The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-31
SAYS NOMINATE
BYPET|TION ONLY
Graves Settles Question for
All townships in State.
POPULATION DOES NOT COUNT
Orders Of Health Board for New
Water Supplies for Caldwell, Cam
bridge, WoodstieId and East
Liverpool Are Approved.
D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.

~ ters of inquiry received by
Secretary of State Graves, a
misapprehension exists in
many parts of the state as to the
method of nominating candidates foI
township offices in townships with a
population of 1000 or over. AS chief
election officer, Mr.. Graves wishes il
to be known that this year the only
method Of nominating candidates foI
township Offices in all townships, re
gardless of what the population may
be, is by petition, which petition must
be filed with the county election board
not later than 60 days before the No.
vember election. "All candidates for
township offices in any township, it
matters not what its population may
be, or for municipal offices in any
municipality of less than 1000 popu-
lation, can be nominated only by
petition, signed in the aggregate for
each candidate by not less than 25
qualified electors of the township or
municipality" said Secretary Graves.
The names OF all candidates in any
township and in municipalities of less
than 1000, will be grouped under the
designation or title of the office for
which nominated, in alphabetical
order according to surname, upon the
official ballot to be used at the No
Vember election, which ballot will con-
tain no official designation. Even
though township contains a munich
pality with population Of 1000 or
over the candidates for the township
may be nominated by petition only.
Approve Health Board Order.
Gov. Cox and Attorney General
Hogan have approved orders of the
state board of health for new water
supplies for Caldwell, Cambridge,
Woodsfield and East Liverpool. Cam
bridge and East Liverpool are given
until Jan. l, 1915, to comply, but the
others must carry out the orders this
year. In East Liverpool the citizens
have been fighting among themselves
over the water qustion for yars. They
have been unable to gree upon the
right plan. The state board orders
them to install a water publication
plant.
New Separate Department.
Wednesday the law making, the
state building and loan inspection
bureau, a separate department, went
into effect. 1t divorces the depart
ment from the state insurance COM
missioner, who has been in charge of
II ever since it was created. James
A. Devine OF Chillicothe, who has
been in charge of the department un-
der the insurance commission, will be
appointed by Gov. Cox to be the head
of the new department. He will get a
salary of $3,600. Under the new law
building and loan associations will pay
higher fees to the state. They will
pay $40 with one-hundredth of one per
cent additional on its assets. Under
the old law the minimum amount was
So and the maximum $50. The large
associations will pay more than this
maximum.
Error May Prove Serious.
If the error that has been found in
y
education law proves to be so serious
that it will prevent any employer from
hiring girl of less than IS, Gov Cox
will try to have the law changed dur.
ing the special session of the general
assembly in January. What the law
really intended to do was to raise
from Is to 16 the age under which
girls would have to attend school,,
with the stipulation that girl could
secure employment between 16 and IS
If she had the proper schooling GER
titiCate. But it seems that what the
law really does is to raise the school
age from Is to 49, Such a provision
would put out of work hundreds Of
girls all over Ohio since the old laws
permitted girls with school certificates
to work after the age of IL. The
new law will go into effect about the
middle of August.
Supreme Court Will Review.
After the first few days in August
when the new public utilities law will
20 into effect, the rulings of the pub.
lie utilities commission will be sub
ject to review only by the supreme
court. Heretofore it has been possi-
BILE to appeal from any act of the com
mission in any court practically of
the state and the result has been
tedious delay in cases where defend
ants wanted to tie up the hands of
the commission. The new statute
strengthens the hands of the members
of the commission in many ways and
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