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ALLEN COUNTY
Jurist Probes Divorce
Causes
Steps are being taken by Judge
Neal L. Lora of the Allen county
common pleas court to curb the pro
miscuous severing of marriage ties
in Lima and surrounding communi
ties that come under the jurisdiction
of this court, he declared in open
court Tuesday morning.
“The number of divorce actions on
file in this court has increased in
recent months until the situation has
become alarming”, the jurist assert
ed. “I intend to do everything in
my power to prevent the destruction
of homes where minor misunder
standing or spontaneous arguments
result in divorce suits being filed in
the common pleas court.”
Judge Lora made it clear that in
the future a personal investigation
will be made by himself or an officer
of his court.
Woman Stabbed On
Street
A 25-year-old Lima woman was
reported convalescing Wednesday
from knife wounds as police were
conducting a search for her assail
ant.
She is Mrs. Zelma Ault, of 25012
N. Shore Drive, who told officers
that she was attacked at 2:30 a. m.
Wednesday as she and her husband,
Raymond, walked north on S. Main
street, near Eureka street.
She described her assailant as a
Kentuckian whom she met in a Lima
cafe.
Auto Thief Caught
In Corn Field
A chase through a corn field near
the junction of routes 69 and 30
ended in the apprehension of Orville
John Edens, 18, of Lima, on a
charge of automobile larceny, Wed
nesday afternoon.
State Highway Patrolman W. B.
Day sighted the stolen car at 3 p. m.
near Alger on route 69 and gave
chase. Realizing he was being fol
lowed Edens jumped from the car
at Forest Inn, and took to the field.
Soldier Saves Boy
From Pool
Home on furlough, a Lima soldier
became a hero when he rescued a
boy from Schoonover Lake after the
boy’s bicycle ran into 20 feet of
i Talk Abeyf Good
NUTRITION!
Years ago our hospitals realized the necessity of
nutritious meals and balanced diets.
Today the knowledge they developed on this sub
ject is being used to keep a nation healthy in spite
of shortages and restricted food supplies.
Food preparation is as important as its selection
and the GAS industry realizes its obligation to the
17 million American homes who depend on gas
for cooking.
We are doing our best to keep the gas equipment
in these homes up to maximum efficiency for the
duration
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
water in the big lake.
The soldier is Corp. William A.
Bulen, who is stationed at the air
field at Ogden, Utah.
The story of the soldier’s heroic
act was told by his sister, Mrs. D.
W. Grainger, who resides on Cable
road. Mrs. Grainger and the soldier
hero Thursday was attempting to
learn the name of the boy who es
caped the drowning.
Mrs. Grainger, Corp. Bulen and a
party of others had been swimming
in the Schoonover pool for a while
during the early part of the evening.
Coming out of the pool, they said
they noticed a boy drive his bicycle
into the lake when he lost control
of the vehicle.
Former Fire Chief
Dies
John Maurer, 82, retired Lima fire
chief, died Monday night in his home
near Lakeview. Serving wholly in
the days of horse drawn equipment,
Mr. Maurer retired in 1912 after
serving the fire department for 30
years.
Seven Autos In Lima
Crash
While pursuing a reckless driver
in South Main street, Lima, a police
cruiser collided with a passenger car
Wednesday in an accident that in
volved seven automobiles and allowed
the fugitive to escape.
Ellis Vandemark, 33, driver of the
cruiser, said no one was hurt in the
jab of cars in which his cruiser
struck an automobile operated by
Betty Jean Brentlinger, 18, of Lake
view.
Lafayette Post Office
Gets New Rate
THE WEST OHIO GAS CO.
The Postoffice Department Wed
nesday announced advancement of
post offices at Harrod and Lafayette
from fourth to third class rating, ef
fective July 1.
The new classification necessitates
the appointment of postmasters in
the two villages under the new class
by President Roosevelt with advice
and consent of the Senate.
Delphos Soldier Dies
In Action
Remember... You Can’t Spell Victory with an Absent-T
Pfc. Thomas C. Bohnlein, 32, has
been killed in action according to
word received by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Bohnlein, of Delphos,
from the adjutant general’s depart
ment, Washington, I). C. He was
MliKi
’’♦‘st
killed May 29 in the North Ameri
can area, the message said.
Delphos Youth To
West Point
Stanley D. Fair of Delphos, will
enter the U. S. Military Academy,
West Point, N. Y., July 1. Two of
his brothers are serving in the army.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Beets Still May Be
Planted
Planting of sugar beets even at
this late date, is strongly urged in
a bulletin received Thursday at the
office of County Agent Forest G.
Hall.
Ample soil moisture and resultant
rapid germination are pointed out as
factors that should make beets plant
ed now attain a growth equal to
many planted late in May.
The bulletin says that under ex
isting conditions beets may be
planted up to June 25 with reason
able assurance of a paying crop.
And beets are a badly needed crop,
points out the bulletin.
Findlay Workman
Loses Hand
Edward Johnston had a hand am
putated in the Findlay Hospital after
he was injured by a saw while work
ing in the Buckeye Traction Ditcher
company.
Hen Lays Victory
Egg
Even the chickens have fallen in
to the spirit of this V-for-Victory
thing that was adopted early in the
war.
The other day a hen on Billy
Kerns’ farm south of Findlay let out
a joyous cackle and the rooster
crowed as he went strolling thru
the barnyard.
Kerns, a retired farmer whose
place is tenanted, went out to see
what all the cackling and crowing
was about and was he dumbfounded
when he looked into a nest!
There reposing in the strawy and
well-cushioned nest was an egg with
a perfect raised V in the shell form
ation.
Farmers Beat Labor
Shortage
A real farm labor shortage in
Hancock county, intensified by the
long delays occasioned by continued
spring rains, is being solved in large
measure through co-operation and
pooling of labor by the farmers
themselves.
At the same time, planting delays
occasioned by rain and wet fields are
being compensated in large measure
by rapid crop growth during the
last week or so of ideal growing
weather.
This is the gist of competent farm
observations from all parts of the
county which sum up to an estimate
that Hancock county farm crops will
lie ample this year in spite of a bad
start.
Tractors with lights have been
going all night long in all parts of
the area for the past several nights
turning over ground at a rate that
brought estimates that 90 per cent
of the plowing is completed and that
the next day or two will see it done.
One of the finest examples of
farmer cooperation came from Eagle
township where a farmer with his
tractor already in his field was
forced to stop work to rush his small
son to a doctor. When he returned
his own tractor and two others were
at work in the hands of neighbors
whose own land was too wet to work.
Wilbur Class, of Portage township,
found his land too wet and helped
his neighbors. In the past two days
his neighbors turned in help him in
return and with four tractors, 72
acres of corn were planted in two
days.
HARDIN COUNTY
O. N. U. Coach Takes
New Post
Clyde Lamb, director of physical
education at Ohio Northern Univers
ity for the last 14 years, has re
signed and said he will join the
faculty of an army student training
unit at Oregon State College.
Black Damp Kills
Farmer In Well
Mack Reed, 28-year-old farmer, re
siding two miles northeast of Round
head, was killed shortly before noon
Thursday when he was overcome by
black damp while repairing a pipe
six feet below the top of a well on
the farm where he resided.
Dr. John A. Mooney, Hardin coun
ty coroner, who investigated, returned
a verdict of accidental death and
said that he thought the young man
was unconscious when he fell to the
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bottom of the 30-foot well. There
was about two feet of water in the
well.
Baby Eats Rat Poison
Vonna Bodine, 14-month-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Bodine,
of Mt. Victory, was recovering after
swallowing a teaspoonful of rat pois
oning at her home.
Hay Harvest Is Under
Way
Working ceaselessly in sultry in
tervals between torrential thunder
showers, farmers were confronted
last week with corn and soybean
planting, haymaking and the last
of the spring tillage.
Wet weather during the month of
May which disrupted spring planting
schedules has brought corn planting
and haymaking at the same time on
the farmers’ calendar.
A bumper hay croy is being har
vested between rains by farmers of
the Ada district. The hay is excep
tionally heavy this year as a result
of excellent growing conditions.
Ada Asparagus Grows
Big
The government agricultural drive
for more production must have had
some effect on the stalk of asparagus
found by Gene Williams in his
mothei garden at Ada.
The out-sized growth was formed
by several stalks joining throughout
their length which measures six feet
in heighth. They were 2’j inches
wide.
Woman Named War
Bond Champ
Mrs. Zelma Hontz, Kenton, has
been named regional war bond sales
champion for May and will receive
a medal and a $25 bond at a cere
mony June 25 in Epringfield, A. C.
Johnston, Hardin County chairman,
announced.
Dunkirk Man On
Lost Sub
Robert Dean Alexander, 20, of
nearby Dunkirk, went down with his
submarine, the Argonaut, it was re
ported by the navy.
Robert, a quartermaster second
class, and other members of the Ar
gonaut, received a citation for hav
ing “accepted destruction rather than
surrender.”
School Heads Take Up
War Work
Five superintendents of the eight
schools in Hardin county have ob
tained summer employment in the
tank depot at Lima. Those working
during the summer vacation period
are N. C. Aungat, Dola B. W. Cot
terman, Alger P. W. Thomas, For
es!j Ralph S. Lanham, Mt. Victory,
and H. W. Sanders, McGuffey.
Six teachers are also employed
there: J. Burkholder, F. E. Mc
Glaughlin, Ruby Carman and Mary
Ellis of Alger, and D. Ray Baum
and C. A. Brooks of Forest.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Bridge Collapses Into
River
Weakened by continual high water
during the last two months, the Het
rick bridge over the Auglaize river
on U. S. Route 224 four miles west
of Kalida collapsed into the stream.
Two men escaped injury and prob
able death as the structure buckled.
William J. White, 24 of 55 Mentor
avenue, Painesville, Ohio, crawled out
of his sedan as it slid into the mud
dy water after Nelson Robinson, 29,
of Fenton, Michigan, drove his
heavily-loaded tractor-trailer assemb
ly off the bridge just as it pulled
loose from the east end.
White was waiting in his car with
the front wheels on the edge of the
bridge when it plunged into the riv­
Road to Burma
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Fvti-
MAKING HAVOC AMONG THE JAPANESE in Burma from February through May of this year, have been columns
of British Indian and Burmese troops led by a British brigadier. They blew up more than 100 miles of Jap railroads
and bridge's killing numerous Jap soldiers. But perhaps more important was their work in building better roads into Burma
and in rnakini friends among the native people. These will be useful when it becomes possible to launch the offensivt
hat will drive out the Japanese. This new picture of supplies carried by mules for the Allied troops in Burma shows the
difficult jungle conditions in which these daring fighters operated.
er. The force of the crash pulled
the car down the steep incline. Re
alizing what was happening, White
managed to crawl out of the left
front door and hang onto a girder
of the bridge before the car turned
over on its left side in the water.
Robinson rushed back and helped
White up the embankment. He was
uninjured but his clothing was
soaked up to his waist.
Ottawa Tot Drowns
In Cistern
Mary Ann Siefer, two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Sieferj Ottawa R. F. D. 1, was
drowned when she fell into an open
cistern on the family farm Saturday
afternoon.
The child’s mother found the child
when she went to see where she was
playing. After looking around the
barn, the mother glanced into the
cistern to discover the child’s dress
floating on top the water.
Scouts Take Over
Government
Boy Scout troops of Putnam coun
ty will hold their third annual City
Day in Ottawa, July 16 with repre
sentatives of the various troops in
the county occupying the elective
and appointive offices in the court
house for the day.
An additional activity this year
will be the inclusion of Ottawa muni
cipal offices in the program of the
Ottawa troop. The local troop has
elected its municipal officers who will
be at their posts that day.
Each of the troops in Putnam
county w’ill elect two representatives
to the county Civic Day rostrum.
On the morning of July 6, the dele
gates will gather to choose the var
ious elective officers who in turn
will select their appointive assistants.
Rawson
Pvt. and Mrs. Serge Warren are
the parents ot a seven pound baby
girl, born Monday, June 21st.
Miss Betty Knecht of Bowling
Green spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Sherman Longsworth and dau
ghter Dorothy.
Mrs. Jossie Lovett of Findlay was
a Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Luther McClelland.
Mrs. Eva Kern of Chicago is spend
ing a week with her daughter, Mrs.
Andrew’ Wentz.
Miss Mary Wagner of Lima was
a week-end guest of Miss Edith
Peterson.
Prof, and Mrs. Clayton Tooley of
Fremont are the parents of a baby
daughter. Prof. Tooley is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tooley.
Mrs. W. H. Peterson was a Sun
day dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton Balmer and family of Mt.
Cory.
Mrs. Andrew' Wentz spent the
week-end in Findlay with her sister
Mrs. Wayne Gibson of 304 E. Lin
coln street.
Catherine Runkle of Oak Harbor
and Ed Holtzberry of Fremont were
week-end guests of Mrs. Margaret
Bunn and Ruth Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Michaels of
Bluffton spent Thursday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Peterson and
family.
NOTICE!
Notice for the application under the Uni
form Depository Act.. Sec. 331. (J. C. 2296-7.
Applications will be received by the under
signed at the office of the Trustees of Rich
land Township. Allen County. Ohio, until
p. m. on the 3rd day of July. 1943. from
any bank legally eligible which may de
sire to submit a written application to be
designated as public depository of the active
dejwsits of public moneys of said township,
as provided bv said Uniform Depository Act,
G. C. Sec. 22°6-7.
Sahl application shall be .mn’ in conform
ity with the following Resolution:
Whereas, the contract with the Trustees
of Richland Township expires on the 6th
day of July, 1943, therefore be it
Resolved that the estimated aggregate max
imum amount of public funds subject to th*
control of said Trustees to be awarded and
b" on deposit as act:ve detxysits is Nine
Thousand $9,000.00) Dollars, 'hat applica
tions will be receive.’ and opened at 8 p.
m. on the 3-d day of July, 1943, at which
time designation of Depository shall be mad ».
Award or the active deposits of the pubH
moneys subject to the control of said trus
tees will be made at the same t’me and
place, for a period of two years begihning
July 6. 1943.
The Trustees of Richland Township,
N. W. Basinger, Clerk.
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Phillip Piper of Lima was a Wed
nesday evening visitor of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Foltz.
Mrs. Dora Roberts visited a few
days the past week with her dau
ghter Bessie in Lima.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Amstutz and
daughter Eileen were recent visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Schultz at
Bellefontaine and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Baughman at Huntsville.
Mrs. John Huddleson and children
of Cleveland Heights visited the past
week with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Crib
lez.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bowers have
received word of the safe arrival
overseas of their son, Pvt. Gerald
Bowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Dunlop of
Dayton were last week visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Gierhart.
Mrs. Hazel Kinsey, Mrs. Hill, Mrs.
Mary Buts, Mrs. Edna Browneller,
Mrs. Bryon and Mrs. Hattie Kinsey
of Findlay enjoyed a covered dish
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THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943
dinner on Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. Mary Steele.
Mrs. Emma Barber is spending a
few weeks at the home of Mrs. Net
tie Young where she is recovering
from a recent illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Michael and
children called on Mrs. Ellsworth
Michael who is a surgical patient at
Lima Memorial hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Amstutz and
family were last Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Arnold
and daughter at Cairo.
Cox Swain Yye E. Olde, stsationed
on the West Coast, is spending a ten
day furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Olde. Miss Fran
ces Olde of Dayton is a guest also
of her parents.
Miss Hulda Schaeublin of Chicago
spent a few days with her sister,
Mrs. Mina Augsburger and Miss
Louise Schaeublin.
Mrs. Younkmar. entertained on
Friday with a dinner in honor of
her birthday anniversary. Those
present were Mrs. Wm. Arnold, Mrs.
John Augsbugrer and Norval Larue
of Lima.
Sgt. Robert Green of Scotts Bluff,
Nebraska is enjoying an 8-day fur
lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Green and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Langenberg
and daughter of Ada were Sunday
visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Rupright.
Mrs. Lillie Anderson spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weaver
and son at Fremont.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Anderson and
sons of Pandora were Sunday even
ing visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Younkman and Bernard Gratz.
Mrs. Etta Yant and Mrs. Ed Cook
visited a few days last week with
Mrs. Ed Hochstettler and family in
Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Elleberger en
tertained in their home Sunday: Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Tooley and son of
Rawson Mr. and Mrs. Clayton EI
lenberger of Lima Mr. and Mrs.
Kayne Lehman and family of Cairo
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ellenberger,Jr.
Miss Triest Ellenberger and Oral El
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