The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-04-20
DIamIaa Cases.

DOnuSH6u IQ6 ClalulS l1dt ln6 SLdlo uhb
against them, and because Of remiss-
ness on the part of the prosecution the
state runs a chance of losing the en-
tire amount sought. In a list of cases
handed by the common pleas court OF
this county to their clerk with orders
for dismissal are both of these cases.
The final action on the cases will be
taken next Monday when the list
comes up for final action. AS a rule,
however, it is hard to get the court to
reinstate cases after they have lain
unprepared and without prosecution
beyond the time limit of the rules
There are two claims against the es.
tate OF the late Treasurer W. s. Nc
Kinnon and his bondsmen, one Of $97,'
$50 and the other of $1S,995. There
are also two against l. B. Cameron and
his bondsmen, one for $143,149 and the
other for $69,572.
Will Study State School Code.
A corps of Canadian school experts
are coming to Ohio to study the rural
school code of this state. DR.. Horace
L. Britain, director of the bureau OF
municipal research of Toronto, who
supervised the survey of Ohio rural
school conditions made preparatory TO
the enactment of a school code to bet
ter these conditions, wired Frank B.
Pearson, state superintendent of public
instruction, advising of the coming OF
the Canadian officials and requesting
| that the department show the visitors
over the state. Supt. Pearson will ex.
plain the benefits which the state is
deriving from its new school code and
pilot them to parts of the state where
centralization and county supervision
under the new law have reached the
highest degree of efficiency. 1t is now
generally conceded that Ohio has the
best public school system extant. 9th
er states are continually sending rep
resentatives to study the Ohio plan
with view of patterning after it.
Breaks Birth Record.
Cuyahoga county is the champion
baby county Of the state. In March
there were approximately 1900 births
in that county, which breaks all rec
ords for. any month and for any county
in the history of the state vital sta
tics bureau. In February the
county reported fewer than 14O0
births. Dr. Morton W. Bland, regis.
trar of vital statistics, says that while
unquestionably there was big in
crease in the birth rate of the county,
the report also indicates that the cam
paign of the bureau to induce physi'
clans to make prompt reports of births
is bearing fruit. If Cuyahoga holds up
it's March record, it will wrest from
Summit county the honor of being the
champion baby county of the state.
The birth rate was higher in that
county than in any other last year.
Round Up Tax Dodgers.
The state tax commission has sent
every county auditor in the state a
letter, urging that every effort be made
to hold the tax duplicate up to what it
was last year. The auditors are in
structed to keep in close touch with
the assessors so as to have complete
check on their work. They are di-
rected to require weekly reports from
the assessors, showing the amounts
returned by each individual, so that
the return can be compared with the
returll of the individual the year be.
fore. The auditors are told to make
special efforts to secure returns on
intangible property, much OF which is
not returned for taxes. They must do
their best to round up the tax dodger.
Road Contracts to Be Let,
State Highway Commissioner Clin.
ton Cowen will hold another road let
ting I'm Friday, April %, which will
closely rival in size the big letting Of
April 7, when contracts were awarded
for read improvements approximating
$1,40A000. The estimated cost Of the
contracts to be let is placed at $1,135,-
377. This contemplates the construc'
tion Sf 80 miles of road of various
types in "a counties. The total of
both lettings provides for the construc'
ton If 172 miles of new roads. The
largest job to be let will be for the
imprc Vement of some 10 miles Of the
Bowling Green Perrysburg road in
Wood county.
Reason for Dropping Suits.
+ Assistant Attorney General H. s.
BALLARD says that the cases to recover
interest on state funds from the bonds.
men Of former State Treasurers Nc
U;.ox.o opd d Nomoron houa hoon
allowed to drop by the state for the
reason that H. J. Booth and R. w.
Mccoy, who were employed as special
counsel in that matter by the state,
advised that, the state having made
recoveries on the same account from
the principals, could not prosecute
claims on the same accounts against
their bondsmen.
Taken to State Hospital.
Peter Skribner, the Toledo murder
er, who threatened suicide when Gov.
Willis commuted his death sentence
to life Imprisonment on Feb. II, was
taken from the death cell at the peni.
tentiary to the Lima state hospital for
criminal insane. He was adjudged in
sane recently by the state board Of
administration.
Lost Its Case.
The Carey Farmers Telephone Co
lost it's case before the utilities COM
mission in seeking to force an ex'
change of service with the Central Un'
ion or Bell company.
Test Measuring Pumps.
John Mote, deputy state sealer oi
weights and measures, announced he
has requested all city and county seal
ers to test gasoline measuring pumps
in their territory.
Should Care for Lepers.
Secretary McCampbell of the state
health board says Ohio should care for
her own lepers, and that it ID not a.