Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-11-02
Corn Boys Free Trip.

prize winning lads and lasS1eS and an
equal number of their friends and
parents, has been positively assured.
Six locomotives and enough Pullman
equipment for 1000 persons will be
used on the trip. The special trains
will leave Ohio on Dec. and stops
will be made at Pittsburg, Washing
ton and New York.
The corn and other contests in
which the free trips to the east are Of
fered are conducted by the College of
Agriculture extension service of the
Ohio State university.
Agricultural Extension Schools.
One-week schools in agriculture and
home economics are to be conducted
this year at A points in Ohio. The in
struction will be offered by extension
workers of the College of Agriculture.
Following is list of dates and
places at which the schools will be
held:
Nov. 19-23-Windsor, Ashtabula
county; Antrim, Guernsey county;
Cynthiana, Pike county.
Dec. 3-7-Painesville, Lake county;
Owensville, Clermont county; New
Marshfeld, Athens county.
Dec. 10-14-Belden, Lorain county;
Ross, Butler county; Newbury, Geauga
county.
Dec. 17-21-Minerva, Stark county;
New Vienna, Clinton county; Carroll
ton, Carroll county; West Richfield,
Summit county.
Jan. Newton Falls, Trumbull
county; Lisbon, Columbiana county;
Holmesville, Holmes county; Perry
township, Montgomery county.
Jan. 7-11-OrrVille, Wayne county;
Albion, Ashland county; Kilbourne,
Delaware county; Strongsville, Cuya-
hoga county.
jan 14-18-Edinburg Portage coun-
ty; Clarksburg, Ross county; Beverly,
Washington county; Arlington, Han
cock county.
Jan. 21-25-Genoa, Ottawa county;
Hillsboro, Highland county; Vaughns-
vile, Putnam county; Waynesville,
Warren county.
Feb. 4-8-East Townsend, Huron
county, Buckland, Auglaize county;
Berlin Heights, Erie county.
Feb. 11-15-Covington, Miami coun-
ty; Springfield, Grange Hall, Williams
county; Adamsville, Muskingum coun-
Feb. -Pleasantville, Fairfield
county; Croton, Licking county; Plain
City, Madison county.
MI
carawas county; Marion, Marion coun-
ty; North Hampton, Clark county.
March 4-8-White House, Lucas
county; Shauk, Morrow county; West
Mansfield, Logan county.
This is the ninth season during
which these schools have been con-
Quoted in large way.
Urges Saving of Bread.
Teachers and pupils of Ohio can
save 35,S17,304 loaves of wheat bread
in a year, and are asked to do so in an
appeal by State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Pearson.
A saving of this amount can be ef
fected, Superintendent Pearson says,
if all teachers and pupils, 9S1,289 OF
them, will substitute some kind OF
food so as to save an ounce of flour q
day.
To Study Food Conservation.
Prospective school teachers of the
state, in attendance at 40 of the county
normal schools, are to be taught how
to conserve food. This will be part oi
their general training which the Col
lege of Agriculture extersion service
offers each year at these schools.
The work in home economics will
also include a study of cooking, tex
tiles and dress, and school lunches. In
struction in general agriculture viii
also be offered.
Alfalfa Scores Again.
Alfalfa has solved the problem .
washing on steep sidehill "some
where" in Portage county, accordin,
to C. R. Shumway, the agriculture
agent in that county. Cultivated crop
washed so that their profitable grow
ing was almost out of the question
Finally in desperation in 1910, it wa
decided to put in alfalfa. A crop O
oats was removed. The land wa
plowed. It was lined, dragged, worke
and put into a soft, mellow condition
Some soil from sweet clover pate
was put on. Then the seed was sow
the last of July.
The owner figures that the crop
gathered have been worth not les
than $40 per acre for the six season
it has been cut.
Restaurants Help Win War.
The organization for war tim
food conservation in public eatin
places in the state was complete
when J. o. Mills, Columbus and Gil
cinnati restaurant man, was appoin
ed on the staff of State Food Admit
istrator Fred c. Croxton.
Mills will at once begin the enlis
ment of 1900 or more restaurants
the state in the federal administr
ton campaign to help win the war b
= food conservation.
Within a short time every resta
rant, hotel and club in Ohio is e
pected to be observing meatless an
wheatless days.
Vote on Suffrage Law Assured.
A vote Nov. on the PRESIDENT
suffrage law is assured.
The suffragists of Ohio have 10
, their protracted court fight to pr
l vent a referendum on Reynolds act.
The supreme court has dismisst
the case Of the suffragists in whiC
: they questioned the constitutional
l of the existing referendum law al
3 asked to be given a hearing befo
$ Secretary of State w. D. Fulton tn
e they might introduce evidence in su
y port of charges that the anti-suffra
e petition for a referendum is "pe
meated with fraud"
Governor Reduces Sentences.
: Commute ton of the prison sc
n tences of a number of inmates of t
4 Ohio penitentiary was made by &C
Cox. Among them were: Villa
y Bush, Hamilton county, life sentenC
d first degree murder, commuted to
1t years; Joseph Kostalek, Cuyahos