The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-03
BUCKEYE NOTES
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gregations merged and will worship
at Mt. Gilead.
Shelby. - Fred Barnes, 81, son OF
X. X, Barnes. near here, committed
suicide at his home by shooting him.
self through the head with a rife. He
had just returned from a Marion sani-
tarium.
Toledo. - Five organizations have
sent kilograms to Congressman Isaac
Il. Sherwood, demanding he either re-
sign or line up in support Of President
Wilson's war policies.
Port Clinton. - The Port Clinton
'Dredge Co. is starting operations for
reclaiming farm land six miles west.
Findlay. - FiEe at Van Buren, q
village north of here, threatened to
wipe out the entire place. and before
1t could be checked damage Of $4,000
was done.
Lima. - President Wilson has seen
his likeness carved in stone and in
bronze. but Miss Edith Trau, local art
list, has just finished a statue Of the
president carved from large cake Of
soap.
Elyria. - Edmund Monroe and Miss
Doris Hill, daughter of Patrolman w.
c. Hill, eloped to Lorain and were
married by Rev. Mr.. Zeulch. The par
ents of both have forgiven them.
st. Mary's. - Patrick Harmon, who
walked backwards from San Francisco
to New York, passing through st.
Mary's, is really Patrick O,Rourke,
who formally lived here, and who has
been going under an alias for years.
Elyria.-More than $1,000,00O worth
Of building construction in this city
was resumed, following a settlement
of the contractors two weeks lock-
out of 1000 union men.
Ravenna. Fire, thought to have
been incendlary. destroyed the electric
light plant at Mantua village. Cleve-
landers owned the property.
Washington c. H. - Mayor Oster
has suspended Chief of Police Moore,
following the filing of an affidavit by
a former patrolman charging him with
immortality.
Mansfield. - Immense damage was
done to farms west of Mansfield by a
storm. Many fruit trees were up
rooted, small buildings blown over and
silos destroyed. Three barns wew
burned.
Niles. - Frederick Frech, 29, Niles
butcher, was instantly killed by a
Warren bound traction car in Main
street here. He was crossing the track
and, stumbling, fell on the rails.
East Liverpool. - Glenn, 5-year-old
son of Arthur Stackpole, died in the
city hospital here as result of in
juries suffered in fall from win
dow on the third floor of his home.
Toledo. - Forty-five students of
White High school have begun to pre-
pare nearly SO acres Of marsh land in
the outskirts Of the city for the rails
ing of vegetables in the campaign to
build up the nations food resources.
Observation-Disclosures Court Judge
Spiegel has put into effect his edict
that all men arrested as loiterers
would be sentenced to work on farms.
Sixteen men agreed that they would
rather work on farms than go to the
workhouse.
Toledo. - Three Mexicans are held
by police on a charge of tearing up
an American flag. The charge was
made by Daniel Scott, travelling
salesman, who alleges the men held
him up on the Cherry street bridge
and took the flag off his coat lapel.
Millersburg. An auto of Sheriff
W. o. Miller, driven by his son and
occupied by his daughter and Miss
Mabel Horner, and ex-County Commits.
sioner Philip Deitz, turned over east
of here and the last named was in.
stantly killed.
Kenton. - In saving his aged grand
mother from burning to death here,
James Cousins was seriously burned
about the face and hands. The grand
mother, Mrs. Thomas Dunson, 70, at.
tempted to start fire with gasoline
and her clothing caught fire. She was
slightly burned.
Cincinnati. Procuring a ladder
and Drawing smoke and fire, William
Norwood patrolman, rescued
three Of w. E. Hughes children from
their burning home before the fire de.
partment arrived.
Columbus. The mass meeting of
the Mississippi Valley Suffrage confer
ence here, May 13, will be a celebra.
ton of Mothers Day. Gov. Cox and
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, national
suffrage leader, will speak.
Mansfield - A man about 35 years
Of age fell from a Pennsylvania
freight train and his body was severed
at the hips. Vaccination certificates on
the body bore the name of James
Cowan, st. Louis.
Bucyrus. - Joseph e. Roberts, So,
stock buyer, was killed and Ora
Smith, %. fatally injured when the au.
tomobile in which they were riding
was struck at city grade crossing by
D Pennsylvania flyer.
Toledo. - The body of a woman,
about rs, was found in the Maumee
river. 1t was clad in silks, and the
woman wore an opal ring and tur.
uuoise earrings. Police are working
On the theory of violence.
Steubenville. - Members Of Co. I,
9Th Ohio National Guard, at a railroad
bridge here fired seven shots at three
men who attempted to cross the
bridge when the men failed tn halt.
The trio escaped in the darkness.
Sandusky. - The International Gus
.om Cutters association has scheduled
It's midsummer meeting for the week
Of July % at Cedar Point.
Fremont. - Sandusky county farm.
ers will have to pay taxes on wheat
a. a