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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
1,134 Get Old Age
Pensions

Forty new cases have been added
to the rolls of aid for the aged in
Hancock county effective with July
payments as result of the recent
action of the Ohio general assembly
in appropriating additional funds fol-
that purpose.
This action brings the total num-
ber of aid for the aged recipients in
Hancock county to 1874, in increase
from 1,107 in June of this year
Total aid payments in Hancock
county for July will be S25,3S5 as
compared with s24,806 in June, OF
an increase of $579 a month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Leaps Thru Glass In
Flight From Police

James Carter, 35, colored, was cut
severely by flying glass Thursday
night as he fled from authorities who
surprised him in an alleged attempt
to burglarize Madison's Dress shop,
in Lima.
Carter, who says he has no home,
was booked at police headquarters
on burglary charges early Friday
after being given first aid treatment
in Memorial hospital for head and
face cuts.
Officers Frank Yost and Emmett
Scott nabbed him at 10:30 p. m.
Thursday seconds after he plunged
thru the front door glass in the
clothing store.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Thugs Loot Gasoline
Station

Approximately $50 in merchandise
and pennies were taken from the Joe
Swartz filling station in North Balti-
more Wednesday of last week, by a
group of men who were reported to
be driving a stolen car.
The only clue left was a large
whip, similar to the kind used in
stock yards. Harvey Walters, living
nearby, heard the shattering of glass.
He said he noticed a group of men
at the station, went to neighbor's
home and telephoned to Marshal
John Neil.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
100000 Sports Goods
Shipment

Four carloads of merchandise pro-
duced by the Ohio Kentucky Manu-
featuring Co., of Ada, and small
shipments amounting to 100000 are
being forwarded to jobbers and re-
tailers throughout the United States,
officials of the company announced.
The shipment includes footballs,
basketballs, volley balls, soccer balls,
and boxing gloves and bags that
have been in process of manufac-
ture since January.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Refugee May Find
Home In Findlay

At least one Findlay family has
made application to take war refu-
gee child into their home, according
to the Rev. John Evans Knox, pastor
of Trinity Episcopal Church, who
said he will forward the application
to the United States Committee for
the Care of Orphan Children.
If approved, it is likely that at
least one child from the 10000 child
rem in the British Isles who are mi
grating to points of safety, will find
a temporary home in Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Examiners Laud Lima

Lima officials and departments
were lauded in a state examiners
report filed last week with City
Clerk A. j. Filliez.
The reported pointed out that the
municipal Indebtedness had been
drastically reduced in the 18-month
period covered by the report. "With
the same diligence and caution in the
future, we believe the city can re-
alize more working funds from tax
revenues and build up the credit
structure, the examiners wrote.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
$29,885 Road Improve
ment Started

Work was started Thursday on the
$29,885 WPA project of improving
the Gilboa road, east of Ottawa, it
was announced by WPA officials.
Of the total cost, the federal gov
ernment will spend S17,526 and the
sponsor $12,359. The federal funds
will be divided S15,795 for labor and
$1,731 for materials while the spon-
sor's share will be made up of $11,-
$50 for materials and $400 for labor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
12O EnOll In Defense
School

One hundred twenty persons have
applied for instruction in the voca-
tional classes at Findlay provided by
the federal government in the new
national defense program, Fred L.
Kinley, superintendent, announced.
Glasses will start Monday in the vo-
cational department of Findlay High
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Sign Firms May Pool
Output

w. A. Sidey, sales and promotion
manager of the Scioto Sign Co., of
Kento for "a years, has resinged to
direct the promotion end of nation
wide sign manufacturing merger, de-
signed to poll the output of a ma
jority of the smaller metal sign man.
ufacturers in the United States. He
said Kenton may be made distribu-
tion depot for the central states.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Woman, 100, At Sons
Golden Wedding

Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Cowden cele-
brated their golden wedding ami
versary at their home near Columbus
Grove Thursday.
The principal guest was Mrs.
Elizabeth Cowden, mother oe Mr..
Cowden, of Columbus Grove, who
celebrated her Tooth birthday ami
versary last January.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Rider Breaks Arm AS
Horse Falls

Porter L. Shuck, of the Carey road
near Findlay, was injured when the
saddle horse which he was riding
slipped and fell with him about $50
o1ock Wednesday morning. His left
arm was fractured just below the
shoulder and he received painful
bruises.
Mr.. Shuck was riding out to bring
in the cows and horses as is his GUS
tom each morning. The horse slip
ped in the barnyard.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
CCC Enrolment Below
Quota

Current demand of industry for
young men was reflected during en-
rolling of youths for CCC duty at
the Lima armory Tuesday.
Ten northwestern Ohio counties,
including Allen, had an aggregate
quota of lao youths but only 79
were admitted. A few others were
rejected for physical defects. Allen
county sent 33 young men, including
four colored enrollees.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
No Vacations Because
OF Defense Program

In order to cooperate with labor
demands of the national defense pro-
gram, vacation schedules have been
indefinitely postponed" for nine of
the IL employees of the Lima office
of the Ohio Bureau of Uncmploy-
ment Compensation.
This announcement was made Fri
day by ]. w. Saunders, manager,
who said the postponement order
was issued by State Administrator
H. C. Atkinson and affects about
1900 of the 1000 employees in So
offices in the state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
New Findlay Y. M. C.
A. Opens

Findlay's new Young Mems Chris
tian Association building is now
completed and ready for use.
The new structure which was op-
ened last week, has been termed by
authorities the most up-to-date small
er city association buildings in Ohio
and probably the entire country. It's
extensive and modern facilities, Its
attractive and serviceable furnish.
ings and its artistic beauty combine
to make it genuinely distinctive.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
management in the state department
of conservation, will survey the river
as they travel.
745 Cases In Courts

A total of 745 cases were handled
by the Hardin county common pleas
and probate courts during the fiscal
year which ended June 80, 1910, ac-
cording to the annual report of Ray
Patterson, Hardin county clerk of
courts. Hardin county sent % cases
to the Third district court of ap-
peals during the year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Appointed To State
Post

Appointment of Miss Rita Gerde-
man to the post of secretary-recep-
zionist at the state hospital in Gal
lipolis was announced recently at
Ottawa. She begins her duties at
once.
Miss Gerdeman will reside at the
hospital. She is the daughter of
Mrs. Mary B. Gerdeman of Ottawa
Route 2, and was graduated from
SITS. Peter and Paul high school of
Ottawa in the class of 1887.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
HARDIN COUNTY
School Buses Travel
858 Miles Daily

Buses in the Hardin county school
system covered 858.45 miles of all
kinds of roads daily, according to
Ambert Wagner, deputy Hardin
county engineer. The data will be
submitted to the state department of
education.
Figures show that in this county
2,447 school children were transport
ed in So buses in the nine districts
during last year and it is estimated
that a similar number will be trans
ported during the coming year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Buy Visual Education
Equipment

The Lima board of education last
week voted to purchase three sound
film projectors for use in the grade
schools as visual aids" to education
at an approximate cost of $3.50.
TIE action was taken after Supt.
Mclean Reed reported that use of
motion pictures had been rec.m-
mended by the special visual edu:a-
ton committee ''to establish more
meaningful concepts and eliminate
vcrbalism from results Of instruc-
ticns."
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Dayton, has been announced by the
United States Civil Service examina-
ton board.
Applicants must show that they
have successfully completed a full
four-year course leading to bache-
lor's degree in college or university
of recognized standing with major
study in biological science including
at least one course in mammalian
physiology.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Man Shot In Finger

William Anderson, SO, colorcd, of
Lima, was released from city jail
Wednesday and charges against him
of shooting with intent to wound
were withdrawn, Chief of Police
James c. Goodwin, announced.
He was arrested last Saturday
after he told police he shot Owen
Hughes, ST, of Lima, during an
argument in the 100 block of S.
Union street. Hughes lost part of a
finger as a result of the shooting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
BlufftOn Mfg. Co.
Expands

The first six months of 1910 brot
a 80 per cent gain in business for
the Bluffton Manufacturing Co., it
was announced by F. c. Burk, man.
ager. He said it has been necessary
to install additional equipment and
tools, and to increase employment by
better than 26 per cent.
The company manufactures wash
ing machines, power mowers and
other electrical devices.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18

Ada's national guard machine gun
unit. Sixteen of the guns now are
on hand, and the unit expects to re-
ceive II Garand automatic rifles, two
50-caliber machine guns and one
eight-millimeter mortar, Capt, Justin
McElroy said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
FSA Loans Are
Available

Bert O. Marshall, Allen county
Farm Security administration super
visor, announced Thursday that ap-
plications from farm tenant and
farm labor families for FSA loans
to buy farms are being accepted.
Application forms are available al
his office in the Post Office building
Marshall, reporting that the loans
are on the basis of 40 years at three
per cent interest, said filing of an
application does not assure a loan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Check River By Boat

Lloyd Volk, fish management agent,
and Jack Rodebaugh, assistant, start
ed from the Carmean bridge, west
of Kenton, down the Scioto river in
a boat and will continue to Belle
point in Delaware county. The two
men, employed by the bureau of fish
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Copyright. Western Newspaper Unior

Order of Odd Fellows came to a
close in Findlay last week with the
installation of officers of the Ohio
Grand Encanmpment. 1t was esti-
mated that more than 1000 visitors
were in Findlay at various times for
the state meetings which were held
at that place in honor of A. G. Full
Ter. a leader in /. O. o. F. work for
more than so years and a former
grand patriarch of the Grand En-
campment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
State Intervenes In
Lodge Dispute

The state aerie of Eagles stepped
into the dispute of Eagles at Kenton
and appointed Millard E. Timmons
as president to replace C. F. Karrick.
The social rooms of the lodge also
were ordered closed until complete
investigation of the local argument,
centered about the discharge of a
custodian, has been made.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
More Cigaret Licenses
Sold

Cigaret license fees collected in
Hancock county in the last year
amounted to $5,046,58 as compared
with $4,702.77 in the corresponding
period of year previously. The in
creased amount is due to an increase
from 162 to 180 in the number of
cigaret retail licenses.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Escape Plans Are
Thwarted

Lawrence Steiner, At, and David
Mitchell, 27, who tried to escape
from the Lima State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane are back in their old
cells. They sawed several bars from
the window of the laundry room in
the basement of the hospital, but
were nabbed by attendants before
they could get out of the building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Army Recruiting Post
At Lima

An army recruiting station which
will serve IL counties in northwest
ern Ohio was opened last week in the
Lima post office. The station is in
charge of Capt. Phillip C. Wahlbom
and Corp. Joseph F. Price, both of
Ft. Hayes, Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
ALLEN COUNTY
First Santa Letter Sent

Lima has at least one child who
believes in getting his bid in early
for presents from Santa Claus.
Post office clerks reported the
city's first Santa Claus letter of the
year unstamped and bearing no re-
turn address, has been turned over
to the dead letter department. The
missive was dropped in a box slot
last week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
PUTNAM COUNTY
Grove Post Office Now
Second Class

The Columbus Grove post office,
which has wavered between third
and second class rating, has again
resumed second class because of adj
vanced revenue.
The change was effective after
July z.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Gasoline Theft Is
Prevented

Two Kentucky youths whom
Sheriff Lyle Harvitt said were
frightened away from a Hancock
county farm Thursday night before
they could steal some gasoline, are
being held at the Jail pending a
further investigation.
A third member of the gang, whom
authorities said they were told was
the ring leader, is still at liberty.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Four Hurt In Cross
ing Crash

A Chicago couple and their two
children were injured, all seriously,
when their auto was struck by a
Big Four freight train at crossing
three miles north of forest on U. S.
Route 30-N at about $3.50 o'clock last
Tuesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Junked Rails Bring
$4,000

The Lima street department
swelled its working fund by $4,000
by selling 1900 tons of steel rails,
tie plates and copper from aban-
doned street car lines to the Edel-
man Iron and Metal Co. and Alex
Miller, both of Lima. The money is
to be used for additional rail re-
moval projects and other street re-
pairs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Truck Wrecks City'S
Lights

A. r. Cole, Findlay service-safety
director, said he had no objection to
the kind of vehicles which traversed
Main street, but he did oppose tear
ing down the city's white-way lights.
The matter came to issue when a
large oil tank was being hauled thru
Main street on a truck shattering
two street lights and tearing down a
guy wire.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Stores Close Each
Thursday

The summer half-holiday policy of
Findiay stores started last Thurs
day afternoon when local establish
ments closed during the afternoon.
Each Thursday afternoon during
July and August, the local stores
will remain closed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

much milk and more than three and
one-half times as much butterfat as
that of the average dairy cow in
the country.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
1914 Released By State

The office of State Auditor Joseph
I. Ferguson, released 1914 from
June collections of beer, malt, wort
and admission taxes to Hardin coun-
ty.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Civil War Vet Drives
Auto

Richard Reece, who makes bis
home with a son on a farm focr
miles north of West Leipsic, is one
Civil War veteran who still drives
his own automobile. He is "a.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Columbus Grove Buys
New Fire Truck

Columbus Grove and Pleasant
Township. have ordered new fire
truck, two-thirds of the cost to be
paid by the village.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Civil Service Exam
Announced

Announcement of open activitive
examination for the position of as
sistant physiologist at Wrikht Field,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
New Machine Guns
For Ada O. n. @.

Eight new 30-caliber machine guns
were received last week by Co. H,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
1000 At /. O. @. F. Meet

The five-day state convention of
two branches of the Independent
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-07-18
Eliminate COunty's
One-ROOm Schools

In preparation for the centraliza-
tion program which will be carried
Evening star., 1940-08-07
Manners
Of the
NJ O m e n t

The cigarette problem on a terrace
can be quite major one. A ter
race may be very easy to sweep
off but it can get very messy in an
hour from a heavy smoker
I have one friend who insists that
you throw your cigarettes, without
putting them out, on the lawn. She
claims that the ashes are good for
the grass and if you throw them
away still lighted they burn up and
no unsightly bits of Drowned stubs
are left to mar the scenery.
That's all right if you have a nice
clean lawn, which isn't likely to
have any fuel for forest fires.
But if you have lawn surround
ed by dry underbrush or If your
terrace is in the city and there sim
ply isn't any lawn, the problem is
different.
I think it then becomes the host
ess' problem. She should provide
something large and easy to hit,
into which cigarette butts should 60
A tub of sand is very nice Or a
large box of gravel marked For
Cigarettes"
If she doesn't provide something
like that her guests will use the
evergreen tub, which might not
please the evergreen. But that's up
to the hostess. JEAN.
Evening star., 1940-08-07
Dorothy Dix Says >>>
Best Way to Hold Philandering
Husband Is to Keep Him in Debt

The grief of untold numbers Of
women is the philandering husband,
and the one thing they desire to
know more than anything else in
the world is how to deal with him.
Millions Of wives have tried every
remedy from prayers to shotguns
on their wandering spouses. They
have wept, cajoled. tried to under
study the "other woman" and use
her technique upon them without
avail. They have ragged and stormed
and made scenes and threatened
divorce without stopping them from
chasing every petticoat that flut-
tered down the street. They can't
keep their husbands under lock and
key. They can't eliminate all the
women who are younger and better
looking than themselves. They
can't get a law passed making it
compulsory for husbands to wear
binders. Watching and spying does
no good because every system of
espionage breaks down. Tears only
soften a mans heart before mar
riage. Afterward they make him
mad. Reproach is worse than use
less. Loves labor is lost in starving
and stewing and suffering in beauty
parlors in an effort to become a
glamour girl to a man who has
ceased to look at one. Hence what
to do with the husband with the
rowing eye and keep his vision To-
cused on Friend Wife instead of a
platinum blond is one of the major
problems with which women have to
grapple in matrimony and to which
they can find no answer.
Therefore, it will be tidings of
great joy to many harassed ma
irons to learn that one woman has
solved the riddle of how to keep a
husband nailed to his own fireside
and that she passes on her tip to
other suffering sisters. She writes:
IT am married to a very hand
Evening star., 1940-08-07
Vinylite, the New Plastic
Material, Interesting
Shoe Development
American Couture Progressing;
Annette Simpson Collection
Outstanding in This Field
BY HELEN vOGT.

Probably interesting bit of novelty fashion
Nyon had buyers running around in small frantic circles which
for stretchy extremely different
which is being talked Of high fashion
No doubt you've h wrist watch bands suspenders and belts
of this gike which being
wear Called vnyte promises to provide style trend that will
either fall fater than
has for Nyon.
The plastic, which like and stretches like
being the evening footwear
and first this
combine clear crystal vnyte with black golden brown
with brown and others with silver
evening They nothing of startling but the time
have truly features practcaby that
Evening star., 1940-08-07

some and attractive man. who has
a way with the ladies.
II was convinced that he didn't
really love any of these pashes, and
that whatever of affection he pos
sessed belonged to me-
This is the way I stopped his
philandering: I went downtown and
bought him a 5000 ring, on which I
agreed that he should pay IS a week
In another store I bought him a
$3.50 watch, which he was also to
pay for at S. week. Then I bought
him pin at $3.50 on the same terms.
Then I bought him some vacant
lots at $500 apiece. to be paid for
at $40 month. And I figured out
that by the time he got through
paying all of these installments
every month he wouldn't have
enough money left to give the lady
friend many good times or take her
about much.
"Of course, he was furious, but I
told him that if his girl really loved
him she wouldn't care about the
money, and that this was a good
way to test her affection. Well, I
guessed right. AS soon as she
found out that there were no more
presents and that the best he could
do was to take her to a neighbor-
hood movie and hamburg stand
for supper, she quit him cold.
That was Is years ago, and
have never had to worry about
women since. And the jewelry and
the lots are ali paid for and we are
very happy, and he has quite a
reputation as a housekeeping hus-
band"
I heartily indorse this lady's plan
for curing philandering husband.
There is no other such safeguard
against temptation as the lack of
the price. Any man is immune from
the gold -diggers who has only small
change in his pocket.
DOROTHY DIX,
Evening star., 1940-08-07

Is required to make the couturiere,
she believes, for she must also be
able to fit and cut, sew, design her
own fabrics, study her client, know
her manner of living and what kind
of clothes she needs. The collection
which Miss Simpson has done here
is outstanding, and worthy of note
is her Liberty drape," a side drape
effect which is just as fetching as
its name. Proof that she is ear
nestly striving for the American
couture lies in the fact that she will
study customer and make one ex-
elusive model for her, so although
her prices are not in the lower
brackets the value received makes
her clothes really inexpensive.
Watch for the name Annette Simp-
son, for she heads a line of Amer
lean couturieres that will become
ever more vital to fashion progress
in this country.