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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS
AT DEMOCRAT BUILDING, W. SECOND STREET
Seventy-Fifth Year—No. 45
41 GROUPS IN
COUNTY NOW
LARGEST CLUB IS JOLLY RANG
ERS OF RANGE TWP. WITH 28
MEMBERS. LED BY THRE®
TOWNSHIP WOMEN
FAIRFIELD HAS LARGEST BOYS
GROUP WITH 26—MANY PRO
JECTS TO BE CARRIED
THRU THIS SEASON
The largest club organized to date
is the Jolly Rangers in Range town
ship with 28 members. Useful artic
les, summer clothing and simple des
serts are the projects being carried by
the members of this club. Mrs. Chas.
Storts, Mrs. Fred Dorn and Miss El
ma Armstrong are the leaders.
Fairfield township has the largest
boys club with twenty-six members.
.G. Harsh is the leader.
The Perpetual Bloomers Flower club
in Deercreek township, led by George
Kauffman, has nineteen members.
Three new clubs have been organ
ized in Plain City this year. The
Clothing club is bolng led by Miss
Elinor Mooney. Mrs. J. S. Parker
will have the Food club. The boys
club will be led by Ralph C. Fox. This
is the first club work in Darby town
ship for several years.
Frank J. Rothwell and Mrs. Roth
well are leading the boys and girls in
Pike township.
The Handy Mandy Food club of
Monroe township, the oldest club in
the county and state, is being led by
Mrs. Elizabeth Mooney. The Steady
Stitchers in the same township, an
other of the oldest clubs in the coun
ty and state, is being led by Mrs. Ma
bel McAdams, and Mrs. Willard
Brown. Emmett Boyd is the leader
of the Monroe Winners.
Mrs. Paul Boyd will lead the Home
Furnishings Club in Canaan tow’nship
this year. Mrs. Wm. Porschett and
Mrs. Carl Crandle are leaders of
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4-H CLUBS ORGANIZING
FOR BIG YEAR’S WORK
or-
Forty-one Four-H clubs are now
ganized or will be organized in the
next two weeks in Madison county, ac
cording to Lyman F. Baker, county
club agent.
the
Guard Shoots Self
Accidentally
J. T. MURPHY SEVERELY INJUR
ED LN LEFT LEG THIS MORN
ING )AJ1EN GUN JS DIS­
CHARGED
J. T. Murphy, guard Sft the London
prison farm, accidentally shot himself
in the left leg today as his revolver
dropped from his belt when he alight
ed from a machine at the farm.
Guard Murphy was reporting for
duty at the time, the gun discharging
when it struck the running board of
the automobile.
The bullet struck the man in the leg
just below the knee, traveled upward
through the fleshy portion of the leg
and split in two pieces at a point
about three inches above the knee, in
flicting a severe wound.
The bones of the knee were not
splintered and after being given med
ical attention by Dr. F. E. Rosnagle,
tlie injured man was removed to his
home on North Oak street in the G.
G. Schlechty ambulance. The trip
from the farm to the physician’s office
also was made in the Schlechty am
bulance.
Mr. Murphy has been most unfor
tunate in his work in recent months,
compelled to be off duty for sev
eral weeks with an injured foot.
Clothing Club
Leaders Confer
Twelve people attended the 4-H
Clothing Leaders’ Conference held in
|he assembly room of the court house
on Thursday, June 2.
Miss Edna Callahan, clothing spe
cialist from Ohio State university, in
structed the leaders in the principles
©f clothing club work. The leaders
were told how to fill out the record
|ooks for the useful articles, and the
Summer and winter clothing projects.
The kinds of materials suitable for
different types of garments were dis
cussed.
The leaders were given practice In
^coring garments made by 4-H club
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.A
HEAVY TRAFFIC
Of National Pike Detour Play,
ing Havoc With London
Streets
The heavy traffic over North Main
and East High streets, which are the
streets traversed by motorists on the
National pike detour through London
at this time, is beginning to ruin the
two streets, both showing the effects
of the traffic, particularly of the gi
gantic motor trucks being operated
over U. S. Route 40.
North Main street, paved with as
phalt block, is already badly worn,
shallow holes being in evidence thru
out the entire length of the street.
COUNTY MAKES
FINE RECORD
FIGURES COMPILED BY “OHIO
IN TER-ORG A NIZ ATION ASS’N”
SHOW SAVINGS MADE IN
MADISON COUNTY
SCHOOL DEBTS AND BONDED
DEBT IN MADISON COUNTY
REDUCED TOWNSHIPS
MAKE FINE RECORD
The latest entrant in this field is
the “Ohio Inter-Organization Tax As
sociation,” representative of 14 state
wide organizations, and is presenting
a plethora of figures labeled “the
truth about taxes.” The Ohio consti
tution requires that “all law’s of a
general nature shall have a uniform
operation throughout the state.”
The new group pertinently asks:
“How can Ohio change the situation so
as to save money and give all its cit
izens ‘uniform’ treatment as required
by the constitution?” Prefacing its
disclosure of figures which leads the
organization to believe that “Ohio is
burning the candle at both ends,” this
further question is set down:
“If you were the owner of 88 chain
stores, operating under identical regu
lations, and if the 88 managers of
these stores submitted to you a yearly
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Mrs. Emma Heath
Dies in Sedalia
AGED COUNTY RESIDENT SUC
CUMBS TODAY FUNERAL
SERVICE SUNDAY AT THE
I
FAMILY RESIDENCE 3
..
Mrs. Emma Heath, aged 83 years,
Widow of the late Andrew Heath, of
Sedalia, died of a complication of dis
eases at 5:30 o’clock this morning at
her home in Sedalia.
Mrs. Heath was a native of Mary
land and was bom March 20, 1849.
She had resided in Madison county for
many years.
Surviving are five sons and two
daughters: Harry, Carl and Charles
Heath, all of Sedalia William Heath,
of Columbus Elihu Heath, Seattle,
Washington Mrs. Frank Thomas,
South Solon, and Mrs. Catherine Wil
liams, Ranger, Texas.
The funeral service wit! be held on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
family home in Sedalia, conducted by
Rev. F. W. Stephens, of Mt. Sterling.
Burial will be made in the Mt. Ster
ling cemetery in charge of Undertaker
G. G. Schlechty, of London.
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Woman Injured
In Auto Accident
Mrs. Mary Mock, 45, of Hilliards,
riding with her son, Lawrence, in the
Marysville pike, near Plain City, suf
fered a fracture of the right hip and
possible fracture of the skull when
their car collided with another and
turned over late Wednesday afternoon, fine racing.
Q&
MURDERERS
DIE TONIGHT
HENRY LOUDERMILK, WHITE,
AND WALKER BROWN, NEGRO,
TO PAY PENALTY FOR
KIDNEY MURDER
GOVERNOR WHITE EXPECTED TO
DENY CLEMENCY IN CASE OF
BRUTAL KILLING OF
AGED FARMER
Less than six months after the rob
bery of John Kidney, aged Pickaway
county fanner, who resided near Mt.
Sterling, was planned in a Columbus
V
is
The foUhwtng news dispatch
taken from The Springfield Sun and
is reprinted in The Press at the re
quest of a county taxpayer who is in
terested in better and cheaper govern
ment:
Research groups, organized outside
official governmental activities, are
continually making their contributions
of programs devised for the purpose
of reducing public expense, more
equitably distributing taxes, and re
moving inconsistencies from adminis
tration.
Walker
Brown
Henry
Loudermilk
speake-isy, two of the plotters will die
tonight in the electric chair at Ohio
penitentiary for the man’s murder.
Henry Loudermilk, convicted as the
“brains” of the "group of six men who
perpetrated the crime, will die
and Walker Brown who dealt
death blow to Kidney with a
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Cyrus Little, 78,
Dies Thursday Night
LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THIS
VICINITY SUCCUMBS OU FLU
AT HOME ON BELL ROAD
NEAR LONDON
Cyrus Little, aged 78 years, a life
long resident of Madison county, died
of influenza Thursday night at .10
o’clock on the Cheseldine farm on the
Bell road, just east of London. He had
been in ill health for the past three
months.
Mr. Little was born in Madison
county on July 14, 1854, and had lived
all of his life in the vicinity of Lon
don. He had resided on the Chesel
dine farm for the past 30 years, liv
ing with his two sisters, Misses Jane
and Elizabeth Little.
He also is survived by another sis
ter, Mrs. Amanda Hoover, of Deer
creek township, and three brothers,
George, residing on the Bell road,
James, of Fairfield township, and Wil
liam, of Jefferson township.
The funeral service will be held on
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the
Paint township, conducted by Rev. D.
L. Browning, with burial in charge of
Undertaker W. E. Lukens.
Eagles To Attend
State Convention
FOUR DELEGATES OF LONDON
AERIE TO TAKE PART IN AN
NUAL MEETING SCHED­
ULED FOR JUNE 5-8
London Aerie No. 950, Fraternal
Order of Eagles, of London, will be
represented by four 1 elegates at the
state convention at Lima, June 5, 6, 7
and 8. The delegates, appointed by
President C. A. Bangert are: H. L.
McCafferty, E. H. Green, and Homer
Swick. President Bangert also will
attend as a delegate.
These delegates will consider at the
state convention two important wel
fare projects now being fostered by
the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the
state and nation, an Old Age Pension
Law for Ohio, and Stabilization
Employment in the nation.
of
to
in
The fraternity is preparing now
initiate an Old Age Pension Law
the state next fall, after having seen
similar bills pigeonholed by the state
legislature during the last few ses
sions. It is also sponsoring legisla
tion in congress looking toward sta
bilization of employment in the coun
try.
Harness Race Fans
Attend Urbana Meet
A rrumber of London rate firns were
in Urbana this week attending the.
three-day meeting and the Ohio Short
Ship meeting held under the auspices
of the Legion organization at Ur
bana.
A most successful harness race meet
was experienced with big crowds and
THE SEMI-WEEKLY
Madisgm County Democrat
LONDON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1932
Youth Saved
From Drowning in Big Darby Creek
By Man Who Was Working
Nearby
Herbert “Sparky” Church and John
ny Jordan, of Plain City, had a nar
row escape from drowning at Huff
bridge in Big Darby a few days ag-o.
They were paddling around in a leaky
boat. The current carried them to
the deep water where they were com
pelled to jump for their lives. Neither
could swim but the Church boy made
the shore in safety.
The Jordan youth went under twice
when Floyd Baker, who happened to
be near jumped in and saved the boy
just as he was going down for the
third time.
MRS. D. S. JONES
DIES SUDDENLY
WIDELY KNOWN RESIDENT OF
LONDON SUCCUMBS SHORT
TIME AFTER ENTERING HOS­
PITAL FUNERAL
TODAY
The sudden death of Mrs. Arvilla
Nicewanner Jones, aged 64 years,
wife of David Selsor Jones, occurred
in Mt. Carmel hospital, Columbus, on
Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock, within
two hours after she had entered the
hospital.
Mrs. Jones, although not in excel
lent health for several weeks, was
able to attend to her duties in the of
fice of the laundry agency where she
assisted her husband, the day before
she died.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Jones
motored to the hospital with his wife
where she was to take treatment.
Heart disease and a complication of
ailments caused her death.
The funeral service was held this
afternoon at 3 o’clock in the W. E.
Lukens funeral home, conducted by
Rev. F. C. F. Randolph, followed by
burial in Kirkwood cemetery cbnrg*‘
of Undertaker Lukens.
Mrs. Jones was a daughter of the
late .Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Nicewanner
and was born in Summerford on July
8, 186T. She spent the greater part
of her life in Ixmdon and for the past
six years assisted her husband & his
office work.
Her husband is the only suivivor, a
son and daughter of the couple dying
in early infancy.
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Circuit Meeting
At Summerford
ANNUAL LAFAYETTE METHO
DIST CHURCH CIRCUIT GATH
ERING SCHEDULED FOR
ALL DAY SUNDAY
The annual Lafayette church circuit
gathering, composed of the Methodist
churches of Lafayette, Summerford,
Plumwood and Gillivan, will be held
at the Summerford church all day on
next Sunday, June 5, beginning with
a union Sunday school meeting in the
morning.
The usual basket dinner will be en
joyed at the noon hour, followed by a
program.
Rev. Herbert F. Miller, of Hilliard,
former pastor of the circuit, will
speak Paul Tanner, of Findlay, form
erly of this county, will sing, anti mu
sic will be provided by the Lafayette
orchestra.
Rev. and Mrs. J. P. McNeilan, of
Columbus, Mrs. H. Miller and other
former pastors and their wives are ex
pected to attend.
An excellent attendance is antici
pated as this is the first time the an
nual meeting has been held at Sum
merford.
Rev. A. H. Beckett is pastor of the
circuit at this time.
County Residents
Hear Noted Men In
Columbus Debate
A number of Madison county resi
dents were in Columbus Wednesday
night to hear the debate of Rabbi
Jacob Tarshish, Columbus, and Clar
ence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer,
Chicago.
The two men debated the question,
“Is Religion Necessary.” The meet
ing was held in Memorial hall.
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Creath Reunion
On Sunday, June 19
The annual reunion of the Creath
family will be held at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Wickel, just north
of the Antioch church, Kiousville road,
Sunday, June 19. All relatives take
notice. Dinner bell at 12, noon.
4-H MEETING
HEREJUNE 8
ANNUTL CLUB LEADERS, OFFI
CERS CONFERENCE TO BE
Held
next
Thursday
IN LONDON CHURCH
STATE AND COUNTY LEADERS
TO GIVE INSTRUCTION TO
EMBERS OF A DISON
COUNTY 4-H CLUBS
The 4-H Club LeadersS and Offi
cers’ Conference will be held Thurs
day, June 9, in the Methodist church
in London according to Lyman F.
Baker, County club agent. The pro
gram will begin at 10:30 a. m.
The morning session will be devoted
to a program for the entire group of
leaders and officers. The group will
be divided in the afternoon. The offi
cers and leaders will each be instruct
ed in the duties of their office.
,R. C. Smith, specialist in Rural Or
ganization at Ohio State university,
will lead the discussion with the lead
ers. J. E. Whonsettler, county agent
in Franklin county, will instruct the
presidents and vice presidents in the
duties of their offices. The secretar
ies will receive their instruction from
Guy Dowdy, assistant state club
leader. Mrs. Helen Harbage, one of
the founders of club work in Madison
county, will give the recreation lead
ers instructions. She will also have
charge of the group games in the
morning. The news reporters will
study and practice news writing un
der the guidance of L. K. Baer, coun
ty agent in Union county.
Film strips of state and national ac
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0. KS. To Picnic
At Springfield
23RD DISTRICT CHAPTERS TO
HAVE ALL-DAY OUTING AT
MASONIC HOME WEDNES­
DAY, JUNE 8
Chapters of the 23rd district of the
Order of Eastern Star will enjoy an
all-day picnic at the Masonic Home
in Springfield on Wednesday, June 8.
All Eastern Star members and their
families are urged to attend.
The young people’s band will give
a band concert at noon and the chil
dren will present a program in the
afternoon.
Members are asked to be at the
home at 11 o’clock and to take well
filled baskets at the Eastern Star
members who are inmates of the
Home, numbering nearly 70, will be
dinner guests.
The local transportation committee
is composed of Mrs. George Shoaf
and Mrs. R. J. Dingman.
Ohio Bell Plans
Improvement Work
POLES, CROSS-ARMS, IRON* AND
COPPER WIRE TO BE CHANGED
ON LINES ON NATIONAL
PIKE AT JEFFERSON
Some improvement work along the
National highway west of West Jef
ferson is planned for this summer by
The Ohio Bell Telephone company.
Starting at the new bridge in the
east end of West Jefferson an exten
sion of aerial cable for nearly 1,500
feet will be made. Two cable ter
minals will be placed.
The Ohio Bell also plans to trans
fer some rural circuits to the long dis
tance pole line carrying the Pitts
burgh-St. Louis cable. This will re
sult in the removal of about six miles
of rural pole line which parallels the
long distance line.
J. W. Byers, of London, commercial
manager of the Ohio Bell’s West Jef
ferson exchange, states that approx
imately 170 poles, 270 cross-arms, 45
miles of iron wire and 12 miles of
copper wire will be removed.
Sedalia Man
Freed Mrom Jail
James Temple, of Sedalia, arrested
several days ago following an alleged
fight with another Sedalia resident,
wras fined $5 and costs in the court of
Squire E. T. McCormack, London, on
a charge of intoxication. He was re
leased from the county jail after the
fine had been suspended.
REED CHRISMaIT
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Reed Chrisman, widely known Lon
don citizen, underwent a major oper­
ation at Mt. Carmel hospital, Colum
bus, this week.
WILL DIRECT BOYS’
BAND AT EIATE FAIR
4, 4’
Louis E. Pete
BOYS’ BAND TO'
FEATURE FAIR
OHl STAT E FA 1R AN AG ER AN
NOUNCES PLANS FOR MAM
MOTH BOYS’ BAND FOR
FAIR THIS YEAR
PROFESSOR L. E. PETE, ASHLAND
CHOSEN AS DIRECTOR—600
A P1.1CA1’IONS A LR E A DY
ON FILE FROM BOYS
One o£ the high-spot features of
this year’s Ohio State fair, August 29,
to September 3, will be the Ohio State
Fair Boys’ band, according to Chas.
M. Beer, assistant director and state
fair manager.
This year, the boys* band will be di
rected by Professor Louis E. Pete,
supervisor of Music at Ashland high
school. Professor Pete is not only an
outstanding musician but his splendid
qualifications and success in the hand
ling of young men was the primary
feature in winning for him this ap
pointment. He has the happy faculty
of being a boy among boys. His dis
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CTuirles F. Bryan
Dies Suddenly
MAN SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
IN LONDON STORE, DYING
FEW MINUTES LATER-
FUNERAL THURSDAY
The funeral service for Charles
Floyd Bryan, aged 54, who died of a
heart attack Tuesday, was held at the
home of Misses Arbuckle, north of
here Thursday at 1:30 p. m. conducted
by the Rev. George L. Hughes, of Co
lumbus. Burial was made in the Ar
buckle cemetery in charge of Under
taker G. G. Schlechty.
Mr. Bryan, who resided at the Ar
buckle home, was taken suddenly ill
at the George H. Hartman pharmacy
and taken to the office of Dr. R. S.
Postle for treatment. He died a few
minutes later before medical treat
ment could be administered.
Building, loan and savings cnmpany
officers from here who attended the
annual spring meeting of Group Ten
of the Ohio Building Association
League held on June 2nd, at the
Washington Country club, Washing
ton C. H., heard Fred W. Arnold, of
Bellefontaine, president, say that reel
estate today is still the keynote in the
arch of the investment structure.
In talking to the building and loan
group, Arnold thought “business was
on its way back” and declared that the
record of building and loan companies
in Ohio “during the most tempestuous
era in history was unequalled by any
other financial group. It is significant
that the number of banks laid low by
business storm outnumber the build
ing and loan association failures
nearly thirty to one.”
The speakers at the meeting con
trasted the record of the investment
dollar with that of the savings dollar,
pointing out that stocks and bonds had
depreciated as much as 75 per cent
while the building and loan dollar was
still worth one hundred cents.
The building and loan men were told
by various speakers that real estate
had shrunk less in volume than any
other commodity on the market. Pres­
GOES INTO THE MAJORITY OF HOMES OF THE
COUNTY A REAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM
4
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Subscription $2.00 Per Year
COUNTY TAX
GROUP FORMED
3TATE-WIDE GROUPS |N OHIO
INTER-ORGANIZATION TAX
ASSOCIATION NAME REP­
RESENTATIVES
FIRST MEETING HELD HERE AND!
PLANS OF TAX STUDY OUT
LINED—TO STUDY TAXES
IN THIS COUNTY
Ten different state-wide organiza
tions in the Ohio Inter-Organization
4 Tax association have appointed repre
sentatives in Madison county to serve
as a county-wide committee to study
the tax situation in Madison county.
These representatives and the group
they represent are:
Rodney Plymell, the Granges.
feruce Lewis, Bankers.
J. Warner Tanner, Manufacturers.
Fred Young, Chambers of Com
merce.
L. S. Farquhar, Retail Merchants.
Virgil Price, Motion Picture The
aters.
Bruce Lewis, Building & Loan Asso
ciations.
C. H. Neil, Hotel Associations.
Clarence Hunter, Farm Bureaus.
The first meeting for the organize
tion and study of Madison county tax
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Boling Fined
In Squire’s Court
FILLING STATION OPERATOR
DRAWS $500 AND COSTS AND
WORKHOUSE TERM UN­
LESS PAID
Walter Boling, of near London, ar
rested by county and city officers a
week ago for alleged illegal possession
of liquor, was fined $500 and costs and
sentenced to the Columbus workhouse
unless paid in the court of Squire E.
T. McCormack, of London, today.
Boling will be given until Monday
to pay the fine, Sheriff J. A. Maxwell
stated today. ......... ............
The man was arrested by Sheriff
Maxwell, Deputies Gorman Clark and
Ernest Maxwell and Night Officer®
William Golden and William Bartels
of London, at his filling station on the
*S^ith Charleston pike, opposite Kirk
wood cemetery, the officers taking a
gallon of alleged moonshine liquor in
the raid.
Boling was fined for a second of«
fense, the first arrest occurring sev
eral months ago at Newport when his
place was raided by state prohibition
officers.
Another alleged offense, committed
in Delaw’are, was not considered by the
court because he was fined under a city
ordinance, at Delaware.
Annual W.C.T.U. Flower
Mission Meeting On
Next Tuesday, June 7
The annual flower mission day of
the W. C. T. U. will be held at the
home of Mrs. L. J. Armentrout, 3 So.
Oak street, on Tuesday afternooa,
June 7, at 1:30 o’clocl.
Members please bring flowers, also
Hames of sick and shut-ins.
Building, Loan and Savings Leaders Hear
Instructive Addresses at Washington C. IL
ident Arnold pointed out that “down
through all the ages has come the real
estate investment, yet at no time in
centuries has it been anything but the
backbone of all investments.**
James A. Devine, secretary of the
building and loan state organization,
said the record of building and loan
companies during the present depres
sion, from the standpoint of safety,
was unequalled by any other financial
group in the country. He pointed out
that liquidity had nothing to do with
safety and earning power and ex
plained that building and loan associa
tions since their organization in Ohio,
in 1867, had had the privilege of ask
ing for notice of withdrawal. He de
clared this to be the safest provision
that can surround a financial institu
tion.
Despite so-called hard times, speak
ers at the building and loan meeting
indicated that loan associations in
Ohio during the past twelve months
had paid out more than sixty
million
dollars in interest and dividends.
Local loan men were much pleased,
to hear of the record made by home
financing institutions through Ohio
during the strenuous times of the past
few month®.