The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-31
BUCKEYE NOTES
RSWE FINN M SsetiOns If The State


chair leaning against the wall of his
home and bolt of lightning followed
The telephone wire to the house.
Findlay. - Findlay school children
| are earning their vacation spending
money killing tussock moths, the city
council paying them 25 cents a hun
dred for the work.
Martins Ferry. - Chauffeur Walter
Slut drove his employers car into a
street car to avoid striking boy rid
ing bicycle. Mrs Georgia Shaw was
hurt and the car wrecked.
Elyria. - Mary o. Everett of Colum-
bus Station was granted a divorce
from Peter Everett, whom she mar
rieG in 1890, on the ground that he
was pro-German, cursed her in that
language without knowing what he
was saying and chided her because of
her English extraction.
Bucyrus. - The baseball park at
Bucyrus is to be plowed up and plant
ed in potatoes or other vegetables.
This closes the final chapter of base
ball in BuCyrus for some years.
Springfield. - Jealousy is said to
have been the cause of a shooting af-
fair, as result of which William
Boggs is suffering bullet wounds in
his left arm and leg. A woman giving
the name of Maude Boggs was ar
rested and placed in Jail on the charge
of shooting with intent to wound.
Cincinnati. - Mrs. Betty Washing
ton Taylor, great-granddaughte of
Gen. Washington, died here. She was
president general of the National So
ciety of Colonial Danes of America.
New Lexington. - AS the result of
eating tainted meat, John Shilling, Ia,
died and two other members of the
family were dangerously ill of pto-
maine poisoning.
Kent. Miss Pearl Gambler, stu
dent at Kent Normal college, was beat
en- by negro and her pocketbook sto-
len. Mrs Frank Shrader was beaten
and choked by a negro in an attempt
ed assault.
Findlay. - T. A. Downey was seri-
ously injured when an oil derrick in
the Baltleesville, Okla, field fell on
him, breaking an arm and leg and par
alyzing the lower part of his body.
Cincinnati. - Five unmasked auto
mobile bandits entered Dow's drug
store and held customers and clerks
at the points of revoIvers while one
robbed the cash register of approx
mately $3.50. The bandits escaped in
the automobile.
Warren. - A new type of daylight
robber has reaped rich harvest in
Warren. The thief drives an auto to
house when the family is away. Then
he opens the front door with key.
His daring, coupled with the pres
ence of the auto, allays suspicion.
Warren-Simple white shirtwaists
and skirts will be worn by women
members Of the high school faculty
during commencement exercises.
Bellefontaine. - The Christian
Womans Board of Mission of Ohio.
meeting here in the Church of Christ,
elected these officers: President, Mrs.
f. A. Kramer; vice president, Mrs. A.
r. Strang; secretary, Miss Mary Ly-
ons; treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Wintermule.
All reside in Cleveland.
Athens. - A score of persons were
injured, three seriously, when B. &
o. passenger train was wrecked on
bridge at Mineral, west of here.
Mansfield. - Rev. c. M. Wallace,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Pavonia, has resigned and
will become a rural letter carrier
here.
Alliance. - William Adams, Lisbon,
suffered the loss of his left foot when
he missed his footing and fell beneath
Cleveland & Pittsburgh freight
train.
Gallon. - n r. Wright, %, took his
life by shooting at his home in Edi-
son.
Dayton. - Walter Mason, assistant
postmaster at Wilberforce, was arrest
ed on a warrant charging him with
forging number of money orders
worth $1,000 and appropriating the
proceeds.
Toledo. Harry B. Hayes, con-
fessed safe blower, awaiting trans
portation to the federal prison at At
lanta, Ca, to which he was sentenced
to serve nine years for the robbery of
two postoffices, confessed, according
to police, that he had committed two
murders.
Salem. Lewis Coleman, "a, of
Columbiana, near here, a cripple, in
fatuated with Miss Olive Orr, senior
In high school, fred bullet at her in
his brothers. home, but missed and
then turned the gun on himself, in
fiicting two wounds from which he
will recover.
Button. The Fourth of July eel
ebration which was to have been held
here under direction of the BMffton
Community association has been can
celed. The money will probably be
devoted to the Red Cross.
Columbus. - That he is a million
aire is the news just given J. G.. Kel-
ser, soldier at the local federal bar
racks. A lawsuit over his fathers
estate, it is claimed, has been decided
by the Virginia supreme court in his
favor.
Toledo. x Forrest Hassll, 1S. ne
gro, died in hospital as the result
of bullet wound inflicted by Francis
e. Brownell. Hassll was attempting to
break into Brownells house,
Shelby. Gedeon Arnold, farmer
near here, suffered bad scalp wound
and broken arm when his automo-
bile ran into ditch