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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
FARMERS
Institute At Brandon Was A
Great Success

The second annual meeting of the
Brandon Farmers Institute was held
In the Baptist church at Brandon on
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
The meetings were very well attend
ed by many interested persons from
the surrounding towns as well as the
rural districts and great deal of bus
mess and good work was completed.
Besides the. actual business part Of
the meeting special arrangements for
pleasure had been previously made.
The program consisted of addresses
recitations and music, the music being
furnished by the Moore Concert Co.
of West Salem, Ohio.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
PRIZE
Corn And Cup On Exhibition
In A Local Bank

In the window at the Guaranty Saw
ings Bank & Trust Co., there is on ex-
hibition the silver cup offered as a
prize by the Citizens Association of
Mt. Vernon to the Corn Growers AS
ISOLATION of Knox county to be award
ed for the best exhibit Of corn rails
ed in the county. The cup was award
ed to Barnhart Brothers. The corn,
which was on exhibition at the show,
and which received the prize Ia also
on exhibition in the window.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23

Sufferers who say they have tried
everything without benefit are the
people we are looking for. We want
them to know from glad experience
that Ely's Cream Balm will conquer
Cold in the Head, Hay Fever, and OBJ
stinate forms of Nasal Catarrh. This
remedy acts directly on the inflamed
sensitive membranes. Cleansing
soothing and healing. One trial will
convince you of it's healing power
Price. SOC. All druggists, or mailed
by Ely, Bros, Sc Warren st. New
York.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
John suraoon

John Burgoon died at his home
about one mile east of Lock on Wed
nesday morning at about o'clock
after a one weeks Illness resulting
from a stroke of paralysis. The de-
ceased had been resident of the vi
cinity Of Lock for nearly all his life
and served in the Union army during
the civil war. He was 80 years OF
age at the time Of his death and is
survived by his wife, one son, Charles
Burgoon, and one daughter, Mrs
James Beach, of Mt. Vernon. The
funeral on Thursday morning at 1C
o'clock at the late home, Rev. Carpen
ter of Homer officiating. Interment
in Bennington cemetery near Lock.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
Big WELLS
Drilled In Near Gambler By
Two Companies
Ohio Fuel And Upham Get
Large We Is

Gambler, o., Dec. 21--Two good gas
wells we're drilled in near here in the
past "a hours.
On Wednesday morning the Ohio
Fuel Supply company drilled In a
three and a half million well on the
Sherwood lease, Just southeast OF the
c., A. G. c. station.
Tuesday afternoon the Upham com.
pany drilled In Fish well No. 4, with
a capacity of about millions. This 4.
the largest we'll that has been drilled
in. The lease Is located one mile east
of Gambler.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
OUR S PER CENT

Certificates Of Deposit are the Safest
and most Desirable Investments.
The Buckeye State Building and
Loan Company, Rankin Building, 22
West Gay street, Columbus Ohio.
/. Safety. These certificates are
secured by first mortgages on Colum-
bus homes. amounting in value to sew
enteen million dollars. Home loans
are the safest of all mortgage loans.
Our appraisers are very careful. Such
securities afford absolute protection
to our depositors. Our assets over
s4,3OO,OO0.
(See second reason next week.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23

WANTED-All kinds of furs; high
est market prices paid at all times;
will take in on Thursdays and Sat
urdays at Waddell's livery barn. Be-
fore selling call on me. w. p. Saw
vel. tt
Miss Helen McNabb, who is attend
ing Western College, Oxford, Ohio. ar
rived home today to spend the holi-
days.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
OBITUARY

Tho Heron Funeral

The remains of Mrs. M. M. Heron,
who met death by falling from c.,
A. & G. passenger train near Brink
Haven on Monday evening, will be
brought to this city and be taken to
the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Hum
bert on West Chestnut street where
the funeral will be held, private, on
Thursday afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
2. D. Barnett officiating. Interment
in Mound View cemtery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
POOR CHILDREN
OF The City To Be Entertained At The
MI. Vernon College

Fifty poor children are to meet at
the Salvation Army hall on High
street at 8;45 Wednesday morning
next week and be taken on the car
to Mt. Vernon College, where they
will be entertained and given toys
and their dinner. The street car com
pany is donating the cars to carry
the children.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
The time TO BEGIN

If you are thinking Of starting q
savings account, now is the time to
begin. All money received by us on
savings account before the first of
January will begin to draw interest
at 4 per cent from that date.
No investment can be safe than
our per cent certificate of deposit
for all money is loaned on first mort.
gage on Knox county real estate,
Put your money in now and get the
best terms possible.
The Knox Building G Loan Co.
G. F. Colville. Sec'y
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
Mrs. Miranda Smith

Mrs. Maranda Smith died at her
home in North Liberty Wednesday al
about noon after several months
illness caused by complication OF
diseases incident to old age. The de-
ceased was "a years of age at the
time of her Death and Is survived by
two sons, two daughters and one sis
ter.
The arrangements for the funeral
have not yet been made.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
Society Notes
Phillips-MiIler

Phillips-MiIler
Wedding
Mr.. Selby Phillips and Miss Maude
May Miller, both Of Buckeye City,
were united in marriage Wednes-
day. The ceremony was perform.
ed by the Rev. A. B. Williams at his
home, 112 North Mckenzie street. Mr..
and Mrs. Phillips will make their
home in Buckeye City.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23
WRITE YOUR OWN WILL

Absolute secrecy assured. Com
plete instructions, legal forms and
blanks sent for So money order. Fed
eral Legal Bureau, Div. B, Washing
ton, d. G.. ,-,s.-.,.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23

The Mascots and Athletics met last
night and rolled their first game in
the Holiday tournament. These two
teams have been rolling very good
games, consequently the interest run
high, but the Mascots lost the series
by 172 pins. The score follows:
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*""The Bladensburg schools win
give an entertainment In the town
hall Saturday evening, December "a,
in which the pupils from each Of the
four rooms will participate. Every,
body Is cordially invited to attend for
the entertainment is going to be fine.
*ttThere VIII be Christmas enter
tainment at the Beulah church on Sat
urday evening, December "a.
asa Christmas tree will be given
at the town hall In Martinsburg by
the public schools of that place on
Friday evening for the benefit of the
library.
*+*Miss Cochran, a student at Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware, o.,
will give an entertainment at the Jel-
loway M. e. church on Christmas eve.
Miss Cochran Is an elocutionist of no
mean ability and will no doubt be
very pleasing.
***Revival services will be held at
the Jelloway M. Il. church during
Christmas week conducted by five
students of Ohio Wesleyan Univer.
sity.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-12-23

BANNER WANT ADS PAY
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02

In connection with an earthquake
which shook Unalaska and Dutch Har-
Dor on September II a new island has
been added to the Bogoslof group in
the Aleutian channel at a point where
a sounding last year by the geological
survey showed 70 fathoms of water.
The island is in the form of a great
round hill, close to Perry peak. an
islet that rose year before last.
The famous volcano Bogoslof in the
Aleutian islands has again been in
eruption. For scores of miles around
Unimak island, where Mount Shishal-
din has been in eruption for five
months, the sea has been covered with
ashes and pumice. In one case the
sail of schooner was set on fire by
the hot ashes. The ups and downs of
this unstable bit of American territory
form one of the most lively geological
stories Of modern times, since the
first known island on this site rose
from the sea in 1896 land was named
Johanna Bogoslof), to be followed In
1926 by Ship Rock and other volcanic
ADMINISTRATIONS Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
CLEANING Cretonne.

Now that cretonne and chintz are
used so universally about the house
this cleaning suggestion should be in
valuable, as it can be adopted in tho
home so easily Take one pound of
rice and boil it in a gallon of water
until the rice Is quite soft. Now
strain off about one quart of the milky
water in separate vessel, and add to
it a piece Of gum arabic about the
size Of a small egg. This to be set
aside and used for starch later on.
To the remainder of the water and
rice add enough warm water to wash
the curtains in. Instead of soap rub
the curtains with a handful of boiled
rice and "souse" the cretoone up and
down many times. Rinse in fair wa
ter, and finally starch with the water
as prepared above The cretonne or
chintz material should be ironed when
partly dry mot allowed to dry and
then sprinkled), aud a medium hot
iron should be used If this method
is followed the hangings will be like
new.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Power Of Faith,

Good old George Herbert Che is al
ways known as good and old) says:
curiosity in prying into high specu-
1ative and Improbable questions is an
other great stumbling block into the
holiness Of scholars" It is the spirit
that finds truth, not the mind. A man
has to assume something before he
can hope to reach the truth about any
thing, and that something is not what
he has discovered, but what Is a part
of himself, something intuitive, some
thing he sees with his soul.
A man who speculates about God or
the moral kingdom plunges into jun
gle and gets worse lost as he proceeds.
And this is going on all the time.
Faith Is not argument; neither is re-
ligion. They are both beautiful
helpful, simple life And when one
thinks he can prove anything more
by his syllogisms an. terminologies,
he il sadly mistaken. A man Is aw-
fully deceived about his own wisdom
he gets farther from the truth and
makes himself unhappy beside
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Satisfied With Enough.

He was buying drinks ard cigars
for the bunch in downtown cafe
and was explaining that it was trip
lets. Every one had been satisfied
and the momentous event was being
discussed in all it's bearings.
Congratulations mixed with condo
lences were rendered the happy father
when he bethought himself of n at
tendant circumstance and told It. and
then he bought again. 1t was this:
The small boy of the house had
been praying for a little sister. When
told that not one but three had ar
rived, he knelt and said: "Oh, Lord,
am very thankful, but I'm no pig.
Give someone else a chance"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Incapacttated,

"The fussy Individual who always
has run-in with the waiter never
fares any better than the rest of us
who are satisfied to take things as
they come" said the homeless bache-
lor. II took breakfast with one of
these fussers the other morning in q
little cafe uptown that was new to
both OF US.
"All he wanted was a cup Of coffee
and a couple Of boiled eggs. But you
might have thought the universe de-
pended upon those eggs. After having
given the waiter minute instructions
as to their preparation he sat with his
watch in his hands
Finally the eggs came, and there
was a lot more pow-wow. AS he
cracked the shell of one he turned to
the waiter and said: Are you sure
those eggs are positively fresh?"
And the waiter, who had watery
eyes and very red nose, replied with
all seriousness: II really can't say,
sir. have a frightful cold In my
head"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
FIesh-Reduc.nQ Fad,

The most recent fs,l of the extrems
lists has been for faeting a week or
more at time, or diet of milk OF
buttermilk for longer time. Moth
ing of that sort should be tried except
under the doctors orders, and with
his watchful eye upon the effects of
the treatment Moreover, one must
expect to give up work and go to bed,
so that no strength will be required.
Three splendid movements to be
used in combination with this die.
are, first, rolling on the floor one
hundred times, either once or twice
a day. The clothing should be very
loose for this and one should work up
to the hundred by degrees. Second,
rising slowly on the tiptoes, and then,
with the knees stiff, bending over un-
til the finger tips touch the floor.
This movement will require patience
and perseverance before it is accom-
plished successfully, but it is very
important to hip reduction. Third, ex-
tending the arms on a level with the
shoulders and twisting the upper part
of the body first to one side and then
to the other slowly.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02

Pasadena whenever his business
would permit. This had been going
on for fortnight
AS further complication, Cyril,
just of age, would shortly be in pos
session of $25,000
Nichols walked forlornly home and
went to bed.
Next morning he showed Cyril q
business letter requesting his pres.
ence in San Francisco on Wednesday.
His friend. though decidedly adverse
to any move, consented to go with
him.
Cyril had promised to take Nine
Laska a song that morning, but while
dressing to the whistled accompani-
ment of Polish air, word came that
she had headache, so would he
and Mr. Nichols, too-come In the
evening?
Nine Laska was tying up a spray
of white rose-tree when they arrived.
She gave them each a hand in her
pretty foreign way.
On a porch table was half-burned
SItC. lN1CAOAo ACAI OIL Q AC NC
tected the faintest aroma of very
One CIGAR also.
The professional instinct was
aroused. Nine. Laska had repeatedly
said she knew no one in California
but themselves. The cigar seemed
to tell different story.
Nichols threw his coat in a corner
Of the porch. In the pocket there was
an important letter. If he forgot his
coat he would have to come back for
it-tonight-on account Of leaving
the next day.
Cyril pressed guitar into Marie
Laska's hands, seating himself where
he could watch IT,. singers face.
The boy was Of Poetic nature, and
here was everything to speak to it
the flowers. the music. that lovely
face
"Cyril," Nichols said after time,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
MADE WITH CHEESE
RECIPE FOR PARMEsAN CHEESE
NOODLES.
Melt Two Ounces of Butter, 0ne-Half
Cup Of Flour, Measure of Milk,
Three Eggs and Four Ounces
of the ParmesaH,

Noodles With Parmesan Cheese
Put two ounces of butter into sauce.
pan on hot stove, and when melted
mix in one and a half ounces of -four,
a little salt, little red pepper and q
cupful of milk. Work these into q
hrm paste, add three eggs and four
ounces OF grated CHI csc. Have ready
saucepan Of boiling water. Take
the mixture up in small quantities in
spoon and drop into the water Boil
Tor a quarter Of an hour. Take out,
drain. place the noodles on hot dish
and serve with rich brown sauce.
R1ssotto.-Mix together in a stew
pan over the fire heaping table
spoonful Of butter and the same OF
-four. When mixed put in a finely
chopped onion and fry until Drowned.
Wash a fourth Of a pound of rice in
several waters, drain and add to the
onion. On this pour stock and boil
until each grain Is cooked. Shake
the stewpan occasionally, but do not
stir with a spoon. When cooked sea-
son to taste with pepper and salt and
strain in tablespoonful of lemon
juice. Turn upon a hot dish, strew
some grated Parmesan cheese over it
and serve Immediately.
Almond Cookies.-Rub together six
ounces Of butter and half a pound of
dour. Add two ounces of sifted sugar,
two ounces Of pounded sweet almonds
and the beaten yolk Of an egg. Put
the paste aside for al hour, then pour
into cake tin ano bake for a quarter
of an hour. When done remove from
the tin, divide the cake in half;
spread one-half with Jelly and lay the
other half on top; cut with a sharp
knife into strips, dust with sugar and
arrange in pyramidal form on a glass
dish.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
THINGS WON'T LAST
NOTHING is MADE DURABLE
NOW, WALLS A MAN.
Penho'der, Used Only Seventeen
Years, Already Beginning to Get
Rusty and in Time He Will
Need a New One.

why is it," said a man of habit,
who incidentally writes things for a
living and who has not yet come to
use a typewriter, "why is it that
things can't be made durable?"
Look at that penholder, will you?
AS you see, 1t is a simple round piece
OF wood about as big as a lead pencil
and having around one end of it a
steel band, in the far end of which
there Is place to insert a pen But
just look at that steel attachment now,
Will you-rusty In some places and
hll corroded and crusted with ink;
pretty nearly worn out, and I've been
using that penholder only II years.
In some places the metal has been
eaten entirely away, and the holding
end is now so choked up inside with
rust and crust that it's hard work
Tor me to get pen into it so that it
will hold. I don't suppose I'll be able
to use that penholder at the most
more than two or, three years more.
And I shall have to give it up and
break In a new one. This one fits
my hand and have long been used
to 1t. Really, It seems like a friend
to me. With it have written yards
and yards Of stuff. and some of It. l
hope. pretty
But It's the penholder we are
speaking about! and now 1t is wear
Ing out. l suppose when the steel
finally gets beyond use could have a
new one, just like the old, put on,
and If should break the handle /
could have new handle put in the
steel. But it wouldn't be the old pen
holder.
Il knew a man once who had q
pocket knife that he had long car
ried. and that he highly treasured. In
the course of time he had new blades
put IN his knife, till the blades were
all new, and then when the handle
broke he had 'em put on a new han
die. In all these new parts they
copied exactly the old; in dimensions
and materials it was all the same,
practically it was the same old knife;
and yet this man said that he never
could make the rebuilt knife seem
the same to him.
Il feel that 1t would be just the
same If l should undertake to rebuild
my penholder; and now there is
every indication that it will go up
the flume completely after a use of
only score of years.
why can't be have durable pen
holders ?"-Washington Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Roast Breast Of Veal.

Get two pounds of the breast even
If there is to be no company, for It
can be eaten cold the next day. Roll
out the long narrow piece and I'LL it
with a stufflng of dry, stale white
bread, and chopped pimentos season
ed with cayenne and salt Mix the
mass together with olive oil, put in
a raw beaten egg and lay the dress
ing on the veal, shaping this into a
roll. Skewer or tie with cords and
dredge with -four, pouring over lit
tie olive oil to start the roasting If
there is little fat
This must be thoroughly done to be
perfect, and when it Is served the car
yer cuts a round slice, putting the
stufflng beside it and covering the
two with the gravy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02

An invalid was complacently suck
ing a raw egg.
This does me so much good be
said.
But his visitor, young bacteriolos-
ist. cried impa.iently:
"Vh., man, it's the worst thing
YOU couIu do That egg, for all you
know, may ccme from a tuberculosis
hcr--it nay be flll Of tubercile bacili,
or CONSUMPTION germs. Cooked, the
ec7rt~ are harmless; but. raw, they're
q t~~~:N!c Danger
"i;u:!t YOU know that the French
b-ctc:;olosist at Lyons have succeed
ed n giving consumption to a rabbit
by fec ling it on the gravy from con-
snmrtiye chicken? Don't YOU know
that they have even given rabbits con-
sumption by inoculating them with
raw white of esq from consumptive
hens?
res. corsumptive chickens are q
grave source of danger, and in France
France always leads the world
they are establishing governmental
inspection of chickens and eggs. Till
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02

Nichols pulled his hat we'll down
to hide the worried look his face
wore.
TITS pretty piece Of business" he
said to himself I'm convinced the
woman's an adventures, but how am
l to find .out, and Cyril getting every
day more bewitched? II only she
claimed some civilized country-but
Poland, where I haven't a friend-or
even an enemy!"
John Nichols and Cyril Thornton
were close friends. Nichols, much
the elder, and Cyril's sister were. to
have been married. but she died.
Nichols was a lawyer from New
York, and in the interest of a client
was now In Los Angeles. Cyril, re-
covering from typhoid, had come
with him for quicker convalescence.
Everything had been going on
smoothly when their train met with
an accident.
They had escaped injury and saved
the life of beautiful woman. The
woman, whom Cyril thought the
most charming he had ever seen, was
very grateful. apparently very frank.
Her name, she said, was Marie
Laska: she had been a widow two
years. Her father-and she said this
with lowered voice-was deep in
Polish politics. He had sent her
away fearing she might come under
suspicion. She never would have left
him, but illness had made another
northern winter dangerous, and she
had taken small house near Pasa-
dena. She intended to live in retire
ment and have a complete rest be-
fore returning to Poland.
It was surprising how much time
had been spared by both, for Nichols,
unwilling that Cyril should spend
days and evenings alone with the
charming foreigner, found himself in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Silk Socks Foe to Matrimony.

Tha the desire of young men to
decorate themselves in sartorial fnery
Is the prime cause why many fail to
place their necks under the yoke of
matrimony, is the assertion of Rev.
Samuel Hemphill, distinguished
Irish clergyman.
1T seems that the young men of to-
day." says DR.. Hemphill, prefer pat.
ent leather shoes and spats and a fort
nights Swelling about watering
place, or game of billiards at a club
every night, to the delights of family
life. Their wages, in most cases, will
not permit both the sartorial adorn-
ment and some sort of a club and a
wife, SO they go in for f1ashy clothes
and let lot Of sweet girls pine out
their lives in maidenhood. Better the
love Of sweet wife than all the silk
socks and gcudy Waistcoats in the
WOr.A.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-02
Roasted Spanish Onions.

Wash we'll in cold water as many
onions as are required to roast. Do
not peel them; put them into a sauce
pan with enough cold water to cover
them. Stand them over the fire and
let them simmer gently for two hours
then lift them one at time from the
water with skinner; place them in
baking dish, pull the skins off, sea-
son them with light sprinkling of
red pepper and plenty Of salt. Put
tablespoonful Of butter on top Of each
onion, cover them we'll with fine bread
crumbs and stand them in a quick
oven and let them roast until a rich
brown on the top; then serve in the
dish in which they are roasted.