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INSTALLS
System At frederiCktOWn To
Reclaim Land
A Mt. GilGad Man Has A
Most Extensive Plan
mt. Gilead SentineD

(Mt. Gilead SentiDeD
The reclamation OF waste land in
and around Morrow county has not
yet become economical essential, but
at least in one instance the owners
have thought IL profitable Such
project, one OF the most thorough
and systematic systems in the state,
designed by Thad e. Buck, OF Mt.
Gilead, has just been completed for
Dan. Struble and son. just west of
Fredericktown.
The territory drained consists of
low tract Of land OF about 100 acres,
into which emptied a stream of wat
er, gathered from an extendency for
two miles or more into the hills to
the westward. The ground below this
part of the land was from to feet
above the level Of the swamp. The
draining of the swamp necessitated
| cutting through the bank, through
the village of Fredericktown to Owl
| Creek, a distance of about 1000 feet
The outlet as constructed, consists
of 26 inch concrete pipe, with storm
water ditch constructed over same.
There is used in the drainage of the
swamp, about 400 it. of the 26 inch
pipe, 800 #. of 20 inch pipe, 1890 IT..
of 10 inch tile, 5000 IT. of IL inch
tile, 3,400 IT. of 10 inch tile, and A.
5, and inch tile were used in the
sub branches, making total of 13
miles of tile of the various sizes used
in the system. The branches are laid
from to 5 rods apart.
The tile was laid under supervi-
sion of w. w. Monnett, contractor,
of Sparta, o. The labor alone costing
about $3,500, while the total cost of
the work will exceed $4,000.
| Mr.. Struble had several engineers
from different parts of the State to
look at the job, but nothing was done
until about two years ago. At that
time Mr.. Buck was called to look
after the work, after several days of
preliminary leveling the present sys,
tenn was devised and the entire
charge of the work was left in Mr.
Bucks hands.
The work has been satisfactorily
done and the drainage successfully
taken care Of, as the finest corn in
the county was grown upon it last
year. There is no doubt that the
land will prove to be excellent fol
onions and celery.
| Mr.. Buck also designed a reinforc
ed concrete bridge over the ditch fol
private driveway.
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She has now been removed to the
residence of Dr. Ash, a nerve spe-
eialist, in order to enable a study to
be made of her case and to get her
away from the crowds which have
been visiting her home since Sun.
day, after the people had learned OF
the angels visit.
The girl claims that she saw a
vision Of fame and head a voice
saying, "Thy sufferings are over"
and that she was able to get up and
walk.
Miss KERN, who Is % years old,
has been bedridden for five years
with mild attack of tuberculosis.
Recently she became blind and deaf.
She now sees and hears and is able
to stand up.
Many physicians who examined her
case are inclined to the opinion that
the cure was effected by auto-sugges-
ton through her intense emotional
state. and that this caused the vision.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
FLAMES RAVAGE
OKLAHOMA Mine
Between 20 And 40 Believed To
Be EntODbed
Six Bodies Are Recovered. Failure Of Machinery To Work
At Critical Moment Responsible For Many Lives
One Hundred Men Walk Or Are Carried To Safety
By Rescue Squad, Some Unconscious. Hope For
Those Remaining In Shaft Is Abandoned

Lehigh Okla, Feb. %. - 1t is be-
Heved that between 20 and 40 miners
employed in the coal mine of the
Wichita Coal and Mining company
loat their lives when fire broke
sat in mine No. 5, entombing the
men. The filling up Of the shafts
with smoke and the failure OF the
machinery to work prevented their
rescue. Six dead bodies have been re-
moved from the mine and the work
is still being pushed. The fire 10 still
raging in the mine and it Is not be-
keved that any Of those yet within
the shafts can be alive. The num-
ber of those is estimated variously
by different officers Of the company
ut from 10 to 35.
When fire broke out the alarm was
spread through the mine Of the dis
aster and more than 100 miners
either walked out or were carried
out by rescuers overcome by smoke.
A large number who were uncon-
ssious from suffocation were revived
after reaching the fresh air. The
work of rescue is being pushed by
the rescue party from the rescue
station at McAlester.
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b}(O) y
Played With Powder With The
Usual Result

william, the four-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Quick, residing
about one mile south of Lock, was
severely burned about the face and
head by an explosion of powder with
which he was playing Thursday after
noon. The child had secured several
cartridges and had emptied the pow
der out of them into glass tumbler.
This done. he lighted the powder with
match and the explosion followed,
burning him about the face. His eyes
were injured and soon swelled shut.
1t is not yet known whether or not
the sight will be impaired.
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FEDERATION
Formed But Jamaica And
!. Bahama Are Left Out

London, Feb. 23--In these days OF
the bringing together of small states
into dominions, commonwealths' or
unions, as the case may be, 1t is on
ly natural that the small and scatter
ed West Indian islands should be tend
ing in the same direction.
Various causes are contributing to
bring about such a result. The opening
of the Panama canal in 1918 may be
expected to exert considerable In
fueuce on the economic and other
conditions In the West Indies. At any
rate questions are bound to come to
the front which could best be dealt
with II the various islands are united
together in such way that one au-
thority, closely acquainted with local
conditions, might be able to speak on
behalf of the whole. Some indication
of the advantage of such union was
given recently when Canada refused
to negotiate reciprocity with any sim
gle colony but only with the colonies
as a whole.
In these circumstances particular IN
terest attaches to a scheme Of fedora
ton which has been put forward, not
In any way In his official capacity, by
the Hon. c. Gideon Murray, adminis-
traitor of the island OF st. Vincent.
The federation he proposes consists OF
Trinidad and Tobago, British Guiana
Barbados, Greneda, St. Vincent, st
Lucia, Dominica, Antigua (including as
a dependency, Montserrat), st. Chris
topber and Nevis (including as a de
pendency the Virgin islands). 1t will
be noted that no mention is made oi
Jamaica and the Bahamas, and q
glance at the map will show why this
is SO. These islands being at grea
distance from each other as we'll al
from the islands mentioned in the lis
already given.
Under Mr. Murray's scheme eaci
federal colony would retain it's contro
and direction Of purely local affairs
and taxation, and though the constit
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
CLOSE
And Exciting Basket Ball
Game At Y. N. c. A.
Newark Defeated Mt. Vernon
By Score Of 80 To 2S

The Mt. Vernon high school lost
hardly contested game of basket ball
to the Newark high school team on
the Y. NJ. C. A. floor Thursday even
ing, the final score being 80 to 2S. At
the close of the contest the score
stood 2S points for each team and a
final basket was played to decide the
game, the visitors being successful.
Thursday evenings game was the
closest and the most interesting of
the season and was practically any
body's until the final basket was
thrown. The teamwork of both
squads was excellent, although that
OF the Newark aggregation was SUPER
ior at times, hence the final score.
Postle and Sapp starred for the locals
while Brown was Newark's shining
light. At the close of the first half
of the game the score was IL to in
favor of the visitors who started
things with a rush and, by means of
several Mt. Vernon fouls, gained a
good lead.
Mt. Vernon lost the game on foul
goals. This was the greatest draw
back that had to be contended with
and 1t resulted disastrously In the
end as the visitors gained a goodly
number of their points in this manner
while the locals received the benefit
of very few Newark fouls. Taken in
all, the two teams were as evenly
matched as 1t would be possible to
make them and another game would
perhaps result IN Mt. Vernon victory.
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MEN AND RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.

San Francisco, CAL, Feb. 24-Tomor-
row will mark the formal opening OF
the Men and Religion Forward Move
ment campaign in San Francisco. The
meetings here will continue until
March 8 and win be followed by sim.
liar campaign in Oakland, Alameda
and Berkeley. The features that have
characterized the campaigns in many
large cities in the East and middle
West will be duplicated here and
there will be series OF special meet.
ings in which the Chinese and Jap
anese residents OF San Francisco and
vicinity viii take part.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
q a. q NATURES CURE
A9s 0s ~u9s FOE BLOOD POISON

S. S. known Natures
entirely
herbs rk taken directly the land It does
pared to aid in the upbung every portion system while dv
Contagious Blood Poison the blood
follow the OF s. ST. such stomach troubles dyspepsia
rheumatism often the
s. goes down to the very bottom of the trouble and gently surely
vegetable
OF the disease health condition
hide
thoroughly signs trouble ever re-
Blood Poison.
nation and medical advice all VIII write
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, CA
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
Depth of the Ocean.

According to, marine surveys, the
maximum depth of the ocean, found
by taking soundings. is approximately
FIVE and quarter miles. Marine ell
gineers have expressed the belief. how
ever. that the variation in depth is con-
siderable al the years pass.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
Federicktown, Ohio.
REPRESENTATIVE

Please announce that l am candi.
date for the nomination for the Office
of Representative, subject to the de.
cision. of the Democratic electors at
the primaries. Tuesday, May 21, 1912
N. H. HUNTER,
of Buckeye City.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
COUNTY AUDITOR

Please announce that / am a candi-
date for the nomination of the office
of County Auditor, subject to the deci-
sion of he Democratic electors at the
primaries Tuesday, May 21, 1919.
WALTER NJ. RILEY.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27

Mr.. Carroll Conard, who is attending
Cleyeland-Plute Medical College at
Cleveland, is spending several days
with his parents, DR.. and Mrs. c. X.
uonard.
Mr.. Byron Lewis of this city was a
bnsiness visitor in Mansfield over
Thursday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
TREASURER

Please announce to the voters Of
Knox county that ! will again be a
candidate for che office of Treasurer,
subject to the decision of the Demo
cratic electors at the primaries, Tues
day, May 81, 1912.
LLOYD NJ. BELL,
OF Centerburg.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
PROBATE JUDGE

Please announce that am candi-
late for the nomination Of the Office
If Probate Judge subject to the de-
,ision Of the Democratic electors at
the primaries Tuesday, May 21, 1912.
SEBA NJ. CROUCH.
Please announce that I am candi-
date for the nomination for the Office
OF Probate Judge, subject to the de-
cisisn of the Democratic electors at
the primaries. Tuesday, May 21, 1912.
THos. ]. REMINGTON,
of Brink Haven.
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STATE SENATOR

Kindly announce that l am candi'
date for the nomination for State Sena-
tor to the General Assembly of Ohio
from the 17-2Sth Senatorial District,
subject to the endorsement of the
of Knox county.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
College Twp.
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Admits killina Sons wife.

Olean, N. Y, Feb 23.--"Yes,
filled her. She tried to freeze IN
out and threw a knife at me and
beat her to death with hammer"
This was the statement Of William
Lunds, 20, who is under arrest charg-
ed with the murder OF his daughter
in-law
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
RECORDER

Please announce that I am a candi-
date for the nomination for the Office
Of Recorder, subject 70 the decision of
the Democratic electors at the primar-
les, Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
ROBERT B. LEvERING.
Please announce that l am a can
fIdate for nomination for the office
Of Recorder, subject to the decision OF
the Democratic electors at the primar-
les Tuesday. May 21, 1912.
CLIFTON G. HUNT.
Please announce that l am a can
didate for nomination for the Office of
Recorder, subject to the decision of
the Democratic electors at the primar-
les Tuesday, May II, 1919.
GEO. e. YAUGER.
Please announce that am a candi-
date for the nomination for the office
of Recorder, subject to the decision
Of the Democratic electors at the prim-
aries, Tuesday, May q, 1912.
EDGAR c. RUSH.
Please announce that l am a candi-
date for the nomination for the office
OF Recorder subject to the decision of
the Democratic electors at the primar
lea Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
CAREY EARNEST PURDY.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27

Please announce that am candi-
date for the nomination of State SEN
ator for this district, subject to the en-
dorsement of the Democrats of Knox
county, through their delegates to be
elected at the primaries to be held
May 21st.
COLUMBUS EWALT.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. John Kilduff OF Orr
vile spent Thursday in the city vis-
iting with relatives.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27

Please announce that l am candi-
date for the nomination of the Office
Of Sheriff, subject to the decision of
the Democratic Electors at the primar-
les Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
JOHN NJ. WOOLISON.
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COM MISSIONER

Please announce that am candi
date for nomination for the office OF
Commissioner, subject to the decision
Of the Democratic electors at the pri-
maries Tuesday, May 21, 1912.
ROBERT J. GROsSMAN,
Pike township.
Please announce that I am a candi-
date for the nomination for the Of
fee Of Commissioner. subject to the
decision of the Democratic electors
at the primaries Tuesday, May 21.
1912.
JOHN G. EARLEYWINE.
Jackson township,
Please announce that / am a can,
didate for the nomination for the Of
fee OF Commissioner, subject to the
decision Of the Democratic electors
at the primaries Tuesday. May 81.
1912.
THOMAS SOLOMON PARKER.
Butler township.
Please announce that am a candi.
date for nomination for my second
term as Commissioner, subject to the
decision of the Democratic electors
at the primaries Tuesday, May 21..
1912.
LEGRAND BRITTON,
Howard, Ohio.
Please announce that l am a candi-
date for nomination for my second
term as Commissioner, subject to the
decision OF the Democratic electors at
the primaries Tuesday, May 81, 1912
T. NJ. DILL.
Ffedericktown, Ohio.
Please announce that / am candi.
date for the nomination for the Office
of Commissioner, subject to the deci-
sion of the Democratic electors at the
primaries on Tuesday, May 21. 1912.
+. M. SHEFFER,
Milford Township
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27

Judge ]. d. Waight and Mr.. Frank
Moore were Columbus visitors this af-
teruoon.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
CURED IN VISION
London Aroused by Remarkable Es
perjence of Younu Woman.

London, Feb. 23.-This city is in
tarested in the case of Dorothy KERN
al Herne Hill, a short distance from
London. who claims she has been
restored to health and regained her
hearing and sight as the result OF
the visit of an angel on last Sunday
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-02-27
Political Announcements
SHERIFF

Please announce that l am candi-
date for the nomination for the office
of Sheriff, subject to the decision Of
the Democratic electors at the prim-
aries on Tuesday, May 81, 1912.
FRANK L. TYDINGS
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03

beautiful city and clean one-not a
Port Said IN any sense OF the word
Nowhere can you find the filth OF India
or of Egypt-not even in Chinese
meatshop. Big bearded Sikhs police
the streets, with now and then Ma
lay or a Chinese patrolman. and you
may wander at viii by day or night
without apprehension. 1t is not Puri-
tannical city, this Singapore, but neither
is Cairo nor Bombay nor Hong Kong,
which are under the same rule. fou
may go to a Church-of- of-Englsnd service
or ta an opium-joint for the same fare:
The best thing that can be said
about, Singapore is this: We landed
here with eyes that were accustomed
to strange sights-we 500 Americans
and Europeans. We had nearly S0O
different dispositions and inelinztions
and these led US into many different
quarters and divers experiences. Ye.
when VIC got together on the boat and
sailed away, it became evident that
Singapore probably more than any
other port Of call, had given everyone
the sensation Of having had good
ltime. =
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03

trade, otherwise, Singapore would be
to-day merely fish-market- !.
Singapore has six busy miles OF
docks and piers and here IS the rem
dezvous of one Of the queerest fleets
that the four winds ever brought to-
gether-everything nautical from a
rakish Malay pirate-boat or google
eyed Chinese junk to the grey-sided
warboat or the giant Cleveland And
here, for the first time since we left
Hoboken, our big ship lay alongside
a dock instead of anchoring off-shore.
Beyond the dock stretches beauti-
full street equipped with trolley-line
to cover the two-mile distance to the
busy streets of the town. But It IS al
most a sin 10 ride on street-car or
in a carriage in place like Singapore.
which has the finest jinrickishaw-nien
that / have seen in all the East-big
fellows with strength and grace so SUI
perb that often found myself watch
ing the muscles of my human horse
when I should have been looking at
scenery. They are Chinese. bat there
are no such 'rickshsw-men in Hong
Kong or Canton
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03

light reached the lords of ocean cur
rents and the overlords Of dependent
peoples. But they saw it at last through
imprial giasses-and so it is that the
-Clevelandsn party found in Singapore
a Rafiies Hotel and Raffes Museum
and Rafles Plain and Rafies Reclama-
ton and Raffies Quay and Rafles Place
and fungus called Raffiesia Arnold
and a heroic statue OF the man with the
long vision.
Singapore is short and easy way
of saying many. many things; trans
lated into the metaphorieal language OF
a verse-writer, this is one Of them:
"Hail, Mother East and West
must seek my aid
Ere the spent gear shall dare
the ports afar.
The second doorway of the wide
worlds trade
Is mine 70 loose or bar"
The Governor-General publishes no
statistics showing how many tons Of
ied-hot projectiies per minute can be
hurled from Fort Canning against 4
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03
WASHINGTON HERALD TOURISTS
WILL SEE IN GOING AROUND THE WORLD
4 Refrain that Echoes Throug
Who Have Made This Trip.

CBy Our spCci,l culrespOodent. Edgar Allen FO'bsA)
hostile feet. but it is safe prediction
that the captain who may some day
steer his flagship through the Strait
against England's wish will have his
picture hung in the Gallery OF Great
Admirals.
But it is not as the Gibraltar of the
East nor as coaling station nor as an
authropological zoo that Singapore
rises to its greatest enlinence-but as
a market-place Here IS an island only
twenty-six miles long. within one de-
gree of the Equator and with a death
rate of about Il per 1000. unproduc-
tive Of nearly everything except rubber
shares and anopheles mosquitoes and
beri-beri. which nevertheless has for
eign trade of about $50 millions of dol
lars and which trades with the United
States alone to the extent of about ten
millions of dollars a year. The one
great secret of it all is absolute free
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03

men in savings banks and the style In
which workingnen live prove that labor
is faring well in this country. Million
aires do not own the farms, the villages,
or the fine cities which stretch IN an un-
broken line from New England TO the
Pacific Ocean. They are owned by the
people, by the workers.
Labor and capital. in combination,
have created the United States mate
rally. And capital, to be constructive.
must be organized. When organized, cap
ital does great things. using labor, and
labor is paid and buys lots and builds
houses, and everybody prospers. Unor-
ganized capital could accomplish but IT.
tie, and labor. consequently, would do
but little One thing hinges upon another
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03
III the Thoughts of Those

1t is a rather surprising fact to find
that this British city at the end OF the
Malay Peninsula is really a Chinese
city, for nearly two-thirds Of its popu-
iation is from the late Celestial En-
pire. There are perhaps 10000 Chinese,
with about 1000 Malays, OpeO In
dians. 5000 Europeans, 5000 Eurasians
and another 5000 made up Of every
race that is known outside Of a text
book of anthropology. Rates. Museum
would be a much more interesting
place II its directors would do two
things: % Bring together m an
aquatic court specimen OF every kind
of craft that enters the Singapore har-
Dor, and (2) a collection of the male
and female of every species and cross
of the human race that is to be found
within its gates.
In spite Of the fact that It is so over
whelmingly Chinese, Singapore IS 4
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03
Meet Me at Singapore"

IF somebody in the uttermost East
owes you money or if you have
against him a venerable grudge
which nothing but blood can wipe
out-go and sit down at Singapore.
Sooner or later he will come saunter-
ing along the Esplanade, for he who
once passes eastward afar will almost
certainly be borne again westward
through the Malacca Strait-and here
is the place to intercept him
An Englishman who went TO the
East as = clerk named Tom Raffies and
returned as Sir Thomas Stamford Raj
fes was the first TO see Singapore from
this. viewpoint. He was then sitting
tight in a lieutenant-governor's saddle
across in Sumatra-where the dawn
comes seven hours earlier than in the
ehancellories of Europe-but it was
more than seven hours before the great
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03

I'm human society, and each man depends
upon somebody else. Especially Is this
true in the United States, where all per-
sons have the same opportunities. though
one person may have more ability and
energy than another, for which the gov
ernment is not to blame"
why has not the interest rate on
money gone up with food. rents, and
SO on?'
You had better use the word capital
instead OF the word money" Mr.. Roberts
replied. Money Is merely the agent or
representative of capital. Interest on
capital has not risen because OF the COM
petition between capital Yes. there IS
such competition. Men possessing capi-
tai are waiting and watching for chances
The Washington herald., 1912-03-03
way She Did Not Fell.

Perk-say. Marta. YOU didn't tell any.
body that secret told you. las; night,
Mar.a-wby. no, You sea I zidn'
know IL. was secret
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-11-21
Seed Mheaf

Eaa ample supply of seed wheat which will be
sold the farmers cash. time with interest TO those who are re-
ponse. possible preferably after cotton DO
pick crop opening the gain in wheat harvested
early sowing pay the ho that will be lost