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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
MANSFIELD FOR
WILEY WAITE

Judge i. R. Critchfeld at Wooster
Tuesday sentenced Wiley Waite. Me-
dina contractor, charged with procur-
ing an illegal operation, to serve en-
indeterminate sentence in the Mans
field reformatory not to exceed seven
years.
Prosecuting Attorney Starn Of Woos
ter insisted on Waite being sent to
the penitentiary, but the court ruled
otherwise. Waite was asked If he
had anything to say, but replied that
he hadn't. His attorneys. Metz and
Smith, both made pleas for their cli-
ent, asking for leniency In the form
of q suspended sentence to Mansfield.
In overrulng the motion for d new
trial, Judge Critchfeld held that not
only was the operation committed iii
Wayne county, but that the crime was
contaminated in that county as well.
Enforcement Of sentence was s,fs-
pended for five days to enable Waite's
attorneys to file a motion for review
on error in the court of appeals. The
bond was increased from $1,000 to
81, 800.
a suspension Of the sentence of
Wiley Waite to the Mansfield reform
atory until Sept. d9, was granted by.
Judge Shields Of the court Of appeals
at Canton Wednesday. I
"A. d. Metz Of Wooster, attorney for
the young man, went to Canton and
asked for 9 stay of execution iii order
70 carry the case to the court Of ap-
peals on error, and the motion was
granted. J. #
The error case will be heard BY the
court OF appeals at Wooster at the
regular term beginning Sept. Ia, and
ttiye days more are allowed for hear
ing and decision. Y
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
WOMAN KILLED
WELL KNOWN HERE

!. Last nights Cleveland papers con-
tanned notice Of the sudden death Of
Miss Clara Sitzenstock, 26, Of 1920
sDeckman avenue. by being run down
by an auto truck at University Cir
Gle. Miss Sitzenstock stepped from a
Euclid car and was struck BY the ma
chine. She was hurried to d hospital,
but died soon after reaching there. She
was a teacher in Union school. Miss
Sitzenstock had frequently visited in
Medina at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. +. Berger, 1872 North Vine street.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
DEATH OF ELI BROWN.

Mr.. Eli Cooper Brown. who had
been living in Medina the past year at
the home Of his granddaughter, Mrs.
viii Overholt, died Sunday morning,
July A. The body was Immediately
shipped to Jessup, Indiana, his for
mer home, where he had spent the
greater portion Of his long life. He
was 50 years old and had been a mem
Der Of the Odd Fellows lodge for 6g
years. The body was accompanied to
Jessup by Mrs. Overholt and the de-
ceased's daughter, Mrs. Hattie Chat
field. !.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
PINCHED FOR CRAP GAME

Logan Owens, Jas. Wonder and
Frank Foster, colored. were arrested
BY Marshal Gates ait Chippewa Lake
park early Wednesday evening, upon
complaint of Manager Beach, for ere
ating disturbance and shooting crap
The men were members Of a party Of
colored people from Cleveland who had
been spending the day at The lake.
Before Justice Van Deusen soon after
their arrest the men plead guilty and
each was fined $1 and costs, N
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
CULVERT CONTRACTS LET

The commissioners at their meetina
Tuesday awarded the following con
tracts for building bridges and cul-
yerts: to Einhart 3 Leavet, the Dean
Dague, Ganyard, Lytle and johnson
Myrlck bridge abutment and the At
klns bridge and abutment extension
and Drake culvert in Brunswick. To
Geo. s. Mellert, the Stebel culvert in
Brunswick and to G. H. Scanlon the
French culvert in Brunswick. The
engineer was authorized to let at pri-
vate contract to HI. 2. Young & Son
Of Wadsworth the building of a bridge
in Sharon township.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
REFUSES NURSE
FOR SICK WIFI

80 weymouth people are indignant
ever the cruel mistreatment Of his
Rged wife by one Of their fellow citi-
lens, Gilbert Oberton. Mrs. Oberton
talas been In I'LL health for some time
md \ couple of weeks ago became con-
hned to her bed. She needed and
requested q nurse, but Oberton re-
fused to secure one and moreover de-
Cared that If d nurse came he would
Mave. He also threatened to have
Wle phone taken from the house.
81 Her condition becoming worse. Mrs.
2berton was removed to the home Of
her friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
@ndrews, where she has been receiv-
igg the best of care. When her phy-
s1clan, Or, w. Al. Stanley, called Mon
gay afternoon, Mrs. Oberton was feel
Mg little improved and exacted a
prQmise from the doctor that he would
4 TX with Oberton and try and per
sade him to accede to the wishes 6f
iW wife for q nurse, as she was I'M
happy to be away from her own home,
and which Is her own personal prop
erty. n ~
pr. Stanley went at once TO The OBJ
erton home and what Gilbert was told
was plenty. 1t may also be stated
that he heard each word as ii was
plainly and loudly enunciated. Dr.
Stanley informed him that his wife
would be brought home the next day
and that there would be a nurse there
and that there must be no further
mistreatment by him.
Late Monday evening Oberton went
70 the Andrews home. AT the time.
there was no one in the house but
Mrs. Oberton. When Oberton dis.
covered this he beat on the door and
raised such rumpus that, sick AS she
Was, Mrs. Oberton was compelled to'
BET lp and let him In. His abuse III
aer while there was such that before
morning she suffered severe stroke.
of apoplexy from which she is not
expected to recover. DR.. Stanley Isl
authority for this statement as well
as tor what previously has been
stated concerning the case. The com
vHfsation between the doctor and OBJ
erton was listened to by Sentinel
lrepres sentative.
Mrs. Oberton is now too ill to be
removed to her home. but is having
tlle care Of q trained nurse.
Mrs. Oberton died late Wednesday
night Responding to a hurried cali.
Dr. Stanley reached the home before
Mrs. Oberton expired, but without
avail. She had been unable to
withstand the shock brought about byI
her violent and heartless nistreatment
Monday night.
Besides the Widower, the deceased
~ survived BY one son, Earnest Hunt.
VI former husband now dead, and
= brother Mat. Cainpbeil, of Chatham.
The son resides III Fresno, Cal, and
Is on his way to Medina to attend his |
mothers funeral, date Of which had
not been decided upon up To the hour
Of going to press.
Aside from the son, no one seems
to know where or when Mrs. ObertonI
was born, the given name Of her first |
husband, Or the date and place Of mar
riage to her second husband. Oberton
doesn't know, himself. He said SO to |
the editor Of the Sentinel Thursday |
evening.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
GENERAL DICK
VISITS Medina

Ex-senator Chas. Dick of Akron
was in town one day this week pre-
sumably in the interest of the Gazette
Co, in which he is said to hold con-
siderable stock. Dick is credited with
harboring full-fledged longing to
once more don the Senatorial toga.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09

since and Is still being attended BY ii
physician, though no further trouble
Is anticipated. The other accident was
when Mrs. j. wv. Hart Of Cleveland,
was struck in the knee BY a wild ball.
The injury was very painful, but Mrs.
Hart was soon able to walk from Che
grounds, She was the guest while In
town Of Mrs. y. .. SearIes. II
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09

Mr Stephen Green ~ Colnnhus
sang thesong, beautiful Isle,' 1T the
morning service 0f the Baptist church
oH Sunday. II tie evening j branti.
zal duet WAS sung BY Mr. Jesse ana
Hiiss Cora Warren. N
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09

Pref Geo. w johnson, teacher If
mathematics iii Woodward high school
ct Cincinnati, with his wife and son
and daughter spent from Friday To
Tuesday with Mrs. Johhsossss parents
Rev. and Mrs. Philip Kelser. N
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09

The only accidents reported during
the day occurred during the last bail
game Of the day. "A ball bieng thrown
from second base to first failed to be
caught and struck Mrs. Gail Alexaf,-
der Of Mallet Creek over the heart.
Serious results were feared at first.
hut ply ysicians were at hand and MRS.
Alexander was soon able to be taken
home: she has suffered considerable
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-09
.TRIAN vAGRANT HELD

STRIAN YAGRANT HELD
! q 4 Gehman was called to the
= b Archie Buchanan in Litch-
3 aship Tuesday night to take
a g aged Austrian who was
8 the Buchanan premises.
I ,sf j = sed the the man seemed dazed
II " X Y an ircoherent mumbling.
ny Wednesday two other occu-
pants, also Austrians, were able to
learn the mans name, which Il los
Poppoleslxy. The sheriff communi-
Gated with the Austrian consul at
Cleveland, who stated that he would
see that his countryman was provided
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
YOU'LL HEAR MEN SAY

There is lot about Socialism
like, but there are so many other
things that are Objectionable that !
am against it as a whole" Pin one
|of these fellows down to a statement
lof just one of the features to which
he objects and nine cases out of ten
it turns out to be something not in.
cluded in the Socialist program at all
He has simply absorbed some of the
misinformation that the capitalist edi.
tors and writer's sit up nights to
think out and then circulate. In con.
sequence he is opposing something
he thinks is Socialism but is not and
never was. 1t is this that makes it
so important that we should have
more trained workers and teachers in
the field. Thousands of them are
needed.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
TWELVE GIRLS PERISH

Twelve girls and one man were
killed and eight girls seriously in.
jured in Pittsburgh paper box fac.
tory fire. Another repetition of the
Triangle fire, and Of hundreds of the
same character since, and still fac
tories that are fire traps will be used
by profit-hungry capitalists in order
to grind profits out of their slaves.
How long, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, will
you stand for a system that kills,
burns, cripples and skaters by dis,
ease thousands of lives every week
How long will you stand for sys-
TEN that makes a girl choose between
low wage sweat shop work or the
red light district? How long will
you stand for system that forces
such girls as Viola Udall to such des.
perate deeds in order to provide a
miserable existence? The power is
in your hands. You and your class
may make life paradise or a hell.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28

G. w. Carr is candidate for an
office that is of vital Importance to
the workers of Everett. Working con
ditions in America are getting worse
Strikes, lockouts and boycotts win be
more numerous in the future than in
the past The workers everywhere
are demanding more of what they pro
duce. Big business will stubbornly
fight every inch of the way. They
will use the power of the state to sub
iect and beat the workers. They are
doing it in dozens of cities today
Workers by the hundreds, aye, and by
the thousands, have been driven back
into the factories, mills and mines, on
the masters terms, to sweat and toll
under conditions that even the negro
slave owner would not tolerate. Wher.
ever the Socialists We're not in pow.
er, the police force has been used to
intimidate and club the workers into
subsection.
G. w. Carr is the workers. candi
Gate. He has revoiaad these many
years at a system hatfrings riches to
the few and poverty land misery to
the many. His whole being rebels
against the cruelties and injustices per
petrated upon his class-the working
class. He has suffered what his class
has suffered. He has groaned when
his class has groaned under the lash
of poverty and unemployment. And
when given the opportunity to do for
his fellow workers what the masters
and their henchmen would not do, he
has responded nobly, and will re,
spond again.
Workingmen and women, if you
want a fair deal in the struggles that
must take place, then see to it that
a member of your class, who will un.
flinchingly stand by your class,
through thick and thin is in the posi-.
ton where he will do the most good !;
namely, Commissioner of Public
Health and Safety.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
Socialist Victories

Following are the victories gained
by the Socialists during the last year.
Besides those mentioned are thou
sands of small offices in country dis
tricts:
One congressman from New York.
Thirty-one state legislators, as fol-
lows: California 2, Idaho 1, Illinois 2,
Kansas 2, Massachusetts /, Minneso-
Ia 2, Montana 2, New Mexico /, Ne
vada 1, oklahoma 6, Pennsylvania /,
Utah /, Wisconsin 8.
Twenty Socialist mayors, as fol-
lows: Avery, Iowa; Star City, w. Va;
Haledon, N. j.; Eureka, CAL. Fort
Cobb, Okla; Riverton, ILL.,. Torino,
H.; Kreks, Okla; Cleveland, Okla !;
Conneaut, o.; Eau Clair, Wis; Benz.
idji, Mimi. Hamilton, O.; Hiteman,
Iowa; Ridgeway, w, Va; Coshocton,
Ohio.
Socialist Congressman in Foreign
Countries:
Argentina 9, Australia Al, Austria
1872, Belgium 40, Bulgaria 20, Denmark
&c, Finland 90, France 102, Germany
Ill, Great Britain Z, Holland IS, Italy
70, Luxembourg Z, New Zealand 4, Nor
way 23, Portugal l, Russia 16, Servia
2, South Africa 7, Spain l, Sweden
ST, Switzerland Is, Turkey 6, United
States /, Uruguay /.
THE GROWTH OF SOclALIsM:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
The Changed Woman
Knows Her Need
BY Bertha n. MaiIly

When, by the change in industrial
methods in the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries, the door of the home
opened and woman crossed it's TIRES.
hold, not of her own accord, but pull
ed by the profit-making power of the
new machines, she entered upon a
path which she was never more to re.
trace. Not only the interests of the
masters of the machines beckoned her
on, but her own changing thought
built barriers behind. The road was
full of painful obstacles, but it was
out in the open air and stretched to.
ward the broad plains of democracy
of thought and activity. Now, she is
once for all out, and, however you
may wish it, you cannot send her
back.
Unconscious forces have developed
aggressive qualities of intelligence in
the woman worker. By having to com
pete with other workers to get a job
she learns self-reliance; by earning
wages to support herself she acquires
desire for economic independence
by competition to hold her job her
wits are sharpened; by having to fight
for the least measure of decent treat
ment and living wage she becomes
courageous, and by working in groups
there shortly springs up in her a
strong social sense.
Inevitably, in the cource of her in
dustrial career, there comes a crisis
strike, and from the midst of strik
| ing groups Of girls there arises one
or more of pre-eminent executive abil
! ity. In the old days such one would
have been a good housekeeper. Then
all were housekeepers, better OF
worse, but all housekeepers. Today
she leads a group of, perhaps, five
thousand girls to victory. The strike
has developed initiative, executive
ability, class consciousness, discipline
and self-control. Then, logically and
inevitably, the girl workers become
aware that what is to the advantage
Of their fellow men workers is to their
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28

missioner Salter selected Mr.. Van
Dyke. who is admitted to be one of
the best plumbers in the city, as
plumbing inspector.
/ Except few irresponsible and in
competent workmen who follow
plumbing work, every one having any
thing to do with plumbing work is
pleased with the impartial manner in
which the plumbing ordinance OF the
city is enforced.
Under previous commissioners, the
building inspection was also most I'M
satisfactory, or incompetent. lnvesti-
CATION showed that scores of buildings
had been erected for which no permits
had been taken out. Thousands of
dollars worth of extensions had been
made by mill owners for which per-
mits had never been taken and conse-
quently the city lost in fees and tax
able property
More old unsightly and unsanitary
structures have been condemned and
torn down than ever before in a like
period.
On such questions the building in
spector, fire chief and health officer
have acted in harmony. Something
over so stovepipe chimneys have been
removed, many of which were ex-
ceedingly hazardous in regard to fire.
Many changes in all the inspection or
dinances have been suggested by the
inspectors, which have been passed
by the council.
1t is difficult to estimate the saving
that has been made by maintaining
an efficient and impartial inspection
service such as the city now has.
The city runs an employment office
that supplies help of all kinds EN-
ployers from all over the county seek
help from the city employment office.
This department is run in an efficient,
business-like and up-to-date manner.
With the ability Commissioner Salter
has shown as an organizer, and the ex-
perience he has gained in office, it is
going to take lot of talking to con-
vince the voters that any one can de-
liver any more efficiency or economy
than he has.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
Practical Achievements of
A Socialist Commissioner
Article H.


That every Socialist MUST cast his
or her ballot at the primaries on No
vember the end.
That one vote has elected man to
office many time.
That it is principles you are voting
for and not men when you vote for
candidates endorsed by the Socialist
party.
That 1t is up to YOU to see that
your friend votes. If he or she has
intimated that they will vote RIGHT
That the polling booth closes at
o'clock sharp.
That the man that makes charges
against other candidates after the
sources for combating those charges
has been closed is man to be ignored
That your ballot is secret and that
your boss is not able to find out how
you voted.
That the minimum wage proposition
will hurt nobody but contractors.
That you MUST NOT spoil your bal
lot. Take things cool and do it right
That you must only vote for one
candidate for each office, otherwise
you spoil your ballot.
That you must fold your ballot with
the number outside before handing il
to the official in charge of the ballot
hOx
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28

Where ignorance brings porerty, It's
better to get wise.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28

| | was walking down Hewitt avenue
some months ago, when l met wom-
an whom l had not seen for some
time. We talked for a few minutes,
and the subject of hard times was
| brought up. She mentioned sundry
things she wanted to buy, but which
she could not afford. Of course I
presented the Socialist viewpoint of
present conditions, mentioning the
poverty and want that was apparent
on every hand in a land of plenty,
and she heaved a sigh and said,
well, 1 suppose WE WILL ALL
HAVE TO COME DOWN TO So
CIALISM BEFORE LONG,"
Think of anyone talking about
coming down" to the most splendid
and inspiring movement that the hu-
man race has known!
| But this woman, like millions Of
Others, does not understand.
For Socialism is, above all other
things, a gospel of uplift, of plenty.
Capitalism is, on the other hand, a
gospel of suppression, of saving, of
penuriousness.
And it is taught in our schools,
from the baby grades up. Is it not?
"a penny saved is penny gained"
Take care of the pennies and the
dollars will take care of themselves"
EVERY little helps"
l remember one lesson in particular
in one of my old school readers,-a
long, tiresome lesson it was,-about
a boy who once saved a piece of
string. And l distinctly recall num-
Der Of lessons and notices, portray
ing the beauties and blessings of pov-
erty.
| So do you.
And the ruling-class are having the
same maxims Of self-deprivation
taught today.
They must, for capitalism is essen
TALLY a gospel of poverty FOR THE
MASSES.
Not long ago pupil in a class in
domestic economy was telling me
about the work that was being done.
And among other things was the
| learning how to make breakfast for
six, on I have forgotten how many
cents, but it was about enough to pro.
vide one person of ordinary appetite
with really first-class food if the per.
son were not SO VERY hungry.
We all know that the life of the
average wage workers family is a
life of the most grinding frugality.
Even the reports prepared by the gov
eminent prove that beyond a ques-
ton. Their whole lives become cen.
tered into one overpowering thought
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
Paras site s

The drones of the community-they
feed
On the mechanics labor; the starved
hind
For them compels the stubborn glebe
to yield
It's unshared harvests; and you squalid
form
Leaner than fleshless misery, that
wastes
A sunless life in the unwholesome
mine,
Drags out in labor protracted
death,
To glut their grandure; many faint
and toll
That few may know the cares and
woes OF wealth.
Whence, think'st thou, kings and
parasites arose?
Whence that unnatural line of drones
who heap
Toll and unvanquished penury
On these who build their palaces and
bring
Their daily bread?
Commerce has set the mark of sell
fishness
The signet of its all enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and calling 1t
gold;
Before its image bow the vulgar great
The vainly rich, the miserable proud
Even as slaves by force or famine
driven
Beneath a vulgar master, to perform
A task of cold and brutal drudgery-
Hardened to hope, lnsensible to fear,
Mere wheels of work and articles of
trade,
That grace the proud and noisy pomp
of wealth.
From Shelley's Queen Nab"