Y************************T^****'*1^,***,Ar** ************** *******'’* . 4* ***★**50 Years Ago TodayThe first 24 Findlay and Hancock County1young men to be called for service in World War I were announced as follows:Benjamin Franklin Hoker, Harvey GraU, Joseph Newman, Camiel Bruno, John Tighe, Vernie MacDonald, Carl Wesley, Roy Altman, Milton Decker, Harry Shafer, Dick Blackford, ail of‘Findlay.From the other county areas were Harry Fullerton, Mount Cory; John Faithful, Ontario, Can.; Orill Ray, McComb, John Kelley, McComb: Floyd P e n d let o n, McComb, Eura Mercer, Fostoria; GarrettPis Srimhlirau-OInurirr*Findlay, OhioAn Independent NewspaperThe Morning Republican Est. Weekly 1879.Daily 1886. and The Findlay Courier. Est. Weekly 1836, ■y Daily 1887: Merged January 1. 1933444444Smith, New York; John Randall, McComb; William Walter, Rawson; Charles Crawford, Vanlue; Harvey Martin, Mount Blanchard;John Slater, Rawson; and Floyd Mann,Bluffton.The closed Crawford elementary school at the foot of West Crawford street was sold to the Hill Medicine Company.Former Congressman Ralph D. Cole, of Findlay, received a commission as major in the Ohio National Guard and prepared to leave with the organization for training at Montgomery, Ala.William and Charles Kinder, sons of Judge and Mrs. Walter H. Kinder, were in France taking training in the ambulance corps.