The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-16

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new 100000 building.
New Catholic church at Bremen
was dedicated by Bishop J. j. Hartley
Of Columbus.
A. E. Kinsey, 80, brakeman, Ken
ton. was crushed to death while max
ing a coupling.
f. B. Hopkins. 20. wholesale grocer
and civil war veteran, died suddenly
at Yellow Springs.
f. B. Hopkins, 10, wholesale grocer
and civil war veteran, died suddenly
at Yellow Springs.
Cleveland council voted unanimous
ly to take action in the case OF land.
lords charging exorbitant rents.
Cleveland beard of education voted
20 continue the teaching Of the Ger.
man language in the high schools.
William King, 80, DAYTON, died
from a fracture Of the skull. received
when he was struck by an automobile.
Clement Schetles, 73, Tiffin, died OF
pneumonia while the body Of his wife
was being borne to the cemetery for
burial.
G. A OFT. father Of William otj
mayor Of Bucyrus, fell from step
ladder and destroyed the sight Of his
left eye.
A number OF buildings at Coney Is
'and, a summer resort near Cincin
natl, were burned, entailing loss OF
$4,000. ..
Mrs. Jennie Croft. a.. hanged her
self with a Clothesline at hor home
in Dover. Two Of her sons are in
the army.
Charged with disloyalty, Archiholt
Yoder. a bishop in the Mennonite
church, was arrested at Spring Hill
Champaign county.
Two hundred-barrel oil we'll was
struck on the Hayden farm, neal
Junction City, Perry county, by the
Southern Oil company.
Superintendent Wilson Hawkins of
the Newark public schools has been
elected superintendent Of the Canton
schools ut n salary of $4,000 year.
Arthur A. Leedy, Nel a- < boy, whc
enlisted in the navy as mechanic,
lost brother, Arch Leedy. when the
warship Jacob Jones was torpeloed
Two hundred striking carpenters
returned to work at Alliance when
they were granted demands for wage
increase from 55 to- 70 cents an hour.
Lightning caused fire at the Buck,
eye pump station at Gcre, near Shaw.
nee, in which three 1,200-barrel tanks
and 1000 barrels OF oil were de-
stroyed.
Joseph Zarbetto, a miner, was ar
rested at Cambridge charged vita
the murder of Tony Chaplain and
Sam Spine at SwayesYille, Pa, il
July, 1912.
The east side of Main street al
Sterling, near Wooster, was swept by
fire, starting in the grocery wareCoon
Of f. s. Weiss & Son and causing
100000 damage.
Seventeen hundred employees of the
Toledo Shipbuilding company, work
ing on transport ships fer the gov
ernment, went on strike for an in
crease of wages
Dead body of Mrs. Josephine Crea
ger, wife of Oscar Creager, Madison
county farmer, was taken from Tho
Scioto river at Columbus. The woman
was an inmate of the state hospital
Four Lancaster soldiers weri
wounded in action on the French
front: Captain Otto ]. Kinder, Lieu
tenant William Belhorn, Private Her
bert Shipley and Private DAME
Stout.
Governor Cox appealed to Railroad
Director General McAdoo for an or
der TO move hundreds of cars of com
mercial fertilizer which farmers have
ordered. Dut which are being held on
railroad tracks.
Before Governor Cox, Major Gen
eral Edwin F. Glenn and thousands
of visiting relatives and friends, go,
900 selectives gave mute evidence oi
their fitness as they passed n review
at Camp Sherman.
Joseph Bol!inger, lifelong resident
of Shelby county and well know
stock buyer, died at his home in
Green township. Mr.. Bollinger was
a member of Company H, Forty-sixtt
Ohio cavalry, and served throughout
| the civil war
Two bandits held up L. NJ. &c ZeIle
paymaster Of the Hunkin-COnkey
Construction company, at Cleveland
and robbed him of the company's pay
money, amounting to $4,100 The ROB
bers leaped from an automobile
struck Ge Zelle over the head and
threw pepper in his eyes.
Wheat prospects for May l were
| 81 per cent OF normal, which is pei
cent better than a year ago. State
Secretary of Agriculture Shaw SAYS
however: Much of the wheat is still
weak and thin and does not possess
the degree of vitality that should be
shown at this time under more favor
able circumstances.
Housewives desiring to accumulate
a supply OF sugar for preserving and
canning only will have to sign ce:tif
Gates stating their total previous pur
chases for this purpose, and giVine
their total needs for the year, Fred
c. Croxton, Ohio food administrator
announced Retail dealers will be
supplied with certificates and will
turn them into the food administra
tion twice month.
Ten graduates received degrees a
the Xenia United Presbyterian Thee
logical seminary.
Police quelled a race clash at Mas
sillon between 400 R9unanians ant
an equal number Of Greeks.
At Portsmouth Absalom Bishop. "A
shot and killed his son, Simon Bish
op, A, who attacked the elder mai
with a knife. The father was ex
Onerated.
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