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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1914
Page
3
Ohio lawmakers voice demands as minority Republicans press liquor license and tax law changes during the special session. Gov Cox resists serious concessions while the flood bill advances and a plan to release a bank loss claim gains footing.
Bishop John Morgan Walden, a widely traveled and influential Methodist bishop, died at 81 in Daytona Beach Florida from kidney trouble. His life spanned carpentry to high church leadership, education work, Freedmen's Aid Society presidency, and global travels. He leaves a widow and three children.
Senate action approves several bills including weekly state treasury deposits for all departments and a special provision for Ohio Wesleyan college. Other measures cover duplicate warrants, contracts with teachers for the Soldiers and Sailors Home, reduced reports, notary oaths safeguards, perjury in petitions, and coal mining emergency provisions. House members also move to standardize academic terms and ensure emergency coal mine supplies.
Lieut. Gov William A Greenlund assumes the senate chair and urges rapid business. Hekept the body moving as the third lieutenant governor introduced by Sen William Green of Coshocton, following Atlee Pomerene and Hugh L Nichols who resigned to join the senate and the judiciary respectively.
The house taxation committee remains divided on amending auto law to align with lower court rulings declaring it invalid. The State Automobile Association backs a flat licensing machine fee, prompting Secretary of State Graves to oppose any shift from the current sliding scale.
Columbus report states Governor Cox sent a special message covering three topics. It urges regulating salaries of common pleas judges under the new constitution and empowering Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home trustees to set salaries and boarding rules for staff. It also seeks authority to quitclaim about 73 acres of lake front land to Cleveland. Bills were introduced.
The Ostrander board of education will hold a special election on February 17 to decide the bond issue for issuing $15,000 in school improvement bonds. The board of elections granted permission for the vote.
Judge Robert C. Pugh denied a mandamus to recognize former Democratic clerks under civil service and not subject to removal. The ruling does not settle constitutionality but favors the defense, with sweeping statewide impact, notably ending terms of department heads appointed by the former administration.
Coshocton residents celebrate safety reports about Miss Alice Finlay and Miss Carolyn Teague after a Kumamoto earthquake. Rev. John Davison of Andover New Jersey relayed the Toky o message confirming Teague stayed in Kagoshima to help and Finlay remained with her people. A later note places both women safe in a Japanese house 15 miles from Kagoshima.
Public utilities in Ohio exceed 1 billion dollars in valuation with a total assessment of 1 058 231 780 for taxation. The 1913 figure climbs 832 005 738 from 1910 and shows gains across most counties except Adams Butler Clinton and Morrow due to reapportionment rather than actual value drops.
A joint committee of Catholic and Protestant groups in Cincinnati and other social movements will petition Mayor Spiegel to appoint a censorship commission to ban improper theatrical performances.
On the steamer near Portsmouth Ohio, Aliven Martin of Crown City Ohio, second clerk, was acquitted after witnesses testified Frank Smith attacked Martin with a chair and a knife, though Smith was shot and killed. The trial occurred at Vanceburg Kentucky.
Robert G. McElhaney aged 66, an inmate at the State Soldiers' Home, was struck and killed by a Lake Shore passenger train near Sandusky Ohio. He was walking on the track with his hands over his ears.
In Harrison Ohio Fred Schalch a carpenter was shot while walking with three friends by a man who had waited. Schalch is believed to have been mistaken for another person.
Nathan Poling aged 82 veteran soldier and oldest member of Ransom Reed Post died after a brief illness from pneumonia in Marysville Ohio.
Harry Powell aged 22 at Rush Run Beech Flats coal mine died after grabbing two live wires while on a pole. Investigators note he touched energized conductors leading to fatal electric shock. Local authorities reported the accident and safety department will review procedures.
The article discusses a shift of U S farm youth to Western Canada. It highlights improved farming conditions in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. R H Crossman of Kindersley wins prizes at Tulsa for prize grains in his first year. It notes 160 acre government grants and the appeal of western farming.
Shakespeare argued Hamlet would not be convicted by a New York jury, asserting his sanity in a bold, hypothetical courtroom reflection.
A witty exchange notes that education may not perfect a naturally bad man but could keep him out of jail. The remark underscores education as social restraint rather than moral reform.
The Houston Post quotes a joke about an efficiency minded father who refuses to spank his son. It notes that the upward stroke is considered lost motion in his view.
The Englishman prefers independence and seclusion within country mansions, avoiding city life and crowds. He values family quiet away from business hustle, with hedges shielding privacy and transport like autos and trains kept at a safe distance. Suburban Life.
An ANY woman recounts years of indigestion and nerve strain improved after three steps: stop coffee, start Grape Nuts and Postum. She describes loss of faith, peritonitis aftermath, sleep issues, ravenous appetite, then renewed strength, better sleep, and renewed health.
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