Amherst News-Times, 1920-07-15

              THfcAMHERST NEWS-TIMES
VOL. II, NO. 10.
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AMHERST, OHIO, THURSajjEY, JULY  18,  1920.
"SANDSTONE CENTER OP THE WORLD"
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PREPARATIONS MADE
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
PROGRAM OP ENTERTAINMENT
TO START JULY 2S— LAST*
SIX DAYS.
BROWNHELM  FARM  BUREAU
TO   HEAR   A.   P.   SANDLES
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Pinal arrangements have been made
for the lis day Chautauqua to be held
in Amherst from July 28 to Aug. 2
Inclusive. The advance man representing the Redpath Chautauqua was
In town this week taking care of advance advertising and distribution of
tickets and other matters which must
be taken .up before (he entertainers
can appear here.
The tickets are being sold fast and
the committee says that the week
here Is Insured a success In a financial way if the sale of tickets keeps
on the way it has been. The Redpath
will be here this year in place of the
Lincoln which usually visited Amherst.
This Is considered one of the best
Chautauquas In existence and is sure
to please the people lis well if not
better than the Lincoln has in its
yearly visits here.
The program this year Is especially
entertaining and instructive and some
of the best talent that can be secured
will be here to furnish entertainers
for the week.
The children's hour will he observed
every morning at 8:30 and every afternoon at 3:30. This hour will be
under the supervision of a person who
understands children and will be a
great pleasure for the kiddles. This
person will also conduct supervised
games and other things of entertainment for the larger children and will
have rehersals for the children's pageant which will be the big attraction
on the last night. This Is always a
big day for the children as it gives
them a chance to show their ability
along this line and they enjoy the
association with the other children
that a performance of this kind brings
about.
The program tor the six days 1
as follows:
1st Day Afternoon.
Introductory ceremonies.
Concert—Dunbar's Singing Bell
Ringers.
Evening.
Concert—Dunbar's   Bell   Ringers.
Lecture, "A Prince There Is"—Lewis
Edwin  York.
2hd Day Afternoon.
Children's Hour.
Concert—The Clark-l#ench Company.
Evening.
Concert—The Clark-French Co.
Lecture, "The Creed of Democracy"
—Granville Jones.
3rd Day Afternoon
Concert—Irene Stolofsky, violinist.
Children's Hour.
Dramatic Interpretation jof Booth
Tarklngton's "Mister Antonio"—M.
Beryl  Buckley.
Evening.
Concert—Harold Proctor, California tenor; Irene Stolofsky, violinist;
William Griffith Hill, painist.
4th Day Afternoon.        .•
Concert—White Hussars.
Children's Hour.
Leoutre, "Mysteries of the    Spirit
World"—Paul W. Ward.
Evening.
Grand Concert—White Hussars, a
singing  band.
8th Day Afternoon.
Children's Hour.
"The Spirit of the Women of Prance'
—Mile. Marie Rose Lauler.
Evening.
American Comedy in three acts, "It
Pays to Advertise."
6th Day Afternoon.
Entertainment—Ada Roach Company.
Children's Hour.
Lecture, "India and World Events"
—B. P. Hivale.
Evening.
Children's Pageant, directed by Junior Worker.
Joy Night—Ada Roach Company.
This program will probably vary a
little as one of our Chautauqua days
comes on Sunday.
Another meeting of the Brownhelm
Farm Bureau will be held Tuesday.
July 20 at the Congregational church
at Brownhelm. This Is the second or
a series of meetings that will be held
by this organization for the help of
the farmers In that vicinity.
A. P. Bandies will address thl«
meeting. Mr. Handles Is very well
known as a speaker and he has many
things to say that will be Interesting
and Instructive to the members and
others who may care to attend the
meeting. He Is secretary of the Ohio
Macadam association and has had
much experience in this line. His
talk Is sure to be Instructive and Interesting.
OUT OF A CLEAR SKY
UNION SERVICES IN
CHURCHES OF COUNTY
CHURCHE8   UNITE    IN    EVENING
SERVICES     IN     SEVERAL
TOWNS OF COUNTY.
Union Sunday evening services during July and August according to a
report of the Lorain county church
federation, have been arranged this
summer as has been the custom for
a number of years by several groups
of churches In Lorain county.
The three "south end" churches of
Lorain, vie, the First Baptist, the
Twentieth Street Methodist, and Ununited Brethren, are holding union
meetings in each church In turn on
Sunday evenings. Arrangements have
been discussed by the pastors of the
churches In the Loop district and In
South Lorain of holding union services in each district in the parks, and
these may take place later In the
summer.
At Blyrla the United Presbyterian,
the Disciple, First Congregation and
First Methodist churches have united
in Sunday evening services to be held
during July in the Methodist church
and during August in the Congregational church.
The First Methodist, First Baptist
and United Congregational churches
of Oberlln are holding their union
ser'-'jes in turn in their respective
churches during the summer.
The Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Disciple churches of Wellington are holding open-air meetings
on the green in front of the town hall
on Sunday evenings.
At both Avon and LaOrange union
Sunday evening services between the
Baptist and Methodist churches have
been the arrangement throughout the
twelve months for a number of years.
CHILD CONSERVATION i
LEAGUE WORKERS HERE
ORGANIZING LOCAL CIRCLE OF
LEAGUE COMPOSED OF
AMHERST MOTHERS.
AMHERST   A.   C.'S  WIN
IN   GAME   WITH   UKAFlON
COMMUNITY PICNIC
ARRANGED FOR AUG. 4
TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED FOR
ALL  —CRYSTAL    BEACH-
BAND GOING TOO.
JOHN ALGRIM  DIES;
WORKED AT QUARRIES
M. E.-C0NG'L WINS
IN CHURCH GAME
BRUCE PITCHE8 FOUR HIT GAME
AGAINST STONE CHURCH-
MUCH   INTEREST.
The baseball team of the Congregational-Methodist church met and
defeated a team representing the
Stone church at Brandt's park Friday
evening by a score of 9 to 1. Bruce,
pitcher for the M. E.- Cong'l. church
did good work striking .out twelve
men and allowing only three hits. The
Stone church scored their only point
when Schroeder doubled to left and
scored on Theodore Neumelster's single past second.
The batteries were. Guthrie and
Baumhurdt for the Stone church and
Bruce and Hearn for the M. E.- Cong'l.
This is the first game of the season for the churches and an effort Is
being made to form a league among
the churches not only In Amherst, but
In the surrounding territory Including
Brownhelm, South Amherst, Henrietta
and other small places where churches
are  located.
8ERIOU8LY  INJURED BY
FALL IN GARDEN
John Algrlm, aged 66, died late Bun
day at the local hospital after being
confined to the institution only a
short time. He was admitted to the
hospital on Saturday and passed away
Sunday.
Mr. Algrlm has been employed at
the quarries almost his entire life
and has lived in Amherst for many
years coming here when he was a
young man. He was born on Feb
14, 1854 and died on July 11, 1M0.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon from the late
home on Franklin avenue and from
the Lutheran church at 8:30. Rev. Jordan officiated at the services and interment was made in Cleveland avenue cemetery.
The deceased Is survived by three
sons, Rudolf of Amherst, John of
Lorain and Paul of Joliet, 111., and 7
grandchildren. Paul was unable to
attend the services on account of the
serious illness of his wife at the hospital in their home town.
Mrs. John Daniel of Blyrla avenue
met with a painful accident Monday
evening while working in her garden.
She slipped and fell, fracturing her
ankle. The bones were pulled completely out of Joint and it wa§ impossible to determine at first how bad
the injury was. An X-ray picture was
taken and it was found that the ankle
had  been fractured.
All arrangements have been made
for the Community picnic in which
the Business Men's association, U. S.
Automatic Co. und Married People's
Dancing club will participate. The
affair will be on Aug. 4 at Crystal
Beach and It Is expected that it will
be well attended. Trucks, have been
donated by some of the local merchants and will leave from designated
places, which will be announced later,
for the park. This Is one thing which
should attract a large rowd as many
times people make the excuse that
they have no way to get to the picnic grounds, but this year this excuse
will not be accepted. The band will
uccompany the crowd playiug ui intervals during the day and will help to
entertain the crowd.
The U. S. Automatic has decided to
close Its plant on that day and Join
the business men in their picnic. The
Slurried People's Dance club will also
hold their picnic on the same day.
In the afternoon a team of business
men will play a game of baseball with
a team from the U. S. Automatic and
another team of business men will
play a team composed of members
of the Amherst Fire Department.
Games of this kind are always interesting und should be witnessed by a
large crowd. The picnic will be held
all day and there win be special entertainment.
The park management has made
special consesBions for the dance floor
to the Business Men's association,
the Automatic and the Married People's dunce club. This will prove an
added attraction to many Amherst
people und will probably attract a
larger crowd than would otherwise
attend. There will be dancing morning, afternoon and evening.
This   picnic   Is   not   alone   for   the
business men  and  men of the   U.  S
Auiomullc und their families but ulso
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for everyone In the town. If you are
not u business man or are not employed by the U. S. Automutic company you are welcome Just the suine
and the whole town Is expected to
turn out. One of the largest picnics
ever held by Amherst people is expected to be held on that day. The
entire town will be closed and no one
will be In town except those who do
not enjoy a good time or for some
other reason are unuble to attend the
picnic. The trucks will ulso bring
the crowd buck in the evening bo
transportation has been provided tor
everyone.
FIRST ADVANCE
MAN ARRIVES
CHAUTAUQUA STARTS WED. JULY
28—WONDERFUL PROGRAM
OF ENTERTAINMENT.
Mrs. Mary Kviin* Hollock and Miss
June Da vies, BfM secretaries, nre here
to Interest mothers of Amherst In the
work of a league which has for Its
object to help purents train their
children physically, morally and Intellectually, laying special emphasis on
training for social purity. It provides
for their welfare by means of systematic educutlonul and advisory work
in the acquirement of definite knowledge and broader culture rolntlng especially   to  childhood   and   Its  needs.
The Child Conservation League Is
a national organisation, incorporated
under the laws of the District of Columbia, und by co-operation with organized womanhood the league seeks
to do those practical things through
enforcement of laws designed to better the condition of man. The president of the League Is Dr. Wlnfield
Scott Hall, the eminent authority on
sex hygiene and social purity. On
its advisory board are many famous
men und women, among whom are
Judge lien Llndsey, President U. Stanley Hull, Luther Burbunk, ICdwanl
Markham poet und social reformer.
Prof. O'Sheu of the University of Wisconsin, Mrs. Mary Wright Sewell.
lecturer and publicist, and Prof. Zueh-
lln ulso publicist and lecturer.
Much Interest Is being shown by
the ladles of Amherst in thels good
work, and It is hoped that a splendid,
strong circle of the League muy be
organized here. The secretaries will
call on the mothers und answer auy
questions.
The Amherst A. C.'s won their first
game of the season Sunday when they
met and defeated the baseball team
of Grafton. The final score was 2-1
and as the score would Indicate the
game was close throiwhnut. This
Is the first game the Amherst team
has won and the players feel proud
to think they hHve started right now
and are going to try and get more
games anil get the people of Amherst
Interested In them. Amherst has some
fine baseball material and a good team
should be turned out, capable of defeating some of the best teams in
Lorain county.
INJURES HAND IN CLOTHES
WRINGER; TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
With the arrival last Thursday of
Grosnoll Layman, first advance man
for the Kedputh Chautauqua, the outdoor advertising campaign was started
and season tickets were placed on
sale. Within the next three weeks
the long anticipated six-day program
will be a reality. Wednesday, July
23 is the opening day.
Attractions especially recommended
by Mr. Layman are tho American
comedy, "It Pays to Advertise." by a
cast of nine players; Dunbar's Male
Quartet and Bell lilugert. on Chautauqua's opening day; the White Hussars,
in two concerts on Chautauqua's 4th
day; Harold Proctor, California tenor,
und Ada Roach "Joy Night" program.
He adds that the lecture list is most
worthy, including Lewis Edwin York
on "A Prince There Is," Granville
Jones on "The Creed of Democracy,"
Marie Rose Lauler on "The Spirit of
the Women of France," Paul Ward on
The Mysteries of the Spirit World"
and B. P. Hivale on "India and World
Events."
One of Chautauqua's best entertainment features will he a dramatic interpretation of "Mister Antonio," the
Booth Turkingtou play, by Miss Beryl
Buckley.
A junior leuder will arrive on Chautauqua's second day to direct games
and tell stories for the boys and girls,
each morning und afternoon. The
children's work will close with an
elaborate pageant on Chautauqua's
sixth night.
BUSINESS MEN  HOLD
MEETING  AND   DINNER
The Business Men's association held
a dinner and general good time meeting last Thursday night at Redington
hall. It Was the first real meeting
theat has been held for several months
and was very well attended. The
dinner is a feature which will be practiced from now on.
E. J. Howenstlne, Sec.-Mgr. of the
Blyrla Chamber of Commerce was
present and gave a very profitable
and instructive talk.
The Amherst city band was there
and furnished music and also enjoyed
the feed.
I860 waa raised to defray the ex-
CARD   OF   THANKS.
I wish to express my most sincere
thanks to my friends and neighbors
tor their kind assistance during the
tllmisB and death of my beloved husband, also for the many beautiful
floral   offerings.
MRS. E.  R.  SILL.
pauses of the band concerts this summer and plana were made for the
community picnic to be held Aug. 4.
It Is planned to hold regular monthly meetings henceforth.
Miss Catherine White, Jennie Jaeger, Arthur Horner and Theodore
Langton attended the dance at Rug-
gles Beach Friday night.
LOCAL TELEPHONE TO
MAKE EXTENSIONS
WILL   ISSUE   $5,000   8TOCK—DOUBLE CABLE TO 8. AMHERST
AND KENDEIGH COR.
Mr. liageman. manager of the Ambers! Telephone company announces
that extensive improvements are to
be made In the telephone system of
Amherst, The case is now pending
before the Public 1'iilltles commission
for u permit to sell $5,000 worth more
stock. This Increase. In the capital
stock will mean that Improvements
will be made in the equipment that
will help the people of Amherst und
In the rurul districts greatly. One
of the big things that will be done
will be to double the cable to South
Amherst and Kendeigh corners and in
other rurul districts. This will make
the telephone service in thees purls
much better and will also muke the
service to the townspople better. Amherst has good telephone service und
with this added equipment the service will be second to none in the
county.
Miss Dorothea Hearn, 15 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hearn of Washington St. met with a
painful accident Friday morning when
she had her hand badly crushed and
lacerated in an electric clothes wringer. A more serious Injury was prevented by the use of a safety device
which released the hand from the
swiftly revolving rollers. The little
finger on the right hand was dislocated and the flesh torn and scraped
to the bone. Miss Hearn was rushed
to the hospital where the wound wus
taken care of immediately. Several
stitches were necessary to close up
the wound. The hand is doing nicely
and probably on account of prompt attention immediately after the accident.
FIFTY YEARS IN
FIRST BAND CONCERT
SATURDAY NIGHT
MONEY RAISED TO PAY  EXPENSE
OF   TWELVE   CONCERTS,
ONE   EACH   WEEK.
Through donations from business
places, individuals, village council and
township trustees It is possible to give
band concerts this summe'-. After
much hard work and effort on the
part of band members and citizens In
general money has been secured which
will enable the baud to carry out a
good program.
The band this year Is one of the
best Amherst has ever had and Unpeople are sure to enjoy these en
tertainments. They will he given on
Saturday nights this year instead of
Wednesdays on account of the Wednesday closing rule, and as there Is
always a larger number of people In
town on Saturday night the concerts
should  be  well attended.
The first concert will be given Saturday night. July 17. It will be given
from ?:M to 8:80 and will be the
first of a series of twelve that will be
given throughout the summer months.
They probably will all be given on
Saturday night. Good programs h.'ve
been arranged tor and a fine selection
of pieces is being worked on by the
band. New music will be purchased
at Intervals and with a little work
one of the best bands in this purt of
the county will be turned out.
The program for Saturday night's
concert  will be as follows:
1. National Bmblem March— Hagley
2. Aldu Overature—MoCuughy.
8. My Buby's Arms (Fox Trot) —
Harry  Tierney.
4.     Melodies   from   Faust -Gounod.
B. A Night in June (Serenade)- -
King.
«.    Days Of Old  (Medley Selection)
- Carl  Carlton.
7.   The New Keform ( Mutchl -Scott.
8.     Star  Spangled   Banner.
'S PICNIC
TUES.. JULY 27
COULD   NOT   GET   RESERVATIONS
FOR     8ATURDAY—TRAIN
FROM 8. AMHERST.
Kinal arrangements have been made
for the Annual Quarrymen's Picnic.
It is to lie held this year on Tuesday
instead of Saturday as has been the
custom In former years. This year
trains could not be secured for the
excursion to be held on Saturday and
another day had to be planned for.
Tuesday. July 27. Is the date on which
it will be held this year and a special
train will leave Amherst in the morning  and  return  in  the evening.
The train will leave Amherst at 8
o'clock In the morning and will leave
Cedar Point at 7 SKI In the evening.
l*ow rates have been secured for the
excursion this year. The rato tor
adults round trip including the boat
trip from Sandusky to Cedar Point
and return will be SSc and for children will lie 45c. This is a wonderful
reduction as the regular fare one way
to Sandusky is !i2c and the bout trip
to the Point is 25c which makes at
least twice as much as the people
going on this excursion will have to
pay. In addition to this all persons
buying excursion tickets will be given ■ badge or mark of some sort free
of charge, which will entitle them to
dunce for half price. This is valuable
to those who like to dance and many
people will take advantage of It. The
persons going in machines will be
asked to pay for this badge which
will entitle them to halt price dancing as no returns come In from those
who go in machines.
A train will meet the excursion at
the Amherst depot which will take
the people of South Amherst to No.
ti quarry. This too Is another feature that will help to attract a crowd
from South Amherst. The picnic Is
Insured success beause of the way
the quarrymen are taking hold of It
and the affair has never been a failure yet so the committee Is satisfied
that  there will be a crowd present.
MEMORIAL   COMMITTEE   TO
MEET   AGAIN   TONIGHT
E
SEES TOWN GROW AND IMPROVE
IN   MANY   WAYS—ACTIVE
IN   LODGE   WORK.
PICTURE   OF   ELMER   JOHNSON GRAVE RECEIVED
Mrs. Lottie Johnson has received a
photograph of her son, Elmer Johnson's grave In France. Mr. Johnson
was the first of Amherst's boys to die
In France. He went over in the first
stuges of America's enartnee Into the
war and was Bent with the rainbow
division.
II. 0. Smith, one of Amherst's oldest
residents, staled several days ago to
a representative of this newspaper
that he has been In business in Amherst for 50 years. July 7, 1920 was
the faith untilversary of his entering
business here. He opened his jewelry
store In a small building In 1870 and
since then has made many improvements, among them the building of
a new store. During this time he hus
carried some tho best Jewelry und a
fine line of mourns und toys and in
connection with the store he operated
u repair shop und watch making department.
When he first came here he spent
one day a week In Lorain where he
did a great deal of work and at that
time Lorain was only about the size
of Vermilion today, having only a
small wharf and bout lauding and
inoHl of the people spent their time
in fishing and other occupations thut
can be done In a lake town of that
sort. When Nielsen came to Lorain.
Mr. Smith stopped going us ut that
time his Amherst business wus becoming so large thut it took all of
his  time.
Mr. Smith has been active in lodge
work in Amherst, having joined the
Odd Fellows when he first came here
anil later joined the K. of P.'s and Is
a charter  member of the  Maccabees.
He come here from Klyria after
spending the early duys of his life
there. Ho suys that probubly he
would have done better to have settled
In Lorain, but that be is satisfied
with Amherst und bus always had
plenty of business. He has been try-
lug to close out his business for over
three years, but seems unuble to get
away from it after being here so long,
lit* suys that he has to turn uwuy
wutcb repairing every day und thut
there is plenty of work here even
with the other jewelers in town. He
believes thut Amherst affords a splendid opening for u yout g man who
wants to get ahead.us a watch maker
und says that there Is a great deal of
work to be done for one who Is able
to do It.
Mr. Smith has seen Amherst grow
from a very small village to the pros-
MEN ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE
GARMENT  WORKERS  UNION
Kepresentatives of the International Gurment Workers' Union have been
In Amherst the past several days making an effort to get the girls employed
In the II. A. Lattln fuctory interested
In forming u local here und to get
them dissatisfied with their work in
the factory. They have been stopping
the girls on their way to and tram
work and ure doing everything to get
them into their way of thinking. They
have had little success bo fur. however, us none of the girls ure in sympathy with the movement and ure
all well satisfied with the working
conditions and pay ut the present time.
Several attempts have been made
to huve meetings but this plan has
met with little success and it is not
believed that the girls will pay any
attention to talk of this kind or be
influenced in any way by it.
Several people In the community
huve expressed themselves as being
against the method of these men stopping employes going to and from work
und malting threats. It wus slated,
however, that village oliiclals would
furnish protection on the streets leading to the factory.
The Soldiers' Metuorlul committee
ure to hold a meeting tonight in the
town hull to muke final arrangements
us to what will be done in regard to
a memorial for Amherst. Many different plans and suggestions have
been looked into, but nothing definite
hus been done us yet. Tonight the
committee will try to make definite
arrangements on what will be done.
DRUCE FAMILY
FORMS DALL TEAM
WILL   PLAY   STONE  CHURCH   FRIDAY   NIGHT  AT   BRANDT'S
PARK   AT  6:30.
The Concordia Club of the Lutheran
church gave a social al the church
Wednesday night. The affair wus
held on the church lawn and the decorations consisted of colored lights and
(lowers. The social was a success
financially   and   was   well   uttended.
Amherst has a newly organized
baseball team. This team is unique
because of the fact thut It is composed
entirely of members of the Bruce
family. The first team this game will
play will be Friday night when they
will tuckle the Stone church nine.
The Stone chun-h wus defeated last
week by the Methodist-Congregational
church team bill has had some practice since l hen and promises that it
will make a good showing against
the strong Bruce nine. The lineup
Of the Bruce team is: (jeorge Bruce.
1st buse; An Mruce. 1 f.; Tommy
Bruoe, c.; Andrew Bruce, p.; Wm.
Bruce, c. f.; Tom W. Bruce, s. s.;
James Bruce. Urd base; Jack Bruce,
2nd  base;   Alec Bruce, r. f.
The lineup for the Stone church will
be us follows: Wm. Ruth, 1. f.; Geo.
Until.   :trd   buse;   Wm.   Burthu,   s.   s.;
George Bchroader, p.;  N. Hoizhauer,
2nd base; T. Neuinelster, c.; M. Baumhurdt. 1st buse; l-M Sabl. c. f.; Johu
Ludwig. r.  r.
This promises to be u good gutne
as both teams ure pretty strong und
should work well against each other
so Amherst tans should be out to
support  their fuvorites.
perous town it is today. When he
came here there were more saloons
than churches and al present the saloons huve been done away with altogether, lie says thut fifty years
have made a grout difference In a
great many wuys The streets have
been paved, street, railway put in, good
side walks luid, good lighting equipment put in und many other improvement too numerous to mention. At
the time Mr. Smith cunie bore the
New York Centrul ruilwuy run through
town on the level und it wus some
time after thut the high bridges were'
put in. At thut time too, practically
the only industry was the quarries
und now many more have been added
Mr. Smith seoms satisfied with his
work in Amherst and the progress of
the town us he has seen it. We asked
him if he Is ready to retire after
tiff years at the bench uud behind
the counter und he said the he felt
that be ought to be.
YOUNG McDERMOTT   WEDDING
AT  ST. JOSEPH'S THIS A.  M.
In the presence of u very large
number of friends Francis Cornelius
Mcllermott and Miss Mubel Murgaret
Young were united in marriage ut St.
Joseph's church Thursday morning,
July IB. The church was beautifully
decorated with flowers and ferns for
the ceeiiuony und the augmented
choir, rendering several special selections, made this oue of the prettiest   weddings   in   the   parish   history.
Thomas Young acted as best man
und  Alice  Young as bride's maid.
Mr. and Mrs. McDermott will spend
a few days away from Amherst, where
tbey have made a host of friends.
They intend to make their home here
where they lived practically all their
lives.
Miss 11 en ha Saegeri who has been
spending several days with her sister, Mrs. Clyde Booth of Lorain, has
returned  home.
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