The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-22

| now the insect population is grow
ing faster than science can devise
ways to destroy them-in fact one
noted authority once said that if
man is ever exterminated from this
planet it will be insects that will do
the job-so that birds which alight
in your cherry tree are probably
collecting no more than their just
due for insect patrol and they should
be treated as friends and allies
not marauders.
Speaking of early birds-there are
the Bluffton high school sophomores
who will graduate in 1868. They
are holding a cookie sale Friday to
start a fund for the Washington
trip which they plan to take follow
ing their graduation two years
hence. Nothing like being forehand-
ed-and success to them.
Insurance agents need insurance,
too-as Clarence Diller, Bluffton in
surance man learned Saturday morn
ing when his tenant Edwin Kieifer
phoned from Pandora that their
jointly owned herd of cattle had
broken out of a pasture field dur
ing a storm the night before and
caused extensive damage to lawn
and gardens in Pandora's north side.
Being an insurance man, Diller was
adequately protected by farm liza
bility policy covering accidents and
losses in connection with farm oper-
alton similar to automobile liability
insurance.
Disappearing from the Bluffton
scene are the last vestiges of the
American House, early North Main
street hostelry. Only brick rubble
remains now to mark one of the few
landmarks which survived since the
early days of the town.
E. S. Miller, Bluffton automobile
dealer planning to erect modern
garage and salesroom on the site,
who earlier had thought of leaving
the original brick walls standing,
later decided to tear them down
when they were deemed insecure.
Built before the earliest remem-
brance of M. Nj. Murray, 81, Bluff
toms oldest native born resident, the
place is known to be over 100 years
old. Just when it was built is lost
in obscurity-only chance recollec-
tions of old residents recall it's
palmy days back in the eighties
and the gay nineties when it was
the center of life in pioneer Bluff
ton, rough and ready struggling
hamlet of the early days-the locale
for politics, business deals and gay
balls it's decline set in around
the turn of the century when it was
overshadowed by the newer uptown
Hotel Russell at time when Bluff
ton, riding on the crest of the easy
money all boom was fast discarding
it's pioneer ways and taking on
metropolitan airs.
Speaking of going modern, Bluff
ton fishermen are doing just that
using air transportation to get to
spots otherwise inaccessible. Latest
are Merlin Mumma, Raymond Mont
gomery and Oliver Steiner home
from a ten days trip to Ely Min
| nesota, near the Canadian border
! where they -fes~a-sspex-duper fish
| ing at Alice lake.
An isolated spot not to be
reached by auto, they flew into the
back country by seaplane then port
aged farther carrying a portable
boat. Their catch was reported
more than 100 walleyes running up
wards to four pounds.
Another party including Bob
Lewis, Kenneth Powell and Charles
Hilty and son Charles, Jr., are re-
ported planning similar trip into
the Minnesota wilds the last of this
month.
And when it comes to angling
prowess, there's Mrs. Charles Kist-
ner of Pontiac, Mich, the former
Evelyn Amstutz, north of Blutfton,
daughter of Mrs. Ellen Schweitzer
| and the late Philip Amstutz who hit
the headlines recently when she
hooked the largest muskie of the sea-
! son at Lake st. Clair, near Mt.
Clemens, Mich. The fish weighed
"a pounds, three ounces, measured so
inches in length and 17A inches in
girth. 1t was hooked on a fly rod
with daredevil lure and landed in
! q boat after % minnie tuSSlq