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PAGE SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
Injured Man Saves
Plant
J. E. Rider, 51, engineer at the
Spencerville municipal power plant,
was praised for averting serious
damage to his machinery by remain
ing on the job despite painful in
juries.
He was scalded on his face and
body when a boiler exploded, and
fear was felt for a time that he
might lose his eyesight. In spite of
his injuries, he groped about reg
ulating valves before summoning an
other engineer by telephone. He
was alone at the time.
Two Die In Headon
Collision
E. M. Thompson, 41, of Dunkirk,
and Mrs. Gene Albright, 35, of
Galion were killed last Friday in a
head-on automobile-truck collision on
the slippery Harding Highway.
Thompson was pinned in his se
dan. The top had to be cut before
his body could be removed. Mrs.
Albright was riding in a light truck
with Mrs. Anna Kerr, 46, of Iberia
and her daughter, Pauline Kerr, 16,
who were injured seriously.
Attorney Ordered To
Pay $1.00 Fine
Elmer McClain, Lima attorney
who took to the Third District
Court of Appeals his own case in
volving $1 traffic fine levied in Lima
municipal court, was ordered by the
appeals judge to pay the fine and
costs which totalled nearly $20.
Urges Drinking Ban
Near Churches
Rep. L. H. Myers of Lima told
officers attending the midyear ex
ecutive meeting of the Ohio Wo
men’s Christian Temperance Union
at Columbus on Wednesday night
that he favored a law prohibiting
sale of liquor within 500 yards of a
church or educational institution.
The W.C.T.U. adopted a resolution
endorsing a measure along those
lines already introduced into the
Ohio legislature by Rep. Myers.
Have Four Sons In
Service
With the call of C. B. “Crit”
Taylor, a reserve officer, to active
service in the U. S. Navy, Mr. and
Mrs. E. B. Taylor of Lima, Friday
boasted of four sons serving under
Uncle Sam’s colors.
The fourth son left Friday morn
ing for the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station where he will serve
as a lieutenant, junior grade. He
will be assistant officer in charge of
the station’s educational center.
His brother, Ted, is a lieutenant
commander in the Navy department,
Washington. Richard is a flying
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
cadet at Brooks Field, Tex., and
Thomas is an ensign on the U. S. S.
Nebraska now in the Pacific.
Lafayette Mayor
Is Dead
Curtis L. Bierly, 67, mayor of
Lafayette and a former president of
the Lima Automobile club, died late
Friday in Memorial hospital of com
plications following an operation. Ill
for the last year, Bierly had been a
patient at the institution about a
week.
Born July 22, 1873 in Wayne, O.,
Bierly had been a resident of this
vicinity for 42 years.
Mayor of the village of Lafayette
for the past 12 years, he served as
president of the Lima Auto club in
1938 and 1939 and for the last 24
years he had been a member of the
board of governors of the organiza
tion.
Negro Wins Suit
Against Eating
Place
George Conrad, 37, employe of a
hamburger shop at 131 E. High
street, pleaded guilty before Judge
M. B. Jenkins Thursday to a charge
of denying a colored citizen the
privileges and advantages of eating
in the establishment.
He was given a 30 day suspend
ed term in the county jail and as
sessed costs of $10.40.
Previously Conrad pleaded not
guilty to the charge filed by Jerry
Brown.
Chain Leases Lima
Hotel
The Norval hotel at Lima has
been leased for a 10-year period to
Milner Hotels, Inc., nationwide chain,
and the new management will take
over operation of the local hostelry
immediately.
This announcement was made Fri
day by T. E. O’Connor and J. R.
Beatley, of Russell Point, owners
of the building.
Central Wins State
Debate Title
Lima Central high school debaters
are champions of the Class A divi
sion of the state.
Defeating the crack Canton Mc
Kinley squad, the Central speakers
under direction of Coach Stanley
Boylan were declared winners by the
judges Saturday afternoon in com
petition at Columbus.
Month Remains For
AAA Signers
With less than a month remain
ing for Allen county farmers to sign
the farm plan for participation in
the National Farm program, Clair
A. Patterson, county AAA chairman,
Saturday declared that more farm
ers in Ohio will cooperate in the
program in 1941 than in any one
“GOOD LUCK”
GENUINE—4-LEAF CLOVER—KEY CHAIN
TO ALL CUSTOMERS ENTERING OUR STATION
SATURDAY, APRIL 12th
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POLYMERIZED—LEADED-REGULAR OR
JOHNSON ETHYL GASOLENE
FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE BEST
LOW PRICE V A if v HIGH quality
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BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS
RALPH I II 111
South Main Street and Bentley Road
Phone 455-Y for Tank Truck deliveries.
Third Grade (CHEAP) Gasolene is NOT sold at Brilliant Bronze Stations.
year since the beginning of the
AAA.
Reports from community com
mitteemen who have been contacting
farmers personally, and from sign
up meetings held in different sec
tions of Allen county, show that 900
farmers to date have signed the
farm plan for 1941. The deadline
is May 1.
Loco Hires Entire
Defense Class
Lack Of pre-employment defense
training classes proved to be a
boomerang to Lima and a benefit
to Van Wert in alleviating unem
ployment conditions, according to in
formation given to William B.
Schmuhl, Toledo, WPA district
manager.
Increases in orders, requiring the
hiring of persons having machine
shop practice, caused officials of the
Lima Locomotive Works to go to
Van Wert when the trained men
were not available in Lima.
A pre-employment defense train
ing class in Van Wert, sponsored by
the Van Wert Board of Education
in conjunction with the Marsh
Foundation School trustees, benefited
by Lima’s lack of trained workers,,
when Lima Locomotive Works of
ficials hired the entire personnel of
the class.
County Clerk “Sees
Double”
Joy K. Huber, deputy in the office
of Allen county clerk of courts, ac
tually was “seeing double” Satur
day.
Huber received five alimony pay
ments totaling 44.44, as follows:
$10.10, $5.05, $12.12 and $12.12.
Money paid by check totaled
$17.17 and by cash $27.27.
Tax Drop Puzzle To
Officials
Allen county officials were scratch
ing their heads Saturday in bewild
erment over the current sharp drop
in personal and classified property
tax collections.
Treasurer Byron H. Dershem re
ported that the week’s collection of
$9,899.69 in classified taxes brought
the first half 1940 total to only
$44,697.67, which is $5,173 short of
a year ago, and that the week’s re
ceipts of $19,401.14 in personal taxes
brought the first half total for that
levy to $57,387.50, or $20,090.76 less
than for the previous year.
HANCOCK COUNTY
No Bus Service For
Mt. Cory
The Cincinnati and Lake Erie
Bus company Tuesday was granted
permission by the state utilities
commission in Columbus to abandon
its route of about a mile between
Mt. Cory and the Dixie highway.
Lack of traffic sufficient to justify
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the service into the village was giv
en as the reason.
For some time, service into the
village has been irregular, certain
buses making the detour, chiefly
when there were passengers aboard
for the village. The irregular ser
vice brought complaints and the
company asked for permission to
abandon it altogether, which per
mission now has been granted.
Held For Breaking
Into House
Virgil G. Van Horn, 59, Amanda
township farmer, is in the county
jail in default of $1,000 bond set by
Justice J. C. Dunn, who set the
man’s preliminary hearing for
Thursday afternoon. He pleaded not
guilty.
Van Horn is charged with break
ing into the uninhabited dwelling
house of Harley Clark in Amanda
township on March 6.
Old Documents Found
In Building
Documents, newspapers and coins
were brought to light in North
Baltimore last week, after being
sealed up for 51 years in a tin box
imbedded in the cornerstone of the
Methodist Church, demolition of
which was started this week, prepar
atory to the construction of the new
building at the comer of Second
and Water streets.
The contents were badly decom
posed.
Findlay Legal Dean
Is Dead
George H. Phelps, 86, for more
than 50 years an attorney in Find
lay, died last week in his home,
2210 North Main street, from in
firmities of age. I’helps gave up
his law practice a year ago. At the
time he had the distinction of being
Findlay’s oldest practicing attorney
both in age and in years of service.
In April 1886, Phelps came to
Findlay where he became associated
in the legal profession with the late
Judge M. C. Whitely.
Rawson Man Writes
Novel
Frank L. Hower, a former Raw
son man, now with the U. S. navy,
has just had a novel, “Brass But
tons,” published under the name of
Jack Rawson.
The story is based somewhat on
his experiences at sea while in the
navy. He has had a number of
short stories published, but this is
his first novel. He also has had
some experience as a song writer.
He is a son of Frank Hower and
a brother of Paul and Charles
Hower, all of Rawson.
Drunk Arrests Are
Increasing
Twenty-two arrests for drunken
ness, the greatest number for a
single month in the history of the
police department, were made in
March, according to Police Chief
Leo M. Larkins.
Arrests for all offenses totalled
68 last month, including 15 for in
vestigation. Sixty-three were made
during March of 1940.
Findlay May Sell
Car Rails
The federal government has fixed
maximum prices at which iron and
steel scrap may be sold, and the
city of Findlay is giving serious
consideration to a proposal that the
steel car rails left in Lima avenue,
Tiffin avenue and Center street fol
lowing abandonment of the interur
ban electric railway systems years
ago, be disposed of.
Service Safety Director Albert R.
Cole estimated that the city would
have approximately 200 tons of rails
for sale.
$13,080 Distributed In
Sales Tax
Hancock county local government
units have just received a total of
$13,080.15, representing the first
1941 distribution of funds from the
Ohio sales tax. The amount is for
a period of the first three months
of the year, distribution having been
held up pending decision of the
legislature on the manner of allocat
ing.
HARDIN COUNTY
Marsh Welfare Pro
gram Continues
The Scioto Marsh Social center
will go into its fifth straight sum
mer as an interdenominational proj
ect, it was determined by the local
sponsoring committee, headed by
Hardin county Supt. of Schools
Frank C. Ransdell. It will be con
ducted only at Foraker this year.
The center near McGuffey will not
be opened, he said.
Miss Beatrice Greene, Methodist
deaconess who is doing full time
work on the marsh area, will be in
OHIO
chdrge of the center. It is expected
two or three aids may be secured
for her during the summer period.
The center will have the sponsorship
of the Ohio Council of Churches and
the Council of Women for Home
Missions.
Big Coon Dog Meet
Planned
Lawrence R. Bolenbaugh of
Kenton, treasurer of the Central
Ohio Field Trial club, estimated this
week that 75 or 80 of the best bird
dogs in the nation would be here
Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and
13, for the third annual spring field
trials on the Scott farms near Mt.
Victory.
Ada Waterworks Op
tion Extended
Ada’s option on the local water
system, scheduled to expire April 1,
has been extended until July 1 by
the American Gas and Electric Co.,
holding company of the Ohio Power
Co.
A hearing on the injunction suit,
involving the legality of $100,000 of
mortgage revenue bonds for the
purchase and improvement of the
system, is to be set Monday in
Hardin County Common Pleas Court.
The hearing was scheduled March
26, but was postponed by mutual
consent.
High School Boy Is
Busy Farmer
Vernon Clinger, president of the
Dunkirk high school junior class and
vice president of the F.F.A. chapter,
is a busy and good student, having
been a member of the honor society
for the past two years.
He believes in pork production and
has eight sows farrowing this spring.
In the field of crops he is scheduled
to grow 10 acres of clover, seven
acres of wheat, six acres of hybrid
corn and 21 acres of soybeans.
He keeps farm accounts on 160
acres, egg records on 100 laying
hens, and will test 10 acres of soil
this spring. He helps his father
farm 200 acres.
PUTNAM COUNTY
10-Day-Old Baby
Loses Appendix
Complete recovery of the 10-day
old infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Schaublin of near Columbus
Grove, is expected in Bluffton Com
munity hospital where it had been
operated on for appendicitis. Such
an operation is termed a rarity on
babies of that age. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Sargent of Columbus Grove
are the grandparents.
Complete Mailing
Draft Questionnaires
The last questionaire for selective
service in Putnam county was mail
ed out Monday.
Of the 2,720 questionaires, about
1,200 young men have been classi
fied. The completion of the dis
tribution is one of the first reported
in the state of Ohio by any draft
board.
Ottawa Gets New
Industry
A $40,000 subsidiary plant of
Weatherseal, Inc., of Barberton, O.,
is to be erected in Ottawa on East
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Second Street along the D. T. & I.
Railroad, it was announced by Presi
dent Frank Kahle of the Chamber
of Commerce.
Negotiations between the firm and
the Chamber were completed last
week. The building is to be com
pleted by Aug. 1. The firm makes
door and window coverings.
H. A. Etling, president of the
firm, said 25 persons will be em
ployed at the start of production.
Claims Record Egg
Production
Albert Wood claims a record egg
production for his 31 White Leghorn
pullets. In January they laid 498
eggs in February 594, and in March
803.
They were fed laying mash in the
morning and corn in the evening.
They have been inside since Novem
ber 1, not having been out on the
ground during that time.
$88,280 WPA Program
In County
All types of WPA projects now
in operation in Putnam county will
entail expenditures totaling $88,280
through June 30, 1941, it was re
ported by William B. Schmuhl,
Toledo, district supervisor.
Sponsors will pay $23,828 of this
total with the federal government
spending $64,452. Construction proj
ects will cost the most, $49,540 for
labor and $2,400 for non-labor from
the government with the sponsors
paying $20,000.
Construction projects include the
Columbus Grove sewer installation,
where 124 men are being employed
and the county road repair program
on which 98 WPA workers are be
ing employed.
Ottawa Gets Modern
Fire Truck
The new fire truck for Ottawa and
community was delivered to Ottawa
by representatives of the Seagrave
company, of Columbus, Wednesday
Our C-KA-GENE Feed Builds
Immunity To Bloody Cocci
diosis in Our Starting Mash
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941
1. There is nothing to mix. No flushing. No spray
ing. Just feed our C-Ka-Gene Ration from the
end of the third week to the end of the eighth
week.
2. Do not feed any Scratch Grain during this period
or you will dilute the effect of the treatment and
poorer results will be experienced. Our C-Ka-
The Bluffton Milling Co.
Increased yields from liming, plowing under’organic""matter,
planting more vigorous hybrid com, or dropping more seed per
hill or more hills per acre, all make greater drains on the soil.)
To maintain high yields, a grower, must keep a balanced supply
of plant food in the soil.
Many growers now use high-potash? fertilizers,^ like 13-12-12,
0-12-12, and 0-20-20. Plenty of potash keeps the conv* plants
healthy, with strong stalks which grow ears with plump kernels.'
Extra potash is needed if corn lodges, if the lower leaves show
brown marginal firing, or if the ears are chaffy and of poor feeding
quality.,'
Ask your county agent or experiment station how much available
plant food your soils contain and what fertilizer to apply. Then
make sure your dealer sells you one containing enough potash.
An increase of only 2l/a bushels of corn at 40c will pay for an
extra 10% potash in your corn fertilizer,applied _at,the,rate of
200 lbs. per acre.
Write for our free illustra
ted booklet on how much
plant food crops use.*
AMERICAN POTASH INSTITUTE, INC.
Investment Building Washington, D. C.
Midwest Office: Life Building, Lafayette, Indiana
afternoon. The truck was ordered
from the Columbus firm several
months ago at an approximate cost
of $7,000.
The new truck is the last word
in motor driven fire fighting equip
ment.
Wheat Survey To Be
Made Soon
Measuring of wheat acreage in
Putnam county for farmers who will
participate in the 1941 AAA pro
gram will be started in a few weeks.
Community soil conservation com
mitteemen met Monday night in the
county AAA headquarters and re
ceived instructions on measuring the
fields under the 1941 program.
Ottawa Doctor Called
By Army
Word was received last week that
Dr. Walter H. Matuska, Ottawa
physician who was ordered to report
for active service with the United
States army Monday, has been sent
to Ft. Knox, Ky.
He will be stationed at the hospi
tal there as a surgeon. Dr. Matuska
said when he left Ottawa that he
plans to return when his period of
service is completed and resume his
local practice.
Beef Feeders Tour
April 30
The eighth annual Putnam Co.
beef feeders tour date is set for
Wednesday, April 30th.
A committee of cattle feeders and
vocational agriculture teachers met
with the County Agent Thursday
evening to make plans for this an
nual event. It is planned to make
an afternoon tour starting at 1:00
o’clock and ending about 4:30 p. m.
A banquet and speakers’ program
to be held at 7:00 p. m. at Con
tinental will terminate the day’s
program.
News Want-Ads Bring Results.
Gene Ration must be the only feed given, if best
results are desired.
We are also using RATION-A YD to bring Vita
min of Cod Liver Oil and other Fish Oils—and
Milk’s B-G Vitamin factors to our Starter-Grower
mashes.
Regular Starter, per cwt......................................... $2.30
With C-Ka-Gene per cwt......................................... $2.55