The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-06-04
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\ MISREPRESENTATION
D. A. DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, Ohio.

made for the annual state Sun
day school convention to be held
in Youngstown June 16, II and
1S. The liberals fear that the "drys"
are likely to make the convention the
opening of the threatened statewide
prohibition campaign scheduled to
reach its climax in 1915. The advance
program for the Sunday school meet
IS the thing that has the "wets" on the
anxious seat. Prominent among the
speakers will be Wayne B. Wheeler,
Anti-Saloon league superintendent and
state temperance leader. The program
shows that on the evening Of the sec
end day of the convention Mr.. Wheeler
will speak on "Ohio Dry" Also sig
niticant from the liberal standpoint is
the announcement that at another Sec
tion of the same convention and on
the same evening Rev. John s. Rut-
ledge of Cleveland will speak on the
same subject Although all Sunday
school conventions have more or less
to say against the liquor traffic, the
prominence of the people who are
scheduled to talk at the coming con-
clave and the peculiar manner in
which their topics are worded give
rise to the prediction that the conven-
tion may have more to do with the
subject of temperance than any of it's
predecessors. The convention will be
the fifty~siXth annual meet of the State
Sunday School association.
Locusts Attack Fruit Trees.
Help! The 17-year locusts are at
tacking us!" is the cry that is coming
to the state agricultural commission
from all parts of eastern Ohio. Re-
Gently warning was sent out to farm
ers in that part Of the state that the
locusts would appear about the first of
June, but they have arrived a week
earlier, and there are now millions of
them swarming about, attacking trees
OF all kinds, especially the newly
planted orchards, for which they have
an inordinate fondness. State Nursery
and Orchard Inspector N e. Shaw is
advising farmers to spray their fruit
trees with Bordeaux mixture or lime
sulphur wash as a means of checking
the ravages of these pests. Well ma
tured healthy trees recover from the
injuries the locusts inflict upon them
in two or three years, but the young
trees often do not wholly recover for
many years. The chief damage is
done by the female locust, which cuts
into twigs and deposits eggs there.
The locusts disappear along about Au-
gust. leaving their eggs, which sink
IN the ground and which develop into
new crop of locusts exactly II years
later
Old Vets Volunteer.
How would you like to see a
half hundred men ranging in
age from 80 to 95 years going to
war to fight again for their country?
That imaginary question is raised by
the fact that there are still in Ohio
nearly so veterans of the Mexican war
of 1847 and that few of the more
skittish ones actually have asked the
state military authorities for permis-
sion to fight a second or a third time
mission won't be granted, but the fact
is interesting in the way of showing
just how intense the war spirit can
become. Mahy of the surviving vet
Grams fought in the Civil war and thus
would be willing third time to
shoulder the guns. None of the vet
Grams is much less than 80 and some
have passed the 95 mark. Not all,
however, will be able to attend the
coming annual reunion. The Mexican
veterans are dying at rapidly in,
creasing ratio. 1t is estimated that in
three years there will not be more
than dozen left.
coxey Fails to Get Nomination.
Apparently the spectacular methods
of Jacob S. Coxey, leader of "Coxeys
army" have not had the effect of max.
ing the Massillon man very solid
with the rank and file of the Socialist
party, for the party has just got
through turning Gen. Coxey down for
the governorship nomination in favor
of man who is far less spectacular
and more sedate. In the statewide
referendum Gen. Coxey was defeated
by Scott Wilkins of Lima, the former
mayor of st. Marys, and the latter got
about three times as many votes as
the man who led his diminishing army
Of unemployed recently to Washington
Probably the utter failure of the re-
cent army march may have had some
thing to do with the waning popularity
of Coxey, but the rebuke of his party
If rebuke it can be called will doubt
less be far more stinging to the Mas
sillon man than were the sneers OF
those who saw his handful of follow
ers march into the national capital.
Auto Tags Black and White.
1t is probable that the color design
of next years automobile license tags
will be black and white Secretary Of
State Graves, who makes the selection
had almost decided on purple, but
after inspecting some new sample
tags Wednesday he just about made UP
his mind to decide on black and
white combination. 1t is expected
that he will award the contract fol
the tags this week. A firm in Albany
N. Y, submitted the lowest bid for the
tags, and if its samples measure up to
the test the bid will be accepted.
VIII Lock Horns Soon.
Pretty soon the state public utilities
commission and the railroads operat
ing in Ohio will lock horns over an in
teresting complaint that is being
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