Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-03-03
JOTTlNGS ....
OFF the CUFF
By RAY SPERBER

T DWELL DRUCKENMILLER, of
- Port Clinton, is among the
Ohio State University's College of
Arts and Sciences students named
| to the honor roll during the au-
tumn quarter +. Miss Adele kihl-
ken, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman kihlken, Danbury, repre-
sented Bowling Green State Uni
versity in a debate tournament at
Mount Mercy College, Pittsburgh,
Pa, over the weekend . . . Cap
tain Harold Sperber, Sgt. James
Fischer and Cpl. Howard Behlmer,
all Remote Control Shop workers
at E. o. D., are members of the
Air Force Reserve. Last weekend
they fulfilled their monthly train
ing requirements at the Cleveland
airport.
T QUE WARNER, Ottawa Coun-
tvs dean of newspapermen,
gives US the lowdown on the oc-
topus which was unearthed at Mud
Creek back in 1897 when the
bridge was being repaired. Her
man Book, of the Book and Mohr
Fur Farms, Rochester, Wisconsin,
wrote Mr.. Warner in January,
1898, and Confessed" that the oc-
topus probably belonged to him.
Book wrote 1--WE had exhibited it
in Detroit and Toronto and then
had chance to buy new fresh
one from a fisherman in Seattle.
Since the old fish was rather
worn, we bought the new one and
carried the old one along for some
( time. 1t was just extra baggage
= and so we decided to get rid of it.
The creek seemed suitable place
i and so we threw the crate and oc-
II topus over the bridge"
II OCAL HISTORY = Ottawa
i - County's present Jail and sher-
Il ifs residence was built by the
Y late Ed. Bertsch in the summer of
1892. Sheriff Bolte was the first
> to use the new building. Prisoners
were held in Sandusky until q
steam heating system was install
ed. Steam heat was also initiated
in the old court house in January
> 1898. Water was brought through
pipes from a cistern at the corner
of Second and jefferson Streets
y until a new cistern was built at
y the court house.
l W7HILE most of us were shiver-
w in the zero "chill" Sat
} urday, Captain Harold Sperber OF
D. the Air Force Reserve Corps made
> round-trip flight to Miami, Flor
> ida, and soaked up little heat
before returning to Cleveland air
port at dawn Sunday Jane
Lettich Heintz, formerly of this
y city, is still a leader in Ohio State
l; University sorority circles de-
spite her marriage and mother
hood. Of course daughter Jan en-
l. joys the sorority meetings as
+ she's the pet of the campus.
-JOT-
I'D. ACHBACH, Lakeland, Flor
3 ~ ida, formerly of the local City
:, Loan staff, writes that Mr.. ano
Mrs. jim Bahnsen and Mr.. ano
/ Mrs. Leonard Gordon surprised
: the Achbahs by stopping off fol
visit last week. The local four
|, some was vacationing in Winter
Haven, only Is miles from the Ach-
bach hacienda. Ed and Helen have
a new hobby-raising tropical fish
including sword tails, black mol
linenisias, rosy barbs and angel
fish.
EASTERN Ottawa county's Three
Little Deer were seen agar
Sunday afternoon at the Leonard
Sharp farm near the Three-Mile
Crossing in Erie township. Tracks
4 in the snow showed that one OF
!" the three does was bleeding, evi-
IDENTIFY having cut herself while
jumping barbed wired-topped fenc-
ing. The gallavanting trio has
been seen in Port Clinton and Erie
township on numerous occasions
during the past two months but
no one knows how the deer came
here. 1t has been suggested that
the Department of Natural Re-
sources secure a male deer and
ship him to this county, so that
our deer population can increase.
-JOT -
MRS. BERT ZOSCHKE, Erie
~ township, looked out her
kitchen window Sunday morning
and discovered a robin sitting
about in the snow covered yard
Mrs. C. F. Miller and sons,
Castalia, who grow tomatoes for
George Wenger's Lake Erie Can
ming Company in Sandusky, are
Ohio's 1949 Champion Tomato
Growers. This is the first time
J a woman and her sons have been