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street residence lot.
Miss Flora Plattner recently ad
cepted a position in the Farmers
Mutual Telephone exchange. !
Miss May Patterson was in Find
lay, Sunday, attending the wedding
of her brother, Carl, and Miss
Olivia Peterman.
Emanuel Lugibihl, residing at
present on upper Lawn avenue, pur-
chased ]. L. Doty's residence on the
same street, near the school build
ing.
Miss Edith McPeak left Saturday
for Findlay, where she joined a
party Of IL, who went to Au Sable,
Michigan, for a six-weeks' outing.
Charles Day and family are also
with the party.
Carl, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Patterson, and Miss Olivia Peter
man, were married at the home of
the brides brother, at Findlay, last
Sunday.
Harley Goble, of Warren, Ind, was
home several days the past week. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Frank
Thompson and daughter, Georgiana,
of Huntington, Ind, who visited in
pl,,H%o,, ro.voroI Iovr
,, John Nicholson and wife leave
Saturday to visit the latter's sister,
Mrs. John Evans, at Denver, Colo.
They will remain for about six
weeks.
Miss Nellie Gobe will leave the
first of next week for a few weeks
visit with Miss Alice Gilbert at
| Waters, Mich.
Horace Stratton and family visit
ed Rev. E. S. Keller and family al
North Baltimore, the Fourth.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
John and Mrs. Balmer welcomed g
baby boy to their home recently.
d. C. and Mrs. Steiner are the
happy parents of baby girl, since
last week one day.
Sylvanus F. Basinger, of Colum
bus Grove, was admitted to practice
medicine by the state medical boart
at Columbus, last week.
Ira Wenger, from Newton, Kan
sas, where he has good position il
a bank, is spending his four week:
vacation in the east. He was here
over Sunday and gave Will Klay ant
Elmer Basinger, as well as man!
others, short and pleasant calls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Americana
Read II and Wonder
By Elmo Scott Watson

Read 1t and Wonder
N EEMS TAYLOR is famous as the
- composer of the score for the
opera "The Kings Henchman" and as
one of the country's leading authori-
ties on music. But back in 1912 his
name meant something else-that Of
writer of amusing oddities in verse.
For instance, readers of the Century
magazine must have rubbed their eyes
when they read over his signature this /:
APE OWE ,EM
heh Iur steRs can this i'll ear I'm
Iool rye tomb ache theme cen ink leer.
iouth mixed wood butt hee way sting
thyme
Use eh its imp lean on scent shear.
Gnome altar. Anna lies align:
Nation mice lender verse says knot,
FORK rip tick poet reel Ike mine
now Aaron Weld demeans allot
But when they read it again--slowly
and aloud-they found it was:
Wnen hrst yon scan this silly rhyme
To try to make the meaning clear
You think 'twouid but be wasting time
You say it's simply nonsense sheer.
NO matter, analyze a line;
Nay, shun my slender verses not.
roI Cryptic poetry like mine.
howeer nnwieldy, means lot
Western Newspaper Union
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Ill BY Elmo Scott Watson
Patriot and Painter

ZEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON,
besieging the British in Boston,
wanted accurate drawings of the
enemy's positions. So young Con-
necticut Yankee volunteered to get
them. He crept close to the British
lines and made sketches which
pleased the commander so much
that he made the young fellow
colonel and his second aide-de-camp.
The young colonel next served as
acknowledgement to General Gates
and in 1778 accompanied General
Sullivan as a volunteer against the
British in Rhode Island. When this
expedition proved unsuccessful, he
resolved to give up soldering.
He went to London to study under
Benjamin West and soon became
the favorite pupil of that great
painter. When Maj. John Andre,
the British acknowledgement in
America, was caught and hanged as
spy, the young painter seemed to
the British the logical man to be
used for reprisal. So they put him
in prison. Instead of protesting, the
truculent young Yankee boasted
that he had been an aide to that
"arch REBEL" George Washington,
and was proud of it.
Only the intervention. of his paint
er friends, West and Copley, saved
him from hanging. Lucky for
America that they did! Otherwise
John Trumbull might never have
lived to paint such great historical
works as "The Battle of Bunker
Hill," and "The Signing of the Dec
laration of independence"
Western Newspaper Union.
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Norm TripIett Is
Leader In Hitting


Norm Triplett is leading Readritt
hitters with a percentage of .357
garnering 10 hits in 28 times at bat
Ralph Augsburger is in second
place with .292, and Fritz Swank
has mark of .283, and also has
the most hits, 13 in AS chances.
Willy Tripplehorn, at bat only eight
times has three hits for mark of
.375.
Jim Miller is the leading home run
hitter, with three round-trippers and
he has the same number of two-base
hits to lead in that department.
Augsburger with three three-baggers
is setting the pace.
The team average in hitting is
.228, and all told the locals have
committed 42 errors.
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Readrite Loses TlUO
Tits In Weeks Play

Readrite softballers lost two games
during the last week, 6 to 5 set
back to Lima Bradfeld Center on the
local field and a 10 to / reversal at
the hands of Wapakoneta at that
place.
Meeting the Bradfeld Center team
here Thursday night the locals put
up game battle all the way, and
barely missed victory.
The visitors rolled up their tallies
early in the contest, Bluffton leading
only at one stage when they held
the advantage, 3 to 2, at the close
of the third inning. In the fourth
stanza Bradfield Center got two
more runs to hold the edge, a to 8
and they added another brace OF
counters in the fifth to run their
total to six.
Going into the ninth inning Bluff.
ton was trailing, to 6, and hopes
were momentarily revived when Dor
Wenger, the first man up, smashed
a home run. The next threee mer
went down in order however, to end
the rally.
In the inter-city league contest al
Wapakoneta Friday night, the Read.
rite crew dropped their second game
of the season to the fast-traveline
Auglaize county outfit.
Only one hit was made off the
offerings of Cozad, Wapakoneta
hurler, and he struck out II Bluff.
ton batsmen.
Wapakoneta tailed one run ir
the first inning, then added six more
in the third to be well on the way
toward the 10-run total they even
tually amassed.
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Harmon Field Notes

Four Bluffton tennis players will
participate in a team tennis tourna-
ment at Bowling Green State univer-
sity next Sunday. They will compete
as members of a team representing
Allen, Mercer, Auglaize and Van
Vert counties. Bluffton representa-
tives will be Dale Reichenbach, Roger
Howe, Lucille Niswander and Gene
Zuber. The tournament is being pro-
NOTED under auspices of the federal
recreation program.
Golden Bears and the Wolverines
are tied in Boys Softball league play,
each having won five and lost two
during the season, but the next week
is expected to bring a break in the
deadlock.
In games this Thursday the Tigers
will tangle with the Golden Bears and
the Wolverines will pay the Pirates;
while next Tuesday will bring the
Wolverines into action against the
Golden Bears, and the Tigers versus
the Pirates.
Last Thursday the Golden Bears
walloped the Wolverines, 10 to 3, and
the Pirates strimmed the Tigers, 20 to
Is. Tuesdays results were: Wolver-
ines rs, Tigers, q; and Golden Bears
Z, Pirates 2
In games played to date the Golden
Bears and Wolverines each have won
five and lost two; the Pirates have
four victories and three defeats, and
the Tigers have been unsuccessful in
all their seven starts.
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City Mail Carriers
Walk 28 Miles Daily
Continued from page II

t0OHllHueu lIOiu page
mailmen will deliver more than 20
tons of mail in Bluffton.
In making deliveries mailmen find
that the morning trip is the heaviest,
with most afternoon loads being no.
ticeably lighter.
Bluffton's two rural route carriers
cover 127 miles between them each
day, it was learned. Mileage on
Route No. / is &c miles and on
Route No. 2 it is 81 miles. In a
years driving the two carriers cover
nearly 10000 miles.
1000 Box HOLDERS
Mail is delivered to a total num-
ber of approximately 1000 box hold
ers on the two town and two rural
routes, it was pointed out.
There are SOC homes to which
mail is delivered by the two town
postmen, two or more boxes being
served at several of these resi-
dences.
On the two rural routes there is a
total of 400 boxes serving more than
500 families.
A staff of seven men is available
for the delivery of mail from the
Bluffton post office. Those regularly
employed are the two men and two
rural postmen. In addition to these
however, there is substitute car
rier for the town and two substitute
rural carriers.
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Games will be played at home and
away this week by the Readrite soft
ball team, the schedule calling for a
night tilt with Lima Wonderbar this
Thursday night at Harmon field and
a league tilt against Lima Shoyels
at Lima, Friday night.
Wonderbar is the leading crew in
the Lima Major league, and is ex-
pected to be one of the strongest
outfits to play on the Bluffton field
this summer.
Against Lima Shovels Friday, the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
Readrite SOftballers To Meet Lima
Wonderbars Here This Thursday Night

! Readrite crew will have an oppor-
tnnity to avenge an early-season de-
feat suffered at Bluffton, when Nc
Keever, star hurler of the Lima out
fit, held the locals at bay.
In league play thus far the Bluff
ton team has 500 standing with a
record of three wins and three
losses. The Readrite crew dropped
two decisions to Wapakoneta and
one to Lima Shovels. Victories have
been scored over DeGraff, Celina and
Lima Westinghouse.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
First Diesel Engine Exploded

When DR.. Rudolf Diesel built his
first compression-ignition engine
more than 40 years ago and tested
it, the new-fangled contraption blew
up and the parts flew far and wide.
DR.. Diesel was simply delighted
That terrific explosion had proved
the soundness of the principle he
had developed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Grove, won the Silver Trophy cup at
Ottawa, last week. 1t must be won
two years in succession by the same
party before being the owner.
Milton Lehman, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joel Lehman, and Lizzie Suter,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam
Suter, were quietly married at the
home of the brides parents. Albert
Schumacher officiated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Cleanliness wasn't always consid-
cred a virtue. Back in the Sixteenth
century, tongues wagged if wom-
an sought attractiveness by wash
ing her face too often. Once or even
twice week was permissible and
even advisable.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
Historic Montgomery

Montgomery, the capital of Ala
bama, also was the first capital of
the Confederacy in 1861. The state
house and the former White House
of the Confederacy contain many
historic relics, portraits of distin-
guished Alabamans and souvenirs Of
Jefferson Davis and other leaders.
A star marks the spot where JEFF
erson Davis stood when he took the
oath of Office as president of the Con-
federacy.'
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
Silicon Puts Sparkle in Ey

Silicon is the substance in food that
makes tissues light and supple, hair
glossy, hearing keen and gives that
sparkle to the eye. And also hard
teeth. 1t is found in spinach, aspara-
gus, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage,
oats, barley, figs, and Strawberries.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
Work of the Muscles

Within reasonable limits, the mus
cles work more efficiently with a
load that feels heavy than with one
that feels light.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
The Sensible Man

"a sensible man." said Uncle
Eben, don't want his own way il
he can find an honest friend whose
way is better"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

There are eight American soldier
cemeteries in Europe, six of which
are in France, one in Belgium, and
one in England
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Idaho's mysterious burning
cave" smells like an old pipe, and
puffs like one, its explorers report
ed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Persons planning to install sewage
systems for the disposal of wastes
from farm homes should remember
that septic tanks do not kill bac-
terra in sewage. The discharge from
the septic tank must be prevented
from communicating streams or
sources of water supply.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Batteries: Readrite-Lewis, Birch
naugh and Wenger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF FEB. q. 1913

Rev. and Mrs. Walter H. Lugibill,
of Lima, announce the arrival of a
son, Tuesday. Mr.. LugibiIl is now
the pastor of the Mission church in
Lima and is well known in Bluffton.
Edgar and Sidney Hauenstein and
brother, Ray, of Toledo, spent over
Sunday with their brother, Armin, at
Ann Arbor, where he is a student in
the University of Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rev. Smith, who are
occupying the Presbyterian parson-
age, will move to Pandora this week.
Paul, son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. H.
Weaver, who is now located at Fort
Douglas, Utah, writes that there is
considerable camp talk of moving
toward the Mexican border.
Mrs. Mary E. David, formerly of
this place, died at the home of her
son, Roy David, at Leipsic, Tuesday
morning. Funeral services will be
conducted at Leipsic this Thursday
forenoon, with burial at the Rock
port cemetery in the afternoon.
Mrs. Harry Mohler, who has been
visiting friends and relatives here
since the holidays, returned to her
western home at Talequah, Okla
homa, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Green an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Flora, of Cleveland,
to Mr.. Karl Wright, of Akron. The
wedding will take place in the near
future. Miss Green graduated from
the Bluffton schools in 1903 and is
now stenographer in one of the
largest wholesale houses in Cleve-
land.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-07-20

Since water expands with both
heat and cold, it occupies the least
space at about 80 degrees Fahren-
heit.
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GERMAN SETTLEMENT

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Leh-
man, boy last week; to Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Amstutz, baby girl; to
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter LugibiIl, of
Lima, a baby girl, their first-born.
Upton kenney, of Columbus
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Batteries: Readrite
and Alspach, Wenger.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
Letters to &dttor
A DE-AARD CoNFESSES
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
would like to take this opportunity to put in
my "plug" for the Greenbe1t Health Associatio
the Greenbelt Hospital. I have been resident of
Greenbelt (Thank GodI for the Last year and half,
and like a good many Greenbelt have been die
hard. With many Utopia-like opportunities con-
verging upon ne from the moment moved here, de-
veloped an Immediate suspiciori-complex. thought,
"Who' paying for all this? Where's the catch? And
what it going to cost mel" simultaneously there
sIrang up with the Utopia-lke opportunit ties,
Trajectory rmors and whisperings Rather than jump
one way or the other, I steered middle course.
aim from Missouri" said. "You gotta show mel"
Well, folks, a week ago shown! It
took the Greenbelt Health Associ alton and the
belt Hospital to do it. But they did it in grand
style. had timidly Joined the Health Association,
in what felt afterwards moment of weakness.
When took ill, with somewhat vague fears fore
bodings, allowed myself to be installed pa
tient in the Hospital. It positively swell! It
Was revolutionary! Doggone it, 1--we been living in
a she'll for a whole year and half. I didn't know
what really could get here in Greenbelt. Thanks
to the Health Association and the Hospital my eyes
are wide open now, and Tim going to circulate
little. And any grapevine and Wtisperings
from on, why, they're going to be good if
have my say, because it's swell bunch Of
and doctors got up "the hi11".
- Charles A. Lewis
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
Coop Question Box

So many questions on the Greenbelt cooperatives
are still asked of Cooperator staff members that
have agreed to run a "co-op Question Box" fea-
ture of the paper. Questions about the Credit Union,
the Health Association, the Gum Drop Coop, the
projected retail consumers cooperative in Greebe1t
Variety Store dropped in the Cooperator box in
the Variety Store. Each week of these questions
on each of cooperative prot jects will be answered
in this column.
best by your response. Let US know if you Like it
or if yor do not like it. Above all-ask the ques-
t1ons now that you have been putting to your g-
bors. We can give you the correct from Of
ficia1 sources. Perhaps this will contribute the
curbins of Greenbelt rlmor.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
Volume 4. 10. 4
December Z. 1899
MADE in --.

The Chri stmas brings another flood of Ger
nan japanese goods to Amei can stores. We would
be the last to provoke "By American" campaign,
because we bel ieve that such short sighted policy
is u1sound economics.
If do not mind the Japanese invasion of China
or the German encroacments upon her neighbors and
upon her minori ties, then we need not question
the origin of toys, novel tics and decorations We
buy this month. If, however, do not condone
these brutal at tacks then we must remember that it
is our purchases OF goods from agressor nations
which give those governments the foreig gn exchange
for buying the m,mitions they need.
The Japanese can conquer all Asia with the 81 TX
sto ceings America buys. Christmas tree ornaments
sold in this country keep Hitler safely in con-
empires.
N.B.-Greenbelt stores are not helping to build
these empires. and Japanesenade goods which
had been included in Chris stmas stocks removed
Last week., If you want German and japanese goods
you Will have to buy then elsewhere.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
A Sound Investment

With the advent Of 1870 Greenbelt again faces the
Since the fundamental principle developed here is
that of democratic CONTROL it is of supreme Import
that those vested with authority for their
of office be capable of conduc ting meetings in
the best interests of all without blundering into
the pitfalls of chaos and time-wasting.
For this reason, we strongly urge the organi Ia
tions which are interested in sound and heal thy
growth that they prevail the Parent-Teacher As
sociation, and those experts in town who are quail
fled, to conduct the short seminar course
parliamentary procedure Last given over year
ago.
Here will be a sound investment of time and ef-
FORT the results of which must obviously be of such
benefit to every group, however, small or Large,
that it would be well draft every leader to at
tend the for the greater glory of the deno-
cratic process.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
Shopping With The Children

Sister Sue is dragging on Nothers arm; the baby
is crying Father's shoulder; and the proud
parents showing their way through the Chri istnas
rush. The children wanted to Santa, and Mother
and Dad had lot of shopping to 80 they combined
business and pleas,re---and everybody suf fered.
DON'T take the children with you your Christ
shopping tour. Make extra trip to see the
old whiskered fellow and the toys. Leave the baby
home when there's afternoon of shopping to be
done. What fun the youngsters get out of Toyland is
rubbed out by the long weary tramp through the
crowded aisles. Then there5 the health hazard, too.
Downtown stores packed with cold germs this time
of year. The risk isn't worth it.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
ONE FOOT ON A BUTTFRRALL

To the Editor:
An eminent dramatic critic of far greater exper-
ience and specialized knowledge of the stage art
than are qualified to presume for ourselves, has
pronounced "ANae and Sing" to be "packed with geru
Inc talent for the theatern, and he has said further
that Clifford odets wrote drama therein nthat is
full of substance and vitality
odets intended nAwake and Sing" to be strong,
vibrant, character study-Ntich it is. The story
is, without doubt leader in its respective type.
To compare it with "The Grapes Of Wrathn Is a stu
dious error, if for other reason than that the
respectiv locales and themes parallel as New
York and California prozdmate.
believe that "Cls ter's Last Stand" stands with
one foot on butterban when it belittles "ANake
and Sing" and suggests that this splendid play
(frank language inclnded-frosty morning or no
frosty norning) is anything but of the finer
productions Of modern age.
- L. L. Eoodman
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07

Bring your coop questions to the Cooperator Of
ice drop them in the cooperator box in the Va
iety Store.
/. Just what is the Greenbe1t Health Association,
and how is it run?
j.. It is cooperative organi zation (vol ntary and
unincorporated) formed by the people of Green
belt for the purpose of securing the best kind
Of medical for themselves, at cost they
all afford to pay. It is run by the members,
in the of every cooperative; the MEMBER
ship controls policy and rates in the
prescribed in the bylaws.
100000
J. What is the Cooperative Organizing Committee
(C.o.C.)?
!. The C.o.c. is committee of Greenbelt citizens,
authorized by and reporting to the Citizens As
sociation, but elected directly by the itizens.
It is charged with the responsibility Of
pleting the organization of Greenbeltis consmn-
cooperative, pending the organization of
which, the local stores being with
out profit by Consumers Distribution Corporation
of New York.
J.. Why should join the Greenbelt Federal Credit
Union if don't expect to borrow any money?
!. person never knows when it will become neces-
sary to borrow money. IF you member of
the credit union, you have place to turn to
when the need arises; your application requires
less investi cation than that of the usual bor-
rover, and you get your loan quickly; you
nave first call on available funds; and you have
a convenient place to save. Furthe r1nore, the
money you money and allows the
other fellow to borrow, while his money in turn
helps to allow you to borrow. In other words,
the credit union member is doubly protected:
he has place where he regularly,
place where he borrow for any productive
purpose.
Friday pay day night in Room 200 over the Va
riety Store.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-12-07
oDETS Is GREAT
To the Editor:
Charles A. Lewis


By his condemnation of "AWake and Sing" as play
full of "Weak and unprinci .1led" characters, Ar.
Howard Custer has inadvertently placed young Cliff
ford odets in the class with such playri ghts
Anton Chekaov, John GalsWortly, Goliere, Bernard
Shaw and William Shakespeare. Among Shakespeare's
outstanding characters who fall under lE. Custer
censorship lacbeth, Shylock, Caesar, othello,
Jack Falstaff, King Lear and Hamlet.
If it is true that of these playVri ghts
would meet LII. Custer's demands for the "gay and
simpler" it is equally true that of them be
called "cheap". Insofar Clifford odets derives
from all of these, he be called great. We join
with those who extend sincere to the
Greenbelt Players who have dared attempt great
play. We rejoice in their success and hope they
Will try again.
Henry and Elizabeth Little