The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-03-15

McComb. a town OF 1900 In Han"
cock county, is suffering from bread
famine, due 10 scarcity Of flour.
Private Edward Barton, member
OF tho Rainbow division in France,
was the first Delaware boy TO lose mis-
life n the service. lie died OF pnea-
monia.
Jacob A. King, rural mail carrier
Of West liberty has been removed
from his job because of alleged uu'
patriotic remarks
One hundred thousand dollars danh
ag resulted from a fire at the plant 0t
the Coshocton Strawpaper company
al Coshocton.
Baked in his efforts to talk With
lis S.year-old daughter, who was in
the custody Of his divorced wife
Abraham Aleck, 80. OF Detroit threw
acid on his wife, Ida Aleck, OF Clevc'
land, and then shot himself to death.
Upwards ci a thousand Onic am
western Pennsylvania selects have
been sent from Camp Sherman to
other cantonments in the past week.
Ohio Paptists have started a drive
for 100000 war fund.
At Marysville Mrs. Lavina Fisher
G7, died from injuries received IN
fall down n fight of stairs.
II. A. Church, T1rbana, resigned as
cemetery superintendent after 3"
years service.
Residence OF A. B. Olson, farmer.
near Delaware, was destroyed by FIRE.
Teaching of German in Lancaster
public sci coils mas been abolished.
Three trainmen of Chillicothe were
injured in q Baltimore and Ohio
freight wreck west Of Athens.
Frederick Lehman, sent to the
penitentiary a few weeks ago from
Wauseon after conviction Of murder
in the first degree for staying his
young wife for love of another wCm
an, has filed a petition for a new trial
Past week saw the greatest coal
production in weeks in the southern
Ohio mine field, but falling off over
The previous week in eastern Ohio
Total production was about 6OO,OO9
tons.
Ohio Gamers association met at
Columbus to make definite plans con
cerning the turning over Of all canned
goods to the gcvernT ent.
Charging him with having an eX-
cess of -four on hand, the federal food
administration revoked the license OF
August Waiter, a Cincinnati baker,
for one week
Mrs Frank Lyman, 70. residing
near Utica. licking county, commit
ted suicide hy hanging herself with
shawl tied TO a nail in the kitchen OF
her home She had been blind for
four years,
At Greenville Clifford Stoddarl
WIS injured fatally when a concrete
wall fell, buryipg him.
Beet sugar factories at Defiance
will pay $3.50 ton for beets an m
crease of so ton over last season.
Military police at Chillicothe ar
rested Harvey Estell and Dave A.ison,
charged with selling liquor to sol
ciers in uniform.
Peter Kuntz, Sr., 72, wealthy iGm-
ter dealer of Dayton. is dead.
Federal supreme court ruled that
United States courts were without
jurisdiction in the Cincinnati election
fraud cases Ruling frees SO defend
ants
Three trainmen were injured. one,
John Eckert. probably fatally, and
traffic was tied up for ~ hours, when
passenger train No.
1405 crashed into several freight cars
near Canton
John H. Francis, superintendent Of
Columbus public schools, left for
where he will direct the
school war garden movement through
out the United States.
Thousands of rats and mice have
been killed by the members of the
Sponseller grange, Stark county,
which is waging an organized war On
rats, mice and sparrCws.
Superintendents of the % state
free employment bureaus will get
into direct touch with farmers and
seek to supply their labor needs at
all times.
Private Archie Jenkins, convicted
at Camp Sherman OF theft and who
escaped from the camp guardhouse,
was captured at Columbus. AS a re.
suit of the escape, guards have been
furnished with ball cartridges and in
structed to shoot.
Late Pelctiah Webster Huntington,
veteran Columbus banker, left an es-
late Of $675,100
Hancock county will be without a
county farm agent, because there is
no appropriation from which his ac-
customed 81, 800 salary can be paid.
Several hundred flour mills in Onio
have reopened after being closed By
D rule prohibiting their grinding more
than rs per cent of their 80 per cent
wheat total. They are now allowed
to grind their remaining Is per cens.
One fireman narrowly escaped
death. two policemen were overcome
tnd several persons were rescued in
a fire which caused $4,000 damages
in the Hannah block, Cleveland.
National Artificial Silk company
filed voluntary suit in bankruptcy in
federal court at Cleveland. Liabili.
lies were listed at $49S,22O; assets,
$1,2S9,283.
At Young gstown Michael Koletich
o1 the murder of his com.
mon law wife, Anna Torkowitch, was
to life Imprisonment.
General Perkins, camp command
ant, received word from Washington
that all ground at Camp Sherman no;