The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-08
Buckeye, Notes

| ACA VI llAlo City has bCCh AC-SASSN~O
president of the Eastern Ohio district
Of the Joint Ohio synod of the Luth-
eran church by the synod, which ad-
journed after a weeks session. The
other officers of the synod are: Rev.
F. H. Meyer, Zelienoue, Pa; vice pres
ident; Rev. Clark Brauer, Steubenville,
German secretary; Rev. Otto Ebert,
Broughton, Pa, English secretary;
Rev. G. F. w. Becht, Chicora, Pa,
treasurer; Rev. A. F. Rohr, Shippen-
vile, Pa, statistician, and Rev. w.
Schoman, Canton, collector.
The meeting place of the next an
nual convention of the synod will be
determined by the officers Of the or
ganiZation.
Lorain. - John Pretzloff, aged 90,
veteran ship builder, died suddenly
of heart failure here. He came to
America 80 years ago from Germany
and settled in Amherst.
Gallipolis.-A freight wreck on the
K. & NJ railroad demolished 10 cars
near Hebbardsville. No one was in
jured. Traffic was tied up Is hours.
Huron. - Burglars entered the Of
flee of the Lake Shore ElSntric
railroad at this place, blowing ths. safe
and demolishing show cases anu other
furniture. The yeggs took $100, over
looking S120 worth of C. o. D. pack
ages, also in the safe.
/ Lorain.-Danota Claprisse, aged %,
Italian section hand, was ground to
death beneath the wheels of a freight
train near Oak Point.
Nelsonville. - John Flick aged 43,
miner of this city. was killed in the
yards of the Hooking Valley railroad.
Owing to several bruises on his body,
Coroner Lane ordered an investigation.
Alliance. - The body of William
Pinkerton, aged As, of Sebring, was
found in the Mahoning river by L.
Greenawald 1t is not known how he
met death. Police are investigating.
Port Clinton.-Wiliam Fought, Oak
Harbor indicted for burglary, was
sentenced to thirty years in the
penitentiary by Judge John Duff
Fought was charged with robbing the
home of his brother-in-law, Henry N.Y.
/ lander, whose house burned the same
evening.
Sandusky-Considera increase in
the tax rates in 10 of the % taxing dis
tricts in Erie county are reported in
the report of the county budget COM
mission which, as approved by the
state tax commission, has just been
announced. The remaining % dis
tricts get slightly lower rates.
Youngstown. - Receipts of the
Youngstown postoffice have fallen
off from $1,000 to $1,500 a month,
owing to the European war. Dimin-
ished sales of cent stamps, largely
used in foreign postal service, and d.
minished collections from underpaid
postage are the chief causes of the de-
creased revenue Letters posted in
foreign countries seldom have the full
amount of postage and collections from
this source have been a substantial
item of revenue.
Fremont. - Rev. ]. c. Roberts,
six years financial agent for the
Ohio Wesleyan university at Della
ware, has been appointed pastor Of
the Fremont Methodist church to fill
the vacancy created by the sudden
death of Rev. ]. Foster Harshbarger.
East Liverpool. - Because he does
not like to be subject to a bish-
op, Rev. w. w. Macewan, former
ly of Akron, who has been pastor
of the Orchard Grove Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal church for the past
year, has resigned and will assume the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church at
Orrville, o.
Shelby. - The Dickerson Printing
company publishers of the Shelby
Citizen, daily newspaper founded by
DR.. Henry w. Slough, an evangelist Of
Wheaton, ILL.,, in 1912, through H. H.
Metcalfe, president, and w. e. Cason,
secretary. has made an assignment to
Attorney A. B. Mabee of this city. The
assets are given at $1,000, while the
liabilities are $4,000.
Lima The Allen County Fish
and Game Protective association
has been formed here and the fol-
lowing officers elected: President, C.
A. Rusler; secretary, H. L. Dewitt;
treasurer, Frank Leech, all of Lima.
The association will meet monthly to
devise plans for the further protection
Of the fish and game of the county un-
der direction of Deputy Game Warden
Charles E. Hanes.
ST. Marys. - Mrs. Gustave Witten-
bring, aged 3S years, was run over by
land roller, when she jumped while
the team was running away. Her
right elbow was fractured and dislo-
Gated and her left knee seriously
injured.
Norwalk - The meeting place Of
the North East Ohio Va conference
of the Methodist church for 1915
will be in Akron. ]. c. Smith, j. R.
Jacobs, E. E. Whitaker, T. w. Grose
and A. Philpott were elected confer
ence trustees for three years.
Marion - Nicola Carcanog, aged
33 years, fruit merchant, shot by
Blackhand agent, according to the po-
lice, died in a hospital here. No ar
rests have been made.
Bellefontaine. - William Foulk and
Frank Williams, painters, we're badly
hurt when an automobile driven by
: Forest Sutton of Lima, O., crashed in
to the bicycles the men we're riding
here Both were thrown from the BIZ
cycles and rendered unconscious.
Cincinnati. - Action tending to-
! ward elimination of fake charity
J solicitors and speeches advocating
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