THE COMMUNITY CHURCH NEWS VOL. 1 FRIDAY, fcHRCH 11), 1934 STOW, OHIO NO. 29

M I N I S T E R ' S C O L U M N

Ralph H. Lodge, the fa ther of our own Wm. R. Lodge, was born at Munroe Falls, 1830. Mr. Lodge was the promoter of the. Silver Lake which operated as a pleasure resort for many years.

The Lodge boys had captured ^wo baby crows. They fed them, tamed them and gave them a home. Now the names of the crows were Topsy and Sambo. Sometimes T o p s y and Sambo would appropriate a pair of scis-sors, prcketknife or any small ar-ticle that they could lift in their bill and carry it to the roof of the I odge home. And when Mr. Lodge, drove to town the birds would go also, caw-caw-caw, along the rai? fences, caw-caw-caw, in the shade trees till Mr. Lodge would start horr.o, when again they would be his escorts. By and by Topsy and Sambo were stolen and never re-covered.

In 1801 a ycung man, by the nr.me of John Chapman made his appearance in Ohio. His fa ther had a nursery and cider mill near the present location 0f Pit tsburgh. Young John has been known to drift down the Ohio river with two boat leads of apple seeds, one boat lashed to the other. He would depesit thees seeds in a safe place, fill his pcckets and carry a sack full across his shoulder, he would travel back and forth, north,

south, east and west in the new country planting apple seeds. This together with his religious books was his only employment. He provided thousands of f ine apple t rees for the new comers-on the front ier . So they called him Apple-Seed Johnnie.

The Indians reverenced him, the whites loved him, no man would harm him. He never wore a coat, only in very cold weather , his pants were generally worn off on the knees, his hair was very long and unkempt, his hat was a tin pan, a few leaves made it a comfortable hat , then again he used it to cook and eat f rom. He never hur t an animal, refused to kill a snake, bird or fish. Winter and summer alike he walked in his bare feet, when his feet were bruised and sore he would make himself a pair of sandals, and so he lived to be an old man, al-ways traveling about planting apple seeds tha t others might have frui t . "Let us gather up the sun-beams,

lying all along our path, Let us keep the wheat and roses,

casting out the thorns and chaff,

Let us find our sweetest comforts, in the blessings of today,

With a cheerful hand removing all the briers from our way.

Then scat ter seeds of kindness for our reaping by and by."

GEO. M. HULME, Minister

BIBLE SCHOOL C H U R C H C A L E N D A R MORNING! W O R S H I P . -BIBLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA PRACTICE -MENS BIBLE CLASS MEETING LADIES GUILD

Sunday, 9:30 A. M ;

Sunday, 10:45 A. M. Wednesday 7:30 P. M.

Friday, August 10th Wednesday, August 15th

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N O T I C E — E X T R A S P E C I A L T h e M e n ' s C l a s s wil l f i n a l l y

h a v e a m e e t i n g . T h e y wi l l e n t e r -t a i n t he l a d i e s a t a c o r n r o a s t t h i s F r i d a y e v e n i n g a t t h e Girl S c o u t C a m p , S i l v e r L a k e B i r d S a n c t u a r y n e a r t h e r i v e r . A r r i v e a b o u t 6 p. m. if p o s s i b l e . A b o u t 35 a r e e x p e c t e d t o a t t e n d f o r w h o m 100 e a r s of co rn will be n e e d e d , t h o u g h if C. M. W o o d -r i n g c o m e s . 200 e a r s wil l b e ne-c e s s a r y .

N O T I C E T h e L a d i e s ' Gui ld wi l l m e e t

n e x t W e d n e s d a y , A u g u s t 15 th a t t h e h o m e of M r s . P . A. S c h n e e , H u d s o n r o a d . W e h o p e al l of t h e l a d i e s of t h e c h u r c h wi l l a t t e n d . M a k e it a p o i n t to be t h e r e . A l a r g e a t t e n d a n c e is d e s i r e d .

T h e l a d i e s ' c l a s s m e t t h i s w e e k W e d n e s d a y a t t he h o m e of >Mrs. L o w e .

V I O L I N CLASS L a s t w e e k M o n d a y s o m e f ive or

six v i o l i n s m o r e o r l e s s t h e w o r s e f o r w e a r a n d n e g l e c t w e r e a s sem-b led a l o n g w i t h t h e c h i l d r e n in te r -e s t e d a n d on l a s t F r i d a y F o s t e r C o n n e l r e t u r n e d in good r e p a i r all b u t t w o of t h e i n s t r u m e n t s . All v io l in s wil l be r e p a i r e d t h i s w e e k . T h o s e in t h e c l a s s a r e a s f o l l o w s :

H a r o l d R o x b u r y . L e n a R o x b u r y , Al ice S h a f f e r , J a n e Dibbon , B e t t y B i s h o p , R o b e r t Lowe , E u g e n e L o w e , H a r r y O s m a n , J r . If t h e r e a r e o t h e r s w h o w i s h to j o in come at. 7 :00 p. m. P l e a s e g ive t h i s c l a s s y o u r s u p p o r t . F o r t h e

This organization is qualified to serve any where with-in a radius of several miles.

Our service is broad enough to encompass every need. Connections with leading firms through out the country.

The McGozuan Funeral Home EXCLUSIVE INVALID CAR WA 1313

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ISALY'S of STOW

LOOK! Fresh Peach Ice Cream

present we are trying to run it without charge to the pupils. If you have old bows, violins, money or can copy music let the editor of this sheet or Foster Connel ltnow. We need your help. S U N D A Y S C H O O L P I C N I C

A G R E A T SUCCESS Finally held last Saturday at

Munrce Falls Park. The weather was ideal. The eats were magni-ficent and in great abundance, enough for three picnics. Osman and Shaffer, general manager race starters and what-not staged a wonderful bunch of games and contests. I-Iere are the winners. You- will note t h a t physical prowness seems to run in famil-ies.

Shoe race, boys—Bud Monteith. Slice race, girls—Betty Mon-

teith. Crack, whister race—Betty Mon-

teith. Swimming race — Paul Mon-

teith. Peanut race—Mrs. Al. Stein.

Backward race—Harry Osman, Jr . Three-legged race — Harper &

Osman. Sack race—Vial & Stein. Women's race—Esther Shakes-

peare. Special race (by default)—Levi

Moyer. Tug of War—Won by 16 husk-

ies (the other 16 might have won if Al. Stein had not let go.)

Grand prize (drawing) Mrs. Stahl. Ball Game— (not covered by reporter who was t i red out by tug of war and lay down in shade to res t ) .

Then there was Dick Osman who should have a prize or medal for life saving. We shall appoint him as life guard at the next pic-nic. One bit ter d i s a p p o i n t m e n t -Smith failed to show up for his race with Moyer.

Prizes—we will not list—most of them were supplied by the Stow Hardware company, Wheeler do-nating the special grand prize. Oh yes! Charles Stahl seems to have found something in the lemonade tha t the rest of us did not. One of the brick ovens got in the way of his car and the oven came out second best. Ask Stahl for fur-ther details. •

P E R S O N A L N O T E S Stahl for Sheriff.Adv. Shaffer is digging a cistern. Stay in Stow Sunday and at tend

church here. Stockmans pump broke down

Sunday, fixed Monday. Mrs. Dunn is spending all of this

week at Patterson, Ohio, visiting her mother.

Mrs. Ada Ferr is is visiting this week with her sister at Warren, Ohio.

John Stahl celebrated his 21st birthday, August 8th, likewise the editor cf this paper.

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L. L. Pace and family are visit-ing this week with Mr. Pace's fa ther at Sunbury, O.

Mrs. Es ther Woodring Shakes-peare celebrated her birthday, August 4th by at tending the pic-nic.

The fore part of this week Chal-mer Ferr is visited his uncle, Chal-mer Ferris at Geneva-on-the-Lake.

Clark Wilmoth, Jr., Hiwood road, celebrated his fourth birth-day, August 1st with a party.

Juliabelle Wilmoth celebrates her eighth birthday August 18th.

Jack Marhoffer and Carl Lantz spent a day or two at the Chicago World's Fair the fore part of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Leonard have a new baby girl at their house.

Atto Cobb, clerk at Isalys, is va-cationing this week.

We know where you can get a fourteen tube Radiola at a rea-sonable price.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Furs t and Geo. Chandler visited Welchfieid Saturday. Also other places.

Mr. Butler of Georgia is visiting his sen "Rep" Butler who lives on Eas,. Arndale road.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Meredith, Marhoffer Av., at tended the Mere-dith reunion at Painesville last Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Coddington, Wil-liamson road, welcomed the arri-val of a new baby at their home this past week.

Mr. C. W. Stahl and family at-tended the Union Picnic at Meyers Lake in Canton Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tabor, Baumgai'dner Road, are now visit-ing Mr. Tabor 's brother in Wis-consin.

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Budd of' Warren were visitors Sunday at tl.a home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perkins, Williamson Road.

Bush said he was glad the bean-beetles ate all the leaves off his beans. It was not so hard to pick the beans.

We hear that Sam Friend has: leased his service station to "Bones" Williamson.

E. M. Guise spent last week fishing in Michigan.

J. H. Harper and family, East Arndale Road, were in Lodi last Sunday, presumably on a. picnic as they took something to eat along.

Mr. and Mrs. William Wright* Hudson road, visited at Cant-bridge last Saturday and Sunday.

Bessie Hamrick who has been visiting her mother in Kenmore is back with her sister for the school year. Miss Hamrick is a High school student.

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C H U R C H S E R V I C E S S U N D A Y M O R N I N G

10:45 Y O U A R E I N V I T E D

The Haar t jes , West Arndale Road, took a tr ip to Newcomers-town, Pa., and stopped at Schoen-brunn, the first set t lement in Ohio (1772) and other points of inter-est last Sunday.

Thomas Jones, Jr., Mrs. Wil-in oths brother and friends Thel-ma and Charles Ccurtad from Up-per Sandusky are visitors this week at the Wilmoth home on Hi-wood Road.

Mary Lou and Ruth Kempel are spending two weeks at the Girl Scouts Camp near Peninsula, Man-r.ette Ferris was there over the last week end at which time Mary I o u and Mannette won first , sec-ond and third in swimming races which were held.

II e r e is something. Munroe Falls has no delinquent taxes and lias had none for the past three years. This record would prob-ably be otherwise if we had lived in that village.

And did you know tha t the Stow Fire Eepar tment serves the vil-lages of Tallmadge, Munroe Falls, Silver Lake and also the County Home. Furthermore, there was a fire in Tallmadge at 12:30 a. m. last Saturday night. Sixteen or eighteen volunteer f i remen re-sponded and before the fire was extinguished 950 of . the 1000 ft . of 2 1-2 inch hose was in use. In case your home caught on f i re

how much hose would be neces-sary to reach to the nearest wa-ter supply.

"Clate" Rickets, Hudson road, a t tended the Rickets family re-union at Chippewa Lake last Sun-day. Clate admits winning the bathing beauty prize.

Mr. Glen Frame, ' Eas t Arndate road, has a new Ford (1929 mod-el.)

Theresa Fut te re r spent last week visiting her cousin Rachel Schnee. She was one of the for-tunate ones to enjoy the lovely picnic at Munroe Falls Park on Saturday.

T H E S T A T E L E G I S L A T U R E By Oakley Spaght

Your editor has asked for an ar-ticle dealing with the State Legis-lature, and not knowing what phase of the subject he wants dis-cussed, I will take this opportun-ity to point out the result of in-different voting, and what I say is in no way to be construed as an alibi or excuse for things done or left undone, but ra ther an explan-ation and a reason why things t ranspire as they do in the State Capitol.

The major i ty 'of voters are suf-ficiently interested in candidates for local offices to know some-thing about these candidates, such as sheriff, county commissioners, auditor, coroner, etc., but when it

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F O R BARGAINS IN PR INT ING

S E E T H E D A R R O W V I L L E

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ccmes to the State Legislature the story is different . Whether it is because tha t office only pays $1,000 per year, out of which the legislator pays his hotel and board bill, consequently is considered of minor importance, or whether for some other reason, the fact re-mains, an indifferent voting pub-lic does not take the t ime or trcuble to acquaint itself with the fi tness and qualifications of the candidate for the General As-sembly with the result that many of those elected provide the lobby-ist and par ty boss with a very fertile field in which to work, and instead of the people of Ohio get-ting proper representat ion in the legislative branch of government, special in teres ts continue to hold the upper hand.

What I mean by an indifferent voting public is this, and I shall use Cuyahoga County as an illus-tration, although other counties are equally as guilty. A young man in Cleveland by the name of Arpod Komanimski ran for the legislature three times and was defeated each time. He changed his name, thru the court, to Wm. Harding and Cuyahoga County then elected him. Harding could hardly speak English: Another in Cuyahoga County by the name of Concillo changed his name to Wm. Boyd and Mr. Boyd is in the le-gislature. I could go thru the list and cite many more, some less

Qualified than these, men who are never sober, or whose reputa-tion is far from what it ought to be, but with well sounding names, find their way to the legislature thru an indifferent voting public.

In thinking of the General As-sembly of Ohio you hardly con-nect it with people of this type. Where do we next find this type cf legislator? On important com-mittees. How does he get there?' Placed there by par ty bosses and lobbyists. Why? Because he can be tolcl how to vote. He has no convictions of his own, does no thinking for himself and Is excel-lent material for special interests to manipulate.

I do not want to convey the idea that this type of legislator is in the majority. He is not, but there is sufficient numbers to give con-trol to special interests, and this control comes thru the control of committees. The House of Repre-sentatives has thirty-one , standing-committees. All bills introduced are referred to one of these standing committees. If a tax: bill it goes to the taxation com-mittee, if the bill has to do with public utilities, to the Public Utilities Committee, if a school bill to the school committee, etc. These standing committees have from seven to thi r teen members, a few have more. Ninety per cent of all bills introduced are e i ther passed or killed in committee. If,

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COMPLIMENTS OF

G E R B E R ' S S E R V I C E S T A T I O N

S U N O C O & B E N Z O C O P R O D U C T S K E N D A L L - O I L S

H O N E S T S E R V I C E

after a bill has a hearing, it is voted out of Committee to be placed on the calendar, it is as good as passed. If killed in com-mitiee it is done for the present session. It is in committees that the special interests work. They help appoint committees, a n d when the newspapers make the statement that this present legis-lature was organized, owned nad controlled by special interests it is committee control that they re-fer to. The sta tement is true.

You ask—How correct this situ-ation? My answer is, know the candidate and if you don't know them, don't vote merely because of a well sounding name. Go to the primary and select the best on each ticket. I have always contended tha t the primary is the far more important election, be-

cause you cannot elect good men and women in November unless you nominate them in August. When election t ime comes pu t patriotism above party politics and vote for men and women ac-cording to qualifications and not according to party label, remem-bering always tha t the best are not all on one ticket. When you have selected the best f rom both t ickets there still may be room for improvement.

—Oakley Spaght

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170 Munroe Falls Road STOW, OHIO

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