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a Lima girl in 1929 and 12. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 19 You'll EVERY TIME when you wear THE SAFER CLOTHES FOR BOYS SOLD GEIGER Bluffton, U 8 ALLEN COUNTY ASSISTANT PROSECUTING E 1941 CLARENCE G. FISCHER REPUBLICAN! CANDIDATE FOR Prosecuting Attorney OF ALLAN COUNTY Know Your Candidate You should know the caildidate for whom you vote and his associations. Born in 1907. married 1 father of one son. Freddie, ag EDUCATION: Studied ern University, graduating in 1 passed June 1929 bar examinati Conference Course 1941. EXPERIENCE: Business accounting in private indust taining offices at 814 National Citizens Bank Building. Bluffto Attorney General of Ohio since 139. ATTORNEY SII Admitted to Practice in all S ust 5, 1929 also admitted to pn Court and before Federal Board CIVIC AFFAIRS: Formerly ning Commission, 1945-1946. Now retary of City Planning Commissi Representative on Citizens Plannin 1948. E_ lian Defense for Lima—also assist e County and City of Lima Councils o of classes in Civilian Defense. VOTE FOR Mr. and Mrs. Cal Steiner are the proud parents of a baby girl born to them id make a hit D. W ndt DILLER Ohio designed by you Mrs. BLUFFTON This brand new Magic Chef has ail the convenience features you --------------------------------------r------------- have wanted for easier and better GREATESM^a/YET! *,oday WEST OHIO GAS CO VOTE F0|l AND SUPPORT NEWS OUR FATHERS READ FROM ISSUE OF FEB. 28,1918 on Friday. urkholder of the Settlement e of his old corn for seed at $10 per bushe Hauenstein spent i college friends Arbor, Mich week- rned henba. of the Pandora into the Get College road. property on hours wer of Bluffton rart to dr Miss Li' ■ar Elida. Little friends of ■haublin gathered at headed by number of n Findlay. a hazard, teaching 11 cars fron made driving an Woods iss E N candidate for the office of County, has resided at 701 Clarence G. Fischer, you Prosecuting Attorney of All West Elm Street, Lima, Ohio,I since 1944 and has been, ex cept for a short time, a resident of Lima since graduation from Ohio Northern University in 1929. ts and Law at Ohio North 29 with L. L. B. degree and n Toledo University Police CHURCH AFFILIATION: Mar ian Church. MEMBER OF: Lions Club, Knig s of Pythias, Fort Amanda Lodge No. 706 Free and Accepted Masons, El Ka ran Grotto, El Karan Revels, Starrucca Lodge No. 423 I. O. O. F., Fraternal Order of Police Associates, Bluffton Com munity Sportsmen’s Club, Al Shan Temple Knights of Khorassan, Allen County Bar Association, Past Chancellors Association. Honorary member Ohio Fire Chiefs Associa tion. Delphos Republican Club. ACTIVE IN REPUBLICAN CIRCLES-in Allen County since 1938 and a Republican always. anagement, auditing and Attorney -at-Law main nk Building, Lima, and Special Counsel to the te Courts in Ohio Aug tice in Federal District Immigration Appeals. 'hairman of City Plan vice-chairman and Sec 1946—. Lions Chib Committee 1946-1947- During War, Assistant Executive Director of Civi in organizing Allen Defense. Inst ruct or A MAN WITH EXPERIENCE. Street Presbyter- Clarence G. Fischer, Lima, Ohio had about down when the trouble THE Bl school for a birthday surprise party. Those present to help celebrate the little lady’s 10th birthday annivers ary were: Elizabeth Baumgartner, Madaline* Bogart, Amelia Diller. Helen Battles, Josephine Ge Gwendolyn Basinger, Lavaugn I Bemadine Reidinger. A. Hoch building the Bl will not be requir ing for a period months. nningham n N. W ighbors and friends who gather help him celebrate the occasion. Myrl Alexander passed his phy 1 examination and was assigned a camp near Chicago. Due to a e camp he start train ind Mrs. Earl Heckatho West Lefavettf Mr. Mich y located. APPOINTMENT ME NOTICE OF ATPOIN S*a■ of Ohio, Allen jCounty Esta'te of Charles /U Seiche ena R. Reieh/« Ixr rfer of lu-en in 11 There around UFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO This Let nd the est Allen ratrix of hn r! es B. Reieheldcrfi I )a ted this 23rd daj of A pi RAYMOND P. SMIITH. Pro abate Juds-e True Tales About Ohio (Concluded from page 1) of all the settlers in the hunting camps around the ment abins and settle- The Indians liked it too. were a lot of Indians living Perrysburg then and they the bell if it cost him his life. Searches For Bell Getting Sam Brady McCallister to accompan ford started down tov Sandusky, Wyandot Cc was where most of the Indians still in Northern Ohio lived. They were Wyandots, fearless warriors and fierce fighters and had so far resist ed the government’s plan to move them further west. Brady fighter, than a and they even climbed the tree where the bell was hung and kept it ringing day and night. The thing got to be an in rcsance and the innkeeper decided to take the bell by stealing it. Even though Spafford was furious. clangor had become its clangor had become a nuisance and its constant ringing unbearable it was his tavern bell and had cost a lut of money. He would recover Buys the Brikcrete for All Exterior Walls of this 24 x37' Home Or Pro-Rata According to Your Plans This is lower than lumber. Much lower! Yet, Brikcrete is the world's finest masonry,' with the safety, strength,, economy, and long life of an 8-inch masonry wall. But that's not all. For Brikcrete has the beauty of color. And the beauty of streamlined symmetry. And styling according to modern tastes. In addition, Brikcrete has self-contained insula tion qualities and water-resistant values. Bring in your plans or sketches and let us give you a guaranteed price on all the Brikcrete needed. Or ask us to send literature, Bluffton Cement Block, Inc. 305 East Cherry Street Phone 365 W BLUFFTON, OHIO rBRIKCRETE^ was a celebrated Indian known to have killed more Me rcian the first in Perrys! Id Indian fi .veled three gh the wil now is $331.80 (aouerntnenb wwmm n S 4 year, as in every fourth year of our history, WE AMERICANS WILL BE CALLED UPON TO ELECT A PRESIDENT^ THIS IS OUR PRIVILEGE AS A FREE PEOPLE- A GREAT AND SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY. us begin now, without prejudice or personal bias TO ACQUAINT OURSELVES WITH THE ISSUES,TO CONSIDER CANDIDATES AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR, TO PREPARE OURSELVES FULLY, SO THAT WHEN WE MAKE OUR CHOICE IT WILL REPRESENT AN INFORMED DECISION IN THE INTEREST OF OUR DEMOCRACY. and Frank him, Spaf Upper That three men started in the direction from which the sound had come and an astonishing sight met their gaze. Despite their anger the bell hunters could not refrain from laughing. The Indians had tied the bell around the neck of a pony and the whole tribe, bucks, squaws and papooses, armed with hickory switch es, were running the animal around and around in the clearing at top speed and yelling like demons as an accompaniment to the jangling of the bell. white ever to settle The two ol Spafford, tra nights throuj wards what now is Wyandotte County. On the morning of the fourth day, when they were eating breakfast, they heard the sound of the silver bell in the distance. On the when they Hurriedly finishing their meal the Recover Bell The three backwoodsmen charged ran the por from bell then turned the pony loose molest the Indians further, turned to Perrysburg. the uble. They use, did not and re- The bell remained atop of Spaf ford’s tavern for many years, dur ing which time the inn was renamed the Spafford House, the Spafford Exchange Hotel and the Norton Ex change Hotel. The voice of the bell punctuated many interesting events. In times of court the bench and bar from a large section of the country made the tavern their headquarters, and on muster days and at times of the court-end balls the hotel was the mecca of the socialites of the whole community. one of on the and St. held in Spafford’s tavern became the most important inns stage route between -Buffalo Louis, and at a public ball it July 4, 1854, the first local victim of a cholera epidemic was stricken. During that epidemic the population of Perrysburg declined from 1,300 to 600 persons. remodeled, a shingled, *nt building Much modernized and the old building now is gray, four-family apartm at 140-2 Front Street. When Spafford died the bell descended to his daughter, Mrs. D. B. Day, whose husband ran the Day Hotel at Elmore. Now in Legion Hall From the top of the Elmore hotel it summoned guests to meals for many years until finally, for its historical value, it was acquired by the American Legion Post at Perrys burg and installed in their head quarters. Digressing a bit, it will be inter esting to recount a colorful episode in the life of Samuel Brady, one of the Indian fighters who accompanied Spafford on his trip to recover the old tavern bell. Brady was the Daniel Boone of the Ohio country and lived on Chartier’s creek on the north side of the Ohio River—then in Portage County. Ha was a man of great strength and was generally regard ed as the leader of the white settlers in most of their incursions into the Indian country north of the river. It was Brady who made the cele brated and historic “Brady’s Leap” to cliff across near Ravenna, during Brady’s when he was —22 feet from cliff the Cuyahoga River, That occurred in 1780 anhood and outnumbered by a hostile band of s young i strongly I and pursued savages. It was a leap for life and Brady made it. Far below tne high bluffs which narrowed the river at that and roared among the rocks like a wild H-race. Not to have gotten safely across would have meant death ,.o the frontiersman in the boiling waters of the Cuyahoga, even had he escaped the Indians. He was forty-tv’0 years older when he went with Spafford and McCallister to recover the stolen tavern bell. Fill TIDY $43.6 TIDY, that slm strap ba the sucti Complet all abow TALL, I er, smat and tan, signed ness of i spotter Buy the TIDY i upright See small, powerful tank-type cleaner i over your shoulder like a shoulder weighs a mere 7|i pounds. 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