Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-05

Cleveland, O.-Forty-fve hundred
employees of four Cleveland manufac.
turing concerns received Christmas
gifts of life insurance policies totaling
$4,750.000. Many other concerns are
announcing gifts of bonuses and profit
sharing dividends.
Hillsboro, O.-When busy with
preparations. for the family Christmas
celebration Mrs. Eva Rhoads, As years
old, Buford, Ohio, Is miles southwest
of Hillsboro, was shot and injured Sc
riously by her husband, Henry
Rhoads, a prosperous farmer.
Glouster. o-The delegates Of
miners of the Hooking district
in convention here adopted resolu
tions calling upon the state conven.
ton, which will be held in Co
lumbus, January 9, to request an in.
crease in the price of mining coal.
Sieubenville, Merchants and do
mestic consumers of natural gas in the
Steubenville district have been asked
by the Steubenville Chamber of Com.
merce to curtail the use of gas in or.
der that the manufacturers can obtain
a sufficient supply to operate mills and
factories.
| Columbus, O.-In recognition Of
his defense of negro prisoner against
a mob at Lima, August 81, Sheriff
Sherman Ely, of Allen county, will be
1 presented with loving cup by the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People at meeting
to be held here next week
Cleveland, O-Frank S. Bodle, of
Massllon, administrator of the estate
of Miles S. Bodle, aged 10, sued the
Pennsylvania Co. for SIS, 900 on behalf
of Bodies 17-year-old widow, Mrs.
Minerva Bodle Young Bodle was kill
4 ed at Custaloga Junction, near Woos-
ter, August 20, while working as a
brakeman.
Dayton, O.-Probably the most
was that placed before the several
thousand veterans of the National Mil
itary Home, when $500 pounds of tur-
key were served with all of the ac-
compartments of the season The mil
itary band gave a program of popular
and classical music
Bellefontaine. O-Ovid Daily, a
Fourth Ohio Infantry man, whose home
: is in this county, has written from El
Paso to home folks that Ohio people
; must not blame the soldiers on the
border for their recklessness. He says
the Ohio boys went to the front in the
: belief that their services would be
; needed and that they have become
} reckless under the dull routine Of
same old drills"
Sandusky, O.-Perkins township,
Erie county, in which the Ohio Sol
; diers and Sailors Home is located,
! voted wet in local option election.
, The vote was All to 453 The Home
gave dry plurality of Is out of a to-
) tai of SIT.
: Cleveland, O.-Several budding
, mayoralty candidates. are likely to be
: frostbitten when Secretary of War
: Baker talks over the municipal polit-
ical situation with members of the
Democratic Executive Committee, of
which he is chairman.
!. Portsmouth, O.-Thomas w. Wat
kins, So, county commissioner and one
f of the most prominent Republicans n
the county, died suddenly at his home
here as result Of an attack of acute
) Indigestion.
Martins Ferry, O.-Mrs. Ella Trav-
: ers, of Bellaire, is under arrest here
7 charged with kidnapping her thirteen
: year-old daughter from the County
f Children's Home. Three years ago
) the Belmont County Humane Society
: was awarded custody of the child by