Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-11-01
STATE SIFTINGS

Scott Young, postmaster at Round
head, Hardin county, is dead.
Student body at Denison university,
iGranville, subscribed $4,000 to the
fourth liberty loan.
, Mrs. Mary Hildebrand, so, Belle
fontaine, was killed by an automo-
bile
Oscar McVey, son of Albert McVey
lof Lancaster, was killed in action in
France
One hundred students at Wooster
university escaped from a burning
barracks by climbing down rope.
Ralph Lewis, Sabina banker, and
his brother John, soldier at Camp
Sherman, died Of influenza.
Word German" was stricken from
constitution of St. Johns German
Reformed church at Bucyrus.
Dudley Winnie, 10, Port Clinton,
was killed by train while crossing
the tracsks on a motorcycle.
Major Arthur S. Houts of Cleve
land, for many years an officer of the
Ohio National Guard, was killed in
action in France
Twenty-Five children were left ia
therless when Harry Cunningham, 33,
Nimrod Lawrence, SO, and Ernest
Russell, 81, neighbors at Hamden,
died of influenza
John A Murray, aged 70, a clothier
for 40 years at Manchester shot and
killed himself He leaves a widow
and three daughters and one son,
who is in France.
Large oil derrick on the New York
Coal company land near Shawnee
burned to the ground, together with
the power house and several other
smaller buildings.
In September Ohio led all other
states both III lotaI sales of war saw
ings stamps ana, i'll per capita sales.
Total sales were $11,S83,912, or 1925
per capita.
Engineer Henry Hall, 3S, and Fire
man Harry E. Darsham, 27, both of
| Newark, were killed when a Balti-
more and Ohio locomotive exploded,
wrecking eight box cars, in the Co
| lumbus yards.
Upon invitation to shoot me, "
| playfully remarked by Albert J. Cru
Der, s, Canton, his 4-year-old brother
pointed his fathers shotgun, pulled
the trigger and the charge tore off
Albert's head.
The famous Chief Logan speech is
to be commemorated by monument
h hn cA in r
| Circleville The monument will cost
$1,000. 1t will be built by the Pick.
away County Historical society.
A handshaking campaign instead
of speaking has been decided upon
| for the Republican state candidates
! They are to tour the state and win
! as many votes as possible by meeting
! people individually and informally
Three men, Cletus Heuberger, who
was driving the car, and his com
panions, Wheeler Krider and David
Bowser, we're injured when the cal
was driven off the side of a bridge
near Wharton, Hancock county, ant
landed upside down on wire fence
James E. Bauman, acting state
health commissioner, made an appea
for enlistments in the volunteer med
ical corps of the United States pub
lie health service. There is a grea
dearth of nurses in Ohio at thi
time.
.Apsathos Christodoulus, a Greek
was held up at Massillon and hi
pocketbook, containing $69.25, taken
Then he was returned the pocket
book and S125 by the robbers, who
lie claims, were men dressed a
women
Five laborers were injured nea
Upper Sandusky when a Hockin
Valley passenger train struck south
bound railway motor car with IL ls
borers. Harry McCurdy, Columbu:
conductor of the car, was seriousl
injured.
Bragadier General Tyree R. River!
ezting commandant at Camp She
man, has been transferred to Cam
Meade, Md Brigadier General Ma
thew c. Smith, now commanding tn
school of fire at Fort Sill, Okla, ha
been ordered 20 Camp Sherman
Matthias H. Jones, SO, the oldes
attorney in active practice in tn
state, is dead at Piqua He was th
father of Common Pleas Judge w.
Jones of the local court. He ha
served two terms as state represent;
tive and was prosecuting attorne
for Miami county for three terms
| Do
fishing interests with the opening
the Erie proving grounds Cover
ment officials, in establishing dal
ger zone, have included that sectio
of Lake Erie which up to this tim
| has been producing possibly rs to s
! per cent of the lake fish which hay
|, been marketed at Port Clinton
, Under an agreement reached at
, conference, city firemen of Clevelan
who were scheduled to walk out G
strike, are to remain at work as
, result Of Mayor Davis signing a pro
, lamation declaring the eight-ho,
day charter amendment in full fort
i and effect Under the agreement 81
lfiremen will be paid for overtim
dating from last November.
Dayton streetcar platform me
were awarded by the war labor boal
Al, 43 and As cents an hour and 42:
cents as the minimum for other Ell
ployes.
q Governor Cox issued a proclaim
g ton calling upon the people of Oh
to give their moral and financial su
9 port to the united war work ca,
d paign in Ohio during the week
i Nov. Ills, during which more ths
9 $10,6S0, 900 will be raised in this sta
g so that physical, mental and spiritu
d comforts can be supplied to America
soldiers in Europe and at canto
l. ments and to w>;men war workers
r James E. Bauman, acting sta
n health commissioner, announced
|. will stand for no trifing in rega
to influenza regulations while the el
demic is Gs prevalent as now. The
is no lifting of closing orders an
A where without his permission. Loc
n health officers who ignore orders w
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