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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1917
Page
3
A Philadelphia Inquirer notice notes a controversial buying plan offering $5 down and a percentage when caught, described as keeping the housekeeper on edge. The item hints at a harsh wage or payment condition affecting domestic workers.
Gov. Cox fixes June 5 1917 as a holiday for military registration in Ohio. He urges school closures, business suspensions, and closed amusements as communities prepare for wartime service and national defense. The notice outlines registration at voting places and later medical exams, with a statewide drive to recruit Ohio National Guard units and mobilize war strength.
Marion-Clinton Waterhouse killed himself with a shotgun near Martel in Crawford county after brooding over his wife’s death. John Knapp, a Vinton township farmer, died by self-inflicted shotgun blast. Betty Washington Taylor, descendant of Gen. Washington, died in Cincinnati while serving as president general of the National Society of Colonial Dames. John Shilling, 14, died from tainted meat with two relatives critically ill from scarlet poisoning symptoms.
Miss Pearl Gamber, a Kent Normal College student, was beaten by a Black man and had her pocketbook stolen. Mrs. Frank Shrader was beaten and choked by a Black man in an attempted assault.
T A Downey suffered serious injuries when an oil derrick in the Bartlesville Oklahoma field toppled onto him. The accident broke an arm and leg and left him paralyzed in the lower body.
Five unmasked bandits entered Dow's drug store in Cincinnati and held customers and clerks at gunpoint. One robber took about $250 from the cash register before the men fled in an automobile.
A new daylight thief in Warren drives to homes when families are away. He enters by a key, opens the front door, and secures a rich harvest, aided by the car’s presence that lowers suspicion.
Simple white shirtwaists and skirts will be worn by women members of the high school faculty during commencement exercises in Warren.
Stephen Tnartai, 40, died instantly in Leetonia after being struck by a Pennsylvania flyer. He was east of Salem when the accident occurred.
A B. and O. passenger train wreck on a Mineral bridge west of Athens injures many passengers, three seriously, as rescuers work amid the debris and damage.
Rev. C. M. Wallace, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Pavonia, has resigned his pulpit and will become a rural letter carrier in Mansfield.
Alliance man William Adams of Lisbon lost his left foot after missing his footing and falling beneath a Cleveland and Pittsburgh freight train. The incident underscores dangers around rail yards and moving trains.
Dayton Walter Mason assistant postmaster at Wilberforce was arrested on a warrant charging him with forging money orders totaling $1 000 and appropriating the proceeds.
Harry B Hayes, who confessed as a safe blower in the two post office robberies, awaits transport to the federal prison at Atlanta Ga to serve nine years. Police say he also admitted to two murders.
In Salem near Columbiana 24 year old Lewis Coleman shot at Miss Olive Orr in his brother's home but missed and shot himself, two wounds not life threatening. he is expected to recover. In Bluffton the Fourth of July celebration was canceled and funds will be diverted to the Red Cross. Columbus reports J G Kelser, a soldier at local federal barracks, is now a millionaire after a Virginia supreme court ruling in his father's estate dispute.
Forrest Hagill, 19, a negro, died in a hospital from a bullet wound fired by Francis B. Brownell during an attempted break in at Brownell's residence in Toledo.
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