Nearly Half MGX Co Quota Jo Already Taken
Young lad subscribes for bond school children urged to help. Local readers are encouraged to support a school bond drive as quotas fill and community efforts intensify.
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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
3
Young lad subscribes for bond school children urged to help. Local readers are encouraged to support a school bond drive as quotas fill and community efforts intensify.
The first status announcement reports Knox County must dispose of 870000 in Liberty bonds with 146000 subscribed and 224000 remaining to be sold by June 15. Subscriptions total 95 from banks and individuals, 1500 average per person, while preaching the cause in schools and DAR gathering, with Sunday set as Liberty Bond Day in churches.
About twenty nurses at Hinwyital M and 8 held a taffy pulling event Thursday evening. Dr. V U Plaher's birthday was celebrated. after the pull, nurses and patients joined in a lighthearted buy ins.
A Friday evening marshmallow roast by Avontire and high school students near North Mulberry street caused a fire department run after someone reported a fire at 8:80. Firemen found the blaze smoldering with many participants absent and the crowd dispersed in disgust as the blaze was put out. The episode left onlookers puzzled by the prank-like excitement.
Gambier June 2 five students at Gambier high school received their diplomas at commencement exercises in the high school building. Graduates include Miss Avie Jones, Miss Marguerite Fry, Paul Warman first honor, Clarence Lybarger of Mt. Vernon, and Frank Biggs. Commencement address by President William Foster Peirce of Kenyon College. diplomas presented by Dr A D Welker.
Chairman W. E. McCormick reports a Mattoon Illinois telegram urging immediate Red Cross aid for Mt. Vernon Ohio relief work after storms. About 5 000 homeless and many injured orphans widows and aged people. Estimated relief need forty thousand dollars shortly.
Attorneys Lot C Stillwell and Paul M Ashbaugh defended a Homer youth Friday amid a Homer Centerburg basketball game disturbance on Memorial Day. Three charges faced him with Mayor Cotton Mnally finding him guilty of disorderly conduct and fining him 36 dollars plus costs.
The diamond case Hoffetadt, Berson & Co. v. Joseph Levison ends with the plaintiff bearing costs. Aliens register at the court house for draft day as two un naturalized residents register. Desertion suit by Basil Hunter against Cath leen Hunter. Judgment for J. H. Arrington vs. D. A. Warner. Administrators appointed and deeds filed. Mine sweepers in the English Channel face deadly perils as they clear paths for ships, with reports from Jacques Maraillac detailing tense encounters with mines and underwater hazards.
James Buchanan Busenberg of Millwood died at Mt. Vernon hospital about 6 AM Saturday after a plow handle punctured his large intestine. He was 60, survived by wife two daughters Mrs Bolmar Winterringer and Mrs Robert Rodeheaver and two sons G. and W. R. Busenburg, all of Millwood. Remains taken to his former home Saturday morning.
A reader describes a method to break large glass vessels by filling with cold water, coating with boiling oil, then dashing cold water on the outside to cause a clean break. The exchange includes a joke about a blind man needing sharp eyes in hard times.
Memorial Day at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home in Xenia featured Gov. James M. Cox as speaker. A decorated procession, military battalions of boys and girls, a wreath ceremony by young students, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg address read by Capt. Robert Fowler highlighted the day, with Gen. John A. Logan’s memorial heritage recalled by Col. Albert Kern and the home board.
A reader from Enchant Pennsylvania describes a long period of weakness and crying spells. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength and ability to work. The note asks why women endure suffering and offers the medicine company as a source of free confidential advice.
The article notes several Hayes descendants serving in the military, detailing Sherman Magen, Webb C Hayes, Walter Hayes, and two others in the Marine Corps and Oregon militia. It mentions a 1918 era expedition to France and references college attendance and wartime service milestones. It also oddly includes a dangerous chemical experiment description involving phosphorus and potash, presented in archaic, instructional prose.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece on buttermilk as a cure for erysipelas cites Arnoldka the Practitioner praising its use to check infection and ease pain at any stage. The article narrates a boy's imagined need for a cratch and a mother’s reply about practical self care.
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