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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-13
STATE MOVES into
AREA ON SEWAGE
CONTROL PROJECT
Department of Health Testing
Stream Pollution i'm Streams
of This District
Action Focuses Attention on
Sewer Project Turned Down
Five Times Eere

Possibility that Buttons sewage
control problems may come to a
head this summer is seen in the an
nouncement that the mobile trailer
laboratory of the Ohio Department
of Health will be in this area soon
to test the pollution of streams in
the Maumee river watershed.
Announcement of the laboratory's
assignment to this area was made
last Friday, with indication that the
first testing will be in the Ottawa
river (Hog creek) in the Lima area.
Other streams emptying into the
Maumee also will be checked, how
ever, including Riley creek which
goes from Bluffton thru Putnam
county to drain into the Blanchard
and eventually on to the Maumee
river.
State Program
Testing by the Department of
Health's laboratory trailer will be a
part of the entire program of pollu-
ton control in the Lake Erie area,
and is tied in with a statewide pro-
gram aimed at eliminating the dis
charge of untreated sewage in water
which eventually finds it's way into
either Lake Erie or the Ohio River.
A new Ohio law, which became
effective last fall, gives the state
powers to require compliance by
municipalities which do not now
have sewage control facilities.
Bluffton's sewage problems which
have checkered history dating back
nearly two decades, have again be-
come one of the towns most press
ing needs as a result of the legisla-
ton. In previous votes on proposed
bond issues to defray the cost of a
sewage treatment system, residents
of the village five times failed to
pass legislation which would have
permitted start on the project
The last vote was in 1889, when the
project was turned down for the
fifth time in Is years.
Strategic Area
State attention is focused or
cleaning up the Maumee watershed
as oneof the major programs in its
attack on the statewide problem, one
of the reasons for the laboratory
check to be made this summer.
The Maumee provides the largest
amount of water flowing into Lake
Erie from Ohio, and consequently is
expected to be one of the key pro-
grams in the states activities te
clean up the condition of streams
and rivers.
Preceding work by the mobile
laboratory, a corps of engineers will
make preliminary survey ol
streams in this district, the state
announcement disclosed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-13
Takes Agriculture
Tencllina Position

Donavin Amstutz, recently gradu-
ated in agriculture at Ohio State
university has accepted position as
instructor in agriculture for ex-
service men at Hicksville and has
entered upon his duties at that place.
His family now making their home
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Wenger, will move to Hicksville
soon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-13
Lions Picnic

The Bluffton Lions club will hold
a picnic on the College campus next
Tuesday night at 6 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-13

The first bicycle was made in
Scotland in 1910.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18
: Cedar Grove =
Mrs. Philip Watkins

Mrs. Philip Brown is recuperat-
ing at the home of her niece, Mrs.
Marjorie Spooner in Washington
following en- operation at 'Sibley
Hospital.
The play "Aron Stick of Punkin
Crick" cleared $125 for the men,
bers of the Salem Methodist Choir
at the Damascus High School.
Quite a few men have been try
ing their luck fishing at Chain
Bridge, but the largest number
caught was last Wednesday eve
ming when Julian King and party
brought home over twelve hundred
fish!
Mrs. Guy Watkins and Mrs.
Richard Schaeffer attended a meet
ing at Mrs. Thomas Bailey's home
in Laytonsville on Thursday to
make plans for serving dinner for
the men that are to work at the
Agricultural Center the week of
May goth. The Cedar Grove Home
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

makers Club is to serve the meal on
Thursday, May rs.
The Baptist Woman's Mission
airy Society met at the home of
Mrs. Cecil Allnutt on Tuesday
afternoon for their regular month
ly meeting.
The Woman's Society Of Chris
tan Service was entertained at
dinner preceding their afternoon
meeting by Mrs. Maynard Wat
kins, Mrs, Wheeler Watkins and
Mrs. Claude King on Wednesday,
Mrs. John Mussetter and Mrs,
Arnold Main entertained the AL
pha Sunday, School Class at a
Weiner Roast at the Salem Metho-
dist Church on Wednesday evening.
Miss Rosemary Watkins, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lee
Watkins, celebrated her 10th birth
day by entertaining ten friends on
Saturday afternoon. Miss Sandra
Lee King, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John King of Woodfeld, was
her overnight guest.
Mrs. Harry Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernard Brown and William
Brown of Baltimore with Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilfred Koontz and son
Wayne of Damascus, spent Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Watkins.
The Damascus Baseball Club
plays Colesville at the Agricultural
Center in Gaithersburg Friday at
$50.
The Cedar Grove Homemakers
Club met at the home of Mrs. Will
bur Watkins, Jr., with Mrs. Will
bur Watkins, Sr., assisting on
Monday afternoon. After the bust
ness meeting conducted by the
president, Mrs. Oliver Watkins, the
project leaders, Mrs. William Beall
and Mrs. Richard Hunt gave the
demonstration on pictures.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18
In AROUND nou GAITHERSBURG
Mrs James Schroeder Gaithersbug
Gaithersburg 442

sororities, and a University Con-
vocation on Sunday morning, They
were the guests of the girls in the
beautiful Stuyvesant Hall on the
Ohio Wesleyan campus.
Mrs. Dora Purdum and daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Mary Foster of Gath
ersburg, Mrs. Grace Hastings of
Woodfield and Mrs. Edith Mullinix
of Damascus, with Morris E. Pur-
dun of Damascus motored to Mill
brook, N. Y. to attend the wedding
of Roger Purdum to Miss Evelyn
]. Roberts of Millbrook. The we'd
ding was held in the Grace Episco-
pal Church in that town. Mr.. Pur-
dun was best man for his cousin
on the May Is wedding.
Mrs. Arthur Beall entertained a
few of her son Peters friends at
dinner on Sunday evening at the
Beall home in Jamestown.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18
Mrs. Laura Shry

Mrs. Laura Shry, 65, of Keymar,
died on Tuesday, May 16 at her
home. A native of Virginia, Mrs.
Shry moved to Maryland when
young and lived for number of
years in GAINESVILLE.
Funeral services will be held on
Friday, May 10, 1870 p. m. at her
late home. Burial will be in Woods
boro Cemetery.
Mrs. Shry is survived by her
husband, Sidney Shry; two sons,
Sidney, jr., and Harry Shry; two
daughters, Mrs. Nellie Henie, and
Mrs. Annie Smith, all of York,
IA; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Shry,
%'nion Bridge; Mrs. Helen Elkins'
Gaithersburg; three brothers,
Charles and Berkeley Fawley OF
Rockville and Eugene Fawley OF
Colesville Pike. Five grandchildren
and one great-grandchild also sur
vive.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18
COLESVILLE .
Miss Lucille Priest
Ashton 3112

The Colesville Homemakers met
on Friday in the church basement
for their last meeting until Sep
TENDER. A number of the men,
bers will meet on the second Fri
days in July and August to fold
bandages for the Cancer Society.
The members will be guests of the
Gaithersburg club for the June
meeting.
Mrs. Claude Wright, the pro-
ject leader, gave some very inter-
esting points on how to refinish
old picture frames and to make
new ones.
Mrs. V. ]. Ray had as guests
Mothers Day, Mrs. Eleanor Bail
ey and children; Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Hobbs and Miss Lucille
Priest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Hobbs en-
tertained Mrs. Eleanor Bailey, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Daley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard Hobbs, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lem Johnston and Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Hobbs at supper Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McKeller,
their son Earl, and Mrs. M. E.
Veitch of Brentwood called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Daley and
Mrs. V. j. Ray of Sunday.
Mrs. Granville Thompson and
Sister, Lucille, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo Loveday of Washington
Sunday. OF
Mrs. Edward Rankin will show
her. eolQredl slides of the New
iEnglSnJ Estates, Canada and
Florida at Woodfeld Hall on Fri
day, May 10, at p. m. A silver
Offering for the building fund will
be taken up.
Mrs. Paul Groseclose taught the
first chapter of the new study book
missions at the Grass Roots" on
Sunday evening at the parsonage.
You are invited to attend the meet
ings to be held each Sunday night
in May at the parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Daley en-
tertained in honor of Mrs. Annie
Beall's birthday on Tuesday: Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Nehouse and son,
George of Woodfeld; Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Hobbs, Mrs. V. j. Ray and
Mrs. Beall.
Mrs. George Burriss fell when
shopping in Washington Monday
and sprained her right ankle. She
is confined at present to her day
bed.
On Saturday Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Bradford, Mrs. Ruth Burnell,
Mrs. Webb Lyshon and daughter
Linda were guests of Mrs. Cashell
Nichols and Mrs. Stephen Ander-
son of Highland Mrs. Anderson
returned home with Mrs. Burnell
and is the house guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Anderson for the week.
Miss Lucille Priest was luncheon
guest of Mr.. and Msr. Eli Leishear
on Monday. On Friday the
Leishears had as their guests, Mrs.
Ebert Richardson and children of
Ednor.
The w. C. T. U. members of
Colesville were guests on Wednes-
day of the Gaithersburg W. c. T.
U. at the Asbury Methodist Home.
All enjoyed the meeting and the
tour of inspection of the new
edition of the Home.
The Colesville Homemakers will
meet in the Church basement on
Friday. AS this is the final bust
ness meeting of the spring, all
members are urged to attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

We are students of words; we
are suit up in schools and colleges,
and recitation rooms, for ten or
fifteen years, and come out at last
with bag of wind, a memory of
words, and do not know a thing
R. W. Emerson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

A quick mind and loud voice
may sometimes pass for intellig-
ence but, sooner or later, the truth
will out.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

While we appreciate the armed
services we sometimes suspect that
there are too many pensions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

Why worry about divorces when
the nation is in the midst of record
breaking construction of homes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

Not everything in print is the
truth, whether put in print in 1850
or 1743, or some other time.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-05-18

Small businesses, like larger
ones, may need capital but what
they need more is intelligent direc-
tion.
Evening star., 1950-10-08

portrait of an elderly woman with
a gentle, meditative face. Rubens'
little Flight Into Egypt" a sketch
(although complete in ITSELF for a
larger painting, and a dignified
portrait of a middle-aged gentle
man by Van Dyck.
An admirable group of 18th
century French paintings, mostly
portraits. includes a number which
formerly belonged to various
members of the Rothschild family.
There are two superb large pastels
by La Tour, one of Mile. Sale, a
famous dancer, praised by Vol
taire; the other, the celebrated
likeness of Duval de PEpinoy, a
lively, handsome man in silver
gray brocade on a rose-uphol-
stored chair against a blue back
ground.
Lepicie's robust portraits of
himself and of an elderly astron-
omer, two decorative portraits by
Natter and a dream like fete in
a romantic park, by Fragonard,
add interest and charm to the
French section. Eighteenth and
early 10Th century British masters
of portraiture. Gainsborough,
Romney, Lawrence and Hoppner
are represented with telling cap
lures of beautiful young wom-
en-. Eighteenth century Vene-
tian Guardi painted fresh, vital
glimpses Of his romantic city and
its environs; four of them are in
the Gulbenkian collection here.
18th Century French
Three quarters of a century
later Corot painted a number of
scenes Of Venice. One of them is
the best of his three paintings
shown in a gallery devoted to the
10th century French. Here too is
a self-portrait by fastidious in
troyert Degas. by whom there is
also a small painting of Cezanne
in his studio with a mannequin.
Monet is represented with two
portraits Of boys, one Blowing
Bubbles" having been most re-
Gently in the collection OF Adolphe
Lewisohn of New York City. From
Monet's best period Is the lushly-
colored still-life of fruits and
china, and a cool blue and gray
outdoor scene, THE Breakup of
the Ice" Finally, there Is an
engaging sketch Of Monet's wife
lying on sofa, done by Renoir on
a visit to the Monets' home at
Argenteuil near Paris.
An excellent catalogue with
Evening star., 1950-10-08
The Fourth Volume
And Final Chapter
OF Hervey Allen
THE CITY IN THE DAWN

THE CITY IN THE DAWN
By Hervey Allen. (Rhtnehart;;
$3.50.
Mr.. Aliens recent death occurred
while he was working on the
fourth and final volume Of a pam
oramic story of Pennsylvania in
the middle of the 18th century
His publishers have condensed and
edited into a single book of zoe
pages the three volumes previously
published and a portion of the un-
finished fourth.
The publishers have given the
omnibus book the title which Mr.
Allen had chosen for the fourth
volume, THE City in the Dawn
1t is a good title. for 1t sums ur
the long struggle of SalathieI
Albine from his boyhood as the
adopted child of an Indian tribe
in the wilderness of the western
frontier of Pennsylvania to reach
in young manhood the fabulous
city of Philadelphia and the
strange way of life that was called
civilization.
The first volume, "The Forest
and the Fort" described Sala-
thiel's Indian childhood. The Sec
ond, Bedford Village" told of
how the boy was retrieved by
white men and came to live among
them and to receive something of
an education. The next book,
Toward the Morning." dealt with
Salathiel's marriage and q move
to a town nearer the settled East.
The small portion of the fourth
volume which now appears de-
scribes the arrival of the Albines
in Philadelphia on a magical
morning.
Julie Eidesheim, the editor,
seems to have performed with skill
and taste the difficult task of join
ing the books together in single
narrative-a plan which Mr.. Allen
had projected. There is much
beauty and memorable evocation
Of character and atmosphere in
the comprehensive story.
Evening star., 1950-10-08

fashions it into a novel that is
intensely moving.
Elizabeth, suffering from cancer,
dies before the story is third
through. Thereafter we learn how
1t is that such a vital, valiant
woman whose whole existence has
been founded on love, has come to
relax her grip on life. We see
her vindictive sister assuming
power in troubled house; the
curate, who could not prepare her
for death because he cannot un-
derstand life: the self -indulgent
monsignor who grieves her bit
terly; the bewildered children; the
husband who has rebelled at be-
ing loved so much and sought
some surcease from boundless
tolerance and understanding in an
affair with the nurse who cares
for his wife in her last illness.
Bedeviled by heat and grief,
the friends and family move
through an endless day, closing
ranks in clumsy importunate ways.
But Elizabeth. generous in life, is
generous in death. leaving behind
a heritage Of love. Her doctor.
hopelessly loving her, Is free, and
is promised some kind of conso-
lation with the hard-boiled nurse
Her husband can, accept the re-
sponsibility Of loving their chill
dren. although he could not while
she lived.
Mr.. Gill. moving surely through
the prosperous Catholic society of
the Rowans, studies his characters
mcisively. relentlessly, just as he
spares no detail of the day of
funeral preparations. Although
ne never says so-his novel being
quiet and understated, for all its
high emotional tension-he makes
Elizabeth's death seem like a sac
rlfice, necessary to teach those
around her something they would
otherwise never have learned. It
is g. remarkably fine first novel.
Evening star., 1950-10-08

ever, you would Somerset Maugham.
have had to read five complete
volumes and parts of five others.
There are two complete novels,
''The Painted Veil" and Christ
mas Holiday; ''The Summing Up"
autobiography in it's entirely;
two plays, Our Betters" and "The
Constant Wife; IL short stories
and three essays. In all, 1,217
pages.
In the introduction, most of
which has had previous magazine
publication. Glenway Westcott
tells why he ranks Mr.. Vaughan
as the dean of novelists writing
in English at present" Mr.. West
colt says: q. y. He is the only
one, who for more than a quarter
OF century has had the admira-
ton of an elite of highly culti-
vated, sophisticated readers and
OF a sufficient number of good fell
low writer's, with increasing influ-
ence on the younger ones; and at
the same time has given great
pleasure to. made sense to, and
affected the lives of, a million
or more ordinary mortals."
Evening star., 1950-10-08
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ChurIieWertenbuker
Lights the Fuse

LIE bARONS
BY Charles Wertenbaker. IRAN
dom House; $500
Reviewed by Robert K. Welsh
Less explosive than its subject,
this 579-page novel deals with a
dynasty of dynamite, gunpower
and munitions manufacturers and
their activities between 1906 and
1921.
Readers will imagine they see
startling Delaware and Du Pont
parallels. But Mr.. Wertenbaker,
a former Star reporter and maga-
zine foreign correspondent well
known in Washington, has imag-
ined a several sided fictional COM
bination that does Interestingly
enough by itself.
The author blends a combina-
ton of dizzy and double-dealing
financial and family affairs, along
with the proud, needless loves and
losses OF j. E. B. Stuart Baron and
his kissing cousin Philippa. Such
an effort to cover SO much ground
may be the main reason why stu
ations sometimes only sputter in
stead Of bursting into a vivid,
shattering story.
Evening star., 1950-10-08

paper from a broken-dow editor
who retires to California. Mr..
Blandings has the highest motives.
He wants to promote the welfare
Of the small Connecticut COM
munity. OF course, he runs afoul
Of the banker and of other natives
who consider any one whose
grandfather was not born in the
township a foreigner. Mr.. Bland
ingS is called both a Communist
and black reactionary, depend
ing on how his policies impress
divergent interests. In the end
he but you'll want to discover
in the course of the story what
happens.
He's Really Not Fooled.
Mr.. Blandings is an amusing
fellow. Undoubtedly there are
lot of men like him. And yet,
he is too vague. too indecisive. too
easily tossed about on the waves
of circumstance, to be a memoir
able character in fiction. AS the
author explains. Mr.. Blandings
always sees both sides of a ques-
ton. He is a detached Babbitt
who is not fooled by the phoney
aspects of his life. but merely pre-
tends to be. George F. Babbitt is
remembered becatise he was sin
cere and took his routine with
deadly seriousness. His one mild
rebellion, from which he returned
chastened to his old ways, was
convincing because it was the one
time he stopped to think. Bland
ings' Way" elicits many smiles and
some outright laughs. 1t could
have been funnier if Mr.. Hodgins
did not have a way of sliding
around crises instead of facing
them squarely and squeezing the
most out Of them. Even so, the
book is a lively satire which
makes pleasant reading. 1t is the
October selection Of the Book-of-
he-Month Club.
Evening star., 1950-10-08

t1e1IIiCO. 11C dItQ Muf1Gl nave TWO
daughters. The older is, at the
opening Of the story, II, and
merely clever and boy-conscious.
The other. only 13, is something
of genius and wins a national
prize offered by a girls magazine
for the best essay on the atomic
situation. The Blandings have
settled into their dream house,
which tops a mountain an hour
and-a-half by train and miles
drive from New York City where
Mr.. Blandings is one of the top
men in an advertising agency.
Mr.. Blandings is business sue
cess by all ordinary standards. He
has an adequate income, even for
q pretentious country home with
many acres. He has a special gift
for devising advertising slogans
which put products over and mean
millions for his firm. And yet he
Is unhappy. He is acutely aware
of the bunk, surrounding advertis-
ing; he has never felt at home in
the feverish atmosphere of agen-
cies and clients. He wants to do
something creative; something
constructive. Where better than
In the country community of
which he now is a part?
His Sylvan Retreat.
Mr.. Blandings looks forward to
settling more and more into his
sylvan retreat and seeing less and
less of the city. He makes an ar
rangement with the Office to show
up only occasionally for consulta-
tions. His first disillusion comes
when the vegetable garden to
which he has devoted such care
turns out too well. There is a glut
Of vegetables which they can't eat,
can. sell or give away fast enough
Then, when a hired man persuades
MIR. Blandings to acquire a COW,
fresh trouble starts. But his real
career as a benevolent countyman
starts when he buys the weekly
Evening star., 1950-10-08
Gore VidoFs Vivid New Novel Proves
He Is an Author to Be Reckoned With

BY Gore Vidal. (Dutton; So
liminary town at heavy cost, are
extraordinary.
Peter Nelson's present de-
meanor, including his inevitable
sex affair with Elena, is presented
with sufficient clarity, but we
never learn much about him, even
why he was court-martialed. And
yet the whole atmosphere of the
revolution - muddy planning,
bombastic promises. betrayal and
fruStration-is sketched in with
soaring strokes.
There no longer can be any
doubt that Mr.. Vidal is a novelist
to be reckoned with.