The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-06-08

George MelleTt sold ms ~ acre
farm on the Cleveland road this week
to a man by the name Of Van Eman
of Cleveland.
VIM. Tobin, 28, is in jail, where
he has been for the past week, charged
with receiving and selling revolver"
He was arrested in ElyTia by B. 4 Q.
patrolman E. C. Brokaw of Lodi, who
claims to have bought the revolver of
Tobin, which it is alleged the latter
stole from the B. & 0. depot. Tobin
was brought to Medina on a mittimus
from Justice Fred Whites court at
Lodi, in default Of q bond of $500 i'm
posed for Tobin's appearance in Com
mon Pleas court. Tobin maintains
that he never had in his possession or
never sold the revolver to Brokaw, and
that he can prove he was many miles
from Lodi at the time the weapon is
said to have been taken.
AT a meeting of the County School
board Monday night, Supt. C. E. jerks
was re-employed for another year at
an increase of $500 in salary.
Frank Elder of Lafayette, mem
Der Of the senior class Of M. H. s.,
1917, enlisted in the U. S. Navy on
Monday, but has not been assigned
for duty yet.
Word has been received of the
death on Sunday, May rs, Of G. R. Rey
nolds, at Hesperia, Mich. The de-
ceased was a former resident of Chat
ham, this county and was an uncle OF
H. H., Frank and Lee Foskett Of Me-
dina.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church will hold Friendship Circle
in the church parlors at $3.50 p. m.
Sunday. Miss Genevieve Brintnall,
soprano, Miss Mildred House, reader,
Mr.. Wayne Frary Of Burbank, pian-
list, will give the program. Light re-
freshments will be served. The public
| is cordially invited.
The first matinee of the season
by the Medina Matinee club will be
held Wednesday afternoon, June 13,
at the fair grounds, and fine lot Of
races are promised. No less than fif-
teen horses are now quartered on the
grounds, more than half Of which are
owned by local club members. There
will be plenty of amusement.
A meeting Of council was held on
Tuesday, at which time an ordinance
and resolution for street improvement
were passed, the full text of which
appears elsewhere in this issue.
For some reason not learned, the
mail clerk on the southbound B. & O.
mail train Tuesday morning failed to
get into his car when it left Cleveland,
with the result that there was no mail
for Medina that morning, and likewise
there was no one officially qualified TO
accept the outgoing mail from this vii
lage. The mail was rerouted ana
departed later in the day. :,
will Gates, Zuill Ballard, Floyd
Prouty and Wendell Lerch have been
accepted in the Ohio Naval Militia and
will report in Cleveland Monday. From
there they will be assigned to training,
either in Philadelphia or Chicago,
which city not having been decided
upon.
Jos. Stahl, who was temporarily
disqualified from enlistment through
physical disability, underwent treat
ment in a Cleveland hospital and was
recently discharged sound, and is now
with the U. s. Reserves at Ft. Royal,
is. G. /,
The Lakeside Unit Of the Red
Cross, Of which Fred Bohley and Law
renee Cole are members, and which
left for Europe, May 6, is now in
France, according to press reports.
Howard Calvert purchased fifty
acre farm this week Of A. ]. Lemont,
situated on the pike about mile
south Of town Mr.. Calvert pur-
poses devoting it largely to poultry
raising.
Mrs. Blake Hendrickson entertain
ed Tuesday with six o'clock dinner
in honor of Mrs. Maud Gilmore of
Niles, o., worthy grand matron Of the
Eastern Stars. Mrs. Gilmore, in
spected the local chapter the same
evening.
| The regular meeting of the Macca-
| bees will be held this evening.
Several auto loads of Boy Scouts,
accompanied by Scoutmaster Olds,
went to Cleveland last Saturday for
the regular annual spring review.
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