The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-09
Meeting Tuesday Night

meeting tuesday Night
The monthly meeting of the Bluff
ton Community Sportsmen's club
will be held on the third floor of the
town hall next Tuesday night at
800 p. m.
Pointers on conservation in the
field and law enforcement problems
will be discussed by Rudy Clevenger,
Allen county game warden. The
membership is invited to make a
question and answer forum of this
part of the program. Rudy will be
glad to iron out any wrinkles in the
law that can be explained at the
meeting. Please have your questions
ready. They may be written and
the warden will take up as many as
possible during the program.
Rudy is well known and we'll liked
thru-out the area and the discussion
will be of interest Ladies and
men are invited to attend the meet
ing.
Sound motion pictures will be
shown starting promptly at 500 p.
m. The films are entitled Hitting
Flying Targets" and "The Making
of a Shooter. Both films are ex-
cellent presentations and give con-
structive as well as exciting enter
tainment.
Be sure and plan to be present
at this fine entertainment arranged
by Silas Diller, the program chair
man, and make arrangements to
bring an interested friend along.
The club is growing by leaps and
bounds, and this year there will be
at least a hundred lady members in
the organization. All persons over
Is are eligible to join and member
ship is open to all interested in con-
servation. The one dollar member
ship card, available from all club
directors and club hunting and fish
ing license dealers, entities the men,
ber to all the privileges and benefits
of the organization. Membership is
not restricted to the Bluffton area
and sportsmens names are on the
roll who reside as far away as
Akron and many other distant cities.
Lease Granted to Club
A joint contract between the Will
age council, the Richland township
trustees, and the sportsman's club
has been signed and the club has now
possession of the third floor of the
town hall as future headquarters for
the organization. The lease drawn
up by the city solicitor, Dan Triple
horn, is made out for one year.
Under terms permitted by law a
lease can be had for period of only
one year at time. The council and
township have given every indication
that renewed will be granted.
A decorator has been employed by
a committee named to plan the re-
decoration. Chairman C. Y. Stone
hill states the wall of the rooms
will be painted with a product in
the nature of Kemtone and the stair
way leading from the Legion floor
will undergo redecoration also. A
portion of wall on the third floor
will be removed for the purpose of
constructing stage in the recreation
room. The new room formed which
will open into the recreation room
will also allow ample space for the
installation of an indoor archery
and rifle range.
Work Starts Thursday
This Thursday night at TOO p. m.
all available club members are re-
quested to be present to aid in the
preliminary work which must be done
before the painters arrive. Members
are asked to bring along putty
knives to remove portion of loosen
ed wall paper, dust mops for mop
ping down the walls, bushel baskets,
saws, hammers, crow bars, and other
tools necessary for the removal of
the wall and cleaning. Silas Diller
has been appointed to lay out plans
of operation and chart will be on
hand showing the work to be done.
The preliminary work can be COM
pleted in one evenings time. Your
cooperation is needed.
Despite days of bad weather, with