The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-03-26
D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.
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special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus. Ohio.
AYOW that cities have had their go
Nl to-church movements that brought
liz thousands of non-church goers
to houses of worship, a nation
wide movement has been started for
a rural church day Representative
farm publications from Boston to the
Pacific coast have undertaken the
work and have set Sunday, May 8,
as the day when throughout the en-
tire land every inhabitant in the coun.
try is asked to attend some church.
Saloons viii Fight Women.
Liberal forces of the state are 60
Ing to have a huge campaign fund
with which to fight woman suf-
frage and prohibition If the lib
eral plans begun in Cleveland, Co.
lumbus and Cincinnati are carried into
effect. The liberal plan in detail is to
assess each saloonkeeper in the state
the sum of 50 monthly until after the
election next fall, when woman suf-
frage is voted upon. II the suffrage
issue fails, then the liberal forces will
have less to worry about, from their
viewpoint, and the assessment may be
reduced. Figuring on the basis of the
$500 saloons in the state it can be
seen that the assessment on the saloon
alone will yield more than $4,000
each four weeks. Moreover, the lib
eral program calls for large assess
ments upon breweries, distilleries,
wholesale liquor dealers and others in
directly concerned in the liquor busi-
ness. At meeting recently of the
saloonkeepers of Cleveland, Nicholas
Duttle of Dayton, representative of the
state liquor dealers organization, de-
clared that the liquor interests would
need a tremendous fund to fight the
prohibition movement and outlined the
assessment plan. He figured that his
organization would raise between
half million and million dollars
through the scheme of making each
dealer pay so much.
Ask More Confidence.
People who depend upon gas for
cooking and heating purposes will find
comfort in the announcement that
the state public utilities commits
sion purposes to pay greater at
tention to complaints of gas users
and to the alleged dereliction of
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no less than 1877 in the state
When a gas consumer in future COM
plains to the state commission that he
fears his gas bills are too high, the
commission, according to its promise,
will send out an expert to see how
the customers meter is working
Moreover, the commission says that it
will compel natural gas companies to
test the quality Of their gas each week
and artificial gas companies three
times a week. In the past the state
commission has intervened many times
in disputes between gas companies
and their patrons, but its latest an
nouncement is thought to amount to
an invitation to gas users to rely more
upon the powers of the
commission to cdjust differences.
May Lose Job Through Beubuqs.
If Delbert Mcbride loses his job as
of the Allen county in
tirmary it will be on account of bed
bugs, more politely known as climax
Iectulares. Inspection of the infirmary
by board of women visitors brought
out that 1t was overrun by these
pesky Critters" and so the board
fled complaint with the county COM
asking for McBrides re-
noval. The board dismissed him,
and Mcbride now appeals to the state
civil service commission for hearing,
Which will be granted. He says that
when he took hold of the infirmary a
year ago there were bedbugs in every
hook and corner. He tried several
germ killers, which we're Intellectual,
)ut last month he found one that put
hem out of business. This was after
he board of visitors had called. It
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nine II Mcbride shall get his job back.
'ecords will be chosen to work on the
lew site.
Rabbits Becoming Nuisance.
Rabbits are becoming so plentiful In
ome parts Of the state that they are
nuisance. Farmers are writing to
he state game warden complaining
hat the rabbits are destroying fruit
rees. One man named Babst, living
It Beaver, Pike county, wrote the gov
rnor's office that the rabbits had
uined an apple orchard for him, and
ut down a number of trees and sent
ections Of them with his letter to
urnish the evidence of their malic-
BUSINESS.
Named Prison Farm Head.
P. c. Heron, for the past several
ears connected with the Ohio expert
1ent station at Wooster, has just been
ppointed superin .endent of the new
tate prison farm in Madison county.