The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-02

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Wo'md'd in action IN Frpues.
Emmst C. Radabaugh, 40, we'll
known Lima business man, oisd in .
hospital al Marion.
Annual national dairy show Will b.
held In Columbus again next fall The
GATES are Oct. 10 to 10.
Seven alleged slackers held in jail
al canton, tried to escape by tunnel.
ing through al lS-irch wall.
II. +. Cooke, 50. West Mansfield.
was killed when he fell while at work
at the Erie roundhouse at Marion.
columbus city council passed an
ordinance closing saloons on Memo
rial day, Fourth OF July and Christ
mas.
schools, churches. theaters and
moving picture shows at Lisbon arc
closed because OF an epidemic Of
smallpox.
Pilot H. W. Ross was cut and bruis.
ed and five others we're shaken w
when an army balloon was blown to
the ground at Cleveland
Final examinations In Cleveland
high and grade schools has been
abolished Daily work now determines
whether the pupils pass.
Private George w. Caprow o.
Cleveland was killed when a large
army auto tuck, which he was dr.v-
ing. overturned near Chillieothe.
Sergeant Orville G. Fuller. q, son
OF Frank Fuller. Circleville, has been
Killed in action in France. He was a
member of the Rainbow division
State Fire Marshal Fleming finds
that mary war plants in Ohio are un-
guarded and at the mercy of enemy
plotters. Arrests are threatened.
When their motor car crashed into
a tree at Alliance Harry j. McCon.
nell was killed. and Lawrence Slut
ter, mining engineer. fatally injured
DR.. Eleanor n. Adams, Cincinnati,
who has been acting president OF OK,
ford college for women for six
months, has been elected president
by the board of trustees.
After exhaustive tests, lasting over
many weeks, County Farm Agent De-
Lashmutt, an Ohio State graduate,
declared that Athens county had the
best seed corn in the state.
Wallace Creamer. who recently eel
ebrated his ninety-ninth birthday an
niversary. died at his home near
Washington c. H. Mr.. Creamer was
Fayette county's Oldest inhabitant.
Run down by train at a Colum-
bus crossing. Mrs. Rosie Fuski. 80.
sustained a fractured skull that caus-
ed instant death. The woman is sur.
Vived by her husband and six chill.
dren.
Rev. Joseph Grissc is in jail A.
Springfield to escape the fury of eI
ragged New Carlisle citizens, who
claim he made unpatTiotic utterances
and refused to salute the flag. Griss1
has a son In the army.
Akron council passed an ordinance
Whereby all able-bodled men between
the ages Of 18 and 30 must work al
least 30 hours week Fifty dollars
fine and so days maximum imprison.
nent are the penalties.
Possibility of legislation to limit
the tobacco acreage next year Is sug
gested by State Food Administrator
Croxton in a letter 20 tobacco grow
ers OF Darke county whom he Is try.
ing to keep from turning under rye
for planting tobacco.
State food administration an
nounced that the Jackson MilHng
company and the Peters Milling com
pany, both of Jackson, have been
found guilty Of overcharges in the Pc
riod between Feb. l5 and April )
Both concerns were fined.
En- route home, cast OF Delaware.
from the funeral of q relative at
Marysville. Mrs. John O'Brien was
probably fatally injured when the
auto, driven by her brother-in-law,
James O'Brien, collided with an
electric car. O'Brien was severely
hurt.
A branch Of the state council OF de-
fense will be created in every coun-
ty in Ohio. Organization Of the vari-
GUS counties will be undertaken un
der the direction of a chief of staff,
who will be named by the governor,
and who will have headquarters in
Columbus.
William Russ, farmer living near
Portsmouth and who is alleged to
have made disloyal remarks concern
ing the United States, was seized by
200 of his neighbors and forced to
lead a loyalty parade, carrying the
national colors. After tie parade ne
purchased liberty boEd.
Dependency over continued Iii
health is said to have been the mo-
tive prompting the suicide of two
county men, William
Gayton, GA, who was found hanging
in his barn at Leas Run, and George
Epler so. who drowned himself near
his home. Both men leave widows
and children.
Crop bulletin Of the state board OF
agriculture states that wheat is i'm.
proving in spite Of the lack of sun
shine. The seeding of oats is doing
nicely, the seed terminating we'll and
the plants coming up to an excellent
stand in many localities Flowing for
corn Is progressing satisfactorily
Fruit trees have responded slowly,
and gardening has been delayed on
account OF the cold, wet weather.
o. c. Barber, match king, Barber.
ton. celebrated his seventy-seventh
birthday anniversary.
Peter Kucherow, prominent Social
st, was shot ard killed at Cleveland
BY an unknown man. who escaped.
Temperance forces will celebrate
1t Oberlin the twenty-fifth annivsr.
:ary of the founding of the Anti-Sa.
oon league.
BY request Of federal authorities,