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PAGE SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
County Gets Salvage
Pennant
A pennant denoting excellence in
salvage collection work was present
ed to Allen county at a luncheon
meeting held Thursday noon in the
Barr hotel.
George Quatman, civilian defense
chairman, presented the banner to
Trevor Morris, Allen county commis
sioner, who will place it on a spe
cially provided flagpole near the an
tique cannon in the courthouse lawn.
Officer Cited For
Heroism
Gen. Douglas MacArthur last week
awarded the distinguished service
cross to First Lieut. James I. Hunt
of Lima, for heroism near Buna be
tween Dec. 2 and 5.
Hunt crawled forward and threw
a hand grenade into a Japanese ma
chine gun emplacement, and altho
wounded, continued to lead his pla
toon. He voluntarily returned from
the hospital the next day. still carry
ing the bullet in his knee.
Robber Suspect Is
Wounded
Lima police had in custody Satur
day night a man who allegedly has
admitted the robbery earlier in the
day of Francis X. Ebner at his coal
company office on East Vine street,
and another suspect is in a Marion,
Ohio, hospital with a bullet wound
in his hand.
One of the men, who gave his
name as Robert Otis Wood, 23, col-
Large
Numbers
of smart investors are
finding Legal Reserve In
vestments to be just what
they are looking for to get
a good return on their
money. You, too,
profit by inquiring
this splendid plan,
obligation when you
Legal Reserve, 602
Tower, Lima, for informa
tion.
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can
about
No
write
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NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
ored, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was
being returned to Lima at a late
hour Saturday in the custody of
Chief of Police James G. Goodwin,
Traffic Inspector Don Miller and
Sergt. Al Grady.
The second of the pair, who gave
his name as Ben Jones
ored, of Lakewood was
hand as he fled from
thorities.
“I HELPED TO BUILD THE U. S.
BATTLESHIPS MOW FIGHTING
IM THE SOUTH PACIFIC”---
Wilson,
shot in
Marion
‘•.4
4
4'and I’m going to keep right on doing my
share till Victory is ours. You too can help.
DO YOU KNOW
That the little blue flame that cooks your
meals, that warms your house is a roaring
giant in wartime. It is helping turn steel
into wee pons of war at a rate that’s smash
ing al! records for speed. It is “cooking”
whole battleship turrets at one time in ovens i
big as a five-room house. Tanks, guns,
bombs and bullets. Gas is used to make
them a!!. That’s why you should remom
bar GAS IS VITAL WAR MATERIAL
VoE IT WISELY DON’T WASTE IT.
WEST OHIO 00.
col
the
au-
Cheats Death or
20 Years
Robert Roosevelt Woten, 38,
at 6:30 a. m. Wednesday at his
idence in Lima.
Red Cross Seeks
War Nurses
Ohio Steel Gets Army- p°rt and a^"dTing a
“F”
Njivv
ixd-Vy IL
Plant Superintendent Arthur Mc
Laughlin delivered the only address,
and production stoppage was very
short, officials said.
Farm Institute Season
Is Here
With the first of Allen county’s six
I faun institutes opening Monday at
I Bluffton, county farmers are looking
I forward to being busier than usual
Iduring the next three weeks.
I Last year 10,350 persons attended
I sessions of county institutes and offi
died leers predicted that the attendance
res-1 this year would be as large or pos
sibly larger.
After his death, relatives recalled
that 20 years ago doctors have up I sion agent, pointed out that last year
hope for his life after he had been I Allen county institutes attracted the
shot in the breast while he had been fifth largest attendance in the state,
hunting. He spent many months in
the Van Wert county hospital and at
the University hospital in Columbus.
6,000 nurses needed imme
for duty with the armed
Allen County Red Cross offi-
With
ditely
forcer,
cials Saturday announced they would]
go “all out” in an attempt to
a large number of recruits
Lima district.
I
James H. Warner, county exten-
Lima Service Clubs
Disband
The Optimist club, the second Lima
service
tivities
ceased
The
garner
in the
set up
A recruiting office will be
at the Red Cross Work room, Westl
Ohio Gas Co., Lima.
County High In Vic
tory Loan Drive
band was the Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Almost 40 of the 50
members have left for military
services, Cliff Wood, Jr., said.
Allen county with 220 per cent oil
its quota subscribed, led the fifth
area of the Fourth Federal Reserve
district in the Victory Loan drivel
just completed, according to John Til the Knowlton Construction company,
Rohr, general chairman. This count J| sub-contractors at the Lima Tank
was considered as “perhaps the out-l Depot,
standing county of the nation,” h|
said.
The 20 Northwestern Ohio counties!,------------------------------------------------
which made up the district, sub
scribed 128 per cent against a $51,-1
300,000 quota, he said.
Allen county, with its 220 peJ
cent, made a total* of $5,645,844 ini Possible bigamy and grand larceny
Tank Depot Worker
Is Killed
Sandusky,
An Army-Navy “E” pennant foil mitted a robbery in the night season
production achievements last weekl| in Findlay last September,
was hoisted at the Ohio Steel Found-1
ry Co., Lima. Informal ceremonies
A construction worker at the Lima.
Tank Depot died early Wednesday| at enU
in St. Rita’s hospital of head in
juries suffered when he fell beneath
the wheels
port.
of a truck, attaches re­
Herman Ziemple, 54, of
brick mason foreman of
Dead is
HANCOCK COUNTY
Fapp„ I arppnv RiOmV■
K 3CCS ^Cen Bigamy
Charge
woman, admitted to authorities that
I he married another woman a short I
time ago and also that he had com-l
Draft Takes High
School Boys
The draft age has reached the
boys of Findlay high school and sev
eral have already left for training
in some branch of the armed forces.
Those boys who have left school are
Richard Bibler, army William Web
ber, air corps Ivan Nesler,
and Ralph Semler, army.
Waite is leaving for the navy
end of the semester and Don
is waiting call to enter the coast
guard.
THEBLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
ac
has
organization to suspend
“for the duration”,
to hold meetings.
other club to recently
dis-
navy
Kieth
at the
Rader
Findlay Doesn’t Get
Crossing Lights
The Nickel Plate railroad had ad
vised Findlay city council that it was
unable to get material for flasher
warning light installations as re
quested for four crossing in that
city.
F. J. DeGrief, superintendent of
the Lake Erie and Western district
of the road, told council that other
po’nts along the railroad had filed
requests for flashers ahead of Find
lay.
Be­
Misses Husband
fore He Sails
former
has ar-
Mrs. William Axline, the
Betty Leeper, of Van Buren,
rived home from New York City
where she went to see her husband,
who is in the air corps, before he
left for overseas duty. Due to the
crowded trains she was delayed and
was unable to see him.
School Budget Is
Lower
I The Findlay board of education at
I its last meeting approved its annual
ppp' ms in a total sum
$442,011.33 as compared with an
I n of $449,793.51 for
I preceding 12 months.
of
ap
the
Soil Conservation
Office Is Opened
ag­
ricultural agent form 1927 to 1930,
has been returned to Findlay as rep
resentative of Soil Conservation serv
ice. His headquarters will be with
the county agricultural office in the
post office.
Rradfute will have charge of SCS
work in Allen, Hancock, Hardin,
Seneca, Wyandot. Logan and Aug
laize counties. He will work with
Custer Monument, New Rumley.
GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER
(1839-1876)
It was dawn—June 25, 1876
almost an even century since the
Declaration of Independence.
The scene—the Little Big Horn
in wild Montana.
General George Custer, the Boy
General of the Civil War (he was
a major-general at
25) was giving
orders to his subordinates. Ben
teen was to approach from this
direction Major Reno from that.
General Custer with 276 cavalry
would attack from this point.
Chief Sitting Bull and his Sioux
warriors had been cornered.
But nothing moved on schedule.
Custer, blond hair flying, led his
men into action. Nearly 5 J)00 In
dians were ahead of him. Benteen
county agricultural war boards and
"‘13 production
and land problems, particularly
where where drainage and erosion
are concerned.
Farm Help To Be
Relocated
Farmers who need a farm hand
the year around have been urged to
contact their local office of the Unit
ed States Employment Service.
Representatives of three federal
agencies cooperating with the War
Manpower Commission conferred
Uhe Y’ M’ C’ A’
I
subscriptions against a quota of $2,-Icharges were uncovered in the may-1 tbe P^an relacatinu farm families
530,000, the report showed. I or’s court in Findlay when Richard I to meet farm labor shortage caused
I E. Marvin, 29, accused of non-sup-1 *he war.
buj,dinff
Friday. The conference discussed
Lr A
I Friends Overseas Meet
zx
It was Christmas Eve when Maj.
R. S. Rilling, Findlay surgeon, ar
rived at an Army hospital some
where in England. There to greet
him was Maj. L. H. Goodman, an
other Findlay doctor.
Findlay Man Takes
Federal Job
George W. Caughman, who is serv
ing his fourth year as president of
the Findlay council, has tendered his
resignation to accept a federal posi
tion.
Caughman’s duties, he advised the
council, will be the inspection of tank
cars in a district known as Zone 2.
which includes the eastern part of
the United States.
HARDIN COUNTY
Seven At O. N. U. Get
Perfect Grades
In spite of wartime distractions,
scholastic records were high at Ohio
Northern university for the fall
quarter, according to the reports re
leased by the registrar. Four men
and three women made perfect three
point records and 44 others made
the honor roll.
ll en Lays “V” Egg
Mrs.
Carl Lay, of Alger, hasn’t
made up her mind but she
that perhaps one of her
trying to forecast
exactly
believes
hens is
Allied victory.
OHIO’S HEROES
an early
eggs she
had laid
When she gathered her
discovered one of the hens
an egg shaped as a perfect “V”.
She reported that all of her hens
have been good layers during the
winter months.
Old Age Too Much
For Sleigh
Two Kenton men who resurrecteed
an old sleigh find a horse to pull it
were the envy of local residents re
cently as they drove up and down
city streets.
The pleasure of the sleigh-riders,
Paul Root and Rill Crooks was mar
red somewhat when the seat broke
and both fell from the vehicle
front of the Kenton theeater.
J. E, Rradfute, Hancock county in
OPA Closes Ada
Market
The Ada Locker Service, handling
an approximate volume of $5,000 in
retail meat sales per month, recently
received an order from the Office of
of Ohio
and Reno hesitated—and were too
late.
The battle, one of America’s
most devastating, ended. Curly,
an Indian scout, and Comanche,
a horse,' alone survived. On the
field lay the bodies of Custer and
his 276 troopers.
Custer, son of a Hessian soldier
who was captured during the
Revolution, spent his boyhood in
New Rumley, Ohio, near Cadiz.
He worked on his father’s farm,
taught school at 16, and entered
West Point at 18.
A great cavalry officer, this im
mortal Ohioan fought through the
Civil War Then to the West.
First to Texas to make a show of
force against Maximilian, the
Austrian sitting on the throne of
Mexico.
Next to Kansas to subdue In
dians who were protecting their
lands from incursions of settlers.
Custer and his men guarded the
surveyors and engineers laying out
the Northern Pacific. From there
to Montana in pursuit of Sitting
Bull, and to his death at 37.
At New Rumley is the Custer
State Memorial, the foundation of
the homestead where Custer was
bom on December 5, 1839, ana a
heroic statue to the memory of a
heroic Ohioan.
School Head Proposes
Compromise
n n I
Senate I
Pay Boost For
Teachers
PUTNAM COUNTY
Insemination Is
Successful
A report on the artificial insemin
ation program in Putnam
during the last six months
was issued in Ottawa by
Agent L. C. Holtkamp.
A total of 410 cows was
during the period with 1.8
per cow being required to
calves, the report shows. 'The
Dogs Starve In Pound
The dog was lying in the pound
surrounded by a litter of pups,
of them were dead and three
were so weak they hardly
whine for food.
I Whoever went out of his way to
I put the dag in the pound appar
I entiy did not know that Dog Warden
I Donald Benton has not been keeping
I the stray dogs in this pound but has
I been putting them in a shelter in
I his home rommunity of Leipsic.
The sheriff fed the mother dog
I and her remaining puppies and then
I called the warden who removed them
I to Leipsic.
Richland Center
Mr. and Mrs. 1
Price Administration telling them to I j^[rt an(j Mrs. Walter Schaublin
discontinue retail sales and custom I anj daughter Rachel spent Thursday
butchering until a quota could be I evening with Mr. and Mrs. Robert
established. I Ewing.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher and son were last Sunday visitors of
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight I Mr. and Mrs. Roy Arnold and son at
Frantz and daughters were Sunday I Cairo.
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sami Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Bowers enter
Badertschen and son. Itained with a farewell party for their
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and I son. Gerald, also Dick Mikesell and
son Melvin spent Wednesday even-1 Don Cockrell all of whom are enter
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mar-ling military’ service. Those present
quart, Sr.
I
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leland I elle Jones, Iris Newland, Harold Woe
Basinger twin girls at the Bluffton I ner, Don Cockrell, Stanley
hospital. IC—-
Sunday callers at the Amos and Dick Mikesell.
Robert Gerber home
Mrs. Milton Luginbuhl and family Daughter of Bluffton spent Sunday
and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bame and with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cook.
daughter Mary Ellen.t
daughter spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and
Evening callers
Wilford Gratz.
County School Superintendent F.l and Mrg
C. Ransdell last week submitted tol^ Clarence||
the Office of Defense Transportation! D.ner an(J Henry Hi]ty homes
a proposal that Hard,n County and 1 pand Su„d afternoon.
other rural school systems be al- Mr an(J Mrs Ed Ma and
lowed to p,ck up all rural school!^ Melyin and Mr and Mr I
children at their homes for transpor-l_ ,. I
xi I Francis Marquart were Sunday din-1
tation to school, but that they may I .. u^ul
.. I ner guests at the John Hirschfeldl
be dropped from one-fourth to one-1 _• I
j- I home in Lima. I
half mile from home, according to I o. xx
xr I Mr.
and Mrs. O. L. Stratton, Mr.lI•»
ages, on their way home in the even-1 I
land Mrs. W. L. Hilty, Mr. and Mrs.L
ing I li
Mrs. Evan Davis of Rushmore andUima were Sunda-V afternoon callers
Mrs. John Habegger spent Wednes-|of Mrs- Came Durkee and daughter
day afternoon at the Amos Gerber |Rutb’ ,.
home I Wendell Amstutz, student at Ohio
I Ernest Gratz spent Friday eveningl
“Such a procedure’, the educator|
.. ... .. I with Mr. and Mrs. Walter SchaubhnlI...,
explained, will result in a consider-1 I
w x- I and daughter,
able savings on gasoline and tires|
I Mr. and Mrs. Amos Basinger and!
throughout a school term and willl I
i u u- I Mrs. Francis Basinger and daugh-l
not occasion any material hardship A r-, 7,1
... I ters spent Friday evening at thel
on youngsters.”
Resigns Rost in btate I Sam
I Amos Gerber home. I
Mhat may have been intended as Mr. and Mrs Paul Stcodt have re.
a kindness to a stray little female I turned their home in the country,
dog turned into a gross unkindness ss sherry Jan Zimmerman of
at Ottawa, Sheriff Arnold Potts of Bluffton was an over Sunday visitor of
Putnam county revealed.
was called to the fairgrounds
dog lover who explained that
were some dogs starving to
inside the locked dog pound on
He
bv a
theie
death
the grounds,
sealed tl^at someone had pried open
a rear door of the pound far enough
to lot a little dog in and then shut
the dooi.
His investigation re-
wo I
others I
could I
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bad- Northern unviversity was an over
ertscher a boy at the home of her Sunday ™tor of hts parents, Mr. and
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Moore-I^ra' ^“aac ms
head.
Earl
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Kohl op-1 jdr and Mrs.
erate a slaughter house in connec-l daughter Carolyn and Mrs. Mary I Johannesburg reported to the de
tion with their locker service. They I Matter were Sunday dinner guests partment of commerce at Washing
have been killing about 400 animals I of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Reynolds and| ton
per month for retail sales. I son David of south of Lima.
Mr. and Mrs. Reno Gratz and I
I
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Frantz, Mrs.!
Badertscher and Mrs. Wilmerl
Badertscher called at the Clinton
I Moorehead home Sunday afternoon!
Frank S. Ansley, chairman of the! to see Mrs. Harold Badertscher andl
Hardin county selective service board,! baby. I
Tuesday announced his resignation| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Friedley andl
as assistant postmaster of the Ohio| Mrs. Sam Kohler and daughter!
senate, a position that paid $6 per| Madelyn spent Sunday with Mr. and|
day while the senate was in session.! Mrs. Harley Kohler and family of I
“My health will not permit me to Toledo. I
continue as assistant postmaster of| Mr. and Mrs. Rhuel Kohler andl
the senate, although I deeply appre-| sons moved in with his mother, Mrs.I
ciate the honor conferred upon me,” I Sam Kohler and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. I
Ansley said. Friedley moved to Lima this week.I
The Kenton board of education,
reporting a balance of more than
$24,000 in the various school district! The Junior choir will sing at thel
funds, this week authorized a gen-1 Methodist church Sunday morning at I
eral five per cent increase in thel 11 o’clock, Miss Catherine Eddy di-I
.salaries of all teachers and employes,! recting. Promotion day for the child-1
except that of Supt. L. E. McKinley. I ren will also be observed. I
I
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Luginbuhl I
called at the Kohler home Sunday I
afternoon. I
Beaverdam
Mrs. James Ramsey and daughter!
Linda spent last week with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Ziegenbusch
at Buckland.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Yant were Sun
day visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gierhart and
county son derrY °T Cleveland moved here
of 19421 wpe^ and Mr- Gierhart has ac
County| cepted a position at the Westinghouse
I in Lima. I
serviced I ^rs- Carrie Durkee has received
services I w°rd from her grandson Pvt. War
produce ren R- stationed in the Air
agent| Corps at Miami, Fla., that he was
asserted that‘this is lower than the| transferred to Sheppard Field, Texas,
percentage resulting from natural Mrs. Cynthia Elliott is spending
breeding. several weeks with Mrs. Carl Schmidt
and son at Perrysburg.
♦,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Manahan of
Lima were last Sunday visitors of
Mrs. Lillie Manahan.
THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1943
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Vertner vis
ited last Wednesday with Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Vertner at Patterson Field
near Dayton.
Miss LeMa Barbe who was a medi
cal patient at Memorial hospital the
past week has been brought to the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Grant Barber and her condition is
much improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Arnold and
son, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pugh
were: Misses Donna Beemer, Avon-
were: Mr. and| Mr. and Mrs. Byron Anderson and
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schaublin[entertained the Ohio Tau Chapter of
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Wil-pbe Beta Sigma Phi Sorority on last
ford Gratz were Sunday dinner! Thursday evening,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Walter Beck
Schaublin and daughter Rachel. Camp Dix, N. J., while Mrs Beck
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Core and|and ?on Gar-V will remain with her
family were Monday dinner guests I Inot^er Mrs. Mae Bailey.
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz. Mr- and Mrs‘ Robert A’ Fn* of
Barber,
Carl Thomas, Max Lutterbein and
I Misses Lucille and Ruth Marquart
has returned to
Casein Studied
South Africa is interested in the
manufacture of casein from butter
milk because of its use in the manu
facture of water paints and kalso-
Matter and| mine, the commercial attache at
War Bonds and Defense
Stamps now.
Mrs. Ernest Gratz.1
were Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Hochstettler
FARM BUREAU
INSURANCE
Auto—Fire—Life—Liability
Paul E. Whitmer, Agent
245 W. Grove St.—Phone 350-W
Bluffton, Ohio
LOCAL AND LONG
DISTANCE HAULING
Every Load Insured
STAGER BROS.
Bluffton, Ohio
For Vigor and Health
include meat in your menu.
Always ready to serve you.
Bigler Bros.
Fresh and Salt Meats
RUIN PROFITS
HOPRO, A
proved ingredient
in our Pig & Hog Balancer sup
plies a blend of the known B
Complex Vitamins that stretches
your grain and helps eliminate
runts by providing balanced
nutrition. Contains Niacin (for
merly called Nicotinic Add) one
of the factors recommended by
Investigators for the prevention
and control of “Necro.”
Bierly and family at Lafayette. I
40% Old Fort Hog Mix
made with Borden’s
HOPRO
Bluffton Milling Co
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, Foirtoria Animal Product.. Inc.”
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