Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-18


could have waited another week
before making the final berry
patch pick.
THE two pound, 131s ounce
daughter born last week in
Magruder Hospital to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jess Van Wy, Route 2, is not
the smallest baby ever born there.
We have learned that Denny Fehr,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Fehr.
Oak Harbor, weighed only two
pounds, 10 ounces when he was
born Sept. IL, 1912, in the local
hospital. Denny spent eight
weeks in an incubator and two
more weeks in the hospital nurs-
cry before he was permitted to
leave for his Oak Harbor home.
You would never know he was so
tiny at birth if you saw Denny
today.
COLONIAL Club members al
most had an unusual menu
Monday night-pumpkin and pig
hooks. George Wenger was in
charge Of the feed so the Lincoln
Drive sportsman grabbed two
cases of products in his Sandusky
cannery and brought them to the
Colonial Club rooms thinking he
had sauerkraut and catsup. When
Carl Keller and other co-workers
opened the cases Monday after
noon, they discovered George had
picked up a case of pumpkin by
mistake. Wenger made another
hurried trip to Sandusky and
corrected the mistake and the
menu.
Clyde has long been known as
Republican stronghold, but
this year after the Democrats
nominated Col. Wells in the pri-
mary, both the Democrats and Re-
publicans joined forces to give
the former local man one of the
most surprising Democratic ma
jorities in the history of the town.
AS he made practically no cam
paign for the office, the vote trib-
ute to the veteran of both world
wars was even more pleasing.
--JOT -
DICHARD "Dick" Sims, son of
Supt. and Mrs. D. D. Sims,
was one of the Bucket and Dipper
men who performed in the peace
Pipe" ceremony at Ohio States
stadium during the Illinois game
intermission Saturday. Illinois
honorary society junior men rep
resented their alma mater during
the traditional ceremony. A photo
of the group, in which Dick can
be distinguished, appeared in Sun
days Columbus Citizen.
-JOT-
MINDERMAN Marine Mfg.
40 Company, East Fourth street,
shipped one of it's 20-ton Algonac
boat hoists by truck to Fort Lau-
derdale, Florida, late last week.
The hoist will be used in the ST.
100000 boat harbor project at
Fort Lauderdale, which is soon to
open as the largest in the world.
The 20-ton hoist is the average
built by the local company, al
though the firm completed 40
ton hoist for a Sandusky Gus
toner recently.
-JOT-
THERE was a packed house on
hand for the stag party spon-
sored by the Catawba Island
Chamber of Commerce Thursday
evening in Cottage Inn when
funds were raised for the proposed
fire station-community hall build
ing. Freddie Pluckhorn's Cataw-
ba Islanders orchestra; the Har-
Dor Lights barber shop quartet
of Ralph Mackey, Harold Reitz,
Warren McDougall and Warren
Balduf; pianist, Warren Balduf,
and some ancient Mickey Mouse
movies furnished the entertain
ment.
--JOT-
GENE and Lucille Hearn, the
Fulton street travellers, are
now at 3771 44th Street, in San
Diego, California, where their
house trailer is parked for a few
weeks. They are enjoying the
sunny climate and beautiful seem
cry. Mrs. Hearn writes that they
have seen numerous former Port
Clinton residents, but missed the
Ralph Burholts in Los Angeles as
the couple was on a hunting trip.
At Oxnard, the Hearns visited Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Moran, Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis Mccullough, and Mr..