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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Notice of Application by Administrator
or Executor to Register title to and to
sell land to pay debts.
Clarence Shaffer. admir-, plaintiff,
Elizabeth Shaffer, ct al, defendants.
To Elizabeth Shaffer, Donald Shaffer,
Cecil Shatter, George A. Shaffer, John S.
Shaffer, Bert f. Shaffer Nellie Dilbone
Arthur Dilbone, Otie High, Ed High
Florence Rush, Warren Rush, Bryan Shat
fer, Hoyt Shaffer Jennie Shaffer Clarence
Shaffer Matilda LorO, Anna Burgess, l..
a. Burgess, w. G. Boring, Joel Boring
John Iclhart, Charles Eckhart, 81. Shat
fer who reside at Rockford, Mercer Coun-
ty, Ohio; Grace M. Good, A. ID. Good,
who reside at West Layfayette, Indiana;
Edna Armbuster, Earl Armbuster, Will
liam Baird, L. A: Baird, who reside at To
Shatfer, wife; who reside at Ohio City,
Ohio Lorin b. Shaffer, Elizabeth Shaffer,
Frances Marion Shaffer, who reside at
Van Vert, Ohio; William Lomison, who
resides at Lima, Ohio; Louis Lomison,
Atty, who resides at Cleveland, Ohio;
Elizabeth Heath, who resides at Eaton,
okla; Jemima Walters, who resides at
Mansfield, Ohio; A. A. Cline Bird Cline,
who reside at Mcpherson St. Mansfield,
Ohio and NJ j. Strong, whose PLACE of
residence is unknown; and to all persons
having, any interest in or lien or charge
upon the lands or any pant thereof des-
cribed herein. You are hereby notified
that an application has been filed in said
Court by Clarence Shaffer as administra-
ceased, to settle, determine and remove
all clouds from and register the title of
said George Shaffer, deceased, in and to
and to settle, determine and register all
lesser or other estates and interests in,
and all liens and charges upon, the fol-
lowing described lands to-Wit:
FIRST BODY OR PARCEL.-Situate
in the township of Dublin, County of Mer-
Ger and State OF Ohio.
Thirty (3O) acres off of the North end
of the East half, % of the Southeast
quarter N), and Twenty (2O) acres off
of the South end of the East half (1aJ of
number One % in Godfroys Reservation
of fsiX sections on the st. Mary's river,
in said Dublin township, Mercer County,
Ohio.
You are further notified that the above
named plaintiff also AYERS in said appli-
cation that the debts against and costs
Of administering the estate of said George
Shaffer, deceased, are in excess of the
Is necessary to sell said real estate to pay
said debts and costs, and that an order
to sell said real estate for such purpose
Is asked for in said application.
You are hereby required TO answer
said application on or before the 18th
day of September A. D., 1915, and show
cause II any you have, why the prayer
Of said application should not be granted.
And unless you appear at said Court on
DR. before the time aforesaid and make
answer or other plea to said application
your default will be recorded, the said
application. viii be taken as confessed,
testing said application or any decree en-
tered thereon.
WITNESS Orvelle Raudabaugh, Judge
If said court, this 3rd day of August, in
he year nineteen hundred and fifteen
Attest:
GX Oficio Clerk
BY HERMAN ]. DUES, Deputy
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
FALL OF WARSAW
AS Sloan Gordon, Noted Ohio Cor
respondent and Writer Views
1t and Sums It UP.

A special dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer under date of August
! 7th, says:
Sloane Gordon, who is still class
| ed as an OhiOan because he insists
upon It, is back from Russia with lot
of volcanic ideas about the war. Cor
| don says that the war is likely to last
| for years. He says that Russia is
! just commencing to get ready to be-
gin to start" Gordon makes the
statement that the first abandonment
Of Warsaw occurred last October,
and that the army Of the Kaiser
could have taken the Polish capital
then with very little trouble. He
spent nearly three months in Warsaw
and admits that he learned 10 or 20
words Of the Polish language and
could order his breakfast without a
tremor.
1t is not generally known, appar-
emily" said Mr.. Gordon, that the
Russians Tetreated from Warsaw last
fall and left the defense Of the city
to few regiments Of Siberans and
Cossocks and a nondescript army or
ganized by the Poles themselves.
When / reached there in March the
Germans were being slowly driven
back in South and West Poland, but
the people of Warsaw confidentlally
believed that 1t would become neces-
sary later on for the city to surrender
to the Germans. 1t was well under
stood that Warsaw and the surround
ing territory was not essential to the
success of Russian arms; that It's
abandonment was, in fact, to be look
upon as a military advantage and
necessity.
"The Poles who gave themselves
credit for checking the German ad-
vance of the first month of the war
were quite out spoken in their criti-
cism of Russia for having abandoned
them in their fate but equally out
spoken in their prediction that sec
ond great drive by the Kaiser would
prove successful. And the queer
thing is that they did not seem to
care Warsaw has been so wounded
and mutilated through the centuries
that she appears to consider it mat
ter of course to be in the line Of fire
''The capture of Warsaw by the
Germans amounts to nothing" said
Mr.. Gordon. "All the press eXplos-
ions about it are to be taken as fool
ishly exaggerated. In giving up War
Russia is, in reality, relinquishing a
liability, not an asset. The moral eff
feet of the German invasion may be
of value, but the material effect is
nil.
"There is a flood Of talk about the
aausas.usaua--uzz-.aal-u-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Russian lack of munitions of war
There is a lack. But it is indirect
The great Russian distress comes
from the lack of railroad rolling
stock At the frontier terminal of
Russia railroads there are vast acres
of supplies that cannot be rapidly
moved because the Russians are not
in possession of the necessary num-
Der of freight cars. These cars are
slowly coming now, and with them
are coming staggering stores of shells
and guns. There will be new page
written in the records of the wars
progress in Eastern Europe when
these stores are delivered.
"No prediction as to the length of
time the war will last is worth both
ering about. No one on earth knows.
A thoroughly prepared Germany
struck at a sluggish England, a ner-
vous France and a startled and ig-
norant Russia. Russia is just turn
ing over in bed and getting ready to
wake up. But when she does wake
up look out This is no Japanese
Russian opera-bouffe war. 1t is a
real contest in which flowing millions
are eddying into the great blood
bowl. This is a holy war with the
subjects of the czar. The mOujiks
are going into 1t blessed, unafraid.
If It takes 10 dead moujiks to ac-
count for one dead German, what's
the difference? The Czar has plenti-
full of moujiks. And the dead are
headed for Heaven. Try to picture
a Niagara of human beings ripping
through a narrow resisting world
and simply overwhelming the rocks
and islands in the way. That's Rus
sia She is approaching flood tide
Mr.. Gordon does not pretend to
qualify as a champion of Russia. He
says that Russia is three hundred
years behind the times. But he
maintains that England is also a few
years back and that Germany is us
ing candles.
Mr.. Gordon went to Russia by the
way of Norway and Sweden and a
round the Gulf of Bothnia by rail.
He got into the Cars dominion
through Lapland, south through Fin
land from a point within the Artic |
Circle, and spent several weeks in Pc |
trograd and Moscow before locating
in Warsaw, from which place he vi |
sited the battle lines to the south and |
west Of the Polish capital
He returned the same way except |
that he took a boat from Bergen, in |
Norway, to Newcastle, England ira
veled from there to London and to |
Liverpool, and came across the At
lantic on the Adriatic of the White |
Star Line. He says he saw acres of
supplies destined for Russian firms |
and the Russian government lying |
out in the weather in North Finland; |
that the acres Of freight are lying up
in the ground at Archangel on the |
White Sea, and that Vladivostok is |
choked with goods that cannot be |
moved.
II only saw the stuff in Finland" |
he says, "but was reliably informed |
that the congestion at Archangel and |
Vladvostok is even worse. That is
a matter that must be taken into con
sideration Russia is just beginning |
to move these vast stores. England |
is just opening one lazy eye. To |
talk of an early end of the war, to
my way of thinking, Is absolutely |
absurd.
Ten million fatal microbes are
working where one bullet is loafing,"
is the way Gordon puts it.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
his SIxtIeth Birthday

In honor of the Goth birthday of
G.. w. Sapp, living southeast of Will
shire, a large party Of friends visited
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Sapp
last Sunday In the party were
Mrs. John Schueler and son of Buffa-
10, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Sapp,
Mr.. and Mrs Floyd Miller of Celina,
John Kettering and family, G, w.
Krugh, son Glenn and daughter Bea-
trice, Nelson Tucker and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Cliff Gillespie and Doyt Ey-
ers of Berne, Mrs. owen Sapp, son
Lewis, daughter, Hazel, and grand
daughter Lucille Purdy, and Miss
Burley of Geneva, Ind.-Willshire
Herald.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
oH, M! TmIs sCoOP FAILEp

The Standard is not given to
grouching and kicking as a rule. Our
policy is smile on, smile ever, even
though the heavens fall. And yet
there are times when ire will rise
despite the every day practice of self
control under trying conditions and
one Of them is when someone comes
in with copy about an hour before
going to press with the cheerful re-
mark:
Il gave this to the other papers
first, but thought It would be time
enough for you" AS the other pa
pers have a whole week I'm which to
handle the stuff that the Standard
must get out every day due notice is
served right now that eleventh hour
recollection of the Standard is going
to arouse eternal enmity on our part
that will not be cOndoned.-Daily
Standard
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Anybody who would question whe-
ther or not Governor Willis realizes
how hopelessly he has failed as chief
executive gives that worthy man less
credit for intelligence than he really
should This realization came upon
the governor when he made up his
mind to abandon that western trip
when he learned that Vic Donahey
wouldn't let the state pay his eXpen-
ses. That decision will permit the
governor to save just so much more
out of HIS two years salary, which
he realizes is the limit Of time for
which he may hope to be on the pay
roll
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
DO YOU GET ANGRY?

Anger, is being overheated in the
temper, which causes the brain to
stop working until it is cooled off
However, the brain is the only part
of an angry. person which stops
working An angry man is the bus
lest specimen of humanity. 1t keeps
the tongue, eyes, arms, legs and teeth
busy doing justice to some cases Of
anger, and it takes whole hospital
corps and often reinforced police
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
lepartment to handle the results.

Anger is caused in many ways, and
can be produced with no practice,
even by mere child. Sometimes
four word adjectives will produce
enough anger to keep the country
appellate and supreme courts toler-
ably busy for several years. Often
frail man weighing only 140
pounds can don mask and chest
protector and produce 10000 cases
Of anger in the third degree on the
baseball field in ten minutes.
Some men can be made furiously
angry by an underdone pancake or
late Breakfast or slow street car
or man with an impertinent face.
These men are angry so much of the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

"The New York Sun, reactlonary
says Willis as a presidential candi-
date Is such a monstrous joke as to
be almost tragedy; the Wichita Ea-
gle. owned by Victor Murdock, Pro-
gressive, says Willis as a president
lal candidate is not only impossible
but absurd And the fun of Il is
both are exactly right Portsmouth
Tfmas
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Frank Reighard, chairman Of the
Willis house finance committee, says
he will issue a reply to Honest Vic
Donahey's statement when he gets
back from Frisco, where he is now
comforting with Willis guardian spir-
IL, Sherman a. c, Neo. All are an
Xious awaiting that reply trusting he
will make clear just why the Willis
legislature i'm the way of economy
appropriated four million dollars
more than the last preceding admin
igtratiOn spant.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

time that they often die at an ad-
vanced age with their brains almost
unused. Other men require great
deal of encouragement before they
light up with a fire of battle. Some
times a quiet man can be annoyed
for several hours before he ignites.
Beware of such men. Their fuses
are usually short and when they ex-
plode they are full of shrapnel.-E
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Had there been anything else
needed to complete the utter demOr-
alizatin of the Willis administration
that has been given in the decisiOin
of the Willis insurance commissioner
which lets down the bars to the en-
ployers liability insurance compan-
les so that they may undermine and
totally destroy the workmen's com
pensation. From all parts of the
state come demands to the members
of the state industrial commission to
resist this onslaught, and If the COM
mission has not the power, the mat
ter will be taken to the courts by re-
presentatives Of both capital and la
Dor, who have learned well the ben
efts that accrue under compulsory
workmen's compensation. 1t is be-
ing recalled that under the admins
tratiOn of Governor Cox every on
slaught of the interests against work
mems compensation was successfully
resisted and that this resistance was
made a campaign issue by which
Willis enlisted the aid of the liabil-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Albert Germann, of Chattanooga,
last week purchased "a fine $3.50
Schafr Bros player-piano Of James
B. Stogdill, the local piano dealer.
Mr.. Germann now considers himself
thoroughly equipped to entertain his
friends, using the piano for music
and his Pullmun automobile, for
which cars he is the agent, for ride.
Wiltshire Herald.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Last year the Warnes law assess
ors in Franklin county established a
base line of value for William Ritter,
millionaire lumber dealer who for
the first time in his life was forced
to pay taxes on his just valuation in
Ohio. Then Ritter went to Wash
ington, D c., to live, and the Repub-
lican papers made great to do about
the Warnes law driving capital from
the state. When Willis was elected
with his touted promises to let the
hopeful come into their own Ritter
came marching back But the War
mes law proved just as adamant In
the hands of Willis Republicans as
it had in the hands of Cox Democrats.
The assessors put Ritter on the
books again, and horrid thought!
they boosted his assessment some
million and a half dollars Where
upon Ritter set up his residence else
where, but the autocratic Willis as
SCISSORS stood their ground. Now the
Republican papers are actually Civ
ing praise for this step which would
drive capital from the state.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
FOR SALE

One bay mare and one fine colt,
coming two years old. VIII also sell
large team mules and new Leifeld
buggy. A bargain. p. BECHDOLT,
Celina, RID. No, z; on Rice pike, l
mile west Of town.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
SAMPLE or G. o. p. LAW MAKING

Yes, under Mr.. Danford's amend
ment to the school law you are quail
flied to teach school one year without
any preparation whatever, but after
a years experience you
become disqualified Isn't that
peachareno of a law?- Caldwell
Press.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

ity companies and was raised To the
goyernorship. How well Wills is re-
paying the notes held by the liability
people is now being seen. The mort
cages against the homes OF the VII
dows and orphans are being fore
closed
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Congressman Tavenner who is
fighting the War Trust tooth and nail
calls attention to the significant fact
that the present chief of ordnance
was formerly Connected In a financial
way with the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany. This concern is in the War
Trust. Need more be said?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
HARD TIMES NOTES
TCadiz Democrat ]

While the wool market of Harrison
county abs been apparently very
quiet there has been considerable
buying going on, and a large portion
of the clip has been taken up. The
prevailing prices have been 28c for
unwashed fleeces and zoe for washed
with slightly higher prices in each
case for choice clips.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Walking about the Chautauqua
grounds last Sunday and noting the
numerous automobiles 1t was very
noticeable fact that not just every
body had adopted the gasoline wag-
on of convenience. There were hun
dreds of rigs parked in the hitching
section.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estntn of nn,,id c,n,...ol1 100000

Estate Of David Carroll. deceased
Ruth Carroll has been appointed and
qualified 'as Administrative of the estate
of David Carroll, late Of Mercer county
Ohio, deceased Dated this End day OF
August, A. D., 1915.
ORVELLE RAUDABAUGH
Judge of the Probate Court
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

Official tax assessment returns
made to the state tax commission by
the authorities in the counties Of
Ohio are proving beyond doubt that
the Warnes law is working efficient
ly even in the hands Of its enemies.
The indications are that the dupli-
cate of the state will be increased in
the sum of more than twenty mill
ions of dollars, and this in the face
of the fact that millions of dollars
worth of intangible property has
within the past year been turned INTO
non-taxable securities. Viewing this
it seems incredible that the people OF
Ohio could have been so mtsled In
regard TO the evident improvement
i'm taxation methods. In an admin
istration full of mistakes the tinker
ing with the tax problem by the vii
lis regime not be found to be the
least
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13

The trouble with the state high
way department and its failure to
keep up the good work started under
the Cox administration, is that all
of the state officials under Willis are
kept busy helping on the plans of
the million dollar new Office building
to house the unnecessary outside
state departments" which Willis is
going to build out of a fund created
from the interest on the treasury
deficit" left by Cox. It's a darned
shame they can't give us an Office
building and good roads at the same
time everybody knows that def
cit" of ten million dollars ought to
have been big enough for both.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
GREATEST FAIR IN SIXTY YEARS

Promised by the Darke County
Agriculture Society on August 23rd
to 28th, better races, bigger free acts
and big animal show, some of the
things to make the Fair better than
ever
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
O. c. BARBER,
Mine Owner. Z"

Many have been inclined 10 blame
the present unfortunate condition on
the run of mine law that was enacted
by the previous legislature, but Bar
Der in his letter does not refer to
that, and he knows something about
the whole question, too.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
PLACING THE BLAME
rWooster News I

wooster NEWS
1t didn't take long for o. c. Bar
Der, student OF railroad problems
and millionaire farmer and match
manufacturer, to reply to Governor
Willis appeal for aid for the miners
by telling the Governor the cause of
the suffering. When the governor
sent Mr.. Barber a telegram telling
him that the situation in the mining
regions in the southern part OF the
state is desperate, and asking aid,
Barber replied as follows:
Hon. Frank b. Willis,
Governor of Ohio, Columbus:
"On the matter Of your tele-
gram l have to say that had the
legislature made provisions for
a reasonable freight rate from
the coal fields in Ohio, CORES
pondingly as low per ton mile as
the state Of Ohio permits Virgin
ia to ship its coal through Ohio,
the starving miners would not
be in so serious a condition. In
the name of humanity, the state
of Ohio is at fault, and should
see that these people are proper
ly fed and clothed for its omiss-
ion
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-08-13
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
MERCER COUNTY, OHIO

Notice of Application by Administrator
or Executor to Register title to and to
sell land to pay debts.
Clarence Shaffer, admir-, plaintiff,
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-07-22

now this w)rl1-oll strlyglh for
expansion between Europe and
Asia is once more to be fought
to a temporary finish.
What viii me lasting finch
involve II Japan should succeed
in her scheme OF reducing China
to Il c position Of vsssal waile
the nations oi Europe are busy
with their own more pressing
concerns? Ii Japan is left free
TO harness the mighty though
unskilled Chinese giant. to train
and employ five hundred millions
born TO obey and endure hard
ship. there will be possible still
another Asiatic invasion Of
Europe not merely across the
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus
but over the whole dividing line
that may readily tread down and
sweep over even the German var
machine.
History persistsntly repeats
itself. The present conflict
between Europe aud Asia in and
about the stored region of
ancient Troy will not be the last
and may not be- the greatest.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-07-22
A World Old Struggle On
The Fields or Troy.

Though the course Of empire
is westward in modern times,
the nations are still fighting in
the North Sea. where Engla nd
won the mastery Of the waves
from Spain and Holland. and in
and about the Dardanells. where
Agamemnon led the heroes of a
youthful Greece against the hosts
of Ibum. where Xerxes crossed
with his million Persian into
Europe where the fate Of the
naval empire of splendid Athens
was decided by the disastrous
defeat of Aegospotami. where
the first Christian Emperor Con-
stantine founded a new capital,
and where a later Asiatic invasion
gave the Ottoman empire a foot.
hold in Europe for more than
five hundred years.
The farthest backward glance
Of the historian was called when
the news came that French ships
were cruising off the mouth of
the classic Scammande flowing in
Mount Ida's shadow. and that
landing party of the Allies had
captured eight thousand Turks
on the stored plains of Troy. /,
seems almost unbelievable that
in the year 1915, after thirty
centuries. another titantie strug.
gle is in progress in the land OF
Homer's laid. As one reflects
upon this return Of history to it's
earliest sources, Agmemnon.
Achilles, AjaY, 0dysseus,,H Hector
+ friam. LAGOON Cassandra, the
bewitching Helen and the other
browning figures OF the grea,
epic seem to- emeWe from the
realm of legend and stand fourth
in actual historical verify. Even
the gods who played an unseen
part in the mighty contest appear
to become more than symbols as
the mind travels back toa wal
that was traced TO the jealousy
of other goddesse when Paris
awarded the apple 10 beautiful
Aphrodite.
The researches OF Schliemanr
and others have shown that nine
previous cities and civilizations
flourished and fell on the site OF
ancient Troy This implies that
the struggle of Esst and West IN
that his toric arena has no,
merely been one of three thous.
and years but was witnessed
even in tho rAmotest times. A.