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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-20
Stain Prizes Wide Open
Russian Trade Window
Curtained At Versailles
By UNITED PRESS


bound ranHc Russia
The passage made years
Catherine added
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Job Survey Completed
In KentOn

Statistics compiled during Ken
ton occupational survey of employ
ment, were announced by John
Doughman, local Vocational trades
coordinator.
In the survey a total of 238 Ken
ton business places were surveyed
and show total of 2,011 persons
1858 male and 418 female, employed.
Of that number ITO are WPA work.
ers.
In all retail employment there are
455 while in government, city and
county officials there are 103. A to-
tai of 158 professional men are in
cluded while Isl are employed in
automotive service. Under machine
industry are 9s1 while in a total of
machine, automobile sales and serv-
ices are 1850.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Struck By Lightning
Four Times In
Nine Years

For the fourth time in nine years,
Charles Brown, Kenton onion job
ber, was struck by lightning and
survived the blast in an electrical
storm last week.
He was found unconscious with
his right side partly paralyzed in a
garage after being struck. He will
recover.
1t all started nine years ago when
the Kenton man was bossing a group
of 100 laborers on a Scioto marsh
farm. He looked out the door of a
barn in which the men sought shell
ter, to determine if the storm was
breaking. Struck by a lightning
bolt, he was in bed for five days.
No other person in the group was
hurt.
Four years later he was similarly
struck, while in group of men.
Last September the third bolt struck
him, as he was driving along a road
near McGuffey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
HARDIN COUNTY
Father Burned Saving
Seven Children

A father who stood in his burning
home and handed his seven children
out of a window to their mother, is
in a Kenton hospital fighting for his
life due to severe burns received
about the face forehead, ears and
head.
When fire broke out in their three
room home on Quickstep road near
McGuffey late last Tuesday, it was
discovered when members of the FAM
lily were awakened by the smell of
smoke. The mother jumped out of
the window and the father, Green
Risner, a farm laborer in the Scioto
marsh, handed the seven children
out to safety.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
County Asked To Take
Over Lima'S Relief

Allen county commissioners were
asked Friday to take over relief
authority in Lima under the new
state relief law going into effect Sat-
urday, under resolution passed by
city council in special session Thurs
day evening.
Altho the commissioners did not
receive the city resolution until noon
Friday, their expressed opinion, after
being informed of councils auction,
was that "If we don't have to take
over the entire relief problem for
Allen county, why should we?"
Approximately 750 cases were list
ed on relief rolls for the entire
county on Friday, including more
than 500 in Lima and the balance in
the remainder of the county, in
cluding Delphos, relief officials said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Blight Hits County
Orchard

Fire, or "pear" blight affecting
numerous Hancock county apple or
chards, is presenting a serious prob
lem to farmers, according to Forest
G. Hall, Hancock county agricultural
agent, who said that he has received
several queries as to what can be
done to check the disease.
"There is no prescription for
checking the disease once the tree
has blossomed," Mr.. Hall said. "The
time to fight the burned or affected
areas, is in the spring before bios
SONS have appeared"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Hobby Develops Into
Profitable Occupation

Arrows made by a Findlay man
will soon fly round the world. At
least all indications point to this
for the Old English Archery shop
in the basement of Kingsley Brew
ster's home, has developed from a
place to work out hobby, to shop
from which bows, arrows, archery
cases and all manner of orchery
equipment, are supplied.
Requests from Shanghai, Hawaii,
London, England and other foreign
ports, for Mr.. Brewster's catalogue,
which lists and pictures his stock,
have been received by Mr.. Brewster
within the last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
AZ Combines, One
Binder Sold


Since January l, 1889, the farm
ers of the Spencerville community
have purchased 70 new tractors.
The selling price of these tractors
was $4,000. Spot cash to the
amount of $4,000 was laid down
for these tractors, leaving $31, 900 to
be paid in time payments.
Since January /, 1889, the farmers
of the Spencerville community have
purchased AZ new combines. The
selling price of these combines was
$4,000. Spot cash to the amount
of $4,000 was laid down for these
combines, leaving $4,000 to be
paid in time payments.
Since aJnuary l, 1889, only one
new binder has been purchased by
all the farmers in the Spencerville
community. The binder, not yet de-
livered, will cost $225.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Stops Runaway In
Western Style

Carson Fay, 81, nursed badly
peeled left leg and sprained arm
this week but rejoiced that he still
was alive after a melodramatic ad-
venture that left him unconscious
across the back of runaway horse.
When his $400 team of horses ran
away Fay asked motorist to head
them off. Fay rode along, got ahead
of the team and made a lunge for
one horses bride. He missed, was
narrowly missed by flying feet, then
grabbed for the wagon rack. His
hand slipped along the bed, wheel
went over his left leg, and-with
death under the wagon imminent
his cropping right hand clasped an
iron bolt. Painfully he dragged
himself onto the wagon and out on
the tongue to the horses heads. He
stopped them then collapsed. The
animals were unhurt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
51-Year-Old Skater
EnrOute To Fair

Asa Hall, 81, skated into Lima
Monday on another leg of his Mex
leo, Mo-, to New York "trip on
wheels. 1t was his 10Th day since
leaving Missouri on the junket which
will see him finishing up with an ex-
hibition at the Gotham fair and a
probable appearance on Major
Bowes' Amateur Hour.
Hall, tanned and bubbling over in
spirits, said he expects the trip to
require about az days. "But I'm in
no hurry" he said, explaining he
averages about 80 miles in an eight
hour day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Highway Blows Up
Under Car

A section of concrete pavement on
state route lis, five miles north of
Ottawa, expanded to such an extent
Sunday afternoon that it "blew up"
just as an unidentified Pennsylvania
motorist crossed the weakened area.
The bottom of the car was consid-
erably damaged by the "blast" but
the occupants of the machine es-
capped unhurt. Fortunately the driv-
er of the machine kept the vehicle
under control. 1t is reported that
the two tires on the right of the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
"BOrrOws" Car On
Long Trip

A Findlay automobile agency had
its car back in its garage Tuesday
after prospective buyer" had bor-
rowed it and left it near Massillon.
The "buyer" stopped at the local
garage and asked if he might take
the car out to show his wife. Per-
mission was granted.
Several hours later a telegram
was received from the man stating
he had left the automobile at the
Torch Club, a night club near
Massillon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Unusual Year For
Corn Crop

Seldom have Hancock county farm
ers witnessed such an uneven corn
crops as the fields present this sea-
son. In the same field one sees
corn knee high, some half as large
and other places the plants are just
coming through the ground. In fact
unless some fields are given up for
corn, the grain is yet to be planted.
Extremes of wet and dry have pre-
vailed for the past several months.
Yet, taken on the whole, crop pros
poets are favorable, the hay is a
good crop, early oats is in head,
wheat is ripening with good show
ing, corn is up to the average.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
State Buys Cattle From
Hardin Breeders

A herd of 19 young Angus heif-
ers were purchased in Hardin coun-
ty by Paul Gerlaugh, chief of the
animal husbandry division of the
Ohio agricultural experiment sta
tion at Wooster, and Fred Graber,
head herdsman. The cattle bought
locally will be added to the station
herd.
Four head were purchased from
Marion Littleton, the man who has
bred Angus cattle longer than any
other in Ohio; six head from Dwight
Heckathorn and sons and nine head
from w. A. Martin and sons.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

The completed report for the first
five months of Allen County Indus
trial Safety campaign shows that
1901 employees worked 6,7S2,412
man-hour with only ct accidents in
cluding one fatality, for an accident
frequency of 9.S7 and severity of
.01577.
Operation of the competing firms
during May showed a substantial de-
crease in the number of accidents
reported when compared with April.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Pandora To Get
Library

Plans for an extension of service
to two other Putnam county villages
and improvements to its building,
was made by members of the Put
nam County Library association at
a recent meeting in Ottawa.
Branch libraries will be opened
soon in Vaughnsville and Pandora,
pursuant to requests. Several humid
red books will be placed in each of
the branches and they will be circu-
lated in compliance with the regula-
tions in effect at the main library
in Ottawa. There are branches now
in operation at Columbus Grove and
Continental.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Modern Pied Piper
In Findlay

E. L. Strawsburg, the modern Pied
Piper from Hagerstown, Nd, arrived
in Findlay Thursday to stage an
other war on rats.
Strawsburg, known far and wide
as rat exterminator, was here five
years ago on similar mission and
reports at that time were he did a
good job.
For 20 years Strawsburg has been
travelling around the country rid
ding homes and other buildings of
rats. In 1925 during the Bubonic
plague, he worked for the federal
government in New Orleans, killing
1000 rats a day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
HANCOCK COUNTY
Mt. Cory Girl Fatally
Hurt

Marline Wilkins, 10, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wilkins, of
near Mt. Cory, died last week from
injuries received late Thursday
afternoon when the bicycle on which
she was riding was struck by an
auto in Main street at Second street
in Findlay.
Ann Thompson, II, daughter of
Mrs. Marian Thompson, Findlay,
who was riding on the bicycle with
the Wilkins girl, is in Findlay hos
pital with little chance to recover.
Marline died in Findlay hospital
from a fractured skull shortly after
being admitted.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Sees World Fair On
S4.85

Don Downing was back home in
Kenton with 15 cents in his pocket
after a trip to the Golden Gate
Exposition in San Francisco. He
left with S4.S5, took turns driving
day and night with salesman who
gave him his first and only hitch
hike ride, and, upon arrival at the
fair, was presented with a $50 bill
by the motorist. He saw the
sights worked few days and pur-
chased a ticket back home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Egg Auction Program
Under Way

Francis Summers, Pandora, has
been hired by the directors of the
Northwest Ohio Poultry association
to transport eggs to Napoleon from
the area south of the Maumee river
including all of Hancock and Put
nam counties and parts of Paulding
and Henry counties.
The transportation of eggs will
start next Thursday, July 6, in pre-
paration for the first auction on
Monday, July 10. \
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Federal Jobs Are
Combined

Announcement was made last week
by Paul Dickey, Hardin county SUI
peryisor of the Farm Security adj
ministration, that Miss jeanette Nc
Coy, home management supervisor,
will spend Tuesday and Wednesday
of each week in Lima, beginning
July l.
Miss Mccoy will assume the duties
of the present supervisor of Allen
and Putnam counties, whose position
will be abolished the first of the
month, Dickey said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

various prosecuting attorneys over
the state, who, upon examination
found that the rate which should be
paid would be $3.50 per week per
patient instead of the $3.50 which
has been paid. The new setup would
save each county $2 per week on
each patient in the institutions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Burned When Gasoline
ExplOdes

Francis Drum, 33, employee of the
Silverstein Auto Wrecking company,
of Kenton, suffered severe burns on
his legs and arms when the gasoline
tank of an automobile exploded as
he was burning infammable mater
ial of the body.
Showered with flaming gasoline, he
was rescued by the prompt action
of Harvey Amweg, an employee of a
nearby coal company, who beat out
the flames.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
ALLEN COUNTY
Released From Jail,
Commits Suicide

Three hours after he had been re-
leased from Lima city Jail, where he
had been held on a charge of in
vestigation, the body of Rudolph
Metz, about 48, of Wausau, Wis,
was found at noon Thursday in a
dense woods at the end of S. Sugar
street with his neck slit from ear
to ear.
Coroner Burt Hibbard stated the
man had committed suicide by cut
ting his threat with razor blade
found near the body.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

10 inches, only one month has come
close TO approaching last months
record rainfall.
That rain occurred in June, 1887,
during the gas and oil celebration
when it rained total amount of
1872 inches, giving Findlay a flood
that nearly reached 1913 proportions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Land Bought For New
Highway

The state highway department has
filed in office of Recorder Henry
Kistler, five easements for property
along the hight-of-way of u. s.
Route 224, in Ottawa and Blanchard
townships, at total cost of s2,3S6.
Two contractors are now engaged in
constructing new road 10 miles
long from a point in Hancock county
to the ID. T. and /. crossing on
Main street in Ottawa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Have 58-Acre Field
OF Flax

A 5S acre field of flax, one of the
few flax fields in the state, is now
in full bloom on state route 1T,
Just east of the Spencerviile corpor-
alton line, on the south side of the
road.
The land is owned by Oliver Boy
er, and the large field was put out
bv Mr.. Boyer and his son, Stanley.
Flax bloom is blue in color. The
5s acre field, early in the morning
looks like large rug representing
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Ottawa Streets Being
Re-Surfaced

Work of treating Ottawa's streets
with shot mix" material was well
underway this week, under supervis-
ion of the Ottawa Tar and Asphalt
company.
The gravel streets are being
scraped, treated first with an oil ma
terial, the large holes filled with
"cold patch" then the shot mix" ma
terial added. None of the streets
has yet been finished.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Delphos Pays Old Bills

The city of Delphos sold bonds
totaling $6,059 and with the money
on hand, Frank Trick, city auditor
and Walter Remlinger, city treasur-
er, Immediately set to work making
out vouchers and checks and paid
out the entire sum.
Sale of the bonds was allowed by
the state tax commission and the
proceeds used to pay off old hospital
ization and medical bills. The pay
ments settle everything to Jan. 1,
1889. Some of the debts are years
old, incurred by relief clients, which
it was mandatory for the city to
care for in cases of distress.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Classified Tax Cam
paign Is On.

Auditor Carl d. Frick has an
nounced his office is conducting an
intensive campaign to enforce the
classified tax law in Putnam county.
Deputy Charles Mootz is searching
the 1887 and 1888 classified tax re-
turns for names of persons who then
filed returns but who did not make
one this year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

required wages to inexperienced
boys, John Doughman, coor6inator of
the Kenton High School trades
course, explained last week.
Thus, all actual shop training will
be done in the school trade rooms
after the new school building is COM
pleted this fall, school leaders said
At least los boys will take part in
daily activities in the new shop
rooms, including members of the vo-
cational agriculture classes, it was
stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
DelphOs Pushes Seces-
sion Plan

Commissioners of Allen and Van
Vert counties were requested by the
Delphos city council to take "imme-
diate action" on the petition under
which Delphos seeks to secede from
Washington and Marion townships.
City Auditor Frank Trick was re-
quested to write to the two groups
and point out that councilmen want
ed action.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
O. n. u. Medical Head
Resigns

DR.. Harry Vain, Ohio Northern
university physician in charge of
health service and instructor in
pharmacology for the last two years,
has resigned his position to accept
the office of health commissioner of
Shelby county. His duties commence
July 1.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
June Rainfall Breaks
Records

In June, 1889, it rained on 10
days for total of 9.06 inches, the
greatest amount of rainfall in any
single month for as far back as rec
ords have been kept at the Findlay
government weather bureau.
The average for June during a
40-year period ending in December
1929, amounted to 3.88 inches of
rain. Since that period, up until
June 1889, when it rained nearly
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Law Hampers Trade
Courses

One of the chief obstacles to sue
cessful operation of a vocational
trades course in Kenton, with full
cooperation of local industries, is the
fact that under the minimum wage
law, factories are unable to pay the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Kent0n Finally Free
Of COntagion

With the removal of the last quar-
antine sign, there is no contagion in
Kenton, Miss Wilhelmina Machetanz,
Kenton city health commissioner an
nounced. 1t is the first that no con-
tagion existed in this city since last
fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
County Benefits From
New State Program

With the settlement of the ques-
ton of payments by counties for
patients in the feeble-minded insti-
tutions of the state now a matter of
opinion of the attorney general,
Hardin county will benefit to the
extent of some $4,000, w. B. Will
son, county auditor, said.
The matter was worked out by
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Lima Store Changes
Hands

Ownership of Feldman's, Inc,
large Lima department store, has
been sold to a group of Lima men
represented by w. L. Rickman, pres
ent manager of the Lima's New
berry's store, it was announced by
Jonas Wohlgemuth, retiring presi-
dent and treasurer of the firm. The
amount involved in the purchase was
not revealed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Holtkamp Resigns
County Post

L. c. Toltkamp, assistant Han
cock county agent, has been assigned
as assistant agent in Champaign
county. After two months duty as
assistant he will become acting
agent while the regular agent is on
leave of absence.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
New Beet busting
Machines Bought

Ten new busting machines were
received Monday by the Findlay fac
tory of the Great Lakes Sugar COM
pany bringing to IL the number now
owned by the company for use by
the farmers in beet fields.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Loses Thumb In
Hay Now

Daniel Miller, of near Spencerville,
was unfortunate Saturday afternoon
when he caught his right thumb in
a pulley on hay fork tearing off
the end. The thumb was found
later in the hay NOV.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
PUTNAM COUNTY
Ottawa Cop Has Lost
Wedding Veil

Finders may be keepers and losers,
the weepers, but Traffic Officer ]. l..
Mckinney has an elegant white we'd
ding veil which he is willing to sur
render without the least bit of weep
ing.
The veil was found by an Ottawa
motorist along Route 65, about three
miles south of Columbus Grove, and
given to Mckinney.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Chaser Chased From
Own Patch

Ike M. Jones of Kenton complained
bitterly to police that some boys
raided his strawberry patch and
hurled stones at him when he at
tempted to chase them away. He
fled, leaving the youths in posses
sion, but returned with officers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Old Newspaper Is
Priced

e. G. Trout, of east of Arcadia,
prizes a copy of the Daily Sun, a
North Baltimore newspaper, pub
lished and edited by Charles w.
Mains, in 1889.
The copy now possessed by Mr..
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Buys Casket For Hus-
band, Drops Dead

Mrs. James III. Patterson died of a
heart attack last week just as she
reached home after selecting a
casket for her husband, who died
the preceding night. Their deaths
were II hours apart.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Gets S34,106 In Auto
Tag Funds

Auto tag funds totaling 1884, 4,106.40
were distributed by County Auditor
Frank H. Huffman Friday after the
amount had been received from the
state bureau.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

machine were blown out, the bumper
was torn from the machine and tha
hub cap was blown over q hundred
feet from the spot.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

Trout, was volume No. 4, and was a
four page paper with two columns
to the page, each being about six
inches wide and nine inches long.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06
Two SilOs Levelled
By Wind

In brief windstorm, silos on the
Alonzo Harvey and Carl Davis
farms, north of Mt. Victory, were
blown down.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

many shades of blue streaked with
gold as the early sunlight plays on
the blossoms.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-06

One of the funniest things in the
world is to listen to a bachelor and
married man giving advice to each
other.