The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-12-16
special Columbus Correspondent.

indicated by report prepared by |
Fred c. Croxton, statistician of
the state industrial commission,
which was turned over to c. c. |
Gill, secretary Of the Commission on
Church and Country Life, now meet
ing in Columbus. Ministers of the
Methodist Episcopal church average
less than $25 a week. There are 1,005
such ministers in the state. Nineteen
per cent Of them get less than SIS
week. This is one-fifth of the total
number. About one-third of the num-
ber get less than SIS a week, one-half
get less than $20 two-thirds get less
than $25. CroXton, who is an expert
on wages and what it costs to live,
says that a minister can hardly get
along on less than 500 a week, espe
cially when he has a family to keep.
The city of New Yo, has fixed SS40
a year as the mil mum amount upon
which a street cleaners family of
man, wife and three children under
IA years of age can live decently. On
this basis, from q financial stand
point, it is nearly as profitable to be
a street cleaner in the metropolis as
1t is to be a minister in Ohio. The
problem of increasing the salaries of
underpaid ministers is one that is be-
fore the Commission on Church and
Country Life for consideration.
Compromise on New Gate.
While all the business transacted
by the state public utilities commits
sion is, important, it varies in degree
of weightiness. For instance, several
days ago the commission authorized
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to is
sue $60,000,O00 of bonds for better
ments and for the cancellation of OBJ
legations. After disposing of this busi-
ness, the commission gave attention
to controversy between the Wabash
railroad and Harry LaVor, a farmer
of near Neapolis, over the question of
who should close gate opening from
LaVor's farm to the company's tracks.
The commission succeeded in getting
the belligerents to compromise. The
company will install new gate,
easier to swing, and Mrs. LaVor will
keep it closed when her husband is
absent. 1t will cost the company $40
to make the change.
New Lease on Life.
Peter Skribner, the Lucas county
murderer, sentenced to die in the
electric chair Dec. II, gets a new lease
of life, Gov Willis having reprieved
him until Feb. II to give the pardon
board time to consider his case. An
application was made to the board for
a communication of the death sentence
to life Imprisonment. Skribner is
Russian. He came to this country
little more than year ago. He shot
and seriously wounded his sweetheart
and then shot and killed an officer
who came to arrest him. He is indif-
ferent about his fate,
Succeeds His Father.
Aaron Cohn of Toledo, just appoint
ed by Gov. Willis to succeed his faith
er, the late Sam Cohn, as Republican
tax commissioner in Lucas county,
will have but three weeks to serve.
With the close of the year all the tax
commissionership jobs will pass out
of existence. The authority of the
repealed Warnes law, under which tax
commissioners were appointed for
each county, ceases then and the old
way of electing assessors by vote of
the people will be restored.
Mice Were the Robbers.
Mice proved to be the thieves that
robbed T. o. Pickering of two valu-
able pearls, which he reported to the
police. He is a jeweler and had
taken the pearls to his home enclosed
in an envelope They disappeared. 1t
was found mice had made their way
into his overcoat pocket, gnaWed a
hole in the envelope and taken out
two of the pearls it contained. They
were found on the floor where the
mice left them.
Consider Place important.
So important does the state civil
service commission regard the ap.
pointment of superintendent for the
new women's prison at Marysville
that they have appointed a special ex.
amining commission of distinguished
persons. 1t is composed of ]. A
Leonard, superintendent of the Mans
field reformatory; Rev. W. H. Kellogg
pastor of the leading M. E. church
here, and Edith Campbell, a teacher
of Cincinnati.
Widow Of Late Justice Dies.
Martha j. Williams, the widow Of
the late Justice Marshall ]. Williams
of the supreme court, died at heI
home here after an illness extending
over five years, hardening Of the ar
teries being the cause. The old home
OF the Williamses was at Washington
&c. H, but she had lived here since hel
husband was elected to the supreme
bench.
Turns Down Request for Funds.
The state emergency board has
turned down a request of the state in
dustrial commission for funds to ap
point eight more deputies. The com
mission was told to make use Of at
taches in departments which car
spare them to do the work for which
the new men are wanted. The board
also declined to make an allowance
that would make it possible for the
state liquor license commission to in
crease the salary Of the secretary Of
the commission, James L. Hampton
from $4,000 to $500.
Romance Is Ended.
An slopement in high society oi
Columbus of five years ago culmi
mated in a divorce suit yesterday
when Sue Gwinn Glenn sued for sep
aration from VIM. P. Glenn, to whom
abe was married at Covington, KY.
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