The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-10-19
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From an Sections Of the State

industrial commission. II was one
OF $2,496 allowed Mrs. Ruth Gill
OF Welston, widow of August Gill
OF that city, who was killed while
working in plant when his hat
was caught in the betting of ma
chinery. In trying to save his hat,
his arm was drawn into the machin-
cry, and few seconds later his entire
body was drawn in.
Sandusky.-An interesting legal bat
tie for Lake Erie island grapes has be-
gun here. The Sweet Valley Wine Co.
OF this city temporarily enjoined Otto
W. and Sherman w. Brown. Kelleys
island grape growers, from selling
grapes to the American Wine Co. OF
st. Louis. The Sweet Valley Wine Co.
AYERS that it purchased the output Of
the Browns vineyard same time ago,
under contract.
Columbus.-Soil surveys conducted
by the Ohio experiment station in CO.
operation with the United States bu-
reau Of soils are now published for
Geauga, Meigs, Paulding, Portage,
Trumbull and Stark counties. Hamil-
ton, Lucas and Miami counties have
also been surveyed and Mahoning and
Marion counties will be completed this
year. These reports may be secured
free from the United States bureau of
soils at Washington. D. C.
ChiIlcothe. - Sears & Nichols, can
ners Of this city, announce the
purchase Of the C. E. Sears & Co.
canneries at Circleville, Washington
c. H., London, Stoutsville and Canal
Winchester. The deal involved $780,
600. The company, which already op-
crates five plants, is now the largest
vegetable canning company in this
country
FindIay. - The Continental Sugar
Company will open its plant in
this city within the next few days.
The crop of sugar beets will be q
good one, and they are said to con-
tain larger percentage of sugar than
ever before. 1t is understood here
that the company has contracted for
half of its output at $610 per hundred.
Fremont. - Emery Lattaner, state
superintendent of banks under the
Cox administration and the past
year vice president and general
manager of the Colonial Savings Bank
and Trust Co., of this city, has ten
dered his resignation to the directors.
1t was accepted Lattaner resigned
owing TO i'll health.
FindIay. - The Second Ohio AS
sociation of Spanish War Veterans
in their reunion here selected Ken
ton as the meeting place for next
year. Frank Ainsley of Kenton was
elected president; Kent Hughes of
Lima, vice president; Frank Bell of
Lima, historian, and A. Gilpin of Van
Vert, secretary.
led twenty-year-old Cleveland girl
to participate in a series of daring
automobile holdups in cities between
Cleveland and Detroit, she told de-
tectives at Toledo, where she was
arrested in company with three men
who said their homes we're here.
Columbus. - Joseph Burgess of
Greenfield, Highland county, has
presented Governor Willis a cane
which he said had been in his fam
lily 200 years and had first been
carried by one of his forbears who
served as a member of the British par.
lament.
Conneaut.-Only the gasoline sup
ply on a threshing machine run
ming out saved Frank Byers from
losing an arm. His hand was drawn
into the thresher and badly mangled,
but the engine stopped just at that
time from lack of gasoline.
NapoIeon.-The Waynesfield Stave
and Bat Mill Of this city has received
an order for 100000 white ash baseball
bats from sporting goods firm in
Louisville, KY. 1t will require 500
cords of 38-inch wood to fill the con-
tract.
North BaItimore.-D. S. Brown of
Richmond, Ind, has leased an old
match factory and has put 20 men to
work manufacturing auto accessories
and gall cure horse collar. 1t is
stated he has $150,OO0 worth of orders
on hand.
Boston.-Two hundred young wom-
en- living in dormitory of Simmons
college were quarantined because Miss
Elizabeth Miller of Warren, o., a stu
dent in that dormitory, was found to
be i'll with infantile paralysis
Toledo.-A Sunday school institute
will be held in Toledo for six days,
beginning Nov. 49, Men of national
prominence in Sunday school work
will address the sessions.
Elyria. - Wilson Trip, aged At,
Of Oberlin, has obtained his fourth
permit to marry. His bride is May
Remlinger, So. Tripp obtained a di-
vorce last Saturday.
ToIedo.-Ohio grain dealers expect
to make appointments here at an early
date. The association will meet in Co
lumbus next month.
Tlffin.-Tifin's proposed city char
ter will include the initiative, recall
and referendum. Those provisions
and others which govern the manner
in which they may be exercised have
Just been inserted in the tentative
charter by the commissioners.
Marion. - The eighteen-month-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl B. Wea-
yer of Columbus, visiting at the Wea-
yer home here, died of infantile par
alysiS.
Tiffin.-The thirteenth conclave of
Knights Templar, numbering 5000,
met here for the 74th grand command
cry conclave.
Chardon. - Infantile paralysis has
closed schools and all entertainments
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