Ice Blanket Causes Van Wert County Traffic Slowdown
A 24 hour spell of wintry conditions left Van Wert County icy and travel hazardous. Temperatures fell to 22 above while roads were clogged, buses ran late and most schools canceled with several basketball games postponed to later dates.
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van Wert
Transportation Lines
Lima
Fort Wayne
United Brethren Convoy
YMCA
Wren- Wiltshire
Middle Point-Hoaglin- Jackson
Arctic Storm Paralyzes Midwest Roads With Freezing Weather
Swirling snow and sleet storms swept mid-America paralyzing traffic across several states. Arctic blasts threaten sub-zero conditions from the Rockies to the Atlantic as highways in the Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Kansas and Nebraska froze. Denver reported three degrees above zero as the nation endures another bitter cold period.
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mid-America
Trafic
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Denver
Weather Outlook Mostly Cloudy and Cold Wave Tonight
Partly cloudy and much colder with a strong cold wave expected tonight. Wednesday will bring fair skies but continued cold conditions across the area. Highs stay near freezing and overnight lows dip well below. Winds light to moderate with brisk chill.
Legion Banquet Tonight Draws Expected Large Turnout
Legion officers report a large attendance at the Past Commanders Banquet to be held at Odd Fellows hall starting 6 15 tonight. Reservations reached 175 with 13 from Ohio City 12 from Convoy and 9 from Delphos. A Sons of the Legion Band concert precedes the banquet and the Van Wert post reports 228 members.
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Legion
Odd Fellows’ Hall
van Wert
Ohio City
Convoy
Delphos
Milt Campbell
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jake Saslavsky
Columbus
Orrin Schmitz
Veterans Replacement Bureau
Sons of the Legion Band
Isaac van Wert
The
American Legion
Milton Campbell
Earl C. Kleiner
Batesville
Ind
Missing men found on Green Island after ice drift
Two men, Edward Traverse 22 and George Burrell 35, both of Put-in-Bay, were found on Green Island near Put-in-Bay after an all night search for men who reportedly drove an automobile across Lake Erie's ice toward Port Clinton.
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Sandusky
Lake Erie
Green Island
Put-in-Bay
Edward Traverse
George Burrell
Port Clinton
Manager Killed in Defiance Auto Crash
Charles E. Doud, 61, manager of the Ney Cooperative Grain Co., died from fatal injuries after a head on collision near Ney. Salvador Sanchez, Paulding, suffered a broken back in the same wreck reported to have occurred late yesterday at a local intersection.
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Defiance
Charles E. Doud
Ney
Oyster Supper Invited Dairy Feeding School Members
Van Wert County Guernsey Breeders Association invites all Dairy Feeding School enrollees to an oyster supper on Thursday evening February 6 at the Grange Hall Van Wert Fair Grounds. The first feeding school session will be held that evening with the association’s annual officers election. Professor C L Blackman of Ohio State University will speak on the History of Dairying and Its Relation to Human Welfare. Dinner starts at 7 30, aimed to avoid overlapping the speaker.
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van Wert
Guernsey Breeders’ Association
Guernsey Association
van Wert Fair
C. L. Blackman
Ohio State University
Tax rate rise hits most county districts in 1936
Van Wert county real estate taxpayers face a 7.5 percent higher levy for 1936 as rates rise in 24 divisions while four fall and two stay the same. The county rate increases from 2.25 to 2.50 mills to cover a budget shortfall, with City of Ohio City and Van Wert seeing notable cuts or gains. School revenues rise under a state guaranteed share, altering local funding dynamics.
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van Wert
Harry D. Bevis
G. M. Brown
Ohio City Corporation
Harrison Township
Convoy
Jennings Township
Landeck
van Wert City
van Wert Board of Education
TORY
Ain Facts
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Vacban's
State Distributes January Tax Revenue to Ohio Counties
State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy allocated 1,669,830 to Ohio counties for January. The split includes 516,193 for poor relief and 1,153,637 for local government funds. Details show Van Wert 1,297 and Decatur 2,091. Decatur’s American Legion post buys a building for Adams Post 43 and veterans groups with 16 rooms to be remodeled.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Tracy
van Wert
Decatur
American Legion Post
Adams Post 43
The
Ladies Auxiliary
Frigid 1863 Blizzard Recall By John J. Hauss
In the Eve ning Leader Hauss recalls a brutal 1863 cold spell. He notes his father’s grocery business with Henry Miller, a shipment of fowl frozen to death on New Year’s morning, and the lack of warning about a blizzard from Chicago.
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John J. Hauss
St. Marys
Henry Miller
New York
Chicago
Hauss
Van Wert County Fair names stage show and superintendents
The 1936 Van Wert County Fair will feature a five night stage revue and circus acts with a 16 girl chorus and orchestra. Henry H. Lueders United Booking Association provided acts. Col A L Gatewood plans to return with a flying rodeo early July. Department superintendents and an exhibitors meeting were announced by fair board secretary Nolan E Stuckey.
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van Wert County Fair
Nolan E. Stuckey
Fair Board
Stuckey
Henry H. Lueders
United Booking Association
Detroit
van Wert
Hillsdale
Mich
A. L. Gatewood
Use of poison gas advocated in Ethiopian war
The semi official Lavoro Fascista urges widespread gas use in Ethiopia as Italy warns of an oil embargo. It says no Geneva committee can judge poison gas and calls to intensify resistance to sanctions. Ethiopian forces on the southern front join Italians against Ras Desta Demtu’s remnants. Gen Diamanti reports 334 casualties in Tembien.
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Rome
Lavoro Fascista Today
Ethiopia
Italy
Geneva
Lavoro Fascista
Ras Desta
Diamanti
Tembien
Honors Won by County Students at Ohio State
Van Wert county students at Ohio State University distinguished themselves in the winter quarter. Margaret E. Trippy won scholarship honors in the college of education. Dale F. Runnion was elected to Phi Sigma honors society for freshmen. John Allen Gene Sperry and Albert Wallace were listed as new students for the spring quarter.
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van Wert County
Ohio State University
Margaret E. Trippy
John H., Trippy
North Washington St
College of Education
Dale F. Runnion
Pleasant Jo
Phi Sta Sigma
John Allen
Gene Sperry
Albert Wallace
Don White Wins District Title in Lima Boxing Meet
Don White of Van Wert narrowly claimed the district middleweight championship in the American Legion amateur tournament in Lima. White KOs a Lima fighter to win the title and advances to the Akron state tournament. Several other winners from Lima and nearby towns were named in flyweight bantamweight featherweight and light welterweight divisions. Van Wert had no entrants in multiple classes.
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Don White
van Wert
American Legion
Lima
Akron
White
Columbus White
Frankie Thompson
Celina
Johnny Rose
Ada
Charles Hartman
Van
Green Defeated as Mine Workers Split from AFL
The United Mine Workers of America delegates in Washington booed and heckled AFL President William Green as they moved toward secession from the federation. John L. Lewis, mining president, now holds command of a convention already authorizing a split and possible dues withholding. Green pleaded for unity but faced derision from about 1,700 coal diggers.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mines Workers of America
Willim Green
Green
Mine Workers
A. F. of L
Shaggy Browed Lewis
Boston Faces Fuel Shortage Amid Coastal Ice Barriers
Boston officials seek aid from President Roosevelt and the war and navy departments to relieve an acute fuel shortage caused by ice along the Massachusetts coast. Frank S. Davis of the Boston Maritime association telegraphed requests for cutters to free a craft ice-bound near Nantucket Island, where five airplane loads of emergency supplies were delivered to 3,200 residents, though relief teams found no immediate distress.
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Boston
Roosevelt
War and Navy Departments
Boston Maritime Association
Frank S. Davis
Association
Massachusetts
Nantucket Island
State Department takes control as Washington High ends strike
Washington High School in Washington D H ends a one day student walkout with 500 students affected after the State Department of Education assumes control. The protest urged Superintendent A D St Clair to resign or refute allegations about him and a board meeting failed to resolve the dispute.
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Washington, D. H
State Department of Education
Washington High School
A. D. St. Clair
Board of Education
Quick Move to Repeal 3 Farm Acts
Washington reports congressional leaders pushing prompt repeal of the Bankhead cotton control Kerr Smith tobacco and potato control laws tied to the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act. Roosevelt urged swift action noting termination of the production adjustment program and Supreme Court rulings. other farm measures advance in Senate and House.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Bankhead
Kerr-Smith
Capitol
Sen
Russell
Georgia
Agriculture Committee
Supreme Court
AAA
Vandenberg
Michigan
House Agriculture Committee
Jones Soil Conservation Subsidy
House
Senate
White House
Benson
F.L
Minnesota
Smith
Dem
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Norbeck
South Dakota
Bankhead Soil Conservation
Secretary of Agriculture
Sen. Pope
Idaho
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W. E. Shurman
Washington Township
Pleasant Township
Tully Township
Harrison
Wren
Willshire Tp
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Wren Sete Teeter Ae Nweserneene
Willshire
Fener
Union Township
Scott Corp
Haviland S. D
Pleasant
Pleasant Tp
van Wert S. D
van Wert Corp
Peete
Liberty
Ohio City Corp
Hoaglin Tp
Ridge
Ridge Tp Seer
Laate
York
ORO R
Sere
Venedocia Corp
York Tp
Seer
Elgin Corp
Jackson Tp
Washington Tp
Delphos S
Jennings
G. D
Corp
Corporation
Richard Loeb
Bobby Franks
James Day
Statesville
Illinois
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Court House
F. J. Giessler
F. W. Gilbert
Ireland
James Mollenkopf
D. W. Clouse
Fred N. Straley
E. E. Miller
Ed J. Engle
T. J. Jones
W. R. Phares
J. E. Morgan
Russell C. Dull
W. O Slack
R. B. Walters
South Gate
Rand
Carl Delong
R. P. Walters
W. ©. Black
van Wert County Parks Association
E. H. Ireland
Russell ©. Dull
D. W. Crouse
C. A. Carlo
League
A. F
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