Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-06
At nenniscn. Miss Edna :pugan, 10,

FrSQ DeLT1ck, ~, lOTuef mayor VI
Kenton. was killed by train at
street crossing i'll Bellefontaine
FindIay barber shops are now feel
ing how the populace will stand for
a 5O-cent hair cut There is talk Of
boycott
Ruth Askew, IA, and her. brother
Hampton, Is, were killed when an in
terurban Gar struck an auto, near
Toledo.
Bad seed and dry weather have
combined to reduce Fayette county's
corn crop to two-thirds of an average'
yield.
Three-year-ol son of Forest LuZa-
dor was injured seriously at Findlay
when he was caught in a gasoline,
engine
John Boynton of Denver, private
in the quartermaster's corps at Camp
Sherman, shot his wife. following a
quarrel, and later committed suicide.
in tin shop at camp.
A. N. Secrest was elected assistant
superintendent of Noble county
schools under the new redistricting
which abolished the Offices OF four
district superintendents.
AZ the annual reunion of the 96th
Ohio volunteer infantry. held at
Bellefontaine, Isaac F. Barnes,
Marysville, was elected president,
and it was decided to meet in Marys~
vile next year.
Fire of undetermined origin COM
pletely destroyed King Avenue Meth
| odist Episcopal church at Columbus.
Loss is estimated at more than $780,
e00 The building, which was OF stone
was erected in 1908.
Bertha Viola Leaman, 6, daughter
of G. w. Leaman, merchant at Lin
vile, Licking county, was killed when
large automobile driven by two
men struck the child as she was
| crossing a village street.
| Mrs Pauline Joest of Cincinnati
| was elected counselor of the Ohio
council of Daughters of America at
| the close of the three day convention
at East Liverpool. Columbus was
voted the 1919 session.
According to word received by rel
! atives at Marysville about one-fourth
of the members of Company E, 166th
infantry, Rainbow division, were
wounded or gased. in the recent big
battle on the western front and are
now in hospitals
Said to have been disguised as a
girl last May to avoid being drafted
into the army, August Schwertfeger
is held at Massillon pending orders
from the department of justice. He
is alleged to have acted as his ia
theirs housekeeper.
Samuel P Bush, president of the
Buckeye Steel Castings company of.
Columbus, will head the new facili-
lies division to hasten industrial ac-
iivity, Chairman Baruch of the war
industries board announced at Wash
ington.
Fred G. Croxton will remain in
Ohio as food administrator and di-
rector of the war labor recruiting
system in this state, he said upon his
return from Washington, where he,
spent six weeks assisting ]. B. Dens-
more. head of the United States enl
ployment service
Paul P. Rover of Cincinnati has
been appointed assistant field direct
) or in the Red Cross bureau of camp
service at Camp Sherman. Mr. Rover
is an attorney and was formerly, a
general assenlblyman. He will be as
sistant to the associate field director.
Q. J. Browne.
Women are being trained and will
be employed as conductors by the
Cleveland Railway company. They
will fill the vacancies caused by a
shortage of man power. No man will
be forced to yield his position. The
) women Will be paid the same wage
that the men receive
A bulky letter. addressed to Chief
McDermott of East Liverpool, con-
tanned $3.50 worth of postal certif-
Gates which had been stolen from
: Michael Radeledge of Midland, Pa,
while on streetcar between BelIaire
and Wellsville. No communication
accompanied the package.
: Corporal Carl H. Daum, who is in
e hospital in France, in letter to his
) father, John NJ. Daum of Marysville,
: states that he was wounded IN four
| different places on July 29. He states
/ that Lieutenant McMinimy, who was
standing few feet to the right of
| him, was killed by the same shell that
/ hit him.
Il Former Governor Willis was re-
nominated over Edwin Jones by a
plurality of 6s,696 votes, according to
) | off o;o o1 oil
, nounced by Secretary of State Full
J ton. The total Republican vote for
governor was 23S,156. The Demo
cratic vote for Governor Cox, who
J had no opposition for denomination,
was 19S,435
Camp Sherman is to be enlarged
: by one-third. The extension is to be
made on the site north of the camp
and west of Section NJ. There will be
at least $50 new buildings, Major w
: S. Swallow estimates As soon as the
plans arrive and the contracts are lep
! the work will be started. Major
Swallow said if will take at least
5000 men to do the work.
: Rev. A. c. BaDe, Westerv1lle, finan-
| Oldl SCSlSlclly VI luC dAb1-DctlOOll
league for the past four years. will
: lake the pastorate of a Methodist
Episcopal church in San Francisco.
At Dayton. Virgie Runhart, IS
5 months old, died from scalds received
1 when she pulled the stopper from a
D washing machine containing boiling
water.
: Physicians of Ohio, meeting at Co
: lumbus, not only adopted plan for
2 The immediate and complete mobIl-
; ization of the medical profession, but
: abandoned all professional plans that
would conflict with cr impede this
: Austin Galdner, "a, was drowned
2 in d lagoon in Mahoning park, at
Warren, when he fell from a canoe
2 student army training corps has
: been established at Mt. Union col.
; ,ege, Alliance.
< Newton H. Fairbanks of Springfield
). was elected chairman of, the Repuh-
lican state central committee, sue
ceeding D, z. Morrow of Hillsboro