The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-12-30
To Cut Down Cost.

oners. They are allowed from 20 10 |
Is cents a day for each prisoner In
their care. Now, the actual cost OF
keeping the prisoners is away below
as cents, and the sheriffs have been
pocketing the difference between the
cost and what they are allowed to col
lect for feeding them. A suit has been
filed in supreme court to cut off this
source of revenue for the sheriffs. The
contention is made in the suit that
sheriffs can only draw from the public
treasury the amount actually needed
for the feeding of the prisoners, and
that they are doing something unlaV"
full when they stick down in their
pockets anything in excess Of what 1t
costs for the keep Of their charges.
It only costs about 13 cents a day to
feed each prisoner at the penitentiary.
In the larger counties the allowance is
45 cents day and in many Of the
smaller counties it is rs cents.
Must Keep Record Of Mileage.
Not content with recently adopted
plan of preventing city officials and
employees to whom municipal automo-
biles are entrusted for public use, by
which all such machines are to be
painted red and marked plainly "mu-
nicipal," the city council has another
ordinance which will require all such
city officials and employees to keep
records of their mileage travelled and
report it regularly. The object is to
prevent "joy riding" at city expense.
viii Not Be a Candidate.
Former Lieut.. Gov. w. A. Greenlund
declared with emphasis at the govern.
or's Office that he would not be
a candidate for another term.
This announcement will be in.
| teresting to others who have aspira-
tions for the Democratic nomination
for that office. Greenlund was defeated
for reelection a year, ago last Novem-
Der, losing out in the Republican land
slide which retired most of the Demo
cratic state officials then 30 far there
has been but one candidate to an.
nounce himself for the nomination,
which Greenlund voluntarily relin-
quishes, ]. H.. Clifton of Columbus,
who is assistant state school superin.
tendent.
Dry Amendment to Constitution.
Ohio dry leaders have just received
from Washington advance copies Of
the proposed amendment to the federal
constitution which congress will be
asked to submit to the legislative
bodies of the various states for ratif.
cation. The exact text of the proposed
amendment follows: Section l. The
sale, manufacture for sale, Transports
ton for sale and importation of intox
icating liquors for beverage purposes
in the United States and all territory
subject to the Jurisdiction thereof and
expectation thereof are hereby pro
hibited. Section 2. The congress Of
the United States shall have power, in
dependentIy or concurrently, to en-
force this article by all needful legis
lation." The next Ohio legislature will
be called upon to act upon this amend
ment if congress submits it to the va
rious states for ratification.
Eighty-six More Lawyers.
Harvard university nosed Western
Reserve university, Cleveland, out OF
first honors at the recent state bar eX
animation. For some years the Forest
City university has been tsking first
place most of the time. James Mckay
of Youngstown, who obtained The high
est grade at the examination jtst held
is a Harvard man. He won grade oi
92.1. Out of a class of 118 applicants
: SO passed. They will become attor
neys when sworn in by Chief Justice
Hugh L. Nichols of the supreme court
in Columbus Tuesday morning, Jan. 4
There were two women in the class
who passed, Miss Esther Antin and
Miss Margaret H. Cummins, bot6 oi
Toledo
Must Pay Back Fees.
The state industrial commission has
discovered that the owners of large
number of boilers in the state tAa
: properly comes within the range o.
: the boiler inspection law have beer
evading the law for the last two yeats
and they have issued orders to tAV
state inspector, J. C. Gallery, to q
t. after these persons and collect from
J them the fees that they should havt
paid.
Child Killed by Warts.
Warts are usually harmless phys
y ical ailment, but a fatal case was re
ported in Columbus, the victim
being the two and half year oil
. daughter Of Mrs. L. K. Spencer. Tit
warts in this case grew in the child
, throat and had been giving trouble
+ for some time. Her mother intende
I Ito have them removed, but sever
! cold settled in the throat and the in
7 illumination caused swollen parts
/ which, with the warts, closed the ali
passages and suffocated the little girl
I'M Day Gets the appointment.
3 Louis M. Day, the Chillicothe Law
. yer, selected by Gov. Willis to succeer
!, o. H. Hughes of Hillsboro as the Dem
9 ocratic member of the Ohio publ
q utilities commission, served i in tn
d Legislature with Lawrence X. Langdol
D of Lebanon, one of the two Republical
!, commissioners. Day served two term
/ in the house from Ross county an
!. Langdon served two terms from Wal
1 rem county. Day was a member Of tn
|. committee appointed by the genera
t assembly to probe the high cost Q
q living. 1t was the first probe con
mittee Of the kind to be appointed.