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Evening star., 1951-04-24

Under D. c. ldtD, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, aDGit three fuH days and
receiUe the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
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Poppy Day Here
Saturday, Mag 26

Sale of 5000 poppies is set as the
goal in Buttons 1850 Poppy Day
on Saturday, May 26, it was am
nounced this week by the Legion
Auxiliary, sponsor of the local cam
paign.
More than As Auxiliary members
in uniform will conduct the Poppy
Day sales here, beginning at 7 a. m.
and continuing until the last poppy
has been sold. Last year, $500 pop
pies were sold here.
Mrs. Garnette Foltz is in charge
of sale of the poppies, which were
made at the Soldiers Home in San
dusky. All proceeds go to disabled
veterans.
In addition to the Poppy Day sales,
a Poppy dance will be held next
Wednesday.
An appeal to all patriotic citizens
to wear a poppy on Poppy Day was
made this week by Gerald Swank,
commander of the Bluffton Legion
post.
"With young Americans again dy,
ing in defense Of the principles OF
the freedom for which America
stands and with our country again
mobilizing to prevent new aggression
it is fitting that every American re-
member those who have given their
lives in the nations service" Swank
declared.
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Alumni Banquet
Dance Next Week

Plans for the annual Bluffton High
Alumni banquet and dance to be held
as individual events Friday night
May 25, were announced this week
by Joel Kimmel, president of the
alumni association
The banquet will be held at $50
p. m. in the school cafeteria, with
an interesting program arranged
following the dinner. Tickets for
the banquet must be purchased NOT
later than Friday night of this week,
to permit completion of plans for
the affair. Banquet tickets are on
sale at both drug stores and also by
Mrs. Edith Mann and Miss Lois
Hauenstein.
Tickets for the alumni dance, to be
held in the gymnasium from $50
until 1890 p. m, will be sold at
the door. The dance is open to
Bluffton High alumni and guests, il
was announced. Music will be by
Ernie Duffield's well-known Fostoria
orchestra.
Alumni officers this year include
Joel Kimmel, president; Rollie STRAIT
ton, vice-president; Mrs. Edith Mann,
recording secretary; Miss Eileen
Haller, treasurer, and Miss Lois
Hauenstein, corresponding secretary.
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Summer Tern, Opens
At College June 5

Summer term at Bluffton college
will open on Tuesday, June 5, and
continue through August "a, accord
ing to an announcement made this
week from the registrars office.
Glasses will be held only in the
mornings, and each subject will be
completed in three weeks of intensive
study. Preliminary estimates indi-
cate there will be an enrolment of
about so
Courses being offered the first
term include bird lore, teaching con-
tent, educational psychology, form
and analysis and orchestration. In
the second term courses will be
American government and local flora,
Third term courses include Christian
ethics and family. Subject for the
final three weeks will be Christian
faith.
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INDUCTION ORDER
CALLS FOR QUOTA
OF Is SELECTEES
Board to Send Less Than One
Fourth of Last -February's
Total
Putnam and Hancock Counties
Send Z Each; Hardin to
Send Five

Rejecting a cutback in the Ohio
draft tempo for the third successive
month, only Is men will be inducted
into the armed services in the June
draft call, according to an announce
ment made Tuesday.
The reduced local call reflects a
national trend, for the June induc-
ton quota for the state as a whole
will be the lowest since late last
summer, according to Col. c.. w.
Goble, Ohio selective service director.
The June call for 15 men is in
marked contrast to Allen county S
induction tempo in February when
62 men were taken into the army
and in March when the county was
ordered to provide SO draftees.
April's call, however, dropped back
to 40, the first major cutback since
The outbreak of Korean police action
last summer. In May, Allen county
sent draft notices to only 35 men.
With next months induction schedule
calling for only 15 men the tempo
of inductions for the armed services
has been cut back for the third
successive month.
Hardin county has the lowest
draft quota in this area for June,
with only five men to be called up
during the month by the Hardin
board. Hancock county is to provide
seven draftees, and the Putnam
county call also will be for seven
men.
In Ohio as whole there will be
only LASS May draftees, as compar-
ed with high of 5,648 last Febru-
airy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1951-05-17
MUNICIPAL LIGHT
PLANTS BUSINESS
SHOWS INCREASE
Board of Public Affairs Makes
Annual Report for Past
Year
Profit from Operations Shows
Drop as Compared to pre-
ceding Year

Net profit of the Bluffton munici-
pal light light and waterworks drop
ped about 60 per cent during 1850,
altho sales of electricity and water
yielded slightly higher return for
the year, according to the annual
report released this week by Don
Augsbu1ger, clerk of the board of
public affairs.
During 1850 operations, the light
plant and waterworks showed a
combined profit of $1,46S.14, in
comparison with profits amounting
to $2,495.S5 during the preceding
year.
AT the same time total sales of
electric and water service amounted
to $133,445,46 in 1850, as compared
with $126, ,629. so for 1949, the report
shows. This means that altho sales
for 1850 were approximately s7,S1t
higher than for the preceding year
net profits dropped $1,027.
Bond Payment
Board of public affairs officials
pointed out, however, that the
81 ,468.14 figure shown as net gain
to the city in the profit and loss
statement did not represent all the
actual earnings of the plant, in ex-
cess of operating expenses.
Instead this was the amount left
as a profit balance after $4,000 had
been pal dtoward the retirement of
bonded Indebtedness for plant ex-
pansion, plus $4,142.5O interest on
the debt. Consequently, spokesmen
for the board said, this means that
if the plant had no bonded debt
earnings last year, instead of ST.
46S.14 would have been S14,610.64.
Debt Drops
With retirement of $4,000 in
bonds last year, the plant debt has
dropped to $172,000, according to
the report. In comparison, fixed as
Continued on page 1p)
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Busy Four Day Period Will Mark
College Graduation Week Events

A busy four-day period of varied
activity will mark the Bluffton col
lege commencement season this
spring, eliminating with graduation
exercises at 10 a. m. Monday, June a.
Opening events of the calendar are
scheduled for Friday, June l, when
Swiss Day will be observed on the
campus in the morning, luncheon and
afternoon programs.
The vesper choir will make its
major contribution to the commence
ment season on Friday night with its
rendition of "The Rose Maiden,
under the direction of Prof. Russell A.
Lantz.
Busy morning, afternoon and even
ing programs are scheduled for Sat-
urday, June 2, opening with Varsity
"B" breakfasts, followed by the
alumni-varsity baseball game.
May Day Activities
Class reunions at noon will precede
the annual box ceremonies and box
programs, following which colorful
May Day exercises, including crown
ing of the colleges May Queen, will
be staged on the baseball field, be-
ginning at $3.50 p. m.
On Saturday evening, the alumni
banquet will be followed by presenta-
tion of "The Beauty and the Jacobin",
a classic of the drama, staged by the
Thespian society.
Baccalaureate services beginning
at p. m. will feature the program on
Sunday, June 8. President Lloyd L.
Ramseyer will deliver the sermon,
taking as his topic, Faith, Courage
and Vision"
commencement June
Following the baccalaureate the
presidents reception will be held by
President Ramseyer. In the evening
the vesper choir will present a con-
cert in the First Mennonite church.
Commencement exercises at 10 a. m.
Monday, June 4, will bring the busy
schedule of activities to a close. DR..
Rufus ID. Bowman, president Of
Bethany Biblical seminary, will be
the speaker. His subject has been
announced as "The House Not Made
With Hands,"
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apart.
The large green cars of those days
usually were crowded and on holidays
double headers 1.-TWO cars in tandem)
were put into service to accommodate
the patronage.
For both business and pleasure, the
interurban was extensively used, and
for nearly three decades the sight of
electric cars travelling Buttons Main
street was a familiar scene.
While Bluffton, by and large, was
happy over the coming of the Inter-
urban, there We're discordant notes in
the chorus of welcome. Pessimists
there were and sizable minority,
principally businessmen at that time,
predicted that this would mean the
end of Bluffton as trading center.
Fears that all the retail trade
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Insurance May Cover Town i'm Damage Suit
Business Administration, Secretarial
Work, 1omemaking and Armed Services
Most Popular Vacations with Students

Business administration, secretar-
ial, homemaking and the armed serv-
ices proved the most popular dis
cussion group subjects in an after
noon Career Day program held in
Bluffton High school last Thursday
for more than 800 Juniors and
seniors from Bluffton and FIVE
neighboring high schools.
Participating in the career
counselling program held here ar
innovation in district scholastic
activity, were students from Pan.
dora, Columbus Grove, Ada, La.
fayette and Beaverdam, in addition
to Biuifton.
Rejecting the compulsory military
service high school graduates of to.
day must look forward to, confer.
ence sessions on Armed Services
attracted total registration of id
topping all other counselling group
attendance in the afternoon pro-
gram.
Is Groups
Most popular of the II other
groups We're three business admins.
tration and secretarial and business
sessions attended by sc students
Homemaking, with an all-girl at.
tendance, was close behind with {
registration of IS ia three sessions
Next popular with the students
We're counselling groups in transpor
tation, 81; police, 40; nursing, dietet
les and airline hostesses, as; agricul.
ture, 48; and skilled labor, 38.
Other conference groups We're helc
on communications; painting anc
decorating, how to find job in in.
dustry, education and teaching
photography, advertising and sales
manship, ministry and mission work
Y. M. c. A. scouting, personnel anc
social work and engineering.
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BluftOn Board Buys
NeLU Bus For School

Bluffton Board of Education at it's
meeting Tuesday night purchased a
new Chevrolet school bus from Stein
er Chevrolet Sales at its bid of $3,-
573. The bus with carrying ca
pacity of AZ pupils will be delivered
this summer in time for opening of
school in September. Involved in the
transaction was the trade-in of the
schools 1940 Chevrolet bus.
Bid of the Steiner Chevrolet was
the lowest of three submitted. Others
were: Bixel Motor Sales, Ford. 49,
578; c. F. Niswander & Son, Inter
national, $4,495.
Financing of the purchase is made
thru state funds.
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Bluffton Hospital

MAY 10
Admitted-Robert Which, Bluffton.
Discharged-Chas. Haas, Jenera.
MAY IL
Admitted-Lee Shdmore, Button
Discharged-Mrs. Paul Robb and
son, Mt. Cory.
MAY 12
Admitted-Mrs. Grace Workman,
Bluffton.
Discharged-Lee Skidmore, Bluff
ton; Robt. Which, Bluffton; Mrs,
James Siyerling and daughter, Nc
Comb; Mrs. w. ]. Moore, Williams.
town; LaVern Geckle, Ottawa; Con-
stance Lynn Dunlap.
MAY 13
Discharged-Mrs. Asa Wilson and
daughter, Ottawa.
MAY IA
Admitted-Jane Bridges, Beaver
dam; Steven Fisher, Bluffton; Paul
Fritchie, Bluffton.
Discharged-Mrs. John Cupples,
Button; Mrs. Ted Kohl and daugh-
ter, Bluffton.
MAY Is
Admitted-Chas. Hefner, Lima.
Discharged-Mrs. Fannie Motter,
Bluffton; Mrs. Ralph Sousley and
son, Bluffton; Mrs. Donivan Hart
man and daughter, Rawson.
MAY 16
Discharged-Charles Hefner, Lima
Jane Bridges, Beaverdam; Steven
Fisher, Bluffton.
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College Students
Get 10 Extra Days

College students have been allowed
an additional 10 days for fling ap-
plications to take the aptitude tests
for draft deferment, it was an
nounced Tuesday. They now have
until May 25.
Ohio Selective Service headquar-
ters said the applications apply to
tests scheduled June 16 and 80 and
July IL. Books already are closed
on applications for the May rs tests.
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Allen County's June Draft Cali
CutIfOr Third Successive Month
Margaret StratOn, Louise Reichenbach
BlufftOn ValedictOrian, SalutatOrian

Margaret Stratton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Stratton, corn
er of jefferson and Thurman streets,
is valedictorian of this years Bluff
ton High school graduating class, it
was announced Tuesday by Supt.
Aaron B. Murray.
The class salutatorian will be
Louise Ann Reichenbach, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Reichenbach,
West Elm street.
Both girls, scholastic leaders of
their class, will deliver addresses at
the 10th annual Bluffton High school
commencement exercises Thursday
night, May "a.
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Rlufton High Seniors
Take Occupation Tests

Twenty-three Bluffton High SEN
iors took aptitude tests given by
representatives of the United States
Employment Service office in Lima,
last Tuesday morning.
In addition to the tests, covering
various occupational fields, each SEN
ior will be interviewed in an indi-
vidual counseling period. The pro-
gram of testing and counseling is in
connection with the Button High
guidance program for seniors about
to leave school, it was announced
by Principal Gerhard Buhler.
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In addition to the fiourishing in
dustrial boom marking the first dec
ade of the twentieth century in Bluff
ton, the town also kept its place in
the sun so far as transportation ia
cilities We're concerned when it was
selected as one of the main points on
the Western Ohio Interurban line con-
Meeting Toledo and Cincinnati.
Start of freight and passenger SER
vice over the electric line on Jan. 10,
1906, gave the town a third railroad,
in addition to the two steam roads
which had been built thru Bluffton in
1872 and 1883.
Several years previous to the in
auguration of service, right-of-way
had been acquired thru town on Main
street, and a track had been laid for
almost year before operations
actually were started.
Operating from Piqua to Findlay,
the Western Ohio connected with
other lines south to Cincinnati and
north to Toledo. In Findlay, the
junction was with the Toledo, Bowl
ing Green and Southern, north to
Toledo and Detroit, and in addition
another connection went eastward
thru Fostoria To Cleveland.
Gala Inauguration
1t was gala occasion when the
first passenger car northbound out of
Lima came thru Bluffton on January
10, 1906. Aboard the car were high
officials of the interurban line, ,and
during a stop here Ed. Carpenter,
president of the road, appeared on
the steps of the car and addressed a
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With The Sick

d. R. Tripplehorn, Bluffton at
torney, was taken to Findlay hospit-
al Sunday afternoon when he be-
came suddenly i'll while he and his
wife were motoring near Findlay.
He was removed to his home here
on South Main street Tuesday night
where his condition is reported salts
factory.
Mrs. Robert Benroth who was a
surgical patient in Lima Memorial
hospital is convalescing at her home
on South Main street. l
Paul Fritchie, son of Fred Fritz
chic and Mrs. Nina Fritchie is a
surgical patient at Bluifton hospital.
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Food Store Has
NeU Ownership

Mrs. Zelma Triplehorn and her
brother, Albert ingalls, have disposed
of their interests in the Community
Market, North Main street food
store, to their brother-in-law and Sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Ream. Mrs.
Ream, the former Marcine ingalls,,
was previously associated in owner
ship of the business. The new pro-
prietors have taken possession and
will operate the establishment at a
partnership.
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Memorial Services For
Missionary Are Sunday

Memorial service for Mrs. Lillian
Seneff will be held at st. John Men
monte church, Sunday afternoon at
2:30. Rev. Frank Harder, the pas
tor, will officiate.
Mrs. Seneff, for many years a mis-
sionary in Africa, died there May B.
She was formerly Miss Lillian Welty,
of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1951-05-17
CITY SOLICITOR IS
DRAFTING ANSWER
IN SEWAGE ACTION
Town Officials Checking Provi-
sions of Liability Insurance
Policy
Damage Suit Gets Full Dress
Airing at Council Meeting
Monday

Bluffton city officials were check
ing this week to determine if COM
prehensive liability insurance pur-
chased last January will protect the
municipality in the $4,000 stream
pollution damage suit filed Tuesday
May 1, against the town by Myron
Motter, Bluffton farmer.
Heads of the village government
pointed out at meeting of munich
pal council Monday night that when
they purchased the liability insur-
ance early this year they were as
sured that it protected the city from
future damage suits, including
claims resulting from alleged sew
age pollution of Big and Little Riley
creeks.
Motter's suit, filed in common
pleas court, was based on pollution
damage in the Little Riley. In his
action, he claimed that municipal
sewers emptying into the stream on
his farm deprived him of the use Of
55 acres of pasture bottom land.
Study Insurance
Altho city officials were confident
their liability protection covered the
town with respect to present damage,
they We're uncertain as to interpre-
tation of the policy with respect to
one phase of the Motter suit, which
makes claims for damages over sew
eral years past as well as for dam
age being incurred now.
Contact already has been made
with the insurance company to de-
termine what action it will take with
respect to the liability phases of
the policy, and in the answer to the
court suit.
In the meantime, City Solicitor
John Romey is preparing his answer
to the damage suit, which was filed
by Motter's attorney, Dan Triple
horn.
Injunction Also Asked
In addition to the claim for $751;
900 in damages, the suit asked a
court injunction, which if ordered,
would result in the immediate clos
ing of all sewer outlets empptying
into that portion of Little Riley
creek traversing Motter's farm.
After filing of the suit, Attorney
Tripplehon made the statement
that regardless of court decision on
the amount of financial damages
allowed, Ohio laws against polluting
the streams of the state make an
injunction inevitable"
In view of court costs involved in
fighting the pollution suit, plus any
damages which might be allowed,
the liability insurance purchased by
the town may prove "lifesaver"
for the financially-strapped village
treasury, providing it offers the
liability protection councilmen under
stood was embodied at the time they
bought it.
Protection Features
If the insurance company assumes
the obligations entailed in policy
coverage, their attorneys would
handle the case in courts, and dam
ages would be paid by the company.
Cost of premium of the policy
was $1,115.90 annually, an amount
which could soon be entirely dis
sipated in fighting damage suit of
this proportion in the courts, village
officials pointed out.
Motter's claim for $4,000 in dam
ages is based on the loss of live
stock and pollution damage to SIS
acres of bottom land, used as
pasture, thru which Little Riley
creek wends its way on the Motter
farm.
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large crowd, headed by Buttons city
officials, assembled to see the latest
innovation in transportation.
Hard-surfaced inter-city highways
still were unknown in those days, and
automobiles were few and far be-
tween. Most of them also were un-
reliable, and those forced to make
inter-city trips still depended on the
steam lines or horse and buggy, hence
the interurban, with cars out of
Bluffton every hour, was welcomed by
local residents anxious to establish
better contact with the outside world.
Altho the automobile was not as
yet reckoned as a factor in transpor-
tation facilities, hint of the motor
age that was to come was provided
at about this same time, however, by
G. P. Schnegg, one of the towns
earliest auto statesmen and garage
proprietors, who had made an emerg-
ency trip from Bluffton to Lima by
motor car in the record time of 40
minutes.
Schnegg's feat was the subject of
Bluffton street corner gossip for
many days following his astounding
feat in covering the 16 miles of stone
pike roads between the two cities,
and his record stood for several years
before being bettered.
Interurban Finds Favor
The new electric line found instant
popular favor. It provided cheap
and convenient means of transporta-
tion, with cars running from early
morning until late at night, at inter
walls for the most part of only an hour
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ada Wilson, Ottawa
a girl, Judy Kaye, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Kohl, Bluffton
a girl, Linda Kay, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donavin Hartman
Rawson, a girl, Alberta Anna, Satur.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stonehill, Bluff.
ton, a girl, Jane Ann, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Kline, Leip.
sic, boy, Keith Rolla, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Amstutz, Col
Grove, boy, Daniel j, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Crawford
Mt. Cory, a girl, Sue Ann, Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Withrow, Find.
lay, boy, Russell Claire, Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Elsea, Findlay
a girl, Lois Jennifer, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Marquart
Bluffton, girl, Pamela Jean, Wed
nesday.