The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-08
BUCKEYE NOTES
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Z Columbus. Gov. Cox has Just is.
sued a proclamation fixing Friday,
April 1S, as Arbor day.
Wooster - Rittman voted dry, 24S
to 147. The result Of the election will
close three of the four saloons in
Wayne county. the lone survivor being
at Doylestown.
Bucyrus. - Eugene Wood, As, Penn
sylvania freight engineer, dropped cad
on his engine here while switching In
the local yards. He leaves a wife.
Springfield. - Rev. w. N. Habey
and Mrs. Habey, superintendent and
matron of the Oesterlen Orphans
home of this city, have handed in
their designations after being in
charge II years.
Warren. - When Walter Mcintyre
came home he found R. NJ. Oliver in
the house. He ordered him to leave
and a fight followed. Mcintyre was
beaten and Oliver was arrested and
fined $25 and costs.
Fremont. - Burglars ransacking Of
fees in the high school building here
secured $50 belonging to the cafeteria
fund. A pair of boys trousers and
watch fob found by police is expected
to lead to an arrest.
Marysville. - Perry Shoemaker, II,
son of Mr.. and Mrs William Shoe
maker of Union township, was fatally
injured. While watching his nephew
cut some trees. he was hit on the
head by falling limb and died few
hours afterward.
Wooster. - A concrete burial vault
made by George w. Fultz manufac-
turer of concrete supplies, who died
recently, will be used to hold the body.
Youngstown. William Tins, rs,
was crushed between cars at the Mo-
sier yard of the Erie railroad, where
he is employed, and was taken to the
Youngstown hospital.
Elyria. Two men who robbed
Fred Ketcham, New York Central sta
tion agent at Wakeman, are being
sought by county officials. Ketcham
was knocked down and robbed Of $22.
Fremont. Mrs. Louise Boston,
known as "the other woman" in the
trial of Josh r. kiser, was adjudged
insane and taken to Toledo state hos
pital.
Bucyrus. - Charles w. Criner, 48,
married on the eve of his departure
from a local hospital after a success
full operation for appendicitis, dropped
dead of heart disease.
Cincinnati. - Four men were killed
and another probably fatally injured
here when large touring car crashed
into Madisonville street car.
Marion. Mrs. Floyd Orahood Of
Aghosta swallowed a tack when she
was 8. While she was undergoing an
operation for lung trouble, the rusty
tack was removed.
Cleveland. - Levi T. Scofeld, noted
Cleveland architect, died at his resi-
dence here. Mr.. Scofield was rs years
old. He served throughout the Civil
war, winning captaincy.
Elyria. Commencing Feb. 26, the
Evening Telegram increases it's price
on the street from / to cents a
copy, but will retain 6 cents a week
as the price for papers delivered.
Chardon. - Geauga county farmers
face the biggest maple syrup season
for years and at the same time seri-
GUS labor shortage.
Findlay. - Albert Peterman, 3, tried
to roll cigaret and smoke it like
man. His golden curls are burned and
he will carry life scar on his face.
Lorain. - Lorain High school girls
are smarter" than the high school
boys by l per cent. The average
grade for the boys is 81 per cent and
that of the girls 81 per cent.
Marblehead. - A. F. Merkens played
Eliza Crossing the Ice" and got two
tons of coal to sell to his customers.
He drove across five miles of ice to
Sandusky to buy the fuel.
Elyria. The $4,000 home of
Thomas Henderson, vice president of
the WintOn Motor Car Co. of Cleve-
land. was destroyed by fire. The resi-
dence fronted the Elyria- Oberlin road,
two miles east of Oberlin.
Marion. - Fred Robinson. 30, died
In hospital from injuries sustained in
falling from top Of boiler while sleep
ing in roundhouse.
Alliance. When Methodist min
listers stepped into pulpits all over
Starke county there was launched the
campaign for $75O,O0O for Mount
Union college.
Newark.-Newark Boy Scouts, aided
by corps Of school boys, gathered
nearly 10 tons of newspapers and
magazines, which will be sold for the
benefit of the Belgian relief fund.
Oxford. - Three young women, stu
dents of Oxford college, were expelled
because, while in Cincinnati to attend
concert, they slipped out of their
hotel and took in Cincinnati's white
way from midnight until about 3 a. m.
Dayton. - Homer P. Smith of Ash
tabula will head the Ohio Hardware
association the coming year, having
been elected president of that organi-
zation at the 23d annual convention
here.
Toledo. Thirteen men were In
jured. two of them probably fatally,
by an explosion of gas in the WHY'S
Overland automobile plant here.
Seven men were taken to hospitals.
Damage of $25,000 was caused by the
explosion.
Alliance. - Crazed by narrowing
toothache, Terry Conrad, 40, farmer,
ended his life by hanging in woods
southeast of the city.
Bucyrus. The Ohio Evangelical