City Pays The Claim After Protracted Suit
City settles a long pending damage suit brought by Al Schweltser, paying over $400. Council approved payment to avoid higher costs if taken to the Supreme Court. Police seek pay raise from 40 to 65 dollars monthly, endorsed by patrolmen and officials. Firemen also seek higher pay, with advocate H Hi Greer outlining dangers and home-life impact. Budget items, road repairs, and city funding measures discussed. measures approved on readings and adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Schweltser
Leonard Monday
Supreme Court
Cornell
Pollce Department
A. F. Stauffer
Clements
Hon. H. Hi. Greer
Council
Greer
Jacob Dubinsky
Walter Anderson
Public Service
Ila
Mt. Vernon Banner
Republican Publishing Company
City Printing
Evangelist J H Lelaure to Lead Brandon Evangelistic Meeting
The Rev J H Lelaure superintendent of the Church Workers' League will start a union evangelistic meeting in Brandon on Monday evening December 29 following a successful campaign at Homer in November. He is supported by many local evangelists and is expected to draw a large crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Lelaure
Church Workers’ League
America
Homer
Brandon
Laisure
Towers
Svangelints
Leonard Wanted To Break Jail For Winter
Ed Leonard failed in county court to avoid jail time and received a $10 fine plus costs for resisting an officer. He was arrested Saturday night by Patrolman Heck and German after hurling a chair at the officer and firing shots during a disturbance on Booth Street. Leonard was committed to the city prison, while police sought the county jail for his winter term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Advocate
Ed Leonard
Thas
Leonard
Heck
Booth Becond
Eastern Star Bladensburg Officers Installed
Glenwood Chapter No. 30 of the Order of the Eastern Star in Bladensburg installed W M Orpha Wiggins W P Earl Van Winkle A M Maude Elliott Sec Mary Harleywine Treas Grace Horn Cond May Stonehocker Avat Cond Ina Wiggins Adah Lola Fry Ruth Edith Blount Euther Bertle Hays Marthi Hlare Allen Electa Henter McCamment Warder Belle Hess Sentinel Leonard McCamment Chaplain Anle Fry Marshal Dora Harleywine Organist Ressle Porter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood
Order of the Eastern Star of Bladensburg
W. M
Orpha Wiggins
W. P—Earl van Winkle
A. M.—Maude Elliott
Sec'y
Mary Harleywine
Treas
Grace Horn
May Stonehocker
Avat
Last Newark Lynching Case Ends as Holler Pleads Guilty
The final Newark lynching case ended when Dick Holler pled guilty to manslaughter and received a ten year suspended sentence. The court noted Holler will care for his six motherless children while avoiding intoxicants, and documented his wife’s desertion and his Chicago capture while trying to help his family. The case sprang from Karl Etherington's lynching on July 8, 1910, with about 40 convictions tied to the riot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Dick Holler
Nicholas
Coshocton
Am Holler
Holler
Chicago
Karl Etherington
Bound Over for Indecent Pictures Case in Village Court
Leonard and Joseph Kettle were bound over to the grand jury after appearing before Squire Dean. Each man posted bond of 300 dollars as they face felony exposure charges involving indecent pictures shown to children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namer
Leonard
Joseph Kettle
Squire T, N
Thin Village
Mach
Births and Travel Notes From Hast Front Wheel
A daughter was born Monday to Mr and Mrs Harry Bowden of Hast Front wheel. Mrs W Robinson left Tuesday for Tuscola Illinois to spend the holidays with her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bowden
Tuscola, Ill
Knox county builds new jail plan and contracts
Knox county commissioners set December 26 at 9 30 am for the building commission meeting to organize supervision of the county jail project. The panel includes three county commissioners, the probate judge, clerk of courts, sheriff, and an appointed member. Also released from jail Lily Jolly and Nannie Taugher on own recognizance after adultery charges. Contracts awarded for multiple bridges and culverts in Berlin, Monro, Pike, Morris, Hilliar, and Aillilar townships. Judge Seward to preside over common pleas pension matters. offices closed Christmas Day. Headlines note various local property transfers and a curious Life magazine anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neunton
Building Commission
Commissioners
Conalata
Legrand Britton
William Lewin
Theodore Dill
Berry
Charles M. Hays
Sherif Peter J. Parker
Lewis P. Sc
Lily Jolly
Nannie Taugher
Knox County
Berlin Township
Merrin
Calvin Magora
Hoovier
Monros Township
P.O. Barnest
Pling Gilmore
McArdle
Pike Township
Seward
Newark
Common Pleas Court
City Moves Against Guns In Youths Hand
Mayor tightens control as rifles and air guns surface among city youths, especially in the northwest. Police to seize any firearm found with boys. If under seventeen, youths go to juvenile officer. older youths face mayor's court. Penalty up to 100 dollars and 30 days imprisonment for furnishing guns to youths under sixteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clements
Amsterdam man sentenced to 30 days in Dayton workhouse
William Cook of Amsterdam Ohio was arrested Sunday by Officer George for allegedly stealing from the Arthur boarding house on North Norton Street. He pled guilty to petit larceny, was sentenced to 30 days in the Dayton workhouse, and fined 25 dollars plus costs. Cook claimed he was sixteen though he said he was nineteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cook
Amsterdam
Ohio
George
Arthur
North Norton Atret
Dayton
Coats
Anna Arthur
Perrine
Cook
Clements
Marshal
Lancaster Reform School
Taft Sees White House Staff Ahead of Panama Trip
President Taft and Mrs Taft arrange Christmas gifts for White House employees before departure to Panama. The deserted family apartments will be dark at Yuletide, while carriers deliver packages from around the world for the return celebration. Dr King’s New Discovery is praised for coughs and pneumonia prevention, with testimonials and price details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Panama
Taft
White House
Executive Mansion
Yuletide
Columbus lad returns home after Lancaster School inquiry
Twelve year old John Trosky, once confined at the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster for weeks, arrives in Columbus with pneumonia from alleged severe whipping. His mother, now seeking legal action with two attorneys, claims abuse and vows to pursue proceedings. The boy says he was whipped twenty times, contradicting the school disciplinarian Wiebe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
John Trosky
Lancaster
Trosky
State Board of Administration
Hin Ilineas
Wiebe
Fojle A Foul Plot In Stomach Health Ad
An ad urges relief from distress by using Dr King s New Life Pills to restore action of stomach liver and bowels. It claims the product gently compels right action and promotes health and good feelings with a 26c price at G R Baker Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
G. R. Baker Co
Salvation Army Leader to Turn Forty with Mass Dinner
Commander va Booth of the Salvation Army in New York will be forty on Christmas Day and plans a Christmas dinner for 16,000 poor. The feast is to be held across major halls and armories with baskets of turkey, bread, potatoes, cranberry sauce and plum pudding for a family of four. Applications from cripples, blind, women with children, the aged and those in ragged clothes have poured in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Va Booth
Salvation Army
Electric Bitters Prove A Miracle To West Virginia Man
Shout for Joy quotes B Rader of Lewisburg West Virginia praising Electric Bitters for curing his stomach trouble and rheumatism after ten years of pain. He claims the remedy eased indigestion jaundice and kidney stones while warning of a dud bottle. Sold by G R Baker Co at fifty cents with a guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Rader
Lewisburg
W. Va
G. R. Baker & Co
Enter Plea of Guilty in County Road Case
Batavia Dec 14 county officials indicted last Monday in road fund probe faced arraignments. W H Brown infirmary director pleaded guilty to embezzlement and presenting false claims. Ser munt and Glancy faced separate charges with not guilty pleas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
W. H. Brown
Embez
Falco Clatma
Glancy
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Banner
Bladensburg Eastern Star
Temple of Justice
Peter Paker
Morris Township
Wilson Bridge
Morria Township
Hilliar Township
Prient Hill
Truxtens Aillilar Township
J. M. Gordon
Cary Run
Gorden Bridge
Liberty Township
Knox County Court
Houe
Paul L. Debolt
Edith Roberty
W. Be, Ampbaugh
Croton
Aubrey BE. Hess
Sylvania
Lucas County
Ona M. Wander
Union Township
W. K. Holcett
Amanda A. Minard
John Kunkel
Brown
Philip Allen
Joshua Rine
Jackson
Burt Hawking
J. M. Larimore
Milford
G. R. Baker and Co
Pimonia
King
George W
J. R. Doells
Cutter Curtis
No. 11
Public Square
First National Bank
Mt. Vernon
Weally
Mt Vernon
Ona
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