The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-08
Buckeye Notes


Gently he was operated on for
appendicitis. He was born in
Wayne county January 1, 1860, and
was one of the leading hotel men OF
northern Ohio.
Coshocton. - e. s. Leonard, a
Coshocton man, claims to have
discovered an "ice mine" near Could
ersport, Potter county Pa. He claims
the ice forms in great cavity in the
hills from the freezing of atmospheric
condensation and the hotter the day,
the faster the ice forms.
Columbus.-An order was receiv-
ed by Adjutant General Weybrecht
from the war department trans
ferring Ohio from the department
of lakes, which has headquarters
at Chicago, to the department of the
east, which has headquarters at Fort
Totten, N. Y. The various depart
ments have been reorganized. Ohio
has been in the department Of the
lakes for many years. The depart
ment of the east, as reorgsnized, con-
sists of Ohio, the New England states,
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
District Of Columbia, Virginia, West
Virginia and Porto Rico.
East Liverpool-Without warn
ing, the Silver Banking Co.,
private concern Of Wellsville, or
ganized in 1884 and considered one
of Columbiana county's substantial in
stituttons, closed its doors. President
Thomas H. Silver later made general
assignment, naming Justice A. G. Nc
Kenzie as assignee. No statement of
the liabilities or assets has been made
yet, however. Depositors, numbering
about 500, will, it is believed, lose
sums ranging from $1S to $4,000 each
+ Lebanon.--After a secret confer
ence the Ohio Society of Shak-
ers came to an understanding with the
eastern brethren. While the exact
terms of this compact cannot be as
certained, it is known that the Ohio
Shakers have agreed to allow two
members of the Eastern Shakers at
Lebanon, N. Y, to become trustees Of
the local body. Two members of the
local body will also be on the board
of directors, which will be composed
Of only four men.
Youngstown.-Getting into the
wrong house by mistake nearly
cost George York of Thornton
avenue his life. York recently moved
into the neighborhood and lost his
bearings. Getting on the wrong side
Of the street he counted three houses
from the street intersection and used
his pass key. It opened. the door
and ne started to go upstairs in the
dark, Mrs. Hetrick and two women
heard York opening the door. Mrs.
Hetrlck opened fire with an automatic
revolver and five bullets cut the wood.
work near York, who beat a hasty
retreat.
Toledo.-City Solicitor Cornell
Schrieber has just completed his
examination of the report of the
state accountants with reference to
the alleged $505, ,576.6O irregularities in
the finances of the city and COM
pletely exonerated all the city officials,
named in the state examiners report
of any graft charges. City Solicitor
Schreiber states that he has gone over
most carefully the five volumes COM
prising the report of the state examin-
ers, discarding entirely personalities
and friendships, and declines to bring
suit Of any kind, believing that care
full analysis of the items of the state
examiners report shows no wrongdo-
ing but on the contrary, presents off
eial records of which any city might
be proud of. The city solicitor re-
views every charge Of graft made by
the state examiners in their report,
and with reference to the alleged pad
ding OF the city pay rolls of the
street department amounting to sew
eral thousands of dollars, states that
the examiners report is little short of
slsnder and without any basis of fact.
Findlay.-Mrs. Mary B. Corthell,
go, the founder of the Findlay
Christian Science society, is dead,
after years suffering with cancer.
During all this time she was attended
by two nurses, but refused medicine
Mantua.-The draining of Tama-
rack swamp, north of Mantua, is
under way. The swamp contains
about zoo acres. 1t is covered
with brush, timber, logs and plenty
Of snakes-spotted adders and black |
snakes. Some are big fellows and
show fight. The swamp changed the |
course of the state road from Ra-
VIENNA, the county seat of Portage |
county, to Chardon, the county seat
OF Geauga county, and there is no |
road from Mantua Center to Auburn
Center because the swamp has here |
tofore presented a formidable obstacle |
to building one. A main ditch, three
miles long, is being dug. 1t will be
about Is feet wide at the top, four at |
the bottom and seven feet deep. There
will be four other bitches from 45O |
to 1000 feet long. When its work is
done there it will have reclaimed |
some Of the most fertile land in this
section.
Cincinnati. - A. Howard Hinkle,
founder of the American Book Co.,
and widely known as a patron Of
music, died at his home here.
Cleveland.-A romance of the
golf course at the fashionable Bon
Air resort hotel at Augusta, va.--a ro-
nance in which John D. Rockefeller
appears in the role of matchmaker
will have climax in Cleveland June
7, when Miss Harriet Scofeld, daugh.
tetr Of Levi T. Scofield, churchman,
architect and owner of the Schofeld
building here, will be married to Win.