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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
MONROE CENTER
A Chronicle or Events In THE
Township

John Turbett Of Newark has been
the guest Ct William Metcalf and fam
ily
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ~. Needs were the
guests Of Andy Johnson and wife of
near Fredericktown Sunday.
T.. s. Pealer and family of Happy
Valley were Sunday guests of c. d.
Grubb and family.
Mrs. Charles Baker was the guest
Of Mrs Dec Dowds Sunday evening.
Mrs. William Scott called on Mrs.
Robert Harding Saturday evening.
Mrs. G. NJ Grubb was the guest of
her mother, Mrs. CritchIeld, Of How
ard Saturday evening and Sunday.
Mrs. George Fronce, who has been
on the sick list, is much improved.
Mrs. f.. l.. Wan returned home from
Van Vert county Tuesday where she
was called by the serious illness OF
Mrs, c. A. Wan.
X. +. Parrish and family visited
with friends in Mt. Vernon Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Carr are visit
ing with friends at Waterford.
j. w. Grubb and c. d. Grubb were
in Ashland Thursday on business.
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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Wants Contract Set Aside

Action was begun in the common
pleas court Wednesday by Josephine
Barry against Nestor Barry in which
it is sought to have an alleged post
nuptial contract set aside. The plain.
tiff alleges that the contract was that
she was to surrender her dover, prop.
erty and alimony rights against the
defendant in consideration of receiv-
ing $500. She says, however, that the
contract was effected through fraud on
the part of her husband and asks to
have it set aside. b. E. Sapp is the
attorney for the plaintiff.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
OFFICERS INSTALLED

Mt Vernon Chapter, No. 90, |. o. O
F., installed the following Officers
Wednesday evening:
n. CIV. j. Fry.
Vice n. G.-Lee- o. Stull.
R. S. N. CT. y Rine.
l.. S. N. G.-F. b. Van Wicklen.
Warden-John Donough.
Conductor-Frank Kraft.
Chaplain-Jess Welshymer.
O. George Collins.
/. GA. f. Houck.
l.. S. S.-Elwood Merriman.
II. S. S.-Thomas Sutton.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Real Estate Transfers

j. b. Smith to j. M. Calhoun, acre
in Milford, S75.
w. b. Mossholder to James C. Platt,
city property, S1,77O.
Trustees of Pleasant township to
Charles II. Frye, lot in the st. Johns
cemetery.
Trustees of Pleasant township to
Homer Debolt, lot in the st. Johns
cemetery.
C. & G. Cooper Co. to Richard G,
Gardner, city property, 81.
Pauline Alderman to Gertrude
Schmidt, two lots in Academia, $1,000
A. F. Stauffer to Eli C. Fry, parcel
lin Mt. Vernon, 81.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Wants Divorce

Myrtle Richie has filed petition for
divorce against Clarence Richie in the
common pleas court, alleging willful
absence for more than three years and
gross neglect covering the same per-
iod of time. She asks for the restora-
tion of her maiden name, Myrtle Ath-
erton. William M. Rooms is the at
torney for Mrs. Richie.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Neb. II had been all
ing for some time with
chronic constipation,
stomach trouble and
a terrible misery after
eating, when 1 was
taken sick with ab-
scess of the bowels.
We had some of the
bestdoctors in Lincoln
in attendance, and
they all said / would
have to be operated on
right away. l had
h e ard of Chamber
lain's Tablets, and we
got q bottle of them.
l began to take them
and in three days Twas
able to be up and got
better right along. l
am the proudest girl
in Lincoln to find such
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Fixes Inheritance Tax

A petition to fix the inheritance tax
in the matter of the estate of Mary
Vodden has been filed in the probate
court by Barton w. Blair attorney for
Charles PassmOre, executor. The
court has fixed the tax to be paid by
John Govett of Ontario, Canada, the
sole heir, at $4S.4S.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Petition to Sell Realty

A petition to sell realty belonging
to the estate of Isabella Clark has
been filed in the probate court by o..
G.. Taylor, administrator of the estate.
Samuel Clark is named as defendant
in the petition.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Willie-Tve been married five years
and got bushel of children. James
How's that? Willie-My name is Peck.
I've got four children. Don't four
pecks make a bushel?- New York
Times.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
An Old Time London Fog.

"There happend this weeke," says
John Evelyn in an entry in his diary
dated Nov. %, lG09 80 thick mist
and fog that people lost their way in
the streetes, it being so intense that
no light of candles or torches yielded
any Tor but very little) direction. l
was in it and in danger. Robberies
were committed between the very
lights which were fixed between Lon
don and Kensington on both sides and
while coaches and travellers were pass
ing. 1t began about 4 O'Clock in the
afternoone and was quite gon by s,
without any wind to disperse 1t. At
the Thames they beat drums to direct
the watermen to make the shore"
The reason most of us don't do bet
ter work than we do is that we think
what is just good enough il our best. --
Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Guardian Appointed

M. r. Lee has been appointed guard
ian of Veronica and Agnes Lee by the
probate court. Bond was furnished
in the sum of $4,000 with John Lee
and John p. McDonough as sureties.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Stomach an 4 Liver
Tablets would do for
them" writes H. NJ.
Youngpeters, editor Of
the Sun. Lake View,
Ohio. Zone bottle of
the tablets would end
the trouble for most Of
them. l suffered in
tensely after eating
and never felt well.
and no treatment or
medicine / tried ever
seemed to do me any
good until reading an
adver tis ement for
Chamberlain sTablets
in my own paper, |
tried a bottle. The first
few doses gave mesur
prising relief, and the
second bottle seemed
to give me a new stom-
good health. ( didn't
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

a good medicine as these tablets are. l
can hardly believe myself that l am
strong and healthy now. They saved
NE from n serious surgical operation"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Happiest Girl
in Lincoln

II am only too glad to testify to the
good qualities of Chamberlain s Tablets"
writes Miss Nora g. Hagerty, of Lincoln,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20
Gave Him
A New Stomach

"There are thousands of sufferers from
stomach and liver troubles whom | wish
could meet and tellwhat Chamberlain =
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Recently, a few battery members
went to a small town in Knox county
to obtain recruits. They approached
one husky fellow and informed him
he ought to join. what for?" he
queried. "To help the United States
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

fch and perfect good health. ( didn't
think anything would give me such q
complete cure. They are wonderful"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

win the war;" was the reply. when
does this war start?" was the question
which sent the recruiters away I'm dis.
gust.
The members of the battery re-
ceived Il treat at mess Wednesday
night in the shape of ice cream, sever
al gallons having been presented TO
the battery by the Knox Velvet Ice
Cream Co.
Wednesday evening and Thursday
were the periods of time set for the
rTivates in the battery to gnify
their intentions to join the non-com-
missioned officers school. There were
number who made application for
the smaller posts. Some even stated
in their >>slips of application that a
petty office was all they enlisted for
and that it was their great desire to be
a corporal or sergeant.
Not a few of the battery boys are
wearing new almost-regulation army
shoes. All over the city Thursday be-
fore the bugle call for drill, the mem
bers of the battery who secured the
shoes were sporting them" to every
chased at local shoe store.
Acting Top Sergeant Clinton Nc
Knley found the first few days of
drill a very firing diversion from do
ing ones daily work. He is now on
sick relief
This is the first sick relief that has
been authorized at the local headquar.
ters, all of the boys standing up well
under the hard drilling they have been
given since Sunday.
For their officer Thursday, the bat
terry members had Kenneth Snow in
the capacity of acting top sergeant.
Lieut.. Headington is personally ac-
quainted with Lieutenants Taylor and
Siberling who have been attached to
Battery r.. Lieut.. Taylor is of splen-
did physique and has had professional
baseball experience. Lieut.. Siberling
| is the son of an Akron millionaire
where both the new men reside.
The east end was invaded" by Bat
| terry Il Thursday morning and an op-
portunity given residents of this see
tion of the city to view Knox county's
best"
O.
Archie Collins is acting clerk OF
| the battery
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

hubber was first used in Europe IN
1875.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

The east end was invaded" by Bat
terry E Thursday morning and an op.
portunity given residents of this see
tion of the city to view "Knox county's
best"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Archie Collins is acting clerk O
the battery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

Most of the drilling was done on
the Wooster road in the vicinity of Ac-
ademia. There was comparatively
little traffic there Wednesday and the
boys had the use of the road during
most of the day. AT noon, march
was made to Camp Sychar where din
ner was served. The smooth bricks
made an ideal place for drill and
squad formations were practiced most
of the time
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-07-20

The members of the battery re-
ceived treat at mess Wednesday
night in the shape of ice cream, sever
al gallons having been presented TO
the battery by the Knox Velvet Ice
Cream Co.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
DENTISTS
FORMULA
VEGETABLE
CALOkIEL.
4! i d! ]! 8

Vegetable calomel, extract Of the
root of the old-fashioned may-apple
plant, does not salivate. AS liver
stimulator, it's great. It's a per-
feet substitute for ordinary calo-
mel mercury; in fact, it's better,
because its action is gentle instead
Of severe and irritating = and it
leaves no mean, disagreeable after
effects. Physicians recognize this
and prescribe may-apple root (po-
dophyllin, they call it, daily.
Combined with four other stand
ard, all-vegetable remedies, may
apple root may now be had at most
any druggists in convenient sugar.
coated tablet form by asking for
Sentanel Laxatives. If you forget
the name, ask for the box that has
the picture of the soldier on it.
These tablets are small, easy to
take and are really wonderful lit
tie performers.
They quickly clean cut the poi
sons that are causing you head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
biliousness, dizzy spells, bad breath
and coated tongue.
They are mild. They never
grippe. And they are a bowel tonic
as well as a cleanser and liver
regulator. A 10c boz should last
one several weeks. A Physicians
trial package q doses) will be
mailed you free if you write men,
t'oning this advertisement. The
Sentanel Remedies Co., 500 Madi.
son Ave-, Covington, Ky.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
Look at ChiId'S
Tongue if Sick
Cross, Feverish
When coistipated or bilious
give California Syrup
Of Figs"

Look at the tongue, mother! II coat
ed, it is sure sign that your little
ones stomach, liver and bowels need
a gentle, thorough cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross listless, pale,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act ma
turally, or is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach ache, sore
throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" and in few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of the little
bowels, without gripping, and you have
a well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless fruit laxative;
they love its delicious taste, and it al
ways makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for 5O-cent bot
tie of california Syrup of Figs which
has directions for babies, children Of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly on
the bottle. Beware Of counterfeits
sold here. To be sure you get the gen.
uine, ask to see that it is made by
California Fig Syrup Company" Re-
fuse any other kind with contempt
Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
CITY Manager Government

The Republican platform of 1916 said: eve
believe in large degree of home rule for cities,
and to that end favor the enactment of law
that will permit cities to adopt the commission
or commission manager form Of government"
The demand for an overhaulng of the state
and city government from top to bottom is grow
ing in Indiana. AS matter of fact the state
government ought to be improved first by the
adoption of managerial form of administration,
but this is too much to be hoped for at this time.
The sentiment, however, throughout Indiana is
demanding optional manager laws for cities,
county government reform and constitutional
convention.
The Republican party cannot well ignore the
promise it made in it's platform for municipal
government reform. A law ought to be passed
at once, so that the impending city primary
can be avoided.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27

outraged? Should he be forced to leave the Of
flee where scientific charity is melted out with
hatred against society in his heart, with his am
bition crushed, with the firm resolve never to ask
a brother-man for help again?
The social organization is based on theory
of mutual advantage and helpfulness. If one
member cannot support himself and his depend
ents it III the duty of the other members to assist
him. II this theory is incorrect, then we have
return "a to the status of those races which ex-
pose their weak children and their aged and help
less parents to starvation. If social service or
ganization cannot see Christ in the ragged men
and women and unkempt children who ask for
charity, it has ceased to be true to it's function
and purpose, and it ought to close it's doors.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
Bonds Civil Service Bill

City Attorney Bond has drafted bill which
will put the superintendent, chief engineer, chief
bookkeeper and chief clerk of municipality own
ed utility under civil service regulations. The
rules governing the qualifications and efficiency
of applicants are to be made by the state public
utilities commission. We have come to the con-
cusion that the efficacy of that bill is irrepar-
ably impaired by the section which gives the pub
lie utilities commission a hand in choosing the
men that are to be employed. Richmond has
had enough experience with the commission to
doubt its ability to do anything right We can
not understand why the city attorney, in the
light of the adverse decisions he has obtained
from the commission, is so anxious to give it
added power. Neither can we see why certain
city officials are so keen to push along civil
service bill now. Perhaps they believe that they
are the only ones who will be able to qualify un-
der the measure. The circumstances surround
ing the whole measure give food for thought and
wonder.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
Melpolder And The Problem Of The Poor

1t is frequently urged that many persons are
poor because they refuse to work. That poverty
often originates in this source will be readily ad-
mitted, but on the other hand many industrious
and hard working men are poor Sickness or ac-
cident, or succession of mishaps may keep an
industrious man poor and force him to solicit
charity.
The theory on which the paid agent OF pub
lice philanthropy" in Richmond seems to base his
scientific charity" is that man is poor because
he wants to be poor or because he is an idler and
good-f nothing.
The secretary of the Central Charity Bureau,
if reports of his methods are true, believes that
thrift and prosperity can be frightened into a
poor man or woman who appeals for aid. He SEEM
ingly cannot understand that some men are
forced to fight conditions that are entirely too
great for them to conquer, and that they need aid
and sympathetic instruction.
Apropos of his mistaken theory of charity ad-
ministration is a citation from recent report Of
the Charity Organization Society of New York
which shows that employment and unemploy-
ment are not the only factors in the problem of
poverty. The report says: 'Tbat there should
be so much distress in time of general prosper
ity is only another confirmation of the society's
long established position that poverty is not
merely a problem of employment or unemploy-
ment."
Poor health may handicap man from earn
ing enough money to pay house rent and grocery
bills, to buy warm clothes for himself and his
faNily. The protracted illness of member of
his family may eat up the greater part of his in
come forcing him to accept charity. One of the
common reversals of life may throw him out of
work or add a burden that he cannot carry with
out the help of society.
Should this man be forced to suffer the
chastisement inflicted by social service worker
who works on the basis that poverty is crime?
Should the brave efforts of this unfortunate man
be belittled? Has he not made hard fight to
remain independent? Can society expect more
of it's weakest member than that it do its best
Is this man weakling, a coward or feon that
he should be examined before the high tribunal
of paid agent of public philanthropy" as if he
were criminal and degenerate? Should the
manhood of this applicant for aid be insulted and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27

Within ten minutes after an appli-
cation of Danderine you can not find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a
few weeks use, when you see new
hair, fine and .downy at first-yes-
but really new hair-growing all over
the scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately
doubles the beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy. just moisten cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is amaz-
ing-your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance of
abundance; an Incompatible lustre,
softness and luxuriance.
Get % cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or
toilet counter, and prove that your
hair is as pretty and soft as any-that
it has been neglected or injured by
careless treatment-that's all-you
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
of it if you will just try little Dan
derine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
The Gold of the Gods
By Arthur B. Reeve xsase 'as :,

He paused to let us see the terrii-
cally heated metal under the fame.
you remember when we were talk
ing to the Waterman down there at
the station, Walter?" he asked. Il
saw this thing in that complete little
shop of theirs. 1t interested me. See.
turn on the oxygen now in the Sec
ond nozzle. The blow-pipe is no long
er an instrument for joining metals
together, but for cutting them aSunder.
THE steel burns just as you, per-
haps, have seen watch-spring burn
in jar of oxygen. Steel, hard or
soft. tempered, annealed, chrome, or
Harveyized, it all burns just about as
fast, and just about as easily under
this torch. And it's cheap, too. This
attack-aside from what it costs to
the safe--may amount to a couple of
dollars as far as the blow-pipe is con-
cerned-quite a difference from the
thousands of dollars loss that would
follow an attempt to blow safe like
this one"
We had nothing to say. We stood
in awe-struck amazement as the torch
slowly, inexorably traced a thin line
along the edge of the combination.
Minute after minute sped by, as the
line burned by the blow-pipe cut
around the lock. 1t seemed hours,
but really it was minutes. I wonder
ed when he would have cut about the
whole lock. He was cutting clear
through and around it, severing it as
if with a superhuman knife.
ITO be continued
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27

1t was brilliant sight. The terrific
heat from the first nozzle caused the
metal glow under the torch as if an
open-hearth furnace. :, From the sec
ond nozzle issued stream of oxygen
under which the hot metal of the door
was completely consumed.
. The force of the blast, as the com
pressed oxygen and acetylene were
expelled, carried fine spray of the
disintregrated metal visibly before it.
And yet it was not big hole that 1t
made-scarcely an eighth of an inch
wide, but clean and sharp as If a
buzz-saw were eating its way through
a plank of white-pine.
With tense muscles Kennedy held
this terrific engine of destruction and
moved it as easily as If it had been
a mere pencil of light. He was the
calmest of all us as we crowded
about him, but at q respectful dis
lance.
Il suppose you know" he remarked
hastily, never pausing for moment
in his work, that acetylene is COM
posed of carbon and hydrogen. AS
it burns at the end of the nozzle it is
broken into carbon and hydrogen
the carbon gives the high tempera-
ture and the hydrogen forms cone
that protects the end of the blow-pipe
from being itself burnt up"
But isn't it dangerous" / asked,
amazed at the skill with which he
handled the blow-pipe.
mot particularly-when you know
how to do it. In that tank is porus
asbestos packing saturated with ace
tone, under pressure. Thus they carry
acetylene safely, for it is dissolved
and thee possibility of explosion is
minimiZed.
This mixing chamber, by which I
am holding the torch, where the oxy-
gen and acetylene mix, is also design
ed in such way as to prevent a fash
back. The best thing about this style
of blow-pipe is the ease with which it
can be transported and the curious
purposes-like this-to which 1t can
be put
He paused a moment to test what
had been burnt. The rest of the
safe seemed as firm as ever.
"Humph!" l heard one of them,
think it was, Alfonso. mutter. l re-
sented it, but Kennedy affected not
to hear.
when l shut off the oxygen in this
second jet" he resumed. /" you see
the torch merely heats the steel.
can get heat of approximately sixty
three hundred degrees Fahrenheit,
and the fame will exert a pressure of
fifty pounds to the square inch"
Wonderful" exclaimed Lockwood,
who had not heard the suppressed
disapproval of Alfonso, and was
watching, in undisguised. admira ton
at the thing itself, regardless of con-
sequences. Kennedy, how did you
ever think of such a thing?"
why, it's used for welding, you
know" answered Craig, as he contin-
ued to work calmly in the growing
excitement. Il first saw 1t in actual
use in mending cracked cylinder in
an automobile. The cylinder was re-
paired without being taken out at all.
I've seen it weld new teeth and build
up worn teeth on gearing, as good as
new"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-27
HapnY Old Ane.

When old age carries with it hosts
of friends, good health and an abund-
ance of this worlds goods, it should be
as happy as any period'in our exist.
ance. That is old age as it should be,
but too often it means poor digestion,
torpid bowels, a sluggish liver and a
general feeling of i'll health, despond-
ency and misery. This condition can
be greatly alleviated, however, by TAX
ing one of Chamberlain's Tablets each
day Immediately after supper. That
will strengthen the digestion, tone up
thhe liver and regulate the bowels,
then that feeling of dependency will
give way to one of hope and good
cheer. Obtainable everywhere.-Adv.