The Cedarville Herald, Volume 67, Numbers 1-26

8AC K thc ATTACK Americans For -America-^- America For Americans SIXTY -SEVENTH TEAK No. 14 CEDARVILLE, OHIO, FRIDAY , MARC h A 1944 PRICE, $1.50 A YEAR CONGRESSIONAL HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON By CLARENCE J. BROWN Member of Congress, iim iiiiu iim iiim iiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiia iiiiiiiiiim u tin iim iiiiiiiu M i i Seventh District Selects1Probate Judge Defies Last week was .the most momen- | COLLEGE N EW S . jj Delegates To National Republican Convention JIIIM IIIIIM lIU M IIM O IM IM U Itlim illltlM im illlllltllllltM IttM IM * The annual Bible Memory contest will be held at the United Presbyter­ ian Church, Sabbath evening at 7:30; f ^ e f h OPA On Ceiling For Farm Tractor Probate Judge C. P. McClelland, .thrown down the ROOSEVELT ORDERSDRIFT OFFARMBOYS With the farm labor situation be- Student Relief Fund. The work of the latter, is to provide books for pris- tous in Washington since the week o f ; oners of war who ■wish to pursue Pearl Harbor and th e ‘ Declaration of j their college studies, Contact is made War, It was; marke 1 Jay h new dec-, through the Red Cross and the Y. M ., laration-r-a declaration of Independ- f C, A. ence by the Congress from further domination and .dictatorial control by the Chief Executive The response from 'the American people has been one of wide-spread approval. .The over-riding of the President's veto of the 1943 Revenue Act came as the culmination and result of a growing Congressional resentment over a long series of seemingly studied Presiden­ tial disregard for the rights and pre­ rogatives of the national legislature. The .resignation of Senate Majority Leader Alben W; Barkley high-light­ ed the eventful break between the Congress and the Chief Executive The repercussions from last week may be- so great as to stop the fourth term , drive and bring.an end to the New Deal. Members o f the Republican con- o ’clock. The net offering will be di- j t™1,n« committefs >n the ,mae conn- ( Columbus has vided between the' Ladies* Advisory *l,OS coniPnsinL' the Seventh Congress ; gauntlet to the New Deal and the O f-. Board of the C o l l e g e theWorld ional District’ ^ ™ day eveHin« a t fic c ° f Price Administration, op legal! the home of Miss Margaret Baker, i grounds to set a ceiling price on farm j coming more aceute this summer than Republican District Committee W o ->tractors where the machine is sold to '■ jas^ fgj, farmers in the central states man. Delegates and alternates to the j settle an estate. The Ohio law that it was shocking news when farmers Republican National convention were controls estates makes it mandatory Saturday that Roosevelthad or- chosen. The committees followed the' for real and personal property to be •.dcriid a rechecking fo r farm boys de- \ wishes of the Brickcr Campaign com- Isold to the highest bidder in an'open ferred for farm work and that boys J nvittee in .making-the selections. The Imarket. The Judge is so certain of between the ages of 18"to 26 be draft- ' A drive is being made for.unmarked ' del°Kates are Congressman Clarence , his ground that Jie challenges the ed forwar service unless it could be text booksby the Y. W. C. A. of the ,L Br" w" ' Bl»ilcheater, and Raymond New Deal to test his case in tho high- shown that they were essential to college for use by our bovs who are ! **9w#.rd'. Lo'ndon,- president o f the .-er courts. ■ -f'produce a certain amount .of food on prisoners in Axis enemy "camps. If . 0,lio Newspaper Association. The al- i Numerous bidders wanted a.tractor; the ration point basis. you have such books bring them to the, church Sabbath night, or call Y. W, C. A., president,. Miss Margaret Stormont, or the College office. Such, hooks relieve the awful condition of nothing to do. Will you help? ;.termites selected were: R, E. Leroy, ithat was sold at public sale Saturday I Franklin, and Karlh Bull, Cedarvilie. on the farm o f the late Robert D. ! The delegates were, pledged to Gov. j Rugg, Franklin county. The tractor i John W..Brickcr as a candidate for |was sold under the Roosevelt-Stalin President at the convention heads cif all auetioners in the Collier’s reports'that the total num­ ber o f prisoners o f war held by the Allies is ,7.000,000. Only about 5,000 of these are Japs.. According to draft officials the or­ der just issued will call for between. 46,000 and 61,000 boys. Organized . —, , i , , , , . . •. labor has been demanding the draft in Clu- order such as has been hung over the ; . . , . .-. ..:. . T • • ! l * ■ ... „ •• . • of more -farm boys -for the war effort cago in June-. The names will appear | -o f m coun­ try holding them .criminally liable for sales over the ceiling price. on the primary election ballot. Katie B. Nisbet Died In In Dayton, Saturday I , Guy E. Dowdy, labor director, of j Ohio State University’s, extension de- , . j partment says there is a shortage of: The tractor was sold at the ceiling 2,500 - fuu.time> year-’round men in i price of $634 after 58 bidders, all will-.1Ohio now ' f ing to pay more than the ceiling price as the tractor was worth., more, put ! “ The ■majority of thd fnVmers are For eleven long years Mr. Roose­ velt has exercised an arrogant and al­ most complete control over the Con­ gress of the United States. Only in one or, two instances had he failed to j. tions. have his way. During the earlier days of the New Deal thq^ hationai legislature was a subservient rubber ’ stamp for the President, despite the- efforts of a militant Republican min- ■The college office last week receiv­ ed a 12x16 envelope from OPA. In it were 107 pieces of literature totaling 11,423' square inches of paper., Pur­ pose was t»i explain tokens and to campaign against the black market. These communications arc an every day oceurance at educational i-nstitu-' Such procedure docs not with the cry to conserve; pa- ,, • . .. . patriotic” he said and willing to serve their names on slips of paper in a h a t , ■ - <m the Army, but in the final.analysis it narrows down to one thing: 'Are in square oer. President Vayhinger was the guest preacher for the Jamestown United ority to prevent executive domination I Presbyterian Church last .Sabbath. Later, wher, Miss Katie B. Nisbet, 65, died in Dayton, Saturday. following a long illness. She was the daughter of J. Ifarvey and Isabelle Nisbet, and is survived by three brothers, Charles, of Loveland; Edward of Indianapolis, ‘ $1,500 privately Ind., and J. Eme.rscon ,city editor of | Farmers know the Dayton Daily News. The funeral how to cbeat even ^Roosevelt dicta- 1° f Canning VeK°tables- Coni- wheat- was held from ,the McMillan Funeral toria, rule. In this <ase it is said a ; potatoes, soy beans and grass crops Home, Monday afternoon, the service number of farmers had friends put in , can targely be. handled by machinery being in charge o f. Dr. F. A. Jurkat, thejr names ag bidders and jf one } PlnntlnS lhl'oaSh harvest, assisted by Dr. W. R. McChesney. of tbem had his namfe drawn he would ' Burial took place in Massies Creek tbe tractor tfnd rpvnoteiY r------------- —---- l-hisr-noighborpT:ousin- fr.om which.a small boy drew the! name of the lucky purchaser. It was said the tractor was worth $1,000 and there were .plenty of bidders ready to ' pay that amount, One'bidder offered something about they more useful, producing food or the Army.” . The present outlook for farm crops —if given decent growing -weather-— is good, he sa’id, with 'the exception of Congressional .action, the party membership in- the House .became more balanced, a coalition of .conservative, Democrats' and Republi­ cans were able to’ prevent further u- surpation of- power by the Chief Ex­ ecutive. When he failed to get his ' way the President became quite crit­ ica l-o f the Congress.. . His messages to the legislative bodies' became sharp and bitter.; They seemingly fitted in with the well developed movement 'to smear and- destroy, the legislative branch of the government. Member.' of both the House and Senate grew resentful of the unwarranted attacks being made against tbem. The final straw fell last week when the Presi­ dent, in his veto .message relative jo the Revenue Act, openly questioned the integrity of every.member of Congress. Cold'fury swept /through the-.halls and cloakrooms of the Capi-’ tol. Democrats and Republican? quickly joined forces ' to •protect the j was, “ God •rightful place of the Congress as one j waits.” of the coordinate branches-of the gov-j ernment. As a result American rep-j Bible lovers Dr. W. R. McChesney will.preach for them next Sabbath. 1 • It is learned from a copyrighted ar­ ticle in Tiinh; via Reader’s Digest, .that the Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of Russia has been permitted to open-a church seminaryi fo r 1 educa­ tion of-young priests. For the first time since the! 1917 revolution;the Bible is being printed. These changes’ are due to a census taken in 1937 that revealed that a third of-the people in the cities and two-thirds of the peas­ ants- “ stood up and were counted” as Christians. Uncle Joe Stalin, No. .! Auto License Plates Went On Sale Wed. ( But canning vegetables require help . .. .. ; which is not now in sight, turn it over to ■ b r friend1 This b met with a croup of cannei-s this was regarded legal by the- OPA, iii 1^ e k , ,•he said, ‘ and was told that fact anything illegal or crooked is re- j ^ai'm^rs art? >not interested, in the garded fair and honest under a die-1S,'9'v' ,’ £ ° f beans, tomatoes, swee't tatorial government. ' j corn, peas and the canning Judge NcClellan cannot-'see .the • License plates for 1944, ,.,„w erals on a - blue background, were put on sale. Wednesday all over the state even cucumbers for trade this year because ■j they fear they will. be unable to get wHite nn- honesty or fairness in requiring the . , ^ „ wmie nu-n •?,- ; ... .. ; ,, help to harvest the crop.’- state s legal representative to sell an j , : - article for less than •its value when I • -. •• ~ . 1 BOYLAND TRAIL § . .B y Fred F. Marshall/ (Continued from 'last week) “Happy Bert”, the famed itenerant veutailoquist who used to provide the lioiim folks with- an early, version o f Charley McCarty, often showed there (Ervin’s Hall) between frequent swigs of the bottle placed in a con­ venient' cache in the stage fjy. Here was shown the first moving pictures by ;(he Puffer-McFarland combine and With tlie added attraction of il­ lustrated songs with Woodbridge Us- t'ick as soloist. This show later went “ Entour”, with Will Marshall acting as advance agent. In this same hall the considerable local following of Dr. Dowie, once heralded as “ Elijah II” , and founder of Zion City; 111., held, meetings and started local folk witli an unorthodox greeting “ Peace to thee!” It was fully expected that the ready response of “ Peace to thee be multi­ plied”, should .be sounded off without note book reference and With casual nonchalance. This ' once flourishing sect accepted Bible teachings in its very literal form and lay claim to many deyine healings. Pork-was re­ garded as unclean and of the Devil himself. The story went about1 that Dr. Dowie sent a message- to his local' flock to “ sell” ,all of their hogs at once on threat of being thrown out of the church. Where now stands the opera house, we would ., find a ’ rambling frame structure with a porch fronting on Main and the southwest. This was a famous hostelry known as the Crain House, conducted by Johnnie Crain, who also served as. town marshal. In of the vehicle. Home made tags for the front of the car will not be per­ mitted. The new tags must be displayed on and after April 1 .-Donate your old ,, tags.wheTi'orderihg.your'newone'for- realist, knowing ‘facts ii.ro stubborn ^ scrap drivp_' things,” has disbanded the League of the Militant Godless. Patriarch of the revived church is 70. years old Sergei, former Metropolitan, of Mos­ cow. Governments come and go, but man’s need for religion is eternal. Once Sergei's Christmas n sits in the corner Tags are sold locally as in former years. at Pickerings that day evet’i this prqniinent conier did.hot boast a paved sidewalk and gbt along with a weed grown, gravel path. In act., a-great deal ' of the Main street sidewalk, was either plain, good packed ..'garth, - or ■.rough stone, slabs with an' occasional strip, of brick sadly bulged and distorted py three roots. The present' bank corner, then yenient seats for these ambier spitt- site of the, Mac Bull and Will Spen­ cer grocery. ,Overhead was the G.A, R. -hall, well peopled in .that day with scores o f grizzled veterans who der and, on his court order and he is-j by Cedarvilie College students will he would never be seen abroad without sues a challenge ta any OPA officer |held' at ' the United Presbyterian iheir UnionBlues and brass buttons, to test his order in any court. I church next Sabbath evening dt 7:30 In front ofthe grocery .wererows of Farmers molested by such orders ! o'clock, . ’ • ' j splint, bread baskets, providing con- wht-n a sale isHadvertised should get j r.ontestants are the Misses. Gloria ! vc'nlt'nt scats5 i‘or these ambier spitt- an injunction against the OPA screw- J ^Ms.-Flofenee BoW(>i-s, .Jfniura Jeaiine |-lnbr vets. Here,with those who would ball. The farmer can auction his own Ic ox, Betmiee Dess, Claire Stormont, 1,,ftt M>*cof the tales, these valliant tractor-or implement and sell his own *and Mei-srs. George W. Davis and I WB.fr'ersw°uld again storm“ Chick- property for what the highest;bidder 1(Jordon R. Taylor. The selections in- Iumaugy"- and. Lookout .Mountain in This year you will get but one tag |°fhcrs are willing t,o pay more. T ^ '| 3 l b l 6 'M d l l O r y G o i l t P S t to a ear, to be displayed in the rear same rule applies to every owner who, 1is-required to sell under such a 'rule. I Sabbath Eve., Mch. 5 Judge McClellan cannot see the tractor resold and to the highest bid- The annual' Bible Memory Contest MOTHER-BABE ARECREMATED INHOMEFIRE A tragic death met a young moth­ er of 26 years and her 14 month old son, when both were burned to death and their home and contents consum­ ed at an early morning fire Tuesday.. The victims were Mrs. Ada Nancy Williams Acton, 26, and her 14 month old son, Jesse Earl. Both lost their lives when the mother used coal oil m a five gallon can to start a fire in the kitchen. ' The mother was envel­ oped in flames and drenched in oil as tiie can exploded, The home was lo­ cated on the Xenia'pike west, of town in what-is known as “Bakertown” . The husband was in another room' when the explosion took place. He did what he could to rescue his wife but the fire drove him back but hot'until he suffered burns on his hands and limbs but nothing serious. - Seeing the home was in .flames he rushed out and went to a bedroom window. Breaking it but he rescued liis daughter; Anna Mae, aged 5, and Miss Ruth Williams, 15, sister of Mrs. Acton.., The latter ‘was badly burned qn the face, head and back-and she was rushed to the McClellan Hospital after first aid treatment. -.- Her con- ' dition' is still regarded as serious. ' Myron Williamson, a neighbor was the first to arrive but there was lit­ tle lie'could.do as the entire house was in flapies. Mr. Acton and daughter were ^treated for burns at the home o f —■ Ernest Williams, a brother of Mrs. Acton, by Dr. Donald Kyle. . ~Tlie charred bodies of the mother ,and daughter: were removed after the fire died down. They, were taken to the Nagloy. Funeral Home, Xenia. • Funeral services for the-mother and son were held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr. M. C. Nagley. Burial in North Cemetery. but ■ Top Hampshire Sow T iv in -tra - t / i Q A ''A f A i will\pay- Not 80 long ago -a farmer in i c.iudi; uij 0r part, of the following | O r i n f e S ip 4 0 y A l A U t U U l l a neighboring county, refused to take i-chapters: 1 Corlnthi iling price on c b m ‘by the btishel, j 'isaiab 53,- Luke T5, ■ihe resenative government has established. • been re- No one questions the. right o f the President to veto a tax bill, illtho this is the -first general revenue measure in American history to meet a Presi- dentiarveto; ^Birtrwherrthe-President- in'vetoing a, tax bill questions the honesty and integrity of the member­ ship o f ' Congress, and demands they enact taxes and pass legislation just, exactly as he prescribes, even tho the Constitution specifically fixes in the.! Congress the authority for levying taxes, he goes too far will want to . see the exhibit of Bibles at the -Bible. Mei Kiry- Contest next Sunday ljighV. Copies, of the Uulgate, King James, and the Polyglot and other editions will be on display; Also a, copy of, the smallest Bible in the world. Dr. Jurkat,.will be in charge. ■ The Hampshire sale of bred sows at the Chester Folck farm, Fridayf brought an average price of $1.16.80 fot the fifty head sold. The top price was. $460. for a sow consigned by. Frank Rudrick, Butler, 0>, which was purchased by - Robert Johnson of 'Bloomingsburg. O. The sow -was bred to . Cedarvilie' Commander of Ferndale I’ aqms and is due to farrow - March 2..---------------------!_______ _______ Local Automobile Is ! Damaged By Fire ^ POLICE COURT NEWS 1. C. Davis suffered dam*age to the ( nmouht of $50 to the interior of his In the House j automobile While parked at Main and , the fight to over-ride the*Presidential \ Detroit sts, Xenia, Monday afternoon, veto was lead by eighty-year old R. i The fire was discovered by a pnsser- . Mayor Abels assessed a $10 fine and costs on Silas Burnett for drunk and disorderly . Five Xenia boys came into town to celebrate and drunk and disorderly J charges were placed against them.' .sing-song of lorig rehearsal as ans 13,' John 1 '! -. ■ • • tlfe year ’63, on the fifjh Ps'Alm, 90 Matt-I '1ay of-Aperil.c, in the mornin’ airly,' The corn was in open pens and sold j iicw 7, and Psalm 19', The orchestra j tbot>fUty.-sixth Ohio of which me apd by the bin, regardless of the number | ef the Presbyterian Sunday School j-Gm’ralSammy of-bushels. The corn brought an dv- j \vjj-] fumi.sh special musical numbers ] erage o f -$1.30 a bushel, just about I under 'the "leadership of. Prof. Charles : what corn was selling for -amopg far­ mers, regardless of the'ceiling. There is no law against such sales. The or­ der is issued by a bureau of crack­ pots operating under .orders issued as if this were Germany, Italy or Russia. - 1' GOP Delegates Named For State Convention Six delegates and six alternates have been named to represent Greene 1county at the Republican convention in Columbus this summer at a date L. Doughton of North Carolina, long -, by and firemen had to- break a w in -, .James Travis was minded a tine ot [ ~ " dctermined< The names wi„ time Democratic Chairman of the 1-low to extmguishthc flames as the . amlroMs .and Jack Bnttmgham ^ n the ba]lot at the primary W a y s and Means Committee. In the I car Was locked. wnt™. „„,i i..„ — a ............. . McCook wUs members etc., etc. . . , .” k-. : I Next door west from Bull’& Spen- Robinson. " ‘ 1 eci’ was the original Ben Ridgway What is the worth of the Open I store, with the next room hous- Bible in our midst? Much has been •b'g a butcher shop conducted by Frank heard of the Four Freedoms.. They do not exist except where the Open Book is in vpgue. They will not ex­ ist in-any land, America included, where the Book is closed. Payne. In later years this was tak­ en -over-by Charley Weimer, who of­ ten .resorted, td ultra modern sales stimulus-. Periodically there was of­ fered a sleek Shetland Poney, the Ah offering will he taken. What! prize to the holder of the lucky num- Will be. done With it is stated in the , her, ticket. College News Column. . 1 wo come to lho Martln Please conic to this service. Our'■Ilarher residence property, in later young folks will be encouraged by; years utilized as a restaurant. Both ,-our presence, the cause for the Open , Martin, and his son, Henry, after him Bible will-he strengthened, and the , were familiar figures.on down town standard of Christianity, thfe Cross,; streets as they were usually observed on horseback, going or coming Former G. C. Faculty Member Died Sunday DeWitt’ S.. Morgan, superintendent of the Indianapolis; Ind., schools and' former member of the factuty of Ce«v darville College,' died- Sunday morn­ ing at. 2:30 in the City Hospital. He was 53 years of age. Death was due- to hypertension from which he suf­ fered for several weeks. Dr. Morgan was known throughout the country as an outstanding leader in educatio'n and a staunch supporter of .home rule .in educational work. He had'spoken in practically every state i,n the union on educational .training. •The funeral was held Tuesday af- i ternoon with burial, -in Crown Hill' Cemetery, that city. The .service was in charge o f Rev. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyter­ ian .Church. Mr. Morgan'was a member .of the faculty of Cedarvilie .College about faculty of Cedarvilie College some years ago and'will be remembered by .older citizens. ~ upheld; Senate, Democratic Majority Leader \ Bari ey lead the way. . The House | vote was 299 for and 95 against over- J riding the veto. In the Senate the | •results were 72 for to 14 against. The loss was co fin’d to the rear scat. MRS. MAUDE HOOVEN PRL’ GH DIED' IN XENIA, SATURDAY . and liis brother, l^loy, each received - 'fine of $10 and costs. - Two 17-year |old hoys were turned over to the j Juvenile Court. I. ' ' ............. Mrs, Maude Hooven Prugh, 78, sis­ ter of Mrs. J. W. Santmyer, o f this nlace, died Friday morning after an illness of six weeks. She was born in CLAKENE BAGFOUD DIED IN SPRING VALLEY The speech of Majority .Leader Barkley made in the Senate on Wed­ nesday, in which he announced his break '^O T trrid ^ h ia 'v cto 11'vanklin. O.. but has lived most o f ; vfmia R.,ii,.oacif djed Feb. -7, dt his w'as one o f the most dramatic dml im -' ^ life in Xenia. She w«,j m jnrM j home in Spring Valley. He had been Mr, Prugh, January 18. l.)00. Be - , m for four years and seriously. j Clarenee Bagford, 60, for 38 years i a telegraph operator for the Pennsyl- 4 ter, Margaret E. at' home, and three sons, Capt. Lawrence II, Prugh, now ) at Wright Field; George H, teller at; •he Xenia National Bank, and John C,! Knoxville, Term, A brother resides in - Dayton, J. C, Hooven, and Mrs. Sa'nl- myer of this plnce, t The funeral was held Saturday a t ' the Neeld Funeral Home with burial \ in Woodland Cemetery. pressive <lclivered in the 'Capitol^ for ^ husband sh(1 lpnvcs a daugh- many years. With tear-filted eyes,, and In' a voice broken with emotion,. the Majority Leader told his eolleag-' Uea hov^ he had represented Kentucky In the Congress almost! thirty-two years—Monger t’ n- any other man in the history o f his State—eighteen years of which have bepn spent in the Senate. The Kentucky solon pointed out that for twelve years he had car­ ried on high the flag of ’Franklin I). ] Roosevelt, .during seven years of •which as Majority , Leader ho had fought the battles of the President on’ the Floor o f the Senate, often with out the support of his colleagues-, or the help of the White House. Then he dramatically charged that as his recompense he had been accused of legislating against the best interests of his state and,nation. He insisted tho President's message had chal­ lenged the integrity of every member (C ontinued O n P age P our ) appear on the ballot at election.on May 9th. Delegates are: I, R. Kneisley, Os­ born; Mayor Lowell Fess, Yellow Springs; .Thomas A. .Huston, .Sugar- creijk Twp.; Roy V. Hull, Xenia; Her­ man Ankency, Beavercreek Twp., and Claude Chitty, Bowersville. Alternates named are J. W. White- side, Spring Valley; .Ernest P. Mil- burn, and Dennis Tilford, Xenia) Chas. 1. Beaver,/ Beavercreek Twp., Clark Meredith, Miami Twp., Harry Hamman, Cedarvilie, $10,544 Relief Grant Paid To County from the farm on the Clifton road,,. On the opposite side of the street, in the Ervin-Mitcliel) block’ and just west i f the hall entrance we find a room which persistently flaunted its strip­ ed (Barber polo for more than a gen- Greene county receives a grant of oration. Fifty years ago, Bally Pet- $10,511 as its share of the public util- i tifowUl held undisputed claim to a ity*- taxes that were a sessed during •goodly 'clicjnlle who would vouch for the days of relief. The amount will t his ability in .doing battle with a i'Ctli'e the last of the relief bonds un- Iweek’s stuhble growth, or .bis adroit •lor Uie Carey act. A previous pay-j handicraft in hirsute styling from First School Funds Are Allocated ;.ill since last September. He retired i from his position three years ago, . Surviving are the widow, formerly 1Cni'rie Jensen,' whom lie. ’ married on l July 7, 190!), and oiie son, Carl Bag- ford of this place. ' i The'deceased was a member of the *Friends Church, Jr, O, U A, M., New Burlington Masonic Lodge, and East- i era Star, The funeral was-held from OPEKASIT TO MANAGE 2.089 ACRE KROGER FARM ! the Spring Valley Friend’s Church Iwith burial -in the local cemetery, Father of Local Teacher . Died Saturday Morn ment was received some amounted to $13,394, tijVie hack Ferndale Hampshire to handle r, bar” , Bally FOREST RIPLEY SALE SET FOR MONDAY, MARCH Albert Lewis, 80, father of Miss Ruth Anna Lewis, teacher in the local schools, died at his homo seven miles south' of Xenia, Saturday morning, He had been ill of heart trouble and complications the past four weeks. ,He was horn on the farm where he spent most of his life. He was n mem­ ber; of .Xenia Lodge No. 52, I. O..O.F, and Cacsarcreek Grange. He is sur- “ nibtion chop instituted the local 5. cent “ ceiling” for the fifty years ago shave and the 10-cent ceiling hair cut, Rally jjvas much perturbed by the intrusion; of , . _! Charley Smith who hailed from an Average Was $96 Head Ohio River boat-shop, a steamer -pi- Greenc county schools this week PWeived $54,991.93 as the first quar­ terly settlement of the 1944 school *■ •. .* foundation program. The following amounts were allot* ed to the school .districts: Beavercreek, $6,977.44; Caesar- crcek, $1,050.89; Cedarvilie, $4,928,- 29; Clifton, $1,107.36; Jefferson, $3,- 53(5.32; Miami, $,3,401.59; Ross, $3,- 966.19; Silvercreek, $4,733.25;, Spring Valley, $3,993.54; SugarCreck, $3,149. 66;'and Xenia, Twp, $1,547.63. Xenia City, $18,539.47. Ohio Duroc Sale Drew Big Crowd Tuesday " The annual- Duroc bred so»t sale at the Chester Folck farm, Tuesday at* traded one of the largest crowds in lotcd by his uncle, Capt. Gee, Another j the history of the sales conducted by The 'Hampshire Sale, of bred sows j shop conducted by Hooker Illff on th(5*[ the Ohio Duroc Breedej-s’ Association, at Rorndnle Farms, last. •Thursday* northwest corner -of Main . was uc-j Forty head of sows were sold at drew a good crowd and bidding was ; eepted and tolerated as a fixture hut j an •average of $100.60. The top price' The Chester F. Kroger farm of .. , . . 2 089 nefes near South Charleston,. I'Vest Ripley nn'nounces a public j v,l'rcclTby hl” w,i(low>Mrs< ^ nn,s Lou' known as the Clnvelly Stock Farm is 1snle for Monday. March 0 nt his farm [®'Ia ,10 marl'>eci now under the manageme'nf of Ope- three miles east of Springfield on ' May 29, 1889, and a daughte-r, Miss Basil Farm Co., Glendale, O. The big the National Pike. Cattle, Hogs, farm ! Ruth Anna< at hon]°' |?c, was,ih.c ,ast herd of purebred regisfered Hereford mnehinery -and feed to be sold. Imember of his immediate fnfnily. cattle will be moved to another K ro -~ ' Jack Kuray will sell at public sale] The funeral was hold from the farm near Madeira, O, It is pro- on Wednesday, March 8th when cat- Neeld Funeral Home, Xenia; Tuesday active. The forty head ■brought an average of $96 a head and the high­ est priced animal was $300, The snlo was regarded as excellent and a fine lot of hogs were offered. the amicable and ambitious outsider was something else Bally was in con­ tinual trade rivalry with this up and hustling young man -from the river ’ packets. 1Through all the years, it is ' — :---------------------- ' -uii'd Bnllv never missed liis week-end j JUNIOR CLASS PLAY TO BE ' was $295. W. R. Walt of this place was-the only'.Greene county breeder having an offering in the sale and it brought $140. g e r : osed to-feed several hundred cattle /Or tho market on the Clovolly farm. tie, ho, l will he igSntn '• sold. farm implements and feed nt 2 o’clock. Burial in Woodland Gem* tcry. .- .92 OUT OF 114 SAVED Emile Finney._lower River road re­ ports a high percentage . of pig in­ crease from nine Hampshire .sows on his farm between Fob. 8 and hob. 22. The fnrrowinga numbered 114 and 92 saved between Feb. 8 and I'eh. 22. The largest litter was 16, the small­ est 10. The. largest litter .saved was 13 and the smallest, 8. waking journey to Yellow Springs ' j carrying . financial aid to a brother ‘ wlio persisted in a habit of chronic l solvency. Lack of vehicular transport JiMimyed Hally not one whit, and to 'him it was simply Stepping” oyer ; to Yellow Springs. I Just west of Hie Barber -residence j was -that of tho Owens family, two. j daughter's, Minnie and Lou,, the for* I (Continued on Fago Three) STAGED MARCH 16*17 lire Junior Class of Cedarvilie High School has selected "Spring. Fever” , a .three-act comedy by Ray Hedges, which they will give March 16 andl7. I( will lie -presented on successive nights by two different casts Under the direct ion o f Mrs. Hilt and Miss R ife,. Watch this paper for further announcements, J ' ‘