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THE PROVOST MARSHAL.

Capt. Alexander C. Deuel was provost marshal of the county during the Civil War and the office was not closed until Saturday, September 3o, 1865. The Citizen and Gazette in its issue of October 12, 1865, comments on the closing of the office as follows :

Stand erect, ye skulkers! Look square and laugh, ye copperheads! And, oh. ye trackless fugitives from justice, turn us asquint of your bonny e'nn from Canada! The lame, the halt, the blind, the sick, the sore and "played out" can walk, feel, see again, and be well for the Provost Marshal's office is closed against you! Capt. A. C. Deuel, after months of trials and tribulations in the pursuit of effective soldiers, has retired to private life and you have no longer cause for dread of the cold, cold draft that might have sent you south, or to a much warmer climate.

The office was finally closed on Saturday, September 30, when the furniture was sold at public sale, and, by virtue of an order from the War Department, the Provost Marshal of the 4th District, Ohio, ceased to be an officer. Capt. Deuel has labored well and successfully in the discharge of the duties of his office. He has supplied the army with hundreds of good soldiers and by his energetic work in recruiting, saved the people at home the necessity of a draft. We may well thank him that Champaign county has never been represented in the army by draft.

THE END OF THE WAR.

The Urbana Citizen and Gazette in its issue of April 13, 1865, carried the first news to the people of Champaign county that. the war was over. The editor had copious extracts from war bulletins, proclamations, etc., pertaining to the war, but the striking feature of this issue of the paper was his display heading over the news of Lee's surrender. It follows :

VICTORY !

LEE SURRENDERED!

HIS FORCES LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS.

OFFICERS AND MEN PAROLED !

THE OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

THANKS FROM SEC'Y STANTON.

GRAND SALUTE ORDERED.

500 GUNS TO BE FIRED.

GRAND OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

SURRENDER OF LEE'S ARMY

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War Department, Washington.

April 7, 1865, 9 P. M.

MAJOR GENERAL Six, New York :

This Department has received the official report of the surrender of Gen. Lee and his army to Lieut. Gen. Grant on terms proposed by Gen. Grant.

E. M. STANTON.

To HON. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War :

Gen. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia this afternoon upon the terms proposed by myself. The accompanying additional correspondence will show the condition fully.

U. S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen.

THE JOYFUL NEWS.

Under the caption of "The Joyful News" the editor 'of the Citizen and Gazette goes on to give a graphic description of the events in Urbana following the receipt of the fall of Richmond and the subsequent surrender of Gen. Lee,

In the evening a bonfire was kindled in the square and the noise and confusion was kept up until a late hour. Cheers went up, gun after gun exploded, the bells of the town pealed forth their joyful tones; an excited crowd ordered out a bus from the livery stable; another crowd fitted 'up a wagon with bells, and with flags, guns and cheers went swiftly through the streets proclaiming the joyful news until the horses were fairly jaded out. Soon the streets were thronged with men, women and children, all seeming to vie with each other that the great rebellion was so nearly crushed out. Company A, National Guards, then made their appearance on the square, parading and firing salutes, and boys with their swivels and other small guns kept up a constant firing on the streets. Then came a cavalry parade which attracted a good deal of attention. Next in order came the Young America Fire Company with their machine, giving the crowd an exhibition of its capacity to throw water. During all this time Shyrigh's Martial Band enlivened the proceedings with soul-stirring music.

The description of the proceedings goes on paragraph after :paragraph. It seemed that every man, woman and child, horse, dog and living creature, in the town and county paraded through the streets of the county seat. Every gun in the county was fired, all the spare powder was used up, and every .band in the county played continuously for nearly twenty-four hours. To continue with the editor's description of the occasion :

A train of drays and wagons made their appearance on the streets representing "The Last Ditch." On each draw was a Couple of boxes in which were seated the representatives. of the Confederate government, each box being properly, labeled with the. name of its occupant, all of whom were dressed in the most ludicrous style. Following this train was Confederate Battery Q, being an artificial cannon on wheels, manned by as ludicrous a set of fellows as you seldom will see. During this performance the Kingston Martial Band came into town and aided materially in the musical entertainment.

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Continuing in similar strain, the editor was unable to do justice to the description of the scene because he had used up all the adjectives at his command. He notes the parade of all of the colored people of the town "happy at their deliverance from bondage." The wild excitement of the day and its manifestations in every possible, conceivable way continued through the day and most of the night of Monday, April 10, 1865. The editor is so impressed with the occasion, that he falls into a philosophic dissertation in his concluding words.

The dark night of the rebellion is passing away. The light of peace and liberty is dawning over the land. Let the eagle scream and let the kettle to the trumpet speak, the trumpet to the cannoneer without, cannons to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below.

THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN.

The people of Urbana were still rejoicing over the news of Lee's surrender when their joy was thrown into grief upon the receipt of the news that the beloved Lincoln had been assassinated on Saturday night, April 15, 1865. The news of the assassination and its reception in Champaign county is graphically set forth in the Urbana Citizen and Gazette in its issue of April 20, .1865. The editor issued a "mourning edition" of his paper, as did practically all the Northern newspapers the same week, with his columns separated by heavy black lines and the whole surrounded by a black border. The article telling of the assassination follows :

The announcement on Saturday morning, last (April 15, 1865), of the assassination and .death of President Lincoln fell upon the nation like a clap of thunder in a cloudless sky. From a joyful state of exultation over a redeemed country, the country was suddenly plunged into mourning for the loss of its Chief Magistrate, who fell a martyr to his country at the hand of treason. About ten o'clock, in the midst of one of the acts, a pistol shot was heard, and at the same time a man leaped upon the stage from the same box occupied by the President, brandishing as long knife, and shouting Sic semper tyrannus. He then rushed to the rear of the scene and out of the back theatre. So sudden was the whole thing that most persons in the theatre supposed it was a part of the play, and it was some minutes before the fearful tragedy was fully comprehended.

The assassin was pursued to the outer door and seen to mount a horse and ride rapidly away. Scarcely had the news of this tragedy been detailed, when couriers came from Secretary Seward's residence, announcing that he too had been assassinated. The city was soon in a blaze of excitement and every possible effort was made to arrest the assassins. That such scenes can be enacted in the capital of the nation, at a moment when the rebellion was tottering to its fall, may well shock the heart of

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the nation, and rouse it to a realizing sense of the malignity of the treason that surrounds it. But the nation will survive the shock and the Ship of State under the direction of others will continue to sail on, undisturbed, to peace and universal liberty.

The editor evidently had not received word yet who the assassin was, but later he states that it was John Wilkes Booth, "tradegin". The issue of the week following gives a graphic account of the killing of Booth and the capture of some of his accomplices.

FUNERAL TRAIN OF LINCOLN PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTY.

The funeral train of President Lincoln passed through Champaign county Saturday night, April 29, 1865. The following extracts are taken verbatim from the Cincinnati Gazette. of Sunday, April 30, 1865:

Woodstock, Ohio, April 29, 9 :46 P. M.—About 500 people were present. The ladies presented bouquets. One by Miss Gillard, Miss Lucy Kimball and Miss Mary Cranston on the part of the ladies of Woodstock; another by Miss Ann M. Curriler, and another by Mrs. G. Martin and Miss Delilah Betts, sisters. These ladies were permitted to enter the President's car and strew flowers on the .coffin. The Woodstock Cornet Band, U. Cushman, leader, played a dirge and hymn. The village bells slowly rang.. The men stood silent with uncovered heads. The scene was as fleeting as it was beautiful.

Cable, Ohio, April 29, 10:13 P. M.—The gentlemen on the train asked Mr. Smith, superintendent, where all the people came from who had assembled at this time, they were so many. They were also large bonfires. A soldier stood in the center of the assemblage holding a flag. All the men stood uncovered.

Urbana, Ohio, April 29, 10 :40 P. M.—Some 3,000 persons are present. A large cross is on the platform, entwined with wreaths of evergreen, which was worked under the direction of Mrs. Milo G. Williams, president of the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society. From the top of the cross, arms hung illuminated with colored transparencies! On the side of the track was an elevated platform on which were forty gentlemen and ladies, who sand with pathetic sweetness, the hymn entitled. "Go to thy Rest." The singers repre- seated the Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians and Presbyterian churches. Large bonfires made the night light as day. Minute guns were fired. Ten young ladies entered the car and strewed flowers on the bier. One of the ladies was so- affected that she cried and wept in great anguish.

St. Paris, April 29, 11:24 P. M.—There are brilliant illuminations by which may be seen a number of draped flags. A large assemblage is present, who stand in silence as they look on the train. A beautiful bouquet was a most artistic one and was made by Mrs. Stoutenmeyer.

THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.

Few people who. pass the handsome soldiers monument in the public square at Urbana stop to think that the inception for its erection began the year the Civil War closed. It is doubtful whether another monument in the state was conceived as soon after the war as the one erected in Urbana.

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It was in the fall of 1865, that a few soldiers met at the call of T. D. Jones, the artist, and discussed fully the question of building a soldiers' monument in this county. Subsequent meetings were held, each one larger than the preceding one, until a full county meeting was held on the 13th of January, 1866. 'S. G. Brecount was chairman of this meeting and A. C. Deuel was secretary. A complete organization was effected, and the following officers. elected : President, Joseph C. Brand; vice-president, F. M. McAdams; secretary, Thomas McConell ; corresponding secretary, A. C. Deuel; treasurer, J. B. Armstrong. Subsequently Major McConnell was employed as solicitor and collector for the association and W. A. Humes was elected secretary. At the meeting of January 13, a resolution was adopted that the monument be a county monument to be located at the county seat and that ten thousand dollars be the minimum sum to be raised. This resolution was never carried out, the amount named therein never having been subscribed. Subscriptions were made rapidly for the monument, and before the year had expired the county had been thoroughly canvassed and it became a settled fact that subscriptions could no longer be obtained.

In 1867 the association contracted with Messrs. Moser & Company, of Columbus, Ohio, to build the granite work of the monument at a price which lost to that firm two thousand five hundred dollars, as subsequent events proved. In 1869 the foundation was laid in limestone, four feet Under the surface of the public square, and in the fall of 1870 the base and pedestal of granite were erected and these stood waiting for the statue. for a year and a half. Since that time the square has been called Monument Square.

In 1870, Colonel Armstrong, treasurer of the association, with a few hundred dollars remaining of the fund subscribed and paid, eager to witness the full accomplishment of the labor enjoined on the association by the county meeting, gave orders to the National Fine Art Foundry, New York, for the statue that now stands upon the monument. The choice of design was submitted to numbers of known connoisseurs in art matters and resulted in the adoption of the figure of a cavalryman. In the winter of 1870-71, at the solicitation of Dr. J. H. Ayres, the city council of Urbana moved in the matter of protecting and ornamenting the ground around the monument and ordered the building of an iron fence sixty feet in circumference. The fence, as eventually built, was only fifty feet in circumference. The ground enclosed was graded and sodded, the whole improvement costing about one thousand dollars.

A lingering suspense of months intervened and finally the statue was

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completed and shipped to Colonel Armstrong, .who gave his individual draft for one thousand one hundred dollars, the balance due on the work. It was placed in position on the 29th of November, 1871. It was completely veiled and so remained until the formal dedication was made on the 7th day of December, 1871. The unveiling of the statute was an event worthy to be heralded by the music of silver and the loud sound of artillery. The day had been ushered in by a national salute of thirty-seven guns. Around the base of the monument stood the battle-scarred and tattered flags of the Second, Thirteenth, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-second, Forty-fifth, Fifty-fourth, Sixty-sixth, Ninety-fifth, One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Infantry; the Third and Twelfth. Cavalry and Second Artillery, in all of which organizations the county was largely represented; Other regiments were represented, but the committee in charge of the reunion were unable to procure their flags. Among these regiments were the Forty-second, Eighty-sixth and One Hundred and Thirty-fourth. Wreaths and festoons were hung upon the monument the whole scene one of lively interest and attraction.

THE DEDICATORY CEREMONIES.

The ceremonies were brief but impressive. At half past one o'clock, Vance's silver cornet band came into the public square and, with national airs, soon drew a crowd of five thousand people into the square. On the stand, besides the speakers, were Gen. I. R. Sherwood, secretary of state, and R. D. Harrison, state superintendent of railroad and telegraphs. At two o'clock Rev. Charles Ferguson offered an. impressive prayer.. W. A. Hurries, secretary of the association, then read a letter from Gen. E. F. Noyes, governor-elect of Ohio, expressing regret at his inability to be present. Joseph C. Brand, president of the association, was then introduced and delivered an appropriate address. As he concluded, and while the large audience was spellbound in anticipation of the next eventful moment, slowly the folds of the American- flag, unwound themselves from the bronze statue and a sharp, ear-splitting boom of a cannon, planted four hundred feet south of it, seemed to lift the flag away from the figure, and it fell to the ground. exposing to the view the suggestive picture of a soldier in meditation. The band and the artillery and the intense feeling of gratification that "it is finished" made that a moment fraught with deep but silent excitement.

The sound of the cannon had not died before Colonel W. R. Warnock sprang upon the stand and announced that it was a time fitting for the awakening of soldiers' echoes and at his signal the multitude gave three

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powerful cheers that rang and re-echoed along the streets, giving a crowning glory to the gladness that sparkled in every eye.

Gen. Rutherford B. Haves, governor of Ohio, was then introduced and spoke for a half hour in language that told of his sympathy with those present. General Durbin Ward was introduced as orator of the day. He took for his theme "The Common Soldier." Both speakers eulogized the common soldier and painted in vivid pictures what he .did during the four long years of the Civil War. Forty-six years have passed since the monument was dedicated and but few of the old soldiers in whose honor it was raised are now living. But there it stands and may it stand for long years yet to come—stand as a silent witness that the men of Champaign were willing to fight when their country called them.

For the past several years the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has had charge of the care of the Monument Circle. It is now set in handsome ornamental shrubbery and presents a very attractive appearance.

LOCAL MILITIA COMPANIES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR.

When the Civil. War closed there were probably two thousand five hundred young men of Champaign county who had had from three months to as many years training in military tactics. Even the seven hundred young men who spent the summer of 1864. in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment received sufficient training to give, them a thorough knowledge of military. tactics. All of the men were allowed to retain their uniforms, arms and accoutrements and it would have seemed that they would have been interested in keeping alive some kind of a local militia company. But presumably they had had enough Of military affairs and were glad to return to the arts of peace and leave the science of war to others.

Spasmodic efforts were made prior to 1876 to keep a regularly organized militia company in Urbana, but it was difficult to keep the interest sustained in any kind of a military organization. The Centennial year of 1876, however, witnessed a revival of interest in military affairs throughout the whole United States and Urbana siezed the opportunity to organize a permanent militia company. Basing their organization upon a recently enacted statute, the Urbana Guards were organized on February 4, 1876, with a Membership of eighty-nine and the following officers : Captain, B. F. Ganson ; first lieutenant, Charles Kulencamp ; second lieutenant, Thomas Binkard; first sergeant, J. M. Knight ; second sergeant, R. J. Winder ; third sergeant,

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George McDonald; fourth sergeant, C. S. Kirtland; fifth sergeant, C. E. Colwell.

This company was uniformed with the regulation West Point gray uniform and presented a handsome appearance. The interest aroused in this company was carefully nurtured by Captain Ganson, with the result that the company soon became recognized as one of the best drilled in the state. The city was proud of it and called it out on important occasions for ceremonial functions of all kinds.

Captain Ganson continued at the head of the company until replaced by Harry H. Williams. Captain Williams was subsequently appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Third Ohio Infantry and at the same time William H. Eccles was appointed captain of the local company, he in turn being succeeded by George W. Leonard who was appointed on September 9, 1890. Captain Leonard remained at the head of the company until September, 1913, a period of twenty-three years. He retired in favor of George S. Middleton, the present captain. Captain Leonard had charge of the company in the Spanish-American War. Captain Middleton has already seen service in one struggle, the late Mexican imbroglio of 1916, and at the time this volume went to press was waiting the call to go with his company to Europe. The next history of Champaign county will have to tell what became of the boys of Company D who went to Europe in the year 1917, as well as the hundreds of others who became members of the National Army as a result of the selective draft.

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

Champaign county furnished one company for service in the Spanish-American War of 1898, and although they did not see any active service on the battlefield yet they were fully ready to take the field if their regiment had been called into action. Since it has no actual service in the field to narrate Company D, Third Ohio Infantry, has. only a short history.

The company was organized at Columbus, Ohio, April 26, 1898, and was mustered into the United States volunteer service on May Jo, 1898. There were twelve companies in the Third Regiment, the following cities being represented with companies: Covington, Springfield, Gettysburg, Urbana, London, Hillsborough, Dayton, Ripley, Piqua, Sidney and Sabina. The regiment left Columbus on May 18th and arrived at Tampa, Florida, on May 23. It was in camp undergoing training until July 25, when it went from Tampa to Fernandina, Florida. It remained at that city for a little more than a month, leaving there on August 29, for Huntsville, Alabama, where it

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arrived August 31. It was stationed at the latter place until September 14, when it entrained for Columbus, Ohio, arriving there September 15. It was furloughed from September 16 to October 16, and was mustered out on October 26.

There were only about half a dozen of the one hundred and ten men enrolled in Company D who were not from Champaign county. These are indicated in the roster. There were no deaths and but few furloughs granted on account of sickness. There was only one member of the company discharged on account of disability, William L. Redmond, a private, from Mutual, aged forty-seven, the oldest man who enlisted.

ROSTER OF COMPANY D, THIRD REGIMENT.

The complete roster of Company D is found in the Official Record of Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-1899," pp. 175-180. The following summary is taken from that volume

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO OF 1916-17.

Champaign county had had men in every war of the United States up to 1916 and when the call came for men to go to the Mexican front

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in the spring of 1916 there were plenty of volunteers. The county already had one company connected with the Ohio National Guard, Company D, George S. Middleton, captain, and this company was at once recruited to war strength and made ready for service. It left Urbana for Camp Willis, Columbus, on July 3, 1916, where they were mustered into the United States service on July 13, 1916. On September 11, 1916, the company left for the front. They were stationed at Cinecue Ford, Texas, on patrol duty until November 11, 1916, and remained at that place until December 1, 1916. They saw no actual fighting and returned home without the loss of a single man.

ROSTER OF COMPANY D AT THE MEXICAN FRONT.

Officers, Commissioned and Non-Commissioned—George S. Middleton, captain; Joseph Sundheimer, first lieutenant ; Mason Arrowsmith, second lieutenant ; Earl G. Walls, first sergeant ; Forest Fox, second sergeant ; Harold Alexander, .sergeant ; Chadwick Meyers, sergeant ; Harry Cooksie, sergeant ; James Burris, corporal ; Edjel Shepard, corporal ; Russel Chatwood, corporal ; Harry Cromwell, corporal; Charles Murray, corporal; Robert Spencer, musician ; Edgar Wagner, musician ; Carlyn Wiant, clerk ; Elmer Waugh, cook (colored) ; James Hill, cook (colored).

Privates—Herman Allen, Cecil Carey, Clarence Chatfield, George Cochran, Roy Conrad, Eston Cotrell, Gilbert Cotrell, Homer Cotrell, Sheridan Compton, John Crabb, Cass Henry, Elmer Hurel, Joseph Hughes, Lewis Holy-cross, Pearl McClure, Harley Miller, Simeon Rowland, Irwin Sundheimer, Otis Spellman, David True, John Taylor, Davis C. Thorne, Howard Underwood, Lonnie Williams, Pearl Zirkle, Harley Zirkle.

Recruits—John Ayres, Fred Bratton, William F. Butler, John Elmer Carter, Cleo Croy, Charles Cummings, Scott Dolbey, Kenneth Douglas, Patrick Dugan, Floyd Dunlap, Dennis Dunning, G. W. Ehrstine, Harry Godman, Walter Godman, Herman Grimes, Oscar Heater, Francis Howell, Clyde G. Johnson, Eugene Johnson, Thomas C. Layton, James V. Lebkisher, Leroy Leese, Charles Long, Paul McCollough, Thomas McDaniel, Thomas L. McWade, Roy Musselman, Paul North, Benjamin F. Owen, John Peters, Walter Pullins, Willis Ringler, Levlin Rock, Harry C. Smith, Harry Sprague, Brough Violet, Lawrence Wade, Harry F. Walters, Kenneth Weed, William Dwight Woodward, J. Arthur Young.

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CHAMPAIGN COUNTY IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR.

At the time this volume was sent to press the United States was in the midst of the greatest war that has come to pass since the dawn of history. When Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, heir to the throne, was assassinated on June 28, 1914, it was little thought that the killing of this libertine would precipitate a war that would involve all the great nations of the world. But so it has proved—and the end is not yet in sight. Within a very short time, Germany and Austria had France, England, Belgium and Russia lined up in arms against them. Nation after nation took up arms on, one or the other side, but the United States maintained a neutral attitude as long as it could so do with honor to the nation. Before the United States formally entered the war on April 6, 1917, the central powers were composed of Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria. The entente allies now include Servia, Belgium, France, England, Russia, Italy, San Marino, Roumania, Montenegro, Japan, Brazil, Siam, Portugal, Panama, Arabia, Monaco, Greece, Bolivia and Cuba.

History will probably say that it was the unrestricted submarine campaign inaugurated by Germany in February, 1917, that finally led the United States to take up arms. President Wilson read his famous war message. to Congress. on April 2, 1917, and four days later Congress declared war. As soon as this action was taken, Congress began active preparations to take a part in the struggle. Act after act was passed by Congress in an effort to put the country in a position to become a prominent and deciding factor in the war. A loan was authorized, very appropriately known as the Liberty Loan, and within a very short time the two-billion loan was heavily oversubscribed. In the meantime, in order to provide for an army of at least a million men, Congress passed a conscription act providing for the registration of all men of the United States between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, inclusive. June 5 was designated as the date on which this registration was to take place and on that day nearly ten million men between these ages were registered. The number of registrants in Champaign county totaled 1,799.

While all these events were transpiring every effort was being made to bring the regular army and national guard up to war strength. Company D, Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, George S. Middleton commanding, was one of thousands of national guard companies over the United States which began an active. campaign to get sufficient recruits to

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bring its quota up to war strength. The Urbana company was called out early in the summer of 1917 to guard public property in Columbus and railroad and highway bridges up and down the Scioto river. The local company was recruited to full strength before the selective draft went into operation.

GEORGE S. MIDDLETON.

There is no positive rule for achieving success, and yet in ,the career of the successful man, whether in the professions, trades, military or public life, there are always lessons which might well be followed'. The man who advances rapidly in any vocation is he who can see and utilize the opportunity that comes in his path. The essential conditions of human life are always practically the same, and when one individual passes another on the highway, reaching his goal before others, who perhaps started out in their careers before him, it is because he has the power to use advantages which probably encompass the whole human race. Such a man is Capt. George S. Middleton, of Urbana, Champaign county, who, while yet young in years, has made a brilliant record in both military affairs and the law.

Captain Middleton was born in Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1886. He is a on of Evan P. and Zeppa Middleton, mention 'of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. He grew to manhood in his native town and there attended the public schools; graduating from the Urbana high school, in June, 1906. In September of that year he entered the Ohio State. University at Columbus, where he completed an arts-law course of five years, making a Splendid record in both departments. In June, 1911; he was graduated from the law department of that institution, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio, in December, 191o. He began the practice of his profession in Urbana, in September, 1911, and continued with very gratifying success until called to service on the Mexican border, June 19, 1916. Among his professional brethren he is noted for his thorough knowledge of the great underlying principles of the law, and for his faculty of clearly presenting to the court and jury the law and facts of the case. There are strength, fidelity and honor in his character, and the relations between him and his client are loyal and genuine.

Captain Middleton's military service began in 1903, when he was only sixteen years of age, he then being the youngest member of his company. At that time he enlisted as bugler in Company D, Ohio National Guard, and after serving a full term of five years re-enlisted in the same capacity in

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August, 1908. Owing to faithfulness to duty, innate ability, courage, efficiency and general martial deportment his rise from the ranks has been rapid and continuous. Although only thirty-one years old (1917) he has been in the service for a period of fifteen years. On March 11, 1912, he was elected first lieutenant by the members of his company and was commissioned on the same date, and served with fidelity in that capacity until elected and commissioned captain on November 10, 1913, which responsible position he has since held with satisfaction and credit, discharging his duties in a manner that has won the admiration of his comrades and the confidence of his superior officers.

Captain Middleton was in command of Company D, Third Infantry, Ohio National Guard, during the service of that regiment on the Mexican border, from September I I, 1916, to March 22, 1917, when the regiment was recalled. Company D was stationed at Columbus, Ohio, guarding bridges and public property, until August 14, 1917, when the Third Regiment was sent to Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, where it is now under training preparatory to being sent to the trenches in France for active participation in the European War.

Upon the election of Hon. Frank B. Willis as governor of Ohio in 1914, Captain Middleton was honored by appointment to his military staff, in which Capacity he served during Governor Willis's term of office.

Captain Middleton is a member of Champaign Lodge No. 525, Free and Accepted Masons, Urbana Chapter No. 34, Royal Arch Masons, and Gabriel Lodge. of Protection, Miami Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Dayton Chapter, Rose Croix, and Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite. He served as master of Champaign Lodge from January, 1915, until January, 1916.

The Captain is unmarried. Personally he is a scholarly, cultured and companionable gentleman with high. ideals, yet entirely unassuming—a young man whom to know is to respect.

THE SELECTIVE DRAFT.

But the conscription act of 1917 is going to take more men from the county than Company D. No other nation in the world has ever attempted to raise an army on the plan which the United States adopted in the summer of 1917. An army had to be raised—and on short notice. The experience in the past had shown that it was impossible to raise a volunteer army of any size within a short time, and it was imperative that the country have at least a million men under arms by the close of the year. After care-

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fully considering the matter from every viewpoint Congress finally decided upon what is known as the selective draft. Following the registration of all men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, as above stated, it was planned to draw all these names by lot, thereby insuring that no favors could be shown in the conscription. Friday, July 13, 1917, was designated as the day on which this drawing should take place and on that day all the numbers were drawn. As this is being written (August 1, 1917) .every registrant in the United States knows the order in which he will be drawn. The first call of the President was for six hundred and eighty-seven thousand men, and this total number was divided among the states in proportion to their population, the states to apportion their number to be furnished by apportioning their individual quotas among their several counties.

For this new army, now known as the National Army, Champaign was called upon to furnish one hundred and four men as its quota under the first call. The law provides for certain exemptions, and it is estimated that at least two hundred will have to be called from the county in order. to fill the quota of half that number. The historian is indebted to the local Urbana papers for a complete list of all registrants as well as for a list of the first six hundred called under the selective draft.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY'S REGISTRANTS.

In the following pages is first given a complete list of the 1,799 men registered on June 5, 1917. They are listed by townships and precincts. If a man. is single it is so indicated (S) ; if married it is also shown (M). The complete list of registrant& follow:

Urbana First Ward—Edward Ayres, M; Frank M. Anderson, S; Clarence Pearl Alexander, M; Frank Clement Bowers, M; Amos Barr, M; Darwin D. Briggs, M; James Harrison Burris, M; William Fuller Butler, M; Theodore Ozias Bedell, M; Josh E. Bidwell, S; Cornelius Davis Brown, M; Virgil H. Bodle, S; Homer Crumrine, Jr., S; Thomas Leonard Cole, S; Harry Church, S; Melvin Church, S; Robert McBeth Couchman, S; Claude A. Coleman, S; William Joseph Dugan, M; Skiles McKay Dunlap, S; Frank Ellis, XI; Ural Dan Edwards, M ; William John Egenberger, S ; Elmer Johnson Erickson, S; Lou Fehrman, XI; John William Ford, M; Frank Freshour, S; Thomas Joseph G.oss, S ; William Todd Grove, M; David B. Grove, 41; Raymond Albert Heaton, M ; James Adam Hunter, S ; Clarence Wesley Hutson, M ; Frederick Houtz, M.; Don C. Hurlow, S; William Jackson Hurlow, M; Fred Hatter, M ; Clyde Devaul Hicks, 111; Clarence Hunter, S; William K. Hagerman, S; Claude Houser, S; Harry Nelson Hayslip, M; Oscar Johnson, S; Ray Jenkins, S ; Harry Edgar John, M; Jesse William Kendrick, M; Robert Emanuel Kauffman, S; Harley Hilton Larry, M; William Francis Luking, S; Ralph Thompson Lowry, S; Elmer Louden, M; Carl Will-

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iam Lortz, S; Edjel Clyde Lutz, M; Jacob Henry Lomac, S; Harry McGill, M; Michael McGill, S; Leroy Gerald McWilliams, M; Dean Howell McGill, S; Miles Ernest Mahan, M; John Thomas Muth, S; Frank Moore, S; Marion B. Owen, M; Ray R. Owen, M; Otis S. Oelker, S; Frank Whitten Peters, M; Ward Kay Pancake, M; Frank E. Peters, M; Ellsworth Peters, M; James 0. Parsons, M; Ralph Edward Phelps, S; Coleman B. Ross, M; Warren Cushman Reynolds, S; Alonzo Edward Randall, M; Emerson H. Ritter, M; Martin Reich, M; Bert Smith, M; B. M. Snarr, M; Charles Riley Slusser, M; Walter C. Schwake, S; Elijah Freeman Thornton, M; Edgar Toy, M; Mack Toy Welch, M; William Brooks Wallace, S; Robert Kyle Ward, M; Clyde 0. Zirkle, M.

Urbana Second Ward—Henry Pearl Allen, M; Harrison L. Adams" S; Harry P. Artis, M; Ensley Armfield, S; Eli Monroe Ayers, M; Kelly Blanton, M; Charles Malcolm Bennett, M; Frank Blanton, M; James Henry Curl, S; Chauncey D. Craig, S; Edgar Harrison Crosswhite, M; Frank Pearl Cochrun, M; Donald S. Colwell, M; Alva Burton Cox, M; Orin Craig, M; Ross Philander Dunning, M; Daniel Earl Dosch, S; Walter J. Everett, M; Floyd Leon Edwards, M; James Robert Fuller, M; Lester Guy, M; Hilton Ayers Griswold, S; Sidney Goings, M; Frederick J. Guyselman, S; Joshua Goings, M; William Edward Gustin, M; Frederick Phillip Halterman, S; Abraham Lincoln Herr, M; Harris Alton Hovey, S; Frank Pearl Harding, M; Jess Hartnett, S; Percy Hodge, M; Percy Allen Hinson, NI; Gordon K. Harmstead, S; Ben Jenkins, S; Harrison Benjamin Judd, NI; Howard Willis Johnson, S; William Marvin Johnson, M; Woo Suey Kwong, S; Levi Edward Louthan, NI; Isaac Napoleon Lomac, S; William Lee, S; Clay Rice Little, S; Harry Weldon McRoberts, S ; Irwin Wilson McRoberts, S; Ralph C. McDonald, M; Harvey L. McClure, M; John Franklin Mosley, S; Loren R. Mitchel, S; Henry Arlos May, M ; Howard Moles, S; Elery Myers, M; John Henry Mortimer, NI; Roy Moss, M ; Ray Delmar Morris, S; Orville C. Mitchel, S; Sam Murphy, S; Robert Murray, S; George Ellwood Mosley, NI; Harrison Maxwell Medley, M; Leroy Earl Moulton, NI; Ocy C. Maxwell, M; Charles A. Mitchel, M; Everett Moss, S; Ray Otto, S; Augustus Owens, S; Freelan H. Parson, NI; James Ray Pickerell, M; James Walter Roberts, M; Charleonard Ross, S; Hersey Robinson, M; George Williard Ramsey, M; Homer Roberts, S; Melwood Stanhope, S; Jonas Homer Slaughter, S; Harry Stricker, S; Willie Sublet, S; Joseph W. Sundheimer, M; Darlington Strawther, M; Vern L. Scott, M; Clarence Scott, S; Walter Scott, M; James P. Sherlock, M; George Scott, M; Forrest W. Toomire, M; Ira Taborn, S; Bert Taborn, S; John Waldo Thomas, M; Fred Taborn, M; Howard Clarence Underwood, S ; Julian Raymond Valentine, M; James Henry Williams, M; Matthew Williams, S; Conely William Wilson, M; Hartwell Williams, M; John Williams, M; Ira Blossie Waugh, M; Harry Whitaker, M; Wren C. Wilkins, M; David Washington Williams, S; Leon Jerome Wickersham, S; Ernest Wilson, M.

Urbana Third Ward, A Precinct—Willis Treadwell Augar, M; Charles Jacob Arnold, M; William Arthur Burton, M; Harry Ernest Boyer, M; Robert Johnson Baker, M; Joseph E. Brand, M; Emerson Orville Blake, M; Warren Simpson Bell, S; Delphus Vance Brinnon, M; Lowell C. Bodey, S; Raymond Moore Bailey, M; Edward Paul Basore, S Sheridan A. Beverley, M; Clarence Calvin Broshes, M; John Edmund Barlow, S; Roy Francis Buchanan, M; Leslie Clifton Bunnell, M; Roy James Caston, M; Francis James Collins, S; John Paul Culley, S; Raymond Franklin Curl, M; Earl William Clendening, M; Willis Arthur Cramer, M; William Edward Collins, S; Robert Patrick Dunne, M; Stanley Milford Dunmyer, M; Harold D. Deyo, S; John S. Eichelberger, M; Robert Lee Eichelberger, S; Deweese Hitt Fuller, M; Earl Leslie Freyhoff, S; Clarence Henry Guthridge, S; John William Godwin, NI; James Given, M; Edgar

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Ward Goode, S ; Frank H. Grimes, M; Dean Hull, S ; Paul Clarence Harper, S; Donald Owen Happersett, S; Lewis F. Hurd, S; William Henry Harrison Hamlin., Jr., M; Fred Leroy Hunt, S; Harold Charles Hubbard, M; Perry Rathburn Hance, S; Richard Patrick Heatherman, M; William Thomas Hubbard, M; Harry William Hegele, M; Kenneth R. Isnogle, S; Wilber Jones; M; Charles H. Keener, S; Edward Sherman Knull, M; William Robert Long, M; David Huston Long, M; Roy William George Milner, M; Joseph Ivan Murphy, M; Fred Leroy Mattox, M; Walter Wilson, Milligan, M; Charles Osa Middleton, M; James John Nolan, S'; John Sherman Moses, S; John Bernard O'Donnell, S; John Lewis O'Brien, M; Arthur Verne Patten, M; Carl Lewis Phlegar, M; John Ivan Peer, M; Earl Sheldon Pence, M; James M. Powers, S ; John Frank Ryan, S; William Albert Roush, S; Dawson Rothschild Roth, S; Charles Warren Roush, M; Jacob John Ritter, S ; Leon George Roth, S; Shelby Wright Rice, M; Joseph John Silvestre, M; William Harrison Sudduth, S; Raymond George Smith, M; William John Sexton, S; Charles Kerr* Stembel, S; Tully Arthur Smith, S; Austin L. Smith, M; Paul Allen Smith, S ; Guy Byrd Simmons, M; Willis Leon Sinnard, M; Earl Dent Sexton, S; George Joseph Wolbert, M; Don Artimus Wilmot, M; Harry Augustine Weiser, S; Karl E. Whinney, M; Don Pearl Wickersham, M ; Clinton Dewitt Young, M; Simon Lawrence Zimmerman, S.

Urbana Third Ward, Precinct B—Harold Alexander, M; Benjamin Eli Allison, M; Glen Arnold, S; Henri Redmond Boyd, M; Samuel L. Bates, M; William Higbee Blair, M; Christoper Brunotte, M; Charles Albert Bartens, S; Wenner A. Botkin, S; Alvah Bright, M; Edwin McKinley Bunnell, S; Joseph Alonzo F. Burley, S; Elmer Bowen, M; Frederick E. Clay, M; James Ellsworth Cotrell, M; Jess Thomas Case, M; Clarence M. Cartmell, S; Don H. Cone, S ; William Pearl Crawford, S; Ralph Wilson Carnahan, S; Charles Russell Dale, M; Marion K. Detwiler, M; Edward Ellwood, S; William Francis Fennessy, S; George R. Frie, S; Oliver Perry Fletcher, M; Chauncey Drake Glenn, S ; Pearl Franklin Groves, M; Benjamin Arthur Guyton, S ; George Chester Glenn, M; Joseph Franklin Hurd, M; Clarence Louis Horning, M; James Homer Hill, S; Clifford Edward Hunt, M; D. H. Hickinbotham, M; Clarence Benton Hawkins, S; Harley Elmer Huston, S ; Christopher Frederick Hentrich, M; Jasper Instine, M; Carey Cleveland Inskeep, M; Guy Jenkins, S; Charles William Jackson, M; Albert Jones, S; Walter LeRoy Johnson, M; Virtree Johnson, M; Homer Carl Jenkins, S; James William Knapp, S; Charles B. Lansdowne, M; George Francis Leopard, M; Harry B. Louden, M; Robert Arthur Lee, S; Clifford William Lightfoot, S; William Alexander Love, S; Harvey Samuel Lingrell, S; Lawrence Hughes Magrew, S; Robert Sheridan McNichol, M; Joseph Owen McGill, M; Jesse Neville McComsey, M; Clitus Harry Marvin, S ; Owen Roy Middleton, M; Joseph Paul Mowen, M; Clifford Merl Miller, M; Walter Brooks Michaels, S; James Macklin, Jr., S; Walter Peter Mischler, S; Robert James Nevins, M; Lester C. Neer, S ; Warren Ross Neese, S; Harry Franklin Niece, M; Ralph Ellis Neer, S; Paul Thaddius Organ, M; Russell Herman Powell, S ; Chlo Washington Pickering, S; William Vernon Rubart, S ; Calvin Omer Runyan, S; William Andrew Roberts, S ; Clifford Ropp, M; Thomas Bari Russell, M; Earl Leslie Roberts; S; Edgar William Riffey, M; John Wesley Ropp; M; Charles Richard Starks, S; Adrian Dotson Spees, M; George William Spain, S; Paul Morris Sayre, S ; Emmett Emerson Stewart, S; Benjamin Franklin Skeen, M; Raymond Clifton Smith, M; John William Shea, M; Claude V. Talbott, M; Percy Monroe Taylor, S ; Paul Jean Thatcher, S; Charles Leroy Thompson, M; Earl Gilbert Walls, S; Harvey Ward, M; Eugene William S; DeWitt Weller, S ; George Waite, S ; Roy Nelson Zeigler, M; Harry Ellsworth Zeigler, S.

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Urbana Fourth Ward, Precinct A—Louis Anania, S; Wallace Anderson ,S ; William C. Anderson, M; Melville Abbott, M; Branham A. Beyerle, S; William H. Buck, M; Paul Stanley Barnett, S; Ray Bryant, S ; Ernest A. Barnetta, M; Arthur Chance Berry, S; William Floyd Bradford, M; Floyd L. Curtis, S; Fred Earl Cromwell, S; Elza P. Caldwell, M; Harry R. Cromwell, S; Russell Dininger, M; Frank William Dupee, M; Clarence Ferst, S; Minor Gordley, M; William Boland Gest, S; Robert Randolph Glenn, S; Raymond Gillespie, M; Daniel Lester Houser, S; Stephen Hagenbuch, S; Earnest Leroy Huston, M; Joseph Edward Heatherman, M; Lafe Hilterbran, M; Leo Pearl Hunter, M; George Washington Hamilton, M; Lawrence Ellsworth Huston, S.; Everett Paul Henley, M; Lawrence Andrew Hayslip, M; Steven Arthur Johnson, S; William Kapas, S; Don Kesler, M; Harry Kautz, M.; Daniel Lawrence Kelley, S; Frank B. Kennedy, S; Charles Edward Kearns, M; Burton F. Lee, S; Warren Girard Lau, M; Harry Wilbur Lantz, M; Clyde Henry Lyman, NI; Edmund Richard McDermott, S ; Adam McGree, M; Jasper George McIntire, M; Dallas McCrery, M; James McElwaine, S; George Arthur Magnus, M; Clifford Harry Mayfield, S; George Charles Millice. M; Levi Minnich, M; Rodney Creighton Meade, M; Clarence E. Modena. M ; George Francis Meyers. S; Leo Edward Muth, S; Thomas Joseph Murphy, S; Sylvester Patrick Nylan, M; Jesse Jackson Nicely, S; Lawrence H. Norton, S; William Francis O'Brien, S; Ralph Samuel Payne, S; Ivan Leon Printz, M; Lewis Elmer Payne, S; Fernando Pence, S; George Henry Rupert, M; Guy Overton Reames, M; David J. M. Smith, M; Carl Scrabec, S; Luevada Littleton Spellman, NI; Oro Stokes, S; Fred B. Smith, M; Robert Argyle Sweet, M; Dorn Jefferson Stout, S; Raymond A. Storch, S; Levi Edward Turner, S; Jesse Lloyd Taborn, S; Potty Vlahos, S; Albert Edgar Verdier, S; George Vlahos, S; Faye Virgle Wilthmeth, M; Arthur Winn, M; Basil Leonard Wood, S; Ward Pierce Whalen, S; Frank C. Walter, Hersey H. Williams, S; Ellsworth Harris Yates, M; Harry Elmo Yarnell, S.

Urbana Fourth Ward, Precinct B—Gralo Antoniette, S; John Achatz, NI; John W. Bodey, M; John A. Boan, S; Charley Boldman, S; Rosco Boldman, S; Aechie Britton, M; Garnet P. Bransteter, S ; Mildy Boldman, M; Walter Braden, M; Henry P. Bartens, NI; Bernard A. Connolly, S: Joseph Augustine Crowley, S; Frank J. Comeford, S; Ralph B. Caton, M; Edmund B. Coffman, M; Cecil V. Carey, M; Carroll Robert Cady, M; Vern R. Crawford, M; Bernard Dunlap, M; Paul Francis Dye, S; Walter R. Dunlap, M; James S. Duncan, M; Carl F. Dorman, M; Moldito Deloro, S; Eugene Devono, S; Moniata Domenico, S; Charles E. Eli, S; Harry M. Evans, M; Frank Eape, S; Harry Feith, S; Ray Estopi Fox!, M; Theo. R. Freyhoff, M; Oscar Freyhoff, S; Glenn Grimes, M; Charles W. Smith, S; Roy R. Gordon, M; Virgil V. Good, M; Harry M. Grove, M; Talmage Fay Hill, M; Edward C. Harrigan, S; Edjil F. Houser, M; Joseph Harrigan, M; Harry V. Haldeman, M; Isaac L. Hilderbran, M; Clyde R. Hawkins, M; Francis M. Hardin, M; Charles Elby Holycross, M; William E. Immel, M; John Clarence Johnson, M; Edward F. Johnson, M; James Leroy King, M; Virgil P. Knull, S: Joseph Arthur Lewis, S; Ancel Lewis, S; Otho Howard Lingrell, S; Curtis V. Livingston, S; Ceasre Loltaretti, S; Ernest Joseph McCaulla, M; .John T. McNary, S; Edward F. McNulty, S; Charles L. McDonald, M; Charles H. McCoy, M; John J. McGraw, M; James Raymond McNary, M ; Leroy Metherd, S; Edward J. Mooney, S; Nelson Murphy, S; Eli C. Mulford, S; James F. Money, S; James Russell Metherd, S; Thomas H. Money, 5; Ellis Ray Nichols, S; Doral H. Offenbacher, S; Frank M. Offenbacker, NI; W. H. O'Brien, S; James Joseph Powers, S ; Russell D. Powell, S; Wellington Powell, 5; Louis Parr, M; Joseph W. Radford, S; John W.

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Riley S; William E. Robbins, M; Lyman H. Sells, S; William R. Spence, S; Cecil R. Spellman, S; Earl Webster Sudduth, S; Thomas M. Sheedy, 5; Walter Shires, S; Clarence H. Smith, M; Ezra Roy Shepard, M; Otis Spellman, M; Earl A. Shepard, M; John C. Schmidt, M; Charles Wesley Smith, M; Jerome Scott, M; C. M. Sexton, M; Carry W. Spellman, S; Arthur Stokes, M; Walter W. Skiles, M; James A. Sheedy, S; Pearl Smith, S; Elmer E. Taylor, M; Clifford Viets, S; Lawrence M. Welsh, S; Glenn Wolford, S Edward V. Ward, S; Lyman Mears Wiant, S; Burl A. Wolford, S; Samuel R. Wasner, M; Minor D. Will, S; Wilfred Otho Wilkins, M.

Urbana Township—Delbert Ankrom, M; Harold Milton Ankrom, M; Charles George Budden, S; Lewis Wilber Broshes, S; James Bernard Blubaugh, M; Leroy Brown, M; Hobert Brickles, S; Marion Nelson Bodey, M; Quin Craig, M; Emory Craig, S; Boyd Dallas, S; William Russell Dallas, S.; Amos Davey, M; Oscar F. Evilsizor, S; Christopher Evilsizor, S; Arthur Vineyard Evilsizor, M; Clarence Clifford Evilsizor, S; Robert Evilsizor, S; Louie Fletcher, M; William Theodore Frazee, M; Jesse Howard Growdon, S; Charles. Gordley, M; L. Russell Growdon, M; Roman Sylvester Gassbaugh, S; William Glenn Growdon, M; Glen Gochenouer, S; Frederick Gave, M; Alva Tabler Gregg, M; Grover W. Glass, S; James Henry, S; John L. Hunter, S; Paul Henry, 5; Bert Sullivan Haddex, M; Edward Francis Haley, S; Cass Henry, S; Austin R. Icenogle, M; Warren C. Jenkins, S; Robert Jenkins; M; Franklin H. Jones, M; Harold U. Knight, S; Jesse M. Kemp, S; Armor Leach, S; Emory R. Lutz, M; Benjamin Lewis Lodgsdon, S; William J. Landers, Jr., S; William H. McCaughey, S; Clifford M. McCaughey, M; George W. Milledge, S; Gail S. Miller, S; Ivan Bert Newell, M; Frank Nichols, M; Willis Howard .Neer, M; William Blaine Pride, M; Henry Franklin Pride, S; James Warren Powell, S; Allen Ewing Robison, S; Harry Reedy, M; James Russell Randall, M; Reuben Randall, M; Clarence Clay Reed, M; Robert Roy Sidders, S; William Mosgrove Sidders, S; William Granville Stephenson, M; John Thomas Sommers, S; Ora Spriggs, S; Henry H. Strowther, S; Charles A. Seibert, S; Charles H. Thornburg, S; Cleveland Tilton, M; James Toppis, S; Harry Lee Umbenhauer, M; Foster Wells, S; Glenn Wood, S; Chauncey Cleveland Wells, M; Lemuel Ansel Woodburn, S; Fred Joe Weimer, N; Samuel O. Watkins, S; Ralph C. Wahlater, S.

Rush Township, Eason Precinct—Harvey Andrews, S; Lonnie Parker Ayers, S; LeRoy E. Briney, S; George William Cowles, M.; Clarence Claude Epps, M; Pearl J. Ellicott, M; William Ralph Glendening, S; Ralph Fletcher Gilbert, M; Walter Clyde Glendening, S; Charles U. Hughes, M ; George Martin Lincoln, M.

Rush Township, Woodstock—Ralph Barnes, .S; Howard Barnes, S; William Henry Bradley, M; Ruby Murle Brodrick, S; Edgar Borst, S; Charles Irvin Clark, M; James Otho Carter, M; Herbert Benton Clerk, M; Charles Webb Clark, S; Howard T. Diltz. S;

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James Claude Dunham, M; Calvin Henry Dunham, M; Frederick Ernest Foster, M; Pearl James Hess, M; Arthur Walter Hunt, S; John C. Kerran, M; John Burnham Linehan, S; Henry Mason Martin, M; Than Stone Madden, M; James Chester Vance, Urton Mann Temple, M; Harry Birdsall Vance, M; Albert Wesist, M; Ralph Benjamin Westfall, S; Wilbert Yeasel, S.

Rush Township, North Lewisburg—Elmer Barton, NI; Henry Barker, M; Chester Roy Berry, M; Arthur Vincent Benedict, S; William Earl Barker, M; Louie Button Creviston, S; Ben Leonard Creviston, M; Clark Vern Coffey, .M; James Edson Cook, S; Milliard Owen Chapman, S.; Bernard O. Cook, S; Chester Arthur Disbro, M; Otto Carlton Draper, M; Charlie Dixon, M; William Ralph Dobbins, S; Aaron Harold S; William Randolph Ewing, S; Robert Harold Easton, S; Clifford Eaton, M;

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William McKinley Eaton, M; Benjamin Harrison Freeman, M; Robert Morgan Fisher, M; Clyde D. Fout, S; Henry DeWitt Grube, M; William Golcisberry, S; Robert Miller Hunter, S; William Franklin Hackley, S; Isaac Woodward Holycross, S; Sherman Hall, M; Thomas Clifton Harlan, M; George Grover Hackley, S; Clyde Harold Inskeep, S; Carl Impson, M; Russell Davis Jackson, S; Everett Kennedy, M; Ernest Hugh Kellar, M ; Charles Logan Loveland, M; Harry Elbert Millington, M; Lester Delmar Overfield, S; Emerson L. .Phelps, S; Ray Peppers, M; Ernest Ellsworth Reames, S; Thoinas C.. Sheehey, M; John Forest Spain, M; George Henry Snyder, S; Wayne Hinkle Sager, S; McKinley Reed Stevens, M; John Frederick Sheehey, S; Trell Spain, M; Ainsworth Calvin Sheehey, M; Ralph Lincoln Stout,. M; Charles Pearl Townsend, M; Clifford Hayden Williamson, M; Burrel Ellsworth Willis„ M; William Alonzo Willis, M;

Rush Township, Martin Precinct—Claude J. Bowers, M; Charley Wesley Broshes. M; John Sherman Carter, S; William Alexander Craig, M; Marion Edgar Carter, M; Erastus Martin Davis, M; George. Walter Daum, M; Raymond Darrow, M; Leo Diggins, S ; Roy Edgar Frazier, M; Allen Thomas Frazier, M; Foster Graham. M; Zenan Philip Guthrie, S; Homer Howell, M; Charlie Howell. S; William Taylor Hogul, Harry Hess, S; Charles Hickman, M; Howard Hess, S; Ross Owen Hinton, M; Paul J. Howard, S; Frederick Joseph Kauzmarch, 5; E. M. Kimball, M; Truman Ross Lowe, S; William Albert Latham, S; Orville Raymond Lowe, M; Edward Emmett Lee, M; Roy McCombs, M; Robert McCubbin, M; Thomas McAdams, S; Claude Ernest Meacham, M; John S. Mendenhall, S; Pearl M. Mendenhall, S; William Owen, S; Ralph Emerson Owen, S; Thomas Ellis Owen, M; Bart Owen, M; Asa Clark Owen, M; Henry Scruggs, M; James Ray Shy, S; Charles Herman Shy, M; William Henry Shy, S; Grover C. Walker, M; Pearl Winston, .S; Floyd Winner, M.

Goshen Township—Mechanicsburg (Precinct A)—George E. Anderson, S; Edgar Francis Allen, S; John Chester Anderson, S; Nathan Britton, S; Paul Harrison Brown. M; Robert Andrew Burnham; M; John Paul Burnham, S; Benjamin Franklin Ballentine, S; Ora Raymond Chenoweth, M; Elmer Ellsworth Chenoweth, M; Perry Decker, M; William O. Emory, S; Albert Ferryman, S; Elden Ferryman, S; Ralph Edwin Francis, M; Arthur John Green, S; McAtee Heminer, M; Joseph D. Fess, M; Benjamin Franklin Halfhill, M; Lewis Isaacs. M; William Robert Kennedy, S; William Pearl King, M; Charles Floyd King, S; Phillip James Kimball, S; Thaddeus Walter Lowe, S; Jesse McFarland, M; Richard Charles Martin, S; Robert Newton Mitchell, S; Leroy Manlik, S; James Chandler Mitchell, S; Wilbur B. Mumma, S; Hugh Willis Moore, 8; Clifford W. Osborn, S; Lewis Merrill Owen. M; Asa Milton Reece. S; Carl Edwin Reedy, M; Samuel Arthur Reedy,.S; Joni C. Slater, M; Harry H. Ried, S; Wesley Siders, Clarence Arthur Stoddard, M; Harold Hulmes Shaw, S.; Leander Seward, M; James Albert Tolliver, M; Ronald Wallace Yocum, S.

Mechanicsburg (Precinct B)—Bernard Davis .Adams, S; Joseph A. Anderson, N; Howard Lee Alexander, S; John Frank Alexander. M; Herbert Brown, S; Roy Bunch. M; Brown Bayless. S; Clarence M. Borders, M; William Lawrence Culbertson. S; Jeff Cornwall, M; Cromwell Nelson Dragoo, M; Charles Royal Dresser, S; Orva Edward Eley, S; Herman Frances, S; Thurman Harrison Grove, M; Elden Calvin Hunter. S; William Clarence Hulbey, S; Harry Henniger, M; Hubert Layer, M; Edward M. Looney, M; Edward Locke, S; James Glenn Mayo, M; Stanford Mingis, M; John Ottaway Martin, S; M. Eugene Neer, S; Sherman Winslow Phillips, S; Joe Earl Parsons, M; Elven W. Redman; S; Forest Edgar Redman, M; Robert Thomas Reid, M; Charles John Smith, S; Grover Cleveland Sandy, M; Lester F. Stroup, M; Paschal O. Snapp, S; Irvin Sundheimer, M; Ross B. Terry, S; Ward Thompson, S; Charles Fred Wenner, M; Harold Wolfe, S.

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Goshen Township—Clyde E. Adams, M ; Paul Gerald Anderson, S ; Paul Thurman Burnsides, M ; Minor Jacob Bumgardner, M ; Howard Benson, S ; Walter Robert Curry, S; George Hull Carman, M; .Wilson Berton Chapman, M; Earl James Clark, S; Charles M. Caldwell; S ; Byrl Cheeseman, S ; Floyd Earl Campton, M; James Elmer Cos,, M ; Bert Harrison Castle, M ; Mead Andrew Doty, M ; Will D. Eiselstein, M; Danna Porter Eiselstein, S; Grover Alexander Foulk, M; Leland Chauncey Fudger, M; Merl Ferryman, M ; Norman Kenton Ferryman, M ; Harry Edgar Fitzgiven, M ; Levert Geer, M; Millard Fillmore Goings, M; Glenn J. Garey, XI; James Harvey Hatfield, S; Samuel Merle Hodge, S; John XI. Hughes, XI; Orlie Hatfield, 5; Charles Harvey Hatfield, XI; Harold Miller Hopkins, S; James L. Hill, 5; Henry Ira Halley, M; John Harrington, M; Floyd Henry Jones, XI; Jacob Jones, XI; Pearl Andrew Kennedy, S; Donald Knight, S; Maurice A. Loveless, XI; Clifford Lippincott, XI; Homer Lucas, S; Arthur C. Lee, M; Ralph Lucas, S; John Morgan Lafferty, M; Ernest Grover Lankford, XI; Ben Linville, XI; Elias McAllister, XI; Aaron Virgil Mansfield, 5; John Harrison Moxely, S; Noel Mitchell, XI; James Paul Maddex, XI; Ben Moore, XI; Elza Ernest Miller, XI; Clyde Clark Peters, 5; Harley Palmer, S; Milo Arvel Pullins, 5; Conway Archibald Neer, S; William Rafferty, 5; George Ruoff, XI; Benny Rafferty, S; Walter Rafferty. XI; Rolla P. Popp, XI; John Azel Stuckey, XI; James Shelpman, 11; Edwin Irvin Shy, XI; Henry Arthur Stanley, XI; Charles Ralph Scott, XI; Thomas William Thompson, S; Thomas Wingate Tullis, XI; Charles Edwin Wingfield; Marcus Albert Ullem, S; Andrew Staley Wing, S; David Grant Wing, S; Lawrence Earl Wildman, S; Milton Hughes Violet, 5; Artenlus Violet, S.

St. Paris, A Precinct—Benjamin Thurman Apple, S; Charles A. Ayres, S; Walter Desh Baker, S; John Oliver Crouse; XI; Solon I)uer,XI; Marion Valentine Deal, XI; Harry H. Davis, XI; Charles M. Flaig, S; William Guy Grubbe, S; John Oscar Grubbe, M; William Earl Glick. S; Walter West Howard. XI; Raymond J. Hahn, S; Walter W. Idle, M; Howard Francis Jenks, XI; Ernest Kesler. S; Don Clifford Klapp, S; Fary Alonzo Kelly, S; Harvey AI. Loudenback, S; Jesse Floyd Lee, XI; Charles A. McGovern, XI; Harvey Jacob Winstrel, S; John E. Mathews, S; Wendell Earl Niece, XI; Reuben H. Niece, M; Elmer Franklin Purk, M; Francis John Purk, S; Frank J. Pence, S: Erman E. Prince, XI; Glenn Runkle, XI; Dale Diego Runkle, XI; Isador Remer, M; John Luther Snyder, XI; Lawrence Orlando Snapp, S; Cecil Spriggs, S; John Marion Smith, M; James Marion Turner, XI; Leo Urbana, S; Paul Baker Van-Colin, S; Emanuel Wilt, S; William Gaylord Wirick, S; Leon Chester Warner, S; Miley S. Merica, M.

St. Paris. B Precinct—Lloyd Dewitt Ammon, XI; Albert Harrison Arnold, S; Walter Bollinger, S; Glenn M. Fields, S; Otto Leon Goldberg, S; Earl Wayne Garrett, S; Wilbur Donald Hahn, XI; Francis Joseph Harrigan, S; C. Cleveland Jenkins, XI; Wendell Kite, XI; William Thomas Lacey, XI; Benjamin Harrison Lacey, XI; Benjamin Harrison Leasure, XI; Walter Ellis Weatherhead, XI; Charles Maxon, XI; Frank Herman Schetter, XI; Marion Eldridge Sutton, S; Vinton Harrison Spriggs, XI; Harold Nye Zeller, S.

Millerstown—Forest Edward Auspaugh, S; Oliver Franklin Bodey, S; Ray Bodey, H; Hiram Charles Buroker, M; Farrel Peter Bodey, S; Harry Verner Buroker, S; Carey Russell Barger, S; Ross Clinton Furrow, XI; Byron Grey Jenkins, S; Arthur Monroe Jenkins, XI; Hallet Eldridge Kesler, XI; Lawrence Miller, XI; Grover Wilbur Maggart, XI; Wilbur Smith, XI; George Lee Smith, S; Lloyd Leroy Thompson, XI; Wilbur Thomas Wibel, S; Homer Albert Wibel, S.

Johnson Township—Aden Edgar Allen, S; Jay Wheeler Arters, S; Benjamin Ray

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Alexander, S ; George Madison Argabright, S; Anson Earl Allen, S; Clyde Leon Bollinger, M ; John. Jacob Brown, M; Cecil Arthur. Barger, M; Orla Cleveland Berry, M; Clorrel R. Barbee, M.; Clinton Ross Brown, M; Samuel Harvey .Blue, M; Clyde Emerson Beatty, M; Clarence F. Berry, S ; Carl Franklin Ceyler, M; Wallace Sheldon Clem, M; Marion Glen Corbet, M; Guy Covault, M; Mason Forest Everett, M; Chester Mitchell. Everingham, S; James Adams Foust, M; Henry Eugene Foust, M; Floyd Carroll Frank, S; Clifford Garver, M; Wilbur Geuy, S; Arza Albert Grube, M; John Henry Gorman, M; Leonard Harris Hall, M; William John Hughes, M; Carlisle Hatfield, M; John Sylvester Jordan, S; Norris Victor Jordan, M; Harley Kemp, M; Harvey Clay Kemp, M; Daniel Claude Lemmon, M; Thomas Yardley Leedom, S; Francis Valentine Larry, S; Charles Albert Leedom, M; Neil McMorran, M; Samuel McMorran, S; Grover Lawrence Mahan, S; William Henry Marshall, M; Mahlon. Hance Mitchel, M; Wallace Clem Mahan, M; Harley Jason Mahan, M;. Clifford Ernest Morris. M; Asa Franklin Nitchman, M; Charles Owens, M; Harvey Ray Prince, M; Willard Elden Pence, M; Able Eli Pence, M; Romeo Pence, S; Dwight Amos Pence, M ; Alby Crockett Runkle, M; Prince Albert Runkle, S; Frank Ralph Stockton, M; George Stahl, Jr., M; Jasper Leon Scott, S; Herby Leo Wertz, S; Frank Abram Walborn. S; John William Walborn, M; Wilburt Wright West, M; Ray Ward, M; Harry Edward Walborn, M; Chester Raymond Zirkle, M.

Jackson Township, Christiansburg - Leon Bunker, Al; John Lawrence Curl, M; Stanley Duncan, S; Fred Shermon Duncan, S; Elmer Downing, M ; Otis Floyd Falden, AI; Scott R. Leffel, S; Leonard Gabriel,. M ; James Hughes, M; Clarence Morrett, S; Ray Lewis Powers, M ; Bert R. Richeson, M Ernest Leon Smith, S; Ralph B. Stephens, 11; Otis M. Sherard, M; Harry D. Stephens, S; Joseph William Stephens, M; John P. Swearingen, S; Alvin Taylor, S; Marshall C. Williams, S; Horace E. Wilgus, S; Elmer F. Weatherhead, M; Harry L. Williams, M.

Addison Precinct—Joseph Virgil Adams, M; Homer Middleton Botkin, M; Allen Darius Baker, S; James Judson Deaton, N; Ralph Logan Foster, S; Samuel Furrow, M; Charles Edward Furrow, M; Charles Clare Gearhart, M; Harley Marley Melton Huddleston, M; Henry Gelson Harvey, S; Emerson Leroy Littlejohn, S; Gail Miller, S; Marvin John Miller, S; Asa Franklin Mumford, M; Claude Calvin Miller, M; Virgil Warren Rash, M; Homer Roberts, M; Ernest LeRoy Routzahn, M; Frank Ullery, M; Clyde Adda Wise, M; Charles McKinley Wilson, S; Wilber Clarence Wray, M.

McCrea Precinct—Joseph Boitnott, S; Henry Ross Baker, M; Stanley Brag, S; Lowell Slack Brelsford, S; Winfred Boitnott, M; Clarence Lester Brecount, M; Benjamin Clem, S; Samuel Howard Davis, M; Frank Daggett, M; William H. Evilsizor, S; Herbert Walter Faulkner, M; Earl Kessler, S; Lewis Wesley McCafferty, M; Alpha Talbot Miller, M; Horace Marshall, S; Carl Prince, M; Ross Ralph Irvin, S; Ploys Rush, M; George Stradling, M; Warren Stradling, S; Clarence Taffy., S; Walter Wiant, M.

Harrison Township—William Arthur Bates, S; Earnest Jay Busic, M ; James Robert Beatty, M; Waiter R. Dorsey, M ; Alexander Lawrence Demory, M; Gilbert Lester Demory, M; William Earl McDonald, M; Edgar Floyd Fortner, S; Leslie Samuel Frantz, M; Arthur Walter Fortner. M; Charles Clyde Garver. S; Harry Garver, M; Fred Arthur Graves, M; Guy Potter Benton Highland, S; Harry Ellen Harrington, M; Marion Herman Hostetter, M; Clinton Irving Hanger, M ; David. Leroy Hurst. M; Charles Franklin Highland, M ; Samuel Hoffman, S; Ernest Ray Harbour, M; John Earl Hunt, S ; Milton H. Heading, M; J. Oliver King, M; Nelson L. King, M; Elisha L. Kirkwood, S; Irving F. Keiber, S; Clarence Homer Lamb, M; Thomas Franklin McInturff, S; George Bryan McIntire, M; Walter M. Mattox, M; Loyd E. Maxson, M; William Oaklin Mohr, M;

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Forest Leon Neese, M; Frank Glenn Piatt, M; Harry Walls Peck, S; Thomas Munroe Pine, S; John William Rouse, S; Loy Leo Rostorfer, S; Charles Darius Rostorfer, M; James Arthur Simpson, M; Harry Ellsworth Sidders, S.; Emerson Floyd Shanley, M; Herman Siegenthaler, M; Frank Taylor Speece, S; Basil Elbert Sidders, M; Leroy Siegenthaler, M; John J. Thomas, S; John Leslie Yoder, M; Elmer Christian Yoder, S; Aquila Kauffman Yoder, S,

Mad River Township, Westville Precinct—Guy Loran Apple, M; Floyd J. Berry, M; B. Frank Bull, S ; Nelson H. Blue, S; John Osborn Brown, M; Clarence Austin Branson, S; George Daniel Brener, Al; Edgar H. Blue, M; Charles Ray Burkimer, M; Perry Edgard Berry, M; Evan T. Colbert, S; Harry F. Cave, S; Peter Smith Colbert, M; Raymond Bryan Colbert, S; Ross Cave, M; Clarence Elliott, S; Alpha Claude Faulkner, M; Walter Gunsaulis, S; Richard Gunsaulis, S; Charles Stephen Green, M; Harry Dorsey Grimes, M; William Gunsaulis, S; Hardy Warren Hess, S; William Henry Huber, M; William Peter Hecker, M; Lafayette Hall, M; Harry Hullinger, S; Ralph Eugene Hagans, S; John Durward Hagans, S ; John J. Hazlett, M; Benton Knotts, S; Carl Knotts, S; Othello W. Lutz, S; Oren McCain, S ; Elzie McConnaughey, M; C. A. Markham, S; Henry E. Osborn, S ; W. R. Palmer, M ; Franklin Amos Rupert, S; David W. Steinbarger, S; Clifford Lowell Straub, M; Raymond S. Smith; S; Martin Ray Spence, S; James William Staten, M; Harry Ernest Stevens, M ; Asa Ralph Taylor, S; Ernest Grant Thackery, S; Witsell Ray Taylor, M; Ralph Hammond Thackery, S; Edgar S. Taylor, S; Harry S. Taylor, S ; James William Thackery, M; Wilber Pearl Ward, S ; Wilber G. Wells, 1\1; Albert E. Ward, S; Charles Walborn, M; Paul Ogden Ward, S; Elwood L. Ward, S.

Terre Haute Precinct—Alpha J. Arney, S; Claris M. Atwell, M; .Curtis C. Atwell, S; Leroy Cutshall, M; Ray Conrad, M; Fred Anderson Corn, S; Judson Crowder, S; Harry L. Baker, S; Elmer Bower, M; Harry G. Brickles, M; Jacob A. Budd, M; Edward Brown, M; Orval J. Benedict; M; Charles Milton Baker, M; Arthur Baker, S; Coral Otis Ballentine, S ; James Rowell 'Dawson, S; Harry Emmett Dibert, S; Homer N. Dingledine, AI; Miller J. Dibert, M; Harry L. Derr, M; Coral Evilsizor, M; Clair E. Evilsizor, S; William Freshwater, M; Russell P. Faulkner, S; Charles Robert Groves, S; Clarence Mack Hamilton, M; Leroy Harrison Hawkins, S; Cleo Otho Jones, M; Tennie Nelson Knotts, M; Benjamin H. Lower, M; Emory C. Leonard, S ; John L. Markley, M; Ona Norton Nitchman, S; Robert Neese, M ; Charles Wesley Nitchman, John D. Pence, M; Orville C. Parmenter, S; Carl Paul Rhodes, S; George W. Rhodes, S; Philip Andrew Smith, M; Walter H. Shaffer, M; Byron W. Snyder, M; Joseph Shaffer, M; Samuel D. Stone, M; Clifford Roy Shaffer, M; Oren Franklin Snapp, M; Loren Orville Shaffer, S.; Clarence Sagers, M; Walter Shatto, S; Calvin Lennie Willmuth, M; Clarence Edward Worthington, S; Harry Claude Zerkle, M; Hollis Zerkle, S; Roy Wilbur Zerkle, M.

Thacicery Precinct—Clarence Billhimer, S; Stanley M. Bishop, S; Russell Ephraim Bishop, M; Clement Carl Baker, M; Albert Howard Beaver, M; Emmett Earl Grabill, S; Robert Lyons Cross, S; Roy Earl Fitzpatrick, S; Grover C. Fitzpatrick, S; O. S. Gabriel, S; Elden Robert Gearhart,. S; James Edward Gise, S; Thomas Ellsworth Hixon, M; Alonzo F. Halberstate, M; Charles Harrison Jordan, M; Harley Earl Kelley, S; Scott Kelley, S; Marley Clinton. Lacey, M; Vesta D. Lutz, M; Kingsley Lippincott, S; Harley Elmer Loudenback, S; Scott A. Mowen, M ; Herbert Niswonger, S; Charlie Pinkerman, M; Russell Proctor, S; Harry Benjamin Rust, M; Irvin P. Runkle, M; Willie Smith, S; Thurman C. Shaffer, M; Lawrence Raymond Taylor, S; Charles Franklin Wray, M; Carl John Wones, M; Wilber Campbell Wiant, M; Wilber Byron Zerkel, S; Claude Russell Zirkle, M.

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Concord Township—M. Ray Allison, S; Charles Taylor Barger, M; Commodore Ellsworth Bedell, S; Herbert Taylor Baker, S ; John Clinton Baker, M; Lawrence Harrison Barger, S; Pearl Ernest Bishop, S; Cecil Laurel Bedell, S; Emmet Franklin Buck, S; Paul E. Baker, S; William Virgil Barger, M; Clarence C. Baker, S; George Forrest Barger, M; David Cochran, M; Jacob Snail Clapp, M; Floyd Somers Clark, M; Forest Corner, S; Lester W. Craig, S; Warren B. Craig, S; Guy Craig Couchmann, M; Denny Cox, M; Edward Newton Cupps, M; Harvey R. Dovel, S; Charles Lyle Eckurd, S; Cary Farely, M; Benton Oliver Tussing, S; Donald Jones Fitzgivens, S; Omer L. Gates, M; Edward Franklin Gates; S; James Harvey Gates, S; Glen Lee Gundolf, M; Orla Decatur Huston, S; Henry Elmer Harner, M; Bernard Hough Huston, S; Glenn Harry Heath, M; Elden Lee Judy, M; Grover O. Jenkins, S; Ralph Waldo Johnson, M; Christopher Knox, M; Benjamin Newton Kizer, M; Clifton Kizer, S; Neal Legge, M; Francis Henry McCafferty, S; John Edwin McInturf, S; John William Mitchel, M; John Francis Miricle, M ; Herman Toomire McKinley, S; Frank Topliff Myers, M; Leonard A. Peters, M; Benjamin Bernard Packer, M; Omer Clark Powell, M; Levernon William Russell, S; Oscar Coleman Rankin, M; William Henry Russell, M; J. D. Rex, S; Benjamin Harrison Robinson, M; Rollie Valentine Sigman, M; Harold Melvin Shultz, M; Ivan H. Shultz, S; John Joseph Underwood, S; Earl Henry Vaughn, M; James Merrill Vanskiver, M; Augustus Watson, M; Marion Ernest Walborn, M; Otto Melvin Wilson, M; Ralph Wilson, M; Pearl Zerkle, M; Waldo Emerson Zerkie, M; Don Clayton Zoll, M.

Wayne Township, Mingo Precinct—Charles Jacob Baker, M; James Michael Bahan, M; Winters Mump, S; Benson Foraker Carter, M; Dana D. Collette, S; Jacob Harvey Davis, M; William Fox, M; Howard Earl Ferguson. S; Earl Godwin, M; Charles A. Gulick, S; Leroy Hunt, M; Charles Nelson Harvey, M; Charley Clinton Kennedy, S; Ella Leroy Kent, M; Forrest Jacob Lease, S; Ralph Lantz, M; Alvia McPeak, M; Lawrence Victor Newman, M; Charles Edgar Newman, S; Jessie Ross, M; Chalmer Eugene Rhoades. M; Samuel Milroy Robinson, M; Howard Lee Roush, M; Ralph Hunter Russell, S; William Arthur Russell, S; John Rea Smith, M; Roy Francis Saylor, 5; Glenn Stout, S; Sumner Byron Skidmore, M; Charles Wilbur Stout, M; O. Calvin Wilkins, M; James Blaine Watkins, M; William George Williamson, S; Walter Marion Wilkins, M; Walter Leslie Wilkins, M.

Cable Precinct—John Thomas Ayers, M; Lloyd Blackburn, S; Luther Baker, S; Ralph Hewitt Best, M; Hiram Harley Bolin, M;. Earl Beller, M; Peter Hersey Blue, M; Richard Barnes, S; Roy Henry Cooper, M; Wilber Crabill, S; Robert Craig, M; Rolly DeWitt Dagger, M; Charles. Engle, M; Francis Nicholas Fox, M; William Jonathan Gorton, S; Charles W. Graham, S; Earl Malcome Gorton, S; John William Heck, M; Charles Cletus Huddleson, M; Earl Leonard Humphrey, M; Elzie Ray Jenkins, M; Andrew Harrison Johnson, S; Ralph Glen Johnson, M; Roy Kauffman, S; Harry Joel Kauffman, M; Raymond Pearl Keesecker,. S; Ernest Morris Linville, M; Walter Edwin LaRue, M; Andrew Jackson LaRue, M; Robert L. LaRue, S; Milliard Ray McDaniel, S; Earl Spray McDaniel, S; Ralph Linville Moody, M; John Pearl Middleton, M; Harry Arthur Middleton, M; Alonzo Russell Polen, M ; Kent Pullins, S; Allen Moore Perry, M; Gowil Sylvian Perry, S; Lewis George Raley, M ; Wilber Clifton South, M; Milton Staneart, S; Simeon Clarkson Smith, M; Thomas Petit Wheeler, M; William Edwin White, M; John Alfred Williams, M; Berman Frank Wilkins, M ; Samuel Linville Yocom, M; Orville Sherman Yeazell, S; Roy Zimmerman, M.

Adams Township—Jesse Nolan Armstrong, M; Pearl Freeman Bunker, S; Ervin William Butterbaugh, S; Francis M. Buck, S; Franklin E. Bailor, M; Oscar F. Barkhold, M; Glenn A. Buck, M; Waldo C. Bailor, M; Cloyd Raymond Buck, M; Carroll H. Buroker, S; Ray S. Bowen, S; Cary W. Bowers, S; Howard Max Buroker, S; Erwin E.

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Barbee, M; Carl C. Cummings, M; Raymond Curl, M; Philip W. Cloninges, M; Thad Kress Cutland, S; John Duncan Chambers, M; Robert N. Clay, M; William H. Clark, S; Everett William Clayton, M.; Grover F. Deweese, M; John C. Davis, ; Frank Dick, S; William P. Dick, S.; Homer E. Dodds, S; Harley Melvin Deihl, M; Jay Paul Evans, M; Albert Errang, S; Raymond H. Espy, S; Floyd W. Frank, M; J. Harrison Ford, S; Charles S. Ford, S; Clay Ford, S; Ira Frank, M; Homer Beebe Geuy, M; Victor Gross, M; Jesse McKinley Geuy, M; Oscar L. Gates, M; Elzie Ray Goode, S; Rollo M. Harvey, S; Clarence Earl Hall, S ; Grover Thurman Hufford, M; Lewis H. Idle, S; Roy Leonard Keesecker, M; Wilber Kesler, S; Odes .E. Legge, M; Walter Licklider, S; Cary Wilford Licklider, M; Joseph W. Licklider, M; Grover Cleveland Linebaugh, M; Grover. Richard Lemmon, S; Abram Shockey Mayberry, M; Samuel Joseph Maurice, M; Elba Emerson Maurice, M; Van S. Mumford, M; Thurman Monk, M; John W. Mason, M; Robert B. Mayberry, M; Marley Jay Martz, S; Charles L. Notestine, M ; Ernest A. Overholser, S.; Ambrose Newton Perkepyle, M; Grover Franklin Perkepyle, M; Raymond Isaac Persinger, M; Jerry Perkepyle, M ; Staley Clarence Pickering, S; Charley W. Persinger, M; William F. Rostorfer, S; William Allen Rush, M; Jesse Joseph Roesser, S; Leonard D. Snail, M; Clem Scoby, S; Clyde Ray Stephenson, M; Cleo C. Sargeant, M; Omer Roscoe .Tripp, S; Carroll Wilson, S; Sailor S. Wilson, M; Gerald O. Weimer, M; Otho G. Wooley, M; Paul Ray Wilkinson, S; Edison E. Yinger, M; Herbert Vaughn Zell, M.

Salem Township, North Precinct—Hugh James Brackney, S; Thomas Ewing Blackwood, M; Oliver Raymond Byler, M; Howard. Clifton Black, S.; Robert LeRoy Brackney, S; Eddie Earl Blosser, M; Dana Earl Case, S; Alpha Cron, S.; Ralph Winfield Davis, S; Harrison Franklin Draper, M; Oscar Orville Ervin, M; Denton Good, M; Wesley Brinton Gray, S; Raymond Vaughn Hines, S; Albert Guy Huffman, M; Fred LeRoy Humphrey, M; Clyde H. Hooley, S; Emmet Jonathan Hartzler, S; Stephen Sylvester Hostetler, S; Chauncey M. Heinlen, M; Clayton Hooley, S; Milton Quincy Hedrick, S; John David Hooley, S; Ira David Hostetler, M; Charles Morgan Kearfott, S; Ernest Vernon King, M; Manuel B. Kaufman, S; D. C. Kanagy, M; Earl Vernon Kauffman, S; Milton Kauffman, S; Ray Kauffman, S; Frank Kauffman, S; Lester Joseph King, S; Dana Lockwood, S; John Lantz, S; Walter Raymond Lantz, M; Everett Russell McClain, M; Henn Grover Madden, M; Jessie Moots, M; Archie Dean Markin, M; Paul Markin, M; Willie E. Metz.; Charlie Moon, S; Ralph Howard Miller, S; Lewis Everett Markin, M; John Carlisle Myers, S; Albert Arthur 'North, S; Samuel Clarence Plank, M; Hugh Paxton, M; George Frederick Robinson, S; Frank Morgan Reams, M; Abraham Reams, M; Lester. Lee Reed, S; Bliss Frank Russell, M; Elmer Franklin Smucker, M; Herbert Glenn Stevens, M; Roy Hatcher Skidmore, S; Ernest Anton Skidmore, S; Frank Arnold Thompson, M; Glen Sylvester Umble, M; Jesse Byron Warren, M; Ivan Wilkins, M; Frank Harris Yoder, S.; Harry Guy Zerkle, M; Raymond Nelson Zeigler, S.

Salem (South Precinct) --JamesClyde Adams, M; Edward Arnett, S; John Henry Broadstone, M; Aria L. Brownfield, M; Wilford Owen Broadstone, M; Charles Grover Broadstone, S; Walter Burkett, M; Andrew J. Cummins, M; Robert Culley, S; Carl Andrew Columber, M; Russell Conrad, S; Alva Ora Clapp, M; Frank S. Duncan, M; Frank Derr, S; Charley Dunlany, M; Joe Otho Edwards, M; John Bible Frye, S; Jesse Boyd Friend, M; Harry Gordon, M; J. L. Garlough, S; Ralph W. Gehman, M; Ray Lee Grandstaff, S; William Emerson Greer, S; Raymond Otto Gullett, S; John Henry Hunter, S; John Michael Instine, M; Dale Johnson, S; James O. Lockwood, M; John. McClain, M; Nicholas O. McGuire, S; Jay Harlan McKeever, S; Ivan Boggs McClain, S; H. N. Mohr, S; Harry Mast, M; Edward Samuel Jacob Oelker, S; Warren Cecil Powell, S; Earl Piper, M; Hiram H. Petty, S; Charles Cary Powell, S; Walter Earl Powell, S;

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Ralph Runyan, M; Nelson Ropp, M; Clinton Roush, M; Dorsey Roy Reisinger, S; Dorl Oliver Reisinger, S; Ralph Ropp, M ; Oden Stoneburner, S; James Bidders, M; Charles Nelson Taylor, M; Edgar Thurman Woodruff, M; Lewis Watson. M; Owen Virgil Woodruff, M; John Warye, S; Walter Sylvester Waltman, S; Pearl Watson, M; William H. H. Williams, M.

Union Township—Paul W. Adams, M; Frank Clinton Brinnon, M; Page M. Beaty, M; John Franklin Blazer, M; Clinton Earl Boyer, M; John Herman Boerger, M; George Washington Bevens, M; Harry Lee Bane, S; Orren Ross Bringer, S; Elmer Elsworth Craig, S; Thomas Channel, M; Clarence Carres Corrier, M; Lawrence Corner, S; Joseph Francis Dorsey, M; Robert Marion Everhard, M; Jesse Vernon Evilsizor, M; Joseph T. Everett, S; Amos Clyde Ferryman, M; Albert Berton Gayer, M; Marion Lawson Goul, M; Grover William Gayer, M; Charles Howard Hodge, M; Perry William Hess, M; Lewis Leroy Howard, S; Oscar William Hall, S; Howard Herman Hawk, 8; Edward Ross Howard, M; Mifford Earl Hall, M; Daniel Harrison Howard, M; Wade Charles Heaton, M; Jesse Everett Hayden, S; Granville Sheridan Harper, S; Ora Hess, M; Harry Elmer Hall, M; Walter Asa Jones, M; Wilbur Franklin Lippincott, S; Earl Melvin Maddex, M; Carl Earl Moody, S; Earl Eugene Myers, S ; Elijah Franklin Newell, M; Albert Ross Neer, M; Lewis Henry Northup, M; Wilbur Kenton Neer, M; Henry Neer, S; Carl Herbert Neer, S; Pearl Brooks Owen, S; Frank Ogg, M; Clarence Ogg, S; Jesse Perry, M; Frank Edgar Ferry, M; Harry Thurle Perry, M; Ivan Perry, 8; Kersey C. Ropp, M; Clark Stevenson, M; Thurston Wiley State, M; Roy Shockey, M; Ross Jacob Schlippert, M; Leroy. Snyder, M ; Thaddeus Robert Shank, M ; Wade J. Story, M; Andrew Salsbury, M ; Robert Forest Thorpe, S; Hosea Arthur Vanhoose, ; Wilbur Lane Yocum, S; Orla Lawrence Zirkle, S; Forest Zirkle, S; John Daniel Zook, S.

What will be the outcome of this great World War ? Will the entente allies, of which the United States is one of twenty, win the struggle, or will the central powers, of which Germany is the leader, come out victorious? As American citizens, loyal to our country and believers in the institutions for which it stands, we unhesitatingly affirm that the cause of the allies will prevail. We believe that the great American army that is now in the progress of training will be the deciding factor in this war, and that the principles for which we stand and for which we are willing to shed our blood, will sustain us to a victorious end. Lovers of liberty ourselves, we hope that all the nations of the earth will eventually so constitute their governments that all men may have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is for this we are fighting; for the principles of democracy, and may God in his wisdom be with us as a nation to the end that we may all finally be one common brotherhood.

And for these principles the young men of Champaign county are getting ready to fight in 1917 and will no doubt be actually at the front in France within the year 1918. They will acquit themselves well; we have faith in them. The next history of the county will have to tell their story ; some of them may never return ; others may come back maimed in body. But whether they give their lives for their country, or whether they return,

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they will have performed the highest degree of service to their country. We can but hope that they will all return, but if they sacrifice their lives, the good people of Champaign county will have the satisfaction of knowing that their country called them and that they did their duty.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY'S FIRST STUDENT OFFICERS.

When, in April, 1917, the great peace-loving American people entered the World War to uphold the principles upon which our liberties are founded, the nation found itself woefully unprepared for war. Since Germany violated the neutrality of Belgium in August, 1914, military science and equipment have undergone such amazing changes that the American army was placed in almost as obsolete a position as was Napoleon's Grand Army of 1813. Thanks to the support of our allies, we are enabled to make careful preparations without having to experiment, which always takes a toll of many brave men's lives. With the true American sense of keeping abreast of the times, we adopted the system of universal service, discarding in great measure the old volunteer system.

The great difficulty before the war department, as it has always been in times of national danger, was the finding of a sufficient number of competent officers for this great body of men. Too often in our former wars incompetents acquired commissions in our armies by petty politics, and this condition of leadership resulted in the needless deaths of many brave soldiers. Now it is all changed. The general staff decided upon setting up schools for officers in many parts of the United States,, where men, after passing certain intelligence and physical tests, were to receive three months of training. At the end of this period, those who showed ability to be leaders of men were to receive commissions in the new national army. The suggestion was carried out by the war department and officers' schools were established.

When the call went forth for candidates to take this training, many young men from Champaign county, feeling it their duty in this national crisis, left their several occupations and their comfortable homes, and, after passing the examinations, entered the officers' training camp, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 8, 1917. There these men, along with fifty-two hundred others, worked from the reveille at five-thirty in the morning until taps at nine-thirty at night, in the effort to become better prepared to serve their country. Long "hikes" they made with their sixty pounds of equipment through all kinds of weather. Ferociously they bay-

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oneted dummy "enemies," and hours they spent in becoming marksmen on the rifle range. The remainder of their time they utilized in the prosaic task of poring over the manual of arms and books on tactics.

On August. 10, 1917, the reward for .these long hours of arduous endeavor arrived, for nine Champaign county boys received their commissions. Garnett W. Brand, Karl E. Whinnery and Eugene Johnson became first lieutenants in the infantry of the officers' reserve camp; George E. Hagenbuch was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry in the national army ; Ralph T. Lowry, Max R. Kiser and Paul F. Dye received second lieutenancies in the infantry of. the officers' reserve camp, and in the field artillery Harold W. Stadler and Philip J. Kimball received, respectively, second and first lieutenancies. All of these young men are from Urbana except Philip J. Kimball, whose home is in Mechanicsburg.

COMPANY D MUSTERED IN ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1917.

On a previous page has been given a roster of Company D as it was constituted when it left for the Mexican border in the summer of 1916. The company as it was .mustered into the federal service on September 4, 1917, contained a number of new men, while there were several with the company on the Mexican border whose names do not appear on the roster of the company as it appeared when mustered into the federal service.

Company D as constituted in September, 1917, was largely composed of Champaign county -men. The residence of the men is indicated in the appended roster. Those who were at the Mexican front in 1916 are indicated by an asterisk (*). The roster follows, all thus named being Champaign county men, save where otherwise indicated :

Commissioned officers—Captain, *George S. Middleton; first lieutenant, *Laylin Rock ; second lieutenant, *Coleman B. Ross.

Non-commissioned officers—First sergeant, *Eugene Johnson; second sergeant, *Floyd C. Dunlap; sergeants, *Harry C. Cooksey, *Clarence E. Cotrel, *Thomas McDaniel, *Carlyn R. Wiant, *David Thorne (Pennsylvania) ; corporals,. *Gilbert Cotrell, *Herman Allen, *Harley Zirkle,. *Fred Bratton, *John Peters and *Robert J. Johnson (Logan county) ; musicians, *Edgar F. Wagner and *William Butler (Logan county) ; cooks, *Scott L. Dolby and James A. Adams (Kent, Ohio).

Privates--Gilbert Adams, Willis B. Anderson, Ray A. Ball, Forest W. Berry, Alfred F. Braden, Lee M. Bunnelle, Donald Cannon, Ralph Cannon, *John Carder (Logan county), Earl T. Carter, Teobaldo R. Casanova

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(Porto Rico), August E. Clemens (Franklin county), Harry Clifford (Cleveland), *John L Crabb, Ray Crabbe, Keith Cretors, Fred Cromwell, Settinio Delmar̊, Russell De Long, William Dempster, *Kenneth Douglas, *Patrick C. Dugan, *Dennis Dunning, Royal Dresser, *Russell Eba (Ken' tucky), John G. Edwards, Clarence Enoch, Abraham Evans, John C. Fischer, Carl Francis, .Robert S. French, James F. Gannon, *Walter W. Godwin (Logan county), *Herman Grimes (Logan county), Irvin C. Holmes (Vir. ginia), *Francis Howell, Wilbur Hurd, Ray Jenkins, *Elmer E. Johnson (Logan county), Harry Jones (Portsmouth, Ohio), Elmer C. King (Logan county), *Thomas C. Layton, *James V. Lebkisher, Frank Leonard (Franklin. county), *Charles J. Long (Logan county), Domini Malena, Earl W. Markin, Ural McCaulla, *Pearl McClure, *Paul McCully, *Thomas L. McWade (Logan county), ,*Nathaniel Milligan, *Roy Musselman (Logan county), *Benjamin F. Owen, Earl B. Paxton, Robert S. Pense, Fred Pennypacker (Pennsylvania), Harold Piatt (Logan county), *Walter Pullins, Jesse I. Reamer, Earl E. Rice, Leo R. Rice, *Simeon J. Rowland, Bartley Schmidt, Ivan Schmidt, Basil A. Spain, Flournoy Stevenson, Dee Daniel Taylor, *John Taylor, Harrison W. Tillman (Logan county), James Thompson (Franklin county), *David True, Glen D. Vickrey, Floyd Waln (Franklin county), *Harry Watkins (Logan county), Fred E. Ward (Franklin county), Marion Wells, Hebby L. Wertz, Hobart Wiley (Montana), Seymour Williams (Franklin county), James A. Woodruff (Franklin county), *William D. Woodward, *Arthur Young, Harold Zeller, Wilbur F. Zeigler, Harry Kennedy, *Forest W. Fox, *Elmer E. Hurd, *Edgel H. Shepard, Warren C. Reynolds, *Russell C. Chatwood, *Irwin W. Sundheimer, Adam McGill, Fred Autz (Franklin county), Leo Urban, *Cecil Spellman and Carlisle Pickering.

RED CROSS DONATIONS.

Champaign county is proud of the record it made in the summer of 1917 in collecting more than fifteen thousand dollars for the National Red Cross war fund. More than a third of this amount was contributed by fifty-one individuals, corporations, churches or other organizations of the county, each of which contributed at least one hundred dollars for the fund. The following list of hundred-dollar contributors has been furnished by James F. Hearn, the official head of the Red Cross Society in Champaign county, and contains the subscriptions up to August 15, 1917.

The Urbana contributors are as follow : The Murphy Lumber Com-

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pany, Mrs. J. S. Kirby, C. H. Marvin, Mrs. Anna M. Johnson, the Misses Williams, in memory of Mrs. Milo G. Williams ; E. E. Cheney, George A. Talbott, D. McCrery & Son, John H. James, R. E. and Rovilla Humphreys, Cyrus Miller, George McConnel, Mrs. Margaret McConnell, the Howard Paper Company, Lucius S. Howard, H. M. Howard, John P. Neer, E. P. Middleton, Isaac 'F. Johnson, Charles F. Johnson, Mrs. D. S. Perry, L. C. Shyrigh, Miss Elizabeth Weaver, the W. B. Marvin Manufacturing Company, Miss Josephine Valentine, Class No. 8 of the First Baptist church, Thomas B. Owen, J. C. MacCracken & Sons, Charles E. Buroker, Urbana Tool and Die Company, E. W. Holding, Frank C. Gaumer, W. E. Brown, Quinn M. Yocum, the Ohio Fuel Supply Company, Joseph C. Thackery, W. W. Wilson, William, R.. Wilson, John J. and Helen Mumper, W. R. Warnock, John C. Barnett and two anonymous subscriptions.

The St. Paris contributors are four in number : David McMorran, Grant McMorran, Fred and Fannie Black and A. T. Harmon ; Mechanicsburg furnished two contributors, D. J. Burnham and the Hodge brothers. The little village of Mingo added two more to the roll of honor, Mrs. E. J. Stevenson and Miss Mary D. Johnson.

The Red Cross supply department has taken up the work of knitting for the soldiers and Mrs. R. M. Day has charge of this work. Almost all of the Red Cross auxiliaries have organized for work and at each of their workrooms the women are meeting and sewing upon the hospital garments. The completed garments are inspected by Mrs. E. P. Middleton, who has entire charge of the work of the auxiliaries.

The people of Woodstock, a village of three hundred and twelve inhabitants, have achieved a record in Red Cross activities probably without an equal in the United States. In the drive for memberships and subscriptions to the war fund they turned in a total of $1,626.91, of which $1,074 was for memberships, of which twenty-two are life-memberships—probably an unrivaled result.

ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF URBANA.

The Associated Charities of Urbana, which dates its beginning from the days just following the Civil War, was formerly known as the Benevolent Society of Urbana. For a period of half a century this worthy organization, by which the citizens of Urbana have been enabled to bring succor in times of economic stress to the city's deserving poor, has, as its long and active career shows, been a very efficient organization of its kind. It has ever held to the principles with which its first members were imbued, when

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the nation lay stunned, wounded, seared and bleeding after the four long years of terrible bloodshed of the Rebellion.

About eighteen years ago the Benevolent Society was reorganized into a society known as the Associated Charities, and the latter has proved a very efficient successor to the older organization, relieving the temporary needs of Urbana's poor with efficiency and dispatch. The Associated Charities is financed by ,voluntary gifts of money, donated at the Christmas season, the high tide of the year when good cheer and Christian generosity permeates the world, and also by the receipts from the annual "tag day."

The officers of the Associated Charities at this time are : Mrs. E. P. Middleton, president; Mrs. George W. Hitt, vice-president; Mrs. Horace Hubbell, secretary ; Mrs. W. M. Rock, treasurer ; and the advisory board composed of Mrs. W. M. Rock, Mrs. Emma S. Eichelberger and Mrs. John Connor. It is quite probable that the resources and the energy of the Associated Charities will be severely taxed during the period of our participation in the great World War, but its years of experience and the hearty support given it by the citizens of the city will undoubtedly permit it to perform its tasks generously and well.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY RED CROSS SOCIETY.

In times of peace, we had international law, international friendliness, and international confidence, but during the present World War, to our bitter disappointment, we have seen these international institutions revolutionized. Peaceful merchantmen have been changed into battle cruisers. Fishing smacks have been changed to mine trawlers. We feel at times that international law is a myth. We smile sardonically at the mention of international friendliness and confidence. But there is one international institution that has not changed to a machine for the stern work of war. It is the Red Cross. It does not discriminate among creeds, races, or nationalities. It is a machine of mercy which carries its tender messages of comfort, of succor, and gentleness to the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Ethiopian and the Caucasian, the German and the Englishman, bringing the tired, agonized spirits surcease, and with magic touch conjuring the wrecked bodies back to health again.

But there was a time when there was not a Red Cross. Think of the unspeakable conditions a century ago when nations were at war. More soldiers died from unsanitary camp conditions, and inadequate hospital facilities than from the bullets of their enemy. Especially terrible were such conditions in the Crimean War from 1854-1856. Soldiers died like flies

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from disease. The call of distress went back to England for help to save her gallant soldiers. The great need was nurses and hospitals; and in answer to the call Florence Nightingale, a devoted Englishwoman, brought a little band of earnest and competent women together and sailed for Scutari in 1854. As soon as she had organized and improved the hospital work, a change was noticeable in the mortality among the soldiers. She was really the first Red Cross nurse, but it was thirty years afterward when the Red Cross Society assumed its international aspect.

Even during our own Civil War we had no Red Cross; in fact no real, properly organized effort was made toward helping the wounded until a year after the beginning of the war. The devotion of the good women then was not different from what it is now in this present world crisis, for soon the ladies of Champaign county and of other counties in the North formed Ladies Aid Societies, which prepared food and delicacies for their heroes at the front. At first jams, jellies and some articles of knitted wear were sent in boxes to the boys in blue; and later bandages and lint were prepared for hospital use. Soon the necessity for concerted effort was made obvious, and the Sanitary Commission was formed ; this, however, was not the foundation of the present Red Cross organization. In 1861, the Sanitary Commission became a national organization for the temporary relief of the Northern soldiers in the hospitals. Bandages were made and sent to the front, and lint, then largely used in surgery, was scraped from old pieces of clean linen cloths. These cloths were cut into small squares and distributed among the girls at school. Then each girl took her portion home and scraped it, then she divided. the strands into a mass of fibers, the whole forming a spongy mass used for stopping the flow of blood.

Probably the greatest leader among the Urbana Sanitary Commission workers was the late Mrs. Milo G. Williams, mother of the Misses Adelaide and Louise Williams of South High street. It was largely due to her masterful leadership that the zeal of the workers was not allowed to flag. Most of these good women who so unselfishly devoted themselves to that great work of sending aid and comfort to the stricken boys in the field, have long since gone to their reward, followed by the undying gratitude of the nation and the benediction of the soldiers of the Rebellion.

After some years of service the Red Cross Society, which had been only a local organization, convinced the world that it deserved international recognition. Two international conferences were called at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1881 and 1884. America was not represented in the first meeting, but she was ably so in the second by the first president of the American Red

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Cross Society, that wonderful woman, Clara Barton. The work of the Red Cross is not limited to the alleviation of the sufferings from war, but when disasters resulting from floods, tornadoes and earthquakes strike an unsuspecting people, its forces are ready to lend timely succor to the unfortunates. Until recently, however, the American people have been tardy in becoming members of the national organization.

When the nation began to prepare for the struggle against the forces of autocracy and absolutism to preserve the principles for which thousands of its sons have shed their blood, the American people arose nobly to the call for funds to bring aid to the boys who go forth to fight the nation's battles. We are indeed fortunate now in having an organization such as the Red Cross, which is amply provided with the complete machinery for doing this work, for we shall not have to waste valuable time and material in experimentation ; and we are showing our appreciation of its efficiency by giving it our unstinted support. The first call for $100,000,000 was so heartily answered by metropolis and hamlet that the amount was oversubscribed.

LOCAL RED CROSS WORK.

The people of Champaign county, in support of this worthy cause, have shown themselves typical of the country at large. Before a state of war was declared between the United States and Germany, a preliminary meeting, attended by thirty-five persons, was held in Urbana on March 12, 1917, to discuss the permanent organization of the Champaign County Chapter of the American Red Cross Society. The movement met with such hearty indorsement, that a subsequent meeting was held in the city building on the evening of April 5, 1917, when the permanent organization of the chapter was effected, by electing twelve directors, namely : I. N. Keyser, chairman; Mrs. W. M. Rock, Mrs. G. T. Jordan, J. F. Hearn, C. E. Buroker, Miss Josephine Valentine, Miss Lillian Nutt, W. E. Brown, Rev. W. M. Stimson, George McConnell, Capt. G. I. Leonard, and Coleman Ross. Honorary members of the board of directors are : Dr. E. W. Ludlow, president of the Champaign County Medical Society, and Mrs. E. P. Middleton, president of the associated charities. In addition to these, the mayors of Mechanicsburg, Mutual, Woodstock, North Lewisburg, Spring Hill, St. Paris and Christiansburg are ex officio members of the board. On the same day the following permanent officers were elected : Mayor George A. Talbot, chairman; I. N. Keyser, vice-chairman; James F. Hearn, secretary, and H.

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A. Griswold, treasurer. On the executive committee are Mayor Talbot, George McConnell, I. N. Keyser, James F. Hearn, Mrs. G: T. Jordan and Mrs. William M. Rock.

The next question confronting the chapter was to find headquarters of adequate capacity for the work of the Red Cross. Fortunately the armory of Company D, Ohio National Guard, which is a part of the Clifford Theater building, was offered for the purpose. Since the armory had not been occupied since Company D left in June, 1916, for the Mexican border, it was thoroughly renovated, and on about April 14, the society took possession. The chapter immediately began the formation of auxiliaries, and now has two branches and twelve auxiliaries fully organized in the county, which are all in splendid working order. At this time all the units are engaged in making the various supplies needed by the national organization.

When the first requisition of the National Red Cross Society for a hundred million dollars was made, the Champaign county chapter immediately busied itself and filled its quota. The following are the names of those who donated one hundred dollars each : Miss Elizabeth Weaver, Lucien Howard, Maxwell Howard, the Howard Paper Mills, G. A. Talbot, George McConnell, W.V. R Warnock, C. F. Johnson, Miss Josephine Valentine, W. W. Wilson, C. E. Buroker, J. P. Neer, E. P. Middleton, D. McCrery & Son, W. E. Brown, Mrs. Margaret McConnell, John H. James, Quinn M. Yocum, J. J. and Miss Helen Mumper, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Humphreys, Murphy Lumber Company, W. B. Marvin Company, Isaac T. Johnson, Joseph Thackery, S. S. Deaton, Frank C. Gaumer, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Stevenson, Mingo, Ohio; Mrs. Anna M. Johnson, C. E. Marvin, Mrs. E. W. Holding, Class No. 8 of the First Baptist Sunday School, W. R. Wilson, E. E. Cheney, Judge T. B. Owen, Urbana Tool and Die Company, J. C. McCracken & Sons, Mrs. John S. Kirby, Misses M. E. and A. H. Williams, L. C. Shyrigh, and one hundred dollars by someone who preferred not to be known.

By its unflagging industry the Champaign county chapter soon placed itself among the first counties of the United States to send Red Cross material to the front. On Wednesday, July 25, 1917, the Champaign Red Cross Unit sent four large boxes of supplies to the organization's headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, from whence they were forwarded to the hospitals in France. Much of the material was made up in Urbana, but a large part was done by the various auxiliaries in the various parts of the county..

One box contained things needed in treatment of surgery cases. In it were two dozen gauze bandages, twelve dozen gauze compresses and pads, one dozen gauze rolls, twelve dozen gauze wipes or sponges, one dozen knitted

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wipes or sponges, one dozen gauze drains, one-half dozen gauze laparotomy pads with tapes, and two pounds of absorbent cotton. Another box contained bandages as follows : Thirty-four dozen four-inch muslin bandges, thirty-three dozen three-inch muslin bandages, two dozen four-inch flannel bandages, three dozen three-inch flannel bandages, five dozen four-tailed bandages, three dozen abdominal bandages,. three dozen T bandages, five dozen slinges, and twelve pounds of absorbent cotton. .Two other boxes contained needs for hospital beds : Eleven dozen sheets, eight dozen pillow cases, twelve dozen towels, three dozen bath towels, two dozen wash cloths, twenty-four bath robes, thirty-three suits of pajamas, sixty pairs of socks, and eighteen pairs of bed socks.

It is certain that as the war continues the devotion of the good people of Champaign county to the cause of justice and liberty which was so ably enunciated' in the never-to-be-forgotten words of our noble President, will not allow their zeal to slacken in preparing the comforts for the boys who go to the front to give their last full measure of devotion, if need be, to safeguard the light of liberty and to frustrate the terrible ogre of Prussian-ism from ever polluting the fair soil of our .free land. As calls are made in the future, the county, as it has ever done in its glorious military past, will give without stint of its sons and resources to the great cause for which the civilized world has risen in arms.

CHAPTER XXX.

BANKS AND BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

There was little need of banks in the first half century of the organization of Champaign county.. The people had very little specie and such banks as did exist prior to 1850 were largely banks of issue. They bought and sold notes of other banks and their profits were largely due to the shrewdness of their managers in guessing what notes would be worth buying and how long they could bold what they did buy with a reasonable assurance of profit. During the thirties and forties most of the currency was known as "wildcat" money and this feline designation sufficiently explains the esteem in which this money was herd. The term "shirt-plaster" was also in current use during this same period and was applied to paper currency issued by banks, merchants or anyone who might want to pay a printer to have some of it struck off. Prior to the Civil War, and even during that struggle, a substitute for specie came into use which was commonly known as "token" money. This was nothing more than a coin issued by merchants usually bearing their own name and the particular value attached to them by their owner. The merchant redeemed these "token's" at the value which they represented, and, if the merchant was known to be responsible, his "tokens" became, in a sense, the circulating medium of his community. As might be expected, the farther the "token" wandered from its sponsor. the less valuable it became.

Another method of providing a medium of exchange was the issuance of what were known as "due bills", which, in effect, were the same as "tokens". It is true that there was a small amount of United States specie in circulation, but it was very limited in the first half century of the county's history. In fact, so limited was silver specie that it was customary to cut a silver dollar into nine triangular pieces, with the longest point tapering toward the center of the coin. This money, when so cut, was facetiously referred to as "sharp-shins". It was also customary to cut the twenty-five cent piece into two pieces and the resultant pieces were known. throughout the western states as "bits". Frequently the "bit" was halved and the early county treasurers of Champaign took over many a six-and-a-quarter-cent piece as part payment for taxes. The local records bear frequent witness to the fact that the pioneers of this county cut their money to pieces and fractional cur-

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rency was evidently very much in evidence in all minor transactions. Scarcely a taxpayer in the county but found his annual bill to the county treasurer with a fractional cent itemized thereon.

THE FIRST BANK.

There is no doubt that there was some kind of a bank in operation in Urbana as early as 1814, but official records and documentary proof of its existence have disappeared along with the men who were connected with it. This bank even antedates the one which is usually referred to as the first bank in the state. History records that the first bank in Ohio was established at Cincinnati on January 28, 1817, as a- branch of the United States bank. In October of the same year another branch of the United States bank was opened at Chillicothe and both banks were soon doing a prosperous business. In fact, so flourishing did they become that in 1819 the state resolved to list them for taxation and scheduled them for fifty thousand dollars each. As might be expected both banks registered a vigorous protest and the next few months saw their case carried from the local courts to the United .States supreme court. That tribunal decided that the two federal banks of Ohio did not have to pay a state, tax, and the state in retaliation outlawed the two banks by refusing them the protection of the state courts in enforcing the collection of their debts. These banks of 1817 were federal institutions, but it seems certain that there were local banks like the one at Urbana for some years prior to their establishment.

Since 1820, when the state experienced its first difficulty with banks, there has been little trouble between the civil authority of the state and the banks. With few exceptions they have been amenable to state supervision, and gradually constitutional and statutory restrictions have been thrown around them in such a way as to fully protect their depositors. At the pres ent time few, if any states in the Union, have a better banking code than Ohio.

THE URBANA BANKING COMPANY.

The history of the banks of. Champaign county, if they may be so called, which existed prior to 1851 is shrouded in more or less obscurity. They were not under state supervision and were not obligated to make public reports of their business and consequently the historian is compelled to rely on such fugitive references in the local papers as may pertain to them. Mention has been made of some kind of a banking company which came into

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existence at Urbana about 1814, but little is known of the company other than its name. It was known as the Urbana Banking Company and it seemed to have led a more or less prosperous monetary career until about 1842. The Citizen and Gazette, in its issue of January 18, 1900, makes the statement that' William Helps, of Urbana, had come into possession of a three-dollar note of the Urbana Banking Company, issued in 1838, and signed by John H. James, as president,. and T. Rhinehart, as cashier.

Concerning the beginning of this Urbana Banking Company, the historian falls. back on tradition and unsupported documentary, evidence for such facts as are presented. Thus, it is said that it was opened for business in a building on Miami street near the public square. John Reynolds, the first village postmaster, is recorded as having been the first president of the Institution and William Neil, the first cashier. No reference to either man in any of the sketches of their careers indicates that either had any connection at any time with any bank. How much and what kind of business it transacted, who its successive officers were, or how long it maintained its existence, are questions which have not been satisfactorily answered. Local court records credit it with a career extending down as late as 1842, but there is no documentary proof that it closed its career at that time. It seems certain that John H. James was the president of the banking company during the last few years of its career. It is not known what brought about the suspension of the bank's operations, nor whether it was succeeded by some other financial institution. In the proceedings of the common pleas court there is an entry to the effect that it went into a receiver's hands on February 14, 1842 (Duplicate Deed Record, R., p. 136). The record states that the receivers were Edward B. Cavileer, Samuel Keener and William Rianhard. John .H. James was president of the bank at this time. Another record in the same volume above mentioned (p. 482) gives William McDonald as "special receiver in chancery", in referring to the muddled condition of the bank. Just what disposition was finally made of the institution is not apparent from the court records, although a short notice is given in another volume of the court records to the effect that the bank effected a transfer of land on February 22, 1844. The bank evidently closed its doors sometime during the middle of the forties.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY BANK.

The first bank established in the county under the free-banking law of 1851 was the Champaign County Bank. It was granted a charter by the

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state and advertisements were at once placed in the local papers offering stock for sale. The first notice of the bank's stock for sale appeared in the Urbana Citizen and Gazette under date of September 19, 1851. The announcement of stock for sale was signed by Henry P. Espy, who subscribed himself as cashier.

On Christmas day, 1851, Espy sent out a notice to the effect that a meeting of stockholders would be held on January 5, 1852, for the purpose of electing directors, and that a meeting of the directors would follow on January 12 for the election of officers. The first directors elected were Allen Loudenback, T. M. Gwynne, Lemuel Weaver, A. R. Colwell, S. A. Winslow and Henry P. Espy. Winslow became the first president and Espy the first cashier. The quarters of the bank were in the rooms now occupied by its successor, the Champaign National Bank. Winslow was succeeded in the presidency of the bank by Henry Weaver, the latter being elected on August 20, 1859, Winslow having resigned. Weaver continued as president until the bank was reorganized as the Champaign National Bank in April, 1865. Espy was the cashier of the bank during its whole career, 1852-65.

CHAMPAIGN NATIONAL BANK.

Two years after Congress had passed the National Bank act of February 25, 1863, the directors and stockholders of the old Champaign County Bank of Urbana decided to avail themselves of the right to get a national bank charter. Following this decision an application for a charter was made to the Comptroller of currency and the same was granted on March 21, 1865. The Urbana Citizen and Gazette of March 30, 1865, says : "The Champaign National Bank of Urbana, which takes the place of the old Champaign County Bank, commences business on Monday next, April 3rd. The paid in capital is $100,000. The following well-known persons compose the board of directors : Philander B. Ross, Henry Weaver, 0. T. Cundiff, James A. McLain, and Allen Loudenback." On the day mentioned the bank, the first national bank in Champaign county opened its doors for business, and under very favorable portents began its career, which, for sure investment and conservative management—the necessary attributes of a sound banking institution—has insured it a long and valuable service to Champaign county.

The roster of the bank's Officials contains the names of men who represent some of the best financial ability of Champaign county. Philander B. Ross was the first. president of the bank, and remained so until he was succeeded by Joel Reid, February 9, 1889. Mr. Reid served the bank in this

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capacity until January 14, 1908, when he was succeeded by C. H. Marwin, who still holds the office. Henry P. Espy, who was cashier of the old Champaign County Bank during its career, held the same position after it was merged into the Champaign National Bank, and remained in that capacity until he was succeeded by W. R. Ross, January 14, 1886. J. C. Powers succeeded Mr. Ross on January 10, 1910, and is the present incumbent.

The Champaign National Bank is now the largest bank in Champaign county, with assets of $1,200,000; it is also an active United States depository. As it was chartered with a. capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, it was decided later to increase the capitalization to two hundred thousand ; thus the bank's prestige and note-issuing right were increased. The following official statement of the bank's condition at the close of business on March 5, 1917, tells its own story :

Name	Bank	Postoffice	Age
George W. Leonard Walter C. Gifford George A. Burkett Edward H. Ullery Edmund M. Brown Charles E. Lyons Daniel H. Gifford Frank H. Hatfield John S. Shaffer B. S. Vermillion William E. Ward Walter W. Smith Charles A. Bailey Ralph L. Ayres Frank M. Boller Edward A. Webber William L. Bargar William F. Gumpert Charles B. Winder Charles W. Cushmar Paul A. Gulick William H. Goul Edward D. Roberts Herbert C. Davis Charles H. Bentley	Captain 1st Lieut. 2nd Lieut. 1st Sergt. Q. M. Sergt Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Corporal Musician Musician Artificer Wagoner	Urbana Woodstock Urbana Urbana Urbana Reynolds Woodstock Woodstock Mechanicsburg Reynolds Urbana Columbia Woodstock Reynolds Urbana Columbia City, Indiana Northville Eris N. Lewisburg Woodstock Mingo Mutual Sycamore Urbana Wilmington	38 27 22 26 23 28 33 22 25 31 22 21 24 21 24 20 21 28 23 22 29 21 21 21 19

Name	Postoffice	Age
Allgyer, Francis J. Ashton, Lester W. Ayers, Don L. Ball, Timothy O. S. Bayless, Ralph M. Beck Marsh Bensing, Frank E. Bosler, Benjamin S. Brake, Allie Carlo, Logan Cherry, Houston H.. Childs, Norman S. Clark, Guy W. Craig, Griffith B. Craig, Richard Curran, William F. Cushman, Arthur G. Dickson, John H. Ellis, Dallas. T. Ellis, Rose Farrington, William L. Faulkner, William L. Fay, William H. Fetz, George, Jr. Feurt, Kenneth M. Fisher, Sumner J. Pout, Joseph F. Ganson, Dale R. Hanley, David M. Hartzler, Thomas K. Hedges, Phineas D. Henry, Bert Hegle, David K. Hohnstedt, Geo. L. Holycross, Thomas A. Howard, Harry A. Hughes, Milton Hughes, Charles G. Hyde, Robert Jennings, John S. Jones, Lee R. Kees, Jacob I. Lannon, John W. Lee, Frank W. Lee, Arthur M.	Urbana Mechanicsburg Reynolds LaPorte, Indian Mechanicsburg Cable Urbana Urbana Milford Center St. Paris Xenia Urbana Woodstock Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Woodstock Woodstock N. Moorefield Urbana Barnesville Irwin St. Paris Mutual Urbana Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Woodstock West Liberty Fountain Park Mechanicsburg Urbana Mechanicsburg Eris Wakefield Wakefield Mechanicsburg Urbana Mingo Urbana Mechanicsburg Urbana Urbana Urbana	22 28 19 21 21 30 25 32 27 27 18 18 25 22 18 23 18 24 24 19 21 34 20 20 19 22 21 21 28 21 20 20 31 28 26 26 21 18 22 22 22 22 22 24 19
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Lewis, Thomas O. Linville, Kemp Q. Martin, Sim D. McClure, Andrew J. Mast, Cicero P. Mattox, William R. Mcllvain, Robert B. McKinney, Forrest O. McInturff, Charles F. Moore, Martin S. Overfield, John A. Parish, John R. Penny, Samuel H. Phellis, Verne H. Polin, Daniel S. Pontiss, George H. Ream, Arthur G. Redmond, Charles H. Reed, Edgar J. Roberts, James F. Romine, Amon Sessions, Perry M. Smith, William S. Standish, Miles Standish. Charles W. Stanley, Ross D. Taylor, George W. Thurman, Harvey L. Todd, Frank W. Turner, Arthur Weatherhead, Guy W. White, Arthur A. Wilford, James W., Jr. Discharged Redmond, William L. Transferred Colwell, Frank F. Loucks, Nevin A. Harry R. Hupman Fred Ernest Austin, Ernest Meehan, John P. Sowers, Emory B.	Mechanicsburg Woodstock Woodstock Urbana Urbana Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg Crayon Mechanicsburg Woodstock Urbana Xenia Mechanicsburg Woodstock Urbana Urbana Urbana Cable Mutual Cable Woodstock Cable Woodstock Woodstock Milford Center Mechanicsburg Kings Creek Urbana Woodstock Woodstock Mingo Urbana Mutual Urbana Dayton Springfield Springfield N. Lewisburg Urbana Westville	20 18 21 22 28 30 38 30 20 21 22 22 20 19 33 18 18 47 36 36 23 20 23 21 21 25 22 27 29 20 21 22 19 47 33 25 26 23 22 25 22

RESOURCES
Loans and discounts Notes and bills rediscounted U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) U. S. bonds deposited to secure U. S. deposits (par value) Total U. S. bonds Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal savings deposits Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpledged Total bonds, securities, etc. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) Value of banking house (if unincumbered) Equity in banking house Furniture and fixtures Real estate owned other than banking house Net amount due from approved reserve agents in New York Chicago, and St. Louis Net amount due rom approved reserve agents in other reserve cities Net amount due from banks and bankers Other checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank Outside checks and other cash items Fractional currency, nickels, and cents Notes of other national banks Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer Other assets (Internal Revenue Stamps) TOTAL	$590,423.33 200,000.00 15,000.00 7,000.00 120,506.74 13,000.00 19,513.62 26,815.26 713.18 469.53	$590,423.33 215,000.00 127,506.74 7,500.00 13,000.00 1,200.00 20,000.00 46,328.88 5,599.84 1,170.28 1,182.71 6,725.00 53,900.00 10,000.00 151.50 $1,099,688.28
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 841 LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid Circulating notes outstanding Net amount due to banks and bankers Individual deposits subject to check Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days United States deposits Postal savings deposits Total demand deposits U. S. bonds borrowed without furnishing collateral security for same U. S. bonds borrowed for which collateral security was furnished Liabilities other than those above stated. U. S. bond Act TOTAL	$69,507.57 2,845.76 563,845.34 15,000.00	$200,000.00 50,000.00 66,661.81 199,997.50 4,093.62 534,526.04 11,005.99 14,685.89 3,627.42 15,000.00 90.01 $1,099,688.28

RESOURCES

Notes and bills rediscounted Overdrafts U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) Total U. S. bonds Bonds other than U. S. bonds to secure postal savings deposits Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) own unpledged Total bonds, securities, etc. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) Furniture and fixtures Net amount due from approved reserve agents in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Net amount due from approved reserve agents in other reserve cities Net amount due from banks and bankers Other checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank Outside checks and other cash items Fractional currency, nickels, and cents Notes of other national banks Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer TOTAL	$100,000.00 5,000.00 106,848.00 16,888.62 135,810.45 312.22 87.80	$520,356.00 588.77 100,000.00 111,848.00 6,000.00 5,000.00 152,699.07 2,746.86 619.00 400.02 3,300.00 55,347.00 5,000.00 $963,904.72
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid Circulating notes outstanding Net amount due to banks and bankers Individual deposits subject to check Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 dayS Postal savings deposits Total demand deposits TOTAL	109,734. 2,643. 556,013.	100,000.00 100,000.00 107,091.00 100,000.00 800.00 549,198.84 3,828.30 2.986.48 $963,904.72

RESOURCES
Loans and discounts Overdrafts, unsecured U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) Total U. S. bonds Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpledged Total bonds, securities, etc Stocks, other than Federal Reserve Bank stock Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) Value of banking house (if unincumbered) Furniture and fixtures Net amount die from approved reserve agents in New York Net amount due from approved reserve agents in other reserve cities Other checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank Outside checks and other cash items Fractional currency, nickels, and cents Notes of other national banks Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer TOTAL	$63,000.00 76,386.00 19,370.72 39,886.45 4,294.92 358.38	$327,654.06 346.45 63,000.00 76,386.00 1,000.00 5,250.00 16,000.00 1,000.00 59,257.17 18,894.36 4,653.30 1,602.00 42,516.78 1,750.00 $619,310.12
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid	31,465.2 106.03	$100,000.00 75,000.00 31,359.24
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 847
Circulating notes outstanding Net amount due to approved reserve agents in other reserve cities Net amount due to banks and bankers 1ndividual deposits subject to check Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days Total deman deposits TOTAL	100.42 350,193.80	61,600.00 100.42 1,0§6.60 348,395.43 1,798.37 $619,310.12

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FARMERS BANK OF URBANA. The Farmers Bank of Urbana began its career in July, 1855, in the Union block. According to its opening announcement in the Urbana Citizen and Gazette of July 20, 1855, its "proprietors", as it chose to call its owners, were H. Nourse, James S. Clark, John A. Mosgrove, John H. Young, William Wiley, John Baldwin, Joshua Baldwin and S. A. Winslow. James S. Clark was the first cashier. Continuing in its advertisement of the above date, the scope of its proposed activity is set forth as follows : "This bank is now prepared to receive deposits, discount paper, buy and sell exchange and coin, and transact all business usually done in banking establishments." It is interesting to note that it paid interest on time deposits. The bank issued no paper of its own and was therefore in a position to suspend at any time without having any outstanding paper to redeem. It carried an advertisement in the local papers week by week from July 20, 1855, up to and including the issue of September 31, 1859, on which date the Urbana Citizen and Gazette carried its last notice. In the same paper, under .date of October 18, 1860, the following statement appeared : NOTICE. FARMERS' BANK oF URBANA. The proprietors of the Farmers' Bank, having determined to close its business, have placed the notes and bills, together with its books and accounts, 842 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. in the hands of H. P. Espy, cashier of the Champaign County Bank. Parties owing the Farmers' Bank are requested to make payment at the Champaign County Bank, where also depositors will be paid. ROBERT NEIL, Administrator, JOHN W. BALDWIN, JOHN W. YOUNG, JAMES KOOKEN, WILLIAM WILEY. Urbana, October 13, 1860. In the same issue of the paper, James G. Ogden gives formal notice of his resignation as cashier to the "stockholders and partners" of the Farmers' Bank. The Citizen and Gazette (October 18, 186o) in commenting editorially on the dissolution of the bank made the following observation : "Our people were not a little surprised last week by the announcement that this institution had ceased to exist. It was not a bank of issue and consequently has no outstanding circulation to redeem. The stockholders, we hear, finding the investment to be an unprofitable one, have withdrawn their capital, and the concern will be closed up without damage to anyone, we suppose." The room and equipment of the defunct bank were at once taken over by James B. Armstrong, a former county surveyor and county treasurer, who opened a bank bearing his name. ARMSTRONG'S BANK. James B. Armstrong was one of the wealthy men of the county in 1860. His service as county treasurer had placed him in a position where he was well acquainted with the financial condition of all the people of the county. In commenting upon his starting in the banking business, the Citizen and Gazette (October 18, 1860), paid a tribute to him by saying that "Armstrong's well-known business habits and probity of character will unquestionably secure to this new institution a high reputation and a fair amount of business." James G. Glenn, formerly cashier of the Farmers Bank, was retained as cashier. Armstrong continued his bank throughout the Civil War and made a financial success of the institution. He issued paper. script of various denominations, ranging from fifteen cents upward. After Congress passed the Act of June 3, 1862, authorizing the establishing of national banks, Armstrong began to make preparations to reorganize his institution as a national bank. A charter was granted on March 7, 1865, to the successor of the CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 843 Armstrong bank, the new institution bearing the name of the Citizens National Bank of Urbana. This bank was the thirteenth national bank in Ohio and the three hundred and thirty-third in the United States. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF URBANA. The Citizens National Bank of Urbana opened for business on April 10, 1865, in the room of the former Armstrong lank. The balances of all of the depositors of the old bank were transferred to the new institution on this date. The inception of the Citizens National Bank and its relation to its immediate predecessor have just been stated. The bank started and with a capital stock of $100,000 and although. its charter allowed it the privilege of increasing to $300,000, its original capital stock has never been increased. The first directors were James B. Armstrong, Edward Jennings, Daniel Blose, William Wiley and John H. Blose. The other original stockholders were Adam Mosgrove, James M. Mosgrove, Abner Whitely and E. G. Wiley. Armstrong was the first president and E.. G. Wiley, the first cashier. Abner Whitely was elected as the first president, but resigned the -presidency the same day he was elected and .disposed of his stock to J. B. Armstrong, who was at the same time elected president. Armstrong continued as president until his resignation on February 19, 1874, his successor being Oliver Taylor. Armstrong removed to California, where he lived until his death, October 15, 190o. Taylor was followed by C. F. Colwell on June 5, 1885, and the latter continued as president until his death, June 16, 1900. Dr. James M. Mosgrove was elected on June 29, 1900, to succeed Colwell and served until his death. Simeon Taylor followed Doctor Mosgrove and remained at the head of the bank until his death, when W. W. Wilson, the present incumbent was elected. Mr. Wilson- had been cashier since 1878. E. G. Wiley, who began his duties as the first cashier of the bank on the day it opened, April. 10, 1865, was continued in this position until April 20, 1878, when he was succeeded by W. W. Wilson. The latter served as cashier until he was elevated to the presidency. At the same time I. O. Tritt, who was teller at the time and had been connected with the bank for several years, became the cashier, a position he still holds. J. H. P. Stone became assistant cashier in 1882, and served in this capacity until a few years ago. The capital stock remains at one hundred thousand dollars, while the bank has built up . a surplus fund equal in amount to its capital stock: A study of its last public 844 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. statement shows it to be a million-dollar institution. This statement is based on the official report of the bank's condition at the close of business on March 5, 1917.