The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-21

nuuDer OF IOlCQ0 women haNC
volunteered 10 plow war gardens tnls
spring.
Mrs. William Sidwell, 81, Lancas
ter, was killed by an auto driven b!
John Suok.
State Fire Marshal Fleming an
nounced there would be no fireworks
sold in Ohio this year.
Homer Dawson, one Of the Is Iron,
ton bays IN the Rainbow division, was
killed in action in France.
Organization Of the Marion Horse
Racing association has been com.
pieted, with a membership Of so.
Clark county courthouse, Spring.
field, was partially destroyed by fire
Court records and Jail were saved
Length of the course in the avia.
tion school at Ohio State unive ersity
has been extended f!om eight 60 l..
weeks
Jacob Christensen. 65, farmer. was
killed by train at Port Clinton. The
horse which he was driving also was
killed.
Sergeant Frank O'Connor, Colum
bus, a member of the Rainbow divi.
sion, was killed in action Mt the
French frcnt.
Mavor Charles CulbertsCn of Bel
iaire has been asked to catch a
ghost" who. garbed in white, follows
young women.
James Wash, Jr., 10. was drowned
in lake at the cemetery in Maricn
when he ventured on the thin ice to
get a dead fish
Mary Lvnch. II. and Mary Staka,
:. died of burns received when their
clothing ignlted from open fires in
their hC:nes at Lorain.
District draft board placed in class
one 200 Jefferson county registered
men, married since the selecuve SER
vice law became effective.
Railroad service in Athens county
was crippled as the result of heavy
rains. Several large mines were idle
for several days because Of washoutI;
DR.. Alston Ellis will resign, it is
said, as president of Ohio university
Athens, by the end of the school year,
He has held the posiGCn since 1900.
James Boyle. 3S, Lowelvllle, Ma.
honinS county, was killed when
thrown from the rear platform OF
traction car which jumped the track.
Price Of wheat -four and substitutes
is given as the reaGOn fcI an increas"
in the price Of bread at S*ndusky, ad.
vanced from to 10 cents for a pound
loaf.
DR.. Willis A. Chamberlain. profcs.
sor of languages and literature at
Denison university, has been commits
stoned a first lieutenant in the signal
corps.
Sergeant Gustav Kobe, 33, and
married, Of Cleveland, On his way to
Camp Hancock, is in a Cincinnati
Eospita! suffering from knife wounds
He claimed tc have been robbed.
A price Of from 80 cents to S120
rer hushel was set for potatoes by
the Cuyahoga county food admins.
tration, overhead expenses of the dif.
ferent stores being taken in consId-
Grafton.
Yeggs blew open the safe of the
Union Banking company's bank at
Raymond. nine miles north of Marys-
Vile, and escaped with 81 900 in cur.
rency, $4,000 in liberty bonds and $500
In cash and STAMPS.
President Ravmon NJ Hughes ot
Miami University announced that The
spring vacation. from March 2S to
April 4, had been called off. The
seventy-eighth annual commencement
will take place May % stead OF
June 6.
Miss Elizabeth Keyes. pupil of
the Newark public schools, captured
second prize in a nationwide ESSAY
writing contest on "Why Every Fam.
lily Should Own It's Own Home" con-
Quoted recently by the American
Ium herman
At Cleveland Louis Rebando, II.
walked seven miles to tell the police
his father had murdered his mother
Mrs. Rebando was found dead. TIE
husband, James Rebando. was arrest
ed. Police say the woman was slain
with flatiron.
Governor Cox appointed ]. L. Ca-
isle, Democrat, of Greenfield, to sue
Ceed c. F. Heyman, Huron, as a men,
ter Of the state hoard of agriculture
The latter's term had expired. Major
w. Allen Of Washington c.
H., Republican, was reappointed.
Members of the executive commit
tee cf the State Federation of Labor
went on record in favor of the vets
proposal to amend the state constitu-
lion so as to make ratification by the
state legislature of federal amend
ments subject to public referendum.
Consolidation or Capitalization of
rural schools is the latest thing urged
as q war measure. The appeal comes
from +. r Pearson, state superlntend
mt of public obstruction. whn offers
his as Cne solution to the prospec.
live shhrta"" Of teachers next year.
Pearson makes the recommendation
in letter to m"mbers If the county
boards OF education of Ohio.
VIII Of DR.. J. L. Honslcy, Baptist
Of Marion and former repre-
sentative IN the Chic Legislature, linn.
It's to S. q year mis- wife's church con.
tributions.
One Of the large military storage
plants to be erected by the govern
nent this spring will be built at Co
lumbus. Supplies will be hapdled
from many states.
Declaring that Frank Shields de-
Tended the kaiser in an argument, at
Youngstown, Frank Forest, an ItIal.
IAN, pulled knife and plunged it. Into
he left eye of Shields, inflicting All
injury which may prove fatal.
Mayor Smith OF st. Marys, Auglsize
county, issued an order to the effec'.
hat all loafers, both men and women.
Of the town will either have to work,
30 to war or &C to jail.
F'Orty.giX h0iInrmal,ara In tho roll