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PAGE SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
Man Hurt As Horses
Bolt
Frank Anderson, 68, of Lima,
Route 2, is in serious condition in
Memorial Hospital with injuries re
ceived when a team of horses ran
away, throwing him from a wagon
at his farm hopie. He suffered a
fractured hip, dislocated arm and
concussion.
Found Dead In
Automobile
John E. I’ropsman, 52, of Lima,
was found dead in his automobile,
apparently having suffered a heart
attack while driving home from the
Westinghouse Electric Co. plant,
where he was employed. He man
aged to park his car at the curb.
Lima Air Show
Postponed
Lima’s “Wings for Victory” air
show, scheduled Sunday, has been
postponed until Sunday, Sept. 14,
it was announced Wednesday by
James A. Howenstine, chairman of
The Aviation committee of The As
sociation of Commerce. The post
ponement was decided upon when
several of the acts booked for this
Sunday were forced to be elsewhere
to keep “rain dates”.
The postponement, however, will
mean that Lima’s air show will be
bigger and better than originally
planned, according to Fred G.
Schoonover, chairman of the pro
gram committee.
Fall Fatal To Painter
Harry Duck, 55, died last week
of internal injuries suffered when he
fell 90 feet while painting an oil
tank at a local refinery.
§305,720 For County,
Relief
Allen county’s share of a dis
tribution 6f $305,720 in poor relief
money derived from beer, wort and
admission taxes, announced Friday
by State Auditor Joseph T. Fergu
son, will be $2,889.
Other allocations to counties in
clude: Hancock $1,720 Hardin,
$1,007 and Putnam, $851.
6,690 In Lima Schools
A first-day attendance of 6,690
pupils was reported Wednesday by
Supt. J. McLean Reed of the Lima
public schools. A total of 3,350
responded to class bells in the ele
mentary grades and 3,340 in the
high schools.
Supt. Reed predicted that enroll
ment would reach the normal figure
of approximately 6,900 within
next few days.
Guardian Sued For
Loss Of Funds
Judge Neal L. Lora directed
verdict Wednesday afternoon
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
favor of the plaintiff in the $500
suit of the Eagle Indemnity Co.,
of New' York, against H. L.
Krouskop, as guardian of Harold
M. Krouskop.
The judge held that the defendant
had not deposited funds in a bank
specifically designated by law as
legal repository for trusts, and as a
result the defendant’s plea that a
“shrinkage” had been caused by
failure of the bank was not a valid
defense.
The plaintiff had charged that
funds being administered by the
guardian had “shrunk” $972.04 as
a result of being deposited in the old
National City bank, and that the
plaintiff, as the guardian’s bonding
company, was forced to pay $500 as
settlement of the shortage. The in
demnity company sought judgment
for that amount against Krouskop.
Lima Man Heads
Defense Unit
The job of rounding up loose ends
in the broadsweeping program for
training Ohio workers in defense
skills Wednesday was entrusted to
a former Lima man, Paul B. Hart
man, former director of vocational
training in the Lima public school
system.
Hartman resigned his position in
the United States Office of Educa
tion’s Vocational Training division
in Washington to accept the $4,500
a-year post in Ohio.
Catfish Biting In
Lima Waters
Catfish were biting in the High
street reservoir in Lima, this week.
“Cats” weighing as much as ten
pounds have been “landed” and one
sporting goods dealer reported the
sale of 2,000 heavy fish hooks in a
few' days.
Strike Situation
Unchanged
Come in and See the NEW
McCORMICK-DEERING
2-Roll Husker-Shredder
Conditions remained unchanged
Wednesday at plants of the Deisel
Wemmer-Gilbert Corp, as the strike
entered its third week.
The strike has been in progress
to enforce CIO union demands for
10 cents an hour increase. Picketing
continued during the day at the
B-W-G plants at Lima, Findlay,
St. Marys, Van Wert and Detroit.
Building Nears
§700,000 Mark
Lima’s 1941 building volume near
ed the $700,000 mark Saturday with
the past week’s business hitting the
$19,250 mark.
The year’s total now stands at
$679,582.
Man Missing Four
Months Found
A four-month hunt for Herman
Briggs, 75, ended last week when
Sheriff William V. Daley learned
that Mr. Briggs has been cared for
since mid-August in the Wood
County Home near Bowling Green.
The compact No. 2 Hastier-Shredder shown in transport position.
Just Right for Individual Farm Use
Now you can shred your
corn fodder whenever you like
with the new small 2-roll No. 2
McCormick-Deering Husker
Shredder. It is just the right
size for individual farm use.
Little or no extra help is
needed, and any small tractor
or 7L£ h.p. electric motor
provides adequate power for
easy operation.
He was found three weeks ago in
i
I
This new 2 roll husker
shredder is compact, yet it has
a capacity of 25 to 45 bushels
of corn an hour (stover, 1^4
to 2 tons), depending upon
conditions and amount of
power used.
Come in and get full infor
mation about this new machine.
We think you will agree that
the new No. 2 is a great value.
C. F. Niswander
McCormick-Deering Dealer Bluffton, Ohio
Bowling Green, and has just re
gained his lost memory sufficiently
to identify himself. Sheriff Daley
has not learned where the man spent
the remainder of his time after
walking away May 11 from his
home between Lafayette and Har
rod.
Cookies Sent To 500
Soldiers
Twenty-six Lima young men who
were formerly employed in the Lima
Westinghouse Small Motor Division
will be recipients of packages of
cookies within the next week.
The cookies—12,000 of them—are
being baked by the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Co., at
Mansfield and will be sent to 500
employes of the company who are
now serving in army camps and
with the navy and air corps.
$790,012 Paid In Realty
Tax
Sales tax collections during the
week amounted to $3,880.64, and
last-half 1940 realty tax receipts to
taled $8,071.85, it was announced
Saturday by Allen County Treasurer
Ray W. Barnett.
Barnett took office last Monday,
succeeding Byron H. Dershem.
The realty receipts brought the
total last-half 1940 collection to
date to $790,012.30, Barnett reported.
Deadline for payment of the taxes
and Whittemore contract install
ments without penalty is Sept. 20.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Sheep Claims Show
Increase
Claims for compensation for
sheep killed and 24 injured in
last three months, have been
lowed to Hancock county farmers
the county commissioners in the
tai sum of $365.
The amount averaged well with!
the claims allowed in other quarterly
periods during the last year but was
more than $100 under the allow’
ances of September, 1940.
June 1941, claims were paid for
38 killed and seven injured, totalling
$343 March, 1941, 24 killed,
jured, $221.45 December
killed, 13 injured, $424.70
ber 1940, 56 killed, 45
$498.50.
The
coming
streets
injured,!
Rawson Homecoming
This Week
o, his vacation t!
12th annual Rawson home-|
v. to work for a
opened luesday night on theI
of the village under the
sponsorship of the Rawson band.
Six rides, obtained from Ray E.
Myers of the Pleasureland Shows,
Detroit, and 35 or 40 concessions
were set up Monday in readiness
for the five-day fair.
Band concerts will be given
night by various bands in the
No Fall Fishing At
Van Buren Lake
Van Buren
fishing until next s}
ounced in Ottawa Tuc
Roszman fish manage
sion
ion and
state
wildlife.
Tests have been made to determine
the number and size of the fish in
the artificial lake. The official said
that it had been contemplated open-
Union Sued For §50,000
Frederick S. Galloway, Indianapo
lis, president of the National Feder
ated Independent Union, filed suit in
Common Pleas Court in Findlay
last week, asking $50,000 damages
against Findlay Local 207, Unitec
Rubber Workers of America, and itf
officials,, in connection with allegec
libelous statements containe4 in
circular which appeared last week
flafoe To Speak
In Findlay
Allen Roy Dafoe, famous phy
of the Dionne quintuplets, and
\V ilson, most recent U. S. am
bassador to Germany, will headline
the Findlay college forum course
for 1941-42, it was announced Wed
nesday by Homer R. Dunathan,
sician
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OUR democracy
ALL CAN BS
HELP W
Jets
Ws
LL CAN HELP PREVENT ACCIDENTS AND SICKNESS
DRAGS ON NATIONAL DEFENSE.
ACC/DENT5 ALONE THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR
SUFFERED AN ECONOMIC LOSS INCLUDING
WORK HOURS LOST, OF X5#500y000,000-
9,100,000 HURT—96,500 KILLED— AND
MOST OF THE ACCIDENTS WERE PREVENTABLE.
and representing all corners of the
world are included in the new series
probably the most outstanding the
college has ever presented.
Record Attendance
At Fair
The largest cro
year history of th
fair turned out foi
tural exposition a
saddle horse show
estimated
the gate
evening.
1 in the four
Hancock county
the big agricul
1 its featured
Thursday,
•sons wen!
An
thru
and
15,000 pei
throughou
ew Vacation Danger
Sunburned Arches
is teil ng about vaca
But here’s one
Marvin Fahl, em-
Everyone
I tion experiences
that is unique
ploye in the
I Tire and Rubin
I the arches of
gaged in “whi
Projects oj
county and tl
are as follows
18 forestry,
,— cords, one
ing the lake to fishermen for a few! ancj Findlav
weeks this autumn hut the state
conservation commission has decided
it w’ill be better to wait until next
spring.
The C. I. O. triumphed in Findlayl *n(llay Hospital 16 hours after his
labor dispute when workers of thel head crushed between two stone
production and maintenance depart-1 cars *n quarry ^he National
ments of the Master Tire and Rub-1 Linie and Stone Co- east of Arlin&‘
ber Corp., voted in favor of thel ^on‘
United Rubber Workers of America I Mr’ Hassa,! coupling the cars
as their bargaining agent. I when he accidentally became wedged
An independent organization ofl between them. He was a truck
local rubber workers and a group ofl driver for the firm,
non-unionists were overruled in the
election.
Tices of the Master
company sunburned
lis feet so badly on
:t he couldn’t come
•ouple of days!
WPA Rolls At A
Minimum
ment in
[strict as
according
WPA empl
western Ohio
6,523 persons.
a(‘b| B. Schmuhl,
iea. Iwho said this
Icas county I
Christmas toy
in quantity for
Findlay and vic
cooperation betw
Post, American
WPA in Toledo.
they
assailant.
the north
of today is
to William
district manager,
al is less than Lu
1 alone just a year
Hancock count
men
Ther
roads,
similar
ers, waterlines and
n the district while
l()0 women are en
llar” activities.
iting in Hancock
employment totals
lowing, one
consolidated
titywide roads,
ets, 80.
library
re
59
Stone Cars Crush
Worker
Walter M. Hassan, 44, of Arling
ton, died of a fractured skull in
Toys Planned For
Needy Tots
will be available
needy children of
nity as a result of
een Ralph D.
Ix?gion, and
Although dwi
resulted in clos
Cole
the
ling WPA
the top
HARDIN COUNTY
Fall From Tree Fatal
To Man
Nine members of varied interest A broken neck resulting from a
by Mat
all be sound and
STRONG IN WIND AND
LIMB" AS WELL AS
IN RESOLVE.
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Serious Injuries From
Beating
A man identified as George Bu
chanan, about 60, of West Mansfield,
is in McKitrict hospital at Kenton
they saw Buchanan injured,! and
another man struck him. He! the
Alger Soldier Dies
In Truck Crash
Kenton Seeks §65,000
Park
A resolution to ask voters of Ken
ton for a $65,000 bond issue for the
construction of a municipal park and
swimming pool was passed by city
council in regular ’session. The is
sue will be placed on the ballot for
a vote Nov. 4, providing it is ac
cepted by the Hardin county board
of elections.
More Land Bought
By Government
Sale of 991 acres of land in Hale
township near Mt. Victory, to the
Ohio Defense Relocation Corp., was
completed Saturday by Lorenzo D.
Welch who
land.
received $65,150 for the
a plot of 919 acres was
Ohio Defense Relocation
Recently
sold to the
Corp, by Mike Phelps, also of near
Mt. Victory, for approximately
$75,000.
The land is to be re-mortgaged to
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, split into family-size farms for
sale to families
forced
fense
nance
dusky.
who have been
to leave land taken for de
projects, similar to the ord
plants at Ravena and San-
PUTNAM COUNTY
Three Foxes Seen
Near Tow n
Cletus Homier saw a fes
and two cubs on the Earl
Earl McKibben farms o
northeast of Continental Wednes
day. Other red foxes have been seen
near North Creek and Cascade re
cently. Local sportsmen are plan
ning for a fox chase as soon as a
trailing snow falls. Putnam county
Game Protector, George Treese re
ports that in 1933, 17 red foxes were
killed in Monroe township alone.
Schools Have 150
Fewer Pupils
Schools of Putnam county will
have about 150 fewer pupils in
classes during the 1941-42 term than
during the last term, it was learned
after County Superintendent Carl
Vermilya completed a survey
opening enrollments.
fall from a plum tree at his home! number of farmers shredding corn
in Forest late Monday resulted ini fodder. Most of the corn has es
the death of John Wair Naus, 69, atl caped serious damage from storms
Antonio hospital, Kenton. I and stands straight so that the har-
Naus was a native of Hardin I vest will be easier, farm experts
county, born June 23, 1872, the son! pointed out.
of Joshua and Elizabeth Ropp Naus
and was one of a family of 12
children. He recently retired from
the hay bailing business in which he
was engaged about 40 years.
Atlantic Ocean
fish,
the
first
______ County
Hoover, a first class private ofl At the same time, 31 men next in
Co. B, Ft. Brady, Sault Ste. Marie,I l‘ne for physical examinations will
was riding with two companions ini report for their examinations at the
the truck, which struck a bridge I
abutment and landed in the stream.
D.
of
Continental—Palmer township
leading the list of schools by a wide
margin with 684 pupils registered.
Of this total, 362 are in the elemen
tary grades and 322 are in the high
school.
Raise Funds To Fight
AAA Bill
Putnam county farmers will join
the drive to raise funds to finance a
“fight-to-the-end” legal test of the
AAA crop regulation program, it
was announced by Lawrence Gerten,
president of the Putnam County
Farmers’ Protective association.
With $1,000 as their goal, groups
of members of the protective organ
ization will begin at once canvassing
the farmers of the county in a drive
for members for the Ohio Marketing
Quota Protest association which is
sponsoring the legal battle.
Bumper Corn Harvest
To Start
In sharp contrast to the conditions
of a year ago when this country ex
perienced a corn crop failure, farm
ers in Putnam county this week are
preparing to harvest a better than
average crop.
However, a shortage of corn busk
ers probably will result in a unusual
Ottawa
Coach Catches
Tuna
it as the “thrill of a
Descrbing
lifetime”, Merwin Hilty, Ottawa pub
lic high school principal and coach
related how he landed two tuna
while in the east
Hilt
lege.
fish
a few days ago.
is a graduate of Bluffton col-
when he
One weighed 47
other 43. When he
one, Hilty fought it
before landing it.
geven Drafted From
An official call for seven selectees
to report Sept. 19 was received by
I the Putnam county Selective Service
The body of Ralph Hoover, 31,1 Board.
who was killed Tuesday when an I Names of the men to answer this
army truck overturned in a stream I call will I)e announced in a few’ days
near Ft. Brady, Mich., arrived last I and they will be notified to report
Friday. I at foe Toledo induction center.
I DON’T MISS
THE BOAT!
THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1911
Toledo center Sept. 15, the local
board has been informed.
Twin Daughters Wed
Soldiers
In a double wedding recently at
Collins, near Camp Shelby, Miss.,
the Misses Loretta and Lillian Yarg
,er, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Yarger of Kalida, became
the brides, respectively of
Paul Goedde of Ottawa, and
Charles Rogers of Columbus
Sergt.
Sergt.
Grove.
LaFayette
Misses Ethel Staley and
Bassitt and Mrs. Kathryn
were Sunday dinner guests
and Mrs. William
Mr. Cary May
Sunday guest of
Louisa May.
Donna
Staley
of Mr.
Hall.
of Lima
his mother, Mrs.
was a
Wesley Eversole
Mr. and Mrs.
and daughter of Bluffton were Wed
nesday evening dinner guests of
Mrs. Carrie Lentz and Mrs. Jennie
Eversole.
Mr. and Mrs. Marty and daughter
and Mr. and Mrs. Carter Moore and
son of Ada were Sunday evening
guests of Mrs. Mollie Allerding.
Dickey Anspach was a Sunday
guest of Max Hawk.
Nine members of Liberty Chapel
Aid Society were Wednesday guests
of Mrs. Floyd Grady.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holderman
of Toledo were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Rupert Watt.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clum of
Hume were Sunday evening guests
of Mrs. LoRetta Clum.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. May were
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Zopf of Dayton.
Mr. Basil Watt and Mr. Reed
Hosier were Saturday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Rupert Watt.
The condition of the U. S. soybean
crop on August 1 was nearly the
best on record. Growers expect to
produce 12 per cent more soybeans
on fewer acres in the eight principal
producing states. The present crop
may total 109,999,000 bushels, as
compared with 80,000,000 in 1940
and with the record crop of 91,000,
000 bushels in 1939.
Importations of purebred animals
into the United States from June 30,
1940 to July 1, 1941, were higher
than for the year preceding but
nearly all
sheep, and dogs
of
men
Accompanied by five other
in a critical condition, the result ofl Hilty was fishing off the coast in
a severe blow’ on his head. I the
Police were told by persons who! the
said
that
has a possible skull fracture and I minutes
his tongue was almost severed. Ken-1
ton police are sicking his alleged
No cats with
came across the
caught
pounds
hooked
for 30
the cattle, horses,
came from Canada,
pedigrees certified
borders last year.
For Vigor and Health—
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
include meat in your menu.
Save your valuable corn. Raise
hogs quicker, easier and with
more profit the Old Fort way.
Price per cwt $3.10
The Bluffton Milling Co
Always ready to serve you.
Bigler Bros.
Fresh and Salt Meats
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
__________________ “Branch, Fostoria Animal Prod a et a, Inc.”