Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-27
STATE SIFTINCS


Striking telephone operators tied
up the Perry county Bell arvice.
Clyde Bailey, Boy Scout, has been
appointed city official bugler at Con-
neaut TO sound taps every evening.
Robert T. Michener resigned as the
Democratic candidate for congress
from the Sixteenth (Ohio) district.
DR.. Fisher, mayor of Portage, was
commissioned captain in the medical
reserve.
Ten thousand Ohio selects will be
called for general military service
! Oct. 7 to H.
John Dugan, aged 81, and veteran
of the civil war, is dead at his home
west Of Sidney
Cleveland Methodists celebrated the
! centenary of the church there with
| parade of 1000 marchers.
| Over 100000 has been reached from
| Is sales of contributed articles for
the Red Cross in Champaign county.
State0 Fire Marshal Fleming an
| ;nounced that fire prevention day had
been changed from Oct. 9 to Nov. 2,
because of the fourth liberty loan.
Rev. D. P. Morris at McComb,
Hancock county, resigned the pulpit
iof the Church of Christ to go to
Fremont, Mich.
Ohio Red Cross workers are re-
| !quested to devote part of their time
collecting tin and platinum for the
government
Roumanian residents of Youngs
town and vicinity will start to re-
cruit and equip legion of 10000 men
for foreign service.
Practically all the conscientious
objectors of Camp Sherman are fur
loughed on farms They VIII earn
$4,000 for the Red Cross.
Four members of the family of J.
M. Bowers Of Tiffin are critically i'll
as result of eating toadstools, mis-
taken for mushrooms.
Ohio Swiss cheese manufacturers
operating 100 plants, will have a two
ton exhibit at the national dairy show
at Columbus, Oct. 10 to 49,
Rev. David W. Barre and mother
Mrs. Abbie E. Barre, were injured
near Washington c. H when their
auto dropped over so foot cliff.
B. F.. Bourne of Cleveland will as
sume the duties of manager of the
lake division, Red Cross. He is prom
inent in the iron and steel industry
William Brandt, SO, laborer, was
arrested in connection with the in
vestigation of the murder of L. S
Gibson, "a, and his daughter, Mrs
Elizabeth Cove, 54, in Norwalk.
General w. R. Burnett, command
ant of the Sandusky Veterans home
wants the state to buy additiona
land to receive men who served il
the present war.
Elks' Association of Ohio is in an
nual reunion at Columbus, and ther,
has been a heavy registration.
patriotic celebration was staged, witt
Governor Cox presiding
Six persons were injured, one seri
ously, when three-story brick build
ing in Race street, Cincinnati, col
lapsed and was wrecked, following
gas explosion in the basement.
For the first time in 40 years Tiff
is without streetcar service. TIL
Tiffin, Fostoria and Eastern compan
discontinued service in the city be
cause the city council would not gran
10 cents fare.
Primary campaign expenditures c
candidates for congress in Ohio ar
under investigation by the federal d.
partment of justice to ascertai
whether there were violations of tn
statutes limiting election expend
lures.
Mrs. Myron T. Herrick, wife of tn
former ambassador to France, died &
Bar Harbor, Me-. after a lingerin
illness, the result Of overwork in Par
during the first German invasion Mr.
Rerrick was 60 years old Burial {
Cleveland
. Food conservation in public eatin
places in Ohio resulted in tot;
saving of 3,225,224 pounds of mea
1856, ,637 pounds of sugar and 1895
677 pounds of flour, according to
state hotel representative on the sta
of the Ohio food administrator
Warrants charging violation of tt
internal revenue law taxing railros
tickets over 35 cents were issued
T. cleveland for the arrest of 13 re.
$8 dents of Salem and Alliance. tt
BIS government charges that passenge
50 of the interurban line between tho
81 points evaded payment of their w
81 tax by splitting their fare into tv
M payments. each under 35 cents, tn
#S avoiding the tax.
W Terming the liquor traffic an al
#* of the kaiser, the Ohio Anti-Salot
#a league, in its argument filed wi
#s Secretary of State Fulton for tt
M state prohibition amendment, hoI
M Ohio owes it to it's soldiers to bani
M this ally from the state, in contra
W with the argument, filed by the we
M that it would be unfair to vote t
s state dry while the soldiers are aw
M and unable to vote on the subject.
M James O'Hearn, a machinist
s Dayton, fell from passenger ira
S at Bellefontaine and suffered the a.
M putation of one of his legs.
M Mrs. John Miley, native of V
3 ginia, celebrated her 102nd birthd
SM at Millerstown, near Urbana, by
# ceiving callers She is active a.
I assists an unmarried daughter wi
M whom she lives with the housewol
" Blessings were asked in German
% the president and the allied cause
v the annual session of the cent?
u synod, Reformed church, at Sandusl
at Canton will observe Heroes da
a Oct. 13, in honor of its boys overse;
William Wright, 80, negro murder
~ of Detective William O'Rourke at
;, lumbus Nov. "a, 1917, paid the dea
-, penalty for his crime in the elect
,no chair at the Ohio penitentiary.
Plans for campaigns of Ohio /
publican congressional candidat
were discussed at Columbus at a c.
Id ference of IA candidates for congre
Ire with Congressman Simeon D. Fe
u Yellow Springs, chairman of the ]
publican congressional committee.
Mt Rev J. Franklin Candy, First C,