The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22

Championship tennis players are
developing in BIuffton at an earlier
age than they did generation or
two ago. Fact is the average age
of contestants in the semi finals of
the Bluffton city tournament this
summer was 26 years. Back in the
old days when the trimvirate of
Bixel, Scheid and Steiner were head
liners on the local courts the aver
age age was probably around 40.
Mayor w. A. Howe, reputed to be
around so, is the oldest regular
player on the courts here.
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Roland Swank, former Blufftonite
now superintendent of Elida schools,
here Saturday, says the shortage of
teachers isn't as serious as finding
a place for them to live. The situa-
ton, which he described as bad in
Elida, has its parallel in Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Spayth, both
employed to teach in. the schools
here, have been unable to find living
quarters and may continue to live in
Lima and commute to Bluffton. John
Martin, the new music instructor
with a wife and Is months old baby
is looking for a house or apartment
and Supt. Lanham and family are
hoping soon to be more or less
permanently settled in the Leland
Sechler property, formerly the Geo.
Barnes residence at Jackson and
Franklin streets.
Lester Niswanders of South Main
street entertained company at fish
dinner, Sunday, when generous
portions of king mackerel were
served. The fish were caught by
Lester and his son Bobbie while
deep sea fishing in the Gulf of
Mexico while on a vacation trip. The
largest mackerel measured 81 inches
in length and weighed 10 pounds
dressed. The fish were sent here
from Louisiana packed in ice and
later frozen in locker at Basinger's
meat market.
Coming from Robstown, Texas, by
auto, Hiram Welty and three daugh-
ters and a nephew James Welty,
made the 1000 miles in three days.
They started Monday and arrived in
Bluffton, Thursday afternoon for a
three weeks visit.
Hiram is one of the Bluffton boys
who with his brother the late Cyrus
Welty went to Texas some thirty
years ago and settled in the Rio
Grande valley near Corpus Christi
where they have developed a profit
able business of raising cotton. Bluff
ton people who last spring bought
land in Texas for raising oranges
and grapefruit are some 100 miles
farther down the valley near
Brownsville.
West Virginia toll bridges over the
Ohio river have paid out and now
are free which was made possible
by a bill introduced in the West
Virginia legislature in 1917 by w.
w. Carder now living in Bluffton
who was a member of the legisla-
tive body at that time. Both states
joined at that time in the project to
build bridges to be financed by tolls.
Carder, who moved to Ohio in 1920,
now lives at 335 South Main street.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the Common Pleas Court of Allen Coun-
Case No. 37040
| John +. Dunaway, 65l Ewing Avenue, Lima,
Ohio. Plaintiff, vs.. Florence f. Dunaway.
2I0 Street. Fayetteville. North Carolina.
The Defendant Florenee El Dunaway,
whose place of residence is 2ie B Street
rayetIes bst ebn HSta osr9sY take o notice
grounds of gross neglest tf duty and extreme me
cruelty, and for other Nvduitable relief. Said
| weeks from the date of the first publication
of this notice. to-wit: on and after the 10th
JOHN T. DUNAwAY.
| 81 BY l. B. Steele, His Attorney.
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