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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
LANE WORKS TO
PREVENT FLOODS
Says Deepening Rivers viii
Solve Problem.
WOULD RECLAIM VAST AREAS

Secretary Of the Interior Urges State
and Federal operation Similar to
That Proposed In oreson-Systemat-
10 Endeavor Essential to Success OF
the Plan, He Says.
Washington.-Franklin *. Lane, Sec
retary Of the interior, detailed a plan
for preventing such floods as deyastat-
ed Ohio and Indiana. The plan. which
presents itself to the head Of the de-
partment of the interior as an enor'
nous reclamation project. hinges on
the deepening and widening Of the
channels Of all streams liable to food
conditions.
Mr., Lane hopes to see the idea car
ried. out through the cooperation of
the federal government with the aid
of the states Immediately endangered.
The engineering in connection with
channels is directly in the hands Of the
war department, and Mr.. Lane takes
no exception to that. But because Of
its reclamation features the plan ne
outlines falls within the jurisdiction
of his department.
Aside from the perpetual protection
against food which he believes his
plan would give to settlers in low re-
gions. there are widespread districts
along the Mississippi and many other
rivers that would be thrown open to
settlement.
''The reclamation service" said the
secretary Of the interior, usually is
regarded as relating to the arid lands
of the west. which are reclaimed by
bringing water from the mountains,
but in another way reclamation Is a
great problem in the Mississippi valley
and the east Here of course. the land
is not arid. and there is no scarcity Of
water. But the water is to be remov-
ed from the land, and that is as ft SUBJ
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
PERSONAL GOSSIP

w. H. Hole, a we'll known farmer who
has been living on farm on Route 3
out of Rockford, left this week for New
London, o., where he has rented farm
and will try his luck.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Durbin, who spent
the winter in Celina, left last week for
Sanford, Mich, where they will again
spend the season and look after their
farm. They were accompanied by their
youngest son.
Jonas Thomas, of Toledo, who has
been spending fortnight here visiting
with his mother and brother, Recorder
Hugh Thomas, returned to his new home
Tuesday. Jonas evidently thinks better
of Toledo than Alberta, Canada-doesn't
take 50 long to get down here, anyhow,
when you once take a notion.
DR.. l. J. Ransbottom, of Washington
township, who followed his profession i'll
this city few years ago, made this office
a short call last Saturday, when he made
the announcement that he would leave
for Panama Saturday and again enter
Uncle Sans medical corps on the 18TH
mus, where he served in like capacity
a year and half at the beginning of that
great undertaking. His family will fol-
low him later.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
ANTARCTIC REGION
is ENTIRELY DEAD
No Need For Further EXpiOra-
tiOn, Says Lancaster.

! London.-Further exploration within
1000 miles of the south pole will bt
of no scientific value, according to SiI
Ray Lancaster.
There is no living thing on the ant
arctic continent" he says, excepting
the seals and the penguins and a few
other birds found on and near the
coast line and minute insect like the
so called glacier flea, together with q
few animalcules living in pools formed
by the melting Of ice in the brief sum-
mer and species of algae. MOSES, IL
chens and fungi"
Sir Ray, as director of the Natural
History museum, had charge Of the
antarctic birds, ETC., brought back
from the south polar continent by Cap
tain Scott's expedition on the Discov-
cry, and he has had official first hand
information as to the results Of all the
explorations in that part Of the globe.
Flowers would grow lat the south
pole in summer If it were not for the
mountains there, according to Profes-
sor Lancaster. 1t is these mountains
that make the south pole so cold. The
south polar area is an elevated noun
famous land reaching 10000 feet in
parts, covered with perpetual ice in
consequence of the elevation. More
over, the antarctic continent is sur
rounded by the sea and Is lifeless.
"There is a vast area Of land around
the north polar sea-" said DR.. Ray,
(which is green with vegetation and
dotted with brilliantly cOlored flowers
in summer and yet is only 500 miles
distant from the north pole. In the
arctic region are seals. white bears,
walruses, foxes, wolves musk oxen and
many small mammals and birds which
stray from the neighboring continental
lands. There is abundant vegetation,
including Towering plants, which find
a growing place wherever land is ex-
posed So far as temperature is con-
cerned, these flowers and plants would
grow at the north pole itself were
there any islands in that part of the
frozen polar sea. In contrast to the
low lying land around the north pole
the mountainous interior of Greenland
is of high elevation and covered with
perpetual ice and devoid of life.
"The north pole is, in fact, fair
weather zone, while, on the other hand,
the antarctic land is swept at all times
of the year by billiards of exceptional
force and duration"
From the very beginning of life on
the earth, it is asserted, the south pole
has been an uninhabited region. No
animals ever lived there. The deepest
digging will disclose no bones Of ex-
tinct creatures. The antarctic conti-
nent is literally the only place on the
whole earth where silence and mystery
have existed from the first. 1t is re-
Earded as very doubtful if there are
any minerals near the south pole.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
CHARLES W. SEpWICk

Probably no man in this f,ountry
has been more prominently as sociatnd
with automobile racing than Charles
w. Sedwick, who this year will he
director of events for the tn ,rd animal
500 mile International S weanstakes
race, which will be staged at the In.
dianapolis Motor Speedw av Nav 30.
Mr.. Sedwick is a true So ortsman who
performs his arduous iuties merely
for the love Of the gP4T le and not for
any pecuniary return s. He is the
head of a large bu sir less firm in In
dianapolis, and is cor lpelled to put in
several hours 'luy looking after the
details of his owr business. His
recreation time is s. 1ent in promoting
the welfare OF the b lg automobile race
Mr. SedWlcK is the man who went to
EUROPE las autumn to interest foreign
mahuIact 4rers in the race and it is
OWING | D this trip that an English
eNuDe9 N car, two French Peugeots
anu athpr foreign cars will partici.
pate In the 500 mile race May 80. Mr.
Sc .dwick is a typical American busi-
less man.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
HOPE TO CLEAR UP
MURDER MYSTERY
[Ft. RecoyerY T,ribune. /


About rs years ago a man by the name
of White, living south of 1T. Recovery,
mysteriously disappeared, The last seen
of him, he was going to Burkettsville to
take train to Greenville. He had a
roll of bills, amounting to 500. or So,
but looked like much more. He intend
ed to pay his taxes and also visit his son
Bob, in Greenville. His fate, until re-
Gently, was known only by two or three
people, Not longago a man by the name
of Sparrow was run over by an auto
mobile, and on his death-bed told how
White had been robbed and murdered at
Burkettsville by FORMER well known
citizen of this vicinity, who was shot and
killed some years ago. The body was
buried in an old stable at Burkettsville,
used at different times as an ice house,
saloon and restraint. The old building
has since been torn down, and the exact
spot is not known, but under direction
of the dead mans son, Tom White,
search is to be made for the remains
this week.
Several people were falsely accused of
the murder.at the time, and their friends
are glad indeed, to have the mystery
cleared up after the lapse of so many
years.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

o 1913 by American Press Association.
BUILDING Dixie AT LAKESIDE IND, TO
KEEP RIVER IN ITS COURSE.
iect for reclamation work as that now
being carried on in the desert lands
out west.
"The reclamation of these overwa-
tered lands, however, to be Of real
value must be preceded by systematic
work on the channels of the streams
draining the areas to be improved.
The disaster at Dayton illustrates the
point The trouble was simply that the
neck of the bottle was too small for
the water to run out. The rain fell in
torrents, and with no unobstructed
channel to the sea the water simply
backed up over the river banks The
rainstorm, | know, was phenomenal,
and even with the system have sug-
gested would have doubtless resulted
in material damage and the loss Of
some lives.
1T will not do for Ohio or Indiana
or even the two states together to
spend their money generously in clear
ing the beds of the streams within
their boundaries. That would merely
carry the food more swiftly to the
state lines to the south, and the water
would back more angrily than ever
into what would quickly be great lakes.
The thing is too large for the states
alone A harmonious scientific system
must be worked out by the federal au-
thorities. and the states must then
make their contributions in the way
that will do the most good to the whole
valley affected"
How this cooperation between the
federal and state governments might
be effected Mr. Lane illustrated by
plans now pending before his depart
ment for cooperation with the state Of
Oregon in reclaiming 10000 acres Of
arid land The land is under the gov
ownership-as the rivers
would be under the governments juris-
dietion-and the government engineers
Of the reclamation service are asked to
do the work. The state of Oregon sup
plies the water and contributes $780,
900 to the work similar sum may
be put forward by the reclamation
service, but on the understanding that
the sale of reclaimed lands will liqul-
date the obligations assumed by the
United States
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
ROLLS IN BARREL FROM JAIL.
Prisoner Escapes With Aid of a Steep
Hill at Pittsfieid.

Troy, N. Y.-Walter Robinson. who
has a remarkable record. was captured
at Adams, Mass, after hunt for him
in this city. Pittsfeld. Mass, North
Adams and elsewhere. He was want
ed for jailbreaking in Pittsfeld and
is also wanted by the New York state
authorities as a convict who violated
his prison parole.
With but two weeks to serve in the
Pittsfield Jail he made his escape. He
was working on the grounds about the
Jail when. unnoticed by the guard, he
got into barrel, starting it rolling
down the steep hill on which the Jail
stands to the fence about the grounds,
climbed the fence and decamped before
the guard realized what had taken
place
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
BUCKEYE NEWS NOTES
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST
TO RESIDENTS OF OHIO.
Good Roads Bill Passed.

Columbus, o., April 9.-Concurrence
by the house in the several senate
amendments to the Hudson-Hite good
roads bill definitely fixed the system
VI market roads and intercounty high.
ways to be built with the proceeds, ap.
proximately $3,9O0,OO a year. of the
half-mill special road tax levy. One
quarter of the fund will be used by
the state in constructing market
roads. These will be built direct by
the state, as convict labor can not be
used on contract work and the state
desires to use gangs of prisoners.
Three-quarters OF the fund is to be
apportioned equally to the IS counties
for road construction under the pres
ent state highway law.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
TEACHERS TO MEET
TOMORROW

The bi-monthly meeting of the teach
ers of Mercer County will be held at the
High School building in this city, Sat
urday, April II, 1913. The program for
the meeting follows:
Morning session, $50 o'clock
"a Modern Experiment in Educa-
tom Anna +. Logan, Oxford, o
Motives and Interest i'll Teaching"
go. DR.. +. B. Pearson, Columbus, O..
Afternoon session, l o'clock
Comparison of Montessori Princi-
pies with those of American
Schools" ............Anna f.. Logan
"a Five-fold Course of Study y......
.................D DR.. +. B. Pearson
Music will be furnished by the Neptune
Orchestra
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Prison Clerk Dismissed,

Columbus, o., April 10.-William J..
Dolan of Columbus, chief clerk Of the
penitentiary, resigned at the request
of Warden Jones, who charges him
with disloyalty. The charge, accord
ing to Warden Jones, grows out of a
letter which Dolan sent to the board
of administration during the warden's
recent absence in Ironton, acquainting
the board with the information that
scrap iron was being sold by prison
ers without an accounting to the
proper authoEties.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
HUSBAND BLINDS WIFE
WITH CARBOLIC ACID
Could Not Bear TO Have Her
Bread Winner Of Family.

Fort Worth, Tex, April S.-Suffer.
ing agony, Lydia Gustin at a hospital
told how her husband, Ralph, driven
by jealousy and remorse, had burned
out her eyes with carbolic acid and
then committed suicide by putting a
bullet in his brain. Gustin had been
i'll and out of work and could not bear
to have his wife be the bread winner
for his family, I'm a fit of madness
he tied his wife to the bed and poured
the burning acid over her eyes.
There" he cried, now you are blind.
Oracle can sing on the streets and
make living for you" Oracle is a
13-year-old daughter.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Cox In Musklnqum Valley.

GAINESVILLE, o., April 10.-Assurance
was given GAINESVILLE by Governor Cox
and members of the Ohio relief COM
mission that all means Of relief pos
sible for the state to grant will be
given the city. The governor was told
that the loss here amounted to $5,'
100000, including 100000 for five
bridges washed out by the Muskin-
gum river. The inspection trip was
continued to Marietta. Middleport,
Pomeroy, Gallipolis, Ironton and
Portsmouth viii be visited in turn.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Probable Cure For Cancer.

Boston, April 9,-Dr Henry w.
Novel; told the members of the Mas
sachusetts Homeopathic Medical so.
ciety of the discovery by him Of a
chemical process for extracting the
poison from a human malignant tu-
NOR, and with this poison obtaining
from rabbits a serum which, when
mixed with the original poison sub.
stance in the proper proportions,
wholly nullifies the poisonous proper
ties of the tumor extract This dis
covery is considered by his colleagues
rs the greatest advance in the study
nf cancer that has ever been made.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Student Adjudsed Perfect Is swampee
With Proposals to Wed.

Columbia. Mo. Letters and tele.
grams making offers of marriage are
coming to II. L. Shrader, Kansas City
student in Missouri university, who
was recently adjudged the most per-
feet man physically among the 1.50O
students there.
Shrader has received offers of vaude-
vile, boxing and wrestling engage
ments. But most of the letters are
from young women not only in Mis-
souri, and Kansas. but in widely scat
tered parts Of the southwest.
One girl says she is physically per
feet herself and therefore offers her
self as 6t wife in the interests of
eugenics.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
CITY to own Phone PLANT.

Columbus, o., April S.-Proceedings
looking toward the city purchasing
the Citizens Telephone company, now
owned by the Morgan interests, were
advanced in council. The ordinance
granting the telephone franchise pass
ed June u, 1899, provides that the
city must give one years notice of its
intention to purchase. The franchise
expires Rlpe 4, 1914.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Ohio MasOns Raise 100000.

Columbus, o., April - Masons of
Ohio have 100000 for distribution
among members of the order who suf
fered in the recent flood. This was
reported by Frank S. Harmon of
Cleveland, treasurer, at the meeting
Of the special relief committee at the
Masonic temple here. More money,
according to the needs, will be raised
within the next few weeks.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
CAR DID NOT STOP
Princeton High School Girl Killed by
an Automobile.

Princeton, n. j., April MARY
Duryea, 16, Princeton high school
girl, was killed on the Washington
road, near Carnegie lake, by the auto
of Joseph F. Moran, iron manufactur-
er, of Brooklyn. The car did not stop.
Leaving the girl dead beside the road,
Mr. Moran and his chauffeur, Irwin
Hoffman, hurried on toward Brooklyn.
Near New Brunswick, 18 miles away,
a policeman in a pursuing car blocked
their path and arrested them. Hoff-
man was held without bail on homi
eide charge. Moran, held as a ma
:erial witness, was released on $1,000
soail.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Insane Patient DYING.

Columbus, O., April 1s.-The failure
of Miss Minnie Hornan, a graduate
nurse employed at the Athens State
hospital, to measure the carbolic acid
that she poured into a tub, when she
was preparing a bath for Harriet Ken
dali, a patient, has caused the dis
misssl of Miss Norman and may hast
en- Ule death of the patient.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Fear BARGE Is Lost

Sandusky, o., April From tele-
phone messages received here from
Pelee Island, it is feared the barge S.
A. Barge with crew of four men was
sunk between Middle Bass Island and
Pelee Island, in Lake Erie A body OF
one of the crew has been washed
ashore.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Treasury Probe Extended.

Columbus, O., April Attorney
General Hogan has received informa-
tion from a former state employe that
funds of the state were loaned out
Illegally by a treasurer who was in
office prior to 1900, and an investiga-
tion of this will be made by the pro-
bers. The present Investigation does
not 60 back of that year.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Will Not Aid Business.

Columbus, o., April NO Red
Cross moneys will go to the rehabili-
tation of business concerns, but exclu.
sively to the restoration of family life
in all stricken communities. E. P.
Bicknell, national director Of the Red
Cross, will remain in Ohio and will be
In personal charge.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Ansberrx To Go Abroad.

Washington, April 9.--Representa-
live Tim T. Ansberry of Defiance, o.,
has been ordered to France for six
months by his doctor He will sail
the latter part of the month and will
have no part in the real excitement
of the special session Of congress.
Representative Ansberry has been
seriously i'll for several weeks.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Raise i'm Clubbing Rates of
Cleveland RanerR

Theextreme low rates at which The DEM
ocrat has been Offering the Cleveland Daily
News and Cleveland Daily Leader in its
clubbing offers are at an end both having
been withdrawn by those papers. The es-
tablished rates Of both papers is $500 per
year, and they are cheap at that. The rate
at which these papers have been quoted
would not half pay for the paper on which
they were printed, and 1t is not plain to us
why such offers were ever made. The re-
vised rates TO The Democrats readers will
be found among our clubbing offers on
Another page.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

Groves c. Stoner, aged Is, laborer, Of
M ercer, and Jennie Hemmen, 26, house
keeper of Mendon.
Raymond Miesse, aged g. farmer and
Ma rie I5ichler, Is, housekeeper, both Of
Cehna.
Paul J. Baumgardner, aged rs, saw
miller, and Hulda Address, II, houses
keeper, both of Liberty township.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Heln Ohio teachers.

Columbus, o., April 8. - Boston
schoolbeachers showed a kindly inter-
est in the Ohio flood situation by send
ing to Commissioner Frank w. Miller
certified check for $1,21S.44. This
is to be divided among schoolteachers
in Columbus, Hamilton and Dayton
who have lost property in the disas.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
openInu Games Postponed,

st. Paul, Mimi, April 10.-AmericaH
association opening games scheduled
here today between Columbus and st.
Paul and at Minneapolis with Indian
apolis were postponed on account Of
snow.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Lorain's Police Chief Killed.

Lorain, O., April 8. - Norman H.
Williams, chief of police Of Lorain, re.
ceived injuries from which he soon
died when struck by an eastbound
Lake Shore Electric Interurban car at
Stop III, four miles west Of here.
With Judge l. H. Job and Edgar Job
Chief Williams had been hunting.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Killed Durinu Quarrel.

Wellston, o., April William Nc
Gowan is under arrest, charged with
killing David McGatha by crushing
his skull with some blunt instrument
during quarrel. MCGOWAN refuses
to talk The crime was committed
on the outskirts Of Jackson.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
RADIUM DISCOVERED
IN FAMOUS SPRINGS

New York, April 8.-From the
New York Offices of the Chesa-
, peake G. Ohio railroad there was
issued statement to the effect
that DR.. George D. Kahlo, the
medical director at the White
) Sulphur Springs in West Vir-
ginia, had discovered in those
springs the presence of radium,
actually measured in Mache
units, which are the units used
to measure radium as watts are
used to measure electricity. This
is said to be the first discovery
of radium in any American
waters.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
Killed by Ice Wagon.

Columbus, o., April John Haney,
T. son of J. E. Haney, travelling rep
sentative of the Columbus Carnegie
"A company, was run down by an
w1eon and injured SO badly that
flr3 at his parents home an hour
fr
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
BY BOMB EXPLOSION
twenty-five Stores Wrecked and a
Dozen Persons Injured.

Dozen Persons Injured.
Bridgeport, Conn, April 7-One
man was mortally injured, two Sc
verely hurt and half dozen persons
cut with flying bits of metal, one
building was practically demolished
and 25 to 80 stores were damaged by
n dynamite bomb which was exploded
in the doorway of the pawnbrokers
establishment of Jacob Kleinberger
Kleinberger declares that he does not
know of an enemy. The damage TO
the buildings is estimated to be more
than $4,000
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
House and BARN fOr Rent

Includes orchard and good paled-in gar
den good truck patch. Inquire j. s. II.
Burch, on adjoining farm, IL mile south
of Beaver Greek Cemetery, and "a miles
southwest OF Oe1tnR.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11
LUTHERAN CHURCH
SERVICES

Rev. Reitz announces the following SER
vices for his congregations next Sunday:
Cellna-Sunday-sch at l2:45 pm; Ger
man service at ? PM; English vesper SER
vice at 700 pm.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

For 1918 designs in wall-paper-NUN-
GESTER DRUG Co.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

Bicycle repairing done on short notice,
Work guaranteed by Earl, r, FENNIG.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

Hopewell- Sunday-school at $3.50 am;
German service at $3.50 am.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

Special Gamma bulbs, fine variety;
10c each, or three for 25c. The Riley &
Nickel I1dw. Co.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

Cherry trees and grape vines at tempt
ing prices. Call and be convinced at the
Riley & Nickel Hdw. Co.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

We still accept Bryan Dollars
ON subscription.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

For wallpaper at the right price
Nungester Drug Co.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-04-11

One car load of Adrian spring steel
wire fence at last years prices at FEN
NIcis hardware store.