Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-03

Twenty-Five per cert Of premiums
at the Preble county fair will be paid
n war savings stamps.
Victor H. Hamilton, 80, cashier OF
the Hamilton bank, East Liberty,
died after a short illness,
Captain William Lane, 81, civil war
veteran, died of injuries received in
fall on steps at his home in BeilefCn-
iaine.
Columbus city council passed an
ordinance closing saloons on Memo
rial day, Fourth of July and Christ
mas.
Schools, churches, theaters and
moving picture shows at Lisbon are
closed because of an epidemic Of
smallpox
Cincinnati won it's honor flag in the
liberty loan drive when subscriptions
reached $23.OOO,OOO or $3,O00,O0O in
excess of its quota
Charles B. Mills, MarysviIle, was
elected editor-in-chief Of the Tran.
script, Ohio Wesleyan university
weekly publication.
Former State Senator Louis E.
Meyers of Marion announced his
candidacy for the Republican morn
ination for congress
Mr.. and Mrs William Slagle and
adopted son, Gaylord. aged u, we're
killed when a train struck their auto,
mobile at Van Vert
Private George w. Caprow oc
Cleveland was killed when a large
army auto tuck, which he was driv-
ing, overturned near Chillicothe.
Donald, the 11-yeaE- old son of Ed
ward Wheeler, a farmer living near
MechanicsburS, was killed when his
rifle was accidentally discharged.
State Fire Marshal Fleming finds
that mary war Plants in Ohio are un-
guarded and at the mercy Of enemy
| plotters. Arrests are threatened.
When their motor car crashed into
tree at Alliance, Harry J. McCon-
| nell was killed, and Lawrence Slut
ter, mining engineer fatally injured.
Fourteenth summer session Of
| Ohio State university, with IS men,
hers Q! the instFuctional force, will
open June "a and continue eight
weeks, closing Aug 16.
At a meeting at kenton the Ma.
rion Presbytery provided for indus,
| trial insurance to all church employees
in its district. Delaware was chosen
as the next place OF meeting in &c.
| tober
Two deaths were reported at the
|
from pneumonia. Private Charles y.
Fought, 20, Of Fremont, and Corporal
r. w Eatson, %, of Tippecanoe, were
the victims.
According to Adjutant General
Wood, Ohio VIII be hit hard in tie
May draft. Wood returned from
| Washington, where lie was in con
sultation with Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Crcwder.
A girl clerk vino refused TO buy d
liberty bend when canvassers visited
the f. L. Kohler factory at Cantor
was handcuffed by other girl en-
ployes and led to a bank, where sh.
bought a bond
Mrs. Startling Lemon, %, wife Of {
farmer living near Hillsboro, commit
ted suicide by placing a snot :
against her forehead and disnhar Z.
it. Sickness had caused ner mind r
become unbalanced.
Rev. Joseph Grissc is in j.. =
Springfield to escape the fury OF eli
ragged New Carlisle citizens, wht
claim he made unpatriotic utterancel
and refused to salute the flag Griss,
has son in the army.
Akron council passed an ordinances
whereby all able-bod1ed men between
the ages of IS and 50 must work a
least 30 hours week Fifty dollar
fine and so days maximum imprison
ment are the penalties
A. L. Hitchcock, Socialist membe
Of the Cleveland board Of education
was arrested on a warrant cnargin
him with violating provisions Of tn
espionage act, specifically with mai
ing remarks against the liberty loan
State Fire Marshal Fleming issue,
regulations for the use of firework
On the Fourth of July. They provid
that under 10 circumstances shal
sky rockets, Roman candles, toy ba
looms or other aerial displays be a
lowed
The right of the Legislature to ha
; insurance companies from indemnity
ing employers under the worllmen'
compensation act was sustained IN
decision handed down by Judg
Evans of the Franklin county con
mon pleas court.
Three young men were arrested a
: Portsmouth, charged with the murde
of A. HUFFMAN, Sc, a grocer, who wa
shot and killed when his store wa
robbed of $150. The suspects al
Roy Hughes, II; Washington Bake
21, and Pauline Pannattoni, %.
: S. H. Croffin, New Philadelphi
} contractor, was roughly handled b
a mob at Maturn for distributin
: pamphlets explaining why 'The FIJI
, ished Mystery of Pastor Russell wa
: suppressed by the government. Gro
} fin was made to kiss the flag. He
held III Jail.
r A 10-minute demonstration greete
: the announcement at liberty loa
, rally at Lima that Allen county ka
! more than doubled its quota Sul
scriptions have totaled $2,350,00
5 Wallace Creamer, who recently ce
r ebrated his ninety-ninth birthday al
), niversary, died at his home nea
. Washington c. H. Mr.. Creamer wa
Fayette county's Oldest inhabitant
: Sixteen men were arrested in fet
!. eral raid on a Socialist meeting
: Lorain on charges of evaGing til
: draft, failure to register under til
/ alien enemy act and with circulatir
seditious literature
S Bucyrus BARRIERS have advance
e hair cuts to 10 cents and shaves
J. 20 cents, effective May l.
3. At Hamilton, Judge NJ. S. Harls
< sentenced Mrs. Belle Wardlow, CO
t, Victed Of killing her husband, Yerre
+ L. WarGlow, by poisoning a year as
s last February, to life imprisonmel
in the Marysville reformatory.
i Possibility of legislation to lin
! the tobacco acreage next year is stl
4 gested by State Food Administered