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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
LAFAYETTE
Visited State Ninety-twO Years Ago
The Great Frenchman Greet
ed Soldiers of Revolution

Ninety-two years ago General La
fayette was the honored guest of the
town of Marietta, Ohio. This was
just a few weets before the great
Frenchman laid the corner stone of
the Bunker Hill monument at Char
lestown, Mass. In a recent edition,
the Marietta Morning Observer pub
lished an account of this memorable
occasion as printed in the American
Friend of May 81, 1925, as follows:
ION Monday, May 23, at about nine
o'clock, a. m, the steamboat Herald
hove in sight of town, between two or
three miles distant and fired a gun,
which was supposed to be a signal
that General Lafayette was on board.
As she approached the name of Gen.
Lafayette appeared in large letters
across the bow, and placed all doubts
aside.
No preparation had been previously
made for his reception in consequence
of it being generally believed that he
would travel through the interior of
the state.
The General, however, landed and
was escorted to the beautiful mansion
of Nahom Ward, Esq, with whom he
had become acquainted in Paris,
where he continued about an hour
and received all those who chose to
call on him. The news of his arrival
was announced by cannon, and the
citizens began to flock around him all
eager to seize his hand and welcome
him to the soil he so nobly defended.
Among them a few patriots of Rev
olution paid him their respects,
whose hand once grasped them he
seemed unwilling to relinquish, and
whose interviews were very feeling in
themselves and rendered the scene
very interesting to younger classes.
After being generally introduced to
the citizens and to the ladies who
flocked to the place to see and well
come the veteran he informed them
that he was sorry to part with them
so soon, and was again escorted by
large number of people to the beach,
from whence he embarked on board
the Herald and he took his depaT-
ture for Wheeling, amidst the cheers
and exclamations of the people and
the roaring of a cannon"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
ALL SUBSCRIBER AND MORE

The Liberty Bonds were fully sub
scribed. Carry the news to the kais-
er. He was told that the bond
scheme would be a fizzle, but now he
knows better. This country is ready
to subscribe every dollar and sacri-
fee every man for the cause of liber-
ty and humanity. He won't know
this country when ii gets all its war
paint on. Wait till we put in TO-
100000 men and $10,OOO,OO0,0OO
and he will know who we are and
what We are after; he will under
stand that there is no end of the war
until Hohenzollernism has been driv'
en- off the earth. There was in this
country in 1900 $2,O55,15O,9SS in
banks and circulation. We have just
loaned all that and more, too, to ov-
erthrow the German pretense. If the
effort needs any more We will run our
printing presses and provide every
cent required. There are billions of
il yet in the air and ii will come out
when needed.-Ohio State Journal.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22

GotC! Gott! Dear Gott! Attention,
! blease!
Your bardner, Wilhelm, ish here
Und has a word or two to say
Into your private ear;
So durn away all udders, now,
Uad listen veil to me
For vot l say concerns Us much,
himself und Shermany.
You know, dear Gott, vas your
friendt,
Und from mine hour of birth,
l quietly let you rule de Heffen
Vile l ruled ofer de cart
Und ven l dold mine soldiers
Wv bygone battle days,
l gladly sblit der glory
Und gate you half de braise.
In efery way dried to brove
Mine heart to you vas drue,
Und only CLAIMED mine honest share
In great deeds dot We do.
You could not haf bedder frendt
In sky, or land, or sea
Dan Kizer Wilhelm hummer two,
Der lord of Shermany,
So, vot l say, dear GOtt! ish dis,
Dot We shouldt sdill be frendts
Und you should help to send mine
foes
Do meet dare bitter ends.
If you, dear Gott, will dis do me
will nudding ask again,
Und you und l will bardners pc
For efer more. Amen
Und listen, Gott it must Pc gwick,
Your half to me you send,
Or else l haf to stop attack
Und only blay defend;
So four und dwenty hours gif
Do make dose allies run,
Und to put me safe indo mine blace
De middle NV der sun.
If you do dis, will do my bart,
l will dell de world de fact,
But if you doan't, den l must dink
Id vas an hostile act.
Den var ad vunce l will declare
Und in mine anger rise
Und zend my Zepp'lin ships to wage
A fight up in der skies.
Die uldimatum, now, dear Gott!
Ish vun of many more,
Mine mind ish saddled up to CLEAN
Der whole world off de floor.
Pecause you vas mine bardner, Gott!
An extra shance is giffen,
So help ad vunce, or else I'll pc
Der emperor Nv Heffen.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
AN UNAssAMABLE POSITION
[Coshocton Tribune ]

The brewery people, in trying to be
all things to all men, get themselves
into ridiculous positions. We called
attention in this column recently to
their inconsistency in saying at one
time that beer is bread and that all
the nourishment of the grains they
use goes into the beer, and at another
that there is no food value in beer,
but that it all remains in the by-pro-
ducts and is sold to farmers for their
stock.
This recalls the old story of the
lawyer of. Bengali who defended a
man before the court on the charge
of stealing chickens. At the zenith
of his speech he gave vent to this elo-
queit and logical plea in behalf of
his innocent client:
"This man was not within 500
miles when the chickens were stol-
en-" he said. What is more he was
walking along in the moonlight and
dropped his bag and when he went
back to get it the chickens had just
crawled into it, In the third place
they We're not chickens at all but
were ducks, and in the fourth place
they were his own chickens anyway"
So the brewers say all the food val
lie of the grain reaches the people in
the beer; all of the food value of the
grain and more reaches the cattle in
the refuse; the grain usd in making
beer is not fit for anything else any
how, having no food value; and in
the last place they don't use any
grain to speak of in the first place.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
WRATH
OF Kaiser Aroused More by Loss of
Crown for Sister Than Any
Amount of Soldiers

Nothing that has happened since
the war started has so aroused the
wrath of the kaiser as deposing the
king of Greece. His rage shows as
nothing else could his interest in this
war.
Hundreds of thousands of good
German soldiers have been killed,
and the kaiser bore it stoically Vii.
lagos have been destroyed, property
obliterated, his best soldiers slain in
hundrd ways, and at no time has
he lost his temper. But the moment
the enemy lays its hands upon a mem
ber of royal household-the NOM
ent a dynasty in which he is interest
ed is destroyed-he raves like a mad
man that he is. Only the deposing
of king could have shown him in
his true cOlOrs.
The kaiser's interest in this war is
to maintain his tribe upon the throne
He cares for nothing else in all the
world. To have his sister thrown
from her high place upon a throne
arouses him to greater anger, and
calls from him VOWS of greater veng-
eance than the killing of a million
German subjects
He will fight harder, and sacrifice
more German soldiers to regain the
place for her than he would to avenge
the sacking of his proudest city.
In his letter to the deposed king he
calls attention to the fact, or alleged
fact, that no one has the right to lay
hands upon king; that it is not Civ
en- to human beings to have anything
to say about who shall rule them; that
God will help him to avenge this sac
rilegious thing of chasing a monarch
from his place-or words to that eff
feet. Verify we feel sorry for any
human being when he becoms so en-
tired in royalty as to suppose that
God Almighty is paying any attention
to its welfare.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
COUNTY C. {. NOTES

Walnut Chapel had and unusually
good meeting last Sunday evening,
Miss Opal Shively, leading A good
turnout of the church membership
were present and the meeting which
was prefaced by very good prayer
service, was over and above the aver
age.
The writer is reluctant to announce
that this society loses, in a temporal
way, one of the most genuinely
Christian, loyal and beloved workers
having been President of the Society
the past year, in not only the Society,
but in the whole namely,
Miss Opal Shively. In few days,
Miss Shively is to become the wife
of VIM. H. Dickman, of Midland,
Mich The very best of heartfelt
wishes go with this splendid young
woman in all the vicissitudes of life,
to her new home in the Bay state.
Her work at Walnut Chapel will not
be forgotten Miss Carrie Platt, who
is by on means new person in Wal
nut Chapel's church circles, is the
new president of the Society and we
know this Society still has strong
president. The Pastor is Rev. Geo,
NJ. Gill, Celina, r. D.
Fairview Church of God Society
held their meeting this time at 200
o'clock in the afternoon. The Misses
Frances and Elma Mowry and Field
Secretary Arch Cordier of the Celina
Presbyterian Society were present
the Secretary addressing them on
several phases of successful Societies.
Earl Poor led the meeting. Having
had no meeting the Sunday before on
account of Children's Day Exercises
they discussed both topics at this
meeting. This society will have one
member to attend the Hamilton con-
vention They had their monthly
business meeting at the home of e.
o. Poor on Tuesday evening. Among
the items transacted was the allow
ing of their share of the County ap-
portionment. Although just new
society they feel that they want the
county of which they are part, to
be Banner County at the State Con-
vention.
Fairview u. B. society west of
Rockford, had no meeting Sunday
evening on account of Children's Day
Exercises. This is another wide
awake" society," being only 6 weeks
old they have made wonderful pro-
gress. They have the Efficiency
Chart, the wall pledge and are pre-
pairing big Citizenship meet to be
held soon. Rev. G. l.. Culbertson is
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
THESE GERMANS SURELY
AMERICANS FIRST

The Chicago Tribune yesterday
told of the little town of Ferdinand
in Dubois county, this state, the pop
ulatiOn of which is entirely German,
and where little else but German is
spoken. And what of Ferdinand?
We'll, the German people there had
their German banker subscribe for
$11 900 worth of Liberty Loan bonds
and word was sent to the secretary, of
the treasury that Ferdinand could be
depended on for that much more if
needed An "alien enemy" may not
be an alien at heart nor an enemy in
reality. Under the law a subject of
the German government now in the
United States bears that uncompli-
mentary designation. Some of them,
at least, and probably many, are in
sympathy. A resident of Rome, N.
Y, strolled into bank the other day
to inquire whether a subject of the
kaiser would be permitted to buy a
Liebrty Bond. Assured, that he
would, and that reasonable secrecy
would be maintained concerning the
purchase, the German told why he de-
sired thus to further the fight which
the United States is making on the
German government my wife and
my mother" he said, "are starving
in Germany because the kaiser wants
the world. / can't send them any
more money. So l will save my mon
ey and buy bodns to help the United
States which is going TO end the war
and make Germany republic. am
German ut like the way America
does and l buy bond, When get
more money l will buy another"
Here is an enemy alien" who is,
nevertheless, a pretty good American,
And there are probably good many
like him in the United States Terra
Haute Express.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
PERSHING AND LAFAYETTE
[Cleveland Plain Dealer]

[Cleveland Plain Dealerl
The war of the American colonies
against Great Britain was compare
lively small matter in the world pol
itics of the last quarter of the eigh-
teenth century TO the liberty-seek-
ing colonists it was all important,
and to history it was matter of in
calculable significance. But there
were many more interesting things in
Europe than the fight of the back
woodsmen on the other side of the
wide Atlantic.
The coming of Lafayette, man
not yet twenty years of age, was not
heralded to all the world as a great
event. Even in America with the
means OF comm. .Hlrdtion of that time,
his advent was not properly recog-
nitcd.
Now Pershing goes to France. He
goes as Americas visible fulfillment
of her promise to aid France in the
greatest of all wars. His coming is
Immediately recognized as something
of quite immeasurable value to civil
lization. There is no doubt of the
meaning of the war, no question as
to the worth of Americas co-opera
ton. The honor that Lafayette re-
ceived in America is being repaid ten
thousand fold to Pershing.
And, it may be hoped, the debt
which America has owed to France
is already wiped out. The American
promise will be made good France
enabled America to beat down the ty-
ranny of a dull German who was seat
ed by accident on the British throne.
America now promises to enable
France to beat back the power of
great and highly intelligent German
who has sought to rule all the world
as stupid George III sought to rule
America.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
CONGRESSIONAL GYMNASTICS

Country publishers are told in one
breath they should give their adver-
tising space free to the government
because the government has been car
rying the newspapers through the
mails at loss. In another breath
they are told the second class nail
rate must be raised because the news
paper publishers ought to stand their
share of the expense of the war. 1t
behooves the owners of the country
newspapers in the public interest to
remember the men whose warped an
alytical reasoning not only makes the
districts from which they spring
laughing stock, but shows how much
the country is at the mercy of half
baked soning.-American Press.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
ABUSED GOVERNMENT THAT
FED HIM
columbus Dispatchl

The editor of a German newspaper
in Cleveland has been arrested and
will be interned because of his dis
loyal utterances through the medium
of his paper. He has been for Ger
many as against the United States
from the beginning of the contest,
yet he has been allowed until recent
ly TO print his German newspaper in
the city.
The German paper had to depend
upon the public printing for it's ex-
istence. That is to say, the taxpay-
ers of Cleveland paid for the public
printing that enabled the fellow to
operate his paper-in the interest of
Germany and against the interests
of the United State. Is there ano-
the~ country on earth where the peo-
pie would be so indulgent
Do you suppose the Imperial Ger
man government would give public
printing to an American newspaper in
Germany, to enable the paper to live
and carry on a propaganda for the
United States. Do you suppose a
citizen of this country would be al
lowed to run newspaper at all in
Germany, printed in English Do
you suppose that the German people
would be so indulgent as to allow
Haunted in their faces every day in
the year "a paper printed in Ian
guage they did not understand?
Hardly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22

may even induce soulful look to lin
ger in your eye-but-unless your
smile Is really one of those magnetic
affairs in every day life, you won't
succeed in cultivating 1t for the screen.
Screen smiles-the magnetic kind
are born, not made.
How much more to be desired than
fine gold, then, is the Unborn mag
netic smile, and how fortunate the
possessor Of one! Such bit of prop
erty is the main asset of Franklyn
Farnum, the youngest brother Of the
celebrated Farnum family, who has
become screen favorite in the course
of few short months. All the broth
ers have that indefinable quality which
we call personality" for want of a
better name; but Franklin has the
picture actors most envied attribute
the magnetic smile-as well. And
he has always had 1t. When he was
In the Legitimate" there was not
more popular chap on the whole Amer
lcan stage. Every stage-hand, call
boy, door-keeper on the entire route
over which he Travelled, felt the better
for seeing him, and catching the re-
Election Of his winning smile. When
he was "in stock" in st. Louis, he
could attract a crowd by Just stand
Ing on the corner of busy street, His
latest picture is "The Clock" which
was booked for first run at the Rial
to theater, on Broadway, New York.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
the pastor.

the pastor.
County vice president, Earl Wag-
ner, was at st. Marys Sunday evening
arranging with delegates for the
Hamilton trip.
The Christian EndeavOrers of the
Celina Presbyterian church held ano-
ther good meeting Sunday evening
Mary Bailey, a junior, also an asso-
ciate member led the meeting. At
ter the song service and scripture
reading. Mrs. Arch Cordier favored
the society with a very beautiful pia-
no solo entitled Evening Chimes.
1t was announced that there would
be another meeting of the Hamilton
club, Thursday evening at the
church, and the regular monthly ex-
ecutive meeting of the society would
be held Monday evening, June 25th.
Sunday morning church services were
as follows: Active members of the G.
E. in attendance, '83 1-3 per cent;
Honorary Al 4-9 per cent; Associate,
20 per cen; Evening service: Active,
So 2-3 per cent; Associate, 20per ct
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
THE STORK
To BE Special Subject AT Meeting OF
Doctors of This and Other
Counties at Lima

An invitation has been extended to
every practicing physician in Allen,
Auglaize, Hancock, Putnam, Mercer
and Van Vert Counties to attend a
conference to be held in Lima, in tbs
Lint Club rooms, on Thursday
June 2S, for graduate study of the
subject of bstetrics-which, trans
lated, means that branch of the ply
sicians art that has to do with aid
ing the Stork.
Similar group meetings are to be
held throughout the state during the
summer and fall months, under the
auspices of the Ohio State Medical
Association. 1t is part OF care
fully planned movement to carry post
graduate instruction in the medical
sciences to the practicing physicians
in Ohio The meeting will be di-
rected by DR.. William d. Porter,
clinical professor of obstetrics in the
University of Cincinnati Medical Col
lege, who has been commissioned by
the association to direct the post
graduate work in this particular field.
He will cover the entire subject of
obstetrics-one of the most impor
tant branches of the practice of med
icine The latter part of the meeting
will be devoted to a general discus
sion of the subject by the visiting
physicians. They will report diff
cult and unusual cases, and discuss
better methods of handling the per-
picking and dangerous situations that
often face the physician. The real
purpose of the meeting is to inter
change information, and receive di-
rectly from a great center of medical
education, lcEiew of the advances
science has made in this field.
Lima is one of the seventeen larger
centers of the state that have been
chosen for these group meetings.
Similar conferences will be held
through the summer and fail in Bell
aire, Youngstown, Canton, Xenia,
Hamilton, Piqua, Lima, Defiance,
Mansfield, Sandusky, Newark, Ports
mouth, Kenton, Lorain and one or
two other large centers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
LEGAL NOTICE

Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Education of Coldwater Village
School District, of the Village of Cold
water, State of Ohio, at the office of the
Clerk of said Board until Twelve O'clock
noon, June 23,1917, for furnishing the nee
essary labor and materials for installing
a steam heating plant in the Coldwater
Public School Building, according to the
plans and specifications On file in said
office
Each bid must contain the full name of
every person or company interested in the
same, and be accompanied by bond in
the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) Dol
lars, to the satisfaction of the Board; or
a certified check on some solvent bank as
guarantee that if the bid is accepted,
contract will be entered into, and its per-
formance properly secured.
Should any bid be rejected such check
will be forthwith returned to the bidder,
and should any bid be accepted such
check will be returned upon the proper
execution and securing of the contract
The right is reserved to reject any and
all bids.
BOARD OF EDUCATION COLDWATER
VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
]. N. WANNEMACHBR, Clerk.
May 81, 1917. 8-4t
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
DISCOVERIES SINCE 1919
(Literary Digest

(Literary Digest)
Electro-megnatism, 1919
Passenger railroad, 1925.
Friction matches, 1927.
Chloroform. 1881.
Carbolic acid, 1885.
Photography, 1889,
Typewriter, 1S43,
Electric telegraph, 1874,
Electric Light, 1874.
Sewing machine, 1916.
Ether, 1916.
Electric Locomotive, 1851.
Breech loading rifle, 1851.
Cocaine, 1855.
Bicycle, 1855.
Submarine cable, 1858.
Elevator, 1861.
Calling gun, 1862.
Antiseptic surgery, 1865.
Dynamite, 1878.
Airbrake, 1869.
Magazine rifle, 1870.
Telephone, 1876.
monograph, 1871.
Steam plow, 1879.
Submarine, 1880.
Linotype, 1884.
Automobile, 1855.
Kodac, 1888.
Kinetoscope, 1898.
EXray, 1895.
Wireless Telegraphy, 1896.
Airship, 1901.
Air plane, 1905.
Salvarsan, 1907.
The chief inventions used in the
'resent war which were unknown in
he Napoleon wars are the steamship,
ubmarine, aircraft, explosive, high
'ower guns, smokeless powder,
'reech loading guns, rapid fire guns,
eyolvers, automatic pistols, tele-
homes, automobile and poisonous
asses.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
CHILDREN'S DAY AT MT. CARMEL.
GREAT SUCCESS

The Children's Day Entertainment
given last Sunday evening by the Mt.
Carmel Sunday school was grand
success. A very large number of
children took part in the entertain
ment, and were splendidly drilled by
the committee, Mrs. James Highly,
and Lydia Smith. There were plen-
ty OF exercises to make it interesting,
while the decorations were tasteful
and pretty. Many people did not get
to hear the entertainment because of
an overlooking house.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22
BILLY SUNDAY
Gives sos, 900 to Red Cross and Like
Sum to Y. NJ. G. A, Results of
Work in New York

New York, June 18.-"Red Cross
dividends" amounting to $1,035,5O0
declared today by four corporations
brought the total contributions to the
100000 war fund up to $12,-
O33,913, it was announced tonight.
Included in this amount is $685.
900 received from Rev. William A.
Sunday, who divided between the
Red Cross and the Y. M. c. A. the
free will offering of $116,0O0 given
to him yesterday at the close of an
evangelical campaign in this city.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22

There is more Catarrh in this section
OF the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Catarrh is local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh, Medi-
cine. manufactured by F. ]. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
F: ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for consultation.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-22

The city men are merely doing a
little more roofing on the side for
the farmer than usual. When we
see them leaving their jobs and clos
ing their stores to go out and help
garner the crops we will be able to
determine whether they mean it or
are firm believers in the old theory
of letting George do it.-Commoner