The Cedarville Herald, Volume 44, Numbers 27-52

« m m m m s w e e s s away A5*B SHOPPING AT HAND, QUAD TUB eimiSTE-lAB A t ® IN ^TIIIS ISSUE, RELIABLE GOODS AT HONEST PRICES, ffhe "Cedarville Jterald, THE MERCHANT THAT FAILS TO MU FOE YOUR CHRISTMAS TRADE EVIDENTLY DQES IffQT KNOW THE BUYING TOWER OF THIS COMMUNITY. Ir 0 BTY«FOUBTH YEAR NO. 49 GEDARVILLE, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER % 1921 » ' M,I U' ■ ■ . 1 » . I I , PRICE, 11.50 A YEAR Sutton Returns County Money; Has Resigned. For several weeks back J. C. Clif­ ton, state examiner, has been'inspect­ ing the books in the county offices. During this time various rumors, have been afloat no to the condition of the county treasury, alleging a short­ age, . It is said that Mr, Clifton has a- bout completed the examination of the treasurer’s books and is malting up his report, or same has been done by this time and forwarded to head­ quarters in Columbus, where his finding are again checked by the State Bureau of Accounting. The most that can be said at this time is that the examination covers a three year period of J, E. Sutton formerly treasurer, now deputy un­ der J. H. McVay. Under the law Mr. Clifton cannot go back of a former examination that took place three years ago. Last Wednesday Mr. Sutton paid aver to the county through R, 0, Wead, county auditor, $2,576.14. Ac­ cording to the auditor’s books §1,323.- 52 goes into the general tax fund; §413.73 to the county fund and $838.- 89 to cover over and double payment of taxes, Outside of this nothing more is definitely known, nor will not be un­ til, the axarainer’s* return is -filed with the prosecuting attorney and the auditor. It then will be open for inspection as a- public document. Ex­ aminer Clifton does not give out in­ terviews and the content as to ac­ tual findings is not known. Numerous stories are afloat about overcharging tax payers in small amounts but whether this is so or not cannot be told unles individual tax payers inspect their receipts or the report give some light on it. The report being of unusual.interest fol­ lowing the remittance last Wednes­ day will no doubt published in full by both the daily and weekly press of tffit county, Mi\ Sutton entered the treasurer's office as deputy under J, H. McVay in 1913, serving four years. In 1910 Sutton became treasurer-and he, made McVay deputy, who served four’ years, McVay 13 ndvr serving on a two year term and he again has ap­ pointed Sutton as his deputy,' both starting on the new term this year. The rumors, have caused some anxiety among taxpayers who are digging up their old receipts and trying to figure out if they have been over-charged, SIGNS OF THE TIMES 6 EV THE I BEST I SHOPNOW? I SHOP EARLY AND AVOID THE R U SH ! g*? O N lA more sh o p p in g DAYS ’TILL XMAS’. l i e — R idq Qj crc 0 fcL Y | r S$*M| . I PA'W i] M - i gfiKSPP®!® fJ f f I W B l l r l '__X\ SVXOYV*^ R L Y _ f a r m AND f ie l d n o t e s HappeningsAbout TOeGouuty At a meeting of the Nation,-" Farm Bureau in Atlanta, Ga., last week, James B. Howard as president and 0. E. Bradfute as, vice president were re-elected. J. E. SUTTON RESIGNS AS DEPUTY TREASURER. J. E, Suttoil, deputy county treas­ urer tinder J. H. McVay „nd former treasurer, tendered his resignation Tuesday evening and it was effective December 1 st. Mr. McVay has appointed Elbert L, Babb, to fill the vacancy which has nearly two years to run. Mr. Babb is connected with the Babb Hardware Store in Xenia and is a very promi­ nent young business man. HOW TO FIGURE YOUR . TAX RETURNS CORRECTLY The scare among taxpayers of the county over developments in Xenia has caused much discussion 33 to liow to figure out tax returns, which just a t present is the popular past­ time, not only in the rural districts but Xenia as well. We have been asked by several how to do it and a- bout the easiest way is as follows. On the back of your tax receipt is to be found the rate of taxation for every .corporation, township and school district in the county. On the 1920 receipt you will find that the rate for Cedarville township is §16.70 per thousand. In Cedar­ ville village, §18.50. If you have list­ ed your property in the township, you take the township rate. I f in the corporation the village rate. On the face of the receipt you will find the valuation of ypur, property •both^real and persona}. You then can multiply the'valuation by the rate and you have the amount of your tax fo r the year, Aa taxes are col lected twice yearly the receipt should be fo r olio half of. this amount. There are some exceptions to tfci that should be known, If ’ you have had road, ditch, street improvement, . etc, such assessment is extra but on­ ly- payable in December each year. As to personal property in small a- niounts it is frequently put down for the entire year. For example in this village, if you have §1009.00. worth of taxable prop erty for 1020 , the rate was $18.50. Your tax receipt should be for $9,25 ifi Deeeijiber and the same amount in June. The Big Play. Tell everybody a boot it and urge them to. come and enjoy the evening with you. For £alc:-Practically a arbnsl new Ford touring car a t a BARGAIN Gall G II. Hartman. R. F. Taber, farm department man ager of Ohio State. University, will speak at a meeting of twenty farm­ ers of the vicinity of Jamestown and Cedarville, composing hte “Cost Ac­ count Ring", to be held at the home of William Anderson, on the James­ town pike, Dec. 2. J. F. Dowler, an expert accountant, has kept the ac­ counts of the farmers systamatically and topics of mutual interest along this line will be discussed a t the meeting. ■» ' Sixty bushels of corn were used in making an* enlarged ear 7 feet wide and 30 feet high, which is being shown at the International Hay and Grain Ssow in Chicago. The corn \yas raised by C. E. Troycr °- Indiana, who won hte national corn growers hampionship last year with a sample of his corn. The huge, imitation, ear is labeled “The Farmer’s Dream.” ■ ■ 4 w The Spahr favm on the Jamestown pike about five miles south of town was sold a t partition sale last Satur­ day-by Sheriff Fundevburg. The land was offered some time ago but there were no bidders an the land was ap­ praised this time a t $.115 an acre, .It brought §196 an acre and Oliver De Haven, formerly’ of this section but now residing near Columbus, bid it •n. We understand that Mr, Dellaven mught the place for a home. The farm is badly in need of improve­ ment. PUBLICITY f By Edmund Vance Cooke. There’s nothing like publicity To further that lubricity Which minted cartwheels fteed To maximize ‘heir speed In your direction. True, some hydropathist of stocks Or one whose trade is picking locks, May make objection: Yet even those gentry always lurk Where booming first has done its work. " Observe liow oft some foreigner, About the size of coroner, Can sell L O R D (Four letter as you see) For seven numbers, Because his trade-mark thus devised, Is advertised and advertised Till it encumbers < The mental view, as though ’twere some Bald-headed brand of chewing gum. Pu.» By the activity of Sheriff Funder- burg and Deputy. Day .three Xenia boys were placed under arrest Satur- night for the theft of Grant St. John’s automobile that was found in a ditch on the Jamestown pike That; night. The boys also plead guilty to the theft of Roy Ary’a car last week which' "had been driven to Cincinnati and on the return trip abandoned at a point near Beavertown. The boys wore William Collins,, 21, Orville Green, 19 and Harrison Green, 16. I t is said the boys were using tlie cars for joy riding but when in Cincinnati had to trade a tire and rim to a garage for gasoline’ as they had no money. The Ary machine was dam­ aged, due to operating it without oil. - ' •. 1' ■ 4- 4 . - • ji » - .The death of Dr. Thomas Henry Jackson, D. D., removes the last surviving member of the first grad­ uating class of WTberforce Uni­ versity in 1870. Dr. Jackson has been the head of the seminary; for many year* And w*» a noted churchman. Now that Thanksgiving is over the students are looking aagerly forward to Christmas vacation, , A Christmas program will he giv­ en sometime during ighe week, before Christmas, by talent Slicked from the Further CONDENSED OHIO NEWS News Items Picked at Random and Boiled Down for the B u y Render whole schobL will be announced lafer. particulars COLLEGE NOTES Miss Isabel Clark spent Thanks­ giving and the week-end a t the home of Miss Myrtle Bickett. The students of Cedarville Col­ lege and also the High School enjoy­ ed an interesting address I ■-sday morning given by Rev. Williams of Chicago., known as the “Fighting Parson".' His talk was an inspiring one and most helpful to all. . .* • ■ m Coach Blackburn is now organ*z- ing the boys and girls basketball teams. We are all looking toward a most successful season as there is plenty of. good material found in both teams. • .* * ’ Miss Lois Cummings had as her guest Miss Arnott during the Thank giving vacation. o • * • Miss Klenk, the.Y. W» C. A. sec­ retary of Ohio, will give an address to the Y. W. girls Wednesd; ing. mom- ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS --TO CEDARVILLE COLLEGE Darlington, Pa., Ladies' Missionary Society, _________________ $40K)Q Mattie E. Duncan, Darlington —10.G0 Rev. Alexander Savage, Darlington, ...................... § 1 , 000.00 Only six weeks ’til} the end of the semester and Exams. The basket balYsemjon has started in full force. Practice hours have been arranged and the teams are hard at work. After witnessing the Osborn boys best the Ross boys by a score of 30 to 5, Cedarville tesolves tp de­ feat both teams in the coming schedule. Osborn is the first game. It will be played beke two weeks from tonight. * * * 1 Rev. Williams, **The Fighting Parson" of Chicago, visited the school Tuesday and gave an interesting talk to the High Selpol and upper Grades. J 1 . *• _• * ’ . - The weather strif# which were put in during voCagm. h ' 0 added greatly tp’ tKe SISKmn o f She build­ ing and will cut down coal consump­ tion. - ■ ", • . , •*, ■ m-1 -, ’NEVERYTHING Dignified Seniors should have to be stood in the corner, but .it don't make any difference to Mrs. Wilson. * V . * * A new song bursts forth upon our ears. Better have it copyrighted, Ira; even if you didn't start it. • • * v , Walter Cummins didn't play basket ball Friday night. Wo Wonder why ? • • • . T Forest Nagley reports a very 1 fine time during vacation; Especially when the long afternoons and even­ ings were wont to drag slowly. * * * .. A MYSTERY There were four of them. They went to a ball game. They left early. -“!»! !!—!l ll~ !|—!l (these are to represent the long hours that e- lapsed after that) They didn't get home 'till 1 o’clock. A case for Sher­ lock Holmes. • * » The basket ball training rules will probably cut down the enormous a* mount of sweets consumed during the Christmas season. Yc 3 it *will not. Study your own pseychology! Sec how some mere tautology Of picture or that-of print Has realized the glint Of your good money. How often have persistent views Which does seem funny; And yet 'twaa head-work after all, Which helped the .shoe-man make his haul. There’s some obscure locality In every man’s mentality Which I am free to state I'd like to penetrate For my felicity. But now who gives a second look When he perceives a poem by Cooke? But come publicity! And then a poem by Cooke were seen The first thing in -the Magazine, , D. B. Turner, Cedarville, 15.00 i Fairview, Pa., Woman’s Missionary Society, ______ 50.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McMillan, Sparta 111., ------------ ............... 400.00 A Friend, Sparta, 111.,_______ 50.09 Robert Killough, Philadelphia, Pa., ...................... ...................... 200.00 Charles II. Shepherd, Chicago, 111. .................................- ...................................................................................................- 100.00 E. II. Smith, Jamestown, O., —27.00 Total Building and Endowment Fund todate, Nov. 30, 1921 is §145,442.50. Edmund Vance Cooke, popular poet, humorist and lecturer, will open the Lecture course Dec. 9. The plat opens, the day before. Come for yotir own ticket to Hartman’s or Richards drugstore and save ten cents on each ticket. Four cct -3 of pure and delicious comedy with something to it. Get your seats early for “In Walked Jimmy”, There will bo a crowded house and come will be abut out on Da*. 13. P lat open a t Johnson'* Jewelry Store, Saturday, Dec. 10. JUDGE GIVES DECISION. Judge Geiger of Springfield has de­ cided the contest over the will of E. D, Houston, which gave his widow $10,000 annually for life. The Court also held that the $40,000 that was left jointly l>y L. II. and E. D. Hous­ ton for a public library must bo taken from the Houston estate asset:,, and these amounts cannot be used for the payment of the Houston bank debts. The will provided §20,000 for a li­ brary building and the same amount for endowment of same. A site wa also given but the building was never erected. Receiver Beebe of the Hous­ ton Farm Co. places the debts of this concern a t $587,931.30. Dairies are being read much as the newspapers. about as FUNERAL OF F. J. HUFFMAN. Mrs. Mary WJnzig and Mrs. Kate Peters were struck by automobiles In Cincinnati and instantly killed. Toledo has reverted to eastern time in ■accordance with the time change recently voted by the people. Louis Goldstein, 42, was beaten to death by robbers in the basement of his second-hand furniture store at Cleveland. David E, Scott, former safety di­ rector of Youngstown, is under sen­ tence of two years in prison follow­ ing his conviction of bribery in con­ nection with liquor law violations. Thirty million seals Is the quota for Ohio in the Christmas seal sale, wh.ch lasts until the holidays. Reuben Allen, 12, son of James Allen, farmer, residing in the north­ ern . part of Fayette county, was killed.when a shotgun was accident­ ally •discharged, Angelo Costagnittl, 45, Akron, was killed by a train. Charged in a state warrant with being in possesison of liquor unlaw­ fully, Clem Herbes, 43, president of. a Cincinnati vinegar company, was placed under arrest. cGeorge Farrell, 15, of Tiffin, was ■ killed almost Instantly at Port Clin­ ton when a shot gun which he had been cleaning exploded, He had been hunting. Louise, 7-year-old daughter of Le- ander White, lock tender at Ohio river dam No, 26, at GaUlpolis, was burned to death. The child was play­ ing with a toy stove when her dress caught lire. Henry Henea of Amherst, seeks di­ vorce from his wife, whom he mar­ ried 34 years ago. Dispute over how to bring up.1their twins was said lu- the petition to have resulted in breaking up their long .married life. Three men held, up the Leroy drug store •in Cleveland and fled with $75. Eleven -boys and one girl from Ohio farms who did unusually good work last summer in raising corn or pigs or, cattle left for Chicago, where they will he the guests of the inter­ national live stock exhibition for a week. Eager td get an early start next spring In'road building, county com­ missioners from ■30, counties have taken u£ with Highway Director Herrick already their plans for next season’s work. They are about four months earlier than usual. As C. C. Dodds, a farmer, was driv­ ing his car to his home near Wash­ ington C. H„ he wa* Bred upon. and. slightly wounded by an unknown as­ sailant. , John Peterson, fireman, was killed a t a Middletown mill by a fall of coal. ■ . ' Fire wrecked Central Christian church a t Wilmington. State encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held at Akron In June, Robert Kelly, 47, and John S. Sabo, 40, were seriously Injured a t Akron as the result of an automobile acci­ dent. Jopp J. Schromofsky, 72, a banker at Youngstown, Is Buffering from concussion of the brain as a re su lt of being struck by an automobile. Madison county jait ls under quar­ antine- following the discovery that Seymour. Williams is -ill with diph­ theria. He is held on an assault charge. Warren’s new municipally owned waterworks shows a profit of be­ tween $12,000'and $15,000 during the first five months of Its operation. All union steamfltters and helpers in*Cincinnati are On a "vacation” against a proposed wage reduction. Twenty-eight and one-half million pounds of food were In Ohio cold storage warehouses on Nov. 1, ac­ cording to a report issued by the state bureau of markets. * Most of this was meats and poultry, 11,443,- 98D pounds being pickled pork and 9,271,000 pounds being poultry. Dr. J. F. Osborn of Cleveland Heights was arrested on a man­ slaughter charge In connection with the death of Miss Ruth Wilke, 19, of Cleveland, who died in an Elyria hotel. “Too liberal use of the executive Nearly 9,000 bottles of beer snipped from Windsor, Ont., were confiscated by Toledo police and prohibition agents on board a lake yacht In Mau­ mee bay. The crew escaped. Students from Ohio State univer­ sity won first place in the collegiate live stock judging contest held- a t the international live stock exposition, Chicago. They scored 4,178 points out of a possible 5,000, winning, first honors in the placing of sheep and horses. Robert Meek, young farmer living near Chardon, killed himself. Twenty per tent of last season’s corn crop in the state was damaged by the corn ear worm, the semi­ monthly crop report of the. agricul­ tural statistician for Ohio declared. Mayor-elect B. F. Brough of Toledo says he would limit grounds for di­ vorce to infidelity and long separa­ tion. Fifteen bids were received at. Akron on $250,0.00 county . hospital bonds. At Youngstown Joseph A. Meere was fatally hurt in an auto upset. Isaiah Jones, negro, St. Clairsville, died-after taking-a jdrink of whisky. Many Seneca county farmers say. they will not attempt to raise sugar beets next season because of small profits this year. . Struck by an auto, .Samuel Bretz, 50, died at Millersburg. * Dr. Wallace Van Ort, Springfield physician, died after a long illness, • Three indictments charging first degree murder were • returned at Washington C. H. against Oliver Vandervort, 32, fur dealer, in connect tion with the fatal shooting of Ber­ tha Whitlow Vandervort, a former wife of Vandervort; Mrs. Jeff Whit­ low, her mother, and Howard.Hosier, a caller at- .the Whitlow home, in Clinton county. Buyers a t Port Clinton are offering $1.15 to $1.50 for good muskrat pelts-. Harold Niergarten, 20, ;a bellboy ini a Lima hotel, made a sworn confes­ sion to Sheriff Boh Ewing of Auglaize county that he had killed Joseph S. Kershaw, world war hero, as they, rode together on a Baltimore and Ohio freight train near fcrldersvllle, a village near Lima, the, sheriff an-' nounepd . Ohio soldier bo: us bonds will be offered at not higher' than 4% per cent interest and possibly as low as 4% per cent, members of the board of sinking fund commissioners an­ nounced, The vefiSrSns’vkdjtifeted compensa­ tion amendment was officially de­ clared a part of the Ohio constitu­ tion through the issuance of a ‘formal proclamation by Governor Ejavis im­ mediately after the state ^ntivassing board had declared the amendment adopted, The amendment carried by majority -of. 624,662 out of a total vote of 1,1273,556. Official returns show that the sen­ atorial redlstrlcting amendment was defeated by a majority of 181,950. The poll tax amendment was defeat­ ed by a majority of 428,342. College'of medicine of the Univer­ sity of Cincinnati is to receive $35,- 000 a year for three .years, retroac­ tive to July 1 of this year, from the Rockefeller foundation. Knights of Pythias building at Bloomingburg, Fayette county, was destroyed by fire with a Joss of $ 20 , 000 . Plant of the Northwestern Ohio Light company at Hlcksville, Defiance county, has been sold to Cotter, Wins­ low & Company of Chicago for ap­ proximately $225,000. Increased interest In boys’ and girls’' dub. work for next year was urged by speakers at the annual con­ vention at Findlay of the Ohio Fair circuit. Residents of Sedalia, 10 miles south of London, organized a community man hunt, following the firing upon three automobiles passing along 8e- dalla pike. At Middletown Elza Roberts, 28, white, was stabbed to death by T. B. Brown, 28, negro, following an argu­ ment, Miss Bessie Connaughton; 39, was burned fatally when lien dress caught New System ForInspection, State Examiner J, (J, Clifton, who has'been examining the county offices stated to the Herald Monday, that State Auditor Tracy bad mapped out a new plan for county examinations, and inspections, much different than has been in force many years. According to this plan an examiner will be given certain counties and in , case of Mr. Clifton he will have four counties, Montgomery, Greene, Darke and Preble and he will be expected to bo in each county a t least once each month to check them up, give advice to officials on matters that are not clear where the expenditure of funds i- involved and eonnult w ith ' tax­ payers who might have matters of interest. ■ It is held that if officials know of the coming of the inspector each month he will keep his records up- to date and take no chances, If a ques­ tion arises as to proceedure the offi­ cial can,wait until the inspector ar­ rives and present' the matter to him. By this method fewer examiners will -be necessary and irregularities will not be so frequent as they can be adjusted at once. CONGRESSMAN FESS MAY BE •• SENATORIAL CANDIDATE. A dispatch, in the Enquirer a few days ago stated that Congressman 3. D. Fess would be the administra­ tion. candidate for Senator for Ohio ;o succeed Atlee Pomer’een, whose •erm is drawing to a close. I t has ;een kwown for some time that Con­ gressman Fess had his eye on this dace. Monday he gave out an inter­ dew that the published, dispatch rom Washington was not true as he ;iid as yet made no announcement lut would give his position after the . •Iolidays,, To those who follow pub­ ic events and politics as well it'is ■ertaih that the Congressman will •cry likely acceed to the demand and announce himself for the Senator- ship,/ ■ ■■ Should Congressman Fess declare or this place it means tha t many mmes Will likely come forward for ;ongressional honors in this the lar- ;est Republican district in Ohio, I t las been known for some time tha t Attorney . Charles Darlington of Lenia had aspirations- anA-he will no Toubt be' Greene county’s candidate ■vhen the.time comes. A t present he Is commander'of the Ohio American Legion, and would have a strong fol- owing in the jiongressioanl race. LOOKING BACK. Funeral services for Ferdinand Jas­ per Huffman, 74, Who died a t his home, 504 S. Mound street, Muncie, early Monday morning from heart disease, will he conducted from the Moffet-Piepho funeral home ut 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Inter­ ment will bo made in Beech GroVe cemetery. Mr, Huffman resided in kuncie for 40 years, excepting a few months spent in Anderson. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviv­ ing are the widow, Esther; two sons Calvin of Dayton and Leroy of Pax­ ton, HI,, one step-son, Otto Ream, of near Oakville; two brothers, Wil­ liam of M«neie and Newton of Cin­ cinnati. Twenty-two characters in “In Walked Jimmy” Biggest play ever attempted In Cedarville, , A considerable amount of curi­ osity has been aroused about town as to what it was into which Jimmy walked. Here it is! In the first act Jimmy walked into a shoe factory. In the uefcond he walked into the hearts of men and women. .In the third he walked into trouble. In the fourth ho walked into*- Conic and nee for yourselves, itty Blake, could tell but she is too bashful. Don’t lose the 10 cents you arc al­ lowed by coining for your own lecture course, tickets. But get them on or before Dec. 8 , power to pardon” is charged by the j fire as she attempted to fill a stove Ohio institute tor public efficiency in a special report submitted to Gover­ nor Davis, in which recommenda­ tions are made as means of reme­ dying the “breakdown of the state pardoning system and its subsequent flooding of the state with a horde of •riminals.” One man was killed and two others slightly injured in fight* between striking milk wagon drivers of the TelUng-Belle Vernon Company and strikebreakers at Cleveland. A. P. Sandies of Ottawa was re­ elected president of the Ohio Fair •treuit at the closing session of the erganization’s convention a t Findlay. Five priijioners made their escape from tho London prison falm in the automobile of Superintendent J. C. Lorlmer. All were serving terms tor larceny Or robbery, H. W. Riddle was re-elected presi­ dent of the Portage county agricul­ tural society. Toledo council permitted the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gao com­ pany to increase its rates with cer­ tain conditions benefiting small con­ sumers. Lela Billings, 8, Upper Sandusky, was killed instantly when tho buggy in which she and her father were riding collided with a truck. Mrs, George Kilts was burned to death when her home, near Youngs­ town, was consumed in a fire caused by an overheated stove. in the home of her brother, at Ham illon, • Mrs, Emma Morris, 74, wife of Col onel J. C. Morris, hotel proprietor at GallipoIIs, fell down stairs, breaking her neck. Slio died instantly. Governor Davis appointed Mayor Thomas E. Andrews of Marlon as as­ sistant adjutant general to succeed Colonel Harry Horner, resigned. The appointment Is effective Dec. 1 John Klein, 80, Van Wort, died after being run down by an auto Body of a murdered youth taken frolii a freight train at Sidney has been identified as Joseph Scott Ker­ shaw, 21, of Lima. Identification was made by Mrs. Joanne Kershaw, 19, bride of the slain man. Body of Miss Susan F, Howe, Oft, nurse, was found near a Cleveland .cemetery. Coroner Is of the opinion that she killed herself, Herbert Van Dyke, 16, Columbus Is suing his wife, 21 , for divorce Steps will be taken at Toledo Her 7 by members of the Lucas county farm bureau to curb chiekofi steal Ing. It is estimated that 10,000. chick ena liavo been 'ttfolon from farms In Lucas county within the last three months. Wage board of the building indue tries in Cincinnati has expelled the latbofs' union and tho steamfltters union for striking in violation oi their agreement to abide by the d* | elslon oi the umpire, who flecreefl ft reduction qt w*|cs We found today an old Sentinal published June 5th, 1913. It teaches very great lesson. One entire page is taken up with pictures of the sew Houston bank and across the jage in black letters which*say, ‘Strong, Conservative, Backed by more Assets than any” Bank, in the State” and this was all true a t that time and yet in seven short years after that this bank failed and why' 3imply because it is the nature of the race to try to out do others. It is natural for men to reach out and accept more business than they Jan see after should they be fortun­ ate enough to have the money to try t and when any business begins to ose money it makes a man go farther md try harder and it‘s . the easiest hing iir'the world to have more bu3i- less than can be successfully looked after. It is natural for a man to keep in try ing ,to get out. “I t is natural cor a man to indulge in illusions of hope,” and so this great fortune made after a half century of labor and close attention to business is lost. I t should be a lesson to all others not to make an effort to excel but make an effort to go quietly about business, learn it, attend to it, know every angle of it, and succeed. Re­ member the old adage, “Nothing suc­ ceeds dike success.” —South Charles­ ton Sentinel. TWO OF FAMILY DEAD FROM PTOMAINE POISON Irvin Koogler, Zimmerman, butch­ ered on the 16th of November and af­ ter rendering the lard the family ato some of the cracklings. Three of the children and the mother were taken suddenly ill and within a day or so Esther, aged 13, and Howard, l i , died. The mother and one daughter are improving. LOST LAST GAME, The College football team that went to Defiance last. Thursday to play the Difiance College team, lost the game by a score of 12 to 0 , The boys put up a good game against a strong Warn which shows up by the fact that they were able to score. Ten cents off oath Lecture course ticket if you come or send for your tickets by Dec. 8 , Get them a t Hart- man’s or RicbarJ's. There will bo • tenty of entertain­ ment between acts In the play Dee, 13. I t consists in music, comic read- r-f'. t