Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-09-13

as a protest against the employment
of women conductors by the Cleve-
land Railway company, pending an
investigation of the shortage of man
power. The question will be left to
federal authorities.
Chairmen of six Ohio districts in
the Y. W. G. A. war work campaign
have been appointed, as follows: Mrs.
J. S. Wilhelm. Canton; Miss Caroline
Breyfogle, Columbus; Mrs. T. J. Da.
Wis, Cincinnati; Mrs. Louise ]. Leuthi,
Toledo; Mrs. J. J. Hopes, Spring
field; Mrs. James N. Fleming, Cleve
land. Districts are made to follow
the main centers of war industry.
Akron was selected as the next
meeting place of the Ohio State AS
sociation of Letters at Marion The
next meeting will be in two years.
officers elected were: Edward D.
Longwell Toledo, president; M. G.
Duerk, Defiance, vice president; Earl
R. Price, Middletown, secretary; J. F.
Keer, Marion, treasurer
Two firemen met instant death in
an explosion of a large 150-horse
power boiler at the Ralston steel car
works, East Columbus. The dead men
are Robert Onesby, aged 20, and Dor
sey Turner, aged "a, both colored
State hospitals received from pa
tients or their guardians $462,741
during the year ended June 80, ac-
cording to compilations by H. H.
Shirer, secretary of the state board
of charities The money was used for
the support of patients.
BE careful of your food and drink
ing water during September" the
state health department warns. This
MONTH officials say, is the highest in
typhoid fever prevalence each year.
Boiling of all water used, except city
supplies of known quality; use of
pasteurized milk and the avoidance of
bathing beaches located near sewer
outlets, are urged as means of
avoiding typhoid infection
Everett Hunter, 40, pumper on Car
ter oil lease at Shawnee, drowned
himself in ar oil tank. He leaves his
wife and five children.
Ohio has been allowed a larger
number of students army training
corps, conducted in connection with
colleges, than any other state, it was
announced by the Ohio council of de-
fense. Twenty-six colleges have such
corps. The government, through it's
students war service committees,
headed in Ohio by w. E. Smyser, Ohio
Wesleyan university, Delaware, is
urging all of this years high school
graduates to enroll for college this
: fall. After enrolling students may
enlist in the army training corps with
a view to securing commissions and
at the same time proceed with regu-
lar college work The government
. furnishes board, lodging. two uni.
forms, pays $50 a month and all other
things a private in cantonments gets
Charles Maedje, 81, president of the
Waechter Under Anzeiger, Cleveland
German daily, died after years i'll
ness.
Fire, which started in cottage al
: Klotzs point at Buckeye Lake, burned
six cottages, including the home Of
/ Charles Klotz, and caused loss to
the cottages and their contents Of
/ about $4,000
Grand tax duplicate of Crawford
L county for 1918 totals So, ,232 ,220, as
I against s62,14s,700 in 1917, an in
Q crease Of $3,083, 500. Personal taxable
q property totals S11,O36,0O and rea
s estate $37, ,493, ,220
L William B. Compton of Marion ha.
been appointed supervisor of musi,
l. in public schools at Sandusky.
e Samuel E. Sachs of Newark was ap
r pointed a dry cleaning inspector il
L the conservation and reclamation
n branch of the war department at
d salary of $2,4oo a year. Charlie
4 Brumfeld of Mansfield was appointe,
n to position at $4,000 a year in on
of the departments at Washington.
1T Fire damaged the Kirkland Bon,
,e furniture store, Lorain.
le A call has been issued for 573 Obi
10 white men of the selectiye draft, wit
grammar school education, to be sen
n to three Ohio educational institution
1T for technical training. OF these IL
n are to be sent to Akron university
n Akron; $50 to Ohio Mechanical Inst
tute, Cincinnati, and 103 to Toled
ID university, Toledo.
s. Robert Danford was kicked by
n horse at Caldwell and instantly killed
J. A A Wright, Pitchin (Clark cou1
ID ty) farmer, may lose sight of one ey
Of from explosion of a revolver cartridg
in the bowl Of his pipe.
,e Corporal William P Robinson wa
Is sentenced at Camp Sherman to serv
er 15 years at hard labor at Fort Lea
enworth by courtmartial for speakin
ly dfsrespectfully to Second Lieutenar
IN H. G. Parish =,
an Ohio Bankers association electe
re the following officers: President j
ar cob Babst, Dayton; vice presiden
al Henry Spira, Cleveland; secretar.
treasurer, E. NJ Fullirgton, Columbu
h Rev. Charles West, pastor of tn
n, Methodist Protestant church at Ca
IT. dington and principal of schools ther
ed was made a member of the diplomat
corps at Naples.
To- Government has taken over the el
is tire output of tomatoes, corn an
M beans of the Oxford Canning Cor
Ill pany, Oxford, for use overseas. TE
IN factory will be guarded by squad I
home guards.
Ig- Two hundred of the 295 physician
Id and surgeons in, Montgomery count
W. have signed blanks that they al
re ready to serve the army or navy.
To- Frank Eagan is the fifth son of WI
in liam Eagan of Urbana to enter Unc
Sans service. Richard, sixth so
of will register Sept. IL.
~
ed James Howard Friend, pioneer papt
manufacturer of Dayton, are value
ic- at 100000.
ay- Edwin A. Redfern, 33, mail carri,
lis on rural route No. 1, was arrested
I'M Xenia, charged with rifling the mail
He was taken TO Dayton,