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PA«E SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
Allen County Rural
Schools To Open
September 5
With only six vacancies remaining
on the staffs of two systems, the Al
len county rural schools are complet
ing plans for the opening of the
1944-45 term September 5.
The teachers will go to the schools
Labor Day, Sept. 4, but the boys
and girls will not begin classes until
the foilowing day.
Vote Registration
Light
If early registrations are an indi
cation, few of Lima’s estimated 10,
000 new residents will cast their bal
lots at the November election, elec
tion board officials predicted.
Delphos Farm Fires
Suffer $15,000 Loss
Approximately $15,1)00 damage
was suffered in two fires which de
stroyed farm equipment, livestock
and grain and damaged other build
ings at the Mrs. Casper Knebel and
C. A. Carlo farms, northwest of
Delphos. Both fires was caused by
lightning.
At the Knebel farm, the tenant,
Leander Knebel, was away from
home. All machinery burned. At the
Cesspool Cleaning
Work promptly and thoroly
done. Prices reasonable. Call
Bluffton phone 171-W.
J. E. WIESS
Bluffton, Route 2
LOCAL AND LONG
DISTANCE HAULING
Every Load Insured
STAGER BROS.
Bluffton. Ohio
Amstutz
Cannery
Operates every week from
Tuesday to Friday until
further notice
1944
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NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
Carlo farm, the tenant, Ira Jackson,
saved all of the livestock. Loss in
the Knebel fire was estimated at
more than $10,000.
Seek Longer Terms
For Lima Officials
A 15-member committee reported
it will submit a proposed new city
charter to City Council preparatory
to its submission to voters in No
vember.
Chairman Vernon C. Hossellman
said the major proposed changes in
clude lengthening of the two-year
terms of elective officials, higher
salaries for the officials and coun
cilmen, and a decrease of the num
ber of wards from six to four.
Suggested elimination of the non
partisan municipal elections was not
acted upon, he said.
Choose Lima Girl Scout
Executive
Miss Irene Kirchner, New Bright
on, Pa., was appointed as executive
secretary of the Lima Girl Scout
Council to succeed Miss Ruth Ward,
who resigned because of ill health.
Miss Kirchner directed the Lima
Girl Scout camp near Findlay this
summer.
Cow Sets Milk Record
A registered Holstein-Friesian cow
in the dairy herd owned by S. S.
Smith, Lima, has recently completed
a 365-day production record of 764
pounds of butterfat and 20,133
pounds of milk, The Holstein-Fries
ian Association of America an
announces. This is more than four
the production of the
cow’ in the
average
Lima Marine Killed
In Action
Pvt. Robert E. Kiser, 20, a ma
rine, has been killed in action in a
foreign theater of w’ar, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Kiser, of Lima,
were notified.
Allen County Must
Provide Jobs For
37,600 Workers
Jobs will have to be provided for
at least 36,000 men and women of
Allen county in 1946 and for 37,600
workers in 1950 if serious unemploy
ment is to be avoided, according to a
joint report of the War Production
Board and the Census Bureau.
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the present she isn’t plan
ning much. She’s making do
with what she has. She’s coaxing
along a cranky washing machine,
camouflaging the worn living room
sofa with bright chintz slip covers.
Frying this morning’s bacon in the
old dented frying pan, because you
can’t buy copper skillets these
days.
No, her plans for the present
aren’t much, but she’s longing for
the time when she can really shop
for what she needs, and you can
be sure her first concern will be
a new range, refrigerator, and
the many other automatic gas
appliances that will be the last
word in convenience, economy
and beauty.
The present with a future, war
bonds.
WEST OHIO GAS COMPANY
This estimate does not take into
consideration the return of all coun
ty residents in the armed forces.
While it is believed 1946 may be the
first postwar year, it is probable
that many local men will be in the
Army and Navy.
The estimate is based on normal
population growth, recent population
shifts, and changes in the outlook
of various age, sex, and employee
groups.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Ends Life On Second
Attempt
After failing in attempt to hang
himself, Samuel R. Huntington, 47,
killed himself with a revolver bullet
at his home near Findlay, Deputy
Sheriff O. A. Cooper reported.
Deputy Cooper said he was told
Mr. Huntington was W’orried over
the war and a fire which destroyed
a barn on a farm he purchased re
cently.
Findlay Appeals For
Bus Repairs
Reporting a continual break
down of city passenger buses is
causing a serious transportation
problem at Findlay, Mayor C. H.
Duttweiler and civic organizations
have joined the Findlay Transit,
Inc., in appealing to the regional
ODT office in Toledo for adequate
replacement equipment to meet bus
transportation demands, it was
learned recently.
Findlay’s transportation system
literally hobbled along on one cyl
inder recently, and Mayor Duttweiler
said many wrar workers have been
late for work. Many returned home
to get their owm cars and picked up
workers along the way.
Postmaster W. T. Ault, in a let
ter to Washington, said the post
office schedule is being disrupted.
The bus company has a contract to
haul the letter carriers.
Rush On For Soldier
Ballots
A. G. Woodford, clerk of the Han
cock County Board of Elections, said
that soldiers* ballots are being
mailed at the rate of 75 a day.
Vote Polio Care In
Hancock County
The Hancock County Chapter of
the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis took steps to provide
immediate funds for the hospitaliza
tion of any infantile paralysis cases
w’hich may develop in Findlay.
Joy Yates, president of the chap
ter said that 18 nurses are being in
structed in the hot pack method of
the Kenny treatment for polio.
Findlay has had tw’o polio cases
within a w’eek. Mrs. Frances Bach
ar, 37, died of the disease, and Rich
ard Weitz, 19, is undergoing treat
ment in Toledo.
903 Blood Donors Give
To Plasma Unit
The second visit of the American
Red Cross blood donor unit to Find
lay ended with a total of 903 pints
of blood donated. This total is 25
pints more than w’as donated during
the first visit in Findlay in June.
The unit will pay a third visit to
Findlay Nov. 6, F. L. Kinley, gen
eral chairman, said.
Field Day Planned For
Hybrid Growers
Plans for a field day to be con
ducted Friday were discussed by
members of the Hancock county hy
brid corn growers association on
their demonstration plot on the Han
cock county home farm wrest of
Findlay.
The field day w’ill be held on the
county farm home w’here the various
plots will be labeled. Besides a tour
of the plots, there will be soybean
and clover tests and a discussion
meeting in the hall of the county
home. The program w’ill begin with
the tour of the plots at 7 p. m.
There will be a speaker from Ohio
State university.
Award Soldier’s Medal
To Findlay Man
Lieut. Lemuel McManness, Find
lay, has been awarded the Soldier’s
Medal for “heroism at great risk of
life at an allied airfield in Italy,”
it was announced at a 15th Air
Force base.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
L. McManness, Lieut. McManness,
an assistant squadron engineering
officer, was cited for rushing to the
rcene of a burning heavy bomber
loaded with nearly three tons of
bombs.
“When all attempts to extinguish
the fire had failed”, read the cita
tion accompanying the award, “Lieu
ctenant McManness, realizing the im
minent danger of explosion, entered
a B-24 bomber parked directly in
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HARDIN COUNTY
Awarded DSC For
Leap On Grenade
Pfc. Jesse T. Horner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lew’is Horner of Kenton,
has been awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross for his feat in throw
ing his body upon a Jap grenade
that had been tossed into the pillbox
where he and his camrades were re
sisting the enemy in Bougainville.
He smothered the explosion, sav
ing the lives of his comrades, but he
suffered severe leg and foot wounds,
a 37th Division communication re
ported.
State Paid .844,123 By
Crow Estate
The estate of the late Appellate
Judge Phil M. Crow’, paid $43,500
and $623.50 in interest to Clerk of
Courts William P. Woods, in satis
faction of a judgment pronounced by
Common Pleas Judge Arthur D. Tu
dor for alleged fraudulent expense
statements presented to the state
auditor by Mr. Crow’ while he served
30 years on the Third District Court
of Appeals at Lima.
Judge Tudor ordered $6,000 paid
to Attorney Carlos A. Faulkner, the
taxpayer who brought suit against
the estate $6,000 to Roy Warren
Roof, Kenton attorney who assisted
Faulkner in submitting the case
and the remaining $32,123.50 to the
state auditor as reimbursement for
the expense monies declared drawm
illegally by Judge Crow until he
died in 1939.
Faulkner contended Judge Crow’
collected expenses for travel from
Kenton to Lima although he main
tained a residence in Lima.
Feed Elevator Burns
Struck by lightning, a two-and-a
half story grain elevator in Ridge
way burned to the ground. Loss was
estimated to amount to several thous
and dollars.
The elevator, owned by Everett
Brugler, w’as well stocked with
grains in addition to housing several
pieces of farm machinery. This w’as
the second time in less than a year
that a grain elevator owrned by Brug
ler has been destroyed by fire. In
October, 1943, fire swept a similar
structure.
Dunkirk Man Killed
In Action
John L. Appleton, 24, of Dunkirk,
w’as killed in action in France July
26, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Weak
ley Appleton, were informed by the
War Department. He was inducted
in October, 1942, and had been over
seas six months. His w’ife and two
children are living with her parents
in Michigan.
Great Lakes Naval
Trainee Killed
Paul L. Shark, 22, son of Mr. and
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front of the blazing
with complete disregar
safety, taxied it aw
later the burning airc
sending fragments of
an area of 500 yards
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heroic action, a vital
and other highly imj
tional equipment were
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satellites, comprising European Naziland, are
aerial triangle of Allied shuttle-bombing runs
ion over far-flung areas the Nazis once thought
■k. Thousands of bombers and fighter planes
veen Italy and England Italy and Russia and
The amount of 100-octane gas they consume
ay the fact that in one hour, a Flying Fortress
o last the average car owner six months. Photo
fighters, on night mission over Germany,
leaving vapor trails.
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or personal
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ageous and
■avy bomber
tant opera
ted.”
ered service
arrived over
Mrs. Elmer Shark, Kenton, was
killed while on duty at Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, Illinois.
Details of the accident, reported
to have occurred on an aircraft car
rier used for training, w’ere not
learned.
Shark entered training in Novem
ber, 1943, and has been stationed at
Great Lakes since that time.
His widow’, the former Bernice
Daum of Kenton, has resided with
him at the naval base.
Use Of State’s Surplus
Urged By Stewart
Speaking at the 31st annual Ada
farmers and merchants’ picnic, Jas.
G. Stew’art, Republican nominee for
Governor, advocated the spending of
the state’s $90,000,000 surplus for
schools, highway construction and
rehabilitation of war veterans.
Frank J. Lausche, the Democratic
nominee, did not reach Ada in time
to address the picnic crowd, but he
spoke briefly at a field where a
rodeo was being held.
Girl Struck By Stray
Bullet
Boys w’ho were shooting at a
squirrel w’ere blamed for the wound
ing of six-year-old Marcella Neff,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Neff, as she played in a garage at
the Neff home at Ada. A ricochet
ing bullet struck her forehead, split
and cut a “V” in the flesh, Deputy
Sheriff Ray Comstock said. She was
treated in Lima Memorial Hospital.
Cite Four Hardin Men
For Bravery
The bronze star, issued for gal
lantry in action, has been awarded
to four Hardin County soldiers who
fought with Ohio’s 37th Division in
New Georgia and Bougainville Is
lands.
Staff Sergt. Tullus R. Castor,
Sergt. George Paul, Pfc. Harold E.
LaWarre, all of Kenton, and Tech.
Sergt. Miles A. Kahler of Dola re
ceived the award for their feats on
Bougainville.
Ada Restaurant In
New Hands
Edw’ard Ruther, of Findlay, and
Edwin Bates, of Detroit, have pur
chased the Midw’ay restaurant from
William Reinhardt, owner for the
last four years.
Ada Command Pilot
Home After 2 Years
Col. Theodore Q. Graff, command
pilot of the 15th Army Air Force, is
visiting his family at Ada on a 30
day leave after spending more than
two years on duty in the African,
Middle Eastern and European wrar
theaters.
Colonel Graff personally led 43
missions and received a Silver Star,
Distinguished Flying Cross and Air
Medal w’ith three clusters.
Sergeant Says Fishing
Good In France
Sergt. Jack Schutte apparently is
catching more fish in France than
Germans.
He W’rote his mother, Mrs. Harold
Schutte of Kenton, that he and some
buddies w’ent fishing in a French
stream recently and caught 123 fish.
That night his entire company dined
on fish.
Farm Thieves Active
Sheriff Randall Clark reported the
theft of 75 to 100 chickens from
the D. D. Follmer farm, and a
watch, some field glasses and some
coins from the Asa Boedicker farm
home, both near Kenton.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Set Pioneer Day For
September 2
Arrangements are being completed
for a gala program at Kalida Satur
day, Sept. 2, w’hen the annual
Pioneer Day observance will be held.
Highlights of the program start
ing at 2 ,p. m. in the rear of the
town hall will be addresses by Mayor
James Garfield Stewart of Cincin
nati, Republican candidate for gov
ernor, and William G. Pickrel, Dem
ocratic candidate for United States
senator.
To Start Youth Can
teen In Ottawa
Plans for purchasing the Masonic
Temple building on E. Main street
in Ottawa from a Defiance financial
institution for the establishment of
a youth canteen were revealed by
officials of the Kiwanis club who are
sponsoring the project.
Twenty citizens have subscribed
a total of $6,000 which will be used
to purchase and renovate the build
ing, it was learned. The building is
being purchased for $5,000 and the
other $1,000 will be used to repair
the roof, heating system and interior
of the building.
Rodeo Benefit To Be
Held In Ottawa
Designed to raise further funds
with which to benefit returning men
and women who have served in the
military forces of World War II, a
gala rodeo will be presented Sunday,
Sept. 10, at the Putnam county fair
grounds in Ottawa under the aus
pices of the Ottawa Services for
Servicemen’s committee.
Leipsic Exchange Buys
Belmore Unit
The Community Telephone com
pany received permission from the
public utilities commission of Ohio,
to purchase the property and busi
ness of the Belmore Telephone com
pany, owned by R. T. Means.
The Belmore exchange consists of
12 subscribers at present, bringing
the total of subscribers for the Com
munity Telephone company to 1115.
Italian Campaign Vet
eran Returns
Sergt Lewis E. Brickman, a vet
eran of the Italian campaign, is on
furlough after 21 months overseas.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Brickman, of McComb.
Armorsville
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family are spending several days
with friends and relatives in De
troit.
Mrs. Joe Hilty and son of Colum
bus are spending several days at
the H. O. Hilty home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Owens and son
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944
Tommy of Lima are spending sever
al days at the Owens home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Moore and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Beagle and family spent the week
end at the W. I. Moore home.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hilty, Mrs.
Joe Hilty and son, Mrs. Hattie Turn
er, Earl Turner spent Sunday even
ing with Mrs. Mabel Hilty and Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Hilty and family.
Mrs. Donald Morgan and daugh
ters of Middletown, Mrs. Catherine
Augsburger and daughters of Frank
lin called Monday at the Owens
home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hosafros, Mrs.
Homer Arras and Joe and Joann were
Sunday dinner and super guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hosafros.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty
and Margaret Guider called Sunday
afternoon on Mrs. Bertha Shelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Montgomery
and family and Mrs. Virginia Em
mans w’ere Sunday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bell and fam
ily of near Columbus Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stultz and
family, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Montgomery.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hathaway and
daughter Mrs. Russell Hathaway
spent Sunday evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Ivan Montgomery and family.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Moore called
on Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler Sun
day evening.
Any insecticides on gardners’ or
farmers’ shelves should be placed in
tight containers and plainly labeled
poison.
45 ACRE FARM
This small farm is lo
cated 4 miles from Bluff
ton in a good farm section.
It has 27 acres of good til
lable soil and 18 acres of
well cleared woods. Fences
are fair, barn has good roof
but siding should be re
paired. There is a nice
seven room house, five
rooms and bath down and
two up. Good condition.
Here is a good buy for some
one working in Bluffton
or Lima.
BURGESS REECE
REALTOR
201 LIMA AVE.,
FINDLAY
PHONE 2246
Metal and Roof
Asphalt Paint
Green, Red and Black
Spouting and Roof
Repairing
There’s a big difference in chick feeds and it pays
to insist on starter mash of known quality.
Asbestos Sheets 4 by 8 ft.
for siding and roofing.
J. A. Leatherman
Beaverdam, Ohio
(First door east of Post Office)
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Make sure your chicks get in proper balance the
vitamins, proteins and minerals they require by ask
ing for
Starting and Growing Mash
Banner Starting Mash contains C-KA-GENE the
remedy that builds immunity to Bloody Coccidiosis.
The Bluffton Milling Co.
DEAD STOCK REMOVED
WITHOUT PAY
BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio
Phone MAIN 475 Collect
BRANCH OF FOSTORIA ANIMAL PRODUCTS. INC.