Ottoville Items - 1912

4-14-1912 LN

Underwent Operation

            Mrs. Burt Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bowersock, of Ottoville, underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Lima Hospital Thursday. Mrs. Bryan is getting along well as can be expected.

6-5-1912 LN

Short Change Men are Arrested for Fleecing People in Delphos Neighborhood

            Delphos June 5. – A telephone message was received here from Ottoville Tuesday, shortly before noon, asking the Delphos police to be on the lookout for two men who were accused of attempting to work the short change game on several Ottoville merchants and who finally succeeded in getting $5 from Postmaster John Lauer and then made their escape.

            Chief Kehres went to the north part of town to keep an eye on the Ottoville road, and was soon met by Alex Miller and Jos. Wurst of J. J. Miller & Co.’s store in Ottoville, who came to Delphos in an automobile in pursuit of the men. They had gained information that the men had gone west on the Van Wert road and accompanied by Chief Kehres they started in pursuit. They overtook the parties about one mile west of Delphos, the men having turned back toward Delphos. The rig in which the men were riding had been secured at the Stottlemeyer livery barn in Delphos Tuesday morning.

            The men gave their names as H. Speaker, of Findlay, and J. P. Kibler, of Leipsic, and stated that they had been selling rugs about the country.