The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-08
Gettysburg.

II. II. w lllJlOCh anu lelliJ VI
Piqua, H. A. Gilbert and family
of York township and D. Moul
and wife were guests of l.. S.
Gilbert's yesterday.
Rev. C. Fulkerson preached
his first sermon here yesterday
evening for the new conference
year. This is his second year on
this charge.
John Cromer and Miss Nida
Fulkerson, both. of this village,
were married last week and left
at once for Logansport to make
that place their future home.
ATaft Club was organized here
last Friday evening. D. L. Gas
kill, W. D. Rush and couple of
other stalwart Republicans were
present as organizers. q. A.
Clark was elected president,
Spencer Stoltz, vice president,
Harry Myers, secretary, and Bert
Myers, treasurer. These make
a very efficient corps Of officers
and that they will make vigor-
GUS campaign goes without say
ing. Brothers Gaskill and the
Col" gave very interesting
talks, creating a good deal of en-
thusiasm and secured a good en-
rollment of members. A meet
ling of the Club will be held in
our Town Hall next Friday even
ing to perfect the organization
and to add to the membership.
lLet there be a large turnout OF
voters for this purpose.
A goodly number of our Mas
onic fraternity attended the died.
ication of the Greenville Masonic
Temple last Thursday and enjoy
ed the good things provided for
the occasion, including sumpt-
uous banquet, such as the Green
vile brethren know we'll how to
spread. 1t was truly a day of
refreshment for the fraternity
present.
The remains of Clarence Sem
an, who died of cancer in his
mouth, were committed to the
narrow house today in NeWcom-
er cemetery.
Up to last Saturday twenty-five
counties had voted under the
Rose local option law and all vo-
ted dry with substantial majori-
ties, closing the business of over
four hundred saloons. To this
date not a single county of the
number voting voted wet. This
evidently has a meaning. The
handwriting on the wall, Meme,
meme tekel uphasin, needs nc
explanation. It is easily read
and interpreted. One-fourth OF
the counties have voted on the
question, up to Saturdays date,
and all have spoken the same
way. What will the end be-
There appears to be practically 9
unanimous sentiment against the
saloon, and why should there not
! be? Were it not for a few mis-
informed and timid persons who
have fears that the loss of the
: $1,000 tax from the saloon viii
' have to be made good by taxa
; ton the support of the saloor
4 would be much smaller. Is i
not astonishing, if that were true
that we should have any so sor
did in their natures as to put VI
a few paltry dollars as agalns
\
> the well-being of society? Blu
such is not the case. Let us se
j., where that money goes upon dis
tribution. The statute provide
. that three-tenths goes to the gen
eral fund of the state; fve-tenth
e q to the corporation wherei1
= the saloon sells; and tWo-fifths t
the poor fund. This division i
! made, of what is left after tn
T cost of collection of it. If W
had no saloons the need of a poo
+ | fund would be very small. Tn
. villages getting the larger pal
by odds seem to be the most will
s ing to part with the saloon. VIII
r is this? It must be because {
v the experience of the evils of
- and the effects are better unde,
stood in those places and tt
weight of it's evils are more keel
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