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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
SToRK is VERY GENEROUS
Leaves Three Sets of Twins Within
Few Days in One In
diana County.

Lawrenceburg, Ind.-The stork has
been working overtime in Dearborn
county the last few days, having left
twin girls at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William f. Kolb in Logan township,
twin boys at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Il. Hines in Harrison town
shop and twins, a son and daughter,
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
J. Heaton in Centre township. The
Kolb twins weighed 1919 pounds and
are the first born to Mrs. Kolb, who is
the daughter Of Frank ]. Barber, cOun-
ty commissioner. The Hines twins are
also the first children in the family.
Their mother is a daughter Of DR..
Charles S. Bauer, a physician, and the
Heaton babies are the third pair Of
twins born to Mrs. Heaton. They
now have six children, three sons and
three daughters.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
MILES OF OCEAN BOTTOM SEARCHED

i've miles, they will continue the
search for five miles further In the
same directions II she is not found
before winter comes on Il is probable
that the search will be abandoned un-
III next spring
The expedition is a costly one. The
divers are paid as high as $40 a day.
II Is said that Captain Stlllson will re-
ceive big bonus II the expedition is
a success, and fair" compensation II
II fails.
In marine circles II is believed that
the Merida viii not be found. It IS
figured that In the five years since she
went down she is probably completely
covered by sands, and divers might
walk over the spot where she lies
without knowing 1t.
The treasure hunters come 10 Nor
folk and Newport News about every
two weeks TO take ON fuel aud sup
plies.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
ARGENTINE CHIEF is HERMIT
New President Is Not Likely to FN-
come Huge Success So
ciaIly.

BuenOs Aires.-HipolitO Irioyen, the
new president of Argentine, may prove
to be u political success, but there is
no indication that he will be a success
socially.
The Argentinians expect their presi-
dents-elect, their presidents and eX-
presidents to show themselves in aris-
tocratic circles, to give big balls and
receptions and generally to add to the
gaiety of the capital. President-elect
Irigoyen has been a disappointment In
this respect.
But for one short visit to Buenos
Aires in July, he has remained shut up
like a hermit in his ranch house in the
country ever since his election. The
people are anxious to see him. Pic
lures of him have been printed but ev-
eryone knows they are fakes because
there isn't picture of Irigoyen in ex-
istence.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
STORM HALTS THE FUNERAL
Heavy Rain Kept Persons In a Chapel
All Night in Texas
Cemetery.

Hillsboro, Tex.-SiXty-three persons
who gathered in the chapel at the
Brandon cemetery to attend the fu-
neral of Mrs. Knuckles, were forced to
spend the night there, being marooned
by the heavy rainstorm which neces-
STATED postponing the interment un-
til the next morning.
During the funeral service the rain
started and fell In such torrents that
it formed little bitches which ran into
the grave and completely filed it with
mud and water. The grave was cleared
in the morning and the interment held.
1t was 90 late to return home when
the rain stopped, so those gathered for
the funeral sent out and got some cof-
fee and sat up all night so as to attend
the burial the next morning.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
The Silver Lining.

Not long ago a clergyman, In the
course Of ministrations among the poor
of large town, called on an old lady
who had been bedridden for some
years.
"Well, Mrs. Davies" he said, "Gnd
how are you today"
"Oh, I'm pretty well, thank you"
was the cheerful answer.
"Ah, that's right" responded the
clergyman, sympathetically. II hardly
expected to find you to be in such good
spirits, considering your affiictlon. I
was afraid l should find you down.
hearted"
"No, no, slrw she cried, interrupting
hin. "No, no, indeed, sir. I've much
t. be thankful for, have. Why, only
the other night, when that house just
opposite was on fire, couldn't help
6fnking Of all the poor people crush
ing each other in the street, and many
" them not getting a sight of the fire
at all, while here was 1, all nice and
comfortable in bed, and could see 1t
beautifully through my window with
out even turning over! Oh, no, Pv.
a lot to be thankful for"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Plain EnaIish.

An American who has been doing am
bulance duty in France pretty close to
the fighting line was working near an
other American one particularly diff
cult day. This friend was mild-man-
nered and mild-spoken, but as a
French linguist he belonged to a class
that would never be called for active
service.
Their post wac at a crossroads
when the German artillery perversely
began searching the neighborhood with
shells A high explosive shell dropped
almost upon them; the friend was
bowled over, eyes and mouth full of
dirt. He stood up uncertainty.
"Whew," he remarked with empha-
sis, "if 1 just knew the French for
Bon Dieu, I'd say it."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Prehistoric Man.

The life habits Of prehistoric man.
as we'll as his antiquity on EARTH are
known almost entirely from fossil re-
mains of various sorts. The data, how
ever, are very scanty and insufficient
for strictly logical deductions. Tools
and hunting weapons, bones Of tropi-
cal fauna and remains Of man are
found in the gravel beds of western
Europe. Apparently man antedates
the glacial period as this tropical
fauna there was previous to the Ice
age and because remains of glacial
fauna, together with human remains,
occur in later geological deposits, Thus,
the antiquity Of man becomes a ques-
ton of the date Of the ice age, and
that occurred 10000 years ago at least.
The implements Of prehistoric man
form basis Of a division of early in
dustrlal development into the stone
age, the bronze age, and the iron age.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
BRITISH PILE UP
SHELLS At BASRA
End German Dream Of Proposed
Terminus Of BerIln-Bagdad
Railway Line.
CAPTURED SHIPS IN TIGRIS
Simple Possession OF IT, River Tigris
ls Sufficient to Control the Popu-
latlon for Many Miles
Inland.

! General Headquarters Mesopotamian
EXpeditlOnary Force, Basra.-The cul-
mination of Germuny's immediate east-
arn aspirations was the creation Of
Basra as the Persian gulf terminus of
the Berlin-Bagdad railway system,
writes Louis Edgar Browne In the
Chicago News. The Germans In their
widest dreams could hardly have inn
ngined Basra as Il Is today. II is the
headquarters and main base for Brit
/ ish operations In MesopOtamIa. The
term base" has come TO mean a place
where thousands of troops are en-
camped in glistening white tents, care
fully arranged In rows and blocks with
military precision; mountains of food
stores for the men and fodder for the
animals; hospitals and headquarters
and dispatch riders dashing about as
though the angel Of death were after
them.
BAsra is all that and more. Never
was there more unique campaign
than this one, where there is every
contrast between east and west.
The Tigris Is all important in the
campaign. It is fickleness personlfied.
1t floods, subsidies and spreads cholera
with absolute impartiallty. Hardly two
engagements out of all the furious en-
counters that have marked the steady
progress of British troops up the river
have occurred more than eight miles
from It's banks. The British objective
has been to take possession of the riv-
er. The Turks have tried only to hold
It, Simple possession of the river is
sufficient to control the population for
many miles inland.
British Ships Everywhere.
One stands on the army commanders
pier and realizes that Britain does
control the seas. As far as one can
see, either up or down the river, there
are ocean-going ships tugglng at an
chor chains drawn taunt as bow strings
by the swift current. The ships are
anchored one behind the other in
long column. They hail from many
corners of the earth and among their
cargoes one may find everything from
a big howitzer shell to q skein of en-
brOidery for some Arab harem. The
ships are nearly all British They fly
one of the varied designs of the Brit
ish flag. 1t may be the white ensign
Of the royal navy or the red ensign of
the mercantile fleet or the blue ensign
with India's rising sun or the Austral-
ian flag with it's four stars depicting
the southern cross.
Every day a few ships draw into
midstream and with half exposed pro-
pellers thrash their way toward the
sea. They have before them a terrible
tossing about by the Arabian sea mon
soon, but even at that they must be
thankful to the depths of their souls.
Basra is all that Is vile. The very air
one breathes is rank poison. The tenn
perature runs up to 11S degrees on
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
$40 REWARD FOR S4oO RING
Honest Waitress Found II and Re-
turned Jewel to Mrs.
Whitworth.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-Luck was
with Mrs, Rose Whitworth, wife of n
Tulsa (Okla) business man, when she
dropped a diamond setting from her
rings In the McRae cafe.
The gem weighs two karats and is
valued at $lO0. It slipped from the
owners hand while she was at lunch.
Three hours later she returned, having
missed the jewel, and Billy Jones, man
ager, was able TO return her diamond
by reason of the honesty Of the wait
resS, who found II on the floor.
The waitress is richer by 500 and
Mrs. Whltworth is happy, the diamond
having been a prenuptial gift from her
husband.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Ready Tor Hlah School al Z.

San Francisco.-Qualified to enter
dgh school one year ago, when only
seven years old, Beatrice Ruth Will
ard, whose intellectual progress has
Oeen the marvel of educators, is to
extend her education further by
tour of the Orient. Before her re-
turn she may circumnavigate the
globe. With her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Willard, she sailed on the steam
" Tenyo Maru for Japan. They are
considering return by way of Eu.
rope -Rd provided for that possibility
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
STORM LEFT MANY SNAKES
Six Are Killed on One Lawn in
Texas After the Hurricane
Passes.

San Antonio, Tex.-They're swatting
snakes at Rockport now.
Col. Frank Holland killed six on the
lawn on the lot on which his cottage
stands near Rockport after Fridays
hurricane, according to a report.
"SOme of the snakes were rattle
snakes and We're at least four feet
long" it was said. Colonel Holland
and neighbor were preparing to go
fishing when the storm broke"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
ELOPERS GO WITHOUT FOOD
Fearing Wrath cf Girls Parents,
Maryland Couple Drive 100
Miles to Marry.

Frederick, Md.-Fearlng the wrath
of the girls parents, more especially
the mother, and egged on by the re-
membrance of an interrupted marriage
in Washington in June, Lacy II. Fitz-
gerald, twenty-One years old and Ce-
cile b. Steel seventeen years old, Of
Vesuvius, Va, drove 100 miles into
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

away from Valentia laying another
cable. July p the cable was complete
ly laid at Hearts Content, Newfound-
land, and the queen ana the president
again exchanged greetings. Soon after
this happy event the lost cable Of 1868
was recovered and placed in service.
In addition to the cables between Va
lentia and Hearts Content, Newfound-
land, there are now cable lines between
Waterville, Ireland, and Canso, N. s.;
New York and Rockport, Mass. Ben
zance, England, and Bay Roberts, N.
F.; Canso, N. s., and New York. Bal
llnskelllg's Bay, Ireland, and Halifax,
N. s., and Rye Beach, n. H., and Brest,
France, and Cape Cod, Mass.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

by obtaining the necessary passports
before sleaving here. Equipped with
portable typewriter Miss Beatrice
viii write of her experiences and OBJ
servations as her journey progresses.
She is four weeks past eight years
old now.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
GIRL IS EXPERT CARPENTER
Young Lady Makes About All the
Furniture Needed in the
Household.

Alameda, Cal.-When anything is
needed in the furniture line in the Won
Manderscheld home In Alameda, they
call In FlOrita and say:
"Father needs shaving cabinet" or
Mother needs mahogany bedroom
SET" or 'Little sister needs q high
chair"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
pearie Mel

Ethel-Has Tom proposed yet,
Maud?
Maud-No, not exactly.
Ethel-Not exactlyl What do you
mean?
Maud--Well, you know, he always
used to knock when he came to our
house to visit me. Well, last night he
came with a ring.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Asks Match; Finds Brother

Bayonne, N. J.--Alexahder Cruze ap-
preached stranger in the Sedmans
home to ask for match. The strang-
er turned out to be his brother Albert,
whom he had not heard from In ten
years. Both are sailors.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
liberal with Her Views.

"Mrs, Flubdub says she loves to ex-
change views with intellectual people"
"Works on liberal basis of ex-
change, too. She win give you ten Of
hers for one of yours"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
slauahter sonnsters.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-When residents
claimed that the clamor of starlings
and blackbirds murdered their sleep,
Mayor Wilbur hired II expert marks
men, whose guns are eliminating the
"sleen-killersn
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Snake on sleenlnn Woman.

Indiana, Pa.-Awakened by pressure
on her chest Mrs. Charles Shaun of
West MahOning township the other
night clutched a fOur-foot biacksnake
which had curled up on her. Her huS-
band killed the reptile.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
GOLD IN CHICKENS CROPS

Auburn, Cal.-Thomas Gam
lin Of the Mount Vernon district
has some very valuable chick
ems. Recently he killed two and
found gold nuggets in their
craws valued at about one dol
lar.
As the chickens were penned
in a small space on the hillside
Gamlln Immediately began in
vestigations and soon unearthed
quartz ledge which he will
further prospect.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

Frederick, and stopped their machine
only when the courthouse was reached.
The couple had travelled without food
in an effort TO obtain marriage license
and marry before the mother of the
bride stopped the marriage.
and" sighed the girl, I'm so hun.
gry."
Lets get married first; we can eat
afterward," suggested Fitzgerald, and
the couple left the clerks office. They
were married by Rev. l.. II. Nummel-
baugh, pastor Of the United Brethren
church.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

Florita goes out to her workshop
and with hammer, saw and chisel the
need is supplied and the family hasn't
paid out a cent except for the lumber.
Miss Florlta Won Mandescheld Is an
expert carpenter and joiner. She takes
to tools as the ordinary girl takes to
curling irons. She has been hammer
Ing away for several years now, and
has never so much as knocked the
beauty parlor finish off her thumb nail.
She made a mahogany library table
of such craftsmanship that Principal
George @. Thompson of the Alameda
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

Electric burglar alarms surround the
treasury at Washington and are tested
every fifteen minutes, day and night
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
IN USE
HALF CENTURY
Cyrus w. Fields Faith in Ocean
TeIegraphS Was Justified
in 1866.
EARLY PROJECTS FAILURES
Since July 27, 1866, New World Has
Been in Continuous Communica-
tlon With Old by Subma-
rine Cable.

New YOrk.-It Is a little more than
a half century since the completion Of
the first permanent Atlantic telegraph,
observes the New York Evening World.
Since July 27, 1866, the new world has
been in continuous and uninterrupted
communication with the old world by
means of the submarine cable. The
final success was achieved only after
several disheartening failures. AS
early as 1S43 Prof. Samuel f. B.
Morse suggested the possibility Of en-
Atlantic telegraph line.
Just a decade later Cyrus w. Field,
a wealthy merchant, beCaI4e interested
in a plan for laying an underground
cable across Newfoundland and in the
following year, 1851, he secured the CO.
operation Of Peter Cooper, Moses Tay-
lOr and others in scheme for trans
Atlantic cable. The manufacture of
$500 miles of wire was completed in
1857 and the task of laying it was COM
menced at Valentia, Ireland, in August
of that year, two American and two
British vessels being engaged After
a few miles had been laid the cable
snapped. This was repaired, but after
300 miles of wire had been put down
it snapped again and the vessels re-
turned to Plymouth.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

High school threw out the one he al
ready had and bought Florita's.
Florita has made, among other arti-
cles, two large mahogany library ta-
bles, a walnut china closet, a shaving
cabinet, equipped with bevel mirror:
a gun rack which looks like china
closet, piano bench, tabouret, cogy-
corner seat and dolls chair. She IL
her own designer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Drinks Act Like Manio.

st. Louis, Mo.-"Where am ~"
asked Harry McStravick, thlrty-one
years old, when he came to at the city
dispensary after Sergeant Peters found
him in a stupor in front Of 1912 North
Lefflngwell avenue. "St. Louis!" he
exclaimed, when his query was an
swered. I'D like to know how l got
here. The last l remember l was Ieav-
ing home in New Orleans and starting
for show" McStravick said he had
taken one or two drinks in New Or
leans.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06
Success Short Lived.

A storm caused the failure of a
second attempt, but the third voyage,
in 1858, was successful and the juno
tion between the two continents was
effected by 2,059 miles of wire stretch
ing from the Irish coast to NewfOund-
land. Messages were exchanged be-
tween Queen Victoria and President
Buchanan and there was great rejoic-
ing on both sides of the ocean.
The jubilation proved premature,
however, for in a short time the cable
ceased to work and was branded fail
ure. The faith of Field did not waver,
and, although the Civil war prevented
an early revival of the project, in 1865
a new company began the laying of
another cable. The famous vessel, the
Great Eastern, was dispatched to Ire
land with the wire, but again the
project ended in failure.
Mr. Field then launched the Anglo
American Telegraph company, and in
July, 1866, the. Great Eastern steamed
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

Bullet Between Nertebrae.
Fort Wayne, lnd.-Surgeons sue
cessfully operated the other day on
Pete Annastropfe, an Assyrian, to re-
move a bullet that had lodged between
vertebrae In his neck when he was
shot in the mouth at Van Vert o.,
some weeks ago, and Annastropfe will
recover, the surgeons said, after having
been constantly in danger throughout
the five weeks. The position of the
bullet was such, II was said, that had
Annastropfe moved his head violently
he would have died. The bullet was
touching the spinal cord and the OPP
Grafton was regarded as extremely
serious.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-06

After searching five miles in one
direction, the treasure hunters will re-
turn to the spot where the Merida
went down and search five miles in
another direction. After they have
gone north, south, each and west for
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-27

ably good "a page example Of planning
and printing containing some excel
lenty well done balf-tones of unnau
ally good photographs and Just
enough i've simple. sincere printed
matter to make yoa feel hnmanly ae-
quainted win We Park and win
Secretary Lane and to make YOU want
to know them both better
The sole pnrpo.e Of thus book being
10 get people 70 20 70 Yellowstone
Park Secretary Lane has permitted
the railroads which carry people 70
the Park to publish reprints for dis
tribution The Union Pacific system
which carried two-thrds Of all ihe
visitors to Yellowstone Park last sea-
son. according to Government figures,
has already sent out thousands Of
these booklets into the hands Of peo-
pie who have enough interest 70 write
in to any of their offices and ask for
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-27
TIE GOVERN
ME\T tD\ERll@iS

Franklin X. Lane, Secretary Of the
Department of the Interior believes
in publicity and parks
He believes in rescryine national
Fairgrounds Tor national use and
psf,ine the people 10 use them
po believes that week. or month
ar summer spent in such place
for instance a. Yellowstone National
park is bound to make better cin-
zen of man, physically mentally ana
normally,
And better citizenship 81 one OF me
,s,ngs that the Secretary Of the In
terror is after.
So his department is getting out
books making people want to go 10
nlaces ike Yellowstone PARK.
The Yellowstone book Is remark
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-27

CANDIDATES PLEAD THEIR CAUSES
PICK THE WINNERS
Walter 7. Warren
Republican Candidate for
COURT CLERK

An experience Of % years upon County
records IN private and public work is an
invaluable asset Of public officer
Mr. Warren has had many years cx
periencc as an examiner Of titles in
Illinois and Oklahoma and as a practie
ing awyer iIe served seven years as
deputy chrt c1 the District Court prior
70 and after statehood two years as
clerk OF the detunc Superior Court sA
months as peput, County Attorney and
eight years as Clerk, and President OF
The Board Of Education Of Guthrie
II one dishonest action, whether as a
private citizen or public oiticm, or any
neglect Of public duty can be- shown
against him. he viii not ask or expect
your support
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-27

Haze Tho Leader Delivered i5c mo
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-27

evNG RESULTS
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-24
MLSHAWAKA GENERAL NEWS
Timso IsOmhNf Street omeP Bu1o
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
ELECTS OFFICERS

Election OF officers at the annual
meeting OF the music department OF
the Mishawaka Woman's club
Thursday afternoon resulted as fol-
lows: Mrs. r. f. Suders, chairman;
Mrs. ]. p. Feagler. yice-chairman,
Miss Helen Upper secretary; and
Mrs. Katherine Bressler, treasurer.
After the brief business session an
interesting program which was in
charge OF Mrs. Fred Corporan.
chairman Of he program commit
tee. was enjoyed. The story Of the
opera "Cavalleria Rustcana," was
given in a most entertaining man
ner. the theme OF this opera being
beautifully brought out To illus
trate this. several records on the
victrola were given as follows: Pre-
lude 10 act one" Easter ChOrale
and Intern ezzo.' "Turiddus' Fare
we'll to His Mother Drinking
Song" and We'll Do You Know. ="
This was the last meeting for the
year and was largely attended. The
music class evinced much enthusi-
asm throughout the entire semester
because of the splendid programs
given by Prof. Charles +. Morse Of
Detroit. Mich. and the many local
musicians.