The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-01-11
BUCKEYE NOTES
News Frnn All Sections Of the State

Clyde. - william T. Clark, aged
II. Civil war veteran, was found dead
In bed at the home of his brother.
Ames Clark, in Townsend township.
Kent. - The Tribune and the
Courier, weekly papers here, will
raise their yearly subscription rate
from 81 to S1.5O Feb. IS, they an
nounced. The high cost Of print paper
Is given as the reason for the boost.
Toledo.-Harry Cunningham, aged
40, was found dead in the county Jail
from the effects Of starvation and ex-
posure. He was picked up Wednesday
evening. He said he had not eaten
for six days and had slept out OF
doors.
Titfin. - Captain Willis Bacon
of this city has been appointed
major of the Sth Ohio regiment on the
Mexican border, according to an
nouncement here.
Salem. - L. A. Groby claims
to be the only grave hunter"
in the country. He spends his time
locating graves of Indians and pioneer
citizens. 81 have found over 200 In
dian graves on one farm near Walker"
Gorby says Indians buried their dead
only IS inches below the surface"
Mansfield. - Seven hundred en-
ployes of the Aultman & Taylor
Machinery Co. have been informed
they will receive a bonus amounting
to per cent Of their individual wages
during the year. The bonus will
amount to over $4,000 and will be
paid quarterly.
Canton. - Details have been COM
pleted here whereby officials Of the
Holmes Automobile Co. agree with
the chamber of commerce to estab-
lish a plant here to be Incorporated
at $25O0,000. The company proposes
to manufacture air cooled engine au-
tomobiles.
SpringfieId.-E. B. Turner, superin.
tendent Of the Ohio l. o. o. F. home
for 16 years, is dead here of a compli.
cation Of diseases.
Misunderstanding a tour Of in
spection Of the city Jail, Chief
prisoner name unknown, lying dead
on the floor of cell. He died of
natural causes, police say. He was
about As.
Cincnnati-Lee Allen, aged 20,
shot and killed Herbert Walden, %, a
fellow workman at the Witt Cornice
works after Walden had struck Allen
on the head with an iron ladle follow
ing a quarrel. Allen gave himself up
to the authorities.
EIyria. - Uria Warden, aged %,
was asphyxiated here while taking a
bath The bathroom was cold and he
lighted a gas stove to heat it. The
fumes killed him.
Sandusky. Friends at Putin
Bay have been advised of the
death in Ashland, S. c., of Rear Ad-
miral Hunker, U. S. N. The admiral
lived at Putin Bay many years prior
to the fall of 1915, when he went to
Ashland.
Lima. - Mrs. Grant M. Sprague.
widow OF one of the best known
newspaper men in Ohio, is dead
here. She was the daughter Of
Charles N Lamison, pioneer settler of
Allen county, and former congressman,
we'll known lawyer and Civil war colo
mel. She was married to Grant NJ.
Sprague q years ago.
! Cleveland. - Less than three hours
after party of two young wom-
en- and two young men had left the
gayety of a New Years dinner at
Dover inn, Dover Center, one of the
women and one of the men were dead,
the other man was seriously injured
and the second woman the victim of
severe business, as the result of an
automobile accident.
| MarysViITe. Don B. Demorest,
son of Supt. and Mrs. Louis B.
Demorest of Marysville, who has been
assistant pastor of Williams Street M.
E. church at Brooklyn, N. Y, the past
year, has left with Huntley Dupre of
there they will sail on French liner
for Bordeaux, to take up work among
the German prisoners.
EIyria.-Two women and a man.
members of party of five re-
turning from a New Years dance.
were killed Sunday morning at grade
crossing here when an eastbound New
York Central freight train struck their
automobile.
MansfeId.-Chester M. Miller, aged
81 years, Pennsylvania freight agent
here, fell dead just as he was about to
sit down in the chair at his Office. He
had been in poor health. Mr.. Miller
has been agent for the company here
81 years.
Sidney. While serving a Gus.
toner, Alva Wilford, waiter in the
city restaurant, was ordered at point
of revolver to hand over the money
in the cash register. The holdup got
$50. No arrest has been made.
Alliance. - The new year began
badly for Ross Prince, taxicab driver.
Returning from a trip to Sebring, he
was held up by two auto bandits, who
took $14-all he had.
Warren. - Warren's prosperity 1g.
ures for 1916 show that nearly
S10,0O0,000 is the total increase over
1915 in bank deposits, payrolls and
building. The largest sums spent for
building was used by the TrUmbull
Steel Co., which spent approximately
$3,0O0,0OO.
Fremont. Incendiarism is sus
pected to have caused the burn
ing of the barn of Daniel Thurn, north
of Fremont. Six cows, two head OF
hnrsas hay Straw irnnlaments and