The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-19

amount coml letes the $50O,O0O, which
must De raised by May /.
Carroll Fairfield county, voted out
its one saloon.
Governor Cox put mp TO organized
women war workers in Ohio the BIZ
task Of helping out draft boarLs
swamped with the job os lndeAing
registrpnts for special service.
Donald Kramen, SO, Toledo, shot
and killed his 5-year-old son Samuel
Then he fired a bullet into his own
brain and doctors say he will die
Kramne had been i'll.
Proceeds of the Red Cross auction
sale at Redwood netted about $4,000
Maud, n mule purchased by the com
mittee for $40, proved the best draw.
ing card, bringing the society in
$3.50.
Central synod Of the German re-
formed church will lose $4,000 as
the result OF the setting aside Of the
will Of Mathew Smith, farmer, OF Hol.
land, Lucas county
Toledo police are holding three men
in connection with the murder Of a
man believed to be Ariel w. Cam.
eron, beaten and kicked to death in
the street.
X. Lynne Arthur, former account
ant Of 4 Springfield concern, was sen-
fenced to prison on a charge of em-
bezzl5ment.
Rev c. ]. Alexander has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Van BureG,
Hancock county.
Governor Cox, in a proclamation.
called on Ohio officials to round up
tramps and vagrants and put them to
work.
Three hundred pounds of dynamite
were found stored near a schoo.
building at Youngstown.
Ground was broken at Norwalk Tor
2 $lh0,000 high school building.
l.. II. Gibson. head of the Ohio
Home Rule association, filed wlth
Secretary of State Fulton petition
backed by Ohio vets. for the suDmis.
sion at the November election Of
proposed amendment to the state con
stitution giving the voters the rlgh,
of referendum Oh action CT federal
constitutional amendments.
Springfield end Clark county decid-
cd to stage a war chest campaign to
provide funds for all war activities
outside the government. A million
dollar fund may be raised.
SyItapuy I1orIya,, ~ Tlv-,1o will
be 100 years old in October, has beer
admitted to the state soldiers home.
He was born in France, but has lived
in Ohio 60 years.
Liberty bonds and jewels, valued at
$4,000, were stolen from the home
of DR.. D. b. Steurer, Cleveland.
Massillon has started g war chest
campaign for which money will be
raised to take care of all war needs
Of the community during the year.
Ohio war savings committee issued
statement declaring that April safes
of war savings and thrift stamps will
he record-hreakinG and predicts That
the campaign will be a stimulant for
tie liberty loan campaign.
Stark Electric railroad asked Aii:-
ance council to raise city fares from
5 to 6 cents, cutting tickets from SIX
to five for a quarter.
F. II. King of Delphos was appoint
ed to the state board of pharmacy for
five years.
In its April crop report the state
board Of agriculture estimates that
Ohio Will produce 47,000,000 bushels
of wheat this year. This would lie
an increase of more than 4,000,G00
bushels over the 1917 production. The
condition of the crop now compares!
with the standard average is S3 per
cent
Judge William P. Barnum of Ma
hOning county common pleas court
rendered his resignation to Governor
Cox.
Attorney Gideon c. Wilson, Cincin-
natl Democrat, was appointed judge
IN the First district of the court of
by Governor Cox, to succeed
the late Judge A. c. German.
John T. Hoban, president of thc
Hoban brass foundry at Dayton and
for many years active in Democratic
politics, is dead.
Frederick A. Wolfinger, well known
Ohio stock buyer, was burned 10
death on his farm near Marion while
fighting flames from burning grass
Plant Of Hobart Brothers company,
electrical manufacturers, Troy, was
destroyed by fire. The company was
engaged On government work.
Gordon Sand company plant at
Conneadt was damaged to the eXten.
OF $4,000 when an engine ran into a
sand conveycr and destroyed the
One hundred house painters and
decorators at Sandusky went on
strike for 10 cents an hour wage in
crease.
Thelma, 1S-months-old daughter Of
Okey Morris, East Liverpool, was re.
suscitated after being apparently
drowned in tub of water
Earl Sidles, 35, was the victim Of
q mob of 35 girls at Marion because
they alleged that he had made slar
derous remarks as to their character.
The girls end Sidles are employed in
a local cigar factory. They tied him
to telephone pole, pulled mis- hair
and turned q hose on him.
Glass of &c candidates from Clyde,