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PAGE SIX ALLEN COUNTY Shave Costly For Delphos Man Walter Hummer of Delphos had a costly shave recently. Parking his car near the “Bud” Metzger barber shop, by the time he was shaved his car was gone and later discov ered stripped of his tires. Police investigation revealed that it had been driven to West Side cem etery, near Flat Ford creek, the four tires and one spare carried off. Carnival Raided, Con cessions Closed Twenty-five carnival concessions were closed by Sheriff William V. Daley at the Great Lakes Exposition showing .just outside of Lima. Sher iff Daley said he acted in response to numerous gambling complaints, and that he closed all concessions ex hibiting gaming devices of any de scription. Records Played In Court Strains of music, the sound of an airplane in flight as well as other peculiar noises invaded the dignified corridors of the Allen county court house Wednesday of last week as evidence of an entirely new type was introduced in a law suit. Recordings made in the bedroom of the six plaintiffs in an injunc tion suit which seeks to stop activi ties of the Outdoor theatre, south of Lima in Route 25, were introduced as evidence of the sound which the plaintiffs claim is a nuisance to them. The recordings were made, Harry Meredith, plaintiffs’ attorney said, while the pictures “Flying Cadets” and “How Green Was My Valley” were being shown at the theatre. He is attempting to show by the evi dence that his clients are disturbed in their rest by the sounds from the theatre. The recordings were taken in a room at a distance of 1,000 feet from the site of the picture spot, witnesses said. Red Cross Asks More Help An urgent appeal for enlistment of 500 Allen county women in the works division of the Red Cross was sounded Thursday by Mrs. E. B. Taylor, chairman. The women were asked to report Monday morning at the Red Cross NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES work room in the West Ohio Gas Co. Mrs. Taylor stated that the work quota of Allen county has been raised and that further demands will be made for surgical dressings. The quota for August is 55,000 surgical dressings. Foiled In Attempt To Steal Cow Allen county officials were search ing Friday for the persons who on Wednesday night took down a gate and opened two fences in an effort to take an eight-year-old Jersey Holstein cow from the Harhouse farm east of Lima. More Bullets In Delphos For the second time within a week, a person’s life was endangered by firearms and identity of the person using the gun remains a mystery, police reported last week in Delphos. John Hittie, driving to his work had a bullet come through his wind shield close to the driver. Last week when a bullet from a rifle fell at the feet of Frank Pfeiffer while he was on the front porch of his home. —FREE— PLANO-SPHERE “THE WORLD AT A GLANCE” Keep up to date with the armed forces throughout the world. BRAND NEW—EVERYBODY WANTS ONE. SATURDAY, JULY 25 Collect Records For Soldiers Headquarters for the collection of old phonograph records, as means of providing good music to men in the armed forces, have been established on the first floor of the National Bank building on the Public Square in Lima. The room will be open daily from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. except Sundays, until August 1. ibrilliasti Bronze With the purchase of six gallons of either POLYMERIZED LEADED REGULAR or ETHYL GASOLENE FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE BEST ®SAVE EQW PRICE HIGH quality BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS Bus Schedule Is Slower Service on Lima’s bus lines has been changed from 15-minute service to 20-minute service as speed of buses was slowed in compliance with a federal request for conservation of tires and equipment. Mother Slayer Sent To Lima BRILLIANT BRONZE SERVICE STATION South Main Street & Bentley Road, Bluffton, Ohio Phone 72 Arlington, O. or 455-Y Bluffton, O., for Tank Truck Deliveries. ORLO O. DUKES. ARLINGTON, OHIO Third Grade (CHEAP) Gasolene is NOT sold at— BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS Found insane, Arch Rhodes Mat teson, 33, of Wooster, was committed to the Lima state hospital for crim inal insane for beating to death his mother, Mrs. Ina Florence Matteson, 62. He told police after the May 7 slaying that he was inspired by a “supreme command.” Bov Dies In Auto Crash Joseph Venturella, 7, son of Mrs. Ladd Bolinger, was killed and Mrs. Annette Ross, 53, was injured criti cally when the car driven by Mrs. Ross’ son, Charles, 19, collided in Lima with another* driven by Harold Jennings, Jr. 19. Cvclists Must Stay Off Walks Bicycle riders cannot peddle their vehicles on the sidewalk of the busi ness district in Delphos following complaints to police of riders hitting and injuring pedestrians. Results Of Scrap Drive Announced A total of 257,313 pounds of scrap metal and scrap rubber has been collected to date in the Lima and Allen county “Salvage For ictory” campaign. F. Dan Haselmire, salvage com mittee chairman, made this announce ment Wednesday as the drive con tinued throughout the county. Of the 257,313 pounds, 252,684 pounds were in metal and 4,629 in scrap rubber. The scrap rubber poundage does not include rubber collected in the special government drive which end ed July 10. Total in this campaign, which has not yet been announced, is expected to exceed 600,000 pounds. HANCOCK COUNTY Findlay Block Razed By Fire The Recreation Bowling Alleys, a 12-lane establishment in Findlay in the old Hosier block, a two-story brick structure now owned by the R. C. H. Realty company, is in charred ruins as the result of a fire early Tuesday which caused damage variously estimated at between $35, 000 and $40,000. Besides the loss incurred by the bowling alley establishment on the second floor operated by John Hend erson, four or five automobiles, trucks and buses in the O. F. Long storage garage directly below the alleys were damaged badly by fire. Thief Steals Watch, Trousers A burglar entered the home of John Chio in Findlay Thursday and swiped his trousers in which he had $50 and a gold watch. Chio heard the screen door slam, but was un able to get a glimpse of the intruder. Railroad Worker Dies In Crash Samuel A. Wilson, 50, of Findlay, died of a fractured skull and seven others were treated at the Miller McComb hospital from injuries re ceived when members of a Nickel Plate railroad section gang were thrown from a derailed trailer car 2'2 miles east of McoCmb Friday morning. The accident occurred at 7:40 a. m. as the men were going to work on the section. They were about a mile from their destination when the pin which poined the trailer with the motor car came out allowing the coupling bar to drop and dig into a railroad tie, heaving the trailer up and throwing the men off. All of the men except the foreman, Dick Swain, of McComb were riding on the trailer. Guards Leave For Camp Company I, Third Regiment, of Findlay, Ohio State Guard, will leave Sunday for a week’s training at Camp Hocking in Hocking County. The company has two vacancies, ac cording to Capt. B. F. Voorhees. HARDIN COUNTY -_____ A Buck Rake Starts Fire The Kenton volunteer fire depart ment was called to the W. H. Beck farm in Cessna township where flames, originating from a motor backfire, had destroyed a small quan tity of hay and badly damaged a buck rake belonging to Clyde Lotz. Farmerette Has Prize Potatoes Miss Lulu Green, farmerette of south of Kenton, can’t train pigs but she can grow prize potatoes. This she demonstrated this week when she displayed nine large po tatoes which were dug from one root of a potato hill at her home. They were Irish cobblers of a uni form size about four inches thru. “I didn’t dig the entire hill,” Miss Green explained, “and therefore I don’t know how many of these fine potatoes are in a hill of them!” BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON. OHIO OUR DEMOCRACY' THEY ALSO SERVE (SOLDIER, SAILOR. MARINE,MECHANIC, SHIPWRIGHT, RAILROADER. TRUCKER,— OUT FRONT FOR AMERICA. Mi IBur every business man,every farmer, EVERY PREACHER, EVERY FAMILY DOCTOR,EVERY INSURANCE MAN, EVERY NURSE,EVERY TEACHER, EVERY STENOGRAPHER—ALL WRO WORK —-ARE MAINTAINING OUR FAITH, HEALTH .SECURITY. AS WE WE ARE MAt (/NG OEMOCRACY WORK. Scrap Rubber Drive Successful The Hardin county scrap rubber collection drive netted a total of 221,220 pounds, or over 110 tons. This amount passed the expectations of the collection committee, it was announced by V. W. Brown of Ken ton, chairman of the collection cam paign. An additional amount of 13,070 was turned in by the various junk dealers over the county as their part in their drive, making a total of 234,290 pounds. Ada Trucker Killed In IMishap James Calvert. 42, of Ada, truck driver, died in Middletown Hospital, the fourth victim of an auto-truck collision last week in which three Dayton youths were killed. Calvert’s truck and a coupe occupied by Wueb ben, 20 John L. Flatter, 18, and Al bert C. Frieden, 20, crash two miles north of Franklin. Potato Sprayer For 50 Rows To meet the labor problem, J. M. Stambaugh took a caterpillar tread chassis to Lansing, Mich., and had a large potato spray outfit with 1,600 gallon capacity which sprays 50 rows in a swath on his McGuffy acreage. The machine weighs nine tons and is pulled by tractor. Earl Atha’s large semi-trailer truck was used to return the outfit to Mcuffey. He also has purchased a large tank outfit and is able to mix his own spray and haul it to the field, replenishing the outfit speedily. Chief Gets New “Set Of Teeth” Fire Chief Ralph Jones of Kenton this week scanned the mouths of his friends, seeking identity of the per son who mailei him a set of false teeth. Jones, who had the last of his teeth extracted this week and shortly will be n the market for some “store molars”, received the package from “a friend” this morning. In it were upper and lower plates, both some what the worse for use. Recorder Has Busy Year The report of the Hardin county recorder’s office for the year ending June 30, showed the following in part: 59 deeds of 6,014 acres with consideration amounting to $425, 233.71, were filed 100 deeds on 167 lots with consideration amounting to $11,186.13, were filed and 685 deeds wherein the consideration was stipu lated as $1 were filed, for a total of 844 deeds filed for record during the year. PUTNAM COUNTY Pandora Cannery Is Ready To Open The Pandora Canning company will open for the second season of the tomato run on or about August 15-20, Andrew Macke, plant manager, announced Thursday. The tomato plant in Pandora will be the first to open of the three plants under the management of the by Mat S Macke family. Andrew Macke is as sisting his father B. H. Macke who ran the plant here last year, in his first year at Ottawa. The Ottawa plant has a total of 160 acres con tracted. Wilbur Macke, eldest of the Macke sons, is erecting a new plant just east of Columbus Grove on Route 12. Boy Caught On Fish Hooks Tommy Lanwwehr, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvn Landwehr of Ottawa, learned not only fish get “caught” on fish hooks. Tommy’s father had hung some tackle up in the garage at the home' and a spinner with three hooks fell to the floor. While playing in the garage, Tommy stepped on one of the hooks and it was plunged into his left instep. He was taken to a physician and the hook was removed. Putnam Fair October 5 To 10 The 1942 Putnam county fair will be held as scheduled, October 5 to 10. The decision was reached by the board of directors of the Putnam County Agriculture society, which operates the fair. The fair directors feel that they will not be standing in the way of an allout war effort by carrying out plans for the 1942 exposition. Crawfis College Sold At Auction Former Crawfis college school property in Blanchard township, northwest of Gilboa, was sold Satur day at public auction to T. C. Linger of Findlay for the sum of $1,450. About two hundred persons were present at the sale which involved a landmark in Putnam county for more than one-half century. The building of Crawfis college was erected in 1888 and for many years housed the college until the township converted it into a high school. Use for this purpose was discontinued three years ago. John Crawfis donated the property to Blanchard township. It had been used for school purposes for more than fifty years. Funds derived from its sale will go to the general fund of the Blanchard township board of education. Tot Caught In Wringer In an accident in Columbus Grove, Jackie Tussing, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Tussing, caught his right hand in a washing machine wrnger. The hand was lacerated severely. 2,000 Dead Fish In Quarry More than 2000 dead fish were found floatng on top of the water n the quarry on the Everett Seitz farm, southeast of Ottawa the first of the week. Seitz called upon officials of the Ohio division of conservation and wildlife to determine what killed the fish. After an investigation, the officials said they believed the fish died from a lack of oxygen in the quarry. Explaining their findings, the offi cials explained that juice and scraps from large piles of pea hulls on the George Basngci' farm about four mles south of the quarry have been draining into Little* Cranberry creek which runs through one corner of the Seitz quarry which is known as the Smith-Shipps quarry. 219,122 Pounds Of Rubber In Drive Resdents of Jutnam county con tributed 219,122 pounds of scrap rubber in the drive wich closed last Friday night, it was announced by Dale Agner, chairman of the cam paign. This is an average of 8.5 pounds per person as compared with the na tion-wide average of about six pounds per person. Fire Threatnes Post Office The apartment home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kng, located above the post office in the business section in Columhus Grove was sightly dam aged by smoke and fire extinguishing chemcals Wednesday afternoon. The fire whch occurred around 2:30 o’clock, started when a box of toys and books ignited from an over heated furnace in which papers and old boxes were beng burned. Smoke which filled the entire apartment caused the most damage. Water caused some damage to the post office. Much Canning In County On the basis of sugar purchase permits issued by rationing coordin ator Edward Utendorf of Putnam county for canning, every individual in the county will have 33 quarts of fruit this year At least the figures compiled by the coordinator show that a total of 206,878 pounds of sugar was issued for canning with one pound for each four quarts. This would make a to tal of 827,512 quarts of fruit to be canned. rid rz.se Ohio Farmers To Produce Nitrogen I I I I I Recent regulations forbid the use of nitrogen in fertilizers manfactur ed after July 1, 1942, and it is cen tain that Ohio farmers will be call ed upon to produce foods at a high rate for some time to come, so A. M. Griffin, Summit county argricultural agent, advises the use of limestone to prepare soil for legumes. Clover and alfalfa will add nitro gen to the soil and will improve its tilth and power to produce good crop yields. Ohio farmers knew those facts but hesitated to buy and apply lime when they could buy fertilizers con taining all three of the essential plant food elements. Conditions now indicate that the shortage of nitrogen for fertilizers will continue indefinitely. Farmers I can not affard to take chances on their soil losing power to produce I profitable crop yields when foods are I so essential and when it appears I I probable that good farming will be I profitable. I I I I Ohio State University agronomists say that about 75 per cent of all Ohio crop lands need lime before it will produce legumes successfully. Some of these lime hungry soils re- quire larger applications than others, so each farmer should have soil samples tested before applying the lime. I Ohio agricultural agents will tell THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942 farmers the best ways to take the soil samples, what information is needed with the samples, and where tose nd the samples to be tested. The AAA in Ohio has assisted farm ers to finance the purchase of lime stone so there no sound reason for the new fertilization regulation to lessen the crop producing power of Buckeye farm land. Women Are Generals For The Home Front Ohio women, especially in rural communities have an added respon sibility in health work now because a large number of doctors are being called to service in the army and navy. Dr. A. R. Mangus, Ohio State University, reports each mil lion men in the fighting force re quire 7,000 doctors, 1,500 dentists, and 3,700 nurses. That proportion allots one doctor to every 142 fighting men, but it leaves civilians with one doctor for every 1,150 people. Ohio had one doctor for every 770 persons in the state before the war began but, even then, there were rural areas with only one doctor for every 2, 000 persons. Health and accident records for the U. S. reveal the average worker loses 7^ days each year due to ac cidental injuries and that 3 per cent of all people are disabled by illness during the year. These are the fields in which homemakers can serve their nation most effectively now. Accidents in homes and on farms are much more numerous than the number occurring in the industries which commonly are called danger ous. One reason for this is that in dustries have had effective safety campaigns to teach their workers to avoid accidents. Little has been done in home and on farms to farms to reduce hazards to health and life. Women can safeguard their famil ies from illness by observing the basic rules of good nutrition in plan ning and serving meals. Too much food of the wrong king is just as injurious as too little food of all kinds. Hunger can be cured quickly but correction of malnutrition is a long, tedious process in many cases. Brookings Institution reports that 20,090,000 new and used automobiles now are available but if all cars are driven an average of 10,000 miles a year, there will be only 10,000,000 cars by the end of 1943, for too few for essential civilian transpor tation. LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE HAULING Every Load Insured STAGER BROS. 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