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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
When Lucy Rogers
PRAYED

Lucy Rogers believed in prayer
Never, she often related, had there
been a predicament in her 19-years
of life that prayer, sincerely offered,
had not gotten her out of. But that
was before she moved TO Crawford
County, Ohio,
The Rogers family moved into a
log cabin near Bucyrus in 1879
Lucy, James, her husband, and their
baby in arms. Low wilderness then,
the country was a tangled under
growth of malaria, chills and fever
Everyone had his chill time" Com.
ing at regular hours, days apart, The
attacks finally narrowed to every
other day, then every day and finally
the fever was on to stay. With nj
doctor in the backwoods there wasn'
much to be done about it except tht
simple home remedies, which usual,
did not work.
In 1920 James Rogers got tht
ague. He went through all tht
stages until finally he was in beC
and there to stay. Lucy prayed
little-but tried more to doctor hel
husband. There was no improve
ment.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Burns Fatal TO Mrs.
Sarah Bddertscher

Mrs. Sarah A. Badertscher, 81,
resident of Poplar street for the last
Al years, died last Thursday night
in Bluffton Community hospital
where she had been a patient after
being seriously burned in a mishap
at her home seven weeks ago.
Mrs. Badertscher was admitted to
the hospital after suffering burns
when her clothing caught fire while
she was burning rubbish in her gard
en-. Her death was attributed to
complications resulting from the
burns.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon in st. Johns Reformed
church, with Rev. V. c. Oppermann,
pastor, officiating, Burial was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
i Mrs. Badertscher was born in
Richland township, and was married
on June s, 1898, to Peter Bader-
fischer. He preceded her in death
in 1916. ...
Survivors include son, Ralph
Badertscher; five grandchildren; and
a sister, Mrs. John A. Anderson, all
of Bluffton. -@
Mrs. Badertscher was a member of
st. Johns Evangelical and Reformed
church and of the Edith Lahr Mis-
sionary circle of the church.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Big Influx Of Hunters To Come Here
Monday For Another Pheasant Season
All Rooming Accommodations
In Town Sold Out For
Opening Day
Plenty of Hunters And Rela-
five Scarcity of Game Pre-
dicted Again This Year

Last years poor hunting is ex-
pected to have little effect on the en-
thusiasm of an army of nimrods
who will take to the field at a. m.
next Monday for the opening of the
1948 pheasant and rabbit season.
Indicating that a big influx of
hunters will make the Bluffton dis
trict their center of operations, all
hotel and tourist home accommoda-
tons are reserved for Sunday and
Monday, and rooms in private homes
are at a premium in attempting to
handle the anticipated crowds.
With every prospect of a flood of
hunters taking to the field on the
opening day of the season, more
farmers than ever before are post
ing mo Hunting" signs around the
boundaries of their land.
Although the majority of farmers
readily give consent to friends hunt
ing on their land in recent years
they have SHE'D away from granting
permission to strangers and those in
experienced in the use of firearms.
MORE BIRDS THAN YEAR AGO
Pheasants are said to be more
plentiful this year than they were
in the fall of 1947 when this dis
trict had its poorest season in more
than a decade, However, birds still
are not as plentiful as they were
eight or nine years ago and the sup
ply will not nearly approach normal.
The pheasant season will be three
days longer than last falls abbre-
waited period of hunting. Opening
next Monday morning, open season
will continue through November 25,
Thanksgiving day. Rabbit season
will be from Nov. Is to Dec. 18.
Two cock pheasants will be the
daily bag limit, as we'll as the num-
ber permitted in possession after the
first day. Daily bag limit for rab,
bits will be four.
Hunting viii be permitted only be
tween the hours of a. m. ant
4 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
new BUILDING TO
DOUBLE AIRPORT'S
HANGAR CAPACITY
Construction of New Hangar
Here is Being Finished
This Week
Addition Will Provide Accom-
modations at Field For
Is Planes

Hangar capacity at the Bluffton
airport is being doubled by the addi-
tion of a new hangar, construction
of which will be completed within
the next week, it was announced
Tuesday by Clayton Bixel, owner of
the airfield
The new hangar viii be of metal,
quonset-type construction, 40 by 100
feet. With its addition to present
field equipment, there will be hangar
space for Is airplanes, Bixel said.
Original hangar at the field, 30
by $50 feet structure, also houses
an office and shop in addition to
hangar space.
Eight planes now are operated by
the Bluffton Flying Service, proprie-
tors of the airfeld. They are used
for flying instruction, charter and
sightseeing flights.
Construction of the new hangar
will provide space for 10 additional
planes for customers and purchasers
of new planes. Most of the aircraft
stored at the field outside of that
operated by the flying service, is
owned by out-of-town fliers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
TAX DUPLICATE IN
TOWN NEARS TWO
MILLION DOLLARS
Blufft0n's Increase i'm Valuation
Past Year S57, ,470 Auditor
Says
Richland Townships Duplicate
Over Two Million; Beaver
dam $250,790

Buttons 194S real estate tax
duplicate will be $1,937,130, an in
crease of $57,470 over last years
figure, it is announced by Allen
County Auditor Russell L. Hire.
Richland townships duplicate also
showed an increase, up $26,630 to
2,0s2, $50.
Beaverdam's tax will be on du-
plicate at $250,790, an increase of
S15,340.
Allen county's real estate tax
duplicate was set at a mark of S82,-
$4,000, a boost of $2,040,410 over
the 1947 total. Municipal duplicates
total S54,9S1, 100, and the township
duplicates amount to S27,138,110,
Figures listed include valuations
on both land and buildings, the audi
tors office announced. Nearly 81
per cent of the real property valua-
tion increase is in the city of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Ross Wilkins Rites
To Be On THURSDAY

Daniel Ross Wilkins, rs, died sud-
denly of heart attack at $3.50 a. m.
Tuesday at the home of Miss Mollie
Niswander, south of Bluffton. He
had been in i'll health the past six
months.
Born Oct. 6, 1878, in Union town
shin, he was the son Of Absolom
and Lavina Perigo Wilkins.
Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.
Bert Williams, Mt. Cory and Mrs.
o. O. Hartman, Findlay; a brother,
Ira Wilkins, Rawson, and half
brother, John Wilkins, Bluffton.
Funeral services will be held at
g p. m. Thursday in the Basinger
Funeral home. Rev. V. G. Opper-
mann, pastor of the st. Johns Re-
formed church, will officiate. Burial
will be in the Clymer cemetery.
The body will be at the Basinger
funeral home until time for the
service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
No Reduction Possible if Mini.
mum Price is Set for
Producers, Claim
Bluffton Paying p Cents Quart
Hearings on Price Held i'm
Toledo

No reduction in Bluffton's retail
price of milk, delivered at % cents a
quart, will be possible if the Depart
ment of Agriculture grants mini
mum price sought by dairy farmers
in Northwestern Ohio, a spokesman
for milk distributors announced this
week.
Milk is being sold here on a carry
home basis at 19l& cents quart.
Bluffton's milk prices are determin-
ed by the level set by the North
western Cooperative Sales associa-
ton, farm group, which last week
sought establishment of the 22-cent-
a-quart minimum in a meeting at
Toledo.
Price of milk in Bellefontaine
dropped TO 20 cents a quart Mon
day. The new price, a reduction
of one cent, was the second cut
within a month.
An all-day hearing was held by a
federal examiner in Toledo on the
Mesa request to establish the
September price paid to producers
for milk and cream as the floor
for December, January and February.
Under federal orders, milk prices
for this area are governed by those
paid at certain midwestern condens-
cries; and in the last three months
the eondensery prices have tumbled
80 cents.
Unless the decline is checked by
adopting the minimum price rule
milk producers will leave the North
western Ohio market in great
numbers" to seek higher prices offer
ed in Detroit and Cleveland, spokes,
men for the Mesa testified at the
hearing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Winter Recreation Program To
Get Under Way Here Next Week

Buttons winter recreation pro
gram win get under way next week,
with initial sessions in the Bluffton
High school gymnasium Monday
evening and the college gymnasium
Tuesday evening. @6+.
Interested men are urgd to be in
the high school gymnasium at p. m.
to organize a winter basketball
league. All registering will pay a
81 charge to cover the cost of equip
ment. A program will be arranged
for each Monday night during the
winter.
The Tuesday night program is for
mems volleyball and basketball from
T to $3.50 p. m. and women's play
from $50 until 10 p. m.
A Saturday morning program for
grade school pupils also is being ar
ranged, with sessions. in the gym
nasium from 8 to IL a. m. Because
of limited facilities, attendance will
be limited to fourth, fifth and sixth
grades. se
The Saturday morning program
will be for boys and girls, with the
groups meeting on alternate Satur-
days.
Richard @. Lowry, BIuffton High
school coach, will be in charge of the
Monday night and Saturday morning
programs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Union TtUp. NatiUe
Dies In California

Frank Ludwig, IA, native of Union
township, Hancock county, died in
Temple hospital in Los Angeles,
Tuesday night after a ten days ill
ness following a stroke.
He was a brother of Elmer Lud-
wig and Miss Alice Ludwig of Bluff
ton and Mrs. Clara Steiner and Miss
Anna Ludwig of Lima and visited
here frequently,
Born August 18, 1874 in Union
township, he had lived in Los An
geles for the past 25 years, Funeral
services and burial will be in that
city. His wife, Twila Lewis Ludwig
and daughter Twila Maxine died
several years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Former Bluffton
Man On Mission
To South America

JAMES Glenn Owens, native of
~ Bluffton and brother of Miss
ClaribeI Owens and Mrs. Sarah
Oates, both of this place, has left
this country for Venezuela where he
will work under sponsorship of the
Rockefeller foundation in introducing
American methods of extension serv-
ice to farmers of that nation,
In addition to setting np pro-
gram Of extension service methods,
Owens will establish a farm credit
service similar to our Farm Security
program.
He was accompanied by his wife
who is a home demonstration agent.
Before accepting the position with
the Rockefeller foundation, Owens
had been in New York State soil
conservation work for 10 years. Pri-
or to that time he had been an in
structor in vocational agriculture at
Jackson Center and Mechanicsburg
High schools in Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
CrOUds Attracted
To Night School

Parents and others interested in
the work of Bluffton public schools
crowded the classrooms Tuesday
night to see the regular schedule of
pupil activities in Bluffton's second
annual Night School observance.
The evening session of regular
classes was sponsored by the Parent
Teachers association and was con-
Quoted in connection with observance
of American Education week.
In the elementary school, various
phases of the regular school program
were demonstrated for the visitors
Two rgular day periods were con-
Quoted at the high school,
Members of the student patrol
were on duty to guide parents to
classes they wished to visit.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Retail Milk Price Here Hangs
on Decision Of Federal Bureau
Goods Chasing Men Across Campus
Saturday Marks Sadie Hawkins Day

There's no occasion to be puzzled
next Saturday aterneon when you
see bevies of Bluffton college goods
chasing men students across the
campus in foot races that the more
fieetfooted men may not try too
hard to win.
The afternoons fun merely will
represent coeds' attempts to line up
their dates for a Saturday night
party, climaxing the annual obserF-
ance of Sadie Hawkins Day on the
campus.
After a women nabs a man in the
chase, he is hers for the rest of the
day, and a "Marryin' Sam" viii
provide a license duly attesting to
her rights of possession. The license
also will serve as proper credentials
of admission to the all~campus party
in the evening.
During the day, the rules of the
game also provide that a coed may
compel her capture to be chained to
a log, a bucket of cement or any
other heavy object to prevent his
getting away.
Sadie Hawkins Day was originat-
ed about 10 years ago in the comic
strip, Little Abner," and since then
it has become a traditional observ-
ance on nearly every college campus.
In the comics, Mayor Hawkins, of
Dogpatch, was unable to find a
husband for his ugly daughter. As a
result he proclaimed Sadie Hawkins
Day, which consisted of a race in
which unmarried girls gave single
males a head start. He who was
caught had to marry the gal"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
SnaithUilIe Women
Assist In Work Here

Forty women from the Oak Grove
Mennonite church in Smithviile will
travel to Bluffton in a chartered bus
this Thursday, to assist in work of
the Ohio cutting room, which cuts
garments for European relief dis
stribution through the Mennonite Gen.
tral committee.
Cutting room quarters are in Sci
sence hall on the Bluffton college cam
pus, and the visitors from Smith
vile will assist in the cutting, and
observe the work procedure through
out the day.
The visitors will work in shifts
with local directors of the project,
and during the remainder of the time
here will help make comforters for
relief purposes in space set aside for
the group in Lincoln hall, women's
sdormitory.
The cutting room operated here
under auspices of the Mennonite Cen
trail Committee is sponsored by four
Mennonite churches of this district:
Ebenezer and First Mennonite of
Bluffton, and Grace and st. John
Mennonite of Pandora.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Organ Recital At
Ann Arb0r Sunday

Roger Hauenstein, student in the
University of Michigan school of
music will give an organ recital in
the Hill auditorium at the univers-
ity, Sunday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock.
He is the younger son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Hauenstein Of South
Jackson street.
The recital is presented in partial
fulfllment of the requirements for
the degree of Bachelor of Music.
He is a graduate of Bluffton col
lege and later taught public school
music and studied in the music de-
partment of Ohio State university
in Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Court Places FiUe
Youths On Probation

Five Biuffton youths were placed
on probation by Judge Raymond p.
Smith in a hearing in the Allen
County Probate court, Monday after
noon. The hearing was an after
math of wave of vandalism which
broke out here during the past two
months, damage from which was esti-
mated at upwards of $500.
Judge Smith admonished the youths
to behave themselves and ordered
restitution for losses and damage
for which they were responsible.
One or several Of the group were
involved in a series of acts of de-
linquency including theft of $40 from
clothing of members of the Bluffton
football squad during the first half
of game played here Friday night,
October Is, also breaking into and
stealing refreshments from the Har-
mon field concession booth and acts
| of Halloween vandalism.
Two of the cases were official and
three unofficial. The two against
whom official case listings were
placed had sentences deferred.
Besides the five, a sixth youth, not
a Juvenile, facing a petty larceny
charge in the Lima Municipal court
is out on a $50 bond. His trial is
set for Tuesday afternoon, Deem
Der IA.
The youths denied completely in
burglary at Bluffton high school two
weeks ago in which the safe in the
school office was badly damaged in
an unsuccessful attempt to force it
open and rife the strong box of its
contents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Back From, Canada
With Big Game

Frank Montgomery of Orange
township and Justin Klingler of near
Ada have returned from a ten days
Canadian hunting trip at Espanola,
Ontario. Montgomery bagged a 500
pound black bear and Klingler a
large doe.
The two hunters from this vicinity
made the trip with six others from
Columbus. Besides the bear and
doe, six deer were bagged by the
Columbus hunters.
The party's headquarters were at
Birch Grove camp near the Mississ-
agi state forest area, about $50
miles north of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Solicit Grain For
OUerseas Relief

Richland township rural churches
are soliciting donations of grain
from farmers in the area for the
Christian Rural Overseas Program
sponsoring a European relief pro-
ject.
Frank Patterson of South Main
street, local CROP chairman has an
nounced the following solicitors: AL
bert Augsburger, Reese Huber, Mel
Long, Charles Lora, and Wilford
Gratz.
Donations from this area will be
taken to Lima where a car will be
loaded the last of tn month for
shipment to Europe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Winters First Snow
Is Seen In BlufftOn
Wednesday Morning

pLUFFTON experienced its
first snowfall of the winter
Wednesday morning when a
brief snowstorm swept the area
at dawn. The snowstorm, ac-
companied by falling tempera-
ture followed a heavy rain Tues
day night. A skiff of snow,
only evidence of the early morn
ing snowfall, was visible until
mid-forenoon Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Wade Shook To Be
Boy Scout Executive

Wade A. Shook, of South Jackson
street, left Monday for Mendham,
N. J., where he will enter a six
weeks school for professional Boy
Scout leaders.
Shook has been assigned to the De-
fianee district in the Shawnee Boy
Scout council, and will work in five
counties. The local man is a gradu-
ate Of Rluffton college and a Navy
World War II veteran.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
School Of Religion
To Close Thursday

Buttons school of religion, spon-
sored by the Bluffton Ministerial as
sociation will hold it's closing session
at the high school Thursday night at
7:30 o'clock.
AS a special feature, Prof. Paul
Shelly will show sound film "The
Synagogue and Passover" and also a
film on the life of Christ.
Rev. Paul Whitmer will lead devo-
tions and Charles Emans will teach
the class in stewardship.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
ShOlU Pictures Of
Trip To HalCdii

Pictures taken by Mr.. and Mrs.
E. S. Lape of Bluffton on their trip
to Hawaii last year were shown at
the annual thankoffering meeting
and farewell dinner of the Rockport
Presbyterian church for Rev. E. N.
Bigelow and family last Wednesday
night.
The Bluffton couple made the trip
by plane to visit their son Wade
Lape, an officer in the naval air
force stationed at that time in
Hawaii.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Librarian GiUen
Absence LeaDe

Miss Ocie Anderson, librarian at
Buttons public library has been
given leave Of absence until the holi-
days to recuperate from an illness OF
last summer. She left Thursday for
her home in Cameron, West Va.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Swiss Male Chorus

The Swiss Male Chorus is to hold
its rehearsal each Monday evening at
8 o'clock in the Reformed church in
Bluffton. A hearty invitation is ex-
tended to more men Of the commun--
ity who enjoy singing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Buy Radio For
IU CIassnldte

Bluffton high school juniors are
raising funds to buy a radio for
George Grismore, a classmate, i'll
with polio. Grismore has been pa
tient in Lima Memorial hospital for
the last two months.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Chevrolet Sales
Ren,OdeIs Quarters

Steiner Chevrolet sales is remodel
ing the sales room of its quarters
on North Main street. Work on the
front Of the building is under way
This week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
John RalInaan Wins
Peace Defamation

John Bauman, Bluffton High school
junior representing the First Men
MONTE church, won a Prince of
Peace Defamation contest held last
Sunday night in the Methodist
church here.
Winner of the event received a
bronze medal and the right to repre-
sent the village in the Allen county
contest later this fall. The contest
is sponsored by the Ohio Council of
Churches.
Other contestants were Samuel
Buhler, Miriam Bixel, Janette Fin
ton and Susanna Kempf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
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81 HARRY l.. HALR

EDITORS NoTE-This is one
of series of articles to appear
IN the BEufton NetUs dealing
Nth early Ohio history. Others
will appear in forthcoming
issues.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Community Hospital
Tag Day Nets S257

Proceeds from the election day sale
of tags in a drive for the benefit of
Bluffton Community hospital netted
S257, it was reported this week. The
tag day sale was conducted by the
hospital auxiliary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Peterson, Raw
son, a boy, Michael Lynn, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Omer Welty, Bluff
ton, a girl Cheryle Marchele, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clapper,
Lafayette, a girl, Betty Louise, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Diller, Bluff
ton, a boy Jon Nelson, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore, Bluff
ton, a girl, Deborah Lynne, Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11

Lieut.. and Mrs. Robert Bayless, a
boy, Robert Vance, born October 4
at the Camp Leieune, North Caro-
lima, hospital. Lieut.. BayIess is a
son of Mrs. Martha Diller Bayless,
formerly of Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. ]. Lautsbaugh,
Mansfield, a girl born at Mansfield
hospital, Saturday. Mrs. Lautsbaugh
was Ruth Ryan, formerly of Bluff
ton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Ryan of Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11

HEALTH EXAMINATIONS
Bluffton high school pupils will be
given health examinations by local
physicians on Thursday, Nov. Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-11-11

Those who are greedy of praise
prove that they are poor in merit.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1948-09-03
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