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The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
$4,000 IN PRIZES OFFERED
BY w. S. S. COMMITTEE

Interest in the War Savings Stamp
campaign is woefully lacking. Sales
are far below normal. With the ap-
proach of the summer season this
state of affairs will continue to exist.
1t is not only prevalent in Medina
county, but all over the country.
To stimulate interest in the cam
paign prizes aggregating $4,000 in
value have been offered by manufac-
turers, business concerns and individ-
uals for contestants in the Ohio War
Savings Committees second vacation
thrift contest. The contest opens
April 21 and all public, private and
parochial school children in the state
are eligible.
Plans for conducting the campaign
this year will be similar to those fol-
lowed in 1918. Sales. records of the
contestants will be kept by vacation
thrift committees.
The results of the 1918 contest were
highly successful. The rs boys and
girls to whom capital prizes were
awarded sold more than $1,300,000 in
War Savings Stamps. Winner of the
first prize was responsible for the sale
of $138,000 of these government Sc
curities and the aggregate sales of
the leading contestants from all of
Ohios counties approximated $4,O00,-
900.
Prizes for the 1919 contest include
wide variety of trophies. They
range in value from $500 for the
first prize, to $40 for the twenty-fifth
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
WELL KNOWN HERE

Mrs. Stella C. Hageman died at
St. Joseph's hospital, Lorain, last
Thursday afternoon at o'clock, af-
ter an illness of but four days.
Mrs. Hageman was 52 years of age
and was born in Milwaukee. She was
married in Medina about IS years ago
to Fred Kunitz, and had frequently
visited in the village. After the
death of Mr.. Kunitz she married
Philip Hageman, who died seven
months later. Mrs. Hageman had
been a widow for four years. She
was quite well to do.
Deceased is survived by two Sis
ters, Mrs. Mary Moehle of Medina,
and Mrs. William Offenburg Of
Strongsville, and several nieces and
nephews. She had one child who
died in infancy.
Funeral services We're held Satur-
day afternoon; burial was made at
Lorain.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
OPENING EVENT
IN LOAN |E|
TROPHY TRAIN HERE
NEXT MONDAY MtG.8yaIyG
Bigger and Better Than Last
Time is Word
.lr Sent Out

Medina village will open her doors
to visitors from all over the county
next Monday morning, April IA, when
the war trophy train will be on ex-
hibition. Given an even break with
the weather man large crowd will
be present.
The train will leave Cleveland at
1880 the previous evening and will
arrive in Medina about daybreak.
From time of arrival until 1870 the
same morning the train will be open
to visitors. AT this hour departure
will be made for the next stop which
is Canal Fulton.
Accompanying the outfit will be a
number of war veterans and speakers
who will entertain the crowds with
accounts of experiences over there,
in addition to explaining the necessity
for the new loan and any other infor-
nation desired.
As stated last week the trophy train
will consist Of six cars containing
every transportable trophy of the
world war. It is said by the Cen
tral Liberty Loan committee that
these displays are doubly as attrac-
tive as those sent out in previous
loans.
1t was reported last week that Me-
dina was the only town in the county
which was scheduled to receive visit
from the trophy train. Since then
the secretary of the county committee
has been informed that another trophy
train will be added to this federal re-
serve district, making three in all, and
that Wadsworth and Lodi will receive
visits at dates to be announced later.
Word has also been received that a
tank, either captured German mon
ster or one which has seen service
on the allied side will be on exhibi-
tion in Medina on Monday, April 28.
Further.notice regarding this later at
traction will be given later.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
THERESA BRINTNALL WINS
UNCONTESTED DIVORCE

A case which attracted considerable
interest, was settled last week when
Judge N. H. Mcclure granted Theresa
c. Brintnall, a divorce from Roy A..
Brintnall.
The petition was filed Feb. 5, plain
tiff charging defendant with refusal
to support her, alleging that Brint-
nall, who received a captains COM
mission in the U. S. Medical corps,
spent his salary in riotous living and
speculation.
1t was also alleged in the petition
that defendant had at different times
received kilograms and affectionate
letters from another woman, and that
they had travelled around the country
ostensibly as man and wife, having
occupied the same hotel rooms.
The divorce award carried with it
alimony in the sum of $500; custody
of minor child, Arthur Brintnall, aged
4, with an additional sum of So per
week, for support of latter, and plain
tiff was awarded all the household
goods. The divorce was granted on
the grounds of extreme cruelty.
Defendant was not in court to de-
fend action, nor was he represented
by an attorney.
The parties to the suit are well
known in Medina county, having been
residents of Valley City for a number
of years, moving from there to Sc
vile where they resided until Mr..
Brintnall entered the service in 1917.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

A numbr of teachers expect to at
tend the Northeastern Ohio Teachers
association, further mention Of which
will be found on the first page.
Schools will not be dismissed for this
on Friday.
Mrs. Cutler, the commercial teach
er, has been i'll for the past week
with the measles.
Chapel exercises were held last Fri
day and Willard Garner was elected
cheer leader.
The base ball season opens week
from this Friday, April 18. Come
down and see the game. There is also
a game scheduled with Leroy and Me-
dina. Aa
\ The public is cordially invited to
the serving exhibit held on Tuesday
and Wednesday, April 18th and 18th
at the serving rooms Of the Medina
high school.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
PARMA MAN CAUSES
EXCITEMENT IN SHARON

Sheriff Bigelow on Monday received
telephone call from Sharon resi-
dents informing him of the presence
in that locality of man whose ac-
tions were to say the least strange,
and it was feared by those who inter
ested themselves in the case that he
might do himself bodily harm.
Arriving upon the scene the sheriff
traced the man until late in the ev-
ening, the trail leading cross lots and
thru woods and meadows. Darkness
put an end to the hunt.
Upon his return to Medina the
sheriff called up members of the
Granger school board, then in session,
informing them that the man had
been traced to their locality and re-
questing that he be retained should
he put in appearance. Late that ev-
ening members found the object of
their search on road headed in the
direction of Cleveland. He was
taken into custody and the. sheriff
notified.
The same evening Bigelow got in
touch with police of Parma, from
whom information was obtained es-
tablishing the identity of the pris-
oner, whose name is Henry Kalnof-
ski, aged %. Neighbors stated that
the boy was inclined to be simple
minded and had been missing from
home since the day previous.
Tuesday members of his family
went to Granger and took the young
man home with them.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
FARM BUREAU MEMBERS
TO ATTEND DEMONSTRATION

The Medina County Farm Bureau
is arranging an automobile party to
attend the plowing demonstration to
be held on the farm of w. H. Butler,
four miles south of Sandusky on Sat-
urday, April 12. The party is being
arranged by S. L. Salisbury, county
agricultural agent, Medina. Any per-
sons interested are cordially invited to
go.
At this demonstration new wrinkles
in multiple bitches will be shown
which increase the efficiency of horses
rs per cent. A three-horse hitch for
one-bottom plow; four, five, and
six-horse bitches for o-bottom
plows; and an eight-horse hitch for
a three-bottom plow will be arranged
tandem fashion.
These bitches are made more feas-
ible by a new pulley equalizer recent
ly developed at the Illinois Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. By means
III this device, side draft, as we'll as
| the crowding of the horses, is great
Fly eliminated. "A weight on thu
doubletree back of the lead team pro
vides for a proper line Of draft.
1t is pointed out that since many
of the farms of this section of the
county are irregular in shape and thu
fields frequently small, an increase o.
Is per cent in efficiency of horse
power will have an important bearing
as to whether or not the horse may
not after all be used to provide thu
motive power for farming in thu
| future.
Such Importance is attached, to thu
demonstration that specialists Of thu
College of Agriculture, Wayne Dins
more, secretary of the Percheron So
ciety of America, as well as promi
nent horsemen and farmers from al
over this section of the state are plan
ming to be present. Motion picture!
will be taken by the Agricultural Col
lege Extension Service.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
VETERANS OF
THE WORLD WAR
NEW ORGANIZATION
WILL BE FORMED
Will Assist in Working For
The Success of the
Liberty Loan.

The opening gun in the Victory loan
will be fired Saturday night, April II,
when a rousing get-together meeting
and smoker for all the men who have
returned to Medina county from the
service of their country will be held
at the X. of P. hall, Medina. The
meeting will be held at 1880 o'clock,
and plans will be formed for perma-
nent organization to known as the
Veterans of the World War"
For years the Grand Army of the
Republic has exerted it's influence on
the life of the nation. Later came the
veterans of the Spanish-American
war with their power for good Now,
with the close of the worlds war
there are several millions of soldiers
returned from the training camps and
from France. These men are coming
back and will be assimilated into civil
life again.
One of the surest indications that
the returned soldier means to take his
place and exert his influence is the
way in which these men are respond
ing to the calls to help along the
various kinds of civic movement.
These men finished their job in con-
quering the hun, and as they arrive
home are fast lining up with the va
rious organizations that still have a
job to be finished in order to clean
up the worlds program of the Vic
tory Liberty loan.
The Veterans of the World War"
organizations are being held under the
supervision of the Liberty Loan COM
mittee, and an organizer will be
sent here from the Cleveland Office
to assist in the work. Similar or
ganizations are being formed in every
county in Ohio as we'll as other states.
Their work in the Victory Loan will
be explained to them at the meeting
Saturday night, and it is stated that
during the campaign, speakers, all
veterans of the world war, will be
sent here from headquarters to assist
in raising enthusiasm during the loan
period.
One of the features of the evening
will be smoker, which is calculated
to put the boys at their ease and es-
tablish new era of good fellowship.
The local committee requests that all
soldiers attending wear their uni
forms.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
NO REPORT YET

No .report is available ON. the Vic
tory Reconstruction drive which was
launched in the village and county
last Sunday, as lack of available
workers has made the work of solicit
ing slower than was anticipated.
Workers in the townships plead for
delay as this is the farmers busy sea-
son.
In the village about three-fourths
of the $500 quota has been raised
and it is stated that the final amount
will exceed that called for.
The men in charge hope to get the
drive cleaned up this wcek.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
DAVEY DEFENDS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Congressman Martin L, Davey ap-
parently made big hit with about
500 young men at the Akron Y. M.
c. A. Sunday. From the applause
given him it was evident that his aud
ience was in sympathy with the argu-
ments advanced.
Mr.. Davey clearly explained the
organization of the proposed league,
told Of the advantages Of the treaties
we have with 20 foreign powers and
emphasized that this new organiza-
tion would simply be sensible man.
ner of establishing real international
law. His strongest point was the
fact that the boys in khaki have been
promised that we should do some
thing to try and make such future
conflicts as near impossible as can be
done and this league of nations seems
to be the best solution ever offered.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
WANT INCREASE
IN TAX LEVY
GRANGER TRUSTEES
APPEAL TO AUDITOR
Township Funds Getting Low. More
Money Needed for Akron
Medina Road.

Granger township trustees, accom-
panied by one or two property owners
appeared before the county commits
sioners Monday and asked that prop
erty valuation in their township be in
creased.
At the hearing it developed that
the average valuation Of land in this
township is about $45-$50 per acre,
whereas land has recently been sold
at or near the 5000 mark.
The unusual request that taxation
values be raised is brought about by
the fact that the township was bonded
heavily a short time ago when the
concrete road was built, the town
ship receiving no state or county aid
on this road, the entire cost being
paid by equally distributed assess
ments. 1t also is burdened with a
high school levy. Now the township
finds that the necessary money which
is to pay her share in the Akron
Medina road improvement is not to
be had and the trustees are taking
this course in an effort to raise the
valuation to a point where it will en-
able them to sell bonds. in sufficient
amounts to swing the deal.
There are two methods by which
this may be accomplished. One is
for the auditor to increase all lane
values uniformly, be it five, ten OF
fifty per cent. The drawback to this
method, the trustees stated, is that
present valuations are not at all uni.
form, that some should be raiseG
slightly, others a great deal. Tt
eliminate this feature it will be neces
sary that an assessor, or the board o1
revision get on the ground and make
individual appraisals.
County Auditor McNeal has no
stated yet what action, if any, he will
take in regard to the matter, bu
should the people of Granger township
become insistent, it is highly probable
they will be Accommodated.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
LIKE GRANDFATHER,
LIKE GRANDSON

It's a long jump from the Civil
war to the one the world has just
experienced. The gulf separating the
two was bridged this week when
Henry Handy of Medina and George
Handy Miner of Brunswick entered
the county recorders Office together,
each carrying discharge papers which
are waiting to be recorded. The for
mer is veteran of the Civil war,
a sergeant in Co. A, 49th Reg. Volun-
teers of the State of New York, who
enlisted at the age of 22, at Brandy
Station, Va, on Dec. Is, 1868. Later
Mr.. Handy was promoted to lieu
tenancy and received his discharge
papers at a camp near Balls Cross
Roads, Va, June 6, 1866.
George Handy Miner is a grandson
of Mr.. Handy and was a private in
the S. A. T. C. of Hiram College.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
H. S. BOX SOCIAL
A BIG SUCCESS

A box social was held in the school
building last Friday night, under the
auspices Of the high school. Advance
notices had given the entertainment
much praise, but it surpassed any
thing which had been said or written
about it. As some of the audience
remarked: at was scream"
The program was so full of variety
that one who could not find something
to laugh at is hopeless. Senior BIS
gave a circus; Freshmen AS, we'd
ding; Sophomore BIS completed the
cycle with funeral, while Senior AS
followed the death scene with min
strel show, instead Of the usual fire
and birthstone. Junior AS exhibited
picture album of the teachers and
held a court trial. Sophomore BIS
held courtship scene which, needless
to say, was the most original and evi-
IDENTIFY the most interesting to the
players, as the prize-a box of candy
was awarded the BIS. There were
also three reels of movies.
jBoxs were sold at an intermission,
which netted the school $94.50 for the
evenings work.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
COUNTY AID FOR
LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP

County commissioners and the coun-
ty surveyor were in Liverpool town.
ship Monday at the request of the
township trustees, inspecting the east
and west road, which the township of
ficials wish to improve this summer.
The portion inspected runs from the
county line east, connecting with the
concrete road running thru Valley
City. The improvement calls for
10 foot concrete roadbed, alongside
the present stone road which is to be
improved. The estimated cost of the
improvement is $4,000.
The county commissioners offered
to come across with $4,000, which
leaves $4,000 to be paid by the town.
ship and property owners. No ac-
tion has been taken in the matter, as
this amount is in excess of what the
trustees feel Liverpool can swing.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
THROUGH LIMITED
SERVICE PLANNED

According to report published in
the Mansfield News the Southwestern
will begin through limited service be-
tween Cleveland and Columbus May
Is.
The schedule limits the trains to 6
hours and As minutes between Cleve-
land and Columbus. Two trains will be
operated, each making a round trip
each day. The trains will leave
Columbus at 9 a. m. and 6 p. m. and
will leave Cleveland at 80 a. m. and
4:45 p. m, central time.
The trains will be operated as extra
trains in addition to the ones in SER
vice and will give Medina much addi-
tional interurban service. These
trains will stop only at the larger
towns. They will be operated over
the Southwestern from Cleveland to
Bucyrus, then over the c. D. & M. to
Columbus.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
FORMER Medina
PASTOR HONORED
HOSPITAL WILL BE
BUILT IN PORTO RICO
Was Former Corresponding Secretary
American Missionary
Society.

Dr.. C. j. Ryder, pastor of the Me-
dina Congregational church during
the years 1880-85, who died recently
at his home in Stamford, Conn.,, will
be honored by the erection in Porto
Rico of Memorial hospital bearing
his name.
The hospital is being built by the
American Missionary Association.
Ohio Congregationalists will build
the women's and children's wards and
have pledged $4,000 for this pur-
pose.
Mrs. Bessie Hewes has been select
ed as one of the sponsors from the
Ohio district and attended a confer
ence in Cleveland Tuesday and We'd
of this week.
As corresponding secretary of the
American Missionary Association Dr.
Ryder did a world of good for foreign
missions and the association has taken
this means of showing their appreci-
alton.
While pastor of the local church
DIR. Ryder made a host Of friends who
are glad to learn of this attempt te
perpetuate his name in far-off lands
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Probably the greatest educational
campaign ever undertaken by a
church is that now being launched by
the Centenary movement Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church and the Meth
odist Episcopal church South, which
together plan to raise $140,000,000 for
missionary work, at home and abroad
More than $14,OO0,OOO will be spent on
schools and teachers for the untaught
children Of the world, and instruc-
tion for grown people who have had
little or no schooling in their youth.
Of this sum a considerable amount
will be spent in educational work in
our owa United States. :. 49,,
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
FORMER Medina BOY
Wins SERVICE CROSS

Sergeant William F. Engel of
Berea, a former resident of Medina,
has been awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for extraordinary hero
ism, according to the official list of
citations issued by the war department
Friday.
After locating machine gun nest
near Blanc Mont Ridge, France, Oct.
a, Engel destroyed one of the guns
and returned with valuable informa-
tion. He was with Co. H, Fifth
Marines. ..
Engel is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Engel, who removed from Me-
dina to Berea number of years ago.
He is a cousin Of Roy Moore of
Medina.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
RED CROSS MAKES
FINE SHOWING

One ton of clothing was solicited
by the Medina Red Cross chapter in
the recent drive which ended
March 81. The clothing contributed
was of excellent quality and in good
condition.
School children were the principle
workers and the amount collected tes-
titles to the success attained. Com
pared with forty tons which the
Cleveland chapters turned in during
the same period shows that there
were workers on the job.
Weymouth, not content with solicit
ing. worn or used clothing, kicked in
with a box of new garments, which
were separately boxed and properly
labeled.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
MILLER BILL WINS OUT

By vote Of 25 to 5 the Miller bill,
preventing gas companies from cut
ting off service to municipalities, pass
ed the senate on Tuesday. The bill
had already been passed by the house
and now awaits the governors sigma
ture before becoming law.
The measure is of particular inter-
est, at this time, to Wadsworth gas
consumers.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
OLD TIME MAY BE LEGAL
TIME AFTER ALL

Perhaps central standard time is
Just as legal in Ohio as the new fed
eral time which has caused so much
confusion and discomfort.
Last years state primary in Sep
tember was held under central stand
ard time under the state law, or one
hour earlier than the federal time,
because the secretary OF state ruled
that the state law and not the federal
daylight saving law regulated state
elections. When the November cleo
ton came the state time and the
federal time corresponded, as the
clocks were moved back an hour in
October.
Under the state statutes the opinion
of the commissioners Monday when
they took no action regarding the
tower clock on the court house, seems
to be justified. 1t continues to carry
the old time.
1t is doubtful if the ruling of the
federal board controlling railroad
time, ordering this section Of Ohio
put into the eastern time zone was
legal. There has been no test in
court on this particular act of the
federal board. but there have been
several court decisions setting aside
the acts Of Postmaster General Bur-
eson in raising telephone rates ovel
the rates fixed by the Ohio public
utilities commission, which signifies
that the state has as much legal right
in these matters as the federal gov
eminent.
There is question, therefore
whether the correct central STANDARD
time is one or two hours slower thar
the new federal time. Granting thai
it is one hour slower. as it was sig
nifed by the town clock, the county
commissioners have just claim tha'
they were obeying the law in keep
ing the clock on old time. The de
cision brought up the question, is th'
state central time the legal time, o.
the federal daylight saving law th'
law that ought to be observed? Th'
federal law, by the way, has no pen
alties attached, and in reality apple
in its terms only to federal operations
Sun time is one and half hour
slower than the new federal time
\ which shows how much clocks \ ar
Y put out Of keller in this section unde
the, daylight saving law.
A newspaper voting contest con
ducted in Ashland county ia whicl
$3.50 ballots were pclledy showed bi
n n favor of the nsw federal ti1ne
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-04-11
COUNTY PAYS FOR TREATMENT

Among the bills ordered paid this
week by the county commissioners
were claims for treatment for rabies
in five cases-Ralph Wise, George
Fulton, Alice Robinson, Leonard Gibbs
and Forest Case.
The total fees ordered paid amount
ed to $171, with an additional sum of
$11.31, the later for expenses con-
nected with the shipment Of the dis
cased dogs head 70 Columbus.