The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-08-14

and went west 80 years ago.
Agricultural Commission In Effect.
The agricultural commission law
engaged in agricultural work went
into effect on Tuesday. The four
men who will administer this
law are A. p. Sandles, formerly secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture,
which is abolished; S. f. Strobe, for
mer state dairy and food commission
er, which Office is abolished; C. G. Will
liams, agronomist at the state expert
ment station at Wooster, and Dean
Homer c. Price, of the college of agri-
culture, Ohio State university. Sam
uel A. Hoskins of Wapakoneta, who
was considered for a place on the
license commission, will be appointed
chairman of the new state civil serv-
ice commission. He is a Democrat,
and as chairman will draw $4,000
salary. There will be two other men,
bers appointed, and they will get $4,000
salaries.
New Liquor Board.
Ohio's new liquor license commits
sion is composed of Byron Clenden-
ming, Cincinnati; J. Howard Secrest,
Lima, Democrats, and Charles Allen of
Marion, Progressive. Gov. Cox made
the announcement Monday.
Clendenning, an attorney and former
members of the Legislature, is presi-
dent of the Duckworth club of Gin
cinnati; Secrest, also a lawyer, is as
sistant secretary of state, and Allen
has served two terms as auditor of
Marion county. Allen held office as a
Republican but ran last fall as Pro-
gressive candidate for state auditor
The commissioners will receive
$4,000 year.
Robert S. Hayes of Dayton, who
was Gov CoX's private secretary when
he was in congress and who is now
employed in the executive offices, will
be secretary of the commission at a
yearly salary of $4,000.
The new commissioners met in this
city Tuesday and organized. They
will lose no time in appointing coun'
ty licensing boards, it is said. Each
of the wet counties of the state will
be entitled to license board consist.
ing of two members of opposite poll
tics.
Frank McElroy. formerly of Ada, a
clerk in the secretary of states office,
has been appointed to act as assistant
,NG ,,to ha hni
in place of J. Howard Secrest, resigned
to take place on the state liquor
license commission. Friends of Nc
Elroy will urge Secretary Of State
Graves to make his appointment per-
manent. This place pays $4,000 a
year.
Petitions on New Laws.
Gov. Cox already has his represen.
tatives at work on the referendum Pc
titions that were filed Monday after
noon on the Warnes tax law and the
Fitzpatrick measure. The former is
the measure that reorganizes the gen
eral tax laws of the state and the lat
, ter is the one that takes the so-called
interior limitations out of the Smith
one per cent tax law, especially tho
limitation which limits the eXpendt
lures of taxing communities to their
expenditures in 1910. If the petitions
are found valid, both of these laws will
be submitted to the people at the No.
vember election for their approval or
rejection. The petitions were filed
just "a hours before the time limit
and came into the office of the secre'
tary of state in the form of 10 huge
bundles carried by five husky men
The Fitzpatrick law petitions carry
$4,000 names and the Warnes law
$4,000. Under the law $1,000 names
are necessary to compel referendum.
Faces Serious Problem.
The state of Ohio is facing a serious
problem in the refusal of contractors
to bid upon the construction of inter-
county roads and the state may be
forced into doing the work itself Last
| Saturday, for example, 2l road i'm
provements were advertised and only
| II Of them bid upon. Most of the i'm
provements which the contractors
! ignored are located in Stark, Van Wert
, and Guernsey counties and the osten'
sible reason for the failure to bid is
the fact that labor and material in
these counties are prohibitively high,
! One contractor said that he would be
compelled to pay laborers $3.50 a day
and their board and lodging and that
! this fact alone was enough to prevent
! his considering a contract.
Hook Worm Reaches Ohio.
; At last the hook worm has reached
! Ohio. With no small concern tho
! state health department announces
that it has undeniable evidence Of the
hook worm disease in Loudenville,
| Ashland county, and that a special
deputy has been dispatched to inves
tigate. In medical terms the ailment
is known as uncinariasis or anchylos'
tomiasis. Its symptoms are an ex'
treme degree of lassitude, an acute
lanquid feeling. and a general aversion
to any form of activity. It is sup
posed to be communicable and is tie
disease toward whose extinction
Rockefeller has donated hundreds OF
thousands of dollars.
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