The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-10-30

which caused the deserted school
came from a strike of both parents
and pupils. They held the teacher tt
be unqualified through lack of proper
education. But the board of educa-
tion was obdurate. 1t argued that the
objections were capricious and that
the teacher would stay no matter X
the place became a school without
pupils. And that's just what resulted.
Now every morning the school ma'am
reports at her school promptly at 8
o'clock. The fact that she is the sole
occupant of the little school house
doesn't deter her in the least from
going through the forms of teaching
until l in the afternoon, when she
packs up her books and trudges home.
At the end of each month she draws
not only her salary Of $40, but also
fees for janitor service, which amount
to $3.50. She appears to be quite con-
parents of the township children are
wrothy.
.Drys on Warpath.
The Ohio Anti-Saloon league is on
the warpath and it's determination Is
to secure the scalps of saloon keepers
who are violating or who have violated
the Sunday and midnight closing laws.
The league has just certified to the
liquor license commission of Franklin
county a list of Columbus saloon men
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during the last two or three years
and has made demand on the commits
sion that it not issue licenses to those
so listed. Such men are claw break
ers" in the opinion of the temperance
people, particularly in view of the fact
that Columbus during the last three
years has been a dry" town on Sun
days and after midnight. In cities and
towns where the authorities have not
tried to bring about law observance
the league won't be so strict about the
conduct of the saloon men.
Discuss General Assembly.
Plans for the reconvening of the
general assembly in special session
next winter were discussed by Gov.
Cox and Speaker Charles L. Swain Of
the house of representatives Monday.
1t was agreed that the lawmakers
shall be called together on either the
second or the third Monday in Janu'
ary. Although the assembly adjourned
sine die last May, the same organiza-
ton that controlled throughout the
last session will be maintained during
the special session, except that Lieut..
Gov W. A. Greenlund will preside in
the senate instead of his predecessor,
Hugh l.. Nichols, whom Gov. Cox ele-
vated to the chief justiceship of the
supreme court. By thus elm mating
the work of organizing and getting a
new organization into motion, the gov
ernor and Speaker Swain hope to
speed up the law-making machinery
at the start.
SoIons Are Divided.
Members of the joint legislative
committee which has been conducting
an investigation to determine what
policy should be adopted with respect
to the future of the canal system are
divided in their opinions as to what
should be done. Senator w. A. Wey-
gandt of Akron, the chairman, says
that improvement of the canals on the
basis on which they are now operated
will not be recommended. However,
it is not likely that the report to be
adopted by the committee will recon-
mend abandonment. 1t Is admitted
that the big paper mill industry along
the route of the Miami & Erie canal
between Dayton and Cincinnati would
be ruined if that part of the system
were abandoned, and it is also patent
that it would be equally ruinous to
abandon the canal at Akron and that
part of the state because of the power
it furnishes great industrial plants
there. The joint committee will meet
in Columbus the week following the
November election to begin work on
it's recommendations These will be
embodied in a report to be placed be-
fore the general assembly at the spe-
cial session.
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