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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
LETTER FROM j. Nj. FINLEY


of me, | would appreciate a letter
from her. Webster Lawrence and
Ephraim Roberts were the men,
bers of the school board of that
district. During the term, I room
ed and boarded with Uncle" Eph-
RAIN and 'Aunt" Betty Roberts,
and I want to say, that no finer
people ever have lived or ever will
live in this earth. That was a good
many years ago, but in all my wan
derings, / have never forgotten
their kindness. l presume that they
have both long ago passed to a
batter world, there to receive their
just rewards Of a truly Christian
life spent on earth. John and
George, their two sons, were both at
home when / was there.
Now-just gentle whisper in off
ears of the rival editors of McCon-
nelsville papers. / wonder if you
two kids realize that the old-fash-
ioned mud-slinging features which
once occupied good portion of the
editorial pages of rival publications
have been relegated to the scrap
pile along with the one-horse shay,
the old grain cradle, the moving
scythe and the walking plow. If
mistake not, your readers expect
you to give them the current news
of the day. / like your paper as
news dispenser, and / want. to tell
you that it is one of the best county
publications that / have the pleas
ure of reading. / have not read
the Herald, but I imagine it is fol-
lowing along on the same line.
Shame on you both. If the waste
basket don't catch this, there may
be more anon.-John M. Finley
Box 353, Seottsbluff, Neb., June IA ,
1895.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
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\Presented by/
Ohio State University
Ohio Weather

Ohio has made many significant
contributions to the creation and
expansion Of the y. S. Weather Bu-
letin by w. III. Alexander, Colum-
bus meteorolo gist. The bulletin
was published by Ohio State Uni
versitys Engineering Experiment
Station.
In 1917, at the request of Josiah
Meigs, then commissioner of the
General Land Office, the six land
offices in Ohio started keeping a
record of the weather These offices
were located at Chillicothe, Cleye-
land, Marietta, Steubenville, Woos-
ter, and GAINESVILLE.
The first current weather map
made on this continent was made
in Ohio. In 1868, Frank A. Arm
strong, local Western Union man-
ager at Cincinnati, began the daily
collecting and publishing of wealth
er reports, from dozen principal
cities. This attracted the attention
of Prof. Cleveland Able, director Of
the Cincinnati observatory, who saw
in it the possibility of forecasting
storms and weather changes.
The Cincinnati chamber of COM
merce and Western Union officials
gave their support, and on Feb. 2,
1869, the first weather map appear
ed. It was continued for more than
a year, until supplanted by the tri-
daily government map.
In 1882, the Ohio legislature
created a meteorological bureau for
the state of Ohio which centered at
Ohio State University. This bureau
continued operation until 1896,
when ALI its functions were taken
over by the federal government.
From 1913 Duntil recently, the
chief of the U. S. weather bureau
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
G.. O p. And AAA

Picture the embarrassment of the
Republican resolvers at Springfield
when they came to the writing of
farm plank.
They couldn't point with pride to
the scent cotton, 10-cent corn and
30c wheat that ushered out the last
Republican administration.
They couldn't view with alarm
the condition of the farmers under
Democratic rule, for in two years
of the Roosevelt AAA program the
national farm income has risen al
most three billion dollars above the
level of 1882, the last full Republi-
can year.
They couldn't even be specific in
condemning the methods of the
AAA, for-didn't the idea of plow-
ing under surplus cotton originate
in Mr.. Hoover's federal farm board?
And wasn't the policy Of restricting
crop production sponsored by the
Republican secretaries of agricul-
ture, Jardine and Hyde? And
wasn't it warmly endorsed in the
1882 Republican platform?
AS a matter of fact, they didn't
udTe even W speak Ill utIOSdlOIy
generalities about the AAA, for
hadn't the corn and hog raisers.
the wheat producers, the tobacco
growers and the cotton farmers
(twice) approved the AAA program
in overwhelming referendum votes?
OF course, the drouth did provide
a grain of political comfort. 1t had
burned hay and other feed crops,
forcing the cattlemen to import
some from Canada. So, in careful
words, the Republicans blamed the
drouth on President Roosevelt:
He has destroyed our food.
compelling this, the greatest
producing nation on earth,
to import foodstuffs to feed our
cattle.
But in the end the Springfield
platform drafters suggested no
change in the AAA farm policies.
Instead, they said:
We hold that no economic
advantage of agriculture thus
far attained shall be surrender
ed.
And just picture the grass root
ers' further embarrassment when
they returned to their homes to
read that Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace approved their farm plank
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
NOTICE OF FILING PETITION
FOR THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS
BY THE MANCHESTER TOWN
SHIP TRUSTEES.

Notice is hereby given that the
Trustees of the Township of Manches-
ter, County of Morgan, State of Ohio,
on the 10th day of June. 1885, filed it's
certain Petition in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Morgan County, Ohio,
being cause No. 6211 in said Court.
The object of said Petition being to
transfer funds in the sum of One
Hundred and Eight Dollars and 73-
100 ($10S.73) from the Road and
Bridge Fund and a sum of Three Hun
dred and Thirty-seven and eighty
seven hundredths ($337SD from the
Gasoline Tax Fund, to the General
Fund for the purpose of paying an
over-draft and other expenses.
The said Township prays for an or
der of the court directing its Trus-
tees together with the Clerk to trans
fer from it's Road and Bridge Fund a
sum of $108.73. and from it's Gasoline
Tax Fund a sum Of $33787, in all a
sum of S446.60, to the General Fund.
That said Petition will be for hear
ing on the 29th day of June. 1885, at
900 A. NJ.
CURTIS CANNON.
Clerk of the Township of Manches-
ter. County of Morgan, State of
Ohio.
BY Carlos NJ. Riecker, it's attorney.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
REV. III. HI. SCOTT WRITES

in New York, June 81 English
sailors shake their heads, and wait
for the launching of the Queen
Mary" year hence, supposed to
be larger, and better, now building
at Clyde-bank, Scotland
Sailing out the channel, we pass
a large lady in gray and green,
holding aloft her torch, which lit
tie girl compared to an ice cream
cone. The sky-scrapers fade away
We are followed or are in company
with the "Franconia,' a sister ship,
the Lafayette" French vessel,
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
F'airview Grange

The next meeting of Fairview
grange will be held Friday evening,
June Il, at the high school gym, in
honor Of "25 year" members. A
pot luck supper will be served at
1880, which all grangers are invited
to attend. The program at $50
will be open to the public and will
be as follows: Music, Harmony or
chestra reading, Dale Cornell; pre-
sentation of certificates, Robert c..
Kinney; response, w. B. Smith;
song, quartet; reading, Mrs. Work
man; history of grange, c. H. Men
denhall; What grange has done for
community, C. O. Thomas; illustrat-
ed lecture, l.. T. Rummell; music,
Shook brothers.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20
STRAIGHT FROM WASHINGTON

(By SIGp0Sn M. OuuSJ
People in Ohio spent $9S,O00,OO0
last year for electrical energy. Un-
der the IVA rates the cost would
have been $51, ,000,0 0,000-a saving of
S47,000,000 Under the electric
light rates paid by citizens of Ta-
coma, the cost would have been
$4,000, ,000-a saving of $4S ,000,-
900. Under the rates paid by peo-
pie living in the province of On
tario, just across the lake from us.
the cost would have been $40 0,000,-
000-a saving Of 58,000.000. Ohio
is a great wheat growing state. We
produce about 35,O00,000 bushels of
wheat a year Yet, if every grain
of wheat grown in Ohio last year
were sold at the highest price on
today's market, it would require
fifteen to twenty million dollars ad-
ditional to bring in enough money
to pay this overcharge. Here is
evidence that residents in our state
are paying too much for electricity.
The Wagner Labor Disputes Bill
is one of the very controversial
measures which will be voted on be-
fore adjournment. This bill, if en-
acted into law, will create a nation
al labor relations board and give
employees the privilege of bargain
ing collectively as set forth in Sec
tiOn Ia of the now defunct NRA
1t prohibits employers from inter-
fering with the formation Of la
Dor union and prohibits any act on
the part of the employer to dis
courage membership in any labor
organization o r discrimination
against any employe who is a men,
ber. This bill provides that ma
jority of the employees in any in
dustry or plant shall be the eX-
elusive representative of all en-
ployes and sets forth what is term
ed unfair labor practices. This
measure is not a part of the presi-
dents program, but is backed by
organized labor. 1t is likely to be
enacted into law.
The supreme court by a five to
four vote, held the railroad pension
law unconstitutional. This decision
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20

as a fine endorsement of the Roose-
welt farm policies, and suggested
that, since everybody seemed to
think alike, there probably would
be no farm issue between Democrats
and Republicans in the 1896 cam
paign. Citizen.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20

was Charles r. Marvin, native OF
Putnam, O., and graduate of Ohio
State.
Mr.. Alexander in his bulletin also
reveals some of the extremes OF
Ohio weather history. The abso-
lutte maximum, all records consider
ed, was 113 degrees, recorded at
Thurman, Gallia county, on July 4,
1897, and the absolute minimum
was 80 degrees below zero, at Mil
ligan, Perry county, on Feb. 10,
1890. An unofficial record OF A
degrees below zero was reported
the same day at Laceyville, Harri-
son county 1t will be noted that
the extreme official range has been
152 degrees, the extremes occur
ring in the southeastern part of the
state.
Limo sale, one week, $1.18 Limo,
two yards wide, sale, 98c; S1.89
Limo, three yards wide, sale, $1.48,
at Kraps & Retz'.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20

The supreme court by five to
four vote, held the railroad pension
law unconstitutional. This decision
affects the welfare of hundreds of
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-06-20

$5.95 sale on 9x12 Limo rugs,
for Friday and Saturday only, at
Kraps & BetZ'.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
43 ARE DEAD,
e MISSING IN
FLOODED AREA
40 Communities Inundated;
Damage Mounts to
S3O,OOO,00O.
Continued From Page One

drowned. The other occupants of
the boat. including the dead mans
TWO sons. swan back 10 the island
and were rescued later.
Reports of disaster which may IN
crease the death toll past so trCkled
from hamlcts readable only Dy
boat Weeping Historically over the
bed of her critically injured nus
band. Mrs. Edward Lands told OF
seeing her three children. between
the ages of 3 and 8. float away from
her IN Johannesburg Greek They
have not been seen since.
1900 Families Flee
The family was sleeping on the
creek bank when the flood. caused
by a clouGburst that poured more
than eight inches OF water down
narrow valleys IN TWO hours swept
over their camp site. Mrs. Lands
was saved by underbrush which
caught her clothes. her husband
lodged in branches Of a tree.
Al Trumanburg 100 families had
10 race through inches Of rising
water from homes that today stood
eavos-deep in the FLOOD. Refugees
from the vicinity Of Dryden said the
towns entire business district was
swept away by a torrent that left
streets seven feet under water. Sew
eral residents we're missing.
Three motorists. reported to be a
man, his wife and a second woman,
drowned at Tyrone when a bridge
collapsed and dropped their automo-
biles into current that swept them
helplesslv downstream.
Rail Service Halted
Service on main lines Of the Lack
awanna. Erie aid LehiCh Valley
railroads and on many branches of
The New York Central and Pennsyl-
vania roads WAS halted. Dozens OF
BUSES and hundreds of private motor
cars were stranded on highways.
telegraph and telephone lines we're
destroyed. with poles washed miles
from the locations where currents
reaching 20-ml.c-an-hOur velOcIties
uprootcd them
Railroad officials enumerated %
bridges entirely washed away and
said at least so others we're unsafe
for use. Several trains were ma
roCrcd
Government mctCorolocists said
The Cloudbursts which started the
disaster Sunday night established an
all-tme Now York State record The
food itself was the most damaging
since 1865
Thousands Of acres Of corn and
pasture lands. vineyards and or
Chards were covered deep with silt
and debris. Rain that beat down
like hail laid corn fiat and the fol-
lowing floods plastered it with mud.
Farm agents of Stcuben, TOmkinS.
Monroe and Delaware Counties estI-
mated that agricultural damage IN
those communities alone would be
more than S1000OO0O
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
Huge Mirror Saved

~ NfffQ FfGNS
CORNING, N. Y, July Sex
hausted employees of the Corning
Glass Works were confident this aft
ernoon they had succeeded in saving
the 2O0-inch telepscopic mirror,
slowly cooling in a plant oven.
Workers battled all night against
the flood waters.
The gigantic mirror. largest in the
world, and the telescope upon which
science hopes to solve the mystic
rieS of the outer universe, represent
a S5000000 investment.
The flood waters. which rose
steadily through the night, crept to
the window SillS this morning as
scores of workers and volunteer fire
men strOve frantically to erect dykes
and prevent the water from pour
ing into the plant.
The huge oven was surrounded by
sand bags and pumps were manned
TO keep the annealing oven dry. Il
water had entered the windows, the
electric controls on the oven would
have been made imperative and the
mirror ruined Even a slight chill
would have been sufficient to cause
imperfectiOnS.
Despite a large amount of water
which seeped into the building and
covered the floor to depth of two
feet. the workers managed to keep
the electric apparatus dry and the
oven heated to the proper tempera-
ture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
HOWE, AID OF
ROOSEVELT,IS
ACTIVE AGAIN
Presidents Adviser Wins in
Fight for Life After
Hope Was Gone.
By scripps-Ho,card Newspaper Alliance

By Scripps-H Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, July "a few
months ago everybody had given
up hope for the life of Louis Nc
Henry Howe, President Roosevelt's
political secretary and adviser
that is, everybody except Col. Howe.
Today, by virtue of an iron will
and an oxygen tent to assuage his
asthma, the diminutive strategist is
sitting up and taking notice of what
is going on in the New Deal.
Occasionally by telephone he
takes an unobtrusive hand in Ad-
ministration affairs, and ever so
often there slips out from his room
in the northeast corner of the White
House a memorandum in his hand
writing
He sees but few callers and has
to spend several hours a day under
the oxygen tent When the weather
is favorable he often sits on the
White House roof, but for the most
part he is confined to his room.
If he RECEIVERS sufficiently in the
next few weeks, he plans to go to
his place on Cape Cod to avoid the
worst of Washington's summer.
The 64-year- confidant of the
President, who has been a right
hand lieutenant since Mr.. Roosevelt
was initiated into politics as mem
Der of the New York Senate, deals
largely in the political realm and
undoubtedly he is looking ahead now
to strategy for the 1896 campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

THE highly prosperous engage
a ment Of Becky Sharp" at the
Circle must terminate with the
final showings on Thursday night
after a weeks stay.
The Circle management origi-
nally had scheduled the Miriam
Hopkins color picture for two weeks.
The reason for terminating the
engagement Thursday night is
caused by the fact that the local
exchange has only limited num-
Der Of prints I. NJ. Halperin, the
Circles manager said.
The au-color prints are so ex-
pensive that only Minated num-
Der has been made. The demand
for immediate release of Becky
Sharp" is so great over the coun-
try that extended runs will not be
granted at the present time, it
was announced.
The Circle on Friday will open
with another important feature, H.
Rider Haggard's She" with Helen
Gahagan Of the legitimate stage in
the title role
She" has been read by millions
and thousands have seen it on the
stage. The movie makes a screen
star of Miss Gahagan.
The heroine of she" is 5000
years old and not many stars
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

44cNC a NAAA45 vi IAAoS, NAAs ACAJ
said.
YESTERAY AFTERNOON
AS usual, there was 40 session.
LAST NIGHT
7:04-Judge Baker called the
first case. No member of the
prosecutors staff was present.
7:05-Addressing Detective Nor
ris Corbin, who had been sum-
moned as a witness, Judge Baker
said:
We'll. Corbin, I understand you
have a job guarding Talcott Pow
ell. Where did you leave him to-
night?"
Following receipt by Mr.. Powell
of threats of violence, unless he
discontinued publishing articles on
the administration of criminal
justice in Marion County, Detec-
tive Corbin was assigned by pO-
lice authOritiesD
Mr.. Powell is on active duty at
Fl. Harrison with other Army
reserve officers" Mr.. Corbin re-
sponded
L understood he was out there, ."
Judge Baker said. Maybe that's
where he is getting his informa-
ton"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
MASIL ROE FREED
IN SAUNDERS CASE
Murder Charges Against
Youth Are N0IIed

Masil Roe, Coalmont, young en-
balming student, today is free of all
charges of completely in the Indi-
annapolis murder of his fellow en-
balming student, the Rev. Gaylord
V. Saunders, Wabash.
Yesterday, on motion of Prosecu-
tor Herbert M. Spencer, Criminal
Judge Frank P. Baker revoked the
indictment against Roe. Roe had
been indicted with Mrs. Saunders,
the murdered mans wife, and Theo-
dore (TedD Mathers, who was con-
victed and sentenced to l to 10
years. Mrs. Saunders was acquitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
TINE first case was disposed of
at Ills. Judge Baker withheld
YESTERAY AFTERNOON
AS usual. there was 40 session.
LAST NIGHT


Il at tbs. Judge Baker withheld
Judgment after three youths
pleaded guilty to stealing mer-
chandise from a golf club. They
were released in custody of the
Rev. Lynn Trip, on their promise
to attend church for one year.
Other scheduled cases were con-
tinUed
7:30-As Judge Baker prepared
to leave the bench, Prosecutor
Spencer, accompanied by his chief
deputy, oscar Hagemeier, entered
the courtroom, apologized for
misunderstanding the hour night
court was to begin.
7:35-As he left the courtroom,
Judge Baker gave instructions to
a court attache to supply a
morning newspaper with informa-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
GROCERY FIRM
SCORES VICTORY
IN BEER FIGHT
Shelby Court Restraints Ray
and ABC From Enforcing
Ban on Sales.

Grocers whose places Of business
are located outside cities or incor-
porated towns won victory yester-
day Afternoon when Circuit Judge
James A. Emmert, Shelby County,
issued an order restraining the State
Alcoholic Beverage Commission and
Sheriff Otto Ray from interfering
with the grocerS' sale OF beer.
The order was issued on a petit
ton by Charles and Frederick
Koehler, grocery owners at 34th-st
and Arlington-av, represented by
Sol G. Bodner and T. Ernest Ma
holm, indianapolis attorneys.
Case Taken Out of County
The hearing on the petition for
permanent injunction was set for
July % in Shelby Circuit Court,
Shelbyville. The attorneys found
law providing that if a circuit
judge in the county where the &C
ton is brought is not available the
suit may be taken to an adjoining
county, so the petition was taken
to Shelby Circuit Court. Circuit
Judge Earl E. Cox is taking his two
months vacation.
The Koehler suit alleges that state
excise police have threatened to ar
rest the plaintiffs if beer was found
on their property and that the law
is unconstitutional.
Denied Hearing, Is Charge
Attorney Bodner said today that
R. H. Shirley, ABC secretary, re-
fused to give the brothers hear
ing on the grounds that their estab-
lishment was nothing more than
a stop in the road"
The law states that Intoxicating
liquors may not be sold outside of
the corporate limits of a city or
town unless in clubs or hotels.
The petition of the Koehler broth
ers for a liquor license bears 30
signatures, including those of two
members of the Warren Township
advisory board, Mr.. Bodner said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

high winds and flood waters piled
up by two cloudbursts that struck
in the same place hardly II hours
apart.
Some 200 families fled to higher
ground when passing motorists
warned them of the oncoming flood.
The water stood five to six feet deep
in the towns but quickly drained
away Then last night a second
cloudburst drenched the same area.
The tornado lasted for three min
uteS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
The Theatrical WOrld--
Becky Sharp Closes at
Circle Thursday Night
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

woa.d be willing to impersonate
one of that age. However, those
who are acquainted with the Hag-
gard story know that She" had
discovered the secret of eternal
youth.
She" is so beautiful she appears
to be a woman of only 3d. The
movie was produced by Merriam c.
Cooper, who made King Kong
Miss Gahagan will have the sup
port of Randolph Scott and Helen
Mack.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
Four Villages Destroyed

GLASGOW, Mont. July 9-Four
mushroom towns near the site of the
TT. Peck dam project on the Mis-
souri, River we're in ruins today,
wrecked by tornado and flood. Two
persons. not yet identified, were dead
and hundreds we're homeless. Nearly
100 persons were injured.
The villages of Midway, Park
Grove. New Deal and Wheeler were
reported virtually destroyed by the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
ACCUSED OF SELLING
FAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Chicagoan Admits Using Boys in
Collection Fraud, Police Say.

Collection Fraud, Police Say.
Kenneth Hackworth, "a, alias
Thomas Thaner, who gave his ad-
dress as Chicago. is in custody to-
day charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses after admit
ting, according to detectives who
arrested him yesterday at down.
town hotel, that he was in charge
of crew of 10 boys who have been
selling bogus magazine subscriptions
in Indianapolis.
Hackworth told officers he pro-
vided his canvaSsers with receipt
blanks of a non-eXisting Chicago
company The boys obtained de-
posts on the subscriptions. turned
the money over to HaCkworth, and
the magazines never were delivered.
detectives said.