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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1916
Page
8
Utica residents and neighbors spent the weekend with relatives in Howard and surrounding areas. Multiple names appear visiting, traveling to Cleveland and Columbus for business, personal trips, or to visit kin, including Barnett, Milne, Penn, Hanford, Clark, and many others.
A string of visitors from Utica Newark Columbus and other towns crowd Mt Vernon on a busy weekend. Residents attend hospital visits, family gatherings, and city events including a Daughters of Pocahontas convention in Akron and a council meeting of the Red Men. Community members like Mrs Edwirl Byron and Judge Lewin Houck appear in town.
A fight over a large butcher knife led Lewis O'Brien to chase Carl Hogle toward a glass factory in Crystal avenue. Hogle outran him and hid in a plant area while Sheriff Woolfson later arrested O'Brien, who admitted intoxication and pleaded guilty, fined four dollars and costs.
Representative William A. Ashbrook of Olio receives a tearful note from a constituent pleading against more government seeds. She recounts a large bulb shipment including narcissus and tulips, mixed with radishes and lettuce, leading to a dinner mishap where bulbs caused salad confusion and onions were implied, prompting a request to halt further seed gifting.
On May 8 Bishop David H L Greer will break ground for the nave of the Cathedral of St John the Divine. The project aims to create the largest church in the United States, with an estimated cost near two million dollars. The Gothic style design will blend with the existing structure, featuring a domed apex and a 260 by 109 foot footprint.
Mrs Stewart of Old Delaware road entered Mt Vernon hospital Friday afternoon. Mrs WC Hoiten and daughter Miss Martha of South Vernon went to Columbus Monday to spend time with friends. Mrs H W Downis of the Children's Home went to Columbus Monday. she will return with Artur Daly who recently had an operation there. AL Sinjili returned to Columbus after a few days with Mr and Mrs Hortus Karitman. Lory Gilpin of South Mulherry left for Logan Ohio where he secured a position with Hocking Valley Railway. Mr and Mrs Clifford Rinehart of Mt Liberty and Mr and Mrs Edward Nelson of Mt Vernon spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Robert Baxter of Brandon. Mr and Mrs Samuel Hardesty of Akron came to Mt Vernon Monday for the death of Mrs Hardesty's sister Mrs Vena Lynda Cochran. Survivors include five children Wil Mam Emma and Heatrice at home Mrs Warner Bostwick of Mt Vernon and Mrs Catherine Miller of Jonesville. Funeral Wednesday at 2 PM at St Pauls Episcopal Church with Rev W W Hall officiating. Interment in Mound View Cemetery.
Several brief obituaries report Lena Lynde Cochran dying after childbirth at 26 on Coshocton Avenue, survived by husband and two children, funeral at home with burial in Mound View Caywood. Also noted are the arrival and burial of Leander Caywood, Mildred Blair in Newark, and Philip Rouse's death from whooping cough leading to services. Albertine Narline found dead from cerebral hemorrhage at home in Mount Vernon.
In Rock Springs Wyoming and Columbus a death is reported for J. J. Hesse. He was the father of Ernest Menke a New York editor who taught English at Mt. Vernon high school several years ago.
R Parrish of Columbus head of the airing of 16 Ohio stores including the local shop died Sunday in New York City after ten days there on business.
A quirky note on camels showing two humps and seasonal coat changes. In winter the animal grows a long shaggy coat. in summer the shaggy hair shed off, leaving a lighter appearance akin to shedding a heavy coat.
A Florida scene shows a boy engaged in harvest in October as the season for gathering nuts contrasts with northern nutting expectations. The article highlights regional differences and the pictured lad enjoying the autumn forage.
A fragmented item describes chestnut and hickory species in southern Florida, noting walnut availability year round and nut ripening times. It mentions a palm-like canopy reaching up to 100 feet and a two inch cone husk protecting the nut, then abruptly references a young man named Tavertus Shaw, son of Mrs. Quincy Adams Shaw.
Clayton Hamilton recounts Andrew Lang's early reaction to Robert Stevenson in On the Trail of Stevenson. Lang described Stevenson as an aesthete, with long cape and hair, a queer hat, white bony hands, and as someone he could not stand. He noted Stevenson talked well but inspired dislike as a aesthete in the London Underground notes.
A North Carolina health bulletin argues a forty inch waist signals overeating and underexercise, predicting later gallbladder, kidney, or Bright's disease. It blames excessive meals and heavy foods for overworked kidneys and poor energy, noting fat and forty as a diagnosis and linking overfeeding to disease and early death.
According to 4 naturalists, serpents are largely shortsighted and may see only a yard or two ahead. Reptiles vary in vision. a crocodile allegedly cannot see beyond six times its length. Some snakes are deaf, while others display keen instinct for water guiding them to it in dry weather.
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