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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940
ALLEN COUNTY
First Santa Letter Sent
Lima has at least one child who
believes in getting his bid in early
for presents from Santa Claus.
Post office clerks reported
city’s first Santa Claus letter of
year unstamped and bearing no
turn address, has been turned over
to the dead letter department. The
missive was dropped in a box slot
last week.
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New County Game
Warden Named
Charles E. Hanes, 66, of Lima,
Allen county game protector for 38
years, will go on retirement Monday,
according to word received from Co
lumbus. He was Ohio’s oldest
w’arden in years of service.
game
J. J.
serv-
Hanes will be succeeded by
John, of Elida, who has been
ing provisionally as deputy warden
since last September.
Hanes was appointed in September,
1902, by Conservation Chief J. C.
Porterfield, and now heads a staff
of eight deputies in the county.
Rabies Spread Brings
Quarantine
quarantine on dogs was ex
by city and county health of
last week to include all of
The
tended
ficials
Lima and Bath and American town
ships and police were ordered to
“shoot on sight” any animals run
ning at large.
The action followed the reporting
of the second canine death attributed
to rabies. Dr. James B. Poling, city
health officer, said that although no
one had been reported bitten, 11 per
sons who handled the infected pets
now are receiving preventative treat
ments.
Leaps Thru Glass In
Flight From Police
James Carter, 35, colored, was cut
severely by flying glass Thursday
night as he fled from authorities who
surprised him in an alleged attempt
to burglarize Madison’s Dress shop,
in Lima.
Carter, who says he has no home,
was booked at police headquarters
on burglary charges early Friday
after being given first aid treatment
in Memorial hospital for head and
face cuts.
Officers Frank Yost and Emmett
Scott nabbed him at 10:30 p. m.
Thursday seconds after he plunged
thru the front door glass in the
clothing store.
Junked Rails Bring
$20,000
The Lima street department
swelled its working fund by $20,000
by selling 1,500 tons of steel rails,
tie plates and copper from aban
doned street car lines to the Edel
man Iron and Metal Co. and Alex
Miller, both of Lima. The money is
to be
moval
pairs.
used for additional rail
projects and other street
re
re-
FSA Loans Are
Available
Beit O. Marshall, Allen county
Farm Security administration super
visor, announced Thursday that ap
plications from farm tenant and
farm labor families for FSA loans
to buy farms are being accepted.
Application forms are available at
his office in the Post Office building.
Marshall, reporting that the loans
are on the basis of 40 years at three
per cent interest, said filing of an
application does not assure a loan.
Army Recruiting Post
At Lima
An army recruiting station which
will serve 11 counties in northwest
ern Ohio was opened last week in the
Lima post office. The station is in
charge of Capt. Phillip C. Wahlbom
and Corp. Joseph F. Price, both of
Ft. Hayes, Columbus.
Man Shot In Finger
William Anderson, 69, colored, of
Lima, was released from city jail
Wednesday and charges against him
of shooting with intent to wound
were withdrawn, Chief of Police
James C. Goodwin, announced.
He was arrested last Saturday
after he told police he shot Ow*en
Hughes, 67, of Lima, during an
argument in the 1100 block of S.
Union street. Hughes lost part of
finger as a result of the shooting.
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Civil Service Exam
Announced
Announcement of open activitive
examination for the position of as
sistant physiologist at Wrikht Field,
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
Dayton, has been announced by the
United States Civil Service examina
tion board.
Applicants must show that they
have successfully completed a full
four-year course leading to a bache
lor’s degree in a college or university
of recognized standing with major
study in biological science including
at least one course in mammalian
physiology.
Escape Plans Are
Thwarted
Lawrence Steiner, 47, and David
Mitchell, 27, who tried to escape
from the Lima State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane are back in their old
cells. They sawed several bars from
the window of the laundry room in
the basement of the hospital, but
were nabbed by attendants before
they could get out of the building.
CCC Enrollment Below
Quota
Current demand of industry for
young men was reflected during en
rolling of youths for CCC duty at
the Lima armory Tuesday.
Ten northwestern Ohio counties,
including Allen, had an aggregate
quota of 140 youths but only 79
were admitted. A few others wrere
rejected for physical defects. Allen
county sent 33 young men, including
four colored enrollees.
Examiners Laud Lima
Lima officials and departments
were lauded in a state examiners’
report filed last w’eek with City
Clerk A. J. Filliez.
The reported pointed out that the
municipal indebtedness had been
drastically reduced in the 18-month
period covered by the report. “With
the same diligence and caution in the
future, we believe the city can re
alize more working funds from tax
revenues and build up the credit
structure”, the examiners w’rote.
No Vacations Because
Of Defense Program
In order to cooperate with labor
demands of the national defense pro
gram, vacation schedules have been
“indefinitely postponed’’ for nine of
the 11 employes of the Lima office
of the Ohio Bureau of Unemploy
ment Compensation.
This announcement was made Fri
day by J. W. Saunders, manager,
who said the postponement order
was issued by State Administiator
H. C. Atkinson and affects about
1200 of the 2000 employes in 52
offices in the state.
Buy Visual Education
Equipment
The Lima board of education last
w’eek voted to purchase three sound
film projectors for use in the grade
schools as “visual aids” to education
at an approximate cost of 850.
TSe action was taken after Supt.
McLean Reed reported that use of
motion pictures had been rec.»m
mended by the special visual educa
tion committee “to establish more
meaningful concepts and eliminate
verbalism from results of instruc
tions.”
County Sewage Plants
In Operation
Ending years of pressure by State
Health department officials, The Al
len County Board of Cornmus1oners
Friday afternoon put into operation
the new sewage disposal plants at
the Children’s Home and Cjunty In
firmary.
With Commissioners Homer Hilty
and H. T. Morris, Construction En
gineer H. A. Stepleton, of Toledo,
and Supt. Jess Cochran standing by,
Commissioner Harry L. Burgess
twisted the 20-pound iron “key”
which started the flow of treated
sewage from the infirmary’s gravity
feed purification system into the
sand filter bed.
The children’s home plant had been
checked and put into operation a few
hours earlier.
The plants were constructed by
WPA labor at a total cost of $15,
876.09, and the new circular-type
sand filters are the first of the kind
installed in Ohio.
Cow One Of Best
In State
A registered Holstein owned by S.
S. Smith, of near
completed a record
second place in the
three-year-olds on
daily, the Holstein-Friesian associa
tion of America announced Satur
day.
much milk and more than three and
one-half times as much butterfat as
that of the average dairy cow in
the country.
HANCOCK COUNTY
CCC Enrollee Steals
Five Autos
Chief of Police Leo M. Larkins
of Findlay last week said that Lloyd
G. Everingham, 18, Toledo CCC en
rolee at the Findlay camp, confessed
the theft of five automobiles having
en aggregate value of $2,150 in three
days during June. All of the cars
have been recovered.
Following Everingham’s arrest, ef
fected thru an investigation con
ducted by Findlay police and CCC
camp officials, the youth involved a
companion, Frank Nyari, 17, also of
Toledo. Police said the latter ac
companied Everingham on only one
theft.
Rider Breaks Arm As
Horse Falls
Porter L. Shuck, of the Carey road
near Findlay, was injured w’hen the
saddle horse which he was riding
slipped and fell with him about 5:30
o’lock Wednesday morning. His left
arm was fractured just below the
shoulder and he received painful
bruises.
Mr. Shuck was riding out to bring
in the cows and horses as is his cus
tom each morning. The horse slip
ped in the barnyard.
Gasoline Theft Is
Prevented
Two Kentucky youths
Sheriff Lyle Harvitt said
whom
were
frightened away from a Hancock
county farm Thursday night before
they could steal some gasoline, are
being held at the jail pending a
further investigation.
A third member of the gang, whom
authorities said they were told was
the ring leader, is still at liberty.
Truck Wrecks City’s
Lights
A. R. Cole, Findlay service-safety
director, said he had no objection to
the kind of vehicles which traversed
Main street, but he did oppose tear
ing down the city’s white-way lights.
The matter came to issue when a
large oil tank was being hauled thru
Main street on a truck shattering
two street lights and tearing down a
guy wire.
More Cigaret Licenses
Sold
Cigaret license fees collected in
Hancock county in the last year
amounted to $5,046,58 as compared
with $4,702.77 in the corresponding
period of a year previously. The in
creased amount is due to an increase
from 162 to 180 in the number
cigaret retail licenses.
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Lima, has just
entitling her to
state for junior
three milkings
Homestead Prospect Della, as this
Holstein is officially known, pro
duced while on advanced registry
test 17,341 pounds milk with 631.1
pounds butterfat. This production is
nearly four and one-half times as
of
Refugee May Find
Home In Findlay
At least one Findlay family has
made application to take a war refu
gee child into their home, according
to the Rev. John Evans Knox, pastor
of Trinity Episcopal Church, who
said he will forward the application
to the United States Committee fur
the Care of Orphan Children.
If approved, it is likely that at
least one child from the 60,000 child
ren in the British Isles who are mi
grating to points of safety, will find
temporary home in Findlay.
Bluffton Mfg. Co
Expands
The first six months of 1940 brot
30 per cent gain in business for
the Bluffton Manufacturing Co., it
was announced by F. C. Burk, man
ager. He said it has been necessary
to install additional equipment and
tools, and to increase employment by
better than 26 per cent.
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The company manufactures wash
ing machines, power mowers and
other electrical devices.
New Findlay Y. M.
A. Opens
Findlay’s new Young Men’s Chris
tian Association building is now
completed and ready for use.
The new structure which was op
ened last week, has been termed by
authorities the most up-to-date small
er city association buildings in Ohio
and probably the entire country. Its
extensive and modern facilities, its
attractive and serviceable furnish
ings and its artistic beauty combine
to make it genuinely distinctive.
1000 At I. 0. O. F. Mee
The five-day state convention of
two branches of the Independent
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Order of Odd Fellows came to a
close in Findlay last week with the
installation of officers of the Ohio
Grand Encanmpment. It was esti
mated that more than 1,000 visitors
were in Findlay at various times for
the state meetings which were held
at that place in honor of A. G. Ful
ler, a leader in I. O. 0. F. work for
more than 50 years and a former
grand patriarch of the Grand En
campment.
Thugs Loot Gasoline
Station
Approximately $30 in merchandise
and pennies were taken from the Joe
Swartz filling staton in North Balti
more Wednesday of last week, by a
group of men who were reported to
be driving a stolen car.
The only clue left was a large
whip, similar to the kind used in
stock yards. Harvey Walters, living
nearby, heard the shattering of glass.
He said he noticed a group of men
at the station, went to a neighbor’s
home and telephoned to Marshal
John Neil.
Forty new cases have been added
to the rolls of aid for the aged in
Hancock county effective with July
payments as a result of the recent
action of the Ohio general assembly
in appropriating additional funds for
that purpose.
This action brings the total num
ber of aid for the aged recipients in
Hancock county to 1,134, in increase
from 1,107 in June of this year.
Total aid payments in Hancock
county for July will be $25,385
compared with $24,806 in June,
an increase of $579 a month.
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Stores Close Each
Thursday
of
The summer half-holiday policy
Findlay stores started last Thurs
day afternoon when local establish
ments closed during the afternoon.
Each Thursday afternoon during
July and August, the local stores
will remain closed.
120 Enoll In Defense
School
One hundred twenty persons have
applied for instruction in the voca
tional classes at Findlay provided by
the federal government in the new
national defense program, Fred L.
Kinley, superintendent, announced.
Classes will start Monday in the vo
cational department of Findlay High
school.
HARDIN COUNTY
School Buses Travel
858 Miles Daily
county school
miles of all
according to
Buses in the Hardin
system covered 858.45
kinds of roads daily,
Ambert Wagner, deputy Hardin
county engineer. The data will be
submitted to the state department of
education.
Figures show that in this county
2,447 school children were transport
ed in 59 buses in the nine districts
during last year and it is estimated
that a similar number will be trans
ported during the coming year.
$874 Released By State
The office of State Auditor Joseph
T. Ferguson, released $874 from
June collections of beer, malt, wort
and admission taxes to Hardin coun
ty.
Check River By Boat
Lloyd Volk, fish management agent,
and Jack Rodebaugh, assistant, start
ed from the Carmean bridge, west
of Kenton, down the Scioto river in
a boat and will continue to Belle
point in Delaware county. The two
men, employed by the bureau of fish
management in the state department
of conservation, will survey the river
as they travel.
745 Cases In Courts
A total of 745 cases were handled
by the Hardin county common pleas
and probate courts during the fiscal
year which ended June 30, 1940, ac
cording to the annual report of Ray
Patterson, Hardin county clerk of
courts. Hardn county sent 23 cases
to the Third district court of ap
peals during the year.
Sign Firms May Pool
Output
W. A. Sidey, sales and promotion
manager of the Scioto Sign Co., of
Kento for 24 years, has resinged to
direct the promotion end of a nation
wide sign manufacturing merger, de
signed to poll the output of a ma
jority of the smaller metal sign man
ufacturers in the United States. He
said Kenton may be made a distribu
tion depot for the central states.
State Intervenes In
Lodge Dispute
The state aerie of Eagles stepped
into the dispute of Eagles at Kenton
and appointed Millard E. Timmons
as president to replace C. F. Karrick.
The social rooms of the lodge also
were ordered closed until a complete
investigation of the local argument,
centered about the discharge of a
custodian, has been made.
Four Hurt In Cross
ing Crash
A Chicago couple and their two
children were injured, all seriously,
when their auto was struck by a
Big Four freight train at a crossing
three miles north of Forest on U. S.
Route 30-N at about 9:30 o’clock last
Tuesday morning.
REA Lines Are
Energized
A total of 35 miles of the 125-mile
REA lines in Hardin and surround
ing counties now under construction,
had received their first energy last
Thursday, according to Major T. B.
Browm, resident engineer.
Ten miles of line wrere energized
Thursday morning. Tuesday, seven
miles of line w’ere charged. The D.
and W. Construction Co., contractors
of the w'ork, are pushing installa
tion and expect to finish within a
few’ w’eeks.
$60,000 Sports Goods
Shipment
Four carloads of merchandise pro
duced by the Ohio Kentucky Manu
facturing Co., of Ada, and small
shipments amounting to $60,000 are
being farwarded to jobbers and re
tailers throughout the United States,
officials of the company announced.
The shipment includes footballs,
basketballs, volley balls, soccer balls,
and boxing gloves and bags that
have been in process of manufac
ture since January.
Teacher May Not Re
turn To England
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hidden have
returned to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Wilson in Ada, after an
extensive trip through the w’est. Mr.
Hidden, who was exchange English
teacher at Kenton high school last
year, has not decided on plans for
the future.
He has been offered a teaching
post in California but has not defi
nitely accepted, he said,
not know at this time if
back to England.
He does
he will go
Guns
New Machine
For Ada O. N. G.
Eight new 30-caliber machine guns
were received last week by Co. H,
Ada’s national guard machine gun
unit. Sixteen of the guns now are
on hand, and the unit expects to re
ceive 12 Garand automatic rifles, tw’o
50-caliber machine guns and one
eight-millimeter mortar, Capt, Justin
McElroy said.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Grove Post Office Now
Second Class
VIanced
office,
third
again
The Columbus Grove post
w’hich has wavered between
and second class rating, has
resumed second class because of ad
revenue.
The change w’as effective after
July 7.
State Park At Cascade
Notification that state conservation
employes will start work of estab
lishing a park at Cascade this week,
was received by State Representative
Thomas F. McElroy, of Putnam
county.
The state department plans to
clear the debris and underbrush
from a grove on the west side of the
Auglaize river, construct a shelter
house near the grove and to gener
ally beautify the grounds this sum
mer.
Further improvements, such as the
construction of a dam to provide
water for a swimming and boating
reservoir are planned for 1941, the
representative has been promised by
H. L. Wheelock, chief of inland lakes
and parks of the conservation divis
ion.
Civil War Vet Drives
Auto
Richard Reece, who makes his
home with a son on a farm four
miles north of West Leipsic, is one
Civil War veteran who still drives
his own automobile. He is 94.
$29,885 Road Improve
ment Started
Work was started Thursday on the
$29,885 WPA project of improving
the Gilboa road, east of Ottawa, it
was announced by WPA officials.
Of the total cost, the federal gov
ernment will spend $17,526 and the
sponsor $12,359. The federal funds
will be divided $15,795 for labor and
$1,731 for materials while the spon
sor’s share will be made up of $11,
959 for materials and $400 for labor.
Visual Education In
County Schools
the
the
Visual education program for
Putnam county schools during
1940-41 term has been completed and
provides for 14 units of films for the
two circuits of schools, it was an
nounced by County Supt. Carl D.
Vermilya.
Several lower grades have been
added to the circuit this year and 12
schools will participate. They are:
Circuit One Pandora, Columbus
Grove, Vaughnsville, Ft. Jennings,
Ottoville and Kalida Circuit Two—
Ottawa, Blanchard Township, Leip
sic, Palmer Township, Continental
and Glandorf.
Cdlumbus Grove Buys
New Fire Truck
Columbus Grove and Pleasant
Township have ordered a new fire
truck, two-thirds of the cost to be
paid by the village.
Eliminate County’s
One-Room Schools
In preparation for the centraliza
tion program which will be carried
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out when the 1940-41 ter mbegins,
the Ottavra board of education has
arranged purchase of new equipment
which will cost more than $3,000,
County Supt. Carl D. Vermilya an
nounced recently.
A new bus is being bought for
about $2,200. It will have a Super
ior Coach Corp, body and an Inter
national chassis.
Also, the board is buying 60 desks
and a number of chairs and tables
for the lower grades. These are ex
pected to cost about another $1,000.
This centralization program will
eliminate the one-room Prentiss, Cen
ter and Markley schools next term
as a part of the long-term consolida
tion program of the Putnam county
school authorities.
Woman, 100, At Son’s
Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Cowden cele
brated their golden wedding anni
versary at their home near Columbus
Grove Thursday.
The principal guest was Mrs.
Elizabeth Cowden, mother of
Cowden, of Columbus Grove, who
celebrated her 100th birthday anni
versary last January.
Appointed To State
Post
Appointment of Miss Rita Gerde
man to the post of secretary-recep
tionist at the state hospital in Gal
lipolis was announced recently at
Ottawa. She begins her duties at
once.
Miss Gerdeman will reside at the
hospital. She is the daughter of
Mrs. Mary B. Gerdeman of Ottawra
Route 2, and was graduated from
Sts. Peter and Paul high school of
Ottawa in the class of 1937.
Farm Valuations
Higher
Increase of $8.51 per acre in the
valuation of Putnam county farm
land during the fiscal year ending
July 1, 1940, is noted in the annual
statistical report released by County
Recarder
acres of
deeds in
Henry A. Kistler.
considerations for 3,016
farm land were listed in
the recorder’s office show­
Actual
Chinch Bugs Not
Serious
Chinch bugs will not be a serious
pest during this year to Putnam
county farmers, County Agent Ralph
Dush announced after a thoro check
of farms.
The agent said that his survey
covered six different fields in Ottawa,
Sugar Creek, Jackson, Greensburg,
Palmer and Liberty townships, or a
cross section of the county.
Nevertheless, several fields will be
attacked by the bugs but the amount
of damage is expected to be kept at
a minimum. One reason for this
decrease in danger from chinch bug
is the wet w’eather that has visited
this country. These bugs are thick
in dry seasons, usually appearing a
few days after wheat cutting.
NOTICE!
The Amstutz Cannery
will operate every Tuesday
and Friday until further
notice.
Amstutz Cannery
North of Bluffton on College Rd.
Bluffton Phone 635-Y
for Your Fields
Ground limestone from our quarry
has a neutralizing power
of 98.75%.
This report from the Ohio Agricultural Experi
ment Station at Wooster was made following an ex
amination of our limestone. The report is on file at
our office.
Buy Bluffton limestone and save expensive
freight charges.
Our service includes hauling to your farm and
spreading on your fields.
Phone us today for prices.
Eluffton Stone Co
Phone 142-W
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$227,258
acre as
recorded
price of
ing a total sale price of
which averages $75.35 per
compared with 2,951 acres
last year for a total sale
$197,245 or $66.84 per acre.
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