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Evening star., 1939-05-21

has served the society as vice presi-
dent and acting president, is the
author OF II books-geographies,
geographical stories and folk tales
based on her travels and research
in the countries she describes. Her
earliest travels and geographical
work were undertaken in collabora-
ton with her father, the late Frank
G. Carpenter, whose name has been
prominent in geographical fields
for more than 40 years. Like her
father, she is a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society of London.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
U. D. c.. Card Party

The Asha Faison Colwell Williams
Chapter, U. D. c., will hold a card
party and dance tomorrow night at
Hillcrest, $500 Thirteenth street NV.
Cards will begin at 8 o'clock and
dancing at Q
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Zeta Beta Chi

The bi-monthly educational meet
ing of Delta Chapter, zeta Beta
Chi Sorority, will be held tomorrow
at 7:45 pm, at the Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
WOmen's Clubs to Deviate
From Custom for
Annual Sessions
League of Women Voters
Will Meet at Y. w. G.. A.
Vacation Lodge
BY FRANCES LIDE,
Wonep'S club Editoy

Variation in the customay carried
closing the club this
Needing the outdoors, Of Columbia
League Women Voters decided
session the Vacation Lodge
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

Wenger and Fritz Swank each hit
four. Augsburger led in triples with
five.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Reddrite Team Wins
FnteeH, Loses Nine

Winning Is and losing nine the
Readrite softball team closed one of
its most successful seasons in years.
Another game ended in a tie score.
In winning Is contests the locals
scored It's runs and defeated some
of the best teams in this area.
The seasons summary:
Readrite Is, Benton Ridge 8
Readrite A, Wapakoneta IL
Readrite 8, Conner 2
Readrite O, Lima Shovels 6
Readrite 13, Ebenezer IL
Readrite IL, DeGraff 8
Readrite 7, Celina 5
Readrite 5, Lima Westinghouse
Readrite 1, Pandora 2
Readrite s, State Hospital 8
Readrite 5, Bradfield Center 6
Readrite l, Wapakoneta 10
Readrite Is, Wonder Bar l
Readrite /, Lima Shovels 8
Readrite IL, Ada 3
Readrite a, Lima All-Stars
Readrite 16, Pandora
Readrite 0, Celina
Readrite 10, Metropolitan Bank
Readrite 0, Lima Westinghouse 1C
! Readrite II, Fostoria 3
Readrite 18, State Highway 9
Readrite 27, Pandora 0
Readrite Is, Cleveland 5
Readrite 8, Lima All-Stars %
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
| american
dventurerS
BY Elmo Scott Watson
. !. The Mad Poet

Two ! months before Mcdonald
Clarke died he wrote this auto
biography: "Begotten among the or
ange groves, on the wild mountains
of Jamaica, West Indies. Born in
Bath on the Kennebec River, State
of Maine, 18th. June, 1898. 1st. Love,
Mary H. of New London; last Love,
Mary G. of New York; intermediate
sweethearts without number. No
great compliment to the greatest
Poet in America-should like the
change tho; had to pawn my Dia-
mond Ring (the gift of a LADY, and
go tick at Delmonico's for Dinner.
So much for the greatest Poet of
America"
If that sounds a bit "goofy" to
you, it's no more so than much of
the poetry he wrote. That's why he
was called 1.-THE Mad Poet" At the
beginning of the Nineteenth century
he was constantly seen on Broad
way, his blue coat and military
bearing, enhanced by his marked
profile, making him a conspicuous
and striking figure"
From 1920 to 1841 he issued eight
books of poems. Then the MAD
Poets adventure in living came TO
tragic close on March 5, 1912. A
policeman found him on the street
in a destitute and apparently de-
mented condition and took him to
jail for safekeeping. The next morn
ing he was found drowned by wa
ter from an open faucetl
Western Newspaper Union.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Drivers Licenses On
Sale Here Next Week

Automobile drivers licenses for 1910
will go on sale in Bluffton next Tues
day, with Robert Lewis, deputy regis
trar, opening an office in the Steiner
Chevrolet garage.
New driving permits must be pur-
chased before October l.
In applying for license, motorists
must present their 1889 certificates,
according to a new ruling announced
by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehic-
les.
Those wishing licenses, and who
do not have 1889 permits, must write
to the state bureau to have their rec
ords cleared before they will be eli
gible to make application for 1910
certificate, it was pointed out. This
will apply in case licenses have been
lost destroyed or stolen, or if the ap-
plicant failed to obtain a permit in
1889.
Those holding temporary instruc-
tion permits, and who passed driving
examinations during the month of
August will not be required to obtain
a 1889 license, but may make applica-
tion for 1910 licenses when they go on
sale.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Bluffton High Gridders Have Nine
Games; Five To Be On Home Field

in admission prices will be in effect
this year as a result, Stettler an
nounced. Reduced prices will apply
for both season and single admission
tickets.
With only five lettermen returning
for the team this fall, Coach Dwight
Diller has had his crew of gridiron
aspirants hard at work at the field
for more than week in preparation
for the opening of the season.
The complete schedule, released by
Stettler, is as follows:
Sept. 15-Pandora, at home.
Sept. 22-Lima Central, there.
Sept. 22-Ada, there.
Oct. 6-Van Vert, at home.
Oct. 13-Celina, there.
Oct. 20-St. Marys, at home.
October 26-Wapakoneta, at home.
Nov. 3-Bellefontaine, there.
Nov. 10-Shawnee, at home.
All night games with the exception
Of that at Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

Bluffton High gridders will play
nine games during the coming season,
five of them at home, Faculty Mana
ger Sidney c. Stettler pointed out
this week in announcing the 1889
schedule.
All of the home games and three
of the four on foreign fields will be
at night, marking amost complete
transition from the former day con-
tests.
Buttons season will be opened at
home on Sept. Is, with Pandora as the
opponent, and the closing contest of
the year will be on Nov. 10 when
Shawnee appears here.
Three Western Buckeye league
teams will be played on the Bluffton
field, the schedule bringing Van Vert
1888 champion, st. Marys and Wapa-
koneta here.
Buttons $1,000 lighting system
installed two years ago, has beer
completely paid for, and reduction
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

In their closing contests of the
season the Readrite softball team
won two decisions and dropped one,
scoring victories over Pandora and
a Cleveland team and losing to the
Lima All-Stars.
Scores of the three games We're:
Bluffton 27, Pandora O; Bluffton 10,
Cleveland Servicemen 5, and Bluff
ton 8, Lima All-Stars %.
Against Pandora the Readrite crew
was unbeatable, and after being held
scoreless in the first inning they
went on to win handily by mar
gin of 27 to 0.
The visitors made only three hits
off the hurting of Slim Hetrick, and
Readrite fielders played errorless
ball to earn the shutout. Bluffton
batsmen on the other hand garnered
90 hits, and Is Pandora errors con-
tributed in no small degree to the
rout of two Pandora hitters.
Birchnaugh, Burkholder and Augs-
burger each spanked three hits to
lead the Readrite batting attack
Home runs were poled by Lewis
Burkholder and Lewis, and Augs-
burger, Hetrick and Burkholder got
three-baggers. ~
In previous contests between the
Readrite and Pandora outfits this
year, each team had won one game
and last weeks victory gave Bluff
ton the edge in inter-city competi
tion, two to one.
At Cleveland last Sunday, th'
Readrite team toyed with service
mans team and won handily by ;
count of Is to 5. Birchnaugh hurled
steady ball for the winners.
Tuesday nights game with th
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Augsburger Tops
Readrite Hitters

Ralph Augsburger topped Readrite
hitters with a mark of .309 in the
25 games played during the last sea-
son, with Fritz Swank second with
a mark of .295.
Dick Burkholder, hitting, 290 was
third, and Norm Triplett stood
fourth with .289. Willie Triplehorn
batted 555, but appeared in only
three games.
Burkholder was the leading home
run slugger, getting five round-trip-
pers. Wenger hit three and Miller,
Bert Swank and Fritz Swank each
got two.
In doubles Steiner got five and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
~ssFT
STUDENT RECITAL

The following pupils of Miss
Carolyn Romey appeared in piano
recital at her home last Thursday:
Alice Waltz, Roger Bell, Doris
Roether, Carol Henry, Jean Strahm,
Evelyn Meyer, LaDonna Johnson,
Juanita Knepper, Geraldine Henry,
Ann Dukes, Betty Wolfey, Marilyn
Waltz, Marilyn Reiter, Jane Dukes,
Miriam Dearth, Joan Carr, Carolyn
Meyer, Margaret Hickman, Kathleen
Waltz, Ruth Dukes, Alice Carton,
Crolyn Meyer, Francis Habegger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Settlement

Miss Matilda Basinger, Mrs. Selma
Sommer, Miss Martha Suter and
Dwight Suter attended the Suter re-
union which was held near Harrison
burg, West Virginia, one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlin r. Kohl and
daughter Dorothy Ann and son
Bobby of Wheaton, ILL.,, spent a
couple of days near Lakeside, Ohio,
and on their way home brought with
them his father, E. d. Kohl and
spent Thursday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram NJ. Kohl and family, re-
turning to Wheaton on Friday.
Albert Lehman is building a shed
addition to his barn. Theophilus
Welty is doing the carpenter work.
Ellis Steiner is at present remodel
ing the stable part of his barn.
Miss Gillispie of North Carolina
and Miss Flueckiges, formerly OF
Berne, who were students at the
Moody Bible Institute, are visiting
with Miss Henrietta Schneck fol
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Schumacher
and daughter of Erie, Pa, are spend
ing a few days at the Willis Schu-
macher home. Mr.. Schumacher is
employed by the widely known
Skinner Engine Works of Erie, ano
travels very extensively.
On Saturday evening at the home
of Mrs. d. C. Steiner, her daughter
Edith was married to Walter Meigs
of Warren, Ohio.
The members of the David Wengel
family had a basket dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Lora
near Columbus Grove.
Abraham Suter was again able tt
attend services at the church on Sun
day morning after several months
illness.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Seneff, missionarie!
to Belgian Congo, Africa, spoke a
| the morning service at the st. JOIN
church and in the evening the.
showed stereopticon views from theil
| field of work. Visits by missionaries
always bring US inspirations. The.
are to leave for their place of worl
sometime in September.
Dick Thrapp is delivering trucl
loads of melons to Columbus fo
Omar Gratz.
i A. E. Kohl is displaying hi
power lawn mower at the State Fai
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer D. Reichen
bach and sons ROLAND and Donal,
returned from their eastern trip o.
Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Roeth
lisberger took charge of the Choir
. iwork while they were gone.
Il Dennis Diller trucked some of tn
F. F. A. and All club live stock t
the Ohio State Fair last Frida
night.
Kenneth Hilty and Dean Deitle
met with quite serious acciden
while riding motorcycle east o
Bluffton on State Route No. 10;
and collided with an automobile driv
en- by Earl Crawford. Hilty suffere
a fractured leg and Deitler's eye wa
so injured that it necessitated it
removal. The boys were on thei
way to visit the new cannery a
Wharton, where William Clay is il
charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glare R. Green an
daughters Miriam and Marjorie o
Kirksville, Mo, returned to thei
home after spending some time wit
relatives in the community.
Messrs. Walter and Grover Geige
transported some exhibition cattl
and horses to the Ohio State Fai
for Elan Suter and Albert BURY 4
Son.
Rev. d. j. Unruh is conducting tn
morning radio devotional program
from the Lima station from Wed
neSday to Saturday inclusive
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

Many of our young folks from the
community are leaving this week for
their various places of employment
in schools and colleges in Ohio and
other states while many others are
leaving to attend institutions of
learning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Bucher of
Lima attended services at st. John
church on Sunday morning.
Mrs. N. N. Soldner was at Berne,
Indiana on Saturday to attend
class reunion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Return From 5000
Mile Auto Tour

Mr.. and Mrs. S. II. Pifer, of Raw
son, returned last week from 5000
mile western automobile tour that
took them as far west as Yellow
stone National park.
From Yellowstone they went tt
Billings, Montana, to attend the
famous radeo held there every sum
mer. On their way home they mo-
tored through the Black Hills and
the picturesque state park of South
Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pifer were gone two
weeks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

of Ralph Ewing.
A number from here took in the
excursion to Gauley Bridge, w. Va,
leaving Findlay, Tuesday evening.
The principal attraction is the pic
turesque mountain scenery. Among
the excursionists are Misses Emma
and Lavina Geiger, Nellie Conrad,
Inez Doty, Mrs. Sarah Wiers, Mr..
and Mrs. Enos Steiner, w. B. Moore
and family, Frank Hartman and
wife, Marshall Jennings, Orton, John,
Charles and Cliff Stratton, Godfry
Bigler, Eli and Peter Hartman, Jack
Halter, S. S. Swartz and Cliff Doty.
Miss Florence Kohl is taking a
two-weeks' vacation with friends at
Goshen, Ind.
School opens one week from next
Monday. A number of creditable
changes have been made in the
buildings during the summer months
Superintendent Arganbright is busy
getting everything in readiness foi
opening day. The following is the
teaching corps and their assigned de.
partments: High school principal, |
! w. Geiger; assistant principal, S. d
Basinger; eighth grade, Clyde
Waltz; seventh, Charles Chandler
sixth, Miss Zoe Bentley; fifth, Miss
Edith McPeak; fourth, Miss Carrie
Howey; third, Misses Jennie Corn
we'll and Linda Amstutz; second
Misses Sibyl Close and Helen Bow
man; first, Miss Davis.
1 GERMAN SETTLEMENT
At the meeting of the Richlant
township school board Monday, d. ]
Basinger was hired as principa
teacher, and will have charge of th'
township schools.
! Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Gratz
Aug. 81, a son. This makes Han
and lady grandparents to 27 livin,
grandchildren, all in the immediat
vicinity at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Badertsche
are the proud parents since las
Thursday of the arrival of Mis-
Helen Edna. Grandpa Andrew Frey
man is happy man now.
The many friends of Rev. Be-
Diller who had his leg amputate'
some time ago, will be pleased t
learn that he has so far recovere
that he is able to be up and aroun
again.
F. P. Diller, who has a good posi-
tion as station clerk, on the LAX
Shore railway, at Sandusky, wa
home Sunday.
A. B. Welty, who is at presen
travelling thru Oklahoma, in tn
interest of the j. /. Case Threshin
Co., of Racine, Wis.,, son of Mr.. an
Mrs. Fred Welty, will be marie
Tuesday morning, Sept. 4, to Mis-
Mabel McCrory, at the home of tn
bride at Angola, Ind. They will com
direct to Bluffton to take part in tn
golden wedding anniversary of Nj
Welty's parents.
! 1t may interest a number of ,ou
readers to learn that P. P. Welty q
Columbus Grove, former Settle
Il ment boy, who lost his wife last fal
has secured him another true perso
! in the person of Miss Elisa Nose
of Wayne county, and has agar
commenced housekeeping about tw
weeks ago in Columbus Grove, wher
he owns broom factory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
PIANO RECITAL

Mrs. Don Patterson will present
the following pupils in piano re-
cital at the First Mennonite church,
Thursday night at o'clock:
Betty Deeds, Morris and Margaret
Groman, Florine Nessler, Irene and
Audrey Heldman, Jimmy and Teddy
Stepleton, Mary Louise and Ralph
Balmer, Harry Klay, Marjorie
Brown, Betty Keller, Naomi Smith,
Bernard Fish, Roddy Balmer, Ruth
Moon, Mary Ann Robinson, Mary
Belle Shaw, Harriet Burkhardt
Dorothy Anderson, Mary Elizabeth
Habegger, Clara Louise Reagan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Readrite SOftball Team Wins Two
And Loses One In Closing Games

Lima All-Stars was rout, with the
locals going down to defeat, % to 3.
The visitors got six runs in the first
inning and had another big rally in
the sixth when they added six more.
Seven of the nine Readrite runs
were made in the ninth inning, when
the locals batted around.
Bert Swank, Lewis, Burkholder
and Augsburger each got three hits
for Readrite.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31
Woman Breaks Thumb
In Auto Crash Here

Five persons escaped serious in
jury Monday morning at 10 O'Clock
when automobiles driven by J. =.
Shoemaker, SIS, of Fremont, and N.
w. Hochstettler, of near Pandora,
collided at Main and Elm streets.
Mrs. Alice Nelson, 81, of Fremont,
passenger in the Shoemaker car
was the only casualty, She SUI
fered broken right thumb. Others
in the auto, Iva Burch, 16, and Katie
Fisher, IL, both Of Fremont, were
unhurt. Shoemaker and Hochstettler
also escaped injury.
Both cars were damaged IN the
crash.
What do costly sepultures ana
stately mausoleums amount to II we
have no enshrinement in human
hearts?
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06
Would New York State Like Alaskan For Governor

correspondence with Governor Leh-
man and said he was resigning be-
cause of a long illness.
Peter Sourdough was born IN the
family homestead cabin on Ptarm-
agin Greek. near Juneau, February
6. 1887. and graduated from the
Wrangell High School with honors
and married in 1912. He has two
sons, Harry who visited New York
four years ago and John who &C
companied his father to New York
last year.
IN 1911, Peter, cur readers will
remember, acted as Special Cores
pondent for the Sentinel during
spare hours from his trap line.
IN 1914 ON account of the poor
trapping season in his country"
around Ptarmagin Greek, Peter was
able to enlarge his activities by also
assoeiating himself with the famous
juvenile Chitina Herald.
The year 1880 found Pete Presi-
dent Of the Alaska Trappers Cor
poration, with headquarters in
Wrangell, which Corporation our
readers well know has done SO much
for the trappers of Uncle Sans
Ice Box"
We are sure all our Readers will
agree with US that Peter Sourdough
of Ptarmagin Greek will be a pop
ular and efficient Governor of the
State of New York. as he is emf
nently fitted by long experience for
solving the problems confronting
him on the Atlantic seaboard. All
Alaskans will be sorry to have their
favorite son leave the country,
where his long experience as a sue
cessful trapper certainly gives him
an intimate knowledge of the admin
istrative problems awaiting him at
his new post at Albany, New York. "
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06

why not an Alaskan for Cover
nor. an editorial in the Sentinel OF
September S, was read with as much
interest apparently among Sentinel
readers in the states as in Alaska.
Fenley Hunter, president of the
Hunter Illuminated Car Sign Co,
with works and stores at Flushing.
New York, who has made several
big game hunts in the Cassiar and
spent a season of scientific inTesti-
CATION in the Northwest Territory.
was prompted on reading the edi-
torial and the article about Dr..
Gruening. to try his hand at edito-
rial writing.
Turning the tables. Mr.. Hunter
wrote a take-off of DR.. Ernest
Gruening's journalistic endeayors
and his two trips to Alaska, each
time accompanied by a son, which,
according to press notices released
at the time of his appointment as
governor of Alaska. seemed to con-
stitute the basis for the appoint
ment of an outsider instead of one
of the many outstanding men in the
Territory to that post.
Mr.. Hunter cleyerly makes the
point that it is just as preposterous
to appoint an outsider as governor
of Alaska as it would be to appoint
an Alaskan, born in Juneau, edu-
Gated at Wrangell," to be governor
of the state of New York, in the
following article submitted to the
Sentinel:
president Roosevelt announced
Saturday the resignation of New
York Governor Herbert L. Lehman
and the recess appointment OF Big
Pete Sourdough, the popular native
born Alaskan of Ptarmagin Creek.
The White House made public the
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06
City Council Action Shows Confidence Club Women

one woman is responsible for the
clubs success in community work.
The club last May celebrated its
twenty-sixth birthday and elected
Mrs. johnson for the eleventh year
as its president
Some years ago the club, which
owns the public library, ineorpor-
ated in order to secure the annual
appropriation provided public Ii
braries from territorial funds.
AS an incorporated body it can
execute leases and fot this reason
the city council nay signified its
consent to a five-year lease on the
property. The community center
therefore, is assured of being a con-
tinuing project and in the coming
five years undoubtedly will prove
to be the focal point of much val
liable work in the welfare and pro-
gress of the town.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06

Statement of the ownership man
agement, circulation, etc., required
by the Act of Congress of August
"a, 1912
OF the Wrangell Sentinel published
weekly at Wrangell, Alaska, for 0c-
tober l, 1899.
Territory of Alaska. First Judi
cial Division Before me a Notary
Public in and for the Territory and
Division aforesaid, personally ap-
peared Sarah Eleanor Pritchett. who
having been duly sworn according
to law, deposes and says that she is
the publisher of the Wrangell Sen
tinel, and that the following Is, to
the best of her knowledge and belief
a true statement (and if a daily
paper, the circulation,) ETC., of the
aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required
bodied in section All, Postal Laws
and Regulations to-wit:
1. That the name and address of
the publisher, editor, managing edi-
tor and business manager is Sarah
Eleanor Pritchett, Wrangell Alask-
ka
2. That the owner is Sarah
Eleanor Pritchett, Wrangell, Alaska.
That the known bondholders,
mortgages, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mort
cages, or other securities are. NONE.
SARAH ELEANOR PRITCHETT.
Owner.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 5th day of October. 1899.
L. B. CHISHOLM
(My commission expires May 90,
1942).
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06
SLUMBERER AROUSED BY
BLOW FROM PLAYFUL BEAR

ANCHORAGE Having his
sleeping bag paved by bear while
he was inside of it is the unusual
tale brought back by John Murray,
from a trip to Eklutna lake.
Murray 81, who came from Chi
cago, was on a pieture-making ex-
petition when he was awakened by
a curious bear investigating his
sleeping bag.
Murray felt a blow that almost
turned the bag over He comforted
himself inside the bag with the
thought that 1t might have been a
falling limb, but he soon realized
that he was above the timber line.
A loud snort confirmed his worst
fears. A bear was visiting him.
Murray lay as still as possible,
took no action for two or three
minutes. After all was still he open
ed the flap, jumped to his feet and
grabbed his rifle. There was no bear
in sight.
Murray found many large bear
tracks around the sleeping bag.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-06
BOYS CLOTHING

Boys clothing in sizes 3 to II
years New shipments each boat.
Silver Fox hosiery for women. Clean
ing and Pressing. Betty Cunning
ham. ADV.