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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-19
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Catcher Biu Kelly. who was re-,
Ia released by Pittsburgh to Ior''''o'
balks at joining Joe h''''i 49,.
BHI wants TO return 70 his 'rS' Wv
that dear old st. Paul.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-19
sELECT cAPTAlN SATURDAY..

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. la.-Ih"
clc-,jou OF captain for the Harvard
football team of 1914 will Dee held Sat
mday afternoon, when the men meet
for group picture, aud Will Do" am
uouucod az uisht at IN" football ban
quct at the Harvard club Boston.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-19

Charley Askins national l15-pouud
boxing champion. has turned
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
JURY READY TO
REPORT VERDICT
In MartIn-BaIIey Damage Case,
In Which Plaintiffs Charge
Deceit and Fraud.

The fifteen hundred dollar damage
case of Emma Martin ct al. VS.. c. S
Bailey ct al, which has been occupying
the attention of the Common Pleas Court
this week was presented to the jury al
4:30 yesterday afternoon, following a
very careful charge by Judge Layton.
The jury had not reported at $50,
when the Judge left for his home at
Wapakoneta and he left instructions
with Court Bailiff Stark to keep the jury
in until 10 o clock if they were unable to
agree.
About g O'Clock, however, after bal
loting since 5, they returned a sealed
verdict, which will not be made public
until court opens at $50 this morning.
The plaintiffs traded a forty-acre farm
in Darke County for lot in Rosenbeck's S
addition to Coldwater, and it seems got
stung. They claim the property was
to them to be worth from
81, 500 to 81, 800, when in reality it was
worth only about 81 400, selling last June
at Sheriff's sale for 81, ,401. They claim
they were deceived and defrauded and
are asking for 81 500 damages.
Nathan Martin, one of the plaintiffs,
is a paralytic.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
READY To TACKLE
NEW JOB
Morrow Files Bond and Is Sworn
In-JObs Hunters 20 Travel
Civil Service Route.

Ex.Auditor J. l.. Morrow, recently
appointed Deputy Tax Commissioner for
Mercer County, qualified for Office last
Tuesday, when he filed with Auditor J.
L, Steinbrunner bond Of $1,000 and
was sworn into office,
No plans have yet been made by Mr..
Morrow as to where he will hold forth
officially. As everything is crowded in
the courthouse, it is very likely his
Office will be in some room near, as the
surveyor quarters.
Mr.. Morrow said yesterday that as yet
he had no knowledge how many district
assessors there would be in the county.
He would like to see one appointed in
each township and one in each of the
larger towns-Celina, Coldwater, TT, Re
covery, Rockford and Mendon. This
would make eighteen, FIVE less than the
usual number of assessors and twenty
six less than it took to take the real and
personal assessment three years ago.
The State Tax Commission, however,
feel that in counties the size of Mercer
the townships should be grouped in dis
tricts and that no special assessors be
appointed for villages only in those over
two thousand inhabitants. By their plan
we would have only eight or ten asses
sors for the entire county.
BY the declaration of Gov. Cox, made
in his address last week before the as
sembled Tax Commissioners of the State,
which will be found in this issue Of THE
DEMOCRAT, all appointees under the
Tax Commissioner will come under the
Civil Service law, the tests for fitness
being conducted under the direction of
the State Tax Commission, in which ap-
pointees will stand on their merits.
Almost half hundred applications
for jobs have already been received by
Mr.. Morrow, butif any of them get there
it will be on their merits and not polit-
cal pull.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
PERSONAL GOSSIP

Mrs, Roger Zimpher is spending this
week with her sister, Mrs. George New
comb, at Dayton.
Mrs. Frederica Weber of Cincinnati,
is the guest of her son, Jeweler Geo. +.
Weber and family.
Mrs. S. J. Vining is the guest this
week of her daughter, Mrs. A. J. Beh-
ringer at Upper Sandusky.
Miss Rowena Hight was called to Men.
don last Monday by the illness of her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Hamilton.
Auditor and Mrs. J. F. Steinbrunner
were called TO Chickasaw Wednesday
morning by the death of the latter S
brother, Anthony Mestemaker.
Mrs. Chas A.Wyckoff, of MAMA, Flor
ida, is the guest of Mrs. r. r. Wyckoff
Mr.. Wyckoff is at present engaged as man
ager of big lumber concern at Mama.
Mrs. Gus Mathies accompanied Com
missioner Andrew Brunswick home last
Friday and visited over Sunday. Miss
Regina Brunswick accompanied her
back home for short visit.
Miss Nora Hoel, of Toledo, was the
guest last Friday of her grandmother,
Mrs. Lana Taylor, while enroute to
Montezuma for a Christmas visit with
her parents, H. p Hoel and wife.
Joseph Wolf and wife, of Ft. Recovery
aud Misses Anna Sunderhaus and Mayme
Hoover, of St. Henry, were the first oi
the week guests of Mrs. Catherine Sach-
er and family, North Walnut street.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
RATES SAID TO
Be EXCESSIVE
Commission That investigated Fire
Insurance Makes Report.

Commission That investigated Fire
Insurance Makes Report.
Columbus, o., Dee. 10.-According
to the report of the legislative fire
insurance investigating committee
property owners throughout Ohio are
being mulcted by fire insurance com
panies. AS a result of the commit
tees work, extending over many
months, Governor Cox will ask the
legislature at the coming special ses-
sion to enact new laws for the drastic
regulation of the companies and
agents. The probe was authorized
last winter at the instigation of the
governor. The committee reported
that it found evidence of a combina.
tion to fix prices. The committee rec
ommends that the anti-compact law
be amended to provide that neither
the companies nor their agents shall
be permitted to combine for the pur-
pose of fixing rates, and that the Val
entine antitrust law be amended to
include the subject OF. fire insurance.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
Bunched NelOS Paragraphs

William Deering, the harvester man.
ufacturer, died at his winter home in
Miami, Fla.
At Fort Worth, Tex, Joseph Miller
shot and killed his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. John Miller. Mrs. Miller killed
her husband four months ago.
The United States army lost mem
bers during the fiscal year just closed.
Including the Philippine scouts the
army had 85,S69 men, compared with
1896 one year ago.
Former. Comptroller of Currency
Charles G. Dawes will open hotel in
Chicago Jan. 1 for down and OUTS
Beds can be had for five cents and
meals at from l to cents.
Ex-Mayor Lew Shank's dog, Tip, re-
fuses to resign. Every morning since
Shank resigned Tip has gone from
the Shank home to the city hall.
Shank is on a vaudeville tour in the
west.
Sentiment aroused by the fight to
save Mrs. Bessie Wakefield from the
gallows promises to take the form of
a statewide campaign for the aboli.
ton of capital punishment in Con-
necticut
John T. Howard, a saloonkeeper,
and Theodore Noll, his companion,
were killed by two gunner when they
resisted an attempt to rob Howards
saloon at Springfield, Ill. The muir
derers escG Yed.
Former Congressman Joseph c..
Sibley, 63, Of Pennsylvania, and Miss
Ida Rev, 5S, were married at the Sib-
ley home near Franklin, Pa
At Detroit Patrolman Thomas F.
Madden was shot and killed as he at
tempted to arrest two men in stolen
automobile. The murderers escaped.
An automobile containing five men
was struck by train near Fort Du-
pont, Delaware, and one of the occu.
pants, w. A. Jester, druggist, was
killed
Representative John A. Key of Ma
rion, o., introduced in the national
house bill providing that all widows
Of civil war veterans may receive
pensions, no matter when they were
married.
The British cruiser New Zealand, a
gift of New Zealand to England, ar
rived at Devonport, England, thereby
concluding a worlds tour during
which she covered 10000 miles and
crossed the equator four times.
Red liner Zulia sank in East river,
New York, just as she was preparing
to clear for Venezuela with a cargo
Of flour and apples. A heavy steel
shaft had slipped from the derrick
tackle and crashed through the hull.
Robbers entered Keith's theater at
Colunbus, o., and escaped with $3.50.
Carroll, Fairfield county, Ohio, was
voted wet by eight votes. The ballot.
ing stood: Vets, 5S; drys, so.
Sixteen miners we're killed by
smoke from a fire which started sud.
denly in mine near Rydnik, Prussia.
Fred Malone, A, motorcar oper.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
License Board Under Guard.
LOCAL BREvITIES

S. R. Beam, of this city, was last Fri
day appointed Deputy Game Warden
for Mercer county.
Fine toilet sets of Damascus steel and
genuine Persian ivory toilet articles.
NUNGEsTER DRUG Co.
Mrs. A, NJ. Riley will entertain the
ladies aid society of the Presbyterian
church at the Riley home, East Market
street, this afternoon. n
w. A. ]. MCDANIEL has the latest
improvement i'll kitchen cabinet, the
best is none too good for your wife. Get
her one for Xmas present. Quality
talks.
Secretary S, J. Vining of the Mercer
County Fair board was reelected vice
president of the Ohio Fair association at
meeting held at Lima the first of the
week.
Mesdames Lee Ayers, Walter Johnson
and Frank Stark will entertain the ladies
aid society of the NJ E. church at the
church parlors this afternoon
Attorney L. L. Taylor, of Union City,
Ind, was in this city last Tuesday look
ing after the interests of his client, Val
Freeman, i'll his divorce case against
Bertha Freeman.
Bert Jackson, manager of the Pandora
Overall factory in this city, has purchas-
ed of A. A. Wrigley, the brick residence
on East Livingston street, formerly own
ed by P. w. Deitsch. Mr. Jackson will
make extensive repairs prior to occupy
ing the property.
Grover Howick, who has been travel
ing out of st. Marys for the Gordon
Hanss- Folk Co., resigned his position
with that company last Saturday and has
accepted the work of book keeper at
the First National, made vacant by the
resignation of Earl We'll, who left the
first of the week for Bryant, Ind, where
he accepts the position of cashier in the
bank of that village.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
PROPOSED REFORMS
ARE FAVORED
Ohio Educators Indorse School Sur
VeY Report.

Columbus, o., Dec. S.-By decisive
vote the Ohio Educational Congress
favored the Endorsement of the school
survey commissioners report. Among
the recommendations approved by the
congress for the benefit of the schools
are: For increasing the efficiency Of
rural school teachers; that from one
to three schools in each county be
subsidized by the state to establish
one-year training courses for rural
teachers; establishment of more
summer courses for training of teach.
ers; gradual increase of professional
requirements Of teachers until by the
year 1920 every teacher IN Ohio must
have had the equivalent of one year
professional training to enter the SER
vice; providing for a general super
vision Of teaching and of schools
county superintendents of schools
elected by the county board at a sal.
airy of not to exceed $4,000 annually
TO be experienced teachers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
COURT MATTERS

Val Freeman, proprietor of the Home
Restraint, West Fayette street, was
granted divorce from his wife, Bertha
Freeman, by Judge Layton last Tues
day.
Attorney p +. Kenney last Saturday
filed suit in partition for Gertrude Vos-
kuhl against Anna Bonifas, Clarence
Vonderwell ct al, in which plaintiff
says that she has legal right to and is
seized in fee simple of the undivided
fourth part of the following real estate,
situate in Liberty township: The south
west quarter of the southwest quarter OF
fractional Section 81, Town 5 south,
Range east containing SO acres,
The divorce and alimony action of Bes-
sic Berger against VIM. Berger, the
court ordered the defendant to pay plain
tiff $500 per week until the matter could
be heard
A temporary restraining order was
granted in the case of John NanKirk ct
al. VS.. Frank Benke, as treasurer. The
plaintiff seeks to enjoin the collection
of an assessment on the Buck ditch
against his property in TT. Recovery.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12

ator at Bradley coal mines, near Steu
benville, o., was killed when he fell
off the car
Senator CASTOR Doumergue, Social
ist, informed President Poincare oi
France that he would accept the Office
of prime minister.
Parick German, 30, and John Hol
royd, 29, were killed when caught on
Big Four railroad bridge over Eagle
creek, near Indianapolis, Ind.
Death rate in worlds greatest cities
for 1913: New York, 1877 for every
1000 population; London, 1852; Ber
lin, 14.39; Chicago, 1857; Paris, 1888
At Cincinnati, O., three laborers
were drowned when 60-inch water
main burst in a trench in Eastern
avenue.
One hundred persons were killed
and many seriously injured in a col.
hsion between passenger and a
freight train near Coleshti, Roumania
Cardinal Oreglia, 85, dean of the
sacred college Of the Roman Catholic
church, died at Rome of pneumonia
By his death Cardinal Gibbons of Bal
timore becomes dean.
Rushholme exhibition hal lin South
Manchester, England, was destroyed
by fire with loss of 100000. Near
the scene of the fire suffragist liter
ature was found.
Daring train robbers who boarded
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
fast express train at Toledo, o., rob-
bed a sealed car bound for Omaha of
$4,000 worth of furs, plumes and
silks.
Mice made nest or So and $40
bank notes torn to shreds, which the
mice had stolen from Charles HSnEh
man, farmer, residing near Frank
lin, Ind He pieced the bills together
and redeemed them.
Ohio Grand Army encampment will
be held at East Liverpool June 1925.
Ohio druggists began statewide
campaign for a law providiDg, that
pharmacists be registered for Hfe in
stead of for only three years as at
present.
While fording Jonathan creek, near
GAINESVILLE, o., the blind horse Of
Charles Horn, 80, farmer, stumbled
and fell into a deep hole, rider and
horse being drowned.
Lieutenant Colonel David Du Bose
Gaillard, United States army, who di-
rected the engineering work in the
Culebra cut division of the Panama
canal, died at Baltimore.
Kelly House, an untenanted man.
sion at Wemyss Bay, on the Firth of
Clyde, Scotland, was gutted by fire
with 100000 loss. Work Of suffrag-
lists
A presentable nose on girls face
is worth $1,75O, jury decided at st.
Louis in the suit of Miss Edna Schoen-
laub, 20, against a surgeon. DR.. James
Taylor Pinlstaff. Girl claimed an
operation was unsuccessful.
Whipping has been abolished in the
Kentucky penitentiary at Frankfort.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
"PERSONAL LIBERTY"
STUFF IN FULL
ACTION

Brooding over the horrible scene at
Burkettsville several weeks ago, when
Carl Smith, a Hungarian, was horribly
shot and almost killed, Frank Byrace,
fellow worker in the camp who witnessed
the deed, lost his mind at Paulding last
week, Smith is still alive but minus
leg, while Charge, who committed the
crime, is in Jail here facing a penitenti-
arY sentence.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
WILL WAGE WAR
AGAINST TRUSTS
President Wilson Holds Confer
ence With Congressman
Legislative Program.

Measures To Be Advanced For Action
at This Session viii Define the
Various Forms Of Monopoly and Re.
straint Of Trade - Antitrust Bills
Soon to Appear In the Lower House
Of Congress.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE scope Of
President Wilson's program of anti.
trust legislation became fairly well
defined at the end OF a conference at
the White House between the presi.
dent and six Democratic members OF
the house judiciary committee, which
is to undertake the preparation OF the
administration bills. The measures to
be advanced for action at this session
will aim at the following results:
Definition Of the various forms OF
monopoly and restraint of trade
which would be "conclusively deemed"
unreasonable and in violation of law;
placing upon the defendant the bur.
den of proof to show that there is no
unreasonable" restraint of trade
prohibition of interlocking director.
ates between large corporations; es.
tablishment of an interstate trade
commission to exercise regulatory
powers, make original investigations
and aid the courts in carrying out de.
crees of dissolutions of trusts.
The details of legislation were not
worked out. The president made II
clear that he favors legislation along
the general lines of the Lenroot-La.
Toilette bill, a Republican measure,
which has been before congress since
last June, and which was designed to
clear up the twilight zone" of cor.
poratiOn activities.
This measure was the subject of
much of the discussion and members
of the committee will take up its pro.
visions for further consideration. 1t
would define by law nearly a dozen
forms of contracts, agreements, re.
straints, price cutting and the like,
the "reasonableness" of which is now
left to the courts, but which would
be "conclusively deemed to be unrea.
sonable and in restraint of trade" by |
the proposed new law.
President Wilson's trust confer |
ences of the last two weeks have in.
cluded talks with Attorney General
McReynolds, Senator Newlands, chair
man of the senate interstate com
merce committee; Secretary Redfield
of the department of commerce, Rep.
resentative Clayton and Joseph E.
Davies, commissioner of corporations.
He is to confer again in few days
with Senator Newlands and other
members of the senate committee
that will handle trust legislation. !
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
FEDERALS MUST
FIGHT TO FINISH
Can Not Avoid Engagement With
General Villas BIen-FOrti-
flying Town of OJinaga.

Battle For the Supremacy Of Northern
Mexico Expected To Be Fought In
the Next Few Days-Wealthy Refu.
gees From Chihuahua Not Permitted
to Cross the Border Into the United
States.
El Paso, Tex, Dec. IL. ~ A battle
for the supremacy Of northern Mexico
between the federal army of General
Salvador Mercado and the rebel army
of General Pancho villa is expected
to be fought at Ojinaga or vicinity in
the next few days. The federals can
not possibly escape into Coahuila or
Nuevo Leon without a fight, accord.
ing to the belief OF American military
men, and the ayidity with which the
federals are fortifying Ojinaga shows
this to be their belief also. The fed.
eral column has been continually har.
assed en- route from Falomir here,
and $500 of Villas men lIlder Mon.
clovio Herrera are Immediately in the
rear Of the federals so close that
Herrera will be able to draw a Gordon
about the border town and force the
federals to fight before retreating to
Nuevo Leon. if that is their intention.
General Villa himself is expected to
be in personal command by the time
the battle opens, If the federals do
not force a fight at once by breaking
away from the border.
The last of the federal army is now
here. So are practically all the civil
ian refugees. but not all the refugees
have crossed to the American side,
Luis TerraZa and family and all the
others OF the more notable refugees
from Chihuahua arc still held in Dim
aga by the federal officials. The ex.
PLANTATION is that so many civilian ref
ugees crossing from Mexico into the
United States would cause dissatisfac-
tion among the federal soldiers and
might induce them to desert. Since
these prominent refugees remain in
Ojinaga it has greatly inspired the
federal soldiers with confidence, most
of the soldiers believing that they are
voluntarily remaining.
When the less prominent refugees
were being permitted to cross to Pre-
sidio the Mexican soldiers threatened
openly to desert and come also.
The United States officers seem to
be uneasy as to the outcome at Ojin-
aga DR.. Burnside, the army surgeon
at Maria, came to Preside, Tex, in
an autombile with an extra large sup
ply of medicine and bandages in case
there should be a battle.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
MERCER COUNTY
MAN IS CHOSEN
Grand Master of Ohio Odd Fell
lows Last Week, Having
No Opposition.

Ex Probate Judge c. S. Younger OF
this city was chosen Grand Master of
Ohio odd Fellows by the 759 lodges of
the state last week. The count was an
nounced last Tuesday. Judge Younger
had no opposition, nor did Edwin c.
Wright, of Greenville, who was elected
Deputy Grand Master.
The count showed the election of the
following additional officers Grand
Warden, Ed o. Peets, of Cleveland; Sec
rotary, {. II. Lyman, of Pomeroy; Treas
urer, J. B. Sheridan, of McConnelsville;
Grand Representative, Past Grand Mas
ter Lewis B. Houck, of Mt. Vernon.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12

The house committee will begin at
once on the preliminary draft OF trust
bills, but the members viii seek fur
ther discussions with the president
over the form OF the measures before
completing them for submission to
the house.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
WANTS CHANCE TO PROVE
HIS INNOCENCE

S. d. Green, the companion of w. T..
Philips, of Lima, who was murdered on
a Lake Erie & Western freight train near
Portland, a couple of weeks ago, is still
being held by the Portland police.
Green puts up good story of the crime,
and maintains that if he was able to get
out, he could, he believes, apprehend
the murderers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
CUPID s VICTIMS

Earl Eckroat and Miss Anna Kissick,
both of Ft. Recovery, were united in
marriage by Mayor {. D. Rice at
the Probate Judges office last Tuesday
afternoon. They will make their home
at TT. Recovery.
Carl Hole and Miss Bertha Diener,
well known young people of this city,
were married by Rev. Reitz, at st. John S
Lutheran church parsonage, last Sunday
evening. The groom is clerk in the
MCGEE hardware store. They have gone
to housekeeping in the Linn property,
South Sugar street.
Harry Slusser and Miss Myrtle And
rews, young people of this city, were
welded by Rev Reitz, pastor of st.
Johns Lutheran church, at the parson-
age in this city, last Sunday noon.
Humphrey Thomas, of Van Vert, aud
Miss Hazel Roebuck of Center township,
were married by Squire Myers, at the
Probate Judgd's office, Wednesday after
noon.
Harry Franklin Miller and Zor Emans,
well known young people of Union town
ship, were married by Squire Myers, at
the Office of Probate Judge Raudabaugh,
Wednesday afternoon.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
FELVER FACES
SERIOUS CHARGE

Thomas Felver, former resident oi
the county, and wanted here on an in
dictment returned by the last grand
jury, charging incest, was arrested by
Sheriff Fisher, at Brainard, Minnesota,
last Monday morning and returned to
this city, where he was lodged in Jail,
pending arralgnment. The charge
against Felver was preferred by one of
his daughters, whom, it is charged, he
had compelled to submit to his passions
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
ANNUAL MEETING WABASH
MUTUAL TELEPHONE
COMPANY

The annual meeting Of the Wabash
Mutual Telephone Co, will be held at
Wabash, Ohio, December /, 1913, from
9 am. to 3 pm. to elect officers for the
ensuing year, and transact such other
business as may properly come before
the meeting. Also, all persons knowing
themselves to be indebted to the compa-
ny will be expected to settle the same on
or before that date.
By order Of the Board.
J. c. SNYDER, President.
G.. c. THATCHER, Secretary.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-12-12
CITY DADS HAVE BRIEF
SESSION

The village dads held brief session
last Tuesday evening. All members
we're present but Lenpartz while Mayor
Miller presided.
Meyer OF the street committee reported
in favor of accepting the Stelzer alley
deed and resolution was passed to that
effect.
On recommendation of the street COM
mittee the Harry Leininger side walk
on the northeast corner Anthony and
Buckeye streets, was sold to Noah Fry
at his bid of IA cents square foot.