The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-17
Adonts New system.

most efficient manner this year
through a card index and loose leaf
system specially worked out by State
Fair Manager Kinnan. This new sys-
tenn has done away with all confusion
and live stock breeders are loud in
their praise of the facility with which
| their entries have been handled this
year. AS fast as the entries are re-
ceived key number is given it and
these are entered on cards specially
prepared, and all facts regarding the
entry appear on the card. A loose leaf
book is prepared for the judges with
separate leaf for each entrant in
each class, bearing a corresponding
number to that on the registry card.
This loose leaf carries the full detailed
information and is finally filed out by
the judge and passed back for the
awarding of the prizes. The system
has not only increased the facility
with which the great amount of detail
has been handled, but has increased
the confidence of exhibitors that their
entries will secure absolutely impair
tial consideration.
Would Have Large Farm.
In his annual report to the governor,
Superintendent ]. w. Jones of the
State Institution for the Education of
Deaf Mutes, renews the proposition to
remove that institution from it's pres
ent location and establish 1t on a
farm site remote from the city. He
suggests a farm of from 200 to 500
acres adjacent to a traction line as
ideal. He calls attention to the fact
| that large percentage of the pupils
come from farms and will return to
| farms after they complete the course.
It is highly important that they get
education that will fit them for the
farm life, and that they cannot be
given at the present institution, 10.
Gated as it is on a ten-acre tract and
nearly all covered with buildings.
Warns Against Using Gasoline.
The state fire marshals department
has issued warnings regarding the use
| Of gasoline. 1t should never be used
inside the house as a washing fluid.
"The use of gasoline for wash water
should be limited to the so-called dry
cleaning establishments, which are
regulated by law" says the depart.
ment. An urgent invitation to hor-
rible death is the washing of goods
with gasoline in a room in which
! there is a fire. In Ohio in one year
! five women were burned to death by
adding gasoline to clothes in wash
boiler while it was on the stove. Cas-
oline fires may be extinguished by
smothering with wet rags, woolen
cloth, sand, earth or ashes, if the
amount of fluid involved is small.
Statement Not Reassuring.
A statement issued by the state
board of health is anything but re-
assuring to the people of Ohio as to
the epidemic of infantile paralysis. 1t
states that the reports that are COM
ing in indicate that the number Of
cases in the state, while widely scat
tered and not numerous in any one
| place, is large and increasing. The
statement says that the conditions for
the ravages of the disease may be ex'
pected to increase as the fall season
comes on, experience showing that the
first fall month is the most conducive
to the disease. Last year, while the
disease was by no means epidemic in
this state, the number of cases re-
ported increased from go in July to
1856 in September
Office Is Unionized.
The state printers Office is now
unionized for the first time accord
ing to the annual report of State
Printer ]. E. Cross for the year end
ing June 80. Every employe is receiv'
ing the union wage scale. The install
lation of new machinery has made the
state bindery the best equipped plant
in the state. A total of 8,35S,085
books, pamphlets and miscellaneous
pieces were handled at the bindery
during the year, in addition to the
many millions of pieces Of printing by
firms under contract. Despite the
large volume of work turned out, Mr.
; Cross will have a surplus of $3S,77C
to turn back into the state treasury.
Work Amounts to $12,ooo,ooo.
On Aug. II State Highway Commits
: sioner Clinton Cowen will open bids
for the erection of 5293 miles of i'm
: proved roads in 25 different counties
The work is covered by 80 contracts
and the estimated cost is $3.50, 9,682.79
Commissioner Cowen estimates the
amount of road work now being done
under supervision Of the state high
way department at substantially over
$12,O0O,00O.
Prison Plant Will Furnish Light.
The adjutant general will make con
nection between the. Wyandotte build
ing, the new state Office structure anC
the state electric plant in the peniten
tiary for lighting the building with
current from the prison plant,
Dunkards Represented.
) The Dunkards have a representative
} in the state house. George A. Stauf
fer, secretary of the state board o.
| agriculture, is a member of that re
} ligious denomination. His father anC
, two brothers are Dunkard ministers
In fact, the whole Stauffer family, con
sisting of father and mother and foul
sons and four daughters are active
J members of this church. "You cannot
go very far wrong If you live up to the
} Dunkard teachings" said Mr.. Stauffer
: Strict adherence to the golden rule IL
! one OF the things that the church re
quires.
Candidates Will Debate.
, For the first time since 1891 a de
: bate between candidates for governor
, is to be staged. On Aug. IA formel
Gov. James M. Cox, Democratic can
didate for governor, and Gov Franz
: B. Willis, Republican candidate fol
J governor, will debate political ques
tions at the Miami Valley Chautauqus
| at Franklin The present governor