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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-24
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF August l6, 1916

rural route number one, takes a
two-weeks' vacation beginning today.
Mr.. Anderson has faithfully served
Uncle Sam for three years and
seven months. during which time he
missed only three days.
B. F. Althaus and family, of
Toledo, arrived here Saturday for a
weeks visit with the formers par
ents. John Althaus and wife. Mr..
Althaus has been elerking in Toledo
for number Of years and at the
present holds one of the most de-
sirable positions in a leading dry
goods house in that city.
Harvey Basinger, of near Colum-
bus Grove, and Clair Green, north
Of town, who spent eight weeks at
tending the summer school at
Wooster, returned home the latter
part of last week.
Miss Nellie Eaton spent Friday
and Saturday with Miss Lillian
Egley, at Winona, Ind. She will
visit in Leesburg before her return
S. w. Stratton and family will
occupy their new residence or
Cherry street after September first
A handsome new daughter graces
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley r
Lugibihl since Wednesday morning.
Postmaster Day and family have
moved into the house vacated BY
Prof. E. C. Akerman and family, or
Jackson street.
Mrs. Grace Steiner, of Robinwooc
hospital, Toledo, is spending short
vacation with her parents, j. Berry
and wife, on Spring street.
Revs. P. P. Hilty, of Donnelson
Iowa, and NJ. A. Niswander, o.
Goshen, Ind, former students o.
Bluffton college, passed thru here
the first of the week on their way
to the Mennonite conference a
Pandora.
Miss Edith McPeak returned las
week from Crooked Lake, near Al
| Sable, Mich, where she had been fol
the past four weeks with a Findla!
camping party.
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Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington. d. C.-wNU Service.
Berchtesgaden's fare into the
news headlines during the first
meeting of Britain's Premier
Chamberlain and Germany's
Fuehrer Hitler, suddenly thrust
the Bavarian retreat on to the
list of popular places to be Wis
tied in Europe. Recently a
Paris tourist agency included
Berchtesgaden on brand new
tour out of the French capital.
Berchtesgaden, called Ger
many's second capital, lies in
one of the most beautiful regions of
Germany, stepped in history and
folklore, but also identified with
much modern German history-mak-
ing.
Long before Hitler rose to power,
Berchtesgaden was a health and
holiday resort, noted for its noun
tain air and the stern beauty of its
tree-clad mountains crowned in
winter with snow and ice. Beneath
the waters of one of its neighbor-
ing lakes, the Konigsee, a fabulous
golden treasure is supposed to be
hidden, guarded by elves. A pistol
shot fired from boat on the lake
echoes and re-echoes as much as
nine times from the bordering cliffs.
Legend of Charlemagne.
From the hower-decked balcony
of the Berghof, Hitler can look out
upon many towering mountains, no.
table among which is the Unters-
berg. Beneath it, says local leg
end, sleeps Charlemagne, ruler a
thousand years ago of the Holy Ro-
man Empire of the West. which in
cluded much of what is now Ger
many.
When Charlemagne's beard has
grown three times around the great
stone table at which he sits, the
legend goes on, he will awake,
emerge, and fight the last great de-
cisive battle Of the world. Then
the day of judgment will dawn.
But there is nothing legendary
about what lies under another part
of the mountains near Berchtesgad.
en-. There are salt mines which
were worked as far back as Roman
times, and for centuries they were
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claimed by bishops and kings who
coveted their revenues.
Today modern machinery and
electric lights assist. in the mining.
Rocks shot through with veins of
salt are cut out and soaked in a
lake far below ground Then the re-
sulting salt solution is pumped to
boilers and the water evaporated.
Toy-Making Is Popular.
Berchtesgaden's 5000 people work
not only in the salt mines but at
wood-carving and toy-making. Visi-
tors to the mountain resort can wan
der over many attractive mountain
paths, and in winter skiing is a
popular sport. Some of Germany's
best downnill skiers learn their art
at Berchtesgaden. A show place of
the village is the Stifiskirche, a
house of worship completed in 1922,
though since modernized.
The two-story house of the Fueh-
rer stands on steep, tree-covered
slope above the town and about
5000 feet above sea level, with a
giant snow-clad mountain peak as a
backdrop. It's white walls, gently
sloping roofs and dark brown wood
work are in harmony with Bavarian
architecture.
The Berghof and its surrounding
estate, are heavily guarded, accord
ing to newspaper reports. Near the
house are new barracks for Hit
ler's own bodyguard, the Schutzstaf-
fel men, distinct from the regular
army. There are buildings to house
representative of the Reich chan
celery.
The Berghof itself, formerly just
small mountain chalet, has been
enlarged and improved. The house
now can accommodate 40 guests.
On the lower floor is the large,
cheerful dining hall, commanding a
magnificent view of mountain seem
cry, and opening on to the balcony.
| A large central hall, with fire.
| place, and other rooms for social
functions also are on this floor, and
it is here that Prime Minister
Chamberlain of Great Britain was
received by the Fuehrer.
Herr Hitler's own rooms are in a
separate wing of the house, and
other wings contain offices and
quarters for the secretarial staff
] and various functionaries.
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Resigns Position As
Deputy Treasurer

John Romey, deputy in the office
of Allen County Treasurer Byron
Dershem since last spring has re-
signed his position at that place ef-
fective at once, it was announced
the first of the week.
Romey who was graduated in ac-
counting from Ohio State university,
Columbus, last spring, will return to
the university in October to take
graduate work.
During the coming month he will
assist at the Citizens bank while
his father, E. c. Romey, cashier of
the institution, together with Mrs,
Romey and daughter Miss Carolyn
Romey are on motor trip through
the west.
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NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF APRIL 3, 1913

of her father, E. P. Lugabill, some
time ago, returned to her home in
Shreveport, La, leaving here Friday
of last week.
p. o. Eckels, secretary and man.
ager of the Blytheville Construction
Co., enjoyed pleasant visit here
with former friends. Mr.. Eckels is
still we'll pleased with his Arkansas
home, and is prospering in that
south country.
E. w. Morrison, who recently
graduated from the Bliss college,
Columbus, left Tuesday for Detroit,
Mich, after spending several days
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Morrison. The young
man has a good position with the
Studebaker company in that city.
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ATTEND BRACY REUNION

Those attending a Bracy reunion
at Rayl's quarry Sunday, included:
Mrs. Harvey Nusbaum, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave whitman, daughters Carol
Arvilla and Magdalene, of Berne,
Ind; Mr.. and Mrs. Laurel Bracy and
daughter Ruth Ann, Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos Bracy and daughter Clara,
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Welty and family
of Pandora; Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Bracy and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Bracy and family.
Miss Carol whitman, who had
been spending the past week as a
guest of Miss Betty Bracy returned
to her home in Berne, Ind, Sunday.
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For several weeks a force of hands
and teams were busy hauling and
distributing bricks along the streets
to be paved. Tuesday afternoon
actual work was started on the
streets at the Bentley road on Main
street.
Fred Zeitz, the newly elected re-
corder. who succeeds Recorder P. /.
Nell. the first Monday in September,
has selected Oliver Keis, a well
known Spencerville man and life
long and staunch Democrat, as his
chief deputy Deputy Clerk Charles
Gustwiller, who has served thruout
the term of Mr.. Nell, has also been
retained by the new official.
George Lewis and Andrew klay
left Tuesday for Cincinnati to pur-
chase additional machinery to IA
cilitate the making of their cement
block machine Five machines have
been completed and all are sold.
D. H. Carr, the we'll known OLD
war veteran, left Saturday fol
Leipsic where he joined some of hi:
old comrades, who started fol
Minneapolis to attend the 40th an
nual encampment of the Grand Arm!
of the Republic, now in session il
that city.
George Montgomery and family
who resided at this place about il
years ago, recently moved from
Granite City, H., to Newport, KY
His stepson, Clinton Franks, also j
a resident of that city.
Mrs. Edward Bessire, of Rochester
N. Y, and Miss Emma Bessire, o
Lima, visited Orlie Bessire an
family at the Hotel Russell a fey
days last week.
Misses Charlotte Pallat, of Cleve
land, and Lena and Otillia Riser, o
Pandora, were guests of Miss Lillia
Reehling, last Wednesday.
Chester Stauffer entertained
number of his young friends Sunda
evening at the home of his parent:
on South Main street, in honor o
his twentieth birthday anniversary
Alva Anderson, mail carrier TO
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35-POund Fish Caught
By DlUight c. Murray

Dwight c. Murray, of Findlay,
former Bluffton resident, last week
caught 35-pound Goldfish while fish
ing in the Atlantic ocean off Port
land, Maine.
In addition to the 35-pounder, said
to be one of the largest fish caught
in that area this summer, Murray
and his companion landed nine
others. They caught the fish about
10 miles out at sea.
On the trip east through the New
England states, Murray was accom-
panied by his wife and daughter,
Patricia.
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Entertains For Visitors

Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Van Meter en-
tertained at their home in Union
township, Sunday a number of rela-
tives and friends in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Lehr Warren and daugh,
ters Patty and Ann Warren of
Shreveport, La, and Burr Harding
of Denver, Colo, who are visiting in
this vicinity.
Among those present were: James
Marshall, Mrs. Vanche Montgomery,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Caughman of
Findlay; VIM. Harding of Ada.
Mrs. Dora Montgomery, Mr.. and
Mrs. Grover Montgomery, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Montgomery and daugh-
ters Imajean and Geraldine, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Swank, Mr.. and Mrs.
Van Strahm, son Morris and daugh-
ter Jean Ann, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Kimmel, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Mont
gomery.
Russell Montgomery, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Dearth, daughter Miriam
and son Dean, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Warren, sons John, Robert and jim
mie, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Warren
and son Racine, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Marshall and daughter Avis, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Marshall, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wade Marshall, Miss Martha
Foltz.
Afternoon callers were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Brundige and Mrs. John
Bird and son of Findlay; Mr.. and
Mrs. Waldo Hanna and Mrs. Emer-
son Hanna of Mt. Cory.
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Four Games During Next Week
For Readrite SOftball Team

Four games are scheduled for the
Readrite softball team during the
next week, three of which will be
played at home under the Harmon
field foodlights.
Night games are carded for this
Thursday and Friday, with prelimi-
nary contests being planned for both.
On Thursday the Readrite crew will
tangle with the Lima State Highway
Department outfit. AS preliminary
offering the two Harmon field
championship boys teams, the Gold
en- Bears and the Wolverines, will
perform, with the tilt starting at
7:30 p. m.
Bluffton-Pandora inter-city champ
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China Digs in
At Chungking,
New Capital
Japs Will Have Trouble
Driving Defenders
From Refuge
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
WASHINGTON. D. C-WNU Service.

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D, C.-WNU Service.
Since the beginning of the Sino-
Japanese conflict, Chungking's pop
ulation has grown rapidly, especial
ly since it was recently declared
the capital of the war-torn repub-
lie. Thousands of safety-seeking cit
liens have sought protection within
its fortresslike walls.
This deep-inland refuge of the
Chinese government is $500 miles
up the Yangtze from the coast. It
is sheltered in the giant bowl OF
Szechwan province, $4,000 square
miles of isolation in the middle of
west central China.
Mountain barriers hem the prov
ince in so steeply that the opium
poppy is leading cash crop; only
lightweight exports, such as opium,
can be sent to the outside world at
a profit exceeding freight charges.
Drug firms have headquarters in
Chungking to buy up the highly
taxed opium and other medical
products, including DRIED rnuDarD.
A city of more than half-million,
Chungking pefches like an eagles
nest on ledge of a cliff. A stone
wall 100 feet high and five miles
around shuts it in, with only 8 of its
II fortified gates open to traffic. On
three sides the gray cliff-city's foun'
dations drop away another 100 feet
to the river curling around its base
Stone staircases 20 feet wide, moi
streets, slant steeply down from the
rampant gates to the river landings
Yangtze Gorges Only Gateway.
So important are waterways II
rugged Szechwan that Chungklne
has become an important trade me
tropolis because it is situated at the
junction of the Yangtze river ane
the Kialing river. which rushes
town from the north n ros' n
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Reddrite Wins OUer
FOStOria Team, II-3

Resuming their winning stride be-
hind the three-hit pitching of Willie
Tripplehorn, the Readrire softball
team trounced the oFstoria Seneca
Wires outfit by score of IL to 3
last Friday night at Harmon field.
Bluffton sewed up the decision
early in the contest, scoring one run
in the first inning and five in the
second.
The hitting attack of the locals
was paced by Fritz Swank who
banged out three singles in five
chances. Jim Miller got two triples
and Norm Triplett and Dick Burk-
holder each hit home runs.
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/ ionship will be decided in a night
tilt Friday, when the two teams meet
for the playoff contest in three
game series. Each has won one
game.
On Sunday the Readrite team will
journey to Cleveland to play a radio
serviceman's team as one of the fea-
lures of picnic and outing for
serviceman's organization.
Buttons final night game of the
year will be played here next Thurs
day when the Readrite. crew plays
for the second time against the Lima
All-Stars. In a previous contest
Bluffton defeated the high-powered
Lima crew by a score of a to 2.
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High School Gridders Open Practice
With Squad Of Is At Work Daily

him as one of this years ball toters.
In addition to lettermen, Coach
Diller has a fine assortment of new
candidates, as we'll as several from
last years squad with experience,
including Fritchie and Watkins,
backs, and Gratz, Greding and Stet-
tier, linemen.
Buttons first game is three
weeks in the offing, giving Coach
Diller considerably more leeway than
usual to whip his crew into condi-
tion. In their first start the Pirates
will tangle with Pandora in a night
game on the Bluffton gridiron, Fri
day, Sept. Is.
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ViUid Display OF
Northern Lights

The Northern Lights which have
been particularly brilliant this sum-
mer were seen here Tuesday night
in a vivid display. Although not as
widespread as the spectacle which
occurred August IL, the sight Tues
day night was more spectacular.
Long streaks and waves of light
shot upwards from the horizon
lighting up the northern sky almost
equal to the light of the first quar-
ter moon in the southern half of the
sky.
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mas main artery practically at a
right angle. Chungking serves as
a center for the network of inpor-
tant Yangtze tributaries which gives
Szechwan province its name of
-Four Rivers"
The city has some of the modern
qualities of Shanghai at the rivers
mouth, and its shops display the
tapestries and jewelry of Tibetan
mountain regions where the river
has its origin. Missions make
Chungking headquarters for work in
China's rugged west, and consulates
here handle the wholesale trade of
deep hinterland.
The only way into Chungking from
eastern China is the Yangtze. A new
air service from Hongkong has
been interrupted by the war. There
is no railroad. A bus service over
a new road to Yunnan-fu in the
south gives Chungking a route to
join the railroad through French In
do-China to the port of Haiphong.
Chungking is virtually the west
ern limit of navigation for Yangtze
steamers. Special fiat-bottomed
boats are necessary for year-round
traffic. Below the city the Yangtze
plunges down a treacherous and un-
ruly course through the mountains
of central China.
Junks Still Popular.
Steamboats, were put to work or
this stubborn stretch of river as
early as 1898, only seven years aft.
er Chungking was opened by treaty
to foreign commerce. But junks
of ancient design are still more
generally used, though they may re-
quire more months for the up-rivel
trip than a steamer takes days
Chungking's riverfront population
of junks is almost as numerous as
that of the giant port of Hankow
With as much as so tons of freight
junks are towed upstream through
the gorges by coolie 4trackers, ;
China's Volga boatmen. AS many
as four dozen of them may tug the
junk along, often quarter of {
mile in advance, climbing over mar
row tracks across faces of cliffs. II
spite of modern invention, the COO
| lie tracker is still the most usefu
motor on this stretch of river, hi
converts his daily cabbage and rice
into manpower which mechanica
horsepower has not replaced.
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Bluffton High school football prac-
tice was started at Harmon field
Monday, with squad of 25 working
out under the direction of Coach
Dwight Diller.
As nucleus for this years team,
the Bluffton mentor has five letter
men, including three linemen and
two backs. They are Clyde Fisher
and Harold Santschi, backfeld vet
Grams, and George Burkholder, Carl
Marshall and Jimmy Martin, line
men.
Fisher was an end thruout most
of last season, but he gained suffici-
ent experience in the backfield to fit
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NOTICE

Notice for application under the Uniform
Depository Act, tSee 55i. G. c. Sec. 2296-
-.
Applications will be received by the Board
of Education of Bluffton School District,
BlutTton, Allen County. Ohio, at the office of
the clerk until 80 y. m. the 3lst day
of August, 1889 from any Bank legally eligible
which may desire to submit written appl-
cation to be designated as a public depository
of active deposits of public moneys of said
Board of Education of Bluffton School Dis
trict as provided by the Uniform Depository
Act. G. c. Sec. 2296-7.
Applications should be sealed and endorsed
Application for Deposit of Public Moneys
LELAND DILLER,
Is Clerk of Board
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Arthur Green was born in Union
township, Hancock county, Ohio,
February %, 1858, and died in Bluff
ton March %, 1913, aged 55 years,
one month.
Arthur E. Santschi, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Santschi, who will
complete a four-year course at
Miami university, Oxford, this
spring, is offered a fellowship in the
department of physics at the Ohio
State university. The fellowship
pays $500 per annum and fees.
The destructive storm wave from
the west struck Bluffton and vicinity
Thursday and continued during the
night and the following day, blow
ing at a furious rate. A number of
barns in the country were unroofed,
smaller buildings blown down and
climneys and windows demolished.
The greater damage, however, was
caused by the incessant rain starting
Sunday morning and continuing for
several days. So rapid was the ris-
ing of Riley creek that all former
high water marks were passed Tues
day morning. The waters rushed
over College avenue and Cherry
street. On lower Main street the
bridge and paved street were SUBJ
merged. On jefferson street the
water flowed over the street and
sidewalk, pouring into the large
stone quarry. The L. +. and w.
tracks near College avenue were
under water, as was long stretch
of the Western Ohio tracks.
Turley Rupright, of YpsiIanti,
Mich, is here visiting his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rupright, since
Sunday. He will remain here for a
week.
Miss Jessie Murray, of the grad
uating class of Monroe, Mich, is
spending weeks vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Med Murray.
Mrs. C. NJ. Wambaugh and two
children, and Miss Mabel Oberly, of
Tiffin, are visiting their mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Oberly.
President Mosiman, who has the
rare tact Of getting in personal
touch with some of the leading men
Of our country, had an interview
with Governor Cox, Tuesday, at
Columbus. AS usual, he was look
ing after the interests of Bluffton
college and has the promise of hav-
ing the governor here as the princi-
pal speaker for the college May Day
entertainment.
Fred Null, of Emotion, Pa, a
student at Ohio Northern university
at Ada, was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Miller, over Sunday.
Fred Coon, of Petersburg, Va,
visited his brother, James Coon and
family. He was on his way to
Paulding county, where he owns a
farm.
W. z. Braymer traded his prop
erty on Mound street on a property
in Lima. Mr.. and Mrs. Braymer ex-
pect to move to that city in the near
future.
Elmer Augsburger, Isaac Geiger
and Clyde Kitchen of the Ohio State
university, were here spending their
Easter vacation.
Mrs. Tillie Stockhardt, who was
called here on account of the death
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CARD OF THANKS

The family wishes to express their
deepest gratitude to all those who in
ana way helped to make their dear
mothers last days more comfortable
and happy.
Mrs. Bixel and the family keenly
appreciated the visits of friends both
at the hospital and at home, also the
many flowers, cards and notes of
cheer she received all during her i'll
ness.
Mrs. F., c. Marshall,
DR.. Nj. R. Bixel,
Madeline Bixel.