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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1920
Page
4
Page notes confusion over No 6 Monument Square resolutions and obituaries. Readers question value of expensive tours and private supply concerns. The piece rails at inefficiency, cites sugar shortages, and calls for direct action over costly investigations as civic discourse shifts amid wartime sentiment and public press.
Fidward T. Devine argues that reaction and revolution threaten individualism and liberty. He warns against closing doors to experimentation while stressing a middle course of reconstruction that blends stability with progress to steer between reaction and revolution and avoid repression.
In a large eastern city, the governing body proposed a costly survey of natural gas supply in nearby neighborhoods. The plan met no male opposition, but the Women’s Civic Association confronted officials with direct, pointed questions about the project and its aims.
A daughter was born Thursday to Mr and Mrs Joseph Stanley of Buckeye City. A son was born Saturday morning to Mr and Mrs Clinton Tiea Jr of Buckeye City. Mr and Mr Elsworth Gorauch of Alwon are here today attending the funeral of Mr Othe Cayteel. Mrs Mary Dickingen of Sharon Pennsylvania is the guest of Mrs Charles B Baldwin and Miss Martha Irvine on East Gambier Street.
May term of common pleas court at Knox county opens Monday May 10 with the grand jury reporting that date and the petit jury to follow later. Clerk and deputy busy preparing docket and printer copy for the harbor docket. Prosecutor Ashbaugh notes few cases expected for grand jury. jurors drawn from wheel on Saturday.
A movement aims to create a reading room via a local library transfer from Columbus. The Brink Haven school closes April 30 with commencement May 7. Prof. Martaolf of Athens to speak and White's orchestra to provide music. Various faculty and student notes recount visits, a Willand Literary Society program, and fundraising to cover debts and buy records. Distribution of crop products to pupils for planting is mentioned amid hopeful school activities.
A 15 year old girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Arquilto of Mairview, fell on a knife Thursday afternoon and sustained a scalp wound requiring several stitches. The incident was described as a small slaughter in local reports.
Members of Howard Grange held their second Swapping Contest Thursday evening in Grange hall. A large crowd attended, the hall reaching capacity. County Agent T. Anderson was present.
The meeting, led by a guide for the wrapping of das, debated whether it paid to feed winter eggs. The crowd split, with one side arguing minimal feeding suffices and the other advocating a scientifically set ration. County Surveyor Cat Van Voorhix visited Columbus Saturday on business.
Miss Grace Cleeland of O. U. spends the weekend with her parents Rev and Mrs Cleeland on East Vine Street as she attends to family duties during her college break.
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