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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
PROCEEDINGS
PLAINLY ILLEGAL
Councils Attempt to Evade the
Publication of Ordinances
Establithing Tax Levy
Draws an Adverse Opinion from
the Attorney Generals
Office.

It is 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 situa-
tion after reading the opinion rendered
to Prosecuting Attorney Romer of this
county by First Assistant Attorney
General Miller.
The contention OF this paper has been
that Council was not proceeding in
legal manner in creating the village
tax levy, by refusing to publish the
ordinances bearing on the subject, and
1t was to clear up this point that it ap-
pealed to the Attorney Generals office
Prosecutor Romer for an
opinion on the matter. The opinion in
full is as follows:
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 9, 1910.
huus JUN VI LNuoulbTt Prosecuting
Attorney, Celina, Ohio:
Dear Sir-I beg to apologize for the
delay which has occurred in answer
ing your letter Of July IL. The same
was unaccountsbly mislaid in this
office. You request my opinion there
IN as to whether the ordinance making
the annual levy of taxes for the sup
port OF the municipal corporation must
be published as an ordinance of a gem
3ral nature.
Sections 3793 and 1894, General Code,
provide that the action of council in
evylnR municipal taxes shall be by
ordinance. The courts have, broadly
Ipeaking, construed the provisions of
'ormer Section l24 NJ. c., Sections 1928
and 1929, General Code, that ordinan-
,es 'of a general nature shall be pub
ished as therein provided, as follows:
AN ordinance is of general nature,
when it is a necessary and indispensa-
Die part of a proceeding, the ultimate
object of which is to create liability
against the general treasury of the
or against its taxpayers
Is a whole"
This being the effect of the ordinance
the tax levy, il is my opin-
on that it should be published once
week for two consecutive weeks as
provided by Section 1929, General
Code. Very truly yours,
w. H. MILLER,
First Asst. Atty General.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
RIB SAVES
HIS BACON
Union City Man Is Accidentally
Shot by Lady He Was In
structing How TO Shoot.
Wound Not Considered Danger
ous-Woman in Critical Con
dition from Shock.

John Haselmire, 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 hands Of Mrs. VIM.
Claston, also Of Union City, was acci-
dentally discharged.
Both parties are members Of a Union
City crowd, who are in camp at Mer-
celina Park. wednesday afternoon
they went down to the gun club field
for target shoot, and Haselmire was
endeavoring to show Mrs. ClastOn, who
had never handled a gun, how 70 shoot.
She put the rifle which they were using
to her left shoulder instead OF the right,
and as Haaelmire went in front Of her
TO change the gun IL was discharged.
The bullet entered the left breast just
above the heart, but fortunately struck
a rib, the only thing that saved him
from death. The bullet was detected
by the rib, and lodged In the fleshy
part Of his side, just under the left
arm, tearing a big hole in his side. He
was removed to the Office Of DR.. Jos.
SaRer, Walnut and Warren streets,
where the bullet was extracted and
the patient Is now being cared for.
The wound Is not believed 10 be seri-
Gus. Mrs. Claston became hysterical
following the shooting and had to be
put In the care OF a physician. She is
in a critical condition.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
BIC DARKE
COUNTY FAIR
At Greenville Opens Next Mon
day, the 22d, and Continues
for Five Days.
Free Attractions Bigger Than
Ever-No Immoral Shows
or Gambling Allowed.

The Great Darke County Fair, Green
Vile, Aug. %, 23, "a, 25, 26, 191O-five
days-will be bigger and better than
ever. There will be new steel grand
stand, new concrete tunnel under race
track-frst in Ohio-new horse, cattle,
sheep and hog barns, and larger purses
and more money offered for premiums.
There will be better free entertainments
and pay shows. The Board has booked
Lambrigger's s great trained wild animal
shows; Kellie King with his Octopus
or Devil Fish, showing alive in a huge
tank of water; Little Count Teddy,
"The Spanish Comet" the world S
smallest man.
There will be no dancing girls or i'm
moral shows allowed on the grounds;
no gambling games or shooting gall
leries. You can let your children at
tend the fair this year and not beafraid
they will see the "hOoehle- cOOchie"
dances or learn to gamble.
Old Soldier Day Wednesday, August
gath. All the old comrades and their
ladies will be admitted free on this
day. Tickets will be sent on request.
No chsngein price of admission. For
further information call on or address,
FRANK PLESSINGER,G Greenville, o.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19

ly, "a drinking glass that Is used by
everybody is just as bad as a public
tooth brush. 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 plaques fgrasshoppers,p ,pOpulists,
whiskers, mortgages, humOrlsts 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. Kansas! What joke!
Getting off the train at some small
Kansas town with visions of cyclone
cellars and sod houses in his eye, he
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. AnG presently
one of the most startling and important
things about Kansas will begin to i'm
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 q prohibi-
ton state but that he wants a cocktail
just the same. Deity pocketing the
quarter, the page regrets 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 aenR-
tor because he preferred to stay at home
and write poems on pork, Cdes on oats
and sonnets on alfalfa for circulation
among a lot of farmers? #. d. CObourn
is the Kansas Horace and the bulletins
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
THOSE KANSAS
CRANKS"

From "Those Kansas Cranks," by
Henry NJ. Hyde, in the Technical World
Magazine for September.
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.
whats the matter now, George?"
asked the fat man in the corner seat.
"Jes' gittin' ready for Kansas, Cap
tain" the darky grinned. EVERY fell
ler's got to furnish his own drinkin'
"Huh!" snorted the fat man. Lot a
damned cranks. Who ever heard of
such a fool notion!"
An old man with a ragged gray beard
and a shrewd blue eye looked up from
his seat in the arm chair. II take IL
you're from New York;" he asked, in
nocently.
YES" growled the fat man with a
contemptuous glance. "I'm from New
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
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Mercer County Loses a
Good Public Instructor

Prof. o. L. Simmons, for the past
number Of years superintendent Of the
schools at Montezuma, will leave next
Wednesday for Houston, Shelby COun-
ty, where he takes the superintendency
of 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 sue
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 superintsndency Of six consolidated
township schools, with an increased
salary over what be received In this
county. While we regret 10 see hike
to fields anew, we hope to hear OF him
meeting even with greater success than
his work In this county has attained.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
MORE MONEY TO
SHOOT BRAINS OUT
Of People in the United States
Than to Develop the Little
Brains They Have.
[By Ebert Hubbard. ]

1t is great thing to teach. 1 am
never more cOmplimented than when
someone addresses me as teacher"
To give yourself in way that will
inspire others to think, to do, to be-
come-what nobler ambitiOnl
To be good teacher demands a good
high degree of altruism, for one must
be willing to sink self, to die-as it
were-that OtherA may live.
There is something in 1t very much
akin to mOtherhoOd-a brooding quail
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, obllterate pride and make
her feel the sacredness of her office.
All good men everywhere recognize
the holiness Of motherhood-this mira
Gle 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 Unnecessary to her children. And
the entire object of teaching is to ena-
BILE 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
TALLY feminine; if he had 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
all minds to match its own, may build
bridges, tunnel mountains, discover
continents and capture cities, but 1t
cannot teach.
In the presence of such q towering
personality feeling dies, spontaneity
droops and thought sinks away into
corner. The broOding quality, the pa
tience that endures and the yearning
of motherhood, are all abreast, The
man is a commander, not teacher;
and there yet remains grave doubt
whether the warrior and ruler have not
used their influence more to make this
world place Of skulls than the abode
Of happiness and prosperity. The or
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
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 effects
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
chsrster2 Should the teacher ask for
higher wages or wait for the board of
education to become extravagant2
Should a teacher visit the home of
pupils in a social way or only call
when some incident of school makes
ii 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 200 busy to attend one or
more days at the teachers institute?
How many teachers or board men,
bers ever thought Of civic beauty
around a school house2
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
houses7
HOW many teachers will attend the
institute for the sole and only purpose
of getting ten dollars in money instead
of ten facts about teaching?
How many teachers know that 1t
would be a good investment for them
selves and good thing for the schools
If they would persaud the board men,
bers and parents to attend the teachers
institnte2
Do you know that every citizen who
attends one or more days at the insti-
tute, will be better friend of school
and teachers?
Why not get busy? Why not do it
now.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19

In a slow going and uninteresting
contest Celina last Sunday afternoon
defeated Versailles to 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 third were from out of town.
After over a months OF victorious work
away from home where they played to
big crowds, the Kids returned to that
Haven of rest and good cheer only to
be greeted by 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 Myers was
out of the game, because of serious
injuries he sustained last week when
he severely sprained his back and rup-
tured a blood vessel while lifting
heavy cake of ice at the Creamery, and
Captain Betz took the position at third
himself, placing Les Pumphrey, for
mer Celina boy, who is here for 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 reputation last
year for his work behind the bat on
the local high school team, was sent to
left field, Kistler and Burris 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 again elevated to
the lead off by Cap Betz and as a starter
got hit in the ribs. He stole second,
went to third on Frederick's out to left
and scored on passed ball.
In the third Pumphrey led off by
beating out hit to the short field. He
stole second. Wenning sacrificed him
to third and he scored when Spriggs
singled cleanly to left. Spriggs stole
second, was sacrificed to third by
Bethel and scored when Miller dropped
McComb's fly to deep left. Fredricks
followed with clean one to right cen
ter for two bases scoring McCOmb.
Myers rolled out to Southern.
The visitors opened the game with a
rush. Bigler, first man up, singled to
right and stole second. Manner struck
out, but Southern hit a slow one to
third. Cap endeavored to hold Bigler
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Yesterdays Races to Be
Finished This Morning

When it was seen the rain was going
to continue indefinitely, Starter Loeb
announced that it had been decided TO
finish the races this morning.
There are three of the events, a 2:l7
trOt, 2:lS pace, and 2:10 pace, the
latter being the fastest race of the week
and the purse the biggest. The third
heats of these three harness events and
the mile dash will be run this morn
ing, the first start being scheduled for
$3.50 O'Clock.
These extras, coupled with the three
afternoon harness events-the 1928
pace, 2:33 trot and ladies' road race,
and the mile dash by the jumpers, will
make big track day and some inter-
esting and fast contests.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19

ders TO kill all the FIRST born, and those
over ten years Of age, were not gwen
by teachers.
The teacher Is the one who makes
two Ideas where there was only one
before.
Just here seems a good place TO say
that we live in a very stupid old
world, round like an orange and
slightly hattened at the poles. The
proof of this seemingly pessimistic re-
mark made by hopeful and cheerful
man, lies in the fact that we place
small premium in either honor or mon
ey on the business OF teaching. AsIn
olden times, BARRIERS and aeullions
rallied with musicians, and the Master
of the Hounds wore a bigger medal
than the Poet Laureate so do we pay
our teachers the same as coachmen and
beavers, giving them a plentiful
lack OF everything but overwork.
will never be quite willing to ad-
init that this country is enlightened
until we cease the insane and parsi-
monlous policy of trying to drive all Of
the really strong men and women out
of the teaching profession by putting
them on the payroll 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 Of
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. IL 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.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
CRIMP PUT
IN FAIR
Yesterday, but Attendance Was
Great, However, in Face of
Frowning Elements.
Unfinished Races Will Be Run
This Morning, Making Fine
Program To-Day.

Despite the fact that yesterday
morning opened up with threatening
weather, which later turned TO driz-
cling rain and finally, about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, to a steady down.
pour, the usual big Thursday fair
crowd fell only a few hundred admis-
sions short of previous years. Had
the day opened bright the crowd would
have been a record breaker.
Tuesday and Wednesday witnessed
crowds equal to those Of corresponding
days in other years.
, The exhibits in all departments are
very satisfactory and show no falling
in number or deterioration in their
character.
The free attractions, which are so
necessary to round out successful
fair, were in many particulars the best
we have ever had, and the airship gave
tone to all of 1t.
The yesterday afternoon races were
started on time, but only two heats Of
the three harness events were run
when the rain set in.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Misunderstanding Gets
Horsen1dn in Trouble

o. NJ. Powell, Of FairmOnt, Ind, was
arrested by Chief Of Police Webber
wednesday morning on an afiidavit Of
Lake Erie Detective G. +. Gerdm man,
charging him with taking a race horse
from a car shipped 20 this city without
paying the freight. The case was taken
before Justice Raudabaugh and later
A Misunderstanding about
Secretary VininR paying the freight on
the car at this end caused the trouble.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Court Matters
(Continued on fourth page)

Judge Layton while holding court
here last Friday morning disposed OF
three divorce suits, granting plaintiff
DEGREES in the following cases: Louisa
Bailey VS.. David Bailey; Eliza A.
Tendall VS.. Simon Franklin Tendall;
]. s. Brockert VS.. Anna G. 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 81, ,555,
with costs.
In the case of the Farmers Savings
Bank Co., of Rockford VS.. G. E., ]. M.
and Gordon Deweese, court awarded
plaintiff judgment on their cognovit
note in the sum of Sl162.87, with inter-
est from date at eight per cent.
Mary Winhoven 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 married at st. Henry in
May, 1909, and that one child was born
of said marriage. She asks for diyorce,
for custody of the child, for alimony
and for sufficient allowance for the sup
port of the children.
The Farmers and Savings Bank Co.,
of Rockford, last Friday filed suit
against G.. E., j. M. and Gorden
Deweese on cognovit note for 81, ,O7S. so,
with interest from August ~, 1909.
The Commercial Bank Co., of this
city, last Friday filed suit against G.
f. Griffin and N. T. Griffin on two cog
novit notes, one for S28, with interest
from January II, 1910, and the other
for $500, with interest from July 81,
1910.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Toun Topics

Ifyou 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 Gender, an employee of the
Estry and Stephenson planning mill,
had his left hand badly lacerated last
Monday afternoon, when he got it
caught in pulley.
Miss Minnie Weisman, who has been
on the long distance board at the local
telephone exchange for some time past,
has resigned her position and accepted
clerkship in the Remaklus q Beck
man dry goods store.
Raymond Taylor, the oldest son of
American Express Agent Newton
Taylor. had his 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 Nuding, of near Mercer,
stumbled 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
aged.
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
RaudabauRh and after being fined
we're ordered to skidoo.
Peter Bacher, residing on the Mud
pike, three and a quarter miles west of
this city, was in town Monday arrang-
ing for public sale of his personal
property on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Mr..
Bacher has purchased a farm in Gem.
tral Tennessee and he and his 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 oft.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
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 Fairgrounds at Sidney, o.,
next Thursday, the 25th. The program
for the meeting follows:
Opening address ---.-------------
.-.----.---.-Ja Jas. II. Monroe. Kirkwood, o
Our Boys---..--. David Monroe, Montezuma
The Monroe Ancestry. try.-----------.------
Gee. .----.-.--. g. X. Monroe. Pemberton
The Home---. Mrs. Otis Monroe. Montezuma
What We Owe Our Ancestors ..-----------
.--------- --------- Norris Monroe, Cellnh
Recitation Velma Yaney. Oelina
.-...-- Mrs. Catherine Teach. Springfield
Closing song By the Monroe family
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
REOPENING Of
CENTER CHAPEL
Next Sunday to Be Made Mem
orable Affair, With Services
Morning and Evening.

Center Chapel NJ. L. Church, four
miles northeast of Celina, which has
been undergoing repairs and beautified
in many ways, will be formally re-
opened next Sunday, August 2I.
Two services will be held, one at
l0:3O am, sun time, and one at 1880
pm. 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 servl-
ces. Let the friends of old Center raj
ly and make this a big day and men,
orable in her history.