The Cedarville Herald, Volume 71, Numbers 27-52

• -fswTvmF*?" ? ■ $V.iday. ‘August £>'-1948 The Cedarville, 0 . Herald The Cedarville Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second -class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under Act o f Congress o f March 1879. Member—National Editorial As­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valley Press As­ sociation. Editorial turn to the third party than that Rexford Tngwell had a big hand in drafting its policies. An editorial says that Mexico wants more o f our dollars. But why single out Mexivo ? Some concrete will float. m B- f SundaySA m ? 8 81$ 'W M EW m ?% i. SCBIPTCEJGt Jaxwaliti IS: 1—SS; IS. DEVOTIOXAI. BEADIXQ; Mxfbre Ebed-Melech, The Ethiopian Lesson for August 8,1948 HIS MAJESTY, MR. HOG Hogs sold the other day fo r over §30 per hundred. Many a Greene county farmer can recall selling them fo r one-tenth that j ead on to verse 18 in the 30th price. True, the costs o f produc- chapter. This interesting story re- A RE you ready for a real story? Then turn to Jeremiah 38, and ing a §30 hog runs into astronom­ ical figures, while the §3 hog had to root for himself or die, which at S3 he couldn’t afford toi Driv­ ing 72 as we do between our two towns we pass m. lot o f 530 hogs, some of the world’s finest, like around “Doc” Evans’. In the pres­ ence of a 530 hog we feel an urge to bow down and worship* . and pray, after this fashion, “ Oh, Mr. Hog. come down a bit so we can afford a mess of pork chops. Amen.” Dr. Newton AX AGE-OLD DEMAND “ Israel Demands New Terri toiies,” says a newspaper head- ^ ______ __ line. That headline could very was> obviously, a most honorable service to all races. there is the iron-horse fair. The railroads are showing o ff new r p H E A nes: story c f Ebcd-melech’s kind­ s to Jeremiah lifts to en- models and new ideas. The C&O nobling example the act of a slave has its contemplated 150-mile-an- 0Q behalf of freedom. Tee world’ s hour train on exhibition, and GM benefactors are those who under* its “ Train- o f Tomorrow*.” Gad- 5 ^ 3 freedom, and cast themselves ge.s, contorts, ideas, notions, jji utter self-forgetfulness into the plans concents and “ all that strugle for righ, —gainst wrong, stuff” are in the exhibit along TOat had Jeremiah dcce to re. with new trains and old trains treatment? He and adding up to a picture of i * , ,, j V, V railroads as Vas, is and will be. * ad d^Uvered God's message to A lot o f peonle will go to see it. Pe°P^e °* Jerusalem, warning * them that the city would be taken OUR BIG MUSCLE by the Chaldeans, and how they It is a boy’s trick to roll up his might escape destruction. Jeremiah sleeve _and show his adversary was proclaiming freedom — not al- how big his muscle is. A ll you ways a popular course. For this ef- who know school play-ground fort to he]p the people, he was tactics know about this. The bully thrown into the muddy dungeon, struts arounu. Tne not-to-ne- >pbt3 servant of the king was the cowed hoys meets him with a only man to Jerusalem who under- rolled-up sleeve and a bulging d ^ Jeremiah, muscle on display. *So we-send alzplanes into Berlin to show the * * * bully, by golly, we got a big A FRIEND INDEED muscle! jT"i RANTED permission from the t _ V J king to-rescue Jeremiah, Ebed- 1 ” LYNCHING ? _ , melech devised prompt methods of If Webster knows what the letting down old pieces of rope and word means we nave more lynch- rags> telling Jeremiah how to mS, ^01J‘S °.n ™ 0Ur.r1lIlvUst? ^ fasten them under his arms, and T - f ^ the with the aid of thirty men drew south ever had in all its history. h- m mire, and brought Just who is guilty o f lynching “ ! 7 . , .U • £ parties? Lawless moos, Web- 131x11 M o court o i vnson- ster calls them. Pick up your then God spoke words of newspaper and check o ff the law- great reward to Jeremiah on behalf less-mob items you find in it. of Ebed-melech. “ But I will de- surprised ? What about the presi- liver thee in that day, saith the dent taking a hand at all kinds Lord; and thou shalt not he given o f lynching ? Into the hand of the men of whom thou, art afraid. For I will surely SAME WITH OTHER FOLKS It is being pointed out that ^ the wax figures o f Stalin and ****** Truman in Paris show a marked ,a ^ ee« because thou resemblance to the former but a » as\ trust in me, saith the poor conception o f how the latter looks. By next January Truman ___ * * * will look like that even to the WHO SIDES WITH GOD home folk in Missouri! T7 BED-MET.F.CH’S noble ministry * t o d w t im v n T t o Jeremiah lifts up a banner THREE-WAY CHOICE for every true follower of the Lord. Dixiecrats are lamenting that ^ ,0 sliJes wilh ctod must alwa the favorite in the Philadelphia win. ^ a e lessoa of lessoIL convention, _ Richard R u s s e l l , ^re should never have known about wasn’t nominated as candidate fo r the presidency. In that ense the “ * * " "Who sidss wish Codmuss alwayswin, No comaSo. him is lost." • • • (Copyright i>7 the International Council of Religious Education an behaU of 40 Protestant denominations. Released br WNUFeaimesj 1 Soda! People southerners would have had as their choice Tom, Dick or Harry. HCL WILL STAY UP With . . h i g h e r wages being granted'throughout all industry, and increased freight and pass­ enger fares and rates on the railroads, and pay rolls every­ where higher, the high cost o f living will' not go down. It can’t. A man got a divorce the other ^ seems clear to me that God day because his wife had nagged designed* us to live in society— him 55 years. A feller can stand I«st as He has given the bees the a thing only so long! “ GOR hopes to gain 30. more seats in the house.” - News .item. There’s too much settin’ ’round in the house as it is. All the seats ought to be taken, out. let ’ s explore oh ® CDOR tesy -T hestandard oil, CO. (OHIO) HAMILTON F5.W1 - sxr* *wv veals a hero, Ebed- melech, b y name, which m ean s “ the king’s slave,** This may have been bis official' title rather than h is p ersona l name. Anyway, he is the- hero o f car story, and a very admira­ ble here, indeed. He was a Negro, and Ethiopian eu­ nuch; in charge of the king’s chambers. Zebekiah, as the story reveals, held Ebed-melech in high esteem. He man. How he had coma to know correctlv he run over a score of Old Testament stories-tales o f Jeremiah> ^ to esteem hiia s0 wars, or conquests, battles and . . . . , ’ „ campaigns. Open the Book almost hi^ - s +.a fc‘ - **®fi* J ? any place in its front section and coDtemplation. The deveticnal read- yau can put your finger on Israel Matffiew -a.31-46, c,,e .s final demanding1 move territory. The opinion on the vaiue of Ebea* ancient tale is a sort of serial melech’s ministry to Jeremiah. The account of victories, losses, vie- golden text, “ As we have therefore tors and vanquished—all adding opportunity, let us da good unto all up to a people without a coun- men,” Galatians 6:59. try, many times in bondage to * * * other nations, and often in a JEREMIAH’S FRIEND condition as hopeless as it was -»-\ BED-MELECH was Jeremiah’s helpless. “New territories^ have ^^<1 . When he saw what the never been the answer to tne prjjjCe3 jjad dcne to Jeremiah, he quest o f a nation fo r continued went io ^ ^ ^ him to stauiutj. allow him to draw Jeremiah out of OLD STUFF the mire in the dark dungeon. He Said a veteran Greene county knew that Jeremiah would scon die resident, who says he has voted in this awful place, and Ehed- since 1896: “ This ‘ Progressive melech risked his life in making the party’ idea is mighty old stuff, request to rescue Jeremiah. The It won’t get anywhere, and will wonder is that the princes had not only lead a lot o f good folks a- ordered Ebed-melech slain. Evi- stray. I’ve seen a succession o f dently, they recognized the hand of such movements in 50 years; God. they are all alike.. . it's old stuff.” Like as this Negro servant in the Many another older person, who Jong ago served God by rendering like this veteran citizen has seen kindness to a man of another race, parties and platforms and re- so xnay we today serve God and formers come and go, will join civilization by good wilt and kindly in the sigh. RAILROAD SHOW In Chicago, world’s fair town, FREEDOM THROUGH A SLAVE Despite the fact that he was the most portly, President iA our Ration's history—he weighed 340 pounds—William Howard Taft’s favorite pastimes were g o lf and long walks. Born In 1857 in Cincinnati, he Studied at Yale and Cincinnati Law School and his first job was law reporter for the Cincinnati Times. From the age o f thirty, he-was almost constantly in public office and was the only man to hold the two highest offices in the land— President o f the United States and Chief Justice o f the Supreme Court. The latter was a post he coveted far more than the Presi­ dency, Seventh Ohioan to be elected to the office, Taft was inaugurated the twenty-seventh President on March 4, 1909. He served only one term. In 1921. he was named Chief WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Justice by another Ohio President** Warren G, Harding. It was a position that fitted his qualifica­ tions, as he had been Kent Pro­ fessor o f Law at Yale; first Gov­ ernor o f the Philippine Islands; Dean of the Law Department, University o f Cincinnati; Secretary o f War under Theodore Roosevelt and his entire life’s ambition had been along legal lines. He died in Washington, D. C„ On March 8, J930, at the age of 72. Today, there are carbon copies o f more than one million letters which he wrote while in office, filed for posterity In the Library o f Congress. Th is vast corre­ spondence is chiefly because in his administration typewritten letters became commonplace. Added to the letters are diaries numbering more than 15,000 pages Of single­ spaced typing! How times have changed from the days o f Washington—who wrote less than 20,000 letters in his entire career; and from the days o f President Grant, who kept copies of only a very few of his outgoing letters and who tossed A t theGourthouse Divorces Filed Mrs, Mary Pearl Sheley, Jamestown, charges her husband, Warren Delbert, near James­ town, with neglect and cruelty. They were married Aug, 8, 1908 at Wilmington, In a second suit, she seeks partition o f their joint­ ly-owned property in Sllvercreek township. , Ruth Dice charged neglect and cruelty in asking her freedom from Paul .H.» 44 south Columbus street Xenia. She requests cus­ tody o f their two daughters, aged IQ years and 18 months.« Hazel Miller is plaintiff in the third divorce case, charging Del­ bert, 164 Hill street, Xenia with cruelty. They were married in this city Oct. 10, 1941 and are parents of two children, both boys aged 2 years and 11 months.. The mother seeks a court order award­ ing her their custody. Mrs. Nina Jo Kuntz, Thomas Trailer Court, Osborn, claims cruelty and neglect on the part of her husband, James Gerald, ' Skyway Lodge, Osborn. They were married in Clovis, N. M., on April 21, 1946. Leila HalL.24 Brook road, Fair- field, against Samuel L., same ad­ dress; cruelty as grounds; mar­ ried Dec. 24, 1947 at Dayton; plaintiff requests return of her maiden name, Cox. Lydia M. Riggs, Osborn, R. R. 1, against Claude C., 701 east First street, Dayton; neglect; married June 14, 1947 at Dayton; plaintiff seeks restoration o f her former name, Boomer. Norma Stage, Dayton, R. R. 8, against Rexford, Dayton, R. R. 8; neglect and crueltv. married July 14, 1947 at Covington, Ky.; restoration of maiden name of Donley sought. Paul J. Wright, Alpha, against Margaret Mae, Alpha; cruelty; married April 5, 1942. honey; and as our social system could not subsist without the sense of justice and injustice. He has given us the power to acquire that sense. —Voltaire. Dto# Creator wouM , never have -made suck-lovely days, and have They say Trntnan w ill keepiemM8i T » us tfie “deejfcR&Srts to enjoy talking about a. ^recession. I t thsm, above xcA beypod’aR.thpught;. seems that the secession would unlesr we wer^fneaat to, concern him more. mortal—HawtKbinfc. ' There are . lot o f people in m . I this ‘country who don’ t need any- filing more to stir their opposi- FP. 8es3‘— « A N AM E T H A T STANDS FOR GOOD FURNITURE b u d g e t p l a n A V A IL A B L E ADAIR’S Rufus Miller, Fairfield, against Goldie W., address unknown to him; wilful absence and neglect; married Sept: 28*, 1926 at Hazard, Ky.. parents o f' one child, now 20 years old. Betty J. Brickel, charges Wil­ lard J. Brickel, Xenia R. R. 1, with cruelty and asks for custody of their two children. The couple was married Dec. 12, 1938. In a second suit filed against her husband, Mrs. Brickel asks fo r partition of seven lots in Xenia in which the defendant has an undivided half-interest. The Home Federal Savings and Loau association, Xenia, is named co­ defendant as it has a $2,000 mort-1 gage on the real estate, Billie Knox, Spring Valley, R. R. 1, against Albert H., Mechan- icsburg, R. R. 2, neglect, cruelty and adultery charges; custody of a child by her former marriage' asked by plaintiff;. couple mar­ ried inHavanna, 111., Nov. 11, 1944. Catherine E. Monger against Roily H., Jamestown; neglect; married at Jamestown March 29, 1935; plaintiff seeks restoration to former name o f Haggard. Ask Damages -- An accident at the intersection *of the Old Town-Clifton pike and V E N E T I A N B L I N D S Tailored and Inside Fittings ENSIGN’S DECORATORS Shade and Venetian Blind Co. 21N. Fountain A re. Ph. 3-7932 Springfield, Ohio Mi incoming ones into the waste* basket a fte r , he had read and answered^,them. >- The,' Taft House MuseUrft in Cincinnati, at 316. Pike Street, features a rare collection of watches^ o f unusual shapes and sizes made - in the 16th to 18th century, .<Here, too, are portraits of. all the Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover and the world-renowned murals' created by Roberts Dun- canson. -While,ia.Cincinnati, many visit the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Walnut Hills, where much of the themq o f Uncle Tom’s Cabin was developed. Seventeen miles to the west, along- the majestic reaches of the Ohio River, is;tbe impressive tomb of President William Henry Har­ rison, first Ohioan elected to the high office. To the-east and north­ east are the. historic earthworks and mounds of the pre-Indian Mound Builders of Ohio, dotted about Hillsdale and Chijlicothe. * * * (Another story o f the lives o f Ohio Presidents will appear in Qn early issue, Waioh for it.) Yellow Springs-Cedarville pike, two miles south of Yellow Springs last Nov. 15, is the basis for a $1,000 damage suit filed in com­ mon pleas court by Arthur Robin­ son against Edward Geis, Cedar­ ville, R. R. 1, and Russell A . Bradley, 502 Livermore street, Yellow Springs. Robinson says he was a pas­ senger in a taxi owned by Brad­ ley, Yellow Springs police chief, when the cab andsgeis’ auto be­ came involved _in the traffic mis­ hap. He charges negligence of both men was responsible for his own injury, 1requiring confine­ ment in his home under a physi­ cian’s care. Divorces Granted Neglect was grounds for di­ vorces awarded a wife and a hus­ band. Esther E. Sherer won her . suit against Everett F. and Har­ old Goetz was given a decree from Shirley Fiest. Freda Norris was awarded a di- . t vorde i f torn.:.Clr.re.vOit.neglect and eruelty charges ;-'b£aihtIff restored to Jnaiden name of Covert; Waneta Mae Sparrow was awarded her freedom from Mil- ton G., on cruelty grounds and restored to her former name of Slagle. Partition Sought Kenneth Ringer, Xenia, named William Ringer, Mabel R. Ellis and Robert Ringer defendants in a real estate partition suit .in­ volving the estate o f the late Mrs." Minnie B. Ringer, Xenia. Smith and Smith, Xenia law firm, is handling the litigation pertaining to five tracts of land, including four parcels in Xenia city and four parcels' in Xenia township. ‘ . Award 'Judgment Judgment ' fo r $190.62 was granted the American Loan and Realty company, Xenia, against "William O. and Grace Smith. Administrator Named Arnold N. .Conklin has been ap­ pointed administrator of the es­ tate of Qlda H. Williams, late of Spring Valley, under $1,000 bond by probate court. Vera M. Horner has been ap­ pointed administrator of tlie es­ tate of Jesse H. Horner, late of Yellow Springs, without bond, by probate court. Marion Mandy was named ad­ ministrator of the estate of How- ard Mandy, late o f Cedarville, un­ der $1,000 bond and County Audi­ tor James J. Curlett was ap­ pointed by the court to appraise the estate. Marcus Shoup has been cho- 'sen administrator of the estates of Anna and Charles Olhaut, late of Xenia under bonds of $2,500 and $6,000, and the court directed the county auditor to appraise the estates. Will Admitted The will of Martha S. Parill, late of Newark, O., has been ad- 112. 85 were made from .a gross value of -$85,076.16. . mitted to probate. Estate Appraised _ appraisal of the estate of Approve Appraisal ' v**'A- ' ^ amel Heinz, late of Ross town- Inventory and appraisal o f the shiP> snows a net value o f $79,- estate o f John A . McClain, late 9oo. 31 after deductions of $9,- of Xenia has been approved. 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