The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-08-26
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the State

SlLy at "eSlS4 Fllle ana president OF
the Ohio Sunday School association.
1t is estimated that this convention
will bring to Columbus between 1000
and 5000 persons. The call. which is
addressed to all Bible students of Ohio,
in part, is as follows:
Recent years have brought unprece-
dented reinforcements to the armies of
righteousness recruited In the Sunday
schools of the land. No state has had a
fairer share in these activities than Ohio.
The manhood and womanhood of the
country are in organized church work as
never before.
This condition brings with 1t a chaI-
lenge. The active, virie forces now en-
listed in Christian work are restive under
the comparatively trivial tasks laid upon
them. The army is assembled, is anxious,
| 1t expects its place in the battle against
the unsocial forces of the world.
There are mems tasks to be performed
| There are conditions Of peril to the state
and to the church of Jesus Christ which
must be faced. There are evils which
must be put down.
| Recognizing these conditions the Ohio
| Sunday School association calls a conyen-
tion of representatives Of all the organ
| iZed adult Bible classes in the state to
Il
will equip and train themselves for active
social service. One of their first efforts
, will be to throw their entire strength into
| the fight to make Ohio a dry state in
| 1916 This is the most immediate task
ahead. 1t is not the only one. Other cam
paigns will be at hand when victory has
| been achieved.
Cedar Point. - Publishers of rural
papers in Ohio, the majority of
them accompanied by their families.
attended the three-day annual out
ing of the Buckeye Press association.
Thursday the association held a
short business session. Friday it pro-
ceeded in a body to Put-in-Bay, where
it inspected the partially completed
Perry memorial.
Saturday was spent in Sandusky
and at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors
Toledo. - John E. Gunckel, wide
ly known as the father of news
boys" and founder of the Nation
al Association of Newsboys, is dead.
Mr.. GunckePs work for newsboys has
attracted attention throughout the
world. He took it up while a railway
ticket agent, but about eight years
ago he received the aid Of philanthro-
pists and was enabled to devote his
attention solely to ameliorating the
condition of the little newspaper
venders. He raised 100000 in To
ledo for newsboys' building.
Fremont. = An exaggerated case
of ego is the complaint placed
against cabbages grown in Sandusky
county. The weather has been so
favorable and the heads have swelled
to such proportions, many are burst
ing, according to growers. Recent
| ly a farmer heard strange noise
in the cabbage field. He investigated.
| Several cabbages had grown to such
enormous proportions that they had
burst open with loud reports.
Vermilion. When robbers en-
tered the home of Baird Henry, as
sistant editor of the Vermilion News,
and carried away his baby's savings
bank, containing over S., the fifth case
of burglary in one night was recorded.
Following a series of robberiel this
summer citizens are aroused and it is
not unlikely that a delegation will go
before council and demand additional
police protection and better lighted
streets.
Wooster. - A. D. Selby, botanist
at the state experimental station,
issued warning to potato grow
ers in northern Ohio relative to dan
ger from potato blight affecting the
late crop, evidence Of which has been
found in Wayne county. This blight
caused heavy damage in Ohio in 1909
and has now broken out in epidemic
form, Prof. Selby said.
Sandusky. - The lid is down on
poker here. The fact was i'm
pressed upon the minds of 16 par
Elephants in three games broken up
by police when, in the mayors court,
fines of SIS each were imposed and the
public was given formal notice accord
ingly. Not even so-called sociable
games will be tolerated in the future.
Akron. - Writing letter. in which
is contained arrangements for his bur-
ial and the request for a monument
over his grave, James McIlvain, 45,
until recently master carpenter of the
Cleveland division of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, committed suicide
Coshocton. V Vivian Briggell, four.
year-old daughter of T. H. Brig
gell, died at her home here as re.
suit of burns received when she
walked backward into big kettle of
boiling water
Bellevue. - David Bascula, section
hand, was fatally injured near here
when struck by Lake Shore train.
He died in an ambulance.
Columbus.-The state board of ad,
ministration Wednesday granted addi-
tional paroles to SO penitentiary pris-
oners.
chardon. - Hundreds from far and
near thronged the little town of
>Montville to celebrate the Tooth
anniversary of the founding of
the township. There was an extensive
program of sports, addresses and
music. An interesting figure at the
celebration was Steven Case, 80.
Akron. - Veterans of the 115th o.
". l., at their 43d annual reun-
ion, selected Alliance for their gath
ering next year. More than 10t. vet
Grams attended the reunion. Addresses
were made by Mayor Frank Rockwell
and Judge u l.. Marvin OF Cleveland.
East Liverpool. = No demands for
increased wages are embodied in
the proposed general wage agree
ment which the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters have sub
mitted to the United States Potters' as
sociation. The recent referendum vote
of the members, it is understood, re-
iected all nrnnosed increases HOW.