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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
7
Official figures show Ohio public school property valued at 101,241,108 dollars for the year ended August 31, 1915. The report lists 12,339 buildings, 28,266 rooms, 1,105,227 seats, and over 1,000,000 students with a daily enrollment above 900,000.
The Columbus report shows Methodist Episcopal preachers in Ohio average 1254 dollars yearly 24.12 weekly with 70 percent earning under 1300 and 35 above 2600. Fred C. Croxton presented the figures to C. O. Gill of the Church and Country Life Commission in session.
Cleveland, CC. A suit to test the Cass road law passed by the last legislature will be filed here. The law, as ruled by the attorney general, says the county is not obliged to maintain county roads inside village limits. County officials seek a court ruling on this question.
Mrs Wm Stedle wife of a Brilliant merchant was shot in the back while at a piano in her home in Steubenville Ohio The bullet fired at close range came through the front window The would be shooter escaped and is believed to be same man who fired into the Steele home recently The bullet narrowly missed Mrs Steele
The first copy of an annual report of the state board of administration printed by prison labor is at the Mansfield reformatory printers. Previously the state bore high printing costs. Hundreds of copies are sent to officials senators and out of state institutions. Unusual printing also occurs at Lancaster.
Coroner Dan D. Spitler ruled John H. Willey’s death a self-inflicted hanging near Gibsonburg on November 28. The coroner and Adjutant General B. W. Hough, under Governor Willis, investigated to determine if lynching occurred or if Willey took his own life on a farm near his wife’s grandfather Joel Kimble.
Nelsonville Ohio farmer John Chishire aged 40 and married was fatally injured when his horse bolted onto the road and was struck by a car on the Hocking Sunday Creek Traction road. The carriage was demolished and Chishire was crushed to death.
A roundup of Ohio incidents: William Warthen killed in a Utica runaway crash. William Criss dies at La Belle iron works in Steubenville. Mrs Alice Miller hit by a Big Four train in Galion. Robbers seize 700 in postage stamps at Pleasantville bank. Ed Cook leads anti vaccination scene in Cleveland as 50,000 of 90,000 students unvaccinated. Mansfield market fire destroys stalls and stock worth 15,000. Ohio staff to disband at Panama Pacific Exposition. Newton Miller heads to Ohio. Mrs South confronts prisoners with pistol in Wilmington jail. Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs seeks segregation of defectives and care for defective girls. Gabriel Sullivan linked to Shall shooting in Cincinnati. Walter Smith injured in first local hunting accident. eye bullet removed. shooter unknown. Dr Robert Bruce House dies at 69 after indigestion. Miner Bates wins Rhodes scholarship. son of Hiram College president. Ripley Brick Co files complaint on brick rates to Cincinnati. William Fromfield dies after delirium incident in Urbana as he jumps a window and Brown fires at him.
Mrs. Frank Talbert aged 30 of Findlay was fatally injured at Forest when struck by a Big Four freight engine as she tried to save her child from being run down. The child stumbled at the crossing but escaped unharmed.
I L M Rogers treasurer of Clermont County Ohio announces the 1915 tax year levies in mills on each dollar of property listed. County purposes total 0.800, Inter County Highway 0.400, Bridge and Road 0.250, Soldiers' Relief 0.038, Judicial 0.250, Infirmary 0.270, Pike Repair 0.400, Election 0.077, Experimental Farm 0.075, School 0.050, Mothers' Pension 0.020, Agricultural Society 0.020, Blind 0.030, EBT and Interest 0.750, Poetown and Goodwin Pike 0.100, Bethel and Concord 0.100, Cedron Pike 0.050, Emergency Redemption 0.200, Bridge-Linking 0.060.
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