Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-07-25

National Guard armory at Sidney to
H. l.. Loudenbach, a contractor OF
that city, at bid of S1S,220.57. The
maximum amount that can be spent
for company armory is 100000. The
new structure will be occupied by
Company l. of the Third regiment It
is the first new armory authorized this
year.
Finds Abuses of School Lands.
Grave and almost unbelievable abus-
es involving school lands in Ohio are
being reported by the Ohio school
survey. The survey has taken the
case of one county as an instance and
proceeds to show just what is being
done in that county regarding lands
originally set apart for schools and
still generally supposed to be used for
school purposes. For example, the
treasurer and the clerk in one OF the
townships have recently built upon
school lands but have made no effort
to pay any rent. The mayor Of vii
lage also has built upon part of the
school grounds and pays no rent. The
treasurer of another township has col
lected no rents since 1907 and is still
holding the funds collected at that
time instead OF making the proper dis
tribution of the funds to the various
school boards. In the same county the
auditor was very dense in his under
standing of the law governing school
lands and is not making the appoint
ments of trustees which he is sup
posed to make when trustees are not
elected. Therefore many of the trus-
! teeships are vacant. 1t is found also
| that parcels of the lands have repeat
edly changed hands and the present
occupants claim to have clear titles,
although the land has never been sold
| by the trustees to any purchasers.
T, There are Ga persons occupying the
lands in one of the townships at pres
ent and all of them claim ownership
but when confronted with the facts,
they all have admitted that they are
merely taking a chance at becoming
the ultimate owners. They explain
that since no collections for rent have
been made for many years they had
come to believe that the whole school
land proposition had been dropped.
Don't Want Son Released
ut SpSSldClc VA d ldIhOA
protesting against the release of his
son from the penitentiary was pre-
sented when John F. Hazel of Toledo
saw Gov. Cox Friday afternoon and
asked him not to comply with the
recommendation of the state pardon
board that his 23-year-old son, Don
Harvey Hazel, serving life sentence
for the brutal murder Of his mother,
pardoned. The board said it thought
the son was innocent of the crime.
That his father does not agree with
this view is indicated by his protest.
The son confessed after arrest that
he hit his mother over the head with
a hammer and killed her to get money.
; He said that he was helping her with
, the dishes and when she stopped at
, the sink, he beat her over the head.
: Afterwards the claim was made in his
: defense that the confession was wrung
, from him by duress.
, Lays Down New Rules.
} Auditor of State Donahey has laid
down some new rules for all state Of
ficials and employees, and il they do
: not comply they will get no pay, be-
= cause he will refuse to honor their
3 vouchers. He has notified each de-
f partment to furnish him with roster
2 of each employe, giving the address,
( official title, nature of duties and a
\ statement on the educational and
=. other qualifications of each official and
t employe. AS, no doubt, the auditor is
h not making fish of one department and
4 fowl of another, he will probably exact
g this information from the governors 8
o office, subject to the same conditions
n laid down for the other departments.
t. 1t is presumed that the order will also
IL extend to the auditors own depart
. ment, and that he himself will file in.
e formation on his own educational
qualifications for the official records
Some state officials look askance on
- the order, and wondering if Donahey
q can legally hold up their pay If they
, refuse to do his bidding.
:, Expert Craftsman Is Dropped.
Amos H.. Sawyer, for the past q
- years an expert craftsman In the de
- partment, will be let out of the state
20 department of public works, having
:, been advised by Superintendent JohI
49, l. Miller that his services will not b'
~ needed after this week. Sawyer ha'
executed the commission of every gov
-, ernor from the Campbell to the Co,
- administration, and also those of mos
81 of the United States senators electe'
~ from Ohio during that period. He i
~ skilled in the use of the pen. His re
~ ~ moval is an example Of the mutation
,a of politics.
=. Women's Nine Hour Law.
on State Shop Inspector Kearns ha
op his entire force of inspectors, inclut
ed ing the women visitors, at his ottic
~. for a conference on the new women
~ nine hour law, child labor law an
mothers pension law, all of which in