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NINETY-ONE YEARS OF SERVICE IN MADISON
COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT TRADE AREA
•f^iety-third Year—No. 1
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Arson Probe Under Way In
$2500 Garage Fire Friday
A $2500 gawige fire at the Peter
A. Lanigan home on First Street
.Friday night is under Investiga
tion by state arson officials and
acting fire chfbf J. E. Byers, who
suffered a heart attack while
fighting the fire, is in Grant Hos-»
|)ital, Columbus, where his con
flit ion Tuesday was reported im
proved. Mr. Byers, who is Lon
don’s city treasurer, suffered the
attack while directing efforts to
fight the fire.
The fire, discovered at the
Lanigan garage, by Mrs. Arnold
Fetter, Lotspeich Ave., a nearby
neighbor, almost destroyed the
building. Mr. Lanigan removed
bis car from the burning building
but was unable to save
ties and a quantity of
stored there.
two bicy
furniture
neighbor
The fire struck in a
Food w'hich has experienced pre
lious fires of dubious
About a year ago Mr.
parage was damaged by
Undetermined origin.
origin.
Fetter’s
fire of
and
Five weeks ago a shed
Storage garage in the same neigh
borhood was partially destroyed
in a fire. Nearby buildings were
threatened, before local firemen
extinguished the flames. Burning
fubbish was suspected as a cause
|f the fire.
Fire at Mr. Lanigan’s garage,
however, sufficiently aroused sus
picions of police and fire officials
that state arson investigators
immediately called in.
No statement has been released
On finding of investigators. Police
are assisting the arson bureau re
presentative.
Acting Fire Chief Byers was
filling the post vacated by Her
man Sattery, who died Dec. 24.
School Hoard
Reorganizes
Board of Education, re
at the first meeting of
at the London school
London
organized
the yeai*
Monday.
The three members re-elected in
November, C. A. Holton, P. E.
paeon and Henry P. Beathard,
tvere sworn in. C. A. Holton was
i elected president, succeeding May-
Iiard Dickerson, who has served
In that capacity for the last two
years P. E. Bacon was elected
Vice president. Henry P. Beathard
was re-appointed clerk
buard.
Television To’
Exhibit Photos
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ern exhibition gallery for outstand
ing photographs in a new photo
fraphy contest opening on WLW
elevision stations january 2, 1950.
Carricra fans are being asked
'"to send their favorite pictures to
^Teen Canteen,” seen 'on WLW-
T, WLW-D and WLW-C at 4 p. m.
Monday through Friday, With a
Jjolaroid camera being awarded
to the person submitting Lha bust
If ,.' ii.clure each month.
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Pictures’ afe to be senf to the
station to which the
tuned to compete for
iWLW-Ca
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viewer is
the weekly
irize of wrist camera. Outstand
ng pictures from WLW-D and
will tie forwardered to
|VLW-T each week for judging in
_he monthly award.
Judging will be based primarily
interest
the
|)n the picture’s human
appeal and secondarily on
technical qualities.
Forgery Charged
To London Man
TTcrhcrt Straley, London,
^Madison County Jail for failure
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Bowers Funeral
At Plain City
Classification
Report Ready
by the
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London
Judge Frank J. Murray
Appointed to serve on the
Library Board for ^pother seven
years.
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io furnish $500 lond, after being
pound over to the grand jury in
Mayor E. P. Speasmaker’s court
pn a forgery charge.
I Straley was arrested by officer
pud Clark Saturday in Newport
ton a warrant for his arrest by
Leputy Robert Allison.
/Less Rainfall
In December
The December rainfall was O. 18
inch below normal, Leonard Mc­
Neal, observer, reported Tuesday.
fThe total for .the month was 2.60
inches. Maximum temperature
Was 63 degrees the ,»jminimum
iseven, McNeal stated
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Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy
E. Bowers, age 78, who died at
her home in Plain City, Friday,
were in Plain City, Monday.
Burial in Forest Grove cemetery.
Mis. Bowers is survived by a son
Sam Sharpe of Plain City, and one
granddaughter.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Porter,
12414, East High Street, announce
the birth of a daughter, Rebecca
Sue, at Mt. Carmel Hospital, Sat-,
urday, December 31.
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State employes will be notified
ihis week how they came out in
the jot classification.
Carl W. Smith, chairman of the
State Civil Service Commission,
said that while a majority of em
ployes will receive salary
creases, there wilt be
number of decreases.
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a large
deceases
he added.
Most increases and
will be small however,
Practically all decreases are the
result of mandatory provision of
the reclassification law, enacted
by the last General Assembly, fix
Jng july 31, 1948, as the basis for
salary determination.
Next week each state employe
will receive from the commission
a notification of his.classification
and salary. All dissatisfied em
ployes may appeal to the com
mission for reconsideration.
Mastodon Bones
To Be Displayed
The skeleton of a mastodon
unearthed several weeks ago on
the Or’eton Farms, North ot Lon
don. will he en display in the
special Exhibits department at the
Ohio State Museum about January
15.
Raymond Baby, curator of arch
aeology at the museum, said no
attempt will be made immediately
to asschiblc the skeleton. Instead
r»it. the exhibit will
depict lhe bog in the Orleton
Farm wheat field where the bones
were found.
The skeleton' ‘will be arranged
In an improvised bog in about the
same position as they Were fount^.
Earth and fossils from the bog
will he used in the exhibit.
Baby 'said scientists, are using
tht vfc.tn and shells found in the
bog in the hope of more accur
ately dating the period in which
the mastodon roamed Ohio.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Junes E. Miller,
Geneva* announce the birth of a
son, James Earl
at White Cross
Uecembftr 30.
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Miller the third,
hospital, Friday,
is the former 1
Mrs. Miller
Yvvnne Hume, daughter of Mr.i
and Mrs. Horace H. Hume Gar
field Avenue, London.
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McFadden’s Son
New Year Baby
Mr. and Mrs. Vemori Mc
Fadden, Danville Road an
nounce the birth of a son,
Michael Carl, at ML -Carmel
Hospital, at 1:30 o’clock, New
Year's morning. Master Mich
ael is not only the first New
Year’s baby to be reported in
Madison County, but is re
ported to be the first baby
born in Mt. Carmel, New
Year’s.
birth Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Landis,
London R. D. No. 1. announce
the birth of a dauglrter, Monday,
January 2.
Census In County
The 195u population census, will
officially start April 1.
Paul J. Groeber, district super
visor, Bureau of the Census, an
nounced Saturday that his Spring
field office will have supervision
over nine counties. They are:
Clark, Champaign, Clinton, Logan,
Union, Madison, Q^c^pe, Fa^uUe
and Warren. .,
Madison county is expected to
have 25 enumerators and one crew
leader.
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Deputy Allison stated that Lace
field was ruling alone and had ap
parently gone to sleep, as he was
1 driving west on U. S. 40.
OFFICIALS SWORN IN
Common Pleas Judge James F. Bell swears in London
to right) Councilmen Jack Coberly, David Laird, Herbert Bauman, Jr. and Russell McShane Mayor E. P. Speasmaksr and Clerk Evelyn F.
Conlon. Councilmen Robert Creath and James Shaw were absent. M% Creath was chcsen president of council.
25 Enumerators To Begin 1950
On April 1
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It Will be necessary, Mr. Groe
ber pointed out. to employ 375
enumerators and 19 crew leaders,
besides approximately 18 clerical
workers in his office, who will
edit, and tabulate the data col
lected i.»nd prepare payrolls, as
well as transmit forms to Wash
ington.
Training for personnel will be
gin around February. 1, Groeber
reported, after qualified persons
.have ticen selected. Applications
Christinas Dinner Is Comin
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LONDON, OHIO. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950
Driver Seriously
Hurt On Route 40
Otis Lacefield, age 40, of 13L
Gilette Street, Louisville,' Ken
tucky, is in Mt. Carmel hospital,
following an automobile accident
on U. S. Route 40, just west of the
Lafayette Cemetery, Saturday
afternoon.
According to Deputy Sheriff'
Robert Allison who investigated
the accident.
Laceffetd suffered a fract
ured right leg, brain concussion,
severe chest and face lacerations,
when the automobile left the north
side of the road, ran approximate-*
ly 150 feet in the ditch and struck
a culvert.
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West Jefferson
lyUn Sentenced
William Boyd, West Jefferson,
was sentenced to six months in
the Madison County jail Friday
.for violation .4 .a probation
agreement.
Boyd was placed on two year
probation at the September term
of court. He was’ arrested in his
home in West Jefferson Thursday
by Deputy Sheriff Robe# Allis
on on the vioiauon charge.
Delay School
Opening Jail. 9
Officials of the Mechanicsburg
■School Saturday delayed the open
ing of the school until Monday,
January 9. The action was taken
because repair of the school fire
esiap« was incomplete.
Madixon Press Photo
city official's in ceremonies at the city building Monday morning. They are (left
Byerly
by Russ
Will be taken at once.
Enumerators will be trained in
their respective counties bv their
crew leaders, who will also select
'the enumerators. The age limit,
according to Mr. Groeber ijs 65
years, and all crew leaders and
enumerators must have automo
biles for use in their work.
Enumerators will be paid twice,
k was said—once after they com
plete their training, and after they
complete the enumerators district
to which they are assigned.
An agriculture census Will be
taken in the rural areas along
with the population census.
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lea except that the family is a lot larger than most. The look of eager anticipation of what’s to come
is evident in every face and the kids all said it was the best Christmas they ever had.
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—Madi»«n Press Photo by Kuu Brerl*
Homj is about the same as you'd see anywhere in Amor-
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Two Held After
Farmer Is Hit
With Own Gun
BROTHER FILES CHARGES
....Second degree murdea
charges were filed against
Patrick and Bennett Tuesday.
The affidavit® against them
were filed by Shipley's bro
ther, Frank Shipley of 3
Maple Drive, New Rome
They are being held In th
Franklin County jail in lieit
of $10,000 bond each fixed
in the court of Justice H". J.
Ringer of Grove City. Justice
Ringer slated a preliminary
hearing far Friday.
Dewey Shipley, 51, farmer of the
Olmstead Rd., four milessouth
of West Jefferson died In Mt.
Carmel Hospital, Columbus, late
Monday afternoon from injuries
suffered in an altercation over the
dogs of two fox hunters.
Murder charges will be filed
Tuesday against the fox hunters,
according to authorities. Fxanklin
county Sheriff’s Deputy Clyde
Mann said the charges would be
filed against Roy Patrick, 37, and
Jim Bennett, 46, both of Galloway
who had been hunting with dogss
Shipley allegedly fired at. The
Galloway men are being held in
Columbus.
Injuries suff£rM’ by the farmer
were inflicted when he was struck
over the head with his own shot
gun taken from him by Patrick,
according to Deputy Mann and
Madison County Deputy Bob
Allison.
Dogs in Sheep
Deputy Allison reported that at
9 a. m. Sunday, Mr. Shipley $aw
foxhounds in his sheep.
He reportedly tooS kis Q2
gauge shotgun and told his wife
he was going to get the dogs awray
from the sheep herd.'
It was reported fjenrieft and
Patrick came up to their dogs
after Shipley had fired upon the
foxhounds, and' that an argument
developed.
The officers sal4 that Patrick
took Shipley’s gun from Him and
struck the farmer over the head
with his own weapon.
The hunters, carrying Shipley’s
gun, went to West Jefferson find
reported the affair to police.
Shipley, who was. knocked
down, regained his feet and went
home in a dazed condition, .1 he
deputies said. A
Authorities salt? that three years
ago Patrick and Shipley had
trouble over the death of" a dog
owned by Patrick.
The scene of the assult was
either on or Within a few feet of
Shipley’s 250-acre farm which
lies both in Madison and Frank
lin counties.
Claims Self Defense
Patrick admitted the assault,
sheriff’s deputies said, but con
tended he acted in self defense
after Shipley pointed a loaded
automatic shotgun, threatening to
kill him and his dogs. '. A
Shipley, according to m’rtttbers
of his family, left his farm home
about 8:30 a. m. with hi$ shotgun
after he heard dogs on his farm
in a fieldWhere he had sheep.
The farmer according to Dep
uty Mann, approached five hound
dogs and fired one shot at them.
Patrick told Deputy Mann that
after Shipley shot, he yelled to
Shipley telling him not to shoot
the dogs because he was trying
to get them off his place.
Patrick said he was on Shipley’s
farm just over the fence trying
to push some of the dogs through
the fence to a companion* James
Bennett, 48, of Galloway.
Shipley, according to Patrick
came toward him, yelling, Pat
rick said he then climbeel over
the fence and hurried to the high
way. Shipley followed hip) ^Isp
climbing the fence, he said?
As Shipley came near him, Pat
rick said, the farmer pointed the
gun at him and said, kill
you and the dogs too."
Then, Patrick said he grabbed
Shipley’s gun, jerked it from the
farmer’s hand and struck him
over the head with it.
Shipley staggered .back over the
fence and started through ttie
field toward his home, .about a
quarter of a mile from the scene
where he was struck, said Patrick.
Dazed Condition
After reaching home, Shipley
walked into his house but was in
coherent, members of
said.
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FARMER DIES OF INJURIES
IN FIGHT OVER FOX HOUNDS
A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ray
mond Shipley, said her father-in
law w.as unable to tell his wife
4 how he had been hurt and wanted
to know what had happened to his
gun.
Shipley's wife summoned Dr.
William Hurt of West Jefferson
who first took him to his West
Jefferson office and then had him
taken by ambulance to Mt. Car
mel Hospital.
There, physicians operated to
•remove a blood elot from the
brain.
Later, deputies of both Franklin
and Madison Counties hud Patrick
and Dennett re-enact the
Franklin County authorities
to make casts of footprints
on the Shipley farm.
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration Office in London with Al
vin W. Barr as Supervisor serves
Madison, Fayette and Pickaway
Counties.
The new Rural Housing Pro
gram recently enacted for Cong
ress has also been made part of
the program of the Farmers Home
Administration. Loans for build
ing and remodeling farm buildings
as well as loans for buying ftirms
and farm chattels are available at
the local office 50 South Main
Street for eligible families in the
three counties.
Gabriel Cooney
Gabriel Cooney, 68, of Yhring
fleld, Rout 4, died at 6 a. m. Sat
urday in City. Hospital where he
had been a patient since August
19. He has been in failing health
two years.
Born in Piqua fn March, 1881,
he was the son of Roderick and
Joanna Breain Cooney. He was
a farmer in his early life and was
later employed by Frigidaire Di
vision of General Motors Corp, in
Dayton where he worked. £or a
number of years.
He was a member of St. Brigid
CTiurch in Xenia. *4
Surviving are one brother and
three sisters, David and Cather
ine, with whom he lived. Mrs.
Thomas Flynn of London, Ohio,
and Mia. Thomas Grogan of Wil
mington, and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Requiem mass at 9 a. m. Wed
nesday. Burial In St. Brigid Ceme
tery, Xenia.
Plain City Fair
Io Be In Contest
■'’Plain City Fair was included
in 23 entries received by Mrs. Don
A. Detrick, Bellefontaine, Execu
tive Secretary of the Ohio
Managers Association for
“Best 1949 Fair” contest. The
ner will receive the coveted
phy awarded annually by former
Governon Myers ¥. Cooper,
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rUILISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS-
AT THE DEMOCRAT W. SECOND STZ
Fair
the
win
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L. P. Lake, Cincinnati, president
of the Ohio Fair Managers Associ
ation at the Desheler-Wallick
Hotel. Columbus, January 11-12.
has announced that the "finals”
in the contest will be at the con
vention banquet, closing session of
the two-day meeting ot fan offi
cials.
The Morgan County fair was the
winner last year.
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Subscription $3.00 Per Year
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clash,
were
found
shells
said,
There were five unfired
In Shipley’s gun, officials
Patrick and Bennett told authori
ties they had been hunting Sat
urday night with another party
who later lost the dogs. They con
tended they were merely out hunt
ing the dogs and had found Uumj
Sunday .before the trouble.
Funeral Thursday
Surviving are the wife, Nora
three sons, Raymond of West Jef
ferson, Robert of London and
Ralph, at home two daughters,
Rowena and Reba, at home two
brothers, Peart- of London and
Frank of Rome one sister,
Lawrence Miller, London
three grandchildren.
Mrs.
and
Friends may call at the Blauser
and Baker Funeral- Home West
Jefferson Wednesday noon.
Services at St. John’s Lutheran
Church. Thursday at.two o’clock.
Interment in Pleasant Hill Ceme
tery, West Jefferson.
FHA Assistant
Appointed Here
‘J John P. Quail of Circleville, his
been assigned to the Farmers
HOrrifc Administration staff in
London with the title of Assistant
Supervisor. Mr. Quail is
a
grad­
uate of the College of Agriculture,
Ohio State University, and since
graduation has been with the Co
lumbus Production Credit Assoc
iation at Circleville.
We heard a fellow wtin
makes a living by holding his?
breath. Once this bird wai
buried alive for 77 days and
came out o. k. Now he’s de
veloped a new specialty
he Ims bimself frozen in ‘a* J*
block of ice and recently madt'
a trip from California to,
New York, by plane, in this’
frozen condition. We, natur
ally, suppose that his wile
never puts him "in the dog
house” just pops him in
to the deep freeze!
CRIME
London’s crime rate is in-,
creasing. At last count “the
January Grand Jury hab 38J
cases with more on the way
Looks like the jurors will have
plenty on their hands this
trip.
ROSEBOWL
We picked Ohio State to
“edge” Cal but weTtever ex
pected such a game as they
played. Ohio deserved to win
and we’re' plenty proud of
the lads. It occurs to us that
a team without any really
individual stars may be a bet
ter thing than it. appears. We
cite Charley Justice and a
few others over the country.'
Teams who build around a
star player just aren't as
good as well rounded J^ams
with no outstanding men. We
think this is the prime reas
on Ohio State went to the^*
Rosebowl and won when
got there.
YAK
1st Dope: "My wife., treats
me like a Greek God»”
2nd Pope: "Howzat?"
“1st Dope: “She places a
bdrnt offering before-me
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THINK ",
The only pefsoif
heard of who can put every
thing he makes on the horses
and not go broke is a harn
ess-maker.
PETUNIAS
Tins week’s parcel of-l*et
unias goes to all you good
people who -80 generously
gave to make a splendid4
Christmas for those less tor
tunate than yourselves
those baskets of food, Christ
mas’ trees and toys' were
really appreciated by those on
the receiving end. Some of
the people came away from
a lot of homes with. moisL
eyes.
If any of you really iwant J?
1o see Christmas like it really
is just help deliver gifts
to some of our needy next
year. You’ll get a feeling
you’ve never hud before. It
is surprising and wonderfuU!
that so many people can be so
kind. How about “keeping
it up” for the rest of the yegr?
Florence Chosen4^.*,
Board President .L.,
Walter B. Flortmre. ifra? re­
elected president of the South
Charleston District Board of Ed
ucation at the panel's annual re
organization .meeting ’Monday
night. s•
Mr. Florence recently’served
president of the Clark "County
Board of Education and has been
a member of the South Charles
ton board 21 years..4. 1,
Reelected vice piTstdent Vros
Cecil H. Rea. Sr., and E%Q, Flto
ence was renamed clerk,
Other members of the Board in
clude M. E. Roberts, C. T. Priesl
and Don BeUenger. Officers serwe
one year in their office and fou|p
years as members of the board.
Mr. Florence, Mr. Rea and mM
Roberts were sworn in for u%
other four-year term on thefrboarGi
Monday evening^
SON IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Fay. -Haskins, 202 Soutlt
Walnut St, has received .holiday
greetings from hey son Sgt, Ca
L. Haskins, Tokyo, Japan, advis
ing that he it in the hospital. The
message to Mrs. Haskins stated
there was no need for anxiety.
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