The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-03-12
Buckeye Notes


born without hands and has but
one crippled foot, Miss Beulah Faw-
cett, aged 21, of Pennsville, Morgan
county, will soon be chosen secretary
of the Ohio Breeders association. She
has the backing of the officers of the
organization, and, 1t is understood, will
have no opposition for the place.
Miss Fawcett writes very legibly
with the toes of her one crippled foot,
the left one, having, after years OF
practice acquired the ability to write
as well as most persons can with their
hands. She is also very clever at
needle work.
The young woman is well posted in
farm work and concerning poultry in
particular, making her Offices in the
Breeders association most valuable.
Marion. - Mrs. Grant Mouser of
this city, wife of the Marion coun-
ty candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor, and her
mother, Mrs. Basil Ridgeway, were Sc
riously injured when hit by a mail
sack thrown from a Big Four train at
Larue. Mrs. Mousers hat and her
heavy hair probably saved her life.
Sandusky. - E. B. Brohl and
Herman Appel plumbers, who en-
gagged in business here 25 years ago
Wednesday, celebrated by giving
banquet to their employees. While the
feasting was in progress they an
nounced that per cent of last years
profits were to be divided among these
employees, each receiving an amount
commensurate with the time they had
been employed and that the division
would be an annual event In the future.
Massillon.-Health Officer John Bail
iss Of Bethlehem township dropped
dead of heart failure while at
work at the Wheeling & Lake
Erie shops at Brewster. He was
a member OF the Thirteenth regiment,
Ohio volunteer cavalry, and served
throughout the Civil war. He had held
his present position IS years.
Massillon - Purchased with mon.
ey raised by Mayor A. N. Haley,
Massillon claims the only pair of
black squirrels in the state, The
little animals we're shipped here from
western Canada and have been given
homes in city hall park.
Cincinnati. - Mildred Crane, aged
II, who caused the conviction of five
prominent men and two women on the
charge OF contributing to her delin-
quency, was committed to the Indus
trial School for Girls at Delaware by
Juvenile Court Judge German. The
girl pleaded with the Judge to be re-
turned to her home. When Judge
German refused she tainted and, when
revived, was carried screaming from
the court room.
Marion. - James Newlove, thirty
nine, charged with whipping his fa-
ther, William Newlove, eighty, plead
ed guilty and was fined $25.
Kenton. - Miss Elizabeth Willeke,
80, was found dying just outside the
Erie railroad depot She died 10 min
utes later, having taken poison.
Canton. - Mike Paola, John Mos
trionne and Tony Mostrionne, the
three alleged Blackhanders accused of
numbering Samuel Arch here, were
DOuHu over LO JU6 STduu jury.
Ravenna-When Harrison Puring-
ton, seventy, failed to appear on the
streets of Rootstown for several days
neighbors went to investigate and
found him cold in death, sitting in a
chair.
Bellefontaine. Not waiting to
welcome his only son, who was
returning with his bride from a
honeymoon trip, Charles Devolt, a
farmer, near Middleburg, committed
suicide. Mrs. Devolt had gone to the
station to meet the young folks, and
when they reached home they discov-
cred the tragedy.
Akron. - With warning not
to go to sleep and leave the gas
stove burning the last words that
he heard, James Taylor, rs, rubber
worker, dozed off without turning out
the gas.
The oxygen in the small, tightly
closed room was soon used up. The
man was asphyxiated
Taylor's body was discovered when
the landlady Of the rooming house
went to make the bed. His home is
in Franklin, Pa.
Massillon. - Living four and one.
half days while almost cut in
two at the waist, Anthony Padula, 30
Navarro miner, died at the Massillor
City hospital. Padula was at work in
the Fox mine south of here when he
fell beneath the wheels of mining
machine weighing $500 pounds.
Akron. - John Benesch pleaded
} guilty in common pleas court to
the charge Of shooting his wife with
intent to kill. Judge Ahern sentenced
, the prisoner to serve an indeterminate
term in the Ohio state penitentiary
Benesch shot his wife while in jeal.
Gus rage and then turned the gun on
himself.
Springfield. - Despondent over fail
ure to secure employment William
Clark committed suicide by taking
acid His wife is in the tuberculosis
; hospital.
Cincinnati. George r. Schott
Of Cincinnati was reelected presi-
dent of the Ohio Association Of
| Retail Shoe Dealers at the closing ses-
) sion of the convention of that organi-
t zation in Hotel Gibson. Most of the
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