Chicken Thieves Steal 200 Chickens, Leave Eight

Van Wert, Ohio, 1919
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NEARBY HAPPENINGS.

Lake Shore Freight Train Wrecked Near Tiffin – Current Events of Local Interest.

Judge William Klinger of the court of common pleas, Lima, ordered Mabel Faulkner Bowers, Lima, to go to the country home of her husband, Herman W. Bowers, Northern Allen county, and there establish a home and live with her husband. Judge Klinger refuted a divorce, sought by the wife. She charged abandonment.

Mrs. Aronlad Claty, Westson, is in serious condition at the home of her sister. Mrs. B. S. McCann, of Bowling Green, as a result of an auto accident, in which Mrs. Claty sustained a three- inch cut on her forehead, a deep gash on both upper and lower lips and a fractured cheekbone.

The Catholic high school boys of Delphos have organized a basket ball team with Sylvester Schmelzer, manager and Otto Kihm, assistant. The girls team will be managed by Adeline Gremling and Miss Adelie Plescher, assistant.

David Franklin Gaumer, eon of Editor and Mrs. Bruce B. Gaumer, of Marysville, died to-day after a brief illness caused by eating toad stools. The boy's temperature reached one hundred and seven before he died.

Three cows were killed and traffic was held up at Stryker when a broken axle caused seven loaded cattle cars of a fast Lake Shore freight to telescope there at seven o'clock. Traffic was locked on all three tracks.

The funeral of Mrs. A. R. Morton, nee Naomi Dugan, of Evanston, Ill., will occur Sunday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan, of Decatur. Death was due to septic poisoning.

It is predicted that the golden jubilee celebration to be held by Norwalk Commandery No. 18 Knights Templars October 13, 14 and 15, will be one of the most imposing events of the kind ever held in Ohio.

Chicken thieves visited the coops of the Simon Good farm, several miles East of Delphos and stole two hundred birds, leaving eight. There is no explanation why the eight were not taken.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bird, of Ottawa, were severely cut and bruised when their automobile was struck by a B. & O. train at Columbus Grove.

Edwin Mauk, well known Delphos boy, has made the Western Reserve varsity foot ball team, and will play as a regular.

The funeral of the late Thomas Weger, of Delphos, will be held Tuesday afternoon, two o'clock.

--The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, September 27, 1919, page 3.