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a Lima girl in 1929 and
12.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 19
You'll
EVERY TIME
when you wear
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FOR BOYS
SOLD
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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will not be requir
ing for a period
months.
nningham
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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.
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RAYMOND P. SMIITH.
Pro
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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
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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.
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