The Cedarville Herald, Volume 44, Numbers 1-26

0 'Hie IJerald is read by the pro­ gressive farmer# of this sec­ tion of the county, those who have the money to buy* She I 'O l t T Y - F O C K T H Y E A R N O . 9 DEATH CALLS ROBERT BIRD In Robt Bird’s death Cedarville lost a" leading citizen and one o f our prominent and influential merchants last Thursday night after an illness of fouri weeks from catarrahal fever which caused mostoid bone infection. An operation was performed at the McClellan hospital but be never re­ gained bis strength due to previous AT THE COLLEGE* FARM AND FIELD NOTES Ithe^announcement^61wa*pC<oteefved°,' Twenty-three bens in the Nebraska February 18th. The exercises w e r e ; college of agriculture laid 23 or more helu in the K .P , church, Mam street.! eggs during. December; one laid 27 The devotions were opened hy singing -and four 26 each. Among the twenty the doxoiogy* number, 313. The in- three big layers there were seven vocation was oiten a by the R e v . White Leghorns, four White Wyan- James White, I>. D, T h e audience ; dottes, four White Orphmgtons, one tnen sang number 15. The scripture Rhode Island Bed and three Buff Or* lesson, Romans was read by tfie phingtons. Bev, jeroul A series of prayer . 9 was offered, vj?c.,’d by the Bev. Mr, The bureau o f crop statistics of McKibben ami c*«jed oy the Rev. J.| Ohio just issued for the past year P, White, D, D. 1shows a decline not only *in the num- •A mixed quartette’ sang number ; ber o f horses, cattle, hogs*and sheep >50*. The sermon Was preached by the but in the value as well. There were Rev, W. P. llarnman from the text 16,000 less ,hopses; 74,000 less cattle; round in the Gospel according to 21,000 less'dairy cattle; 190,000'less Sierald. "Hie advertisment that tell# is tiie ad tliat doesn’t try to tell too much* 1921 PR ICE , 11.50 A Y E A R weakened condition. - - . _ . .. _ . .............. The deceased was horn *April 2 Miuthew, the 21st chapter and the. sheep; 184,000 'le s s . hogs. The loss 1858 in this place, being the son of 42nd verse. At the close of the diB- for the various Kind of stock due to Bloss and Ellen Bird, a familv of course, prayer wa3 offered bythe Rev., th'edecline of the market is placed at * ■ * J HUSiQP Oir7 AHA HAH fLA *, aa «» hfft*A ah M ' ' ' ■ ' ” , * Letters were read by iean Leroy Allen frona the following: Tfta Bev, Alexander Savage, D. D.* New Galilee, Pa.,"“the Bev. John W. Bickett ,D, !>.. Roney's Point, W- Va., The Bev, $5. 3a. Ritchie, D. D., Nobles- pQWfu Pa,, Mr. and Mrs. M. G*N.agley fcedarvUie, Mr. ahd Mrs. Sherman ff. CONDENSED OH IO NEWS New# Item# PM Hi at Random and Boiled Down for the Busy Reader Sparks from a sb gun with which* Frank DolnsbJ, 57, itbens. commit-; ted suicide, set fire > an outbuilding ‘ In which be comm >ed the .act, de-; strayed the building ind almost com ple ely consumed tia savings, in a .belt’ aUu. were. lost. He tad be 6 n ill. Rt Bev John P. body, His life ’ round his body,' Farfeljy. bishop ROBERT BIRD. prominent English, ancestors. Re re­ ceived his education in the local pub­ lic schools and at the. age of 22 took over a grocery store belonging .to his sister; Mrs, Julia Condon, that was then located in a small brick building that stands- today on South Main street. Prom this.small beginning his business grew and in 1882--he moved into the Gaunce building at Main and Xenia avenUe where the new Ex­ change Bank building is now located. Here he continued business with great'success and in 1890 moved just ' across The’ public 'square where" he branched out into a general depart- .ment store. Owing to failing health ■ the store was reorganised in 1916 un­ der the name of Robert Bird & Sons Co. with his son Frank and son-in-law Lloyd Confarr in charge. Mr. Bird all the years o f his bus- . iness experience maintained a repu­ tation for fair and honest dealing, to patron and competitor’ alike* He was a man of. unassniiimitig disposi- ilred, His determination to succeed in business was only measured by, his physical ability to withstand the strain of the days, months and y,ears he devoted to the business* On April llth , 1883 he was united in hiarriage. to Miss Aletha ‘ Steven*- son of near Xenia and to them were •born five children, all of whom sur­ vive* They are Prank and 'Mrs. Lloyd Confarr, and Miss’Mary Bird of this place, Fred, who is assistant' to the. superintendent of Mandel Bros De­ partment Store in Chicago and Harry who is studying pharmacy m Phila­ delphia. Mrs.* H, A. Turnbull of this . place and Mrs. Julia Condon of Fair Haven, Florida* are the only surviv­ ing members of the .deceased’s fam­ ily* •. ‘ * The deceased was a member of the United Presbyterian church and for ,fen years.was a member of the hoard of trustees. The funeral services were held on Sabbath; afternoon at the U. P. church in, charge o f his pastor, Bev. J. P. White, who was assisted by Dr* McChesney and Rev. Busier. A solo, “ In the Upper Garden” was . sung by Miss Helen Oglesbec and a selection by a quartette by Misses . Helen anti Dorothy Oglesbee and Hugh Turnbull and J. A, Stormont* Liming, Bloomingaburg, O,, Bev. M. G. Hanna and wife, lviechamcstown, Q„ The Bev. W. J. Smiley Sparta, ill., Mise Linnie J. Long, Beaver Fans Pa., Rev. Ralph S. Elder, Cutler, IU., Mr. and Mrs. John McCullough, Pit­ tsburgh, Pa., Mr. Francis Vance, Lima Center, Wis., Rev.,T. R, Turner and wife, Quincy, Maas., the Rev* Albert Barnes Henry, Philadelphia, Pa., Mr. Alexander Spence, Pittts- liurg, Pa., the Rev. Mills J. Taylor, Philadelphia," Pa., Miss Wilmah Spen­ cer, Kenmore, O., and Mr. and Mrs, John,Hanna, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr, O, P. Eiias and w i f e ___ $20.00 Mrs. J. H. McMillan__________ 10.00 tWilmah Spencer ___ :________20.00 Alexander S p en ce__ _ 5.00 Grace Morton ________:_______*.25.00 Francis V an ce___ _________ 5,00 Mr. and*Mrs. John McCullough ‘10.00 Rev, .Ralph S. E iu er__ _______ 10,00 Miss Linnie 'J. L o n g ___________ 5.00 Rev. W. J. Sm iley____________ 10.00 Gilliland & J o l l y ____________ »10.0Q Geo,‘A, Shrodes *. t.50.00 C. E. Masters___________ ,_____10.00 A. E. and- M. M* H u ey________ 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. M. C, N ag ley____25.00 A Friend, Cedarvifle_________ 500.00 Mr. and Mrs. John*Hanna______10.00 fhe Cedarvifle H era ld____ !___ 20.00 Offering at the church_______ 65.17 ’ The above Was for the Morton Bible Chair.' Mrs. M. L. lliff gave $40 for a scholarship. „Mr. A1 Stor­ mont gave $50_for_ laboratory. _equip-, ment, a total of $900.17. Dr. F. A. Jurkat announced an in­ crease in the endowmentfund o f $6,500 since the Day 'o f Prayer a year ago. Dr. McChesney that Bishop, Anderson of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Cincinnati area is to he this year’s commencement day orator on June 10. 7- Mxs. Anna Miller contributed the beautiful flowers for the occasion. The Rev. R. S. McElhinney pro- helped to make the',day so successful. LIST OF LETTERS. Remaining unclaimed _in the post office at Cedarvifle, Ohio, for the week ending, Feb. 19, 1921. Andrew G. . . Brindle Mrg.'E* Bobbitt Frank Brown Roy ” Cooper Mrs, Jones* (2) . ' Cox John E lliot A. W. Geared Albert (2) Howell John. W. Johnson F. W. Kimbrough J* W» ' Moore Scott •> . Overly Cecil (2) Perlot Chas* , - . Townsley C. W. Westervelt .Rev* James W. A! Turnbull, P. M, R. F. D. CHANGES. $17,464,000 for the year. The eBti mated value o f all stock in Ohio is $237,087,000. # J* JK William Cheney has rented the A. H. White farm east of town to be vacated by W, E. Clemans, who goes to his farm , south o f’ Jamestown which he purchased last fall. •* * • *• m While a few farmers have started spring plowing no great amount of land has been turned, W. L. Clemans probably leads in this respect for he has 40 acres broken on his farm on the lower River road near Clifton. ■m * • * George Martifidale, o f near Glad­ stone, who has purchased the Winter farm, expects To engage in' the dairy business from reports. Mr. Martin- dale expects to improve the farm and start by, moving the bam to another location/ - ' ‘ '■■. . ■■ *'■' Jack Furay who has-been renting the Earl Snyder place will movfe to A, M. Tonkinson’s farm oh the James town pjke. t i Harry Powers leaves ' the Henry Smith farm and moves to a house on John Turner’s farm. - -w >/■; ‘ Mjchael O’Connel of Jamestown has moved back to his farm off the Federal pike. The fire on the F. P. Hastings farm below Xenia recals to mind the fire on the Frank Towsnley farm a year ago this coming March. Mr. Townsley lost dwelling as well as all farm buildings while the dwelling was not burned on the Hastings farm. The loss on the contents is placed"“at" $11,000 covered fairly well by insur­ ance. The barn, which was an un- Usally good one wais only insured for $2,500, which would not near replace it. - *• 9 * Many went from this section to attend the W. E. RObfe sale near South.'Charleston, Tuesday. The big draft teams were in demand and brot good prices. The T. B. Mechling team a t t w i i - w brot $500. of the Catholic dioc so of Cleveland, died of yneumoni at Knoxville, Teiin., after a short liuegs, The body wan taken to Clffl (land for burial. Bishop Farrelly wa born- la Mem­ phis, Tenn„ March < i* 1856. He was the fourth bishop i the diocese of Cleveland. He was .named to this office by Pope Pius i ,ln March. 1909. Reduction of 10 er cent in the value of real propei y in Clark coun­ ty has been orders t by the county commissioners. / . Louis .Fele, 37, af l James Phillips, 46, were arrested an /three large cop­ per stills and 15 bar ste of inash were seized at Marion f *’>* raid by the police C. CK Finley. P|i ihsylvania engi­ neer, who was injur i vyhen a passen­ ger train went iat /the ditch near Bloomfield, died in iifitt, 'W. E3. Bit-' ter of Toledo, ffrln] ’Finley's engine, was but slightly bttJ ed., i Cambridge boards l trade plans to ask the state highv y, department to •straighten the “S'* ] idge on the Na­ tional pike at, Brid) ville- tor protefi- tfon of motorists,. ; > ‘ Nine sheet mill’s ji the Youngstown' Sheet and Tube cotj Wny resumed op­ erations after a KM V shutdown, ; Fiiuffay couucfl i dotnmended mo­ torization of .the fir department. ^ . w E. Cooper. D neerat, was ap­ pointed city solicits pf Findlay, suc­ ceeding J C. Bitter Republican, who resigned. . Donald White, was thrown Over ment. into . .Youngstown, jLiS-foot embank- qti^f fy* 'after being Rs hip Was frac- ..worker^din-1 , a ;train,. ) Zanesville was' the wheels of ^piffled the .Ma-{ ind Loan,com-1 '■ ‘ 1 .held up the Shing Baking 1 " aped with • Interment took place at Massies creek cemetery. „ The pall hearers were J. E. Turnbull, J. E. Hastings, W. A* Spencer, W. L. Clemans* O. L, Smith, Bery Myers, Dr, M. I. Marsh and M* W. Collins* A delegation of business men at­ tended the funeral in a body. There Were many floral tributes from dif­ ferent organizations and friends and the business men as tributes of the esteem and effection in which the es­ teemed was held. '/NO INCREASE IN FAY. Greene county jurors in common with the other jurors in Ohio will have to wait another two yfsars be­ fore they get a salary increase. By a vote of ID to 18 the senate de­ feated the Bond house bill to raise pay from $2 to $3 a day. A motion to reconsider then was defeated 19 to 18. The result of the Civil Service ex­ aminations for R. F. D. men has been reported, James Duffield was highest with Jay Stortnont, A. B. Cteswell and Mac Anderson near the same giades. As service men have first preference Mr. Stormont gets the ap­ pointment. The appointment will fill a vancy caused by the retirement of H. ;M. Stormont of route Three. W. A, t ender of route Two will take route ree and Mr. Stormont gets route Two. The change takes place March first. David Johnson, substitute, has been driving route Three since Mr. H. M. Stormont’s retirement. THE CABINET TO BATE. The cabinet for President Hard­ ing’s administration has been made up end about all the different ap­ pointments have been announced by the incoming executive. State-^Chbrlea E* Hughes'. Treasurer—-Andrew Mellon. War—John W. Weeks. Attorney General-H. M. Daugherty , Postmaster Gehcral-r-W. H. Hays. Navy—Edwin Denby. Interior—A, B. Fall. Agriculture—Henry Wallace, Commerce—Herbert Hoover, Labor—James J. Davis, , WANTS NO EXEMPTION. President-elect Harding does not want to take advantage o f any legis­ lation to escape the income tax like President Wilson, The income tax on a $75,000 salary such as the presi­ dent gets is $18,000 and, Mr. Harding objects to a proposed hill to exempt C», for the inauguration him from this tax, NOT MANY GOING, Those, who can p $78 can go from this section to. Washington, I). i on Match 4. The Smith and Powers sale last Friday was quite a success, most all the stock and machinery bringing good prices, ’ The Critz farm on the Solon pike is to be surveyed and a line straight through the .middle of it will bt. made, tlm south-half going>to John Critz. while the house and north half .will go to his sister, Mrs. Thea. Vogles- faerg; o f London.-This farm has been badly neglected, hut the new owners inform us it will be sown in gras# aqd improved. There is almost 200 acres of it.—South Charleston Sentinel, - * * * T. B, Meclilirig who sold what was known as the Teas jplace . to Mr. Rohler, will locate in Denver, Colo. Mr, Rohler gets possession the first of the month. * ■ ■ * * Fred Aldgren of Napenville, 111., has? moved onthe F.-B. Turnbull farm. Mr. Aldgren has purchased a ' half interest in all the stock and farm equipment, also thd herd of Angus cattle. ,He is an experienced cattle man and takes charge of the farm for Mr. Turnbull. He brought nine head of the finest DurOc hogs from Judge Duncan's famous herd.' He will add the breeding of Duroc hogs with Angus cattle, His wife and four children are expected in a few days, * * . * Townsley and Ritenour purchased one o f the biggest lot o f fat hogs from one farmer at one time that has ever gone from the local market. J. E, Lewis, one 6f the big farmers on the Selma and JamestcTWn pike fed out 250 head o f hogs that aver­ aged 337 pojunds. At one time we un­ derstand that Mr, Lewis was offered 14 cents for these hogf^but of course no such price was paid oh the present market. At ten cents a pound the price of the hogs would be nearly $8,500. . . 4 9 9 No more free seeds Will be sent out by the government as the Senate refused to provide $367,000 for this little piece of campaign material, 4* - w f Judge Geiger of .the Court of Com­ mon Pleas in Springfield has upheld the police court that tractors cannot run over the paved Streets Of that .city Without layirig boards to protect the paving, Charles Wilson was fined $50 for operating tt tractor and he appealed from police court to com­ mon picas. NO LONGER SECRETARY. R, It. Grieve i.as resigned as secre­ tary of the Greene County Fair Board after A service in that capacity pf thirty-five years. Mr. Grieve has been an able official in that position and his experience in handling the fair has proven valuable to the Board From year to year. He has been suc­ ceeded by J. Robert Bryson, son of W. B< Bryson, who has been a mem­ ber o f the board for many years. CLUB OPPOSES BILL. The Greene, County Automobile club opposes the bill in the legisla­ ture to license all automobile driv­ en , The eounty commissioners will be asked to provide , ter * standing reward for the arrest and convictloi o f auto thieve* and recovery of prop - 1 *.* v.etiy* * Back in 1901 the fare was only $14 The high fare will keep many at home just at present when dollar bills are not blowing . with every guest of wind about the streets. - I ..-.— 1 MU 1 ’t'.rrnlimn,ini.itOr ( GORDON ESTATE $106,000 W. II, Gordon has been appointed, administrator of the estate of R. B« Gordin by the Clark county probate court and bohd given the sum Of $12,000. The estate is valued at $166,* 000. Mr. Gordon, Who formerly lived at South Solort but in later years in Springfield, was one o f ; the best known stock buyer# in Ohio. a u t o sh ow t h is w eek : The Springfield automobile deal- ; i fo a i l trs arei holding a display show this " i i n week of the new models at Memorial ‘ hall. Truck# aiid accessories are al­ so on display, , NEWSMEN TO MEET. The twenty-fifth annual mid-winter meeting of the Buckeye Press assoc­ iation will be held Thursday and Friday o f this week in Columbus at the Neil House. Weekly newspaper publishers from all parts o f Ohio will attend. On the program for ad- •dresses are. Gov. Davis, Lieut. Gov. Brown, Hairy Hillman, editor of the Inland Printer, Chicago, The assoc­ iation will, he entertained Friday morning at ti* O. S. U. * j IIAVBFMADE BIG GAIN* The statement of the Ccd'arvill# Building 1 Ss Loan Association appears in this issue. The deposits have been1 increased about $18,000 during the past year. The asoemtion is putting on a Liberty Savings Bell campaign that has met with good success. robbed by two men. Hired , ^ joKeplj. Green,. « cinauti, was kilted Coleman Wycoff crushed to death *1 a truck near Spwrtj Two unmasked rion Building, Sai .pany o f $272 .and Five automobile office force of the company/Olev $1,600 was held at Newark under $ 2 , 00 # bohd on * charge of carrying con­ cealed weapons as * result, It j# stated.- of atiempting to compel his former wife to remarry him, 4 Two .men pfeld up Miss Aiyi Mo Cracken, manicurist, in a beauty par­ lor at Toledo, at the point of a gun and ^tole.$249. Cincinnati F, W,. Barclay and Harry Gray were injured probably fa­ tally when a train hit their .auto, . Fifteen horses burned to death in a fire which destroyed Paul Mann’s livery stable at Woodsfield, Warrants were issued- at Tiffin for the arrest of owners of three movies who kept their places open Sunday. Contract for Akron’s new hotel and theater will b# awarded uext month. Plans call for a $3,090,090 structure., Matthew Bright, 40. a life termer in the West Virginia penitentiary, who escaped from the institution Sept. 17 last, was captured at Galfl* polls by Chief of Police Belcher and Sheriff Swanson and a 1 osse. A 20 per cent reduction in wages for independent Steel plants of the Mahoning valley, Ohio, and the She-” nango valley! Pent ylvania, has been announced. The reduction affects more than 40,000 men. Confiscated booze valued at $10,000 and ‘ automobiles valued at $7,000 are 1 being held by poticu at Akron. Four­ teen men and ond 7 woman are under arrest, charged' with transporting liquor. Two hundred' jobless men were put to work chopping kindling and fire- wefod at 4 woodyard opened by the Cincinnati, committee on unemploy­ ment. Harold Nussbaiim, . 16 , confessed, police say, that he assisted Walter M. Pfeiffer, president of the Janet Choc­ olate company, id setting fire to the company's factory at Cincinnati Pfeiffer was arrested by Fire Mar­ shal Edward Donovan ana admitted, the marshal States, that he started the fires 011 three floors and that the Nussbamn boy started them on two other floors At Springfield Roy Baker'and Lo­ rain Adkins were sentenced 10 the Ohio peniientlary on the charge of stealing autos, ‘ Toledo and Ohio Central railway shops at Bucyrus and Kenton will lay off all employes in heavy eugine re­ pair departments. Three men and a woman arri held at. Toledo’ following the fatal Shooting of Peter Fodchenia, 38, who was killed while accompanying federal agents in a prohibition raid, Clarence Hamilton, 20. veteran of the world war. was shot and killed at Toronto, near Steubenville, when mjfr tak*en, for a robber by Stephen Billi, a Slav ■ ' l<Yank L. Brown, ?l. former mayor of Youngstown, died after a long ill ness, Ashtabula Moose plans to erect a $30,000 home with combined roof gar­ den and theater sealing 2 , 000 . Leray Dove died at Warrea from gunshot wounds received while hunt, lng Yegga got $49 after blowing the safe of the Springfield Milk Product* company's office, Bellefontaine, While attempting tp escape from .the county jail at Toledo, Mrs, Myr­ tle Hemsley, convicted of the mur­ der several months ago of Leo Cou- sino, fell from the root of the two- story building and was so badly in, Jured that her death occurred a few hours later In a hospitak • Students attending (info State’ uni­ versity who reside m the state at the time of enrollment will pay $40 tui­ tion fee, $10 more ihatt now, for the two semesters beginning in Septem ber. “Nonresident" students will jmy twice as much nexi year as this. Their new fee will he $100;> it is now $50. ‘ ‘ Dominic Gennario.v 40, a Black Hand suspect at i-eetonia, met pis death at the hands.»f two intended victims, who fired 15 bullets into hia body, according to the story told by the men, who surrendered themselves to the mayor. • • ’ Five masked men entered a bouse on the Dixie highway, near Middle- town, where it is alleged' a gambling game was in progress, and robbed 22 * occupant's of $2.50.0. Building in Findlay .fast year amounted to $*i0.57<) more tham in 1919. • Three men arrested at Youngstown were Ideiitifled by the cashier and auditor of the Youngstown and Ohio' River railway as the bandits who hold them up and robbed the rail­ way’s Leetonia station of $2,000. Announcement was made by officers of the Gas Consumers' league of Day- ton that suit.will be filed to enjoin collection, of new natural gas rates under the schedule agreed upon by the city -commission and the Dayton Gas company. ' j Akron council rejected a $ 1 , 000,000 j bond issue proposed for the -erection } of a plant for the generation and , I. rgnsmifis>bh of Iieat. Youngstown school board will u«e movies to teach certain’ branches in public schools, Mn Hanna Allen, for ,39 years den- . uty'"probate judge of Licking county, will retire when Prohate Judge Bob­ bins Hunter turns over the office to II, J. Alexander, judge-elect, William Koehlein was burned seri-' ousiy before be was rescued froin a Martins Ferry rooming house which' was destroyed hy fire. Governor Davis signed $he Miller prohibition enforcement hill, which passed the bnbse lost; week and the filed with the secretary of-state a short time later, and became a Jaw. A warrant was Issued at Toledo for the arrest of David A, Barnett, prom­ inent lumberman and mill work man­ ufacturer, bn a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minor girls. Hotel) Royer, 47. Hudson, drew a. sentence of froip one to 20 years in the ponitentlary when be pleaded guilty at Akron to shooting Mrs 1 Clara Loomis last-November, Soldiers’ bohua proposal will go before the people next November by unanimous vote of both bouses of the general assembly. It is dn the form of a constitutional amendment au- thorteing the Issuance of‘ $25,000,000 in hond-s to pay ox-service .men and women of Ohio $10 for each month of service, not. to exceed a total of $250 Apnellnfo Judge W. H. Kinder, Findlay, retired after 12 years of service. Shot six times by an unknown as­ sailant, who escaped, .Dominick No* earica, Youngstown, is expected to re­ cover. Jason Case of Richwood tendered his resignation as justice of the peace of Cialbourne township after serving continuously for 30 years. Mrs. Julia Pauson, 30, was shot and killed at Lorain by her former hus­ band, Doraotor Popp, 35, Popp then killed himself. Mrs. Rose Mittendorf, while at vor-, ship in at Francis church, Cincin­ nati, was robbed of $8 by a woman sitting beside ber, she told police. Three persons were kilted and one was injured when a train struck an automobile near Cleveland.- The dead: H D. Rawlings. 35; Mrs. Fred Kerslake, 33. and Miss Gladys Horn- brook, 20, all residents ot» Bedford. Approximately $1,050,000 In gifts and subscriptions was received for the expansion fund of WfttenberR college in Ibe "greater Wittenberg college appeal" recently . conducted The college had established $1,500,- POO as its goal Former State Auditor A. V. Dona- hey Is going into the coal business, he announced following his purchase of 110 acres of coal land near Cadiz Prohibition agents raided the home of Tjoufs Roma, hair tonic manufac Hirer, 'at Toledo, and declare they discovered a compleie 1 plant for reC . tifying alcohol Three hundred gal­ lons of rectified alcohol, liquor and gin, valued at $ 20 , 000 , were seized Ohio senate passed the Brand bill to exdmpt farmers’ marketing organ izatibns from the restrictions of the Valentine anti-trust law The bill now goes to the house Standard Oil company, which re­ cently purchased for $ 8,000 the birth­ place of Rutherford B Haves at Del aware, notified 1 he Delaware Com­ mercial club that it would donate the sito to the city or any organization Hint would want to preserve it. •Rev Sylvauus Schillinger of Wesi Alexandria was found dead in bis rhair at the home of a son? Ha was a graduate of Capital university, Co­ lumbus. ' . Loola Painter, 5-yeaY-old daughter of Kenyon V. Painter, capitalist, was killed at Cleveland In an autotaobll* colllrton. * “COAL OIL JOHNNY” We laugh in ridicule at the man who scattered I ds money broadcast and dissipated his fortune in a few’ months' time. Yet most of us are "Coal Oil Johnnies” on a miniature scale/ For wfe allow the nickels and dimes and quarters to slip through our fingers at will. ” ,- Those same dimes and quarters, deposited r/tgularly in a savings accoi^nt, would light the way to financial indepen­ dence. And it isn't hard to save. Once started, you .soon^ acquire the habit—your bank account will mount up in sun- prising fashion. Make the start toward financial independence today by opening an account at . , TheExchange Bank ' C E D A R V IU E , OHIO, ' C ap ita l a n d S u rp lu s $75,000.00* R e s ou r c e s O ver $500,000.00* 4% Interest Paid on ’ Sav ings A c c o u n t s and T im e e r t ifica te s MAKE TH IS BANK YOUR BANK [MICrtAELS-STEHW 7 VALUE-FIRST W CLOTHES V I • i You won’t find this year's birds in last year’s nests. - Our Michaelff-Stern suits are now-—- that’s why they are' $3 5 .00 It’s only the stores that disposed of their 1920 stocks that can display . the, dupli­ cate of this value. Theae suits are new— cut in January- after the generous cut in clothing market ^ —and while we are not positively certain ve afe lead to believe that this is the first showing of J.921 models, at 1921 prices— in or near to Xenia. We didn’t wait for traveling salesmen to bring these suits to us---we shouldered our market basket and went in search of them. Th*e result', we have the goods in stock to sell at $25 to $45 that used to be $20 higher and we have something else to talk about beside the Weather! (r iten on ^ A fc u fc b & a d a fic ltA & E o ifi 22 South Detroit St. Xenia, Ohio mm amm W. L. CLEMANS Rea l Es tat e <hn bafoun- at 'my ofllim each Saturday or reached by phon# at my residence each evening. Office 36 / PHONES Residence 2-122 , CEDARVILLE, OHM) -TRY OUR TOB PRINTING