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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23
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Miss Winnie Greer spent Sunday
town.
Mrs. Naman Brubaker and son,
Ralph of Mt. Vernon, are visiting
Philip Brubaker and WIFE
A. b. Simpson, wife and son, Frank,
and Philip Brubaker and wife motor
ed to Loudonville Sunday and spent
the day with friends.
j. C. Greer and wife Peter Hipp and
son, Ralph, Walter Black and Charles
Weber and family wer at Nashville
last Thursday attending the funeral of
Vim. Weber.
Miss Edith Shinnabarker visited ov-
er Sunday with Loudonville friends.
Mrs. Philip Severns spent the lat
ter part of last week with Loudonville
friends.
Ralph Weber of Akron is spending
some time with his uncle, Peter Web
er, east of town.
Mrs. j G. Greer severely cut the
third finger of her left hand Sunday af-
ternoon, while cutting some feed for
chickens. DR.. Hahn of Brink Haven
was called and dressed the wound.
Chas. Rice and wife of Danville
were over Sunday guests of C. V. Ban
bury and family.
Miss Leota Walton of Buckeye City
is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Alta
Hawkins.
Robert Frasher, wife and little son,
Earle. and Leslie Frasher and Miss
Sylvia Styers, all of near Howard.
visited with John Grer and family
Walter Black made a business trip
to Shelby last Saturday.
Mrs. T. e. Greer was the guest of
her son, r. A. Greer and family. west
of town, Sunday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23
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Mrs. Vern Mason and children of
Etna Green, Indiana, are visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Miss Mozella Wilson returned Sun
day to her home near Chesterville. She
was accompanied home by Mrs. Allie
Rice and family, who spent the day
there.
Mr.. Baughman of Newark was the
guest of Miss Aria Ross over Sunday
Miss Ada Crumrine of Delaware, O.,
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Libbie Porterfield spent Tues
day with her grandparents near M,
Zion.
Mr.. Frank McCamment has returned
home from few weeks visit with his
daughter, Mamie Holmes, of Missouri
Little Miss Marian Molder has re-
turned to her home in Newark after
spending few weeks with her cousin
Beatrice Rector.
The Gambler baseball team will play
against Bladensburg here next Sat
urday afternoon.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Sporting experts say that tennis
once derided as ian old maids game"
has become second only to baseball
Public park courts and club courts In
many sections Of the country are made
ouate to I'll the demands made upon
them Notwithstanding the numerous
private courts. Among the elements
Of It's popularity are cheapness and the
tact that the game il open to all ages
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Willis ought to know better than to
try to make the people of Ohio believe
in any figures he quotes after the
whoppers he told them last fall and
which they caught him in. Using the
Cox surplus as he did to run the first
six months administration of his Of
flee and then denying its presence was
looking a gift horse in the mouth and
now he's paying for it by the facts he
is compelled to face.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23
HANGING IN GEORGIA

Quitman, Ga. July 22-Jack Miller.
convicted of killing his father-in'law,
will be hanged here tomorrow. The
crime was one of the most revolving
ever committed in this section. The
victim was Jack Edwards. A motion
was made last month for a new trial,
but it was withdrawn. Judge Thom-
as resentenced Miller on July 10 to
die by hanging July %.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

The international congress of nnvi
CATION postlones meetings indefinitely
on account of the war Time enough
10 discuss navigation problems after
an international law congress has tin
kered up new naval program.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Gov. Willis is having time of 1t
trying to explain the rapidly ap-
preaching bankruptcy of the state
treasury and also the connection OF
his administration with smothering
the unfavorable report on financial
company that furnished money for his
campaign.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

That machine tlllcr of the soil which
Mr.. Ford promises will be as great n
boon as the revolutionary cotton gin
and spinning machine. If the pushing
and pulling which the farmer has to
do somehow could he simpliiied 90 per
cent It would bring farming "wlthin
reach Of the poor"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

More and more the autos speed Uncle
Sans mail to the interior, which ts all
right for the letters one wants In n
hurry, but also unwclcome mlssiyes
get there Just the same.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Those who do not get fair share OF
the music which IL costing this coun-
try $8O0,0OO,O0G year probably get
more noise than IL coming 20 them.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

When the Germans get through
with Warsaw that city's name might
be appropriately changed to Saw
, war
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23
Wanted, For Sale, &c
RATES cents per line, each inser.
tlon. Six words to line.

LOST-On Wednesday evening,
July IA, dark red sweater, between
Fredericktown and two bridges on Co.
lumbus road. Call Citizens 80 Fred
ericktown.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Had Governor Frank b. Willis been
successful In getting through the gen.
eral assemly his promised program
against the Ohio conseryancy law
which he opposed because Governor
Cox fought for 1t, his friends and
neighbors in Hardin county would have
had much to- regret with the state at
large There now they are trying to
save pittance from the wreckage by
foods of last week, and while sur
rounded by ruined homes and fields
they are preparing to construct con
servancy district under the Wonder
heide law.
When the flooded districts Of 1913
cried out for relief it was said in op'
position against the proposed conserv-
ancy law that such a situation might
not again arise in half dozen cen
turtles. that there had been no previous
record I'm Ohio of such heavy rainfall.
IL was argued therefore that there was
not likely to be another such rainfall
and that to spend money to guard
against II was criminal folly But Gov
| ernOr Cox knew the situation as few
| men did and he had a vision In all
things that was remarkable, He in
sisted the law be given for the bene'
1T of the stricken districts even while
engaged In securing them temporary
relief, even though he was promised
political defeat as a reward. The law
was passed, Immediately the fight
against the governor sel6shly inspired
and selnshly waged was started. In
due season there went through the up
lands that flooded the valleys one who
for personal profit preached aud prom
ised destruction to the 'despotic' life
saving Vonderheide law. II he haC
kept faith with other selfish ones anC
had been permitted to keep his prom
ise, what? Let this be quoted from
the Toledo Blade;
"Oberservers are agreed that in com
parison with the flood of 1913 the In
undation of last week hit Lima ant
surrounding farm territory much hard
err The damage wrought this yea
was not simply to houses, bridges
roads and railroads. in l9l3-bu
also to growing crops, to the heavle
summer traffic and to enterprise at it
season of high tide Had this lloO
been general instead of local, and ther
Is no reason known to weather expert
VIII yit should have not been, the II
Jury to Ohio would have been In hur
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

County Auditor Walter M. Riley
spent Wednesday in Danville.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

t7esoIutiors Of Respect, Obituaries and
Cards Of Thanks, five cents per line.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Mr.. Judson Vincent was a business
itor in Columbus on Thursday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Mrs. Andrew Young iB spending the
day in Gambler with Mrs. u l.. Fry.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

SUBSCRIPTION Rate-$1.5O per year
strictly n advance.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

Entered at the Mt. Vernon, O., postof-
&c as second class mail matter.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

FOR SALE-Nice acres with new
buildings, close in; very desirable.
Part terms. w. c. Rockwell. tides
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

The people OF Ohio have right to
insist on good roads. The three tenths
of mill levy was more than sufficient
If the present administration had been
as economical as they tried to make
the people think. With the levy, with
the total of automobile license fund,
and with proper appropriations from
the big surplus in the treasury, the
leading roads to every county in the
state could have been well paved
With the defects in the Cass bill con.
ditions will rapidly grow worse. Had
Marker remained as highway commits
sioner the people would have had
roads instead Of chuck holes and ex-
plantations, and this too with the fed
eral aid which the present administra-
tion has forfeited.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-23

dreds of millions, where in 1913 it was
in tens of millions. The conservancy
act was born of experience. 1t is one
of the finest examples of forethought
in country VIGOROUSLY wanting in
that desirable quality. Now more than
ever should it be protected against
blind and foolish legislation, more than
ever should the people of Ohio make
use of its protection
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
PROSPERITY is SMILING ON
SKYLAND HOSIERY MILL,

While prosperity did not visit every
business house in Henderson county
last winter it is of interest to learn
that the Skyland Hosiery company
during the month of March, shipped
225,0 10 pairs of mems hose, which is
the banner month in the history of
Henderson county's largest hosiery
mill.
Manager G. P. Rogers states that
orders are continually arriving for the
products of his mill, making 1t neces-
sGry to ruin night and day with a larg-
er force than usual.
1t is said that the price received Tor
hosiery is not quite up to the standard
but considering the volume of bust
ness the company is making a fair
profit. A considerable amount CT
money is being paid out in wages.
HendersonvilIe merchants are bene-
flied to a great extent by this large
payroll as the company does not con-
duct a mercantile store, and the loca-
ton is very favorable to trading here.
Perhaps the largest single customer
of the Skyland Hosiery company is the
Wordsworth company, which conducts
.720 stores over the United States.
Last month this concern purchased
nearly the entire output of the mill.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
PREACHER RoAsTs POLICEMAN

New Bern, April 20.-Declaring that
New Rern's greatest need was for men
who had the backbone to do things;
To keep the city clean and to remove
temptation from the path OF the young
men of the town, Pastor K. w. Tniet
on Sunday night delivered a bitter de-
nunciation Of immoral conditions N
the CITY and at Pembroke just outside
of the city limits.
Pastor Thiot praised Sheriff r. e.
Lane for the work that he a done IN
attempting to clean up the Pembroke
dives and also handed a few boquets
to Mayor Bangert for what he has
don in attempting to get the city
morally celan but in the latter case
he ayerred that the mayor held back
a little waiting for the sentiment OF
the people and that he believed that
If he saw this was overwhelming that
he would start in and make New Bern
one of the cleanest places in the
country.
Chief Of Police G. Lupton came in
for a good part of the sermon and,
while Rev. Thiot made no comments
upon this oficial. he literally hayed
him alive in the eyes of his audience,
As a prelude to his remarks concern
ing the chief. Rev. Thiot told of the
passing OF a resolution on the previ-
GUS Sunday by his congregation de-
manding that the officers clean up the
gambling dens and bawdy houses in
the city. Next he told of calling up
the City Hall later in the week and
inQuiring for the chief, having in
mind this resolution and desiring to
ask if anything had been done. The
chief was not in at the time and that
then telephoned to his home and thai
he call hin When he came In. Lats
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
MAIL ORDER HOUSE FAILS.

Some people cannot understand how
q big oncer can make such a big
failure al some make, but it is easy.
Last week the great mail order house
OF Greenhutt, formerly Seigel, Cooper
Co, went to the wall. with liabilities
OF 12,000,000 and assets about half
that sum. That was one of the great
mail order houses of the country-and
its numerous catalogues always con-
tanned full pages of testimonials from
the banks of New York City telling
what a prosperous concern it was.
But it hit the ceiling according to re-
ports and bad debts was the cause. 1t
had generally been supposed that mail
order houses did a cash business, but
In manipulating a twelve million dol
lar business it is hard to tell what
happened.
It is said the Sears, Roebuck people
pay a dividend of fifty per cent on
something like four million dollars.
The Montgomery Ward people made
their millions and the people of the
United States sent them a steady few
Of gold.
The parcels post coming in when !:
did gave mail order houses a better
business and the campaigns against
sending away money were started by
local merchants and patriotic citizens.
The big New York failure was not
perhaps, a suggestion that mail order
| houses are losing out. Rather, per-
haps a suggestion that business meth
ODDS were not used. 1t may transpire
that the failure could have been avoid
ed. However any way you want tc
look at it, it seems impossible for q
concern with six million dollarss as,
sets. doing a cash business, to fail FOL
twelve million if the game was pro
! perly condueted.-Everything.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29

Kinstcn, April 20.-"You sit in
church like a lotscf oysters
II was d select and a large. congre-
cation Of Episcopaiians I'm st. Mar9ss
church here that Rev. J. j. D. Hail
the greatest rescue worker OF that
dissemination in the country, male
the remark to. The effect was In
stantaneous.
Then DR.. Hall leant back upon the
pulpit which he had left to get
closer to hie hearers, sat upon e
chair half reclingly, and illustrated
to them the average churchgoer's way
OF worshipping. He sang a few lines
of a hymn in an Indifferent manner
to give them an idea about the lack Of
fervor of the congregation.
"You won't care a snap of your
finger for your Bill or John or your
Mary or Maggie in heaven than you
do for little black H~ottentots," the
Philadelphia asserted THAT isn't
the plan of things in heaven" He
dynamited a lot of private philoso
phies.
Most Of his hearers caught DIR.
Halls spirit, but there was hardly a
sprinter among them who could have.
caught him, 81 ubiquitous is he. He
took a rap at the circus, at card-play-
ing, and deplored the way women
dress. Last year there was a ten
dency to dress so that they could
barely walk; now they are just the op-
posite." he said. He told about how
he ebawled out" the SON of a very
prominent New York minister be-
cause he smelled whiskey on his
breath. An assistant suggested that
possibly he vas too severe with ths
youth, who went away highly offend
ed. Nothing doing. he swallowed
the hook down to his belt,'' DR.. Hall
said. and sure enough, the next even
ing the minister's son came back and
was converted. He illustrated the
case of David, "a real man." and Go
liah, "the toughest mutt in town"
Some of you came here to hear ma
say something unusual; some of you
came to criticize my grammar. al
some of you came to get religion"
DR.. Hall said, "and 1 hope you will all
be satisfied"
The famous mission worker is to- |
day en- route back to his Galilee mis-
sion in Philadelphia, where he last !
year preached to zoe, 900 people. "This
crowd is tame" DR.. Hall told the con-
gregation here. "You sohuld see the
I have to deal with at home. ]
might be murdered any minute"
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
JUDGE BOYD WON'T RETIRE

S~tatesville April 2t.-In the course
of Judge Body's preliminary remarks
preceding his formal charge to the
grand jury Monday morning, ne TOOK
occasion to state that, although efforts
had been and were being made to have
him retire from the judgeship, he had
no intention of doing so and expect
ed. as he stated it, to "die in the har-
ness" He also stated that although
he had attained the age of 20 years
he did not consider that he was that
old. but that he was 70 years young.
That he has no intention of volnntar-
iIy resigning as long as he is physl-
calIy able to conduct his courts was
olaarlr and cnnsiselv stated by him.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
O r SHOE CURVES.

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Daniel of Spar
tanburg, s. c., spent the week end with
their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J.. r
Eeverett.
Mr.. NJ. s. Johnson is on the sick
list.
Rev. Martin of the S. c. conference
preached at the Methodist church
Sunday in the absence of our pastor
Rev. r. F. Huneycutt, who was al
Sardis.
Mrs. William McKelvey of .Brevard.
spent the week end with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Brannon.
Mr.. Ed Warlick Of Asheville is Wis.
iting relatives here.
Mrs. Littlejohn of Inman, s. c., is
visiting her father. Mr.. A. Maxwell.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
nm ER08E NOTES
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In place Of the usual exercises last
Friday morning, the debate on Woman
ESnltrage was given inethe chapel. The
Judges were Mr.. Gale, Miss Rosa Ed
wards and Miss Mary McPheeters.
Those on the Affirmative were Miss
Willie Lou Jordan and Miss Carrie
LYDIA while Albert Dixon and Miss
Muiriel Fuller were on the negative.
While the debaters were out preparing
their rebuttals, Miss Alice Pace read
u selection, Beware of the Vidders"
and gavesas an encore, Irish Coquet-
ry." The judges were out ten min
utes and decided in favor of the mega
tive.
The Hendersonville High School
Literary society met last Friday. The
election of officers took place. Win
bourne Beason was elected president,
Miss Christine Justus first and Lee
Allen second vice president; Miss Will
lie Lou Jordan corresponding secre-
tary. and Miss Muiriel Fuller as censor
and high school reporter. The other
officers hold their Offices until next
We had the pleasure OF having
with us at the meeting n Of last
years graduates and former president
of the literary society, Thurston Crane.
He told us something about the socie-
ties at Chapel Hill, and several other
interesting things.
The rehearsal of 1.-THE Private Sec
.retary," the play the literary society
is to give at commencement, under the
training of Mrs. Fuller, are being held
daily. This is an excellent farce and
we hope the people of Hendersonville
will give it the generous support they
gave the Box of Monkeys" There
are twelve characters in the play,
those taking part being Misses Chris
tina Justus. Alice Pace, Muiriel Fuller,
Quay Dotson, Winbourne Beason.
Gather Briggs, Robert Gilreath, John
Drake, Karl Glenn, Lee Allen, II
Horace Gray.
OLIVE MUIRIEL FULLER,
High School Reporter.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-02-12
Viljoen Also Arrested
For Alleged Conspiracy

Los Angeles, Feb. 12.-General B.
]. Viljoen, one of the picturesque and
able leaders in the Boer war, was
taken into custody yesterday on a
charge involving an alleged violation
of neutrality. He gave $500 bond
before United States Commissioner
Williams.
The specific charge against Cen
eral Viljoen is that last December he
conspired with General Baltazar
Aviles, Charles Guzman, Geronimo
Sandoval, Francisco Hyon, Ventura
Palacio, Walter w. Bowker and Ig-
nacio de Leone to enlist soldiers on
the American side of the boundary
line for a projected uprising against
the authority of General Cantu, mill
tary governor of Lower California.
1t is also alleged that the various
defendants were concerned in having
sent to San Diego lot of munitions
of war, dynamite, ETC., in furtherance
Imperial Valley press., 1915-02-12
Wealthy Couple Murdered.

Oakland, Feb. 12.-Jacob Vogel, for
mer president of the Citizens Bank of
Fruitvale, and his aged wife, Eliza,
were found murdered today at their
home in Fruitvale. Both old people
were first tied, Vogel with his hands
behind him, and Mrs. Vogel with her
hands in front by her apron strings.
Their heads had been crushed by a
Llunt instrument and the bodies were
left lying in the hallway in the front
part of the house. The house had
been ransacked.
At 2 o'clock Rosalie Rist, the serv-
ant girl, who had been to dance, re-
turned through the back door, which
was left open for her. Finding some
one had been in the house, she be-
came frightened and ran to the home
of neighbor, where she remained all
night. When she returned to the Vo-
gel home this morning she discovered
the bodies. Vogel was one Of the
vealthiest citizens of Oakland, one of
the organizers of the Citizens Bank of
Fruitvale, vice president of the First
National Bank of Fresno and director
of the Bank of Sanger.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-02-12
Shipping Bill Surprise.

Washington, Feb. 12.-Administra-
tion Democrats in the Senate today
sprang a surprise on their Republican
foes on the ship purchase bill, when
Reed Of Missouri presented resolu-
tion to amend the rules and take a
final vote on the measure February
10. The resolution prescribed that
not later than p. m. on the day
named all debate on the shipping bill
cease and voting begin. Gallinger,
minority leader, amid much confusion,
moved that the resolution be sent to
the committee on rules. Reed then
moved that this motion to refer be
Reeds motion to table Gallinger's mo-
ton to send Reeds clotYre to the
rules committee. Reed Immediately
moved that his amendment be sent to
the finance committee, instead of to
the rules committee, but this was
declared out of order by the vice pres
ident. Thereupon Reed offered an
amendment instructing the rules COM
mittee to Immediately report out his
cloture rule favorably. This amend
ment was tabled, 46 to 46.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-02-12

of the conspiracy against constituted
authority in Mexico.
General Viljoen is in extremely poor
health, and he responded to the call
of the federal authorities against the
advice of his physician, who accom-
panied him to the federal building
and saw that he was taken home
without any unpleasant physical eff
fects.
General Viljoen expressed his entire
ability to disprove the charges
against him when given an oppWtu-
nifty in court. For some years he
has been living in retirement, believ-
ing that a career so crowded with ac-
tivity and embracing such hard serv-
ice as was his portion when he joined
the embattled Boer farmers in their
uprising against royal authority, and
was second in command of the Army
of the Transvaal, had earned for him
season of rest and quiet.