The Cedarville Herald, Volume 54, Numbers 27-52

rmw things are advertised by merchants first. Advertisements keep yon abreast of the times. Read them! Advertising is news, as mug* m ISs headlines on the front page* Oft** it is of more significance to yon* FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 30. NEWSLETTER FROMSTATE REPARTMENTS Statistics compiled under supervis­ ion of Secretary of State, Clarence J. Brown, indicate that Ohio is fifth a- mong the states in banking resources New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu­ setts and Illinois are the only states having greater hanking assets. In the last three years the total number of banks in Ohio has decreased from 707 in 1928 to 661 in 1930.' In the same three year period the average assets of state and private hanks has increas ed from 83,339.308 in 1928, to 83,448, 992 in 1929, and to $3 541,240 in 1930, per institution. This'means that the average Ohio bank has 8200,000 more in resources now' than in 1928, CEDARVIUuR 01*0, FRIDAY, JULY 3,1931, COURT NEWS Fourth Work .on the new state office build- ing has been resumed a fte r a walkout i by members of the carpenters’ union, who claimed the right to set the win­ dows in the building, which was being done by members of the ironworkers’ union. Work on the building has been pushed rapidly ever since construc­ tion started and the contractors antic­ ipate completing it and turning it over to the state early next year. Its twelve stories are expected to house all deparments of state with the ex­ ception of the administrative offices which will be continued in the Capitol. SUIT FOB $125,tHW } One of the largest damage suite ev­ er filed in Greene county, was brought t this week against Edwin S. Kelly, re ­ tired manufacturer and capitalist, who has extensive Springfield holdings but owns and resides on Whitehall farm, near Yellow Springs in Greene county, Suit was brought by The Stephens Hotel Co., Inc., formerly operating the Arcade Hotel, Sprihgfield, asking damages to the amount of $125,000, alleging that is business was ruined after Kelly leased an arcade through the building as a food market. The petition alleges that unpleasant odors arose from vegetable, meat, fish and fruit stands occupying booths in the arcade which were offensive to pat­ rons o f the hotel. As a. result patrons quit patronizing the hotel and the company was forced to suspend op­ eration Feb. 31, 1931. It is alleged that the hotel w & b being operated at a profit of about $l,0QO a month prior -to'the opening of the marketnand ~ the damage is based on this profit for the term o f the lease. The Stephens Co. alleges written protest was made to Mr. Kelly that the market was con­ trary to the lease. 3 John R. McElroy Died In Dayton Wednesday , Jorn B, McElroy, about 70, son of the late Archibald and Mary Ellon MpElroy, former residents of Cedar- ville, dud Wednesday morning in * Dayton hospital, following an attack of paralysis. He had been in feeble health for some time hut wee able to be about until jt few days ago, The deceased was twice' married. His first wife was Anna Morris, of Illinois, and to them was born a son, Dapiel S. McElroy, who resides in Chicago. Following the death of his first wife he was later married to Miss Mihnie Clin j , Cedarville* and to them was born a son, Kenneth, who resides in New York City, The second wife died some years ago. A third wife, Miss Bay, sister of John Bay, died a few years ago, " * Mr, McElroy a t one time was engag ed the retail dry goods here with the late H. M, Stormont, He made his home in Cedarville fo r many years. The funeral will be held Friday at nnu houx, to be announced later -from the Walters Funeral Home in Dayton. Burial takes place in Massies Creek Cemetery. , PRICE, fl.50 A YEAR NEWTAXLAWTB BRtttfiCttftJt&S INAHKSTHeTS When the new parole board assumes office in September, the members will have their hands full for some time as 1,600 inmates of the Ohio Peniten­ tiary are eligible for parole and each will be given a hearing. There are now approximately 4,650 men housed a t the big institution, nearly all of whom are employed in the various shops housede in the new industrial ‘building lately completed and claim­ ed to be entirely fire-proof. The published lists of the entries in the early -closing events of the Ohio State Fair to be held August 31st, Sept. 5th., indicate th a t some of the beBt speed kings in the country will contest on the state track. There are seyen stakes with purses of $1,200, to $$000. lit the' 2:20 tro t there are entries; 21 to the i i l * pee*; .54 to •iftit W ‘ ir»fr niff WitisffAito itbi ' hen' ysa r Add pace; 53 in the 2:20 pace, 35 in twhe three year old pace.and 53 in the three-year old trot. That means excellent sport fo r patrons of the fair. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Ralph 6 . Wead and Edith H. Wead to Yellow Springs Lodge No. 421. F. and,A. M. of Ohio, three tracts in Yeellow Springs village, $1.00. Seaphus Stewart to William T. Lee undivided one-half interest in lot in Xenia, $1.00. Frances A and Minnie J. Hanes to Beavercreek Board of Education 11 acres in Beavercreek twp., $2,750. ' J. H. and Disa Thordsen to Home Building & Savings Co., two tracts in Cedarville Twp., containing 118.02 acres, $1.00. • B. E. Moler to Hazel J. Moler un­ divided one-half interest'in 1.35 acres in Beaveercreek Twp., $1.00^ B. F. Perks to Goldie Tenny and Harry Craig, lot in Xenia, $1.00. Charles V. Mitman to Lillian M. Mitman, lot in shorn, $1.00, . Harve Riley to-Marie Riley, lot in Lakeview subdivision,. Xenia, $1.00. Charles V* Mitman to Lillian Mit­ man, lot in Fairfield village, $1.00. Metropolitan Estates Co. to Louis Sanders 2 lots in Osborn View, Bath Twp:, $1.90. . Metropolitan Estates Co..to Louis ? l£an$s?fn t*TTn (Cosrrtiii, W.W, 0.) In 1908, twenty-three years ago, there was 10,649 motor vehicles in Ohio. This year nearly two million were registered, bringing in'approx­ imately $13,500,000 in fees to the state. At the end of the first ten years of registration, there were 442,020mo- tor vehicles and a t the end of the next ten in 1928 there were 1,711,215. The average'fee for pasenger cars year was $4.56, for commercial cars, $25.61 and for trailers, $9.05, Osborn "View Bath Twp., $ 1 . 00 , James H. and Mary L. Hawkins to Dayton Power & Light Co., right of way for fine across a 197.72 acre tract in Xenia Twp., $1.00. BUILDING- LOANS ; SHOW BIG GAIN j DURING PAST YEAR IMIN . BOUNTIES Few business enterprises in this OSS section have shown greater stability The Arihy Worwjsl* reported in Mad in times of economic stress than have ison and Clin1 building and loan associations, This pects of ah eav isf indicated by the report of the State It is said the* Building and Loan Department just idence inthis compiled for Governor White by Frank nearly sixty y< F. McGuire, superintendent, showing crop loss t o , total assets of building, loan and sav- one-third to ings companies in Greene county for advised around the last fiscal year. , cordingto Q. Resources of the three building, effective contr los n and savings companies in this mash composed.! county total $3,899,406. The report 1 pound of further indicates that the total values, anges or lemo of collateral protecting the funds of or. Mix the Greene county loan companies is in and stir the the neighborhood, Of $9,000,000, con- Tfie dry m. .slating mostly of first ,liens on im* the Hqufiff proved realty, prihcipably homes. In discussing the record of Ohio ountiCs with pros- to wheat crops, as not been in ev- n of the state for In some fields the is reporfetWrom Furrows are infested and ac- experts the most Mrs. Susanna C, Boase Died Sunday Evening- ; Mrs. Susanna Gonfarr Boase,. 76, a; .life-long ..resident of Clifton, died a t her home Sunday evening. Death vfas due to heart trouble: Her husband Benjamin Boase, died several years ago. The deceased is survived by the Billowing children, all by a former marriage: Charles Maeley, Quincy, III., Mrs. J. C. Crager, Hillards, O., Mrs. Peney Miller, Springfield; Mrs, Olive Johnson, Peoria, 111., and Mrs. Rem Seloover, Iowa. Private funeral Why Not Shower Party* For The Children? The h6t summer evenings brings to the attention ,of all a place to keep cool. The Herald Suggests that we have a “shower” party for the kiddies some evening during the heated term. Extend an invitation to the surround­ ing community to bring in the child­ ren in bathing suits, old clothes or what-not, for a shower party. A hose could be attachek to a fire plug on a street set apart fo r the purpose and the little folks given a free shower; services "Were held a t the Littleton use of it bran Funeral Home, Yellow Springs, Tues* J.2Q pounds of bran day afternoon, with burial in Clifton n»4' ground or- Cemetery. 2 gallons ofTyat- 1paris green dry 1fru it in the water moistened wit* The poison can be spread a t points over the field where worms a r to be found. The formula Is good fo r about loan associations, the head of the State Building and Loan Department" ihree acres. Corn t field can best be saated that “no other business had protected by^plowing afarrow around Jessie Machael and Ear) Butts to fthrived during the period of admitted- the., field, throwing the earth away Dayton power and Light Co., right of ty poor business conditions as had the frof the com. ’The mash can be plac- way for line across a 38.70 acre tract!building and loan associations.” ■ cd in the furrow a t reasonable distan- in Xenia Tvvp., $1.00. j In the report to be filed with Gover- ces for the worms to feed on as they Home Building and Savings Co., to] nor White, the State Building and may come from adjoining fields. Sey- L. D. Wilson, 130.18 acres in yenin Twp., $1.00. John Baughn, sheriff, to Raymond C. Scroggy, 19.11 acres in Xenia Twp. John Baughn, sheriff, to John T. Harbine, Jr., 1.12 acres in Caesar- creek Twp. COMMUNITY PICTURE SHOW CONTINUES TO DRAW CROWDS PLEADS GUILTY The free picture show each Thurs­ day night.continues to draw ‘crowds from the surrounding community and, town, The shows are given by the Community Club and the expense paid by local business men. Last Thurs­ day night the crowd found much a- musement in seeing Harold Lloyd in “Feet First.” « Loan Department shows 791 building eral applications o fth e mash may be and loan asocintions now in operation necessary especially if rain falls on it in the state with total resources of frequently. $1,244266.38. These, institutions are ’ ......... . . serving more than two and one-half million Ohioans, or one out of every two families. The report fails to disclose where a single depositor in any building and loan company in Ohio lost a dollar of principal during the periodjovered L i ^ f ' Woodrow Littler, 18, Dayton, one of three youthful robbers that have operated in Xenia and Cedarville, is held to the grand jury under a $500 ]the head -of the Building and Loan De bond and in default of same is in the Ipartment is not only unexcelled but J. E. Faris Brings Suit Against Bus Co. J. Ervin Faris, Cedarville, has brought suit against The Central Ohio Death Calls Mrs. Emma L. Thomison i - , ' ******** • 1 Mrs, Emma L. Thomison, 78, form- aly a resident of Cedarville, died a t her home in Springfield, Friday morn-, ing, after an illness of only a few hours. She had resided in Springfield for fifty-one years. The deceased .was a member of the Women’s Relief Corps, Home City Chapter No. 12, Pythian Sisters; the Church of the*Heaveftly Rest and the Women’s .Auxiliary of that church. She is survived by a brother, George Bogles and a sister, Mrs. William Shroades, Springfield, A grandson and two great grandchildren also sur­ vive. by the report. The record ing and loan asociations, according to country jail. Robert Donaldson, 18, Dayton, who is on a three-year pro­ bation from Dayton juvenile court, was returned to that city to be up on a charge of parole violation.. Donald- 5n»* Company and the Peoples Build- SEW-EASY CLUB The Sew-Easy Club held its sixth meeting July 1st and the meeting was opened with each member saying the pledge, I t was decided to hold a mar­ ket on July 18 to be held a t the clerk’s office. A committee was appointed to make posters. A team was appointed to give a demonstration a t the next meeting to be held July 9th. . son's younger brother, Barclay was turned over to the juvenile court in this county. Officials say the boys confessed to a series of robberies in Dayton, Xenia and Cedarville. They are alleged to have entered the Stand­ ard Oil Company station here. personal injuries when he was thrown violently to the ground from a by- cycle he was riding on February 21 on the Jamestown 4Utd Cedarville pike near the Bruce residence# The plain­ tiff is past fiff years of age and states he was riding towards Cedarville on the right side of the road when a bus driven by Clarence Bennett, employee of the defendant, overtook him from the rear without hie knowledge. He says no warning signal was given. He n >n also says the bus passed so close to Jr O f I T o y v / l t i z c n s (him as to almost strike the bycycle, unequalleed' by any financial group. Such institutions in Greene county are: the Cedarville Building & Loan Association; Home Building and Sav­ ing and Savings Company, Xenia. “Prosperity Day” Set John Sheley Died Sunday Night John Sheley, 67, farmer, residing in the Dean neighborhood died a t his home Sunday night after an illness of hearttrouble. He has been subject'to such attacks for several years. He is survived by his widow, a daughter,! Mrs. George Schooler, Detroit, Much.,! two sons, John Jr., at home and an­ other son in Dayton. D. P. &L. Names New LocalManagr Here “Prosperity Day” is to be a big day for citizens in Troy, JO., Tuesday next. The Dayton Power & Light Co; nn- j and to save himself, he extended his nounees that Dan Wright, Dayton, is ' left hand in an effort to push himself ]to succeed James Duffield as the local away from th^bu*. He says he w a s»representative of the company here. PARALYTIC STROKE Different civic organizations have set,thrown to the highway and sustained Mr. Duffield resigend recently to be STAYAWAYFROMOAKINSTORM Richard Hackett, who resides near! aside the day for doing the unusual & fractured pelvic bone and left hip, Wilberforce suffered a paralytic jand a large delegation will go to Cin-1 \eg and body bruises'«nd suffered ex- stroke Wednesday. :cinnati to spend the day a t the Zoo.' treme pain, being confined for sov- No hard times a t Troy according to eral weeks. He has sinca been unable reports and the event is to advertise to Work as a result of the injuries and \ jthe fact to the state, The delegation. jg permanently crippled On the left 11of several hundred will remain for the flJde. '■** - • ' 1 Zoo Grand Opera that, night when1 I the Betthoven opera “Fidelia” wifi be *» , ^ „ , , , |jpresented, The title role will. be sung ' IjO IT ioM iCS o € i n ^ U iS e d Dftvey Tree Institute Issues Bulletin, Showing Oak as Most |, i )y M?rta wittowska, a resfdent of " Susceptable to Lightning — Beech is Best, But No Tree § j’froy, The Zoo grand opera concerts Offer# Any Protection, To seek shelter under an oak tree during a thunder storm is almost as dangerous as to search for gasoline with a lighted match. Of all trees, the oak is the- most Susceptible to lightning. Such information comes from a bulletin issued by the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery, Kent, O. If you must get under a tree, says the bulletin, find a beech, for it is rare ly ever the victim of lightning. The ration of the oak to the beech is 60 to I, according to obeservations over a period of years, I [have, been given during the summer V for several years and are of a high istandard, . Trees, such as the oak, which have! —---- ---------— a large root area naturally have larg- f V nH iisj OU ftW a j er electrical fields than others. Oaks!^ U l O t J l ^ e i l S U S b n O W S alsohave“tap”roots,whichbringup; Gam For Coming Year large quantities of water to the tree, ; —-• which serves as another atraCtion for j Supt. Furst reports that the school electrical boltp. - , j enumeration lias been completed for The best advice of the Davey In- *Ms «chool district and a gain of 60 For Wheat Harvest Farmers are having the opportun­ ity of Using the combine in this sec­ tion from reports a t hand. The com­ bine has been used in the west with much success on large tracts of wheat land. It cuts and threshes wheat with one operation. There^are a few com­ bines in thsi section and- We are in­ formed the price for harvesting wheat is $1 per acre for cutting and six cents per bushel extra for threshing, ,1 A'Jie irtSBL u i c ua iub * 4' -u. stitute is to avoid trees altogether! » / e p ^ e d over last ye9r. The poll when lightning is a t work, as it would ,Jhl® year 640; compared v/ith 480 I>|gn r f /m R ll he somewhat difficult for the layman i Th[s indicates the popula- C1DSRD to make a scientific Selection in tim e!?011 of *lie school district is on the j WEST OF XENIA FOR REPAIR of emergency. Better keep ifi the.open!]ncff*se‘ ^J*ny families that lived j , ,, . , ’ spaces if no house is near, and get' Clty dur*n2 the time of census j The Dayton and Xehi# pike Is closed The roots of a tree tap the electric-uj-, jt t(f<! t!lm, (y at field o t the ground. When a storm cloud is overhead the positive elec-j ■ iririty In i t le attracted by the nega- Ftremrke, all kinds, any time and tive electricity In the earth, lightning A hig " f a tte n , Howard Kennon lettews. taking are now back in the towns and the country. smaller [from Alpha to the Kemp and Grange {road, while the road is being rebuilt. The proof of this is found in riding tThe detour is about eight inilees. To Into or tltroguh most of our cities, We those from this section that visit Day- see “for rent” signs, and “for sale” : to n ‘go by the Fairfleid-Xenia pike signs at every turn, ' through Osborn, associated with the Ohio Bell Tele phone Co., Dayton, Mr. Wright is an electrician and will do electrical work along with his other duties for the Dayton company. He will iiot move here before fall. Looks Like Sane Fourth For Cedarvillians The Fourth of July coming on Sat­ urday- this year gives an extra day for Ohio now he# a m w t*x lew under the. classification amendment with # variety o f rates for different cksses * of property. The law repeals the uni­ form rule'oftaxation that has beep in force to the state for many yearn, Certain parts of the hill become ef­ fective as soon as filed with the Sec­ retary of State, Other pa rts probably will have to wait the 90 day*’ refer­ endum period before becoming .effec­ tive, Many changea in the manner o f tax making a rt to be enforced. For to- atance you willWuake your return on February lO inatead of the first Mon­ day to April, an under the old law. I t is said the return made by each prop­ erty owner iMtAplrii Will lw idilsohi^; , ed. .When you make your return next- - February you will pay a part or all of the.tax a t that time. '/■ The new law aets the following as the rates: V-V Bank and building and loan as well as savings d ^ s itW 'W ilF '^ mills on each dollar. : Shares to financial institutions, 2 millB on each- dollar: . Capital and surplus of life insur­ ance companies, 5 mills. Moneys, credits, 3 mills. , ‘ ’ Investments in corporations, if div­ idends are declared and paid) 5 per cent of your income; if no income 2 mills. Stocks and menchinery of maaufac- tuxers and farm implements a re list­ ed at'50 per cent of tbeir assessed vel- . nation. They are to be assessed a t the .current rate of ta x f o r the politi- . cal subdivision. Property used in. ’ retail business to. be listed a t 70 per­ cent of its appraised valuation, ' Froperty owners will not have to return personal property a'sv fa the - past and there will be -no exemption of $100. ; Real estate valuations are not gov­ erned by the new law and will be.re­ valued every six years as a t present. The work of re valuing real estate'is' now under way and the result is eat- pected within the next few weeks. ;; All income tax returns to the fed - ^ J * # ' to Ohio ta x officials to sea th r t eyery federal income.taxpayer makes asxw - . rect state return under the classifica­ tion. If bank and building, and Ioab.; associations do not pay the tax on all deposits, the list of depositors Is to be turned .over to the’State Tax Com­ mission where the assessment, will be made. Heavy penalty is provided for. failure to return property. "'V . There will bo no personal property tax on motor cars hut there has been an^increase of fifty per emit -to th# cost of motor car licenses tha t is ex­ pected to bring in $23,000,000. Anoth- Ice Cream will be delivered after- or new tax is -2 cents per package on noon and evening on Ju ly 4th by the all cigarette and it iB estimated this. Epworth League,.60c a qt., 25c pint, will bring the state arbtind 5 million Order from Phone 3-53. each year. FRAGMENTS FROMAN ASTRONOMER'SWORKSHOP By Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Director of Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan University,.Author of “Man and the Stars." WHEAT PRICE TO START 45 CENTS A BUSHEL Farmers that market their wheat are watching the new record price of recent years. Based on Chicago prices it;will be about 45 cents, a bushel here. Back in 1917 wheat sold for $1,30 a bushel but times are different now. Predictions are for a 35 or 40 bushel rop this year with probahly 30 bush­ els per acre for average.; Last year most farmers feed their wheat to hogs and no doubt this into wil) apply «- gain for wheat was figured a t $1 a bushel in return as feed. • OATS BUG ARRIVES The famous oats bug has arrived and windows and doors about business houses this week are covered with the pest. They are attracted.no doubt by electric lights. They are harmful but annoying. So far the town has es­ caped the run of mosquitos.' A few are reported in some places but they are not general in this locality a t this time. SATURN . On Juyl 13th the planet Saturn is in opposition to the &un and becomes the evening star. Saturn in some ways is the most interesting planet of the solar system, and will be nearer the earth on this date than it has been fo r over a year. The planet may be seen to the south-east shortly after dark in the constellation of Sagittar­ ius, just east of the milk dipper. It is by far the brighest star in tha t part of the sky. This is the unique planet which is surrounded by the rings which may be seen by a small telescope of two or three inches aperature. The rings were first seen by Galileo when he: to-f vented his telescope to 1610, hut the strange character of this phenomenon xvas determined by Huygens to 1665. In a small telescope the system of vacation over the week-end. There i s ,rings appears as asingle ring, Very no set plan for any kind of a local much like the brim surrounding a hat. Celebration, the Springfield Eagles *jn the larger instruments three dis having the largest Fourth program in tinct rings are observed which the this section. However many groups Jspectroscope tells us are made up of have arranged for picnics for the day. jgWarming satellites or meteoric par­ ticles so thickly packed together that In view of wheat harvest being a t hand, no doubt most farmers will be found in the wheat field. DISMISS SUITS The following five cases have been ordered dismissed in Common Fleas Court for lack of prosecution: W. L. against Louts Menowitt and others; II. E. Schmidt against Sam Bergen and others; Andrew J . Gordon against Bertha May Gordon; J. L. Beal a- gainSt George DeWine and others; W. A. Foreman against Barrett Milling Co. and other*. they swing about the planet much as bees swarm about a hive. We see them as we see the* planet much as bees swarm about Ahive. We see them as we see the ball of the planet Itself by the sunlight which they reflect earth' wards, Saturn itself is quite some planet being roughly 76,000 miles to diame­ ter or something like ten time* the diameter of the earth, The diameter of the outer edge of th* biggest ring is i70,000 miles. At present the rings are tilted toward the earth so that they appear elliptical to shape as seen in the telescope. Sometimes they are exactly, edge on to us. Then they dis­ appear entirely, as they can be scarce­ ly one hundred miles in thickness. Astronomers have weighed the planet Saturn and find tha t it is toad# of phenomenally light stuff, so light to fact that if the Whole planet were thrown.in an ocean of water large *• nough it would float like a block of ebrk. Even so, Saturn weighs 549,- 060, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, OoO tons which would make quite a. block of cork after all. ' For all of its size the planet .spins pretty rapidly .on its axis churning out two day* while the earth makes# one. It believes, however, in * rather leis­ urely year, as a year on Datum is nearly thirty times as long as a year here on the earth. However, it has plenty of moons throughout the Season for while the earth has but one satellite Saturn has nine* so there is a pretty ' s H m *Stance of having no moonlight nights on Sat­ urn. Like other planets, Saturn is one of the wandering stairs and cruises a- round among the constellations. Be­ cause of its migratory hab its.it is easly distinguished from the fixed stars. During the month of July It will move westward in the constella­ tion Sagittarius by a little more than two degrees, This star-gazer may : essil verify fo r himself by noting the potititm of the planet among the stars from night’ to night, If y*u should have any difficulty in Wktisfgtag your­ self a s to th* idienthyef thi* wnmtig* •if, you can’t mine i t the night of July l , for it will then be wititiu tit* degrees of the full moon,