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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29
Short Casts And NibbIes


Tom White, Robert, Harold and
Francis Kohl dined on plenty of
fish for supper the other evening
=. The four anglers snagged no less
than rs catfish during the session
and Francis Kohl hooked Is lb. 2
ounce carp on his new fly rod
Nearly broke the rod breaking it in,
he says The group fished Riley
creek between Bluffton and Pandora
Joe Ruff, Leipsic fisherman, has
snagged himself a fish to be proud of
oe landed 8 pound speekled
trout in lake near Iron Bridge, On
tario he sent the beauty to To-
ronto to be mounted accompany
ing Joe to Canada were John Mad
son, of Leipsic, and Bert Klausing of
Ottawa Water in Canadian
streams was plenty high so the group
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Independent SOftbaLL
Team To Open Season

Bluffton Independents softball team
will swing into action during the
next week, with double-headers to be
played on the Harmon field diamond
Friday afternoon and Sunday after
noon.
In Fridays assignment, the Inde-
pendents will meet Bluffton col
lege softball team in two seven-in-
ming games.
Sundays schedule viii pit the Ind
ependents against an all-star Bluff
ton outfit managed by Bill Stonehill,
with two games on the card.
Kenneth Bracy and Keith Kirkland
will handle the hurting assignments
for the Independents, Manager Har-
ry Klay announced.
Teams wishing games with the
Independents are asked to contact
Klay for a list of open dates.
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rope and boots. At 6:30 p. m. COM
mercial photographer will photo
graph the activity. Persons planning
to attend the circus locally will be ex-
cused early.
Lending a hand on the raking pro-
gram last Friday were Ed Root, Al
dine Kohl, Sport Kirkland, Denver
Augsburger, Jesse Manages, Floyd
Hardwick, and Hiram Wenger, diree-
tor in charge of the project.
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College Nine To Play
Alumni SATURDAY.

Bluffton college baseball team will
close its season with two games
this week, an inter-squad tilt We'd
nesday evening on the college dia-
mond, and contest with an alumni
team of all-stars as one of the fea-
lures of commencement activity at
10 a. m. Saturday.
/. The inter-squad contest will give
Bluffton followers an opportunity to
see two full teams of this years
squad players in action.
Always favorite, the alumni tilt
next Saturday morning will find
many of the stars Of yesteryear back
into action again on the BIuffton
diamond.
In two games last week, the Beav-
ers lost to Defiance at that place on
Thursday, by a score of IL to II,
and to Ohio State "B" team last
Saturday at Columbus, to 0.
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Cecil Hartman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Faze and
daughters Margaret and Pauline
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Weity.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. S. Jennings and son Rodney
were Mr.. and Mrs. Winston Jen-
nings and sons Larry and Tommy.
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr..
and Mrs. @. L. Stratton were Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Stratton, Mrs.
Kathryn Bell and sons Roger and
Tommy and Mr.. and Mrs. Harley
Pfeifer Of Jenera.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips
spent Monday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Younkman and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clate Scoles were
Wednesday evening visitors of Mr..
and Mrs. Lyman Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Edwards were
callers at the o, L. Stratton home,
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. K. Huber attend
ed the wedding and reception Sun
day afternoon of Miss Margaret
Griffith and Darrell Dean Carr at
the Reformed church in Bluffton.
Last week callers of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cleo Garau and little son were
Mrs. Daisy Mefford, Mrs. Louella
Mefford and son, Mrs. Louise Reich
enbach and son and Mrs. Martha
Kolter.
Mrs. Alta Garau, Mrs. Naomi
Steiner and children and Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Fox spent Monday even
ing at the Cleo Garau home, eelebrat-
ing the birthday of Mrs. Alta Garau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Owens, Nor
wick, New York, are spending the
week at the home of Clarabel Owens
and Mrs. Sarah Oates. For the past
10 years Mr.. Owens has been en-
gagged in Soil Conservation work.
All ex-service men of Pleasant
Hill church have been invited to
attend services Sunday to be pre-
sented with their stars from the
Service Flag.
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day night for members of the troop.
their parents and troop committee
men. IN short program, Rev. v. c.
Opperman, neighborhood scout COM
missioner, presented the troop char
ter to patrol leaders and registration
cards to troop committeeman, the
scoutmaster and assistant scout
masters.
Talks were made on the camporee,
in which the Bluffton troop viii be
represented at Lima Faurot park,
June 6, and s; and on the Boy
Scout camp near Defiance, which the
Bluffton troop viii attend from July
13 to -. Robert 0berly will be in
charge of the camping group, it was
announced.
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TripLett SOftbaU
Workouts Start

Preparing for start in inter-city
play early in June, the Triplett soft
ball team started workouts at Har-
mon field last week.
In reorganization of the group for
the summer season, Charles Steiner
was named manager, and an execu-
tive board consisting of Steiner, Bert
Swank and Richard Lewis will direct
activities of the team.
An inter-squad practice game will
be played at Harmon field, starting
at 6 am. this Thursday. On the
teams hurting staff this season will
by Gene Beach, Jenera; Lefty Bob
King, Mt. Cory, and Maynard Geigg-
er, Bluffton.
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Madison

fished the lake area Madison
hooked on to a whopper which upset
the canoe during the struggle forcing
him to swim in cold water a good
many rods to shore -. the big fish
got away, but both Klausing and
Madison each brought home a big
lunker Klausing also plans to
have his fish mounted -.
Ollie Zimmerman snagged his linn
it in blue gills at the Water Works
Saturday afternoon and at the
Buckeye, anglers are having a whop-
pin good time landing channels i.
Bill Thompson, of Lima, landed 16
channels Saturday afternoon i.
Harry Mumper and Jr. also from
Lima landed around half-dozen i.
and Sport Kirkland snagged several
channels along with a perch and two
bass :. hated to throw the bass back
in, he says -. Sunday afternoon
found fish hitting good again and AL
dine Weiss hooked Is channels 3.
later in the evening Lester Young
landed 4 more and many other fish
ermen were also having good luck
over the week end Jess Manages
hooked nearly a dozen and a half
channels at the Buckeye last Thurs
day also crappies and perch are
not yet hitting to any great degree
seems the fishing is late this
year, farmers say plantin' time is
late too, maybe both are late for
similar reasons
Clair Fett says his weather predic-
tions are slipping fisherman
Fett planned to work on the lawn
last Saturday afternoon but his pet
almanac said "No RAIN" fishing cal
endar said "Clear" and the barometer
was rising :. . Fett went fishing
he was blanked ait the Buckeye . .
tried his luck ait the National still
worse d. and headed for the Water
Works where it rained him out .
Well anyway it didn't rain at the
church auction, he says looks
like the elements are out to get him
now >.
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Buckeye Program Continues

A much needed project at the Buck
eye quarry has been completed. The
entire driveway at the north end
park has been stoned and levelled,
eliminating a muddy and rough
stretch where fishermen drive into
the new park. The improvement has
widened the drive way and provided
additional parking spaces.
Picnic tables have been painted and
win be set up soon, and work is
progressing on the new ovens.
Gerald Clever and Jess Manages
distributed a half-ton sof commercial
fertilizer over the water and along
the quarry edges at the Buckeye in
order to induce new growth of al
gaze and water plants. The quarry
seems to be completely devoid of any
green vegetation and in order to
have an abundance of fish life it is
necessary to have water algae pres
ent and other aquatic plants of the
right type. Minnows and small fish
fry feed upon the microscopic and
other minute water animals which
thrive on the water vegetation. Eff
feet of the fertilization will be notice
able in week or so.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29

News Want Ads get results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29

Whether you fly or not, you are in
vited out to visit Bluffton's new air
port.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29

A pot luck dinner was held Mon
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29

In survey recently completed by
the New York Central, 160, 900
sleeping car passengers ranked air
conditioning as the greatest single
contribution to rail-travel comfort
choosing 72 degrees as the ideal win
ter temperature and varying sum-
mer temperatures according to out
side heat.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-29
Keller To Talk At
Varsity B Breakfast

T. G. Keller, Toledo physical rec
reation director, will be the speaker
at the Bluffton College Varsity "B''
breakfast, at 5 a. m. Saturday morn
ing in the Walnut Grill.
Keller is we'll known to Bluffton
sports followers as one of the out
standing game officials working in
Northwestern Ohio more than Is
years ago.
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Boy Scout News
TROOP 56

Troop 56 will conduct a waste pa
per drive in the town next Saturday
afternoon, with trucks making a
round of the town to pick up bundled
papers left on curbs or doorsteps.
Proceeds from the paper drive will
be used in financing week at camp
for troop members this summer.
@&k
A pot luck dinner was held Mon
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

II TIE Wreck OF TIE STEAM FIAT HOmE. !"
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APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED PEI SONS pershed- First major steamboat disaster
along the North Carolina coast was; the wreck of the team Jacket Home" on october g. 1887
te oManooM A1 Wn p%UM@V E no. Sa"rhy, from Transporting RHsMe. IN
an historic Hurricane of 1887 and "s the gale increased the awfha and p0tenos isufddeny
fte fH bark began to be developed"
Phdo court ey The Mariners Museum, Newport News Va
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
Rev. Andrew ]. Howell
Continued From Page Six

tLOlILllutu I1Ull IL axe 6lAJ
he as an evangelist, and so
thorough and helpful was h S
teacher, that after only six
months in the Theological Semi
nary, Mr.. Howell was licensed
as a minister. He was ordained
into the Presbyterian Ministry
on October Goth, 1912. So that a
little more than half of his long
and full life has been given to
the preaching of the Gospel he
practised so well.
Besides his ministerial and CT
vic services in his own commun-
tiles, which were many and var
led, he was known to his
brothers in Wilmington Presby-
terry as a "Presbyter" of high
quality. He was stated clerk of
his Presbytery for twenty years,
and of all the beautiful tributes
paid him, both during his life
and since his death, he must
have priced especially that sin
cere praise they heaped upon
him at the time of his retire
ment last spring. Part Of this
tribute was quoted, after his
death, in the deeply apprecia-
tive editorial published in tn e
Wilmington Star.
Mr. Howell was unusually
happy in his choice of a wife,
Miss Gertrude jenkins, of the
old Moravian settlement of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
Juan's, JezebeI's
Love Life Smooth
AT Mating Time

Oct. 1S-P-
Juan, the lovesick Llama, was
feeling clipper today. He and
Jezebel were practically on
speaking terms.
Juan has been incoming around
Griffith park ZOO of late in a
mood which his keepers attribute
to approach of mating time. SO
yesterday they brought Jezebel
South from the William Randolph
Hearst ranch at San Simeon.
Jezebel acknowledged Juan's
o%vertures in old Llama custom
by splitting in his eye. The keep
pers explained that splitting out
the cud is a c-mon defensive
move by members of the camel
family.
But today all was peace and
contentment. They munched
breakfast from the trough side
by side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
ESTABLISHING
HOSPITAL, HARD
DR.. Ferrell, State Medical
Group, Cites
Reasons

RALEIGH, October 10. - Es-
npltl' as ltsn a sol hath agebtsi
tabllshlng a hospital isn't as
simple as spotting goldenrod on
North Carolina hills in the au-
tumn, says DR.. John A.. Terrell,
executive secretary of the
States Medical Care Com
mission, in the October issue OF
Better Health.
Warning that many counties
may find themselves saddled
with costly white elephants in
stead of efficient, well-financed
hospitals, DR.. Terrell offers 6
step-by-step pattern for commu-
mites to follow in developing
their hospital plans.
Thorough study and plan
ming by the ablest county lead
ers, persistence. determination,
judgment, financial resources
and hard work of the county
or local level are required to
transform a dream of an ade-
quate hospital into a function.
ing reality" declares DR.. Fer
rell.
More is demanded than g
phone call to Raleigh of a pep
mass meeting to tap the mil
lions of dollars for hospital con.
struction now in the State anc
Federal treasures" DR.. Fer.
rell warns.
The Medical Care Commits
sion official believes that North
Carolina is rapidly becoming
Hospital conscious on a state.
wide scale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

Salem. They are 1nseparably
connected in the minds of their
friends. They made for them
selves a harmonious and beauti-
full life; a life with a common
purpose; a gentle way of life
which has influenced in unob-
trusive fashion a greater multi
tude of souls than either can
ever know. Their house on
Market street is known to some
Off us, from it's number, as
"Armistice House,. peace" -
that is the home thGne of the
Howells. Their three fine child
dren rise up and call them
blessed". And with them, we, an
uncounted number of friends,
gladly join in thanking God for
the inheritance Andrew Howell
has left us, and for the gracious
presence among us of his dear
ly beloved wife. In remembering
her husband, we remember her
and their children, and pray for
them Gods own loving conso-
lations. In honoring the memory
of u friend who has gone
Home, we delight also to honor
her, his true helpmeet.
Mark the perfect man, and
behold the upright; for the end
of that man is peace.
The above tribute to the mem
DRY of the Rev. Andrew J. Howell
was read at the October meeting
of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy on Wednesday aft
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
Literary Lantern
Continued From Page Six

of the trouble in Country
Place" A wild New England
storm and a sagacious old wom-
ans Will round out this much
better than average nove' about
perfectly credible characters
caught in difficulties of their
own making.
FOR YOUNGER FRY
Longmans, Green and Compa-
ny has published two new books
for young people which should
be we'll noted. Deep Wood by
Elleston Trevor (280 PIP. $3.50
is a particularly charming story
about animals in the ''Wind in
the Willows tradition. Author
Trevor is an Englishman Just
out of the R.A.F and very in
terested in the things that hap
pen to a badger, an otter a
fox, a mole and other denizens
OF the deep wood who got the
notion of opening a shop and
who gaily celebrated the COM
ing of the Mole to the Old Mill
Appropriately pleasant illus
trations are by Stephen j. Voor-
HES.
For somewhat older boys 10
14) is Robert c. DuSoe's ''Three
Without Fear" (186 PIP. $3.50
which is the account of what
happened to young Dave Rogers
when he was shipwrecked of
the coast of California and res.
cued by two orphaned Indian
children. Living on CLANS ano
rabbits and turtles, learning
how to m a tortillas from
grass and how to use a fish
line, and surviving a fierce
storm in a cave, the three chill,
dren become close friends or
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

son who goes to sea should pro-
vide themselves"
Today on the coasts of Amerj.
ca no vessel, large or small.
will leave harbor without one
life preserver for every person
on board. 1t is not only a pre-
cautlonary measure but it
IS law, and the U. S.
Coast Guard and Bureau of Ma
rlne Inspectors enforce the law
and rigidly.
On September 81 of the year
the Home was wrecked. a Sc
we're hurricane started moving
westward through the Carrib-
bean. This great storm was to
go down in hurricane history as
Racers Storm" because the
British sloop of war the Racer"
encountered the terrific winds
and seas it produced in Yucatan
channel on October l. This
storm reached the Mexican Gulf
coast south of Brownsville. re-
curved, followed the coastline
and passed near Galveston en-
October 5. 1t then crossed the
Louisiana coast and passed into
the Atlantic near Charleston aft
e1 sweeping through Georgia.
Racers Storm after passing to
sea continued on a northeast
ward course and by October 9
it was blowing a gale and Great
ing mountainous seas in
the Cape Hatteras area.
In the story one survivor re-
lated:
ION reaching the beach. there
was no appearance of inhabi-
tants; but after wandering some
distance, a light was discover
ed, which proved 20 be from
Ocracoke Lighthouse, about six
miles southwest of the place
where the boat was wrecked.
The inhabitants of the island,
generally, treated us with great
Kindness; and, so far as their
circumstances would allow, as
sisted in properly disposing of
the numerous bodies thrown
upon the shore"
If such a wreck as that of the
Steam Packet Home occurred
today it would be known
throughout the world within a
few moments. At that time it
was a different story. 1t was
merely a week before the peo-
pie of Charleston 200 miles
away, where the Home was sew
eral days overdue, began to re-
ceive meager details of
the calamity.
In the meantime the dead
bodies that had been recovered
were buried. Some of the I'M
identified were buried in
unmarked graves at SIX Nile
Hammock near the beach where
the Home broke to pieces.
Most of the bodies were
brought to the village and the
residents prepared shrouds and
William Howard, then the
wealthiest man on the island, al
lotted plots of ground for the
victims to be buried. Many were
placed in a common grave.
Some of those identified by sur
vivors were buried in individual
graves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
their long journey in search Of

their long journey in search Of
help.
A group of over so poems by
August Derleth, Wisconsin poet,
has been published by Stanton
and Lee, Sank City, Wise, un-
der the title of "a Boys Way"
with very attractive pen and ink
sketches by Clare Victor Dwig-
gins G09pp. S2). They are all
about the things a boy would
like fishing, treasure hunting,
burning leaves in autumn,
spring fever, stamp collecting,
playing Indian and they are
all written in a simple easy
style that a boy would enjoy
reading or having read aloud to
him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
Hurricane Wrecked Steamboat Home" Just OFF
Ocracoke 10YearsA Ago Was FirstWaj or Tragedy
More Than 100 Buried Near
Site Of Famous Boat Wreck
By AYCOCK BROWN

0CRACOkE, Oct. l8-During the interim of 10 wears
since there have been ITO, and possibly many more mari
time disasters within range of Ocracoke's lighthouse beacon
Many great cargo ships were sent to the ooaan's bottom
within sight and sound of this islands shore by torpedoes
of enemy submarines or careless navigation in vicinity of
anchorage during World War II. Ask an Ocracoker. Young
Of old, about the worst shipwreck Of all to happen here and
the answer you are most likely to get is: "The wreck of
4oonch Hama
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19
LETTER COSTS Sc, 900
POSTAGE

ST. LOUIS W.R-A registered
airmail letter bearing $4,000 in
postage has been received at the
United Press office here. It
came from Shanghai, where
monetary initiation prevails and
stamps are valued in Chinese
dollars. A similar letter in the
opposite direction would cost
about As cents, U. S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

Year round weight corduroy
Stacks in a smart pleated drape
model style. In waist sizes 28-
40. For school, play.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

Lllt -
the steamship Home"
The average Islander today
ram give only meagre details
about the wreck of the Home =
i any details at all. To them
tbe disaster is legend having
bpen handed down from one gen.
orati5n to another. More thar
likely not one person on the is
land bare could tell you that II
DAYS ago, October 81. was the
no anniversary of the wreck OF
the Home.
wears the village midwife, who
died last year at the age of SO
conId give one some information
about the disaster - before her
dotage. She knew for instance.
that many of the victims were
b1ried near Springer's Point or
land which in 1887 was owned
BY William Howard.
The late Captain Dave WI
1ians. a retired coast guards
man could recall that "some OF
The old ladies of the island were
hurled (during his lifetime> in
fine dresses that had been sal
vaged from the wreck Of the
Steamboat Home"
A poorly constructed vessel OF
wooden timbers, no life saving
a~pparatus aboard and an his
toric hurricane that had been
spawned in the Caribbean,
south of Jamaica on September
q. some u days before it was
to go seward in the path OF
the Steam Packet Home had a
role in the disaster which claim
ed 80 or more lives.
The Home sailed from New
York City for Charleston, S. c.
on Saturday October Z, 1888! al
4 pm. There were on board ap-
proximately 80 passengers ano
43 crew members including the
ships officers.
Commenting on the Home ano
her wreck one New York paper
stated: "Our city has been
thrown into CONSERVATION by the
loss of the Steam Packet Home
She was hogged on her last voy-
age, and patched up. Hoggec
means broken-backed (the kee.
broken:) this for the benefit of
fresh water readers. The steam
er was too long for sea naviga-
ton"
D. H. Redfearn of Miami who
did considerable research II
connection with disaster Tor ar
article in the Florida Law
Journal. May, 1885, makes this
comment: Reference to the
length of the steamboat Home
IS an interesting commentary or
the infant steamboat industry O.
the time. The Home was less
than one = fourth the length o.
some Of our modern steamships
She was owned by James P
Allaire of New York, and was
constructed by Brown and Bel
at q cost of S115, 900. and was in.
sured for S35, 600. The Home was
3 new boat, and was on it's thirc
voyage when it was wrecked
There were only two life pre-.
servers on board the packet anc
they were privately owned. II
tn issue of Southern Patriot O.
Octobsr 10, 1887, it was stated
that H. Anderson, one of the
passengers, was doubtless en-
trely indebted to a life preserv'
er for his life, as he as unable
to swim.
ut was fixed underneath his
arms, and every sea tina!
struck him.. whirled him over
once or twice, but he invariably
came heads up and is, for
tunately, a living evidence O
the usefulness of this invalu
able invention, which every per
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

The productivity of U. S. soil is
now about half as great as it was
before white men came to Amer
jca
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

ernoon, October Is, by Miss Susan
E. Hall and was signed by Miss
Hall and Miss Carrie White.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

0CRACOKE LIGHT GUIDED survivors to safety:-.A1ter
She struck, her destruction was as rapid as that u the unfortunate
crew" Forty]hree persons aboard survived. Cast ashore N d
strange beach during darkness the survivors saw a lighthouse IN
te distance. Walking towards the light they arrived al OcracoRe
village and learned that their ship had been wrecked at SIX Vile
hammock on the Outer Ranks island. The lighthouse Whlch guloeo
M survivors to safety was then 40 years old ana t!he Deacon,
!" which no major changes have been made to the tower:
photo by Aycock Brown
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-19

The noise of beetles, produced
by scraping one part of the body
against another, is believed to be
a mating call.