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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
OBITUARY

John Wolfe, son of Simon and Nan.
cy Kemmer Wolfe, was born Septem.
ber 10, 1916, in Butler township, Knox
| county, Ohio. On the eighth day of
April he was stricken with compli-
cation of diseases, which resulted in
his death Wednesday evening April ID
at o'clock, being 76 years Z months
and day of age,
He spent his boyhood days on the
farm of his parents, until the begin
mig Of the Civil war; when at the age
of II he enlisted as private in Co. x,
l43 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was
given an honorable discharge at the
close of the war.
He served under Gen. U. S. Grant in
his southern campaign, and was with
Gen. Sherman in his famous march
to the sea-" and his return towards
Richmond.
He ever delighted in narrating to
his friends, incidents of life in camp
and on the battlefield. AS soldier
he gave his country and flag the same
loyal support that he gave his family,
his friends, and community in civil
life.
On Decoration day, May 80 1866,
he was married to Hannah M. Hay
den. To this union were born two
sons and three daughters: Everett L.;
Addie M. Schooler; Virgil S.; Violet
f. Porterfield; and Eva M. Taylor all
of Knox county, Ohio, who with the
widow, five grandchildren and two
great grandchildren survive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wolfe resided on
farm in Butler township until 1888,
and after short sojourn in Nebraska
located on the farm in Jackson town
ship, where they resided at the time
of his death.
In June, 1916, the entire community
joined them in celebrating their gold
en- wedding anniversary, and had Mr..
Wolfe lived a few more weeks their
married life would have covered a
half century and four years.
Mr.. Wolfe was a member of the
Presbyterian church of Bladensburg,
the ID. x. Blystone G. A. r. post Of
Martinsburg, and the Union grange of
Bladnesburg.
In his demise, the wife has lost q
faithful husband, the children low
ing father, and the community an
honest, upright and energetic citizen.
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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
HARRIS IS NAMED AS
MASONIC LECTURER

Herbert III. Harris of Newark has
been appointed district lecturer for
the remainder of the year for the
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
BRICK SCHANFARBER
DIES In COLUMBUS

William ID. (Brick) Schanfarber,
aged 81, well known to many people
in this city, died Wednesday morning
at Mt. Carmel hospital, Columbus,
afetr a brief Illness of acute diabetes.
Mr. Schanfarber was associated
with his father and uncle in the cloth
ing business and for several years
operated the Philadelphia Clothing
Store in Mt. Vernon.
Brick" was great baseball and
football fan and when Mt. Vernon
had professional baseball team
about Is years ago, Mr.. Schanfarber
was the leading rooter for the team.
He had large circle of friends in
Mt. Vernon.
Since leaving Mt. Vernon, Mr..
Schanfarber travelled for the " Marx
Hess Clothing company and lived in
Columbus. He is survived by one
sister, Mrs. l. A. Rosenthall of Co.
lumbus.
The funeral will be held in Colum-
bus, Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfield offlc-
iating. Interment in Green Lawn
cemetery, Columbus.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
COMMUNITY MEETING
ON TUESDAY EVENING

Community meeting for the discus
sion of the flood prevention problem
of this city will be held next Tuesday
evening in the rooms of the Chamber
Of Commerce the meeting commenc.
ing promptly at 1880.
Every citizen of Mt. Vernon is ask
ed to be present at this meeting. The
committees which have been at work
on the proposition for more than a
week will have many interesting
things in relation to this work to
present to the citizens.
The committee on arrangements,
composed of Thomas Il. Auskings,
w. Il. Mccormick and Fred Lawler,
met last evening and decided that
the most appropriate hall for this
meeting would be the one occupied
by the Chamber Of Commerce.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
MILFORD

Perry Alberry and family have
moved into the s. A. Mitchell farm
which Frank Sutton OF Centerburg
purchased recently.
David Bishop of Warren is visiting
relatives here. He was called here
by the serious condition of his sister,
Angeline Bishop, who died before he
arrived.
l.. M. Bottenfield is in Columbus
this week, serving as a federal juror.
Smith Bishop of California is re-
newing old acquaintances in this
neighborhood.
William SCISSOR and family of New
Albany has purchased the Disney
farm at the Five Corners. As Mr..
Latham, who has been living on the
farm, was unable to vacate on ac-
count of Illness, Mr.. SCISSOR moved
into the Burns house until he can
occupy his own property.
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MAY PRESENT THE
PETITIONS TO THE
PHONE Co. SATURDAY
Patrons Executive Commit
tee To Hold Meeting In
City Last of Week

The Telephone Patrons Executive
committee Will hold a meeting in Mt.
Vernon on Saturday afternoon for the
purpose of gathering together all the
petitions which have been signed by
subscribers. agreeing to remove their
telephones unless the Mt. Vernon Tel.
ephone Co. gives free toll service to
all parts Of Knox county.
A member of the executive commit.
tee stated today that after the meet.
ing Saturday, the petition will be
presened to the Mt. Vernon Tele-
phone CO. and that the next move
viii be up to the Officials of the
phone company.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
ENCOUNTERS SPRINGS
IN BUILDING Of PIKE
Contractor Shaw Has New
Problem Before Him On
Sanatorium Pike

Former County Surveyor Clifford
Shaw. who is in charge of the con-
struction of the new pike from the
Coshocton road to the Ohio State
Sanatorium, is up against a new
problem in the building of the pike.
Mr.. Shaw stated this morning that
he has encountered a large number
of springs in the roadway and that it
will be quite task to drain this flow
of water.
Active work on the new pike will
be commenced in few weeks, the
contractor announced this morning.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
MEETING At
FREDER|CKT0WN, 0.

FREDERICKTOWN, April 20 -
Quite large number of telephone
subscribers attended the public meet
Ing here last evening to sign petit
tions protesting against the ten,cent
toll charge proposed by the Mt. Ver-
non Telephone Co. throughout Knox
county.
1t was reported at the meeting that
from so to 80 per cent of the sub
scribers in the Fhedericktown dis.
trict have signed the petitions agree.
Ing to remove their telephones un.
less the company gives free toll ser.
vice to all parts OF the county.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23

10Th Masonic district, consisting of
Knox, Licking and Coshocton coun-
ties, which include 81 lodges.
Mr.. Harris succeeds c. l.. v. Holtz,
deceased.
The appointment was made by Mat
thew Smith of Cleveland, grand mas
ter of the grand lodge of Ohio, +. C
A. M.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23

An English inventors crutch has
top made of 'ieavy rubber tubing and
the sides are parallel and terminate
In rocker.
A practical Swiss has converted an
Alpine glacier into an ice mine, blast
Ing out and marketing the product,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23
MORE QUESTIONS ASKED

Editor Banner:
II you please. we would like to use
your valued paper TO answer the able
article OF Mr.. Frank l.. Beam which
appeared a few days since in your
columns, by asking few questions;
l. Has not the Mt. Vernon Tele.
phone Co. In the past 25 years enjoy
ed the goodwill and cooperation of
the people OF Knox county In It's
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-04-23

AS substitute for gasoline an En-
glish engineer has designed small gas
producers to be carried on automo-
biles or motorboats.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-04-09
THINGS WORTH
THE MONEY

IIIII1 TOT NVITIE ITIITIEo
are well worth the money one has to
pay for them. In truth, some things
are worth far more than they cost, even under
the reign Of the high prices of living. | bought
a mess of spring tunip greens the other day,
and paid thirty cents for same. II is true that
have bought enough greens for a dime to feed
the family at dinner and leave enough for fair
meal at supper. Yea, in the halcyon days of
yore, when all men were honest and most peo-
pie were neghborly, l have had many a mess
of greens for the cutting yet | say greens at
thirty cents a mess is dirt cheap and will
never insult my appetite and internal economy
by complaining at the high cost of greens. A
neighbor had given me hog jowl which
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-04-09
MARCH 81
SPRINGS OPENING

The roses but other beauties tell us that MISS
na,y-nolisbed with the unrest amethyst and
claarar deenor bIue was never seen in the ceru-
lean vanlt The SIM has been rubbed up for the
Grand onening and gives forth the golden glow
Of Tho tona2 The Stars that gem nights rad
iapt broyy have baen retinned with platinum
and sine a softer air rs they twinkle in the arch
above And So we know it's spring. We see
tbo onoon If seasons in tho siInlit splendors
Of THIS nerfect day and when we come to the
ond If tbo norfoct dav we shall see her i'm the
Clad 4. arc 70 SOC the oontlo miss. how thank
ful +bot tho world didn't oct hailed IN on its
ayos and leave ms otornaliy to the mcrccs of
a cold and cruel winter.
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SLEEPING WHILE STANDING

People often express wonder
at the quiet way horses stand
often motionlesS for hours in one
position. They do not realize
what complete relaxation is OBJ
tanned and how common it is for
horses 10 obtain virtually all
their rest and sleep while stand
ing. Stablemen have said that
the short time a horse does lie
down is usually around midnight.
1t is a well-linown fact that ele-
plants have an acute fear of
mice. and the mere presence of
one in their hay will cause an
entire herd to raise their trunks
in the air, showing that they are
afraid the small rodent will
scamper up the proboscis. SO it
is often contended that horses
possess this same fear of mice
and insects, and so obtain their
rest and sleep largely while
standing. The trait is more
marked in some animals than in
others, and is one of the most in
applicable habits of our domestic
animals.
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CHAPTER XIV.


B Shouldering our guns, We started for camp
but had gone only few yards from the oase
bf the hill when We came very near walking
Into deep pit the mouth of which was almost
ewholly concealed by thick bushes growing
|around it. Near this pit, or shaft there were
heaps of Scoral and rubbish, and the remains
|bf what evidently had been a furnace The
shaft was twenty-five or thirty feet deep, ana
pn one side of it, leaning against the wall, there
Awas a rude ladder constructed of two cypress
Dogs with rounds fastened between them Mr..
EPtt attempted 10 descend the shaft by means
|bf this ladder but ON trial he found 1t was so
hecayed he was afraid 10 venture. He was the
|inly one of US who pretended TO any knowledge
bf such things and after some examination, ne
+ ame 20 the conclusion that mine of some KIND
had been worked there q long time ago, pro-
|bably by the Spaniards. but what sort of metal
Ilhey had taken from il he could not tell, al
Though, from the appearance of the ore scatter
ed around the old furnace. he had but little
foubt il was silver He took some pieces of the
bre and put them in his shot pouch, intending,
las he said 10 have them aSSayed the first oppor-
|tunity he had, but he lost them before we re-
burned to the settlements. q have never Wis
ted the canon de Uvade since that time nor do
know whether or not any one ever subse-
luently discovered this mine, but it can be
readily found, as it is only few steps from the
northeastern base of the sugar loaf hill in the
lower end of the canyon)
Il 4 Frontier Dinner.
Il We got back to the camp just rs Guido had
liished up dinner, and as our walk of five or
six miles, to say nothing of our scramble up
Rnd down Sugar Loaf had whetted our APP
pettes, we seated ourselves without much
pressing around the platters, and did ample JUS
kice to his cookery. The dinner consisted of
bear steaks, flapjacks fried in bears oil, hard
lack, a pot of boiled rice coffee, etc, and wild
hrtichokes, which last grew abundanty in the
vicinity of camp. After we had drank about
h quart of strong coffee apiece, and partaken
bf the subStantials in proportion, we felt as if
we could have tackled the highest peak of the
Rocky Mountains if it had been handy to us.
The wild articholes mentioned in the foregoing
pill of fare grew abundantly in some portions
bf Northwest Texas usually upon rocky and
barren soils. The plant is very similar in APP
pearance to bear grass" but its leaves are
6errated and of deeper green The best mode
pf cooking them in the woods, is the same as
that for cooking a beef or deer's head A
french is dug and fire built in it. When
thoroughly heated, the ashes and Goals are rak-
Shd out and the roots put in and covered with
hem, where they are left for several hours.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-04-09

OF pretty girls, automobiles, pockets full of
chink-
Oh, what's the good of working when you can
sit and think?
It's hard indeed for me to get away from this
subject-about as hard as it is to get away
from this typewriter and take an auto spin
with friend who wants to take me out to the
woods, where the flaming banners of the red
buds are seen on every side. The way, he tells
me, is lined with the milk-white blossoms OF
the plum trees and the many-colored blooms OF
the peach, and the air is as sweet as the per-
fumed zephyrs of Arabia Moreover, he says
the roads are as smooth as steel, and that the
hooking bird and the lord cardinal, the great
solosts of the feathered tribe, are warbling the
sweetest notes that ever entranced the ear Of
man, and at the end of the road there is
beautiful lake where the CLINT of sunlit waters
is seen. Oh, spring, thou art merciless cheat.
Like most other good things thou art for the
rich, Knowing it was decreed that | must
work, why dids't thou touch all the glories of
color into the fields and woods and tell me they
were there? Knowing the tasks mapped out
for me, why didst thou touch into my blood the
serum that cries aloud against work? Good old
jim Riley was the victim of the same cruel
fate years ago, and | drop tear of sympathy
now for the fallen poet as l read his lines,
"When the green gets back in the trees,
And the sun comes out and stays,
And your boots pull on with a good tight
squeeze,
And you think of your barefoot days;
When you ought TO work. but you want 10 not,
And you and your wife agrees
That it's time to spade up the garden plot
When the green gets back in the trees.
Well work is the least of my ideas
When the green, you know, gets back in the
trees"
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Id W tllNt Ndlllt III SbOl al ltl W al
pockets filled with rocks" but
rich nuggets among them-nothie
valuable than some beautiful
little while Uncle Seth came eft
ing with him the tenderloin al
barren doe" BY this time Conel
his tailoring. and went to wo him
per out of the abundant matage.
we had supplied him. Seven the
ally lent him helping handen we
ing the old saying, that ties, we
the BROTH" in a little whit scailt
repast that would have ttoline an
an anchorite-hot coffee
the taste of an old Tex'it tracks.
steaks, fried bass and
ters of "dundefunk" lticin rabbit
pepper. Everyone v you OUT
and fork-especiallylean, an the
finished his vigoroue graSs-So l
gave it as his dell
Uvalde canon wouh good. ieLt
in eff it want fur 'ur place, sub"
ways Skulkin' rou ule commented
rer, jess to git a
giving about tend Iule' put told
you reckon dey i TO rae around
lawrence ?" S; just lowed
"Well, | don't u me- Si'a '''''.1...
you reckon javaliI Wouiu su It5t'..
Oh' ShuchS Vt. an gather up
Mexican hogs? |
arter niger, but c,
time, | kin tell you"
NO" said Lawrence
well, Pr ruther ha hit Track
dan de javalinas, fur dc
you kin git 'em, but DEM
can hog will run a niggobout IL
out, and den when you C
strong a tuckey buzzard
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that only in his wagon can be found safety and
political integrity. The bravery, the earnest
ness and the patriotic impulse of the man win
your admiration and you say surely If ever
man was sincere and steadfast, If ever man
was moved by patriotic impulses this man is.
Next year the band wagon of the enemy drives
by and behold, your patriot of yesteryear is
trying TO crowd former enemy from the front
seat and is grabbing for the lines Two years
before, perhaps, this patriot denounced those
who rode in the wagon in which he is now
ensconced as the agents of the devil, b ~ Dr.
he warns up to his former enemies evcne ~
sick kitten seeks the warm hearth. Blu ITS
great game and an interesting game, provided
you don't take those who play it too seriously.
Not every man who attends pow-wow or totes
torch has a real case of righteousness. Some
of them might be induced TO accept a nominal
ton for good office.
No objection can be raised against soldiers
for office. Even if every boy who faced the
German guns that scattered baptism Of fire
and death on every side should be settled in
good office the people Of the United States
would still owe their fighters big debt of graf
itude, but all the pictures | have seen of soldier
candidates were wrapped in the uniforms of Of
ficers. Do the people feel that they owe all
TO the majors, captains and lieutenants? What
about the high privates?
Ny idea of a real optimist is the man who
says he don't believe the pink boil worm will
eat an ounce of Texas cotton this year and pre-
diets the finest watermelon crop that was ever
grown in the state
No; there's nothing in a name. Truman
NewbeTy has been convicted Of bribing Michi-
gan voters
There are two sides TO everything, and per
haps this is we'll but there are ghoussrA "a
people in Texas who wish the rightharded side
Of the term "ncome tax were smashed until it
couldn't be seen with the most powerful micro
scope eXtant.
The packers say the trouble with the coun-
try is that the people are eating too far back
on the beef and too high up on the hog As l
understand it, the packers want the people to
feast on the horns of the COW and the lhocfs
of the hog, and the probabilities are THAI we
will, sooner or later, have to get around ~ toe
packers way of thinking. w.
Mary Pickford got divorce from Oven
Moore as easily as az cod lawyer gets suS-
pended sentence for hog thief If Nay,
hadn't got divorce nobody -ould have kpksS
she had a husband, and it seems that NJ
didn't know he had a wife. =; AL
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Prepared in this way they are really an eX-
cellent vegetable, and make a very acceptable
addition TO the hunters ordinary repast. We
told Uncle Seth about finding the mine near
Sugar Loaf HILL and he said he had been in
formed by the MexicanS at San Antonio that
a great many years ago the Spaniards had
worked silver mines in this canyon. but he did
not know that any traces Of them had ever been
found unless the shaft we saw indicated the
locality of one
There amt no doubt at ALL" continued Uncle
Seth, that the Spaniards, who were terrible
fellerS for noSng our gold and silver, did work
a good many mines in this section, and some
day when the country settles up they will be
found"
AS it was two o'clock in the evening by the
time we had finished dinner Uncle Seth con-
cluded it would be best to remain where we
were till next morning, and give our horses
chance to "fill up" on the luXuriant grass in
the vicinity. 1t was so fine, that instead Of
picking a mouthful here and another there, as
horses usually do, they moved" it evenly along
as they fed. In order to keep us employed,
Uncle Seth made us overhaul all our guns and
pistols, clean and oil such as needed it, and
see that all our equipments generally were in
good condition.
There amt nothing" said he, that helps
more to keep mans har where it materially
belongs in an Injin country, than always havin'
his shootin' irons in good fix. About home it
don't matter so much, but in these diggns
teller mout lose his har jess because his spring
trigger want well creased. In time of peace
you know, we must prepar far war. hope
there won't be any war, but eff there should be
it will be real satersfaction to know we kin
depend on our shootin irons"
Literally Swarming with Fish.
After the work of cleaning our arms was
finished each one occupied himself for the rest
Of the evening as he chose Henry was on guard.
Mr.. Pitt and Lawrence went off prospecting in
the gulches for nuggets" Uncle Seth step
ped out" as he said, to get 'venson." Cudjo
went to work with needle and thread to sew
up several gaping rents in the rear of his pants
through which a good deal more of his shirt
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LONGEST 81 ~ IN THE
W0RlN

The stay OF the ba,- cruisef
Renown in our waters, s..ys The
Scientific American, has raised
a discussion as to which are TIE
longest ships afloat. Of course,
among merchant ships, the Lee
viathan, $50 feet long, is the
longest with the Imperator and
the Aduitania, each 900 feet long
of the Cunard Line coming next.
Among warships, the longest IN
commission today are the Re-
nown. and her sister, the Repulse
each being 7S9 feet. But the
longest warship constructed and
soon to go into commission, is
the British battle cruiser Hood,
which. is 900 feet in length and
about $4,000 tons full load dis
placement. Our Navy Depart
ment has designed six battle
cruisers S75 feet in length.
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was visible than the bosom, and Wi ie and |
went fishing in deep pool about hundred
yards below camp. We found il titerally
Swarming with fish of several va, .e' es, and
they were so totally unsuspicious Of ne hook
that it seemed almost cruel to take advantage
of their ignorance. In less than aS hour we
caught more than we could possibly eat for
supper, and returned to camp Mr.. Pitt and
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Uncle Seth Reminiscent.

"a penny for your thoughss.' said Willie G sun
Uncle Seth, who was sitting silently by puffia real
his pipe and diligently whiting a splinter {
cedar wood very
81 was jess then thinkin'," said Uncle Seted at
ef Teller could only come back TO this countrlet is
fifty or sixty years from now, he wouldnow-
hardly know it. The Injins, the buffalers ar
the bars would then all be gone-houses.& at the
and gardens would kver all thecar, Because they
stead of the yepin' of wolves eyelid, which can
hear the chicken cocks CROWN al act as screen
bells ringing, the childring lar
went to school, or hunted haws s:e eat that gives
the woods, and may be so, the p bit the invisible
ting of steam engine on tn; the sun; and the
amt very old man yit," ckuli is the wafer
Seth, "and I've already seed tn hs S$s -sessS
up out'n the wilderness, that's re%ay the rupture
white peorls.mrd SIair houatifp of the tin,
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-04-09

In spite of influenza,
coal strikes and discus
sions of the peace treaty,
the earth has continued
its diurnal journey S
around the sun until old
winter has been worn
away and we stand today
in the very door Of
spring. All things are
not in readiness for the
queen of the seasons
grand opening. The earth
has not been carpeted
with green, and we miss