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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09
EASTERN STAR DINNER
 WILL BE ON TUESDAY

The Fall opening of the Order of Eastern Stars will be marked by a covered dish dinner Tuesday even- ing at o'clock in the Scottish Rite Temple.
 Mrs. Ralph Martin is in charge of arrangements for the fair which will be followed by business meet ing of the order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09
M o D E R N E ETIQUETTE
 By Roberta Lee

o. Should a hostess invite her guest to dinner or for dinner?
 A. The hostess should invite her guest to dinner, though she may have chicken for dinner. A cannibal might have his guest for dinner.
 Q. Instead of saying How do you do" when being introduced, isn't it all right merely to speak the name of the person, MT. Will son.?
 A. No. One should say How do you do.'
 Q. Isn't it rude for a person to discuss the peculiarities of one in whose home she has been enter tained?
 A. Yes; it is very rude.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09
eHGpty
 Birthday

The Empire extends congrafuld- lions and Jest uishes tcday, theif birthday annioess--y> to th To'- lotoing:
 SEPTEMBER g
 A. F. McKinnon
 Mrs. Harry Krane Anna Patricia Wilcoxin
 SEPTEMBER 10 Mrs. w. A. Gallemore Mrs. Thomas L. George Mrs. w. R. Spain
 Thais Bayers
 Lillian Dale George Bernard O. Havdahl
 Knute Hildre
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09

DIR. STEvES, CHIROPODIST,
 Makes Arch Appliances to measure Office, 10 Valentine Bldg, Phone 648. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09

Empire classifieds bring results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-09
H B LIE PEVRE.

Referee in Bankruptcy, Publication date, Sept. 9, 1889
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Old-FashiOned Wagons
In Discard

One not familiar with the changed
conditions in modern agriculture is
surprised at the low value placed on
farm wagons in use on farms in past
years. At sale recently a farm
wagon in excellent condition good
for 40 years service was bid off at
the ridiculous figure of $40. Only
few years ago one had to pay
that amount for the doubletrees and
neckyoke for a wagon. But the
heavy farm vehicle of past years
no longer is in use. 1t was clumsy,
had heavy wheels with steel tires
and was built for heavy loads and
hard usage.
The lighter vehicle of today
equipped with rubber tires, has TAX
en- the place of the rugged vehicle.
A man can pull one of the rubber
tired wagons with little effort while
its predecessor weighing three
fourths of a ton required the
strength of several men to move it.
Heavy rubber tires save implements
and jolts give the farmer on a
wagon and save the strength of
the horses.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02

dent body. With 65 absent from
school and Is others complaining of
illness, Superintendent ]. ". Kief-
fer. of Arcadia, closed the school
Wednesday evening for the remand
er of the week. Four teachers in
the Arcadia schools were ILL.,
Superintendent Roy Cramer dis
missed the Rawson school Thursday
evening, after the counting of noses
found SO students and one teacher
absent.
The schools of Arlington were
closed last Tuesday, when nearly
100 were absent. None of the teach
ers, however, are among those ill,
DIR. D. L. Musselman, superintendent
of the Arlington schools said.
At Vanlue the sick list mounted
during the week to sc students and
one teacher. This school has not
closed and will not, according to
Superintendent X. V. Oil, unless the
epidemic becomes worse.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Shaving Brush Warn
ing Given

DR.. Gail E. Miller, Allen county
health commissioner, Thursday re-
ceived a letter from the State De-
partment of Health asking him to
issue warning against the use of
certain brand of Japanese-made
shaving brushes which the u. S.
Public Health Service has found to
transmit spores of anthrax, a dis
ease peculiar to animals but which
may be fatal if contracted by hu-
mans.
The U. S. Public Health Service
has ordered retailers carrying in
stock the brushes known as "Im-
perial, Sterilized, Japan 332" to re-
turn the merchandise to the import
ters for refund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Believe Sack Bandit
Has Returned

Police detectives advanced the
theory that a bandit who robbed
three business places in Lima within
10 days is northwestern Ohio's much
publicized "sack bandit, operating
in a new disguise.
The man has worn as grey mask
in his last three jobs, but his height
and weight resemble those of the
"sack bandit, and both carried a
12-gauge shotgun. After a series
of depredations in a dozen towns,
the "sack bandit, so-called because
he always wore sack over his head
and shoulders, dropped from sight
last fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Civil Service Exams
Announced

The U. S. Civil Service Commits
sion has announced examinations for
positions in six branches of federal
service.
They include mineral economists,
general land office, Department of
the Interior, $4,000 to $4,000 a year;
senior consultant in home economics,
Office of Education, Department of
the Interior, $4,000.
Fisheries marketing agents, Bu-
reau of Fisheries, $1,000 to $4,000;
physiotherapy aides, $1,400 to ST.
800; marine engineers, u. S. Mari
time Commission and Navy Depart
ment, $4,000 to $500 and naval
architects, $4,000 to $500.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Hungry Pheasants Kill
Chicken

After there had been telephone
calls to CCC headquarters in Find
lay Saturday that pheasants were
hungry and fiocking to barnyards,
Supt. w. Albert Hogle sent out sew
eraI details, repeating the feeding
process inaugurated two weeks ago.
One woman phoned Supt. Hogle
that "the pheasants have flocked into
the barnyard and have killed one of
my ROSTERS.
Six hundred pounds of shelled corn
and wheat were added to a quantity
left from previous feeding and
more than 1000 pounds of grain
was distributed throughout the coun-
ty Saturday afternoon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
KentOn ArmOry I'M
prOvement Begins

Work was started Tuesday on the
improvement of the National Guard
armory in Kenton when workmen
started bricking in windows in parts
of the second floor of the structure.
The present improvements to the
building include a new roof, steel
doors to be installed at all en-
frances and certain work to be done
to the club rooms of Company "E",
148th Infantry, which occupies the
building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Man Seriously Hurt
In Crash

A Lafayette man was reported in
a "just fair" condition in Memorial
hospital Monday and another person
escaped with slight injuries as the
result of a head-on collision in the
Lafayette road about 7:15 p m.
Friday.
Robert Hall, 80, sustained a severe
head injury and hip and chest lacer-
atoms and bruises.
State highway patrolmen reported
Halls automobile was in collision
with one operated by L. w. Acker-
man, of Lafayette, near Mirror Lake
IN the Lafayette road.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Calf Jumps From
Trailer

III. A. Gable and Fred Shufelt, of
Gilboa began to think they were
seeing things-rather seeing moth
ing-when they drove up to the
Leipsic stock yards and found their
trailer empty.
When they had left for Leipsic a
short time before they had veal
calf in the trailer.
One-quarter of a mile out of Gil
boa, they spied the animal noncha-
lantly feeding on the dead grass
along side of the road. The extent
of his injuries was a small scratch
on one jaw.
The only thing the two men could
figure out was that the calf had
climbed the side of the trailer and
jumped out. Anyhow, despite delay,
the escape artist" was taken to
Leipsic and probably is on his way
to Buffalo, N. Y, stockyards.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
WPA Workers Must
Be Citizens

Affidavits of citizenship must be
filed by all WPA workers in north
western Ohio by Tuesday, February
%, William B. Schmuhl, Toledo, dis
trict WPA director announced Fri
day.
Failure to file an affidavit will
mean that the worker will be drop
ped from the WPA payroll, Mr..
Schmuhl said. Congress stipulated
in the amended 100000 appro-
priation bill that all aliens should
be paid from emergency relief funds
after March a.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Two Injured In Truck
Crash

Two New Jersey truckers escaped
with minor injuries last week when
their large transport, loaded with
women's dresses, overturned on U.
S. 224, three miles west of Findlay.
Driver of the truck, Theodore
Naprava, %, and his helper, Theo-
dore Marciano, "a, both of Vineland,
N. j., suffered facial cuts to which
highway patrolmen administered first
aid.
Naprava told officers he was driv-
ing to Philadelphia. An examination
of the wrecked truck, which over
turned on the highway and closed it
completely to traffic, indicated it had
struck the north railing of a small
cement bridge and "rode" the span
its full length of about 20 feet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
County Grange Ban
quet March "a

Officers of the IA oranges of AL
len county will hold banquet FRI
day evening, March "a, at the La
fayette high school, James H. War
ner, county agriculture agent, an
nounced Saturday. More than 200
persons are expected to be in at
tendance.
The county oranges are Jackson,
Richland, West Newton, Auglaize,
Perry, Shawnee, American, Marion,
Spencerville, Jennings, River Side,
Leatherwood, Sugar Greek and Bath.
Joe w. FIGHTER, of Oxford, we'll
known lecturer, is scheduled to be
the principal speaker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
PAGE THREE

could borrow his (Doepker's) auto
to haul the mail.
Dindot dragged a mail sack out
and loaded it in what he thought
was Doepker's auto and drove to
the post office. In a few minutes
he returned and parked the car in
the same space. As Dindot alighted,
salesman, carrying his sample
cases stepped up, placed the cases
in the auto and proceeded to get in,
all to the utter amazement of Din
dot.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
S677,57O Available For
Farmers

Providing all farmers in Hancock
county cooperate in the 1889 farm
program it, is possible to receive a
maximum of $677,570, according to
figures released by r. M. Traucht,
chairman of the county conservation
committee.
The figure includes both conserva-
ton and price adjustment payments,
and is based on maximum participa-
tion in the current set up, the chair
man said. With 100 per cent parti-
cipation, Traucht said, the 1862
farms in the county would receive
approximately $1s5.03 each.
Hancock county farmers during
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Durbin Boosts DOna-
hey For President

u. S. Senator Vic Donahey of
Ohio last week was called perfect
natural" for the 1910 Democratic
presidential nomination.
Francis w. Durbin, member of the
Democratic state central committee,
asserted in a letter to former Rep.
John J. O'Connor of New York that
Donahey 'is the one man that the
Democrats can absolutely bank on
to carry Ohio against the Republican
nominee for President whoever he
may be-"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Reaches 103rd Year

Yes, he was 103 years young Sun
day, but ]. Adam Orth, Dunkirk's-
in fact Hardin county's-oldest resi-
dent, looks back on his life with no
regrets. He has seen nearly every
thing there was to be seen in more
than a century and has no regrets
for anything he has done.
Mr.. Orth is in comparatively good
health and although he does not go
out into the weather during the cold
months, he enjoys the warmth and
comfort of his home. His hearing
is somewhat impaired, but he makes
up for it by reading newspapers
daily.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Cooper Plant Is
Expanding

A new all-steel, insulated ship
ping addition and warehouse will be
built at the Cooper corporations
plant in Findlay, according to w. B.
Brewer, factory manager.
The new building will be go by
$50 feet in size and will be one story
high. 1t will be located at the south
side of the plant.
The contract for its erection has
been let to the Klein Steel company
of Bellevue. The building will be
of pre-formed steel, insulated with
felt against extremes of heat and
cold.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Buses To Replace
Street Cars

Lima's new bus transportation
system will be placed in operation
about the first week in May, it was
announced following passage by
councilmen of the first reading of
the bus franchise.
The ordinance granting the Lima
City Street Railway company right
to operate a fleet of buses in place
of electric street cars until July /,
1947, will become effective April 16,
it was announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
ALLEN COUNTY
Dirty Faced Bandit
Gets $68

Dressed in shabby clothes, a
bandit with dirty face and hands
early Saturday held up the man
ager of the Shell filling station at
200 E. Market street in Lima and
escaped with $68 in cash.
Whether or not the bandit is
northwestern Ohio's infamous "Sack
Bandit" who during the past few
weeks has been operating in new
disguise, was not ascertained by
Lima police.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Suspect Nabbed In
PawnShOp

Robert Woods, 27, Lima was held
by police in Columbus last week for
questioning in connection with the
theft of more than $1,000 worth of
merchandise in a series of robberies
at Lima.
Pawnshop Inspector John E. Phil
lips discovered the merchandise had
been pawned in Columbus shops and
a 10-hour-a-day watch has been kept
on the shops since last December.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
BOrrOws Car-But
Takes Wrong One

Owen Dindot, employe of the Put
nam County Gazette, discovered his
auto was frozen solid Thursday
morning when he reported for work,
so he walked. Thursday, however,
was press day for the paper and
several sacks of mail had to be
transported to the Ottawa post office.
Publisher T. HI. Pickles went next
door to the Doepker sheet metal shop
and asked Dal Doepker if Dindot
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Oranges Plan Annual
Banquet

Raymond A. Mallow, deputy state
grange master for Hardin county,
directed plans for the first annual
general grange banquet held in the
First M. E. church dining hall in
Kenton Tuesday evening.
Harry A. Cation of Coshocton, sec
retary of the National Grange, will
be the principal speaker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
HARDIN COUNTY
Hit-Run Driver Fined

Thornton Stewart, farmer living
near Kenton paid fine of $50 after
pleading guilty of leaving the scene
of an accident Police said his car
struck Leroy Harris, 80, who suf-
fered head decorations.
No charges were filed against
Stewart in connection with the in
jury of Samuel E. Hicks, SO, ser
iously injured at the same time. Mr..
Hicks has multiple fractures, abdom-
inal injuries and is in critical con-
dition in McKitrick hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Knows How To Raise
Sheep

]. T. Critics, Portage township
farmer and a member of the county
board of education, is something of
a sheep feeder.
Critics has been feeding a part of
a flock of Dorset sheep owned by
Glenn Lovett, Findlay school teacher
and, believe it or not, he had four
lambs averaging 1919 pounds in
four months time.
The lambs were fed oil meal, oats,
corn and bran.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Lima Hospitals Are
HOnOred

Recognition of Memorial and St
Rita's hospitals of Lima as accredit-
ed training schools for internes was
announced Wednesday by the Ameri-
can Medical association.
The honor comes to the hospitals
in recognition of high standards Gre
ated at the institutions and means
that internes who serve here will
receive recognition and credit for
the service. Heretofore the hospitals
employed second year men.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
DelphOs Must Pay In
Advance For Lights

Beginning this week, Delphos will
have to pay its $49S monthly street
lighting bill in advance, or the
streets will be dark.
The city's contract with the Ohio
Power Co. expires Wednesday. The
city owes the company $14,496.27 and
voters three times have rejected a
special levy to pay the bill.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02

for consideration in any future con-
struction program authorized by con-
gress, according to word received
Friday from Washington, D. c.
New post offices, which could not
be built unless congress adopted leg
islation and appropriated money for
them, were approved for Columbus
Grove, $4,000; Leipsic, $4,000; New
Bremen, $4,000; North Baltimore,
$4,000, and ST. Marys, $4,000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Drives Into Swollen
River

Russell Croft, Cloverdale, mar
rowly escaped being drowned in the
swollen waters of the Blanchard
river at Ottawa last week when he
drove his car off the end of South
Walnut street into the stream.
Night employees of the nearby state
highway garage pulled him uninjured
from the vehicle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02

about half mile east of Kenton
on Route 81, it was announced by
Frank c. Ransdell, Hardin county
superintendent of schools. A crew
of workers of the Clarence Knowlton
Construction Co., of Bowling Green,
contractors, started excavation Tues
day morning.
Work on the structure will be
pushed so that the classrooms will
be ready for occupancy Sept. 15.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Lima Loco Gets Big
Order

Receipt of an order for II loco
motives from the Southern Pacific
Railroad Co., was announced Sat-
urday by The Lima Locomotive
Works, Inc.
II. w. Snyder, works manager,
said the locomotives are known as
the "Mallet, 1884 type, with four
cylinders of 24-inch diameter and 32-
inch stroke, and 6312 Inch driving
wheels.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
No Bidders For Candy
Plant

High bidders for five properties
at sheriff's sale Saturday were the
plaintiffs in the foreclosure actions
The F. ]. Banta & Son Co. prop
erty, also known as the Banta candy
factory, ordered sold to satisfy judg-
rnent held by the Columbus Mutual
Life Insurance Co., found no bid
ders. The plant was appraised at
$4,000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
77-Year-Old Police
man Dies

Joseph A. Reed, II, Lima's oldest
policeman both in years and service,
died at 11:3O p. m. Thursday at
his home, of a heart attack.
Reed, who joined the Lima depart
ment Feb. s, 1907, was active until
his death.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Findlay Debaters High
In National Meet

The Findlay college debate squad,
co-champions of Ohio, took second
honors at the all-United States in
vitational debate tournament held
Friday and Saturday at Huntington
and Manchester colleges in Indiana.
Notre Danes negative team was the
tournament champion.
The negative team for Findlay
college took first place in their di-
vision.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Fights Custer By
G. O. p.

Francis w. Blosser, of Lima, is
drafting an appeal to the civil serv-
ice commission to prevent his dis
missal as time keeper in the state
highway department. He was one
of more than a score of Democrats
replaced in the highway department
with Republicans.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Lima Fire Chief Dies

Fire Chief William Burdell Bert
Wilcox, 81, third oldest fireman in
service in Lima, died at 8:12 a. m.
Wednesday in Memorial hospital.
The widely-known firefighter had
returned to Lima late Tuesday after
noon from Magnetic Springs, Union
county, where he had been under
going treatment. A back ailment
forced him from active duty a month
ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
KentOn Authors Book
Acclaimed

Frederick Machetanz, Kenton, has
been informed that his book, "Pa-
muck, an Eskimo Dog, has been Sc
lected as one of the five best books
being published by Charles Scribner
and Sons of New York and will be
republished in England.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Hunter Is Shot But
Bags Fox

Darold Loveridge, Is, of Findlay,
last week had shotgun pellet re-
moved from his leg by a local ply
sician. He was the first casualty of
numerous fox hunts in Hancock
county and received the wound when
another hunter fired at a fox run
ming between them.
Despite the accident, Loveridge
shot the fox, the only one sighted
by some 40 hunters who took to the
fields.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Flu Epidemic Strikes
Ada

A minor epidemic of influenza in
the Ada schools resulted in rs abb
sences last Thursday, So in the high
school and % in the grades. Among
the victims were five of the ten reg
ulars of the basketball team, who
were unable to play in Ada's last
game of the season Tuesday night
at Van Vert.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-02
Birthday Ball Proceeds
Are 1926

The Allen county campaign to
raise funds for the fight against in
fantile paralysis, which centered
about the celebration of The Presi-
dents birthday, Jan. 80, netted
$926.02, according to a financial
statement released Saturday by Mrs.
S. K. Harris, city chairman, Mrs.
John E. Calvin, chairman of the
ticket committee, and Mrs. Earl r.
Leach, treasurer.