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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Contract To improve
COntinned from Paga One

Continued from PAGE One
This project is tentatively
scheduled for contract letting on
March 30, 1854, which should
allow ample time for completion
of the project during 1854.
1t has been estimated that this
project alone will cost 81, 100000
and it is the biggest project
planned by the state highway
department in the 18th district
Noble county officials are tax
ing an active part in the move
ment to improve u. S. Route q
from Charleston, w. Va, to
Cleveland and they are backing
the dynamic president, S. Dur
ward Hoag of Marietta 100 per-
cent.
The Noble county improve
ment project for Route 81 will
also be one of the first to get
under way in 1854, since most
of the groundwork has already
been accomplished.
All plans and specifications for
the proposed relocation and im-
provement of the highway south
Of Caldwell beginning at the
state highway garage has been in
Columbus for the past three
months.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17

and two brothers also surviving
including Mary Thomas, Zanes.
vile, ElbFidge Moore of Sum
merfield route and Leo Moore OF
GAINESVILLE.
The body was returned Thurs
day morning to the Moore home
from the Brubach funeral home
1t was taken to the church
at 100 o'clock, Friday and lay in
state until 200 o'clock, the hour
of service. Rev. Charles Brown
officiated and interment was
made in the Eastern cemetery
by Brubach.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Mrs. Nettie Shattuck

Mrs. Nettie Shattuck of Zanes-
vile, formerly of Noble county,
died Thursday at GAINESVILLE.
Her body was brought to the
Church of Christ on North
street here, where services were
held Sunday afternoon at 200
o'clock. Burial was in Olive
cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. Lola Slater of GAINESVILLE,
Mrs. Iva Mcbride of GAINESVILLE,
and Mrs. Ida Dunfee of Colum-
bus; Il brother, Otto Crooks of
GAINESVILLE; a sister, Mrs. Leona
Slater of GAINESVILLE, II grand
children and 25 great grandchil-
dren.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
John Sholtis

John Sholtis, n, native of
Czechoslovakia, died at his home
Tuesday afternoon on Caldwell
route 6, following a lingering
illness.
He was the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Sholtis and came to his
country when he was a young
man.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Sholtis of the home; two sons
and three daughters, including
Andrew of the home, Joseph of
Alexandria, Va; Mrs. Mary
Miller of Mariana, Pa, Mrs.
Anna Jubrik of Republic, Pa,
Mrs. Catherine Gregory of
jamestown, N. Y. There are also
% grandchildren and eight
great grandchildren.
The body was removed to the
McVay funeral home in Cald-
well and prepared for burial.
Arrangements are incomplete.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Mrs. Bertha Blake

Mrs. Bertha Frances Blake, 67,
widow of Walter Blake, was
found dead in her home on
Main street, Monday afternoon
at 1890 o'clock by her son,
Charles Blake, when they had
failed to contact her that morn
ing by phone.
1t is believed that Mps. Blake
was stricken with a heart at
tack as she was preparing for
bed Sunday evening. Coroner
DR.. N. S. Reed was called and
said that death was due to the
heart attack.
Mrs. Blake was born Jan. 8,
1886, a daughter of Mayhem and
Rebecca Shuman Tilton. She
had spent her entire life in the
Caldwell community.
Surviving are two sons,
Robert Blake of Sharon and
Charles Blake of Caldwell; three
daughters, Mrs. halhfyn Dllley
OF Denver, Colo, Mrs. Betty
Haylow of Tiffin and Mrs. Amy
Neff of Columbus; one sister,
Miss Nellie Tilton of Cambridge,
formerly of Caldwell and one
brother, Clyde Tilton of Akron.
There are IL grandchildren.
The body was removed to the
Murphy funeral home and pre-
pared for burial. Services were
held from the funeral home on
Wednesday afternoon at 200
o'clock with Rev. Floyd Gaugler
officiating. Interment was made
in Olive cemetery bY Murphy.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
CAR OYERTuRNS

Mrs. Charles LorenZ overturn-
ed the automobile she was driv-
ing after she lost control on the
snow and ice-covered highway,
Wednesday morning at about
$50. She suffered no injuries but
the car was damaged. The acci-
dent happened on the turn near
the Murphy funeral home at the
west end of Main street.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Christmas Program Is
Planned Sunday Night

The annual Christmas service
at the First Church of Christ
on North street will be held on
Sunday evening, beginning at
7:30 o'clock.
IS Linda McVay and Ruth Anne
DeVolld will be in charge of this
program. featuring the young
people of the church.
Ira Brandon, pastor, announc-
ed today that the annual Christ
mas service would be held on
Thursday evening, Dec. "a, from
1l:0O to II midnight and the
public is invited. There will be
carol singing, a short program
and a message by the pastor
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
County Gets as
Inches OF Rain

Frank Burlingame, our county
weather recorder, said today
that the rain that fell between
Sunday at $50 a. m. and Monday
at the same hour measured .46
inch, the most rain we've had
since Nov. %.
On that day, .68 inch of rain
was recorded.
There were scattered snow
flurries late Monday and Tues
day morning. Burlingame said
that the snowfall was almost too
little to measure and he gave
the approximate precipitation
measure for this week as rs
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Grange Conference
Slaied For Dec. 10

A conference of all the
oranges in Noble county will be
held this Saturday, December
l9 at the Olive Grange hall.
The session will begin at 1000
a. m. Plans for grange activities
for the coming year will be
formulated.
At noon q potluck lunch will
be served. Each is to bring his
own table service.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Harry c. Clymer

a Stroke suffered Tuesday
evening resulted in the death of
Harry Clymer, 66, the following
evening at $40 o'clock, at his
home in Dexter City.
Mr.. Clymer, a Summerfield
native, was an oil contractor and
driller and operated his own
business. His parents were
George w. and Iona Campbell
Clymer.
The deceased was a member
of the Aurelius Masonic lodge at
Macksburg, the Cumberland
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Presbyterians To
Hold Xmas Service

The young people of the First
Presbyterian church Of Caldwell,
will present a Christmas Cantata,
"Son of the Holy Night" at the
church, Sunday evening, Dec. 20,
at 7:30 o'clock.
The public is welcome to this
Christmas presentation, in which
the children of the primary Sun
day school classes will also take
part.
Mrs. Clair Murphy, Mrs.
Woodrow Carr and Miss Martha
Miller are in charge of the
cantata.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
Noble Wheeler

Noble Wheeler, rs, died Tues
day at 10;45 in Cambridge hos
pital. He was the son of Solomon
and Mary Ann Morris Wheeler
and we'll known resident of the
Sharon community.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Zama Wheeler, of Zanes-
vile.
The body was taken to the
Murphy funeral home. Arrange
ments are incomplete.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
HITS TWO COWS

Sheriff Don ConaWay was un-
able to stop his car in time to
avoid hitting two cows on U. S.
route 81 last Monday evening.
Neither of the COWS was injured.
One headlight was bent and one
fender dented on the sheriff's
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
DISMISSED TO HOME

Jimmie Joe Bond, eight, was
dismissed Tuesday from st.
Francis hospital, Cambridge, and
removed in the McVay ambu-
lance to the Pauline Boord home
in Dexter City. He had tonsil
operation.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
REMOVED HOME

Mrs. William Trott and infant
daughter, Marcia, were removed
Tuesday in the McVay ambu-
lance from st. Francis hospital,
Cambridge, to their home in Mt.
Ephraim.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
REMOVED TO HOSPITAL

Mrs. Lille Baker, mother of
Mrs. Myron Pickenpaugh, was
removed in the Murphy ambul-
ance Tuesday evening at Mariet-
ia Memorial hospital for obser-
vation and treatment.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17
TO HOSPITAL

Arthur Red" Orr was admit
ted to st. Francis hospital, Tues
day, for treatment of a nose
hemorrhage. The trip was made
in the McVay ambulance,
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-12-17

Spring-flowering blubs may be
planted before the ground freez-
eS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-24
BY FATHER J. [. kEMlAs
chsplsin, Us Navy

II was Christmas Eve and the
large, gently.faIling snowhakes
were covering the ground with .
soti, white mantle.
The tall, not too well dressed
man moved along the narrow
street apparently Obligious of the
passeFsby who gave him scant
notice In return.
The mans shoes, cheap ones.
and unprotected from the slush be.
meath them, were soggy. wet and
crumpled. He seemed unaware Of
both bis personal appearance and
comfort.
In front Of the cleaning white
church, ausiere on is foundation
Of heavy, cut stone, the man slow
~ climbed the dozen steps lead.
ing TO the entrance and placed his
hand on the latch. The door yield
ed 10 his pressure, and he walked
down an aisle 70 the raised dais
and knelt before the altar.
He was q fairly young man but
emaciated and stopped. He had the
look Of one who had gone eonsi.
derable time without sleep or food.
A jagged, ugly fresh scar ran dia.
gonally down one bony jaw nearly
10 the point Of his chin. His head,
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barred Il the moment, rested IN
folded arms while taus lips NOV
ed ID prayer.
Great emotional strain showed
on his face which. evidently. at one
time. had been handsome one.
III was evident that the man was
seeking strength from the great
Father above. II vas evident too,
that he was face 70 face with .
problem. possibly the greatest one
or his life. He vas going TO need
his strength and courage TO handle
this problem.
Dear God" he murmured In
soft. muted voice, tonight Is
Christmas Eve - a time for JOY
and song and love. I beseech thee,
Oh Lord -"
II vas voices, lifted in song, that
broke his words In half. He got TO
his feet, felt his way carefully A.
long the darkened aisle toward the
front Of the church. The voices
grew in volume and the man held
bis battered hat Ia his hand and
smiled. The singing was that Of the
very young and the song was ISL.
ent Night, Holy Night" The hap
|py, lifting voices Of these too young
for personal problems filled the
night air.
A little boy and girl, muffled 10
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long coats and galoshes and WOOL
en- hoods, stood before the large
edifice. The stranger LET the softly
falling snow cling to his grazing
brown hair and knew an urge to
join in with the singing.
The little girl, probably eleven,
saw the man first. Mister" she
said, smiling and setting a pair Of
big, blue eyes over the man,
would you like to sing with us?''
The man shufned down the steps.
lie was smiling. 81 would" he
said in a slow measured tones, Il
sure would"
The three voices rose In song.
"Silent Night, Holy Night"
''YOu live here, mister?" the boy
asked, when the song was finish
ed.
The man shook his head. mo,
but / did a long time ago.
didn't you like Il here?" the
boy insisted.
very much"
The boy shook his head In be.
wilderment. ''T wouldn't never live
anywhere but Cloverdale!" he de-
Tended Loyalty. ''It's the bestesi
place in the whole world if only
\ The man saw the girl nudge her
brother with an elbow. Whats
! your name, young men?" the mar
asked.
"Joey and my sisters name L
Marie"
The stranger turned his head and
gaxed down the long, white street
For no apparent reason, seeming
| ly, his lips quivered for a moment
"Where do you live? he asked
Joey.
Joey pointed q stubby finger Il
the east. Down there" he ex.
planned. "Joey means across the
tracks" the little girl said.
u
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"Jim." she cried, swaying on
her feet.
A quick step and the stranger
had her in bis arms. Mary" he
said in a choked voice, Thank
God! Just a week ago today / had
an accident. A car overturned. |
knew who I was again ] came
as fast as l could | learned il
had been six years."
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lance from the street. A slender
woman CARRIED in pink and white
checked house dress opened the
door and stood smiling at them.
"We found the mans at the
church" Joey explained excitedly.
Hes a nice mans! He knew my
daddy
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come home this Christmas" Ma
RE Clipped in, "but ! guess God
didn't hear our prayer. Doctor
Yates says our daddy probably had
amnesia and might come home
some day." j.
The man seemed to have diff
Guilty with his voice for the mo.
ment.
'I'd like to walk home with you
children, if you wouldn't mind, !"
he said gently.
The house where Joey and Ma
RE led the stranger was an I'M
Ipretentious one, sitting back dis
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The stranger touched Joey's ear.
you said q moment ago that
Cloyerdale was the best place in
the world II - and then you stop
ped. What did you mean by f?"
''f my daddy was here" Joey
said, tears clouding his brown
eyes.
He was the bestest daddy that
ever waSl"
"Did you daddy 60 away?"
''Yes," Joey said.
"And your mother ~ she's -
you don't have no other daddy"
I'VE prayed for our daddy to
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The woman. her son grey eyes
overflowing with tears Of Aappi.
ness. unwOund her arms nom
about the strangers neck and TOOK
the hands Of her two children.
Their eyes filled with awe. looked
truStingly Up al her.
'sDarllngS" she cried. God did
hear our prayers Your DADDY
is home for CAriStmasl"
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Then the man and Joey's mother
stared into each others eyes for a
long time, the woman finally
breaking the silence.
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Thursday. December a. 1855
Evening star., 1953-03-06
Answers Differ.

For Stalin's admirers, Of course,
the answer to it all has been
that this ruthlessness is always
present during the formative
stages of revolution, before the
final triumph of the dream. The
purges and spies, the concentra-
ton camps. regimentation and
fear-these. to them, are merely
a benign fever burning an old
sickness from the body polite.
To Stalin's critics, it has
seemed clear that the revolu-
tionary dream was betrayed in
Stalin'S hands. He obviously
might have had as his personal
motto that "the end justifies the
means " But somehow the end
was forgotten or lost along the
way in Russia: the means-ter-
rible as they admittedly were-in
some terrible transposition Of
ideas themselves became the end.
1t need not necessarily have
been Stalin's doing. It may have
been something in the system it
self-perhaps something in all
human nature-which leads in
evitably to the abandonment of
the ideals to which such a system
is dedicated.
Evening star., 1953-03-06

appear to speak to these people
from some secret recess Of his
peasant heart. deep hidden in
the man of steel.
On June 26. 1945, at a victory
banquet in the Kremlin's great
Hall of st. George, he called
the assembly to its feet and
raised his glass.
II should like to drink" he
said, Ito the health of people Of
whom few hold rank and whose
titles are not envied, the people
who are considered to he CO.'S
in the wheels of the great state
apparatus but without whom all
of us-marshals and army COM
manders-are, to put it crudely.
not worth a tinker's dam, be-
cause if one of the cogs goes out
Of commission the whole thing
is done for.
II propose a toast for the
simple, ordinary. modest people.
There are very, very many
of them. Their name Is legion.
They are tens of millions of peo.
pie. They are modest people.
Nobody writes anything about
them. But they are the
people who support us as the
base supports the summit.
II drink to the health of these
people. our respected comrades"
Fine words. Were they the
hypocritical utterances of a Gym
ical tyrant? Were they an ex-
preston composed for a busy ex-
ecutive by some competent, po-
etic secretary? Or, perhaps, was
old Catherine Djugashvili prob
ing close to the truth when she
once discussed Stain in a rare
interview?
II know my son rules in the
Kremlin," she said, "but If he
had not been naughty and
turned away from God and been
forced to leave his school. he
might by now be q bishop"
Evening star., 1953-03-06

tionship in public. Few people,
even in Moscow, have ever heard
of her. It may we'll be, more
over. that her story will never
be told.
Stain had no friends in the
Western sense of the word. Those
who came closest to achieving
friendship with him-the only
people with whom he OCCASION
ally relaxed and seemed to
establish f1eeting human rela-
tionship - were almost invari-
ably Georgians, old comrades of
the revolutionary days. He could.
and did turn against even these
without a moments hesitation.
Dozens Of them died in the
treason" trials and other
purges.
Mystery Remains.
And yet the great mystery of
the man remains. He seemed to
love nobody. He seemed i'm
mune to the hopes and fears
that plagued his fellow men.
Because of this, immunity, he
seemed to scorn those with
whose lives, in olympian, stony
detachment, he played on the
chessboard of fate. 49,
He rarely bothered to talk to
them. and even more rarely in
any but the most prosaic terms.
He seemed to have none of the
kind of human, poetic imagina- =
ton that through the power Of
words. has won the love of their
followers for other leaders of
history.
Yet millions followed him
blindly.
And, once at least, Stain did
Evening star., 1953-03-06

Many sources testify that when
his second child came along,
Stain used frequently to puff
smoke from his pipe into the
baby's face, explaining that he
wanted to "toughen" him. He
became seriously angry once
Evening star., 1953-03-06

been suggestions that Stain may
have murdered her. Neither
charge can be proved, and many
biographers believe Nadia died of
peritonitis after neglecting an
attack of appendicitis. Stain
was at his desk the next day.
Nadia is not known ever to
have interfered in political af-
fairs. and her name had never
been linked to scandal or gossip.
At the time of her death she was
taxing a technical course at the
ALL Industrial Academy.
The luxury of the Kremlln
limousineS was not for her. She
used the streetcars.
Rarely Saw Mother.
Stain rarely saw his mother,
who died at 78 on June 4. 1887,
in one of the better government
housing projects at Tiflis. She
had retained much of her youth
full beauty, and was treated with
great respect. Comrade Eliava,
ruler of Tiflis, bowed unusually
low when the old woman made
one of her occasional visits to
his Office.
Stain never got along with
Jacob, the child Of his first mar
riage, who, throughout his un-
happy life, kept the Djugashvili
name. When the boy f1unked
his examination at the Techni-
cal Institute at Moscow. Stain
"banished" him for while to
Georgia. eff you don't want to
be an engineer" he roared, "be
a shoemaker" Jacob stuck to
engineering, however, and
worked obscurely at it until
World War II, when he was
made a lieutenant of artillery
and sent to the front.
He was captured by the Ger
mans near Smolensk in July,
1941. Apparently embarrassed,
the Soviet command remained
silent concerning the incident,
merely citing him for staying
with his battery until the last
round of ammunition. The Ger
mans released a picture of him in
prison camp. Stain said nothing.
Not until after the European
war ended did the world learn
that Jacob. in April. 1943. flung
himself to his death on an elec-
trically charged wire barricade
at the Oranienburg prison camp,
near Berlin. He was "a when
he died. Stain said nothing.
VASTLY Made Good.
Many sources testify that when
his second child came along,
Stain used frequently to puff
smoke from his pipe into the
baby's face, explaining that he
wanted to "toughen" him. He
became seriously angry once
Evening star., 1953-03-06

when VASTLY, still in the cradle
choked on the smoke and began
to cry. He will never make q
good Bolshevik," Stain Is re-
ported to have grumbled.
He was mistaken: VASTLY ap-
pears to have made a very good
Bolshevik. He became bomber
pilot in the war. rose to the rank
of colonel before the end, and
was decorated with the Order of
the Red Banner. Now in his
early 30s, he is a lieutenant gen.
eral and one of the heads of the
Red air force.
Svetlana, five years younger
has reddish hair. On rare occa-
sions, she went to the movies
with her father. She was sent
to Kuibyshev during the 1941
evacuation Of the capital, but
soon returned TO- Moscow.
She and VASTLY were allowed
to take the name Stain.
Third Marriage Rumored.
Ever since the death of his
second wife, there have been
rumors linking Stalin's name to
a succession of women. The most
consistent of these rurnors, in
recent years, and the one given
most credence in informed cir
cles," is that his relationship
with Rosa Kaganovich, sister OF
L. M. Kaganovich. a member OF
the Politbureau, amounted to a
common-laW marriage which
may, in fact, have been solemn
ized.
If so, no rulers wife in history
can have lived q more remark
able life than Rosa Kaganovich
has. Never, by word or gesture,
did Stain recognize the rela-
Evening star., 1953-03-06
Mourned by Many,
He Loved Nobody

From what little is known of
Stalin's personal life-his family
relationships, for instance-it
plainly emerges that he always
was singularly incapable of
warming to his fellow man, as
one human being to another.
When his second wife died
suddenly on the night of Mo-
vember 8. 1882. the rumor spread
that she had killed herself after
quarreling with her husband
over his harsh attitude on the
kulak problem. There have since
Evening star., 1953-03-06
and attentive to comrades. less

and attentive to comrades. less
capricious :"
"Comrade Stalin," Lenin said,
having become general secre-
tary, has concentrated an enor-
nous power in his hands and
am not sure that he knows how
to use that power with sufficient
caution"
Trotsky, the story goes, read
this document before the partys
Central Committee during his
expulsion proceedings and drew
from Stain the admission that
he was occasionally rough and
rude to those who treacherously
break their word, who would split
and destroy the party"