The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
Buckeye Notes

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1910 shows the largest ore receipts
and heaviest coal shipments, also the
greatest number of ships entering and
leaving the port in its history. Ore
receipts were 9,599,542 tons; coal
shipments, 5,57S,S42 tons; ships en-
tered, 1926, with a total of 6,942, ,148
tonnage; value of exports, $685.
255.49.
ortsmouth.-Robert G. PEBBLES, IS,
wealthy retired iron manufacturer
Of Ashland, KY, formerly of this city,
is dead at Los Angeles, after a brief
illness. He was the eldest son Of
the late John G. PEBBLES, well-known
philanthropist of this city, and brother
of John PEBBLES, father-in-law of e.
mer Dover
Wapakoneta.-Edwa Braunschwei-
ger, a business man of Toledo, had a
strenuous time in getting married to
Miss Pauline Hilgeman, daughter of
John Hilgeman of st. Marys. Owing
to the death of Probate Judge Lang
horst, Braunschweiger was unable to
get license in this county. He took
the first train to Toledo, where his
bride has been employed for several
years, obtained license and returned
IN time to have the ceremony per-
FORM just before midnight.
Springfield-A pet dog,locked in
the house by himself, saved the fam
lily of James Kirk and Clarence Young
five in all, from death by fire when the
house was almost completely ruined.
Chardon.-Mrs. Eliza Ann Hitch
cock, so years of age, widow Of Peter
Hitchcock, former state senator and
representative, has just died in Bur
ton. After the age of S5, she was in
the San Francisco earthquake. TRAY
cling in Florida, the auto in which
she was riding was struck by a train
In Tennessee she fell and broke her
hip. Mrs. Hitchcock was a member
Of the Geauga d. A. r. She was born
in Burton September 8, 1918, and had
lived her entire life there. She had
been member of the Burton Congre-
gational church since 1881.
Akron.-The city solicitor has fled
petition in common pleas court
asking that the Akron Water
words Co. be placed in the hands of
a receiver for alleged failure to COM
ply with the terms of it's contract.
The action is based on an affidavit
by G. c. Benner, safety director, who
claims that the city has been with
out sufficient water protection, and
that the supply comes through one
upon. Fear of repetition of water
famine next yeAr is set up.
Cleveland.-DY. Jonathan F. Black,
to whom Mrs. Rebecca Lord be,
queathed most of her fortune OF
$4,000, testified in the suit of Mrs
Lords relatives to break the will that
he had won riches by kissing elderly
women and now has a bank account
of $4,000. He said that he had kissed
Mrs. Lord daily. He also kissed Mrs
Harriet Jennings of Cambridge, Mass,
and when she died she left MIN $500
His kisses bestowed upon Mrs. So.
phronia Day brought him $1,000 when
she died. Doctor Black said with a
part of the money thus secured he
bought many presents for his mother
Cleveland.-"High Prices, coupled
with small incomes resulting in
an intense struggle to keep up
appearances and crafty social ambi
tions, are responsible for the wreck
ing of large number of homes" The
foregoing is the chief cause of the
divorce evil in the opinion of Judge
Neff, who during the term of court
just ended, legally tore asunder the
ties that bound 428 couples. Contin
uing, Judge Neff defined courtship in
America as a social masquerade
Lovers always see each other at their
best, he said, and consequently the
young woman marries hero and the
young man marries an angel, only tC
be disillusioned soon after marriage.
Conneaut.-Judge Babcock of the
juvenile court Of this city gave Out
his decision against Willie Thomas
16, alleged flrebug of this city. The
judge said that the boy was delin
quent and that his parents had the
choice of giving him to someone who
would care for him properly or o.
sending him to Lancaster reforma
tory. His parents sent him to Pitts
I burg.
Dayton. - Conditions surrounding
the ballot box in this county will
be probed by the January grant
jury as the result of a special charge
given by Judge o. B. Brown in com
mon pleas court. In an effort to un
cover corruption the court said i
would have the jurors conduct an in
vestigation that will clean up alleged
boodling in compaigns in Montgomery
county in recent years. THE corrup
tion of the ballot leads to anarchy, ;
said Judge Brown, "and if any viola
tions of the election laws are un
covered in this county l request thu
presentation of the evidence. If sucl
a crime has been committed the cul
prit will be punished and the county
exculpated from further suspicion.
Wellston.-R. T. Simmons, a vet
eran of the Civil war and a pen
sioner, was placed under arrest b.
Deputy United States Marshal Nc
Allister for attempting to obtain frau
dulently, second pension. Sim
mons enlisted as a drummer boy a
Clinton, Ia, under the name of Blail
Tate, but there was a man in thu
same regiment bearing the SANE
name. Simmons for years has beer
drawing pension under his owl
name, but how he managed to do 81
is a mystery, as his present name
does not appear on the record for en-
listment.
Marion.-A young man who had OF
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