The Cedarville Herald, Volume 49, Numbers 27-52
cK \ 9 1 * Cl If Every Woman Knew What Every Widow X/earns, Every Husband Would He Insured With Our Accident Policy. Death Rides With Speed! You Cannot Stop It—But You Can Be Protected By f0 Our Insurance Plan. Act Today! Now! FORTY -N INTH YEAR NO. 46. GRENECOUNTY TOHAVEA FISHHATCHERY jLongworth Praises Cooper andWillis CEDARVILLE, fH IO , FR IDAY . OCTOBER 29, 1926 r — - ____ PRICE. $1.50 A YEAR Promise that he would immediate. ® W ^ t c h the. board o f control with a proposition to establish a fish hatchery and later a pheasant farm the state-owned 500-acre farm bequeathed to Ohio by the late John Bryati, and known aa Riverside form , near Yellow Springs, were* made by 'Charles V . Trailx, state director o f agriculture, in an address at the ban quet o f the Greene County Fish and Game Protective Association in Xen ia. last Thursday. fie said that he saw no reason why the project would not be approved by that body, and predicted that work on the fish hatchery would be atarte dnext spring; The farm, he said fa under control o f the forestry department and the experiment sta tion at Wooster, and these depart- ments are controlled by the stat® board o f control, comprising the trus tees o f Ohio State. University and himself as director o f agriculture, . Establishment o f a -fish hatchery in Greene County, said Mr. Traux, will only be fulfilling a plan made, yrheh he divided the state into 10 districts with the expectation o f hav- ing a fish hatchery established in each o f them. Four hatcheries he said, will be built this year, at In dian Lake,. Piqua, Buckeye Lake and Bucyrus. The building o f the hatcheries he said is financed out o f the funds de rived from the sale o f anglers' licen ses which last year totalled $85,000 and may reach $ 100,000 this year. Governor Donahby and himself, he said, were unanimously, in approval o f the plan which is dear to the hearts o f all Greene County sports men. Director Traux said that he believed a hatchery could be estab lished at Riverside farm at a mini mum o f e o s t because o f ’the natural formations . and the water supply furnished by the, Little Miami river Which flews through it, The director visited the'fa rm fo r the first time late Thursday after noon with a .party o f Xenia men. and ~elared that he had never seen a site Denouncing former United States Senator Atlee Pomerene because o f the promises he is making as tp what he will or will not do should he be ejected, Nicholas Longworth, speak* er o f the Najional House o f Repres entatives, said he diffed contradiction to the statement that no Democratic candidate fo r house or senate cap make any promise to Jiis constitu ents that has not a string tieed to ife in aspeech in Xenia Saturday night in the opera house at Pan enthusi astic Republican rally. That string, he said, is his party, because the Democrats can by a two-thirds vote be bound to any measure, regardless o f promises made • to constituents, - ' 1 Mayor John Frugh presided at th e 1 meeting, presenting Congressman f Charles Brand, o f Urbana, who in- troduuced Speaker Longworth. Hal- lie Q. Brown, o f the women’s Repub lican bureau, also spoke briefly. Brand referred .to Longworth as “ the man who has had as much na; tional responsibility in the last six? years as any man in Washin^on ” adding that *‘iio has iuties and exercised s’-.ch 30 ml ,‘:i I;; ment that the people are. going to consider him fo r a higher position when the proper time comes.” Longworth spoke o f his personal knowledge o f Myers Y. Cooper, Re publican candidate fo r governor, be cause o f having been his neighbor, and stated that we need a business man in the governor’s chair inasmuch as taxes had increased ten-fold Ohio in the last ten years. , He decried the fa ct that Demo cratic victory would mean entrance into the League o f Nations, than which nothing could be more disas trous, he said, stating that personal observation had shown him that in stead o f wiping out hatred the league had been a means of, stimulating it! What Is Your i Letter Jud: nswer To This » ;e Gowdy? June.22, 1926 m John SpahrStabbed By His Neigbbor Chickens in a wheat field brought trouble fo r John Spahr, farmer, and G. W. Herron, a neighbor,- both .of whom reside on the Cedarvilte and Jamestown pike. Whrii. the two met With greater possibilities f o r either hatcheries' or the pheasant farm which he has in mind. He said that he believed 10,000 .pheasants could b e propagated in a year on the farm. Necessity o f greater conservation o "fwild life in Ohio was .emphasised by Director Traux who said that he favored reorganization o f the fish and game laws to prevent extermin ation' o f some o f the small games such as squirrels. Eradication o f bo -1 Vine tuberculosis and the work being} done by the department o f agricul- ’ ture along that line and also to com bat the Europeari corn borer, were detailed by Mr, Traux, Director Traux was introduced by Represen tative, R, D. Williamson. Frank Linkhart, president o f the Fish and Game*Associatipn, presided. Follow ing the address o f Director Traux, M. C. Smith and Ed S. Foust detailed stories o f their recent big game hunt ing trip in Wyoming. One hundred covers were laid at the banquet. HONORED ON 84th BIRTHDAY BY M. E. BIBLE CLASS Honoring her on the occasion o f the eighty-fourth anniversary o f her birth members o f the Golden Rule Bible Bible Class of the M. E. church Sun day School paid tribute to Mrs. Anna KildoW former teacher and oldest member o f the class, Thursday even ing last, • The birthday Celebration took place in tHe social rooms o f the church* which Were decorated elaborately in n N M K t M n u . It is alleged that Herron, a street preacher, in Jamestown, used a pock et knife and stabbed Spahr in the left aide. The knife struck a-rjb and this* may have saved the instrument from reaching his heart, according to Dr, R, L. Haines. The trouble happened Tuesday afternoon and both men swore out warrents for each others arrest. State Short Funds For Columbus Pike From reports out o f Springfield the State Highway Department may be forced to stop the work of rebuilding the Columbus pike from the Greene county lino to South Charleston. , It is said that money appropriated fo r the contract has been exhausted. The Clark County Commissioners have been asked to advance $ 20,000 to com plete the contract. Columbus Delegation Here Thursday A “ Good Will Delegation" of Gol- umbur. business men stopped here yes terday afternoon f o r a short time. Thirty Columbus business men com prised the party that made the tour in a large buss. The trip was round by Washington, Jamestown,. Cedar- vine, South Charleston and London. CAFATERIA SUPPER TONIGHT The public school cafateria supper will be held this Friday evening at, the school house. The supper will be fall flowers, .with yellow and white Up the high standard o f former predominating. Dahlias, nasturittiris ,*y<?nr3( fjSt the school have your pat- and marigold# made ^a flame o f ^c 0 Jt01_ronnge. The profits go to purchase in iiie yoovit. A ViiMip&y.c*wa wilii■t«w. equipment fo r the schools. A report numerals “ 84” formed in candles on been out that an other -organiza* it occupied » place o f prominence, and fjorJ waa gpons'orihg this <supper but Mrs. KildoW Was seated beside the fiUc]l is not the case, The sefeool fae- cake hi a large chair, A silk scarf was presented to her as a gift from the d#a*, Mrs, C. E. Masters, making the presentation. Mrs. Kildow expressed her thank* in a clever talk. Ice cream and cake were served, the former hav ing “ 84" formed in it. A program of reading* and music took place. Eighty one person* enjoyed- the party. ulty and ..Domestic Science class arfe alone responsible fo r the dinner . and the schools only benefit by the profit Rexall lc Sale. Every article is guaranteed to give you .satisfaction, ■‘Save with Safety” at your Rexatl Store. Prowant & Brown AREYOU GOINGTO VOTE TUESDAY? Are you going to vote? It should not be necessary to ask this question, but the decline in recent years of the proportion of actual voters to eligible voter* make* this an extremely pertinent question, says The Ohio Farmer. Ohio elect* a United States senator, a, governor and other state officials, i f ■*.»*w Jeghdatura, judge* of the supreme court, apd alt county offiaera at'the >" ikW t tg Novamber election," These men will levy our .taxes and spend the th«y will make; our-.kws and repeal other*, they will be charged \ m te fe g ehr law* ani j>rseating our criminals, they Will send some h pardon oth’erR, they will pass upon many,qmwtion* requiring lUue«*4'iet \ ' ' 1' < ■ -h A re you going to vote and afe jw tf giving thought to the right men to fill tW * positions of trust and, responsibility? Prank L. Johnson, Xenia, Ohio, Dear Sir: We have your, lettj vestigation fi^d that the 29 si shares of 6$ preferred stock w( of Elizabeth Lytle "to Kenneth early part of April, i926, and forwarded with letter direct’tc under date of April 5th, 1926. he has received the same"and p^ Judge Gowdy Fads To Answer Questions Up to the time o f closing the form s!That was the Cil'izenu National Bank We' find that ther mon stock credited to the aocouSb of Elizabeth Lytle, repre sented by certificate Co-01424C issued February 1st, 1918. Judge Gowdy failed to deliver t; Ls one share to this office for transfer with the other sto1 £.’ We are today, forward ing to Mr. Gowdy, the October,.^ which was returned unclaimed t common dividend on the one shar of recent date and upon in- es.of common stock and 15 transferred out of the name W&tt and Bessie Benson the S new certificates were Mr, R. L. Gowdy, Xenia, Ohio, ata inclined to believe that bably misplaced.,them. jf / . is still one share of cora- the. Herald ha# had no answer from Judge R. L. Gowdy relative to the list pf question* submitted in our last issue for his answer. The list o f questions that appear ed laBt week can he found on another page in this issue. The Judge h«B tried to attract un usual attention but ignores any con troversy now about the way he has handled the Lytle estate. Elsewhere on this page can be found a letter from the Stock .Trans fer Agent o f the Pure Oil Co., relative to Gowdy’s published contentions. It Q. Oh, I beg your pardon, I see. To get it right, May 31, 1924, R. L. Gowdy, Executor, deposited in the Xenia National-Bank a certificate o f deposit on the Citizens National Bank in the sum o f $3500, Q. There wasn't anything on that memorandum to indicate whether this certificate of deposit o f $3500, when deposited, was in the name o f R, L. Gowdy, Executor, or not? A. No. I don’t know about it ex cept I suppose we deposited it where he wanted J t deposited, to go into something that is purely ,surmise. Judge Gowdy; I can say my recol lection is it was not in my name as Executor, but I kept my own per sonal account at the Citizens Nation- can :be seen that what Gowdy said was al Bank, and that was never put in- far from the truth. But then what he to my account. It was taken in the had to say about the “ mystery” U. S. f ° rm ° f ,ra certificate because it did t t >_ j - i .........- not belone them. Tlinf’R fho w » m count. He will doubtless turn' Mrs. Benson. Very tr EHM;HM .Enc. 325 preferred dividend check ether-with the June 1st still credited' to this ac- & "same over to Mr. Watt and E. H. Monroe, Stock transfer Agent, •; • The Pure Oil Co. , Columbus, Ohio. The above’ is a copy o f a letter from The .Pure Oil Co., Columbus, by E. II. Monroe, Stock Transfer Agent, to F. L. Johnson, Xenia, one o f Mr. J. B. Watt’s attorneys, relative to the transfer o f the Pure Oil stock from the estate o f Elizabeth Lytle, de ceased, o f which Judge R. L. Gowdj was appointed executor. « As it generally known this estate lias been in the slow process of set tlement for nearly seven years. Mr. Watt, who was a resident o f Chicago, 1 has moved back to Xenia. His son 1 and daughter were beneficiaries un- j der the Lytle will and are both non- - residents of the state o f Ohio. | Judge R. L. Gowdy in a paid poli- | deal article in the Xenia Gazette, o f Wednesday,,October 20th, made some bold statements relative to his mana gement o f the estate the mere than six years he has had it under his own control. For many months the question of ter the settlement o f the estate •and the order to distribute it in kind, properly endhrsed to the parties to W'hom it. belonged, which ended my duties as execu tor in reference to the stock. ‘ There was delay in the transfer o f that stoek on the .hooka o f the Company for which I was id no way responsible, and the stock was itot transferred by the Com pany until of April o f this year, when their attorney was prompt ly notified, and it ha* been ready for delivery to the parties at any time since then. >The estate was settled in the Psual manner and as promptly aa it could be settled under the conditions that existed, and every dollar of it properly ac counted for, and as to the inheri tance tax, no penalty was paid by anyone on account o f any neglect or failure on my part.” „ The Gowdy-MarshaU politicians arc ’ endeavoring to make the Herald the } issue, but it cannot be done. The pub- i lie- knows that Judge Gowdy and his •acts as executor o f the Lytle estate |are the issues. A few more letters : like the one above may, make it necessary for the Judge to take his } “ honesty and intergity” which he jhas brought to public view in his |own advertisement, and give it a ■good polishing. j Dust can’t be thrown to cloud the (issue. Judge Gowdy never admitted that he owed the Lytle heirs a sin gle cent until he was facing court action. He then admitted that he “ owed” $78, The balance in the es tate bank account as proven in Pro- >bate Court, wns $475, a difference of j$402. According to the above letter [there is still one share o f the Pure Liberty Bond as cashed with a coupon and deposited in the Xenia National Bank, was fa r from the . truth when the bank records were produced. The Judge has been worried about What .he termed his “honesty and in tegrity” in his paid advertisement. Let’s see what the-Judge had to say when in court he was asked to have the Lytle estate bank book balanced.- Upon his refusal Judge Wright order ed the book balanced. Judge Gowdy contended he only owed-the .Lytle es tate $73. The hank book on. heing bal anced showed there was $475 in the Lytle estate account. v Gowdy refuses to have Bank Book Balanced On the question o f having the bank book balanced Mr. Gowdy objected Direct examination o f Mr. John A. Nisbet,' Cashier Xenia National Bank by Mr..Darlington,* Page* 29-30-23 ■ Q. Wo would like to have the book balanced. (O f Executor.) - Judge Gowdy; Weil, that is a mat ter that, I expect I have the say about. Thereupon followed some discus sion between counsel; Court: We will probably have the book, balanced and show what as sets— A, The balance wouldn’t show any asset* one way' o r, the other. - ;; the deposit slip that haven’t been placed on his pass book? A. You see, that deposit slip, as far as that Is concerned—when wev declare the dividend we always, just' credit it to any accounts, you know, that we think they are, or issue a certificate, or something, to cover it. I dont suppose— « Court; The deposit slip you have in your hand indicates that was cred ited to this acount? A. That is credited to that ac count. - i Court: Doesn’t appear’ upon his pass book? A. No, it will, tho, if he t.us the] bank book balanced. We wilj. havi to put it on there to make it bal }Oil stock cutstanding, not in the tname o f any of/the beneficiaries un- Coritpare Judge Gowdy’s bold state ; der the Lytle will, management o f the Lytle estate un- j nient in the public print by the letter The attorneys for the Lytle heirs der Judge Gowdy, has been discussed as given above from the Pusa*Oii Co. |also claim that a $15 cash item in over the county. July 10 th the Herald ,transfcr agent, Mr. Monroe. J the inventory cannot be traced in that carried an interview with Mr, Watt i Judge Gowdy filed wJhafc he claimed;celebrated “ final account” , as yet. covering some o f Mr. Gowdy’s a cts-to be a final account in Probate on? One thing is^sure-Judge Gowdy did relative to that executorship. Outside November 10, 1928, He says in h is: pay himself in full August 1923, if advertisement that he deposited tho fthe final account is correct. He drew stock with the Pure Oil Co. immedia-|$ 59 i fee as executor, and then wrote tely after that date, which was three;himself another check fo r $400 as at- of a few friencls o f the Judge mak ing a denial o f the story, nothing of it was heard about until October the give his years ago next month. Note the letter]torney fee for legal services to him self. There are two -items the Judge lias not disputed, * The Pet result tedate is that in the Lytle account in the Xenia Na tional Bank is $470. Mr. Gowdy says the estate is settled In that bant account was deposited a $500 Liberty 20th when Judge Gowdy version in the Gazette. (from the transfer agent, Mr. Monroe, His statement relative to the who says that the stock was delivered transfer o f the Pure Oil Co. slock to him “ the early part o f April, 1920, proves to be in line with his te s t!-' and the new certificates mailed to Mr. money When he attempted in Probate Gowdy with letter under dote o f April Court on the witness stand, to deny 5th, 1926, The letter from the trans- the correctness o f the books o f the for agent certainly lays grounds fo r Xenia National Bonk, relative to the an “ accusation” that the Herald can !Bond, after filing the “ final account.” Lytle .estate bank account. It will be.ppt beichargeifwith. On the one hand j ’ js tf,e nly3tcry bond. Judge remembered that Judge Gowdy from !you iave the letter from the Oil Co., jQ0W(ly denied that he ever deposited the witness stand refused to have the a disinterested party. Oh the other j sut^ "a bond. The bank records and estate baqk book balanced. Judge .Vou hove the statement o f Judge testimony of John A . Nisbet, the S. C. Wright had to order the book Gowdy, an interested party. •, turned over to John A. Nisbet, co 3 h- j Judge Gowdy has stated that there ier, for* a balance, Previous to that is ntt organized campaign to circulate date and in the Judge's political ad -'fa lse and malicious statement} at- vertisement, the Judge admitted that .ta k in g liift honesty and integrity, be owed the estate $73. When the bunk |using tho Ccdarvillo Herald to start book was balanced it was found that these false reports. In view o f * the there was $475 in the bank account. The evidence as published in our last issue from the transcript o f the ease, a bonifide court document, prove* a wide difference o f reliability between wbat the Judge published in his ad vertisement and what the court records prove, . Below we quote from Judge Gowdy’s advertisement published over his own name what he had to say relative of the transfer of the stock in question; “AH of the stocks .of. the estate , • were distributed *ittd tapjusferrerf ■% ' on the'hooka oi[ the vatiofi^.tlOm-,' ? panics Immedialniy afteiv- that; : excepting-1» The Pure Ull Gone*. pkhy of Columbus. That ot-xfe was deposited by me with the f< proper officer of the company at v Columbia*, Ohio, immediately af- above letter Judge Go\vdy certainly ir, left irf bad light relative to what he 1ms had to say about the Pure. Oil Stoek. The letter mentions that there is yet one share of the stock that he, Gowdy, has not yet asked to have transferred. The Herald now asks the Judge as to who gels that one share? It certainly is not making what the Judge calls a “ false and malicious” statement when we reproduce tho a- hove letter which ihforms Mr. Watt’s atu.i'fiey tlmt there is yet one share in the name o f "Elizabeth Lytle, that our most holy, wise, sanctified and powerful political hots, dehorned, re -]1 cently at the primary evidently W holding back, o f by 'some'W jihft has not been included With the other stock shares. No Greene county lawyer can explain that situation fo r the Judge. n t el g t ere. hat’s the reason it was a certificate o f deposit because it wasn't put into my account. ' In as much as there is no contro versy over the $3,500 certificate o f deposit that Judge Gowdy has admit- ed was in his own name, personally, and not as executor, where would the $3,500 have gone had death overtaken the Judge while the Estate money was in his personal name in the form of a certificate in the Citizens’ N a tional Bank, instead o f having this amount deposited in the Estate bank account? Judge Gowdy has seen fit to ignore this terrible exposure. He would rather keep manor issues be fore the public to cover up a rotten, mess, that he himself has created. . Delay 111 Paying Inheri tance tax Mr. Gowdy recalled fo r examination by Mr. Darlington concerning the payment o f inheritance tax and the penalty placed -against the estate. Page. 32 ■ . ,Q I call your attention to receipt . No. 187 from- the Treasurer’s office o f Greene County, Ohio, dated -Xenia, Ohio, February 28, 1924, which* i s ; a receipt from F . A . Jackson, County Treasurer,-indicating that oh that date the Treasurer received ’ from R. L. Gowdy, Executor o f ! the- estate of Elizabeth.. Lytle, decedent, $154Q.29 to be placed to the credit-of the Undi-| amount o f the tax as fixed by the . Court being $1384.02; to which was added the sum o f $192.27 as interest. That sum was paid by you as Ex^cu-. tor, was it,. Judge, on that date? ’ A . Yes, sir. Well, part o f it. •That sum includes the tax on the real es tate . and on the personal property both. O f course on the real estate, as ‘N* Executor, I had nothing to do with that at all. Q. But this amount was handled by you, as it state, as Executor. A." Yes, sir. Q. And that transaction, o f course, was subsequent to the account o f ovember 10th, 1928? A. Oh, yes. It had to be. The ad- must file his final ni Tninistrator a<S- unce. But"then‘Vwe "donT hunt.hi*m count before he pays, the inheritance up and tell him we put this in be- tax, under the law. a s r 1 * • > ■ * « -»* ' *»■?* * ^ and that is where that belonged, as «ey that agrees with the testimony we supposed. of-Judge Gowdy relative to paymgrihe Judge Gowdy; No question about' inheritance tax. His testimony and ’t- ' . . .. , . ’ claims o f paying inheritance tax at Qv We are aU agreed that the hank ., . ’ , .. . ... . book shall be balanced? |the close the eatate 18 without rea- ' son and absolutely contrary to Seq. Judge Gowdy; “ No, I haven’L-agrecd B336 nnd 5338( General Code, Ohio (a anything. *(laws’.’*According to the letter on this . , , ■ , page the Pure Oil Go, never was ask- “ " ‘ . t r b r b z . a & . r * r ^ r " Q. What is the bank balance now, 1926 and on the 5th it wa* transfer- judge? ' red and mailed to Judge Gowdy. The A. I don’t know. It hasn’t been Judge in his published statement made f S e ' t h e 1account,Uand 1h e iCwh^n «ftlement with the Probate Court on 1 came to figure on the balance here November 10, 1923. And yet the ci- 1 knew substantially what it was. tizenship o f this county is asked to The book hasn’t been balanced for believe that what Judge Gowdy says come time, or not since May 16th - on matter is so. It is as far from Judge Gowdy, nor any o f his the truth as the North and South friends, have not disputed one word poles. But then such a statement is in of the published testimony relative keeping with his testimony on record to the hearing in Probate Court on in the Probate Court. Saturdny, October 16th. Judge Gowdy - —— has published statements that he at _.y_. _ . all times kept the funds o f the Lytle iVLOr^’cH l J cj IK IO FSPS - -r t, . . . - ' . ' j . Jt —, I Library Plan That he kept his personal funds in j ......... the Citizens' National Bank. The es- ]Arthur E. Morgan, president o f An* tate Bank hook shown that he made a tioch college, endorsed county wide $3,500 deposit in the Xenia National library "'Uorvice in a letter in winch Bank some months following the final he expressed approval o f the plan to account filed in Probate Court. Road‘ establish a Greene county library dis again the testimony o f John A. Nisbet trict which is to be voted on at the cashier o f the Xenia National Bank. November election. Mr. Gowdy admitted in Court that j - — .................. < the $3,500 certificate o f deposit from HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL the Citizens* National was in his own name, not as executor, What a con* A delegation o f Jamestown citizens cashier proved different. The unfor tunate thing is that ail the othei' de positors in that hank could not have a $500 “ mystery” bond deposited to their account. , And yet Mr. Gowdy and his few political followers would have you be lieve that the Herald was the issue. The issue is plain enough to any one that wants to rend. Judge Gowdy says he is ready to turn over the Pure Oil stock nnd the $73 to the proper parties What the public insists on knowing and Mr. Watt demands is; “Who is to get the one share o f Pure Oii stoek and the $102, that will remain after the $73 is withdrawn?” „ Judge will you,, publically pledge t(i Mr.' \Vatt(d«d the eiliftejts o f Griet.e county that’ you- have no : interest, h»yc nd .cla im ,,and do not. exheef to profit to extent at a single e«nt out o f thb- bala&e in the Xenia Na- *.* ‘-■ " v -v " ’? ”, 7 .’ sA™wHiva,.-iri m *: wv-rr tional Dank and in the extra share of f ’ h*lf} *n country and is awaRcd Pure Oil Stock mentioned & the 18su6d by the XenU N*Uon* each year by stockmen and farmer* ' ter above? A . Well, that wasn’t issued by u*. with much interest, trast to his published statement, And jn Monday with band ban- the Judge says that he is being un- nera and much noise advertising the justly attacked. . , Halowe’ en Canfival Monday evening, (riq 1 TAA November 1. Prizes are offered fo r J JG pO S lbS «pt>,OUU V j c I t i l l " farm products and poultry. A t 8 P, cate after final account »**•p^* *»««^ fered fo r best floats, as Well as fo r Mr. Nisbet testimony upon part o f best costumed persons. The dancers Mr. Darlington. jean Win a prize from the wing dance Pages 28-30 J o the Charleston. Q. Mow, here’s another deposit slip May 31, 1924, bearing art item fo r. $3500. Could you tell us what the. woirda I,ft ?r^t,.of that Item Indicate? j , , .,, , _ , . IJV'E ETOCR. . m r,4 ! 'ii
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