Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-11-08
STATE SIFTINCs

81, was killed by an electric crane.
Scott Young. postmaster at Round
head Hardin county, is dead.
Brigadier General Mathew c. Smith
has taken command of Camp Sher-
man
Nathaniel Good, 35, residing near
Amanda, Fairfield county, shot and
killed himself.
Oscar McVey, son of Albert McVey
of Lancaster, was killed in action in
France.
Ohio's cabbage crop this year is
estimated by the federal department
of agriculture at 1856 tons.
Earl Warner, former theological
student at Ohio Wesleyan, was killed
in action on the French front.
Word German was stricken from
constitution, Of St. Johns German
Reformed church at Bucyrus.
Rockwell B. Mitchell, 81, -ex-mayor
and former postmaster at Bridgeport
and we'll known Democrat. is dead.
Conviction on bribery charges of
William F. Davis and William F.
Mehle, Youngstown city councilmen,
was upheld by the court. of appeals.
Miss Lauretta Beasbeck of Martins
Ferry and Miss Margaret Kuhlman
of Toledo, nurses, died at Camp
Sherman
Bucyrus Aerie of Eagles started a
movement to secure a club of 200 to
agree to subscribe $4,000 in the fifth
liberty loan.
One hundred more German war
prisoners now confined at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ca, will be interned at Camp
Sherman.
Private Charles Schillfng of Colum-
bus was sentenced to 25 years at
hard labor in Fort Leavenworth pris-
on for refusing to obey lawful COM
mand of an officer at Camp Sherman.
When he was struck by an automo.
bile truck, Lawrence Kalb, SO, Co
| lumbus, suffered concussion of the
brain and died few hours later at
| hospital.
After raging at Camp Sherman in
epidemic form for four weeks, Span
ish influenza has entirely disap
peared, leaving in its wake a death
roll of 1,050 persons
| Harmon Peters of Salem township
is the champion pumpkin grower in
Ottawa county, having placed on dis
play at Oak Harbor a pumpkin which
weighs over 140 pounds.
Influenza quarantine at Camp Sher
! man has been lifted and civilians are
being admitted to camp under the OLE
Observation-Disclosures from 5 to
| p. NJ, Saturdays from noon to 4:3i
! p. m. and Sundays all day to o. m
Because he said he was going tt
enlist and fight for the kaiser ant
for making other remarks regarded a!
disloyal, Frank Xerzetes, 80, Ma
rion, was sentenced to so days hart
| labor
One thousand dollars, said to b.
the largest sum ever paid for no,
in this country, was paid at Marion
by farming company of Blackstone
Ark, for Cherry Bob,'' famous Duro
herd boar The animal weighs 80
pounds.
Every Ohio county exceeding it
1918 quota Of war savings stamp
will receive from the Ohio war say
ings committee an engraved bronz
tablet. Twenty-four Ohio countie
have merited the tablet to date an
80 others are expected to reach thei
goal within few weeks. - G
Ohio farmers have responded wor
derfully to the governments appea
to sow more wheat this fall, in tn
estimation of L. J. Tabef, BarnesvilIe
master of the state grange. Tabe
says reports he hears all point to a
increase of 10 per cent or more i
acreage.
Miss Faith R. Lanman, who ha
been in charge of the, home ect
nomics department of Columbus. pul
lie schools for several years, has a,
cepted appointment as supervisor fo
the city home demonstration agent
of Ohio. The appointment become
effective Nov Is.
A colored man walked into th
ticket Office of the Green Line static
at Wellington and when Agent Chi
pins back was turned pulled out
revolver and compelled him to ope
! the safe and money drawer. The ma
grabbed more than 800 and left. H
was captured later.
. ID Ohio Milk Producers associate
asked the state milk. price commi
sion to pay 3S cents a gallon or S4.4
; hundred pounds to producers
Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati an
, Toledo The request was taken u
der advisement. If granted, it W.
said, it would mean II cents a qua
to the consumer -
| BY placing the farms of its 20 i
: stitutiOns on war garden basi
raising crops of greater food val,
per acre, the state board of admin
: tration says it's production this ye,
} exceeds that of 1917 by $109,640. TT
net profit this year is figured
$209,554 more than last year. The
2 stitutions cultivated more than 2.5,
. acres of garden and truck crops.
Barns and sheds of H. A. Rob
and Boyd Dunbar, both farmers ne,
. Napoleon, alleged bond Stacker
! were given a liberal yellow paintil
3 by Henry county citizens.
Ohio skilled workmen not In WI
: work will be withdrawn through fe
$ eral community labor boards as ia
: as possible to meet the demand f
:, 10000 men for war work industrie
: This is the first call of magnitude f
q skilled workmen. Employment ser
0 ice officials declared that an ann
e | supply of these workers is still e
l gagged in non-war or less essenti
o work
Declaring they would not ask othe
to do what they would not do thel
s selves, so Youngstown clergymen
: Catholic, Protestant and Jewish co
l. gregations, at a meeting, unanimor
j. ly volunteered to serve as orderli
y in influenza hospitals of that city.
:, needed.
. Satisfied that the influenza stu
u ton in Ohio is improving near
l. everywhere except in mining section
y the state health department, after