The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-13
Buckeye Notes


according to a decree enunciated by
the International Custom Cutters as
sociation, winding up its annual mid
summer meet.
About 20 of the cutters appeared on
the beach at Cedar Point in suits they
designed and made during the meet
and created almost as much of SEN
sation as they did a year ago when
they Sprung" trousers split half way
to the knee.
The balmacaan topcoat, little less
bunglesome than 1t was last fall and
made of shepherd plaids will be the
proper caper for the late fall, the cut
teys say.
Sandusky. - When gasoline explod-
ed and set fire to a fishing
launch on Sandusky bay near John
sons island, Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Hayes
and Peter Roberts, all of Port Clinton,
narrowly escaped burning or drown
ing. The craft was burned.
Hayes and Roberts, fishermen, had
been seining at Johnson's island and
had started toward Bay bridge. When
the flames enveloped their boat they
entered a small open boat which they
had in tow and finally reached Marble
head shore. All three persons were
painfully though not seriously burned.
Columbus. "A thousand boys and
girls from Ohio will mourn the
death of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and recall the pleasure she provided
for them last winter when the Ohio
corn boys and girls were in Washing
ton. The reception at the White
House was to have been cancelled be-
cause of the illness of the president,
when Mrs. Wilson volunteered to hold
the reception and save the young peo-
pie the disappointment they otherwise
would have met.
Bellefontaine. - With National Dep
uty Grand Master Lincoln John
son of Atlanta, Ca, presiding, the
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows,
in state convention here, elected the
following officers:
Grand master, S. s. Cheeks, Oxford;
deputy grand master, Thomas Trip
lett, Cincinnati; secretary, W. F.
Speaks, Springfield; treasurer, Walter
Dale, Urbana; director, N. D. Caven-
der GAINESVILLE; medical director DR..
]. P. Haynes, Toledo; advocate, c. E.
Armstrong, Lockland. Springfield was
selected as the place of meeting next
year.
Sandusky. - Armed with shotguns,
Henry l. Isaac and his three
sons forced a gang of Lake Shore
Electric workmen to abandon, for the
present, the laying of tracks through
the Isaac farm, midway between this
city and Huron.
Contending, despite denials of COM
pany officials, that the right of way
sought has never been legally con-
demned, Isaac and his boys held the
workmen at bay, while officials were
comforting with lawyers here in a
vain effort to Jail the belligerents.
East Liverpool. - Roy Baker 10
years DID, potter, of Salineville, o.,
accidentally shot and killed himself
with rife. Picking up the gun, he
pointed it at his mother and two sis
sisters. He snapped the trigger and it
failed to explode. Put it down, empty
guns kill people," exclaimed his
mother. Believing the rifle unloaded,
he put the muzzle in his mouth and
pulled the trigger. He was killed in
stantly.
Sandusky.- Joseph Faber, 70 years
old, farmer living at Slate Cut,
five miles east of this city; his wife,
IS, and his daughter-in-law. Mrs. Henry
Faber, were injured, the elder Mrs.
Faber fatally, when an automobile in
which they were driving to Milan
turned turtle in a ditch on Ruggles
hill, half mile this side of Milan.
Athens. - Denied a new trial on
the charge of embezzling city
funds, former Mayor c. H. Slaughter
was sentenced to the penitentiary by
Judge Wood. Later the court of ap-
peals suspended sentence until the
error petition can be reviewed in Oc-
tober. Slaughter was released on
bond.
Mansfield - Jacob Mintz, private
detective of Cleveland, was elect.
ed president of the Ohio Police
association. Mintz succeeds Col. viii.
liam Copeland, chief of Cincinnati
police.
Canton.-Frank Hora of Cleveland
| Ictr ox
Meyers lake here. He was a member
of party of Cleveland excursionists
at the lake.
Conneaut.-Ralph Slattery, aged 12
of Pittsburgh, camping at the
lake near here, died early in the morn
ing of poisoning caused by eating col
ored candy.
ut-Announcement has just
been made that the plant of the
Conneaut Mazda Lamp works, a
branch of the National Electric
Lamp association, would be closed
down on account of business condi
tions. F. E. Treat, manager of the
local plant, has been sent to take
charge of the plant at Shelby. Five
hundred employees are affected.
Waverly.-A seven-passenger tour
ing car, driven by ]. j. Rardin
treasurer of the Selby Shoe company
of Portsmouth, crashed into a tel
ephone pole two miles north o.
Waverly on the Columbus road, turned
over and seriously injured three of it!
occupants.
Sandusky. - The body of Alber
Hughes of Put-in-Bay, formerly o
Toledo, was found floating in San
dnskv haY near Raw Point hY hnvs