The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-18
STATE SIFTINGS

Thomas II. Kennedy, %, Cleveland,
was killed IL action in France
Cincinnati city couLcil changed the
names OF IL streets that heretofore
had borne German names.
Many acres of farm land in Ottawa
county were flooded when the PORT
age river overlowed its banks.
At Alliance w. A. Tucker, 10. was
stabbed to death by two burglars,
who robbed him of $500 in gold.
Sergeant E. Gray Swingle of Spring.
field and Frank D. Goldcamp of Iron
ton were killed in action in France.
Red Cross auction sales netted:
Plain City. $4,000; Pharisburg, 81 200,
Milford Center, $4,000, and Byhalia,
$4,000.
Twenty-Five members OF the Men
MONTE sect, new selects at Camp
Sherman, refuse to wear the uniform
work or drill.
Owen Pratt, 81, OF PlumwooG,
Union county, and member of the
Rainbow division, has been wounded
in action in France.
Glass of sc candidates from Clyde
Bellevue, Port Clinton and Fremont
was initiated st knights of CClum-
bus rally at Fremont.
Women were given representation
on the Ohio defense council when Gov
ernor CCx appointed as a member
Miss Belle Sherwin, Cleveland.
D. A. Simpson, 63, farmer of near
Roundhead Logan county, was strick-
en- with apoplexy while working in
field, and died within four hours.
Representative Simeon d. Fess
of Ohio has been made chairman of
the committee on publicity of the Re
publican national congressional COIL
mittoe
Gordon Sand company's plant at
Conneaut was damaged to the extent
OF $4,000 when an engine ran into
sand conTeyor and destroyed The
building
Columbus may soon have women
mail carriers. Civil service examina-
ton will be held May at which wom-
en- are eligible to Try for positions
as clerks and carriers.
Elias Gracely, Sc, farmer Of Syca-
more, Wyan'lot county, was found
guilty Of making threats against Pres.
ident Wilson. Judge Killits will SEN
tence Gracely on April 20,
Arlie Emmons, IT, died at Ports
mouth as the result of a fractured
skull. He was slugged and robbed
by an unknown companion as he at
tempted to board strectcar.
Governor Cox put up to organized
women war workers in Ohio the big
task Of helping out draft boards
swamped with the Job of indexing
registrants for special service.
After his 1S-year-old son failed to
pass examination for enlistment III
the regular army, William Chesbro of
Tiffin applied for enlistment and was
accepted. He Is the father of three
children.
Postmaster B. F. Price of Lancas-
ter will not. be permitted to take the
civil service examination for reap
charges his Office has rot been kept
up to required standard.
Ohio war savings committee issued
statement declaring that April sales
of war savings and thrift stamps will
be record-breaking and predicts that
the campaign will be stimulant for
the liberty loan campaign.
l.. R. Klous, serving his second
term as a representative from MaGI-
son county, announced himself as a
candidate for the Republican nomina.
tion for lieutenant governor. He is
farmer near Mt. Sterling.
At the spring meeting of the Day.
ton presbytery $4,000 was pledged
to the endowment fund of the West.
ern College for Women in Oxford
This amount completes the $5OO,OOO,
which must be raised by May 1.
Unable to agree, the state civil SER
vice commission rendered no deci-
sion in the appeal of DR.. w. H. White.
Cleveland Republican, VINO had been
removed by the industrial commits
sion as its chief medical examiner
Following a survey of the Ohio de.
Tense council, showing that on the
average one worker out OF every 10
is absent regularly during working
hours. Governor Cox issued state
ment advising against tie practice.
At Toledo fire damaged the stock
Of the Toledo Mantel and Tile COM
pany $4,000; Emil Gerchow, decor
ator, $4,000; Union Supply company,
automobile accessories, $1,000, and
the building which they occupied
$4,000.
Following mine fire at Buckthorn
mine, near New Comerstown, VIII.
liam Moser, 30, miner, is being he'd
for investigation. His arrest followed
reports that he was seen in the de-
stroyed mine building a few minutes
before the fire.
Mrs. Cora Ralston, SO, was killed
and her husband, Dallas Rolston, 40,
fatally injured, when they fell from
third. story window Of an apartment
building at Cleveland. The husband,
who was delirious, attempted to jump
from tn" window and in the struggle
both fell to the pavement.
Sixty-barrel oil well, struck on the
Grigsby farm, four miles north of
New Lexington, gives promise of the
opening of a new oil field in that sec
tion.
State clemency board concluded its
monthly parole meeting at the Ohio
state reformatory. granting SO pa
roles and rejecting IL. The board con-
sidered ITO applications.
Ohio health and old age insurance
commission is considering the Ques-
tiOn Of sickness prevention. The plan
calls for health supervision in the
public schools by local authorities,