The Cedarville Herald, Volume 43, Numbers 27-52

/ T h * H a r t H k m A b p t h * $ * »• w m m * fa m m mi thi* im * t»o« o f the couaty, tho** who hay* t§>» money to hny» She 'Cedarc Steroid. Tbs advertiement that toll# ii the *d that cloeea't try to toil too much. KStTY-THIRD. YEAR NO, 49. CEBARVILLE, OHIO, F M A T , DECEMBER 3, 1920 emsa v -ir HOUSTON INVENTORY FILED SATURDAY IN CLARK COUNTY Invaafcotry o f the ftffairs o f the HoustocBsiiIc were filed lejrt Sat- w Jay la the Clark County Common F lew Court by the state bank depart­ ment. The following is the summary o f the inventory, loan* and discounts, $810,807.08 mortgage loans, $11551.65 overdrafts, $50,229.17; banking house ami lot, $12,OOQjfumiture and fixtures $12,075,06; revenue stamp*. $170; due frpm banks, $1,628.36; cash and cash itema, $4,474,76 making a grand total o f $1,012,027.88. * The total assets and liabilities *s< . given are $1,061,804.35 each. The re­ port shows that the majority o f the loans, about $600,000, were made to the Houston interests, The Houston Farm Company Is the largest debtor to the bank, its notes amounting Jfco $530,575.84, More than $200,000 la now past due. The Dr. J. C. Jones Company owned by Houston, ewes $29,720,82 with notes totaling more than $17,702,92. Another company owned by Hous­ ton, The Niteleta Company, owes $11,077,67. on no.tes o f which $3000 is Over due. The Hr. Jones Company o f late was consolidated with the Houston Pro­ ducts Co. This company owes $24,909- 67 in notes o f which $8000 is over due The Houston Creamery Co. had an overdraft o f $32,901.34 at the bank. The farm company, $8,000; Houston Insurance C o.,'$1585; .Houston and Houston Co„ $835; Houston and -Lynn $781;Nitelets Co., $681. _ ■. -Houston Merchandise Co„ Summer- , ford had notes against-it amounting / to $16,000. Houston Garage is debtor* to the bank in the sum o f $7,188.48 which is past due. A s to liabilities the bank owes the Huntington National Hank, Columbus $36,455,99, The Citizens Trust and 1 Sayings Co., Columbus, $14,854,85, by rediscount notes, $213,331.43; Spring- held National Bank, $19,618.40. The examiners, report shows $8,988.96 to be due J, P .F inn ey .as' rediscount on notes. ' ' ■How the affairs o f th e bank will be adjusted has not been determined at dhis-time. FV-B, JEloUstott^heacLpf th e bank and ,trustee of, the Houston, es­ tate, will be palled upon' by the state department to make good' as fa r as his' personal, resources will permit. TAX RE-APPRAISEMENT ORDERED BY STATE The State Tax commission has sent out notice fo r a reappraisement o f all real estate in 61 counties, Greene be­ ing in. tha list, The order includes all cities, villages and townships and It means a vast amount o f work on the county auditors who under the law are compelled to make the re-appraise ment- There seems to be a great differ­ ence o f opinion about the result o f an appraisement Some claim that with the. declipipg prices op farm land the new appraisement cannot be much higher than it is at present Others see the hand o f state authorities to force valuation up in order that more revenue can be secured. There seems to be no way to g e t a- round a greatly increased valuation, Clark county'farmers m’ade every e f­ fort possible last year to combat val­ uations as fixed but did not succeed in having them reduced to any extent. The state "tax commission' has such wide power in this work that proper­ ty owners are almost helplesx The rules are laid down by this b o a / to the county auditors who can do noth­ ing else than enforce them, however unpleasant it may. be to this official. The 1910 appraisement in this county was '$30,379,830. The new ap­ praisement may run as high as $50,- 000,000 judging from what has been done in other counties along this line. The doubling o f the valuation would enable a lower tax rate providing that some taxing body ’did not increase the rate. A s the.tax subdivisions all need added revenue there can be little hope o f a reduced rate. ... County Auditor Wade has been cal­ led to Dayton' with* other^officials in this section, o f the state to get instruc tions from the State Tax Commission. RETURNS FROMWEST „ f V ' ' ", 1 - I ' *7 'Stewart Arthur,* who is connected with the American Seeding Machine Company o f Springfield, is just back from a business trip to ' the North- West;-spending much time in North Dakota. Mr.. Arthur states that most o f the farmers in that state are still holding their wheat as they could not sell it. when the price was right ow­ ing to car fhortagf. Now the price is SOTlourthey-hayen^ncluded t o hold-it.- Dne o f thef largest Crops o f potatoes :g being harvested*'the yield being a? high as 400 bushel to the acre. Fota- itft HEAVY DAMAGE SUITS AGAINST D. T. & I. News Items Picked > Two damage suits amounting to •more than $50,000 have been filed a- gainst the D, T. & I railroad by C. T> Ewry and C. T. Ewry as guardian o f his sou, Fred, both o f whom sustain­ ed injuries some weeks ago when struck b y a train on that road at a crossing in South Solon. Mr. Ewry charges that by bis ac­ cident he sustained serious personal injuries to his back and neck besides having a rib broken and two joints of] died or injuries receivi his back. He' asks for damages to cov- \ down by an aatomoi " er a doctor bill of $139.75, $4,400 for ion,' Mrs, ~ CONDEWED OHIO NEWS iand Boiled Dowa for the Busy Beads* Andrew Nogajcxyk w* Cantpn to serve 18 erai penitentiary at Atkj pleaded guilty to an atte $30,000 from H. H. -TfcsJj by means of a black Mrs. Jennie Clark, a new Republic truck and other dam­ ages amounting to $29,639.75, As guardian o f his son Fred, he asks damages for his injuries to the temporal bone, resulting in reomvlng part o f the' skull, which was frac­ tured,. and other injuries. The hoy is 19 .years o f age and had an earning capacity o f $30 a week when, injured Damages amounting to $493.65 for doctor bill and other damage amount jn g - t o $25,439.65 are asked. The D. T. & I is owned by Henry Ford and it is reported that follow­ ing the accident a telegram was sent the Springfield hospital that the com­ pany would no.t stand' fo r ‘the doctor bills, though the injured men were placed aboard the train and taken by raijroad officials to the city hospital. Attorneys Judge Slump and Harry DJ' Smith represent the plaintiffs4 h each action. S. H.MARSHALL DIES S. H. Marshall, formerly known to older citizens, died some days ago at his home in,,Montmorency, Irtd, The dedeeased was bom in -Greene county and was a brother o f the late Daniel H. Marshall. C. F , Marshall o f this place" and‘ W. L. Marshall o f Colum­ bus are nephews. C. F. Marshall has been visiting in Indiana’ fo r more than a week. J i concerns. The deficiency will then be made up from the Houston estate which is amply able to make good Overy dollars to depositors and cred­ itors. • , ' The latest report is that Messrs C. F , Gross and Charles Gilbert have withdrawn as head o f the Citizens bank movement in favor o f the Far­ mer’s Bank movement! The new bank will g e t the,Houston banking building and bank equipment and as soon as organized will open fo r business. - ..IMPROVING MAIN STREET. ousands of'tmshela will freeze and ro t in the ground, RESERVOIR WORK ABOUT COMPLETED] Work on rebuilding the paper mill reservoir has about been completed, in fact bad weather set ip just at the i time o f completion. The embankments are being strengthened and the solid matter from the inside is being Us­ ed fo r that purpose) It is said that the solids from the reservoir would make the finest fertilizer in the world. When dried it is a black rich loam. The county road outfit is being us­ ed to improve North Main, street which h&8 been in bad condition. The street problem is not only" a Bprious one to cities but greater to small towns with limited finances.. Last Summer Xenia avenue was stoned and macadamed but the wot weather With the heavy traffic from autos and trucks is causing it to break in many places.. The only economical improve­ ment is brick and the sooner it' it done rthe better off *will be the village and property holders. Not one o f the Main street property holders would have the brick pavementreinoved fo r any price. , STORES CLOSE. The ministerial committee has ar­ ranged with the merchants f o r thp closing o f all stores during the re­ vival meetings. Most all have signed and will close each- evening from 7:30 to 9 except Saturday, bights when all places o f business will be open Us u»- ttldf; ,* The time f o r the picture, show has been changed to 5:80 on Tuesday and night opening will be at the usual hours. ‘ ’ SECONDOLDEST BANK The South Charleston Sentinel goes after the Xenia Gazette fo r publishing a statement that the town had rib bank following the closing o f the Houston Bank and that the town township and schools were bankrupt as a result. The facts are South Charleston has the second oldest bank in the state, the Rankin bank, organ­ ized in 1863 and has been in the RanJ kin family ever since. • — u ---------------------- BOSS t o w n s h i p n e w s "the next meeting o f the Boss tp. Parent Teachers' Association will b6 hqld Thursday afternoon, Dec, 9th. This meeting was to have been held Dec. 10th but as the next number of our lecture course is to be that even­ ing it was thought best to change the date. So don' forget the date, Dec. 9. from one thirty to three thirty. Coma early and visit the School a while. The following is the program: Devotionals b y Mrs, Charley Rite ■houi,< Paper “What Mothers Can Do in Education" by Mrs. John Kirsch. Discussion opened by Mrs. George MartindaTe* < “ How to Make Our Meetings Most Helpful" by Mrs. George Ensign. Discussion opened by Mrs, Arthur Cummings. Hot Lunches for Our School” by Miss Vera Crites. Refreshments, When it was announced a few WOekd ago that Cedarville College Would give a home talent play at the school building tor Boss eownshlp, people shook their heads and called to memory other home talent plays they had seen that had been taken a- Way from their home town. But /Since it was well advertised every one turn­ ed out to see “ What Happened to Jones" A lright Cedarville,. we will take hack everything that was said and please remember if you ever have another home talent play<dofi*t forget Rosa Tp. Such A treat doesn't come : . . ‘ .. " . . 1 PLEAS OF GUILTY The work o f Sheriff Funderburg and railroad detective) has resulted in two pleading guilty on charges o f taking coal from a car on siding that was consigned to the Farmers’ Grain Co. W . A. Smith and Thomas Soward each plead guilty . The former was taxed $26 and the latter $15 in Magis irate Jones' court, Xenia. It is inti­ mated that more rests are to follow as the officers are working on some other matters in connection. WILL ISSUE AUTO TAGS R, A . Murdock has completed ar­ rangements with the State Automo­ bile department and will issue auto­ mobile license plate which will be re­ quired on all machines after the first o f the year. Mr. Murdock states that he expects I t 09 sets fo r distribution through his Jamestown branch and the local garaje. This will be quite a convenience to motor owners in this section o f the county. SUES DAYTON PARTIES Tim Mangan has bronghtsuit in the Common Pleas Court against) Cal and Carrie k - Clark o f aytoDn fo r $150 as damage to his auto when defend­ e r 's machine struck the Mangan auto while driving wrcckleas. WILL HAVE RECOUNT Prohibition leaders have asked fo r a recount in this state claiming that votes fo r the presidential candidates fo r that patty had been wrongly cast oht. Secretary o f State Smith has or­ dered the ballots held in ten counties one o f which is Greene. The party had no ticket on the ballot and names had to he written on the ballot, An effort had been made to ’ get a place on tha ballot but enough signaturas fo r the petitions could, net be secured. _ COMPANIES VOTE TO MERGE Grace slightly injured. A grand jury lnre# ttvitles of automobile I Where young crtoJr how to steal cars, Cleveland, Joseph county prosecutor, an Thirty million Cbrl use during the Chr letters and Christmas been distributed in the state by the Ohio*< committee, preparatory! health crusade, which ‘| ducted during the firs December, John Colerqan, 52, of Springfield,- was freight train on a brid ly killed. His body lated. Suffering from a down, Dr. Foyette H.1 50, committed suicide suntarium by* stabbipg | heart. Thieves shattered a window of the Leflovit center of Canton, aod | several thousand doit furs Big Four passenger Cincinnati to Toledo) split a switch at West Be.lefontalne, and cr freight train on a sfi three persons were Injd gineer C. F. Collins ot < prqbably fatally. Ohio's. $10 farm bb ships now number 42.1 than 40 counties have federation to stage- siicS campaigns for them, tion in a hews bullet Police are without mysterious murder; o f 1 33, mill Worker, ®ai\t ard's mutilated body, hillside near- town, mhiaiftg fojL several, beaten to .death' witjCJ •aid. .. i .v" .Cargo tit 220.006 tntieaai the fed- •after he Ht» extort Canton Her. lumbys. an run eompan-, 29, was into «c* * s’ schools, i taught] sued at - ^assistant -seals for an on ces have mty in tmaa seal annual' be con- days- of . ■■■! S' ‘ r t |rbin, west j by an. Erie ] ad instant-1 fitly muti* i bus break-1 trotgomery, ) ^Cincinnati Bif in the • ■ ■ . ■■ —■ ,i display w e, in tbe sped with worth of I 4u No, JO,! id Detroit. ( Iberty. near |*d into a® to Twenty. one, fin -. ttefoutalne, - jraember- aud more the state membership bp federa- i jew to the] jar Howard,; 1L How-' 'found.mb a . had been’ . He was 8 police & flax A provisional battalion of 5U0 men j left Camp Sherman for duty in the j coal strike zone in V/est Virginia. I Tecumseh Farnsworth was shot and probably fatally wounded by his nephew, Vernon Martin, near Deucher, Washington county. During a quar­ rel between the (wo, which preceded the shooting, Farnsworth is said to have drawn a knife. , Johanna Frederickson. 14, Vermil­ lion, was struck, by a train and killed. Witnesses said *the child crawled un­ der the safety gates. She won a trip to Cofumbus In the fruit canning con­ test last yeas. J. K*. Johnson of GlovefsvJUe, N, Y „ was appointed secretary of the Limk chamber o f commerce to suc­ ceed Irving B. Lincoln, resigned, Lewis W finglebry, 50, member of the Sandusky hoard of elections, is dead- \ Girard M. Geiainger, 39, traveling salesman, died at Youngstown from typhoid fever contracted in Salem. * Ottawa County Medical -opiaty elected Dr, A, A. Brindley -of Port Clinton president, A building commission has been named b> court to erect at Findlay a children’s home at cost of 5100 .OOO. Smallpox cases have been reported at Columbus Groye. Explosion of a gt^s stove is believed to,"have caused u fire in Gavlin broth­ ers company's dress goods numufac- turing plant at Cleveland, fioing dam­ age estimated at $176,000, Yeggs obtained $l,000 from the safe In Thxelka Brothers' butcher shop in Cleveland. Two armed- bandits held up the cashier of the Newark shoe store, in the heart of Cleveland, and secured $700. They made their escape. Despondency resulting from worry over the affairs of his office is be­ lieved to have been the cause of the suicide at Elyria of Justice .of1the Peace George W. Chamberlain, 50, who bad transacted (he business' of his court since Jan, 1 without a com­ mission and whose accounts, hall been unfier investigation by-state author! ties; - . Estimates on the Erie and Ottawa county grape harvest placed tbe pro duction or these counties 'at ovet 4,000,000 -pounds,- which is within -10. per cent of tbe record crop for*that district. At a meeting of the stockholders of The Shawttce Refrigeration Company Xenia, Tuesday, it whs voted to merge with the Wilson Engineering ita. The Shawnee Company was taken over on a basis Of $100,000 it 1$ reported and the Wilson Engineering Co, will in­ crease it’s capital stock to $250,000, The Ice company has not been a pay­ ing investment and tbe business will be made more profitable under -the management o f L. D. V ik a . REVIVAL ^STARTED WEDNESDAY In spite o f the bad weather the re­ vival meeting started off on a high pitch o f enthusiasm Wednesday even­ ing. The attendance was very good, a full choir was present and the sing­ ing excellent. Rev. Nash took fo r his theme the general subject o f “ Revivals" using fori^iis text, Psalms 86:6 “ Wilt Thou not Revive us again that Thy people may rejoice in Thee" He said that revivals were normal and common occurences in all the realms o f activity both human and de- vine. There are revivals in nature, The Springtime with all its beauty, fra­ grance and fruitfulness, is only a r e vival in nature. There are revivals in business, in learning, in politics. A revival o f re ligion is only in keeping with all other activities o f God and man, ■H nature never had a revival all ve getable life would soon become ex­ tinct—just so with social, political, in­ terests. As long as the early church continued* to have g te a f revivals it conti med to live and prosper, When revivals ceased it soon drifted into spiritual formalism, death and despair o f the,dark ages. ^ When great revivals broke out urn the 1 leadership o f the reformers, the church took on new life and went for­ ward in the Conquest o f the world for Jesus Christ, The World is to-be saved, not by the ministry but by and through a revived church. In a most practical sense God & - pects every member o f the church to become a minister o f Jesus Christ and do his part in saving the world. The way to have a great revival is fo r each member to pray to God and become filled with ,the revival spirit and zeal. Pollock (dun Duluth. At Lima"John D. Goebel, police BBr- geaut, indicted tor manslaughter for th* killing ot Melvin Flannigan, whom he sought to arrest 1ft connec­ tion with a bootlegging case, was freed by a jury in common pleas court, Akron city council passed an ordi­ nance providing for the licensing of all places selling beverages and for tbe removal of screens in soft drink saloons. ' Charles Michaels and other Bucy- rus capitalists have purchased the electric crane department of-the To­ ledo Bridge and Crane company. They will incorporate under the name-of the Toledo Crane company of Bucyrus and move 'the plant to .Bucyrus. Coffee houses In Akron are not taking the place of saloons. In 19l8 57 were licensed, while during 1919 the number dropped to 27. At pres­ ent there are only 12 coffee houses in the city, Findlay civil war veterans launched a movement to bring to Findlay in 1922 the state G. A. R, encampment. Ex-£enator- Newton Stilwell of the Saventeenth-Twenty-eighth district and former prosscUtlng attorney for Holmes county, died at Millersburg after a short illness, aged 65 years. Government workers in charge of gathering whlteflsh spawn for Put-In- Bay hatcheries have just placed the first lot of eggs in the jar*. This is the latest that the spawn gatherers have ever started to supply the hatch­ eries. ' Near Youngstown bandits held up Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shaw, took their money and automobile and left them stranded in th* oUntry, Civil, Spanlsh-American and world war veterans at East Liverpool urge the war chest to surrender $ 50 , 0 Go balance for the erection -of a me­ morial building, Milton Caney, 23; Newton H. Hol- som, 45, and Alfred Dishorn, 33, were seriously injured when their auto was struck by a passenger train at a grade crossing in Cincinnati, Kester Leibert, miller, hanged him­ self in his garage at Bellefontaine. Wdrry over business was assigned as the cause. Miss Lillie I. Kaufman. 62, was struck and kilted by an automobile while waiting to board an interurban car at Canton. Body of Harry White, 46, Canadian veteran of the world war, was found in a creek at Canton. He fell into the stream and was drowned in six inches of water, William H. McGannon, chief justice o f the municipal court of Cleveland, faces trial for second degree murder. He was Indicted by the grand jury making it* second investigation Inti the killing o f Harold C. Kagy. A Jury which included eight woasea members returned a verdict at Cleve­ land finding Edward Graves, 20, a negro, gui$y o f manslaughter. Jesse Janosky was placed In the county Jail at Beltaire after his brother-in-law, Antonio Odvocto, 60, Polish miner, was found dead in his shack, Where he had been robbed of his pay, bound and beaten to death, . - King's Daughters at Bucyrus plan to 'have * municipal Christmas tree cepted the pastorate o f tbe New Phil­ adelphia Disciple church .to succeed Rev. W, W. Johnson, resigned. ■one hundred citizens ot Washing­ ton C. H. *have •invested $I00 each in a meat market, which will sell meat as near cost as possible to combat the high cost of living. " York Rider, son of a. Gallia county- farmer, drowned Jn the Ohio river near Gallipplis while duck hunting. Fire destroyed the home of Clar*, ence Finlay, farmer, near - Kenton/ Loss $5,000, Wittenberg college endowment fund of $1,500,000 has been oversubscribed, Edward. FoncheOn was found guilty of first degree murder for complicity in the killing of'Anselmo VinuriU. Italian banker, at Young»town. Mercy was not recommended. Mrs. Mayrae Kelter, Portsmouth, received by mail a postcard which was posted by her brother, Horace Beloat, at Blaucbester, nine years ago. , 1 - ' Miss Myrtle A. Thompson, a stenog- rapher, filed suit at Akron against Clyde -J. Eberly, electrician, for $10,- 000, alleging breach of promise/ Columbus has the highest tax rate o f any or the larger cities in Ohio, ac­ cording to the latest available tax statistics. With the inclusion of the 6 mill additional levy Voted for. d ly purposes Nov, 2, Columbus’ rate Is $2.60 for each $100 valuation, com­ pared tor $2.25 top Dayton, the next highest; $2,208 for Cleveland and $2,002. ftir Cincinnati, Marlon Ebersbach, 19, of Columbus, may die as tbe result of a bunting accident near Leo, in Jackson county, Ebersbach was shot by his cousin, (Carl Riggs, 19, o f Leo, when the lat­ ter's shotgun was accidentally dis­ charged. Ebersbach „was shot in tbe head, “ Robert Momen Was arrested in Cleveland in connection With the murder of Henry. Thompson. Police say Momen Confessed" that he had given Thompson $1 to get some liquor. Thompson, Momen said, failed in his quest and then refused to re­ turn the dollar, In an effort to reduce operating costs the Youngstown municipal rail­ ways have bought several small light­ weight cars to be eventually operated by one man. The lines operating urn d*r a 9 cent fare continue to show, * deficit. At Cincinnati Mrs. Anne MCIner- ney, 51, widow, was shot and killed by Albert Wulfekamp, a suitor she; had spurned, Wulfekamp then killed himself, Mrs. Mabel Cramer, 46, wife of Wil­ liam Cramer, committed suicide *t Portsmouth by shooting herself. Incendiarism is suspected in the burning of a barn containing thou­ sands of pounds of tobacco, belonging to Sbermaii Day, Ohio tonwahip, Gal- lie county. Lowell Wilson, *20, and William Rogers, 20, were found dead near the ohtrance of the Tom Maxwell mine, near Crooksvllle, It is believed they •-■ere either overcome by gas or were tied by ft delayed explosion. Gas well, good tor 4;000,000 cable feet, was struck at Syracuse, 20,miles from Gallipoli*, * PJE$CEj $1.80 A YEAH , a ® Galloway&Cherry 36-38 Wert MainStreet. Xenia, Ohio HooverElectric Cleaner • ■ ■ - 1900 Cataract Washer Pathe and A&olean . Phonographs armtheheart Opera House A . , ■ _ V. ■ X . V / , Cedarville, Ohio Dec. I to 19, 1920 A * EachNight Except SaturdayAt 7:30 ■! < Rev. Waiter C.Nash, Evangelist UNION CHOIR SO VOICES , . 1 YOU ARE INVITED Churchesoi Cedarville -TRY OUR IOB PRINTING 0