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OHIOAN DISCOVERS SECRET PROCESSES USED BY MONKS

  From book-keeper to one of the world's greatest engrossers in the
record of Coella Lindsay Ricketts a graduate of Ohio University, who has
discovered secret prosesses for decorating and engrossing on vellum and
paper used by the monks in European monasteries in the Middle Ages. 
While attending the University he supported himself by teaching
penmanship in the Athens High School and after his graduation was a
book-keeper in Chicago.  He practiced engrossing in his spare time, and
today his work is known in the Vatican, the British Museum, and other
centers of art.

VAUGHNSVILLE
  Mrs. Isaac Griffith is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Florence Williams,
northwest of town.
  Anna Mary Gander was in Lima the first part of the week.  She was
visiting her son, Mr. Lloyd Dackin and family.
  The Junior Class Play entitled "The Gold Bug" will be given next
Saturday night in the gym.  Everybody come.
  Miss Moody, an Institute speaker from Chicago, gave a very interesting
talk at the M. E. church last Sunday night.
  Mrs. Elizabeth Slusser, who has been ill with pneumonia is improving
at this writing.
  There were several people from here attended the Senior Class Play of
Central High in Lima, Friday evening.
  The M.E. Basketball team attended the Tournament at Lima Friday and
Saturday but were not fortunate enough to bring any rewards home with
them.
  The body of Mrs. John Guffey living at Goshen Ind., was brought back
here Thursday.  Interment in the Ottawa River Cemetery.
  D. R. Risser was a Lima visitor Tuesday.
  Miss Dorothy Griffith who is attending college in Ft. Wayne, was able
to be brought home Sunday, after an attack of pneumonia.
  Class No. 7 and the Ladies Aid Society of the M.E. church will conduct
an Easter sale, Saturday afternoon and evening, April 15th.  Everybody
is invited to do their Easter buying at this sale.  Remember the date.
  Mr. C. T. Evans was confined to his home several days last week with
the quinsy.
  Mrs. Pearl Evans who has been confined to her home for several days
with an attack of nervous trouble is able to be out again.

Attempted Suicide
  W. W. Mook, wellknown resident of Clyde, attempted to commit suicide
by cutting his throat with a razor last Saturday afternoon at his home
on McPherson Highway just east of town.  He had left the house only a
few minutes before, and as he had been acting strangely for several days
the family became suspicious and made a search for him.  His nephew, Jay
Heffner of Norwalk, who had been staying at the Mook home for a few
days, found him in the upper part of the barn with a gash in his throat
several inches long and which had partially severed the wind-pipe.  The
unfortunate man was taken to Memorial hospital in the Beard ambulance
and his injury attended to by Dr. E. A. Baker, and he is now in a fair
way to recover so far as physical condition is concerned.
  A few nights before Mr. Mook left the house about 10:30 o'clock and
did not return.  Search failed to locate him until about noon the next
day, when he was found wandering about the fields near Streeter road. 
He said he had been out all night and was "just taking a little walk." 
Only a day or so previous he imagined that burglars had been in the
house the night before. 
  Mr. Mook has always been a hard-working and straightforward man, and
his misfortune is most regrettable.

DISLIKED CHILD, CLAIM; DIVORCE
  Charges that Ivan E. Coon, laborer No. 1012 Tanner avenue, objected to
the presence in his home of his wife's child by a former marriage, and
sought to have her abandon it, won a decree of divorce for Mrs. Nellie
Coon in common pleas court yesterday.
  Mrs. Coon testified that her husband continually abused her and
finally deserted her last October.  They were married in May 1919.