Wood County Republican Death Notice for Thomas Armstrong

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, Dr. F. J. Prout is Formally Inducted
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Dr. E. B. Pedlow of Lima (right), president of Board of Trustees, 
formally inducts Dr. Frank J. Prout into office as president of the 
University. Dr. H. B. Williams, president emeritus, is seated in the center.
F E E H A N  F A M IL Y  
W IN  H O N O R S  IN  
H U S K IN G  T E S T S
Father and Son Win 
Senior and Junior Corn 
Husking Championships
The T. J. Feehan family of near 
Bloomdale, copped most of the hon­
ors in the ninth annual Wood Coun­
ty Corn Husking contest held Sat­
urday near Hoytville. More than 5,-
000 saw the elder Feehan regain the 
men’s standing championship, and his 
son John, win the high school boys 
title.
Mr. Feehan husked a totale of 1871 
pounds, or 26.2 bushels over the 80 
minute period. He won the title in 1937 
and was runner-up in the state that 
year. Last year he placed second 
behind Gerald Hillard, of near Bowl­
ing Green. The latter was second this 
year with a husk of 1838.5 pounds.
Pat Feehan, another son, came in 
third behind Mr. Hillard with a total 
husk of 1746, to make it a great day 
for the Feehan’s. The father will re­
present the county at the state con­
test next week near Delaware.
The high school contest found 
John Feehan representing Bloomdale 
high school. His net husk was 678 
pounds in a 40-minute contest. Louis 
Swaisgood, Risingsun, was second 
with 519.9 pounds, while Glen Adams 
of Liberty came in third with 481.3 
pounds.
The ladies’ milking contest was 
held in the afternoon with Miss Dor­
othy Dill, of near Custar, repeating 
her 1938 feat by winning again with 
16 pounds, 1.3 ounces in three minu­
tes. Elizabeth Wilhelm was second, 
and Katherine Dill, third.
A new feature of the husking day’s 
program was a corn exhibit with 
prizes awarded in five classes. The 
winners were:
Class I (open pollinated): 1st, Ray 
Klopfenstein; 2nd, George Hillard; 
3rd, Floyd Baumgardner.
Class II (Ohio certified hybrids) : 
1st, Douglas Sanford; 2nd, Bill Har­
ris; 3rd, R. B. Waugh.
Class III (ther hybrids): 1st, Geo. 
Nicholas; 2nd, Dallas Hillard; 3rd, 
George Blair.
Class IV (single cross hybrids) : 
1st, Ray Klopfenstein; 2nd, R. B. 
Waugh; 3rd, Gene Holley.
Class V (single ear, largest and 
most perfect): Leo Hillard.
Besides the events listed, there 
were machinery demonstrations and 
two airplanes to take up passengers.
Committees in charge of the events 
were: Frank Seiple, chairman; Harold 
Waugh, weights and computations; 
Norman Priest, local arrangements; 
Frank Fox, machinery demonstrat­
ions; W. A. Alexander, corn show; 
Bob Osborn, milking contest. Other 
members of the committee were Dr. 
C. E J. Petteys, R. H. Steen, Alfred Ro­
bertson, Bruce, Roardarmel, Arthur 
Weihl, Rollie Eckert, Ron Waugh, 
Clark Stimmel, Frank Brandeberry, 
James Beard and County Ag 6nt C.
B. Stewart.
YOUNG BLOCK READY 
FOR TENANTS NOV. 1
The newly remodeled Clark Young 
block in East Wooster street will 
have its first tennant Nov. 1, as car­
penters are busily putting finishing 
touches on the first floor room to 
house the Dunipace and Middleton law 
firm, the Wood County National Farm 
Loan and the Central Realty Co.
Mr. Young will also have two fine 
apartments ready for tenants within 
a week in the upper floors. Both 
have been made strictly modern and 
include ultra modern kitchen equip­
ment. They are of the three room 
type with adequate ventilation and 
heating facilities.
The building Was completely im­
proved and presents one o fthe finest 
looking appearances in the business 
district, adding a distinct credit to 
the East Wooster business section.
Society Writer Wins 
Two State Awards
Miss Minniebelle Conley, local 
newspaper woman, is the winner of 
two first place awards in the annual 
contests for Ohio Newspaperwomen. 
She received first for the most hum­
orous story, and first for the best lea- 
ture story. She is society editor of 
the Sentinel Tribune.
JACKSON BOARD ASKS 
SCHOOL LEVY SUPPORT
In an appeal to voters to approve
t
 proposed two-mill levy, the Jackson 
ownship Board of Education stated 
tb it the levy will permit a full nine- 
month school term, provide for neces­
sary repairs and additional equip­
ment and permit a full commercial 
course and the introduction of a vo­
cational agriculture course.
SIX INDICTED BY 
GRAND JURORS
Six persons were indicted by the 
special grand jury which met here 
this morning, according to Prosecutor 
Floyd A. Coller. Three of those nam­
ed in. indictments were accused of 
setting fire to a Portage, O., restaur­
ant building last March.
Two indictments, charging arson 
of a shop &nd dwelling building and 
burning personal property with in­
tent to defraud an insurance company, 
were returned against Mrs. Iva Clark 
Zink, her son, Don Clark, and Clayt 
Ingraham, all of this city.
Ivan Horner, 19, Custar, was char­
ed with burglary of grain from the 
Mennel Milling Co. Oct. 21; Harry L. 
Pike, Bowling Green, was charged 
with reckless driving as a result of 
an accident last Sept. 25, and Edward 
Karpinski, 23, Cleveland, was charg­
ed with burglary and larcency of the 
Rev. Frank E. King home in Bloom­
dale, on Tuesday.
T O M A T O  Q U E E N  R E IN S  
O V E R  C A U T H U M P IA N
DeMolays Plan Gala 
Mardi Gras Parade
Callithumpian, the night of all 
nights of the year for spooks and 
other erie things to prance, will be 
celebrated next Tuesday evening un­
der auspicies of the DeMolay Chap­
ter
More than 6,000 persons are ex­
pected to view the affair in the bus­
iness district. Bands from the Uni­
versity and High School will furnish 
music and a dance will close the af­
fair in the Armory.
The DeMo- 
lays have 
so chosen Miss 
Virginia Al- 
guire, second 
Queen of To- 
matoland, as 
queen of the 
parade. Miss 
H|Alguire  . was 
HHPf! chosen queen 
of Tomato- 
Virginia Alguire  land here last 
August and as such will continue her 
reign over the Callithumpian under 
a plan adopted by the DeMolays, who 
have previously chosen a queen by 
popular ballot.
An impressive prize list has been 
announced by the organization with 
prizes of all kinds for every possible 
type of costume dress, according to 
Henry Goranson, who is in charge of 
the affair.
WESTON TELEPHONE 
OPERATOR BURIED
Services are being held today in 
Weston for Mrs. Lela Hirth, 47, well 
known telephone operator of Weston, 
who died suddenly with a heart at­
tack in the office of Dr. Noble at 
Custar. The Rev. A. W. Almgren of- 
fciated with burial m Weston ceme­
tery.
Mrs. Hirth probably knew every­
body in the Weston community by 
their first name, having served the 
district as telephone operator for 
many years. Like any small town 
operator, she more or less served as 
doctor, nurse or policeman. She mar­
ried Harry Hirth, manager of the 
phone company in 1913.
Mrs. Hirth took an active part in 
the Eastern Star chapter, being a 
past matron. She was also a past 
chief of the Pythian Sisters and ac­
tive in the Methodist church socie­
ties. Adding to her manifold duties, 
was an active part in Democratic 
politics of which she was a member 
of the Wood County Democrat ex­
ecutive committee.
Besides her husband, she leaves a 
son, Robert, at home; a sister, Mrs. 
Blanche Conrad, Toledo; three bro­
thers, Elmer Edelman, Toledo; Clar­
ence Edelman, Cygnet, and Lowell 
Edelman, Findlay.
Thomas Armstrong 
Dies At Farm Home
Services were held Tuesday at the 
Cloverdale U. B. church for Thomas 
Armstrong, 65, who died at his late 
residence in Center Township Sunday 
evening. Burial was in Oak Grove 
cemetery. He leaves his wife, Orpha, 
two sons, Paul and Carl, both of this 
city, and five daughters, Mrs. Ray 
Herring, and Mrs. Walter Lein, Por­
tage; Mrs. Roy Richcreek, Bowling 
Green, and Lois and Ila, at home.
CYCLIST INJURED IN 
CRASH WITH AUTO
John Adams, 11, son of Senator 
Fred L. Adams, suffered painful in­
juries about the head and arms Mon­
day evening when his bicycle collided 
with an auto driven by Marion Wise­
ly at the intersection of Grove and 
Wooster street.
F A R M  L E A D E R S  U R G E  
D E F E A T  O F  B IG E L O W  
P R O P O S A L S  IN  O H IO
Constitution Hangs 
In Balance, Rural 
Ohio Must Decide
Ohio Farm Bureau leaders declare 
that the Bigelow proposed amend­
ments to Ohio’s constitution will 
stand or fall according to the dic­
tates of rural Ohio at the polls on 
Tuesday, November 7.
Because the amendments “seriously 
threaten a number of outstanding 
long-time objectives of the Farm Bur­
eau for Ohio agriculture, the forces 
of all state and county affiliates of 
the organization are being marshalled 
to bring about an unprecedented vote 
by rural Ohio citizens m opposition 
to the amendments,” it was announ­
ced by Perry L. Green, president of 
the state-wide organization.
We have labored long and hard, he 
continued, for revision of Ohio’s tax 
program and the adoption of a broad 
base income tax for the General Re­
venue Fund; the Bigelow pension 
proposal, if adopted, would preclude 
our ever accomplishing this, and 
would be ruinous to any tax program, 
present or future.
Murray D. Lincoln, executive secre­
tary of the state organization, ex­
plained that “the Farm Bureau and 
the fanners of Ohio are very mucn 
in favor of providing financ'al aid to 
the needy aged, but they are not will­
ing to pay a pension dole to every­
body over a certain age, as the Bige­
low amrijdinent would do, whctncr 
they need it or not. I am reliably in­
formed, by the way, that the cost jf 
this p&iRion plan for one year wouli 1  
be three times the value of all the 
farm equipment in the ptate, and
■  louble tho ”alue of all farm produce 
raised in the state in any one year.”
Adoption of the unicameral legis­
lature, and loss by Ohio farmers of 
an adequale voice in their state 
government was cited by Edwin J  
Bath, legislative representative of the 
Farm Bureau, as “ a certain disas­
trous result of the Bigelow proposal 
to reduce by amendment the petition 
requirements for initiative and refer­
endum.” The amendment itself, he 
dcelared, “would usher Ohio into an 
era of oppressive government by min­
ority rule, and unicameral legislature 
would come soon after to allow thc 
people of a few metropolitan com­
munities to run Ohio for their own 
interest.”
Threats of the Bigelow amendments 
to real estate, the school foundation 
program, and government services in 
general, were pointed out by James 
R. Moore, editor of the Ohio Farm 
Bureau News. The 10-mill limitation 
would be virtually nullified by the 
$2 per $1000 added tax on real es­
tate proposed in the plan, he said.
The plan would require almost as 
much money as is now required by 
all state and local government, and 
the amendment gives the pension 
priority on funds, which would hamp­
er all other government departmencs 
and institutions, and even deprive 
many Ohio children of their Amer­
ican right to go to school, the leaders 
believe.
MRS. DONELDA TESSIER 
BURIED IN TOLEDO
Funeral rites were held this morn­
ing in St. Aloysius church for Mrs. 
Donelda Tessier, 83, who died sud­
denly Tuesday morning at the home 
of F. H. Prieur. Burial was in Cal­
vary cemetery, Toledo.
Mrs. Tessier was a native of On- 
taria, Canada, an dcame to Bowling 
Green in 1915 to live with her sister, 
Mrs. Prieur. She was organist for 
many years at St. Aloysius church 
and took an active part in affairs of 
the church.
She leaves six nephews and nieces: 
Arthur Prieur, and Mrs. Page Ruth, 
of this city; Gorman Bennett and 
Mrs. J. McCord, Chicago; Mrs. R. W. 
Case, Cuyahoga Falls, and Miss Mar­
jorie Prieur, St. Louis, Mo.
SCHOOL JOURNALISTS 
MET IN PERRYSBURG
The Northwestern Ohio Scholastic 
Press Association met last night in 
Perrysburg high school for a banquet 
and meeting at which time Grove 
Patterson, Editor of The Blade spoke.
The association was organized last 
spring in Sylvania and is made up 
of students in journalism and facul­
ty sponsors of 23 schools in north­
western Ohio. Representatives were 
present from Maumee, Rossford, Ot­
tawa Hills, Sylvania, Swanton, Hol­
land, Monclova, Whitehouse, Grand 
Rapids, Waterville, Tontogany, Pem- 
bervilie, Whitmer, Bowling Green, 
Olney, Oak Harfcei, Luckey, Genoa, 
Gibsonburg, Lake Township, Mi tun 
Cf’ tei. Clay, IM ta, and Perrysburg.
R E P U B L IC A N  V E T S  
C L U B  T O  H E A R  P A U L  
H E R B E R T  T U E S D A Y
District Clubs Have 
Part In Program 
Directed At War
The Republican War Veterans Club 
will hold a district meeting m the 
court house here next Tuesday eve­
ning, Oct. 31, at 8:30 p m. Lieuten­
ant Governor Paul Herbert will be 
the speaker.
The organization has enjoyed a 
rapid growth since it was formed in 
May, 1939. The purpose of the club 
si to strengthen the influence of ve- 
ternas of all wars for constructive 
legislation in both nation and state, 
according to John Gockerman, Pem­
berville, president. The influence of 
the organization at the moment is 
being utilized to help keep this na­
tion out of war, he stated.
The program includes talks by Al 
Weichel, Sandusky, president of the 
Erie County club; Merton Kittle, of 
Fremont, of the Sandusky County 
club; Victor Sackett of New London, 
of th eHuron County club and Alton 
Drinkwater, Tiffin, of the Seneca 
County club. Mr. Herbert will speak 
on national problems.
All Republican veterans of all wars 
in the 13th district are urged to at­
tend.
J. K. RANEY HEADS 
BGU AIR SCHOOL
Major J. K. Raney, has been ap­
pointed chief of staff of the Bowling 
Green State University flying, organ­
ized here under the Civil Aeronautics 
Authority, President Frank J. Prout 
announced Tuesday.
Major Raney will have complete 
charge of the ground school classes 
and actual flying will be provided at 
the Toledo Municipal Airport in Lake 
Township. Major Raney is in the 
Reserve Air Service.
The 36 applicants will be given a 
physical examination withont a week, 
Dr. Prout said, and 20 will be select­
ed for the training.
JESSE LADD GIVEN 
COLONEL RANKING
Jesse Ladd, former resident and a 
brother of Probate Judge Raymond 
E. Ladd, has been elevated to the rank 
of colonel and will be stationed at 
Cnmp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. He has 
been stationed at Chicago since his 
elevation to lieutenant colonel. He is 
a West Point graduate and his son, 
Frederick, is a first-year student at 
the military academy.
PRE-HUNTING DINNER 
PLANNED FOR NOV. 2
The third annual pre-hunting tup- 
key dinner will be held in the Legion 
club house here, Nov. 1, sponsored by 
the Wood County Natural Resources 
Councli. Tickets are available thru- 
out the county, according to Secre­
tary Karl Mollenberg. H. H. Creag­
er, Millersburg, an outstanding out­
door enthusiast, will be the speaker 
and will show wild-life moving pic­
tures.
IN C O R P O R A T IO N  
V O T E  P L A C E D  O N  
R O S S F O R D  B A L L O T
Trustees Accept Plea 
Of Citizens And Ask 
For November Vote
A resolution directing the Wood 
County board of election to place the 
question of incorporating the village 
of Rossford on the November ballot 
was passed by Ross Township trus­
tees last night and presented to the 
election board here this morning. The 
plea for a vote was made by 300 
property owners of Rossford.
The election board will advertise 
the election immediately, having 10 
days in which to do so according 
to law. The election must be held 
within 15 days from time of filing 
the petition with the trustees, thus 
permitting the vote at the regular 
November election.
The action to seek incorporation 
was asked following failure of re­
peated efforts to obtain county and 
state aid for construction of a sew­
age disposal plant.
The territory which would be in­
cluded in the incorporation would be­
gin on the line between Ross and Per­
rysburg townships at its intersection 
with hte east bank of the Maumee 
river at low tide; proceeding east to 
the center line of Wales road, north­
east to the east line of river tract 83 
at the southwest corner of tract 84, 
north to the Lucas-Wood county line; 
west along the county line to part 
of the south bank of the Maumee 
river, and southwest along the low 
water edge to the beginning point.
BOYD CASE MOVES 
TO ILLINOIS CITY
Boyd Case, manager of the City 
Water Co. and Ohio Northern Pub­
lic Service company since 1934, has 
been transferred to Edwardsville,
111., where he beocmes manager of 
the water company in that city. He 
will be succeeded here by T. B. Ray, 
of Skowhegan, Maine.
Mr. Case had been connected with 
the water company since 1921. He 
has continued to serve with that com- 
any and the Ohio Northern Public 
Service and became manager of both 
services under the Northeastern 
Water and Electric Service Co. The 
Case family left here Tuesday for 
their new home.
Mr. Ray is a registered profession­
al engineer and a graduate of Cornell 
University. He has been associated 
With the Northeastern company since 
1932 as a divisional engineer in New 
England.
HENRY FARMERS TO 
GIVE OWN PERMITS
Ivan Myersyspresident of the Henry 
Township Gai^e association, announc­
ed this week Chat hunters must ob­
tain written permission from fanners 
in that district before being permit­
ted to hunt. A large coVps of special 
officers will patrol 'roads to stop 
roadside huntihg. Farmers have the 
right to determine whether hunting 
will be permitted on Nov. 8 or Nov.
N E W  U N IV E R S IT Y  
P R E S ID E N T  U R G E S  
F A IT H  IN  Y O U T H S
Plea Heard by 3,000 
At Formal Inauguration 
Of Dr. Frank J. Prout
I  Unemployed youth is a “peril to 
democracy” and calls for trained 
leaders to cope with it, said Dr. Frank 
Jay Prout in his address, “Youth 
Leadership,” at his inauguration as 
the third president of Bowling Green 
State University in the University 
Auditorium Saturday. > •
The leaders of youth, he said, must 
“expand the school program” to keep 
the youth of the nation in schools 
for a longer period of their lives and 
to “interest youth in leisure time ac­
tivities.” The leaders must build a 
love for American institutions, he 
claimed. “We have taken our in­
stitutions for granted,” warned Dr. 
Prout; we must make up our minds 
that we must fight for our institu­
tions. The thoughts of the leaders, he 
said, must be directed “toward deve­
loping the self respect that made 
America virile among nations.” 
“Like the traditional teachers,” 
declared the new president, these 
leaders “must come from the univer­
sities.”
Dr. Prout also stressed the necess­
ity of keeping the cost of education 
low, and that he hoped the state legis­
lature, in making its appropriations, 
would help the universities to make 
this possible.
Dr. Bruce Richard Baxter, pres­
ident of Willamette University, Salem, 
Ore., in his address, “Education’s 
Responsibility to the State,” at the 
inauguration, said that this respon­
sibility lay in teaching each student 
“to live all of his life.”
“To attempt to define life in all 
its relationships is the ideal” aim to 
give each student, Dr. Baxter said. 
The educational institutions can do 
this, he claimed, by turning out well 
educated men and women who are 
away from the “township” outlook on 
life, who can see beyond their own 
narrow circle to the real significance 
of the events of the world.
It is education’s responsibility, he 
said, to teach the student “honesty 
to the state” and to himself, and to 
teach toleration. “Ignorance plus em­
otion,” Dr. Baxter said, “yields in­
tolerance.” And that is “opposed to 
education’s ideals.”
Education, he said, must help those 
of the older generation who “have 
lost the sky”, who have lost their spirit 
through the war, the depression or 
other personal experiences; and edu­
cation must teach a sound philosophy 
of life—“the ability to take it.” As 
the l^st responsibility, education must 
show the student, advised Dr. Bax­
ter, that he “must have a point out­
side himself—a God.”
Dr. Prout was presented for in­
auguration by Dr. Harvey C. Min- 
nich, dean emeritus, the School of 
Educat.on, Miami University, who 
told of the new president’s qualifi­
cations for office and of the relation­
ship which should exist between the 
president and the Board of Trustees 
in the administration of the Univer­
sity
Dr. Prout, he said, was chosen 
president of the University because 
of h>s high qualifications and his re­
cord As such, Dr. Mmnich advised, 
tie s-hould be given the cooperation of 
the Board of Trustees in carrying 
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FALCONS START ROAD 
TOUR AT WITTENBERG
Bowling Green State University 
Falcons open their four-game away 
from home schedule Saturday at Wit­
tenberg College and from advance 
dope, are due for a one touchdown de­
feat. Wittenberg has a tough veteran 
squad this year and hold a 51-0 vic­
tory over Otterbein while the Falcons 
best against the Cardinals was 26-6.
Private Services Held 
For Dr. Louise Jordan
Private funeral services were held 
at th eDeck Funeral Home Tuesday 
for Mrs. Louise E. Jordon, 59, who 
died Sunday morning in her home 
with a heart attack.
Mrs. Jordan was a native of Fos­
toria, and received degrees at the 
University of Chicago before con­
tinuing her study on her doctor’s de­
gree at Columbia. She taught home 
economics at the University for sev­
eral years.
ALDRICH FAMILY 
INJURED IN TOLEDO
George Aldrich, 58, his wife, Min­
nie, and Mrs. Vivian DeWalt, 28, were 
treated for bruises in Mercy Hospital 
in Toledo Tuesday for cuts and bruis­
es suffered when their auto skidded 
on wet street car tracks in Toledo.