Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 2

Page THE GAZETTE, XENIA, OHIO. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 'l935 AMON KELBLE DIES; LONG ILLNESS ENDS FOR PRINTER HERE Simeon Coates Taken By Death Sunday; Mrs. C. W. Smith Dies AMON E.

KELBLE Ainon E. Kelble, 70, veteran printer, -died at his home, 249 S. West Monday morning at 4:45 o'clock. He had been in failing health four years and suffered a paralytic stroke last October. He had confined to his bed for the past four months.

Mr. Kelble was bom in the house where he died May 29, 1865, and had spent the greated part of his life in Xenia. He was formerly employed by the old Xenia Torchlight and in later years was compositor for The Gazette. He retired several years ago. He was a member of St.

Brigid Catholic Church, the Security Bene-. and' the Printers Union; Three children survive: Francis, Philadelphia; John Dayton, and Mrs Fred Norchauer, at home. He leaves fourteen grandchildren and a brother, Andrew, of Dayton. His him in death in iy ears i Ohio's walled city of for- services, will be hio State Peni- GaveM Gerak No. 47887 State penitentiary.

RED CROSS STATION TREATS 37 DURING COUNTY FAIR HERE Machinist Bitten By Dog; Nurses Aid Fair Patrons Thirty-seven patients were treated for various ailments, ranging from a dog bite to headache, at the Cross first aid station at the Greene County Fairgrounds during fair week, Miss Katherine Smith, Red" Cross reported Monday. Lewis Columbus, machinist employed on the grounds, was treated at the station after he was bitten by a dog. The injury was not serious but he was referred to a physician. Other cases treated were as follows: headaches, nine; dysentery, four; carbuncle, one; toothache, one; sunburn, one; knee injury, one; abrasions, appendicitis attack, one; vertigo, one; finger in- factions, seven; blisters, one; wounds, two; foreign matter removed from eye, one. Trained nurses on duty at the station included Mrs.

Pearl Wittenmyer, county health nurse; Mrs. C. C. Jeannette nour, Lane, Glenna Stewart. Delmer Swan arid i Lee Cornwell, -Boy Scouts, assisted by running errands.

The Red Cross Chapter wishes to thank the W. C. T. U. for the use of a room for the station and for nurses and other persons who nated their services.

XENIAN INJURED IN MIDDLETOWN CRASH L. B. Brayton Hurt As Autos Collide L. B. Brayton, printer, 117 E.

Second is in Middletown Hospital suffering from, painful injuries received Saturday night when his automobile collided with a car driven by Sterling Jackson, Middletown, at Michigan and Young St, Brayton sustained a broken right collar bone, lacerations on his left rm and numerous bruises. The racture was to be set Monday and may be removed to his home ere Monday evening. Brayton operates a job printing ffice at S. Detroit in a oom formerly occupied by Martin Berry, printer." The first of eight articles written exclusively for Central Press by a "lifer" who was pardoned after sixteen years in. prison.

cial atmosphere do not exactly tend tence, evil environment, and lack of intelligent home training during of the formative years of childhood. The parents of these unfortunates, though inherently honest; to a high type of citizenship. As 'a boy I committed acts i petty theft. Later I went out with a jgun and robbed people. I-was a thref and a robber because the for- 12.

I have eign settlements, the reform school, For the eighth consecutive year not a- single person appeared to represent the public when a public nZLHiS, LUUUgJ-L IJJLUCi C1J.UIJ i i law-abiding, and industrious them- hearing was held Saturday night on 'the 1936 budget adopted by the city ChurchVed ottea someting about ociety during those sixt en year8 ed o'clock Jtentiary. For nineteen of my thir-. in prison. Yes, I learned. But I CIUL.K..

i SIMEON C. COATES C. Coates, 5S, died nesSay- morning a.ou Burial will be made in St. Brigid jty-three years I have smarted and Cemetery. snarled under the stinging lash of the barbaric penal of a uicu o.u twentieth century civilization.

Even a Juvenile delinquent, I made morning. He had been in on society and an unenhght- health for more than a year suffer-j eted society struck back at me ing from a complication of diseases a manner tna engendered only PQ desire for further revenge. A boyish act of petty theft sent to the reform school at the Coas was born in Spring Valley May 10, 1877 but had spent to teach it to myself. I have learned about the Dark-Age barbarity that we call our penal system. Most important of all, I learned that there is magic -and power in printed words.

I have learned to put printed words on paper. I am putting Xenia. part of his life ia! age of thirteen learned tMnga hope that they will provoke some thought on the subject of the crime we call modern penal reform. As you follow my narrative from the neighborhood gang the re- seventeen, I sat in Cleveland courtroom by Hooven and Allison Co. and a crowded wuitxwwui later operated a restaurant and listened to tne ury verdict He was a member of Xenia th OMo gtate No.

1689, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Redmen's Lodge. His widow, Mrs. Viola Coates, murQer survives with two sons, Lewis recomme ndation, Xenia, and Charles, at home, and reac i the following brothers and sisters, I that sent me to the Ohio- State Penitentiary for life. "We find the defendent guilty of murder in the first a the That recommendation of mercy J. H3, I CCUZmJUcilU-ttLAUJLL WJ- JJJtJL WJ Edward Coates and Mrs.

Bert Mor- meant that had eSC aped the elec- ris, Xenia; Mrs. Florence Morns and John Coates, Dayton. tric chair. It meant that I would have a chance to survive the honi- LU. uuu.

nave cuiiime LUC ij.vu.i Funeral services -will be conduct- il3le years Before me; it meant that at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial in Woodland Cemetery. Friends may call at the home Monday night. MRS. RHODA SMITH Mrs. Rhoda- M.

Smith. 85, widow survive them, be pardoned to write about the bar- of America's penal sys- Bltter Yeart They were terrible years. Painful of their horror come barisms terns. of Charles W. Smith, died at crashing through the hazy mist of a home in New Jasper Monday morn-jhalf-forgotton past: Vicious lash- at 12:30 o'clock.

She had gs over the bare flesh with a i. ftVm tiary and through the sixteen years I was there, remember that what happened to me as an individual is unimportant. I am useful only as a typical in the case. I no longer need society's sympathy and understanding. But the inmates of our reformatories penitentiaries do.

They need your attention, not Tom Gerak. A person does not become insane all at once, nor does one become a burglar or a robber pvernight. There is usually a long period of balancing, during which time certain social, psychological, and economic forces and, occasionally, mere chance decide whether one shall become a normal citizen or be cast out as an anti-social. Most of the inmates in our re- BUDGET APPROVED selves, know little no.thing about the importance of child psychology, of the importance of implanting the seeds of good "character during the child's impressionable, years, of the necessity of proper guidance, companionship and understanding so board of education for the Xenia public school system. The budget thus stands approved and' will be transmitted to the Greene County Budget Commission.

LAKE ST, MISSION IS ORGANIZED Lake Christian workers to carry on the munity was announced Monday. The organized body will continue to be known as the Lake St. Mission. Several lots have been purchased on the south side of Lake St. with the building a gospel tabernacle sometime in the future to carry on the.work.

highly mechanized and complex civilization. Neighborhood Sometimes it is parental incompetence, sometimes it is constant struggle for a meager livelihood, that robs the juvenile delinquent of this birthright of right to proper guidance, sympathy and sends him into the ranks of the neighborhood gang of wild, irresponsible, thieving youngsters. For him the gang is society. It gives him the ionship, sympathy and understand-' ing his home failed to give him. But it'does-not, give him -the guidance his home sh6uld have given him.

It gives him his first lessons in petty thieving. Sooner or later the more daring or less fortunate of these youngsters come into conflict with the juvenile authorities. And what can' their parents do when this happens? They stand there before juvenile Judge, bewildered and silent, helpless part of i the miserable their lit- tie sons are sentenced to the boys' reform school. That was' my background. And that is just what happened to me.

I was soon to learn something 6 I come from a common background: health three months. large leather paddle at the reform I ne of poverty, parental incompe- Born New Feb-; school for boys, inhumanity, back- ruary 5, 1850, Mrs. Smith had spent i breaking work; escapes from, pris- her entire lifq fti that community. dungeons, battles with guards, She was the last of the immediate mutinies, plots and schemes. family of Daniel and Lucnda Bolen.

I have lived behind those walls She was a member of the New that a blind unreasoning society Jasper M. E. Church. erects to protect itaelf. from men Mrs.

Smith fs survived by five! like wal. daughters, Mrs Catherine Ragar, pens behind them Lewisburg, Mrs. Carrie Others into wild beasts. iVj.OBU OJ. tue IUAUO.I.CO iu.

UUA ic- formatories and penitentiaries about the brutality and cruelty of nnVO Ohio's reform school for boys. Reform School. me and ORPHIUM Senwtional OUTDOOR ACTS nightly In front of th Grtndttand. BEET 8TIM YIELDS-LOST RING TOLEDO. 0., Leola Dishon soma beetn in garden of her home at Belmore, found a.

bright gold ring around the stem of one. It was her wedding ring, lost three yearg ago. CTATt Automobile 01 AIL Mutual INSURANCE Non-AsBessabie I. W. CLOUSE, Dist.

Mgr. N. Detroit Xenia rs Dayton, and Mrs. lona Merree, i Springfteld; a son, Leroy Smith, at home, and seventeen grandchildren. Funeral arrangemments have not been completed.

The body has been removed to the and Chitty Funeral Home here. MRS. SARAH POLLARD Mrs. Sarah Jane Pollard, SO, widow of Milton. Pollard, Xenia, died here Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Pollard was born in Clinton County February 3. 1S55 but 'had resided in Xenia many years. Her husband died in 1922. She is survived by three sisters.

Mrs. Amanda Holmes, New Vienna; Mrs. Emma Cameron and Mrs. Elmira Reese. Xenia.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Neeld Funeral Home, W. Market Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Plans for burial have not been completed. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening. school, I observed i unbelievable brutality that turned rs Into hardened only thoughts be- came ones of bitterness and revenge against a society that rears them in slums, beats them in re-! formatories, and is indifferent to j.

their welfare in prison. j. I know. I have passed through it all. I was one of those boys.

I was one of Cleveland's foreign settlement boys, where life and so- 1NFANT DIES funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wniiam A. Lockwood, two miles south of Bowersville, who died Sunday night at 9 o'clock, will be conducted at the home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will be made Jn Bowersville Cemetery.

The body has been to the Whitmer and Chitty Funeral Home will be taken to the Lockwood home Tuesday morning. The baby was born Friday. Five Roomed Two Story Frame House in Good Condition with large fenced in yard, to be sold at a sacrifice if sold right away. Mrs. David Peanon 35 Center Xenia, 0.

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