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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
At Contention OF
Master Plumbers

George M. Rauenbuhler of the
Bluffton Plumbing Co., Cherry
street, has returned from Cleveland
where he attended the 9th annual
convention of the National Associa-
tion Of Master Plumbers.
More than 5000 members of the
plumbing industry from all sections
of the United States attended the
convention.
Scholarships at leading technical
schools will be awarded to the sons
of master plumbers by the National
Association of Master Plumbers it
was announced at the convention.
The latest developments in plumb
ing, heating, and home appliances
were shown. by 125 leading manu-
facturers in the Home Comfort Ex-
position in connection with the con-
vention.
Mr.. Rauenbuhler reports that he
was very much impressed with the
many improvements in plumbing
fixtures, automatic heating equip
ment, water heaters, showers, and
home appliances in the equipment
on display at the Home Comfort Ex.
position.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
CHARLES EMANS
RESIGNS AS BOARD
OF AFFAIRS CLERK
Resignation Accepted by Board
Tuesday Night To Be Eff
fective Sept. l
Emans Also Announces Inten-
tion To Resign AS Village
Clerk on Same Date

Charles Emans, clerk of the
municipal board of public affairs
since December 1945, submitted his
resignation Tuesday, effective next
September 1.
He also plans to resign on that
date as village clerk, he told council
men at their meeting Monday night,
altho the resignation will not be
presented officially until later date.
He has announced no plans for the
future.
With Emans' retirement in early
fall, both municipal government
clerkships will be open. Appoint
ment of his successor as village
clerk will be for the remainder of
his current term of office, expiring
next December 81. He was elected
village clerk in 1947 and took office
Jan. /, 194S.
Emans' successor as clerk of the
board of public. affairs will get a
permanent appointment, for that
position is not subject to municipal
elections.
In receiving applications for the
post, members of the board of public
affairs said they would require that
in the future the clerk of their
board will not be permitted to also
serve as village clerk. The boaro
accepted Emans' resignation Tues
day night, and applications for the
position are now being received.
The board of public affairs CLERK
ship pays a salary of $2,400 a year.
Clerk of the corporation is paid $500
year.
Emans succeeded Paul Augsburger
as clerk of the board of public al
fairs, after the latter had served a
short time following a change IT
procedure placing the position on .
full-time basis. Prior to that, the
clerkship had been handled on d
part-time basis for many years by
Edgar Hauenstein.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. James Burkholder,
Bluffton, a boy, James Henry, last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Baumgart-
ner, Pandora, a girl, Sandra Sue,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Kimmel, Mt.
Blanchard, a girl, Rose Ellen, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Shook, Sr.,
Ada, girl, Virginia Kay, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Sommers,
Bluffton, boy, Bruce Nelson, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Alderman,
Col. Grove, a girl, Ardaith Jean,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davil Elsea, Raw
son, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Kimble, Ada, a
girl, Nancy Lee, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Avery Keel, Fos-
toria, boy, Franklin Warren, at
Fostoria City hospital, Thursday
Mrs. Keel is the former Dorothy
Basinger.
Rev. and Mrs. Harold BurkholdeI
Los Angeles, girl, Barbara Kay
in that city, May 26.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Settlement

Mr.. and Mrs. Verdi Bixel ana
daughter Marguerite of Los Angeles,
California spent the past week here
visiting in the home of his father,
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Bixel and other
relatives.
Mrs. Albert Leichty and Kate
Leichty of Berne visited in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Augsburger
and family and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Reichenbach part of last week.
Pearl Geiger was taken to the
Lima Memorial hospital because or
back injuries he sustained due to a
fall of fifteen feet in the barn.
Harry Luginbihl submitted to an
operation Wednesday at the Bluffton
hospital.
Members of the Hilty families held
their reunion at the Pandora school
Sunday.
Invitations have been received here
from the Rev. and Mrs. d. j. I'm
rub family of Newton, Kansas, to
the wedding of their daughter jeanne
Kathleen to Orlando Klassen, which
is to be an event on Friday, June
seventeenth at eight o'clock in the
IL
Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Amstutz of
Petoskey, Michigan are visiting
relatives here at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Zimmerman of
Fostoria, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reich
enbach and son Rex, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Kohl and daughter Candace
were Sunda ydinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram Reichenbach and
family. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Z. Kohl
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Zuercher
were afternoon callers.
An unusually large acreage of corn
is being replanted in this area at
present.
AL Page who spent the past week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Howard HowelI
returned to his home in Buffalo, n.
Y, recently
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
TELEvISION CABLE
TO BE INSTALLED
HERE THIS MONTH
Huge Seven-TOn Drums of Cable
Are Strewn Thru Fields
Along Right-of-Way
Main Television Line From
Toledo to Cincinnati Will Be
Laid Thru Here Soon
- - =.

Marking the completion of prepar-
alton for laying underground cable
on the Toledo-Cincinnat televislon
line, which will skirt Bluffton's
western corporation boundary, big
seven-ton drums of coaxial cable last
week were trucked into fields and
unloaded along the right-of-way.
With work on the major television
project proceeding at rapid pace,
laying of the cable in trenches three
feet deep will be completed in this
area the latter part of this month,
according to the present construc-
tion schedule.
Crews with ditching equipment,
working north from Dayton, this
week were near Lima, and are
moving in this direction at pace
of more than a mile a day.
Preliminary work already has been
completed locally on several phases
Of cable installation necessary III
preparing for passage of the line
beneath railroads, principal high
ways and streams.
Place Conduits
Steel pipe conduits for the cable
have been laid under the A. c. ane
Y. railroad near the Henry Huber
farm, north of town. Additiona
conduits have been placed near the
Lendon Basinger farm south OF
Bluffton where the route crosses the
Dixie highway, and where a short
distance farther on goes under the
Nickel Plate railroad.
Other preliminary work has In
cluded construction of a cement block
building, which will house a booster
relay system, just off the Grove
street road on the Mrs. Sarah Motter
farm, about one-fourth mile from
the corporation line.
Northern terminal of the television
cable will be in Toledo where con-
nection will be made with the man
east-west line joining New York
City, Cleveland, Chicago and St
Louis.
Following a route roughly parallel
ing the Dixie highway, the televislor
cable misses all towns. It's nearest
approach to Bluffton is on the
Harvey Gratz and Mrs. Motter
farms.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
TripIett viii Play
Pandora Here Friday

In addition to next Tuesdays
Triplett softball game here with
Leipsic, the team also will play at
home this Friday night, meeting
Pandora under the lights at Harmon
field.
In their opening Northwest Ohio
league game played here Tuesday,
the team dropped 13 to 1 decision
to Fostoria.
After taking / to first-inning
lead when Swank walked and scored
on Stonehill's single, the locals failed
to again break the scoring ice, and
the visiting Fostora crew chalked up
an easy victory.
The visitors got four runs in the
second frame, three in the third,
three in the fourth and three more
in the fifth.
Triplett had only six hits, with
Stonehill getting two of those.
Single safeties were made by Her.
mann, Beach, X. Moser and d. Mo-
ser. Beach was the Triplett hurler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
CROP OUTLOOK IS
PROMISING AS HAY
CUTTING STARTS
Summer Harvest Season Starts
With Bumper Hay Yield
Indicated Locally
Wheat Prospects Also Are Unu-
sually Good, Result of
Favorable Weather

Hay crops in the Bluffton district,
predicted from good to bumper, ana
promising stand of heading wheat
which Is expected to produce y
better-than-average yield, this week
gave a bright outlook to the farm
picture, with the start of the sum-
mer harvest season at hand.
Favorable prospects for both hay
and wheat are the result of heavy
April rains, and ample moisture at
critical periods during the growing
season. Bumper hay yields are as
sured by favorable weather, and bar
ring unusual complications the wheat
crop should be equally good
Cutting of alfalfa, first of the
hay crops, is under way thruout the
Bluffton district, and it will b. fol-
lowed closely by harvesting Of red
clover and timothy, later in the
month.
Farmers Eye Market
Altho farmers are anticipating
heavy hay yield, what disposition
will be made of the crop will depend
to great extent on market condi-
tions during the next few weeks.
Unless there is sufficient demand,
some farmers in the area said they
plan to leave the fields uncut and
plow the stand under, thereby
capitalizing on the value of the crop
as a soil builder.
This practice represents changes
in the farm picture brought abou;
by the trend to gasoline-powereo
mechanization, dating back over "a
decade.
Formerly Feed for Horses
When motive power for farm work
was provided by horses, hay always
was in demand, and most of the
crop was consumed on the farm
where it was raised. In more recent
years, however, hay has been used
principally in beef and dairy cattle
feeding.
Hay for such feeding is not as
much in demand as usual this year.
for a clouded outlook marketwise
for cattle and dairy products have
found fewer farmers embarking on
large-scale feeding programs, and
curtailment of the size of the herds
is reflected in dropping off of the
demand for hay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
CARA DENIED BAIL
BEGINS SERVING Is
MONTHS SENTENCE
College Instructor Held In
Custody for Draft Act
Violations
FOstoria Man Replaces Cara on
Bluffton College Faculty
This Summer

Larry Cara, Bluffton college
history instructor has begun serving
an Is months sentence at the federal
prison farm at Milan, Mich, for
violation of the provisions of the
peacetime draft registration act.
Cara, when sentenced by Judge
Frank Kloeb last month told the
judge he declined to receive credit
ON the prison term until an appeal
to higher courts was decided, even
though he was kept in custody.
However, after the Circuit Cours
Of Appeals, Cincinnati upheld the
ruling Of Judge Kloeb that Cara
should not be free on bail while an
appeal is pending, Cara said ne
wished to begin receiving credit for
his time in custody.
Arguments Not Yet Presented
The circuit court has not heard
the argument on Gara's appeal on
the verdict which found him guilty
of advising Charles Ray Rickert,
Bluffton college senior, to refuse 10
register under the 1948 Selective
Service Act. Rickert was sentenced
to Is months in Milan last January
when he pleaded guilty.
Meanwhile it is announced that
Rev. Louis Casper, Fostoria Baptist
pastor, will replace Cara on the
college faculty here as instructor In
the summer school. Casper is
graduate of Bowling Green State
university.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Real Estate Deals

Clayton Bixel has purchased from
George Carmack the vacant lot on
North Main street adjoining the
McCabe cream station. The space
for several years has been rented
by the town as a public parking lot.
Bixel has announced no plans for
his intended use of the location.
The Dwight Deeds property on
North Main street has been pur-
chased by Purl Hartman of Findlay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman will occupy
the place soon. Mr.. and Mrs. Deeds
moved last spring to their farm near
Beaverdam.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Here, There, and
Everywhere :

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Deters near
born in Lima st. Rita's hospital,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kohl and
daughter Barbara of Golden. Colo,
are spending two weeks with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. koy Kohl
and MIR. and Mrs. Floyd Shinaberry
of Col. Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orval George of
Ridgeway, Canada, were guests the
past week of James Steele and
family of Col. Grove
Mrs. Martha Ransbottom, Mrs.
Mrs. Thelma Stoodt of Lafayette
and Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Huber OF
Bluffton were Thursday afternoon
callers of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kidd.
John Killen and family of Col.
Grove are on a fishing trip in Cana
da
Mr.. and Mrs. r. X. Simcox have
moved from Gilboa to Bluffton. Mr.
SimcoX, Bluffton college graduate
was instructor in the veterans
school in Gilboa. Mrs. Zoe Tobias
has moved into the property vacated
by the Simcox family and Dwaine
Oren has purchased from Mrs.
Tobias the property which she
vacated.
Evan Evans of Washington and
Pennsylvania visited recently in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Kissel
and daughter in Col Grove.
Theo. Baer, Col. Grove is sur
gical patient in st. Rita's hospital,
Lima.
Pearl Geiger of Col. Grove is a
patient in Lima Memorial hospital.
Rev. and Mrs. G. w. Whyman OF
Gilboa M. K. church and John Seger,
conference lay member are attending
the Methodist conference at Lake
side.
Byron Powell, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Garnie Powell of Rawson was
graduated from Bowling Green uni
versity with the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Education, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Moser west
of Bluffton and Mrs. thinner of near
Beaverdam called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Huber, Monday evening.
Mrs. Robt. King and daughter
Elizabeth Anne have been removed
from Lima Memorial hospital 10
their home in Col. Grove.
Mrs. Kate Leatherman who has
been bedfast at her home in Col.
Grove the past two year,, had as her
guests Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Leatherman of Perrysburg and Har-
old Leatherman and two daughters
of Waterville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. McVey and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayle Agner of Nc
Comb are on a two weeks motor
trip to the West coast. Sidney and
Kenneth Agner are with their grand
parents in Mt. Cory.
Cody Burdette is supervisor or
the children's summer recreational
program at Leipsic's village park.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
DAVIES DROPS OUT
As CANDIDATE FOR
BLUFFTON'S MAYOR
G. O. p. Candidates Decision
Not To Run Leaves Demo-
cratic Nominee Unopposed
Unpredictable Turn of Local
Political Maneuvering Is In
Limelight Again

Bluffton municipal politics, always
highly unpredictable, was off on Il
new tangent the first of this week
with announcement by Richard
1Dick) Davies that he had with
drawn as Republican candidate for
mayor in the election to be held
next November s.
Davies said that his letter OF
withdrawal had been sent to Ralph
McElwain, chairman of the Allen
County Republican Executive COM
mittee.
However, the move has not yet
become official, for Herman Ruhlen,
deputy clerk of the Allen County
Board of Elections, stated Monday
that the board has not yet received
any notice of Davies withdrawal.
Ruhlen added that so far as the
board is concerned, states of Bluff
tons two parties show no change
since they were filed at the time OF
the deadline, last February 2.
Procedure In Doubt
Whether another candidate for
mayor can be placed on the
Republican ticket to fill the vacancy
caused by Davies withdrawal will
be determined if and when the with
drawal is officially received by the
board of elections, Ruhlen said.
Independent candidates, however,
may file for the office until August
10, altho their names would appear
in a separate column, without any
designation as to party affiliation.
In announcing his withdrawal,
Davies said that the press of other
duties makes it impossible for him
to be a candidate.
Swank Unopposed
Withdrawal of Davies leaves Ger
aid Swank, North Main street bar
Der and a former Democratic pre-
cinct committeeman, without opposi-
tion for the office of mayor, unless
additional candidates qualify either
to fill the vacancy on the G. 0. P.
ticket or as an independent.
Altho there was no indication the
first of the week of other candidates
seeking the mayors post, local
political quarters were non-committal,
pointing out that the flair for the
unexpected in municipal politics here
might produce fireworks at almost
any time.
With the municipal election still
five months in the offing and two
months remaining for Independents
to enter the field Bluffton conceiv-
ably could have another candidate
by the time ballotting rolls around,
if the pattern of the last several
years is continued.
In the last two municipal elections,
the situation has been marked by
write-in campaigns which developed
for the office of mayor, shortly be-
fore election day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Nominated For FLA
National Committee

Louise Reichenbach, of Bluffton,
acting state vice president of Fu-
ture Homemakers of America, at
tended the executive council and
advisory board meeting at Columbus,
THURSDAY and Friday. She was ac-
companied by her LOCAL advisor Miss
Elizabeth Mohr.
At this meeting, Genevieve Burk-
holder, of Bluffton Chapter, was
nominated as Ohio's candidate for
the National F. H. A. committee.
Janet Giles, of Pennsville, was chos-
en- as the alternate. Seven commit
tee members will be elected from the
13 state candidates at the July
Central Regional Convention.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Attend Graduation At
Miami University

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilhelm Amstutz
spent the week end in Oxford at
tending Miami university commence
ment activities. Their daughter,
Sarah Louise, received a Bachelor
of Science degree in secretarial
studies.
Following commencement a PIC
ture of about 80 second generation
graduates and their parents was
taken on the steps of Withrow Court.
Mr.. Amstutz attended Miami sew
eral summers and Mrs. Amstutz was
graduated from Miami forty-two
years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
SpOrtsmen's Club
Fish Fry Thursday

Hunting and fishing motion pic
lures will be shown at a Bluffton
Community Sportsmen's club fish
fry to be held at P. M. Thursday
in club rooms at the town hall.
Edgar Root, club president, and
Herb Rupright, fry chief, have in
vited all members and families to
attend and bring a friend. Summer
activity plans of the organization
also will be discussed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Relic Was Given To Father of
Mrs. w. w. Carder By
Historic Mother Solomon
Family Connection With Indian
Celebrity Recalled by
Ohio Tales Column

Mrs. w. w. Carder, of South
Main street, prizes among her col
lection of relics a black velvet cap.
ornamented with vari-colored beads,
which was given to her father by
Mother Solomon, last of the WAN
dotte Indians to live in Ohio, and
the subject of last weeks "Tales of
Ohio" which appeared in the Bluff
ton News.
Reading the story of Mother Sol
ONION brought back to the local wo-
man her recollection of the kindly,
wizened old Indian squaw whom
she frequently had seen when as a
girl she was taken to Upper San
dusky by her father.
1t was on one of these visits To
that city SO years ago that Mother
Solomon gave the cap to Mrs. Card
er's father, Elias Riegle, whom she
had known from his boyhood. Rieg-
lie, who grew up in Upper Sandusky,
lived with his parents in cabin
near that of Mother Solomon and
her husband, John.
Later Elias married and lived in
Arlington, and Mrs. Carder. recalls
that when she was a girl the fam
lily used to drive by horse and bug
gy to Upper Sandusky to visit rela.
tives.
VISITS MOTHER SOLOMON
On these trips Riegle rarely failed
to stop in to see Mother Solomon
on whose land he often had played
as a boy, and Mrs. Carder, fascin.
ated by seeing a full-blooded Indian
vividly recalls the stops at the Sol
ONION log cabin, which had a porch
across the front and from the raft
ers of which corn was hung TO dry
The cap presented to her father
on one of the visits came into th'
possession of Mrs. Carder following
his death. ssss@
Notwithstanding its age the cap j
in good condition. 1t is rather small
and ose-ftting-not too differen
from today's styles. In fact one da.
last spring, Mrs. Carder wore th'
cap on a trip to Lima as a novelt.
gesture.
Mother Solomon was for man!
years a character in Upper Sandus
ky, as the last of her race there
and was respected and well treated
by the whites.
Mrs. Carder said she could con
firm from personal experience anc
family tradition much of the nara
tive contained in the "True Tale:
About Ohio" series which appeared
in the Bluffton News last week con
cerning Mother Solomon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
To Be Associated
In Pharmacy Here

Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Hauenstein and
daughters Karen and Susan moved
the first of the week from Marion
to Bluffton. Mr. Hauenstein, en-
ployed in a Marion pharmacy will
be associated August l with his
father, Edgar Hauenstein in the lat
ter's pharmacy here. The family
is residing with his father on South
Jackson street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
With The Sick

Sidney Hauenstein, i'll with heart
complications who recently was re-
moved from Bluffton hospital to his
home on Campus drive has been
returned to the hospital where his
condition is reported serious.
Mrs. Roy Pogue of Jefferson
street is a surgical patient in, a
Cleveland hospital.
Albert Geiger of Cherry street is
a surgical patient in Bluffton hos
pital.
Mrs. Samuel Bame is reported
seriously ill at Lima Memorial hos
pital following a recent operation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Commercial Manager
Of Radio Station

Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Dozer are
moving from Marion to Canton
where he is commercial manager of
Radio station WCMX. Mrs. Dozer
is the former Betty Steinman,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
Steinman of Bluffton.
The Canton station is owned by
Samuel Huffman, son of Rev. and
Mrs. j. A. Huffman, former resi-
dents here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
WidOlU Of Former
School Head Dies

Mrs. Ada Shappell, 80, widow of
U. M. Shappell, Bluffton superintend-
ent of schools about go years ago,
died at 3:15 P. M. Monday in Lima
Memorial hospital.
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 A. M. Thursday in Davis,
Miller and Son Cathedral chapel in
Lima.
After serving here as head of
Bluffton schools, her husband later
was superintendent of Allen county
schools and served three terms as
county clerk of courts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-09
Peter Muller Will
Graduate At o. s. u.

Peter Muller, husband of the
former Ruth Steiner, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Steiner, Poplar
street, will graduate from Ohio
State university Friday with B.
S. in Horticulture degree.
In college he specialized in land
scaping, allied with operation of his
own business, the Brecksville Nurs-
cry, in Brecksville, Ohio. Muller
has taken over the nursery since the
death of it's founder, his father.
Following graduation, he and his
family will move from Columbus to
Brecksville, where he plans to ex-
pand the business.