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PAGE SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
Stork Catches Train
Traveler
Wm. Amstutz, Auct.
and
hos-
Naval Officer Robert Rayle
his wife beat the stork to the
pital, and he says it was a closer
shave than any he had during his
recent tour of duty in Pacific waters,
but the twin girls are worth it.
The stork began overtaking the
Ray les and their four-year-old son
before their eastbound Pennsylvania
train reached Van Wert, so a tele
gram was dispatched from Van Wert
asking that an ambulance meet the
train in Lima. One was waiting,
and 45 minutes after Mrs. Rayle
reached Memorial Hospital the first
girl was born. She weighed three
pounds, six and one-half ounces.
Her sister was four ounces heavier.
Three Escape Insane
Hospital
Three inmates of the Lima State
hospital, none of them considered
dangerous, escaped Sunday night by
forcing an iron grill and sliding
down a fire-hose from a second story
laundry window. A search of the
grounds and nearby fields was futile.
The escapees, Dr. Bushong report
ed were Michael Martaus, 21, ad
mitted Sept. 22, 1941, from Franklin
county after he had been indicted for
larceny Floyd Bruck, 22, transfer
red Nov. 14, 1942, from the Mans
field Reformatory after serving a
month of a 15-year sentence for
burglary and larceny and Eugene
Beroni, 36, admitted April 2, 1930,
from Cuyahoga county where he had
been indicted for auto theft.
Jury Recommends
Remodeling Jail
Huffman & Geckle, Aucts.
by
its
Ten indictments were returned
the Allen county grand jury in
report made at 5:45 p. m. Tuesday.
The jury went into its deliberations
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
Monday morning.
In its report, the jury recommend
ed that the entire second floor of the
county jail be remodeled to provide
segregation of adult and juvenile
females. Other jail recommenda
tions included continuance of the
rule forbidding smoking as a fire
hazard, that steps be taken to make
the jail entirely fireproof, improve
ventilation in the cell block, install
additional private facilities, and seg
regate mental cases.
Students Atone For
Strike
Thousands of Lima school pupils
“slept in” Monday morning as they
took advantage of a full holiday, but
Washington’s Birthday to some 1400
South high school students was just
another school day.
South’s students were carrying out
their self-imposed “Day of Atone
ment” to make amends for time lost
by their strike of Friday afternoon,
Feb. 5. Following settlement of the
strike, the students asked to attend
school for one-half day on their
next holiday.
Principal Paul Garrison reported a
full attendance Monday morning and
said classes were dismissed for the
day between 11 a. m. and 12 noon.
Public Sale
I will offer at Public sale at my residence in the North edge of
Beaverdam, on
Saturday, February 27
Lima And Court House
Disagree On Time
Eastern war time will be observed
in Lima at least through the sum
mer by virtue of a vote of council
which Mayor Frank McClain said
conformed with the requests of man
agers of war industries.
Regardless of the city’s action,
Allen county commissioners have de
creed that the court house clock will
be set back an hour.
Liquor Store Closed
At Lima
Allen county’s liquor famine was
extended indefinitely when the week-
Sale Starts at 12:30 Sharp
2 HEAD OF CATTLE—One good Guernsey cow, fresh last of
March or first of April 1 Jersey and Guernsey heifer to be fresh
the middle of March.
FARM MACHINERY
Good one-horse wagon good rubber tire push cart 6 foot
binder breaking plow 10 foot iron harrow spring tooth harrow
two-horse grain drill one-horse grata drill steel land roller pair
bob sleds five-tooth cultivator double shovel plow single shovel
plow Yankey sled corn sheller hardcoal brooder stove 500 !b.
scales good cross-cut saw 40 ft. extension ladder good seed
cleaner small tarpolin good automatic jack big block and tackle,
with steel cable 2 single sets of harness log chains shovels forks
picks, and numerous articles too numerous to mention also antiques.
One good McCormick-Deering cream separator.
HAY & GRAIN—90 shocks of good corn 30 bu. of oats, more
or less 35 bu. wheat, more or less mow of timothy hay, 5 tons
more or less one barn 18X24 ft., to be sold at private sale.
Double bed and coil springs shiffer robe.
TERMS—CASH on day of sale.
Mrs. Catherine Conrad, Owner
Public Sale
Located 1 mile South of Columbus Grove on Route 65, and
mile west at County Line on the D. F. Bogart farm,
Tuesday, March 2nd
Sale to Start at 12:00 O’clock Noon
FARMING IMPLEMENTS
John Deere model tractor, with cultivator Dunham tractor
disc 12 in. David-Bradley tractor plowsjJohn Deere fertilizer drill
McCormick-Deering corn binder, with tongue truck Massey Harris
corn planter 3-section spring tooth harrow 5 ft. Deering mowing
machine 9 ft. Dunham cultipacker single disc John Deere 2-row
cultivator Case 1-row cultivator low iron wheel wagon, with bed
dray wagon 2 picket cribs, 500 bu. size 2 hog feeders large iron
kettle 50 lb. binder twine fuel oil and drums.
The above machinery is all practically new.
LIVESTOCK
3 Chester White sows, due to farrow in April.
4 Shropshire ewes, due to lamb in March.
Polled Durham cow, 4 yrs. old, vtith calf by side Polled Durham
cow, 4 yrs. old, to freshen soon red and white heifer, 2 yrs. old. to
freshen soon.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS
8-piece walnut dining room suite, large davenport, kitchen cabi
net, Silvertone radio with battery, large size cooierator. kitchen cup
board, 6 piece kitchen set, day bed, 4 upholstered rockers, kitchen
table, 2 hall trees, ac-u-ette sweeper, floor Alladin lamp, fable
Alladin lamp, 2 beds with springs, commode, large mirror, medicine
cabinet, porch swing, library table, stands, small bed room rug.
3 Congoleum rugs, piece linoleum 12X16 ft., meat boards, meat
barrel, lard press, 4 cowhide robes, 14 prs. curtains, cans, rag rugs,
dishes and many articles too numerous to mention.
Russell Kidd
ly shipment of intoxicants failed to
arrive at the Ohio State Liquor
Store last week, and Manager E. F.
Countryman said he had received no
indication as to when some might
arrive.
He said he was informed that
liquor department warehouses in To
ledo were empty. The Lima store
has been closed since Saturday when
the last drop was sold.
Operates As Ship
Tosses
An operation performed aboard a
Coast Guard cutter at sea during a
howling North Atlantic gale was
credited this week to a former Lima
medical intern by naval sources in
Washington.
Lieut. Edward G. Gall, now head
ing the surgical staff at the Marine
hospital in Galveston, Texas, and his
patient were both lashed to the op
erating table, their commanding of
ficer revealed.
The gale was one of three storms
which the cutter encountered.
In Uniform 25 Years
M. F. Laughlin is wearing his
fourth type of uniform in 25 years
after accepting a commission as lieu
tenant (s. g.) in the Naval Reserve.
He is at Great Lakes, Ill.
Laughlin, an assistant fire chief
in Lima since 1939, was in the
AEF in France during World War
I and then joined the Lima police de
partment, transferring to the fire
department in 1926.
Red Cross Drive For
§55,000
The county quota
$55,000.
The drive will be
tion with a nation-wide campaign to
raise $125,000,000 for the purpose of
financing the work of the American
Red ross in serving the armed forces
of the United States thuout the
world, as well as financing the ac
tivities of the local Red Cross Chap
ters thruout the United States.
38,000 Fed By Canteen
More than 38,000 men of the U. S.
armed forces have been served food
by the A. W. V. S. canteen in the
Pennsylvania
Lima during its 112 days of exist
ence, it was revealed Saturday by
those in charge. Patronage of the
free food depot for soldiers, sailors
and marines had grown to a point
where on cold days more than two
pounds of coffee are required to
serve the military men who throng
into the canteen.
railroad station in
HANCOCK COUNTY
Oil Workers Will Help
Farmers
Members of the oil worker’s union
in Findlay have announced plans to
help farmers one or two days every
week. Under the five-day work week
the oil workers have two days a
week free to assist the farmers who
are behind with soybean and corn
harvesting when but a few weeks
remain until the start of the 1943
farm crop season.
A large proportion of the oil work
ers, according to John Hogan, head
of the union, have had farm exper
ience.
Ceiling Price Warning
Given
A warning that farmers must ad
here to ceilings set on farm machin
ery prices by the OPA was issued
by Forest G. Hall, who is a mem
ber of the Hancock county agricul
tural war board.
Hall said the OPA is clamping
down on enforcement of used
chinery price ceilings and that var
ious evasive practices that have
used in some instances have
ruled as improper.
Woman Drowns In
Icy Water
Mrs. Dora Mav Basye, 62, wife of
William H. Basye, welder, of Find
lay. was drowned in the ice-caked
wafers of the Blanchard river short
ly before 3 p. m. Sunday. She had
been in ill health for 12 years and
had frequently threatened suicide.
She had warned her husband Satur
day “to prepare for the worst.”
The body, clad only in sleeping
garments and a kimono, was recov
ered by Findlay firemen in a boat
at the Main street bridge seven
hours later. Police and firemen had
used grappling hooks in an unsuc-
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLl'FFTON, OHIO
OPA Form No. R-1301
United States
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Cross Chapter’s
and War Fund
March 1.
has been set at
Allen county Red
combined Roll Call
campaign will begin
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held in connec
FORM FORMATION BOOK NO. 2
or America
OFFICE OF
PRICE ADMINISTRATION
Declaration:
Declaration whose age as stated
on War Ration Book One is 14
years or older. ......
Cnnnesl Fnods
Form Approved. Budget Bureau No. O8-R12642
On* copy of this Declaration must be filed
with the Office of Price Administration by
each person applying for War Ration Book
Two for the members of a family unit, and
by each person who is not a member of a
family unit. File at the site designated.
Coupons will be deducted for excess supplies
of the foods listed below -according to the
schedules announced by the Office of Price
Administration.
CONSUMER DECLARATION
Processed Foods and Coffee
I HFRFRV CFRTIFY that I am authorized to apply for and receive
a JFar Ration Book Two for each person listed below who is a
member of my family unit, or the other person or persona
for whom I acting whose War Ration Book One I have
submitted to the Board
That the name of each person and number of his or her ar
Ration Book One are accurately listed below
That none of these persons is confined or resident in an institu
tion, or is a member of the Armed Forces receiving subsist
ence in kind or
eating in separate messes under an officer’s
That'no^otiier application for War Ration Book Two for these
persons has been made
That the following inventory statements are true and include
all indicated foods owned by all persons included in this
CaWee
1. Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942,
min«A 1 pound for each person included in this
Declaration whose age as stated on War Ration
Book One is 14 years or older. ....
2. Number of persons included in this
Include all commercially canned fruits (including spiced)
canned vegetables canned fruit and vegetable juices canned
soups, chili sauce, and catsup.
Do not include canned olives canned meat and fish pickles,
relish jellies, jams, and preserves spaghetti, macaroni, and
noodles or home-canned foods.
Number of cans, bottles, and jars (8-ounce size or
larger) of commercially packed fruits, vegeta
bles, juices and soups, chili sauce and catsup
owned on February 21, 1943, minus 5 for
each person included in this Declaration.
Number of persons included in this
Declaration
The name of each person
number of his or her War Ration Book One is:
Print Name
included in this Declaration and the
If additional space is needed, attach eeparate sheet
NOTICE^—Section 35 (A) of
United SUtee Criminal Code make,
it a criminal offense, punishable by
a maximum of 10 years* imprison
ment, *10,000 fine, or both, to make
a false statement or representation
as to any matter within the jurisdic
tion of any department or agency of
the United States.
Av.*, wvouuum nuMTiM amcc i
cessful attempt to locate the body.
A pedestrian noticed the body float
ing in the river near the bridge
about three blocks west of where the
drowning occurred.
Arlington Sailor Is
Missing
Robert Alexander, 21, of Arling
ton, member of a submarine crew
in the Pacific, is missing, his wife,
Mary, was informed in a telegram
from the Navy Department in Wash
ington. He is the son of Cecil Alex
ander, Dunkirk, Ohio. He enlisted
April 21, 1940.
666 FHA Loans In
County
More than 600 families in Han
cock county have made repairs to
their properties or have bought homes
under the F. H. A. program from
the time it was started through June
of last year, according to J. L.
Wadsworth, federal housing adminis
tration director for the northern dis
trict of Ohio.
This includes 592 Title I—property
improvement loans insured by F. H.
A. in Hancock county amounting to
$198,114, and 74 Title II—small home
mortgages accepted for insurance
amounting to $277,000.
The grand total is 666
tions, involving $475,114.
ma
been
been
Instances have been reported
where when the price of the used
tractor has reached the ceiling price,
a calf is sold to go with the tractor,
and thus the price of the machine is
hiked in some instances above the
price of a new tractor.
transac-
Bus
Sunday School
Service
want to
Many youngsters do not
go to Sunday school, but, after they
get there, every last one of them en
joys it. So, if an automobile stopped
right in front of their house and all
they did was jump in, they’d go to
Sunday school, wouldn’t they? Well,
that’s what Lawrence Scoby thought
five years ago, so he started a Sun
day school “delivery system”.
Number
(Signature of applicant or authorised
agent)
(Address)
(City and State)
imv 10—J2744-1
THIS IS THE FORM to be used in declaring the canned goods
on hand when you register for War Ration Book No. 2 this
week. Clip this out and fill it out and take it with you when you
go to the school to register.
he
of
in
to
of
At
Every Sunday for five years
has made the rounds to the homes
Findlay children, picked them up
his car and delivered them right
the East Foulke Avenue Church
God in time for Sunday school,
least 50 children go to Sunday school
each Sunday because Mr. Scoby sees
that they get there.
When gas rationing came in, he
continued to do it, sacrificing his own
driving to make his Sunday rounds.
New Ration Board
Head Named
A. E. Fenstermaker, Findlay shoe
store proprietor, was named chair-
man of the Hancock County War
Price and Rationing Board, succeed
ing Dudley Leo who has entered the
navy.
Hancock Clocks Turn
Back Hour
The hands of the court house clock
together with the clocks in Findlay
and Hancock county homes, and the
large majority of businesses dropped
back an hour as Findlay accepted
the decision of the Ohio legislature
to adopt Eastern Standard Time at
3 a. m. Sunday morning.
Basement Fire Kills
Chickens
Fire in a brooder room in the
basement of the dwelling of Otto
Baner of Findlay killed an unde
termined number of chickens and did
$500 damage to the basement,
believed the fire originated
straw ignited from an electric
bulb, according to Fire Chief
mond E. DeHays.
It is
when
light
Ray-
Soldier Gets Home
Town Product
Pvt. Bernard L. Langstaff, former
member of the Findlay fire depart
ment, who is now in training as an
aerial gunner, out in Utah, writes
his parents that it was like old home
week the other day when he un
packed a case of targets, for the tar
gets had been manufactured by the
Remington Arms company in Find
lay and had been packed in old cop
ies of the Toledo Blade.
HARDIN COUNTY
40 Per Cent Of Corn
Unharvested
With better than an estimated 40
per cent of the 1942 corn crop still
remaining in the fields Hardin coun
ty and the government requesting
more acreage for 1943, local farmers
are at a loss
should be used
harvest.
as to what method
to complete the 1942
farm help and
ma
wet
the
Shortage of
chinery coupled with weeks of
weather and heavy snows at
time when the crop is usually picked
or husked has caused heavy losses
in corn revenue. A bumper crop
averaging 80 bushels per acre was
the farm prospect until the unseason
able weather set in.
Over three million bushels are pro
duced annually in Hardin county
with the marsh districts the center
of production. Conditions are the
same over the county, the upland
farms around Ada having a heavy
percentage of loss. Wet weather and
heavy winds have laid the corn down
along with the weight of snow.
Stalks have rotted through this
weathering and break over easily,
an estimated 25 per cent suffering
this fate.
Rationing Cuts Auto
Sales
Some indication as to what ration
ing and the shift to war industries
has done to the automobile regis
tration business in Hardin county
was revealed Thursday by Clerk of
Courts William P. Woods who said
only 65 used cars and four new
automobiles were sold by dealers in
January, 1943.
In the month of January, 1942, 78
used cars and eight new cars were
sold by dealers. In January, 1941,
prior to the start of rationing and
the changeover to war industry, deal
ers sold 127 used cars and 57 new
cars, according to the certificates of
title filed in the clerk of courts
office.
Four Families Home
less In Fire
Four families residing in one five
room frame house in Kenton were
left homeless when fire broke out
from an overheated stove and gut
ted the dwelling. Fire Chief Ralph
Jones said his crew laid nearly 2,000
feet of hose to reach the fire scene.
None of the 10 occupants was in
jured in the fire which also destroyed
most of their furniture.
O. N. U. President
Resigns
A meeting of the board of trustees
of Ohio Northern university has
been called for Saturday, February
27, at 1:30 p. m. to consider the
resignation of Dr. Robert Williams,
president of the educational institu
tion. Announcement of the called
gathering was made Thursday by
Charles Wilson of Ada, secretary of
the board.
Dr. Williams has been presi'4
of the university since 1929.
Hen Donates Eggs
To Elevator
The employees of the Alger ele
vator are charmed with a daily
from “Biddy”, a White Rock
who after entering the back
walks around and visits the
and then proceeds to a corner to
leave her characteristic reminder, the
egg-
visit
hen,
door
men
Bored with the quiet of the farm
Biddy started out in search of ex
citement which ended with her find
ing the grinding room of the ele
vator with all its confusion and
noises. She evidently gave notice she
would appreciate a nesting place so
the men fixed a neat corner nest.
Teaches In Kenton
53 Years
Numbering among his thousands
THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1943
of former pupils three members of
the Kenton school board, Frank
Ellis is rounding out his 53rd
as a public school teacher.
year
has
and
For the last 40 years he
drilled
eighth graders in Kenton in mathe
matics.
thousands of seventh
PUTNAM COUNTY
Time Confusion At
Ottawa
Considerable confusion is expected
to result for many Ottawa residents
when the clocks were turned back
one hour Sunday to conform with
the law signed last week by Gov.
John W. Bricker placing Ohio in the
Eastern time zone.
Municipal officials said that they
feel Ottawa must go along with the
state legislature’s action since there
are no defense industries there or
other industries that will be affected
by a time change.
News Want Ads give good results.
WINNING
COMES FIRST!
Cincinnati & Lake Erie
Transportation Company
RUNTS
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 “Neero.”
40% Old Fort Hog Mix
made with Borden's
HOPRO
Bluffton Milling Co.
COMMUNITY
at 102 Spring Street, Bluffton
SATURDAY, MARCH 6th
Beginning at 1:00 P. M.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS:—Five piece reed living room
suite large dining table, with leaves and folding pads to
fit library table kitchen table 3 rocking chairs screened
in baby buggy folding ironing board child’s desk porch
swing bird cage large clothes basket small 2-burner
kerosene heater fish aquarium wall flour bin, with sifter
wicker porch swing and chair porch box 2 sturdy mov
able school desks long iron register one gallon ice cream
freezer jars and crocks wall pictures washing machine,
with electric motor.
MISCELLANEOUS:—Glass door 2X8, 6X11, togeth
er with frame door 2X8, 6X8 2 oil brooder stoves, 500
chick capacity battery brooder, 300 chick capacity corn
sheller copper kettle force hand sprayer 5 window sash,
28X34 mash chick feeders chick water fountains water
and feed crocks for rabbits cistern force pump scythe 2
hand wood saws lawn clipper iron saw barrels and oil
drums potato crates garden tools chicken crates and
coops and many other articles.
Other articles may be included in this sale if brought
to place of sale on Saturday morning, March 6.
Leonard Gratz, Auct.
WANTED—DEAD STOCK
WE PAY TOP CASH PRICES
Horses $4.00 Cows $2.00
Small Slock removed free of charge.
Quick Service
Telephone Findlay, MAIN 475, Reverse Charges
BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio
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