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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940
ALLEN COUNTY
Two Money Boxes
Stolen
Two money boxes of a local bank
containing about $25 were stolen
from the Van Autre filling station
in Delphos, Thursday. The boxes
were on a shelf and were removed
during the night by someone break
ing a window and placing their
hand inside, according to police.
Railroad Victim Is
Identified
While a Lima couple made ar
rangements Friday to bury their 17
year-old son, killed in a fall from
a freight train Wednesday evening,
juvenile court authorities were con
sidering the case of the dead boy’s
brother who is being held on a burg
lary charge.
Killed in the fall was Richard
Pitchford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Pitchford.
Body of Richard was found at 5
a. m. Thursday along the tracks of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a
short distance south of the Ohio
Steel Foundry’. His identity was es
tablished at 8 p. m. Thursday by
members of his family who went to
the Siferd and Son funeral home
after reading a description of the
dead boy in the paper.
Hole In Walk Brings
$5,000 Suit
Jess L. Stemen has filed suit ask
ing $5,000 damages from the city of
Lima for injuries allegedly suffered
when he stepped into a hole in the
sidewalk on the west side of Public
square.
Stolen Auto Found
Wrecked
The 1936 coach owned by R. F.
Johns, of Lima, reported stolen last
Wednesday from the 200 block of
S. Main street, was found wrecked
Thursday a short distance south of
Sidney, authorities reported.
Man Hurt In Crash
Near Beaverdam
Oscar Sleik, 59, of Lima, received
lacerations when he lost control of
his car and it ran into a ditch on
route 25 south of Lima, patrolmen
reported. His condition is not re
garded as serious.
Janitor Found Dead
In Church
Afred F. Rinehart, 78, was found
dead Friday morning in the Elida
Methodist church, -where he had gone
a short time earlier to do some work
in connection with his duties as
janitor.
His body was found by some child
ren who had gone to the church to
practice their Children’s Day pro
gram. They called Abner Brenne
man and Gail Stalter, who in turn
summoned Dr. B. F. Thutt, who de
clared Rinehart dead. He had been
in poor health for some time and is
believed to have been stricken with
a heart attack.
Arm Mangled In Freak
Mishap
In a freak accident on Route 115
north of Ottawa, John W. Kersker,
24, Lima musician, was injured se
verely.
The young man’s left arm was
mangled when it was caught on the
side of a truck driven by Russell D.
Ki nan of Stryker, as the two ve
hicles met. When the man’s arm
caught, he lost control of the car
and it collided with the rear of the
truck.
394 Seniors Receive
Diplomas
Three hundred and ninety-four
seniors of Lima South and Central
high schools received their diplomas
last Friday in combined commence
ment exercises in Municipal stadium.
Central had 228 and South 116 in
the graduating class. Cameron Bell,
youthful leader, addressed the group.
Insane Convict Escapes
Search was being made this week
for John Kipila, 38, convicted Stark
county murderer who escaped from
the Lima State hospital while he was
on painting detail in the nurses
home. The fugitive, who is regarded
as not dangerous, is five feet eight
inches tall and weights 150 pounds.
His shirt and trousers were blue
and he was wearing a checkered
cap.
Lima Loco Gets Order
Officials of the Lima Locomotive
Works, Inc., announced Saturday
they had received from the Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton railroad an order
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
for four of the 2-8-2 type freight
locomotives which will be delivered
in October.
Work of constructing these four
locomotives and the 15 ordered sev
eral months ago by the New York
Central Lines, is expected to be
started within two weeks.
Lands Giant Fish After
45-Minute Battle
William E. Metzger, of Lima,
catches the kind of fish that belong
in tall stories.
In fact, he was displaying one Sat
urday that was even bigger than
“the beauty that got away last sum
mer.” Remember?
Metzger’s prize is a Walleye weigh
ing nine pounds and measuring 28^i
inches long and 16 inches in girth.
He snagged it while drift-fishing for
crappies near Black Hawk landing
at Indian Lake.
The Walleye was taken on a joint
ed cane pole equipped with an 18
pound line and No. 2 crappie hook.
Metzger says it took him 45 minutes
to bring the fish to the boat.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Plants 27,000 Tomato
Plants
H. W. Trout, of the Allen-Cass
township line, is busy setting out
27,000 tomato plants. He devoted
much time to the production of these
plants, 45,000 of them this spring.
Mr. Trout and two boys do the
planting, using a machine that will
plant and water five acres per day.
Mr. Trout drives the machine and
the two boys set the plants in a de
pression behind two wheels that
make the groove. They hold the
plants upright until a presser on
the rear of the implement firms the
soil around the tended stalks. A
squirtgun precedes the presser and
this shot of w'ater in the groove tells
the lads just where to place a plant
which is every four feet in the row,
the rows four feet apart.
Air Training To
Continue
Graduates or undergraduates of
any college or university, and also
high school graduates enrolled in
summer school, are eligible for the
sumer pilot training program at
Bowling Green State university and
the Findlay airport, it was revealed
last week.
Seventy-two hours of ground
school work will be given at the
university under the supervision of
Major J. K. Roney, director of stu
dent pilot training.
African Boy Lost In
Findlay
“Please, mister, will you help me
find my daddy,” asked a low, timid
voice of Earl Kwis, custodian of the
First Methodist church in Findlay,
who was mowing the lawn Tuesday.
“Sure,” Wwis answered, “where do
you live?” he inquired of the bright
eyed six-year-old youngster.
“In Africa,” came the prompt
answer.
Kwis all but jumped over his lawn
mower and decided “his leg was be
ing pulled.” But investigation found
the lad to be correct.
He was Robert Webber, son of a
missionary to Africa who was at
tending a convention in Grace Evan
gelical Congregational church in
Findlay. He had spent the last five
years in Africa, and while his father
was at the “meetin’ he got lost in
the “wilds” of Findlay.
Sheep Claims Are
Lower
Hancock county commissioners last
week alowed sheep claims for the
last three months totaling $277.50.
Payments represented compensation
on 17 claims for 34 sheep killed and
eight injured. The total amount of
claims allowed was less than half
the sum approved for payment on
helast quarterly claim day early in
March.
Cow On Six-Hour
Findlay Rampage
An unruly black and white Hol
stein cow that had jumped over the
sideboards of a trailer in which she
was being hauled caused headaches
for Findlay police and citizenry for
six hours Tuesday.
The rampaging cow covered con
siderable territory and trampeled
more gardens than an inspecting
party could cover in a week.
Gypsies Get Man’s
Wallet
The first gypsy robbery this spring
was reported to police Wednesday by
Milton Tussing, who said a 20-year
old woman lifted his pocketbook with
between $60 and $65 in it.
Mr. Tusaing, an aged man, told
police that a maroon colored car
bearing foreign license plates, stop
ped at the rear of his home. Two
women and a man were riding in
the car.
One of the women called Mr. Tus
sing to the car and told him she had
heard that he had rheumatism and
that she believed she could cure him.
She had Mr. Tussing step close to
the car so she could examine his
knee and hip and then asked him to
turn around so she could feel his
spine.
With the remark, “Come to church
services”, the party drove off and it
wasn’t until they had left that Mr.
Tussing missed his pocketbook.
Fugitives In Stolen Car
Crash In Findlay
Numerous persons crowding a
downtown street intersection in Find
lay late Tuesday afternoon scam
pered for their lives when two young
Detroit fugitives in a stolen car
crashed into a truck, an auto and
then into a utility pole.
The youths, Alfred Ray Arnold,
21, and Richard LeRoy Thompson,
16, fled afoot after the crash, but
the former was nabbed by State
Patrolman R. M. Perry half a block
away, and the latter arrested by
City Patrolman Herbert Enck in
East Findlay an hour later.
The three crashes climaxed a wild
five-mile chase from south of Find
lay.
Red Cross Quota
Is Topped
All of the contributions received
so far in the Red Cross war relief
drive in Hancock county have been
forwarded to national Red Cross
headquarters at Washington, D. C.,
according to Col. R. R. Groves,
chairman of the drive Friday the
amount had reached $3,150, which
was $150 above the original quota
set for the county.
Contributions still are being re
ceived as the need is becoming in
creasingly great.
T. B. Reactors Are
Found
Four hundred and sixteen positive
and suspicious reactors were found
in the tuberculin skin tests conduct
ed in Findlay and Hancock county
schools during April by members of
the Hancock County Medical Society.
Results of the tests have been
mailed to the parents of all children
who were treated and already a
number of those whose readings were
either positive or suspicious have had
x-ray pictures taken to ascertain if
they have tuberculosis.
Dog Wardens To Urge
Educational Program
A discussion of educational work
that should be accomplished in the
various counties by dog wardens,
was the feature of a meeting of
northwestern Ohio dog wardens
Thursday in the Hancock county
court house. Twenty-five canine
catchers attended.
War Maneuvers Are
Ended
Part of the south experienced dur
ing the past month, what seemed ac
tual warfare, but it was only sham
combat of some 72,000 men, in which
Dr. Porter Pennington, of Findlay,
lieutenant colonel in the medical
corps of the officers reserve, par
ticipated.
Lightning Strikes In
Six Places
Lightning struck in at least half
a dozen places in Findlay last Fri
day during a severe electrical and
thunderstorm.
Part of the roof was damaged
when lightning struck the home of
Glen Switzer. A tree in Riverside
park was split by lightning and a
tree was set afire near the Findlay
Airport. Lightning also truck a
traffic light in Main street.
$10,091 Budget For
Hancock Fair
Announcement was made this week
by directors of the Hancock County
Agricultural society that a budget of
$10,091 has been set up for the third
annual county fair which will be
held Sept. 4 to 7.
The budget exceeds by $6,000 the
amount spent for the first fair in
1938 and is only $700 less than the
amount spent in 1939. Directors have
estimated receipts for 1940 at $4,000
thru state and county aid, $2,000
thru the sale of membership tickets
and $4,000 from entry fees, conces
sion rights and gate receipts.
Texas Trucking Law
A law in Texas says it is unsafe to
haul a load of more than 7,000
pounds on a truck, except when the
truck is going to a railroad station,
when 14,000 pounds may be hauled.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
HARDIN COUNTY
Kenton Angler
Catches Robin
Fred Hathaway, Kenton business
man and lodge official, last week told
the season most unusual fish story.
He and William Sharp were hav
ing exceptional luck fly-fishing at
Turkey Foot on Indian Lake when
his fly lodged in the breast of a
robin flying overhead. He reeled in
the bird and was kept busy for sev
eral minutes fighting robin and hook
before he was able to free the un
willing “fish”. The robin promptly
flew away.
Old Bank Is Closed
The Hardin County Bank of For
est, established in the early 1890’s,
last week completed the liquidation
of its assets and closed its doors for
ever. Services of the closed bank
were assumed by the First National
Bank of Forest which was founded
in 1904.
20 Get Flying Diplomas
Twenty Ohio Northern University
students this month will reveive di
plomas for completion of the student
flying course under the Civil Aero
nautics Administration’s program.
Dola Judging Team
Is Good
Dola high school’s poultry judging
team placed forth among 86 teams in
the annual co-ag judging contests
held at Columbus last Friday and
Saturday, according to word received
by Vernon A. McNair, Dola vo-ag
teacher.
The team was made up of Edward
Hiler who placed third high among
individuals in the event, Charles
Kahler and Nelson Fall.
Leave Without Paying
Food Bills
Kenton city police ar? searching
for three women, one man and a
child, who left the Bell cafe, operat
ed by Clarence Sharp, without pay
ing a food bill of $1.65. Sharp told
police that when the party finished
eating, they went to a wash room
above the place and probably left
thru an outside stairway without
coming back. They were riding in
a pick-up truck, bearing a Michigan
license.
Hardin County Popula
tion Lower
Hardin county lost some 628 in
population during the last 10 years
with the 1940 census showing a total
of 27,007 as compared to a total of
27,635 persons in the county in 1930,
the figures showed. Outside Kenton
in 1940 were 19,448 persons and out
sied this city in 1930 were 20,566,
the report showed.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Highway To Be
Re-located
Relocation of State Route 65 from
the south corporation line of Colum
bus Grove to Belmore near the Put
nam-Henry county line became a defi
nite project of the State Highway
department Saturday after about a
year of planning for the job.
O. C. Kohli, engineer for District
No. 1 of the department announced
here that his office has completed a
survey of the proposed new route
and submitted the plans to the Co
lumbus office.
However, no figures were avail
able on the estimated costs of the
project.
Dehydrating Plant In
Operation
The alfalfa dehydrating plant of
the Ohio Sugar company started its
season’s run early last week, but
due to heavy rains throughout this
community, several delays and shut
downs were experienced during the
first week. John Pfeifler, president
of the Ottawa plant, stated that the
rains made the fields entirely too
soft, and much damage would be
caused to the field and especially
the land if cuttings were continued.
Beer Truck Looted
In Ottawa
Sheriff Arnold Potts and his dep
uty, Ralph Geckle, are investigating
a daylight beer robbery which took
place at Ottoville on the afternoon
of Decoration Day. No clues to the
robbery were unfolded by the offi
cials this week.
A Lima truck driver, by the name
of Long, notified the county officials
that fifteen cases of beer were taken
from his truck while he was parked
in an alley in Ottoville.
Relief Costs Lower
In Putnam
It cost $722.06 less to finance di
rect poor relief in Putnam county
during May, 1940, than during the
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Director Bonnie B. Corns reported.
She said that the total cost for
last month in Putnam county was
$2,284.76 which represents a drop of
almost 25 per cent from the 1939
total for May.
She said there were 140 cases in
cluding 541 persons on relief last
month.
Putnam Institutes New
Fire Protection Setup
The recently instituted program of
rural fire protection is being pioneer
ed in Putnam county by two north
eastern townships, official of the sub
divisions reported.
A plan has been worked out by the
trustees of Liberty and Van Buren
townships with the Leipsic village
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fires that break out in either of the
two townships.
Power Line Worker
Hurt
Fred Ruff, of near Spencerville, is
in Lima Memorial hospital with third
degree burns about the hands and
feet suffered when he was said to
have come into contact with a high
power wire while working on a
Rural Electrification project near Ot
toville Tuesday of last week.
Ruff, an employe of the Davis
Hydaker Construction company, of
Spencervile, was a son of Benjamin
Ruff, who died last year after being
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burned in an explosion of a trans
former while working for the Ohio
Power company.
Sportsman Officers
Named
Frank Warren of Ottawa, was
elected chairman of the sportsman
farmer committee for District No. 1
of the state conservation department
during the first meeting of the rep
resentatives from the 13 counties in
the district headquarters at Ottawa
last week.
The group also elected Robert Wil
son of Lima as vice-chairman and
Freeman Samsal of Columbus Grove,
secretary. Delegates from the dis
trict to the state lay committee
which meet in Columbus June 11
were Wilson as the sportsman and
Mark Bordner of Montpeliner, as the
farmer. Alternates were Lowel Gil
bert of Celina, sportsman, and Lester
Fink, farmer.
Notice To Bidders
Bids will be received by the Coun
cil of the Village of Bluffton, Ohio,
for re-decorating the council cham
ber. Specifications may be obtained
at the office of the village clerk.
Each bidder will be required to state
the name and quality of materials
which he proposes to furnish. All
bids to be in hands of the clerk by
3 p. m., Monday, June 17, 1940. The
right is reserved to reject any or all
bids.
By order of Bluffton Village
Council.
7 James F. West, Clerk.
Frozen Fruit Juiees
Well adapted to freezing are the
juices of apple, cherry, rhubarb,
pineapple, currant and raspberry.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estate of Mrs. Orpha West Harris Deceased
Notice is hereby given that Naomi F. West
whose Post Office address is 217 S. M&in St.,
Bluffton. Ohio, has been duly appointed and
qualified as administratrix of the Estate of
Mrs. Orpha West Harris late of Allen County,
Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1940.
RAYMOND P. SMITH
Judge of the Probate Court,
1
Allen County. Ohio 9
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estate of Eli Locher Deceased
Notice is hereby given that Estella Locher
whose Post Office address is Bluffton, Ohio,
has been duly apiointed and qualified as ex
ecutrix of the Estate of Eli Locher late of
Allen County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 6th day of June 1940.
RAYMOND P. SMITH
Judge of the Probate Court,
Allen County, Ohio 9