Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-05-12
STATE SIFTINGS|

Anglers license Dill was Killed Dy
the Ohio house by a vote of 73 to Z.
Canton chamber of commerce will
open drive for 1000 new members.
Pollack Steel company, Marion, af-
tions.
Thieves broke into the Aultman
store at Canton and carried away
$4,000 cigarets.
Jesse Harris, AZ, was killed while
dynamiting stumps on farm near
Byhalia, Union county.
Cleveland is to erect a public au-
ditorium to cost nearly $6,000,0 900. 1t
will seat 1880 persons.
A. w. Eliot, superintendent of
schools at Wadsworth, has been
elected superintendent of schools at
Mt. Vernon.
Franklin college, founded at New
Athens 1O3 years ago, is about to close
it's doors. Lack of students is given
as the cause.
G. E. Bradfeld, rs, president of the
First National bank at Barnesville,
died as a result of being struck by
an automobile.
Youngstown streetcar patrons dur
ing March were nearly half a million
fewer than in the corresponding
month last year.
More than a dozen contractors are
preparing to offer bids on the con-
struction of $4,000 boulevard light
ing system at Lima.
]. F. Rankin of South Charleston
announced that he had sold the Home
telephone plant in that town to the
Ohio State company.
Because their wages were cut 8
cents an hour, 80 men employed on a
state highway department job north
of Athens quit work.
Joseph Mack, 27, convicted slayer
of his mother, Mrs. Mary Mack, so,
was sentenced at Akron to die in the
electric chair Sept. 8.
At Lancaster Rev. G. w. Mechling
baptized his great-great-grandchild,
Margaret Tobin, in the presence of
four generations of relatives.
Ohio Match company, Wadsworth,
donated a 100000 hotel, built to re-
lieve housing shortage during the
war, for a municipal hospital.
Two fatalities occurred in Belmont
county mines. John Kidder was killed
in the West Wheeling mine and Al
bert Komiski in mine at Blaine.
Pearl and Alva Yost, brothers, and
William Alfred, produce dealers, were
injured when their truck turned tur-
tie near Bremen, Fairfield county.
Reductions varying from 10 to %
per cent in both wages and price of
building materials will be inaugurated
at Toledo by 81 contracting firms.
"A young man who was drowned
swimming in the Mahoning river at
Warren was identified as Arthur
Youngman, II, of Newark, N. j., hotel
clerk.
Rev. w. ]. Drew of Medina was
elected moderator and Rev. B. N. Tip
petit of Lodi was named scribe of the
Medina Association of Congregational
Churches.
Mrs. Harriet V. Butler, wife of Jo-
seph G. Butler Jr., millionaire philan-
thropist and pioneer steel manufac-
turer, died at Youngstown after a
brief illness.
Federal authorities have been noti-
fed that radical agents are scattering
/. w. w literature among the thou
sands of idle coal miners in the Hook
ing district.
Edward Beebe, proprietor of paint
store at Cincinnati, was arrested on a
charge of shooting to kill his wife,
Mrs Martha Beebe, who recently filed
divorce proceedings.
J. R. McQuigg, Cleveland, state
commander of the American Legion,
was chosen grand marshal of the pa
rade which will be held at Cincinnati
in celebration of "All-American Day.
May Z.
Chief of Police o. J. Roush of Lima,
suspended a week ago by Mayor A. F
Burkhardt for period Of 80 days on
a charge of insubordination, was or
dered reinstated by the civil service
commission.
Plant of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company at Dover will re-
sumo operation. 1t has been shut
down for several weeks. At least 400
of the 700 men who are idle will re-
turn to work.
Tentative agreement looking to-
ward the ultimate consolidation of
the Ohio State and Ohio Bell Tele-
phone companies was reached at a
meeting of the directors of the Ohio
State Telephone company at Colum-
bus.
Five members of the Frank Smell
family at Creston, near Wooster, are
recovering following accidental poi
soning. Smell had mixed arsenic with
-four to use as rat poison and during
his absence a daughter baked pan
cakes with the mixture.
To test the value of reforestration
on waste land, the department of for
estry of the Ohio experiment station,
in cooperation with the Wayne Coal
company. has planted Is acres of
stripped coal land to black locust
trees, near Parlette, Harrison county.
Body of Jerome R. Widner, SO, con-
tractor, Sandusky, was found in his
summer home at Willow Beach. He
had fired a bullet through his heart
on account of i'll health.
George w Brown, so, race horse
owner and trainer. was arrested at
Hillsboro on a charge of murder fol
lowing the death of Floyd Yankey, 81,
farmer. shot at Greenfield.
Between $4,000 and 10000 men, en-
ployed in more than 20 crafts affili-
ated with the building trades council,
left their jobs at Cleveland, refusing
to accept a wage cut. Five thousand
are idle at Youngstown.
A verdict of second degree murder
was returned by a jury at Columbus
against Harry Hopkins, colored, who
on Nov 19 last shot and killed Cap
tain Courtwright. grocer
Governor Davis appointed c. A.
Horn of Elyria, former auditor of Lo.