Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-04-10
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mortal Hospital, Port Clin o n,
where he was taken last week
when stricken with illness.
Judge Tom D. Stahl of the COM
mon pleas court has been assigned
to hear cases in the Huron County
courts at Norwalk, Friday, April
10, and on the 18th. Monday, April
13, he will hear Seneca County
case at Tiffin
County Auditor Melvin Guth re-
ports that the number of occupied
house trailers listed for taxing
purposes is about the same as last
year. 1t is expected that there will
be an increase in numbers when
| the trailers become occupied for
the summer months.
Commissioners Edward Tank and
Charles Cover, accompanied. by
| County Engineer Delos Nissen,
spent Tuesday and Wednesday in
Columbus this week in the inter
est of the county road and bridge
program.
While in session Monday, Com
m issioner Edward Tank and
Charles Cover viewed the Fisher
Blausey ditch in Benton Town
ship, which has been petitioned
for cleaning and improving for a
distance of about two miles. The
hearing on the petition will be
held by the commissioners at 200
p. m. Monday, April 13.
County Supt. of Schools Edwin
Digby reported that some of the
schools in the west end of the
county were without electric cur
rent or service for more than an
hour Monday morning due to the
trouble which developed in the To-
ledo distributing center.
Judge Tom D. Stahl has ordered
the county jury commissioners
George Sibrel and Frank Quisno
to draw 70 names from the jury
wheel Thursday morning, April 16,
Of persons who will serve as jur-
ors during the May term of COM
mon pleas court. The first 35 per-
sons named will serve as grand
jurors and the next 35 as petit
jurors.
The sheriff's department report
ed number of traffic accidents
having been investigated in the
county over the weekend, none of
which were of a serious nature.
One of the wrecks occurred at the
Three-Mile Crossing in Erie Town
ship early Sunday morning, when
the driver from Monroe, Mica, es-
capped injury but his automobile
was wrecked when it smashed in
to a guard rail.
A quantity of concrete sewer
pipe was ordered by the county
commissioners Monday, the pipe to
be used on various ditch jobs
throughout the county. The order
was placed with the Toledo Con-
crete Pipe Company.
Attorneys Oliver True and Adair
Wilber were in Columbus, Tuesday
attending a hearing in the Ohio
Supreme Court.
A speed limit of 30 miles per
hour has been set for automobile
and truck traffic on the Clay Cen
ter-Genoa road through Clay Gen.
ter, and also on the Elliston-
Trowbridge road through Elliston.
Judge Ralph Sugure of Tiffin
was at the court house here Mon
day afternoon in the interest of
matters pertaining to the two in
junction suits pending in the cases
of the Air Tours, Inc, against the
Port Clinton city officials, in the
common pleas court, regarding the
Port Clinton airport.
An increase in the number of
certificates of titles for new and
used automobiles filed in the Of
flee Of the clerk of courts has been
reported by Clerk Velma Sauvey
for the month of March when L.
296 titles were recorded, an in
crease of $50 over February. Dur
ing March the number of new cars
registered was 100 as compared
with 130 for March in 1852.
Three used house trailers will
be offered for sale at auction Sat-
urday afternoon at 200 o'clock,
by the county commissioners. The
trailers were part of the fleet pro-
vided by the county officials for
the housing project for ex-service
men following the late war. The
trailers are stored at the county
home grounds where the sale will
be held. This is the second lot of
trailers to be disposed of by the
county officials.
Judge P. w. Gulau of the pro-
bate court reports the following
appointments during the week:
Cora A. Sperber, executrix of es-
tate of gorge w. Sperb r;
Charles R. Davenport, administra-
tor with will annexed of estate of
Charlotte Marie Davenport; Lloyd
E. Tack, executor of estate of Will
liam G. Tack.