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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
HARD SURFACE
TOWNSHIP ROADS
Nearly Eleven Miles in Orange
And Union Districts to be
Improved
Sum of $1,000 Appropriated by
Commissioners for High
way Program

Nearly IL miles of Hancock county
roads in Orange and Union town.
ships will be hard-surfaced in the
extensive spring and summer high
way Improvement program announced
last week by county commissioners.
Five miles of roads will be inn
proved in Orange township, and
Union township will have a program
embracing work on SIS miles.
In Orange township, Road So, one
mile west of Route SO, will receive
a two-coat surface on the two mile
stretch from the Lincoln highway
north to Road 28.
Two coats of initial oil surfacing
will be applied after necessary re-
pairs have been made to the road.
Within the next year or so, third,
or seal coat, will be added.
A three-mile stretch of Road 27
in Orange township will receive the
third coat this year from Road 1e
| Route SO.
In Union township two-coat sur
faces will be applied to three roads:
Road 70, the Base Line road, from
the Creek road east to Road SO, .25
of a mile.
Road 81, from Dixie highway at
Nickel Plate crossing north to Road
81, 2.75 miles.
Road AZ, from State Route SO a
mile north of Union Center, west
to Road So, 1.25 miles.
A seal surface coat will be put on
Road 81 from Road 80 to Road At, a
distance of 1.5 miles, also in nUion
township.
Hancock county's road program
this summer will include work on
96.16 miles of county highways.
County commissioners have appro-
priated $500 to be expended in each
township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
DELAY SETUP ON
GARBAGE SYSTEM
Council PostpOnes Action Mon
day Night; Returns Show
S0%o in Favor
How to Collect So Annual AS
sessment is Question
Facing Council

How Bluffton's city government
should proceed with the collection of
fees for municipal system of col
lecting and disposing of garbage is
the problem faced by the town council
after so per cent of the returns from
a QUESTIONABLE mailed to all house
holders expressed sentiment favorable
to the plan.
No further action was taken on the
matter at the Monday night meeting
of the council, pending further inves-
tigation as to how the town may leg
ally proceed with collection of fees fol-
the service in case the plan is adopt
ed.
Of the 600 QUESTIONABLE cards mail.
ed by Mayor Wilbur A. Howe, 1896
were returned. Favorable sentiment
was expressed on 332, who said they
would use the service; sc said they
could not.
Cost 50 Annually
Establishment of town-wide sys
tenn of collecting and disposing of gar
bage, ashes, tin cans and rubbish wa.
suggested in the mailing to each loca
householder. Cost to private homes
was estimated at So year, payable
so cents quarterly at the mayors of
flee.
Any plan in which funds would bt
collected by the town offers some com
plications, it was explained at Mon
days meeting of the council.
To collect funds, legislation must be
enacted ,and to some of the council
men there was the question whether
passage of laws relative to garbage
collection and payment to the town fol
it would make cooperation manda
tory on the part of every house
holder. This had not been contem
plated in the original proposal.
Advice of the city solicitor Francis
Durbin will be sought by municipal
officials before any further action is
taken, it was announced by Mayor
Howe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
CENSUS TAKING
STARTED HERE
Enumerators i'm Bluffton and
Richland Twp. Begin
Work Tuesday
Questions Will Include First
National Housing Census
Ever Taken

Census enumerators are busy in the
Bluffton area this week, on calls that
will take them to every household and
entail the interviewing of the heads
of every family.
Two Richland township enumerators
and the one working in Bluffton
started their rounds Tuesday, and
found residents of the local area CO.
operative in answering the questions
which the federal government wants
for its records.
Homer Bracy, of North Main street,
is taking the census in Blufton.
New Questions
In the 1910 census are several ques-
tions not included in previous surveys.
You will be asked this year what
you earned in the last II months;
where you lived five years ago; and
how far you went in school or in col
lege.
This years questionable also will
include the first real housing census
ever taken. Heads of families will be
asked if they live in a single house or
a double one; if they lease it or own
it; if it has bath tub, or furnace;
how many rooms it has; how much
debt or rent is paid, etc.
Questions for Farmers
Visits are being paid to 100000
farms in the country, and this year
the residents of rural areas will an
swer many questions not heretofore
included in the census listing. These
will include queries on the number of
hogs and cattle raised for marketing;
how many horses are owned, etc.
The first census taken in the United
States was in the year 1870 when the
total population of the IL states IN
existence at that time was 3,929,214.
Virginia had the greatest population
of any state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
PUPILS MUST BE
vACCINATED HERE
Precautionary Measures A.
gainst Smallpox Passed by
School Board
Students Must be Vaccinated
Before Entering School
Next Fall

Every pupil attending Bluffton High
and Grade schools must be vaccinated
against smallpox before entering
school next fall.
Ruling to that effect was made at
a meeting of the board of education
Monday night, with announcement
that the new requirement will go into
effect at the opening of the next
school term.
Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf stated that
the action is being taken as a precau-
tionary measure, and that many Ohio
schools are adopting similar pro-
grams.
Before pupil will be admitted to
classes he must present a physicians
certificate of vaccination. Those who
have been vaccinated previously neec
only present the certificate, and there
will be no need for them to undergo q
second vaccination.
Bluffton schools this year have an
aggregate enrolment of 620, Supt
Longsdorf said. 1t is difficult to de.
termine how many of the pupils have
been vaccinated, but estimates OF
physicians indicate that the number is
quite small.
Comparatively little attention has
been paid to vaccination in recent
years.N cases of smallpox have beer
reported here for nearly a decade
with the result that precautionary
measures have been less than in prev
ious years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

quarries.
Demand for old wire fence and
other scrap first became acute last
fall shortly after the outbreak of
the European war. At that time
buyers secured the countryside and
picked up all available materials on
farms and in towns.
With the demand continuing they
next turned to abandoned quarries,
which in the past have proved ex-
cellent locations for disposing of old
fence and other junk items.
Many loads of scrap metal already
have been salvaged from quarries in
this area, and the work is continuing
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

this spring as prices remain at high
levels.
y Farmers obtain Sc per ton for old
fence, and quotations for old black
sheet iron are approximately $3.50
q. ton. Prices are expected to stay
at present levels as long as the war
c'htinues, and may climb higher.
fTruck loads of all kinds of scrap
pass thru the town regularly, en-
route to processing plants, and much
of the material that once served a
putpose in the peaceful Ohio country
side eventually will end as instru-
mejts of death on the battlefelds of
Europe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Former Student Has
Accepted Passionate

Russell Mast, former Bluffton col
lege student, now completing a
course at Hartford Theological SEM
mary, Hartford, Conn, has accepted
the pastorate of Deep Run Mennon-
ite church near Philadelphia, accord
ing to word received here the first
of the week.
He will take up his ministerial
work in June following his gradua-
ton from the seminary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mast now residing
at Hartford will move to Pennsyl-
vania this summer. Mrs. Mast is
the former Miss Alma Hilty, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Hilty of
Spring street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
ANOTHER OIL PIPE
LINE THRU TOWN
Ten Inch Line to Carry Oil
From Lima to Cygnet
Goes Thru Bluffton
Council Grants Buckeye Inter.
ests Permission to Cross
ThorOfares

A new 10-inch oil line will be laid
thru Bluffton this spring by the Buck
eye Pipe Line Co., similar to the pro-
gram of last fall which brought near
ly 200 workers to the town for several
weeks.
Work on the new program will be
started within the next 10 days at
Lima, and it is estimated that approx
imately month will be required to
complete the 46-mile line to Cygnet.
Permission was granted Monday
night by the council to cross Bentley
road, College Avenue, Cherry street,
and the County Line road with the
pipe line.
Route Parallels Railroad
Present route of the company's
right-of- thru Bluffton will be fol-
lowed by the new line. This is east of
the Nickel Plate tracks, and runs par
allel to the railroad thru Bluffton.
This will be the eighth line main
tanned by the Buckeye thru Bluffton.
Two will be 10-inch lines, including
the new one, and the other six are
eight-inch. Announcement of the
work was made by J. J. Roberts of
Lima, right-of representative of
the company.
According to present information a
crew of approximately 200 men will
be located in Bluffton for a period of
about two weeks while work on the
line is under way in this area.
Residents of the town who have ia
cilities for roomers will be contacted
relative to quartering the large crew
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Prospects Good
For Wheat Crop
In This District

CPRING rain which fell We'd
nesday morning was hailed
by farmers as a boon to the
wheat crop. Because of the
frozen soil last month, much of
the previous rainfall failed to
penetrate the ground and the
crop was in need of moisture,
growers said.
Wheat prospects thruout the
Bluffton district are reported
promising. The crop came thru
the winter in good condition and
has suffered little damage from
spring thawing and freezing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
attend Funeral At
Mt. GiIead MOHday

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gettles at
tended funeral services held at Mt.
Gilead, Monday afternoon for Earl
Griffith, Ohio secretary of state
and prominent newspaper publisher
whose death occurred at Columbus,
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gettles resided in
Mt. Gilead for eight years where he
was employed as foreman of Grif-
fith's newspaper, The Morrow County
Sentinel, before they moved to
Bluffton twenty-seven years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
College Vacation
Starts Thursday

Spring vacation at Bluffton col
lege will start Thursday afternoon
at A o'clock. The recess will end on
Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock when
classes will be resumed.
During the spring vacation the
a capella choir of the college will
make a concert tour of the middle
west, leaving Thursday afternoon
and returning April 21.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Old Wire Fence Fished From Abandoned
Quarries as War Demand Creates Market

Water-flled abandoned quarries in
the Bluffton area are disgorging old
fence wire and scrap metal for the
war-machines of Europe.
Graphing hooks are being used to
drag rolls of fence from quarries
where they have lain for years and
the salvaged material promptly is
loaded on trucks and transported to
processing mills for reclamation.
Trucks carry large loads of the
wire thru Bluffton daily, and much
of the scrap obtained in the area
eventually is used in the making of
war materials. Other junk metal
also is being obtained from many
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
On Spring Tour With
BOlUling Green Club

Miss Letha Niswander, student at
Bowling Green State university and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Niswander of South Jackson street,
is on a tour of the east with the
Treble Clef club of the university.
The club, consisting of ID girls is
singing this week in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York. While
in New Jersey they will be guests
of the Westminster Choir college at
Princeton where they will sing in a
chapel program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Recital Program

Miss Jean Marshall, student in
Miami university, Oxford, who is
home for the spring vacation, will
give a violin recital at Rockport
Presbyterian church, Sunday night
at o'clock.
She will be assisted by Miss Jean
Creviston of Lima, accompanist.
The program follows:
Concerto in G. minor Bruch
vorspiei, Adagio, Finale
The Little Shepherd Debussy
Golliwog's Cake Walk Debussy
Miss Creviston
Serenade in d d'Ambrosio
Romance d'Ambrosio
Migonette Friml
The Gypsy Levy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
MEETING POSTPONED

Regular monthly meeting of the
Parent-Teacher association scheduled
for next Tuesday night has been
postponed because of the inability of
the speaker, Probate Judge Raymond
Smith to be here. Date for the
April meeting of the association will
be announced later, officers stated
the first of the week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Motorists Buy 1908
Tags Before April /

Bluffton area motorists had bought
a total of 1908 sets of automobile
license plates at the close of distri-
button last Saturday, the last day on
which tags were sold prior to the
deadline of April l.
Announcement of sales was made
by Robert Lewis, Bluffton registrar,
who said that last year at the same
time seven more sets of tags had
been sold.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Caretdker Named
For Harmon Field

Otto Klay was named caretaker of
Harmon field for the coming sum-
mer at a meeting of the board of
education, Monday night. Klay will
receive $120 for the season.
Ralph Short was designated by
the board as caretaker of tennis
courts for the season, for which he
will receive 500. f
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
With The Sick

Albert Vermillion is convalescing
at Bluffton hospital where he under
went an operation the past week.
Word has been received here of
the illness of DIR. j. c. Wetherill of
Weston, formerly of this place.
Ernest Hall who has been a pa
tient in Lima Memorial hospital has
been removed to his home west of
Beaverdam.
Mrs. Samuel Balmer is quite i'll at
her home south of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Urban, Findlay,
a son, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Steiner,
North Baltimore, daughter, Satur-
day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Lions To Be Guests
OF Ada Rotary Club

The Bluffton Lions club will motor
to Ada, Monday night where they
will be guests of the Ada Rotary
club at dinner meeting. DIR. c.
Henry Smith of the Bluffton club
will be the speaker of the evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01
Negro Is Given
|Five-Yesr Term

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followed srxxIc dpsth q ~ wcu1n
ccmrsnicn. sxss< Shirley N.lsnilh.
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sentenced = me years. = s2le
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believed might keve infested -
wumsn ana eaue~a . deelz&oa y
take h>r iIf<.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01
Fourth Season for
German Camp

Announcements for the fourth
German Language camp on orcas
island. July 20 to Aug. IS. were
issued today by DIR. Warren Il.
Tomlinson. professor Of German At
the College OF Puget Sound. The
first camp was organized in 1887
under the sponsorship Of Reed
college, Portland: College of Pu-
get Sound. and University Of
Washington. Last summer men,
bers of the camp formed as spon-
soring organization the Modern
Language Vacation Camp associa-
ton to insure perpetuation and de-
velopment of this and other camps.
During the three weeks vacs-
ton period on orcas island. only
German Is spoken. To slip In
sdvertently into English Is a seri-
Gus breach Of the only strict camp
rule.
The course of study includes
conversation. reading. grammar,
review for advanced students and
courses for beginners. Though
regular attendance at classes from
the standpoint of the student Is
desirable. there is no set camp
program except to speak the
German language. There Is plenty
of opportunity for outdoor recre-
alton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01
Music Week
May 5 to II

IN connection WITH Muzze we<t.
10 be observed Nay 10 -. Acting
Mayor Ira = psvi-scn Issued :
proclamation tuesday which
states n part:
Il - hereby commend th<se Ct.
forts 70 rive proper Fsco<nilion =
Music week. - our own national
and state composers an artists
and to our cUn mu=scssns: ard =
hereby urge - csis<ns q shs eits
q Tacoma q attend the programs
and ccncerts that I'll b pr>>snt<<
during said w<<k sna 20 led sveFs
possible saprcrt h rsecmes mn
seal endcseurs snd erxanlxsticnl
Throughout the sntlre year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

we've called history and the rec
ords a liar, We suppose wen have
to present our own facts.)
Our navy's first battleship was
the Z. s. s. Illinois. She was
built of wood and bricks in 1898.
The whole project was an off,
shoot of the Chicago World fair
of that year. The navy. among
other governmental departments.
was called upon for exhibits. 1t
was Commodore r. w. Meade who
dreamed up the Illinois.
The Illinois was built from the
blueprints of the Oregon, one of
three battleships under construc-
ton Git takes five years to build a
battleship, even nowadays) and
her entire existence was spent
rooted to the bottom of Lake
Michigan off the shore where the
fairgrounds were.
Frankly, the whole affair sounds
like a whacky waste of taxpayers
money, but we suppose it seemed
like a good idea at the time.
Pilings were driven into the
lake, and atop them were set heavy
timbering and steel framing; that
was the underwater foundation of
the berth deck next below the
main deck.) The Illinois, there
fore, didn't extend right to the
bottom of the lake, but she at
least had one deck below water.
The berth deck was fitted with
dummy matches, scuttles, etc.
The hull of the Illinois-well,
the sides from the waterline up,
then-was made of regular bricks,
covered with cement.
The gun-turrets and other super
structure were made of wood and
lath. covered with cement.
Now don't get the idea she was
just a civilian conception Of our
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

Credit Dentists Upheld
In Oregon Court Ruling

PORTLAND - Circuit Judge
James v. Crawford late Monday
granted N injunction permanently
enjoining the state Beard at Dental
Hammers from prohibiting the
advertising Of credit dentistry.
The ruling was made in : suit
brought against the beard - pr.
Harry semlcr. credit dentist OF
Portland and Salem. The board
was enjolncd from enforcing these
rules:
Prohibiting statements IN the
press or on the radio concerning
the facilities % q certain office
such as scientifically equipped.
latest modern equipment Of
similar expressions.
Prohibiting the empha<is-
ing ef any phase 81 dentistry
BY means al differences IN sise
or Kind Of type IN advertise
mcnt. or by differcnt eesers
Of Ink.
Prohibiting the advertising q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

any speciality or phase a. dentistry
unless TIE advertiser confines hsz
practices 70 sneA specially.
Judge Crawford commented
that. assuming the <latcu<nt~
were true. - could - ~ res-
ssn way such savcrti<iax
would tcnd - nzl>lcea 10
puhlle.
Referring 10 advertised state
ncnts concerning equipment q
methods. Judge Crawford szld,
ssnrh statements sncrely -
scribe the particular equip
meat and enly ~ th> ms~t
remote 81 infercace@ cor Il ~
said that tAe nexelise iaaplt-
cAsiea appears shst esh<s~ srs
not similarly equipped Ard e.
gAnlzed. sucA rcmstc Inspllca-
iica cannot. m my spinlon. hs
made the basin fcr rrchIhitisx
otherwise legitimate sAeerti&-
ing.-
The ruling sald thaf rrrulaiinn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

paper. Last year she belonged 10
the fishermen's union and worked
the season aboard a purse-seiner.
Resurrection
For the first time in two years,
the British Columbia whaling fleet
stood out to sea over the weekend.
Gone are the many sailing ves-
sells of another era; 1940's fleet
consists of the steamers White,
William Grant and Blue.
Revival of the North Pacific
whale hunting Is another product
of war abroad. More ships viii
depart soon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

70 which th< iniunetioa w<Fs maze
applicable were unreasonable. mt
related 10 the states policy coa-
cernlnk the practices a a<ntistry
and not rrfsrahle 10 TIE npAr1's
authority ncr within ~ dl.rr~stan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

relation to an
armored cruiser.
Furthermore,
the am gu s
Oregon, the In
diana and the
NJ as sachusetts
were still under
c on stru ction
when Americas
first battleship
was an actual
fact.
(NoU fhat
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01
Aunt Het

"FoiIure is oIwoys pitiful.
but somehow il seems most
pathetic when O GIRL plucks
her eyebrows ond points her
mouth TO make her look beou-
tiful and il don't work"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

Sailorette

The Anacortes girl who padded
a dugout canoe from her home to
Ketchikan three summers ago is
off this week on a new junket.
She's Betty Annette Low
man, 25-year-old lass who by
now Is more at home afloat
than on the beach.
Now she's on her way to Nova
Scotia (by land) to join the big
schooner-yacht Thunderbird.
She'll hand, reef and steer for
her passage back to the Pacific
coast via the Panama canal aboard
the salty, deep-water windjammer.
No novice at seafaring Is Betty,
Most recently she's been marine
reporter for the Anacortes news.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-01

Battleshps-oang fortresses engined without benefit
of sa-as think of them nowadays are comparatively
recent invention The U. s. navys first batteshp was
built in 1893 She undoubtedly the srangest warshp
ever to fly the flag of any nation.
navy
beres well point out the old Maine by the plans and
and the Texas not true command
dreadnaughs but officers lived