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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Nine-Year Building
Mark Set

A nine-year-old building record
was shattered the past week as ac-
tivities boosted the months volume
to the $90,560 mark.
The September figure is the high
est monthly total attained since jan
uary, 1880.
At the same time, the years build
ing total eclipsed the 100000 mark
by some $4,000.
A $4,000 permit to The City Loan
and Savings Co. for the institutions s
expansion and remodeling program
contributed most to big week which
came to close Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Employment Shows
b Increase

Thirteen per cent increase so far
this month in placement of men and
women more than 40 years old was
reported as Lima neared the close of
its Employment Week observance.
John w. Saunders, Lima manager
for the Ohio Employment Service,
also reported new record in place
ments for any single month, with
the previous high of 229 already sur
passed during September. He pre-
dicted the total will reach 300 before
the month ends.
Committees have been calling on
employers with plea that job ap-
plicants past 40 be given equal con-
sideration with younger men and
women.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Thieves RansOck
O. N. u. FratS

Working with apparent ease and
versatility, thief, or thieves, ran
sacked eight fraternity houses on
the Ohio Northern university campus
early Wednesday morning. Approx
mate loot was $3.50.
Dormitories in all the frat houses
are located on the third floors of the
buildings, while study rooms, con-
tanning personal effects of the stu
dents, are on the lower floor, col
lege officials said
Front doors of the buildings are
open, and although individual rooms
have locks on the doors, many of
them are left unlocked. Time of
robbery was set between 8 and $50
a. m. in each case.
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School Land May Be
Sold

The only "school section" in Har-
din county and one of the few re-
naming plots of land in Ohio set
aside for school operation purposes
may be offered for sale this fall, it
became known as the Hardin county
elections board approved a proposal
to vote on the sale or retention of
Marion Townships school section.
Champions of the demand to sell
contended that the 640-acre plot has
lost money consistently for the last
few years-or since winds have
whipped fertile muck soil from its
surface, leaving drain tile exposed
in many places. Back conservancy
taxes of 1000 have never been
paid and can never be paid at pres
ent rate of income, it was pointed
out. The matter will be decided by
electors Nov. Z.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
FILA Loans Increase

Federal Housing administration in
sured loans in Allen county are in
creasing this year as compared with
those issued from 1884 to 1888 in
elusive, it was learned today.
According to a special tabulation
made by FHA for Allen county, 129
loans have been insured this year
up to June 80, with value of $685.
400. Should activity during the last
six months equal the first two quar-
ters, there would be 258 loans in
sured for the entire year.
During the first years of FHA,
Allen county home owners and buy
ers borrowed more than $4,000 thru
20 FILA loans, or an averange of
seven per year.
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May Train Pilots At
Findlay

Possibility was seen this week that
the Findlay airport will become a
training center for vocational flight
program sponsored by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, Lieut.. Mike
Murphy, manager of the port, an
nounced.
Murphy said the present aerial ac-
tivity will be supplemented by train
ing 30 to so students from colleges
and institutions in the Immediate
vicinity of Findlay such as Findlay
college, Tiffin Heidelberg, Bowling
Green State, Bluffton and Ohio
Northern at Ada"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Aid For Aged Chief
Resigns

Resignation of Roller c. McAnelly
as manager of the Hancock county
office of the division of aid for the
aged was announced in Columbus
by Tom McCaw, chief of the divis-
ion. The resignation will take effect
September 80.
McAnelly' ly'ssuccessor was not an
nounced. 1t is generally expected
in the office in Findlay, First Ma
tional Bank building, as well as
among others in position to know,
that the post will go to Thomas L.
Bryant.
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PAGE THREr

school foundation receipts for teacher
hire. The district receives about
$4,000 annually from the Ohio
school foundation fund.
During the latter part of 1887
and thru 1888 the board failed to
pay the required rs per cent. I'm
less action is taken Immediately to
reimburse teachers and bring the
payroll for instruction up to the
required rs per cent, the board viii
not receive any of the $4,000 in
1910.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Mrs. Fink To Lima
Hospital

Pretty Velma Baker Fink, acquit-
ted on frst-degree murder charges
in the Staying of her 10-week-old
baby, now faces sanity hearing as
the final step to freedom.
Judge A. v. Baumann, pointing
out that the jury had found her in
nocent by reason of temporary in
sanity, said she would be taken to
the state hospital for the criminal
insane at Lima and held pending a
hearing.
eff Mrs. Fink is found sane, she
can go free," he declared.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Potato Yield High
In Marsh

State crop experts estimate that
drouth conditions developing after
Sept. / cut Ohio's late potato yield
nearly % per cent for a loss of a
million and a half bushels but pro-
ducers in the Hog Greek and Scioto
marshes near Ada are finding the
dry weather worth thousands of dol
lars to them.
While muck produces heavy yields
of potatoes, the land is treacherous,
wet weather at harvest time having
practically destroyed the crop on
several occasions, causing rotting in
the field.
Yields in the marshes are running
from 300 to 400 bushels per acre
with clean even crop.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Lima Loco Gets New
Order

Receipts of an order for two
freight engines from the Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton railroad was an
nounced Thursday by the Lima Lo-
connective Works, Inc.
The engines, of the 2-8-4 type are
duplicates of four built for the same
railroad in 1885. The engine has a
weight of 413,000 pounds and the
tender weighs 100000 pounds, MAX
ing a total of 775,000 pounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Arrested For Buying
Stolen Goods

Max Silverstein, junk dealer of
Kenton, was taken to Sidney to ans
wer charges filed against him of re-
ceiving stolen goods allegedly be-
longing to the Wagner Manufactur-
ing Co. and valued at $10O.
The property is alleged to have
been sold to Solverstein by Roy C.
Jones, former night watchman at the
Wagner plant, who pleaded guilty in
court to the theft of the aluminium.
A secret indictment was brought
in by the September grand jury
against Silverstein.
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Custer Of Democrats
Completed

The Putnam county state highway
maintenance department, largest
single political plum tree in the coun-
ty; has passed completely into
hands of the Republicans.
J. Evan Hunt, of near Vaughns-
vile, has taken over the job as
highway maintenance superintend-
ent, succeeding Norman J. Doepker,
who held the post under several
Democratic regimes. .-.ssfn -
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Writes Of Conditions
In England

Since shortly after the European
war began, the population of the
city of Macclesfeld, England, has
been swelled by some $4,000 school
children, instructors and adults,
writer Harold Wilson now occupying
an exchange teaching post in that
city, writes to his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Wilson of Ada.
According to the letter 10000
school children from London and
other large English cities have been
transferred to Macclesfield to escape
possible bombing raids. Teachers
who instructed the children also were
transported to that city in order that
their education could be continued.
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S150,000 Damage Suit
Is Heard

The S150,000 damage suit of Mary
P. Hinkle of Roundhead against The
Bigley Electric Supply Co., of Find
lay, opened in the Hardin county
common pleas court last week. 1t
was the first case heard before the
petit jury of the September term
of court.
The plaintiff, administrative of the
estate of Clyde Hinkle, charges that
Hinkle died as the result of injuries
received in an automobile mishap on
Route 81 near Jumbo on Dec. %,
1893, in which a truck belonging to
the Bigley company was involved.
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Horse TrOlleys Were
Thought Permanent

The old horse car line was the
outstanding feature of Findlay's
earlier history recalled by Rev. C.
H. Gatchell, former Findlay minister,
in an address at the noon meeting
of the Kiwanis club Wednesday.
Rev. Gatchell said that when horse
car lines were established in Find
lay, the popular conception was that
they would be permanent. Scarcely
anyone suspected they soon would be
supplanted by better means of trans
portation, DR.. Gatchell said. They
operated, he asserted, on Main street
and on lateral lines east and west,
serving outlying glass factories
mainly. -tS,llskz.A
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Ada Gains In Indus
trial Expenditure

Ada has an annual payroll of
more than quarter million dollars,
Dr. T. J, Smull pointed out in a
talk on the towns progress recently.
The. university's current expendi-
ture for salaries is approximately
$4,000 per year. Second in size
is the payroll of the Ohio-Kentucky
Manufacturing company, now in ex-
cess of $4,000.
Many smaller industries were men,
toned, among them the Atha Lum-
ber company, now employing 80 men;
the Root-King Lumber company,
Turnerised Roofing company, Nc
Curdy Manufacturing company, ele-
vators, stone quarries, etc.
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forces were reported by II. D. Pick
EFT, navy recruiter, Marion, Ohio,
in charge of Hardin, Hancock. Wyan-
dot, Seneca and Marion counties.
The age limit has changed from
Is to 25 to 18 to 81 for first enlist
ments. Broken service men, those
who have been honorably discharged
and who have been out of service
less than s years will be accepted
for enlistment in the rating held at
the time of discharge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
State Highway Patrol
Checks School Buses

Patrolmen from the Lima outpost
of the State Highway patrol, as
well as from thruout the state, are
busy compiling data regarding school
buses.
Between now and October 10, a
total of 253 school buses in four
counties will be inspected. There
are rs buses in Allen county, SO in
Putnam county, SO in Van Vert
county and So in Mercer county.
Patrolmen are checking on the
driver of the buses, the seating ca
pacity, tires, lights, brakes, venti-
lators and other parts of the We
hicles.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Federal Office Moved
To Lima

Headquarters for federal soil ero-
sion and drainage projects in west
ern Ohio were transferred to Lima
from Hamilton last week.
The offices will administer both
the department of agriculture-soil
conservation and the CCC drainage
work over a 45-county area, accord
ing to C. L. Parrish, area conserva-
ZIONIST. The permanent staff moving
to Lima from Hamilton includes bot
anists, biologists, engineers and
clerks.
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Improved Highway
Completed

Col. Robert S. Beightner, Ohio di-
rector of highways, viii make the
dedicatory address on Oct. 18, at
formal opening of new 10 miles Of
pavement in u. s. Route 224, east
of Ottawa. 1t was built at a cost
of S500,000, it was announced by
John H. Williamson, Bowling Green,
president of the Benjamin Franklin
Highway association.
The new concrete pavement starts
in Hancock county and terminate in
Ottawa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Injured When Hit
By Train

Oliver Fitch of Columbus, a fire
man on the New York Central rail-
road, escaped possible fatal injury
recently when he was hit by pas
senger train. When struck he was
working on his own engine, dumping
ashes. The other train struck his
shoulder as he leaned out to dump
ashes, it was reported. The mishap
occurred near Kenton. Fitch was
given treatment for a shoulder in
jury at McKitrick hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Man, 81, Gets Drivers
License

w. G. Scott, of Delphos, 81 years
old, has received his new 1939-40
auto drivers license at the office of
Charles Griffith, deputy registrar of
motor vehicles. He is believed to be
the oldest auto operator in this Sec
tion.
Scott has been driving 81 years,
purchasing his first car in 1905. He
has the proud distinction of never
having had an auto accident, ac-
cording to Griffith.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
New Van Buren, Lake
Completed

Work on the Van Buren, lake is
virtually completed and about the
only thing remaining to make it a
lake is water.
Chase R. Cochrun, Inspector for
the conservation department, said
Thursday the work was about COM
pleted with the exception of clean
ing up.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Cigar Plant Wins
Safety Award

Employees of the Southside plant
of the DIESEL -Wemmer-G Gilbert Corp.
possessed a plaque in recognition of
their victory in a six-month indus
trial safety contest held in Allen
county.
The presentation was made by j.
w. Beall, chairman of the Industrial
Commission of Ohio and president
of the Lima Safety Council. The
342 employees worked $4,000 man.
hours without disabling injury.
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Relief Funds Are
AllOcated

Second distribution of state funds
to counties for relief expenditures
during August was made Saturday
by Walfare Director Charles L. Sher-
wood.
The ALLEGATIONS included: Lima
s453; Delphos S213; and Allen coun-
ty $463.
Nearby counties also shared in
the distribution, as follows: Aug
laize, 1854; Hancock, s655; and Har-
din, S1,086.
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Girls Favored By
Ada Glass

Girls dominated the senior class
election as officers were chosen at
Ada high school Wednesday in all
grades. Ruth Stager, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Stager, was
named president, Mildred Parker,
vice president, and Eloise Walker,
secretary. ROLAND Eley, treasurer,
was the only senior boy to gain Of
flee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Truancy Prevalent
In County E

Putnam county schools with total
enrolment of more than 1000 stu
dents have between 100 and $50
cases of truancy, c. L. Felkey,
county attendance officer, reported.
Felkey said he has mailed formal
registered notices to parents of the
children who did not enroll this year
informing them of the law and that
their child must be placed in school
Immediately. If the notices do not
bring immediate results, Felkey said,
he will file affidavits against the
parents in court Immediately.
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ALLEN COUNTY
Corn Husking Contest
October 81

]. c. Begg and Son farm, south
east of Columbus Grove on Route 2,
will be the scene of the third corn
husking contest and colt show spon-
.sored by the Allen county Oranges
on Saturday, October 81.
Corn-husking will be done in a
125-acre hybrid corn plot on the
Begg farm and in addition to the
colt show, the Allen county grangers
have made arrangements for farm
machinery to be displayed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
100000 Road Program
Completed

Putnam county's 100000 county
road resurfacing program which en-
tailed improvement of more than 80
different roads, aggregating 152
miles, was completed last week.
The Ottawa Tar and Asphalt Co.
finished its last road Thursday, ac-
cording to County Engineer L. H.
Schmenk, who supervised the work.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Fair To Open October 3

Entries for the annual county fair
held at Ottawa opened last week and
may be made any day in the offices
of the board at the courthouse in
Ottawa.
The fair which is scheduled for
five big days, October 3, A, 5, 6 and
7, will have two evenings of night
fair, Thursday and Friday even
ings. A full program has been
scheduled for each evening and will
be given in front of the grandstand.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Br00der, Chickens
Lost In Fire

Loss was estimated at $3.50 follow
ing a fire of undetermined origin
that destroyed a brooder house and
200 three-week-old chicks in the
farm of Mrs. Mary Michaels near
Ottawa.
Mrs. Michaels is tenant on the
Barney Rechtine farm adjoining the
south limits of the village. The
building, 10 by 25 feet, had recently
been removed to the farm and con-
verted into a brooder house. The
Ottawa fire department responded
but was unable to save the building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
EnlistmentS In Army
Are Open

Enlistments are now being re-
ceived in the 10Th and 21st Field
Artillery, Fort Knox, KY, according
to word received from Fifth Army
Corps, Ft. Hayes, Columbus, by Ma
ior Frank H Holmes, Cook tower.
Single men between the ages of
Is and 35 are eligible for duty, ac-
cording to Major Holmes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Beet Prospects Are
Good

With the start of the 1899 beet
harvest near, heavy crop of good
sugar content is expected thruout
the district, L. w. Esckilsen, district
manager of the Great Lakes Sugar
Co., announced Saturday.
Harvest of the beets this fall will
be started after various fields have
been tested to determine if the beets
have reached their maximum sugar
content, he said. AS result no
definite date can be set for the
start of the campaign.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
RailrOader Fatally
Injured

Floyd E. Souders, 38, of Lima,
died at 1880 a. m. Wednesday in
Memorial hospital from injuries suf-
fered four hours earlier when he
fell from Nickel Plate freight car
at st. Marys.
Railroad authorities Wednesday
were investigating the accident. De-
tails were not learned, it was said,
but it was assumed that Souders
fell from the car. He was found
along the right of way with his legs
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Teachers To Get
Back Pay

The Continental rural board of
education has under consideration
plans to pay its teachers about ST.
401 in back pay, retroactive TO jan
uary /, 1888, as measure toward
meeting with state requirements.
The unusual situation arose when
it was learned the board was not
spending rs per cent of its state
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Carries Same Knife
60 Years

D. E. FeIler, of Findlay, still car
ries the first penknife he ever owned.
In 1879 when a lad in short pants
he purchased a knife for a pocket
piece. He has used it ever since
though he says the blades are worn
down to tooth picks The knife is
now go years old.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
$4,000 For Hardin
Farmers

Checks totalling more than $4,000
for corn parity payments will be dis
tributed soon by Charles Ault, treas
urer of the Hardin county conser-
vation committee.
This sum represents about half
the corn parity funds due Hardin
county farmers who participated in
the agricultural conservation pro-
gram. The rest of the checks are
expected by Nov. l, Mr.. Sherrick
said.
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badly mangled, his chest crushed and
suffering internal inquiries.
Two Sue To Regain
Jobs

Two Allen county men, former
state employees, Thursday filed man.
damus suits in Franklin county COM
mon pleas court in an effort to re
gain their jobs.
The men are Russell z. Vanatta,
truck driver in the highway depart
ment, and William w. Wentz, form
er state liquor store manager. Both
charged they were illegally dis
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
HANCOCK COUNTY
825 Tags Sold For
Bicycles

Where they all come from, weary
policemen do not know but Find
lays new blue and gold bicycle Ii
cense tags had been issued to 825
bike owners at the close of the bu-
reau in the municipal building We'd
nesday evening. Chief Leo M. Lar
kins estimates there are that many
more.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Mishap Victim Still
Unconscious

Richard Dennis, %, of east of Ken
ton, who suffered serious injuries
when the automobile which he was
driving struck tree on w. Lima
street late Sunday, is still in an un-
conscious condition at McKitrick hos
pital, attaches said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

DIR. S. C. Morrison, editor of the
Christian Century, Louis Adamic,
noted author, Maurice Hindus,
author, world traveller and radio
commentator, and Ruth Bryan Owen
Rohde, former ambassador to Dem
mark and daughter of William Jen-
nings Bryan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Auto Knocks Bridge
Into Creek

B. Endsley, of near Mt. Victory,
drove against banister of the
Spracklin bridge, over Ash Run
ditch east of Kenton, knocking the
framework into the stream, County
Engineer Russell Harvey reported.
Repairs can be made without in
stallation of new steel, it was be-
lieved.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Wheat Participation
Signup Continues

The deadline for farmers to sign
the wheat participation plan under
the 1910 soil conservation program
has been extended to Saturday, Sep
tember 80, County Chairman r. M.
Traucht said Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28

served in the Spanish-American war
will be held in Findlay Tuesday,
October 10. At the same time a
Homecoming of members of old Com
pany A, Findlay unit, will be held
that evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-09-28
Poultry Case Is
Appealed

Appeal to common pleas court of
a $204.50 judgment in favor of Kis-
sci Bros, Columbus Grove poultry
dealers, was filed last week.
The judgment was originally given
by Justice o. ]. Schierloh against
B L. Bond and Wilfred w. Teffet,
Toledo and Ottawa poultry firm. 1t
comprised the undue balance on an
original debt of Bond and Tefft to
Kissel Bros, of S514.31
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Cereus Has Six
Blossoms

A night-blooming cereus burst into
bloom with six perfectly formed
blossoms in the home OF Mrs. J. S.
Kissell, of Findlay, Wednesday even
ing.
1t was the second time the same
plant had bloomed this year after
having failed to bloom at all during
the previous two years 1t produced
two blossoms a month ago.
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Two Ton Litters In
One Year

The first Kenton high school youth
who has produced two ton litters of
pigs this year is Joseph Clary, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Clary of east of
Kenton, it was announced by d. B.
Robinson, vocational agriculture in
structor at Kenton high school.
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Gambling Loss Suit
Dismissed

The suit of Mrs. Dorothy Van
Wormer against LaVerne Gilmore
and others to recover $500 allegedly
lost at gambling, by the plaintiffs
husband, Arthur Van Wormer, has
been dismissed at cost of the plant
iff.