Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-02-07

fila the same notices of lack of pay
ment with the owner of building
when contractor Is remiss. The
owner must make the same demand
of the contractor for receipts. If they
are not forthcoming, then the owner
must settle the claim. But labor
claims must come first, and finally the
same safeguard, the provision that
the owner may be liable for more
than the amount of the contract, pre-.
walls always.
Resurrects Old Question.
The slogan raised in the legisla.
ture by Senator William A. Weygandt
OF Portage county regarding the
canals, has resurrected the same ques.
tion that has for two generations
| troubled every session of every gen.
eral assembly. Senator Weygandt's
slogan is-"Sell the canals and with
the proceeds build better roads" The
| Portage county senator figures that
| the state ought to get at least $780,
100000 for it's canals. Distributed
among SO counties this would mean
$22S,000 for each. Senator Weygandt
is asking suggestions from interested
citizens of the state as to his plan.
He would not have the state sell un.
less it could realize an equitable sum.
He holds the canals as now con-
structed useless, and he further holds
that larger waterways, involving fed.
eral aid, to be out Of the question.
So he would advertise for bids. He
would sell piecemeal il that plan
| should promise a better bargain. In
cases wherein cities, such as Akron,
use the water of the canals for manu-
featuring purposes, Senator Weygandt
would give the city or its manufac-
turing industries the right to appro-
pirate enough to leave the present
water rights unimpaired. Such in
brief Is the Weygandt plan. Thus far
it has not become before any branch
of the assembly for serious consider
alton.
Takes Up Travelling Mems Fight,
Although personally they may be un'
mindful of their fate, the acanthia
| lectularia soon may have to step into
the class with fraternities and saloon,
lated" by the general assembly. The
travelling men of Ohio have donned
their war paint and they are hot on
the trail of the gay little lectularia.
| They have asked Senator ]. B. Dol.
lison of Hooking county to prepare the
proper measure for finish fight. He
is now at work and the first gun will
be fired when he presents the meas
aure to the senate this week. People
so untutored in worldly ways as to be
ignorant of the identity of that flip
pant little animal, called cimex lee.
tularius, when he is alone, and acan.
thia lectularia when he is in mum.
bers, are asked to look in their en-
cyclopedia under general nuisances"
or ''unmitigated evils" An easier way
would be to ask the first travelling
man they meet. Travelling men have
to sleep in all sorts of hotels and all
manner of beds and they know.
The bill which Senator Dollison is
preparing is aimed particularly at
conditions in hotels in small towns
and country sections. He would have
some state authority given supervi.
sion over the sanitary status of such
hostelries and he would include res
taurants and eating places in the SUI
pervised list. He holds that the san
itary condition of hotels and restaur-
ants in large places is now controlled
by city boards of health, while in the
smaller sections sanitary regulation
of e.ting and sleeping places is nil.
He would have state inspectors do
for the smaller places what the city
inspectors do for the cities now.
So it is that the lectularis would
come under state regulation. The
travelling men, in approaching Sen
ator Dollison, complained of many
things, unsanitary kitchens, unclean
food, upkempt food servers, restaur.
ant "come-backs," or the food pre-
pared for the new guest from the left
overs of his predecessors, and the like
but the most bitter complaint was
lodged against ieotularia-infested beds
Anti-Spear Fishing Laws.
On the ground that greedy and un
scrupulous fishermen make mockery
of the anti-spear fishing laws, Sen
ator Haas proposes real "stinger'
in the way of legislation. He intro
duced bill in the senate making il
absolutely unlawful to spear fish in
Ohio. The present law permits the
owners of land abutting upon streams
and reservoirs to spear, and also gives
them the right to permit others to dc
SO on their premises. Senator Haas
| I-II 4I~-k IL T.
sport of. He says that all over Ohio
now tons of fish are being speared
through holes In the ice. Carloads
of speared fish are being shipped
daily into Cleveland. Columbus, Gin
cinnati and other large towns, he de
; clares, and 30 he would stop the privi
J lege of spear fishing altogether anS
} cut off the lucrative business thai
: many people seemed to have estab
: lished through the alleged loosenesl