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All 8 locations of the PCDL will be closed Monday, September 5 for Labor Day

Now hiring a Part Time - Circulation Assistant/Branch Assistant – Kalida Library Location

Deadline: Saturday, September 10, 2022

Job Description

The Friends of the PCDL will hold a Chicken BBQ Dinner Sunday, September 25, 11 am - 1 pm ($10 Presale only) at the Ottawa Location of the PCDL. Proceeds benefit all 8 locations of the PCDL.

Presale tickets can be purchased at the Ottawa Location August 29, September 6, September 12, and September 19  (10am - 7pm ) or from Karen Okuley 419-230-0459 or  klokuley@woh.rr.com

In 1941, a young man pulled up to a filling station in Fort Jennings, ordered a quart of oil from Gilbert German, and while German was measuring the oil, the man demanded the station’s cash. German turned, threw the oil in the man’s face, and the man fled empty-handed.

The Hector Creamery and Cheese Company was founded in 1891, making it Putnam County’s first creamery, or milk and cheese store. Hector, now a ghost town, was located in the southwest corner of Palmer Township.

Columbus Grove’s Civic League opened a Civic Center on South High Street in 1922. The center was used as a place for people to do things like rest and eat their lunches; it was also used as a social hall. 

Putnam Airport, Inc. opened in 1946 after being approved by the State of Ohio. The airport leased 20 acres of land east of Ottawa and hired Emery Russell to teach people how to fly a plane.

Cloverdale was first called Evansville, then Drucilla. The town was named Cloverdale when it was platted in 1891.

In 1882, the Skewer Pin Company was founded in Leipsic; they manufactured wooden pins used to hold meat as it roasted.

Vaughnsville’s first school opened in 1902. The first year, the school was located in the Henry Gardner building, and it moved to the town hall for its second year.
 

In the 1920s, Putnam County residents used vehicles like the Model T as a car, truck, and tractor.

Pandora’s1st school, a two-story brick building in 1873, one large room upstairs & downstairs, became a garage for Riley Township when a new school was built across the street.

Louisa M. Emery, born to J.J. Lowry in West Leipsic in 1852, was one of the first women doctors in Putnam County.
 

On February 4th, 1899, burglars blew open the safe at Leipsic’s post office, and ran off with about $800 in stamps and money. Locals pursued the burglars, but they escaped by train. Authorities alerted stations on the train’s path, and when the burglars reached Bellevue, they stole a horse and buggy but were caught after a several-hour chase.

Although Glandorf was settled in the 1830s, it wasn’t incorporated until 1891. William Altekruse was the town’s first mayor.