Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-03-21
OHIO GLEANINGS

the ReQ cross Will cOnduct a clothing
drive in Ohio. The clothing will be
sent to destitute war sufferers in
northern France and Belgium
Fayette county lost Al men in the
world war.
Public work at Lorain during 1919
includes $380,000 for paving, $4,000
for park improvements, $4,000 for
comfort station and $G 900 for water
works improvement.
Frank Burns, 35, who disappeared
from his home in oxford 21 years
ago, has just returned. He had been
in the navy.
Rev, M. F. Bagby, pastor of First
Baptist church at Delaware, accepted
a call to Colorado Avenue Baptist
church, Dayton.
City of Findlay has been ordered
by the state health board to build a
sewage treatment plant within 16
months.
Hundred barrel oil we'll was drilled
on the Spicer farm, near Logan.
Mrs. David G. Jen, 700, an invalid,
was burned to death in a fire which
consumed her home at Xenia.
Governor Cox requested Attorney
General Price to start proceedings
against the state of West Virginia,
which recently enacted a law which
would cut Ohio off from gas.
Pure seed bill of Senator Demuth
passed both houses of the Ohio legis-
lature without vote against it. The
measure requires dealers to label
seed packages so as to set forth the
percentage and variety of impurities,
such as weed seeds, and also the per
cent of termination
A few minutes before her aged
mother-in-law arrived to visit her,
Mrs. Edna Butler, 80, the wife of an
assistant bank cashier, shot and
killed herself at her home in Toledo.
The husband said the wife had been
suffering from nervous trouble.
Mrs. Alice Menson, So, for many
years an attraction at Coney Island,
N. Y, because of her enormous
weight, is dead at her home at Mari
eta. She weighed 400 pounds.
Victor D. Miller was awarded $751;
900 damages at Cleveland against the
Pennsylvania railroad and Toledo,
Columbus and Ohio railroad for loss
of both legs. He sued for 100000.
Standard Oil company will erect in
Toledo what eventually will be the
Iar oil in, thn
was stated officially that the Stand
ard will expend between $4,000,00C
and $5,000,000 ON the project.
Farmers institute of Tuscarawas
county adopted resolutions demand
ing elimination of red tape in road
construction work.
Madison chamber of commerce is
seeking waterworks plant and elec
trio light extension through the town
ship and more pavement
A surplus of $4,000 in the Dover
war chest may be applied to the cree
tion of a soldiers memorial building
Lee Cowles was injured seriously
when he fell from an oil derrick a
FIndlay.
Mrs. Letitia Arms, who celebrated
her one hundredth birthday anniver
sary Feb. 4 at Wellston, is dead.
Mildred Gunderman, alias Delore
Smith. 16, Youngstown, and who con
fessed to the murder of Leo Martin
will be turned over to the board o
administration, which will designat
the institution in which she shall b.
placed.
Federal census bureau estimate
that on July 1Snext the state of Obi
win have a population of 5.335,543.
Mrs. Edgar Rumpf of Chillicoth
went to New York to meet her hui
band, boatswain on the U. S.
Maine. She learned he had bee
washed overheard and drowned i
midocean.
Mt. Union college women's clu
will plant 35 maple trees on the can
pus in honor of college students an
alumnia who entered the. militar
service.
Rev. J. W. Dillon, pastor emeritu
of Bigelow M. E. church, Portsmouth
died at the age of "a.
Dan Woods, convicted of viii
murder at Youngstown, was sentence
to life Imprisonment.
Edsel Ford, president of the For
Motor company, announced that tf
new Ford company will establish Oh
of its plants at Hamilton.
William Ryeland was shot and il
stantly killed in railroad camp ne;
Youngstown following a quarrel ovt
stolen shirt. Edward Coleman
; sought by the police.
Mayor Davis recommendation fl
| municipal ownership and operation
, the Cleveland street railway syste
) was defeated by a majority of fi7
/ votes in council
E Ohio Home Rule association fill
a it's first batch of petitions for re
e erendum vote on legislative rattle
4 tion of the federal dry amendmer
More than $4,000 signatures we
attached to the petitions.
John Moses, 70, keeper of a gener
. store at Hillsboro, was found de;
in his store. His skull had be-
crushed by hatchet.
Eight men, six of whom wo
masks, entered the home of Edwa
Ella, cattle dealer, three miles sou
Of Salem, and escaped after stealth
$500, of which $3.50 was in gold col
Ohio is in the grip of it's third
fiuenza epidemic, State Health Co
missioner Freeman declared. T
death rate is higher per number
cases than in December.
Rev. ]. Edgar Russell So, retir
minister of the northern Ohio conf
ence of the M. E. church, died
Alliance
Captain w. c. Gates, 81, of Bucyr1
died of pneumonia at Vichy, France
Arlington Ely, 21, former await
was shot and wounded, perhaps fat
ly, by an unknown assailant VIII
escorting his fiance to a dance
Cleveland.
Two young men held up the Uni
Savings bank at Yorkville, near M
tins Ferry, Cashier w. e. Jor