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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
MIzENER DIES
SUDDENLY ON
SALT LAKE TRIP
Rites Held Thursday in Cali
fOrnia For Retired Hard
ware Store Operator

Edward B. Mizener, rs, a native
of this city and member of the
Mizener- -Drynan Hardware Com
pany firm, passed away suddenly
Friday night of heart attack in
a Salt Lake City, Utah, hospital.
Mr.. Mizener was stricken while
visiting his son-in-law and daugh-
ter, DR.. and Mrs. Robert Beech,
in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Mizener
was with him. Death was a
shock to his family and many
friends as he appeared to be in
excellent health. He had eaten
supper with his relatives and suf-
fered the heart attack two hour
later.
Two years ago, Mr.. Mizener re-
tired after being owner and man
ager of the local hardware firm,
and with his wife moved to Car
mel-by-th Sea, California, where
they had since resided. He had
been associated with the former
Magruder Bank until he became
a partner in the Mizener-Orth
Hardware Company in 1919.
Edward B. Mizener was born in
the Mizener homestead, East
Fourth street, April 19, 1875, and
spent nearly all his life in this
city. He was a son of the late
John and Jane McRitchie Mize-
ner. The hardware firm was es-
tablished IS years ago by his fa-
ther as the j. w. Mizener Com
pany. He attended Sandusky
Business College after graduation
from the local high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dewitt
left here Tuesday evening to fly
to Carmel, California, for the flu
neral services which were to be
held this Thursday afternoon.
Surviving are the widow, Ethel
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Thomp-
son, San Francisco, and Mrs
Winifred Beech, Salt Lake City
Utah; four grandchildren, and &
sister, Mrs. Grace Vogel, Los An
geleS.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
Lakeside Pupils To
Be Honored Tues.

LAKESIDE-More than one
hundred members of Lakeside
High Schools athletic teams and
band, as we'll as cheerleaders and
coaches will be guests of the Pen
insular Chamber of Commerce at
it's 18th annual athletic banquet
Tuesday evening, May 8, in Bro
Auditorium, Marblehead.
Don Wolfe, city editor of The
Toledo Blade, will emcee the ban
qaet, and Coach Edward L. Ed
die Finnigan of Baldwin Wallace
College, Berea, will speak on
What Champions Are Made OF.
Music by the Hi-Chords, Lorain
barbershop quartet, is planned.
Dinner will be served by mem
bers of the Danbury Township
Parent Teachers Association.
K. E. Miller, John Lane, r. G.
Carroll, George Ihnat, and c. H.
Wolfe, chairman, are members of
the banquet committee.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
BRINKMANS BUY
B0LTE'S SHOP
Toledo Musician and Wife
Are New Owners of Local
China and Gift Shop

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester ]. Brink
man, Toledo, have purchased the
Bolte China and Gift Shop from
it's owner originator, Mrs. Ann
Bolte, and began active operation
of the East Perry Street business
place Monday.
No changes are planned for the
present, excepting that the firm
is now known as Brinkman's China
and Gift Shop. The new owners
hope to continue selling the same
high quality merchandise as fea-
tured by Mrs. Bolte.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brinkman are we'll
known here and have many
friends. They are natives Of Ell
more, Mrs. Brinkman being the
former Miss Marion Kuhlman.
Their only son, John, is a men,
Der of this years graduating class
of Waite High School in Toledo.
Brinkman is a leading musician
in Toledo, where he has been mu-
sical director and organist Of St.
Marks Lutheran Church for the
past 10 years. The family hopes
to move here in the fall.
Mrs. Bolte has operated the
popular store for the past three
years. She plans to devote her
time TO her real estate and insur-
ance business.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
KATIE K0CS|S
GETS FIRST FHA
STATE DECREE.
Local Senior is HonOred Sat-
urday At State Formal
Banquet In Columbus

For the first time in the his
tory of Port Clinton High School,
a local girl has been selected for
the Ohio Homemakers' Degree.
She is Miss Kathryn Kocsis, a
member of the 1850 graduating
class, who was given the degree
Saturday at the formal banquet
of the Ohio Chapter, Future
Homemakers of America, in Pom
creme Hall, Ohio State University
campus, Columbus.
Also attending the banquet
from here We're Miss Sally Peter
sen and Miss Joan Vargo, men,
bers of the local FHA chapter,
and Miss Elsie Willerton, P. C. H.
S. Home Economics teacher and
FHA advisor.
Miss Kocsis has been men,
Der of the Future Homemakers
of America throughout her high
school career. She was selected
by a group of state officials in
Columbus on the basis of all
around citizenship, personality.
character and scholarship.
Speaker at the banquet Satul
day was A. w. Shorts of the state
department, who talked on "Con-
servation".
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
,JR. -SR. PROM IS
SATURDAY MITE
Bill Coon Serves AS General
Chairman For Annual
Student Ball

Bill Coon is serving as general
chairman for the annual Junior
Senior Prom to be held Saturday
evening in the high school audi
torium. Visitors may witness the
colorful spectacle until the Grand
March is finished, shortly after
10 o'clock.
AS customary, Port Clinton's
Rotary Club will award four cash
prizes to two girls and two boys
of each class as an incentive to
keep the students at the prom
instead of leaving early for out
of-town spots. Rev. John Braun,
George Garst and Dennis McDan-
iel are the Rotary committeeman.
Junior Class officers, Edward
Nau, president, Robert Bahnsen,
vice president; Oma Armstrong,
secretary; and Jack Easton, treas
urer, are assisting chairman Coon.
Faculty sponsors are Mrs. Thai
la Brown, Mrs. Avila Carter and
Boyd Martin.
Mrs. Gerald Pehrson is chair
man of the Junior Class of moth
ers serving. Assisting are Mrs.
John Danko, Mrs. William Kramb,
Mrs. Joe Kokinda, Mrs. Fred
Brindley, Mrs. D. M. Fadely Mrs
John Coyle, Mrs, Andrew Karshuk
Mrs. w. D. Johnson, Mrs. R. NJ
Gilleland, Mrs. Harry Englebeck
Mrs. Andrew Lukac, Mrs. Johr
McAtee, Mrs. Dwight Bowden
Mrs. James Longe and Mrs. Or
vile Easton.
Frances Lukac is chairman OF
entertainments with James Jac-
obs, Richard Klein, Robert Bahn-
sen and JoAnn Worthington, as.
sisting.
Ronald Johnson is chairman OF
Continued Page 2, Col. 81
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
NEGRO IS KILLED
ON BAY BRIDGE
Cleveland Pedestrian Fatally
Hurt When Struck By
Truck Saturday Night

Winfield Gardner, SO, of 1855
East list Street, Cleveland, was
fatally injured shortly before
midnight Saturday when he was
struck by a truck while walking
across the Sandusky Bay Bridge.
State Highway Patrolman Carl
Daum, of the Bay Bridge sub
station reported that the truck
driver was Charles Adams of 1893
East Bailey street, Buffalo, New
York.
Adams was not held as Coroner
George Poe returned verdict of
accidental death.
Gardner was World War |
veteran. His body was taken to
the Gerner & Wolf mortuary,
where it was held pending word
from Cleveland relatives.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
PL AN TRAFFIC
LIGHT AT STATE
PARK ENTRANCE
Trustees Assn Petition For
Lights At Two Intersec-
tiOnS Near ElmOre

Installation of a traffic signal
light to ease hazardous conditions
near the East Harbor State Park
will be completed in time for the,
busy season, Harry Neal, Chief
Engineer of the Division of Traf-
fic and Safety of the Ohio De-
partment of Highways, this week
informed County Representative
Robert Reider.
The light will be at the inter
section of state routes 163 Lake
side Road) and 240 Estate Park
Road). 1t will be operated by a
vehicle detector on State Route
240, which will automatically
change the signal from the green
light on State Route 1853 to a
green light ON State Route 240.
This type operation will be con
tinued during the summer recrea-
tional season only and will be
converted to a flasher signal dur
ing all other periods of the year
Neal added.
Ask Other Lights
AT the meeting of the Ottawa
County Clerks and Trustees AS.
sociation, held Thursday evening
in the City Hall, resolutions werc
approved recommending installa,
tion of traffic lights at the in
tersection of routes 105 and 12(
at the south edge of Elmore, ano
at the intersection Of routes rs;
and l20, north of Elmore.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
Approve School
Issue In Elmore

Voters in the Harris Elmore'
School District gave the $65,O0O
bond issue for construction of a
new auditorium wholehearted sup
port in Tuesdays primary, 373
casting votes for the levy and 1913
against it.
AS the majority is over 70 per
cent of the total vote cast, the
school officials will now have
enough funds to complete their
long-planned project. The Har-
ris-Elmore was the only bond is
sue question in the county pri-
mary.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
KASPAR WINS IN
BAY TWP. RACE
Jeremy Defeats Hess; Kriste-
max, Hetrick and Schroe-
der Are VictOrs

Edward Kaspar, Lester Hetrick,
Robert Schroeder, Joseph Kriste-
max and Harold Jeremy were vic
tors in the five central committee
races decided by voters in Tues
days primary.
Jeremy had no difficulty in de-
feating James Hess, 260 to 81, for
the Portage Township republican
seat. George Sibrel was unoppos-
ed for the democratic seat in this
township and received 319 votes.
Joseph Kristenak evidently de-
feated Edward hammers in close
race in Danbury Township for the
democratic central committeeman.
Kristenak had II votes and Lam
mers had 70 in unofficial totals.
Winning with more ease in dem
ocratic contests were Edward
Kaspar over Clifford Franck, 81
to 80, in Bay Township; Lester
Hetrick over Donald Leggett, 95
to AZ, in Benton Township and
Robert Schroeder over Theodore
Haar, 124 to rs, in Harris Town
ship.
Democrats elected, without op-
position, include Willard Fritsche,
Erie; Henry Rofkar, Catawba; !;
Harry Heineman, Put-inBay;
Glenn Novotney, Allen; Joseph
FURRY, Salem; Leroy Thompson,
Carroll; Jack Boysen, Clay, and
George Sibrel, Portage Township.
Republicans, elected without op-
position, include Frank Woodman,
Catawba; Herman Steinmiller,
Salem; George Peters, Carroll;
Melvin Oestreich, Benton, and
Gail Whitinger, Harris Township.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
JURORS REFUSE Indictment IN DEATH CASE
Democrats Lead
In Is Precincts

Democrats lead Republicans in
25 of Ottawa County's 40 pre-
cincts in Tuesdays election, Re-
publicans lead in Ia and North
Bass ended in tie, eight to eight.
Demoratic majoritles were cast
in Allen /, 2 and 4; Bay: Carroll
l, 2 and 3; Clay 8 and 4; Benton
l, 2, 8 and a; Danbury and 2;
Salem 2, 8, and 5; Portage l.,
4, 5, 6 and z; and Put-in-Bay a..
Republican majorities We're cast
in Catawba; Erie; Clay and 2;
Harris l, 2 and 8; Put-in-Bay l
and 3; Danbury 3; Portage 2 and
3; Salem l and Allen 3.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
is
TAKEN BY DEATH
Retired Gypsum Postmaster
Dies Suddenly i'm Hos
pital After Heart Attack

August Fellerath, who retired
last year after serving as post
master at Gypsum for many years,
passed away Tuesday evening in
Magruder Hospital, short while
after he had suffered heart at
tack.
Born in Germany, May 6, 1874,
Mr.. Fellerath had lived in Gyp-
sum most of his life. He was 75
years, IL months and 26 days of
age at the time of his sudden
death.
Mr.. Fellerath had appeared in
perfect health Tuesday afternoon
as he shopped in Port Clinton.
After returning home, he was
working in his back yard when he
suffered the attack. Death came
shortly after six in the hospital.
Surviving are the widow; four
daughters, Mrs. A. H. Bahnsen,
Gypsum; Mrs. Julia Nelson, Los
Angeles; Mrs. A. S. Mohr, Med
ford, Oregon, and Mrs. w. II.
Roth, Fremont; one son, Wilbert
Fellerath, Port Clinton; four
grandchildren, two great grand
children, and one brother, Michael
Fellerath, Toledo.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon ut two o'clock
in the Gypsum Community Church,
the Rev. Arthur Krebs officiating.
The body is at the Fellerath Home
in Gypsum, where friends may
call. Burial will be in Riverview
Cemetery, Gerner and Wolf Off
ciating.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
Rhiel Paintings
In Columbus Show

Two paintings by Mrs. James
Rhiel have been accepted for the
Columbus Art Leagues annual ex-
hibition and are now hanging in
the Columbus Gallery Of Fine Arts
throughout May.
OF over 500 paintings SUBMIT
ed, Ill were accepted for the
show. Mrs. RhiePs works being
shown are "Trees and Rocks" and
Composition. Eligible were
residents or former residents of
Columbus.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
Fruit Topics Set
For Union Meet

Wesley Windisch, Chief of the
Ohio Bureau of Markets, and
State Representative Robert Reid
er, Oak Harbor, will discuss mar
keting, grading and other TOPICS
of interest to fruit growers Tues
day evening, May 8, at the meet
ing of the Lake Erie Farmers
Union in the Danbury Twp. Com
munity Hall.
Refreshments will be served
and a social hour will follow the
business meeting, which is open
to all interested fruit growers in
the community.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
BANDS AWARD
is EXCELLENT
One Judge Rates p. c. III. S.
Group AS Superior In
State Finals

ForC CllntonS high School
band, directed by David Stanton,
won an excellent CID award Sat-
urday when it competed against
~ other bands in Class BIB of the
state high school band finals.
Delaware Willis was the only
band to win a superior (D award
among the IL entries. Carrcllton,
st. Mary's and Austintown bands
were also awarded excellent rat
ings along with Port Clinton.
Ravenna, Nelsonvilla, Kenton,
Wilmington, Newton Falls, Men
tor, and Lebanon We're given very
good CID ratings.
Three judges placed the musi-
cal groups. One of the judges
gave Port Clinton a superior rat
ing while the other two judges
placed P. c. H. S. group as cx-
cellent.
Stanton was pleased as it was
the first time Port Clinton's band
had ever received a superior rat
ing from a Judge in the state
finals. The local band has won
first place in the district contest
for the past three years.
Members of the band are as
follows:
Flutes: Gail Boss, John Braun.
Kathleen Armbruster, Sally Peter
sen, Dolores Duffy.
B Clarinets: Dewey Kinsey,
Warren Antrim, Mary 10 Knep-
per, Betty Probel, Carolyn Aur-
and, Martha Finefrock, Norma
Cover, Hope McCandlish, Mario
Snyder, Helen Loehden, Caro-
Quisno, Lillian Azbell, Josephine
Beam, Ruth Rofkar, Gloria Prob
ell, Noel Meyers.
Oboe: Bruce Meyer; Bassoon
Joan Quintell; Alto Clarinet: Alice
Fachman; Bass Clarinet: Clarence
Eliyas.
Alto Saxaphones: JoAnn Swim.
mer, Joan Stucky, Marti McDan.
iel, Mary Bloom; Tenor Saxa
phone: Albert Woodman; Bari
tone Saxaphone: Jordon Peter
sen.
French Horns: Shirley Quintell
Joyce Kirk, Shirley Kline, Jane:
Ruddock, Max Knepper.
Trumpets: Catherine Roose
Carolyn Brindley, Philip Dusini
Robert Lindemann, Carl Disher
Frank Brough, Shirley Fachman
Beverly Mackey, Pamela Sibrel
Cor1'ine Florian.
Baritones: Jan Fadely, Shirle!
Riddle, Richard Dietrich, Denni
Behrman.
Trombones: Marjorie Guth
Alice Kirk, Dolores Fletcher, Ton
Lindemann, William Seegard
James Warnke, Jean McCandlish
Pat Eliyas.
Basses: Franklin Dubbert, Rich
ard Stull, Philip Conner; Tym
pani: William Riddle; Bells
Sharon Streeter.
Percussion: Santo Cipiti, Edwin
Campbell, Henry Loehden, Rich
ard Branum, David Petersen.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
To Hang Judges
Photos In Court

Seven large pictures are to
be hung on the walls of the
common pleas court room hon
oring the seven common pleas
Judges who had served as resi-
dent judges of Ottawa county.
The first resident judge of the
county was Judge Malcolm Kel-
ly, who served in the early
nineties, followed by Judge S.
p. Alexander, Judge Scott Stahl,
Judge John Duff, Judge Will
liam c.. Wierman, Judge A. F.
Allen and Judge William A.
Hunt.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
ANNUAL MINSTREL
OPENS MONDAY MITE
THREE DAY RUN
SET FOR SCHOOL
Tickets Now Being Reserved
At Young and Schade's
Book Store

Tickets for reservations for the
Merchants Association third an
nual Minstrel Show, Roaring
Twenties", are now on sale at
Young and Schade's Store, with
only capacity being sold.
Curtains will part at 8:15 sharp
each evening with the show to be
presented next Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings under the
direction of Hal McCuen of the
Mansfield Little Theatre. Mrs.
Darrell Fadely is musical director
Profits from the show will go
to the Youth Building fund and
to help purchase equipment fer
the new Youth Baseball League
for boys aged 8 through II.
DR.. Kenneth Carter is chairman
for the minstrel with Lawrence
Ludwigsen, Mayor Carl Becker,
Eddie Edwards, George Bankey.
George Schade and Sam Cont as
sisting.
Harold Worst is again the in
terlocutor for the minstrel por-
tion. Blackface End Men will be
Coach Norm Willbond, Bill Mack,
Charlie Bauman, Curt Kuhnle,
Atty. j. G. Hitchcock and Don
Rhodes.
Members of the Mems Chorus
are James Lavender, Douglas and
Warren McDougall, Bill Phipps,
Frank Carstens, George Schade,
Gilbert James, Averill Budd, My
ron Schafer, George Bankey,
Casimir Wierzba, Ralph Mackey.
Warren Balduf, Harold Reitz,
Lucas Meyers, Frank Wolf, Bill
Nicholson, Wendell Wolf, Roy Lin
ger, James Chapman, Eddie Ed
wards, Lawrence Ludwigsen, DR..
Kenneth Carter and Mayor Beck
er.
Solos during the minstrel will
be sung by Roy Linger, Bill Mack,
Gilbert James, Bill Mellon (To-
ledo), and Coach Willbond. The
Harbor Light quartet, HAROLD
Reitz, Warren Balduf, Ralph
Mackey and Warren McDougall
will be featured. Mort Hanne-
man, Elmore tap dancer, will be
the dancing star.
During the 10-minute intermis-
sion, Linger and Lavender will be
presented in a guitar duet, Bank
ey and Schafer will sing a duet
and Mrs. Lee Davis will play a
xylophone solo.
Mrs. John Lorentzen and Boyd
Martin will be house mother and
fraternity president for the Olio
setting of a frat house of 1925.
Miss Carla Rupert will per-
form the Charleston with Hanne-
man and will sing a duet with
Harold Reitz. Solos will be sung
by Miss Dorothy Thomas, Miss
Sue Kilmer, Mrs. John Lorentzen,
Mrs. Edward Reifschneider, and
Mrs. Wilbur Gill.
LaVina Greunke, Put-in-Bay's
Dorothy Shay" will once again
be star with her song and piano
stylings. Kathryn Kocsis will
play accordion selections and Jan
ice Gates and Roy Linger will
sing duets.
Performing in the "Blue Skirt
Waltz" number will be Mrs. Lor.
entzen, Mrs. Rodney Lockwood
Miss Mary Lou McRitchie, Lud.
wigsen, James and Douglas Nc
Dougall.
Besides those mentioned, Other
members of the chorus for the
olio are Mrs. Lawrence Ludwig
sen, Miss Ethel Kern, Miss Mar!
Ann Karshuk, Mrs. Margare
Wolf and Wendell Wolf.
Colorful "black light" setting,
will be used in the closing mum
Der of the minstrel during which
the stage will be blackened ou
as the chorus and End Men gc
through their routines.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
FAVORITE SONS.
LEAD TICKETS IN.
PR|M AIRY Tues.
MINER Write-in Campaign
Proves Successful in COP.
Auditors Bid

: With practically no contests to
bring out the voters, Ottawa
county was one of the few in the
state to show majority of dem
ocrats over republicans in total
votes during Tuesdays primary
election.
With a total of 1897 votes
cast in this county's 40 precincts,
Edward Minderman, clerk of the
county's board of elections, re-
ported 1887 democratic ballots
and 1860 republican ballots cast.
Along with the rest of Ohio,
! Ottawa county voters gave big
majorities to the Democratic
standard-bearer, Governor Frank
]. Lausche, and Don H. Ebright,
who will be his republican op-
ponent in November.
Lausche received 1881 votes
while his opponents, Clarence
Knisely and Joseph Torok, Jr., re-
ceived 356 and 52, respectively.
Republicans gave Ebright 1,O30
votes. His opponents totaled as
follows: Edward Hummel, 93;
James A. Rhodes, 334, and George
V. Woodling, 38.
Write-in Succeeds
John Miner, local World War
ii hero and survivor of the Ba-
taan Death March, will oppose
County Auditor E. A. Guth in
November as a write-in campaign
staged by republicans succeeded
Tuesday when MINER received
281 votes, more than the Is per
cent of the total needed.
County democrats gave Toledo's
Mayor Michael Disable a big ma
jority, OCT to 443 for Joseph
Ferguson, but Ferguson was an
easy victor in statewide returns
and will oppose Senator Robert
Taft in the November finals.
Reider Leads Ticket
County Representative Robert
Reider, Oak Harbor, led the dem
ocratic ticket with 1911 votes,
seven more than County Auditor
E. A. Guth. Both were running
without opposition.
1t is interesting to note that
Representative Thomas H. Burke,
Toledo, who serves Lucas and OF
tawa counties in Washington, led
the democratic ticket in Lucas
county with 24,483. He even de-
feated Governor Lausche's total by
325.
In this county, Burke was
given a complimentary vote OF
1,248, a total less than county
officials but higher than some
state officials also running with
!, out opposition.
} Ramey Wins
Raymond E. Hildebrand, who
, had been endorsed by the Ottawa
, County Republican Central Com
mittee, was defeated by Homel
Ramey, 993 to 454, in the nintl
district representative race. Gil
more Flues received 266. Rame!
was victorious also in Luca
county and is nominated to oppos
Mr.. Burke in November.
Republicans eliminated Georg
Davies, Wauseon, when they nom
mated Fred L. Adams, Bowling
Green, for state senator in th
30-33rd district. Adams received
813 in this county to 455 fo
Davies. Walter Wiseley, who viii
oppose Adams in November, re
e ceived 1000 democratic votes.
Unofficial totals in this count.
: were as follows:
: Democrat
: Governor-Lausche, 1881; Knis
: ley, 356; Torok, SO.
s 1t. Governor-Nye, 1173; Cant
: well, 290.
State Secretary-Charles Swee
/ ney, 1886.
e State Observation-Disclosures LOG
n Cox, 1877; Gallagher, 118; McCol
n lister, 81; Moore, 80; Mulcahy
Continued Page 2, Col. ~
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
Real Estate Sales
Boom In County

Real estate deals have shown
an increase in Ottawa county
this year according to the re-
cords in the county auditors de-
partment, showing 727 parcels
of real estate having changed
ownership during the first four
months of this year, in compar-
ison with 606 transfers for the
same period last year. Many
sales have represented water
front properties which are be-
ing developed for homes and
summer cottages.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-05
NICE WORK, CREW!

Ottawa County was reported as
the first of Ohio's 88 counties 70
send complete election returns to
the Secretary of States offices in
Columbus Wednesday.