The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Picked Up in Capital
of the Buckeye State|

Columbus.-(Special.) - Announce
ment Of an emergency call on the Sc
lecuVe service system to furnish men
at once for coast artillery posts has
been received by state draft headquar-
ters from Washington. Ohio is re-
quired 70 provide 900.
The movements will be completed
IN five days. beginning Dec. 10, and
the local boards from which the men
shall be chosen are left to state head
quarters. Maj. w. 8. Pealer said here
that the men will be chosen from
those boards which are furthest be-
hind In supplying the first rs per cent
OF their quotas, and that many will 60
from Akron and some from Cleve-
land.
One hundred men are to go to Fort
Morgan, Ala, and 800 to Jackson Bar
racks, La. The fact that the new
draft regulations become effective be-
fore completion of this movement
does not affect the emergency order.
Governor Distributes Coal.
Gov. James M. Cox has assumed
control of every pound of lake con-
signed coal standing on tracks in Ohio
Distribution to relieve suffering is be-
ing made hourly wherever the coal
can be found. The Ohio fuel admin
tstration is the distributing agency.
Estimates Of the amount of coal
thus released to alleviate conditions in
Shivering Ohio range from 5000 to
more than 5000 carloads, or from
10000 to 250,00O tons. All needed
will be distributed if the program is
not interrupted.
The governor stands in practically
complete authority over the coal sit
uation. He is driving forward with
his plan to give the states people coal
over the objections of F. C. Baird,
head Of the lake shipping pool, to
whom was consigned all the coal that
is being stopped in transit and divert
ed to domestic use. The governor and
Baird Clashed over the telephone.
Gov. Cox in a public statement
charged the lake shipping pool has
flooded the northwest with coal be-
cause operators could get fancy prices
for it there and has starved Ohio to
death"
Asks Votes for Prohibition.
Ohio congressman have been ap-
pealed to by the women's committee
of the Council of National Defense to
support the constitutional amendment
proposal for nation wide prohibition
when it comes to vote in the house.
The women's committee recently re-
organized and established permanent
quarters in the state house. The let
ter sent to the states congressman
said in part:
"a The saving of grain that can be ef-
fect2d in the individual family is pitt
fully small compared with wholesale
waste in making beer.
'As a war measure, therefore, apart
from all other considerations, the
women's committee of the Ohio
branch, Council of National Defense,
asks you to work for prohibition"
May Get Less Sugar.
The state food administration has
Just called attention to statements is
sued by the MiChigan-Ohio beet sugar
committee through Ohio sugar brokers
that further curtailment of beet sugar
in the Ohio and Michigan territory is
in prospect.
The cUrtailment is proposed that
supplies Of beet sugar may be given
other sections of the country where
consumers either have been without
sugar entirely or have been limited to
the purchase of from one-quarter of a
pound to one pound week.
The statement says there are many
wholesale and retail dealers and con-
sumers in the Michigan Ohio district
who do not seem to realize the i'm.
portance of the food administration
orders to reduce sugar consumption.
Fulton Wins Suit
Secretary of State Fulton, who act
ed as his own attorney, won a victory
in the supreme court when the court
held against Howard N. Snedeker,
Bellaire, who brought suit to compel
Secretary Of State Fulton, as chief
election supervisor, to appoint him a
member of the Belmont county elec-
tion board.
Snedeker and George w. Kellar
were recommended by different mem.
bers of the county committee and
Fulton contended it was optional
which he should appoint. Kellar was
appointed.
High Court Decisions.
A living first cousin does not in
herit the whole of an ancestral estate
to the exclusion of children of the de-
ceased first cousins, so the court held
in effect in refusing to review the
Cuyahoga county case of E. J. Bryne,
against Mary Tracy, and others.
Fannie N. Burns of Cleveland is
entitled to 5O2 shares of the Pope
Gosser China Co.. Coshocton, value
$1OO,40o. which were given her by
Charles F. Gosser. of Coshocton, by
his will. She was not related to him.
William e. Gosser and other relatives |
tried to break the will, but lost in the
supreme court
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10000 Soldiers to Get Leave.
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