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PAGE SIX
ALLEN .COUNTY
Child Dies of Leukemia
Lymphatic leukemia, a rare blood
disease, was blamed for the death
at Lima of Deloris Ann Bitler, 3,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber
Bitler.
Hospital, Open Forum
Heads Named
Harold Burr, Akron, has been
ehosen administrator for Lima Me
morial Hospital to succeed Leslie
Fonkalsrud, resigned, trustees an
nounced. Mr. Burr was assistant ad
ministrator of Akron City Hospital
for nine years.
H. C. Roberson, assistant principal
of South High School, was named
ehairman of the Lima Open Forum.
THE A. C. & Y.
RAILROAD NEEDS
BRAKEMEN
BOILERMAKERS
MACHINISTS
CAR REPAIRMEN
SECTIONMEN
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS
BRIDGE AND BUILDING
CARPENTERS
meet WMC requirements,
are full wartime jobs and
possibilities for postwar
Must
These
good
work,
and unemployment benefits.
Call at the nearest A. 46 Y.
station and the
you complete inft
Liberal railroad retirement
The Akron,
Youngstown I
give
ton &
oad Co.
WH
WANTED
for the manufacture of Spray Powder
AND
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
County Wheat Crop To
Runs 30-40 Bushels
Per Acre
Allen county’s 28,000 acres of
wheat land are yielding from 30 to
40 bushels an acre, with the average
at about 35 bushels, County Agricul
tural Agent James H. Warner said.
Lima Man Killed In
Action
Sgt. Louis Wohlgamuth, Jr., form
er resident of Spencerville, an em
ploye of the Ohio Steel Foundry, was
killed in action on Okinawa June 13,
the War Department has notified his
wife, Anna.
War Fund Goal Set
At $161,625
Goal for a 1945 war fund drive in
Allen County was set at $161,625,
identical with the 1944 goal, by di
rectors of the County War Chest and
the Lima Community Chest. Of the
total, $669,281 would go to the Lima
Community Chest.
27 Bills Returned By
Allen Grand Jury
Seven persons were arraigned in
Common Pleas Court on gambling
charges immediately following their
arrest on indictments returned by the
Allen County grand jury.
Twenty-seven indictments were re
turned, 13 of them secret.
Youth Killed In Crash
SOUR1CREAM
for the manufacture of Butter
HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR
ALL DAIRY\PRODUCTS
Robert Dean Greenawalt, 18, oi
Lima, was dead and two other per-
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HER DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME!
A new world of ease and convenience for her and every woman who cooks!
The whole GAS industry is working to make your dreams come true. It’s a plan
to bring you new freedom from wasted energy, wasted time new freedom from
fatigue, dirt, heat, unwanted kitchen odors. Yes .. that tiny blue flame that heats
as well as cooks is really destined for fame!
WEST OHIO GAS COMPANY
sons were suffering injuries as the
result of an automobile collision on a
Lima street intersection.
The injured were Miss Margaret
Fought, 18, and Miss Edna Harp
ster, 18, both of Delphos. Steve
Yuhas, of Lima, driver of the other
automobile, escaped injury.
Coroner Holds Delphos
Drowning Accident
Investigation of the death of Mar
ion Miller, 71, Delphos, whose body
was recovered from the Miami and
Erie Canal July 9, ended when Con
ner Harry Lewis returned a verdict
of accidental death.
Police and sheriff’s officers had re
ported Mr. Miller’s face bore evi
dence that he may have been beaten.
Vet Breaks Neck In
Fatal Dive
A broken neck suffered in a swim
ming accident, proved fatal to Wal
ter H. Peebles, 26, Cleveland World
War II veteran, who died in Lima
Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Peebles’ neck was broken when
his head struck a rock in a dive into
a shallow pond near St. Marys where
he had visited relatives.
Rate Lima P. O. High
The Lima post office now ranks
250th among 2,235 post offices of the
first class, it was learned recently.
Post Office department officials
disclosed this and other information
about the Lima office following sub
mission to thfe President a bill chang
ing the base for post office classifica
tion and increasing salaries of postal
personnel.
Delphos Firm Short
Thousands Of Shoes
The case of proprietors of a Del
phos shoe concern charged with vi
olating office of price administra
tion regulations had been continued
to August 24.
Hearing Commissioner James Ken
nary ordered the continuation Mon
day in Toledo. The proprietors are
Lucy and Carl Lindamen, owners of
the Lindamen Shoe store. They were
charged with a shortage of 2,579
pairs of shoes.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Tire Plant Production
Continues
Cancellation of 21 plant expansion
projects for the manufacture of truck
tire tubes will affect only slightly the
Master Tire and Rubber Corp, at
Findlay, company officials said.
The Findlay plant was one of the
five Ohio firms affected by the can
cellation, but officials said most of
the equipment for the program has
been received and is in production.
Because of
tubes from
ordered the
a reduced demand for
the armed forces WPB
cancellation.
Crash Injures Lady
Parked Car
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Mrs. Harry Pool suffered a head
injury when a car, which police said
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was driven by Miguel Reyes, 19,
crashed into the parked car in which
she was sitting at Findlay. She is
in Findlay hospital.
Police said the car driven by
Rayes was reported stolen from Juan
Mora, Findlay.
Gather Ripe Tomatoes
From Findlay Garden
Miss Kathryn Minnich of Findlay
said that she has had nice red ripe
tomatoes to eat from her garden
which puts new life into the free
for-all garden marathon.
G. W Oman, of Amanda township,
reported he had ripe tomatoes back
around July 1.
Balloon Ascentionist
Dies At Findlay
Stephen B. Smith, veteran Findlay
locksmith, died recently. He was a
former city policeman, fire captain
and health officer. As a locksjnith
for 30 years, he was often called to
other cities to open safes and vaults.
As a youth he made balloon ascen
sions at fairs and celebrations.
Inmate Tries To Hang
Self In Jail
A 17-year-old Mexican youth at
tempted to commit suicide by hang
ing in the Hancock County jail, re
cently, according to police, who said
he had admitted the theft of a
watch, four dozen eggs and construc
tion tools at the Cooper Corp.
Hancock Wheat Crop
Twice 10-Year Avg.
Although Hancock county may not
have quite as many acres of wheat
in 1945 as its farmers raised in 1944
the yield will be approximately twice
as much as the average yield to the
acre, an elevator man at Findlay
stated. His statement was based on
estimates from growers who place
the average yield per acre at 35
bushels this year compared to a ten
year average of around 18 bushels.
HARDIN COUNTY
Plan Ada Farmer-Mer
chant Picnic
Plans for Ada’s 32nd annual com
munity gathering, known throughout
the states as the Farmers and Mer
chants’ picnic, to be held at Com
munity park on August 15, got off
to a good start at the organization
meeting recently.
The event, never rained out since
inception, has survived two w’orld
wars.
A new feature added to this year’s
program will be a rodeo staged by
the recently organized Ada Riding
club.
Raiding Dogs Kill 25
Chickens
Red points and the meat rationing
problem took a solar plexis blow at
County Auditor W. B. Wilson’s home
at Ada recently when dogs killed 25
six-week-old chickens, which were be
ing raised at the Wilson home.
The dogs, all unknown, scratched
their way under a wire fence and
succeeded in getting the top off of
the metal brooder house in order to
make the kill. Eighteen of the chick
ens were in the pen the next morn
ing, while seven had been carried
away.
Ada Plant To Expand
The O-K Manufacturing Co. an
nounced construction will begin soon
on an addition to its plant at Ada.
The company produces sports equip
ment.
Veteran Named To
Sheriff Post
World War II Veteran Frederick
Wood, 27, Hepburn, assumed his new
duties as Hardin county deputy sher
iff it was announced by Sheriff Ran
dall Clark, who made the appoint
ment. Wood fills the vacancy coused
by the resignation of Ray Comstock,
who accepted the position of deputy
sealer of weights and measures in
the county auditor’s office.
Wood served four years in the
army with the 37th Division. He
has received a disability discharge.
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COLUMBUS GROVE
DAILY MARKET
HOGS—
160 to 400 ..
1460
.........
400 up .......... 1435
SOWS .................. 1385
STAGS ................ 1300 1350
COWS—
Good ................
9inr
lose
Cutters ............ 650 850
Canners .......... 550 650
Calves .................. 1550
Spring Lambs ... 1450
Ewes, Good ........ 650 700
Ewes, Thin ........ 400 500
O. N. U. Football Star
Loses Leg At Okinawa
Word was received in Ada from
Angello Jannotti, S 1/c, Ohio North
ern 1943, that he had been wounded
off Okinawa while serving with the
navy. The letter written to a friend
in Ada from a hospital at Mare Is
land, Calif., revealed that he had
been hit two inches above the knee
in the right leg, which was later
amputated.
A member of the conference cham
pionship football team of 1943 at
Northern, Jannotti teamed the year
before with “Big Stoop” Semple, who
tied for the conference championship
in 1942, and who was hospitalized at
the Mare Island hospital. Semple, a
marine, was also wounded at Okin
awa.
Thugs Rob GI of Watch
said in a
and Mrs.
Ada, that
Corp. Frank Stevenson,
letter to his parents, AV
Edward Stevenson of near
while at Nice, France, he was beaten
and robbed of a watch by four ci
vilians.
Ada Card Club In New
Nest After 15 Years
The South Side Pinnochle and
‘Rum’ club, so called because of its
long
years
room
Josie
forced to move because of
of the building,
adjacent
garage.
standing meeting place, 15
to be exact, in the business
at the rear of the yate Mrs.
Wiggins home at Ada, was
the sale
The new
William
to the
Boutwell
12 members, only
ssions
original
attend the nightly
Of the
four still
of the ‘gang’.
Included in the present member
ship are business men, professors of
Ohio Northern university, as well as
Toms, Dicks and Harrys who make
up the three tables,
ing at stake except
the game itself, but
There is noth
the winning of
that in itself is
a tough job as all the ‘boys’ play
them close to the vest and for all
they are worth.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Gilboa Man Injured In
Fall From Hay Load
Eli Laibe, 86, was injured in a
fall from a load of hay while work
ing on his farm near Gilboa. Mr.
Laibe was on the load of hay and
Lloyd Nutter, a neighbor, was pitch
ing the hay onto the load. The
horses stepped up and Laibe fell
backwards off the load, landing on
his head and shoulders. He was
taken into the house in a semi-con
scious condition.
He was taken to a Toledo hospital
for x-ray examination.
Putnam Farm Agent
Resigns Post
L. C. Holtkamp has resigned as
state agricultural extension agent in
Putnam county effective Sept. 1, he
announced.
The agent disclosed he has accept
ed the post of county agent in Van
Wert county where he will succeed
R. S. Oetzel. The latter has re
signed to take a position in the per
sonnel department of the Marsh
Foundation at Van Wert.
Holtkamp has been county agent
in Putnam county for the last five
years. He succeeded Ralph Dush
who is now manager of the Buckeye
Sugar Co. plant at Ottawa.
Putnam Wheat Yield
Above Average
Wheat yields reported show that
the yields will be above average.
Farmers and elevator men felt that
many field would go to 35 bushels
per acre with some around 40.
Less Putnam Farms
Census Shows
Showing an increase of 5.532 acres
but a drop of 142 farms during the
last five years, the preliminary re
port on the 1945 agricultural census
in Putnam county was released by
George Heffner, supervisor for the
First Ohio census district with head
quarters in Lima.
There are 2,725 farms in Putnam
county covering 298,191 acres accord
ing to the 1945 report.
The average size of farms shown
in this report on Putnam county was
109 acres as compared with 102
acres in 1940.
The district supervisor explained
these changes in the various figures
Men Wanted
For War Work and With a
Future
Openin? s Available For
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during the five-year period could
have been brought about by various
things.
Some farm land may have been
listed in another county in the last
census because of cross-county farm
ing, he pointed out, or it is possible
some farm land was not listed by
owners in a farmer census but was
included this time.
Pandora School To Ask
$80,000 Bond Issue
Preliminary steps have been taken
by the Riley township school boards
for the Memorial Field House which
has been proposed by citizens of the
district. The local board voted to
float an $80,000 bond issue to run
for 20 years for a memorial field
house, garage for school buses, and a
vocational farm shop, the issue to
come before the voters at the general
election next November.
ALL KINDS OF
Roofing and
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Follow Thi Easy Plan
The secret of maki/ig more profit from poultry is
to cut your production/costs by feeding more of your
own grains with a well balanced concentrate. Our
Red Rose or Hubbawi Sunshine concentrated mash
with your grain, mpced according to our formulas
means life, growth, iiealth and high production.
The Bluffton Milling Co
DEADSTOCK REMOVED
WITHOUT PAY
BUCKEYE DEDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio
Phong MAIN 475 Collect
BRANCH OF FOSTORIA ANIMAL PRODUCTS, INC.
Builders
Curing
Molders
II Men
Wrights
trieians
ut if you have had no experience we
ove trades. We Pay You While You
Experienced men preferred,
will teach you any of the a
Learn.
More men are needed mlw
building and new equipment—which will soon be available for
production.
Good opportunity for steady work after the war.
and for our expanded facilities—new
Cooper Corporation
Findlay, Ohio
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