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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
Employ Clerk At
High School Office

Miss Wilma Nonnamaker has been
employed as office clerk at the high
school for the coming year. Action
to this effect was taken by the
Bluffton board of education at its
meeting, Monday night. She sue
ceeds Mrs. K. H. Dickerson, now of
Mineral Wells, Texas, formerly Miss
Kathleen Stauffer, who resigned last
June.
Miss Nonnamaker assumed her
duties at the high school, Tuesday
morning. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sharley Nonnamaker
of Spring street and was graduated
from the high school last spring.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
NelU School Buses
When School Opens

Opening of Bluffton schools next
month will find from one to three
new buses transporting rural pupils
to classes here.
The Bluffton board of education
will meet in special session on
Thursday night, August 81, to take
up the matter of new buses. Altho
the board is asking for bids from
one to three buses, indications at
the meeting of the board Monday
night pointed strongly to the pur-
chase of the latter number.
The new buses will be of some
what larger capacity than those
formerly operated and the number
of units in service will be reduced
from six to five.
Larger size buses, together with
decreased enrolment from the
rural districts make it possible to
operate satisfactorily with five buses
during the coming year instead of
six, board members said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17

Although the property damage
was widespread and will run into
many thousands of dollars, no one
was injured. There were, however.
several narrow escapes as the fury
of the gale picked up outbuildings,
riddled barns, hurled a heavy con-
crete foundation block across a
farmyard thru the window of a near
by dwelling, swept up a calf and
carried it bodily from one farm to
another, disrupted electric current
and telephone service and smashed
plate glass display windows in
Buttons business district.
Besides damage to buildings, trees
by the hundreds had limbs torn off
or were completely uprooted, or
chards were decimated and a record
breaking corn crop in the early
stages of maturity was badly dam
aged by wind and hail.
Recalls Tornado FL Years Ago
The tornado recalled a disaster
here twenty-one years ago when a
similar storm swept across q small,
section near the Ebenezer Mennonite
church two miles west of Bluffton
resulting in one death and heavy
property loss.
Strangely enough the tornado Sat-
urday whose destructiveness set an
all time record of wind damage here
was apparently local in character.
Surrounding localities felt none of
its force. Rain poured in torrents
here while Lima and Findlay had
none and Beaverdam, six miles
southwest, had only light sprinkle.
Bluffton apparently was directly in
the path of the storm which covered
an area some ten miles long by five
miles in breadth. 1t first struck in
the vicinity of the Hillville school
six miles southwest of Bluffton and
blew itself out shortly after crossing
the county line road into Union
township, northeast of town.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
ESTIMATE RISES
ON SEWER COST
New WPA Ruling Increases
Sponsors Share from 20
To 25 Per Cent
Change Would Raise Towns
Cost to $4,000 on Basis
Of First Estimate

Announcement of new regulations
requiring an increase in the sponsors
share of the cost in WPA projects
was received here this week, the lat
est development in reviving interest
in municipal sewage disposal sys-
tenn which IL has been proposed be
constructed with WPA aid.
WPA officials in an announcement
at Toledo referred toa recent ruling
from the United States Attorney Cen
eral specifying that all federal money
spent in 1910, regardless of when pro-
jects are approved, must carry 25
per cent sponsors contribution.
In discussing the matter of sew
age system financed thru the WPA, a
Toledo engineer last week indicated
the towns share of the cost might
be only 20 per cent, the previous min
imum.
Estimate Towns Part $4,000
1t was indicated the project would
cost about 100000, with the munich
pality' share, at 20 per cent, amount
ing to 100000. At 25 per cent, the
new minimum, the cost to the town
would be $4,000.
In presenting the matter informally
at a meeting of the council, the engi-
neer said his figures represented only
a rough estimate, and that the total
cost Nigh be lower or higher.
The proposed project covers the in
stallation of intercepting sewers and
construction of disposal plant. Inter
cepters would be laid along the creek
hanks inside the village limits, and
private sewers would empty into
them.
Bond issues on previous proposed
sewage systems were defeated at the
polls by Bluffton voters in 1885 and
1886.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17

Family Living In Home Wrecked
By Tornado Tell OF Experience
Fall Term Of
School Opens
Here Sept. IL

pLUFFTON high and grade
schools will open for the
fall term on Monday, September
IL, it was announced by Supt. A.
J. b. Longsdorf. Announcement
by the superintendent was made
following the meeting of the
Bluffton board of education Mon
day night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
J. M. OWENS
HURT
Richiand Township Farmer, so,
Hit by Auto, Dies We'd
nesday Afternoon
Thrown Twenty-Five Feet When
Struck by Car Driven by
Toledo Salesman

J. M. Owens, 90, retired farmer
living five miles south of Bluffton
on the Lincoln highway was fatally
injured Wednesday afternoon at
1890 o'clock when he was struck by
an automobile on the highway in
front of his home.
The accident occurred as Mr.
Owens was crossing the road to get
his mail from the rural delivery box
when he was struck by car driven
by G. P Decker, Toledo salesman.
The aged man, thrown twenty-five
feet by the impact of the car, died
several minutes after the accident
without regaining consciousness.
According to Decker's version, Mr..
Owens was struck when he stepped
in front of the car, which he appar-
emily had not noticed.
Mr.. Owens was a lifelong resident
of Richland township, having been
born on the same farm on which he
died. His wife, the former Miss Ida
Montgomery preceded him in death
some fifteen years ago.
Surviving are two daughters Mrs.
Sarah Oates and Miss Clarabelle
Owens both at home and two sons
Dale Owens of Lima and Glen
Owens who is in the east. One sis
ter, Mrs. Martha Ambuhl of San
Francisco also survives.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
Rural Families Are Smaller;
Send Fewer Children To School

B. Longsdorf to the Bluffton board
of education at its meeting, Monday
night.
According to the superintendent's
report a total of 226 pupils was
transported from rural areas to the
school last year. Estimate from the
same area places the total number
for the coming year at 207.
Instead of six buses which were
operated last year, the board plans
TO buy from one to three new buses
of larger size and operate only five
during the coming year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17

Rural families in the Bluffton
school district are becoming smaller.
This tendency which has been recog-
nized in recent years has reached
the point where one less school bus
will be required to transport rural
pupils to the Bluffton schools during
the coming year.
A decrease of nearly ten per cent
in school attendance from the rural
districts will be seen in the enroll
ment this fall, according to figures
submitted by supt. of Schools A. J.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
Travelling COHegians
At Ebenezer Church

The Wheaton college quintet, an
evangelistic group from Wheaton,
ILL.,, will conduct service at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church west of
Bluffton, Sunday night at $50
o'clock, it is announced by the pas
tor, Rev. p. A. Kliewer.
The quintet is on an extended
sumner tour through the northeastern
states and Canada. liner Basinger,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Basinger
of Pandora, is a member of the
group.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
Ralph LOcher Passes
Ohio Bar Examination

Ralph Locher, formerly of Bluff
ton, was among the successful can
didates who passed the state bar
examination at Columbus recently
and has accepted a position with
the firm of Davis & Young, well
known Cleveland attorneys.
Locher, the son of Mrs. Eph
Locher of Cleveland, was graduated
last June from Western Reserve Uni
versity Law School of that city and
was married shortly afterward to
Miss Eleanor Worthington of this
place. The couple are residing in
Cleveland.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
In New Locations

Arthur Lewis and family have
moved from apartments in the Mrs.
VIM. Lewis property on North Lawn
avenue to the J. O. Blome property
on North Jackson street.
VIM. Gaiffe and family who form
erly occupied the Blome property
have moved into the Howard Stager
property on West Jefferson street
which was recently remodeied.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
UNION SERVICES

Buttons union church services
will be held at the First Mennonite
church Sunday night at 7 o'clock.
The speaker has not been announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
ST0R M BRIEFS
Stray Bits of News. Notes and
Gossip in the Wake of
Buttons Storm

last Saturday was the second of its
kind to be experienced in Bluffton
according to the inhabitants who re-
called way back in 1898 when a
tornado ripped the top from the
dwelling of the Conrad Triblehorn
family on South Main street, now
the Mrs. S. S. Motter property. The
storm came in the night of July
and Ex-mayor Fred Triblehorn who
with his brothers was sleeping up
stairs says he remembers finding
himself covered with debris as he
was awakened by the storm.
Maple trees which line many of
Buttons streets suffered heavy cas-
ualties and all available labor was
busy the first of the week cutting
down trees wrecked by the storm
and hauling away the debris.
The large elm tree on the Presby-
terian church yard came thru the
storm practically unscathed. With
exception of several small limbs
blown off, the tree was apparently
none the worse for the experience.
Fragments of shattered window
glass driven edgewise into the hard
plaster wall on the opposite side of
the room at the Santschi farm south
of town on the Dixie highway, gave
plenty of evidence of the force of
the wind.
The storm played queer pranks-
near the chicken house on the
Santschi farm which was picked up
and hurled against the dwelling, a
smaller brooder house, much more
easily moved, stood intact.
Particularly hard hit was that sec
tion of Bluffton east of the Nickel
Plate railroad, including Cherry,
Mound and Geiger streets. The
Amos Thut hay barn at the end of
South Mound street, entirely leveled
by the storm, was the largest single
loss in town. A garage at the home
of Raymond Conrad on Geiger street
was moved from its foundation and
windows of the residence of Mrs.
Ida Burkholder also of Geiger
street were blown in.
Streets without lights are mighty
dark-and Bluffton people fully real
lied it Saturday and Sunday nights
when there was no street lighting
except on Main street. Damage to
lines supplying current for street
lights was repaired the first of the
week and by Tuesday night the
streets were well lighted as usual.
Your modern farmer isn't nearly
as Independent as was his grand
father. Witness the fact that when
rural electric lines went down in the
storm a dozen or more necessary
farm operations dependent upon
electric power came to standstill.
1t was pretty unhandy to use make
shift substitutes and everyone, par
ticularly the hired hand, is mighty
glad to have electric service even if
it may mean the sacrifice of some
of his grandfather's independence.
Imagine the surprise of Guy
Scoles, residing north of town on the
Dixie, when he returned with his
family to their farm after the storm
and found a procession of cows, pigs
and sheep starting out on the high
way to meet them. The Scoles
family were in town during the
storm which completely demolished
garage and played havoc with the
barnyard fence letting out the live
stock. A brooder coop had been
upset and was standing on its top.
1t had been turned over three times
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
Births

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schmidt of
Cherry street are the parents of a
daughter born at the Bluffton Com
munity hospital, Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-17
HEAVY STORM WITH RAIN
AND HAIL SWEEPS TOWN
Bluffton in Center of Violent Storm Area.
Saturday Afternoon; Many Property
Losses in Town and Country;
None Injured

Roaring out of the southwest behind of heavy clouds
of nky backness tornado the Bufftons history
swept the town and its immediate vicinity Saturday after
noon at o'clock The storm accompanied by dovnpour
of cloudburs proportions and hail with buek force
by the high wind
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03

Ell Centro Future Farmers Will
compete for the coveted National
Chapter Contest award for 1889
10 conducted by the national Or
ganization. according to Robert
King. reporter,
Nearly 400 Future Farmer chap
ters enter the contest annually,
King said, and contest winner Is
Judged on cooperative accomplish
ments of the chapter as well as
individual achievement.
Other points considered are, COM
munity service, scholarship, earn
ings and savings, recreational activ-
ity chapter program, leadership
recognition.
Ell Centro offered as individual
achievement in its bid for recog-
notion:
Henry Houses election to state
FLA presidency.
Carl Vogts quantlcation to rep
resent western states at Poultry
Congress.
Yoshiya Tsujimotos winning OF
the Farmer Degree.
Cooperative accomplishments list
ed were:
FLA feed store, which has bought
and sold go tons of feed.
FLA feed grinder.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
BEET GROWERS MEET TO CONSIDER
RESOLUTIONS WHICH WOULD AID
FARMERS, OPPOSE TARIFF CUTS

posed shortage which sent prices
up temporarily at the outbreak of
European war was an isolated one
and that there was then and are
now plentiful supplies for the Am
erican market
He reported a new threat had
arisen in the announcement in Cuba
that the United States was con-
sidering reducing the tariff on
Cuban sugar Is per cent per hun
dredWeight.
Kearney said hearings had been
arranged in Washington for JAN
uary and that the association would
appear to protest any change in
the rates.
He said the tariff on Cuban sugar
now was lower than at any time
since commercial beet growing be-
gan in the United States and thai
there was no "factual basis" tt
justify any reduction. He pointed
out American growers pay higher
wages than the Cuban producer.
and that living costs are higher
here.
The association president advised
the delegates that the present sugar
act would expire Dec. 30, 1910, ano
that congress would be asked in it
next session to consider the entire
sugar problem and devise new
legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
Shipments of
L.v. Hay Drop;
Market UNCHANGED

Imperial Valley hay shipments to
the Los Angeles area fell off slightly
during the past week as alfalfa
markets remained unchanged to
somewhat stronger at the principal
points, according TO the weekly
summary of the Federal-State Mar
ket news service.
Sales of no. / hay were of very
limited volume in the Antelope
Valley at less than $500 per ton
baled at the ranch, and for later
seasonal delivery have been re-
ported recently netting growers up
to $1,000 and $l700 per ton, with
no. extra leafy alfalfa suitable
for the retail trade at prices rang
ing up to $500 and $3.50 per ton
baled at the ranch. Some recent
purchases around S12.o0 per ton
baled at the ranch for later de-
livery, and for immediate shipment
similar grading hay was indicated
as difficult TO purchase at less
than $11,00.
Shipments showing light rain
damage were mostly reported be-
ing held in the Imperial Valley for
at least $500 per ton baled at the
ranch, and some offerings ranged
several dollars higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
800 Attend
Center Meetinu

More than 300 persons attended
meeting of the Spruce -Westmor-
land farm center at Westmorland
school Friday night. according to
Eugene Imler. new center director.
The meeting was featured by in
stallation 70 new officers by C. o.
Hoober, regional director and C. F.
Kamm, president Of the county farm
bureau.
Commander Scott, former British
Royal Air Force aviator, presented a
motion picture and center officers
who served on the Spruce
morland center since its organiZa-
ton were awarded pins.
The farm bureau chorus appeared
in a group of songs. Santa Claus
distributed gifts to the group and
refreshments were served.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
Flax Crushings
Above AVERAGE,
Report Reveals

Flaxseed crushings in the United
States during the first quarter OF
the 1939-40 season were we'll above
the average of recent years, accord
ing to the Agricultural Marketing
service which released its quarterly
Flax Market Review Saturday
Imports during the July-Septem-
ber quarter were the smallest since
the same quarter in 1896. Stocks,
remaining at the first of October,
however, were nearly double those
of year ago, and reflected the
relatively large 1889 United States
crop.
Production of linseed oil in
creased proportionately with the
crushings of flaxseed, but utiliza-
ton of oil also increased. Stocks
remaining october l we're smaller
than at the beginning of the sea-
son, and at the close of the first
quarter last season. Considerably
larger quantities of linseed meal
were available for domestic use
during Juiy-September quarter
than during the same period in 1898
as a result of increased production
and no increase in exports.
FlaXseed prices were relatively
low at the beginning of the season,
but they advanced sharply in Sep
tember with the outbreak of the
European war. Prices in October
averaged practically the same as
| in October 1898 Iinseed oil prices
also advanced during the quarter,
but dropped back slightly in Octo-
Der. At the first of November, how
ever, wholesale linseed oil prices
at Minneapolis were more than
cent per pound higher than a year
earlier. Linseed meal prices, on the
other hand, averaged nearly s5 per
ton lower in October 1899 than in
october 1898, mainly reflecting the
larger supplies available for do
mestic use and the increased COM
petition of soybean meal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
State Announces
Automatic Hike
In Milk Price

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 2 (UP)
The State Department of Agri-
culture today announced automatic
increases of one half cent per
quart in the price of milk in five
marketing areas of the state, ef-
fective today.
The department explained the in
creases are provided for in the
Desmond Milk Control Act when
costs of feed and price of butter
fat advance. California dairymen
will receive six cent per pound. adj
ditional for their milk production
under the order.
The new prices are liz cents per
quart in the San Francisco area,
II cents in the Alameda marketing
area, and 1O1a cents m the San Ber-
nardino-Riverside, Orange county
and San Joaquin areas. Milk de-
livered to homes is one cent higher
in each case.
There will be no change in the
price of milk brought in quantities
of more than one quart.
The five areas affected by to-
days order are only ones now oper-
ating under the automatic price
adjustment provisions of the Des-
mond Act. To make similar in
creases in other areas would re-
quire a hearing in each case, w
j. Kuhrt, associate chief of the
departments division of markets
explained.
Kuhrt said no such hearings are
contemplated at present but ef-
forts are being made to include al
of the states % milk marketing
areas under the automatic plan os
rapidly as possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
Quality Of
Grain Crops
.AnaIyzed

The quality of 1899 wheat, bar
ley, and grain sorghums is some
what higher than in 1898, though
the quality of oats and rye is lower,
the Agricultural Marketing Service
states in it's November Grain Qua
lity Report. The report is based on
inspected receipts at representa-
tive markets from July through
October 1899.
The report covers wheat, barley,
oats, rye, and grain sorghums.
Tables, showing the important vari-
cites and subclasses, indicate the
percentages of the total inspec-
tions that fall into the various
grades and special grades, COM
pared with 1898, and the average
for the 1934-38 period.
More recent reports of wheat mar
ketings indicate a considerable in
crease in the number of cars graded
sample because of storage damage,
muSty, and heating. A market in
crease in the number of cars of
both hard and soft winter wheat
grading "weevily' also has been
noted.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
Long-Range4-H
Club Program
Shows Results

Fourth club work in The Imperial
Valley, which has become one of the
more important organizations for
development of the county, will
continue to progress as the pre-
sent long-range program goes into
effect, Lee Landerman, assistant
county agent reported Saturday.
Stressing long-range projects and
the fundamental economics of farm
ing in All club work has made the
organization one that will produce
more outstanding farmers to in
sure the safety of future agriculture
in the county. Landerman said.
In other words, instead of allow
ing the All youngsters to follow a
hit-or-miss system and allowing
those boys and girls to sponsor one
project one year, another the next,
well planned long range program
has been mapped for each club
member.
Projects offered in All work in
clude, beef, sheep, swine, poultry,
dairy, crop, clothing and home
furnishing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-03
POST PRESS
FA RM PAGE
Soil Conservation
Program Includes
7 Million Acres

In the two years since the first
soil conservation district was or
ganized by farmers under State
law. erosion work in districts has
spread over more than 1000 farms
embracing nearly two million acres
H. H. Bennett. chief of the Soil
Conservation Service announced to-
day.
On these farms, scattered through
1l6 districts in % states, nearly
$4,000 acres have been retired from
cultivation because of inability to
produce crops profitably Some OF
this submarginal land has been
planted to trees and other types
of permanent vegetation. Perman-
ent hay acreage has increased some
100 percent-from 23,700 acres two
years ago to $1,000 acres today.
Experienced soil conservationists
have helped farmers work out ap-
proved crop rotations for 100000
acres. Cooperating farmers have al
ready established sound crop ro-
tation on 100000 of these acres.
That is an increase of 372 percent,
since before agreement the acreage
farmed by the rotation system was
slightly more than $4,000 acres
Pasture and range development
two major erosion control devices
have been carried out on 100000
acres, an increase of some 10000
acres. Livestock have been excluded
from $4,000 acres of woodland for
merly in pasture.