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Fifteenth Year-No. 18
CELINA, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1910
Weeklj One Dollar per Year.
CELI
WO PIT
Yesterday, but Attendance Was
Great, However, in Face of
Frowning Elements.
Unfinished Races Will Do Run
This Morning, Making Fine
Program To-Day.
Despite the fact that yesterday
morning opened up with threatening
weather, which later turned to a driz
zllng rain and finally, about 2 o'clock
In the afternoon, to steady down
pour, the usual big Thursday fa I
crowd fell only a few hundred admls
slons short of previous years. Had
tba day opened bright the crowd would
have been record breaker.
Tuesday and Wednesday witnessed
crowds equal to those of corresponding
days In other years.
. The exhibits In ajt departments are
very satisfactory and show no falling
In number or deterioration In thel
character.
The free attractions, which are so
necessary to round out a successful
fair, were In many particulars the best
we have ever had, and the airship gave
tone to all of It.
The yesterday afternoon races were
started on time, but only two beats of
the three harness events were run
when the rain set In.
Yesterday's Races to Be
Finished This Morning
When it was seen the rain was going
to continue Indefinitely, Starter Loeb
announced that it bad been decided to
finish the races this morning.
There are three of the events, a 2:17
trot, a 2:18 pace, and a 2:10 pace, the
latter being the fastest race of the week
and the purse the biggest. The third
heats of those three harness events and
the mile dash will be run this morn
Ing, the Brit start being scheduled for
0::iO o'clock.
These oxtras, coupled with the three
afternoon harness events the 2:23
pace, 2:33 trot and ladies' road race,
and the mile dash by the jumpers, will
make a big track day and some inter
vesting and fast contests.
The races opened Tuesday afternoon
with four interesting harness events
Cbaa. II. Loeb, of Cambridge City,
Ind., who is doing the starting this
year, got the horses away in nice style,
1 . I, 1 - r , I 1 1 .1 iw 1 nn .......... 1
occasions when he called drivers who
were hindering the get away. The
timing is being done by Thomas Dell-
inger, of Portland, Ind., J. A. Hall, of
Columbus, and C. A. Yunkes of this
city, while the judges are )r. A. D.
Gimmel and John Flanders of this city
and Starter Loeb.
The result of Tuesday's events are as
follows:
Two-year-old pace, stake ,')00
Bunna Vista, b.f., Dnglur, Richmond,
Indiana. 1
Orace 1)., 8. f., Commons, Oent(rvlIle,
Indiana 8
Mastello, b.s., Stelnard, Uma- g 8
I,Bdy Dar, b.g., J 'ay, Keymone, Ind 4
Nellie Air, Alt, Kockford 6 S
Time S:28. 2:2aM.
2:30 pace, 300
Oliver Hall, b. NIms, Bcllevuo 1 1 1
Billy Wonder, b.tr.. Commons. Oen-
tervllle ! I !
Greatest Heart, b.s., Brenner A Jew
ell, Hudson, Mloli 8
Prince Amerlcua, b.g., Staley, Bot-
8 S
klns- 4 8
A lode, b.K., Curtis, Lima 6 6 8
Metta Silver, u.ni.. Kawland, Cleve
land 7 fl 4
Big joe, .g Mrs. John KroKman 4 0 fl
Harry S., b.s.. ScliafTer, Van Wert 9 8 7
Miss Reward, b.in., Buckner, I'oneta,
Indiana 8 7 9
Time JilBJK, 2:MH. 2:1H.
County road race, 1st division
Pull, driver 1 1
Purdy. driver 8 S
Felver, driver 2 8
Jamison, driver 4 4
Plymouth, driver 6 6
Powell, driver (I 6
Best time, 2:49. ,
Second division
Snider, driver 12 1
Spry, driver 8 12
Monroe, driver 2 8 8
Hole, driver 6 4 4
PlerstorlT, driver 4-6 6
Best time, 2:40.
Wednesday's Events
Wednesday's races were all fast and
interesting events. The day's track
work ended with a county run, which
caused starter Chas. Loeb to fall in the
graces of the crowd, which for a while
threatened him with violence, because
of the miserable start he gave the
jumpers in the first heat.
Three-year-old pace, $300
Rood Dlllard. Hole. Oollna 1 1
15 in press Bond, Terrlll, Hudson, Mich.. 2 2
Masella Fulton, Miller. Osgood 8 8
Mattle Pointer, Kawland, Rochester--- dls.
Martha V. Vletmeler, Handusky dls.
Time 2:24K, 2:'7.
2:15 pace, $300
Maggie H., b.m., Reinnard.Flndlny-1 1 1
May 8tronirwood.cli.ru.. Kelley .Char
lotte, Mich 2 2 8
Black Heart, bl. a.. Snyder. West
Unity 8 8 2
Rex B.. ch. g., Farrar, Wagner, Ind.. 4 dls.
Tlme-2:18V4.2:17H. 2:17.
2:30 trot, J300
Popular Parole, b.g., HufT, New Cas
tle, Ind 1 1 1
Nancy Brown, r.m., Olds, Mt.Ollcad 2 12
High Proof, bl.g., Tlnnarn, Green-
vllle 4 8 8
Strangor, bg., Hawk, Rockford 8 4 4
Ruby Wilton, bin., Roof, Columbus.- 8 6 b
Tlme-2:24. 2:211, 2:24tt.
2:30 pace, 300
Lethe, Fletcher, b.m., Commons, Cen
tervllle, Ind 1 1 1
Lottie U.i b.m., Struble, Fredericks
town 4 2 2
Advance, bg., Maloney. Lansing,
Michigan....'. 28
Lady Bashaw, bm Vance, Green
ville 8 6 8
Dora D., r.m., Powell, Wagner, Ind-- B 8 4
Teddy Bear, lig.,,Mauk, Ney ,8 4 6
Hweetheart, bin., Dysert, Rockford-. dls.
California Belle, bm.,Tlckle, Oellna-. dig.
Adallna, sm Wilson, Troy dls.
Gov, Harmon, bg., Bailey, Median
burg dls.
Kentucky Tumbler, big., Hoagllu,
Van Wert dls.
Tlme-2:17X, 2:16X. 218.
Half-mile run, county, 75
Marcel la, Dull, Oellna 11
Lady Rathmore 8 2
Belle of Rockford, Fryslnger.Rookford- 2 8
Dolly Bush 4 4
Time 0:66, 0:62.
Or. Thed TouVelle, dentist. Office
hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bert Got Too Cay With
Harry's Proboscis Biff!
Salooulst Harry Means was arrested
last Wednesday morning on a charge
of making an assault upon Ilert llnam
the allldavlt being filed by young
lieam'i father, Silas lleatn. Mean
plead not guilty before Mayor Kenney
and was released following bearing
Thursday morning. It seems Ream
went into Means' place, reached across
the bar and gave the latter's nose a
twist for the fun of It. Then Means pu
Ilerl s optlo In mourning.
An Aged Stranger and Civil War
Veteran to Hustle Across
the Great Divide.
Had Been Drinking and Dropped
Dead in the Yunkes Saloon
at Main and Fayette.
A man believed to be Thomas fie
Vore, of Cbrlstiansburg, Miami Coun
ty, dropped dead in the Yunkes sa
loon, at the corner of Main and Fay
ette streets, shortly after 1 o'clock yes
terday afternoon.
The man was about HO years of age
and a veteran of civil war. He came
to this city last Tuesday evening and
registered at the Reservoir Hotel as
Thomas DeVore, Troy, Ohio. He in
formed people at the hotel Wednesday
morning that he had a daughter run
nlng a stand at the Fair-ground, and
had come here to see her. Wednesday
night he failed to show up at the hotel,
but yesterday morning about 7 o'clock
be reported there and stated begot lost
the night before. He stated he was
not well, and after being shown his
room went to bed. He got up shortly
after 12 o'clock, but said be wanted no
dinner. A few minutes later be got
bis satchel and said be was going to
the W. O. depot to take a car back
home.
A return ticket to Troy was found
on bis person by Coroner Uigbt, who
was called. The body was removed to
the Alspach morgue, South Main
street.
He had a partly filled whisky bottle
In bis coat pocket, and was said to
have been Intoxicated when seen short
ly before his death.
The coroner's verdict was heart fail
ure, brought on by excessive drinking,
IdentUied by His Son
Steps were immediately taken to
locate the aged man's relatives. The
chief of police at. Troy was notified,
with tb result that late last night Al
bert DeVore, a son of the deceased
man, arrived in this city and identified
the remains as those of bis father.
This morning Mr. DeVore will insti
tute a search for his sister, the daught
er whom bis father said was running a
stand at the fair here, and whom, it
seems, be came to see.
The wife of Veteran DeVore, aged 80,
survives him, but is in declining
health, and the son fears that the shock
may hasten ber death. He will leave
for borne some time this morning with
his father s remains.
Town Topics
If yon want a good lot, on the easiest
payments you ever seen, look up the
advertisement of the Celina Realty Co
on last page of this paper and get busy
Frank Zender, an employee of the
Estry and Stephenson plaining mill.
bad his left hand badly lacerated last
Monday afternoon, when he got it
caught in a pulley.
Miss Minnie Welsman, who has been
on the long distance board at the local
telephone exchange for some time past,
has resigned ber position and accepted
a clerkship in the Remaklus & Beck-
man dry goods store.
Raymond Taylor, the oldest son of
American Express Agent Newton
Taylor, had bis left leg badly wrench
ed last Friday morning, when he slipp
ed while getting on the express wagon
and his leg was caught in the front
wheel.
A valuable driving horse belonging
to Joseph Nudlng, of near Mercer,
tumbled while being driven home
from this city last Monday morning
and broke its neck In the fall. The
driver was only slightly bruised by
the fall and the vehicle was not dam-
ged.
Two strangers, giving their names
as John Sullivan and Frank Johnson
were arrested by Marshall Weber at
the Instigation of Lake Erie Detective
Al Gerdeman last Tuesday morning,
charging them with disorderly conduct
on an east bound Lake Erie train be
tween Coldwater and this city. They
were given a hearing before Justice
Raudabaugh and after being fined
were ordered to skidoo.
Peter Bacber, residing on the Mud
pike, three and a quarter miles west of
this city, was in town Monday arrang
ing for a public sale of his personal
property on Tuesday, . Sept. 6. Mr.
Bacher has purchased a farm in Cen
tral Tennessee and he and bis family
will depart for their new home as soon
as matters are closed up after the sale.
Their old neighbors will regret to see
them leave, while wishing them pros
perity and plenty of it.
Chas. Fast and Blacksmith TT E.
Totten were arrested last Friday upon
llldavits filed in Justice Raudabaugh'a
court by William Ward, charging tbem
with attempting to defraud him by sell
ing and converting to their own use a
buggy valued at 850, the property of
Ward. They were given a bearing be
fore the 'Squire, and Totten, who was
found to have bad nothing to do with
the transaction, was dismissed. Fast
was bound over to the grand Jury in
the sum of f 100.
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TbAGHeHS
EET
In Annual County Institue Next
Monday in Auditorium at
Mercelina Park.
Instructors Are Men of Wide Ex
perience and Noted As
Public Lecturers.
The annual meeting of the Mercer
County Teachers' Association will con
vene in the auditorium at Mercelina
Park, this city, next Monday morning
at 8:30 o'clock, and continue for five
days. Prof. C. L. Martzolff, of Ohio
University st Athens, and Dr. J. 1)
Ascham, of Delphos, are the instruc
tors. These are men of wide experi
ence In matters of education, and they
are very interesting and Instructive
lecturers.
Teachers are especially urged to at
tend this institute because they cannot
afford to saiss hearing these lecturers
All other public spirited people who
are interested in educational matters
are invited to attend.
The lectures are free and admission
to the auditorium is free.
Should Teachers
Foot the Bills
When School Buildings Are to
Be Erected and Improve
ments Made.
Should school teachers attend dances
and have beaux during the time they
are teaching? Should school teachers
smoke while teaching the bad ejects
of tobacco? Should school teachers
know from where comes all the reven-
us to support the schools? Should
school teachers use profane language
while holding a certificate of moral
charater? Should the teacher ask for
higher wages or wait for the board of
education to become extravagant?
Should a teacher visit the home of
pupils in a social way or only call
when some Incident of school makes
it necessary? If a school house is to
be built or repaired should the board
of education cut down the. teachers
salary and make the teachers pay for
the improvement?
How many members of the school
board are too busy to attend one or
more days at the teachers Institute?
How many teachers or board mem
bers ever thought of civic beauty
around school bouse?
Why should not a school ground
have flowers, lawn, walks, and be one
of the most attractive spot in the town
or district?
When will good wide awake citizens
give more attention to schools and
houses?
How many teachers will attend the
nstltute for the sole and only purpose
of getting ten dollars in money Instead
of ten facts about teaching?
How many teachers know that it
would be a good investment for them
selves and a good thing for the schools
if they would persaud the board mem
bers and parents to attend the teachers'
institnte?
Do you know that every citizen who
attends one or more days at the insti
tute, will be a better friend of school
and teachers?
Why not get busy? Why not do it
now.
Of People in the United States
Than to Develop the Little
Brains They Have.
By Elbert Hubbard.
It is a great thing to teach. I am
never more complimented than when
someone addresses me as "teacher."
To give yourself in a way that will
Inspire others to think, to do, to be
come what nobler ambitionl
To be a good teacher demands a good
high degree of altruism, for one must
be willing to sink self, to die as it
were that others may live.
There is something in it very much
akin to motherhood a brooding qual
ity. Every true mother realizes at
times that her children are only loaned
to her sent from God and the attri
butes of her body and mind are being
used by some power for a purpose.
The thought tends to refine the heart
of its dross, obliterate pride and make
her feel the sacredness of her office.
All good men everywhere recognize
the holiness of motherhood this mira
cle by which the race survives.
There Is a touch of pathos in the
thought that while lovers live to make
themselves necessary to each other,
the mother is working to make her
self uneoessary to her children. And
the entire object of teaching Is to ena
ble the scholar to do without his teach
ing. Graduation should take place at
the vanishing point of the teacher.
Yes, the efficient teacher has in him
much of this mother quality. Thoreau,
you remember, said genius is essen
tially feminine; If he bad teachers in
mind his remark was certainly true.
The men of much motive power are
not the best teachers the arbitrary
and imperative type, that would bend
11 minds to match its ownmay build
bridges, tunnel mountains, discover
continents and capture cities, but it
cannot teach.
In the presence of such a towering
personality feeling dies, spontaneity
roops and thought slinks away into a
corner. The brooding quality, the pa
tience that endures and the yearning
of motherhood, are all abreast. The
man is a commander, not a teacher;
and there yet remains a grave doubt
whether the warrior and ruler have not
used their influence more to make this
world a place of skulls than the abode
IRE MONEY TO
SHOOT BRAINS OUT
of happiness and prosperity. The or
ders to kill all the first born, and those
over ten years of age, were not given
by teachers.
The teacher Is the one who makes
two ideas where there was only one
before.
Just bore seems a good place to say
that we live in a very stupid old
world, round like an orange and
slightly II aliened at the poles. Th
proof of this seemingly pessimistic r
mark made by a hopeful and cheerful
man, lies In the fact that we place
small premium In elrier honor or mon
ey on the business of teaching. As in
olden times, barbers and scullion
rallied with musicians, and the Master
of the Hounds wore a bigger medu
than the Poet-Laureate so do we pay
our teachers the same as coachmen and
coal-heavers, giving them a plentiful
lack of everything but overwork.
I will never be quite willing to ad
mlt that this country Is enlightened
until we cease the Insane and pars!
monlous policy of trying to drive all n
the really strong men and women ou
of the teaching profession by putting
them on the pay-roll at one half the
rate less than that which the same
brains and energy can command else.
where. In the year of our Lord nine
teen hundred and ten, in the time o
peace, we appropriated five hundred
million dollars for war and war appli
ances, and this sum Is Just double the
cost of the entire public school of
America. It is not the necessity of
economy that dictates our actions In
this matter of education we simply
are not enlightened.
But this thing cannot always last.
Celina will play the fast Lima Me-
tropolltians at Mercelina Park next
Sunday afternoon. This club Is the
fastest In Lima outside the Ohio State
League team and have been cleaning
up on all comers. Frederick and
McComb will do the battery work for
the locals, while Watt and Ford will
work for the visitors. (jamo called at
3 o clock.
In a slow going and uninteresting
contest Celina last Sunday afternoon
defeated Versailles 4 to 2 before one of
the smallest crowds the Celina team
has played to this season. Less than
two hundred fans were out to witness
the contest, and of this number more
than a third were from out of town
After over a months ol victorious work
way from home where they played to
big crowds, the Kids returned to that
Haven of rest and good cheer only to
bo greeted by a handful of admirers,
paid admission crowd hardly big
enough to bear the boys' expense
account, and this fact coupled with the
sweltering rays of old Sol, made
things go very slow.
Third baseman, George Mvers was
out of the game, because of serious
Injuries he sustained last week when
he severely sprained bis back and mp
tured a blood vessel wnlle luting a
heavy cake of ice at the Creamery, and
Captain Betz took the position at third
himself, placing Les Pumphrey, a for
mer Celina boy, who Is here fur a visit
from the East, on second. Chas.
Meyers, who was injured several
weeks ago, was able to get in the game
and he was sent to center field, while
young Frank Spriggs, the fast Wabash
lad, who gained quite a reputation last
year for his work behind the bat on
the local high school team, was sent to
left field, Kistler and liurris being
routed to the bench for the day.
With almost an entirely new line up
the Kids opened in the last of the first
inning. McComb, who several weeks
ago was dropped to the bottom of the
batting order, was Hgain elevated to
the lead otF by Cap iletz and as a starter
got hit in the ribs. He stole second,
went to third on I1 mueriek's out to left
and scored on a paused ball.
In the third Pumphrey led off by
beating out a lilt to the short field. lie
stole second. Wenuing sacrificed him
to third and be scored when Spriggs
singled cleanly to left. Spriggs stole
second, was sacrificed to third by
Betzel and scored when Millerdropped
McComb'a ily to deep left. Fredricks
followed with a clean one to right cen
ter for two bases scoring McComb.
Myers rolled out to Southern.
The visitors opened the game with a
rush. Rigler, first man up, singled to
right and stole second. Manier struck
out, but Southern hit a Blow one to
third. Cap endeavored to hold Bigler
(Continued ou fourth page)
Court Matters
Judge Layton while holding court
here last Friday morning disposed of
three divorce suits, granting plaintiff
decrees in the following cases: Louisa
Bailey vs. David Bailey; Eliza A.
Tendall vs. Simon Franklin Tendall;
J. S. Brockert vs. Anna U. Brockert.
Custody of children was awarded
plaintiff in two former suits.
In the case of Gaar Scott & Co. vs.
Philip Huffman, the court found de
fendant to be in default and awarded
plaintiff judgment in the sum of $l,55.r,
with costs.
In the case of the Farmers Savings
Bank Co., of Rockford vs. G. E., J. M.
and Cordon Deweese, court awarded
plaintiff judgment on their cognovit
note in the sum of $1162.87, with inter
est from date at eight per cent.
Mary Winboven last Friday filed
suit for divorce from her husband,
John Winhoven, alleging that he beat
and bruised her in an extremely cruel
way, called her vile names and drove
her from their home. Petition says
that they were mariied at St. Henry in
May, 11)09, and that one child was born
of said marriage. She asks for divorce,
for custody of the child, for alimony
and for sufficient allowance for the sup
port of the children.
The Farmer's and Savings Bank Co,,
of Rockford, last Friday filed suit
against G. E., J. M. and Gorden
Deweese on a cognovit note for f 1,078,50,
with interest from August 12, 1909.
The Commercial Bank Co., of this
city, last Friday filed suit against C.
F. Griffin and N. T. Griffin on two cog
novit notes, one for f2H, with interest
from January 17, 1910, and the other
for $300, with interest from July 31,
1910.
Supervisors Mean Business
Ditch Supervisors W. N. Smith and
Andy Puthoff have given notice that
unless work on Twelve-mile ditch is
completed on or before October 1, 1910,
the same will be sold and the expense
collected according to law.
PROCEEDINGS
PLAINLY ILLEGAL
Council's Attempt to Evade the
Puhlication of Ordinances
Establithing Tax Levy
Draws an Adverse Opinion from
tho Attorney General's
Office.
It la up to Council to proceed In a
lawful manner In establishing the tax
levy for the village of Celina, Is the
way The Democrat sizes up the sltua
tlon after reading the opinion rendered
to Prosecuting Attorney Homer of this
county by First Assistant Attorney
General Miller.
The contention of this paper has been
that Council was not proceeding in a
legal manner in creating the village
tax levy, by refusing to publish the
ordinances bearing on the subject, and
It was to clear up this point that It ap
pealed to the Attorney General'! office
through Prosecutor Romer for an
opinion on the matter. The opinion in
full la as follows:
"COLI MBLH, O., Aug. 9, 1910.
"Hon. John G. Roemer, Prosecuting
Attorney, Celina, Ohio:
Dear Sir I beg to apologize for the
delay which has occurred in answer
ing your letter of July 11. The same
was unaccountably mislaid in thia
office. You request my opinion there
in as to whether the ordinance making
the annual levy of taxes for the sup
port ot the municipal corporation must
be published as an ordinance of a gen
eral nature.
Sections 3793 and 3794, General Code,
provide that the action of council in
levying municipal taxes shall be by
ordinance. The courts have, broadly
speaking, construed the provisions of
former Section 124 M. C, Sections 4228
and 4229, General Code, that ordinan
ces "of a general nature" shall be pub
lished as therein provided, aa follows:
"An ordinance is of a general nature,
when it is a necessary and indispensa
ble part of a proceeding, the ultimate
object of which Is to create a liability
against the general treasury of the
municipality or against its tax-payers
as a whole."
This being the effect of the ordinance
prescribing the tax levy, it Is my opin
ion that it should be published once a
week for two consecutive weeks as
provided by Section 4229, General
Code. Very truly yours.
W. H. MILLER,
First Asst. Atty General.
ARTISTIC DISPLAY OF
IL.
J" - . "Tfer": j I
ryiTII its tastily arranged tables laden with choicest fruits, the horticultural
display nt the Ohio State Fair is the admiration of all visitors. The
liberal premiums offered in this department never fail to bring out a most
extensive exhibit, and at the coming exposition, to be held In Columbui
Sept 5, C, 7. 8 and 9. horticultural products will be a leading feature.
BIG DARKE
COUNTY FAIR
At Greenville Opens Next Mon
day, the 22d, and Continues
for Five Days.
?ree Attractions Bigger Than
Ever No Immnoral Shows
or Gambling Allowed.
The Great Darke County Fair, Green-
ille, Aug. 22, 23, 24, 25, 2ti, 1910 five
days will be bigger and better than
ever. There will be a new steel grand
tand, new concrete tunnel under race
track first in Ohio new horse, cattle,
heep and bog barns, and larger purses
and more money offered for premiums.
There will be better free entertainments
and pay shows. The Board has booked
Lam b rigger s great trained wild animal
hows; Kellle King with his Octopus
or Devil Fish, showing alive in a huge
tank of water; Little Count Teddy,
The Spanish Comet," the world's
mallest man.
There will be no dancing girls or im
moral shows allowed on the grounds;
no gambling games or shooting gal
leries. You can let your children at
tend the fair this year and not be-afraid
they will see the "hoochie-coochle"
ances or learn to gamble.
Old Soldier s Day Wednesday, August
24th. All the old comrades and their
ladies will be admitted free on this
day. Tickets will be sent on request.
Nochangein priceof admission. For
further lnlormation call on or address,
FRANK PLESSINGER, GrecnvUle, O.
Ribs Caved in by Kick
of a Vicious Horse
Miletus Newcomb, of Center town
Mr, li.H tl,r rlha fractured when hi
was kicked by a borse last Tuesday
afternoon. He was helping his brother
William thresh, and was unhitching
nis team lor uinner wnen inu auimai
became angered and went to kicking
Misunderstanding Gets
Horseman in Trouble
O. M. Powell, of Fairmont, Ind., was
arrested by Chief of Police Webber
Wednesday morning on an affidavit of
Lake Erie Detective C. h. Gerdman,
charging him with taking a race borse
from a car shipped to this city without
paying the freight. The case was taken
before Justice Raudabaugh and later
dismissed. A misunderstanding about
Secretary Vlning paying the freight on
the car at this end caused the trouble.
House of Monroe
Reunes at Sidney
The seventh annual reunion of the
Monroe family, which is largely rep
resented in Mercer County, will be
held at the Fair-grounds at Sidney, O.,
next Thursday, the 2Mb. The program
for the meeting follows:
Opening udresg
Jin. 11. Monro. Kirk wood. O
Our Boys I avid Monroe, Montoiuma
The Monroe Ancestry
U.K. Monroe, IVmberton
The Home Mr. Otis Monroe. Monteiuma
What We Owe Our Ancestors
Norrls Monroe, CVI'na
Recitation - Velnia Yaney, Oellua
Friendship
Mrs. Catherine Teach. Horlngfleld
Closing song By the Monroe family
"THOSE KANSAS
I From "Those Kansas Cranks," by
Henry M. Hyde, in the Technical World
Magazine for September.J
As the train started to pull out across
the bridge, the grinning porter came
into the smoking room and began to
gather up the drinking glasses.
What the matter now, George?'
asked the fat man In the corner seat.
'Jes' gittin' ready for Kansas, Cap
tain," the darky grinned. Every fel.
ler's got to furnish bis own drinkin
'Hub!" snorted the fat man. "Lota
damned cranks. Who ever beard of
such a fool notion!"
An old man with a ragged gray beard
and a shrewd blue eye looked np from
his seat in the arm-chair. "I take it
you're from New York?" be asked, in
nocentty.
"Yes," growled the fat man with a
contemptuous glance. I m from Ne
York."
"Well," went on the old farmer, "do
you New York fellers each have his
own tooth brush? Or do all of you
scrub your teeth with the same brush?"
The New York man sputtered in
speechless indignation.
"You see," the farmer went on mild
OHIO'S CHOICE FRUITS.
ly, "a drinking glass that is used by
everybody is just as bad as a public
toothbrush. So we cranks out here in
Kansas, passed a law forbidding them
in the state."
Kansas has always been the singed
cat in the brotherhood of States. Fifty
years ago its present place on the map
was marked by a shaded rectangle
with the legend "Arid Plains." In
more recent years Kansas has suffered
from plagues of grasshoppers, populists,
whiskers, mortgages, humorists and
fiction writers of the Dodge City and
Sod House schools. So that today
when the man in the street thinks of
Kansas he winks at himself in the mir
ror and grins. KansasI What a joke!
Getting off the train at some small
Kansas town with visions of cyclone
cellars and sod houses in his eye, be
will be met by a smart page In buttons,
who carries his suit case across the street
to a handsome hotel in the English
timbered style, where the service and
table Is within five points of perfection.
Then when he orders his cocktail be
fore dinner he will be told that Kansas
is a prohibition state. Anr presently
one of the most startling and important
things about Kansas will begin to im
press itself on him:
Kansas is one state in the Union where
the laws are actually enforced.
The casual guest winks at the page,
hands him a quarter and says that of
course he knows Kansas is a prohibi
tion state but that he wants a cocktail
just the same. Deftly pocketing the
quarter, the page legrets that a cocktail
is Impossible. His statement Is en
dorsed by the manager of the hotel.
The prohibition law is really enforced
In Kansas. So are the other laws. No
wonder the state has a reputation for
crankiness.
What other people, for instance, ever
produced a state official who declined
an appointment as United States sena
tor because he preferred to stay at home
and write poems on pork, odes on oats
and sonnets on alfalfa for circulation
among a lot of farmers? F. D. Cobourn
is the Kansas Horace and the bulletins
HIS BOCKI
Union City Man Is Accidentally
Shot by Lady He Was In
structing How to Shoot.
Wound Not Considered Danger
ousWoman in Critical Con
dition from Shock.
John Uaaelmlre, of Union City, was
accidentally shot In the left breast just
above the heart, but luckily escaped
instant death, Wednesday afternoon.
when a gun In the bands of Mrs. Wm.
Claaton, also of Union City, was acci
dentally discharged.
Moth parties are members of a Union
City crowd, who are in camp at Mer
celina Park. Wednesday afternoon
tbey went down to the gun club field
for a target shoot, and Uaaelmlre was
endeavoring to show Mrs. Claston.wbo
bad never bandied a gun, bow to shoot.
She put the riile which they were using
to ber left shoulder Instead of tb right,
and as Uasnlmire went in front of her
to change the gun it was discharged.
Tba bullet entered the left breast just
above the heart, but fortunately struck
a rib, the only thing that saved blm
from death. The bullet was deflected
by the rib, and lodged in the fleshy
part of his side, just under the left
arm, tearing a big bole in bis side. Ha
was removed to the office of Dr. Jos.
Ssger, Walnut and Warren streets,
where the bullet was extracted and
the patient Is now being cared for.
The wound is not believed to be seri
ous. Mrs. Claston became hysterical
following the shooting and had to be
put In the care of a physician. She is
In a critical condition.
OF
CENTER CHAPEL
Next Sunday to Be Made Mem
orable Affair, With Services
Morning and Evening.
Center Chapel M. E. Church, four
miles northeast of Celina, which has
been undergoing repairs and beautified
in many ways, will be formally re
opened next Sunday, August 21.
Two services will be held, one at
10:30 a.m., sun time, and one at 7:30
p.m. Prof. Wilkin will preach In the
morning, and in the evening a short
literary program will be held, after
which the pastor, Rev. L. Rice, will
preach a short sermon.
Every one is invited to these servi
ces. Let the friends of old Center ral
ly and make this a big day and mem
orable in ber history.
THE GRIN REAPER
Mrs. Martha Ellen West, aged 71
years, died at her home five and a half
miles west of this city last Tuesday
afternoon, after an illness of several
months of dropsy. She was one of the
early settlers of the county and well
known in the western section. She is
survived by a daughter and three sons.
Funeral services were held at Swamp
College yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Benjamin A. Mobley, aged 70
years, of North Manchester, Ind., died
at the home of ber daughter, Mrs. R.
H. Brownlie, West Warren street, last
Saturday shortly after twelve o'clock,
following a lingering illness ot dropsy.
Deceased was a native of Illinois, hav
ing been born at Paris in February,
1K40. She was united in marriage to
Mr. Mobley in 1H"2 and to this union
were born two children, Mrs. Brownlie
and L. C. Mobley, who together with
ten grandchildren, survive.
Deceased came to this city in March
last for a visit with ber daughter, and
while here became bedfast. She was a
member of the M. E. Church in her
home, and also a member of the Eastern
Stars. The remains were taken to North
Manchester last Saturday, where fu
neral services were held on Sunday.
Anstad T. Cooper, aged 82 years.
died !at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Caroline Krish, five miles southwest
of this city, last Friday night, his death
being due to the infirmities of old age.
Deceased was a native of Virginia but
has been a resident of this county for
the past forty years. Funeral services
were held at Swamp College last Sun
day morning.
Fall Term Lima Business
College Begins Sept. 6
The attendance at Lima Business
College this year will be unusually
large. Already a large number have
arranged for the fall opening. Send
for new catalogue of Greater Lima and
large list of 1910 graduates in positions.
Howard W. Pkars, Pres.
Mercer County Loses a
Good Public Instructor
Prof. O. L. Simmons, for the past
nnmber of years superintendent of the
schools at Montezuma, will leave next
Wednesday for Houston, Shelby Coun
ty, where he takes the superintendency
of a consolidated school in that town.
Mr. Simmons was one of the county's
most popular young educators and has
made the Montezuma school a big suc
cess and one of the foremost smaller
town schools of the county. He was
very popular among the scholars and
an earnest worker along educational
lines and his school work will be great
ly missed, especially in Franklin
township. His new position gives him
the superintendency of six consolidated
township schools, with an increased
salary over what be received in this
county. While we iwgret to see hike
to fields anew, we hop to hear of him
meeting even with greater success than
his work in this county has attained.
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