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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-11-06

during the past year or two, or
less business and fewer jobs?"
Business and Job
Barometer Today
More or the same ------ 68%
More 32%
Same 369o
No opinion ----- 80
Six weeks ago, Man on the
Street" showed that $50 expect
ed more or the same amount Of
business and jobs; 27% expected
less business and fewer jobs, and
80 expressed no opinion.
In other words, over the past
six weeks, public optimism has
continued to climb. One year ago
at this time, 57% expected more
or the same amount of business;
1920 expected less business and
fewer jobs, and 11% expressed
no opinion.
A better idea of the meaning
of today's findings on business
and job prospects can be seen
from the following table showing
the results on the same question
as reported over the past IL
months.
Business and Job
Prospects Barometer
Man on the Street
pnYorfc.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-11-06

A pegboard panel on the back
of the bathroom closet door makes
a convenient spot to hang small
bathroom cleaning tools advise
Extension housing specialists.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-11-06

Mr. and Mrs Charles Hamilton Dexter City, will observe
their golden wedding anniversary, Sunday, November
Miss Cora L. Bond and Charles R. Hamilton
marriage Nov 1908 by Moredge They are
the parents of three John Hamilton
Donald A. Hamilton of Phoenix Arizona and Dwight Ham
ilton of the home
In observance of the celebration "open house"
in their home from LOO to 500 and ZOO to 900
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
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The Rains Came

Not so very people here in the hoer who have been
lives feared would have
Some of them complained that the would burn
fruit wither away
Then the rains and they kept coming day after day.
destroyed thousands OF tons OF very line hay
Millions good soil washed down towards the Delta
tremendous loads of fruit Clean
fields and gardens tangled jungle Of growing
and weeds.
Now that appears for few days that the rains have
gone with every able bodied and woman
cleaning up the debris
think have such weeds in all my life Before
gardens like flower bed not weed
sight. the garden for the weeds
ALL My tomatoes from ten to twelve feet
climbed the stakes and went down tangled
heap. Gosh, what job to clean up that mess.
to be around eight to ten feet high
brought bad with and laid that flat
the ground tried but like getting drunk
his push and back down
the other way Anyway looks like crowd of dnks trying
to hold each other the koons of Koon Hoer will
mixed in that also If they do to heck with it.
think would be good idea to have commission
D. c. to system the rains would kill the weeds
the At would
ing several millions of Americans tax All things
taxes, drouths and all of us with them, let
Uncle Sam Stle
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
Spiral Moving Higher

Once more management. and labor have
been gravely warned that they must halt the
continuous increase of prices and wages fol-
lowed as a matter of course in recent years
with the public the victim. The alarm was re-
peated by President Eisenhower, who had
sounded it previously as many able econo-
msts have done. Otherwise, the president
said, the consumer will rebel against spiral
ing initiation in way that will cause the ma
ton critical trouble.
Labor must refrain, Mr.. Eisenhower de-
clared, from pushing wages each year above
those rates that imply or show the increases
in productivity" Management must make
its profits of such scale that where they
can continue to invest money they are not
robbing the public"
AS a means of ending the depression
labor union leaders have been urged repeat
edly to abandon, or at least postpone, de-
mands for higher wage scales 1t has been
pointed out that under present conditions
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
Your County Fair

contest, which will begin at 8 o'clock. This
is always a good drawing card for the first
night attraction at the grandstand.
Thursday morning, Aug. % will be de-
voted to Judging of the dairy and All club
cattle horses poultry, grain, seeds, etc.
The main attraction that afternoon will
be the tractor pulling contest which begins
at l o'clock. In the evening at o'clock is the
tournament of thrills or the motor olympics,
featuring the daredevils of the automobile.
On Friday morning, Aug. 20, beef cattle,
sheep and swine will be judged in addition
to the All club entries.
In the afternoon will be the racing card
including the 2:26 pace, 2:l4 trot and 2:20
pace. The evening attraction will be the
WLW Midwestern Hayride which should
draw capacity crowd in this county.
Racing featured Saturday afternoon,
Aug. 30, will include the 2:26 trot, 2:14 pace
and the 2:20 trot. The fair will close with the
Cherokee Ranch Wild West Rodeo as the
grandstand attraction
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14

Final plans are nearing completion for
the 1O6th Noble County fair which will be
held at the Playground Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday Aug. q, 28, 20
and 80, according to j. Kyle Walkenshaw,
secretary for the board.
Officers of this organization include Nor
ris H. Bigely president; L. E. Hedge, vice
president and Mr.. Walkenshaw, secretary
treasurer. The board of directors include the
above and Alfred Brown, L. G. Thorla A. H.
Rich, Joe Parrish, Hugh Cox, O. ]. Lorenz,
G. B. Long, Howard Gill, John Walters,
Wyatt Bates, Brady Archer and Frank Rad
cliff
There will be good news for the racing
fans this year With the purse increased to
$500 for two heats, it is expected that large
number of race horses will be attracted to
the local fair this year. The increase is due
in part from additional monies being receiv-
ed by the board from the state.
The fair will officially open on Wednes-
day evening, Aug 27 with the horse pulling
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14

business cannot we'll absorb their cost with
out an equivalent increase in the productivity
of labor. These appeals have had little no.
ticed effect. Management has responded as
it regularly does, by offsetting higher wages
by raising already exorbitant prices of its
products. The burden is borne by the con-
sumner, who has no recourse except to reduce
his buying
The governments anti-inflation role, as
the president sail, at present is to hold gov
ernment spending at a minimum. But this
would be comparatively small factor in the
initiation, which is sending prices higher and
higher as decrease in the purchasing power
of the dollar continues steadily. 1t is neces-
sary for labor and management to clamp
down on wages and profits if consumer re-
bellion such as he mentions is to be avoided
and IF we are going to remain country
without artificial control of the economy
The warning is not new but it never
was more important that it is now.
- The Marietta Times
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
IlNERI[lN WIZ
E5S4 As VIEW ~
nM1xs&.&~ &
Twice AS Old

On July of this year, Canada
celebrated its 91st birthday; three
days later on July 4, the United
States of America observed its
182nd Your "Viewer of the Am
erican Way" has waited for some
fellow scribe to point out that the
u. S. A. is now exactly twice as
old as its good neighbor to the
north. If this fact has been publ
cized, it has escaped this colum-
nist's attention.
1t was quite in keeping that
President Eisenhower should
have journeyed to Ottawa to adj
dress the Canadian Parliament
and to confer with Prime Minis
ter Diefenbaker during the month
when both nations were having
birthdays. 1t can be likened to a
bigger and older brother going to
visit smaller and younger
brother; the former of whom will
never again be twice as old as
the latter.
1t is to be hoped that the Cana
dian p. M. and Americas most
ardent golfer set in motion dur
ing their discussions the machin-
cry to iron out the several mat
ters that have been annoying the
Canadian people. While these are
minor, if allowed to continue,
they could grow to major pro-
portions, eliminating in real bit
terness.
Nothing must be allowed to
disrupt the friendship Of these
two nations. In the past we have
talked out our differences and
arrived at fair and amicable So
lutions. There is no valid reason
why the same procedure plac-
ticed now and in the future will
not produce the same desirable
results.
May Heaven Bless the Maple
Leaf Forever" and may the U. S.
| A. continue to proudly hail its
Star -Spangled Banner"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
x The American Way

tional debt limit by So billion.
This piles on top of an already
staggering debt that most econ
omists are agreed can never
be paid off. We are making
the Romans look like pikers
when it comes to exorbitant
taxes and wild, extravagant
spending.
Number three on the Glib
bon list was the mounting
craze for pleasure and the
brutalization of sports.
America qualities on the first
part of this. There can be no
denying that all too many
Americans are pleasure mad.
We haven't got around as yet
to "the brutalization of sports"
but we will unless we reverse
ourselves. Well become bored
with ordinary, unharmful
pleasures and sooner or later,
to satisfy the pleasure appetite
resort to brutality in sport.
Number four given by Glib
bon as cause for the degen-
GRAFTON of Rome is the most
disturbing of all--the building
of gigantic armaments and the
failure to realize that the real
enemy lay within the gates of
Rome in the moral decay of its
people.
We know that here in Amer
lea today we are building gig
antic armamentS. That is just
good common sense--We must
keep our military power at a
peak-We must match or out
match the military strength of
another nation that believes
that might is right" But let's
face tive are losing the bat
tie to that other nation right
here at home-even our Sup
RENE Court, supposed to be our
bulwark and protector, has
made and is making decisions
that are enabling this other
nation, its friends and support
ers to undermine our safety
right here at home. This is
more to be feared than any
bombs they might drop on us.
1t is a further evidence of our
moral decay that we have not
been more vociferous in our
demands that Congress enact
laws to restrain our Supreme
Court from making laws and
get back to its constitutional
function of making rulings on
laws.
AS the fifth and final prin-
cipal reason for the fading of
Rome from its place in the
sun, Gibbon ascribed the decay
of religion, the deterioration OF
faith into mere form, leav-
ing the Romans without any
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
NQll,A @, UQA
Questions and Answers

Q-Is there a deadline date for
starting school under the War
Orphans Education program?
A-There is no deadline date.
You may begin school at any
time, SO long as you are between
Is and % years of age. Under
certain circumstances it's pos
sible to begin before lS and con-
tinue after %.
Q-I am a disabled Korea vet
eran who never held a CT insur-
ance policy. Now that the VA
has declared my disability SER
vice-connected, l understand l
can apply for a CT insurance
policy. How soon do l have to
apply?
A--You must make application
within one year from the date
VA found your disability service
connected.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
EMULATING ROME
RY George Peck


Edward Gibbon (1737-1794),
the noted English historian, in
his 5-volume work, "The His
tory of the Decline and Fall Of
the Roman Empire" listed the
five principal causes that were
responsible for the decay of
that once great empire.
An examination of those
five causes cited by Gibbon
should give every thinking
American cause to think and
be disturbed. The United States
of America definitely is nurs-
ing within its bosom the seeds
of those things that brought
about the decline and fall Of
the Roman Empire. Let's eX-
anime them one by one and
see what a deadly comparison
there is between what trans
pired in Rome 50 many cen
turies ago and what is now
going on today in the u. S. A.
Gibbon listed as the first of
the five principal causes, the
rapid increase of divorce and
the undermining of the sane
tity of the home.
Well, we don't have to
stretch our imaginations to rea-
lie that divorce has become
a cerious menace to our Amer
lean society. Our divorce laws
are making it easier and less
costly to obtain a divorce, and
as one observer has described
the process, divorce has made
of marriage almost a mockery
and license for legal prostitu-
ton"
The prevalence of divorce
has led to the breaking up of
millions of our American
homes-and is in large degree
responsible for the growth of
juvenile delinquency.
As his second of the princi-
pal causes for the Fall of Rome,
Gibbon named the spiraling
rise of taxes and eXtravagant
governmental spending.
Here again we are emulating
Rome. We've reached and pass
ed the limit of taxation here in
the u. S. A. that any economy
can take and long survive
Even as this is being written
President Eisenhower is ask
ing the Congress to up the ma
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
spiritual guide.

Splrituai guide.
Here, we still seem to be on
safe ground. There are many
evidences that there is a re-
surge of religion in the U. S. A.
But even here we can fail un-
less we begin to straighten
ourselves out on divorce, ex-
orbitant taxes, eXtravagant
governmental spending, our
mad rush for pleasure and our
failure to set up guards against
the enemy within our gates. 1t
is inevitable that unless we do
an about-face on those impor-
tant things, even Americas
religious faith will be con-
taminated and destroyed.
Yes, Gibbon has given us
something to think about and
be disturbed.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
FOLK LORE TALES OF OLIVE
Notes by A. Wade Wells

heal collar sore on a horse and
"hair it over" in one night. 1t
was claimed to be a sure-cure
for all cuts, burns, piles, boils,
carbuncles. 1t would lessen the
pains of child birth. 1t could as
well, be used as axle grease for
Wagonsi
Later in life, Claudius Corey
Wells received a communication
to come to London, England, to
receive a settlement of his legacy.
This he considered a decoy from
his political enemies and he re-
fused to go. This legacy may still
be the rightful property of his
legal heirs.
Our Soldier of Fortune was
teetotaler. He always had a
merry twinkle in his eyes, was
a great story-teller and was very
popular with both men and the
ladies. All in all, he was a jolly
good fellow.
At last, the luck of Claudius
Corey Wells seems to have run
| out. He lost his fortune in oil and
salt well stocks. He settled down
to this quiet life of a farm and
married Amanda Merry, daugh-
ter of Ambrose Merry and his
| wife, Margaret Wickham, who
was the daughter of William
Wickham, Revolutionary War
veteran who is buried in the
Devoid cemetery on Salt Run.
To Claudius Corey Wells and
Amanda Merry were born seven
| children, one of which was my
b eloved grandfather, Rouse
Merry Wells, who married Nancy
Eleanor Oliver, a direct descend
ent of Colonel Robert Oliver
Colonel Robert Oliver with
Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler
and Griffith Green, were granted
land patents to the Ohio Com
pany for l,064,285 acres of land.
To Rouse Merry Wells and his
wife, Nancy Eleanor Oliver, were
born eight children among which
was my father, Ambrose David
Wells, deceased, the oldest in the
family. These children, all of
whom are of titled ancestry, may
be the rightful heirs to our Sold
ier of Fortunes legacy in Eng
land, this according to the tales
told me by my Grandfather
Rouse Wells and my relatives
John and Marsh Merry.
| During the Civil War, Grand
father Rouse Wells sold his
horses to pay for substitute to
the army. He then went to
Missouri where he taught school
| for the duration of the war. This
was a common practice in those
days and was taken advantage
of by thousands of men.
| In my generation different
practice prevailed. ! enlisted at
the age of twenty-one for service
in the United States Army and
saw service in national army
posts and in Cuba during the
| War of Pacification.
| My son, Albert Wade Wells,
Jr., the next generation, enlisted
during Pearl Harbor, saw active
service in the South Pacific and
in Korea and is now choosing to
stay in the service of his country
as maintenance officer at a
Guided Missile Station located
near Boston, Massachusetts,.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14

past spring and we'll into the
summer months cold weather,
much rain and little sunshine has
been the cause. Practically all
kinds of vegetable products and
fruit have been to tough that it
is almost unpalatable and wasted.
Of all things! The postmaster
at Seattle, Wash, is said to have
mailed a letter after the first of
August with only three cent
stamp on it. But the boys in the
office detected the error and the
PM was required to come forth
with the additional penny.
Seemingly the postal depart
ment is putting forth every pos
sible effort to meet the demand
for the ten percent increase in
the salaries of its employees. AT
the present time don't place q
one cent stamp only on an out
side greeting card to a friend
Should you do so, the friend will
be required to pay an additional
seven cents before he can receive
it. The seven cents includes g
five-cent penalty.
The Fulda (Enoch township,
board of education has beer
withdrawn from the school con
solidation proposal to make the
northern section of Noble county
into only one district, leaving
in the districts of Belle Valley
Brookfield, Sharon, Center, Buf
falo, Seneca and Caldwell. A res
olution passed by the state boarc
of education on last July Is pro
vided, among other things, ''i
has been determined that sait
proposal should be modified b,
the deletion of the Fulda loca
! school district; hence no ballot
will be provided for that distric
and township at the coming No
vember election.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
News Of 10
Years ASO

III the present plans OF the
Caldwell exempted village school
board of education materialize,
the voters Of this school district
will have an opportunity at the
general election, Nov. 2, of vot-
ing for an $4,000 new addition
to the present school building on
North street.
John D. Wheeler will be the
guest editor, Sunday, August Is
on the Country Editors Program,
station WRFD, Worthington, at
800 p. m, $50 on your dial.
Lavaughn Johnson, daughter
of Mrs. Shelly Johnson, of North
street, underwent an emergency
operation for appendicitis, Satur-
day morning at Swan hospital,
Cambridge.
George Christopher returned to
his home on Playground road
after having spent the past two
months in Santa Monica, a guest
of the Andy Pakes family, for
mer residents of the Belle Val
ley community.
Possibility of a new city hall
for Caldwell moved forward at
a special meeting of the village
council held Tuesday evening at
the city hall
One of the largest gas wells
ever to be struck in the Caldwell
area was drilled in Friday of last
week on the Carl Benus farm
Just off route 285, northeast of
Caldwell
Ralph Brumbach of the Cald-
well Produce Co. and Theo T.
Murphy, local funeral director,
left Sunday morning by car for
a two weeks fishing trip at
Clearwater, Florida.
Mary Ruth Stiers, Ava, has
accepted a position as secretary
at the AAA office in Caldwell.
The coolest weather of the
summer was recorded Thursday
night when the mercury dropped
to SO degrees. Thursdays high
reading was 66 degrees.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
OHIO
HAPPENINGS

Oxford - HueSton Woods state
park has been given top priority
in the state and was listed today
as being in line for appropria-
tions of $2,375000 for the state
biennium running from July |,
1859 to June 80, 1861.
Beverly The Coal Run
Methodist church will receive an
electronic organ as a gift from
Mr.. Claud Foster Of Cleveland,
a retired industrialist.
New Lexington A move
may be made here to name a
New Lexington street after
Janarius Mac Gahan, world re-
nownen as the liberator of Bull
garia.
Woodsfield - A bond issue to
finance a proposed municipal
swimming pool here definitely
will not be on the November
ballot, Mayor George Burkhart
has announced.
Quaker City A group oper-
ating under the name of citizens
planning committee at Quaker
City has published 20-page
brochure giving pertinent in
formation concerning the village
and the Leatherwood valley. The
brochure is intended to be used
to interest industrialist in locat-
ing industries in the valley and
will be presented to prospects in
the near future.
Wellington Bids were
opened Friday on the $4,000
$4,000 "white-way" system for
the downtown business district.
jefferson The Jefferson
Rotary fund drive for equippine
a room at the Kent State Univer-
| sity Extension proved highly
| successful with a total of 81, ,l5e
collected. The quota was $1,000
Camp Pendleton, Calf - The
navy transport USS Talladegs
ran into a rain squall in the Pa
cific while Sunday religious ser
vices were being held on deck
Marines of the first division, bas.
ed here, sent word that the squal
parted, with rain falling on eacf
side of the ship but none on the
deck.
A two-week workshop course
Of study on children's literature
is in progress on the Muskingun
college campus. The majority
enrolled are school teachers ane
included are Dora Engle Of Cum
berland and Fay Spies of Lowe,
lSalem.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
CLAUDIUS COREY WELLS

Our family name is of Scotch
descent and comes from a clan
settled in Wellsburg, Scotland,
on the Welles River. Some of
this clan emigrated to England
and that is where my illustrious
Great Grandfather Claudius Cor
rey Wells came from.
He was an English gentleman
and soldier of fortune who left
England to scape becoming a
political prisoner or from being
beheaded. He lost his title, Lord
De Welles, and his lands but
retained a considerable fortune.
Claudius Corey Wells settled
temporarily in Connec lieut.
where close blood relative was
the governor of the state. He
dropped the second sc" in the
name Welles, saying he lost it
in the sea! While in Connecticut
he acquired three double teams
of dappled grey horses; equipped
them with black patent leather
harness trimmed with silver
bells, buckles, rings and trace
chains, pompoms and tassels
made Of ostrich plumes and dyed
OK tails; big four seated carry
all with fringe and tasseled top;
brass-bound water and feed
buckets.
On the sides of this carriage
was emblazoned the Welles Fam
lily Coat of Arms with motto,
Virtue Et Honore," showing
doublecued lion rampant on a
background of flaming red.
obtained an official copy of this
Coat of Arms from the Bureau
of Heraldry in London, England,
and now possess a hand-painted
copy by the artist Kaufman in
1882. 1t is in sterling silver
frame and hangs in my den.
Claudius Corey Wells, "The
Squire" as he chose to call him
self, came to Noble county in
1880 with all his equipage. He
was well over six feet tall and
wore high grey stove-pipe hat,
knee-length highly polished lea
ther boots with red morocco
leather tops; a white ruffled-
bosom shirt with high wing col
lar and royal purple cravat; a
long split-tail coat with striped
trousers. Over all was long
light grey linen duster with a
double row of twenty dollar gold
pieces for buttons.
This Soldier of Fortune claim
ed to be a barrister or lawyer, a
judge, a medical doctor and a
minister of the Gospel. For the
time being his profession was
that of travelling medicine man.
He eventually arrived at the big
Merry farm on Salt River and
made his headquarters there as
in Olive there was no hotel. He
received his mail in Olive which
came in overland from Marietta.
This Medicine Man travelled
about the country peddling a
magic Indian oil. This oil was
obtained from the old ginn on
Salt Run. 1t could be rubbed on
the skin or taken inwardly a
| few drops at time. This was
claimed to be a sure-fire cure
for all ailments known to man,
beast or fowl! 1t would increase
longevity, mans virility and
ward off evil spirits. His wonder
working salve was made of
skunk, bear and goose grease,
beef tallow, pine tar and per-
fumed with pennyroyal. The
formula for this salve was a top
| top secret and was guaranteed TO