The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-30

Fire destroyed the Clifford thsAter.
Urbana LOss $4,000.
Luther Gifin Of sprinheld was kill.
ed In action in France.
Lofain Eagles viii erect q new
home at a cost of $4,000.
Striking carpenters at East Livet.
pool received a wage increase.
W. L. Matthias OF JohnstOwn. Lick
ing county, was killed in action at the
French front.
f. B. Hopkins. 20. wholesale grocer
and civil war veteran, died suddenly
at Yellow Springs.
George B. Myers. 53, docking Val
ley baggagemaster at Nelsonville,
committed suicide.
Next years conference Of the Ohio
Congregational conference IL to be
held in Oberlin IN May.
Governor Cox issued a proclama-
tion urging support Of the Red Cross.
ohio's quota is $6.4o0,OO0.
League Of American Patriots will
hold state convention at the Neil
House, Columbus, June 4.
Ohio Cities Gas company and Forb.
ing Brothers are starting oil wells in
the eastern Knox county fields.
Rev. William s. Harpster Of Co
lumhus has been selected to manage
the Marion county dry campaign.
John Torok and Joseph Frank were
killed at Martins Ferry when their
auto crashed into a passenger train.
Dayton city commission received a
tentative curfew ordinance designed
to keep children OF the streets ct
night.
Wayne county Republican commit.
tee endorsed Frank B. Willis for gov.
ernor and R. c. Mccullough for con-
gresham.
Lieutenant Russell Baker os Della
ware has been promoted to captain
of Company E, Rainbow division, now
in France.
Former Adjutant General Critch-
field of Shreve has been appointed q
major and ordered to Camp Perry as
an instructor.
Good Samaritan and Providence
hospitals at Sandusky were bequeath-
ed the bulk Of the estate Of Miss Nina
Ritter in her will
Zaleski, for the first time in its his.
tory, voted dry by vote of 62 to 81,
TuttinCy n,,f ~ bue;nase tho npI,y ca
loon in Vinton county.
One hundred and fifty high school
girls at Alliance have begun military
drill, to be held three mornings a
week, under direction of a drill mas
ter.
At Cleveland Mrs. Carl Mayer, 28,
and Miss Catherine Mavin, 30. were
killed, and Mrs. Pearl Santa, 80, was
fatally injured, when an interurban
car nit their auto.
Rrooding over four sons who will
be called to the colors is believed by
police to be responsible for the sui.
eide at Cleveland of Louis Rowland,
who shot and killed himself.
Governor Cox has been informed
by farm tractor manufacturers that
at least 1000 additional tractors have
been sold in Ohio this year. The orig,
inal goal was only for 1900.
Archie T. Yoder, leader in the Men.
nonite church and member of the
school board at Spring Hill, Cham
paign county, was held under SIS 900
bond on disloyalty charge.
Walter and John Dickinson and
Amos Brady were struck by a train
at a grade crossing in Marion. The
Dickinsons suffered broken hips and
internal injuries and Brady a broken
arm.
When so cans of nitroglycerin, be-
ing conveyed overland in an auto
truck, exploded near Pleasant City,
Guernsey county, Harvey Phelps, 45,
his son Walter, 1S, and W. o. Hughey
were instantly killed.
Democratic leaders of the Sixth
Ohio district decided not to suggest
a candidate for congress. Republicans
have narrowed the field to Congress.
man G. C. Kearns Of Clermont coun.
ty and W. H. Miller of Scioto county.
Raymond A. Zechiel of Dayton, 10,
sophomore student in arts at Ohio
State university, was drowned while
bathing in the Olentangy river at Co.
lumbus. Two of his associates had
narrow escapes when they tried to
save him.
Women's Red Cross work valued
at $549, ,2O5.27 was shipped to the Lake
division warehouses during April by
Red Cross chapters in Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky, Carl w Fuller, direc.
tor of the divisions bureau of sup.
plies, announced.
Charged with holding up produc.
tion Of war munitions, John Galley,
a German subject and foreman Of q
large Cleveland factory engaged in
manufacturing gun forgings for the
government, was placed in Jail to
await probable internment.
Peter W. Weber, 49, of Gallon, de.
MES that Colonel John Conway of Ca.
diz is the only survivor Of the Mexi.
can war iE Ohio. For years Mr.. We
Der has been receiving Mexican war
pension. having been in the entire
campaign under General Zachary
Taylor.
Mrs. Nellie Claycomb, As, wife of
George C. Claycomb, tilemaker az
Dennison, is charged with murder,
as the result of the death of Albert
Cordrey, 81, a neighbor. After an
alteration, she is alleged to have
hurled a brick, which hit him over
the head.
Frank L. Rist, labor organizer and
editor, died at Cincinnati following
an operation performed a week ago
for appendicitis. He had been iii
three years.