Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-08-08

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house yard where they instantly made
friends with the state squirrel colony
there. The commission still has some
squirrels which it will gladly give to
persons willing to assume proprietor
ship.
Fails In Referendum Effort.
Allen Ripley Foote, head of the
so-called Ohio State Board OF
Commerce, was defeated in his
efforts to get a referendum on the
Finnefrock students voting bill, which
became measure Friday at midnight
because of the failure of Foote and
his emissaries to get names enough on
the referendum petition. Something
like $4,000 names were needed for the
referendum, and nothing like this
number was obtained. He will go
ahead with his campaign for sigma
lures for referendums on the Warnes
and Fitzpatrick taxation bills. Repre-
sentative Warnes of Holmes county,
author of the bill bearing his name,
said at the governors office that he
would not be surprised If enough
names would be obtained to get a
referendum on his measure.
School House Social Center.
The bill of Representative A. Ross
Read of Summit county to make the
school house a social center will be-
come law a week from now. 1t pro-
vides that all school buildings main
tanned by taxation may be used as
social centers for entertainment and
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grownups and children, and for dis
cussion of all topics for the develop
ment OF personal character and civic
welfare. The bill was strongly en-
dorsed at a meeting of leading educa-
tors held at the Ohio State Univer-
sity Friday. Representative Read
spoke on the measure at the gather
ing, declaring that he believed it
would prove to be a great preventa-
tive of crime.
Novel Stunts at Ohio Pen.
Novel stunts at the Ohio pen these
days seem never-ending. The latest
is music with meals. No longer are
the hundreds of prisoners to be seen
housekeeping it into the huge dining
room while the walls re-echo with the
sullen shutting and the tramp, tramp,
tramp of numberless feet. There's
music in the air now. The lock step
is gone. Imagine the uniforms and
you could hardly tell the difference
between the states unwilling proteges
and regiment or two of the National
Guard. The prisoners march jauntily
now to their noon and evening meals.
The music of a willing, though per-
haps not what might as yet be called
prize prison orchestra, enlivens
each occasion. The aim is to add zest
to meal time and make the prison life
on the whole a little less burdensome.
So each air that is played as the pris-
oners file into the dining room and as
they partake of the prison fare has a
reckless Tilt and lively swing. 1t is
even planned to lend the cabaret
atmosphere now and then by solo
numbers, recitations and the like, for
there is no little talent among the
1900 men who are shut off from the
world behind the big stone walls.
Warden Thomas says that the music
and the many other innovations have
made the spirit among the prisoners
far better than undeT the old regime.
Discipline is perfect or nearly so, he
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Open Saloon L-egalized.
Beginning Friday the open saloon is
constitutionally legalized institution
in Ohio for the first time in the states
history. Although the new liquor
license became technically operative
Friday, it will not affect saloons until
after the fourth Sunday in November,
the beginning of the official license
year. Heretofore the liquor traffic
has been taxed by the state, but the
constitution prohibited the licensing
of it. The constitution was amended
a year ago, and the regulatory license
law was enacted by the last lesisla-
ture. The new law limits the number
of saloons-one to every 500 people.
Theoretically, character is to be the
predominating factor in obtaining
licenses. Lawabiding saloonkeepers
in business prior to May II, 1912, will
be given the preference. No person
may own more than one saloon rr be
interested in brewery. Bars of clubs
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selling liquor, except on prescription.
are required to have license. Minors
are strictly barred from saloons. but
to protect the saloonkeeper from mis-
representation, person misstating
his age is liable to punishment. A Sec
ond violation of the liquor laws means
revocation of license, but the offender
is entitled to jury trial on the sec
ond offense. Licensing power is
vested in state licensing commits
sion, appointed by the governor. This
commission in turn names county
licensing board in all wet counties,
consisting of two members of oppo-
site politics.
a farmer living south of South Charles
ton that thousands of squirrels were
invading his corn fields. The law pre-
vented his killing the squirrels, he
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