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PAGE SIX ALLEN COUNTY High Milk Subsidy More than $275,000 has been paid to Allen county farmers in govern ment production payments for sheep, beef cattle, milk and butterfat, Clair A. Patterson, chairman of the AAA committee stated. Of this amount by far the largest share has been paid for milk and butterfat with some 1,500 farmers sharing in nearly $257,000. The milk program has been in operation since the latter part of 1944. Postwar Business In crease In Delphos Delphos is undergoing what is Improve Your Home with— Roofing, Spouting, Asbestos Siding, Roll Brick and Insul Brick Siding Also see me''for Metal Roof Painting, & Furnaces Jacob Warkentin Rt. 2, Columbus Grove, Ohio Bluffton phone 645-R Public Sale Monday, February 25th NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES termed the largest business boom in half a century. Returning veterans and war work ers are entering business with three new' garages, stores dealing in hard ware, automobile supplies, furniture, beer, poultry products and appliances and two filling stations. A veterin arian and dentist also have located there. Deny New Trial For Lima Attorney Motion for a new trial of his suspension proceedings was denied here to Charles W. Long, Lima at torney, by the three-judge court which heard the case. Long had been given a nine-month suspension for practicing law on the basis of charges filed against him by a committee of the Allen County Lar association. The court consisted of Judges A. V. Bauman, Fremont Richard L. Cameron, Marysville and Earl K. Solether, Bowling Green. Fall Brings Action After Complaints Fail For three years City Councilman John McRedmon had complained about bad sidewalk approaches at several railroad crossings in Delphos. When Council convened Mr. Mc Redmon was late for the first time in six years. He had stumbled, broken his glasses and suffered a cheek cut. The undersigned will sell at public sale on the I. W. Welty farm 2 miles west of Bluffton town hall on West Elm street road or 4 miles southeast of Pandora Councilmen expressed sympathy Beginning at 1:00 P. M. I The following property: I 2 HORSES—Bay mare, good worker bay gelding 12 years old, extra good worker, wt. about 1800. 13 CATTLE-Jersey-Guernsey cow, fresh with calf by side roan row, fresh with calf by side red cow giving milk Brown Swiss cow giving milk w'hite cow to freshen March 5 roan heifer to freshen by day of sale 3 steers coming 2 years old, corn fed 2 heifers 10 months old. These cows and heifers are T. B. tested. 38 HOGS—2 Chester White sows, double immuned to farrow March 10: 2 Chester White gilts double immuned, with 15 pigs by side farrowed Feb. 1 33 Spotted Poland China and Chester White shoats, avg. 125 pounds, thrifty and double immuned full blood Spotted Poland China male hog coming 2 years old. FARM MACHINERY 10-20 McCormick-Deering tractor in good condition 12 inch Oliver tractor plow tandem disc in good condition spring tooth harrow in extra good shape spike tooth har row Black Hawk No.’115 corn planter with fertilizer at tachment used only two seasons McCormick grain binder, 6 ft. cut 9 hoj Thomas grain drill with fertilizer attach ment Dain hay loader rakes for Ohio hay loader Inter national hay tedder John Deere No. 2 mower 5 ft. cut with tongue truck Webber farm wagon and grain bed Ohio manure spreader John Deere 2-row cultivator Mc Cormick-Deering single row' cultivator one-horse cultivat or Oliver sulky breaking plow walking plow bodsled collars 2 sets double work harness 1,000 lb. platform scales 6 good hog coops: hog troughs corn sheller forks ay knife big iron kettle with stand lard press No 12 DeLaval cream separator 1 6 H. P. Delco motor corner cup’ oard grindstone, and other articles. HAY—10 tons timothy and alfalfa 30 tons timothy, alfalfa and clover mixed. Ford 2-door, 1929 Model A, just overhauled. Terms- Cash. Nothing to be removed until settled for. Elmer Badertsclier, Owner 1 hrapp & Wiirren, Aucts, L. Shirl Hlatfield, Clerk and ordered a survey of the walks by a committee. HANCOCK COUNTY Enters Guilty Plea Samuel Long, 71, Willard, O., pleaded guilty at Findlay to leaving the s^ene of an accident and was fined $50 by Mayor Clarence Gass man. Two Offjces Looted By Safe Crackers Sheriff’s deputies were investigat ing safe burglaries in two Hancock County elevator offices where $1, 414.86 in cash and checks were taken. Burglars took $784.66 in cash and an $11.50 check from the safe of the Vanlue Grain and Supply Co. and $221.70 in cash and $397 in checks from the Mt. Blanchard Elevator Co. Sheriff Ora A. Cooper believes the robberies were the work of a safe cracking gang which recently visited elevators at Blomdale, North Balti more and Deshler. Material Obtained By Two Findlay Firms Conditions affecting tw’o of Find lay’s largest industries through the nationwide steel strike are easing, company spokesmen said. The Cooper Corp., threatened by a lack of bead wire for tires, is back in full production. Delivery on bead wire was resumed following settle ment of a dispute by one manu facturer. At the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co., where approximately 250 work ers hud been laid off because of in ability to produce certain materials, the workers are being called back. Two Boys Loot Jail Before Fleeing Two 15-year-old boys, being held in the Hancock County jail for Michigan juvenile authorities, escap ed late yesterday by breaking the window in their detention room and lied with about $9 they had obtain ed by ransacking the jail. They were recaptured at Mansfield, O. The boys had escaped from the Boys Republic School, Farmington, Mich. They had been picked up in Route 25, north of Findlay, by the State Highway Patrol. The boys told patrolmen they had slept in a barn and on a stairway in St Vincent’s Hospital in Toledo where they told a hurse they were awaiting a milk truck. The boys were believed to have stolen a car at Vaughnsville, O. The car was owned by Charles Griffith. Approve Hancock’s New Valuations General property reappraisal in Hancock County has been completed and new valuations have been ap proved by the State Tax Commis sion, County Auditor Charles E. Simpson said. An increase or $1,805,000 was reported. Under the new appraisal, the county valuation totals $70,637,100 as compared to a previous valuation of $68,832,000. Findlay’s valuation is $30,056,400. Highway Cop’s Day Is 15 Hours Long State highway patrolmen in District A averaged 15 hours of active duty per day and traveled a total of 22,170 miles on motorcycles and 609,409 miles in patrol cars in 1945, Lieut. S. D. Augenstein, com mander, reported. The district comprises 24 counties in northwestern Ohio, with head quarters in Findlay. Of the 1,484 accidents investigated 76 involved fatalities with 87 persons killed. Ten airplane accidents were GOING AFTER CORN Dad and Lad are going after corn for AMSTUTZ HATCHERY Pullets, because this stock has the BREED ING and STAMINA. The egg size and body size They really shell out the eggs when fed a balanced egg mash with corn or other grains added- at night. We have helped start many a tine boy on his way to success with chickens. Glad to have the boys and girls drop in for free literature. It won’t be long before you are go ing after your CHICKS. On the basis of results, may we have your chick order? Special Early Order Discount. Complete poultry service, bring us your poultry problems. Amstutz Hatcheries E. J. Wahlie, Mgr. BLUFFTON PANDORA THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO investigated. Propertv recovered by the patrolmen totaled $70,145. There were 2,937 warnings issued and 1,884 arrests made during the year, Lieutenant Augenstein reported. HARDIN COUNTY Husband Reunited With Missionary Word has been received that Mrs. Edna Van Fleet Hobbs, missionary of the First Methodist Church of Ken ton, and her English husband, Tom Hobbs, are united again* after more than two years of separation in detention camps in Japan. At the outbreak of the war they were serving in South Korea. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs are expected to arrive in the United States in May and plan to visit friends. The Rev. and Mrs. Charles Lipp, Lima district missionaries of the Methodist church to India for 39 years, are now homeward bound. They are in Australia, awaiting transportation, and expect to arrive in Kenton in May. The Lipps were from nearby Marseilles. Ada Youth Has Nar row Escape After Rid ing Mishap William Dodge, 20, caught under a falling horse at Ada, was reported in good condition in Lima Memorial hospital where he was taken im mediately following the mishap. Dodge, an employe of Carey Clum, Ada merchant, had taken Clum’s riding horse out for exercise when the animal bolted and ran away with him. The horse dashed across Main street into an alley where an auto mobile was parked at an angle and tried to leap over the hood of the car. Finding the youth beneath the horse a neighbor sat on the head of the animal which seemed stunned by its fall until others were able to remove Dodge whose head was near the prostrate horse’s legs. The hor^e was not injured. Mother And Son Are Killed In Crash A mother and her 12-year-old son were killed instantly when a west bound Erie railroad passenger train hit the car in which they were seat ed as the husband and another son were attempting to push the vehicle off the Carmean crossing, three miles northwest of Kenton, during a blinding snow storm Thursday night. Mrs. Gladys Kneisley, 38, of Gosh en township, Hardin county and her 2-year-old son, DeWayne, were kill ed instantly. Donald Kneisley, 37, husband and father, is in McKitrick hospital with -shock and bruises which he received when the train hit the car as he was pushing it. Edwin, seven-year old son of the couple, escaped injury in the accident. The husband and Edwin had gotten out of the car and started to pusn it off the tracks when the train crashed into the vehicle, killing the mother and son and demolishing the car, the coroner stated. He said the wind and snow prevented Kneisley from noticing the approaching loco motive. Armory To Be Used As O. N. U. Dorm Student housing at Ohio Northern University at Ada will be relieved through use of the National Guard armory there as a dormitory. Adj. Gen. Donald F. Pancoast announced He said the university expected to quarter 200 students there. Pleads Guilty To Ar son Charge Dr. Gail W. Robson, veternarian, Mt. Victory, who had pleaded inno cent to an indictment on arson charges, has changed his plea to guilty. Judge Arthur D. Tudor ordered him committed to the Lima State Hospital for the Criminal In sane for observation to determine his |iiental condition. Judge Tudor said Robson would either be committed to the Lima hospital or be sentenced to from two to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. The charge is based on the de struction of a bam owned by Rob son’s estranged wife. Ohio Crews Help Clear Snow-Swept Chicago Section crews from Ada, Lafayette and Lima were called to Chicago to aid in the clearing of snow from the blizzard-swept tracks of the Penn sylvania railroad. Floyd Derringer, section foreman, accompanied the Ada group. PUTNAM COUNTY Award Putnam Service Boar^l Members of the Putnam county selective service board have been cited for awards in recognition of their services during World War II. it was disclosed by Dr. H. A. Neis wander, chairman. The members were invited to go to Toledo and receive the awards in a formal presentation ceremony re cently, but were unable to make the trip at that time. They were inform ed their awards will be mailed to them. The board announced 14 selectees underwent their pre-induction physi cal examinations at Cleveland recent ly and the district board of appeals at Cleveland upheld the 1-A classi fications of the local board for 12 other selectees after reviewing their cases. STATE OV OHIO Joseph T. FerKusonAAuditor of State Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public llffices ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT Richland Township, .fllen County, Ohio For the Fiscal Year EndLn December 31, 1945 Population.... ].3765, 1940 Total Salaries and Wades Paid During the Year 1941 ............. 4.542.79 Tax Valuation ............I.............$6,023,616.90 Tax Levy ..................... I................ $ 1.30 Blufftln, Ohio, Feb. 6, 1946 I hereby certify the hollowing report to be N. W. BASINGER, Twp. Clerk. GENERAL TOWNSHIP FUNDS Receipts General Property TaJ ..........................$5504.52 Sales Tax ................1............................ 1561.59 Gasoline Tax ..........J..'.......................... 2560.96 Inheritance Tax ...1............................. 13.14 Cigarette Tax .....J............................. 6.19 Cemeteries—Sales oft Lots ................. 40.00 Total Receipts .... I............................... $9G86.4O Payments General Executive Services— Compensation of Ttustees................ $ 987.00 Compensation of fclerk ..................... 410.50 Legal Services j................................. 13.23 Total General Executive ServiMs ../$1410.73 Poor Relief—Burifil Expenses 1I... .1 .$ 95.00 Highways— L' New Road Construction—QLninJ'ts 750.02 Road Maintenance and’ Re»r I^abor ........I.......... .......................... 4156.26 Material .,1........{• ir-................... 1812.60 Total Highways/.....................................$6718.86 Cemeteries— Compensation pf Officers & Employees 410.00 Tools, Machinery and Materials .... 18.85 Total Cemeteries .....................................$ 423.85 Miscellaneous General Supplies ............................... $ 203.15 Memorial Day Exper-ses ............... 25.00 Employes Retirement (Twp. share) 66.45 Total Miscellaneous ............................ $ 294.60 Total Payments ............... $8943.04 SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS BY FUNDS Total of All Funds Balance. January 1. 1945 (Clerk's) $ 4729.27 Receipts Duripg Year ......................... 9686.40 Total Receipt* and Balance .............$14415.67 Payments Duping Year .....................$ 8943.04 Balance. Dee. 81. 1945 (Clerk's).... $ 5472.63 Outstanding Warrants. December |1, 1945 (Add) .............. 273.76 Balance in Depository. Dec. 31. 1945 $ 5746.39 Pandora Mrs. William H. Steiner spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. New and family at Columbus Grove. Mrs. Aaron Hilty entertained the W. S. C. S. of the Methodist Church Thursday evening. Chester McBride of Lima was a Sunday caller in town. Carol Jean and Janet Krohn enter tained their Sunday School Class in their home Thursday evening. Howard Welty has gone to Cleve land for observation and treatment at a hospital there. A number from here heard Rosa Page Welch at Bluffton Sunday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reese were in Dayton one day last week on busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Seitz and sons who have been living in Portland Oregon this winter returned last Fri day and expect to move into their home in Ottawa next week. Harry Steffen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Steften, who is in the Navy re turned to Philadelphia one day last week after spending 10 days at his home here. Mrs. Ethel Roberts of Los Angeles California and granddaughters Rose Mary and Bonnie Sue of Yuma, Ariz., called on Mrs. Hiram Krohn recently. Mrs. Edward Hilty who has been a patient at Bluffton Hospital has been removed to the home of her daughter Mrs. George Lehmap. Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Steiner and family of Lima spent the week-end with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Noah G. Steiner and family. The Au Revoir Club was enter tained at the Louis Risser home last Thursday. Miss Winifred Steiner entertained a number of girl friends at Sunday dinner in her home. Tulip Ti me, a tuneful operetta will be presented in the high school auditorium next Tuesday at 8 o’clock by the music department of the high school. Appearing in the cast are Fred Amtutz, Bill Boehr, Anna Boehr, Lois Steiner, June Geiger, Alfred Basinger, Marjorie Basinger, Ann Geiger, Dwight Steiner, Jim and Mark Diller. Earl Lehman is direc tor and Carol Geiger pianist. Elrose Callers at the Myron Stratton home the past week were Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Nonnamaker, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Pifer and Helen Pifer and Milton Benroth. This community was grieved to hear of the death of Rev. George W. Lilly of Van Buren, Rev. Lilly had been a former pastor at the Olive Branch church here. Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Koontz and family of Bluffotn called Sunday evening at the Arthur Nonnamaker home. Union Prayer services at Bethesda Church Thursday evening. Recent visitors at the Ami Nonna maker home were Mrs. Jane Bender, Alice Bender, Vance Bender and son Robert Marie Urban of Findlay Fern Koch, Thomas Koontz, Chas. Nonnamaker, Walter Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nonnamaker and. Public Sale The undersigned will sell at Publia Auction at his farm 5 miles west of Findlay on route 25 ai]id five miles south on 698 and 4 mile East 114 miles no^th of Jenera and 14 mile east, on Wednesday, February 27 HORSES—Gray gelding, 8 yeans old, weight 1800 lbs. gray mare, 8 years old, weight 1700 lbs. This is a good work team. 39 HOGS—31 feeder shoats, average weight about 100 lbs. 2 Spotted Poland China sows to farrow 2nd week of March 2 Chester White sows tio farrow 2nd week of March Chester White gilt to farrow 2nd week of March Chester White sow to farrow Aplil 1 Chester White gilt to farrow April 1 pure bred Spotted Poland China boar, eighteen months old. FEED—300 bushels good dry corn 10 tons loose Tim othy hay 225 bales mixed hay. MACHINERY McCormick Deering model II Farmall tractor on rub ber, with starter, lights, power lift and liquid in tires, com plete with Little Genius two bottom 14 in. plow with 8 sets of points McCormick Deering tractor disc, like new McCormick Deering cultipacker New Idea side delivery rake New Idea hay loader New Idea manure spreader McCormick Deering com binder McCormick Deermg 8 ft. cut grain binder Moniter gr^in drill with tractor hitch Gale corn planter with fertilizer attachment 2 wagons, one low wheel with ladders one grain bed like new spring tooth harrow spike tooth harrow Papec silo filler break ing plow one horse cultivator plow Buckeye 2 row corn cultivator McCormick Deering mowdng machine, 6 ft. cut buzz saw, 32 inch hay slings mud boat and 3 new run ners 4 double hog houses stjeel self feeder hog fountain, Chatham fanning mill, new set of double work harness, horse collars and nets, Goodyear 75 ft. tractor belt, 3 blocks and tackle, new tarpulin 2014x12, 2 iron kettles, 2 copper kettles, meat grinder, lard riress, meat boards, 4 electric pig brooders, 14 H. P. electee motor, DeLaval cream sep arator with 14 H. P. motor, tractor ditch filler, buzz saw belt, dump scraper, kerosene Simplex chick brooder, corn cracker, 25 potato crates, aiyd other miscellaneous items. Sale to Commence at 12:30 O’clock P. M. Sharp. TERMS—CASH. No goods to be removed until settled for. THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1946 Bon, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Klingler and family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nonnamaker and daughter Kaye called Wednesday evening at the Shirley Nonnamaker home. Mrs. N. B. Steinman of Bluffton called at the Ami Pifer home Monday afternoon. For Vigor and Health— include meat in your menu. Always ready to serve f’ou. Bigler Bros. Fresh and Salt Meats I----- Paul Keller, Owner Thrapp and Warren, Auctioneers C. M. McClelland, Clerk Public Sale The undersigned will sell at public auction on the Linda Bogart farm located 1 mile northeast of Columbus Grove on State Route 65. on Tuesday, Feb. 26 Commencing at 1:00 O’clock P. M. The following property: 22 HEAD OF JERSEY CATTLE— Jersey cow 7 years old, will freshen last of March Jersey cow 5 years old, was fresh in August, will freshen in June 4 two-year-old heifers, were fresh in November, rebred Jersey cow 9 j^ars old, was frsh in Dec. Jersey cow 4 years old, will freshen in April Jersey cow 4 years old, was fresh in Aug ust, rebred coming I year old heifer, will freshen soon Jersey cow 6 years old, will freshen in April 5 year old cow, will freshen in April 7 year old qow, will freshen last of March 4 Jersey heifers, coming yearlings Jersey heifers, 3 months old Jersey bull, 2 years old. If you are ut the market for some real Jersey cows in the pink of condition att*d thissfl If 11111111 i st per twwi 39 CHESTEy Wlfi i E HOGS—4 brood sows, immuned, will far row middle of Atarch yearling male hog 2 year old male hog 33 shoats averaging* 60 pounds. 25 HEAD OF SHROPSHIRE SHEEP—24 ewes to lamb in April, 1 Shropshire buck. FARM MACJHINERY, ETC.—McCormick-Deering gearless hay loader Deering ^rain binder John Deere walking plow Heller Aller pump jack and mptor 10 metal cow stalls Bradley manure spreader Allis Chalmers 14 in. two bottom tractor plow Massey Harris 14 in. two bottom tractor plow on rubber 7 ft. McCormick-Deering disc, in good condition McCormick-Deering corn planter 9 hoe drill, and other articles not mentioned. GRAIN—50l bushels corn 8 tons hay Alfalfa and Little Red mixed. Terms of Sale—Cash. year old. Maurice Bell and Linda Bogart, Owners Thrapp and Wlrren, Auctioneers Herbert Huffman, Clerk DEAD STOCK REMOVED 'WITHOUT PAY BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio Phone MAIN 475 Collect BRANCH OF FOSTORIA ANIMAL PRODUCTS. INC.