The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-06-07

done. Ii would be well Tor the mana
gers of these affairs to give the pupils
q little training In common courtesy,
and then have a strong police force to
enforce il.
One OF the exchanges that reaches
the Index table shows the editor to be
long on odds. He evolves the following
which contains more truth than fiction:
Whenever you find q man finding
fault with local paper, open 1t up
and ten to one he hasn't an advertise
ment in it; i've to one he never gave 1t
q job of work; three to one he does
not take the paper: two to one thst if
he is a subscriber he Is delinquent;
even odds he never does anything to
assist the publisher to run q good pa
per, and forty to one that IL the paper
Is q good one and full of life he is the
most eager to see the paper when it ia
out -
Kenton has ''ping pong" club.
We thought all the ping pong artists
had passed away long ago.
A recent edition of the Mt. Victory
Observer says: "Bellefontaine has a
bonded Indebtedness of $310. 900. But
has q citizenship that is willingly pub
lie spirited and enables it to become q
thriving little city. If a few other
places-Mt. Victory for instsnce-car
ried some bondage like Bellefontaine
they would see the benefits and overlook
debt.
Did it ever occur to you that there is
much that is bad in the best of us and
as much that is good in the worst Of
us that it doesn't behoove any of us to
say anything about the rest Of usr-Ex.
Fred Fogle. sr., one OF the Oldest
residents of Kenton. who has owned a
large grocery store for forty-six years.
has retired from business on account
of ill health after a most interesting
career. In all those forty-six years
Mr. Fogle never traversed the princi-
pal streets of the city and has never
gone around the public square although
his grocery store was located only half
la block off. For the past seventeen
years he has never been farther from
his store than the mail box. about 100
feet distant. He lived above his store
and always took an interest in the
welfare of his own city, but is unable
to describe any building that has been
erected out OF sight Of his grocery
since Kenton has advanced from q vii
lage to q city.
A reader in q communication to the
Marysville Tribune about the much
mooted ''bell- -buzzard'' has the follow
ing to say:
i've noticed in Mondays tribune an
account of the Bell Buzzsrd' lately
seen by l.. b. Scott, near st. Peters
burg. Florida. About four years age
Mr.. Herman Niske, foreman of the
stock department of the Bell Novelty
Co. of Bellefontaine. caught buzzsrd
lnear st. Petersburg. and after tying q
bell around its neck. again set it free.
1t is undoubtedly the same buzzard
mentioned by Mr.. Scott and probably
the same that has been seen several
times in Ohio during the summer sea
lson."
A reader asks us "Who are the pres
emit members of President Roosevelt
cabinetf'' The answer is: John Hay
Secretary of State; Leslie N. Shaw
Secretary of Treasury; William H
Taft. Secretary of War; Philander c
Knox, Attorney General; Henry c
Payne, Postmaster General; William
81. Moody, Secretary of Navy; Ethar
, A. Hitchcock. Secretary Of the Inter
. ior; James Wilson. Secretary o
Agriculture George B. Cortelyou
lSecretary OF Commerce and Labor.
Il An Investigation made by u.
, government az to the economic valu
. .l"probably the most useful of tn
, species on the farm" Field observa
5 tions, experiments. and examination
, show that it consumes large quantitie
of.weed seeds and destroys many of tn
q worst insect pests with which farmer
l contend, and yet it does not injur
grain. fruit. or any other crop. 1t
figured that from September to Apri
I 80. annually, in Virginia alone. tn
: total consumption of weed seed by bo
whites amounts to 537 tons. The Re
port urges measures to secure til
preservation of the bob whites in thi
country.