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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-01
STATE DIRECTOR IN
COLUMBUS TO GET
CASE WEDNESDAY
Orange Township Backers and
Bluffton School Officials in
Attendance
Petitioners Seek to Transfer
Territory from Mt. Cory
RawsOn to BlufftOn

Clyde Hissong, state director OF
education will hold a hearing in
Columbus this Wednesday afternoon
on petitions of Orange township
residents for transfer of territory
from the Mt. Cory-Rawson school
district to the Bluffton school
district.
Jesse Anderson of Orange town
ship who was instrumental in circula-
ting the petitions said Tuesday he
had received notice of the hearing.
Anderson said he expected to at
tend together with Will Beagle and
probably Harold Marshall, both of
Orange township who were active IN
the project. Also attending will be
A. 8. Murray, superintendent of the
Bluffton schools and Rev. V. C. OPP
permann, president of the Bluffton
board of education.
Two Petitions
The hearing in Columbus followed
circulation of two petitions in the
western portion of Orange township
asking for transfer of a block or
territory from Mt. CoryRawson to
Bluffton school district.
! The petitions said to have been
signed by IS per cent or more of the
qualified voters in the affected ter
ritory were filed with the Hancock
County Board of Education in Find
lay late, last January.
The Hancock county board last
ANarch refused to grant the petitions
Msh were ben forwarded to the
state e>departnient of edueation az re-
quired by law, for further considera-
tion.
Construction of new high school
building for the Mt. Cory-Rawson
district is scheduled to begin this
week.
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Harmon Field Summer
Program Hits Snag As
BurkhOlder Resigns

Opening of Blufften's summer
program at Harmon field and
the grade school playground may
be delayed somewhat by the
resignation last Saturday of
Robert Burkholder AZ recreation
director for activities sponsored
by the Bluffton Recreation COM
mittee.
Burkholder, who last year
directed an unusually successful
program of recreation activity,
had been rehired by the commit
tee for the coming three-months'
schedule of activity.
He resigned last Saturday
because of other arrangements
for the summer. No successor
has been announced.
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automobile salesroom and garage.
Although there is no record as to
when the American House was con-
structed, it is known to be well over
100 years old, according to M. M.
Murray, 82, former Bluffton post
master and the oldest native-born
resident of the town.
Back in 1868 when John Dray op-
eraed the hostelry, then known as
the National hotel, it was a busy
stopping place because of its stu
alton halfway between Lima and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-01
LARGEST CLASS IN
FIFTY YEARS WILL
RECEIVE DEGREES
Brilliant Feature-Studded Pro-
gram Arranged for Over
Weekend Here
Baccalaureate Service Sunday
Afternoon; Graduation Mon
day Morning

With emphasis on its Fiftieth an
niyersary celebration, Bluffton col
lege's feature-studded commencement
program over the coming week end
will be climaxed by graduation ex-
ercises for a record class of III
seniors at 10 a. m. next Monday in
the First Mennonite church. =
Presentatin of diplomas to the
Presentation of diplomas to the
largest class in the schools history
will mark the closing phases of an
elaborate four-day program in OBJ
servance of the colleges Golden an
niversary.
Honorary degrees will be conferred
upon Rev. A. E. Kreider of Newton,
Kansas, former pastor of the First
Mennonite church here and Rev. A. S.
Rosenberger of Quakertown, Pa,
former president of the college and
for time pastor of st. John Men
MONTE church near Pandora.
In addition to the traditional COM
mencement week features including
May Day festivities next Saturday;
the alumni banquet on the evening
of the same day, and the baccalaure-
ate Sunday, the fiftieth anniversary
celebration also will include an out
door rendition of 'sThe Messiah"
Sunday night by mammoth chorus
of more than 400 voices.
Baccalaureate Sunday
DR.. L. L. Ramseyer, president of
the college, viii preach the bac-
calaureate sermon Sunday afternoon,
taking as his subject, The Golden
|aAse."
At commencement exercises next
Monday, the class speaker will be
DR.. d. Elton Trueblood, professor of
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III. S. Graduates
Glass OF IS Seniors

Diplomas were presented to class
of 45 seniors at the close of COM
mencement exercises of Bluffton high
school in the gymnasium last Thurs
day night. A large audience was
in attendance.
Class address was delivered by
DR.. Edgar Dewitt Jones, former
Detroit pastor and newspaper col
umnist speaking on the subject "The
American Dream"
Representing the class, the vale
dictory address was delivered by
John Bauman and the salutatory by
Ada May Oyer. Music included
solo numbers by Ruth Irene Diller
and Kay Berry and the orchestra
under direction of Earl Lehman.
Graduating seniors were:
Lowell Keith Amstutz, Roderick
Lynn Balmer, David Edward Basing-
er, John Howard Bauman, Donald H.
Burkholder, Cleo R. Diller, Mickey D.
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With The Sick

A. L. Baumgartner lis i'll at his
home on South Main street follow
ing light stroke, Sunday.
Calvin Steiner, surgical patient
at Lima Memorial hospital has been
returned to his home.
Mrs. Paul Clark who was in Bluff
ton hospital the latter part of last
week has been returned to her home
on Grove street.
c. ID. Hilty has been removed
from Bluffton hospital to his home
on Spring street.
Miss Gail Basinger is patient in
Bluffton hospital.
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hicles which Transported both the
salesman and his wares from town
to town.
In front of the hotel big arm
chairs lined the sidewalk, a popular
gathering place for guests of the
hostelry and native alike. News of
the day could always be obtained at
this center, and at night gay dances
and parties made the hotel the So
cial center of the town.
Because of the hotels strategic
location, all the big circuses OF the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-01

After moving uptown about 1877
when the present business section
was launched, the bank later failed
in a financial crash that created one
of the outstanding early Bluffton
situations.
STABLE BUSY
A livery stable at the rear OF the
hotekndid thriving business, for all
travel was by horse and buggy. A
familiar sight to the Bluffton of
that day were the big sample wag-
ons" Of the travelling statesmen, ve-
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Buttons pioneer hostelry, the
American House, North Main
street landmark for more than 100
wears and a leading hotel in this
area in the gay nineties will be
largely dismantled and remodeled
into a garage this summer.
Announcement of razing of the
old hotel, used in past years as an
apartment building, came this week
when E. S. Miller, local Buick deal
err. said he had bought the structure
preparatory to converting it into an
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PRESBYTERIANS To
OBSERVE FOUNDERS
DAY HERE SUNDAY
Morning and Afternoon Services
to Mark 101st Anniversary
of Church
Original Scenes iE Founding of
Church Over Century ago to
be Re-enacted

Dramatization of early events in
the history of Buttons First Pres
byterian church will mark the 1Ofst
anniversary celebration at morning
and afternoon services next Sunday.
Sunday school at 9:45 will open
the days program followed by morn
ing worship service at 1856 o'clock.
AT noon luncheon program, a
dramatic presentation will be enacted
of the original meeting between Rev.
K. H. Holiday and Rev. John Nc
Kinney to plan establishment of the
church here.
In re-enaeting the historical event,
Rev. Holiday will be portrayed by
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a,BLUFFTON COLLEGE
5Oth Anniversary Highlights

(COndenSeu
Friday June
10 100 A. M. Assembly of Swiss-Chapel
1900 Noon Swiss Day Luncheon-Baseban Field
200 P. NJ Swiss Program--Ramseyer Chapel
'o' ~ Chapel and Library
815 P M rMacbeth"-H. S. Auditorium
Saturday, June
1oA5 N Rox Ceremony-Classes 1850 40 30-Colege Hall
Ao' - - - Walk
II 80 A. NJ Luncheon-Basebal Field
lis P. NJ Anniversary Progranl-Chapel
$50 P. NJ Growing May Queen-Basebal Field*
$50 P. NJ Alumni Banquet-Ropp Hall
S:15 P. M. "Macbeth"-H S. Auditorium
Sunday June
1:30 P NJ messiah" Practice-Basebal Field
$50 P. M. Baccalaureate Service-Baseball Fields
4:45 P NJ Presidents OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Home
800 P. NJ Messiah" Concert-Basebal Field
Monday, June 5
1000 A. NJ Commencement ExercsesFrst Mennonite Church
1915 P. NJ Commencement Luncheon-Ropp Hall
In High School Gymnasium if weather is unfavorable
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NeuU Physician To
Locate In BLuftOn

DR.. Walter Donaghue, physician,
will locate in Bluffton, it was learned
the first of the week He will ar
rive here in July and occupy the
office of the late DR.. M. r. Bixel on
Cherry street.
DR.. Donaghue is now completing
his internship in Dayton hospital.
He is married with one child.
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Findlay.
In those days, mud roads slowed
travel and travellers found the half
way stopping place in Bluffton rep
resented just about one-day jour
ney from either town. The hotel
was filled each night with those en-
route between the two towns.
The hotel was in the brick portion
of the combination brick and frame
building. In the frame wing at
the north was the Langan bank,
Buttons first banking institution.
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lack of funds.
To REMODEL
In his remodeling program, Miller
plans to dismantle the frame part
of the building. Interior partitions
of the brick structure will be re-
moved in converting it into the auto
showroom and garage.
In the real estate transaction,
completed last week, Miller bought
the 60-foot lot frontage on North
Main street from Elmer Burkholder,
former owner.
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day stopped in Bluffton overnight,
while enroute between Lima and
Findlay. Often, the travelling shows
would put on a performance here
to pick up little extra change; and
among those playing in the little
country town which then was Bluff
ton was the great Adam Forepaw
circus.
Another travelling show, the G. G..
Grady circus, established more du-
bious notoriety here, however, when
it broke up in Bluffton because of a
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Jack Clark @. ~. u.
Phdrmacy Graduate

Jack Clark, formerly OF Biuffton
was graduated in pharmacy at COM
mencement exercises of Ohio North
ern university, Ada, last Sunday.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Clark of Grove street. Attending
the commencement exercises were
his father and brother James Clark
and family. He recently accepted a
position as pharmacist in drug
store in Ravenna.
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HKVoV PVPtttUT HtWW
lar man.
The queen will be crowned with
elaborate ceremonies on the baseball
field at $3.50 o'clock. The queen and
most popular man are selected by a
vote of the entire student body.
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The afternoon program:
Els Lied-Ich weis Einen Strohm
Russer, Harold; leitn
Es Either Solo Hahn, Berta, Bluffton
gs Schwietzer Stuchli
Habegger, Martha, Bern
Els Solo Althaus, Janet, Bluffton
Continued on Page s
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siah."
With approximately 400 voices as
sured for the choral. numbers, the
rendition here will be all the more
outstanding because 1T will feature
the largest chorus ever to appear in
this part of the state, it was an
nounced this week by sProf. Russell
A. Lantz, conductor, who has handled
arrangements for the commencement
week feature.
An augmented orchestra of more
than DO pieces will provide the
musical accompaniment for the
oratorio.
Outstanding SoIoists
Former Bluffton college students
also will appear in the solo roles for
the rendition, including a number of
outstanding artists who previously
have appeared here.
Soprano soloists for the event will
be Estelle Lugibill Wollmann, of
Freeman, S. d., daughter of A. E.
Lugibill, of Lawn avenue and a
member of the class of 1920; Mildred
Agner Hilty, of Bowling Green, Of
the class of 1925; Mabel Williams
Badertseher, of Sebring, O., class of
1927; and Beulah Temple Metz, of
Walbridge, O., class of 1888.
Contralto soloists will include Opal
Berry Stauffer, of Columbus class OF
1922; and Lois Oyer, of Elida, class
of 1947. Both are former Bluffton
residents.
Tenor Soloists
In the group of tenor soloists will
be Carey Steiner, of Bryan, class of
1890, a former Bluffton resident;
Orlo Springer, Ada, class Of 1893,
and Herbert Jones, Van Vert, class
of 1898.
Bass soloists viii include G. A.
(Dad) Lehman Rochester, N. Y,
former director of the college de-
partment of music; Samuel L. Burk-
hard, Columbus, class of 1927; and
Walter Treadway, Blufton, class of
194o.
Dress rehearsal for the gala Sun
day presentation will be held on the
college baseball field Sunday after
noon from 1:3O to o'clock, it was
announced by Prof. Lantz.
In case of inclement weather, the
rendition will be in the Bluffton High
school gymnasium.
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Reigning over open air May day
festivities Saturday afternoon, most
picturesque of Bluffton college COM
mencement events will be Lois Rich
of Washington, H., queen and Fred
Liechty of Berne, Ind, most popu-
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one wishing to ride may flag the
driver at any point along the route.
Bus stops to the meetings will be
made on the following schedule:
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Truman Passes
20 Red Lights in
Ride to Armory
BY the Associoted Press

President Truman. who said Il
never go through red lights" went
through 20 Of them last night.
With motorcycle escort clear
ing the way, Mr.. Truman new
limousine breezed through a score
of the red stop" beacons during
4-mile drive from Blair House
to address the $100-a-plate Demo-
cratic dinner at the National
Guard Armory. The procession
also swept unchecked past four
stop signs.
However, the presidential mo-
torcade kept within the Is m.p.h.
city speed limit.
On Wednesday, addressing
national crime conference here,
Mr.. Truman declared:
Il never go through red lights.
despite the prerogatives attaching
to the presidency"
He did not mention that the
Secret Service agents insist on
keeping him moving when he
travels by automobile and that
they have a way of seeing that
red lights theoretically turn green
when the President passes by.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
By George Kennedy

The $100-a-plate Jackson Day
dinner at the Armory last night
was the biggest barbecue" in
history.
One of the amazing things
about it was that more than 5000
people got to dinner on time.
Men outnumbered women three
to one. 1t was a stalwart Demo-
crat indeed who brought his wife
"a 5000 stalWart.
Black dinner jackets weighted
the color scheme bit. The table
cloths were red, white or blue in
three rows the length of the great
drill hall. And red, white and
blue were the lights above.
AS far as the eye could see, the
vista of tables stretched away.
The wall at one end was covered
with a painting of the Jefferson
Memorial, the wall at the other
with a painting of the Lincoln
memorial The entire Mall be-
tween was filled with people eat
ing.
Served with Precision.
The service was amazing, too.
Everything was done with mill
tary precision. For purposes 6f
command, the Armory was di-
vided in two zones by an imag-
mary line. The Statler served one
half. the Mayhower the other.
The two big spotlights that play
on the stage from the north wall
were used to give the signals.
Here are excerpts from the
mimeographed plans of operation
given~to captains of walters:
AT flash of red light, captains
and their walters will go to their
stations (Waiters with tray and
tray stand): clean up grapefruit
plate. and teaspoon and return to
kitchen.
Green for Main Course.
"At flash of green light, walters
to serve main course. Captains to
give close watch that everybody
is served. After serving main
course. walters are to return to
kitchen, line up and wait for sig
nal.
cat flash of red light, walters to
remove the following items from
Evening star., 1950-02-17
5000 Served With Precision
AT Democrats Big Barbecue

their tables: Butter plates, salad
plates, stake plates; scrape bread
crumbs from tables.
Return to kitchen and wait for
green light to serve ice cream,
cakes and coffee"
Another amazing thing was
that the food, which had been
held in heaters for hours, was
not overdone. The steaks were
pink inside. and the string beans
provencale with tomato sauce)
were not even tired.
The star performer was not
Lena Horn, who sang Stormy
Weather as her perform
ance was.
1t was the chairman of the din
rler. Charles Luckman.
Mr.. Luckman recently lost out
on a $500, 0,000-a-year job through
a disagreement with his bosses
the overseas owners of the Lever
Bros. soap empire.
The way he handled the mike
last night in introducing the so
persons at the head table indi-
Gates he could make $500,000 a
year as a disc jockey.
Big Hand for Brannan.
Agriculture Secretary Brannan
got the biggest hand of them al
on introduction. Senator Ander-
son, the former Secretary of Agri-
culture. was heard to say:
That's from the boys from the
department. They are all in one
big crowd out there"
The party, in national conclave
seemed to be out from under the
aegis of Franklin D. Roosevelt
His picture was not on the wall
The pictures were Jefferson anc
Jackson, Truman and Barkley.
freshman member of the HOUSE
named Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.
was among the diners at the
tables and was not introduced.
The Democrats realized the
Republicans had made a bigger
show of strength in the recent 81
1 chicken -the-box rally at the
Uline Arena which drew 10000.
Barkley Says Why.
| But Vice President Barkley
took care Of that. He said:
1T was a memorial service. 1t
Evening star., 1950-02-17

sit was a foregone conclusion
that the hands which held the
Nations purse strings would some
day sign the Nations currency as
we'll"
1t is estimated, Mrs. Clark said,
that women control more than 10
per cent of the Nations private
wealth; disburse more than IS
per cent of the total family in
come, and buy more than 30 per
cent of the Nations consumer
goods" including more than 63
per cent of the mems neckties."
Mrs. Clark concluded that, like
the Red Queen in "Alice in Won
derland," the Democrats must
run twice as fast ito get some
where else"
you know" she added, I'VE
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Enoch Flowers Heads
Mosons in Virginia
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 17.-Vir-
ginina Masons wound up their
State convention in Richmond yes
terday by electing a Lawrenceville
man as grand master.
Enock D. Flowers was named to
succeed Douglas Smith, jr., Rich
mond, as head of the grand lodge.
The customary advancement of
Evening star., 1950-02-17

are not going to let that happen
again. We don't want another do
nothing 80th Congress-"
Recalls School Days.
Vice President Barkley was as
critical of the Republicans as was
the President. They were forever
bringing up the question of lib
erty, he commented. When he
was a boy, he said, he had a
schoolmate who invariably brought
in Patrick Henry's. famous re-
mark, Give me liberty or give
me death" In order to trap him,
one of the other boys asked the
lad to describe collie" thinking
it would be impossible for him to
work his favorite Patrick Henry
quotation.
But he fooled U.s." said Mr..
Barkley. Collie, he said, is an
accumulation of gas in the human
anatomy crying: Give me liberty
or give me death"'.
The trouble with the Repub-
lican Party is that it has the
collie"
Mr.. Barkley said the statement
OF principles and objectives, re-
Gently issued by the Republicans,
reminded him of a saying he
heard when he was a THE
lightning flashed. the thunder
roared and killed a chicken" &
Thomas Jefferson the Vice
President continued, in a letter
to a friend wrote: No dead gen.
Grafton has a right to bind AMI
alive generation, if new issues
arise
THE reason the Democratic
Party has always been able to go
forward in the service of the peo-
pie is that it has followed this
advice of Jefferson"
Rayburn Recalls Depression.
Speaker Rayburn told the vast
audience that, for Is years, he had
been listening to the Republicans
charging that the Democratic Ad-
ministration was spending the
country into bankruptcy and lead
ing the country into socialism.
Yet, he said, when the Democrats
came into power in 1888, people
were walking the streets without
jobs, the banks had been closed
and the farmers were ruined.
Look at what the Democrats
have done in the intervening
years" said the Speaker. How
unkind have they been to busi-
ness, to free enterprise, to labor
and to the farmer? Ask the
farmer why he is not voting the
Republican ticket. The farmers
income in 1881 was Sc billion and
in 194S, it was $35 billion"
Praising the administration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry
S. Truman. Mr.. Rayburn said: II
look forward with confidence to
the coming elections, and if the
Republicans will put out another
platform, We'll double our ma
jorities in both the House and
Senate. The Republicans have be-
come SO unused to leadership they
have lost the touch"
Declaring that, "as long as we
live in most dangerous world we
must have powder, and keep our
powder dry" the Speaker pre-
dicted that, under our great
President, we will still have an
enduring peace"
Mrs. Clark Thanks Truman.
Mrs. Clark thanked President
Truman for her appointment as
Treasurer of the United States,
fully recognizing. she said, that
"he was really honoring all the
women of America for their mag
nif1cent accomplishments III war
and peace.
of course" Mrs. Clark added.
-
Evening star., 1950-02-17

was celebrating 20 years ago when
a man Or woman couldn't afford
to pay more than dollar for a
meal.
Mr.. Luckman finally built up
TO his big line. There was a min
utes pause for station identifica-
ton across the Nation, and then
he said:
Ladies and gentlemen, the
President of the United States"
He said it very we'll.
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Harris Ewing Photo.

several other grand lodge officers
necessitated the election of a new
grand junior deacon, William j.
Mcmahon, Newport News.
Other officers in the 1850 grand
lodge will include Hugh Reid, Ar
lington, grand senior deacon, and
r. Sumpter Griffith, Waynesboro,
grand senior steward.
Evening star., 1950-02-17

Democrats have been running
twice as fast as our opponents for
a long time. That's how we are
going to win this years election. I"
Evening star., 1950-02-17
Lions Surround His Car

H. E. Haugen, Kingwilliams-
town, South Africa, thought he
got his moneys worth on a trip
to the Kruger National Park when
IL lions surrounded his car for
four hours.
Evening star., 1950-02-17

Syria's hemp and fax crops
have been helped by good weather
and greater paintings.
Evening star., 1950-06-19

Five years ago-Senator A. B.
Chandler said he had formally
taken over" the Office Of base
ball commissioner.