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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1919
Page
6
Canton Rotarians pledged support for the Board of Education deficiency bond issue and to gather nine signatures per member for an affirmative vote at the June 17 special election. Employers within the club would present the issue to help secure cooperation.
The article notes the school bond issue arguing education acts as a crime prevention. Oscar F. Kwint spoke for the Boy Scout campaign tied to Rotary pledges of financial support. Scouts appeared in uniform to show the movement's work.
A workman on the roof of Canton Sheet Steel Company buildings was shocked when he slipped on shafting and grasped an unprotected 22 000 volt high tension wire. He fell 14 feet, injuring his head neck and knee but officials said he would not die. Details were not disclosed.
In East Liverpool Ohio on June 6 warrants were sworn charging cashier King M Brumfield and Herman Feustel with embezzlement from Empire Investment Company. Both are out on bond after prior arrests. The latest amount charged totals 1400 dollars.
Dr. Katherine B. Davis former New York corrections commissioner returns after five months in Europe selecting delegates for the Social Hygiene Congress of Women Physicians to be held in New York in the autumn. She visited fifteen European countries as a representative of the Committee on Social Hygiene. She was accompanied by Dr. Edith Hale Swift of Boston.
An item describes a collar for men that uses interlocking front sections to slip over existing buttons, securing the collar. The copy promotes daily news want ads as a selling channel for such products.
Washington reports Postmaster General Burleson says no return of telegraph and telephone properties to private owners has occurred or is planned. He states the December 3, 1918 order merely dissolves the government operating board and places the systems under regular officials under government supervision.
From Paris Andrea Assinack, Fiume plenipotentiary, cables Senator Lodge that Fiume will face war for life or death and will not accept a fate decided without its consent, condemning President Wilson’s peace conference attitude on Fiume.
Six new contestants joined the Central Labor Union Popularity Contest as of Friday. The standings list many named workers across occupations including Miss Reba Davis clerk, Miss Percilla Harty clerk, C. Allison machinist, R. A. Bast molder, Fred Bergman photo engraver, Mary Bergman clerk, Mary Conite clerk, and many others with scores shown beside their names. The lively rollout continues with additional entrants spanning trades and unions.
Dan Murphy, a well known Cincinnati saloonkeeper, has closed his business and made an assignment. Assets are listed at 1000 dollars and liabilities at 8500 dollars. He cites the war and prohibition as the cause of his failure, as stated by his attorney.
Cincinnati distillers and brokers who hold warehouse whiskey large in Ohio seek relief from wartime orders. They contest the wartime cover and argue for adjustments on the vast quantity of whiskey tied to government demand with key dates referenced.
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