The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-27
STATE SIFTINGS
Plain City home guards OrEanIEed

Plain City home guards organized
with Is memberA
Samuel Hays. 81. Columbus Grove.
IL the father Of . new born boy. His
wife Is II.
Fayette county farmers report seri-
Gus damage to the wheat crop by the
wheat midge."
Edward J. Bush. sS, was found
dead, hanging to the limb Of a tres
near his home at Portsmouth.
Clifford " Cnshman Of Toledo and
Albert Silverton of Cincinnati. ma
rines, we're killed in action in France.
President Aston Ellis Of Ohio uni
versity, Athens. win resign to enter
the government service as a war
worker.
Richard Worst, 12, son OF William
Worst. Dayton, was seriously hurt
at Washington c. II. when his auto
was ditched.
B. A. Fenstermaker, 50, Of West
Hope, was instantly KILLED when he
fell from a freight train near Malinta,
Henry county.
Three children OF John Badertscher
we're seriously burned by the explo-
sion Of an acetylene light plant at
Pandora, Putnam county.
Ted Ivory, 10. toolmaker. was
drowned in the Miami river at Day
ion when the canoe which he and
companions occupied unset.
Married at IA, Mrs. Joseph Arthur.
now II, filed suit FOR divorce at Ma
cion, claiming her husband was NOV
ing from place to place continually.
Mrs. T. II. Maur died at Toledo OF
heart disease 10 minutes after nav.
ing left her only son, Robert, %, who
enlisted in the army motor mechan-
les school.
Grocery Of John Ripple. on Mas
sillon road. near Canton. was closed
by the Stark county committee. Rip
pie Is charged with violating food
regulations.
About $500 in currency was stolen
at Upper Sandusky from the Adams
Express company. The money, in
transit, was taken off for transfer OF
| trains.
Ivon Collier, Republican candidate
tor county surveyor of Hancock coun'
ty, withdrew to accept position with
the Ohio Oil company in the develop
ments of the Texas oil fields.
A. l.. Hitchcock, Socialist member
of the Cleveland school board, who
was convicted at Toledo for violation
of the espionage act, was formally
removed from office by the Cleveland
board of education.
Findlay was selected as the next
place of conference of the West Ohio
WOman's Home Missionary society
which closed its sessions at Spring
field. Mrs. w. H. c. Goode, Sidney
was elected president.
General Hale declared that officeri
misinterpreteG his orders in refer
ence to visiting days in Camp Sher
man and that civilians would be al
lowed periods on Wednesday and Sat
urday as we'll as Sundays.
Cities with home rule charter
we're given a jolt when the suprem
court held they are without authorit
to regulate telephone rates and tina
the state public utilities commissio
is supreme in determining them.
George H. Wood, adiutant genera
of Ohio, has been appointed 4 colone
in the Thirty-seventh division. H
will command an Ohio regiment il
France. Colonel J. Z. Cimperlin
will succeed Wood as adjutant ger
aral.
Lieutenant Frank Stewart Pattel
son Of Dayton ond Lieutenant Swa
of Norwich. Conn, were lilied at III
Wilbur Wright aviation field betwee
Springfield and Dayton, when thei
plane fell from an altitude of abor
10000 feet.
When their auto crashed into tC
sphone pole at Circleville, Mr.
Charles NJ Rife was bruised serious
Iy in the chest: her sister, Mrs. Id
Helvering, received injuries at tn
base of the brain, and Mrs. George
Ritt and three children were cut an
bruised.
New Pittsburgh Coal company IN
Stratton Brothers, both of Murra
City, operators of grocery stores nes
their coal mines were fined $50 an
800, respectively, by Fcod Admin
traitor Croxtnn for taking alleged e
cessive profits on -four ard seiiir
-four in excessive quantities
Supreme court ordered reinstat
lent of W. L. B. Britain as sta
food and drag Inspector, discharge
under the Willis administration tt
court held as g. civil service emplo.
he vas entitled to. rut did not I
ceive. a copy of the charges again
him and opportunity to defend hi
self.
Plan 10 holi big pre-priEnary co
ference has been abandoned by Il
Republican leaders of Ohio Instea
It was decided to hold such gatht
ing n connection with the Tegul
platform convention after the P
maries. Aug. y was selected as &
: date. At the convention are to
l present members of state and coun
central, executive and advisory CO.
mittaes numbering upwards of 10,1(
The place for the convention has n
reen selected.
l Professor NJ. B. Hammond, Oh
5 State university. has been called
: Washington tc represent the feod {
t ministratsn1 on the war labor Polici
3 board
= Skeleton Of a man believed to ha
been 4 victim of the 1913 food "
!. found by children buried in the sa
e on bank of the Hooking river ne
Athens.
d Picking ur a revolver at Springfe