and he states that they wore scheduled to embark fo r the U. S. A#, on Dec. 14, which would be last Saturday. Almost all o f the Greene county boys that went to Camp Sher­ man at first were in the 83rd but aftef it landed in France the division was used fo r supplying others that were depleted after service at the frontTn this way most o f the local boys' were transferred to other divisions# FLU STILL TRAVELING. The flu is still making its rounds with people in this section but fo r­ tunately there are no serious coses. It is said that more than fifty cases have bean reported this week. Some o f the cases that come to our' atten- are L. F. Tindall and family. Miss Bertha Dean; W. R. Watt and wife; J. E. Post; Ralph Wolford; Prof. F . A. Jurkat; R. S. Bull and a score o f others that might be named. WANTED— First class salesman to take charge o f ou r securities busi­ ness in this community; bond and ref­ erences required; experience preferred A good salary paid. Address box550 Newark, Ohio. The Ohio Securities Co. nm tomM * Mo. mmc A**M*#eh mm XENIA TAKES EXCEPTIONS. Xenia city has filed suit in the Su­ preme Court against the Public Utili­ ties Commission o f the state ‘ asking that the water rates be changed, the commission having recently fixed a rate the city refuses to pay. The water company recently secured judg­ ment against the city fo r back water bills amounting* to $20,000. To the man up a tree it looks like the city shauld uot worry what the rate is. I f the smalt rate cannot be paid it looks like the water company will be the loser only having judgments or bad accounts as assets which do not go far in the present day towards? good business policy. —Buy winter clothing and assfler- waar now when you have the ohaiiee to get it. U. KelWe.W .Mxto.Xama.