The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-09-20

: Akron; 800 to Ohio Mechanical Insti-
! tute, Cincinnati. and 1903 TO Toledo
: university, Toledo.
Chairman Fullington announced
: that approval has been made by the
Republican state central committee OF
the selection OF Newton VI. Miller as
vice chairman, Charles Il. Hard as
assistant secretary and ELI NJ West
as chairman OF the finance committee.
: Oiicials of the streetcar mems
union issued orders calling off the
threatened strike of $500 car men,
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 wifi be left to
federal authorities.
Robert Danford was kicked by
horse al Caldwell and instantly killed
Corporal William =, Robinson was
sentenced at Camp Sherman to serve
10 years at hard labor at Fort Leay.
enworth by courtmartial for speaking
disrespectfully to Second Lieutenant
II. G. Parish.
the following officers President, ia
cob Babst, Dayton; vice president
Henry Spira, Cleveland; secretary
treasurer, f. NJ. Fullington, Columbus.
Rev. Charles West, pastor of the
Methodist Protestant church at Car.
dington and principal of schools there,
was made a member Of the diplomatic
corps at Naples.
Government has taken over the en-.
tire output of tomatoes, corn and
beans of the oxford Canning Com.
pany, oxford, for use overseas. The
factory will be guarded by squad OF
home guards.
Two hundred of the 295 physicians
and surgeons in Montgomery county
have signed blanks that they are
ready to serve the army or navy.
Frank Eagan is the fifth son of VIII
liam Eagan of Urbana to enter Uncle
Sans service Richard, a sixth son,
will register Sept. l2.
| Personal holdings left by the late
James Howard Friend, pioneer paper
manufacturer of Dayton, are valued
at 100000.
Edwin A. Redfern, 80, mail carrier
on rural route No. /, was arrested at
| Xenia, charged with rifling the mails
He was taken to Dayton.
Second Lieutenant H. F. Hollis, Jr,
"a, of Princeton, n. j., stationed at
Wilbur Wright aviation field at Day
ton. shot himself to death in a Dayton
hotel. No cause assigned for the act
Two girls we're killed, one seriously
hurt and several other girls and boys
were bruised when they were struck
by freight cars being switched onto a
siding at Ashtabula Harbor The
children we're picking up coal along
the tracks
Edward Nedu, aged sc, former ed
itor of the Dayton Volkszeitung, died
at Dayton following an illness OF
three months.
Ohio vets advance as their princi-
pal argument against prohibition this
year the fact that 10000 Ohio voters
are fighting in France and unable to
express their protest against
change in the constitution under
which they will have to live when
Secretary of State Fulton their argu-
ments against the prohibition amend.
ment and in favor of the referendum
amendment of the Home Rule asso-
citation.
COntending that telephone installa-
tion charges ordered by Postmaster
General Burleson are excessive as far
as Ohio is concerned. the state public
utilities commission refused to ap.
prove them. Burleson ordered com
panies to charge readiness to serve
and installation fees on all new tele-
phones, namely, $5 on a telephone
costing 81 a month, $40 on 50 to 81
phones and $1j for phones over S4
month.
Eugene V. Debs, four times candi
date for president of the United
States on the Socialist ticket, was
placed on trial in federal court at
Cleveland, charged with violation of
the espionage act.
Mrs. Arthur Morehouse, 30, shot
her husband at Toledo and then
turned the revolver upon herself. She
lied instantly. Morehouse is fatally
The shooting followed
quarrel.
A. A. Wright, Pitchin (Clark coun-
~ farmer, may lose sight of one eve
rom explosion of revolver cartridge
n the bowl of his pipe.
Angelus bell of ST Mary's Catholic
,hurch, Marion, will be rung daily at
30 p. m, when every Catholic in
he city will pray for Americas sol
liers in France.
When passenger train struck
heir auto at grade crossing near
Youngstown, Stanley H. Grimes, 18;
oseph Welsh, IS; Margaret McFad-
len, II, and Ella McFadden, 16, were
.illed
Rev. ]. B. Reemtsa former Presby-
erian minister at Findlay, has been
first lieutenant and
haplain in the army
Mrs Orilla Voris, 62, Xenia. was
illed by a car.
Nnrses at Memorial hospital, Elyria,
ave named baby boy left on a
oCrstep Woodrow Foch Pershing.
Lowell E. Helm, the first Sandusky
Oy killed in France, was the victim
f a bomb, dropped from an enemy
ir"'""" was instantly killed
lille sleeping. r tfEH1WEHW
4; iG connanions because
an impediment in his speech, Earl
:. Shoemaker, 13, Newark, killed
imself with a shotgun.
Arrival in England of a special
ommittee headed by DR., w. o.