Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-02-17
J0TTINGS -.
OFF the CUFF
BY RAY SPERBER

IT TNABLE to leave with their
teammates on the afternoon
plane, Saturday, Bill Market and
Luke Meyers, of Put-in-Bay, were
| determined to get to Kelleys
Island that evening for the inter-
island basketball game. Com
Wandering an outboard motor
boat, the youths reached Kelleys
shortly before the game, having
completed the trip in an hour and
as minutes. Kelleys was victor
ious, 35 to %, with Dick Sennish
pacing the winners with IA points.
Art Traverso's 10 points was tops
for Put-in-Bay's squad.
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CINBAD had nothing on two
- Put-in-Bay youths, Bob Schmitt
and Bill Miller, who made
round trip from the island to Port
Clinton via outboard motor boat
Saturday. In years past, it wasn't
unusual for anyone to cross the
rip via the ice bridge but it is
unusual for anyone OF cross the
lake during February in an out
board job. Schmitt, who captains
the South Shore, reported the
trips were uneventful despite
rather choppy waters.
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HARRIET SCHMITT and Fred
ma Kreutzer remain in 10th
place with their 1852 doubles total
in the Northern Ohio Women's
Bowling Assn tournament under
way in Tiffin Harriet and
| her husband, Lester, had a most
| enjoyable silver wedding anniver-
sary Sunday. Among their gifts
were a large mirror, completely
outlined with silver dollars. Har-
riett's co-workers gave the cele-
brants a silver ribbon on which
numerous coins had been placed.
-LOT-
HOOK- -and-line fishermen will
= feel "undressed" this year as
they will not be wearing the large
license badge displayed in other
years. Use of the badge has been
discontinued by legislative action,
but it will still be necessary for
the fisherman to carry his license
on his person while fishing.
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MANY local residents, both re-
A'A cent and old, are interested
in history of Ottawa County so
we shall run short historical items
in this column each week. Tim
othy Perry, who passed away
Jan. II, 1909, was the first white
child born in Ottawa County.
Perry was born in Marblehead
only four days after his parents
arrived there in 1919 via canoe
from the neighborhood of where
Cleveland now stands. At that
time there were only four white
families between Marblehead
point and Lower Sandusky (now
Fremont)), a distance of 33 miles.
When Mr.. Perry died, he was the
father of II children, and was
survived by 130 grand, great and
great-great grandchildren!
DICHARD B. KAY, Cleveland
~ G. o. P. candidate for attorney
general, visited here late last
week in the interest of his cam
paign. Kay is a Navy veteran OF
World War II, having seen action
in the Normandy and Southern
France invasions j. Walter Sam
sen has sold his Clay Center meat
marget to Clarence Englehart,
who had been with the firm since
1922. Samsen continues his du-
ties as postmaster in a new build
ing adjoining the Navarro gro
Gerry Jack Koch and Dick
Shupe, former Genoa high school
cagers who were banished from
Un6 SQudu ny SOdSil ooihi AsODNA ~
for playing with semi-pro team
last week, were also suspended
from league play by the Toledo
Amateur Basketball Association
Although they are practically
players without team, Koch and
Shupe may participate in non-fed-
GRAFTON games.
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CUPT. D. D. Sims and other
- school officials attending the
Northwest Ohio Superintendent
meeting in Findlay, Tuesday af-
ternoon, learned how to bring 9
meeting to a close in hurry
Five speakers were scheduled fol
the afternoon session, but wher
the Findlay school superintendent
announced that the Blanchard
River had overfowed into Mair
Street and that all persons living
north of Findlay had better leave
there was a general rush for the