The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-07-19


eral bureau on the basis of the mill
tary registration, has population OF
s,O74,771.
The estimate for Cleveland is 1,125,-
100. This estimate makes Cleveland |
the fifth city in size in the United j
States, being outstriped only by New |
York, with $6.5O4,1S5; Chicago, with |
S,6S0.957; Philadelphia (city and coun-
ty), with 2,O6O,O21, and Detroit, with
1,521,942. The estimates are not
claimed by the census bureau to rep |
resent the exact population Of cities,
as 1t is pointed out that some have |
greater proportion of men between 21
and 81 years than others.
Cincinnati still maintains second
place with an estimated population of
436,352 Toledo goes to third place
with 363,8S4, and Akron jumps into
fourth place with 338,348. Columbus
is shunted to fifth place with 24S,176,
and Youngstown takes sixth place
with 228,3S0. Canton goes ahead of
Dayton, the former with 1855 and
the latter with Isl, ,170. Lorain is given
54.249 and Springfield 61,470. Hamil-
ton is rated at 50,440; Lima, 35,118;
Newark, 26,760, and GAINESVILLE, 24,593.
The total population of Stark coun-
ty, including Canton, is rated at 329,-
42l. Summit county, including Akron,
IS given 427,425. Mahoning county,
including Youngstown, is given 269,-
, O67. COlumbiana county is estimated
at 7,425; Erie, 36,116; Geauga, 11,O19;
Lake, 1858; Trumbull, 87,253; Tus-
carawas, 57,6O7; Belmont, 92,SO0.
State Proud of Its Record.
Months ago it was the ambition of
Gov. Cox to make Ohio the premier
in the war activities of the states. To
this end energies have been devoted
through all sorts of channels and in
Ohio folks generally believe the state
Is making good. Liberal contributions
in the wars of the nation are the his
tory of the Buckeye state. which fur
niShed more than its quota in every
struggle.
So at the outset of the present war
the state has made its aims high and
hopes to make its work practical in
every way. 1t has acted on the mod
erp theory that to make war success
fully more things are needed than SOL
diers, guns and ammunition. These
things are vital, but they are not the
all of wartime activities.
y In a military way, the states con-
tribution will be a complete division
of the Ohio national guard with many
thousand men more than was contem-
plated by the provisions of the nation
al defense act which provided 800
men from each congressional district.
In recruiting for the guard the Ohio
record has led the other states so far
that there never has been race. On
war gardens, every traveller thinks,
that Ohio is so far ahead of its neigh
bors that it is "cinch" that the state
will produce more than any of the
others.
Authorizes Road Combine.
The public utilities commission of
the Buckeye state has just authorized
the merger of six street railway com
panies operating in the Mahoning val
ley, in and about Youngstown, into the
Mahoning & ShenangO Railway &
Light Co.
The companies merging are: The
Youngstown & Sharon Street railway
Mahoning Valley railway, Youngs
town Park & Falls Street railway, Pc
land Street railway, Mahoning Valley
Southern railway and the Mahontng &
Shnnango Railway & Light Co
Ohio Crops Will Be Big.
Ohio crop conditions are splendid.
Although the acreage sown with
Wheat last planting time was smaller
than the acreage Of year ago, the
crop promises to exceed, the 10-yeal
average because of a full yield.
This hopeful situation is established
by the July report of the state board
of agriculture, just issued by Secre
tary N. E. Shaw. The report shows
that, in contrast with the grain, the
fruit crop is doing very poorly.
The normal yield being 100 per cen
the prospect for the condition of thu
wheat crop is 109 per cent. The pas
month has helped the crops with thu
exception of corn, for which thu
weather has been too wet. The boarC
report estimates this years corn acre
age to be 3,468,347 acres, an increase
over the 1916 acreage of 3,143,797
The condition of the corn compared
with the average is 80 per cent
The report estimates the Ohio pc
tato acreage for 1917 at 97,O15, com
condition of the potato crop also il
excellent, being SO per cent compared
with the average. NE
Fruit shows badly in the report.
Find Fire Hazards in State. =.
Fire hazards that never wer
dreamed of exist in all communitie
in the state and in scores of instance
endanger big stocks of foodstuffs, in
spectors who have been at work TO
several weeks have reported to Stat
Fire Marshal Fleming. More tha
1000 orders to correct evils have bee
issued through 230 fire insurance con
pany inspectors whose services ar
given the state during the period G
the war. Almost all the wholesale gre
Gerry warehouses, 1,100 grain elevators
500 grist mills and other food storag
buildings have been examined alread!
Treasury Cases Buried.
There was buried June 9 withou
any ceremony the last of the famou
state treasury cases which for, NOR
than decade were by-words in poll
ical affairs. The Franklin county pro-