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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Name Honor Roll
At High School

Bluffton high school scholastic hon.
or rcll for the third six weeks grad.
ing period is announced as follows
Seventh grade-Doneta Amstutz
Doris Basinger, Vonda Burkholder
Lou Moser, jeanne Moser, Sue Ris,
ser, Emma Schmutz.
Freshman-Don Tripplehorn, Rob.
ert Wenger, Joan Gratz, June Hoch.
stettler, Mary Lauby.
Sophomore-Howard Miller, Louise
Reichenbach, Margaret Stratton.
Junior-John Bauman, Howard
Lands, Dorothy Amstutz, Mary Lou
Balmer, Ruth Diller, Wanda Hoch-
stettler, Imajean Klass, Ada Mae
Oyer, Mary Jean Ramseyer, Jane
Riser.
Senior-Jo Haller, Malbea Lau-
riat.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Real Estate Deals


Mrs. Susanna Iuginbuhl has pur.
chased the James Whittemore resi-.
dence on North Lawn avenue, form.
erly owned by Lester Niswander
The Whittemores recently moved tc
Birmingham, Mich. Mrs. Luginbuhl
and little son who have been making
their home with Mrs. Mary Lugin-
bihl west of Bluffton will occupy the
property soon.
The Defiance Home Savings &
Loan association Saturday purchased
40-acre farm in Orange township
for $5,400 at sheriff's sale in Find
lay. The sale resulted from mort
gage foreclosure action brought in
Hancock county common pleas court
by the Defiance company against
Paul Snavely and others. The farm
was appraised at $4,000
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Community Youth
Rally Here Sunday

A young peoples rally for high
school and college age youths will
be held at 7:30 p. m. Sunday night
in the First Mennonite church, in
connection with the nationwide eel
ebration of Youth week from Jan. 80
to Feb. 6.
Youth messages on the theme,
LET God Speak," will be as fol-
lows: Let God Speak in Times of
Chaos" Angel Luis Gutierrez; LET
God Speak Thru the Scriptures =
Howard Lands; LET God Speak
Thru the Church. Jane Riser
LET God Speak Thru Me- Mary
Margaret Smith.
Special music will be provided by
the Bluffton High school mixed
chorus; the Bluffton college girls
gospel team quartet and the col
lege mems gospel team quartet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Mt. Cory Collects
SI,I7I In Polio DriUe

Mt. Cory, one of the smallest Han
cock county school districts, has re-
ported thai il b. raised Sl,l71.24
for the January March of Dimes
polio campaign.
Contributions toward the total
were as follows: Mt. Cory students,
S124.10; Mt. Cory district subscrip-
tion, home to home, s589.25; church
es and clubs, $25358; Containers,
$29.65; Collections at public gath
erings, $94.66; Money forwarded to
the county office, $50.
Roderick Nonnamaker, of near
Rluffton, one of four Hancock coun-
ty polio victims who died of the dis
ease, was graduated from Mt. Cory
High school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
NeU LalU Offices
Are Opened Here

Announcement was made the first
of the week of opening of law offices
of B. F. Welty, Quentin M. Derry
berry and Walter NJ. Lawson, Jr.,
on the second floor of the Citizens
National bank building.
Welty, veteran Lima attorney and
ex-congressman, was former Bluff
ton city solicitor and Allen county
prosecutor, also assistant in the
state attorney generals office and
the federal department. of justice in
charge of prosecution of the plumb
ers' trust. He served in the Span
American war and later was
commissioned lieutenant colonel by
Governor Harris and served on the
staff of General Dick.
Derryberry, 20, served in the Eu-
ropean theater during World War IL,
attained the rank of major and was
decorated with the Purple Heart.
He is a graduate of the Ohio State
university college of law i'm the
class of 1948. He is a native of
Hope, Arkansas.
Lawson also served in the Euro
pean thea.er during the war with
an army engineers unit, entering
as a private and attained the rank
of first lieutenant. He is a native
of Delaware, Ohio, and a graduate
of the Ohio State university college
Of law in 194S.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Chinese Communists Differ From
Russians, Speaker Tells Lions
TJCO From, Here In
Scholarship Tests

Two Bluffton girls will compete
in the general scholarship tests for
Allen county high school seniors to
be held Saturday at Lima Central
High school.
Representing Bluffton in the con-
tests are Coletta Badertscher and
Jo Haller, both members of the SEN
ior class.
Supt. Ralph S. Lanham, of the
Bluffton school system, was chair
man of the committee administering
the tests.
Any student whose grades We're
in the upper 40 per cent of his class
are eligible to compete.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
q DEMOCRATS and
REPUBLICANS FILE
FOR TOWN OFFICES
Democrats Have Full Slate;
G. O. P. Lacks Only One
For IL Offices
Town Government Will Have
New Look; Only Three
IncumbentS File

Bluffton's municipal government
will have "the new look" beginning
Jan. /, 1850, for of % candidates
who filed Tuesday for the II town
offices only three are incumbents.
The trio filing for nomination and
reelection are Forrest Steinman,
Democratic member of the board of
public affairs; Frank Todd, Demo-
cratic councilman, and Harvey
Beidler, Republican incumbent on the
board of public affairs.
Local Democrats, who held party
meeting last Wednesday in the high
school building, have filed full slate
of candidates for the offices of
mayor, village clerk, treasurer, six
seats on the municipal council and
three on the board of public affairs.
Republicans lacked only one nomin-
alton for the board of public affairs
to fill the G.. o. P. ticket.
Candidates filing include:
Democrats
For Mayor-Gerald Swank
For Clerk-Wilford (Bus) Gratz
For Treasurer-Eli Hochstettler
For Council-Edwin Badertscher,
William Gaiffe, Clay Henderson,
Charles Lora, Myron Motter, Frank
Todd.
For Board of Public Affairs--Lloyd
Brauen, Forrest Steinman, ROLAND
Stratton.
Republicans -
For Richard j. Davies
For Clerk-A. ]. B. Longsdorf
For Treasurer-Stella Lichten-
walter
For Council-Justin Basinger, Carl
Cahill, Willis Cummins, Donald ].
Beam, Everett A. Sutermeister, John
A. Thompson.
For Board of Public Affairs-Har-
vey E. Beidler, Joel r. Kimmel,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
GROUNDING SEES
SHADOW; SIX MORE
WEEKS OF WINTER
Long Hold of Mild Winter Is
Broken Over Past Week
End Here
Bright Sun Shines Wednesday
Morning With Temperatures
Eight Above Zero

Winter--long in arriving-will
continue here six more weeks, for
the grounding saw his shadow bright
and early Wednesday morning.
His prophecy was not long in
being fulfilled, as temperatures
lowered Wednesday morning at eight
degrees above zero. The sharp chill
however, was alleviated by bright
sun which shone thruout the fore.
noon and gave every indication OF
continuing thruout the day.
The little animal with the pro.
phetic shadow thereby doomed Bluff.
ton hopes that the mild winte,
weather which prevailed here unit
last Saturday night would be trans.
formed into an early spring.
Near Zero Mark
After eluding the Rluffton area fol
three months, winter finally moved
in over the last weekend, bringing
near-zero weather and three-incl
blanket of snow to plague shiverins
residents of the community.
Temperatures dropped to mari
of two above zero last Sunday morn
ing. Every day since Sunday th'
temperature has dropped below 10
and the only respite came for 1
short time Tuesday afternoon whei
the mercury moved above the freez
ing point.
Snowfall. beginning shortly befor,
dawn Monday, blanketed the groun,
with three-inch covering by noon
and unlike a few skifts of SNOW
earlier in this surprising winter fail
ed to disappear as cold weathe
continued.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Benefit Basketball DOuble-Header
Will Close March OF Dimes Campaign
Fred Gettles Named
To Bank Directorate

Fred Gettles of South Main street
will serve the unexpired term of the
late M. M. Bogart as a member of
the board of directors of the Citi-
zens National bank.
Action of the directors was taken
at meeting Tuesday night to fill
the vacancy for the unexpired term
which will continue until the annual
stockholders meeting next January.
Gettles is vice-president of the
Bluffton News Publishing & Print
ing company with which he has
been connected as production super
intendent for the past thirty-six
years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
YOUTH LOSES TWO
FINGERS CAUGHT IN
SCHOOL SHOP SAW
Richard Marquart, Mt. Cory
Senior, Accident Victim
Tuesday Morning
Was Working i'm Industrial Arts
Department; Star on
Basketball Team

Richard Marquart, IT, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Marquart, of Orange
township, and captain of the Mt
Cory High school basketball team
lost two fingers as the result of an
accident in the industrial arts depart
ment of the Mt. Cory school, Tues
day morning.
Marquart's left hand was caught
in the blade of a power saw he was
operating during shop period, Tues
day morning severing the third finger
and after he was taken to the Bluff
ton Community hospital it was
necessary to amputate the fourth
finger.
He also suffered severe gashes or
the index and little fingers, with
tendons severed in both, according
to hospital reports. He will remain
in the hospital for an indefinite time
Marquart's loss to the basketball
team on which he was the leading
scorer will severely handicap the Mt
Cory outfit, rated as one of the best
in Hancock county. He will be out
of the lineup at critical stage in
the closing weeks of county league
play and at time when the an
nual county tournament is in the
near future.
Mt. Cory, in a three-way tie for
second place in the county Little
Nine" is scheduled to entertain Raw
son Friday night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Appraisal Made
of BOgdrt Estate

Estate of the late M. M. Bogart
of Bluffton is estimated at S11 900
all in personal property, in papers
filed in the Allen county Probate
court. Letters of administration
have been issued to his son Harry
Bogart.
Bogart, former Bluffton business
man was chairman of the Allen
county board of elections and di.
rector of the Citizens National bank
at the time of hs death last month
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
EUangelistic Group
Closes Meetings Here

A capacity audience of more than
$50 attended the closing meeting of
the Tri-County Evangelistic cam
paign held at the high school audi
torium, Sunday night. The service
closed a three weeks series held
here and also in st. John Mnnonite
church near Pandora.
Rev. Earl Jensen, evangelist, spoke
on the topic when the Holy Spirit
Leaves the World" portraying the
biblical account of the latter days,
and Jack Rollings, music director,
conducted a chorus of more than 80
voices.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Elect Officers For
SlUiss MMe Chorus

James Suter of Pandora was
chosen president of the Swiss Male
chorus for the coming year at the
annual election of officers, Monday
night.
Other officers are: Treasurer, Le-
roy Lugibihl; librarian, Evan Welty;
business manager, Dwight Suter.
Concerts are scheduled for Feb. 13
at Mt. Cory and Feb. 27 at Marion
Rehearsals are held every Monday
night at s o'clock at the First Men
MONTE church here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Bluffton Donations For War On
Polio Have Passed $1,000
Mark, Report Shows
Benefit Cage Game Will Be
Played Friday i'm Bluffton
High Gymnasium

Buttons March of Dimes polio
campaign which already has netted
approximately $1,000 will be con-
cluded Friday night with playing
of benefit basketball double-header
in the high school gymnasium.
In the benefit cage program, final
promotional event in the campaign
sponsored locally by the Bluffton
Lions club, Bluffton Sportsmen Gag
ers will play Findlay Moose, and
Findlay Pats BARRIERS, team COM
posed of Bluffton players, will tan
gle with strong Leipsic outfit.
Leipsic, winner in 10 of 81 games
so far this season, is one of the
crack teams of the district and will
be severe test for the Pats Bar
Der outfit, one of the leaders in
Findlay league play. The Pats team
is composed of Bluffton players and
has large local following.
ALL proceeds from the double
header will go to the March of
Dimes, and special contributions also
will be received.
CONTRIBUTIONS LARGER
This years contributions for the
war on polio already are approxi-
mately three times greater than the
amount received here last year, it
was announced Tuesday night by Dr.
B. w. Travis, chairman of the Lions
committee in charge of sponsoring
the event.
An incomplete report released this
week was as follows: Carma theater
collections, S307.70; Club donations:
American Legion, $50; Bluffton Sad
die club, $50; Lions club, s71.16;
Others, S59.15; Triplett Electrical
instrument Co., S25; Diller funeral
home, $50; high school basketball
collections, $50.s6; College basketball
collections, s3052; Bluffton grade
school, S95.29; Bluffton high school
$48.85; contributions through the
mail, S155.65.
Containers-At Central Ohio Light
and Power Co., 1881; Bluffton hos
pital, 1881; Triplett, $11.52; Bluff
ton college, $I0.65; Boss Glove Co,
1894.
Container collections in business
places were topped by Swank's Bar
ber shop, $3.50; Risser Sandwich
shop, 1882, and Augsburger Ga
rage, $3.50.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Lack OF Adult Leadership Hurts
Bluffton's Busy Boy Scout Program

Buttons observance of National
Boy Scout week, beginning next
Sunday finds local scouting activities
suffering from lack of adult lead-
ership although the interest of boys
remains as keen as ever.
One Of the towns two scout troops
is inactive because no scoutmaster
is available; the other troop is OPP
Grating with temporary scout
master, and a cub scout pack has
been disbanded because leadership
and parental cooperation cannot be
obtained, it was pointed out this
week.
With Buttons scouting future
facing this handicap much of the
local activity in connection with the
observance of Boy Scout Week will
be aimed at increasing adult in
terest in the movement.
Bluffton Scouts will observe the
opening of their week next Sunday
by attending morning worship sery-
ices in the First Mennonite church,
as a group. Arrangements for the
participation in church services
were made under the direction of
Karl Gable, Bluffton troop commit
tee chairman. Boy Scout Week pro
| motion is under supervision of Ralph
7. Stearns, Bluffton Scout Commits
sioner.
Preceding the opening of Scout
Week, the troop members will con-
duct waste paper drive here Sat
urday afternoon to raise funds foi
next summers camping program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Bluft0n College
Adds Instructors

Two new faculty members have
been named by Bluffton college for
the school term beginning next fall
Laurence Burkhalter, Blufftor
graduate now taking graduate work
at Northwestern university, will be
the instructor in instrumental mu-
sic. Burkhalter now is concert
master of the Northwestern cham
Der orchestra and part-time concert
master of the Northwestern SYM
phony orchestra.
Laurel A. Dirks, graduate of
Bethel college, will come here as in
structor of mathematics and physics.
Dirks is now graduate student in
Kansas.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Inauguration Pictures
Are In NeIUs WindOIU

Scenes from the presidential in
auguration as published in the Wash
ington Evening Star are attracting
attention in the Bluffton News win
dow. Included are colored pictures
of President Truman and Vice Pres
ident Barkeley. The newspaper was
received by Mrs. Edith Bracy of
South Lawn avenue from her sister,
Mrs. c. w. Newman, for many
years resident of Washington.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
With The Sick

Mrs. Joel Basinger, surgical pa
tient in Bluffton hospital is repolt-
ed improved.
Mrs. N. w Cunningham who was
a medical patient in Bluffton hos
pital has been removed to her home
on South Jackson street.
Mrs. Wilhelm Amstutz II. is pa
tient at Lima st. Rita's hospital
where she was admitted for observa-
tion Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Grieser, Je-
nera, boy, Martin Luther, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Karl, Leip-
sic, boy, Tilman Rudolph, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Tripplehorn,
Beaverdam, boy, Steven Dwaine,
Thursday.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl Linder, Jr.,
Arlington, a boy, Eric Carl, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Eidt, Raw
son, girl, Ellen Marie, Monday
Mr. .and Mrs. Vernard Deitrick,
McComb, boy, Robert Lee, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Rausch, Je-
nera, a girl, Rebecca Jane, Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gardiner, Jr.,
Ionia, N. Y, boy, Peter Thorne,
born IN Rochester, N. Y hospital,
Jan. 10. Mrs. Gardiner is the form
er Barbara Carr, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. w. G. Carr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Roose, Ft
Wayne, girl, Gloria Jean, born al
Ft. Wayne Methodist hospital, Sun
day. Mrs. Roose is the former Dru-
silla Lugibill, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Lugibill.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Mrs Ada DriUer
Dies In California

News has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Ada Driver, form
erly of Lima, who died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Sherwood Dill
ler, former Bluffton resident, now
living in Alamda, Calf. She was
the widow of the late Perry Driver,
veteran Lima insurance man.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
BLuFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
s2.11; corn s1.25; oats Csc; soys
s2.20.
Poultry-Heavy hens 35c; leghorn
hens 28c.
Eggs-Large white 39c; large
brown 38c; medium white 36c; med
ium brown 35c; pullets 33c.
Butterfat-62c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
ShOU Sound Film
At Jenerd Church

The religious sound film "Who Is
My Neighbor" will be shown Sun
day night at St. Paul's Evangelical
Lutheran church, Jenera, at 7:30
o'clock it is announced by the pastor,
Rev. E. G. Alderman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
School Dismissed When
Water Line Is Broken

School was dismissed early Tues
day afternoon when a water line in
the heating system sprung leak.
The break was repaired later in
the day and classes resumed on
schedule Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
Bad Checks ShOU
Up In Stores Here

Two checks, said to be forgeries,
were passed in Rluffton stores here
during the past week. Authorities
are reported investigating the mat
ter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03

Number of cattle on feed January
| throughout nation was largest on
record. Ohio had about 3 percent
more than a year ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
"What This Town
Needs"

During the 40 years before its
founder, Bezaleel Wells, died in 1876
Canton, Stark County, had accumu-
lated q stores, five factories, six
churches, two newspapers and about
1000 inhabitants. The town had
grown that much in spite Of itself.
A threadbare colloquialism, that
what this town needs is lot Of
funerals and a few fires" was heard
here and there, off and on, for
decades. Canton could i'll afford the
loss by fire and had to stand still for
more than a score of years until
time and natural causes took care
of the funerals.
Despite the wretched poverty OF
| its people for want of a market ant
transportation, Canton did not wani
the Ohio and Erie canal When the
big ditch was projected in 1925 only
a few of the younger and more
venturesome of its citizens favored
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
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of series of articles to appear
IN the Blufton Netos dealing
Nth early Ohio history. Others
will appear In forthcoming
issues.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-03
"Agin the Ditch"

The majority of the sedate ane
conservative civic leaders were "agin
ditch from Lake Erie to the Ohio
River cutting through he town" The
Tuscarawas River into the White
Woman, then the One Leg and the
Muskingum was waterway enough
into the Ohio River, the die-hards
declared.
Three old doctors were especially
busy in keeping the canal out of
Canton. 1t would increase the ague,
they declared. The three old fellows
would put their canes to their lips,
half close their eyes and shake their
hoary heads wisely.
1t scared the Cantonese nearly to
death. Nearly everybody had the
ague anyhow, seven out of 10 in
every large family taking turn at
having "the shakes" and old Tom
Hurford's store, on the southeast
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-24
Two Big Turbines TO be Installed
AT McMarY Dam: Bids Are Asked

Bids for the resign, manufac-
ture and delivery of two $500
horsepower hydraulic turbines,
including embedded parts and ap-
purtenances and two sets of gov
erning equipment for the station
service units at McNary Dam
power house have been invited by
the Walla Walla District Engin-
eer, Corps Of Engineers. The bids
will be opened at 2 pm. March
o.. y, =
These two turbines will be US
ed for operating the generating
units that provide power for the
facilities at McNary dam. They
are separate from the main gen
Grating units of the McNary dam
powerhouse. All
Bids on the equipment will be
based upon delivery fob. rail-
road cars at McNary, Oregon.
The successful bidder also will
be required to guarantee an eff
ficiency of 80 per cent or more
at best gate horsepower at a net
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-24

head Of 80 feet. Bids that guaran.
tee less than 80 per cent under
these conditions will be rejected
Each bidder must furnish ex-
pected turbine performance cur
yes showing anticipated discharge,
efficiency and horsepower for net
heads ranging from 81 to 81 feet.
The district engineer also, an
nounced that invitation for bids
for the relocation of l7.8 miles
OF the S. p. & S. Railway above
McNary Lock and Dam has been
delayed and that this work now
is planned to be advertised about
February % with the date of op-
ening extended to 2 pm. March
80. -
/ The conducted tour of prospec-
tive bidders over the proposed
work as announced in the .ad-
vance notice has been postponed
until am. Tuesday, March Is.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-02-24
Most Of W.S.C.
Report Mystery

mat mysterious report cOmpil-
ed BY Warrington State college
for the cities of Kennewick and
Pasco. today remained much Of
mystery although some informa-
ton was given out by representa-
tives Of the college when they
were here three weeks ago.
City officials said two Of the
college men were here recently
and went over some of the data
with Mayor Keilker and city SUI
perintendent r. c. Rector but
much of the material still has not
yet been announced to the public.
Newspapers have been given only
smattering Of the data. Officials
have haid, however, that probably
all Of the material, which bears
on industry, housing, schools, and
other subjects important to the
community, will be released.