The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
Buckeye Notes

MONDAY lunch in cafe at 135 Supe-
rior-st, Orion Hamilton, 26, whose
parents are said to reside in Detroit,
swallowed poison. Hamilton fell from
the stool at the counter unconscious.
He was sent to Robinwood hospital,
where it is said there is little chance
for his recovery.
Upper Sandusky. A. H. Colds
borough, tifty-fve, q magazine agent
who registered from Columbus, COM
mitted suicide by slashing himself
with razor at his room in the Gait
house at Carey.
East Liverpool - The Home Sav.
ings & Loan company of Wells
vile, Of which ex-Common Pleas Judge
P. M. Smith is president, passed a res
olution authorizing voluntary liquida-
ton of its indebtedness. The assets
and liabilities are each 1895, 900. Build
Ing and Loan Inspector J. A. Devine OF
Columbus says the depositors will lose
nothing. Bad Investments are a.
signed as the cause of the failure.
Cincinnati. The first mothers
pension in Ohio was granted BY
Juvenile Court Judge German to Mrs.
Lizzie Suerkamp of this city. She was
allowed $22 a month for the support of
her two children, IA and IL years old.
Allowances to 10 other mothers, grant
ed Immediately afterward, also were
put on record in common pleas court.
Youngstown. - Supposedly penni-
less, jeremiah Davies, seventy, who
has subsisted on the charity of neigh
bors, died after a long illness. In his
room was discovered $1,000 in cash
and 1t was discovered that he owned
the house where he had lived until he
was taken to the city hospital.
Hudson.-At a school bond election
here the voters elected a $4,000 bond
issue for the erection Of a new grade
and high school. The bonds will be
sold within few days and work
started on the school as soon as pos
sible. The building, when completed,
will be fire resisting throughout.
Geneva.-This village has the dis
tinction of gaining two hours addition
al light by the adoption of eastern
time. Not only Is one hour of day
light gained but also one hour of
street light. The contract between
the village and the lighting company
provides that the lights shall not be
extinguished until 1890 a. m. central
standard time. They now burn until
1870 a. m. Geneva time).
Youngstown.-That the city council
cannot force the saloons of the city
to close by eastern time, is the deci-
sion Of City Solicitor George ]. Ca
rev. The ordinance provides for Ii
o'clock closing and an effort has been
made to construe this as II, eastern
time, which would cut short one hour
Of night business. He rules that the
saloons close by central standard, the
state time.
Flndlay.-After consulting several
physicians, one of them an eye special
ist, Findlay woman rid herself of So
we're pains in one of her eyes when
she extracted fax seed that had
been placed there several days previ-
GUS to draw out another object. When
she examined the seed she found that
1t had begun to sprout, the rough
edges of the sprout scratching the eye.
Akron.-H. P. Harris, an aviator
making an exhibition flight here, met
instant death in a 6OO-foot fall when
the left wing of his Curtis biplane
broke. He jumped from his seat
when 100 feet from the ground His
neck and back were broken. Harris
had been in the air Is minutes and
was preparing to land. He was aged
55 and married.
Conneaut.-Rev. Dan F. Bradley.
Cleveland pastor, in an address here
said he believed the churches should
lake up the question of seeing that
The women of this country are grant
I'd suffrage. He said a more concert
I'd effort on the part Of the churches
would go a long way toward helping
hem win their battles. The Ashts,
'ula County Ministerial association
will take up the question at its next
Meeting.
Toledo.-With an apparently self-in-
llcted bullet wound in his right tenn
lie, Earl Potter was found uncon-
cious behind haystack on the farm
Il VIM. Weiswebber, with whose
laughter Teenie he was said to be in
atuated. The shooting is supposed
o have resulted from a love affair
With the girl
Bellefontaine.-Sowing seed for the
nion crop on the Scioto marsh. the
argest onion garden in the United
'tates, is about completed. Thousands
I acres of the black, rich muck are
lanted. The most extensive growers
mployed gasoline propelled plows.
" working two shifts they plowed
lights.
Youngstown.-An old shoe, in which
lrs. Catherine Pagan placed more
rust than in the national bank,
roved false. She had used it to se-
rete her savings, SIC, and, forgetting
ne fact, took it to a cobbler for re-
airs. When she discovered her loss
le cobbler denied that the money was
the shoe when he got it.
Ashtabula. - Colonel William C,
.askell, for the last 16 years sealer
weights and measures in Washing
IN, died suddenly in that city. The
ody was brought to Ashtabula for in
Col. Haskell was United
tates marshal in the northern Ohio
strict during McKinley's administra-
on and was mayor of Ashtabula two
rms.