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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND
Seventy-Fifth Year—No. 59
SLAYER MAY
UNLESS GOV. WHITE STAYS
EXECUTION, COLUMBUS NEGRO
WILL BE ELECTROCUTED
FOR PART IN MURDER
ARTHUR LITTLE SLATED AS THR
FOURTH MAN TO DIE
BRUTAL SLAYING
Arthur Little,
convicted in the
John Kidney, of
Hear Mt. Sterling,
til shortly before the hour appointed
for his electrocution tonight whether
he will escape the chair.
Absence of Governor White from
his office Thursday prevented deci
gion in Little’s case, which has been
investigated by the board of parole
and S. P. Dunkle, the governor's ex
ecutive secretary.
So far as is known, no evidence
Was turned up which will prevent
Little joining three fellow conspira
tors in paying the death penalty for
the murder of Mr. Kidney on De
cember 10, 1931. The .Other three
already have paid the penalty and
two others are serving life sentences
for the murder.
Little claims he was induced to en
ter the plan to rob Kidney, which re
sulted in the aged man’s death, by
the persuasiveness of Henry Louder
milk, the white man who led five
negroes into the plot. Loudermilk
was one of those who has been, elec
trocuted.
A plea for Little’s life was made
this week to the parole board and
the governor’s secretary by the
doomed man’s attorney, Harry Weav
er, of Circleville, according to reports
from Columbus and Circleville.
Declaring Little to be industrious,
honest and “nice mannered,” Weave"
added that the convict became a “tool
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Need Magazines
At Prison Farm
CHAPLAIN C. E. SHIELDS RE
PORTS NEW LIBRARY QUAR
TERS WILL NOI BE READY
FOR SOME TIME
Chaplain C. E. Shields, of the Lon
don prison farm, reports that more
magazines are badly needed at the
farm because the library is now in
storage, awaiting the completion of
the new library rooms and current
reading matter is much in demand.
It will be some weeks before the li
brary is quartered in the new section
of the main prison farm building
group where repairs and rebuilding is
in progress in preparation for the
school system to be installed later.
Chaplain Shields states that friends
of the farm have been kind enough to
keep up the magazine stock in good
shape so far this summer, scarcely a
day passing without a bundle of read
ing matter being left in the farm of
fice.
It is stated that many of the mod
ern publications are too valuable to
be discarded with one or two readings
and that are being retained for a per
manent place in the new library.
More than 2,000 magazines batt
been received at the prison farm since
June 1, Rev. Shields states, express
ing full appreciation for all contribu
tions.
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Farmer Dies North
Of West Jefferson
Robert Milton Byrmer, aged 66
years, well known Brown townsHip
farmer, died at noon Thursday, at his
home, seven miles northeast of West
Jefferson in Franklin county, follow
ing a long illness with brights dis
ease.
He Is survived by a., daughter, Mrs.
R. W. Recob of West Jefferson a
son, Harry M. Bynner, of Hilliards
three sisters, Mrs. Hiram Ingalls, of
Brown township Mrs. William Jones,
Columbus, and Miss Emma Bynner,
Brownfield, Calif. and two grandchil
dren.
The funeral service will be held at
the residence at 2 o:cloek Sunday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. Miller
of Hilliards. Burial will be made in
Alton cemetery by Harold B. Rader,
of West Jefferson.
At Magnetic Spring*
Wilbur B. Murry, of Monroe town
ship, is taking treatment at the Park
hotel at Magnetic Springs.
A
a
\,
FOR
OF
JOHN KIDNEY
negro,
Columbus
brutal murder of
Pickaway county,
will not know un­
^EVENINGS
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AT DEMOCRAT BUILDING, W. Si. "TREET
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COUNTY DUROC HOG
RAISES TOTAL OF 45
PIGS IN 3 LITTERS
Drew Miller, farmer of Pike town
ship, near Rosedale, fifteen miles
north of here, believes he owns one of
the champion brood sows of the
country.
In three litters, this animal has far
Jrowed 16, 14 and 15 pigs, a total of
45 in three litters. The hog is a pure
bred Du roc.
FARMERS Ln IRS REV E. S.
WEAVER, BUS, GIVE
INSPIRING ADDRESS ON
THURSDAY
STORM INTERRUPTS GATHERING
BUT NO DAMAGE REPORTED
—GOV. WHITE TO ATTEND
OUTING AUGUST 18
Despite the excessive heat and the
harvest season, a fine attendance is
reported at the regular July meeting
of the Madison County Farmers’
club on Thursday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Buswell, ten miles
north of here at Gillivan, the crowd
enjoying the usual basket dinner and
the fine address of Rev. E. S. Weav
er, pastor of the Franklin Park Meth
odist church of Columbus.
by
The meeting was twice halted
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Ira D. Hixon Dies
At Cook Station
WELL KNOWN RETIRED MAIL
CARRIER, LODGE MEMBER
SUCCUMBS TUESDAY
FUNERAL AT BETHEL
well
died
here
Ira D. Hixon, aged 70 years,
known Madison county resident,
Tuesday at his home, south of
near Cook Station.
car-
Mr. Hixon was a retired mail
rier and was active in the Masonic and
Odd Fellow lodges of London and Mt.
Sterling, serving as a member of the
Scottish Rite and Blue Lodge Masons,
I. O. O.
worthy
Eastern
F. lodge of London, and was
patron of the ML Sterling
Star lodge.
survived hy his widow, Mrs.
He is
Jennie Hixon, and one son, Guy, of
Columbus.
The funeral service was held at 2
p. m. on Thursday at the Bethel
Methodist church, east of Sedalia, with
burial in the Bethel cemetery in
charge of Undertaker E. T. Snyder,
of Mt. Sterling.
WellsvHie Man
To Preach Sunday
Rev. Thomas G. Berger, of Wells
ville, will preach at the London Pres
byterian church on Sunday morning.
Rev. Berger is a candidate for the
pastorate of the local church which
has been without a regular pastor
since spring.
NAMED EXECUTOR
Br
ea­
the
Ernest C. Griffin has been
pointed in probate court here as
ecutor in the state of Ohio for
will of Cloretta J. Griffin, late of
Macon county, Illinois.
A report of the wheat situation in
the world has just been received by
Lyman F. Baker, Madison county club
agent, London.
The condition of the wheat crop in
32 countries, including the United
States, but not including Russia, indi
cates a crop just a trifle smaller than
last year. These 32 countries produc
ed 80 per cent of the world wheat
crop last year. The acreage seeded to
wheat in Russia is 6’/a pw cent lower
than last year.
The carryover of wheat on farms
in the United States on April 1, 1932,
the latest figures available, was 159
million bushels compared with 116
million a year earlier and an average
of less than 100 million during the
previous five years. Stocks of old
United States wheat at our markets
and afloat on the first of July was 35
million bushels less than a year ago.
The total acreage of wheat for har-
CROP DAMAGE
WIND, HAIL AND RAIN STO^M
THL’RSDAY A E N OO N
CAUSES LOSS TO CROPS
IN THIS COUNTY
PATH OF STORM REPORTED TO
EXTEND FROM PLAIN CITY
TO BIG PLAIN—LONDON
ESCAPES
growing
small,
swept a
Considerable damage to
crops was caused by a
but intense cyclone that
small section of Madison county ter
ritory between London and West Jef
ferson late Thursday afternoon.
Wind, hail and rain combined to
destroy hundreds of acres of tassel
high com and to seriously damage
additional hundreds of acres of corn,
as well as uproot scores of big trees
and unroof many small farm build
ings.
Sweeping from Plumwood, 12 miles
north of here, to a point southeast of
here between
Lilly
West Jefferson and
Chapel, the storm covered a
width,
path about five miles in
switching from one point to another
within the swath cut by the three-way
storm.
Trees were uprooted between Lon
don and Plumwood along State Route
38, through the Richardson and Lon
don Country club grounds, near La
fayette, to the Howard McDonald and
Street farms between London and
West Jefferson on State Route 142
and on through the Upper and Lower
Glade to Fairfield township south of
Lilly Chapel.
The storm also swept the territory
in the vicinity of Plain City and also
at Big Plain.
The' wind and rain knocked down
most of the com flat to the ground,
and where the wind failed to ruin the
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Plan Series Of
Band Concerts
COMMITTEE WORKING TO SE
CURE AT LEAST FIVE (’ON
CERTS SATURDAY NIGHTS
BY CREAMERY BAND
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by
London is not to be outdone
neighboring cities holding band con
certs during the summer season, the
result of the work of a committee of
local business men who are raising
funds for a series of five concerts to
be given each Saturday evening.
Due to a prior arrangement by the
London Creamery Band to play at
South Charleston this Saturday, a con
cert could not be arranged for this
week, it is announced, but it is hoped
that sufficient funds will be raised in
a few days to make possible the open
ing of the series of concerts on Sat
urday evening, July 30.
London Dept Store
Sale Starts Today
The London Department store,
which has been under receivership for
the past eight weeks, has been pur
chased from the U. S. district court
and a receivership sale, managed by
the former ownership, is announced to
start, today.
New Merchandise to fill in depleted
stock and missing sizes in various
lines of merchandise has been brought
here from the Circleville store, it is
announced.
County Club Agent Gives Report of
Wheat Situation in Ohio, U. S., World
vest in the United States this year is
almost exactly the same as in 1931
and only one per cent below average.
Winter wheat acreage is 20 per cent
smaller but the spring wheat area is
large.
The total production of all wheat in
the United
timated at
pared with
an average
there was a very large crop of winter
wheat and a short spring wheat crop,
but this year the opposite is true. Of
course weather conditions may still
make radical changes in the spring
wheat crop.
States for 1932 is now es
737 million bushels com
894 million last year and
of 829 million. Last year
The Ohio wheat crop is now esti
mated at 30 million bushels which is
10 per cent above average but 40 per
cent less than the bumper crop last
year. Ohio is the only important win
ter wheat state with prospects for
more than an average crop.
GOLDEN HARVEST DAY SATURDAY IS DEDICATED TO THE THRIFTY
THE SEMI-WEEKLY
Madison County Democrat
LONDON, OHIO FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932
OUR COMPLIMENTS’
This issue of the Madison
County Democrat is receiving
wider distribution than usual,
in order that everyone in our
trade territory may become ac
quainted with bargains offered
by merchants co-operating in
London’s Golden Harvest Day
Sale, Saturday. A copy is be
ing placed
served by
routes.
in every home
London rural
If you are
Ittrt a regular
subscriber (and we hope you
will become one) we offer this
issue with our compliments.
PLAYERS GIVE
WM. WEBB AND TROUPE PRE
SENT DELIGHTFUL PLAY,
•TAKE MY ADVICE” TO
REPEAT SHOW TONIGHT
The final presentation by William
M. Webb and his players of the com
edy, “Take My Advice,” will be given
in the high school auditorium this
evening at 8:15 o’clock, and those
who witnessed the opening produc
tion on Thursday night are enthusi
astic in their praise of the show.
The play is a newspaper comedy
that is delightful in the extreme and
although the attendance on Thursday
night was not large, the audience
voiced hearty applause and all who
can are being urged, not to miss the
show tonight.
Mn Webb is a London youth who
has made quite a name fdt himself in
the short time he' has been engaged
in professional dramatics, following
his graduation from the London hign
school two years ago.
The- cast is composed of yow.tg
men ahd womert who have been -.f
sociated with the Strollers and Scar
let Mask Dramatic groups at Ohio
State university and with the Hart
man Stock company at Columbus.
The time of the play is the pres
ent and the entire action is centered
around the office of the Eureka
News. The cast of characters for
the show is given as follows:
“Jud Fenton” .............. Lucien Adanis
“Jimmy Samson” ..............Roy Bowen
“Bob Mannion” ........Maurice Schachne
“Virgie Mannion”.................................
.................... Mary Jan? Hoffhines
“Mrs. Nelson Dodd” Elinor Heck
“Peggy Acton” ...... Marjorie Dressel
“John Wargrim”..........William Webb
“Marcia Wargnim”, Virginia Vallance
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Funeral Todav
For Ed. W. Ward
The funeral service for Edward W.
Ward, aged 73 years, of Riley ave
nue, who died of a complication of
diseases Tuesday night at his home
here, was held at 9 o’clock this
morning at the residence, conducted
by Rev. Frank Sollars of the Church
of Christ in Christian Union, and a
second service was held at 2 o’clock
this afternoon at Pine Grove ceme
tery in Vinton county. Burial was
made in charge of Undertaker G. G.
Schlechty.
Mr. Ward was a native of Meigs
county and had resided in this county
for a number of years.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Nora
Ward, one son, Sherril, of Detroit
three daughters, Mrs. Myrta Acton,
Oakland, California, Mrs. Binlie Wick
line, London, and Miss Mildred Ward,
at home one brother and one sister,
Irvin Ward, Vinton, and Miss Mary
Ward, Nelsonville.
AWARDED STATE
NURSE CERTIFICATE
Miss Alvesta Miller, of Columbus,
who recently graduated from Nurses
Training school, at Mercy Hospital,
Columbus, passed the state examina
tion and has been awarded a nursing
certificate. Miss Miller is a rela
tive
well
is
of Mrs, John Pickrell and
known in this community.
Had Tonsils Removed
Robert Jones, jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Jones, Washington ave
nue, had his tonsils removed Tuesday
at the Dr. J. E. Brown private hos
pital, in Columbus.
TO CIRCULATE
PETITIONS
LONDON EAGLES WILL SEEK
SIGNERS OF PAPERS ASKING
OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO PASS OLD AGE BILL
PETITIONS TO BE CIRCULATED
IN COUNTY ABOUT AUGUST 1
—T. A. CONNOR CHAIR­
MAN OF PENSION BILL
GROUP
Old Age
be in cir
about Au-
Petitions to initiate an
Pension Law for Ohio will
culation in Madison county
gust 1, according to leaders of Lon
don Aerie, No. 950, Fraternal Order
of Eagles, of London.
The committee of which T. A. Con
nor is chairman, will have an active
part in securing names on the peti
tions. Other members of the commit
tee are: H. L. McCafferty and M. B.
Armstrong.
Chairman Connor will go to Colum
bus Sunday, July 31, to attend a meet
ing of Eagles’ Old Age Pension com
mittee from aeries all over the state,
when details of the campaign for sig
natures to the petitions will be ex
plained by state officers of the F. O.
E., one of three organizations now
actively sponsoring the proposed law.
“According to word I received today
from state headquarters, the commit
tee in charge of initiating the law for
the Old Age Pension conference, com
prised of representatives of the Eag
les, tfie Ohio Federation of Labor and
the (Ohio Old Age Security league,
has Complied with all the legal re
quirements under the constitution and
the petitions are now ready for dis
tribution,” Chairman Connor said.
“The draft of the hill has been 9p
proved by a legal advisory board can-,
sisting of Judge George B. Okey, of
Columbus, M. O. Burns, of Hamilton,
D. J.. Lyons,, of Cleveland, Francis W.
Durbin, of Lima, Joseph Thomas, of
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Governor Praised
For Fund Help
TAX RELIEF LEADER VOICES
APPROVAL OF WHITE’S PLAN
FOR ROAD TAX AID
Governor George White’s stand
favoring help on special assessments
to farmers on state highways is be
ing
highly praised by F. A. Ellison,
West Union, president of the Ohio
Service and Tax Relief association.
“The association always has be
lieved that no fair-m.nded man could
deny that such assessments should
be returned,” Ellison said.
The association is going through
records to determine the amount of
claims of its members and will file
them as soon as the appropriation is
made, Ellison stated.
Quit Milk War
At Plain City
Reports from Plain City indicate
that the milk war which has been in
progress in that community for the
past several weeks, has been called off
for the present.
Milk prices have increased from
four to eight cents a quart, it is
stated.
Milk sold for three cents a quart at
one time during the price cutting war.
Many of the gardens in Madison
county are now suffering or will be
suffering in the near future from the
ravages of the Mexican bean beetle,
according to Lyman F. Baker, county
club agent.
The Mexican bean beetle i« common
ly called the Ladybird. It was form
erly confined to the southwestern
United States but in recent years has
spread throughout the eastern states.
The beetle, is strongly convex and
oval in outline, pale yellowish to or
ange-brown and from one-fourth to
one-third of an inch long. Each wing
cover has eight black spots arranged
in transverse rows. The larva is or
ange-yellow, elliptical, convex above,
and bears numerous branched spines.
When grown it is about one-third of
an inch long.
The larvae adults feed on the under
side of the foliage leaving only a net
work of veins and tissues. They soon
kill the plants often destroying from
50 percent to 100 per cent of the crop.
Late beans suffer most and the beetle
CURRENT OFF SUNDAY
I
The Ohio Edison company
announces that the electric cur
rent will be turned off Sunday
morning from 5 until 6 o’clock
Has Tonsils Removed
Edgar Dixon, of London, bad his
tonsils removed Thursday at the Dr. J.
E. Brown private hospital, in Colum
bus.
HARVEST OF
GOLD COMING
LONDON BUSINESS FIRMS TO
STAGE GOLDEN HARVEST
DAY SATURDAY FOR BUY-
ING PUBLIC
THIS
PURCHASERS BY SUPPLYING
SPECIAL SALE STREAM­
N EW.SPA E PROT E( TS
ERS TO CO-OPERAT
ING STORES
WELL KNOWN COLORED RESI
DENT OF LONDON DIES—HAD
SPENT ENTIRE LIFETIME
IN THIS COMMUNITY
The funeral service for George
“Rosey” Napper, aged 74 years, life
long colored resident of London and
vicinity, who died at the Madison
county home, was held this after
noon at 2 ’clock at the W. E. Luk
ens funeral home here, conducted by
Rev. M. M. Ward, pastor of St. Paul
A. M. E. church,
in Kirkwood cemetery in charge
Undertaker Lukens.
He leaves
GOES INTO THE MAJORITY OF HOMES OF THE
COUNTY A REAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM
the
Final touches were given to
plans for the day of days—Golden
Harvest Day, in London, Saturday.
Local business firms have combined
in a great bargain festival offering
summer merchandise at new low
prices and there is every indication
that London will have a record crowd
Saturday afternoon and evening.
All types of business are represent
ed in the sale and this fact insures
bargains that are sure to interest ev
eryone visiting the down-town section
Saturday.
This newspaper has taken the pre
caution of giving its readers an easy
method of finding the stores co-opef
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“Rosey” Napper
Funeral Todav
Burial was made
of
in
Mr. Napper was widely known
this community -where for years
in working at odd jobs
residents. At one time
a butcher shop here.
one brother, Clifford
Was engaged
for scores of
he conducted
he
Napper, Wilmington, one half-broth
er, Richard M. Jackson, London, and
one sister, Mm Mary Cain, London.
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Rotary Members
Hear Two Speakers
R. K. ShaW, past president and Lon
don grain elevator operator, and At
torney Frank J. Murray gave voca
tional talks at the meeting of the
London Rotary club on Wednesday
noon at the Neil hotel.
Both men spoke of the changes of
the past year in business and profes
sion in this community and in general.
Here’s Dope on Mexican Bean Beetle
is difficult to control.
The adults hybernate over winter
under leaves, vines, weeds, grass, and
trash and appear in the spring. They
lay orange-yellow eggs in masses of
4 to 50 or more on the under sides of
leaves. The eggs hatch in about 6
days and the larvae become mature in
14 to 19 days.
The beetle may be controlled by
spraying the under-sides of the bean
leaves with magnesium arsenate at the
rate of l’£ level tablespoons in one
gallon of water or 2 level tablespoons
of calcium arsenate in one gallon of
lime water. The lime water may be
made by mixing one pint of hydrated
lime with eight gallons of water.
Either of these sprays should be ap
plied to the undersides of the leaves
as soon as the eggs and larvae appear.
They should be repeated at ten-day
intervals making four applications.
The beetle may also be controlled by
dusting the undersides of the leaves
with calcium arsenate, one part and
hydrated lime, seven parts.
Subscription $2.00 Per Year
ASKS 825,350
MRS. WASH E. ROBE. OF SOUTH
CHARLESTON, FILES SUIT IN
COURT HERE AGAINST
COLUMBUS MAN 4
CHARGES NEGLIGENCE OF MF.Ma
BER OF JEFFREY FAMILY
CAUSED AUTO CRASH
WHICH HAS INJURED
HER HEALTH
V
A damage suit for $25,350 against
J. Walter Jeffrey, 303 North Park*
view avenue, Columbus, was filed by
Mrs. Adila B. Robe, wife of Washing
ton E. Robe, well known South Char
leston stock buyer, in the Madison
county common pleas court here today
as the result of an auto accident west
of London a year ago.
Mr. Robe states that she, with her
husband, her parents and two of her
children were riding east of South
Charleston to London on the London
Charleston pike, U. S. Route 42, on
the evening of June 28, 1931, when
their auto was crashed into from th®
rear by a machine driven in the same
direction by Jeffrey.
the acci
husband
was due
The plaintiff claims that
dent in which she and her
were both seriously injured
entirely to the negligence of Jeffrey,
who is charged with driving his auto
at 60 miles an hour at the time of the
crash.
The petition cites .five reasons for
the charge and the demand for dam
ages as follows:
It is charged that Jeffrey was driv
ing his auto at 60 miles an hour, a
greater speed than permitted by law
on thp highway that he failed to ob
serve the machine in which the plains
tiff was riding that he failed to
Slacken speed to avoid hitting the
plaintiff’s car that he failed to turn
his machine to one side to avoid the
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London Carrier
Highly Honored
HOBART BAKER NAMED SEC
RETARY OF STATE RURAL
MAIL CARRIERS AT
PORTSMOUTH MEETING
Hobart L. Baker, London rural mail
carrier, was highly honored Wednes
day with election to the office of sec
retary of the Ohio Rural Mail Carriers
association, in session at Portsmouth.
Mr. Baker has served as an officer
of the Madison county rural letter car
riers group and also has been active
in state and district organization work
for some years.
D. D. Donohoo, of Brown county,
was elected president. Leo Warament,
Seneca county, vice president, and Ira
Gough, of Lorain, treasurer.
Women’s auxiliary officers, also
elected, Wednesday, are: Mrs. R. B.
Garver, of Richland county, president
Mrs. Fred Dierringer, of Stark coun
ty, vice president Mrs. Martin Mer
ryfield, of Ashtabula, secretary, and
Mrs. J. M. Taylor, of Crawford coun
ty, treasurer.
The convention closed Thursday.
Circleville Mayor
Bans Side Shows
There will be no more carnivals or
side-shows in Circleville.
Such was decreed by Mayor B. T.
Hedges when he refused to allow a
London carnival outfit to set up a
sideshow in Circleville.
“These shows often result in trou
ble and I believe it a good policy to
keep them away,” the mayor said.
From now on permission will be
refused to these show people, the re
port says.
Inventories Filed
In Assignment
Attorney Frank J. Murray, London,
assignee for Arthur L. Huffman and
Angie Pearl Brock Huffman, both of
South Solon, has filed
probate court here in
signments as follows:
inventory in
the two as-
$415 in per
F. B. Huff-
Arthur L. Huffman,
sonal property Angie
man, $5454 in real estate. Apprais
ers, Ed Beathards, Paul Butcher and
Emmett Simmermon.
Move To West High
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Tyler and
family have moved from 15 S. Madi
son road to the property owned by
Mrs. Rose
Gain, at 62 W. High St.
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