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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944
Directors Visit Wayne Lake
Acting on the invitation extended,
directors last fall by James Light,
manager of Wayne Lakes Park? and
fish hatcheries at Greenville, Ohio, a
group of 29 men journeyed last Sun
day to Greenville to study the park
system to see if any of the phases of
the park operation could be applicable
to the operation of Buckeye Lake at
Bluffton.
Representatives of the Lion’s club,
city officials, Saddle Horse club and
the Sportsmen’s club were present to
accept the hospitality of our friends
at Wayne Lakes.
A good many feet of color motion
pictures were taken of the park and
Conservation
field men
WORKING ON FISH RESCUE OR
TAGGING OPERATIONS SUBDUE
HUGE CATFISH BY SCRATCHING
THEIR BELLIES/
TICKLING HAS LITTLE EFFECT
ON SMALL CATS BUT THE BIG
ONES STOP FIGHTING AND
Seem
to enjoy being rubbed-^
LOONS NORMALLY SPEND^
THE SUMMER IN THE
NORTH''* BUT THIS YEAR''*
A PAIR LIKED OHIO"'*
STAYED ON THE FISH FARM
at
St- Marys
fish hatchery by Fred Wenger and
Leon Hauenstein. These films will be
shown in the near future at a meeting
of the club.
The park is operated by the Amer
ican Aggregate Corporation at Green
ville and the management of the park,
fish rearing pools, and fishing lakes
are under the management of Mr.
Light.
The park system covers approxi
mately 1500 acres and contains 8 lakes
and many the size of the Buckeye
quarry and larger, 6 fishing lakes, and
For Vigor and Health—
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Always ready to serve you.
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Insurance Real Estate
This is a good time to list your properties and farms
for sale.
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HOCH’S HARDWARE
CONSERVATION AFFAIRS
Happenings Affecting Woods, Waters and Wildlife
By THE BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SPORTSMEN’S CLUB. INC.
65 fish rearing pools.
The fish rearing pools are fed by a
continuous flow of water from a near
by stream and all the pools are arti
ficially constructed. Excavation of
the gravel from the area has resulted
in the formation of numerous pits
which have been converted into a se
ries of beautiful spring-fed, crystal
clear lakes surrounded by willow trees.
Groves of hardwood border the lakes
and within the shade of these trees
are located 105 cottages.
The park development has covered
only a span of ten years and the fact
that so spectacular a place can be
built in such a short time has been an
inspiration to all who have visited the
Ohio Ranked
IN THE NUMBER OF
FISHING LICENSES
in
1943
Michigan
sold 113,441
licenses^Ohio was
NEXT WITH 667.155’
in receipts
Ohio
WAS PIPTM BECAUSE
THE LICENSE RATES
..x ARE LOWER THAN
OTHER STATES’
park from our community.
In the 65 rearing pools bass and
blue gills of all sizes can be seen in
various stages of growth. The pools
are expertly managed and each pool
contains only a particular size and
specie of fish. The larger fish are fed
ground carp freshly hauled from lake
Erie and the small fingerlings a mix
ture of midlings and meat scrap. The
park limits their fish production to
bass, blue gills, yellow catfish and
minnows.
At present 300 families which com
prise approximately 1500 individuals
have access to the pleasure of the re
sort.
Fishing is by far the chief attrac
tion but many boats could be seen on
the lakes. The organization operates
a bathing beach and visitors have ac
cess to the facilities.
All types of cottages, tents, picnic
grounds, shelter houses, and other
conveniences added an air of attrac
tiveness to the area and those to whom
has been extended the opportunity to
partake of the pleasures are fortunate
indeed.
The party from Bluffton visited the
park for about five hours and a warm
spot stands in the hearts of all for
the pleasant day and the excellent
luncheon served to them by Mr. Light
and his family.
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Those club members who were able
to accept the invitation were J. F.
Harris, Ray Mumma, Howard Rickly,
Kenneth Dearth, Nelson Herr, Geiald
Clever, Dallas Berry, Silas Diller, Roy*
Rogers, Robert Benoth, Carl Mumma,
Lon Hauenstein, Harold Montgomery,
Cleon Triplett, Gilbert Montgomery,
Gordon Bixel, Don Cuppies, David
Bixel, Don Cuppies, Wilbur Fish, A. B.
Bixel, Wilbur Fish, Alvin B. Augs
Aug'sburger, A. E. Lichtenwalter, A E.
Kohli, Fred Wenger, Charles Fisher,
Cloyce Bame, Amos Klingler, Herb
ert Rupright, Gene Chamberlain and
Gene Benroth.
Bullheads Restocked
The club received an unexpected
restocking of bullhead catfish in the
Water Works quarry Tuesday after
noon when Howard Edinger reported
that a great number of these fish were
doomed for destruction in a small
ditch emptying into the Marsh run
near the Edinger farm.
Howard said he would seine them if
the club had a place to release them.
Hurried consultation resulted in a de
cision to place the fish in the Water
Works quarry. Since catfish feed much
on the bottom, those in charge of the
quarry feel that such type fish will
eat a great many of the snails infest
ing the lake. If this should result,
one link of the cycle harboring the
grub infesting the quarry will be de
stroyed. No grubs have been report
ed in any of the fish the past month
and evidently the trouble has largely
been cleared up.
The catfish released by Edinger
were approximately 2 inches long
and a few of the bullheads measured
6 to 8 inches. The wash boiler used
to carry the fish to the quarry was
solidly packed with fish and Howard
was able to add only a gallon of wat
er to the boiler. So estimating the
number of fish released is a problem.
A conservative estimate would place
the number at 1,000.
Edinger was assisted by his wife
Ethel in seining the bullheads from
the stream. Such conservation work
as these two folks have accomplished
saves the club a good many dollars
in their restocking program.
Raccoon Purchased
The club has purchased fifteen rac
coon from authorized dealers. Albert
Garmotter, club director in charge of
raccoon management, says the coons
will be delivered in the near future
and released in suitable woods in the
Bluffton hunting area. Last year the
club was instrumental in the releasing
of 33 coons and this record will be
maintained if possible this fall.
Curly Ohl, game protector from
Hancock county, has eifemined the
coons purchased by the club and says
they are in first class condition and of
good size.
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Release will be directed by Albert
Garmotter and Jesse Manges.
Next Monday, August 21st the al
lotment of coons raised by the state
for Allen county will be distributed
by game protector Harvey Williams.
Silas Diller, chairman of the Allen
County Conservation Advisory Com
mittee, has been informed by Gene
Copeland that this committee’s recom
mendation will be considered in the
distribution. This year Allen county
will get 19 for release from the game
farm at Milan.
This and That
Fishing is excellent for a few ang
lers in Bluffton quarries and streams
.... Spike Berry snagged 3 or 4 chan
nel cats in the Buckeye and another
above the Harmon Field dam... .Gust
and Virgil Borkosky hooked onto 11
fourteen inch channels at the Buckeye
late one evening by using night crawl
ers for bait....Ted Stepleton caught
2 big channels for his dinner and two
more got away he sez.... Ted used
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crickets for bait....B! Ewing, Jack
Berry, and Ralph Reich* bach got the
same as a lot of other people who
visited the quarry... .they had fun
any wav. ... Russ Montgomery and
wife and Doc Ludwig a1 1 wife snag
ged nearly twenty big channel cats in
the creek above Harnuu i ■IJ dam..
..also they took home a few bull
heads... .the Ixoys at the Buckeye had
some minnows last week, but they
sold like hot cakes... pe they will
get the hopper filled again before the
week end.... Pat Patterson and wife
journeyed to a fishing luk.* in Indiana
and then an old plug caster like Pat
spends the week playi. so' ..and
the ticket scalpers seem think they
can sell seats on the Lake Erie ex
cursion boat for a premium... .all be
cause the seats are all s ld out and
there is a steadily leng ning wait
ing list for those who waited just a
trifle too long. .. .and ’me we wind
up this column we must t.-ll about that
man again, Jesse Mang s. who caught
4 big bass over the week he only
had five bites we hear and landed
four of them....one of the bass
measured 14 inches. ... lucky Jesse..
..and then there is Nelson Herr who
admits he rs so unlucky at fishing
he has trouble landing fish from the
bath tub with a dip net.
Rockport
Mr. ^nd Mrs. William Reicenbach
and family of Richland Center spent
Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Mayberry and family.
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Mason of Col
umbus Grove were Wednesday after
noon callers in the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. D. C. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Mayberry.
Rev. Donaldson of Delta was a Sat
urday evening supper guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Cupp.
Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Cahill and dau
ghter Lynne returned to their home in
Cleveland, Tuesday after spending
several days with relatives here and
in Bluffton.
Mrs. Lillian Rust and children Ethel
Jean, Bobby and Mary’ Lou of Chica
go arrived here Thursday to spend a
week with Miss MadeLne Bixel in Pan"
dora, the M. R. Bixel and family of
Bluffton and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Mar
shall.
The August meeting of the W. S.
C. S. of the Methodist church will be
held in the home of Mrs. Naomi La
Rue, Thursday afternoon with the fol
lowing program: The theme is “The
Sacredness of Money’’ with Devotion
al service by Mrs. Lena Price. The
study numbers will be given by Mrs.
Cogswell, Mrs. Irene Reams, Mrs. Van
Atta, and Mrs. Lena Rockhill Ac
cordion solo, Mrs. Eunice Stephens
Closing song Prayer.
Mr. and Mrs. Dehner Smith and two
children who have been visiting their
friends here and in Van Wiert the past
two weeks, returned to their home in
Cleveland, Thursday.
Margery Cupp will return home on
Thursday after spending several days
with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Winchest
er in Chicago and two weeks with her
sister Mrs. Roscoe Aiderman in Law
rence, Kans. She was accompanied
on the home trip by Mrs. Aiderman
who will be the guest of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cupp, for a few
weeks.
Miss Roberta Biery of Washington,
D. C. and Mrs. Lysle Cahill of Cleve
land entertained a group of former
high school pals at supper Sunday
evening in the country home of Mr.
and Mrs. Orlo Marshall. Those pres
ent included: Mrs. f’aul Whaley of
Chicago Miss Marcile Steiner Mrs.
Gail Rakosky Mrs. Richard Caris and
Mrs. Paul Detwiler of Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cahill of Bluff
ton and Mr. ard Mrs. Lysle Cahill of
Cleveland were Monday evening sup
per guests at the cottage of Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Reeder of Lima at Indian
Lake.
The Friendly Neighbors club mem
bers and their families will enjoy a
picnic at the Faust Roadside Park
near Beaverdam, Thursday afternon
of net week. The affair is in charge
of Mrs. Mary Hall, Mrs. Gladys Bee
mer, Mrs. Elizabeth Van Meter and
Mrs. Osa Reams.
News Want-Ads Bring Results.
Rain Launches Attack on Jeeps I
Fifth Army jeeps crossing rain-swollen stream in the
Volterra sector, in Italy. A few moments before the rain
this stream was only a few inches deep. (OWI from
Signal Corps.)
Pandora
Quite a number of Pandora
grangers attended the Pomona
grange at Sharon Friday night. A
pot luck supper was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Diller visited
their son Ralph and family at Ko
komo, Ind., last week. They were
accompanied by their daughter Mrs.
Oliver Locher and two children, Nan
and Tim, who went from Kokomo to
their home in Miami, Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Steiner and
Mrs. M. D. Headington and child
ren Beverly and Dan, spent Wed
nesday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Curl at Findlay.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Reddin, of
Columbus, called on Mrs. R. A.
Krohn recently. Miss Zt»a Frantz I
who was visiting Mrs. R. A. Krohn
accompanied them home to Colum
bus.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stahl, of
near Gilboa, are the parents of a
little girl born at McComb hospital
recently. Mr. and Mrs. Mac McCul
lough, of Pandora, are Mrs. Stahl’s
parents.
The Putnam County Farm Bureau
held their annual program and pic
nic at the Pandora school and park
grounds all day Tuesday. Games
and contests were held in the park.
Mrs. Lois Niswander Rodabaugh
is vacationing in Bay City, Mich.,
with the Rev. Leeson family, who
formerly lived in Pandora. Mrs.
Rodabaugh is a nurse at her father
Dr. H. A. Niswander’s office. Her
husband Dr. Franklin Rodabaugh is
stationed in China.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hilty and
daughter, Margaret, enjoyed several
days at Cleveland with the Duerr
and Houser families last week.
Elam Suter judged for the Pan
dora 4-H clubs live stock display
held at the Ellis Steiner farm north
of Pandora recently. Lois Steiner
received first place on her beef
breeding heifer. Charles Risser re
ceived first on his beef feeding heif
er, and Robert Core second, in their
classes.
Lois J. Steiner was selected as
one of the alternates to Conservation
Camp at Camp Ohio, August 20-25.
Miss Jane Davis and brother, Ber
nard, are visiting relatives in Kan
sas and Oklahoma for two weeks.
Miss Kathleen Alkire recently
joined the WAC’s.
The Pandora W. C. T. U. held
their annual picnic and election of
officers at the school park Tuesday
evening.
Dale Snavely, a former teacher of
vocational agriculture in Pandora
and who spent the past year as man
ager of a large dairy farm near
Sylvania, has been hired as voca
tional instructor at Holgate and
Hamler.
Mrs. Walden Hilty and children,
who spent several weeks here with
relatives, returned to Chatham, N. J.
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blunk, of
Forest, visited Mr. and Mrs. Chris
Basinger the past week. Charlie,
who spent all his life at the shoe
making trade, is slowly losing the
sight of both eyes and gets around
with difficulty.
Mrs. Lillian Rust and children, of
Chicago, are visiting Miss Madeline
Bixel. Mrs. Rust was the former
Lillian Galloway and lived with the
Dr. P. D. Bixel family a number of
years.
Miss Elizabeth Probst is visiting
her sister and family, Mrs. Austin
Shelton in Columbus.
Charles Boehr has gone to Omaha,
Nebraska, where he has enrolled as
a ministerial student at Grace B. I.
Richard, his brother will enroll at
Wheaton college, Illinois.
Frank Eck, living northeast of
Pandora, sold his farming equipment
at public sale Wednesday.
Miss Margaret Hilty will go to
South Carolina this week end to be
gone a week. Miss Hilty is driving
for a Mrs. Floyd Porter from Bowl
ing Green, who expects to make that
state her home for awhile.
Mrs. William Basinger, who had
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Louis Durkee and family at Graf
ton returned home last week. Mrs.
Durkee and three sons accompanied
her. They and Mrs. Basinger will
visit the Glen Swartz family, at
Columbus, and the Leroy Roudebush
family at London for a week or ten
days. The two ladies are daughters
of Mrs. Basinger.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Risser took
their daughter Ellen to Camp Pit
tinger above Carey Sunday, where
she will be with the Camp Fire girls
for ten days.
Louis and Charles Risser and
Mark Diller spent the past week rt
Indian River, Michigan, fishing.
Mrs. Leo Shank, of Portland, Ind.,
Mr. and Mrs. John Lemley .Findlay,
Id Marshall and family of Rock
port, and Mrs. Verna Rouse, Ezra
Amstutz and family, Mrs .Regina
Lemley, Mrs. Raymoud Bucher, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Grismore and Mar
tin Grismore and family surprised
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lemley Sunday
by bringing a covered dish dinner
and enjoying the day with them
and Mrs. Sarah Davidson and son,
Oliver Davidson.
Mrs. Sarah Miller, aged mother of
Mrs. Emmet Burkhart, east of Pan
dora, recently fell and broke a hip,
from which cause she passed away
a few days later. Formerly of Pan
dora, she had lived with her daugh
ter Mrs. Edith Core at Delphos for
years. The funeral was held there
and interment made in Pleasant
Ridge cemetery east of Pandora Sat
urday afternoon.
Historic Building
Donald McDowell has re-sided his
large implement store with dark red
brick veneer, which give it a very
neat and smart appearance.
The building which was the first
large egg house of Pandora, incor
porates the first township house of
Pendleton in the southeast corner
along the alley.
This township house building was
formerly used as a school and church
building in the early days of Pendle
ton.
Pandora’s first name, as a town
site, was known as Columbia, then
Pendleton, and finally changed to
Pandora.
The building before the egg com
pany got it was a large livery barn,
the owners renting out horses and
buggies or driving people where
they wanted to go.
Just south across the alley stood
a large long building which housed
a brewery in those earlier times.
After the brewery was dispensed
with the building was used as a
dwelling house.
Just across the road where John
Sommers blacksmith shop stands, a
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small building’ is on the comer to
the rear which formerly housed a
tannery. Some of the vats are still
to be seen there.
The odors from the tannery and
the brewery were very bad and
caused the town to be called Stink
Town until the cause was removed.
A brick kiln and yard were just
south of the old brewery.
SHERIFF’S SALE IN PARTITION
General Code. See. 12037, 116X1
Case No. 35231
The State of Ohio, Alien County. Common
Plena Court.
Weldon W. Lightner, et al.. Plaintiffs, vs.
Flora M. Lightner, et al.. Defendants
Notice is hereby given, that on Saturday
the 9th day of September A, D. 1944, at
the hour of 10 o'clock. A, M., I will offer
for sale at Public auction at the door of
the Court House in Lima. Ohio, the following
real estate, situate in the County of Allen
and State of Ohio, and in the Village of
Bluffton, to-wit:
Inlot number Two Hundred and Forty
four (244) in J. H. Eaton’s 4th Addition to
the Village of Bluffton, Ohio.
Said premises located at 207 So. Lawn Ave..
Bluffton. Ohio.
Appraised at 43000.00. and cannot be sold
for less than TWO-THIRDS of that amount.
Said premise- to be sold as the property of
the parties to the above action, on an order
of sale in Partition from the Common Pleas
Court of Allen Count). Ohio, and directed to
me the undersigned Sheriff.
FERMS OF SALE: Cash on day of sale.
Given under my hand this Sth day of Aug
ust. 1944.
WM. V. DALEY
Sheriff Allen County, Ohio
By Ruth Callahan, Deputy.
B. F. Welty, Att’y. 2d
NOTK'F OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, ss.
Estate of Eli M. Pence, Deceased.
Jess Cochran of Allen County Home, TJma,
Ohio, has been appointed and qualified as Ad
ministrator of the estate of Eli M. Pence, late
of Allen County. Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 14th day of August. 1944.
RAYMOND P. SMITH.
19 Probate Judge,
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
STATE OF OHIO
Allen County, ss.
Estate of Norvsl Scoles Deceased
Clate Scoles of R. R.. Lafayette. Ohio has
been appointed and iualified an Ex editor of
THE
e estate of Norval S•coles late of Allen
Mint). Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 4th day of August 1944.
Raymond P. Smith.
Prebate Judge
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, ss.
Estate of William Alspaugh, Deceased.
Clarence G. Fischer of 814 National Bank
Bldg.. Lima. Ohio, has been appointed and
qualified as Administrator of the estate of
William Alspaugh, late of Allen County, Ohio,
deceased.
Dated this 17th day of July, 1944.
RAYMOND P. SMITH,
Probate Judge.
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