Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-12-22

| postmaster General Hays Dec. II.
Ordello D. Doty, 65, Cleveland man
ufacturer and prominent in the Bp-
worth league, is dead
Charles P. Smith 10, Akron, was
| sentenced to life Imprisonment for
the killing of Peter Shur.
Edward Hupp, 68, Licking county
farmer, dropped dead during services
in the Thornville church.
DR.. John S. Jenkins, so, Lima, ex-
pired suddenly from heart trouble
while driving his automobile.
Contract for construction of a
woman's dormitory at Miami univer
sity. to cost $15O,OOO, will be let on
Feb. 1.
During November 500 barrels of
misbranded or adulterated vinegar
were seized in Ohio by state and fed
eral officials.
Rev. Charles W. Yantis will be the
new mayor of Lakeview. The contest
was brought by J. E. Williams, also
| a candidate.
Missing from her home, Miss Jen-
ME Applegate is believed by her rel
atives to have ended her life in the
Scioto river.
More than 1000 persons took part
in the fox drive in Dover township,
Union county Five foxes were
rounded up and killed.
DANA Butcher, 25, Akron, lost her
right leg when she was thrown un-
der streetcar by an automobile
driven by an unidentified man.
At the annual convention of the
Child Conservation League of Ohio
| at Sandusky Mrs. E. j. Lange of
Lakewood was elected president.
Foster A. Brunner, supervisor of
stores for the Kroger Grocery and
Baking company, Columbus, was held
up by bandits and relieved of $1,000
| in cash.
| Leslie Lee, %, Toledo, confessed,
police lay, that he had passed "a
| bogus checks amounting to S774.15
within two months on the merchants
of Toledo.
One hundred and eight head of
live stock perished in a fire which
destroyed the barn of Thomas Nc
Coy, near Sterling, Wayne county.
Loss $1,000.
Bernard Haskins, a Kentuckian,
who was arrested near London in
possession of 60-gallon still, was
fined a total of $4,000 when he en-
tered a plea of guilty.
While attempting to light an oil
lamp in the bedroom of her home in
Parrall, near Dover, Mrs. John Mar
| go, IS, set fire to her night garments
| She died two hours later.
Robert R. Scripps of West Chester,
Cincinnati newspaper publisher;
DR.. Frank R. Henry, Dayton, and
Miss Vivian Anderson, Cincinnati
were appointed trustees of Miami
university by Governor Davis.
Harry Rusche, watchman at the
First National bank, Cincinnati, over
| powered an armed bandit who at
tempted to rob the safe The pris-
oner gave the name of William Rapp.
He said he was out of work and des-
perate.
Herbert Bechen, foreman of struc-
tural iron workers, while doing re-
pair work on the girders above a
bridge at Cleveland fell 13O feet to
the street, dying instantly. He had
been married only 10 days ago at
Napoleon.
Six persons, two men, two women
and two babies, were drowned when
the automobile in which they were
driving toward Toledo went over a
high embankment and overturned in
the Erie canal, about eight miles
from the city
Ex-service men who enroll in the
vocational school at Camp Sherman
don't lose their rights to compensa-
tion for disability they now are re-
ceiving, Colonel c. R. Forbes, direc-
tor of the United States veterans
bureau, announced.
Federal prohibition agents raided
the home of Charles Rankin, in the
fashionable West End district of To-
ledo, and seized moonshine apparatus
valued at several hundred dollars
and 130 gallons of beverage alcohol
Rankin is under arrest.
With the arrival at Agosta, Marion
county, of Deputy State Fire Marshal
Carlisle, it became known that DR..
w. E. Clymer, whose home was de-
stroyed by fire, had received two let
ters warning him to move within 10
days or suffer the consequences"
Earnings of the Ohio Electric Rail-
way company have made a substan-
tial increase during the present year
over 1920, the report of the receiver,
filed in federal court at Toledo,
shows. The earnings for the first
10 months of 1921 were $416,705, and
1924 for the same period in 1920.
Seventy-five short measure sales
out of Ill purchases of gasoline at
gas service stations in Toledo were
revealed by State Inspector John NJ
Mote of the state bureau of weights
and measures. who, with City SeaIel
Becker, visited gas filling stations in
all parts of the city.
Shorter hall, oldest Wilberforce
college building, at Xenia, burned
with 100000 loss.
Ashtabula Red Cross relief commit
tee raised $20,50O for charitable re-
| lief work for the winter
Warren phone subscribers will be
forced to pay increased rates. amount
| ing to from 25 cents to 81 a month,
beginning Jan. I.
More than $4,000 persons, members
of various Christmas clubs, will share
in about $1.25O,OOO being distributed
by Cincinnati banks which have con-
Quoted such savings plans during the
year.
Thirty-eight dead and AZ injured
was the toll of fire in Ohio during
November.
Ernest Longchamp, 33, was killed
and II others more or less injured
in a collision between two interurban
cars near Dayton.
Judge George L. Phillips, rs. for