The Cedarville Herald, Volume 60, Numbers 27-52

AJ3Y&IWCISJ8D m w m m j a m t o s t , a b w & TmaiMW!FE& m YOU ABREAST OF TB» TIMES. BEAD THEMI STOTOH YEAR NO. 29 ADVERTISING IS NSW* AS •,jR8r ‘AJfil'El. Xt lSjRJJrifc^fliJ^a-EwP FRONT PAGE. OFTEN IT IS OF MORE SIGNIFICANCE TO ,«feOU«* COLUJMBUS.—Plana for Ohio’s participation in the Northwest Ter­ ritory sesquicentennial celebration are progressing rapidly, according to Edward J, Mildren, state secretary- director of tj|te Northwest Territory Commission ot Ohio, with head quarters in the State Souse, One of the outstanding features and one which will attract the attention of toe-nation to Ohio 'and -the sistey states. Carved from the territory— Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota—will be a caravan o f ox-drawn covered wagons from Ips­ wich,. Mass,, starting Dec. 3, to the' landing place a t Marietta Where the first civil government west of the Ohio river .was .established, Mir. Mildren said, .The wagons will lumber along the original pioneer route through the "valleys and over the mountains to the headwaters of the Ohio where the modern “pioneers” will fell the trees and hew the timbers to recreate the famous craft, Adventure Galley, for the voyage to the mouth of the Mus­ kingum, there to land and join with Marietta on April 7 in celebrating its 150th birthday. Prom Marietta the caravan, will begin a long tour stour through Ohio and the five other state of the Northwest Territory. The party will include actors who will present a colorful pageant illustrat­ ing the events and adventures of the trip in cities, villages and towns a- long the route. State Treasurer Clarenae H. Rnisley .announced that added protection for ■negotiable bonds sent to the state • treasuerer’s office by- Ohio hanks will -be provided.,' Prom now on al] reg- j istered mail for the treasurer will; be transported from the post office! . to the ,Capitol'building in armored ex-’ press-trucks. For many years ifeUad been he practice to send an unarm-- ed messenger to get the registered mail, much of which contains negoti­ a b le Securities, “Thepractiee was, not only unsound - in -.theory,~rbut -Was potential dynamite in, that the banks ran a great risk in having their bonds stolen in a..hold-up,” Treasurer Knis- ley asserted. Gov. Dftvoar Forces m mm t Exchange Bank * COURT NEWS Employees To Pass Final Chapter . ■ •W'. .-a His Hand Bills PLEADmTY Is Written Edna M, Thompson was awarded a divorce from William Ar Thompson and Elva Luttrell obtained a decree from Lenple Luttrell, • both on charges of pross neglect of duty. A property settlement was approved in the Luttrell case. William B, .Har­ rison-won a divorce from Lienita Harrison on grounds of cruejty, with custody of minor children confined to the plaintiff. WINS JUDGMENTS The Bryant Motor Sales has recov- lered a, $240.9)2 judgment n agah^t James H. Robinson and a - f 334,63 judgment against Henry H, Car- rOthers. The firm, through AtjSrney John V, Gibney, also, filed other suits, seeking ‘Judgment for $453.95 against Mary Buck and $152.93 a- gainst Alfred Leach. ALIMONY AWARD Rebecca Marts ' has been awarded $10 weekly* tebiporary alimony by the court in her suit against Rocellus Martz. - The court of appeals had're- versed the trial court judgment and remanded the case -fo r art alimony award. , CASES DISMISSED Parties to the case, having com­ promised their differences, the petition of Raymond A. Craig -against C; ■ V. Craig and others has been ordered Day against Lillian-G*. Bay was dis­ missed upon motion o f ;the plaintiff . ESTATES VALUED To ascertain whether inheritance taxes should be-; paid, four, estates have been appraised ■undter probate court direction as follows: Estate of Laura F...Sears: gross value, $51,648,35; debts, .$1,391.97; ad­ ministrative cost, $2,400; net value, $47,806.38. Estate o f”Wilber Powers: gross' value; $0,185.90; -debts* $859.48; ad­ ministrative cost, $260; net value, $5,- 060.42. ' . Estate of John - O’Cotjnor: gross value,- $5,930.16;,^obligations, $13,50;' het value, $5,916.66. Estate p f Julia P» Hopping: gross value, $3,297.43; debts, $2287.77;' ad­ ministrative cost, $483.62; net value, $526.04.. APPOINTMENT-MADE John II. Long has been named ad­ ministrator of the estate of Lillie B, jLong, late of Xenia Twp;; under $1,- Statistics compiled under the direc- tio n o f State' Highway Director John Jaster, Jr., indicated that women___ .automobile drivers, during the. first' qqq ),on(| quarter of the current year, had a : .............. .much better record than men so far j j * *.-• as motor .vehicle accidents involving-. Scott W. Jeffries injury and death were concerned. Out 1 * of 3,771 accidents, women drivers were j Died Thursday responsible for ten per cent, although! ------- : their proportion to men drivers was keeping the pledge -of no more new taxes- fine Democrat insisted; that we should send a telegram to Lieut. Governor Paul Yoder, informing him that Democratic tax payers'were be­ hind him in hie fight and that party office holders as nop-taxpeyers dared come into the open but rather pre­ ferred to do their work after mid­ night. Following the suggestion the “Herotd” has conveyed the message! to Lietenant Governor Paul Yoder. •much higher, Director Jaster stated. Other statistics revealed that 52.7 per cent of the accidents involving in­ jury and 62.2 of those involving fatal­ ities take place a t night-' . Scott Winfield JeffrieB, 32, died at his home Thursday nfteriioon a t 3:45 o’clock. Although he had been in fail­ ing health four years his death came unexpectedly following, a cerebral hemorrhage with which he was strick­ en Wednesday. Jobs for June graduates a t 01iioj Born in CedarviUe,'Mr. Jeffries had State university are “looking up ” 1 pchl hia entire ,$fe ^ wbcre he ThLs was the assertion of John F.{was ernpioyed for yeara aB a Mee, placement service director fori taUonary engineer a t a linuj kiln the institution. “Opportunities for cperated by the hUs D, S. Ervin and .work are the best in recent years," | ]ator a t the Tarbox Lumber Co. He Mr. Mee said. “For example, aboutlwa)! a member of the prMbyterian seventy per cent of the graduates of jehurch, Cedarville. the college of commerce obtained cm-1 . . . , , , ,, , „ r , ... lie ,i» survived by hia widow, Mrs, ployment prior to graduation. The „ __, ' ' ’ , „ „ „ . . . . JLmmnzctta Jeffries; six sons, Floyd same proportion holds gopd ip moat of > , .. , _ ’ L , f the other colleges And what is better an<’ Alonzo’ ot Ced«rvntol. Rankln< S , „ ^ i ^ L o s t e r and Howard of Cincinnati, and higher than last year ” °™ 1,e’ of ®“ r X°nl" ; children and two great grandchildren. A daughter, Mary, preceded Mm in death, Initial steps for a re-survey of tax exempted properties, having san esti mated valuation of more than $1,000,- 000,000, with the objective of cutting down the increasing list of such prop­ erties, has been taken by the state tax commission. Although officials of the commission declined to estimate the value of the property now exempt and which should be returned to the tax duplicate, i t was thought that the total would amouint to several million dollars. ■I t is known that many prop­ erties, exempted frpm taxation singe 1931, the last reappraisal year, have been diverted to other uses and are therefore subject to taxation, APPENDICITIS OPERATION * Rev. E, O. Ralston, pastor of the Clifton United Presbyterian Church, Underwent art operation for appen­ dicitis a t the McClellan Hospital, Xenia, last Thursday. He was taken til following his return trip to Mon­ mouth, III., where he attended com­ mencement, Miss Ruth Copeland, south of town, attended the Miami Conference Lead­ ership Training School a t Bonebrake Seminary as a delegate from the Xenia United Brethren Church. Rev. Robert Copeland# brother of Miss Copeland v ru one of the instructors a t the conference. .Rev, Walter Peck, pastor of the Xenia U. B, Church, also' attended the conference, Funeral services were conducted a t the home Sunday a t 2 p. m. with burial ih North Cemetery, CedarviUe. 940 Drawing Old Age Pensions Nine hundred and forty men and women 65 yeans of ago and over are now receiving old age pension awards, the highest number since the, Greene County aid for the aged bureau was established in June, 1934, according to Leo J, McCormick, investigator for the bureau. The monthly grant to pensioners averages between $18 and $20. Quito a few cases have been re­ budgeted in accordance with the state wide policy, and tMs Work is just completed, Mr; McCormick disclosed Few applications are pending. More than 1,600 applications for old ago pensions have been filed With, the bureau since i t was -Created three years ago, but deaths, removals and altered financial status have cut the roils to the present number. BASS SEASON NOW OPEN The season opened Wednesday for bass and every one 18 yeara old and oyer must have a fisting license if they do not want to pay a fine. ’x OSDAKV1LLE, OHIO, FKfJAY, JUNE 18,1937 PRICE, $1,50 A YEAR Most alt, If -not all Democratic om- fSpyees. in Greene county, th a t are.-on the state pay roll directly and in ­ directly, civil service or not, were com­ pelled- under* threat of losing their jobs or appointments,- if 'they .did not attend a meeUng Tuesday morning at the state highway- garage in Xenia Similar meetings-were held all over the state. The Democratic members of -the legislature are divided on how much; money shall be raised, and whether there shall be more new state taxes. Gov. Davey .ja insisting on four mil­ lion more:thin .Senate leaders ate willing to grant. A hand bill cam­ paign was inaugurated using the old age pension bogey and Uquor issue aB the scare crow and .state employees Were to become hand bill passers. A canvass o f the highway em­ ployees, liquor store employees, sales tax employees, old age pension em­ ployees and a score of other classifica­ tion of office holders a t the meeting Tuesday brought out the fact that not' one in ten o f .them' owned their own property and paid any direct taxes, The whole county was divid­ ed, and each employee given certain territory to pass the bills- Some would not be caught passing the bills daylight and watted* until after night to perform' their tasM On one road one Democrat was passing bills at three -o’clock -Wednesday morning! Local Democrat^ on the state pay roll answered roll call a t the garage meeting and received their share of the. .bills for distribution. Wednesday we interviewed ten of the leading Democrats in this community as to their viewB on Davey’s demand for more millions and additional' state taxes. Each were emphatic in oppos­ ing the Davey plan and gave endorse­ ment of what the Governor termed the “Hatched Men” in the Senate in Alfred Reisinger, p , and Harold Montgomery, 18,, pMded guilty in tV R. A. Reese -justice! of peace coUri, Donaldpville, Clark bounty, fo r the theft of two hogs « % Saturday frpm the A. ,T. Finney lower Riy* road east of Cliftoni - The arrests were! made Sunday morning a t SouthJ Charleston .by Deputy Sheriff Sidney Whitten, Greene county, and "[Edward Furry, Deputy Sheriff C lam county* As the Finney farm, is oh f ie Greene-Clark county’’line, both eipcera figured i in thq arrest. ''The hogs: were in Clark county a t the-time they were stolen. • Emile Finney, soif;pf A, T. Finney made q trip to Washington C. *H. where be learned twh hogs, had been, sold on Saturday n&rhing early to McKinley Kirk stock -buyer. He con­ tinued his investigation through the Sheriff of Fayette county and former Deputy Sheriff Smith of *Madison county' and finally traced the theft to the South Charleston lads. When tlie boys were faced With charges before the Clark county justice both pleaded guilty and ad­ mitted the hogs had been sold under the name of Charles Blake, receiving a check for $41.25, which was cashed a t a Washington C. H. store. Pay­ ment on the check was stopped im- mmediately by Kirk. Kirk’s records showed the follow­ ing purchases under the name of Blake: February 23, 2 hogs, $33.66; March 26, 3 hogs, $45.71; -April 1, 2 hogs, $3.8.61; June 1, 2 bogs, $57; June. 5, hog, $2750; June 12, 2 hogs, $41.25. In their confessions the boys gave information that shows a number of fanners have lost -hogs but in check- reducing the state expenditures and |jng up after the Finney robbery, not a Tuesday and Wednesday ware the final days for the payment of dividend checks to depositors a t'th e dosed tot stitution. Of the 762 claims on file checks were handed out to 646 deposit­ ors. Of the 416 uncalled for two are corporations' with headquarters else­ where and. will be paid from Wash­ ington C. H. The others arp for |small amounts 'and -can be secured from J. L. Meeker, Peoples’ - and Drovers’ Bank, Washington 0 - H. The total amount of dividends paid was 70.2 per cent, the final dividend being fo r 20.2 per cent, The totali is much larger than was first expected! following the closing of the bank. A t that time -it looked as if fifty per cent would be the, limit. The-bank building was sold te Link & Link, Springfield realtors, fo r $10,- 100, being purchased for re-sale :or for investment purposes. •’ a j 11 ■>!—..as Births For Month O f May,1037 The Boyland Trail By FRED F, MARSHALL N. Interior Of Court House Renovated The interior of the Court House will, be renovated under a $946 WPA project, sponsored by county commis­ sioners, approved for operation in July, according to Vncent Emminger, resident WPA engineer. Plans call for extensive painting, cleaning and plastering work; Ap­ proximately 28,500 square feet of sur­ face will be re-painted and plastering will be patched. Walls will .receive two coate of paint. one had- been able .to say. he had missed hogs. Most of the hogs had been stolen front farms around South Charleston and South Solon and but one trip ’Was made to the .Finney farm. The hogs had been driven from * jHW >» fE8»* up the. road where they were loaded to an-automobile! ' - ' Both boys were giVen a sentence amounting to $200 and costs and thirty days in the Dayton workhouse. Meantime the grand -jury will heari their cases on hog stealing and forgery on checks. The written confession of each boy was made to Sheriff George Benham, Clark county, where the boys are con­ fined in the . county jail awaiting action of the grand jury. Sheep Claim^«For Quarter $1007 Fifty claims amounting to $1,007.10 arising during the last three months through destruction of sheep by stray dogs, have been approved'by county commissioners and ordered paid out of dog and kennel license fund re­ ceipts. The claims ihcluded $953 for ani­ mals ahd $54.10 in fees. The largest individual claim, amounting to $81.70, was that of O. E. Carr, Miami Twp, Jamestown Men Held J )p Monday ClayMaqpk, proprietor, of a reatau rant to Jaipestowfi, wjttt Dean Miller, an employee, were held Up by two stickup men late Mtiftday higbt just as the place of business was being cloyed for the nlght, Mauek and Milter. Were ordered to the rear of the store While th* cash register was robbed of an unknown amount of cash. Miller was also searched and a small amount taken from his pocket, The robbers disappeared.-before local au­ thorities coUid ,b0 notified, XENIA MINISTER RESIGNS Dr. W, W. Foust, who has been minister of the First Reformed Church, Xenia, since. June 1,1629, has presented his resignation to the eon gregation. He wilt retire and move to bis farm to Medina county. Mr. and Mrs, Allen Harris, Of Maplewood, Springfield, were the Sun­ day dinner guest* of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Walker and attended the ChtW dren’s Day exercises a t the First Presbyterian Chgteh, State School Funds Distributed Distributive shares of Greenej County’s eleven .rural school districts in an allocation of $25,004.32 in state public school funds, made, Saturday by the state department of education, wore announced Tuesday by. H. C. Aultman, county superintendent, .The current warrants Issued by the state are to be used for repayment of notes issued in February, . Failure to use-the'fimda to-retire such indebted­ ness, if it exists, will result in a dis­ trict becoming *ineligible for future participation in the public school funds. Districts which did not .issue notes a t the time of tile February certification will be permitted to de­ posit the current checks in their gen­ eral operating funds. Following are the shares of the county’s rural districts in the $25,004.- 32 allocation: Beavercneek, $3,483,10; Caesarcreek, $584.12; Cedarville, $4,- 222.73; Clifton, $686.68; Jefferson, $2,« 956,98; Ross, $1,499.08; Sllvercreek, $2,245.16; Spring Valley, $2,264,91; Sugarcreek, $2,823.93; Xenia Twp., $2318.78, Greene May Be Dropped From WPA The* WPA has , called the county commissioners f r o m forty-three counties for a conference to Columbus, Friday, to discuss plans for the with­ drawal of federal relief aid for all counties having 300 or less WPA workers. Thirty-two counties now have less' than that number and Greene County with 822 Will fall in the 400 list that becomes effective soon, By reducing tho number in rural colihties gives the city counties advantage o f increasing their lists. Donald Edward Berry,-747 ^F.^nd St., Xenia, Ohio. Shirley Lou Conner, 41416 W. 2nd St., Xenia, Ohio. John Anthony Donavan, 115 S. West St,, Xenia, Ohio, Frederick McLeod Ervin, 29 Leaman S t, Xenia, Ohio. Kenneth Dale Edwards, 16 California St., Xenia, Ohio. Barbara Jean Hilderbrand, 535 E. Church St., Xenia, Ohio. * Marcus Engle McCalliater, Jr., 401 . King S t, Xenia, Ohio. Melvin LeRoy Stollings, 252 Bell- bropk Ave., Xenia, .Ohio. Betty Louise Whittacre, Dowdell St„ Xenia, Ohio. Nancy Louise Rhubert, 406 Wash­ ington S t, Xenia, Ohio. Evelyn Ann Adams, Yellow Springe, Ohio. Nettie Patricia Craig, Mt. Holly, Ohio. - , Gladys Carolyn Davis, R. R. 2, Yel­ low Springs, Ohio, Ruth May Davis, CedarviUe, Ohio. Virgil Sylvanus .Emery, CedarviUe, ■ 4,... Jane Redfem Finlay, 225 N, King S t, Xenia, Ohio. Evelyn Louise Gano; R.*R, 2, Cedar-) ville, Ohio. Richard LeRoy Kindred, 705 N. Cen­ tra l Ave., Osborn, Ohio, Jerry Martin Judy, CedarviUe, Ohio. Dorothy Ann Lovejoy, 201 High S t, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Frederic Earl Massie, R. R. 2, Ce­ darviUe, Ohio. Donald Edward Mundy, Yellow Yellow Springs, Ohio. Charles Richard Reynolds, 37 S, Main St., Fairfield, Ohio, Patricia Ann. Ruzicka, Jamestown, Ohio. Patricia Ann Sweeney, R. R. 1, Os­ born, Ohio, ’ . John Dennis Walker, CedarviUe, Ohio. Roger Max’Williamson, CedarviUe, Ohio. Vera Ellen Bickett, R. R. 5, Xenia, Ohio. *v Naomi Jane Burton, Sugarcreek Township, Sylvia Ann Johnson, R. R, 1, ’Wil­ mington, Ohio. 'Edward Earl Thornton, Jr., 214 W. 2nd S t, Xenia, Ohio. Kenneth Ralph Reed, Cedarville, Ohio. • Frank Thomas Snively, R. Rr° 2, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Bonnie Mae Smith, 211 N, W-Mt S t, Xenia, Ohio. > Robert Kelly Holliday, 113 tilgh St., Xenia, Ohio, Joseph Wilbur Darnell, 313 S.-Col- lier S t, Xenia, Ohio. Paula Rebecca Dugan', 9414 Roger St., Xenia, Ohio. Roberta Jean Harlow, New Burling­ ton Pike, Xenia, Ohio. Janet Sue Shlngiedecker, Cedarville, Ohio. Daniel’ Lee Huff, Spring Valley Ohio. Earl Leon Stryker, Pt. William, Ohio. DEMOCRATS JUST StflLjS Two government revenue collector* were, in town Wedhesday checking business house* on toe social secur­ ity tan. A Democrat to business now- «l-d*ya Wear* a smile tha t ju st wonH come off for many of new taxes ire P 0 with pleaattre. Maybe! ' ......... . ■■ Tranquil recollections pf some home town colored folka: Old man Badger with his handl satchel ,.. - Batt* with his one-horse cart coursing the back streets in-the stilly nigWrhours on a “hush” mission •, , Di d colored lady Steele who bestowed profuse blessings on all passers-by, and with so. few to call her own. , . Old man Fishier spu t­ tered With"white wash • ... Old crip-: pled Howie going into exhuberent hysterU a t toe baae ball game Mannay Robison’s -basso outburst Which I always awocUto with the; opera house gallery crowds of by gories , . Faithful old Wash Jones with giant frame bowing lower *nd lower withlwright of toil, just as toe aong tella . , .. And it was George Randall-Who managed to peddle his vegetables every year.from the poor­ e s t farm "ground in ’Greene county, and rear a -big family oh the proceeds , , , Billy Pickerel who would rather tote a bag of coal titan, haul it Tohj Spencer who taught my father how to raise sixty, pound watermelons. When he passed on th e “Spritc’er melon” seed strain became soon ex­ tinct . . . And an for .good home town. laughs I always recall the, red faced paroxysms' of Clayton McMil­ lan,- Ralph Murdock, Charles Gal- breath and Ted Richards, -when' they talk.over old times . . . And there was the Morgan' Kennon family who had more good healthy laughers in it than any o th e rl know . . , And who would ever forget the- boat blat laugh of Kurt Niles . , . And J ju st recall Peter Morgan, always with a team along the country roads' above town . . . Bill Fortune with his red bandanna neck decoration. , . How strange that after all these years I recall that little school room morning prayer of Cal Morton: O, Lord we thank toee for the night, And for the blessed morning light— For strength and life and loving care, And *11 that makes our. days so fair. Help us to do thejthings .we should, And be to others-kind and good.- For all we do and a ll’we say, To make u» lovlier eVery day,” I t was “J, D.” Williamson who was always whistling, a . ' martial air 'thTOteto;.ltof--guim*''..>. -^faad'toa.bldier' Dr. Stewart' wbo 'beM^fortli' His. ear trumpet with the perpetual inquiry, To Which?” . . , . Jim Murray who, a t the age o f . sixty could dive backwards and turn two flips ,in the-air before touching the.water , . . Mother Rich­ ards, lovable old lady who retained the English trait of dropping her “H’s,” and who regarded all boys in a spirit of sympathetic compassion/ Mary Henzel typical story .book ’‘widow ’’character «*.. Fred R obs who bought up Indian arrow heads from all the boys about town . , . Jake Alex­ ander’s blacksmith shop in the rear of the bid frame opera house—Jake was oblige to tolerate dll the old soaks from the Rapp saloon close by . , . and was it not John Rftpp who typified toe big time gambler with his diamond stick 'pin and flashy dress . . . and who fails to recall the puffs of acrid smelling smoke tha t floated through the |#chool room windows from the kilns . . . and the special privileges we aspired to obtain from the teacher of going to the lobby to "study”—even imparters of knowledge were gullible . . . and bid colored Lewis Hamilton, who long after h is sight failed could chant nearly entire chapters of the Bible—a blunt chal­ lenge to those home towners who would flaunt niore pretentious pious­ ness. * TAKING THE LAST CENT The New Deal down to Washing­ ton has ruled that if a porter has a shoe shining stand to a barbershop, the owner of the shop Must pay the Social security tax on hrhftt the porter takes to regardless of toe fact that he may not be on the pay roll and Is given free rent. DEATH OF MRS. SARAH SMITH Mrs. Sftfatb Rnfitb, 69r wife of Edward snfith, filed a t her home Sat-‘ trnlay noon following a long Illness as ah Invalid Since 1913. She whs born to Ripley and besides her husband leaves two sister*, Miss Lula Ellis and Mrs, Dan Smith, Dayton The fatteratSra* held from the home Tuesday afternoon, Burial to. Silver- wM* ■ VflMvVKJr* 4-H Club Tour To Cincinnati The annual Greene County 4-H Club T ou r.to Cincinnati and Coney Island will be held Thursday, June 24. -The tour this year Is sponsored by the County Clover Leaf Club, the senior youth group, and every person to Greene County is eligible to go on the tour. The tour will leave Xenia a t 7:30 a. m., on special Pennsylvania train and arrive tit th e Cincinnati ’Union Terminal a t 9:15. The group will have an opportunity to inspect the terminal following which Special Motor Coaches trill trice the group on personally conducted tours of large Cincinnati newspaper, other manufacturing industries and Eden Park and Mt. Adams Incline plane to the Wharf, Those not desiring to taka tho manufacturing tou r will leav* the terminal by special coaches for the. Cincinnati Zoo and thence to tho wharf by toe incline ’railway. Tho editor* group *tiM Wave too Coney W hiff on toe Steamer Island Queen a t 2:80 for Coney BdancL The boot of the tour will be $140 fo r a- dulte and $1.60 fb t children and will include all necessary t expenses cept meals, ~ . - Tickets may he stented from dub leaders, toemhers e f Clover Leaf Club o r a t toe ewtoty agent* office. A new peat fo r this -section is doing great damage to a number of ferm crops, especially barley and whsafc. I t is toe first time in years that the old- fashioned army worm is as May as if it was a western pest, We visited to e ’twenty-acre -field of barley on toe John Turner-farm Toes-*; day evening when millions of the worms were as busy as bee*-cutting Off the heads, The ground’ waa literally covered with sevtered heads of the crop that would be ready for the combine next week. The worm is a night worker- and rests during the day when he curl* up in the dirt almost unhotiote to the eye. Barley is said t o be a favor­ ed crop for the army worm yet it thrives on -wheat, clover and affelfe and evidently does, well on the yoRUg corn for i t was found,in considerable numbers in Mr* Turner’s crop of icorn, According to authorities the worin hatches out in June and< the follow­ ing summer months. The -eggs are laid by a certain kind, of ?moth m April. Warm wet. weather- batches - out the eggs. I t is said they travel only to the south or east, and inever - go north or west. < , , ' r It is a conservative estimate: that the worm, had by Tuesday nigbtrde- stroyed two-thirds of a - ’barley crop th a t would-make a t least- fifty^btehels • per acre'on- the- -Turner.. farm /j.M r. Turner expected to cut toe 'crop-with a binder 'and. take hi* chance on sav- . ing some of- the grain with' faVorable weather. ‘ The same worm was working on toe';. Ralph Townsley farm in-both* barley and wheat. Tho Pe*t was ? reported also on hthe Arnet-Gordon, farm, as well as on the Robert MacGregor crop of barley. This farm hMoutojof town and no where, near the 'other farpis. While Hall farm near Yellow Springs is also infested ’as well as a-number , of farms in Bath township. These sections, had the poet a week,before it was. discovered m this.'sectictfi: ',, - Others in "this section reported a* - Imyteg-toe p te t are Robert- Evans ‘5 where army worms are eatingi off the ;- head* of his timothy crop, A‘ few have been found to'his com. Fvridc' Creswell has a field of barley badly. ’ damaged and the worms are eating toe blades off the ,,, wheat. Heryey Bailey states that his pasture1 has been damaged with the -worms and there are no doubt others who face this hew pest,. Where the .worms will go upon har­ vesting oither barley or wheat and' will the farm be infested next year, . ate questions farmers are trying [to have answered. Information is that If we have a severe winter the worms that hibernate in the ground will be destroyed. County Agent Drake advises scat­ tering poisoned bait -for the worms to feed, on as they , come out of the ground in the' evening. His sugges­ tion; wheat bran ^20 pounds, Pari* .. Green, 1 pound; cheap molasses, 2 , quarts; water, 216 gallons. Mix: tho poison “and bran. Dissolve toe mo­ lasses in the water. Then pour oyer the bran mix and stir until the moist­ ened mixture will scatter w ith 1the faiands. The formula should cover from three, and one-half to four acres if-applied thinly. It can also be used to scatter around a field fo r protection of other crops. With the Worms destroying, ten. or ifior* acres a day it is no t long ontiJL the average crop is beyond salvage whether it id barley, wheat or rye. I t is claimed the worm wilt not harm corn of knee high size. I t bores down- % ward into the heart of the com. G. A R . Meets In Columbus The Ohio G, A< fe. annual encamp­ ment was held in Columbus th is Week in connection with the Woman’* Re­ lief Corp*- Only seven of the com­ rades were able to march in the. parade while twenty-nine rode in car* behind, The parade was only Broad and High to the reviewing stand a t the north entrance o f to* state home. What a contrast to twenty-five yjeara agq When several thousand' Wearing the blue marShed with quiek Stop to martial music, /* Fine Hereford :; RoMers Killed -: 'Thro* head o f fin* blooded Beroferd heifer* belonging to R. A. MurdecR. w ife 'killed by a Eenovyivatoa fN n ' sometime Wednesday night, Tb* animal* had been in a paatur* I . the railroad end strayed to to* tiw ite, ’ Th* weight o feaeh was . t e t e t o i i '# 80Q pound*. Mr. Murdock pteto* a nttmhfer of to <tm Hsreford* -feteI fe r foundatioa storie* $