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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
WEATHER CHANGED HIS VIEWS.
New EngIander Allowed Blowing Over
OF Church Steeple by Hurricane to
Influence His Wedding Plans.

The recent destruction by fire of a.
certain ancient New England meeting
house has set the villagers to retelIing.
an amusing anecdote connected with
its partial demolition nearly a CEN
tury ago, when it lost its steepIe in a
hurricane, says the Youths Compan-
ion.
Deliberate and cautious Iovemaking
figures in many tales of rural New
England; but surely in none of them
does the hero show less impetuosity
than the Amos of this story showed.
For ten years he had courted his pa
t1ent Eliza at last he had proposed,
had been accepted and the wedding
day was set. 1t dawned unpropitious-
ly, with bowling gale blowing, which
increased hourly in violence At the
appointed hour, nevertheless, the
guests gathered at the home of the
bride and waited for the bridegroom,
but he did not appear.
The storm was truly terrific; indeed,
the meeting house, just across the
common, had already surrendered it's
steeple with tremendous crash. The
bride became hysterical and her broth
ers began to look worried. Ominous
whispers ran about that if the great
elm in front of Amos door had blown
down it must surely have crushed in
! the whole front of the house; perhaps
| Amos was killed or pinned under the
/ wreck.
| At last a party of anxious volun-
teers started forth, in the teeth Of the
! tempest, to investigate. When they
! reached the farm the elm was still
standing, and on the threshold, very
much surprised. stood Amos. He had.
/ supposed that of course the wedding
would be postponed.
"Well, now, when 1 woke up twas
pouring guns and pitchforks, SO to
speak, and I says to myself, says I,
Z don't know bout this don't know =
Arter breakfast twas wusS; and says
I to myself: I most know they'll put
it off; I most know they willr I had
my eye on the meetin' house steeple,
and I could see twas swaying consid-
cradle. I know they'd orter put it
off, says I to myself, but then, wom-
ell is so unreasonable maybe they
WON'T I KEEP my eye on the meetin'
house steeple, and says I: If she goes,
I don't; and if she don't. do
''She swung and she swayed and she
kind of hung in the wind, and then,
jest as I was gettin' my boots on to
start, over she went! And, says to
mySelf: That's a clear showing if
ever there was one; and here stay
Even a woman couldn't. say a man
oughter stand up agin a gale when a
meetin' house steeple can't. No, sir,
says I to myself, there amt mite of
doubt about it; this weather is onsuit-
able for weddings ="
Nevertheless, he was imperatively
persuaded to come and be married
without waiting for it to clear up.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
TWO IN Cafe ARE
SLAIN BY GlJNNEN
Proprietor and Customer Are
Shot Down Without Word
From Bandits.

Cleveland.-Walking into the saIooh
OF John Telban, two masked men shot
and killed Frank Juh, 26, customer,
then turned their guns on Telban and
shot him dead. Telban was shot five
times and Juh twice.
Three employees of the East Ohio
Gas Co. were sitting at a table in the
front of the bar room. The masked
men turned their revolvers on them
and told them to keep quiet, then
sf1cked out Of the front door. No at
tempt was made to rife the cash reg
lster
TelDan's wife, five daughters and a
sop were asleep in their rooms above
tne saloon, but were awakened by the
shots and came running down the
stairs.
Police were notified and Patrolman
Frank Wilcox was first to arrive, fol-
lowed by Detectives Soners, Page,
oager, Smetana, Sergt. Prosser, Capt.
May, Capt. Farr and Assistant Chief Of
Detectives Thomas Mahoney.
The gas employees said no words
passed between the men when they
entered They pointed their revolvers
| and two shots were Immediately fired
at Juh. When he fell, they say Tel
| Dan reached under the bar for a heavy
beer glass and the men opened fire on
him as he threw it at one of the gun
men
Explaining the fact that there was
no attempt at robbery, police said that
for some time there has been series
Of holdups on E. 61st street and that
Telban had been giving police valu
able information regarding suspicious
persons that had come into the saloon
He also was one of the principal
witnesses recently against severa
men who staged a holdup a short dis
tance from the saloon. Shortly before
the cases came up friends of the pris
oners tried to prevail upon Telban tt
keep silent.
This leads the detectives to be
lieve that the shooting was done in
spirit Of revenge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Mrs Sarah Ann Pickup, aged seven
ty-eight, of Providence, r. l., has in the
last two years knit 102 pairs of heavy
woolen socks.
The granite produced in the United
States in 1916 was valued at $17,41S,-
5S2, % per cent of the value of the en-
tire stone output.
Out of a total world production in
1915 of 10000 tons of rubber Brazil
contributed $4,000 tons, or about %
per cent.
President McGlynn of the New York
State Hotel association says that since
SO many states have gone ''bOne dry, p"
business men from other states who
used to come to New York twice a
year for a couple OF days each time
now come ten times a year and stay a
week.
Russia is about 20 times larger than
Germany and France put together
having an area of S,5O5,OO square
miles, and is larger than all of North
America. The population of Russia is
supposed to number about 165, 100000
fully 1O0,OO0,000 more than that of Ger
many before the war.
The New York state banking depart
| ment has just published list of $4,000
| long-unclaimed accounts in that state
| alone. Although most of the individual
| accounts are small, they amount in al
to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A cover has been invented for cook
ing utensils which clamps in place ant
is provided with a strainer through
which boiling liquids can be safel!
poured.
The tubes in an English inventor
automobile radiator are spiral instea,
of straight to afford more radiatin
surface and, because of their resi-
iency, they are less liable to fracture
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

Rear Admiral Frederick r. Harris
recently appointed general manager OF
the shipping boards Emergency Fleet
corporation at Washington, asked to
be relieved of that duty. His request
will be granted and Charles A. Piez of
Chicago will be named to succeed him.
Investigation of the delays in build
ing the American merchant marine by
the shipping board and emergency fleet
corporation was ordered by the senate
at Washington, which rushed through
n resolution after vigorous criticism by
several senator's of the failure to pro-
duce ships.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

Samuel Gompers is planning to
unionize all of the 100000 civil en-
ployees of the government, it is said
with President Wilson's sanction.
More than 600,000,000 gallons of min
eral water are now used in the United
States each year in the manufacture
of soft drinks.
The war trade board has made
statement to the effect that hereafter
all applications made to the board for
licenses to trade with an enemy must
be in duplicate. Both copies must be
| sent to the war trade board.
The city authorities of Glasgow,
! Scotland, plan to utilize waste paper
in the making of inferior grades of pa
per. Business houses, schools and pri-
vate individuals will assist in the col
lection. The waste material will bring
to the city a revepue for this year of
about $4,000.
With permission from his c0ngrega-
ton to spend his vacation as he sees
fit, DR.. f. w. Emerson, pastor of TIE
First Christian church of Ontario
Can, has started to work in a cannery
in order that he may contribute to q
campaign for the relief of starving
Armenian children.
An alarm whistle to be mounted or
an automobile cylinder valve cap is
said to be about ten times as powerful
as the type sounded by a cars ex
haust.
Simplicity features Pennsylvania
inventors hatpin point protector con
sisting of a curved piece of metal suf
ficientIy springy to hold itself on :
pin.
To prevent out-of-door drain pipe
freezing an attachment has been in
vented that holds rock salt in such
position that flowing water slowly d.
= solves it, the solution melting ice tl...
may form.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Goldfish for Trench Soldiers.

The Goldfish army is no dream. 1t
arrives in the trenches somewhere in
France at the rate of 100000 pounds
a week. On its strength Of 'two
breakfasts and one fish dinner" Cana
dian and British ''Tommies" are kept
up to their working mark.
Canada herself is helping to solve
the food problem by having two fish
days a week-Tuesday and Fridays,
notes a correspondent. With this
great demand for fish the Nova Sco-
tia fisherman suffers neither fog, nor
rain, nor ice, nor snow, nor darkness
nor submarine to interfere with. his
task of supplying the dominion and the
empire with fish in quantities never
paralleled in history.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Savino Tea for Soldiers.

In England tea has advanced in
price to such an extent and it is at the
same time so necessary an accessory
of diet in the army that it is consid-
cred an act of patriotic economy to
drink cafe au lait for breakfast in
stead of the usual cup of tea, notes a
London correspondent. Of course, any
coffee that is diluted with milk is
cafe au lait, but the term is usually
anplied to the beverage as the French
take it for breakfast That is a mix
ture of clear coffee infusion to which
is added a liberal amount of hot milk.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
European War News

Fourteen British merchantmen of
more than 1,600 tons and three under
that tonnage were sunk by mine or
submarine during the past week, ac-
cordlng to the admiralty statement is
sued at London.
Ten persons were killed and 20 in
jured in London during an air raid.
Outside of London five persans were
injured. Two German airplanes which
took part In the raid were brought
down.
General Sarrail, commander of the
allies armies at Saloniki, has been re-
called, according to newspaper an
nouncements in Athens. The successor
of General Sarrail, in command of the
Macedonian forces, it is said, will be
General Guillement.
Ukranian troops and bolsheviki
guards are fighting in the streets of
Odessa, Russia.
One British and five neutral mer-
chantmen, British destroyer and four
mine sweepers have been sunk in the
North sea by German naval forces
The losses were the result of an attack
on convoy bound from Scotland tc
Norway, Sir Eric Gedes announced nj
London. The total tonnage of the lost
merchantmen was 5000.
A dispatch from Constantinople tc
Amsterdam quoted the Turkish war of
gee as stating that the small islands
of Planka and Messonissa, off the
coast of Asia Minor, have been occu
pied by Turkish forces.
An armistice agreement between the
bolsheviki government in Russia ant
the Teutonic allies was signed at Brest
Litovsk Saturday, according to an of
fetal communication issued at Berlin
The armistice started December II
and is to remain in force until January
IA. A provision in the armistice agree
ment is that peace negotiations are t.
begin Immediately after the signing o-
the armistice.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Time Will Tell,

Nora-Do you think marriage is al
ways q failure?
Ada-Always a failure! Well, I
should say not. Why, know a case
where wife fairly idolizes her hus-
band, and he-why, he can't keep away
from her minute.
Nora-Bless me, how long have they
been married?
Ada-Nearly a week.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Personal

Frank Gotch of Humboldt. Ia.. who
retired as heavyweight champion
wrestler few years ago, died at
Des Moines. Ia. Gotch was known all
over the world as the greatest catch
ns-catch-cnn wrestler In the history Of
that sport. Death was caused by urae-
mic poisoning.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
In Some Circumstances,

81 was told that Jaggers has de
yeloped a tendency tc rapid consump-
tion."
so he does when he gets within
acting distance Of anyone's well sup
piled dinner table"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
4ssattAssA.sAt.As .,a.,a,.h ,,a.,a,,
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
U.S.-Teutonic War News

Plans well laid by the war depart
ment at Washington contemplate the
listing for service in the National
army under the new QUESTIONABLE
now being answered by the conscript-
ed men, Of n sufficient force to enable
President Wilson to issue u call for
a new draft about February 1.
Two sailors were saved by the Ger
mans from the American destroyer Ja-
cob Jones, according to an official Ger
man announcement received at Amster-
dam.
Gen. John J. Pershlng. commander
In chief of the Americans In France,
In general orders issued in France pro-
claimed Christmas and New Years
day as holidays. The order said no
work is to be performed on the two
days.
Col. II. M. House, who headed the
United States delegates to the inter-
allied conference held in Paris, ar
rived in New York. He said: "The
work was satisfactorily done. The
mission was a great success. The rep
resentatives agreed on everything"
.,
Seventeen enlisted men of the Unit
ed States army engineer corps were re-
ported missing in action by General
Pershlng in a dispatch to the war de-
partment at Washington. They were
missing on November 30, the day of
the German turning movement at Cam
brai, and are believed to have fallen
into the hands of the Germans.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Foreign

General Kaledines, the Cossack
leader, has proposed to the bolshevih
government at Petrograd, Russia, that
civil strife cease, stipulating the inde-
pendence of the Don territory and non
intervention by the maximalists.
The executive council of worl1men's
and soldiers delegates has proclaimed
a state of siege in Petrograd in an eff
fort to repress disorders due to the
looting of wine cellars and shops.
Former Premier Kerensly of Russia
has taken the field against the bolshe-
wiki forces and is marching toward
Petrograd, according to q dispatch
printed in the Copenhagen Berlingske
Tidente.
COnscription has been confirmed and
the unionlst government has been re-
turned to power by the Canadian do
nestle vote. Returns show that the
government of Sir Robert Borden has
been elected TO administer Canadian
affairs and that Sir Wilfrid Laurier
has been defeated. The unionists won
1913 seats and the opposition 81, with
four seats deferred.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
A Mise Fish.

81 wonder why this goldfish never
grows any,"
'The intelligent little creature
knows there would be no room foE
him In that small globe"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Fire DESTROYS Art Treasures,

Young ngstoWn.-Almost priceless art
treasures, a collection of a lifetime
made by Joseph G. Butler, Jr., multi
millionaire steel manufacturer, were
destroyed when Buffers Wick avenue
residence burned.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

Cleveland.-Ohio dentists, in con
National Preparedness League. for
the purpose of caring for the teeth Of
drafted men free of charge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

MANSFIELD.-Among the 1O7 Ohio
state reformatory prisoners granted
paroles by the state clemency board
is Fred Mcclure, Cleveland. He is to
leave the reformatory Feb. Is.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
r homes over Christmas.

their homes over ChrlStmaS.
Requests are already pouring in &c
company and reglnental officers for
passes for over the holidays and these
will be considered in the order IN
which they are made, considering, OF
| course, the record of the applicant,
| Special trains will probably be ar.
ranged.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Buckeye Happenings
Briefly Jotted Doron

YOUNGSTOWN.-Several persons
Were injured, four seriously, in rear
end collision on the main line of the
Mahoning & Shenango road at Stop
81, near LoWellville.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

FREMONT. = Vernon Robinson,
farm hand arrested for failure to reg
lister for military service, was exam
ined here and ordered to report to
Camp Sherman.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Washington

Rifle manufacturers laid at the door
of the war department entire blame
for the delay In supplying rifles and
machine guns for American soldiers.
Inability of department officers to
sense the danger three months before
war was declared and refusal to inter-
est themselves in preparedness are
held responsible for the small arms
shortage. The manufacturers, ap-
peared as witnesses before the senate
military affairs committee at Washing
ton.
Secretary Daniels and Paymaster
General MCGOWAN of the navy were
the first witnesses before the house
naval subcommittee at Washington,
delegated to begin an investigation into
the navy's war activities. Secretary
Daniels gave a general review of what
the navy has been doing. He told how
the navy is now building 424 capital
and other important ships.
insufficient clothing, overcrowdinp
and bad sanitation are held largely re.
sponsible for disease epidemics al
Camp Bowie, Texas; Camp Funston
Kansas; Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma
and Camp Sovler, South Carolina. by
Surgeon General Gorgas, in reports tC
Secretary of War Baker, made public
at Washington as the result Of his per
sonal inspection Of the camps.
The worst of the equipment shortage
and overcrowding, resulting in the ex
cessive deaths in four army camps
reported to Washington by Genera
Gorgas, has been passed. Health con
ditions in all the camps are improving
Secretary Baker announced at Wash
lngton that Maj. Gen. George w. Goe
thals has been recalled TO active sery
ice and detailed as acting uuartermas
ter general, to succeed Major Genera
Sharpe, detached to serve as a men
ber Of tie war departments new wa
council.
The Constitutional amendment fC
natlonai prohibition was finally sui
mitted by congress to the states fc
ratification or rejection within seve
years. The senate at Washington con
pleted congressional action by accep
ing the resolution, as passed by II
housr, a 10 8, without a roll call.
Vote In the house on the woman su
fringe Constitutional amendment ,
Thursday, January 10, was assur,
when the rules committee at Washiu
ton agreed ON that date.
Rearrnngement of some of the bi,
command in the war department
Washington was indicated by the d
tachment of officers for the w
council. Il became known that Mai
General GOethals, builder of the Par
ma canal, has been offered the post
qunrtermnster general to succeed M
jor General sharpe.
The administration bill to increa
the number of cadets at the Annapo
Naval academy was passed by (
house at Washington without debl
and now goes to the senate.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

SPRINGFIELD. - Albert Richard
son, an aged man, was found frozen to
death in his home here. Neighbors
had not seen him for two days and
went to the house to investigate.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

YOUNGSTOWN.-S persons
were injured, four seriously, in rear
end collision on the main line of the
Mahoning & Shenango road at Stop
21, near LoWellville.
FREMONT. = Vernon Robinson,
farm hand arrested for failure to reg
lister for military service, was exam
ined here and ordered to report to
Camp Sherman.
MANSFIELD.-Amo the 1O7 Ohio
state reformatory prisoners granted
paroles by the state clemency board
is Fred Mcclure, Cleveland. He is to
leave the reformatory Feb. Is.
SPRINGFIELD. = Albert Richard
son, an aged man, was found frozen to
! death in his home here. Neighbors
had not seen him for two days and
went to the house to investigate.
| AKRON.-Mrs. W. Marks, wife OF
| A. H. Marks, millionaire vice presi-
dent of the B. F. Goodrich Co., award
ed a divorce.
| CANTON.-Ernest Doerf1ing, sup
posed officer in German army, held by
| police as suspected spy.
GENEVA theater badly
! damaged by fire.
FREMONT. Citizens to consider
installing municipal gas plant.
NAPOLEON.-Farm end a two.
week war on pests by killing 1856
mice, 4,017 sparrows and SO rats.
GIRARD.-Meat dealers will close
on meatless days.
SALEM.-Joseph McGary, SO, Han
overton, south Of here, was found
frozen to death in field near the vii
lage by Arthur Haessly, young boy
out hunting. 1t is supposed he lost his
way during the recent storm.
|
the funeral of his mother, Mrs Ed
ward Starkey, letter was received ir
Canton from Edward R. Starkey, in
forming his relatives of his safe ar
rival with the Rainbow division il
France.
SANDUSKY.-Harry Rastatter, A
Co. C, 18th regiment. Pennsylvania
volunteer infantry, Spanish-Americar
war, admitted to the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors home recently from Gin
cinnati, is charged with cursing Presi
dent Wilson and the American flag
COLUMBUS.-Blaine Snouffer, farm
employe of Linworth, Franklin coun
ty, was electrocuted in the Ohio peni
tentiary just after midnight. Snouffel
paid for the murder of his sweetheart
Augusta Sickles, Is, at Worthlngtol
last April Snouffer was q.
DAYTON.-The Ohio State Grang'
at its annual meeting here in its frs
official act sent message to Presi
dent Wilson representing $4,000 Ohit
farmers, pledging their unswervinl
LOYALTY to the country. L. J. Tabor
Barnesville, O., master of the Obi
grange, sent the telegram to tn
chief executive.
COLUMBUS. : Attorney genera
rules municipal coal yards may be es
tablished BY cities which took advar
tage of home rule amendment an
framed charters broad enough.
TOLEDO-More than $3.50 wort
: of shoes stolen from railroad car
were recovered by the police VIII
! found them in a barn here.
IORAIN.-Twenty persons were In
iured, none fatally, when a LAX
. Shore Electric limited, eastbor &c
crashed into an Avon Beach & South
ern car at Beach park.
J GENEVA. - Wallace Hodges @
r Thompson killed, his wife seriousl
t injured when train strikes thei
buggy.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
10000 Soldiers to Get Leave.

Camp Sherman, Chillicothe.-Near-
ly 10000 officers and men of the
Eighty-third national army division
here will spend Christmas at home
with relatives and friends. They will
leave Camp Sherman at noon Dec. q
and will not report to camp until the
following Wednesday, the day after
Christmas.
This became known following the
issuance of orders from division head
quarters to every unit in camp that 80
per cent of all officers and men on the
reservation will be allowed to go to
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

AKRON.-Mrs. W. Marks, wife Of
A. II. Marks, millionaire vice presi-
dent of the B. F. Goodrich Co., award
ed a divorce
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

The palatial country home of John
d. Rockefeller at Forest Hill, in East
Cleveland, o., was almost destroyed b,
fire. The fire is believed to have beeE
of incendlary origin. The loss will be
more than $4,000.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

GENEVA. = Wallace Hodges Of
Thompson killed, his wife seriously
Injured when train strikes their
buggy.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

The administration bill to Increase
the number of cadets at the Annapolis
Naval academy was passed by the
house at Washington without debate
and now goes to the senate.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

The United Mine Workers of Ameri4
lea, in order to meet unprecedented
demands for coal, will keep mines in
operation during the holidays except
on two dayS-Christmas and New
Year's-according to n statement is-
sued by international headquarters at
indianapolis, Ind. g..