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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13

R. A. Leistikow home left Satur-
day for their homes. Robert Lund
of Manchester college, st. Paul,
accompanied Gordon to Winnie
connie.
Hildegarde Brau OF Lucan visit
ed with Wabasso friends Satur-
day.
Alvera Kemnitz who teaches at
school district rs spent last week
at her home in Redwood Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Austin
Marie Bangerter, Robert and
Walter Bangerter were among
those from here who attended the
funeral of Crate Knisley at Red
wood Falls Sunday afternoon.
John Zwach of Milroy was
dinner guest at the Math Schuel-
Ter home Sunday. J
Mr.. and Mrs. Wendelin LauS
and daughter of Wabasso, Mr.
and Mrs. John Laux and daughter
of Sleepy Eye and Mr.. and Mrs
Eldred Laux and family of LAM
berton were dinner guests at the
Nick Laux home Easter. =
Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. Mike
Fagen and daughter Doris attend
ed birthday party Friday after
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13
Clements

Mrs. Clayton Johnson who
spent a few days at the University
clinic in Minneapolis for examin-
alton returned home Friday, but
went to Minneapolis again Sun
day.
Mrs. Ralph Danger and son
were visitors of Mrs. Alfred Sor-
enson an infant daughter at a
hospital in New Ulm Tuesday.
Mrs. v. c. Hopfenspirger spent
Sunday with hsr father, c. P.
Cutting at Sleepy Eye.
District Is will not have school
this week because of a measles
epidemic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Danger and
Billie were New Ulm business
callers Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kagel and
Mary Ann were. New Ulm bust
ness callers Wednesday.
Mr., and Mrs. Otto Jacobson
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13

family, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Viergutz, Mr.. and Mrs. August
Salzwedel and sons and Myra
Reibe of Echo motored to VIM
throp Thursday evening to be
guests of MIR. and Mrs. Arthur
Crane. The occasion was Arthur
Cranes birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Tiel of Cot
tonwood spent Monday with Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Maasch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-13

The death rate in the Metropo-
Titan area of New York is falling
for pneumonia, tuberculosis, acct
dents and childbirth, and rising
for heart disease, cancer and dia-
beteS.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
$1,120,0O0 In Farm
Loans

AS this year started, 326 Allen
county farmers owed the Federal
land bank s1,120,4 400 on 446 separate
bank and commissioner loans, it was
reported.
This was a smaller total than in
1885, when 336 Allen county farmers
owed S1,155, 200 on 459 land and
commissioner loans.
A large number of the 1888 loans
were used to enable the young
farmers and tenants who had reason
able savings to make the down pay
ments to buy farm homes of their
own. About a fifth of the 21,924
loans made in 1888 were for this
purpose, Farm Credit Administration
officials say.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Juvenile Out OF Jail,
In Again

Actions of a 17-year-old Lima
youth had juvenile authorities per-
picked Friday.
The boy was released from the
juvenile word of Allen county jail
late Tuesday and Thursday evening
he was arrested by Hardin county
sheriff's deputies near Kenton in an
automobile which he and a 15-year-
old Lima youth allegedly stole in
Lima.
Last Aug. 2 the boy was arrested
along with James Nance for steal
ing IA model airplane engines from
a garage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
ALLEN COUNTY
200 Pheasants Released
In County

Game Warden Charles Hanes
Thursday announced he released 200
pheasants in eight different town
ships during the past week. One
hundred of the cocks were banded
and records kept of the place where
they were released.
Hunters are asked to watch at the
opening of the season Nov. s and
if birds they bag carry a tag, to re-
port to the Conservation department
the number, place where taken and
the condition of the bird. BY this
means, the department will be able
to make study of the migratory
habits of the birds, Hanes said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
C.. /. @. Union Wins At
Westinghouse

Lima Westinghouse employees, in
an election Thursday under the su-
pervision of the National Labor Re-
lations board, named the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Work
ers of America, a CIO affiliate, as
sole bargaining agent.
The voting was as follows: for
the United Electrical Workers, 574;
for the Independent Lima Westing-
house Employees association, $40;
for no union, At.
All hourly employees except fore
men, supervisors, clerical help, de-
signers, craftsmen, time study en-
ployes and policemen, and others
hired since July 20, participated in
the voting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Pinned Under Auto
Half Hour

Mrs. Myrtle Baldwin, of near
Rawson, suffered a possible leg
fracture and shoulder injuries when
she was pinned for half an hour
under an auto after it had failed to
negotiate curve two miles north
of Benton Ridge on route SO at 10
o'clock Friday night.
She was enroute to her home
from Deshler with her husband,
Peter, when the latter lost control
of the machine as it struck loose
stone in the curve. When the car
rolled over in the ditch, Mrs. Bald
win was thrown partly out, the auto
landing on her.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Soy Bean Crop Is
Good

The soy bean crop presents a
mass of growth and foliage never
surpassed in Hancock county. Spur
red on by plenty of moisture and
much of the time high tempera-
ture, the fields devoted to this crop
have rendered a good account of
stewardship. In some fields the
crop has been harvested with grain
binder, the crop tied in bundles and
set up in shocks to cure out. This
will be hauled to the barn and
placed in mows. 1t is then in con-
venient form to feed, sheaf fur
nishing a feed for one animal, horse
or cow. In other fields the crop was
cut with mower and hauled into
the mows loose as hay. But a still
larger acreage is left for seed and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
11O To Lose WPA Jobs

In keeping within regulations of
a recent federal WPA ruling, 110
Hardin county WPA workers will be
laid off Friday. The cut takes in
all persons who have been employed
on WPA projects for period of Is
consecutive months.
Morton Ansley, county relief di-
rector, said that certification of all
the dismissed persons will be can
celled. At the end of 30-day
period they will be permitted to re-
apply for government work. How
ever, if it is found that they have
made no attempt to secure private
employment, recertifcation will be
refused, Ansley said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
NOn-Partisan Election
Assured

Francis w. Durbin, chairman of
the Allen county Democratic execu-
tive committee last week said the
Democratic party will maintain a
strictly hands-off policy in the NUM-
cipal election in November despite
rumors which, he said, are being cir
culated by designing politicians.
The Lima city charter requires a
non-partisan election, and local
Democrats will adhere to the letter
of the law, Durbin said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
WPA Wage Rate
Revision

A number of Hardin county WPA
workers were benefited by the re-
vised wage scale announced by the
national WPA officials, while those
in the lowest classes will receive
wage cuts through the new schedule.
The new scale will go into effect as
of September l.
The revision order gives the
monthly earnings in this district as:
unskilled B workers (indoor) s42.90;
unskilled A workers (outdoor)
S48.10 intermediate workers S5T.2o; !;
skilled workers $7410; and profess
sional and technical workers S76.70.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
No WPA Wage Cut
Expected

Altho no official word had been
nesday, local WPA officials expressed
belief that the new pay schedule
calling for wage decreases for the
bulk of Ohio's WPA workers will
not affect Lima and Allen county
employees.
1t was pointed out that prevailing
wages in this locality are generally
lower than provided in the new
scale.
In cities the size of Lima, the re-
vised program calls for monthly
salaries of $50 and s48.10 for un-
skilled A and unskilled B workers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Work Progresses On
Lake

Pouring of concrete for the spill
way at the conservation lake in
Rocky Ford Greek, east of Van Bur-
en-, was started this week.
Contractor James Visintine said
Friday that 200 yards of concrete
was poured this week and that an
other $50 yards will be poured soon
Nine hundred yards will be needed
for the 100-foot spillway.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
HARDIN COUNTY
Six TOn-Litters In
County

Six more ton litters were weighed
in the Ada and Dola communities,
and some remarkable records were
established.
Outstanding among the six is an
eleven-pig litter fed by George
Pratte, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Pratte, south of Ada. This litter
was out of SOW that reared ton
litters in 1888 and in 1937-a record
seldom surpassed. At the end of
1853 days (out of the allotted 1907,
these eleven porkers scaled 2,153
pounds, exactly 153 pounds more
than required for citation by the
Ohio Ton Litter club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Youth Raises Fourth
Ton Litter

Raising ton litter has become
a commonplace incident to Lauren
Eibling, son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. P.
Eibling, south of Dola Last week
he qualified for the fourth time for
recognition in the Ohio Ton Litter
club. He had previously produced
record litters in 1886, 1887 and 1885,
his first membership being achieved
while a freshman at Dola high
school.
Young Eibling fed litter of IL
pigs with such skill that the ami
mails weighed 2,106 pounds at the
age of 167 days. To qualify in the
state club pigs in a single litter
must weigh at least 1000 pounds at
the age of $50 days.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
No WPA Wage Change
Expected

Changes in Works Progress Ad-
ministration wage scales which will
be made over the entire nation Sept.
/, are expected to have little effect
upon the pay of Hancock county
WPA workers.
AS to what extent the nationwide
order may influence wage scales in
this county, leaders were unable to
say Thursday. They said they have
received no word from Toledo dis
trict headquarters regarding the pay
readjustment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Rehabilitate County
Records

In the attic of the Putnam County
Court House there is situated a
WPA project known as the County
Records Project. A group of work.
ers are busy there sorting, labelling,
filing indexing and transcribing var
ious records of Putnam county that
date back to 1929.
When this project was started in
October, 1888, these same records
were scattered in heaps on the floor,
in cartons and on the few shelves
available. Now the same floor has
the appearance of an up-to-date IL
brary with about $500 hneal feet of
shelves already constructed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
School Enrolment
To Drop

The Putnam county school enumer-
alton for the 1939-40 term showed
a decline of more than 200 students
compared to the 1889 term list
ings, County Auditor Carl d. Frick
said recently.
Columbus Grove showed the sharp
est drop for the year, listing 610
students for the ensuing term COM
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Tax Change Will
Save S23,940

Freezing of the social security old
age benefit taxes for the next two
years will save retailers, whole
salers and service establishments,
and their employees in Lima, an es-
timated S23,940 each year, it was
learned recently.
AS one of its last acts, congress
agreed on social security act amend
ments which freeze the old-age in
surance tax, placed upon both en-
ployers and employees, at its present
one per cent rate for the next three
years. 1t was to rise automatically
to liz per cent next January 1.
Currently one per cent is paid by
employer and employe alike.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Urges Fire Truck For
Community

Service Safety Director d. M. An
stine last week took advantage of
recent farm fires in the vicinity of
Kenton to urge reconsideration, by
surrounding townships, of a plan
whereby they would purchase a
$4,000 fire truck and house it in the
Kenton engine house.
The city fire department would
provide a man to take it to fires,
furnish gas and oil, trained man
to operate it, make minor repairs
on the equipment and organize fire.
fighters in return for use of the
equipment, if needed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Oldest Twins Are
HOnOred

w. w. and D. Huber, Ada twins
who observed their 81st birthday
Monday, won prizes at the Farmers
and Merchants picnic for being the
oldest twins present. They are the
oldest Hubers from the original
stock which came to America from
Germany in 1888. They were born
and reared eight miles northwest of
Ada and both are successful farmers,
now living in Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Pheasants Released
At DelphOs

Seeking better hunting during the
pheasant open season, the Old Time
Coon Hunters club liberated rs
young pheasants in different woods
outside Delphos. A number of the
cocks were banded and James ID.
Counsellor, secretary of the organi-
zation, requests that any hunter who
kills a banded bird return the band
to him or any other member of the
club,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
273 Miles REA Lines
In Operation

Homes of applicants who reside
south of the REA substation and
east of Jumbo to the Marion county
line were energized last week by a
crew of workmen. Ninety-seven
miles of rural electrifcation lines in
the 10 miles that local officials re-
Gently received permission from
Washington, D. c., to energize, have
been connected. With the ITO miles
that first received electricity, total
of 273 miles of line now are in
operation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Findlay Man Has
Prize Winners

Thirteen head of Dorset sheep
owned by FindIay school teacher
captured one first prize and six
seconds Thursday at the Illinois
State fair at Springfield, Ill.
The sheep, owned by Glenn Lovett,
have been on the fair circuit for
several weeks but this week was
the first they had been exhibited at
a state fair.
A eve from the flock took first
place while second places were won
for aged ram, ram lamb, eve lamb,
breeder flock, young flock and lamb
flock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
New Tag Adopted For
State Cars

A new type of license identifca-
tion tag made its first appearance
on state highway department cars
in Hancock and other counties thru
out the first district this week.
The tags are slightly larger than
the regular size auto tags. Under
the new Ohio law providing for
them the state highway tags are
to be of a color each year distinct
i've from the others. This years
highway tags are black with white
letters.
In large letters they bear the
words Estate Car" Number and
year are in smaller letters.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Teachers Institute
Plans Laid

Program plans for the annual
Teachers Institute are now complete,
and the committee in charge is now
looking forward to a record attend
ance at all meetings which will open
on Wednesday, August 80, and con-
tinue until Saturday, Sept. 2. The
session on the latter date will be an
art demonstration of special inter-
est TO teachers in the elementary
grades.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Petition Names Found
Invalid

According to the announcement
made by members of the Hancock
county board of elections, approx
mately 40 per cent of the names on
the BigeIow amendment proposal pc
titions have been stricken.
The number of names taken off
the petitions amounted to 43S, leav-
ing 695 on them. There were Is of
the petitions circulated in Hancock
county, five of them in the city.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
$50 Get Wheat Parity
Payments

Approximately two hundred and
fifty checks which varied in amounts
from $400 to approximately 500
were mailed last week to Putnam
county farmers who had qualified
for wheat parity payments. A num-
Der of similar checks were mailed to
county farmers through the soil
conservation committee of which
Arnold SHREDDER is chairman, during
the past several weeks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Power Line Compile
ton Delayed

The two-day celebration planned
Aug. Is and 10 at North Baltimore
in commemoration of the energiza-
ton of Project A of the Wood
Hancock REA Cooperative power
lines, has been postponed, probably
until late this week.
c. c. Doyle, superintendent of the
project, said the delay was due to
the late arrival of a transformer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Bicyclist Hurt In
Crash

Andrew Flowers, 18-year-old To-
ledo Negro, was injured slightly
Friday evening when his bicycle was
struck by an automobile on the Dixie
highway a mile north of Findlay.
Flowers was pedaling his bike
from Wilberforce university, near
Xenia, to his home in Toledo. The
automobile was driven by Leroy
Knepper, IL, of Findlay, the state
highway patrol reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Apiary Is Paying
Investment

A. D. Seabeat, who obtained his
start toward rehabilitation from a
farm security administration loan,
is making good in an undertaking,
unique in Hardin county.
The farmer is making living
paying interest and return on the
principal of his investment from an
apiary. The money to purchase sew
eral stands of bees and to expand
was obtained from the FSA. Today
he has 81 hives of bees on his farm
and 35 others are farmed out to
neighbors on percentage basis.
Sixty-five swarms of bees flew
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Urges Early Purchase
Of Fair Memberships

Marvin w. Neff, president of the
Hancock County Agricultural society,
has urged persons planning to pur-
chase memberships to do so before
Thursday, August "a.
Mr.. Neff pointed out that MEM
berships secured before that date
will entitle the holder to participate
in the election of directors during
the county fair, Sept. SO, and also
will give him and his immediate
family including children under 18
years of age admittance to the fair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Editor Will Address
Bankers

Grove Patterson, editor of The
Toledo Blade, will address bankers
of Group Two of the Ohio Bankers
association at a district meeting to
be held at Shawnee Country club,
Lima, Tuesday, Sept. IL. His sub
iect viii be "Three Things That
Matter"
More than 800 district bankers
will assemble for the meeting.
Counties to be represented include
Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Hancock
Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Paulding,
Putnam, Shelby and Van Vert.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Eight Cows Fresh In
One Month

Carl Gartner, Hancock county
dairyman, had eight cows to come
fresh during the month of July
His dairy herd of IA cows all are
registered Jerseys. A mechanical
mixer lightens the work of extract
ing the milk and this is sold as it
leaves the cooling system. No hogs
are kept on the farm and hence no
use for separator milk The eight
cows dropped nine calves, one bav-
ing twins.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Civil Service Exam
Announced

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an open
competitive examination for the posi-
tion of Junior Public Health Nurse
in the Indian Field Service Depart
ment of the Interior. Applicants
must be on file in the Commission's
office at Washington, D. c., not later
than September IL. The salary for
the position is $1,S00 a year.
High school education and certain
nursing training is required for en-
trance to the examination.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Pulling Contest POpu-
lar Event

Marion Wilcox 3,250-pound team
of horses from Kenton pulled a 5000
pound load 27l2 feet to win the
heavy weight contest at the farmers
and merchants picnic in Ada last
week. The event was attended by
more than 1000 persons. The light
weight division went to Dale Tarr
of Ada. His 2,900-pound team
also pulled 5000 pounds 27ia feet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Young Farmer Plans
Fair Entries

Vincent Keckler, well known young
farmer of east of Dunkirk, plans to
enter grain and potatoes in a num-
ber of events at the Ohio State fair,
August 27 to Sept. /. Keckler has
more than 200 ribbons and medals
to his credit, which he has won at
various fairs and exhibits.
He has exhibits at fairs in Bluff
ton, Kenton, Forest, Dunkirk, Pat
terson, Dola, Ridgeway, Marseilles,
Parkersburg, w. ", Chicago and
Columbus. w~ wlK
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Children Blamed For
Auto Fire

Damage was estimated at 500
after fire, believed started by play
ing youngsters, badly damaged a car
which belonged to F. A. Stroup Of
Ottawa. The car was in the garage
and had not been driven for several
months. Firemen extiguished flames
before they had done much damage
to the garage building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
PUTNAM COUNTY
Freak Ear Of Corn
Found

A. S. Warrington, farmer residing
in Columbus Grove Route 2, Satur-
day was exhibiting a freak ear of
corn which was grown in his small
field.
There was one perfect ear of corn
about 10 inches long-surrended
by IL smaller ears. All IL were
well filled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
263-Acre Farm Sold

One of the largest individual
transfers of land in Hardin county
in the last few years was filed last
week in the office of Hardin county
Recorder Tell Kennedy.
The deed transfers 263 acres in
Mcdonald, Lynn and Cessna town
ships, Hardin county, from the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Co., to Kirty N. and Lucy H. Rog-
ers. The amount of the considera-
ton was listed at s25,500.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Pioneers To Meet
Sept. 2 <gs

L. P. Crawfs, president of the
Putnam County Pioneer association,
announced that a good program is
assured for the annual meeting of
that body on Saturday afternoon,
Sept. 2. The meeting will be held
at one o'clock in the Presbyterian
church at Kalida.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Builder Of First Jenera
House Alive

George w. Pifer, the man who
built the first dwelling house in
Jenera, still lives in that village.
This house was erected in 1883, and
still is occupied. John Price, now a
resident of Findlay, had his home
in Jenera at the time the initial
homes were put up in that thriving
town situated in the rich valley of
Tiderishi creek.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Congressman Says He
Is Very Much Alive

Congressman Robert w. Jones is
very much alive, but is tired of con-
vincing his friends of that fact
Several of them thought they
heard announcement of his death in
an automobile accident on news
broadcast over a Detroit radio sta
tion and Immediately deluged his
home with telephone calls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
Special Levy To Be
Voted

Electors of Findlay school district
will be asked at the November cleo
tion to approve a renewal of the
three-milI extra tax levy for school
operation which has been in effect
for a number of years.
Supt. F. L. Kinley explained that
renewal of the levy is necessary to
keep Findlay schools open on full
schedule and to insure participation
in the state school foundation funds.