Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-10-29
Tribute to the Potato.

officials are being asked to join in
to pay national tribute once
a year to the merits of the modest and
unassuming tuber. Agricultural papere
in New York, Springfield, Mass; Min
neapolis, Chicago and Atlanta have
taken up the agitation for the payment
of such a tribute and are suggesting
that it be in connection with Thanks
giving. The friends of the potato are
suggesting that it's worth long has
been ignored in public way and that
the time has come when "the humble
shall be exalted" They are saying
that no other product of the earth can
surpass the homely tuber for real del.
icacy and for substantial nutriment,
and forthwith they point out not
scores but hundreds of dishes which
have the apple of the earth as the
basic ingredient Thus at last the un.
sung potato may be coming to its re.
ward. The Ohio agricultural commits.
sion has been formally asked to join
in the celebration that will attend the
exaction of justice deferred and to ask
ShO pCoP1C u OIlO dlSO III TAKE d AdIiu
Murderer May Be Freed.
John Soloy, Cleveland murderer,
once sentenced to die in the electric
chair, but saved by executive clemency
and given life sentence, is to be
given his freedom if Gov Willis will
comply with a recommendation of the
state pardon board, which wants him
restored to liberty. The conditions arl
that he must be placed under the Gus
/ tody of the Hungarian consul at Cleve
land and must support his aged par
ents. Goldie Stewart, serving life
sentence from Meigs county for muir
der, has been recommended for a par
don. Mrs. Newton B. Baker, wife oil
Mayor Baker of Cleveland, has inter
ceded with the board for Walter Lin
ton, an Ashland county prisoner, who
was caught burglarizing the Baker
home. Linton said he stole to gel
money for the care of a crippled baby
which needed surgical operation
VIII Be Fed in November.
The second trial of Clement S. Bax
ter of Lima, former state bank exam
iner, charged with embezzlement o
i 5000 of the funds of the defunct Co
luEbus Savings & Trust Co. after tn,
affairs of the bank had been takel
over by the state, will be held in Nc
vember. 1t will be remembered tha
Baxter was convicted in the Franklin
county common pleas court two year
ago, but was granted new trial and
change of venue to another county b,
the supreme court. Attorney Genera
Turner has made tentative arrange
ments for the hearing of the case
| Baxter's attorneys asked for chang
of venue to another county on tn
ground that popular feeling agains
their client was SO strong in FrankIi
county as to make it impossible 70
him to get fair trial.
Fight Against Electrical Expert.
There is considerable speculation O.
the question of whether the state pull
lie utilities commission will reappoin
its electrical EXPERT L. C. White
whose term is ended under the nel
civil service law The reasons for tn
speculations are, first, that the pos
ton pays $4,000 year, or more tha
the salary of some of the members Z
big state commissions. and secont
that special fight is being made o
White by certain union labor lead er,
This fight is based on the contentio
! that White was one of the high of
: cials Of the Columbus Railway, Powe
& Light Co. during the big street ca
strike in Columbus five years ago.
2 One Million Copies.
/ Within a few days the voters Of til
state will receive copies of the pul
t licity pamphlet to be sent out by Se
3 retary of State Charles @. HildebraI
$ containing the text of the propose
2 amendments to the constitution and
: the McDermott liquor law decentra
: izer and the Sprague redistricting col
S gressional bill, together with the arg
: ments for and against. 1t will tax
l. more than 100000 copies to go a
f around. The cost to, the state of sen,
n ing them out viii approximate $4,000
e viii They Appeal?
/ There is speculation as to whethe
:. or not the Northern Ohio Traction
Light Co., ousted from Stark count
r by the supreme court by a decisio
n that franchises are not permanent u
e less specifically SO provided for. wi
S appeal to the United States suprem
e court. Attorney John G. WeIty, tt
y company's attorney, says the matte
t. will be decided soon.
y On the Job Again.
p Gov. Willis is back on the job agai
$ but is denying himself to caller
r After months absence he has four
" a large amount of accumulated bus
# ness and he will clear his desk
S most of this before he will reeciy
It callers. Probably by the latter part
the week he will be accessible.
How Is Ohio Going to Go?
e How is Ohio going to go this fal
l. Politically, of course. That question
being used here now by both partit
= as an argument in the various loc
e campaigns and also in the hot refe
(. endum campaigns already under wa
e The reference is always to the car
n paign next year, and each of the tw
big parties is employing it for its ow
: uses. One party says, for exampl
> that if the various cities and towns e
, against it in Ohio, the whole natio
l. will be given cue and the tide will b
d apt to turn that way next fall in th
presidential and congressional fight