Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-31
the Clifford theater,

". L. Matthias of Johnstown, Lick
ing county, was killed in action at the
French front
E. B. Hopkins. 70, wholesale grocer
and civil war veteran, died suddenly !
at Yellow Springs.
George B. Myers, So, Hooking Val
ley baggagemaster at Nelsonville, |
committed suicide.
Next years conference of the Ohio |
Congregational conference is to be
held in Oberlin in May.
Governor Cox issued a proclama- |
tion urging support of the Red Cross.
Ohio's quota is $6,400,000
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. HarDster of Co
lumbus has been selected to manage
the Marion county dry campaign.
John Torok and Joseph Frank were
killed at Martins Ferry when their
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DAYTON city commission received d
tentative curfew ordinance designed
to keep children off the streets at
night
Wayne county Republican commit
tee endorsed Frank B. Willis for gov
ernor and R.. c. Mccullough for con-
gresham.
Lieutenant Russell Baker OF 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 cf Miss Nina
Ritter in her will
Zaleski, for the first time in its his
tory, voted dry by a vote of 62 to 50,
putting out Of business the only sa
loon in Vinton county.
One hundred and fifty high school
girls at Alliance have begun military
drill, to be held three mornings
week, under direction of drill mas
ter.
At Cleveland Mrs. Carl Mayer, %,
and Miss Catherine Mavin, 80, we're
killed, and Mrs. Pearl Santa, 80, was
fatally injured, when an interurban
car hit 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 Howland
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 1,500.
Archie T. Yoder, leader in the Men
monte church and member of the
school board at Spring Hill, Cham
paign county, was held under $4,000
bond on a disloyalty charge.
Walter and John Dickinson ami
Amos Brady were struck by train
at a grade crossing in Marion The
Dickinsons suffered broken hips and
internal injuries and Brady broken
arm.
When SO cans of nitroglycerin, be.
ing conveyed overland in an auto
truck, exploded near Pleasant City
Guernsey county, Harvey Phelps, As
his son Walter, IS, and w. o. Hughey
were instantly killed.
Democratic leaders of the Sixth
Ohio district decided not to suggest
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 flat
narrow escapes when they tried t.
save him
Women's Red Cross work valued
at s549 ,2O5.27 was shipped to the LAX,
division warehouses during April b.
Red Cross chapters in Ohio, Indian;
and Kentucky, Carl w. Fuller, direc
tor of the divisions bureau Of sup
plies, announced.
Charged with holding up produc
ton Of war munitions, John Galley
q German subject and foreman of
large Cleveland factory engaged il
manufacturing gun forgings for tn
government, was placed in Jail t.
await probable internment.
Peter W. Weber, SO, of Gallon, de
MES that Colonel John Conway of Ca
diz is the only survivor of the Mex
can war in Ohio. For years Mr.. We
ber has been receiving Mexican wa
pension, having been in the entir
campaign under General Zachar
Taylor.
Mrs. Nellie Claycomb, 45, wife o
George C. Claycomb, tilemaker a
| Dennison, is charged with murder
as the result of the death of Alber
i Cordrey, 81, neighbor. After a
altercation, she is alleged to hav
t hurled a brick, which hit him owe
the head.
| Frank L. Rist, labor organizer an
, editor, died at Cincinnati followin
an operation performed week ag
for appendicitis. He had been i
< three years.
r Three Fairfield county boys. Cha
! mer Hoynes, Pearl Masheter and Oh
$ rim Watson, have won free scholar
ships in the college of agriculture q
r Ohio State university.
: Mayor Dali Hull, Christian Heyl
i saloonkeeper; Rev. John Gauss an
J. DR.. j. L. Higbee, all of Jenera, Hal
g cock county, were indicted by tn
federal grand jury on charges of di
loyalty.
o An unidentified white man of abot
|. 40 was found floating in the Mu
, kingum river at Marietta.
n La Belle, believed to the fine
yacht on the Great Lakes, was sol
" ry Alexander Winton of Cleveland
S Clarence H. Wilton Of Detroit. ''I'l
S Going to buy liberty bonds with til
l. money said Winton.
Double tracking of the Hockir
< Valley between Columbus and Toled
IL