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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1914
Page
6
Ohio has a record 1 271 443 school aged youths, up from 1 245 000 the year before. Boys total 651 897 and girls 619 546 among ages six to 21. Each child yields $2 to counties from the state school fund, with larger counties benefiting most, prompting protests from some districts.
Delegates at the New Jersey state WCTU gathering in Newark vote for world peace. State Secretary Viola D. Romans of Columbus urges a world strike by women and withholding births until disarmament. Over a thousand delegates attend as reports circulate and an annual oratorical contest is held.
Forty Marysville citizens urged the State Public Utilities Commission to force a council ordinance reduction of charges by the Marysville Light and Water Co. They oppose the rates set for domestic lighting: 10 cents for the first 50 kilowatt hours, 5 cents for 50 to 200, and 7 percent for over 500.
Hamilton Ohio county commissioners vote to add a 3000 dollar expansion to the tuberculosis hospital. The facility is crowded with many patients awaiting admission, and the measure is described as a humane necessity.
French government agents tour Ohio and other states placing massive orders for auto trucks tents searchlights shoes clothing harness canned foodstuffs and other goods needed to feed and equip an army.
Jacob Buss aged 42 was instantly killed at Rawson when struck by a Lake Erie and Western freight train. He was married five times and lost every wife by death.
C H Bryson of the state civil service commission completed a three day probe into charges by C Vollmer editor of the Fremont Courier against the Fremont commission. The inquiry centered on a bill to depose Albert Figelist a park superintendent and whether Figelist was targeted for refusing to aid the mayor's campaign fund.
At Canal Winchester Ohio four home economics instructors from Ohio State College of Agriculture in Columbus taught rural school teachers the year long plan to teach home economics. They covered selecting preparing and valuing meat bread vegetables fruits and salads and showed how to teach and serve them in rural grades.
Deputy State Game Warden Louis Kuertz accuses Warren county township clerks of selling hunting licenses to foreigners. He vows closer supervision and possible removal while noting only American citizens may hunt in Ohio and licenses cost 1.25 dollars. Rabbit season opens November 15.
Rev. Calvin Warren a Methodist minister from Ironton drowned after jumping from a wharfboat at Ashland Kentucky His clothes were found in willows along the river bank He had been living in Logan Ohio and worked for an insurance company there during a visit to Ironton
A mail pouch filled with letters and cards was stolen at the Dayton Ohio Union depot and the contents rifled. The number of letters and their value are unknown. The torn sack was found in a box car near the depot.
An unidentified man was found unconscious on the Main Street bridge with a head stab wound. Frank Smith, 04 years old, an employee at Lima Locomotive Works, was found nearby with a stab wound to the abdomen.
Wm Springer, a carpenter from Tim, O, sues Dr. Robert D Reynolds of Green Spring for 50000 dollars claiming injuries after a May fall from a scaffold that broke his back.
Ada Moore, 70, was run over by a street car in Lancaster, suffering a crushed skull. She was taken to Park Street Hospital in precarious condition and is mother to nine children.
Thomas Stewart confronted his ex wife on a Lancaster street and shot her in the head twice before turning the gun on himself. Police report a domestic dispute ending in tragedy as bystanders witnessed the shooting and officers secured the scene.
A Reuter report from Amsterdam says Berlin officially announced Ostend was occupied on Thursday and Bruges on Wednesday. The war front along the northern French border grows tighter as German forces advance toward Dunkirk Calais and possibly Dover, with fear of a broader advance toward Paris. The article notes heavy fighting around Verdun and the Meuse, and reports Britain losing the cruiser Hawke with 330 lives while other ships and prisoners are tallied.
A Navy losses tally shows British and German forces suffering multiple sinkings in under three months of war. British ships include cruisers Cressy Hogue Aboukir and others lost to submarines mines and gunfire. German losses list seven cruisers by submarine and gunfire plus two auxiliary cruisers and two submarines. Additional destroyers and mine layers were damaged or lost by gunfire.
Diplomatic dispatches report Italy nearing neutral terms with Austria in exchange for ceding Trientine and allowing Italian occupation of Valona. A long predicted German manpower estimate places trained troops at 4,450,000 and untrained reservists and landsturm at about 3,750,000.
Belgians cross into Holland after a skirmish near Meerle. 102 entered Holland and a 96-strong party crossed at Grasen, all disarmed. Portugal may enter the war. Lisbon and Madrid dispatches suggest Portugal would join if the conflict continues, obligating 100,000 troops to England. Heavy fighting near Warsaw. Germans repulsed on heights near the city. Boers suffer first defeat with 70 prisoners taken. Anglo French fleet bombards Cattaro again with support from Mount Loveden guns.
In Bordeaux vineyards the wine vintage begins as women children and elderly replace fighters at the front aided by Belgian and northern French refugees. The crop is uneven with many grapes dropped from premature blooming but if fruit matures it could yield good wine. About 20 million bottles previously shipped to Germany pose a disposal challenge as wartime economy shrinks demand. Growers plan to recapture sparkling wine market while wartime labels imitate a Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce banknote for urgency.
Western Union dispatch reports French forces recaptured Armentieres and repelled German attempts toward the coast. British officials say Allied troops advanced in the north, with casualties listed from the Royal Scots Royal Irish East Surrey and Somerset Light Infantry among the dead wounded and missing. German papers note high losses across regiments including Nos 17 and 69 in battles near Marne.
The Cincinnati markets section lists corn by grade with prices ranging from No. 4 white at 80 80%c to No. 1 white at 81 44c, yellow and mixed corn, hay timothy and clover prices, oats and wheat figures, poultry prices by weight and type, eggs, cattle including shippers and butchers, bulls, calves, hogs, sheep and lambs with varied price ranges and quality grades.
The Brindilla, formerly the German Washington, flying the American flag, was captured by the British auxiliary cruiser Carofia after departing New York for Alexandria Egypt. A prize crew from Caronia took control and reported contraband of war on board.
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