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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
6
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Nine county league basketball tilts draw Van Wert county fans this weekend. Van Wert faces Bluffton Pirates, leaders with three wins, at Bluffton Friday night then plays Lima Central on Saturday in Lima. Local teams race for top spots as Union and Ohio City girls pursue league leadership with a playoff set for February 7.
A dense grid of radio time slots shows WLW and WJR features across the day. Prayers, music programs, dramas, and light entertainment appear with hosts like Boake Carter and Camiel Caravan, alongside Broadway and college broadcasts and a President’s Ball event.
The Strand theater hosts a contest for essays titled How a Man Can Be a Perfect Gentleman in connection with The Perfect Gentleman starring Frank Morgan. Ten prize pairs and a $3 cash prize for the best up to 100 words, with 10 more tickets for next best essays. Essays due by 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Times office, Strand closed before weekend. open to all non employees of Schine.
In Cleveland Ohio January 30 produce and grain prices show butter unsettled at 34 to 44 cents per pound and eggs fluctuating with extra whites at 24 1/2 cents and extra firsts at 23 1/2. Live poultry remains firm with heavy hens at 25 cents and medium hens at 24 cents per pound.
Cattle 250 head slow and steady with choice steers 1100 lbs and up at 10.00 to 11.00. Calves 300 head 50 cents lower with choice to prime 12.50 to 13.50. Sheep and lambs 3,000 head up 0.25 with choice lambs 10.00 to 10.85. Hogs 700 head steady with various weights from 9.50 to 10.50, pigs to 10.25, roughs 8.00 to 8.50, stags 17.00 to 47.25.
Columbus set dates for Van Wert county basketball tours with two weekends of games starting March 5 and March 12. The Class A champion advances to the state tournament in Columbus, while finals are held here February 29 and at Shawnee High School as in prior years.
John A. Kline 69, prominent Cleveland builder, is in critical condition after a discharged chauffeur Frank Pozsgal 40 killed a servant Lena Sihengbier and wounded Kline at the Kling mansion in Shaker Heights. Pozsgal then shot himself in the garage after barricading himself inside.
A principal social event in the community starts at 9 PM at the Elks Judge hall to celebrate the President's birthday with music by Neil Welch's orchestra. Proceeds support infantile paralysis drives, with 70 percent kept locally. a later bridge evening at the YWCA follows at 8:15 PM tomorrow.
Ever ett C. Appleate and Mrs Mary Frances Creighton were sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of March 9 at Sing Sing for the rat poison murder of his 220 pound wife Ada in Mineola New York.
The Van Wert Sportsmens Association met at Moose Hall with many in attendance. Plans were laid to purchase pheasants and raccoon for restocking this year. Gerald Bowen spoke on fly fishing and hal V Hunt shared travel photos from Mexico. The group, affiliated with the League of Ohio Sportsmen, will send delegates to the Columbus convention February 20 and 21 and invites county sportsmen to join.
Community Chest and school officials announce a milk program for undernourished children during school hours starting next week. All underweight children are invited to participate. parents may contribute the milk cost. Other children will receive a half pint each morning funded by Christmas seal sales.
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