The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-04-13
BUCKEYE NOTES
Ns~S From All Sections Of
the state

uaFinS ullHCulIy IN keeping up WIN
increased production demands. The
American Sewer Pipe Co. here. the
Columbia Chemical Co. and the Pitts
burgh Valve Co. of Barberton are hir.
ing the newcomers.
canton.-When Mrs. John Leigh
tener of Youngstown arrived in Can.
ton to surprise her husband with a
visit, she found his body in a morgue.
Leightener died in Mercy hospital.
He was picked up in a dazed con-
dition and taken to a police
station. Later he was removed to the
hospital. Mrs. LeighLener said he had
sustained fall some time ago.
CleVeland.-President Wilson has
refused to pardon Dan Ulmer, for
mer Cleveland merchant, now serv-
ing q sentence of eight months In the
Canton workhOuse for perjury. Ulmer
was sentenced in October. 1915, by
Judge Killits for perjury committed in
bankruptcy action three years pre-
vious.
Akron.-J. T. Flower, member of
the school board for sixteen
years, was exonerated by the board OF
charges made by the state examiners
that he had participated in school con-
tracts. The resolutions read that aft
er an investigation into the charges
the board decided they we're baseless.
Notwithstanding there was
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drunkards, Mayor w. c. McMaster
issued an order prohibiting the use of
intoxicating liquors by employees OF the
city departments Violation of the or
der will bring prompt dismissal
Lima.-County commissioners of
Allen, Auglaize, Van Vert, Mercer
and Shelby counties met here
and went over the joint county tuber-
culosis hospital. Following the an
nual business session, an appropriation
of $4,000 was allowed the hospital for
the year.
Kenton.-William F. Alt, former
city auditor. pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Henderson to charges Of
embezzling $1O,463. Judge Henderson
gave Alt an indeterminate sentence in
the penitentiary. Alt, who is 80, left
office last Jan. l.
NorWaIk.-The will of BENJAMIN
Nyman, ninety-six, filed here, be-
queaths business block worth $4,000
to the Norwalk public library. The
will stiplates that income of the prop
erty for 10 years must be used to buy
books
Cincinnati.-John w. Degisher,
eighteen, son of William Degisher,
prominent business man and a men,
ber Of the board of education, COM
mitted suicide by sending a bullet into
his heart
ellefontaine.-A Beal law election
will be held at Quincy, April 26.
GAINESVILLE. - Howard Chandler
Christy, the artist, has entered
suit in the Muskingum county
court asking for divorce from Ma
belle Thompson Christy, charging
gross neglect. Seven years ago the
Christys were in court here over their
only child, Natalie, then eight The
custody of the child was given to
Christy's sister, Miss Rose Christy.
Christy's studio is at "The Barracks"
at Duncan Falls, nine miles from here.
Mrs. Christy is in New York.
Youngstown. - The board of edu-
cation members here are taking eX-
ception to the unusual cleanliness of
Youngstown high school students, as
manifested in big monthly laundry
bills. "Ninety-seven dollars for towel
laundry at two high schools during
single month is entirely too much" de-
clared Member George Rudge, Jr who
started agitation to have this item of
expense reduced.
Findlay. - Many horses are dying
in the southern part of Hancock
county, due, veterinarians say, to
western fever" said to have been
contracted in the shipment of western
horses to this county.
Salem. - Fifteen prominent women
have been named by the chamber of
commerce to lead campaign for funds
to establish playground in Centennial
park. The chamber started the fund
with $100.
CircIeViIIe. - George B. Ritt, aged
As, a prominent farmer residing near
Circleville, carried a mirror to the
barn, stood before it and shot himself
through the head.
Sandusl<y. = Mrs. John Helm, aged
26, shot and killed herself po-
lice say, because she was respondent
over ill health. She leaves a five
months-old baby.
Amherst. - Because the company
refused to comply with their de-
mand for a uniform raise of 2 IL
cents an hour, 200 quarrymen, en-
ployes in the Amherst quarry OF the
Ohio Quarries Co., are on strike here.
Flndiay. - Henry Miller, aged 30,
of Dayton, was found dead in his
bed in his rooming house here.
Cincinnati. - ]. v. Russ, aged 70,
chief claim agent for the Blue Ridge
Dispatch freight line of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad, was found dead
in his hotel here shortly after he had
consulted a physician on his heart.
Salem.-Despondent over ill health,
Homer Hahlen, a farmer, near Salem,
hanged himself in his barn. When he
failed to return for dinner his wife
went to the barn and found his body.
EIyria. - Russell L. Johnson, 55,
committed suicide at his home in La
grange by shooting through the head.
He had been Respondent from suffer
ing of rheumatism.
Dayton.-A family quarrel over the
possession of their five-months-old
baby resulted in the fatal shooting Of
Mrs. Lillian Wooden by her huband,
Berlie L. Wooden, twenty-six, who
then killed himself.
Notwithstanding to word from
the bedside of Common Pleas Judge
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