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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939
ALLEN COUNTY
Parking Metef Plan
Dropped
Two major municipal issues, park
ing meters and the trading of the
Lama city hall for certain improve
ments to East High street structure,
apparently fell by the way-side at
a recent council meeting.
Both proposals were considerably
cooled off by legal opinion presented
by City Solicitor Lester Shepherd
and when the regular weekly session
had been adjourned, there was every
indication that the two issues would
die a natural death.
Mistakes Button For
Candy
Franklin Gaskill, 16-months-old
babe of Mr. and Mrs, Earl Gaskill,
of Conant, while playing with his
brothers thought a large red button
was candy. The button was pushed
down the child’s throat. Franklin
was taken to the Lima Memorial hos
pital where surgeons were successful
in saving the child’s life.
Delphos Doesn’t Want
CCC Camp
By a four-to-three vote, the Del
phos city council reversed itself on
the matter of having a CCC camp
in the* town. It previously had
passed legislation in favor of the
camp being located at the sewage
treatment plant grounds and is on
record as having been willing to
lease the land for $1 a year.
The government was dissatisfied
w th the city’s grounds and has
leased land adjoining the West Side
cemetery and according to city offi
cials is preparing to take possession.
Councilman Doit Swihart and
others said they had received numer
ous complaints about the camp being
located in Delphos and moved that
council go on record as opposing its
coming to Delphos.
Worker’s Ouster Up
held By State
The state civil service commission
Wednesday sustained the removal of
Francis Blosser, of Lima, highway
department timekeeper in the Lima
•district, because he was a member
•of the Allen county Democratic Cen
tral committee.
Charges seeking Blosser’s removal
were filed several weeks ago by O. C.
Kohli, division engineer, and were
appealed by Blosser, who had been
suspended for 30 days by Robert S.
Btightler, state highway director,
as a disciplinary measure.
Employment Better In
This Area
Employment is more established in
Lima and the district than in any
other locality in the state.
This announcement was made by
the State Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation at Columbus Wednes
day as the Lima district showed a
greater decrease in job insurance
claims during March than any other
office in Ohio. The decline was giv
en at 60 per cent.
It is estimated that between 2,000
and 2,500 persons are drawing job
benefits in the district. Benefits
paid to the district’s unemployed
during March totaled $62,204. The
average payment to total unem
ployed persons was $8.97.
Dismissed Employes
Fight For Jobs
The State Civil Service Commis
sion last week received appeals of
seven dismissed state employes in
cluding: Eugene L. Irwin, highway
department truck driver of Lima,
and Thelma M. Matz of Woodsfield,
dismissed as provisional office assist
ant in the Division of Aid for the
Aged.
Crow Caught Stealing
Letters
Bob Wilson’s educated crow is in
a jam again.
The black-feathered pet, which
has puzzled neighbors and school
authorities in Lima by its antics,
went a step further recently and be
came involved with Uncle Sam.
Wilson received a letter from one
of his neighbors protesting that the
crow was lifting letters from the
porch mail box.
Lima Gets New
Stockyards
A long-felt need will be filled for
timers of Allen and surrounding
counties when a new $10,000 union
stockyard is opened.
The Nickel Plate Railroad, with
cooperation of eastern livestock in
terests, has contracted the quarters
on the main line of the Nickel Plate
at Adgate Road, at the southwestern
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
edge of Lima. C. H. Nelson is to
be manager.
The open market will operate for
all classes of livestock from 8 a. m.
to 2 p. m. daily, and from 8 a. m.
to noon Saturday. Stock will be re
ceived at all hours, and principal
shipments will be to markets at New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore. Some shipments also
will go to nearby markets, including
Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati, Colum
bus and Dayton.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Land Obtained For
Man-made Lake
Deeds conveying to the State of
Ohio a tract of 136 acres east of
Van Buren on which will be im
pounded a conservation lake, were
filed for record in the office of
County Recorder Russell Barnhill.
Of the total area, a tract of 46.93
acres was conveyed by Henry H.
Burman for $3,594.74, according to
the deed, and 86.09 acres was deeded
by John Roth at $6,756.75.
Work on the lake is expected to
start within a short time. It will be
developed by construction of a dam
across the creek south of Van Buren.
Findlay To Get New
Y. M. C. A.
Findlay is to have a new Y. M. C.
A. building which will serve as a
social and recreational center for
adults as well as girls and boys.
Practically all of the $125,000 ne
cessary for its construction has been
underwritten by approximately 150
men and women of the city and a
campaign for the small remaining
balance of the construction fund
and the $10,000 required to finish
and equip the new building will be
held in September.
Route 69 Is Extended
Extension of the numbering of
state route 69 northward from Mc
Comb and substitution of the new
numberings for the old, route 186,
was the only change in state high
way route numbers in Hancock coun
ty announced concurrently with the
issuance of 1939 state highway maps.
Route 69, coming into Hancock
county from the southern part of the
state, was extended from Mt. Cory
to McComb last year as an addition
to the state highway system.
The present extension from Mc
Comb north to route 65 along the
Maumee river east of Grand Rapids,
is simply a substitution of number
69 for number 186 over that stretch
of road. The markers were changed
Monday of last week.
Unemployed Workers
Get $9,887
Unemployed workers in Findlay
and Hancock county received $9,887
in job insurance benefits from the
bureau of unemployment compensa
tion during the month of March.
A total of $2,722,761 was paid in
the state during the month, an in
crease of $1,219,000 over February,
Administrator H. C. Atkinson an
nounced in Columbus, Wednesday.
There were 288,693 payments made,
with an average of $9.96 for total
unemployment and an average of
$4.87 for partial benefits.
WPA Workers Must
Accept Jobs
The annual spring demand for
farm labor has prompted the works
progress administration to make the
statement that all WPA workers who
refuse jobs in private industry will
be dropped from the rolls, accord
ing to William B. Schmuhl, director
of District 1, including Hancock
county.
“Every spring we receive com
plaints that WPA workers have re
fused to accept jobs as farm la
borers”, Mr. Schmuhl said. “All
complaints are investigated and when
it is found that the employer offered
the prevailing wage in his commun
ity, the WPA workers is dropped
from the rolls”.
Jobs Sought For
Seniors
The student council of Findlay
High School and the Findlay Cham
ber of Commerce are cooperating in
conducting an occupational survey
with a view toward providing suit
able employment for this year’s
graduates.
Highway Improvement
Under Way
The Benjamin Franklin highway,
U. S. 224, will be closed to traffic
in the west part of Hancock county,
if weather is such as to permit the
start of grading for the rerouting
of the road from the end of the
present new concrete pavement in
Blanchard township to Gilboa.
The detour will take traffic north
from the Worden corner by route 186
to McComb, by route 113 to Leipsic
and thence south to Ottawa by
route 65.
HARDIN COUNTY
Sheep Has Four
Lambs
“It can’t happen here—but it did!”
That is the joint sentiment of a
much surprised Ridgeway ewe and
her equally surprised owner, Paul
Holland.
The ewe last week gave birth to
four lambs, a rare occurrence among
sheep, and something that takes
place only a few time throughout
the entire state in one year.
Deaths Top Births
First Time
During March, possibly the first
time in the history of the Hardin
county board, the deaths exceed the
births when the report compiled by
Beth McKinley, secretary to the
county board of health, showed 30
deaths to 16 births for the month.
165 To Graduate From
Eight Schools
A total of 165 graduates will re
ceive diplomas from the eight high
schools of the Hardin county system
on various dates from May 17 to
May 31, it has been announced by
Frank C. Ransdell, Hardin county
superintendent of schools.
Whole Family Held
By Police
Almost a whole McGuffey family
came to grief last week and was
fined a total of $160 by Justice Roy
Haudenschild.
Kelly Weirman and his four sons,
Hurslie, Jacob, Malcolm and Seldon,
were arrested near McGuffey by Erie
Detective R. W. Steen and State
Patrolmen C. T. Cain and J. P.
Lezak when the car in which they
were riding went into the ditch.
Seldon Weirman was fined $100
and costs when he pleaded guilty to
a charge of operating a motor ve
hicle while intoxicated, Jacob, who
owns the automobile, was fined $25
and costs on a charge of unlawfully
authorizing his brother to drive the
car while in an intoxicated condi
tion, to which he also pleaded guilty.
The other two brothers, Malcolm and
Hurslie were each fined $5 and costs
on guilty pleas of intoxication
charges.
Veterans’ Graves To
Be Registered
Graves of soldiers who have
fought in the various wars of the
nation, in many cases unidentified
for years, will be given recognition
through a work program sponsored
by the American Legion in Hardin
county, sponsored by WPA funds.
A veterans’ grave legistration
which involves investigation of some
75 cemeteries in Hardin county is
in progress. Two records will be
kept for each grave, one in Colum
bus and one in the local county
courthouse.
Policemen Become
Animal Keepers
Callers at the Kenton police sta
tion last week could have reason to
believe that perhaps jiolice were now
dealing in livestock—because at the
building, were a dog and a horse.
The former being brought in by
a local citizen who found it wander
ing in the streets and the latter
brought in by a patrolman who
found the animal in an uptown
alley.
Hardin Man Makes
Raisin Jack In
Prison
Supt. Charles Shellenbarger of Os
born Farm, state-owned and operat
ed with the Mansfield Reformatory
trustees, returned five men to Mans
field after discovering a crude still
and eight gallons of “raisin jack”
which the men were manufacturing.
The still was in an empty vege
table cellar and the raisins, brown
sugar and yeast, used in manufac
ture had been stolen from the com
mi sary.
The men who were returned to
the reformatory were Harley Gibson,
Kenton Henry Marks, Toledo
James Huhn, Circleville Amos John
son, Ironton and Robert Sadler, Ver
sailles.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Thieves Dig, Steal
Farmer’s Potatoes
Farm produce thieves apparently
will stop at nothing to gain their
loot.
Carl Ridenour, who resides between
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Kalida and Cloverdale along Route
114, reported to Sheriff Arnold Potts
the theft of 50 bushels of potatoes
from a pit at the rear of his home.
The farmer said thieves had re
moved dirt from atop the potatoes
with shovels and carried the pro
duce away, either in a truck or
large auto.
$10,000 For Putnam
Farmers
Putnam county fanners who com
plied with wheat allotments under
the 1938 AAA program, signed ap
plications for payments recently.
Arnold Schroeder, committee chair
man, reports that over nine hundred
farmers in the county were eligible
to receive the adjustment payments
which would total between eight and
ten thousand dollars.
Paroled Youth Admits
Car Theft
The yen to wear a cowboy hat led
to the arrest of DeWayne James,
19-year-old Pandora youth, who faces
return to Mansfield reformatory as
a parole violator.
James was arrested in a hobo
jungle near Continental, by Sheriff
Arnold Potts, who said the youth
readily admitted theft of the 1939
model Stanley Kerr auto early Sun
day.
James told Sheriff Potts that he
took the auto from the Kerr garage,
drove to Toledo and back to a point
10 miles west of Van Wert, where
the car ran out of gasoline. He said
he got out, hitch-hiked back to Put
nam county, and had been staying in
and around the jungle near Contin
ental since.
Radio Commentator
To Speak At Banquet
Jim Poole, who broadcasts daily
market reports from the Chicago
yards will be the main speaker at
the sixth annual Putnam county Beef
Feeders banquet which will be held
at Vaughnsville the evening of
April 25.
The banquet will follow an after
noon tour of five feed lots in the
county, Ralph Dush, county agent
announced. Tickets for the fete will
go on sale this week.
Youth Church Rally
Next Sunday
Young people of Putnam county
will gather at the Methodist church
in Leipsic Sunday, April 23, for the
spring Putnam County Interdenomin
ational Rally for Youth.
Dr. Rollin Walker, formerly of
Ohio Wesleyan University, who was
the Bluffton College Bible lecturer
last February, will be the principal
speaker at the conference.
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Mr. and Mrs. Don Morrison and
sons Jerry, Dick and Tom of Find
lay were Sunday guests of Mrs.
Ella McClelland.
Dwayne Folk, Miss Marcella
Cramer and Mrs. Roy Cramer and
children Marjorie Ann and Phil
were Easter Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Gaeth of Oak
Harbor, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Foltz of
Findlay were Friday evening callers
on Mr. and Mis. Bruce Altman.
Mr. and Mis. W. A. Otto were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Brickman of McComb.
Owen Forsyth and children Betty
and Bob, Miss Mary Reinhart and
Mrs. Howard Meyers, all of Fort
Wayne, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Rus
sell Neighswandt and children were
Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs. L.
R. Forsyth.
Mr. and Mr- Kenneth Hanifan
and family spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Spears of Bowl
ing Green.
Miss Doris Hummell was a Wed
nesday evening dinner guests of
Miss Carol Fillwock.
G. B. Gier of Upper Sandusky,
Harold Maurer of Ida, Mich., and
Gene Franks of Van Buren called
on Mr. and Mrs. Mel Wentz Tuesday
evening.
Merten and Burr Higley of Find
lay were Sund afternoon callers
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Miss Betty Gaeth of Bowling
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sister Mrs. Roy Cramer and family.
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The C. E. society met Sunday
evening with Ralph. Kenneth and
Don Marshall.
Mrs. William Risser who has
spent several months with her
daughter Mrs. Walter Cupp, left
Thursday for Rudolph where she
will be a guest in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Richardson.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Begg spent
Thursday and Friday in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Leidy in
Brice.
Miss Madeline Bixel of Rittman
was a week end guest in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and
son Robert.
Several students who reside in
this vicinity are taking part in the
Operetta to be given by the high
school group in Beaverdam Friday
evening. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Begg and son
John and Mr. Harley Van Meter
motored to the J. T. Begg farm
near Cleveland where they spent a
day enroute to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Van Meter in Jefferson
where they spent the week end.
Mrs. Guy Mayberry called on Mrs.
D. C. Campbell at Lima Memorial
hospital last Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Campbell is slowly recovering, fol
lowing an operation for gall stones
more than a week ago.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and
son Robert and Miss Rebecca Mar
shall were in Bowling Green, Friday
for the solo and ensemble contests
where Robert entered the flute solo
contest and received rating of Su
perior and was chosen first alternate
to the State contest in Oberlin. His
cousin Rebecca accompanied him at
the piano.
A group from the Riley Creek
Baptist church in Orange township
will present a play “Thomas and
the Risen Lord” at the local M. E.
church Sunday evening. The char
acters are: Thomas, the disciple of
Christ, Orren Zimmerman Deborah,
his mother, an aged woman, Mrs.
Mary Stewart Salome, Miss Pearl
Cribley Mary Magdalene, Evelyn
Gallant Peter, the disciple, Edgar
Pifer John the Disciple, Harry
Ream. Musical numbers will be
furnished by the choir. The scene
of the play takes place in the home
of Deborah, mother of Thomas who
is a merchant. Time: two hours
after Jesus is arrested. Everyone
is cordially invited.
The April meeting of the Friend
ly Neighbors club will be held in
the home of Mrs. Wava Amstutz
Wednesday afternoon of next week
with the following program: Roll
call, My Best 10c Purchase Paper,
“The Dionne Family”, Mrs. Eunice
Stephens Paper, “When Mark Twain
was a Boy”, Mrs. Maud Cook Con
test, Mrs. Mary Dunlap Song, club.
Messrs. Walter and Orrin Cupp
and Glen Mayberry represented the
local church at a meeting of Presby
tery held in Ada, Monday.
Mrs. Audrey Hofer and Mrs.
Laura Gottshall and Mrs. Evelyn
Beals of Bluffton and Mrs. W. E.
Marshall and Mrs. Guy Mayberry of
this place attended the annual in
spection of Ottawa Chapter O. E.
S. last Thursday evening.
Miss Edythe Cupp, teacher of
Home Economics in the Bluffton
school ami a group of her 4-H club
girls attended a state meeting in
Columbus, Saturday at which time
the Bluffton group was one of ten
in the State, receiving an award of
merit for outstanding work the past
year.
Miss La Donna Campbell, who
sang with the Wooster Girl’s Glee
club in nearby towns Sunday, spent
Saturday at the bedside of her
mother at Memorial hospital in
Lima.
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rheumatism and is bedfast at the
home of his parents on the D. C.
Campbell farm.
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Mr. and Mrs. Norman Offenbacker
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ciety and their families gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
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Covered dish dinner was served, fol
lowed by the regular monthly meet
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Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen and
family spent Sunday in Columbus
visiting with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber and son
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Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sutter of
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