The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-11
SAYS DRYS WILL
HAVE BIG MEET
Baker Predicts 10000 Del
egates in Columbus.
PROFESSIONAL DIP ABROAD
Man Who Can Extract Money From
Your Pocket While You Are Tell
ing Him the Time Plies
Trade at Fair.
D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.


n A. BAKER, national Anti-Sa
- loon league superintendent, who
was in Columbus Tuesday at
tending the Hillikin reunion at
the state fair, he being a Hillikin,
said that the annual meeting of the
league which would be held in Column
bus in November would be the larg-
est ever held. He said there would
be 10000 delegates present. I'VE will
have four governors, FIVE ex-goyern-
ors and four United States senators
on the program" said MIR. Baker.
"The principal business will be the
adoption of resolution for national
prohibition. We will begin the cam
paign all over the country at once
We hope to put the country dry
through the medium of an amend
ment to the federal constitution. We
intend to take hand in the election
of United States senators and men,
bers of the lower house in our plan to
get congress to submit a proposal to
the various states for ratification"
TTOISSSIOndl UP HpTOdu'
The professional dip" is abroad in
Columbus. He is attracted here by
the tens of thousands of state fair
visitors who annually offer him a
treat too good by far to be over
looked. He is here in spite of the
repeated warnings of the police, for
he is a gentleman who will take
chance any day in the year. A dip"
Is a gentleman who can extract $40
note from your pocket while you are
kindly telling him the time, or who
can relieve you of the further respon-
sibility of carrying your watch while
you are asking the street car con-
ductor for transfer. He is a man
OF varied genius who discriminates
not among his victims but takes the
softest always. He usually has a
PAL who aids him in varied ways. The
police here know lot of the profes-
sional dips" from over the country
and they have photographs of the
rest. Even a dip" off duty is to be
arrested on sight. The fact that he
may not be working is no excuse for
his being around on such an occasion,
Is the view of the police. But be-
cause it will be impossible to detect
even a fraction of the light-fingered
gentry in a short week, police have
asked the state fair visitors to aid
them. The visitors are told to be
wary of all strangers, never to pick
up chance acquaintances in the street,
never to be abroad alone late at
night, never to allow people to jostle
them in the street cars or ny crowd
ed place, and never to display money
or jewels before strangers. But there
will be many among the thousands
here who will not heed the warnings
and the usual crop of pocket pickings
and hOld-ups is expected to material
iZe. a
Pay for License Boards Fixed.
Salaries to be paid commissioners
handling saloon licenses will range
from $24O in Hooking county to $4,000
year in Cuyahoga and Hamilton. The
entire salary list has just been made
public by the state commission after
commissions had been named in all
counties except Erie. The salaries in
the wet counties fixed by the board
are as follows:
Cuyahoga, $4,000; Jefferson, $1,000;
Columbiana, $1,320; Clark, $1,44O;
Lorain, $1,5O0; Butler, $1,62O; Ma
honing, $4,000; Summit, $2,4O0; Stark,
$2,4OO; Montgomery, $4,000; Lucas,
$4,000; Franklin, $4,000; Hamilton,
$4,000.
Hooking, $24O; Wyandot, $24O; Put
nam, $240; Defiance, $24O; Pickaway,
$240; Mercer, $500; Coshocton, $3.50;
Shelby, $3.50; Darke, $3.50; Henry,
1920; Lawrence. $420: Ottawa, $42O;
Fairfield, $420; Huron, $3.50.
Sandusky, $3.50; Athens, $3.50;
Auglaize, $3.50; Washington, $3.50;
Ross, $40; Perry, $54O; Crawford, !
5000; Marion, 5000; Seneca, $720;
Richland, $S4O; Scioto, $S4O; Tuscara-
was, $84O; Licking, $S4O; Erie, 5000:
Muskingum, $780,
Will Abolish Pen Sightseeing.
Penitentiary sightseeing is to be
abolished because of the bad effect it |
has on prisoners. Warden Thomas
will recommend this and the board of |
administration will undoubtedly COM
ply with his wishes. For many years |
it has been the custom of the prison |
management to permit visitors to trail |
through the penitentiary at 20 cents |
per head, with a 1O-cent additional
charge to the female department. War
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New Corrupt Practices Act.