The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-04

w. o. Heffernan, Cleveland account
ant, appointed by Gov. Cox as head OF
new state budget commission. Heffer'
nan now Is in New York city getting ae-
quaInted with the methods of the big
budget commission Of that city.
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of using soft words and cajolry. Some
times they succeeded in getting things
done and again they didn't. So the
Columbus arrest marks new tack in
the path of which trouble abides for
those who fail to clean up when the
state so orders.
Warning for Ice Wagon Drivers.
There's salutary warning for ice
wagon drivers in the crusade begun
by the Columbus sealer of weights
and measures. The latter has for
weeks been receiving sporadic COM
plants about ice men who have the
nerve to take real money FOR particles
of ice whose size would be put to
shame by piece of loaf sugar. Now
he's gotten busy. One ice man, John
Bratton, has been arrested, charged
with short weighting and other ar
rests may follow. Bratton is charged
with sort of systematic defrauding
Of ice consumers by giving them short
weight. His trial will be interesting
in showing just how far the rights of
the consumers are protected by the
/ law. Of course Bratton has not been
convicted yet. He says he is inno-
cent of any wrong.
Will Fush Dry Fight.
Will Ohio vote on the prohibition
I of the liquor traffic in the fall Of
1915? Wayne D. Wheeler of the Anti
Saloon league says "Yes" and he says
further that the league will push the
fight. So the thing that Ohio has
been expecting in very vague way
for many years seems startlingly i'm
minent. Apparently the decision of
the temperance forces to force state
wide prohibition to an issue is of re-
cent origin. Wheeler declares that
it is the wets,w who have thrown down
the gauntlet and forced the fight, for
he AYERS it was the threat of the
liberals to repeal the temperance
laws that has made the Anti-Saloon
league active for prohibition. The
new move for a small legislature
Wheeler charges, is the direct result
of a desire on the part of the liberals
. to repeal all effective temperance
legislation.
Fund Not Appropriated.
When the legislature transferred
the liquor tax deputies from the state
dairy and food commissioner to th'
new liquor licensing board, the neces
| sity of also transferring an appro
priation of $4,000 for these deputies
was overlooked and as result thi
money cannot now be used for th'
purpose for which it was appropriated
The state licensing board has fun'
/. Of $65,0O0 for the operation of it
v office force, and it will be obliged tt
n draw upon this money to put tn
D liquor tax deputies in the field t
It round up illicit liquor sellers.
It New Election Ballot Bags.
}. Have you seen the new election ba
8 lou Days! lnSTe re Iu6 I0CSpILClS
IS that the new law requires for keepin
e. ballots in, and they look for all tn
world like the old fashioned seWin
bags used at sewing bees. The neV
"a statute says that all ballots must
N preserved for 30 days. The bags hol
m all the things necessary to string tn
% ballots together, tie them up and ses
m them with wax.
If Gets Drunk In Dry Territory.
If Gallia county is supposed to be DIR,
n but Ora Thompson, a Lawrence coul
ID ; ty prisoner, serving ten years in tn
st Ohio penitentiary for assault, who
b. working as "trusty' at the Gallip
e. lis state hospital, was able to fin
as liquor enough there to become intoS
of Gated. He returned from his wol
,e Monday night in that condition. Tue
n, day he was brought back, to the per
d. tentiary.
r. Hunting Buried Treasure.
e. Ohio penitentiary prisoners are
at ing used for an unique purpose. The
at are hunting a buried treasure. tt
of treasure" consists of lot Of wat
a pipe that recently was found to ha'
in been buried on the grounds of Il
n Columbus state hospital. The pipe
,it thought to he worth at least 81 500.