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PAGE SIX ALLEN COUNTY Lima Hospital To Make Marriage Blood Tests Lima Memorial hospital is among the 33 hospitals or laboratories in the state which are now licensed to conduct serological tests on blood specimens as required under a new’ marriage law which becomes effecti\ e in Ohio on Aug. 18, State Health Director R. H. Markwith of Colum bus, announced Friday. Markwith pointed out that the Ohio Department of Health will perform seralogical tests on blood specimens only when the physician certifies that the applicants are unable to pay for the test at the listed laboratories. 700 Starlings Killed In One Night A “bird blitz” by Bob Wilson, well known sportsman, and a corps of aids, netted more than 700 starlings Thursday night, it was reported by The Association of Commerce. The association has been working on the “bird problem” for some time and Friday Secretary James V. Skaates announced that future forays will be conducted in an attempt to eliminate the pests. According to Skaates, ilson’s boys used only 125 shots bagging about an average of six birds to a shot. Woman Dies In Doct or’s Office Allen County Coroner Harry E. Lewis said Friday that Mrs. Lydia Liller, 39, wife of W. L. Liller, of Kenton, died suddenly at 3:15 p. in. Thursday in the office of Dr. O. E. Harvey. Cook Tower, in Lima, while undergoing treatment. Mrs. Liller, who had been treated by Dr. Harvey for a tubercular con dition since 1936, succumbed to a “plural shock”, a rare condition which sometimes accompanies the ad ministration according to Harvey. of pneuinonia-thorax, Coroner Lewis and Dr. Dr. Harve ent of The formerly superintend ma District Tuberculo aid he personally knew of only fiur cases of plural shock fatalities in his experience. Wage Increase For Lima Employes increases for some 250 employes, beginning Aug ere authorized Thursday he Lima council. st in pay, amounting to ap- Salary municipal ust 1, v night by 1 The boo proximately 7,000 for the remainder of th highlighted a five-hour special session during which next year’s budget was established at $310,194. ■ar and $17,160 for 1942, Transfer Of Students Protested The Bath township board of educa tion took cognizance this week of high 'e 'ings in the school district waste is almost entirely by the NEW McCormick No. 200-H Four-Wheel This valuable plant food is Manure prevented Deering Spreader, so evenly distributed that the result is bound to be increased crop yields. But accurate distribution is just one feature of this new machine. Steel These Points of Design Mean Accurate Spreading: Rigid steel plates keep all shafts in true alignment. £Three-point cam makes manure move more steadily to beater. Tapered teeth in beater thor w oughly pulverize the litter. 4 Two-piece widespread spiral spins out Utter for finer cover age. NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES over proposed transfer of 40 pupils from Lima Central high school to Lafayette high school. J. R. Joseph, board president, in vited parents of the affected pupils to present their protests at a special meeting in the Bath school building. Mr. Joseph explained the transfer was planned in the hope of reducing transportation costs by eliminating duplication of school bus routes northern Allen county. in No Sabotage In Oil Tank Fire Buckeye Pipeline Co. officials ended three days silence concerning a blaz ing crude oil storage tank in their fields south of Lima long enough to explain the tank was an old one which was being made ready for dis mantling. Fire still smouldered in the tank pit but a spokesman explained the fire merely was in a five-foot ac cumulation of oily sediment which gathered in the bottom of the old wooden tank over a period of years. A workman was disconnecting pipes with an aceteylene torch when the sediment ignited. Clerk At Insane Hos pital Dismissed Carl G. Anthony, chief clerk of the Lima state hospital, was dis missed Thursday by Welfare Direct or Charles L. Sherwood, who charged him with making loans to employes at 4 per cent monthly. Sherwood, who told the state civil service com mission that Anthony operated thru an inmate, said the interest exceeded that allowed under the Ohio Small Loan act. Garbage Cisis Ends In Lima Garbage collection in Lima was re sumed Friday as Mayor Frank E. McClain made temporary arrange ments for haulers to “bury” rubbish in the city dumping grounds. The plan was announced at a spe cial meeting of council Thursday night when Mayor McClain disclosed his pr 'gram to “relieve an acute sit uation.” City garbage cans had remained unemptied thruout Wednesday and Thursday when the county board in voked an order prohibiting hauling of garbage into the for feeding purposes without tion. future county inspec- Milk Price Boosted In Lima Price of milk in Lima was in creased from 11 to 12 cents a quart last week by three major distribut ors, and a fourth followed suit. The price per pint is unchanged at six cents. The price to farmers was increased a week ago. Final Bank Dividend In Liquidation A “fifth and final” dividend of per cent—totaling $142,000—will 9.2 be jL W w'-'-\ NEW McCORMICK-DEERING No. 200-H FOUR-WHEEL SPREADER wheels have been strengthened and improved (rubber tires are available as extra equipment). All chains and sprockets are shielded now. We couldn't begin to list all the improvements in this great spreader. Why not stop in and see the one we have on display for more details? St IW Apron driving pawl (A) and th?ea-pont cam (Bl have much to do with uniform .pleading. Apron (halt and axie are held firmly in line by »ame ateel plate (C). C. F. Niswander McCormick-Deering Dealer Bluffton, Ohio paid depositors and creditors of the defunct Lima First Anu i lean Trust Co. before September 1. This announcement was made Wed nesday by J. C. VanPelt, of Colum bus, deputy state banking superin tendent, who said the dividend will bring to $2,265,000 or 34.2 per cent the amount distributed thru liquida tion since the bank closed its doors Sept 9, 1933. Defense Data Sought In Delphos Number of taxicabs in Delphos, the listing of physicians, what rail roads pass thru the municipality and other information is being sought in connection with the national defense work by the state fire marshal’s office at Columbus. A questionnaire giving the data was filed by Fire Chief Lewis Leon ard on Friday with Ray R. Gill, state fire marshal. Fair In Delphos Is Aug. 19-23 Official program and premium list of the 21st annual Allen county free street fair to be held in Delphos August 19 thru August 23 was an nounced Saturday by society officers. Sponsored by the Allen County Agricultural Society, Inc., the fair this year is expected to attract the largest crowd in its history. SI,500 Suit Follows Beauty Treatment Federal Man On Lima Strike While Points at I rp A new Lima enterprise known as The Quick-Easy Corp, has been formed with Homer Reeder, presi dent of the Lima Armature Works, Inc. and the Lima Electrical Motor Co., as one of the two owners. His partner in the new enterprise is E. H. Lamiell, of Greenwich, Ohio. The firm holds several patents, is obtaining others and soon will manu facture an automatic mechanical de vice which instantaneously determines and records on a dial the moisture content of wheat. Rush To Beat Tax Deadline A throng of taxpayers—$22,880,071 worth—lined up at receiving win-1 dows in Allen county office Saturday assessments. THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO OUR DEMOCRACY gMMffiimm.OWN. wiiiiiiiiiiiittiih'iiiiiwiai WE WILL DEFEND a OUR a :*V5* *fe» In A suit for $1,500 damages for in-1________________________________ juries allegedly suffered while thel He died instant Details of the plaintiff was receiving a permanent I accident were lack pending an in wave June 14 was filed in Alien! vestjgation by construction company county common pleas court Wednes-| officials. day by Cecil McBride against Fred erick and Isabel Boggs, doing busi ness as Frederick’s Beauty Academy. The plaintiff claims, in her peti tion, that her scalp was burned by an electric waving machine “leaving al A hog project started two years large destroyed area of scalp and ago by Alvin Hel an, 18-year-old causing plaintiff much agony and I son of Mr. and misery, necessitating continued medi-l of Rawson, has gi cal care.” I able business and has been graduate he has a fair sized addition to things of the spirit is the COMMON SENSE FACT THAT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HAS OTHER THINGS TO PRESERVE AND DEFEND.... HOME, FARM, JOB, SAVINGS, LIFE INSURANCE, BUSINESS, AND ALL OTHER THINGS WHICH MAKE POSSIBLE Ag Club Project Is Profitable -j i were developed and suggestions made! ACC 1(1011 IS Al ollIHC for their settlement, it was ajparent I that unless some unforeseen turn of I events take place the Lima plants’I Two per* ns in separate automo 1.000 workers and employes at St. I biles were it Marys, Findlay and Van Wert would I dents at th. remain idle for several more days. I the same tii Develops Wheat Mois- Millei ture Content Indicator I I to beat the July 20 deadline for pay-1 ment of last-half 1940 real estate I I I The day’s “take” brought the total HANCOCK COUNTY “Meanest Person” Poisons 12 Cats Residents of the 200 block of Gar field avenue and George street in Findlay are on the lookout for one they have described as “the meanest person” living. During the past two weeks 12 cats ix on each thorofarc—have been jicisoned to death. Some of the vic tims were Persian, some Angora and others just plain cats. Carpenter Dies In Fall From Building Thomas Palmer, 50, a carpenter employed on the new Ohio Oil Co. building under construction in Find lay fell from the building last week. collection to $621,275.07, Dershem re-1 ported. This is $165,000 short of the! last-half 1939 collection, but thel treasurer said he believed enough payments by mail had accumulated! in his office during the week to| bring the total up to the previous! Tests are now being completed by jeai s mar poster j). Roszman, of Ottawa, dis trict fish manamement supervisor for the state division of conservation and wildlife, at Van Buren lake to deter mine whether that body of water can be opened to fishermen for a few weeks in September. OUR HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING. OUR THRIFT GIVES LIFT TO OUR MORALE. s. L. M. Heldman, own into a profit- iow that the youth from high school herd started. ir ebred Berkshire months old sow old boar which now has a herd Alvin began his project with a si.' and a seven mot Machinery was set in motion this I cost him $105. week for settlement of the week-old valued at $700. Deisel-Wemmer-Gilbert strike at al His herd now insists of three conference of company and union of-l boar* ami s of various ages, ficials and L. S. Labor Conciliator| four gilts I -eaned pigs. Hugh I). Friel, Columbus. I a 55, of Plymot received a broken suffered bruises. o Place Same Time ■ured in separate acci same place and almost Friday afternoon, ac- I cording to 1Deputy Sheriff Er raid Wayne Vogel, 14, of and Alice Gendreau, ith. said both automo- Deputy Miller I biles were .ding north on route 31 a mile Arlington skidded ff field owned gel, travel: saw the ca leased his only to start skidding at the same point whi th* other sideswipe a ur.lity pole the ditch on the west road. nd a quarter south of hen the Michigan car the road into an oats Adam Hartman. Vo about 300 yards behind zo into the field and re nt from the accelerator car started, and go into side of the Guns Issued To New State Guard Ohio State Guardsmen of Co. I Third Infantry, will be issued guns for training next Thursday night at the armory on East Craw’ford street. Lieut. Harlan Struble will be charge. in Fishing Survey At Van Buren Lake by These tests involve the checking of the abundance of each of the spe cies placed in the lake as well as the size and rate of growth of the fish. 4-H Trip To Bob-Lo Island A special New York Central train will stop in Findlay Wednesday morning, July 30, to pick up any Hancock county 4-H club members and their friends who wish to go to Toledo to board a boat for the Bob Lo Island in the Detroit river. This is the word received by Coun ty Agricultural Agent Forest G. Hall who said that the train will be made up at Columbus and will stop at Marysville before coming to Findlay. by Mat Things of the Jb I SPIRIT ALWAYS Wfl I HAVE BEEN FIRST Vi WITH US. FREEDOM VK IS A PERSONAL POSSESSION OF IW EACH AMERICAN, Fffi WE PROTECT OUR l/lf/i CHILDREN AND /Di WOMENFOLK. HARDIN COUNTY New Features For Hardin Fair Ada To Improve 37 Blocks Of Streets was unable io gne any reason for the lower infestation here. The areas toward the edges of the county, particularly toward the north and in the Ada vicinity, have a much heavier infestation of the in sect, Paff said. The 1941 Hardin county fair will I Putnam county farmers. be much larger than last* fall when I Oliver Burkhart who farms three it goes into its second year at Ken-1 miles east of North Creek, said he ton on October 8, 9 and 10, D. B. I obtained 65% bushels of wheat from Robinson, president of the Hardin I a two-acre plot with the wheat being County Agricultural society said. I measured at a nearby elevator. This fall an entire new department! This yield was followed closely by will be added and a two-day horse I one of 63 bushels to the acre which racing program is being arranged,! Henry Schroeder reported he received he announced. from a seven-acre Thorne wheat In the new department, various! tract one mile west*of Ottawa. groups may each have booths ini Farmers thruout the county have which they may display some fea-l told County Agent L. C. Holtkamp ture of their work. the 1941 crop of wheat is the best Resurfacing of 37 blocks of Ada I streets is expected to get under way I Another group of 14 selectees will during the coming week. Part of I leave Putnam county Tuesday, Aug the equipment of the Ottawa Tar ust 5, it was announced by officials Asphalt company, contractors, has al-| of the selective service board. ready been moved to the vessel and Pifer stone quarries north of town where stone purchased. first improvements will of a smcfljth surface on One of the Mich. The former arm and the latter be the laying West Buckeye avenue in front of the municipal building, suitable for danc ing. Denies Kidnap Charges Pleading innocent, Charles Switzer, 28, was bound over to the Hardin county grand jury Thursday on kid nap charges filed by Lily Starner, 63-year-old farm woman who accused Switzer of taking her from her home and assaulting her on a rural road May 28. Switzer, of nearby Hep burn, was jailed in default of $2,000 bond. Kenton Woman Enoute To Germany Aboard the U. S. S. West Point, army transport bound for embattled Europe and carrying numerous Ger man subjects to their homeland, is a former Kenton girl, going with her husband to her future home in the Reich and giving up her American citizenship to be with the man she selected as a lifelong mate. The former Miss Eleanor Baker, daughter of Mrs. Kenton, is aboard with her husband, recher, a German she was married last April 23 in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Brecher was a resident physician in the Brewster hospital in Jacksonville where his wife was chief dietitian. They were married in the German Lutheran church there by Rev. Krug er. Dora Baker of the West Point Dr. Gerhard A. subject to whom Dr. Brecher was in the United States on a three-year quota which expired and it was necessary for him to leave for his homeland. Borer Infestation Is Heavy The infestation of the corn borer in the immediate vicinity of Kenton is much less than toward the outer portions of Hardin county and in ad jointing counties, it was revealed by Harley Paff, corn expert from the Wooster experimental station, who made a survey of the area. Paff Sugar Allotment Is Boosted Ottawa has increase in the federal The Ohio Sugar Co. of been granted a 416-ton its 1941 sales quota by government, it was announced by John Pfeifler, president of the firm. This increase will permit the local company to sell 416 tons more of the snugar which it was required to store this year. Under the original sales quota, this sugar could not be sold until January, 1942, the dent explained. The increase will in no way the 1941 production schedule, ever, he pointed out. presi- effect how- PUTNAM COUNTY Farms Valued At $67.73 Per Acre Putnam county’s farm land is val ued at 67.73 per acre according to the annual statistical report of Coun ty Recorder Carl Manning, for the year ending June 30, 1941. There were 30 more mortgages for $250,312.94 more loan value filed in Mannings’ office than during the pre ceding 12-month period, the report showed. During the year there were 65 rural deeds filed in which the actual cash consideration was listed. These covered 3,170 acres of land and the consideration totaling $60,048.81 were filed on 85 lots with considerations totaling $60,048.81 were filed on town properties. Harvests 65 Bushels Weat Per Acre I Two of the largest wheat yields _____ I in the country was claimed by two I ever harvested in Putnam county. 14 More Called In Draft This official call replaces a tenta tive one set for July 31, for the for the work will be| same number, it was explained. Cotton Received For Mattresses A carload of cotton to be used in the Putnam county mattress-making DON’T MISS THE BOAT! HURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941 project was reported received by County Agent L. C. Holtkamp. With the arrival of the cotton, plans were speeded up to get town ship groups organized to make the mattresses. Leaders in the town ships which have enrolled large enough groups to be eligible for the cotton are obtaining equipment and space for the project. Man, 85, Makes Long Bicycle Trip At an age when most people shy away from long or numerous rides in the most comfortable vehicles, Herman Neubert, 85, retired Ottawa carpenter, rides his bicycle more than 600 miles every year. The cyclist just returned a few days ago from a trip to Hunting ton, Ind., where he visited relatives. With a twinkle in his eye the octo genarian reports that he rode the 76 miles to Huntington in 10 hours the first day. This trip was one of three that he has taken this summer. First he went to Aaa and back, a distance of 64 miles. Then he took a 200-mile jaunt southeast to Marion and back through Huntsville and Lima. He said that he is planning to ride to Toledo before summer is over. Court Has Busy Year During the fiscal year ending July 1, 1941, the number of cases on the Putnam county common pleas court docket was reduced 17 from 51 on July 1, 1940, to 34 this year. These figures were disclosed in the annual report of Clerk of Court Al len Litten. He shows that 114 cases were filed during the year and 128 were disposed of with three being carried to the court of appeals. Catches Hand In Combine Randall, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rockey, residing north west of Ottawa, received a severely lacerated hand when the member was caught in a combine at his father’s farm, Monday evening. Skin and flesh were stripped from the hand, exposing the bone in places after it was drawn into the machine’s recleaner. The child was treated in the office of a local physician. Get Old Fort 40% Hog Mix now For real hog profits now is the time to feed a quality supple ment like Old Fort Hog Mix, Save your valuable corn. Raise hogs quicker, easier and with more profit the Old Fort way Price per cwt. The Bluffton Milling Co 8DHB Claims First Turnips Of Season T. J. Harriman of Ottawa claims the honor of being the first resident of Putnam county to eat 1941 turnips from his garden. He pulled the first on Thursday. Storm Leaves Trail Of Damage Damage estimated at several hund red dollars was caused last Thursday when a wind and rain storm swept through the southern half of Put nam county. More than $300 damage was caused at the Huber grocery store where three large plate glass window panes were smashed. Groceries were blown off the shelves of the store into the street by the gale. WANTED —DEAD STOCK WE PAY TOP CASH PRICES Horses $4.00 Cows $2.00 Small Stock removed free of charge. Quick Service Telephone Findlay, MAIN 475, Reverse Charges BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio $2.90 "Branch, Fostoria Animal Products, Inc,"_______