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The Valley settler., 1947-11-13
FROM TIE SCHOOL

rho I"O most oVercroVdeo rooms, the Tn1rd and the Fifth grades were divided and a port ion of the third and the fifth put in a separate room in he Basement vi tn Mrs. Minnio 3. CT ark as teacher. This vas done to give the children a better oppori tun ity to receive individual instruct ion. Mir. Snol1 ing said today that he very p1o asod rith the results. All rooms con- cernod arc doing much better york he said. . Mir. J.L. Dickson said today that some parents had vi sited the School rooms this week, but not as many as they rpuld like to have. One father vas a visitor, other wise all visitors have been Mothers. Mir. Smelling announced that the ard of Educat ion would me ct this next Mond ay evening. Any persons having any business to present to the Board at this time, may do so between 7:3o and $50 p.m. NE7 BUS ARRIVES
 A no;. bus has been added to tho Palmer busses byuMr. E.C. Chri istensen, owner. The nor Bus is much larger than the other busses and has been put on the Butte Bus route. This route has a largo number of children riding the bus and the old bus which vas larger than the others vas too SLd-4s Joe GenGI Is the QrlVoT on Cn1S route.
 Palmer came home from Seward with the Victory of two game at Seward. In the game played on Thursday the score uas 32 to 19 in favor Of Palmer. Don Irwin uas high DO int man with 10 DO ints to his cEedit, Ray Puh1 vas second with DO ints Earl onIka made points, Wayne Bouuens 5, and Lynn Sandvik 3.
 The Friday game vas feature by many fouls on both sides. Palmer made l9 and Seward Is making a total daring the game of 54. The score in this game was 2e to 14 in I favor of Palmer. Walt Stevens led in points during this game, earning of the total joints. Don Irwin vas second ri tn 7; Ray Fuhl made 6 Lynn Sandvik made 4, Earl onlka 2, and Wayne BouUens l. NEXT CNE AT PALMER The next Basket Ball game at Palmer is scheduled for this Friday in the High School Gymnasium A prel iminary game will start at 7:oO p.m.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-13

op perator on the Palmer had major surgery at. this week.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-13

Mrs. Otto Peterson :, Tol ephone xchange :, the Palmer Ho spita al Mrs. Fun ice Seitz,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
House To- House Canvass This Month
To Raise Recreation Program Funds

on the job to supervise field activity.
Unused Harmon field tennis courts
were reworked and put into shape,
and the grade school playground was
hard-surfaced to provide a suitable
play spot when other ground is too
wet
An addition to Harmon field equip
ment has been a new playground
for kiddies, complete with swings,
teeter-totters, a slide and sandboxes.
Picnic tables also have been placed
on the field for family use. Lighted
horse shoe and shuttle board courts
will be added this summer.
During the winter, the recreation
committee operated a winter pro-
gram, including basketball leagues
for adults and children, which prov
ed very popular.
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MEAT PRICES UP;
POULTRY DOWN IN
CURRENT MARKET
Divergent Explanations Given
for Sudden Advance in
Meats
Young Poultry Prices Steady;
Quotations Lower for
Yearlings

Meat prices sharply rising while
poultry on the other hand regis
tered declines were divergent tend
encies i'm food markets Wednesday.
The sudden advance in meat prices
caught retailers of, guard in a situ-
alton for which there appeared no
clearcut explanation. Some reasons
given were higher cost of feeds, a
long cold spring which resulted in
more than average consumption of
meat and large scale buying for for
eign shipment.
On the other hand the market for
poultry has shown signs of sagging,
especially older grades, it was re-
ported here Wednesday morning
Choice young fryers are holding
steady in a market, the top of which
was quoted at 81 cents live weight,
an advance of one cent over the
price of a week ago.
Heavy hens, on the other hand,
are quoted at a top of 25 cents live
weight in the current market, a drop
of two cents under last weeks price
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs, Leroy Deeds, Find
lay, twins, boy and girl, this We'd
nesday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Weirauch, Je-
nerfa, a girl, Martha Jane, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Cheney, Co
lumbus Grove, a girl, Judith Ann,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fawver, Ada,
girl, Carol Ann, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Clark, Ben
ton Ridge, girl, Charlotte Elaine,
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Montgomery,
Bluffton, a girl, Sharon Kay, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Boehm, Raw
son, boy, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Geiser, Bluff
ton, a boy, John Lee, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Shank, Ar
lington, girl, Janel Kay, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Cherry, Pan
dora, a boy, Wednesday morning.
Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Albrecht,
Fortuna, Mo, a boy, David Allen.
Mrs Albrecht is the former Magda-
lene Bixel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Bixel.
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Further Investigation of Leiber
Burglary Made Following
Similar Findlay Theft
Authorities Seek To Establish
Connection In Crime Wave
Sweeping District

Further investigation of last
weeks $400 show window robbery of
the Leiber jewelry store here was
made last week by area police in
hope of establishing some connec-
tion with wave of looting follow
ing the same pattern in other cities
of the district.
Police activity so far, however,
has failed to bring any new clues
in the Bluffton theft, or provide any
connection beyond conjecture with
other burglaries.
One day after broken show win
dow at the Leiber store yielded 10
watches, four diamond rings and
other valuables for looters, a front
show window was broken at the
Thompson jewelry store in Findlay
In the Findlay burglary, watches
rings and electric nazors valued q
more than $400 were taken
With pattern of the crime the
same as that committed in Bluffton
Hancock and Allen county authori-
ties are working together in the hope
of determining if there is any con-
nection.
In the same week, show window
was broken in a Delphos electrical
appliance store robbery and on
Thursday lone holdup man robbed
Van Vert jeweIry store of 5000
in rings.
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To finance a continuation of
Buttons resurrected year-around
recreation program, which got away
to successful start early last sum-
mer, a house-to-house canvass will be
made here from June Is to 30 by
the Bluffton recreation committee.
Continuation and further expan-
sion Of the recreation program de-
pends on the community's response
in the drive necessary to finance ex-
penditures, regarded by the sponsors
as an investment in health, happi-
ness and better community.
Under the direction of the recrea-
ton committee, an organized pro-
gram was revived at Harmon field
last summer for adults and children,
with full-time recreation director
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Worst Flood Since 1913 Strikes Here
AS Streams Go On 24-Hour Rampage
HOfer To Be RdlUsOn
Nickel Plate Agent

Fred Hofer, Bluffton agent for the
Nickel Plate railroad, has resigned
here to accept a similar position at
Rawson. He began his duties in
Rawson, Wednesday morning.
Hofer who has been absent on
sick leave since March II said that
ill health prompted his resignation
here in favor of the Rawson post
where duties are less arduous.
Hofer was previously agent at
Rawson, coming here from that
place II years ago. He and his
family will continue to live in Bluff
ton.
Leo Pavey of Indiana is temporar-
lily in charge of the Nickel Plate in
terests here.
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Birthday Dinner

In honor of the birthday annivers-
airy of Robert Motter and other
early June birthdays in the family,
dinner was enjoyed at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Montgom-
cry of South Jackson street, Sunday.
Members of the family honored by
birthdays this month whose names
were inscribed on a large decorated
cake were: Jean Ann Montgomery,
Keith Klingler, Robert Motter, Edith
Montgomery, Junior Klingler and
Marjorie Montgomery.
Present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Montgomery,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and
daughter Jean Ann, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Klingler, Mr.. and Mrs Clyde
Klingler Jr., and son Keith and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Motter..
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Tuesday Was Hottest Day OF Year
With Temperature At 80 Degrees

Bluffton sweltered Tuesday in the
hottest day of the year. Accustomed
to chilly, damp weather all spring,
it was hard to convince residents
here that the temperature really
didn't even get up to 90 degrees
fact is, it missed by one degree,
reaching maximum of SO late in
the afternoon.
Suddenness of the heat, after long
weeks of wet and cool weather en-
phasized its severity as the sun beat
down from clear skies all day.
Brisk winds from the southwest
kept plenty of air stirring and
made the heat more bearable. Show
ers and lower temperatures Wednes-
day were apparently destined to
break the heat spell.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
Maynard Coon Is
Named School Head

Maynard Coon, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. L. Coon of South Jackson
street has been appointed superin-
tendent of Milestone centralized
school in Crawford county, it was
announced this week.
The appointment of Milton Har-
man, county superintendent will be-
come effective July /.
Coon has been an instructor and
athletic coach at the high school in
nearby North Robinson where he and
his family will continue to reside.
He succeeds Floyd Porter who re-
signed to accept the superintendency
of the Bloomville schools.
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FARMERS ABANDON
HOPE OF PLANTING
NORMAL CORN CROP
Water Standing in burrows of
Farms In Bluffton
District
Acreage This Year Will Be
Sharply Below Normal, Is.
Estimate

Farmers of the Bluffton district,
unable to work in sodden fields this
week have virtually abandoned hopes
of planting anything near a normal
acreage of corn. Corn planting
ordinarily is finished here by the
end of May.
Many farmers report water still
standing in the burrows as an after
math Of last Friday nights cloud
burst.
How restricted the corn acreage
will be, farmers hesitate to say, how
ever, rough approximations put the
total planting in the Bluffton dis
trict from one-third to one-half m
The shortage of corn acreage is
particularly significant in this area
where corn and hogs form the back
bone of farming operations.
HIGHER FEED CosTs
Large scale hog raising, currently
practiced in this area requires vir-
tually all of the corn crop for feed
ing. IN view of the current situa-
tion, higher prices and reduced hog
marketing with consequently higher
pork prices are forecast.
With oats and corn acreage short,
because of unfavorable weather
conditions there would be a large
acreage available for soybean plant
ing, provided sufficient seed is avail
able. Because of the current situa-
tion the seed supply is reported ex-
tremely scarce and prices according
ly high.
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posed of four surveyors and p men
to assist them-all part owners in
the company. The party that started
from Ipswich, Mass, was composed
of six boatbuilders, four house car
penters, one blacksmith and nine
common workmen.
Trek to Ohio on Foot
Each man had his tools, one axe
and one hoe, 30 pounds of personal
baggage, a gun, bayonet, six flints,
a powder horn, a half-pound of
powder, one pound of bullets and a
pound of buckshot. Their seed was
furnished by the company but they
would have to make the trip on foot
as the supplies would load tie
wagons to capacity.
So, from the rainy night at tie
Boston Bunch of Grapes tavern,
through a raining, muddy trip on
foot over the Alleghenies to Sum
rill's ferry and week float down
the Muskingum river, mostly in the
rain, that is the history of Ohio up
to the time the Adventure Galley
docked at Marietta-aIso in a hard
rain. Ohio was to be a wet state, ap-
parently.
When the 48 pioneers landed at
Marietta, besides the Indians and q
few soldiers at TT. Harmar, they
found other company nearby.
Early Settlers There
Isaac Williams and his wife, Re,
becca, had built a small log cabin on
the Virginia side of the Ohio River
just across from where Belpre, -four
miles south of Marietta, later wa:
founded.
Williams, a hunter and trapper
had anticipated the influx of new
settlers and had devised a plan te
profit by it, He became the first in,
dependent real estate dealer in the
area. Already a few settlers hac
built cabins around the Williams
shack in Virginia.
Virginia recognized "tomahawi
improvements" as entitsng the hold
er to 400 acres Of land. With thu
payment of small additional sun
the settler also was given | 900 ad
ditional acres adioinir : his claim.
Williams would select desirable
tract, girdle a few. trees, plant /;
scanty crop of corr. and then CLAIM
the property through 'tomahawl
Continued IN page s.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
NO PAY RAISE FOR
TEACHERS BEFORE
LEGISLATURE ACTS
School Beard Unable To Take
Action On Salaries At Reg
ular Meeting
Legislatures Delay On School
Aid Bill Holds Up Proposed
Increases

Bluffton board of education at IFS
regular June meeting this Wednes-
day night will be unable to proceed
with proposed plans Cor setting up
a schedule of increased salaries for
public school teachers because of
state legislature delay in voting a
new school aid bill.
There had been hope of working
out the new salary plan at the June
meeting so that Bluffton teachers
could be notified by July l, set as
a deadline by the state for boards
to advise instructors what amount to
expect for the coming year.
Delay of the legislature in draft
ing a new school bill consequently
means the board of education can
do nothing this Wednesday night
toward drafting an increased salary
schedule promised teachers last
January on a basis if and when the
legislature made additional school
funds available.
Can't Take Action
If legislature action is delayed
until late this month or after July
1, the BIuffton board will be in
position where local teachers must
be notified they will receive the
salaries in effect at the close of the
school year, plus any increase that
might be made available by state
legislative action.
Passage of state measure soon
would bring special meeting of the
board Of education to determine q
new salary schedule before July /.
Bluffton teachers received salary
boost last January when funds vot-
ed by the town in a special two-mill
levy the preceding November be-
came available At the same Time,
instructors were told further in
creases would be applied if addition.
al funds for that purpose were voted
by the legislature.
Average Salary S2,165
Under the schedule in effect when
schools closed last spring, IL full
time and three part-time teachers
in the public school system receive
an average annual salary of $2,165.
This included a flat increase of 500
for each full-time instructor, plus
one per cent of the previous salary
for each year of service in the local
system, up to a maximum of Ia
years.
Those increases were made avail
able thru approximately half of a
$4,000 yearly fund made available
to schools thru the two-milI levy.
Teachers have until August / to
resign, one month after the dead
line on which they must be notified
what their salaries will be for the
coming year.
This provision affects all teachers
in the system with the exception of
Calvin Leimback, instructor in voca-
tional agriculture, and Coach Kent
Cotterman, who heads the athletic
department.
These teachers have been hired
under contract for the coming year.
Half of the salary of the agriculture
teachers is paid by the federal
government. ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
Ohio Eleven Fathers

One rainy night in 1886 eleven
men sat around a great table in the
Bunch of Grapes tavern, Boston,
quaffed red wine and told stories of
their Revolutionary War experiences.
Amid their criticisms of Con-
gress for its failure to allot them
their bounty lands for participation
IN the war, plans were made to raise
money and buy lands for themselves.
Out Of that rainy night conference
in 4 Boston inn enough money in
Continental certificates das raised to
buy 100000 acres in what is now
southeastern Ohio.
Seu Lands ~ Pa War
Originally the government had
promised each officer in the Revolu-
tion parcel of land in appreciation
of his services. Reconsidering, how
ever, Congress decided that a good
way to pay the expenses of the war
would be to sell the land to the set
tiers instead of giving it to them.
The IL men at the tavern wanted
to become settlers. Since they were
not to receive their allotment of
land free, they intended to buy it
and so was planted the seed from
which the great Buckeye State
sprouted.
The men named their organization
the Ohio Company of Associates.
Rufus Putnam was made president
and Winthrop Sargent, clerk. These,
with four directors: Samuel H. Par
sons, Manasseh Cutler, James NJ.
Varnum and Putnam; and Richard
Platt, treasurer, comprised the of
ficers.
Original Plan Sounded Good
The disappointing plan of the
government to award the military
lands had sounded very good. A
major-general was to get LOO acres;
brigadier- general, $50; a colonel,
500; and each non-commissioned of
ficer and private was to receive 100
acres of land free.
The fly in the ointment was that
the government did not own an acre
of land and the land comprising the
state which composed it belonged to
the states themselves. The govern
ment could not give it away. The
states were independent sovereign
ties.
After the purchase of the land
from Spain, the settlement of its
differences with England and pas
sage of the Ordinance of 1887 which
gave the government the right to
sell its newly acquired land, the Ohio
Company was ready to do business
and settle southeastern Ohio.
1t had taken the combined efforts
of 2SS Revolutionary officers, all but
so from New England, to get the
deal through. The tract they wanted
was bounded on the north by Lake
Erie; east by Pennsylvania; south
west and south by the Ohio River;
and west on a line beginning at that
part of the Ohio which lies "a miles
west of the mouth of the river Sci
oto, thence running north on mer-
idian line till it intersects the river
Miami which flows into Lake Erie,
thence down the middle of that river
to the lake"
A meeting of the directors of the
Ohio Company in Brackets tavern
Boston, November %, 1887, fixed the
personnel of the 4s men who landed
from the Adventure Galley at Mari.
eta April 7, next year.
The names of the men already are
known to readers of this newspaper
However the party of 26 who start
ed from Hartford, Conn, was com
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
Band Concerts
This Summer

Three band concerts will be given
this summer, it is announced by the
Blufton Band Mothers who are spon-
soring the project. The band will be
directed by John Martin, instructor in
public school music.
Membership in the band is open
to all musicians who have had ex-
perience in this field. Rehearsals
are held every. Wednesday night at
8 o'clock in the high school band
room.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12
400 Examined In
X-Rdy Clinic Here

About 400 persons in Bluffton and
vicinity availed themselves of the OPP
portunity for examination provided
by the tuberculosis x-ray mobile
clinic of the Allen County Red Cross
which was in town Monday and
Tuesday.
The unit wasslocated on the Grade
school grounds And also made trips
during the noon hour to plants Of
the Boss Glove factory and Triplett
electrical lnstru company. s
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Missionary Speaker
Here Tuesday Night

Miss Edith Shimmel, returned mis-
sionary from the Philippines will
speak on the work in that county at
the Church of Christ here next
Tuesday night at o'clock, She ex-
poets to return there soon.
Preceding the meeting Miss Shin
mel will be entertained by women
of the church at a covered dish din
ner at $50 o'clock.
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Notice

Electric current will be shut off
next Sunday afternoon from l to 4
p. M, while repairs are being made
to generating equipment at the
BIuffton Municipal plant. Patrons
are asked to plan their Sunday use
of electrical current accordingly.
Board of Public Affairs
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MENNONITES URGE
SUNDAY OF PRAYER
FOR WORLD PEACE
July 6 Recommended As Day
by Conference Here
Tuesday
Churches From Four States At
Meeting On College
Campus

Recommendation that Sunday, July
6, nearest to Independence Day, be
set aside as "a day of prayer, seek
ing guidance from Almighty God in
regard to this threat to world peace"
was made Tuesday at the closing ses-
sion of four-day meeting of the
Middle District Conference of Men
MONTE churches on the Biuffton col
lege campus.
The Day of Prayer dedicated to
world peace also was suggested as a
time Of confession and penitance
for our many sins"
The 10 Mennonite churches from
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa,
represented in the conference, will
take individual action on the Day
of Prayer theme.
Resolutions drafted on the closing
day of the conference included in
structions to the conference secre-
tary to send telegram to United
States Senator Robert Taft stating,
1--WE, as conference delegates of the
5Sth session of the Middle District
Conference, oppose peace-time mill
tary eonscription.
IL CHURCHES REPRESENTED
Ninety-seyen delegates from II
churches were here for the four-day
conference. All sessions were held
in Ramseyer chapel on the campus
with the exception of Sunday meet
ings in the college gymnasium, be-
cause Of q large number Of visitors.
In line with the Mennonite denon-
nations congregational type Of
church government, decisions OF the
conferenc are advisory only and no
church i bound By action OF the
group.
New officers elected by the confer
eres inegsie 0lin Kreibtul. Berne.
Ind, president; ]. T. Neufeld, Chi
cago, tice-president; Clarence
Schneck. Pandora, secretary; and N.
N. Soldl er, Pandora, new member of
the conference board of trustees for
q five-year term.
Other members of the board are
Amos sHilty, Pandora; Llewsllyn
Geiger, Pandora; D. w. Bixler,
Blutftoh; and Palmer Moser, Berne.
DR.. SCHULTZ REELECTED
Z. ~. Baumgartner, Berne, was
reelected representative of the con-
fererce on the Bluffton board of
trustees, and DR., J. S. Schultz, of
Blu fton college, was reelected
melaber of the conference education
co,hmittee.
Frank Harder, Pandora, was
elected to the Home Missions COM,
rnittee, and Russell Mast, Wads-.
worth, was reelected on the Peace
icommittee.
Officers of activities allied with
the conference included the follow
ing:
Women's Missionary Society, Mrs.
Ira Springer, Berne, president.
Conference program committee,
Howard Landes, Bluffton, elected for
three-year term; E. W. Baumgart-
ner, Berne, and DR.. l. w Bauman,
Bluffton, still serving.
Young Peoples Society, Stanley
Hostettler, Dalton, president; How
ard Krehbiel, Donnelison, Iowa, vice
president; Phyllis, Marquart, Bluff
ton, program committee; Vera Sold
ner, Berne, district representative;
Ferol Althaus, Button. secretary
treasurer; and Earl Lehman, Pan
dora, field secretary.
A new committee named to pro-
mote Brotherhood organizations in
the conference includes Clifton
Springer, Berne; G. T. soldner and
D. w. Bixler, BIuffton.
s* NnrnD rrn TAI TEnDNIA
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Make Tax Collections
Here July 5 And 9

Deputies from the Allen county
treasurer's office will be in Bluffton
at the Citizens National bank, Tues
day and Wednesday, July s and 8
for collection of real estate taxes
for the last half of 1916.
Deadline for paying the tax is
Saturday, July 26.