The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the State

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Columbus.-The agricultural college
extension service of the Ohio State
university has sent out to farmers of
the state a 1856 wall calendar,
1Oxl4 inches in size. One sheet is de-
voted to each month and on the bot
tom OF each month an. appropriate
memorandum appears. That for Sep
tember reads: Forty county fairs in
Ohio hold stock judging contests for
boys" These little monthly boosts
for the splendid work being done by
the extension department will un.
doubtedly enlist a more widespread
interest in the educational work the
department is doing for the farmers
of the state. On the back of the cal
endar is enumerated the forms of
service offered to the farmers of the
state, namely: Agricultural extension
schools, spraying and pinning demon
strations, concrete demonstrations,
seed corn selection field meetings,
fertilizer meetings on farms, boys live
stock judging contests at fairs, ex-
hibits at fairs, fruit thriving demon
strations. Clark s. Wheeler is super
visor Of the extension schools and is
always glad to hear from the farmers
of the state on any topic and with a
view to having his department render
practical service wherever possible.
Akron.-Fully one-half of the north.
west section of Doylestown, IL
miles from Akron, was swept by
flames, which wiped out Petit Bros
mill, the Presbyterian church and the
residence of Mrs. Charles Drilian and
partially destroyed the Lutheran
church, Albert Frath's livery barn and
three other residences.
Total losses were placed at from
$4,000 to 100000.
The fire was fought by the Doyles-
town volunteer firemen and the Bar
berton fire department, which respond
ed when calls for assistance were sent
to neighboring cities.
Scarcity of water hampered the
work of the firemen. Wells and cis-
terms in the vicinity were pumped
dry, and long lines of hose were laid
to the nearest water supplies. Doyles-
town has no water system. Fire Chief
Mertz, Akron, refused to respond
when he learned that water was not
available. Akron apparatus, he said,
would be useless.
Cambridge. - Miss Bessie Landus,
23 years old, milliner of Byesville,
is believed to be dying and five other
occupants of the automobile which
she was driving were injured when the
machine overturned on a steep hill.
Miss Landus, Mrs. w. V. Hildebrandt,
her daughter Anna, and Mrs. A. G. An
drews and five-year-old daughter were
pinned under the machine Miss Laura
Hardin was thrown free from the car.
Miss Landus is suffering internal in
juries. The others, who also live in
Byesville, were badly cut and bruised.
Sandusky. - Owing to the fact it
was feared feeding him would be too
expensive, James Smith, serving a six
month sentence and fined 5000 and
costs, was released from Erie county
Jail.
CleVeland.-The heroic but vain ef-
fort of one workman to save the life of
another resulted in death of both when
they plunged rs feet from the top of
the new high level bridge arches span
ming Merwin-av N. w.
Thousands of pedestrians crossing
Superior viaduct saw the accident,
which brought to five the toll of deaths
as result of accidents on the new high
level bridge.
The dead men are Virgil Sans, "a,
and William Brown, 27. Both were
workers on reinforced concrete con-
struction.
NapoIeon.-The postofice at Ridge
vile Corners, near this city, in
Fred Otto G Sons grocery store,
was robbed of SO and the firm of $25
when the front door lock was picked
and the cash register rifled. Two hun
dred dollars in an unlocked safe was
overlooked.
Sandusky.-Mrs. John Mowry, wife
of a well-known Oxford township
farmer, was seriously if not fatally in
jured when her son Earl, IA, drove her
automobile into street car at Monroe
and Hancock-sts.
North Jackson. - The 41st. Ohio
regiment, which participated in the
battle of Browns Ferry in the
Civil war, just preceding the battle of
Chattanooga, is to have it's own his
tory Of that conflict. Capt. R. H. Cault
is at work on the account.
Dayton. - The three small chill
dren, seven, four and one year old, of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Szencsoik. Hun
garians living in North Dayton, were
the victims of suffocation early Thurs
day morning when the house, in which
their mother had locked them, caught
fire, the police say, through the chill
dren playing with matches. A fourth
child escaped death.
The mother had been out on a
neighboring dump gathering junk
when the fire started. The father is a
laborer
Youngstown.--In an effort to put !
an end to the alleged practice of haz-
ing in Youngstown schools, Sdpt. N. |
H. CLANCY at a meeting of the board |
of education asked for rule provid-
ing discipline for pupils guilty of the
practice. Several recent cases of al
legged rough treatment in one of the