The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-02-20
LOCAL BRIEFS

-L.S.Garver's prize cow is mother
ing fine calf.
Boy Scouts meet Tuesday evening
IN st. Paul's parish House.
Regular meeting of the N. B. A.
of the Maccabees this evening at 7:3O
O'clock-Friday.
Medina merchants report sugar
easy at this time; not much difficulty
to get enough to supply the local
trade, but prices still high.
Income tax blanks can be had at
the Medina postofice. An agent OF
the government will be along later to
assist those who desire help.
Publisher Knight, of the, Akron
Beacon Journal, is planning to try for
the Republican nomination and elec-
ton for Congress in this district.
The State Civil Service Com
mission is asking for prison guards,
engineers and firemen; here's a
chance for job if you want some
thing of that kind.
Geo. Rightley, an inmate OF the
County Home, is very i'll and may not
long survive. He is suffering from
erysipelas, can't eat. and little hope
of recovery is held.
"A big snow bank on the tracks
of the N. O. Ry., between Litchfeld
and Thompson, stalled the passenger
train west on that road Tuesday. The
train due at Litchfeld at lilo ar
rived about 6 pm.
-Selim Fem will move his family
Carroll county early in the spring.
His father, Chas. M. Fem, recently
purchased a 100 acre farm there, and
Selim and family will take possession
and operate it.
The cold weather of the past ten
DAYS, with the roads filled with snow
and in some cases blocked against
trffic, has made trade slow in Medina
as we'll as in surrounding towns. But
you can't blame farmers for staying
close at home when the thermometer
registers close around zero.
Glenn Barnett, the son of Mr.. c.
D. Barnett, living on the Granger
burg road, died Friday, victim OF
pneumonia. He was single man
aged "a, and lived at home. Funer-
al services were held Sunday after
noon at the Church of Christ, Rev
Goodale officiating; burial at Me-
ina Center.
There was no speaker at the XII
wants club meet last Friday. Pre-
valence of Flu has made it hard to
secure speakers from out of town.
There will be no Friday meeting this
week, the "Father and Son" banquet
at the Baptist church Wednesday eve
ming filling the calender for the week
Sam A. Plum, an inmate Of the
County Home, died Tuesday aged rs
years. His death was caused by gan
creme poison. The remains were re-
moved by his sons, Will and Clarence,
who live at Wadsworth and Sharon.
Date of funeral not decided on but
burial will be in Sharon Center.
The State Civil Service Commits
sion is to make a special drive during
the month of March to fill vacancies
existing in the teaching stats of var
ious state institutions and has accord
ingly called examinations for high
ScnOOl pnySlcal culCnre, arC, peIlIndH-
ship, domestic science and grade tea
chers.
"Man proposes, but God disposes"is
certainly true on the Southwestern.
The 6:25 a. m. car on the line out of
Cleveland Sunday arrived shortly be-
fore noon. 1t was on the edge of Me-
dina once but backed to Brunswick to
"let dog cross the track" Just out
side the town on the second ap-
proach, some one had thrown a hatful
of snow on the trackq and themotor-
man had to back up four times, to get
runing start, to get thru it.
Spencer Metal Products Co., op-
Grating successful manufacturing
in the sister village of Spencer, has
been very successful in it's expansion
plan. All livestock voted in the devel-
opment plans of the company has
been sold, and the available cash in
crease for expansion purposes is now
all available for the forward work
Of the company, Spencer stock has
been made popular in Medina county,
as all successful companies should be.