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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1922
Page
4
A column of Thanksgiving reflections in Mount Vernon Ohio jokes about the size of a Thanksgiving pie and a turkey combined with political imagery. It playfully imagines a monument from mint tablets and ponders the pain of giving thanks.
National wealth estimates by Wesley C Mitchell place Middle Atlantic ahead in aggregate cash while Pacific states lead per capita wealth. New York tops both metrics with substantial totals, yet cautions that happiness education and discipline matter more than dollars.
Secretary Davis favors a new plan to amends the immigration law by requiring tests before embarkation. The proposal aims to screen for flood, physical, mental, and character fitness to improve entry quality and reduce numbers through thorough scrutiny at port of embarkation.
A fragmented excerpt argues that the United States is a European construct in political and racial terms. It contends American civilization blends diverse European stocks and reflects a European republic model, suggesting continental sympathies and shared ancestry across nations.
A cryptic passage questions whether a Chicago baby born without name or loge should be allowed to live and riffs on what if the baby itself answered. It then cites Thomas A. Edison claiming college men avoid work and dirt, noting a forgotten football fold.
Judge Tial assigns jury trials for December with cases including Ohio v Blubaugh, v Evane, v Berry and others on December 4 5 7 11 and 12 all tied to support obligations. Knox and Licking counties approve Columbus Millersburg pike improvements from Martinsburg through Utica awaiting remaining stretch. Contempt motion filed in Grimm case for alimony nonpayment and administrator appointments noted along with wills real estate and estate inventories in Knox county court records.
Thanksgiving holiday activities, family visits, and local notices across Fredericktown. Reports include residents from Cheyenne to Cleveland visiting relatives, school events at the high school and Milton district, church and club meetings, personnel appointments, and upcoming community entertainments such as a big illusionist at the high school auditorium.
Batementown marked Thanksgiving with a light hunting season mood and many civic idle notes. Mr and Mrs Robert Keyes hosted a rabbit dinner for family including Leroy Keyes Wade Keyes and children, plus Charles Squires and families and John Squires with Phillips family, all from north of Levering. Several families report illness with scarlet fever in the area. Cay Wood school 14 closed. Mrs K K Batennon returned from a western trip via Topeka and Kansas City and spent most time in western Kansas. Mrs Robert B Rucker visited Columbus last week and joined a convention of the American Legion Auxiliary. Alvert Scheff and family hosted Thanksgiving Day guests William and Karl Denman from Vernon.
GREER and Mrs. E G Almack visited his parents in New Castle while Mr J F Beatty of Columbia stayed with his son Edwin. Ralph Hipp family and Peter Hipp visited Dallas Beck and family near Nashville Missouri. Fred Mead and daughters Elector and Oli left by auto for Olean New York to visit Mrs Mead’s mother. McPhillan girl visited near Lowenville. John Peterson and Miss Loata Styers married quietly at Mt Vernon last Wednesday. they will live with the bride’s parents for now.
In an execution brought by Wik Mim A. Hosack for vent and Harry Vu, Smoots purchased the fixtures at the Log Cabin restaurant at sheriff's sale Saturday morning. The property sold to Harry V. Smoot for 227 dollars. The fixtures were appraised at 176.60 dollars.
Burton R. Schlessinger was taken to Columbus from this city and arraigned in police court on four charges of executing and delivering checks without sufficient funds. He was held to the grand jury under an $800 bond.
Mrs Caroling Condon of East Ohio avenue travels to Meadville Pennsylvania after death of her brother Han Pairman. He died in Cleveland yesterday at age years after an illness of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife and one child. Burial planned for Sunday in Meadville.
Hearing in the court of Justice George S. Harter regarding Walter Styers of Howard charged with hunting rabbits without a license was continued after his appearance Friday afternoon to text Monday December 4. Styers said he lives on the farm where he was found. A related item notes Amsey Horn’s farm oversight and a separate injury report from Dubinsky Bros. worker who broke a collar bone after falling from scrap iron. The Knox County Agricultural Society elected directors for three and two year terms.
The Brandon Community club gathered Friday evening in the Odd Fellows hall with about one hundred attendees. An excellent program featured readings and solos. A wedding announcement noted the marriage of Hoyt Wharton and Frances Elizabeth Paul in Covington Kentucky on March 21, 192% with the ceremony kept secret by the couple.
A jumble of neighborhood events is recorded including a honeymoon trip with Mr Wharton, auction games, and prize awards for Mrs Rosenthall and Mrs Clark. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Gay Street M E church meets, with a program on Handicaps to Progress led by Mrs Henderson and Miss Blair, followed by refreshments. A family dinner at the Phillips home in Pike township lists numerous attendees. The Ladies’ Aid society of The M P church cancels church debt, with refreshments served. Beulah Gleaners meet at Mrs Critchfield’s, with a lesson on Thanksgiving and visiting guest Mrs Cecil McKinley. The Woman’s Auxiliary at Church holds repairs and sewing events, continued activity noted at Vine Street.
In the afternoon a parish meeting was held with twelve members present. The auxiliary will reconvene in two weeks at the parish to continue the sowing activity.
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