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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Has Collection Of
HOrseShOes

1t may sound goofy, but Edward
H. Clucker, native of Kenton and
now a resident of Cleveland, has a
collection of 1900 horseshoes, many
of which have interesting histories.
Yes, Mr.. Clucker's hobby is collect
ing such pieces of metal.
Clucker, when boy, was a
"swipe" at the racetrack at the old
Hardin county fairgrounds. There
he formed his admiration for horses
and their riders. The first shoe in
his collection was that from the
hoof of "Bessie Stimmel," record
breaking mare. He now boasts that
he can show a shoe from every we'll
known horse that has run on the
American track.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Wins Bet By Not Shaw
ing For Three Months

Chauncey Depew Shinkle, Jr., of
Ottawa, is introducing himself every
where he goes, even to his friends.
The reason--he came out from be-
hind a thick, brown beard for the
first time in three months.
Chauncey is junior in Ottawa
High school but he proved to every
one who chanced to notice that he
could grow a full beard. 1t all
started three months ago when his
school chum, Eugene Vermilya, bet
him a pipe that he couldn't stand the
"gaff" he would have to take if he
let his beard grow until Christmas.
Chauncey accepted the pipe in pay
smert of the debt. Recently William
Kruse, local barber, shaved the boy
free of charge and gave him a dol
lar besides as a reward for his
bravery in jeopardizing his social
standing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Change In County Jail
Recommended

Need for separate quarters for
juveniles held by the Hancock county
sheriff again is urged in the annual
report of the Hancock county board
of visitors to the state department
of public welfare.
The report forwarded to Columbus
over the signatures of J. N. Tabb,
president, and Mrs. Charlotte Learey,
secretary, says that "the board found
the institutions in excellent condi-
tion and the personnel functioning
efficiently"
ut is hard to imagine how the
County Home and the Children's
Home could be conducted in any
more satisfactory Manner" said Mr..
Tabb in commenting on the report.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Lima Wars On
) Lotteries

A campaign against lotteries in
legitimate business in Lima was
Launched last week by the Better
Business Bureau when its board of
directors condemned this practice in
resolution, and its director warned
reports of all such activities will be
made to proper authorities for pro-
secution.
The resolution asserted the results
of lotteries to promote sales are
dubious, that such procedure is un-
sound, unfair to competition and in
furious to public confidence. 1t add
ed that such lotteries are illegal,
and that it has been found that OPP
GRAFTON of a lottery by persons or
firms of honest intent establishes a
precedent held up by fraudulent op-
orators as justification for operation
of dishonest ventures.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04

funds for injuries suffered while en-
gagged in work for the McGuffey Ele-
vator Co.
Although Yoxsimer was himself
an employe, he had agreed to work
for the elevator company on certain
terms and was using his own en-
ployes to complete the job. During
the work he fell from ladder while
changing corn cob spout and a
conveyor.
The State Industrial commission
rejected his application for compen-
sation, but both the common pleas
and appellate courts held he was
entitled to participate in the fund.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
HARDIN COUNTY
1874 Tax Receipt
Found

An interesting antique was pre-
sented in the office of Hardin Coun-
ty Treasurer Jno. p. Siemon last
week when a tax receipt for 1874
came to light.
OFT Myers of Kenton presented to
Siemon the receipt dated Dec. IA,
1874. 1t was made out to David
Clement, the grandfather of Mrs.
OFT Myers, and showed that taxes
had been paid on 80 acres of land
in Section IL, Township 5, Range 2,
Dudley township, Hardin county. The
land valuation was given as S122
and the amount due was two dollars,
19 cents and six mills.
The chattel tax was on the same
receipt and read-"Two horses and
two cattle, valuation 500, amount
due; one dollar, 72 cents and eight
mills, making the total bill three
dollars, go cents and four mills.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Buys From Five Gen.
GRAFTON From Store

When ]. d. Palmer, n, retired
farmer and dairyman of Columbus
Grove. made a purchase of William
L. Mapel, 11-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence C. Mapel of South
Bend, Indiana, in Mapel Bros. Cloth
ing store Christmas day, it was the
fifth generation of Mapels from whom
he had purchased goods during his
lifetime.
Palmer, who has resided in this
vicinity nearly all his life, bought
goods from the first generation of
Mape1s around sixty years ago after
Simon Mapel, r. L. and H. B.
Mapel's grandfather, came from Gil
boa in 1868 and started drygoods
store in Columbus Grove.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
PUTNAM COUNTY
Man Held In Theft
Of Pipe

Mystery of how six tons or more
of cast iron drainage pipe, owned
by the State Highway Department,
disappeared from the right-of-way in
route 224 near Ottawa, led last week
to the arrest of Edward Clark, 27
a Leipsic WPA worker.
Clark pleaded not guilty before
Justice o. j. Schierloh in Ottawa
and was remanded to Jail in default
of $1,000 bond pending action of the
Putnam County grand jury.
State Highway patrolmen said
others may be involved in the case.
Authorities said Clark admitted dyn-
amiting the pipe, once used for
drainage under railroad bed, to
break it into small enough pieces to
truck away. He said his activities
were under full scrutiny of highway
employees.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Two Girls Arrested
For Theft

Two Lima girls, recently paroled
from the Girls Industrial School at
Delaware, were being held in Allen
county Jail Friday on charges of
stealing clothing from the home of
F. E. Sandey, of Lima.
The girls, both IS, were arrested
Thursday by Arnold Potts, Putnam
county sheriff at the home of Leon
ard Hovest, near Ottawa. Sheriff
Potts reported the girls had in their
possession a fur coat, a shirt, an
alarm clock and baby clothing which
they admitted did not belong to them.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Lima Man New State
Bank Head

Gov. John w. Bricker last week
appointed Rodney p. Lien of Lima
as State Superintendent of Banks to
succeed Samuel H. Squire of Elyria.
Lien, president of the National
Bank of Lima, will take the $7,500-
a-year office Jan. Is.
Bricker said that the Allen County
Republican Executive Committee had
indorsed Lien.
Lien, 38 year old and native of
Iowa, began his banking career as
bookkeeper at Mason City, Iowa,
and later went to Chicago. Four
years ago he went to Lima as presi-
dent of the First National.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Sales Tax Distribution
Greater

A total of $5,434.23 more has been
received for local government units
of Hancock county from the Ohio
sales tax in 1889 than in 1888, fig
ures compiled by County Auditor
Frank Fl. Huffman revealed.
Amount of sales tax received by
the county local governments this
year is $52,419.72 as compared with
$46,9S5.49 for 1888. The total still
is some $4,000 less than the $72,-
1852 received in 1887, Huffman
said.
Orange township got $277.68; I'm
ion township received $28476, and
Mt. Cory's share was $296.8s.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
State Examinations
Are Set

Examinations to cover approx
mately 500 positions in state liquor
stores will be conducted Feb. 8 and
9 by the State Civil Service Com
mission, Miss Gertrude Jones, chair
man, announced Wednesday.
Jobs for which eligible lists will
be created include liquor store man
ayers, cashiers and clerks. The tests
will be given in Columbus, Cleveland
Cincinnati, Akron, Canton, Dayton
Lima, Mansfield, Toledo, Athens and
Cambridge.
Examinations for the position OF
store manager, which carries sal
ary range of from $1,000 to $2,40C
a year, will be held Feb. 8.
Tests for cashiers and clerks will
be given Feb. 9. Salaries for cash
iers range from S1,440 to $1,000 q
year while those for clerks range
from 1880 to $1,000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Cars Seen From Many
States

Observing parked automobiles on
Main street in the vicinity of the
court house in Findlay,a man jot-
ted down the license plates from the
different states and reports" / saw
machines parked here from every
state east of the Mississippi river
except Maine, Vermont and New
Hampshire. Every state west of the
Mississippi was represented with the
exception of North and South Da-
kota, Montana, Nevada and Okla
homa. Three cars from Canada
were observed and one from the Dis
trict of Columbia. These observa-
tions took place up to December"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Lima Man Loses
State Post

John w. Beall, of Lima, chairman
of the Ohio Industrial Commission,
lost his state post last week when
Governor John w. Bricker appointed
James A. White, a Columbus at
torney and former head of the Ohio
Saloon league as his successor.
The new member was named for
a six-year term effective immediate
ly. He will receive a salary of S.
600 year. The six-year term of
Beall expired last June 80 but he
continued to serve pending appoint
ment of a successor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Two Crashes At Same
Spot

Two automobile accidents occurred
last week within Is minutes of each
other at the same spot in the high
way when cars skidded on the snow.
Kenneth Remue. &c, Toledo, was
treated at Findlay Hospital for an
arm injury after his car skidded as
it rounded a curve in Route 224
near the junction of 224 and 1876.
A car operated by Walter Ber-
tram, 33, Boone, Ia, skidded on the
same cure short time later. Mr..
Bertram, his wife and four children
escaped injury.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Veteran Fireman Is
Found Shot

George A. Yates, n, veteran fire.
man at the Findlay plant of the Cen
trail Ohio Light and Power company,
died at sos o'clock Friday afternoon
in the Findlay hospital from a self
inflicted bullet wound received an
hour earlier at his home in Findlay.
Mr.. Yates, according to DR.. Fl. o.
Crisby, coroner, shot himself in the
head with. a pistol. The coroner re-
turned a verdict of suicide, giving i'll
health as the reason.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
HANCOCK COUNTY
Findlay College En-
rOllment High

Official enrolment statistics re-
Gently released at Findlay college
show that the student roster for the
first semester of 1939-1940 term, in
dicates one of the largest student
bodies in the college history. Includ-
ing all departments of the college,
there are 375 students, with 270 of
them enrolled in the liberal arts col
lege; 62 in the commercial school
and three in the music department
There are 40 special students. Ap-
proximately 25 per cent of the stu
dents are girls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Drive Opened To Aid
Plant

With the Christmas season over,
members of the Kenton sivic COM
mittee in charge of subscriptions for
stock in rehabilitating the Runkle
Co., whose plant was razed by fire
in Kenton on Nov. 5, will open a
concerted drive to sign subscriptions
for stock, Mayor Ellis H. McFar-
land, committee chairman, announced.
The campaign to aid The Runkle
Co., had been retarded by the Christ
mas season, Mcfarland said. 1t is
expected that the local subscription
drive will be completed this week,
the mayor explained.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Cupid's Activity Wanes
In County

There has been a steady decline
since 1887 in the number of mar
riage licenses issued in Allen county
according to Probate Court attache
Louis T. Brown. In that year 667
couples obtained licenses to wed, in
1888 there were 618 issued, and in
1889 the figure was 544.
without a doubt Dan Cupid will
make up for lost time in 1910
which is leap year," Brown predict
ed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Grove Man Away On
Air Tour

Bill Witteborg, one of Columbus
Groves popular air enthusiasts, took
off from a field near his home last
week in his Taylor cub, headed for
the annual air show and two weeks
vacation in Miami, Florida.
Bill, former proprietor of Witte-
borgs' Lunch, now operated by Fritz
Witteborg, headed for the Lima air
port where he picked up an aerial
photographer from Lima, who ac-
companied him to Columbus where
they met the Light Plane Cavalcade,
fleet of privately owned light
planes under rs horsepower.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
County Settles State
Debt

Three years of litigation were end
ed last week when Allen County and
State Welfare Department officials
reached compromise agreement on
the amount of money due the state
by the county for the care of feeble
minded persons.
Allen County was one of q num-
Der in Ohio which halted such pay
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Burned By Blast From
Furnace

A burst of flame from the furnace
in his home Friday afternoon in
flicted serious face and eye injuries
on Paul Emahieser, 20, of Benton
Ridge. 4s.
The victim said he had poured
fuel oil in the flu to burn out the
SCOT collected there. In so doing, he
said, he closed the furnace door.
When he re-opened the door, blast
of flames shot out directly into his
face.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
New KentOn School
Completed

The newly constructed Kenton high
school building was opened when the
pupils went back to classes following
the annual holiday vacation on jan
uary 2, it was announced by Boyd
w. Geiser, clerk of the Kenton dis.
trict board of education.
The new school has been construct,
ed to house $50 pupils, at an esti.
mated costof s335,000. Of that
amount s150,750 was granted by the
Public Works Administration and
the remainder will be provided by a
local bond issue passed by the voters
of the district.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
No WPA Aid For

All chance of obtaining WPA as
sistance in the construction of 100
foot addition to the grandstand at
the Putnam county fair grounds is
gone, at least until next spring, dis
trict Work Projects Administration
officials in Toledo have informed
members of the fair board.
Some other means of financing the
project will be considered.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Yule Week Tax Re-
ceipts Lower

Christmas shopping fell off slight
ly in Ottawa during the week before
the holiday if sales tax receipts can
be taken as a barometer.
Sales tax receipts dropped about
13 per cent for the week as COM
pared with the same week in 1888,
according to records in the office of
County Treasurer Grover Nichols.
However, figures for the year so far
indicate a definite increase over 1888.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Commissioners Operat-
ing Within Budget

The Allen county Board of Com
missioners has paid in full all county
bills for 1889 operations, and in
tends to keep within it's income dur
ing the coming year, Chairman
Homer ]. Hilty declared Saturday.
Expenditures for relief during the
12-month periodjust closed totaled
0,493.73, as compared with $751;
427.S5 in 1888, Hilty revealed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Homes Threatened In
Refinery Blast

Hundreds of Lima homes were
shaken at $40 p. m. Thursday and
distillery equipment worth more than
s1,000,000 was endangered at the
Solar Refining plant of the Standard
Oil Co. in south Lima in an explos-
ion of naphtha storage tank in
the company's S. Collet street field
simultaneously with the blast, the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Man, 80, Wants To Be
Senator

An octogenarian is the first avowed
candidate for Ohio's 1940 Republi-
can nomination for u. S. Senator.
Charles E. Wharton, 80, of Ken
ton, president of the Federated Farm
club of Ohio and unsuccessful can
didate last year for the representa-
tive-at-large nomination, announced
he would seek the nomination on a
Observation-Disclosures pro-
gram.
The senate post is that now held
by Ohio's senior senator, Vic Dona-
hey, Democrat.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Traffic Toll Heavier
In County

Allen county's traffic fatality toll
in 1889 totaled 27, one more than
1888, Coroner Burt Hibbard an
nounced Saturday.
AS the year drew to close DR..
Hibbard said he Investigated 90 cases
from Jan. l thru Dec. %. The total
was 80 in 1893.
Of the 27 killed in traffic mishaps,
16 were males and IL females. Auto
truck collisions claimed the most
lives, the figures totaling eight
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Aerial Pictures Taken
Of County

Hancock county had its picture
taken this fall and the prints have
been received at the county agricul-
tural office.
The photographs cover every piece
of farm real estate in the county.
They will be used by the soil conser-
vation committee in determining
areas of the various fields coming
under the farm program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Dies While Wife Reads
Paper To Him

Sittingin his chair while his wife
read him the news from the daily
paper at 1870 o'clock Friday after
noon, Joseph M. Kinsey gasped
twice for breath and was dead. A
heart attack was given as the cause
of his death which occurred in his
home in Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Birthday Ball Chair
man Named

Fred R. Schoonover, comptroller of
the City Loan and Savings company
has been appointed chairman of
Lima's birthday ball for the presi-
dent to be held Jan. 80. He was
named by George B. Quatman, pres
ident of the Allen county chapter of
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, Inc.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Three Farm Meetings
Scheduled

Three meetings of interest to Put
nam County farmers have been an
nounced by John Finn, manager of
the Farm Bureau Cooperative.
The first one is farm leaders
roundtable to be held Jan. 5, the Sec
ond is the Youth Council meeting
Jan. 26 and the third is the annual
cooperative meeting, Feb. 20.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04

year 1899 with $7.45 balance in its
treasury and with $1,000 still to be
received from the county payable
after the year-end report has been
approved by the State Department
of Agriculture.
The financial statement of the ag-
ricultural society which has just been
compiled shows expenditures of s10.-
851.23 for this year and receipts
totaling slo,s5s.6s-a difference OF
S7.45.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Lima Has Is Amateur
Radio Stations

Lima has Is privately-owned, nom
profit radio stations, which do not
engage in commercial broadcasting.
Just released by the Federal Com
munications Commission, a new list
of licensed amateur radio operators
in Lima shows 18 licenses in good
standing as of Dec. Is, 1889.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Probate Court Has
Busy Year

More than $1,600,000 in assets was
appraised and listed in Allen county
probate court during the past year,
according to Louis T. Brown, chief
deputy in the office of Probate Judge
Raymond P. Smith.
Assets included both real and per-
sonal property, subject to payments
of debts of decedents, and to trans
fer to heirs and benefciaries.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04

west of Williamstown and struck a
bridge culvert.
The car was demolished. Mrs. Low
received abrasions and her husband,
28, broken shoulder blade. Their
three-months-old son, David, was
bruised. They were treated by a
physician.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Highway Workers Dis
missal Upheld

The State Civil Service commits
sion last week reinstated five dis
charged state employees and sus-
tanned the removal of five others.
Those whose removals were sus-
tanned and the charges against them
included Harley Staver, Route A.
Lima, highway mechanic, misfeance,
malfeasance, nonfeasance, neglect OF
duty and political activity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
4,719 Real Estate
Transfers In 1889

A total of $4,719 deeds and real
estate transfers was recorded during
1889, as compared with 4,434 last
year, and 8,787 chattel mortgages
were fled, as compared with the
1888 total of 1869, according to AL
len county Recorder Wilfred F..
Failor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

ments several years ago in an effort
to force reduction in the weekly
rate. The compromise represented
a medium between the $3.50 per pa
tient per week charged by the state
prior to last Jan. l, and the $3.50
in effect since then.
The county's Indebtedness is cut to
s37,749, and represents reduction
of about $4,000 in the obligation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Census Taking To Be
Started

An appeal to the manufacturers of
Findlay to get ready for and CO.
operate with the u. S. census emu
merators beginning Jan. 2, was is
sued last week by Lester Thomas,
president of the Findlay Chamber
of Commerce.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Nurse Suspended At
Lima Hospital

DR.. H. M. Turk, superintendent of
the Lima State hospital for the
criminal insane, filed with the state
civil service commission last week
notice of suspension of Mary Jean
Arras, a registered nurse at the in
stitution, on charges that she re-
ported for duty while under the eff
fects of liquor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04

Scientists now use hens eggs in
the production of viruses to provide
disease immunity to animals. The
egg shell protects the viruses from
contamination while the production
process is being completed, and it
is believed these new weapons in dis
ease control will be less variable and
more safe than the ones produced
within animal hosts by former meth
DDS
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Goes To Navy Band
School

John Rutledge, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jess Rutledge of Ada, has been
accepted in the U. S. Navy school of
music and will receive two years of
musical education and four years of
service in band and orchestra work
on shipboard.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
ALLEN COUNTY
Coroner Rules Death
Natural

DR.. Burt Hibbard, Allen county
coroner, reported Thursday that the
death of Carl Crider, Al, whose body
was found near Beaverdam early
Dec. %, was due to natural causes.
The coroner said he had reached
this verdict after performing an au-
topsy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Free From Quarantine
After Two Months

The Albert Sheldon family was
free from their home in Mcdonald
township last week, after enforced
isolation of two months, during
which time the mother and six
children recovered from scarlet fever.
Only the husband and father escaped
contracting the disease, County
Health Commissioner J. F. Holtz-
muller said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Fire Leaves Eight
Homeless

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Webb and
their six children, living near For
aker, were left homeless last week
as fire, originating from a defective
fiue, destroyed their farm home and
all the furnishings at an estimated
loss of $4,000. Only their clothing
and a radio were saved. The build
ing was owned by George McAdams,
Waynesfield.