The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-09-20
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stepped on rusty nail several weeks
ago.
tempted to kill himself as his wife and
uree small children looked on. He
was taken to a hospital, where it Is
said his condition is serious.
Bei!efontaine.-At the reunion Of
the 1920 o. V. ]. held here the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
George Antrim. Bellefontaine; treas
urer. w. L. Black, Degraff, and secre-
tary, A. C. Burns, Dayton.
Warren.-The sixth annual session
of the northeast Ohio conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church
opened here. The presiding bishop
was Rev. William Mcdowell.
Akron.-One woman. Mrs. Samuel
Crickmer, 60, was killed by an auto
mobile, an unidentified boy was killed
by a truck and five persons were in.
tured in traffic crashes in Akron.
Athens.-Eva Pennell, 6, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pennell Of
Orbiston, was instantly killed when
she ran from the sidewalk into the
street in front of an automobile driven
by Will Holiday.
Commissioning a tragic insight
into the desperate plight of France,
Mrs. Frank Wright of London, Eng,
has come to Columbus in the interest
of the French wounded emergency
fund. She addressed the Ohio Bank
ers' association.
Columbus.--When Beatrice Kazee
16-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. L. Kazee, 374 Reed avenue, awoke
she discovered two of her three braids
of hair had been cut and stolen while
she slept
Columbus.--Auto thefts in Ohio
have fallen off so per cent since the
launching of the statewide drive
against them July 20, at a meeting OF
automobile clubs, chiefs of police and
municipal judges, according to State
Registrar McCurdy. While complaints
and reports about stealing used to
food his office, McCurdy says, few
such letters are received now.
Washington G. H.--St. Andrews
Episcopal church here is doing its
share toward sending men to war. The
rector, Rev. David Barre, goes to
France at once for field duty, and
Walter Patton, late secretary of the
local Y. NJ. c. A. and superintendent
of St. Andrews Sunday school, sailed
for France TO do general Y. NJ. C. A.
work, while four young men members
of the church choir have gone to the
front.
Akron.--From IL to 20 were hurt,
one probably fatally, when two cars
on the Cuyakoga Falls line crashed at
"the gorge" half way between here
and Cuyahoga.
Elyria. As the result of having an
liberated tooth extracted, John Dean,
aged 90, garage owner and bridge
groom of two months, is dead
Martinsburg.- William Keller,
glassworker, was struck and killed by
a Wheeling & Lake Erie train on a
crossing in this city.
Lima.-A completely stocked ar
senal, burglars tools, flash lights, a
automobile and about
$4,000 in cash were seized by the sher-
iff of Putnam county in a raid on an
isolated farmhouse near Columbus
Grove. The raid followed the arrest
in Delphos of three occupants of the
house. Two of them attacked police
man, who had arrested the third on a
minor charge, and released the pris-
oner.
Painesvile.-The Painesville Gas
Co.'S request for 25' per cent raise
over the franchise price of 81 thou
sand cubic feet has been refused by a
appointed by council. A 10
year franchise expires next May.
Marion.-Rev. s. X. Mason of To
ledo, formerly of Delaware, stirred
the fifth annual convention of the
West Ohio Methodist conference, in
session at Ada, to high pitch of en-
thusiasm with talk on 'The Oppor-
tunity of the Church in War Times"
Warren.-Officials here are investi-
eating a mysterious case of alleged
in which nine-year-old |
girl giving the name of Gladys Allie |
says she was stolen by two men from
her home at Portland, Ore, in the |
spring of 1915. One of the men was a
Spaniard, she says. The name of the |
other man she does not remember.
Chn toly n NnUg Vnrly Thipo
and Buffalo by the Spaniard and final |
y to Youngstown, where she was
placed in a family and kept several |
From there she was taken to |
! family near Hubbard in Trumbull |
and remained there until |
leighbors becoming suspicious. re-
ported to the authorities.
Tiffin.--Lieut. M. B. McGonigle of |
Toledo and Lieut.. B. R. Mcclellan Of |
Xenia met with the Seneca County |
Medical society here. These men are
n the United States medical corps and
are gathering data for the war depart
nent. Seneca county will be called |
lpon to furnish six physicians for |
service.
Urbana.-Through a telegram re-
,eived by his mother, Mrs. Polk Stew
lrt of Detroit, from the director of
'ecords, Ottawa, Can, it was learned
hat Lance Corporal Frank Stewart,
2, former resident of Champaign
county, was killed Aug. % in France
While in action with Canadian regi-
nent.
Elyria.-Frank Finnegan of Cleve-
and, while visiting his brother, John
Tinnegan, here, lost the index finger
m his right hand, which was blown
,ff when he attempted to remove the
hells from a shotgun he was about to