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w. c. T. U. Meeting

The monthly meeting of the w, c.
T. L. of Democracy was held at the
home of Mrs. Anna Kunkel Saturday,
May 4th.
President called meeting to order.
Song. Devotional service led by Mrs.
Keiffer assisted by Mrs. Edgar and
Mrs. Keasling.
Resolutions of respect to the mem
ory of Fanny l.. Tish were read and
accepted
Arrangements for gold medal con
test are being made.
The S. T. l. superintendent gave
an encouraging report OF her work
in the schools.
An interesting program was given
by the following children:
Orpha Keiffer, Emma Harrison
Alice Harrison. Gale Shuman, Mona
Shuman, Dwight Kunkel. Marie
Kunkle. Hazel Kunkel, Mary Keas
ling. Edith Pealer.
Four new members We're received
June meeting TO be held at the
home of Misses Reed north of the
village, Thursday, June 9th.
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OFFICERS
Elected For The Kenyon As.
SembIy At Gambler

Gambler. Ohio, May The regu-
lar meeting of the Kenyon Assembly
was held on Monday evening with a
large attendance. Officers were elect
ed, there being four candidates for
president, three for vice president
and five for secretary. The following
were chosen:
President. W. Wickham of Nor
walk. Ohio.
Vice President-v. c. McMasters
of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Secretary Baird of Newark,
Ohio.
Treasurer-Pr Professor Downey of
Gambler.
This association controls the col
Iege athletics. student discipline. col
lege publications and dramatic clubs
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Werner Bacon and wife of Olive
Green, were recent guests in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. B. NJ. Frost.
Homer Smith made business trip
TO Wooster last week.
Blum Messmore is moving back
from Marion and will occupy the Mrs.
+. Davidson house.
Russell Bush and family of Johns
town have moved into the house re-
Gently vacated by II. A. Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. p Wigton and little
daughter. Lucille of Mt. Liberty visited
Miss Addie Annett Thursday.
C. T. Mooney lost a valuable horse
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John z. Litzenbure
and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Chapman
were entertained Sunday by Lewis Lit
zenburg and wife of II. d. 3.
Henry Helt of Detroit, Mich, and
daughter, Miss Emma, of Bucyrus
were Sunday guests in the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Cotton.
Mr.. Earl b. Walter and little sons
spent several days visiting friends al
Columbus last week.
Mrs. O. S. Adams and daughters
Kathryn and Jane, left Tuesday for q
visit with Mrs. Adams brother, ID. w
Fuller and family at Montgomery, Ala
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Boys, you should get your applica-
tion for the corn contest in at once to
that you will secure the benefits of
all the instructions that will be sent
out to the contestants.
For further information write at
once to A. p. Sandles. Secretary Ohio
Board of Agriculture, Columbus, o.
personally invite every member of
the Knox Co. Corn Improvement As
sociation to interest the boys of their
townships in this contest, and urge up
on them to make entry at once as the
entry limit expires June 1st. 1912.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
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Gambler. o., May !.
Editor Banner
wish TO invite the attention of the
readers of the Banner TO the Boys
Acre OF Corn Contest to be conducted
this year in every county in Ohio.
First-This is a county contest-A
free trip to Washington, ID. c., has
been provided by the cooperation of
the Knox County Pomona Grange. The
Knox County Fair Board. the banks of
Mt. Vernon, and numerous individuals.
This trip is TO be under the supervi-
sion of Secretary A. p. Sandles of the
State Board cd Agriculture, and to be
given to the boy raising the largest
number OF bushels of shelled corn on
an acre of ground.
Second-Two boys who enter this
acre of corn contest will receive free
trip to the Ohio State Fair at the ex-
pense of the Ohio Board OF Agricul-
ture. In addition to these trips Gin
cinnati paper offers to any boy in Ohio
growing the largest number of bushels
of shelled corn on an acre of ground
the following cash prizes:
First $500, End $4,000, Srd $500
4th $500, 5th $1,000.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
offers additional cash prizes as fol
lows:
First $4,000. End $4,000, Srd $4,000
4th $4,000, 9TH $1,000, 9th $500, Ttf
s25o.
Boys to be eligible must be under q
years of age. Every person interested
in this corn campaign should insis
on all boys ON the farms making en-
try. it costs nothing TO do so.
Boys are naturally modest and ma,
hesitate to go in, but every one shoulS
encourage them to do SO.
Wheat is almost a failure, corr
most therefore become the more in
portant this year.
This corn >contest offers a rar'
chance for the farm boys OF kno'
county and Ohio to exert themselves
in their own interest. The outlool
for the Washington trip is very good
Provisions have been made for NOR,
than hundred boys to make this trir
The idea is being appreciated b,
those who are able to provide for tn
expenses necessary that aboy shalt b
permitted TO enjoy visit to the na
tional capital. II means that ther
will be an interest in corn cultur
that will inspire the boys of Ohio {
learn more of the possibilities of tn
corn crop than ever before. Even
the boy does not win the best prize
he will secure results from his wor
that will stay with him all his life
: 1t means that the agriculture of III
: state will receive a boost from tn
BOYS who are to be the future farmers
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FLOOD
COmpells Father huIhane To
Cancel His Lectures In
The South

a telegram was received by Father
Mulhane Tuesday morning from La
fayette. Louisiana, conveying the in
formation that the floods in the South
are causing widespread distress and
all railroad trains are in a chaotic
condition. Father Mulhane was book
ed for two weeks course OF lee
lures in the cities of New Orleans,
Houston. Texas, and other places
but these had to be cancelled for the
present on account of the floods.
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Mr. Glenn Men OF Columbus, o., was
the guest of Millwood relatives sun
day.
Mr.. John Ralston OF Howard was
Millwood visitor Sunday evening.
Mrs. Silas Fry is quite poorly.
The county commissioners and
Pennsylvania railroad officials were
in town Friday visiting the Bridge
Hin.
Mr.. Lewis Heurickson has reopen
ed his blacksmith and repair shop.
Mi. Oregon Fike and wife were the
guests of Millwood relatives Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs w A, White We're in
rown Saturday and Sunday.
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Saturday, June l, 1912, at
O'Clock, P. M.

for the purpose Of selecting delegates to
represent the Democracy of Knox county
in the state convention. circuit judicial
convention common pleas judicial conven-
ton and senatorial convention. as follows:
Eight delegates and eight alternates to
the Democratic state convention to be
held at Toledo. o., June 4 and 3.
Eight delegates and eight alternates to
the circuit judicial convention to be held
at Canton. o.. June a.
Forty delegates and forty alternates to
the common pleas judicial convention to
be held at Newark. o., July :.
Forty delegates and forty alternates to
the senatorial convention to be held in
Mt. Vernon, o.. June II.
| The several townships and wards are
entitled to the number of delegates in the
J county convention as follows:
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THE ANNUAL
MEETING
OF ST. PauPS Parish Held On
Monday Evening
When Reports We're Given
By The Rector
And Secretaries OF The
Various Societies
WafdenS And VeStrymen
Elected For Year
Delegates And AltefnateS
Chosen For Convention

The annual parish meeting of st.
Pauls Episcopal church was held at
the parish house Monday evening.
The meeting was opened with
prayer by the rector. and Robert b.
Levering was elected clerk for the ev-
ening.
The rector reported "a baptisms, .
received by letter of transfer, by
confirmation. Dismissed by letter 3,
90 burials, Is of whom were communi-
cants, and 9 marriages The common
aims s4313.
The treasurer's report Showed local
expenditure. s2.1S2.sS.
The Sunday school reported an en-
rollment of 169. Expense of the school
$1O6.S9. For Missions s62.66.
The treasurer of the Missionary
fund reported for missions s2TS.1O.
The reorganized women's Church
Guild reported raised during the win
ter S629.O3. The gift OF the ]. w
Douglas Co. bath room fixtures was
Sl25.OO. Expended on internal i'm
provements at rectory sS141S. Bal
ance on hand S261.60.
The Women's Auxiliary Missionary
Society reported donations in wearing
apparel and cash 10 the amount o
$151.26.
The Daughters of the King in ad
dition to their duties in caring for ths
altar and vestments donated S120 to
ward the music expense. Dues, etc.
$1,000.
The Willing Workers Circle of tn,
Kings Daughters expended s26.00 fol
parish purposes and sS.9S for repairs
on the room kept up at the Home fO
the Aged.
Total henevOience. ...S 5l5.25
Total local expense. ..... 3.07S.63
$s.5s3.ss
The election of wardens and vestry
men resulted as follows;
ID. b. Kirk, Senior Warden.
C. A Bope, Junior Warden.
vestrymen-J. V. V. Elder. S. H
Peterman. R. S. Hull, C. G. Conley, H
c. Devin, C. C. Iams. Frank Harper
Ben Ames, w E. Grant and Chas
Roberts.
At the organization of the new YES
try John V V. Elder was made clerI
and S. II. Peterman treasurer.
AS lay-delegates to the dioscesa
convention at Cleveland May 2ls
Messrs. ID. b. Kirk, C. G. Conley an
Charles Roberts. Alternates c. 4
Bope, II. C. Devin and Harry Brown.
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HELPS A JUDGE IN BAD FIX

HELPS A JUDGE IN BAD FIX
Justice Eli Cherry, of Gillis Mills,
Tenn. was plainly worried. A bad sore
on his leg had baffled several doctors
and long resisted all remedies. Il
thought it was a cancer" he wrote
AT last used Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and was completely cured" Cures
burns, boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises and
piles. 25 cents at G. r. Baker & Co.
Mt. Vernon.
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ROAD NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a p"fition
Knox county at their next session June
Srd. A D. 1872 praying for the establish
ment of a public road on the following
line. to-wit: Beginning at point IN the
at the southeast corner of the Garrett
Lucas farm, thence running west on the
line between the Lucas and Phillips farms
one hundred l0Ol rods, thence south, on
The line between the Phillips AMI ivan
Gilmore farms about forty t4ol rods
thence running in a westerly an" ctl9h
about sixty ,6W rods To intersort the
AnlSnevtOWn road between the Mccoy and
O'DanieIs farms and there termir =
C. f. MCKINLEY.
Principal Petitioner.
MAY LIST A. H., 1912.
b-Sl0l7.24S
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ROAD NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a petition
will be presented To the Commissioners
of Knox county. at their next session
June 3, A. D.. 1872. praying FOR the chang.
ing of public road on the following line.
to-wit: Beginning at a point on the pub
lie highway located on the line between
Pike and Brown townships Knox coun-
ty. Ohio known as the Butter and How
ard road. near the intersection of the line
between the lands OF NJ. =, Cunningham
and Ida NJ. Hunt with said road, which
said Intersection is q shor; distance south
of the Bigelow church; running thence in
a SOuthwesterly direction through the
lands of Cinda Porter in Pike township
along the foot of the bluff about twenty
rods. thence running in southeasterk
direction through the lands of the said
Cinda Porter about twenty rods, inter
secting said Butler and Howard road at
a point near Black Oak tree standing
in the center of said road.
April ~. 4. d, 1872.
NJ Il. CUNNINGHAM
Principal Petitioner
5-2.l0l72iS
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Mr.. w. w. Young and daughter,
Miss Ollie, went to Columbus Tues
day morning. Miss Ollie will under
go an operation at the Protestant
hospital.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-05-10

Mrs. Susanna Dunlap and daughter,
Esther. OF Akron. are making a two
weeks visit with Mrs Dunlap's sis
ter. Mrs. C. S. Darling who resides
Just west of the city.
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DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CONVENTION
To Select Delegates to the State, Cir
cult Judicial, Common Pleas Ju.
dicial and Senatorial Conventions.

The delegates elected in the several
townships and wards in Knox county at
the primary held May p. 1912, will meet
in county convention at the Court
House in Nj Vernon O ON
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killed after battle that had lasted five
hours. A fe wdays before M. Gouin,
deputy chief of the Paris detective SER
vice, had been killed in an encounter
with the auto bandits and there is evil
dehce that Bonnot fired the shots that
killed him. More than twenty-five per-
sons had been killed during the three
years that the auto bandits held sway
in Paris. One of the murders and rob-
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A daughter was born Tuesday
morning TO MIR. and Mrs. Walter Nc
Millen of near Danville.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-05-10

Miss Ethel Logsdon of Danville
visited with friends in the city over
Tuesday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-05-10

Mr.. w. L. Guess of Harlem Springs,
Ohio, spent Tuesday in the CITY on
business.
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berries yielded s5o,ooo to the perpetra.
tors, and $4,000 was realized from an
other of the crimes. In most of the
robberies an auto was used, though
members of the band also used BIZ
cycles. After the two men found in
the garage were killed the police gath
cred in large collection of weapons
of various kinds and a complete set of
burQlar's tools.
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A GROD CHANCE
For Some mex Co. Boy To Get A
Free Trip To Washington $50

Gambler. o., May
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27
s::s :ssss gE 4, ,ConiirmatiOnIN

Notice is hereby given that on this
day Albert II, CreedOn and Hazel Is,
CreeGon have filed their petition in
the chancery court Of Boone county,
Arkansas, praying to have their title
established, quieted and confirmed,
subject to mortgages mentioned here
in and therein, to the following lands
lying and being situate in Boone
county, Arkansas, to-wit
East half Of the northwest quarter
of section 9, township % north, range
q west, subject to mortgage dated
November l3, 1909 to J, l., Sims, re-
corded in Book NJ, page lO5, records
Of Boone county, and for Sl5O,O0O and
interest,
Also southeast quarter of the north.
east quarter Of section 8, southwest
quarter of northwest quarter, west
half Of southwest quarter, northeast
quarter Of southwest quarter, all in sec
ton 9, township 20 north, range 81
west subject to mortgage for $500, 90
TO John G. Hall, trustee, and New
England Sureties Co., dated April l8,
1910 and recorded in Book p, page SO,
Record Boone county, Arkansas.
Now all persons having any claim
to said lands or any part thereof, eX'
cept those holding mortgages describ'
ed herein, will show cause, If any
they have, in said court and within
the time required by law, why the
title to said lands should nos be quiet
ed, established and confirmed
Given under my hand and the seal
Of said court this 25rd day of April,
1912. ROBERT T. DopSoN,
Clerk Of the circuit aud chancery
courts Of Boone countyArkansas,
CRUMp d TRIMBLE,
Solicitors for Petitioners,
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A Bill to Increase the Presiden-
tial Term.

A bill has been introduced by Sen
ator Works, Of California, for eS-
tending the presidential term from
four to six years, This is q bill that
most everyone in this country cS.
cept politicians would like to see
passed, and if the voters throughout
the country will continue to bonn.
bard with letters, we will soon be
clecting presidents only six years,
and prohibiting them by law from
serving more than one term Dur
ing Il presidential year every busi-
ness man must expect business TO be
slow, and it is foolish for this coun.
try TO indulge in so much politics
when IL gains nothing by it, but
suffers q positive loss,
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

established In the north part y.
Boone, Marion and Baxter counties
there is a great deal Of shallow lead
and zinc carbonate, a little here and
n little there, in soft shallow ground
with always the chance Of running
into something big, 1t was the
shallow lead which kept the smelt-
ers running long after the war; it
paid then because they had a cash
market. This same kind of mining
now would pay if the small operator
could turn in every week and get
cash for his small lots. The larger
operators would also appreciate a
market where they could turn in a
car Of ore at a time, and know ex-
actly what they were going to get
for their product, and get theirc check
for it on delivery
WuEN REAr MINING BEGAN
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first of the new year if the ore de
post proves to be as extensive ant
promising as the present prospeci
indicates,
"The Pilot Rock Mining Co. con.
templates the building of the largest
mill in the Dodd City district, or o.
the North Arkansas field. The com.
pany has opened face Of ore 80 #,
high, and has not yet cut the full
width Of the deposit, In the prelim-
mary work the deposit has been
opened in several shafts along the
side, but the company has decided
to face up the entire hillside and mill
all the dirt, Present plans include
the erection of a 400.ton concentrate
ing plant
THE Red Cloud management
plans the building of a tramline
from Rush to some point on the
White River railroad to handle all
The ore from that camp. If this pro
ject is completed many owners of
mining land in that camp will start
mining operations The Wheeler
Bros, operating the Bileau near
Zinc, are contemplating building n
phil as soon as they get enough mill
big ore to justify it. The dissent
hated ore at this mine is very rich,
the dump being estimated at 8 to 10
per cent zinc and lead, 1t is alto
gether likely that a plant will be
built here.
MANY FAILURES DUE TO MIsMAN-
AGEMENT.
properties in the North Arkan-
,as field can be classified as follows;
Prospects developed from a few
shots into an outcrop, properties
where they are ready for n mill,
where there is not suih-
'ient ore to run upon, properties
,pon which there are both ore and
Mills, but are run spasmodically
md properties upon which there are
10Th ore and mills which are run
The mines believed gen
rally TO have sufficient ore to run
lpon, and which are running spas
medically, are the Jack Pot, Bonan-
a, Silver Hollow, Lion Hill, Beulah,
Macintosh in the Rush district on
Buffalo River the Alma, Madison,
,oon Hollow and lola in the Zinc
istrict; the Bcatey, Monkey Hill
nd Erie Ozark in the Kingdom
spring district the Pilot Rock,
Slack Bear, SusQuehanna and Ma
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Made the Dream True.

A Blackburn (Eng) man has
proved himself q strong believer In
dreams, A few nights ago his young
son dreamt that he saw his father run
over by a motor wagon, and next
day the man, after writing on piece
Of paper, MY child's dream" threw
IN front OF motor wagon
and was killed
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

In view of the number Of men,
whose names, like that Of Abou Ben
Adam, "led all the rest " who went
10 their graves in the Atlantic on
that awful night when the Titanic
struck the iceberg, "os big as a
mountain it is interesting to know
that the Chinese, in their maritime
regulations, insist upon saving the
men first, the children next and the
women last, on the theory that the
men are more useful to the state
than the women, "for what would
women do without their husbands?'
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27
OVER 10, 900 signatures have been

OVER 10, 900 signatures have been
filed with the Secretary of State,
considerably more than the number
necessary to initiate the Statewide
Prohibition Bill There are still
about 20O0 petitions in circulation
in various parts of the state, and
most Of these will be returned with
some signers. 1t is now confidently
believed that the number will reach
a total of $4,000,
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sMining
The IIARRISONTIMFc I,
" Indus

I. R. Newman, Editor. !
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

NOTWITHSTANDING the awiulness
of the disaster of the Titanic, where.
in nearly two thousand lives were
blotted out amid the ice flows of
Cape Race, the great heart Of the
nation is rent with sorrow and pity
for the lives lost and in peril
through the floods in the Mississippi
valley.
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

II ;s going to cost the public more
nointain all those ohshoots Of
~ ~. Standard Oil Co., for their COM
ast;tion seems to consist mainly in
sraeh irving to declare the largest
dividend,
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27
An Addreso, He Theuaht.
BY A. W. MACY.
THE KNOW NOTHING
PARTY.

Ere o brings omo olo boXful OF
erockory for the missuA an wrlto9
out u label marked China Nn' puts It
on the box for sOfoty, an bust mo iib'
boom II bloomin porter ain't gone
and sent II or thereI"-Tho Tattlor
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

medicine a day. could not walk more
than a hundred yards without resting
my friends told me to take Peruna,
and I did 80. now feel that Peruns
has saved my life. It is the best medi-
zine on earth, and I would not be
without It."
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

RELIEF expeditions which we haNs
~, 49, =, the habit ofsending to othel
s',t,are,.;ng 81 -, lands may be needed
S. s'.,"santIv TO minister to some Of our
p p.,,, charming river suburbs.
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

IT is an encouraging sign and a
source of satisfaction to the Temper
ance workers that the leading State
candidates in the campaign just
closed scorned the support Of the IL
quor people. In fact, the saloon
men were Stunned like the pestilence
this time. Southern Standard.
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27

WE note with our usual surprise
tbattk Hon. Joseph G. Cannon has
beea rn ominated by the usual ma
;ontr in the eighteenth Congress
sSiopil district, 1t will also surprise
mss usual if he should be reelected
eusual.
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27
ONE touch of the rhubarb
makes the whole world KIM

JuDclxe by the way they yI.,1. are NA
ing out the Militia and ponce %, 'i ai5%
ST. state conventions, they'll need u,
army and navy at Chicago
The Harrison times., 1912-04-27
TRIED
SEVEN
DOCTORS
MY Life Saved by Pe-ru-na.

Mr.. s. s.
] o h n @ o n,
Gre enville,
ILL.,, writes:
II was for
Ave years
|. r o u b lie d
" 1 / h ca
.arrh. Two
years ago l
lad one foot
n the grave.
/ had tried
seven doc
tors and al
50 went to
1 ca [ a rr h
In
81. Louis 8.
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; @ v e r q /
& 1 n d s Of