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THURSDAY. JUNE 15, 1939 ALLEN COUNTY Hog Attacks Small Child The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Weist, of near Spen cerville, escaped possible death Fri day afternoon in an encounter with a large hog on the Weist farm. The hog had got hold of the child’s hand and attempted to pull her through the fence. Screams of the child attracted the parents, who came to the rescue. The right arm wras badly chewed and torn, her left eye was bruised and lacerated and her legs and body bruised and cut. ___________ Another Vote On Lights At Delphos Delphos will hold a special election July 5 for electors to vote on a three-mill levy for street light pur poses. City council, in special session, passed the ordinance calling for the election in a fourth effort to solve the street lighting problem. Three elections were held on the issue last year and each time voters turned down the prposal. Worker Breaks Neck In Fall Leo Goldsberry, 36, is in serious •condition in Memorial Hospital at Lima with a broken neck received when he fell from a house roof which he was painting. Many Say They Saw Meteor Nearly a dozen Lima residents agreed last week on description of a supposed meteor which all believe struck the earth in or near Lima. The brilliant white ball streaked earthward, apparently in the rear of St. John’s Church, Mrs D. W. Win ter asserted. She searched the grounds near the church, and others searched fields in and near Lima, without success. Navy Has Travel Films Available The U. S. Navy Recruiting sta tion in Lima will have available for use, during the month of July, a 16 mm sound motion picture projector and a library of U. S. Navy action and travel pictures. These pictures are furnished by the Navy department to acquaint the general public with the life and ac tivities of their navy, and are an exact portrayal of navy life and ships and were filmed by the Navy for use of the recruiting service. More On WPA In County Latest employment report issued by the Toledo district WPA office listed five more Allen county em ployes on the rolls than a w’eek be fore. The county’s load was given at 1,522. Damage Suit Settled Out Of Court A four-year-old damage suit for $10,000 was settled out of court for $200 last week when Mrs. Mary Ott accepted that amount from the board of trustees of Amanda township, Al len county, as compensation for in juries she said she received in 1935 w'hen her automobile struck a pile of rock on a road which was being repaired. Delphos Pays For Lights Bi-Monthly Another two w’eeks payment for public lighting was due Friday to the Ohio Power Co. from the Del phos Civic club which each fortnight pays the bill to keep the lights burning. The money is collected from citizens, both members and non-members, the organization act ing as a clearing house for receiv ing the donations and from which it pays the bill. This is to continue until the municipality has an assess ing ordinance functioning about July 15, unless on July 5, electors vote a three-mill levy for such pay ments. A special election is sche duled for that date. Lima Street Program Held Up City Engineer Thomas Quinn dis closed last week technicalities in WPA headquarters at Washington still are holding up approval of the project for removal of street car rails from Lima streets, preliminary to repairing the thoroughfares over which street cars ceased operating last month. WPA assistance in repairing the streets is assured, but question of NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES the city’s ownership of the rails has been raised despite deeding of them to city officials by the street car company when it inaugurated bus service. Cable New Red Cross Chairman Atty. John L. Cable w’as named 1939 roll call chairman of the American Red Cross at a meeting of the executive committee Thurs day in the Argonne hotel. Cable’s appointment followed resig nation of Judge E. E. Everett whose new duties as member of the Ohio parole board at Columbus necessi tated him giving up the chairman ship after five years. Sportsmen Hold Out ing At Spencerville The Northwestern Ohio Field & Stream Association will hold their annual outing and fish fry, Thurs day afternoon and evening, June 15, at the McConnell Driving park, Spencerville. Afternoon events will consist of games, contests and clay bird shoot ing. The fish fry and supper will be held in the early evening. All sportsmen are invited to the an nual good time. Allen Road Work Approved Highway Director Robert S. Beightler announced last week that the $7,411,000 Ohio 1940 federal aid highway program had been approved by the U. S. bureau of public roads and that funds would be available July 1 to begin work on the projects. Allen county—surfacing and drain age for 3.5 miles of State Route 704 west of Allentown. Estimated cost: $69,000. HANCOCK COUNTY Central Ohio Executive Wins Award A distinctive honor has just come to A. W. Conover, of Findlay, vice president and general manager of the Central Ohio Light and Power company. He has been announced as the winner of the B. C. Forbes award amounting to $250 in cash for the most meritorius paper dealing with the subject of public relations in the electric light and power industry. 250 Boys Get Jobs In Beet Fields Approximately 250 boys ranging in age from 14 years up, received instructions Thursday morning at the Findlay plant of the Great Lakes Sugar company, from L. W. Esckil sen, Findlay factory district man ager. The boys will be given an oppor tunity this summer to earn money for school and summer incidentals. Mr. Esckilsen said he was glad to give them an opportunity to earn their own money but that he expect ed a good job from them in return. They will earn 25 cents an hour blocking and thinning beets through out the summer months, getting beets ready for the harvest next fall. 27,000,000th Ford In Findlay Enroute to the New York World’s Fair from the Golden Gate Interna tional Exposition the 27,000,000th Ford car stopped in Findlay Mon day, on a round-trip transcontinental tour of the United States. Findlay Woman Fatal ly Injured In Crash Miss Montz Wods, 70, retired Find lay school teacher, died in a Chat ham, Ontario, Canada, hospital fol lowing an automobile accident early Thursday evening in which her sis ter-in-law, Mrs. Reta Woods, De troit, and two other persons were killed. Youth Knocks Woman From Bicycle Findlay police are seeking to de termine the identity of a youth who Thursday afternoon knocked Mrs. Frank Day, 23, from her bicycle, choked and severely beat her about the face on the country club drive. Mt. Corian Janitor For 15 Years John Bowersox was employed by the Union township board of educa tion last week for his sixteenth year as janitor at Mt. Cory school build ing. Mr. Bowersox is a member, also, of the janitorial supply com mittee of the county school co-opera tive buying setup. Mt. Cory school will inaugurate a new home economics course next fall for the junior and ’senior years, in response to the request for such a course by 16 girls who this spring completed the former two-year course fr freshmen and sophomore girls. County Fair To Be Larger Several new departments have been added to the list of attractions at the Hancock cojinty fair which will be held on the Old Mill Stream fair grounds from Sept. 6 to 9. These departments will include a needlecraft exhibit, a pet show, flower show and home economics ex hibition. 500 Homes Wired By REA Three hundred and sixty miles of poles have been set for the Hancock Wood Electric Coperative Inc., C. C. Doyle, project superintendent, an nounced last week. According to Mr. Doyle, 360 miles of poles have been set, 250 miles of wire have been strung and 500 homes have been wired. The contract for the sub-station north Van Buren, Ohio, which was awarded to the Bigley Electric Co., Findlay, has been approved by the REA in Wash ington. Good Beet Crop Is Predicted A prediction that as many sugar beets and perhaps more than last year will be sliced by the Great Lakes Sugar company’s plant here next fall was made Wednesday even ing by L. W. Esckilsen, district man ager. According to Mr. Esckilsen, the sugar beets are now coming up in good shape, following the frequent rains of recently. About 2,000 acres of beets al ready have been thinned and more and more are being thinned daily. At the same time there are some farmers who are still planting beets which means there will be both early and late harvests next fall. $4,368 Distributed In Sales Tax May sales tax for local govern ment units of Hancock county amounting to $4,368.31 was received last week by County Auditor Frank H. Huffman and distributed to var ious divisions to which it was due. The amount was the same as for each of the last two months. June Tax Collection Starts County Treasurer Tell Thompson said last week his office is prepared to take June installment real estate taxes and that payments are being received at the rate of $1,000 a day, a total of $20,822.53 having been re ceived up to the close of business Wednesday. The nominal deadline of June 20 is certain to be extended to July 20 as customary in many years past but extensions beqond July 20, if any are not yet announced. HARDIN COUNTY Worker Survives Sewer Gas Blast Rex Gant, 24, Alger, is alive after the narrowest escape of his life. Mr. Gant, employed to clean man holes, rested on his shovel and light ed his pipe. There was a flash as sewer gas ignited and the flames PAUL SCHOENLEIN, Mgr. THE I LUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON seared his head, black and shoulder. Fortunately, his ^thes did not ignite and when h- helper, James Streets, reached the sore, Mr. Gai was climbing unaided from the mar. hole. Kenton Man Dean Of Ohio Bankers Henry Gramlich, of Kenton, dean of Ohio’s bankers, observed his 88th birthday last Tuesday by arriving at the First National bank, of which he is vice president, promptly at 8 a. m. and remaining until after the last employe had left. Extensive Ditch Pro gram Disapproved The giant Hog Creek ditch im provement, which had been granted by Hardin county commissioners sev eral months ago, was ruled out by Judge W. T. Copeland of Auglaize county following hearings on an ap peal, filed by attorney fr dissatis fied land-owners in that section who declared that the assessments far ex ceed the benefits. This marked the second time that the ditch improvement project had failed to materialize. Previously, a legal technicality relative to the filing of the ditch petition was al lowed and a new petition had to be drawn up. Hardin Pension Head Suspended Suspension of John T. Glenn, Ken ton, sub-division manager of Hardin county’s old age pension office, was announced last week by state pension director Tom McCaw for “disciplin ary purposes”. McCaw designated C. T. Fridaker, of Kenton, a pension investigator, as acting manager. Ada To Have Only Primary In County With the absence of a contest in Kenton, possibility loomed that Ada would have the only primary elec tion in Hardin county and that be cause of the contests on the Demo cratic ticket. Lightning Bolt Strikes House A lightning bolt which struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mitch ell, south of Kenton caused consider able damage, but failed to set the building afire. Veteran School Head Resigns Announcement has been made of the resignation of Ralph Shilling, for the last 17 years superintendent of the McGuffey schools. He resigned so that he may make a tour of Eng land and a cruise of the Mediter ranean sea and later go to Cape town, South Africa. His successor has not yet been named by the Mc Guffey-McDonald board of education. Shilling, who has been active in educational work for the last 42 years, has traveled extensively. PUTNAM COUNTY $2,630 In Wheat Parity Payments Approximately two hundred checks, totaling $2,630.46, in wheat parity payments, were mailed Monday from the Putnam county AAA office. Tot Escapes Death In Lily Pool Jerry, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sommer, of Pandora, nar rowly escaped death by drowning last Wednesday morning. His mother had placed him in his play pen in the Back yard in which Qitnuf LOANS Our new "Jitney” loan service enables you to get a small amount of cash as a tide-over fund to meet your immediate needs. $10 or more readily available to working men and women throughout Ohio. Easy terms and requirements. 'Use Ceve Loan ANO A V 4 N i, CQAAPANV Phone 7351 Market & Elizabeth Sts. Savings Bldg. Lima, Ohio OHIO there is a lily pool about two feet deep. In some way he got out of his pen, made his way to the pool and fell in. His mothe: found him later at the bottom of the pool, un conscious. A neighbor, Mrs. Am s Hilty. gave first aid until a physician could ar rive. After working over him for some time, life was restored. Ottawa Election Con test Heated A lively scramble has developed for the position of town marshal in Ottawa as the result of the council’s raising the salary of that post from $52 to $75 a month. There are five Democrats and tw Republicans in the field. This will insure an Aug ust primary election. $2,500 Suit Is Settled A $2,500 suit brought by Thomas Oard, Clumbus Grve, against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. was settled and dismissed from common pleas court. Oard was struck by a passenger train June 14, 1938, in Ottawa. He had purchased the car and driven it less than a city block when the crash occurred. The youth recov ered following a lengthy hospital confinement. Swift & Co. To Buy Stock Yards Swift & Co. announce the purchase of the property formerly known as the Union Stock Yards in Columbus Grove, and will operate and provide a daily market except Sundays and holidays for all classes of cattles, calves and lambs, starting this week. Sugar Plant To Clean River Plans are under way whereby the Ohio Sugar Co. of Ottawa, will spend approximately $25,000 to alleviate the Blanchard river stench condition. Revelation of the proposed im provement, nature of which was not disclosed, was made by President John Pfeifler of the firm in a talk before the Ottawa Kiwanis club last week. Pfeifler said his firm had prepared plans for the improvement and they jM I a •HU 11 ■Vi ?wi! SEKVEI GAS REFRIGERATOR A were now in the hands of state health department engineers. When approval is given, he added, definite announcement as to the type of work will be made. County Jail Gets New Gas Service The Putnam county jail enjoyed for the first time in its history, use of natural gas. Mrs. Arnold Potts, wife of the sheriff and jail matron, cooked meals for the inmates with the new gas stove which the county commission ers purchased, together with a tank heater to provide hot water. Public gas service was started in Ottawa several years ago but was never piped into the jail. $53,459 For County Schools Putnam county school districts re ceived a total of $53,459.56 as their second quarterly distribution of state public school funds. The checks were mailed this week to the clerk of the various boards. Sev eral of the districts had borrowed or more advance draws in anticipa tion of the collection. Traffic Officer Rehired J. L. McKinney, traffic officer in Ottawa for the past 13 months, was appointed for another year by Mayor J. S. Ogan, Jr. Village council, in special session, approved the ap pointment. McKinney originally was hired for one month and when residents of Ot tawa approved of his work, he was hired for a year. The year expired Thursday. His new appointment will be effective Saturday. Eldon Powell, an Ottawa resident, w’as present at council meeting and presented the body with a petition signed by 255 persons who asked that McKinney be rehired. Elrose Glen Nonnamaker, in company with Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Klingler spent the w’eek end at Gallipolis. Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Koontz and little daughter Martha Ann spent Sunday afternoon w’ith Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edinger at Bowding Green. 1 k AND YEARS FROM NOW WITH THE (JAS REFRIGERATOR WEST OHIO COMPANY PAGE Union prayer services at Olivo Branch, Thursday evening. Mrs. Mary Hartman, Cloyce and Margaret Hartman of Hoytville, spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Ami Nonnamaker celebrating Mrs. Nonnamaker’s birthday anniversary. Misses Mary and Lillian Koontz spent Sunday evening at the Anna Koontz and A. J. Nonnamaker home. The A. J. Nonnamaker family spent Saturday afternoon in Findlay. Merilyn and Howard Klingler of Ada spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ami Nonnamaker. Mrs. Lida Gallant is in charge of a beauty parlor in Ada. The wind storm Saturday evening broke down and uprooted trees in this part of Orange township. Janet Basinger spent Saturday night at the home of her grand father, Philip Basinger, south of Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Nonnamaker, daughter Joyce, of Bluffton Mrs. Lucy Gramer, Mrs. Libie Klingen smith, of Findlay and the A. J. Nonnamaker family called at the Emaline Nonnamaker and Lenden Basinger home Sunday. Mrs. Russell Elzay and Mrs. Henry Koontz attended the funeral of a niece, Martha Van Atta in Hardin county, Wednesday. N. R. Elzay and Mrs. Helen Koontz attended funeral services for Mrs. Orlie Moore in Lake View, Friday. Mrs. Lucinda Koontz spent Sat urday afternoon at the Jont Agin home in Bluffton. Edwin and Chas. 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