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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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POSSESSION OF IW
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WE PROTECT OUR
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CHILDREN AND
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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,"_______