The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-08-23
PUNCHED PARAGRAPHS

letters taken from prisoners captured
on the French front,
BARRIERS Supply Dealers associa'
tion, In convention at Chicago, rec
commended that haircuts be doled om
at 81 each and shayes at 80 cents,
A nationwide probe into the cost
of living has been started by the bu
reau of labor statistics. The mate
rial collected will be used as a basis
in making wage adjustments.
Engineer W. E. Cheshire of Graf,
! ton, w. Va. was killed when Balti-
more and Ohio passenger train No. 4
was derailed near Newburg, W. Va,
Richard f, Cleveland, son of for
mer President Grover Cleveland, ell.
tered the marine corps officers train.
ing school at Quantico, Va.
John 7. Johnson, former genera!
superintendent of Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. died at Cleveland following
an operation.
Governor Richard l. Manning OF
South Carolina now has five sons in
service overseas. A sixth recently
was commissioned a lieutenant in a
training camp.
Wv. C. A. has opened a nationwide
campaign for $15,OOO,OO0 for war
work.
George Prouty former governor OF
Vermont, was instantly killed near
Waterbury when a train crashed into
his automobile.
New owners of first and second
liberty bonds are converting them
into bonds of the third issue. This
may be done only until Nov. 1.
Bayard Kilmore of Cincinnati has
been recommended for appointments
regional director of telephones in the
region of which Ohio will be a part.
Railroad administration will dis
card about 10000 box cars which
have been in service about 20 Years,
New ones, contracted for recently,
will be substituted.
Secret service agents are gathering
evidence against war profiteers in
the United States.
Sergeant William McKerness OF
Wallingford Conn, attached to the
Lafayette escadrille, was killed in a
fight with eight enemy airplanes in
France.
Unset jewels valued at $4,000 and
a small amount of money were taken
in daylight robbery of the Donovan.
Seamans jewelry store, Los Angeles.
Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. author and
poet, Of New York, was killed in ac-
tion while serving with the One Hun.
dred and Sixty-fifth infantry in
France.
Manufacture of bicycles and motor
cycles will not be materially cur
tailed, it was announced by the war
industries board, because they are
used chiefly as vehicles of transporta-
tion.
Estate of Gottfried Kruger OF
Newark, n. j., valued at several mil
lion dollars, was taken over by the
alien property custodian. Though
Mr. Kruger is an American citizen,
he is classed as an enemy because of
his IeSlueuC6 i'll NSEuldHy.
Mrs. Martha n. Sayre, mother of
Francis B. Sayre, died at Nantucket,
Mass, at the age of 70. Her sons
wife is a daughter of President Will
son.
Seven persons were killed at Bal
timore when their auto was struck
by a train. The dead Joseph Selling,
49, Katie Hunt, 80; Charles and
Frederick Bollman, Z and 6; Dorothy
and Elsie Norris, and g. and Eve.
lyn Hanzlik, s, all Of Middle River.
Railroad administration. authorized
the railroads to accept liberty bonds
as security for payment of freight
charges instead of requiring surety
bonds.
Twenty-siX women, arrested at
Washington while attempting a dem
onstration before the White House
against the senate's delay in acting
on the suffrage measure, were SEN
fenced to jail when they refused to
pay fines.
Two men were killed and one seri |
ously injured at st. Juliens Creek |
magazine, near Norfolk, Va, by an
explosion as they were loading a six |
inch shell
Nearly 1000 soldiers, the greatest
of men ever naturaliZed at
one time, were made citizens at Pc
tersburg, Va.
Grand Trunk railway freight sheds
at Ottawa, Ont, were completely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss from 100000 to
100000.
w. P. G. Harding of Birmingham,
Ala, was designated by President
Wilson tC his third successive term
as governor of the federal reserve
board.
Joseph J. Fenton of Bellows Falls,
VT, student aviator, was killed when
his seaplane fell into Pensacola bay,
Florida.
Lieutenant Albert Mountain of Nc
w. Va, a graduate of Aqui-
las college, Columbus, has been
killed in action in France.
Iowa weekly crop report estimates
25,OOO,000 bushels of corn, valued at
S4O,0O0,O0O, were lost in Iowa during
he heat wave
Six pesons were killed by lightning
Turing a severe storm which swept
eastern Pennsylvania.
William Masios, a negro, who said
lie was 147 years old, died in Belle
rue hospital, New York, of pneu-
nonia.
Body of the late Miss Anna Held
actress, will be placed in a vault at