The Cedarville Herald, Volume 53, Numbers 1-26

The new things are advertised by merchants first. Advertisements keep you abreast of the times. Read them! f f h e Advertising is news, as much as the headlines on the front page. Often it is of more significance to you, FIFTY-THIRD YEAR No. 2. CEDARVILLE, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929 PRICE, §1.50 A YEAR NEWSLETTER FROMSTATE DEPARTMENTS Columbus, Ohio—That; the Christ- mag spirit is prevailing throughout the holiday season in the offices of the various departments in the State House is attested by the erection of numerous brilliantly illuminated Christmas trees. Praise for the most pretensious and prettiest decorations is due the efficient and good looking cashier of Secretary of State Clarence J , Brown’s office, Thomas L. Woods, ably assisted by a numbei of charm ing young ladies employed in the corporation department. Secretary Brown has arranged for an exchange of gifts among employes the day be­ fore Christmas, after which he will . leave for his home a t Blanchester to celebrate the day with Mrs. Brown and their kiddies, Betty, Dorothy and Clarence Jr., affectionately called “Buddy” by everyone around • the office. In 19.21 when .the law was passed which gave trial judges the right to increase the minimum sentence for robbery from 1 to 15 years to 10 to 25 years, the population of the Ohio Penitentiary and London Prison Farm was a total of 2,039. Today it is slight* ly in excess of 5,600 o f which 4,650 ' are inmates of the Penitentiary. Of that number 858, almost 20 per cent, have been incarcerated for robbery, nearly all of whom, with exception oi a few, must remain behind the prison- walls for a period of ten years each, ■ to pay the penalty which. society ex­ acts, with no hope of parole until the expiration of their minimum sentence. With the natural increase of crime the tax payers of Ohio must within a very short period prepare to pay the cost of a new penitentiary, which even ■now is almost an absolute necessity. The State House Park is headquar­ ters for Santa Claus, and he will be found-there every evening a t his vo­ cation, making and sorting toys in the igloo which he occupies in the State House yard. His habitation is adorn­ ed with, countless arrays of playthings and on the Toof perches a Christmas fasfeaiMvalmoat ■fo rty -feet n heighth, brilliantly illuminated with veri-color­ ed lights. The back ground is the west front of the Capitol building from the pillars of which are suspend­ ed a number of Christmas trees1and also large colored placards depicting St. Nick arriving in his sleigh drawn by reindeers. ■‘ On Christmas Eve, Governor Cooper’s mansion and lawn will possibly be the most 'brilliantly- illuminated in the state. v ••% * # Plans for the new state office build­ ing have been received by the Com­ mission. ant} are now on display at the office of -[Charles D. Simeral, secretary of the , Commission. At­ torney General Gilbert Bettman is at present engaged in the, preliminary procedure of acquiring land by con­ demnation proceedings,. which may require about three months to com­ plete. I t is hoped that actual building operations on the $5,000,000 project may get* under way in the early . spring/ * ' * * Director Charles A. Near of the State Department of Health advises health commissioners to get an early atart in planning next season’s work on roadside, tourists camp and fair grounds sanitation. He also calls attention of the public to the fact that every Christmas seal sold makes more secure the structure of child health through control . o f tuberculosis, a childhood infection and an adult dis­ ease, Dr. Neal also states that if Ohio should carry the smallpox case average of the last two weeks through a year, it would total 6,424—some­ thing to think about. * * ' * The Ohio Legislative Reference Library, under the direction o f State Librarian George Elliott McCormick, Is a t the present time engaged in making a survey of all state libraries and legislative reference departments throughout the United States, The number of volumes, amount approxi­ mated, size of staff and organization of each library is being investigated, and the number and proportion of bills , drafted by each Legislative Reference service. This is the first time that SUch a Burvey has ever been at­ tempted; COURT NEWS ALLOW PARTITION Partition of property has t een au­ thorized by the court in the case of Stella Bryant against Nettie M. Hamer and others in Common Pleas Court. O. B, Armstrong, Frank Heider and H, R. Kendig were named commissioners for that purpose. DIVORCE SOUGHT Charging wilful absence from home for more than three years, E. E. Mann has brought suit in Common Pleas Court for divorce from Mary W. Mann. They were married June 21, 1910 and have' one child. Earl, 17, WINS JUDGMENT A. B, Little and E, J. Little, de­ fendants in_ a suit filed in Common Pleas Court by E. S. Sears, have con­ fessed judgment on a cognovit note for $414. • ASK FORECLOSURE Alleging $389.80 is due from the de­ fendants; The Peoples Building and Savings Co, has brought suit in Com­ mon Pleas Court against John W. Windsor, Thomas Windsor, Geoi'ge Windsor, Henson Windsor, Alice Jane Windsor, Sylvia E. Watkins and Squire Watkins, seeking foreclosure and sale of mortgaged property. C. W. Whitmer is attorney for the plain­ tiff. DEMURRER DENIED In the -case of Bradford Lott against Joseph S. Donovan, as demurrer of the defendant to the demurer of the defendant to the plaintiff's petition has been overruled by the court. The defendant was granted twenty days in which to plead. SCHOOL NEWS Service Hardware Co. Sold To R. C. Ritenour SETTLE SUIT Having been settled the suit of the General Motors Acceptance Cor'p. against Isabel Askew has been order­ ed dismissed in Common Pleas Court, Newell Elder Buys Two Auto Agencies Newell Elder, formerly of Selma, ton of Robert Elder, president of Thfe Exchange Bank and also of the State Bank, South Charleston, has purchased the Gordon Ford Agency and the Shough Chevrolet agency in that place. The Shough garage will be closed and the Ford agency continued, DIVORCE WANTED Charging that her husband left her last June 15 and that he was guilty of ..cruelty, to her* Georgia Miller has brought suit for divorce from David Austen Miller in Common Pleas Court. They were .married September 18, 1926. ■The couple has*.no children1;"' GIVEN DIVORCE On grounds of extreme cruelty Gladys P. Hancock has been awarded a divorce from Kyle' P. Hancock in Common Pleas Court. - The plaintiff was awai'ded custody of their minor child, the husband reserving the right to visit the child a t reasonable .inter­ vals. A written agreement was reach­ ed by the parties on the division of ordered to pay $5 a month toward the their] property but the defendant was child’s support and also dobtor and hospital bills, if any should arise. SUES TO RECOVER PROPERTY Two suits are oh file in Common Pleas Court seeking to have set aside the sale of real estate situated in Beavercreek Twp., involving property sold to John Cypher's, February 14, 1919 after the taxes became delin­ quent. The amount of the delinquent tax was $3.90. who asserts she formerly owned the . One action filed by Tillie Cyphers, xand, avers that the tax sale was not In conformity with the law because of alleged failure to describe the real eatato definitely and because it was not advertised for sale. The same allegations and requests are contained in a separate petition filed by Myrtle M. Cyphers, Oma Laughman, Clarence Cyphers, Harry E. Hamer, Edward Cyphers, Mary Carter, Emma Miller, Harry Cyphers, Pansie Cyphers, Aletha Threlkeld and nilie Cyphers against John Cyphers and Pansie Cyphers, 18* a minor. According to the petition, Jeremiah Cyphers died March 5, 1911 intestate; leaving the plaintiffs and John Cy­ phers as his heirs. It is set forth the decedent owned the real estate in Beavercreek Twp., which was sold to John Cyphers eight years later. Miller nnd Finne,y represent the plaintiffs in both suits. A business change was made this week when R. C. Ritenour purchased the stock of the Service Hardware Company from C. H. Gordon. In.the deal Mr. Gordon gets the property at the comer of Ghillicothe and Main streets where the Waddle garage has been located. Mr. Gordon states th a t he will en­ gage in the oil and' gasoline business in connection with a Springfield man. Lt is proposed to wreck the garage to provide ground space for a. modern filling station. , Stormont Elected Honorary Captain James Stormont, Cedarville, -senior and regular center on Cedarville Col­ lege football team for the last four years, has been elected honorary cap­ tain of the 1929 “Yellow-Jacket” grid team by a vote of the letter men. Stormont, who earned a regular berth on the football team in his freshman year, has been an outstand­ ing star on the line ever since. He will graduate next June. Coach Marvin Borst also announced that eighteen members of the football squad, which played a “suicide" sched­ ule and ’did not win a game, although holding Wilmington to a scoreless tie, will be awarded letters in recognition of their services during'’the season. Tax Payment Time Has Been Extended FOR SALE—Com at my residence on Columbus pik# east of town. Glen Cline, - For the accommodation of tax-pay­ ers Greene County commissioners have extended the time for paying the December installment of taxes from December 20 to January 20, an exten­ sion of thirty days, according to an announcement made by Miss Helen Dodds, county treasurer. Old Time Penny Found In Hog A Williinrt Cultice, who does general butchering, has a unique penny dated in 1820. It .is about the size of a half dollar and was found in the intestines of a hog that had been butchered Tuesday. The hog was less than a year old and had evidently found the penny while rooting In the ground, Time Approaches For Auto Tags , » Application for automobile tags is rather slow considering the approach of the end of the year, according to the local registrar, Harry Lewis. The new tags cannot be used before De­ cember 21 and (everyone must have a 1930 tag on January 1 if you use your car or truck. . The series for 1930 starts a t D8G601 and are maroon and white in color. The tags for 1931 will be gray and black. You can also *get your dog tags of Mr. Lewis. JURORSDRAWN FDRSEWICEIN C00N1COURT „The following panels for the Japp were drawn from th | by Clerk of the Cor the grand jury to $ | and the.petit jury'! Grand Jury—S< !JE township; Jennie Fred Pennovit, Bps D. W. Cherry, Xqx Miami township Xenia; Harvey i and petit jury term*of court jury wheel today Harvey Elam, /ene January 6, xary 7, pales, Jefferson Thomas, Xenia; iek township? trry Hackett, lfta Morgan? Bath town? Elsie Conklin, ^inia.'tov^SEKip? Anna B. Morrow, Xenia; Harry C. Hurley, Spring Valley; Preston Thornhill, New Jasper township? May Elam, Spring Valley township; Wiley Mc­ Coy, Xenia township, and Clarence Lackey, Silvercreek township. Petit Jury—Frank Stewart, Jeffer­ son township; Herman Brickel, Ross township; Mary W%u?, Xenia; Fred Mumma, Bath township; .Anna Holmes, Silvercreek townsnip; John Dymond, Xenia; Martha M. Beal, Xenia; Joseph B. Mason, Caesarcreek township; J. C. Short, Xenia; Rachel Ankeny, Beavercreek township; Lucy Matthews and Martha J. Crawford, Xenia; Ray Hite, Jefferson township; Perry M. Weller, Spring Valley; J. F. Glass, Beavercreek township; Delmar Warner, Bath township; Robert Zim­ merman, Silvercreek township; Bertha Hutchison, Xenia; Cora Jones, Xenia; Daisy Haines, Spring Valley, HOLIDAY GREETING^ The Herald wishes everyone, everywhere, a Merry Christ­ mas and a Happy and Prosper­ ous.New Year. Recommend Effort To Settle Dispute % Within Farm Group ’ Adoption of the report of a special committee appointed by the federation directors to attempt to reach an amicable settlement of differences be­ tween the state bureau and the com­ mercial, legislative and membership bodies within it, was recommended by representatives of four counties at­ tending the nineteenth district, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation meeting at the headquarters o f t h e Greene County Farm Bureau in Xenia, A. F. Moon, Columbus, vice presi­ dent of the federation, who is chair­ man of the special committee, present­ ed the report to the delegates. That controlling interest be vested &nrwn0>arafch)i^e«Mam^ tfon president head of the board of directors and of the organizatio de­ partment, and the executive secretary in charge of commercial projects, ser­ vice' and livestock marketing, was recommended in the report. Question of adoption or rejection of the report will be taken .up- by directors of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation at their meeting Decem­ ber 18 and 19 in Columbus. W. B. Bryson, of Greene County, who is director . representing the nineteenth district on the state body, presided a t the meeting. The meeting, was attended by offi­ cers and county agents from Clinton, Fayette, and Greene Counties. No representatives from Montgomery County, fourth county in the district, werd present. County president who reported on their work during the past year were: 0.1 A. Dobbins, Greene; Sollars of Fayette and Clark of Clinton. Coun­ ty Agents W. W. Montgomery, of Fayette; Levi Lukens of Clinton, and E. A. Drake, of Greene, also gave their reports,, as did the secretaries, C. G. Fairley, Clinton; Charles McCoy, Fayette, and David Bradfute, Greene, Dramatic Club The member! of the High School Dramatic Club, made their first pub­ lic uppearance last Monday evening. Assisted by the High School Band and Orchestra, they gave a very interest­ ing program in the High School audi­ torium, which had been decorated by the members of the club. The program consisted of three one act plays, monologue, musical reading and stunt. There Was also a trumpet solo and trumpet, quartette. As the final number of the program, the members of the club sang “Silent Night, Holy Night.” About $14,00 was cleared, the sum of which will be used for the Dramatic Club, We hope to give more programs in the future. • * Student Council At the meeting of the Student Coun­ cil held Wednesday, December 18, the regular routine of business was trans­ acted. .I*- On suggestion of the superintend- ant, the president asked the Council to consider the publication'of a stu­ dent book. This will be a small book­ let which will contain rules and regu­ lations, requirements for each organ­ ization and much additional informa­ tion. 1 The Student Council will have the honor of publishing the. first handbook of Cedarville High School. It is ex­ pected that this book will be off the press by the first of April. Evangeline Tuesday afternoon about one hun­ dred and fifty Cedarville High School students went to Xenia to see the show “Evangejine.” Two school buses were taken and many of the students drove their own cars. The- students enjoyed the picture very much and BURGLARSGET SMALLHAL AT GRAINCOMPANY Burglars entered the Cedarville Grain Company store room sometime Tuesday night and secured some money and merchandise, the exact amount not being known at this time. Entrance was made through a win­ dow in the elevator and the glass broken in the door between the eleva­ tor and store room when the lock was turned. About $40 worth of pocket knives and razor' blades are missing, along with cigars and tobacco. Several flashlights were taken and a small amount of change in the cash register. The keys were found to a desk where the dog license tags are kept and six dollars taken there.. Some change and a check for automobile license was overlooked ini another drawer. No clue has been developed a t this time but there is a belief that tin theft may have been by h<j>me talent. ■ .'------■_ .*». New Ford Car Stolen From Agency; (Continued to page 6) A new Ford car that had never, been off the display floor of the Cedarville Motor Sales Company was stolen sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning. : Entrance had been made by a side window and the double front doors opened and the tudor sedan driven out. The .'doors had been closed but could not be locked again. The discovery was made by Asa Jones, who had a mission a t the agency but arrived be­ fore .the place was open for business. At present ho.clue has been found of the thieves.' Neighbors nearby: heard no unusual noise a t any time of the night. WILLIAM MAXWELL] By WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY , M. D.' , . | _ . Presiden t G reene Count, Ohio, H istorica l Soc iety | EIGHTCOMMANDMENTSFOR GIFT GIVINGARECOMPILED] “Give 'wisely,” is the first rule laid down for those who wish to makb gifts to the’ poor people this Christmas, according to the staff of the Social Service Bureau, wlro have compiled the following commandments for holiday philanthropists: 1— Give wisely. Different families have, different needs. If possible, have your gift meet an outstanding need. Plan your Christmas giving by learn­ ing early the veal needs and desii ’S of the family from those who know it best. Hundreds of needy families are already well known to social service workers who will gladly assist you. 2 — Give considerately. Providing its own Christmas is one of the nor­ mal functions of family life. The greatest happiness comes when the parents give to the children and the children to the parents? Help pre­ serve faihiiy integrity and solidarity by enabling the parents to play the role of Santa Claus. Enrich family life. 3— -Give unobtrusively. Home, How­ ever humble, is a sacred place where strangers cannot enter without Sn» truding evfin a t Christmas, Give thoughtfully. Allow the fam­ ilies to open your packages in private, otherwise' your generosity is spoiled. £_Give co-operatively. Check the names of those families to whom you wish to give either with the Salvation Army, or with the ocial Service Bu­ reau, to be sure your gift will not coincide with some other person’s and that your family will not be doubly remembored while another equally needy home is forgotten. G—Give unostentatiously. Remem her that an article which might seem modest to you would seem elaborate to a poor family, and that its posses sion by them would cause embarrass all means preserve the pride of the ing comments from the neighbors. By recipient family and guard its sens! tive feelings. 7 ,—Give carefully, Know to whom and for what purpose’your Christmas contributions are made. Indiscrimin­ ate giving is worse than no giving because it tends to pauperize, em­ barrass or degrade the recipient, 8—Give with good will. Remem­ ber that it is the Christmas season * the se&Bon of peace on earth, good will to men, Cedarville. Lost Two Games In Cincy The College “Yellow Jackets" did not. fare well on a two game schedule in Cincinnati last Friday and Satur­ day. .The first game was lost to Cin­ cinnati University in basketball by a score of 52 to 26. The second game Saturday with St. Xavier was a .much better played game, the local team loosing by score of 28 to 17, Both colleges have fast teams and have already this sea son defeated some of the best school teams in the state. Turner and Smith were the score winners for the locals. In the game with University Allen, Townsley and Smith were ejected for personal fouls. Telephone Exchange To Have Christmas The Cedarville Telephone Exchange Will be closed Christmas day from 12:30 until 4 P. M, in 'order that the employees can have part of the Holi day. Keep this notice in mind. SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED J. F. Walker of Gambier, secretary of the Ohio Wool Growers’ association and Miss Verna Elsingcr, director of the home and community department of the Ohio farm bureau federation, will be the, chief speakers at the an­ nual meeting of the Greene County Farm Bureau, to he held in Xenia, January 8, Buy HIM something USEFUL for Christmas. U can get ’em at HOME CLOTHING COMPANY, the Northwest Territory” on Ndvetn ber 1st, 1793, marked the fpunding of journalism in the area then known as the Northwest Territory. It was a four-page issue; the type mat was 8% by 10% inches, and printed on “browney-white” rag paper. The type material was wood,’*and the impres­ sion fairly uniform. With the pass­ age by the Ohio Legislature'of a resolution carrying a small appropria­ tion for a memorial marking the final resting-place of William Maxwell, the Centinel's owner and publisher, his tomb is to become a Mecca for the press of Ohio and the Northwest Ter­ ritory. The publication a t Cincinnati in 1793, of the first newspaper in the Northwest Territory, was not inci­ dental.; When William Maxwell, soldier of the Revolution, and printer, emigrated from New Jersey, he brought with him, type, paper; ink, and a Franklin-Ramage hand press. The transportation of the equipment under careful personal, care Was over­ land to Fort Pitt and by boat from that point to Cincinnati. There can be no question of the purpose in. the mind of the Father of Northwest Ter­ ritory Journalism before he started on his journey from New Jersey. His equipment for this definite purpose was apparently as complete■as the state of the printing art of his period permitted. His primitive establishment in Cin­ cinnati was situated in a small log cabin room, at the corner of Front and Sycamore Streets. In this one little room, with a primitive printing equip­ ment, operated by the individual labor of one man, with a knowledge of the pioneer period and a vision of its future, arose the genesis of what has long since grown into the mighty power of the present press of the great states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, Here is first seen the little force created by one man’s hands, on the western Hori­ zon /of journalism, that quickly grew into the greatest known power for this ompire’s safety and progress. The Centinel’s slogan, characteristic of Judge Maxwell, as known in his later life in Greene County, Ohio, was: “Open to all parties; influenced by none." The first number had no edi­ torials or items and few advertise­ ments; its news, principally foreign, was very old, but nevertheless news to its readers, many of whom had not seen a paper for a year. Its issues were handed around from pioneer to pioneer until actually worn out. Its title is designated in Nelson and Bunko’s “History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,” as particularly ap­ propriate, “for Ft. Washington was virtually the gateway through Which the early pioneers, seeking homes in the domain beyond, had to pass, A Centinel, therefore, on the outer limits, to signalize danger or pro­ claim safety, was of transcendent importance to those who were start- oufc. tfeJaRfefhq pire.” ~ Makwell’Pfj^WSgS turns probably aided in obtaining his appointment as the second postmaster of Cincinnati. He succeeded Abner Dunn who died July 18, 1794, while in office. In 1795 the Legislative Council -of the Northwest Territory held an im- ■ portant session in Cincinnati, concern­ ed largely with repealing some of its previously enacted laws to which ■ Congress had objected. The council consisted of Governor St. Clair and Judges Symmes and Turner. They also revised the code and certified the revised edition. This code was print­ ed by William Maxwell, and has, since that meeting, been known as the “Maxwell Code.” The code was bound by Judge Maxwell’s wife, Nancy Robinson Maxwell, excerpts from whose interviews are given below. In the summer of 1796, he sold the Cen- tinel to Edmund Freeman, but there is no record of the price he received. Its new owner changed the name of the paper to “Freeman’s Journal.” In 1800 Freeman removed the plant to Chillicothe, then the seat of terri­ torial government, when it was merged with- the Scioto Gazette. This newspaper is consequently the oldeBt of continuous issue in the Northwest Territory. In 1799, Judge Maxwell severed connection with all Cincinnati inter­ ests. He had, meanwhile, secured a large body of land in the Virginia Military Survey, five miles west of Xeqia, Ohio. The west line of this acreage ran with the east bank of the Little Miami River. He states that he came north with his family to Hamilton, Ohio, by a good open way, then followed a pathway on to Day- ton, Ohio. Finding no trail east from this little settlement of Dayton to Alpha, a point of early Greene County settlement, one and a half miles northwest of his lands, he hired some Revolutionary soldiers, who Were out of work, to cut a way through the forest between these points. This trail is the present Dayton ami Xenia thoroughfare. From Alpha the path was cut beyond the copse of the Little* Miami River bottoms, to Indian Riffle, beyond which lay his lands. So in­ accurate were many of the survey lines of that period, that lie built his cabin one half mile distant from his own north boundary line. This parcel he subsequently bought, and con­ tinued his residence there. A photo­ graph of his cabin was taken by Dr. C. B. Galbreath, thirty years ago. With his permanent residence located in Greene County, Judge Maxwell be­ came a most active nnd useful citizen and continued in public service until his death in 1809. He was elected a member of the House of Representa­ tives of the first General Assembly of Ohio, which met in Chillicothe March 1, 1808, By act of the Legislature lie (Continued to 6 ) ,