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-I JOURNAL-NEWS. SPENCERVljLLE, OHIO, AUGUST 1. 1929 To Deal In "Ideas Bits of History of Spencerville and Community Picked up by Paul W.Cochrun During His SixteenYears as Editor of the Paper 1 be Archduke Leopold oAos-, tri is coming to the U. to opes an 'office -to be known as Ideas, and will buy whatever adeas he considers worth while and sell, them at a profit to 'make money on CONVERSE WE ARE EQUIPPED TO DO ANY JOB OF PLUMBING, SMALL OR LARGE, EFFICIENTLY AND QUICKLY AND AT VERY REASON-' ABLE PRICES. BATH ROOM FIXTURES OF ALL KINDS COMPLETE BATH ROOM OUTFITS COME IN AND GET OUR PRICES AND TALK OVER YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS BEFORE BUYING WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.

I W. F. Plikerd Hardware SPENCERVILLE, OHIO Mrs. William Harter and daughter Evelyn, Mr. and Mrs.

Chas. Oach3 and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rhoades spent Sunday with Mr. and 1 Mrs.

Emery Harter and family of near Mendon. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Parker Rhoades and family. Miss Bertha Wheeler of Lima spent Sunday with her parents Mr.

and Mrs. Ira Wheeler. Evelyn Harter and Ruby Myers spent Saturday with Marcile Golliff. Edna Trippy spent Wednesday with Margaret Golliff. Mr.

and Mrs. R. B. McCormick and son of Lima, and Mr. and Mrs.

Murphy spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. William Harter. Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Nelson and sons spent Sunday with R. Jacobs and family of Elida. Mrs. F. Marbaugh, Mrs.

Orville Coffman and children and Margery Marbaugh and daughter spent Monday with Mrs. Ralpffi Nelson. Mrs. Sill Bonifis and daughters and Miss Kathryn Vondran all of Landeck spent Monday evening with Mrs. Wm.

Harter and Mrs. Chas. Oachs. Mr. and Mrs.

John Rupert and Mrs. Clantz spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. J. O.

Burnett. Mrs. Melvin Stose of Detroit is spending a few days with her mother Mrs. Geo. Miller.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wells of Lima spent Sunday evening with Wm. Harter and family. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Nelson and sons Paul and Joe spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Dan Kennedy and children. entire neighborhood with big banquets. No one ever knocking at his door was turned away hungry.

He was always ready to back any enterprise that came to the village and was over generous in distributing his wealth. Outside competition came and the local mills came to be a thing of the past. This was as early as 1860. JOHN FERRIS AND CHAS CROW CON-ducted Asheries in 1860. Their product was black salts from which soda was made in those days.

People began clearing then and large log heaps were set on fire and burned. The ashes were brought to Spencerville in wagon loads, taken to the ashery, and lye run off in large vats. This wras boiled down into salts which was shipped on canal boats It proved to be a profitable industry in the early days. 1 SAM THOMAS OWNED SEVERAL SEC-tions of land, starting from where the Spencer House now stands and extending south This land was used for pasture and many times several hundred mules could be seen graz ing. The mules were shipped to larger markets.

Thomas also raised hogs and conduct ed a packing business. It is still remembered when the F. B. Miller room on Broadway was filled with smoked hams and shoulders waiting for the weather to open so that boats could haul the meat to market. THE LANDON SHIP YARDS WERE ALSO a profitable early industry.

Big dry docks were built near the locks. It was so arranged that boats could enter for repairsBoats were caulked and, the hulls painted with yellow ochre. Canal boats were also constructed. COON NORBECK, AN OLD CANAJL BOAT Captain, was one of the first to meet with disaster out of Spencerville. He loaded his boat wiith 2,600 bushels of wheat at the Spencerville Flouring Mills and started for Toledo Midwray between the shipping points his boat sunk.

In order to make good the loss of the damaged grain, Mr. Norbeck was forced to sell his farm that he owned west of Spencerville. The farm is now known as the Brog-din farm. -all sizes all prices EXPERIMENT STATION TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE Three August Days Named For Dairy, Garden, Fruit, And Potato Interest at Experiment Station. IF YOU WANT THE FINEST TIRE A LITTLE MONEY WILL BUY WE HAVE IT! it IF YOU WANT THE BEST TIRE THAT MONEY WILL BUY WE HAVE IT! AND ALL GRADES IN BETWEEN! A tire production almost double that of any other manufacturer, enables Goodyear to give the greatest values in every price range.

Compare Goodyear quality, prices and our service then you, too, will ride on Goodyear Tires in preference to any other kind. I Goodyear Pathfinders 30x3 1-2 CL. CORD OVERSIZE 6.05 32 4 SS. CORD $10.75 32 4 1-2 SS. CORD $13.85 29 4.40 BALLOON 6.10 31 SOO BALLOON 9.80 32 6.00 BALLOON $12.85 1 I installment no.

9 (Continued From Last Week) Lant Morgan had been long enough used to danger not to waste time in conjecture it when a moment may be life or death. He turned he the face-and as quick us thought he covered the mark and fired. Are there any more? he asked, cocking the second pistol. i No, I shot one. And as Polly Sunderland spoke she sank into a chair, and leaned her head upon the table.

What, you hurt? the carrier exclaimed, springing to her side. No! No! she faintly replied, Only weak. I shall be better in a little while. Look to the cellar. How many were there? 1 Only two.

I know I killed one. And I can swear I killed the other, said hlorton, as he took up the candle and approached the open door. He listened but he could hear no sound. Then with his pistol still in his hand, he carefully descended the ladder. At the bottom he stepped upon a human body, and having found an easier standing place he held down the light and gazed around saw two men.

hofch dead, shot through the brain, and then he came up. Polly noble Polly! he cried, you have rid the world of two of the most desperate, cold blooded scoundrels that ever infested any country. Did you know them? she asked, reviving. Ah well. Dick Gallus and Red Har-, mon.

Was the other Red Harmon? Yes, the murderer of Pearson and Nathan Oh, I am glad they were robbers. But then I knew they were. I knew it, or I should not have fired. I knew they wanted to rob and murder you, and And so you meant to save me remarked the carrier, as Polly hesitated. Yes, yes I did.

Yes, that was it. And as soon as the noble woman was sufficiently recovered, she told the whole story. Morton expressed his thanks as he best could, hut, after all, the moisture of the sharp grey eye, the changing of his countenance and very lack of language, told more than words could have done. After due deliberation it was decided tht the bodies should remain where they were fill morning. So the cellar door was shut- the front door bolted, and then they prepared once more to retire but for the rest of the might Morton made his bed on the floor of Ihe large room.

In the morning, just as the carrier was dressing, there came a loud rap on the outer door, accompanied by a voice which he knew full well. He hastened to open the way, ana jjave entrance to Daniel Sunderland. The rtn2iter had met a Party of traders at Defiance anti pi all his skins to them, thus finishing Ms journey some days sooner than he haiLaitticpaited. 19 Son upon her husbands bosom, when he had' told his own story, Morton gave him an account of the past night ad--venture. Dan was at first incredulous, hut when he had been down and seen the bodies he was satisfied.

Polly, my jewel, he said, placing his am about her neck, Im proud of you, I love you more and more, for every jlay I find more land more to love. And then turning to Morton, he added What do you think of such a wife? Ah, returned the guest, with deep feeling, if poor Lant Monton had such a one, he wouldnt be a mail carrier. When Morton left he was directed to stop at the first settlement and state to officers there what had happened, and he premised to do so. He once more blessed the brave woman that saved his and s6t out. Late the afternoon two officers arrived at the cabin from St.

Marys, and when they were shown the dead bodies they recognized them it once and proceeded to remove them. And are the week was passed, whole settlements blessed the border heroine for the work she had done. SAUL WEIN. JOHN FERRIS AND SAM Thomas can well be termed the first manu-facers in Spencerville. Mr.

Wein, father of W. H. Wein, E. M. Wein and Everett Wein, was the proprietor of the Woolen Mills.

He wove the cloth and made hats, doing custom 1 work, and shipped the hats via the canal to many markets. '-The hats were blocked here at the mill but trimmed upon reaching the markets. Mr. Wein made lots of money. He prospered financially, but his generosity relieved him of the accumulated wealth.

It was said that he would at times entertain the All-Weather Treads 30x3 1-2 CL. CORD OVERSIZE 7.80 ,32 4 SS. CORD $12.80 32 4 1-2 SS. CORD $16.55 29 4.40 BALLOON 8.60 31 5.00 BALLOON $11.65 32 6.00 BALLOON $15.35 i Open house for dairymen, orchardists, gardeners and potato growers is announced by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, at Wooster, for three days in AugtlSJL The annual- dairy day ait Wooster cemes this year August 9. Garden and potato day" is- scheduled for August 15, and orchard day follows on August 16.

Intensive programs have been completed. Most of the discussions will be based on experiments conducted at Wooster during the past year. Dairymen will have an opportunity to discuss the necessity oif mineral supplements for dairy cattle; grinding and predigesting feeds; vitamin requirements of dairy cattle; protein feeding experiments; use of shimmiTk powder for calves; control cf contagions and economics of milk marketing. Fruit growers who coma to Wooster on August 16 will see, in the Experiment Station orchards, results of comparative, tests of various sprays and dusts; thinning experiments; effect of different fertilizer trewtmems or the keeping quality of apples; study of varieties in plantings begun iir 1893. Many a fruit grower has wondered what causes fruit to sat or fall at blossom- or Shortly after.

Experiments under way at Wooster shed light on the probleim. The tour through the Experiment Station orchard will talfe place in. the morning; a short program and open discussion is scheduled for the afternoon. GO Spencerville, Ohio AN OLD TREE IS STANDING IN SPEN-cerville, one that was planted 80 years age. It was set out in front of the Theodore Eysen-bach property on South Broadway.

It is a southern cedar and is still standing. The house is now occupied by the Baum Barber shop. CON AND HOLMES COUNTS, AGED 81 and 76 respectively, were the Davy Crockets of the early days. These two men, still living, were born in Spencerville and attained the reputation of being sure shots Con as sc running and wing shot and Holmes as a standing shot. These two boys were born in a log cabin, just west of Spencerville, near the corporation line, on what is now known as the Henne farm.

The same morning that Holmes was born his father killed a deer on the place. Holmes was given the horns aunl the gun with which the deer Twas killed. Their father came to this section in 1825. A LIST OF SLACKERS WAS PUBLISK-ed by the government in 1921. In the list as the name of Earl Bush who left Spencerville during the World war and went to Tiffin.

From there he went to an eastern seaport and shipped with a car load of horses for England. During the trip the boat was torpedoed and it is thought that Bush was among the twenty-three men who went to watery graves. JULY 15, 1920, MRS. P. J.

LEY HAD HER neck broken while riding in an automobile rear Middlepoint. A sudden jar due to bad roads was the cause. The roads around Spencerville were so rough that summer that an elderly couple was bounced out of the rear seat of a machine and lost and were not found by the driver for several hours. A JERSEY-DURHAM COW DURING THE summer of 1923 belonging to Dan Seibert Jiving southwest of Spencerville, broke the worlds record when she gave birth to triplet calves. In a period of seven years this cow gave birth to 17 calves, an average of over two calves per year.

IN 1923, THE FIRST TIME IN THE History of Spencerville lodge work, a family was initiated into the same lodge at the same time. The James B. Peters family was taken into the Eastern Star lodge and included Mr and Mrs. Peters, a daughter, Miss Beatrice, the mother of Mrs. Peters, Mrs.

Mary Peters, and a sister of Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Armetta Cremean. HENRY STUBER PURCHASED Union Block in 1920, SOUTH FORK i Marriage Cramped Mta Style Be got a wife becauee Be ear Knew how to pet And It he'd kept ft op Why, he would faav her yet. Etling of Lima called on Mrs.

Elsie Jones and daughter, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Lutz of Huntington, took supper Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs.

J. Weaver and Mrs. Elsie Jones and daughters. Ed Reynolds and family attended the Carpenter reunion at Water Works park, Sunday. Mrs.

Elsie Jones and daughters Jams Ann and Dorothy spent all day Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Jones and daughter, Margery NelL Wo mm Real alar Women rule the home of the Pueblo Indian cave men. In Santa Clara, N. M.

There to no individual land ownership, bat each man to allotted piece of IaDd which he can cultivate as long as he works at it tndostrf-ously. When the crops are harvested and stored in the house they become the property of the wife. of Mrs. Ed Reynolds and children and Mrs. Diehard Kill and ohild-en.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Book called Mr.

and Mrs. John Winans Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stose called on Mr, and Mrs.

Jim Patrick of Soathworth Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Reynolds and children took supper Sunda yevening with Ed Reynolds and family. i Mrs.

Mary Evans spent, several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stose. i The Willing Workers Sunday School class of the Reformed church met at the home of Chas. Wisher and family, Friday evening.

Ice cream and cake were served. Mr. and Mrs. J. Stirn spent several days last week with Frank Fronk and family.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Book took dinner Sunday with Mr.

and Mrs. James Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kill and sons Paul, Robert and Vernard of Toledo, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Wm. Hotz. Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Hotz and children were afternoon cdlers and Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Kndbel called in the evening.

Mrs. Henry Eleibrock of Ft. Jennings, and Mrs. Joseph Beckmann and children of Delphos, spent last Wednesday with Mrs. Wm.

Hotz. Mrs. Jason Brown and children and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brenhizer of Lima, called on Mrs.

Ed Reynolds and Children, Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Wither and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wisher called on Mr.

and Mrs. Warren Morrison and grandma Wisher of Grover Hill Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs, Gilbert Miller and Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Miller and Mrs. J. A. Book visited at Bellefontaine and Ohio Caverns last Sunday. Mrs.

Hugh Wolford was rushed to the St. Ritas hospital, Thursday night for an appendicitis operation. She is getting along as well as can be expected. Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Stose and Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Clantz spent Sunday-evening with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Patrick of Converse.

Mrs. Sam Remer and daughter Evelyn of St. Louis, and Mrs. Russell Peul and children of Detroit, and Mrs. S.

Ssvidge were Thursday afternoon callers at the home3 1 la Every Theater Mrs. Hope (at ciuetna) I've- forgotten my glasses, Heary. Hope-It doesnt matter, dean. We can sit behind some good titlehread-ers. Movie Age.

Forgot Hia Clothes Wife of Professor What to'tbe matter you are drenched? Professor I had a hath and forgot to take off my clothes. Lestlge Blaet-jfer, Berlin. True to the Nemo (Sponger says be Is always bappy when he to smoking a good cigar. The trouble with Sponger to, be expects his friends to contribute too much to his happiness. Prolific Potato If there were but one potato in the world, a careful cultivator might produce 10.000.000.000 from It In ten years, and bus-supply th.

world with Use the Daylight Hoars Success doesnt mean so mnch sitting op nights as being awake through the day. Cappers Weekly. Mrs, Iloe Pletcher and Mrs. Earl, seed again. I.