The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1921-08-23
.FREDER|CKTOWN

/ MINIS ADnd SuSUntT HdS Deen SPEND
ing the past week at Lakeside
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Stinson and
daughters, Mrs. Ray Belt and Mrs.
Herbert Smoots, Miss Mary Smoots
Of Utica and Miss Mabel Stinson of
Washington, d. c., were visitors in
the home Of f. e. Bone last Saturday.
Fredericktown subscriptions to The
Banner are payable to Lorin MARBLE.
A number are now due and should be
paid at once.
The Fredericktown chautauqua,
which closed last Monday evening,
was success, although not patron
lied as we'll as 1t should have been,
and the financial end was a little shy,
the guarantors having to come across
with about 25c apiece, which, added
to the last years balance, took care
Of the expenses. The benefits of a
chautauqua or lecture course can new.
er be figured in dollars and cents, and
In no community is this fact more
readily understood than ours, as was
proven by the large increase of guar
anters and increased pledges for the
1922 chautauqua.
Last Friday night, while Orva Bech.
tol was driving home from town in
his Ford. the fog being so dense he
could see scarcely any distance ahead
he ran into fence, smashing the
windshield, cuttinga cash in his head
and one in his arm the latter requir.
ing several stitches to close. He re-
turned to town for surgical aid.
Mrs Roy Reyes and children Louise
and Helen Margaret, who have been
visiting Mrs. Lizzie Keyes, have re-
turned to their home in Loudonville
Mrs. Samuel Bryant is spending
this week with her sister at Green
wich, o.
Fred Levering and wife, Mrs. Mapes
Of this place, and Mrs. Jesse Rinehart
Of Mt. Vernon, left last Thursday by
automobile to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
meth Rinehart at Winterset, Iowa.
Mrs. Clara Vannetta of Mt. Gilead
was a guest in the home Of Willis
Chilcote this week
Gerald McKiernan and family OF
Akron were the guests of his mother,
Mrs. Mary McKiernan, over Sunday
Mrs. William Either and son Frank,
of Omaha, Neb., have been visiting in
the homes Of l.. B. Blackledge and j.
B. Foote. They returned to their rome
in Omaha Wednesday,
| Miss y. Shoemaker of Holly, Colo
and Miss Hazel Bair of Mt. Vernon
were the guests of Miss Weltha Keck
last Saturday.
Earl Foote and family of Hunting
ton, Ind, were the guests of j.. b.
Foote and wife last Tuesday.
The little Light. Bearers, chaper-
oned by Mrs. William Months, held a
picnic at the home of Edward Diehl
on Wednesday of last week.
John Kline of Shelby has been WIS.,
iting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Kline.
Harry Smith and family left the
first of the week for an indefinite WIS.,
1t with Minnesota relatives.
Mrs. w. e. Edwards left Wednesday
for visit with friends at Cleveland,
Lorraine and Bellaire.
Mrs. Herbert Wharton and daugh-
ters, of Mansfield. are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Faulk.
Not long since, an oily-tongued in
dividual visited home in our village
and told the lady of the house that
he was canvassing for an electric
sweeper and as his sample had not ar.
rived he would like to borrow her
sweeper. which was of the same kind,
to make demonstrations. Well, he
demonstrated all right-not only the
sweeper, but misplaced confidence
Another kind citizen gave him S35
and another sweeper in exchange
which he sold to another large mind
ed individual for S.. thus netting the
o. t. individual $40. The lady who
loaned the sweeper got her sweeper
back, but the $35 man is out the whole
invoice.
Rev. c. Z. Stockdale left Wednes'
day for a visit with friends at Cam
bridge and Antrim, the latter place