Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-02-20


Rotary club has been organized at
Logan, with l. c. Laube as president.
Cleveland garment makers will re-
ceive wage increases of SIS and Sc a
week.
Mrs. Catherine Gross, IA, Lancaster,
died from burns received from an
open stove.
Bond issue of $4,000 was approved
by Van Vert council for improving
the city waterworks.
Rev. w. J. Shuey, Oldest minister in
Dayton, celebrated his ninety-third
birthday anniversary.
Richland county commissioners ap- |
propriated $1,000 for the employment |
of an agricultural agent.
Hamilton voters approved a $780, |
600 bond issue for the installation of
a new electric light plant.
Amasa S. Mather, "a, Cleveland, son
| of Samuel Mather, millionaire iron
ore smelter, died of pneumonia.
When bed clothing caught fire
Christian Mueckle, sc, was burned to
death at his home in Columbus.
|
business block owned by L. G. West
over at Lowellville, a Youngstown
| suburb.
War chest trustees at Warren have
asked common pleas court what dis
position to make of $4,000 still left
in the chest
Allen Thomas, so, Lancaster, was
| bn1 oh
that he enticed Florence Short, Is,
out of the state.
Three masked men held up the pro-
prietor and three guests of Cleve-
land hotel and escaped with cash and
jewelry worth $500.
George Coy, 80, an employe Of the
Erie Railroad company, was struck by
train and instantly killed in the
railroad yards at Marion
Building Inspector Welker's Office
in the Akron city hall was robbed
while all the clerks were at lunch.
The thief got $500 in cash and 1919
in checks,
Chairmen Of the Democratic central
and executive committees of the Sew
French w. Severns of Mt Vernon for
presidential elector.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber company
officials announced that, beginning
March Is, the minimum wage for male
employees would be Sc day and for
women workers 81 a day.
Many employees of the Pennsylvania
| cI r,,,if
were cut from go to 81 cents an hour
The cut applies mostly to men EN-
ployed for the duration of war.
+ Lydia Weeks, an employe in a To
ledo factory, may die as the result O.
injuries sustained when her hair be
came entangled in a machine belt
The woman lost her scalp and one
ear.
> Following the burning of the Chris
I tian church at Ladd, Pike county, al
arrest was made by Sheriff Yahraus
;. man giving the name of Levi!
Scott of Ladd being charged will
+ arson.
: Employees of the Cincinnati an,
, Dayton Traction company agreed t.
. abide by the decision of an arbitra
q tion board to be named to conside
the mems demands for a wage in
!. crease.
6 Paul Hopping, 12, of Batavia, miss
8 ing for several weeks, has been foun
4 in Los Angeles, Cal. Apollo B. Mul
+ ply, former marine, is under arres
charged with enticing the boy ava
" from home.
l. Cleveland Teachers association Wi
, contribute to fund to pay the salar
! of a state secretary, whose duty
s will be to build up the membershi
of the Ohio League of Teachers O.
O ganizations.
- Town Of Osborn, near Dayton, is t
" be moved to the new site two mile
r. east and along the pike. Land upo
"a which the town now stands was col
demned to make way for the conser
n, ancy project.
- Boy Scouts at Freedom Static
8 Portage county, ran down and kille
r. a mad dog after the animal had bi
~ ten Roy Wood, 6, and Hazel Thorp
A. Both children were given the Pa
7 teur treatment
r Frank w. Whited, %, Pittsburgh.
1r former soldier, confessed, accordi1
in to the police, to the murder of Mr.
q Frances Altman Stockwell, chorl
as girl of Philadelphia, whose body W;
found in the snow in a yard at Clev
III land.
NJ Congressman Charles A. Moon,
as and State Senator Howell Wright
10 the Twentieth district, with Congress
irl man John J. Babka and William
d Thompson of the Twenty.frst distrit
m were nominated as delegates to t
13 Democratic national convention
San Francisco from Cuyahoga count
ill Secretary of Agriculture Shaw a
of nounced that the agricultural boa
il will try a six-day state fair next a
,e- gust After getting $4,000 addition
In from the legislature last week, ma
,Iy ing a total fair appropriation of SIS
er- 900, Shaw decided to try the expe
ng ment The $4,000 appropriation re
resents last summers profits.
100 Efforts are being made to ha
sw more than 1000 auto owners join t
Sandusky County Automobile Prot,
Ter tive association, to be formed at F
no mont.
in Matthew Johnson, 81, Warren, W
ed injured probably fatally when a tr;
Sc, ton car hit him after he had slipp
on the ice.
be- ture
,ss A campaign has been begun at G.
ad cinnati to bring William H. Taft, f
Ter mer president. back home as pre-
ed dent of the University of Cincinna
ar to succeed Charles w. Dabney.
tiring president.
nd Pupils at St. C1airsville high schc
en- went on strike when eight senio
ne were expelled for refusing to reno
ed. class colors from the building.
an C. L. Burdue, 80, Elyria, secti
he foreman, stepped from in front of o
into bo moth of apOthar n