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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Donna HdrtzLer And
James Hdr1liSh We'd

Wedding of Miss Donna Hartzler,
bookkeeper in the business office of
Bluffton college and James Harnish
of Eureka, ILL.,, took place in the
Pleasant View Church of the Breth-
rem near Lima, Wednesday after
noon.
The bride is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond L. Hartzler of
Bloomington and the bridegroom the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Harm
ish of Eureka.
Attending the bride was her sis
ter, Miss Willagene Hartzler OF
Bloomington and John Harnish of
Eureka, brother of the bridegroom
was best man. Rev. Clarence Bow
man of Johnstown, Pa, former pas
tor of the church, officiated.
Following the ceremony the cou-
pie left on a wedding trip to Nj
agara Falls and Canada.
Mr.. Harnish who has been en-
gagged in civilian public service will
enter Bluffton college this fall as a
sophomore and Mrs. Harnish, who
was graduated from the college in
the class of 1945 will continue hei
position in the business office. The
couple will live in Lincoln hall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Former BIuftOn
Woman Is Married

Wedding of Mrs. Nina Klay Bark
ey of Cleveland, formerly of Button
and Joseph Rush also of Cleveland
took place in that city on August 3,
according to word received here the
first of the week.
The ceremony was performed at
the home of the brides sister, Mrs.
Charles Cattran, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Cattran attended the couple Fol-
lowing the ceremony the couple left
on a trip to Niagra Falls and are
now making their home temporarily
with the Cattrans.
The bride is native of Bluffton,
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Chris Klay who lived on South Lawn
avenue and sister of George Klay
of South Mound street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Funeral Friday For
Mrs. DOrtha PIdugher

Funeral services will be held for
Mrs. Dortha Plaugher, 80, at the
United Brethren church southwest of
Beaverdam, Friday afternoon at 2:30
O'Clock. Burial will be in the Lewis
Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Plaugher, wife of Everett
Plaugher of near Harrod died Tues
day in San Antonio hospital. Kaneon
following four months illness.
Surviving are her husband, five
children and two brothers, A. H
Chrisman of Columbus and Cecil
Chrisman of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
WATER SUPPLY TO
BE CHI ORlNATED
HERE THIS FALL
Chlorine Treatment OF Water
Recommended BY State
Board of Health
Taste Of Water Expected To
Differ Little; Only Minor
Treatment Needed

Colonization of Bluffton's munici.
pal water supply will be started this
fall as a precautionary measure
advised by the State Board OF
Health, it was announced this week
by the board of public affairs.
Expenditure of $1,000 requested
by the board to cover the approx.
mate cost of purchase and installa-
ton of ehlorination equipment was
approved Monday night at a meeting
of the town council, and work on the
project will get under way as soon
as materials are delivered.
Altho Bluffton's water supply has
never shown anything other than
pure tests, adding chlorine has beer
urged by state health officials as a
safeguard against possible epidemics
COLONIZATION equipment will be
housed in a separate building which
will be erected over the main lines
on the water works grounds. The
installation must be protected from
severe winter weather, it was pointed
out.
Taste of Bluffton's water likely
will be affected very little by the
addition of chlorine, members of the
board of public affairs feel. The
amount of the chemical added can be
regulated and since Blutton's water
already is technically pure chlorina.
ton here will not be excessive.
In many larger communities using
river or lake water heavy chlorina-
tion is necessary to overcome pollu.
ton, but Buttons water supply
comes from deep wells which always
have rated high in purity tests.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Expect to Employ 25 Men When
Full Production Is
Reached
Concern Takes Over Former
Lewis Lumber Yard On
Lincoln Highway

Beaverdam's newest industry, the
Buckeye Coach and Manufacturing
company began operations this week
at the former Lewis Lumber yard
on the west side of the village on
the Lincoln highway near the Nickel
Plate crossing.
The company which is reported as
being backed by outside interests re-
Gently purchased from the Jesse
Lewis estate the lumber yard to-
gether with a garage and service
station.
The buildings are being remodeled
and reftted for installation of ma
chinery which has already been put
into operation on a limited scale
When full production is reached
about % men will be employed il
was stated from the company's
offices.
Main product of the company will
be house trailers and factory opera
tions will be in charge of w. E. Dix
on of Vicksburg, Mississippi, who is
described as having had wide exper-
ience in this field of manufacturing
Most of the labor will be drawn
from Beaverdam and vicinity.
The company said TO have been
searching for a location in small
town with minimum possibilities of
labor trouble, is reported TO have
selected Beaverdam as best suited to
it's needs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
BLUFFTON COLLEGE
men, WOMEN WILL
SWAP DORMITORIES
Goods To Be I'm Larger Lincoln
Hall This Fall; Men In
Ropp Hall
Change Will Be For One Year
Until More Accommodations
Available

Bluffton college men students will
be housed in the women's dormitory
this fall and goods will take over
the larger mems dormitory, as the
latest development on the campus
in the community's housing shortage.
Lincoln hall, the mems dormitory
which will be used thruout the next
school year by women, has accom-
modations for 100, and Ropp hall, in
which men now live will be housed
has rooms for 81.
Fifteen other men will stay in
the former FL. w. Berky residence
at the edge of the campus, purchas-
ed last spring by the college, and
the overflow will be placed in private
homes about the town.
The switch in dormitories was ap-
proved by college officials this week,
because it was believed best to
house men in rooms off the campus,
instead of women, as would have
been the case had goods continued
to use the cramped facilities of Ropp
hall.
Accommodations for Married Couples
Additional accommodations are
available on the campus for married
couples. The quarters are provided
by trailers, prefabricated houses and
temporary housing apartments on
the college grounds.
Advance registration of women is
sufficient to fill Lincoln hall to
capacity when classes begin, Septem-
Der u, and with more men regis
trations being received daily it is
anticipated approximately 100 of
them will need rooms for the fall
term. Aggregate campus accom-
modations for single men will be
only 81, in Ropp Hall and the Berky
annex, and rooms will have to be
found in private homes about the
town for the overflow.
During war years, Lincoln hall
never was filled, and last year only
one floor was used for men, with
women being quartered on the
second floor. The third floor of the
large structure was empty.
Arrangements to house men in
Ropp hall and women in Lincoln
hall this year were described by
President L. L. Ramseyer as a
temporary measure only, and before
the opening of another school term
it is anticipated that additional
housing accommodations will be
owned by the college, eliminating
the shift in dormitory assignments
necessary this year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
MEAT MARKETS
AWAIT WORD ON
0PA PRICE POLICY
Retail Prices to Remain Un-
changed for Present, Dealers
Announce.
Federal Boards Decision on
Prices to be Made on
a. Friday.

Retail meat prices in Bluffton will
remain unchanged for the present,
it was announced by dealers here
Wednesday morning following word
that the federal Price Decontrol
Board has ordered recontrol of prices
on livestock, meats, soybeans and
'cottonseed products.
On Friday OPA will reveal wheth-
S -er retail ceiling prices of meat and
the other products covered by the
order are to be rolled back to their
June 80 levels.
Dealers here assumed that should
June 80 retail price levels be re-
stored some action will be necessary
to bring livestock quotations down
to comparable figure.
Whether this will result in another
shortage of meat, butcher shop oper-
ators here refused to predict, pend
ing further word as to 0PA'S pro-
gram which is to be more fully out
huS0 Aiddys
SHORTAGE MAY Follow
However, they said that unless ii
is possible to buy an adequate vol
ume of livestock at price which
will permit profitable processing and
operation of their business, short
age will be inevitable.
In slapping controls back on meat
which represents about 19 per cent
of the average family's budget, the
board announced that prices had
risen unreasonably above June 80
ceilings plus subsidy. Also that the
supply was short and that regulation
was practicable, enforceable and in
the public interest.
The board also warned that price
controls will be clamped on milk and
dairy products if prices go up. In
permitting dairy products, including
milk, butter, cheese, ice cream and
other food and feed products to re-
main free from further price con-
troll the board stated that it failed
to find that prices had risen un-
reasonably.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
LINES FOR WATER
SERVICE LAID In
new ADDITIONS
New Mains Are Being Laid To
Three New Areas Opened
For Residences
Extension OF Water Service
Will Provide Fire Protection
For All Parts Of Town

Laying of four-inch water lines to
three new Bluffton subdivisions, a
project involving 1850 feet of new
mains is under way by the munich
pal water works.
In addition to providing residential
water service to the outlaying dis
tricts, the extension of lines will
provide fire protection for every
house in the corporation, and fire
hydrants will be installed at strateg.
ic locations.
Under way is the laying of 1900
feet of new mains out Jefferson
street, from Huber street east to the
Allen-Hancock county line road
which marks the east boundary line
of the town. Work on the project
which will serve principally the new
Fred Mueller addition on Jefferson
street will be completed this week.
North On Dixie
The longest stretch of new lines
will be an extension of the Main
street water service from the A. C.
& Y. railroad 100 feet north to a
short distance beyond the Harvey
Which house in the Mueller Dixie
highway addition.
On West Elm street a new line
will be installed from the Clayton
Murray residence 750 feet west to
College road, and 400 feet north to
the new house built last fall by
Clifford Houtz.
Additional water mains represent
only one phase of Buttons munich
pal expansion required by the rapid
growth of residential areas, with
extensive work remaining to be done
in opening new streets and alleys
Purchase of a new road scraper is
being considered by the town at this
time to handle the grading required
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
BeuUerdan, Hires
Three NeJU Teachers

Three new teachers have been
hired for the coming year in the
Beaverdam schools, it was announced
Tuesday.
They are Harry Barnes of Bluff
ton who will divide his time between
Bluffton and Beaverdam as instruct
orin vocational agriculture; Mrs
Dana Everett of Col. Grove, teacher
in the fifth and sixth grades and
Mrs. Carey Stratton of near Bluff
ton. instructor in home economies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Defenseless Church
Calls NelU Pastor

Rev. Edgar J. Shady of Newark
Ohio, who has accepted call to the
pastorate of the Defenseless Men
monte church will begin his duties
here Sunday. He recently resigned
pulpit in Newark and will move
here with his wife and three child
rem next week The family will live
on the John Kinsinger farm north
west of Bluffton.
The Defenseless church has been
without a minister since last Feb
ruary when the pastor, Rev. Stanley
Rupp resigned and moved with his
family to Lafayette, Indiana.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Huber Family In
Annual Reunion

Annual reunion of the Huber
family washel d at Paulding Com
munity house south of Bluffton in
Jackson township, Sunday. Seventy
FIVE were present. Officers reelected
to serve for the coming year are:
Pres, Earl Huber, Ada; sec, Mrs.
Hazel Hess, Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Richard Meyer In
Benton Ridge School

Richard Meyer of Mt. Cory and
Bluffton college graduate has been
hired as principal and seventh and
eighth grade instructor in the Ben
ton Ridge schools for the coming
year.
Mrs. Merle Folk also of Mt. Cory
has been hired as first and second
grade teacher in the Benton Ridge
schools.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
COUNCIL TURNS DOWN LIGHT PLANT BOND CONTRACT
Two BlufftOn Men Receive A. S. A.
Awards For War Contributions

Awards for their contribution to
the war effort as members of the
war committees of the American
Standards Association were present
ed to R, L. Triplett and F. ]. Lingel,
of The Triplett Electrical Instru-
ment Co., at Victory Day dinner
held Thursday at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard in New York city.
Speaking on the first anniversary
of VI Day, Brig. General Donald
Armstrong, told those gathered at
the dinner to receive the awards
that the war production record of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
New Beaverdam Industry Begins
Manufacture Of House Trailers
Fingers Shattered
In Shotgun Blast

Fred Biederman, farmer residing
on the Allen Hancock county line
north of town is. patient in Bluff
ton hospital with the fourth and
fifth fingers of his left hand shat
tered as the result of a shotgun
blast, Tuesday.
The injury occurred when the gun
accidentally discharged while Bieder-
man was putting it away at his
home. His condition was reported
satisfactory Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Geiger Is Building
NelU Business Room

Erection of building to serve as
an electrical appliance show and
salesroom is we'll under way at the
residence of Maynard Geiger on
Cherry street.
The new structure adjoins the
Geiger house and will be completed
this summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Real Estate Deal

Carl Lehman. business manager of
Bluffton college has purchased the
residence of Mrs. w. F. Iutzi on
Grove street. Lehman expects to
occupy the property this fall and
Mrs. Iutzi will move to the former
Clymer property on Cherry street
which she recently purchased from
Edgar Chamberlain. The deal was
handled by Mrs. H. w. Althaus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
Repair "ShOrt" In
Street Lights Here

A short circuit in Buttons street
lighting service which kept part of
the towns streets in darkness the
first of the week has been repaired,
it was announced Wednesday. The
short circuit followed heavy rains of
the past week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22

American industry was made pos
sible thru the voluntary coopera-
ton of all industry to accept indus
trial standards.
Joint mass production standards
set up by committees on which the
two local men served helped Ameri-
can war production set unsurpassed
records.
More than 600 industrial, govern
ment and other groups participate
in the work of the American stand
ards association. Awards were made
to $50 persons at the dinner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
With Service Men

1st 1t. Ropp Triplett, son of Mr..
and Mrs. r. l.. Triplett of Campus
Drive has received his discharge
from the army and returned to his
home here after ten months service
in the European theatre of war.
Pfc. Robert Diller, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harley Diller, northwest of
Bluffton has received his army dis
charge at Ft. Meade and returned
home after IL months service in the
European area.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-22
BUSINESS MEN MEET

Meeting of Bluffton Business Mems
association will be held at the Wal
nut Grill on Wednesday night of
next week at $50 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01
Sluggers Win, 1916
Ouer Mafftt Village

E G. Britt's' ninth inning hit off
Junior Livengood drove in Bill
Smith with the winning run yester-
day evening at Robert Strange
Park as the Ninth Street Slugger5
captured their second victory in
three starts from the Maffith Viii
lage nine. Is to Is.
A long homerun by Lloyd Parker
featured the Villagers eighth
frame uprising to tie the score up
at IA all and 60 ahead Is to Ia after
they had been behind by masgiil
of IA to nine. The Sluggers put on
rally of their own in the last part
of the ninth period, though, as Bill
Kenell. speed merchant, stole two
bases to set up Britt's game-win-
ming hit.
Mike Austin led the Sluggers' bat
tiers with three hits in five appear
ances at the plate. Herman Frazier
paced the losers with two for four.
Hal Red Whisnant and Cecil
Heath shared the pitching duties
for the Ninth Streeters, while
Livengood went the route for the
Maffith Village club.
Other outstanding men for the
Ninth Street boys were Louie
Clark. Carl Warren, Dwight Bak-
er, Scoop Warren. Snuffy' Stou-
denrnire, Eddis Johnson, and Bob
Brown.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01
CHARLOTTE OPEN
WON BY HAMILTON

CHARLOTTE, March 31.-(P-
Finishing with a seven-under-par
IS, bronzed Bob Hamilton of Chi
cago today won the $500 Char
lotte open golf tournament by three
strokes with a 273 score, Is under
par for the Y holes.
Winning his first tournament
since capturing the 1914 PEA title,
Hamilton took down first money
of $1,000 to beat three players
Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va,
the pre-tournament favorite; Pete
Cooper, Gainesville, Fla; and
Jimmy Demaret, Houston, Tex.
Jim Terrier, former Australian
star now playing out of Chicago
and who started the day in first
place tie with Cooper, blew him
self to a rs and finished in five
way tie for tenth place at 281.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01

Ben Hogan Lawson Little
Jax with 264 to beat by four strokes
red hot Jimmy Demaret, who
closed with rounds of So and 66.
In Greensboro, the Hot Springs,
Va, hill-billy took the lead with
a 81 in the third round, tied the
course record Of 66 in the final,
with the bulk Of $4,000 spectators
at his heels, for a 270 and a six
stroke margin.
When Hogan took his breather,
he was rated the top man.
STANCE WAS HIS TROUBLE
Although the playing profession
ais regard Snead as a front-runner
and these were his first successes
since he prevailed in Tulsa last
September, he went into the Char
lotte Open an odds-on favorite,
with many an experienced OBJ
server eager to back him against
the field.
Snead didn't miss a putt In the
last 36 holes over Greensboro
Sedgefield.
From tee to green, Snead gen.
orally is considered the best equip
ped golfer of more recent years.
There is nothing wrong with his
back. Physically, he is perhaps
the strongest man among the tour
ing shotmakers. Mental attitude
has been his difficulty. When a
golfer is clear in the head, he just
naturally does things right.
Snead appears to chuck 1t too
easily and early when trailing.
The big fellow traces his slump
to faulty foot action, however, re-
calling that Tyrus Raymond Cobb
always stressed the importance of
the stance.
Snead says he discovered the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01

error of his ways and made the
necessary adjustments while firing
a SO in an exhibition over the PEA
course, hard by Clearwater, Fla.
CANTERBURY LITTLE'S DISH
Another crack who only now
feels that he is playing we'll again
is Lawson Little. The Mauler of
Monterey would like to win the
Masters, but in particular has his
guns trained on the United States
Open, June 1915, over Cleveland S
Canterbury, where the wartime
naval aviation lieutenant defeated
Gene Sarazen in a playoff for the
cup and cash in 1910.
Little has his heart set on main
tanning his Cleveland spell. The
Stanford alulmnus has won the
only two national championships
ever held on the shore of Lake
Erie. It was at the Cleveland
Country club in 1885 that he COM
pleted his remarkable cycle of
winning both the British and
amateurs two years hand
There is no greater competitor
than Lawson Little.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01
Twenty One Horses Die In Track Blaze
Track Team States
mtra Squad Meet

Coach Leo Harkins announced that
the New Hanover High Schools
newly organized track team will
hold intra-squad meet Thursday
and Friday at 18th and Ann field in
an attempt to find the outstanding
cinder stars on the club.
Harkins said that the meet will
be open to all high school boys,
and he hoped that all would come
out
The point scoring is five for first,
three for second, and one for third.
The schedule for Thursday reads
as follows: 120 yard high hurdles,
100 yard dash, mile run, 40 yard
dash, one-half mile relay in the
running events. while the field ev-
ents include the shot put, high
jump, and javelin.
Fridays program calls for the
200 low hurdles, one-half mile, Z2O
yard dash, and mile relay in the
running events, and the pole vault,
discuss, and broad jump in field
events.
Harkins pointed out that his
leading men in each of the depart
ments are johnny Symmes, Bill Ken
nell, and Neal Patrick in the one
half mile relay; Billy Quarles, Har-
ry Wellott, Dick Hanson, and SYM
mes in the mile relay; Charlie
Smith, Jack Marcus, Robert Neal,
Symmes, and Patrick in, the
broad jump; Quarles and Todd in
the high jump; Marcus in the pole
vault; and John Hobbs, Dick Jor-
dan, Doc Venters, and Chubby
Paul in the shot put, discuss throw,
and javelin.
Leading candidates for the dash
es are Smith, Patrick, and Bill
Huffman in the 100 yard dash; Ro-
bert Neal, Smith, and Patrick in
the 220; Symmes, Hanson, Quarles,
and Tommy Wrench in the 440;
James McCarl, Alton Clark, Jack
Bass. Ed Shain and Carson Boone
in the $50 and mile; and Wellot:
and Todo in the hurdles. Charlie
Smith, Neal Patrick, and JACK
Marcus top the boys in the half
mile relay.
This list of boys have worked ev-
cry day for the past several weeks,
and their chances of having a good
track team will be indicated by
their performances Thursday and
Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-01
MASONBORO WHIPS.
SOUTHPORT, l2TO3

The Masonboro Ramblers yester-
day chalked up defeat of IL TO 3
against the Southport Nine, at
Southport.
Before the hard pitching OF
Southport's Brown, who sent JIG
down by the strike out route.
Brown gave up five bases on ball,
allowing three hits, including 2-tWo
baggers, Stevens getting both.
Hughes struck out six, gave up
three bases on balls, allowing 10
hits, including 2-two baggers and
one by George; one by Todd.
Bad weather caused the game to
be called in the eighth inning, by
nent.