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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24
CONSTRUCTION OF SEWAGE
Concluded from Page |

bond issue passed by Bluffton voters
at the polls nearly q months ago.
To cover the remainder of the
sewage treatment system cost, it is
estimated that $250,000 will be rails
ed thru special assessments; and an
other $150,000 will come from rev
enue bonds.
The general obligation bonds of
S18O,O00 and the $250,000 in special
assessments will be retired thru pay
ment of regular taxes added to the
present duplicate.
Funds to retire the revenue bonds,
however, will come from sewer
rental charges, which are expected
to average at least 1870 as much as
the regular water bills paid by local
consumers. From this source about
$4,000 net revenue is anticipated
each year. This is said to be suf-
fcient to pay for operating the
plant, retiring the bonds, paying in
terest, and include some provision
for maintenance.
Designed For Future
Bluffton's sewage treatment system
is designed to provide for the needs
of the town for years in the future,
and will meet all state requirements,
the villages consulting engineers
have pointed out.
The system of intercepting sew
ers is large enough for population
of 5000 to 5000 persons, nearly
three times the present size of the
village. Size of the treatment plant
is designed for a population of $500
Should the town grow beyond $500
population it will be comparatively
simple to enlarge the plant fol
handling any additional volume, en-
gineers declared. A system of sew
ers for town with a population up
to 5000 was planned because it is
said to be extremely costly to at
tempt enlarging sewers after they
once are in the ground.
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Rodeo Committee
Closes Books Tues.

Final Rodeo meeting to wind up
affairs of the annual July Fourth
celebration will be held next Tues
day night in the Town Hall council
room at 500 P. M.
Harland Swank and Arthur
Swank, co-chairmen of the program,
request all outstanding bills be
turned in at once for settlement to
Dale Reichenbach, treasurer, at the
Citizens Bank.
All committeeman are urged to be
present for the windup meeting.
Others interested are also invited to
attend.
Distribution of profit will be made
at the meeting to the sponsoring or
ganizations The Saddle Club, Busi-
ness Mems Assn, and Sportsmen's
Club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24
Grange Ladies
Stage Unique
Fashion ShOU

Dramatizing the story of the sack
with a future" a unique fashion
show of cotton bag garments was
staged before members of Richland
Grange Tuesday evening at the
Grange.
Eighteen outstanding costum s
made from cotton feed, -four and
fertilizer containers were worn by
local models, while Mrs. Mabel Jen-
nings, commentator, described fash
ion details.
Dresses modelled during the review
ran the gamut of fashions for every
occasion and proved the versatility
of both print and plain cotton bag
fabrics.
Models included Mrs. Vera Gratz
Miss Joan Montgomery, Mrs. Ruth
Jennings, Miss Nancy Montgomery
Miss Barbara Reichenbach, Mrs
Helen Montgomery, Miss Linda Core
Miss May Huber, and Mrs. Naomi
Matter. Modelling children's clothes
were Marcia Boutwell, and Tommy
Bell. Little Stephanie Moser also
modelled with Mrs. Velma Moser in a
mother-daughter combination.
Two films were also shown in con-
nection with the show and a fashion
broadcast was given by Mrs. Emma
Trout, Mrs. Carrie Stratton, Mrs
Daisy Woodhead and Mrs. Kathryn
Bell. .'E ar'..
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FIVE FROM BLUFFToN HEADED

Concluded from Page /
will fly to Amsterdam, then make a
bus tour ending at Basel on August
9, the day before the conference
opens.
Following the conference, the two
men will continue tour of Europe
until September 1 when they will
leave from Paris on a return trip to
the United States by air.
Travel itineraries for all planning
the European trips are as follows:
d. w. Bixler and Roland Bixler
by plane Aug. 2. Return by plane
from Paris, Sept. 1.
Elmer Basinger, by Queen Mary
July 30. Return via Queen Elizabeth
Sept. 10 from Southampton.
DR.. and Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker by
plane July %. Return by plane
from Paris, Aug. q.
verna D. Rouse by Queen Mary
July 80. Return by Queen Elizabeth
from Southampton, Sept. "A.
DIR. and Mrs L. L. Ramseyer by
plane July 90. Return by plane
from Paris, Aug. 21.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Kohl by
Nieuw Amsterdam (boat) July %
Return by Westerdam from Rotter,
dam on Aug. 80.
Rev. J. J. Thiessen by plane Aug
2. Return by plane from London
Sept. A.
Rev. Russell Mast by plane Aug. 2
Return by plane from London Sept
25.
Rev. and Mrs. Virgil Gerig by
boat, Ryndam July 26. Return by
plane from London, Sept. a.
Jean Wismer by plane Aug. 5. Re.
turn by plane from London, Aug. IS
Rev. Ernest Bohn by plane July
26. Return by plane from Paris
Aug. %.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24
Small Fry Team
Wins One, Loses One

After losing to Cairo 8 to IL last
Wednesday, Buttons Small Fry
baseball team blasted Harrod on the
following Thursday evening, 80 to 8,
to break even on the weeks play.
The local boys were off to a poor
start in Wednesdays game and at
one point were behind 8 to l. The
lead was too much to overcome, but
Burkholder lead the attack with a
home run and triple. Rogers had
three for four, and Dave Scoles also
pounded out home run.
In the Thursday evening game
against Harrod, Scoles, the winning
pitcher, gave up only two hits. The
batting of Rogers, Burkholder and
o. and J. Scoles played an import
ant part in the win.
Bluffton will meet the Harrod team
again on the local diamond Wednes-
day.
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Municipal Council Urged To Light
Baseball Diamond At Harmon Field

in position to finance part of the
project, additional funds must be
raised from other sources if the
program is to be carried out, coun-
cilmen were told in requesting that
the village government assist in pay
ing for the proposed expansion OF
field activities.
Wood bleachers used on the south
side of the Harmon field gridiron
during football play could be moved
to the baseball diamond, to provide
adequate seating space for nighttime
spectators, it was pointed out by
Supt. Murray.
At present, night softball play is
on a diamond in front of the sta
dunn, but there have been objections
to damage sustained by the football
field during the summer program.
Councilmen took no action on the
request, deferring action pending
further consideration.
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Town Indebtedness
To Total S156,OOO
At Close Of Year

Buttons bonded indebtedness at
the close of this year will amount
to $156,000, of which $152, 900 are
light plant revenue bonds, according
to the 1853 municipal budget ap-
proved Monday might at a meeting
of municipal council.
In addition to the $156,000 total,
however, a sewer bond issue of
$4,000 authorized nearly two years
ago, may be added before the year
is out, if council proceeds to issue
the bonds as one of the moves neces-
sary to finance the towns new sew
age disposal system.
Outstanding Indebtedness on JAN
uary 1, 1852, will include only $4,000
in bonds on the regular property tax
duplicate. These consist of $4,000
in waterworks and light plant bonds,
issued in 1917, and paying five per
cent interest; and $1,000 in Main
street improvement bonds issued in
June, 1914, paying three per cent
interest.
The $4,000 bond issue will be re-
tired in January, 1858, and retire
ment date of the $1,000 issue is De
cember, 1854.
Outstanding bonds next January
on the 1916 issue will be $4,000;
and on the 1948 issue $4,000 will
remain.
1t was pointed out at the meeting
that the total revenue bond indebted
ness of 100000 incurred in extens-
i've improvements to the plant from
1916 to 1948 at the first of the
coming year will have been reduced
to $152,000.
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CHOICE OF HOME SITES
Concluded from Page 1

has become more pronounced than
ever.
Homes started previously in 1852
outside the town are those of Robert
Which, one mile south on the Allen
Hancock county line road (near the
site of the house started this week
by Badertscher); and Bill Augsbur-
ger, one mile north on the Dixie
highway.
Inside the town, three new resi-
Dental building projects have mark
ed the 1852 construction program,
and another house is being enlarged
thru the addition of a three-room
wing.
City Building Projects
The work programs inside the
corporation limits this year are those
Of Vern Walker, who moved into his
new South Jackson street residence
this week; Rev. G. 7. Soldner, who
is building on West Elm street, and
Monroe Amstutz, who has a home
under construction on Franklin
street.
Karl Gable, on South Jackson
street, is adding a three bedroom
addition to his present home, plus a
basement. The home will be entirely
re-roofed and new siding will be put
on the house.
In other local building projects
under way, Joel Kimmel next week
will begin construction of Brikrete
garage and breezeway on his South
Main street property.
New spouting has been put on the
st. Johns Evangelical and Reform
ed church, and the structure will be
painted this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Suter, five
miles west of Bluffton, are complete
ly remodeling their home, and add
ing a double garage. New siding
will be placed on the house; kitchen
cabinets are being added and the
home is being modernized.
On Grove street, Clyde Sommers
is completing work on his home in
Guiding addition of breezeway and
remodeling of the kitchen.
South of Bluffton, William Hefner,
who lives on Lafayette rural route,
has the excavation completed for a
new brick veneer house.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24

Lighting the Harmon field base
ball diamond for night play was re-
commended to municipal council at a
meeting Monday night by Aaron B.
Murray, superintendent of Bluffton
schools, as a means of reducing
s.wear and tear" on the football field.
Addition of lights for night soft
ball and perhaps baseball play on the
regular diamond at the southeast end
of the recreation center has been ap-
proved by the board of education,
and investigation now is being made
to determine If funds can be raised
to finance the project.
Lighting the field for softban play
would cost approximately $4,000, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
school board. Cost of lights for a
combination of softball and baseball
games would be about $4,000.
Although the board of education is
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24
Charles HiIty Takes
Academy Examination

Charles R. Hilty, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Hilty, of South Main
street, was one Of 20 applicants in
the Fourth Congressional district
who last Monday took preliminary
examinations for possible appoint
ments to the Naval and Military
Academies
The examination given at the post
office in Lima, was announced by
Congressman William McCulloch, who
said that he would make one ap-
pointment to each academy from the
young men taking the examination.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24

/. sealsl Bids for the materials and con-
fNTERCErT1NG ftITisISc = SEWERS AND SEWAGE
TREATMENT PLANT
FOR THE VILLAGE OF BLUFFT0N. OHIO
will be received by the Village pf Bluffton,
Ohio at the office of the Clerk infthe Village
p nAit O'CLOCK enil' NOON, EASTERN STANDARD
TINE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1852
and at that time and place will be publicly
opened and read aloud.
struction of approximately 1900 lineal feet
of intercepting sewers ranging from inches
to % inches in diameter, together with storm
tenances and a Sewer Treatmept Plant hav-
ing nominal capacity of 5oo,000 gallons per
3. The contract docutnents, including
plans. specifications and estimates are
file at the Office of the Clerk in the Village
Hall and at the office of the Consulting En-
ferson Avenbe. Toledo and COPIES Of these
may be obtained by depositingI $500 with
said Consulting Engineers for each set so OBJ
sained. The amount unit Of a the dspSsit for & each
tua1 bidder or vendor who returns the plans
and documents in good condition within
days after the opening of bids.
4. All bids shall be signed end submitted
| on the blanks which are in tha specifications
and shall be secured from the Consulting En-
gineers. Bids shall state the price for, ma
terials and labor separately On the blanks
envelopes rnafkedl bid far InsercepNng Sew
ers and Trea4meht Plantf and addressed to
said ID 'IssS Eaes il mus, lontlin /. name of ev-
cry person, fhrmE or torporatidr Interested in
the same. and be aocoupanied by proposal
bond to the ssatisfaction of said Clerk or a
/, certified check on solvent bank. in the sum
/ of $50 of the amount of the bid, made pay
| able to the Village of Blufftpn, Ohio. as a
| guaranty that if the bid is accepted a con-
tract will be entered into and its perform
/ ance properly secured.
6. The Village of Bluffton reserves the
| right to reject any or all bids and TO waive
| any irregulaaties in bidding.
q. No bidder may Withdraw his bid for a
period of 40 days after the scheduled closing
| time for the receipt of bids.
h By order of the Council of the
kViage of Button, Ohio
N-16 A. ]. B. Longsdorf. Clerk
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GilbOa

The Gilboa Methodist church is
sponsoring an ice cream social at
the church on Friday evening, Aug.
6.
Thomas Byers will observe his goth
birthday on Thursday, July %. Mr..
and Mrs. Byers live i'm Gilboa and
observed their Sind wedding annives-
ary last March.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Wehrly, Misses
Leila Figge and Marilyn DeVore,
and Mrs. Allie Oren were 6 o'clock
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
Hall on Sunday evening. Others call
ers were Mrs. Theo. Kersh of Ottawa
and Mrs. Lillian johnson.
Several members of the M. Y. F..
of the Gilboa Circuit are attending
Methodist sessions at Lakeside this
week. Mrs. Merle Miller of the local
w. ). c. s: will attend as delegate.
rev. A. M. Ross eand Rev. Donald
Morgan are also attending.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Morris and
son Stevie of Hamilton were week
end guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Wardner
Morris.
Bobby Dale Wehrly spent a few
days this week with his brother, Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Wehrly at Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Doll attended
the annual home coming at the E.
U. b. church at Napoleon on Sunday.
Mrs. Catherine Maidlow spent a
few days the past week with her
sister, Mrs. Florin Reuscher at Gin
cinnati. g----~-~--.a~e
The Gilboa grange will have q
picnic at the Col. Grove swimming
pool on Thursday, July "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Wehrly will OBJ
serve open house on Sunday, July 27
IN the afternoon from 2 until S and
lawn party will be held in the
evening in honor of Miss Leila Figpe
| exchange student from Korbeck.
Germany. She made her home with
the Wehrlys while her stay here,
She sails on August on S. S. Con-
stitution but will leave here on Aug,
z. She graduated at the Pandora
Gllboa high school. Members of her
class and teachers are invited to at
tend.
! Misses Ann Dearth, Dorotha Craw-
MS and Barbara Nemire were hostess
es at shower honoring Mrs. Ronald
Myers, the former Miss Wanda Jen-
nIngs, a recent bride at the Dearth
home on Friday evening. Contests
and bingo We're the diversions of the
.evening. Gifts were placed on q
decorated table in yellow and white
| The bride opened her gifts from q
throne decorated in yellow with he,
name WANDA in white. Refresh.
ments We're served to Mrs. Ronald
Myers, Doris Ziesloft, Mona Jennings
Mrs. Chester Peckinpaugh, Mrs
Violet Steiner, Mrs. Gerald Jennings
Mrs. Mary Ann Combs, Mrs. Gier
Myers and children, Mrs. Carl Wehr.
liy, Leila Figge, Barbara Nemire. De.
lores Williams, Peggy Bracy, Alma
Dearth, Mrs. Jay Dearth and GIenna
Ward. Gifts were sent by Alma
Warnecke, Kay Myers, Joan Ziesloft
and Mary Lee Chambers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Haughn an.
nounce the birth of son born Mon.
day at the st. Rita's hospital al
Lima. Mr.. Haughn is teacher at the
Gllboa Junior High.
| Ernest and Leonard Gratz of Bluff.
ton spent Sunday afternoon with
Mrs. Catherine Maidlow.
The Raymond Rickley family Of
Liberty Center spent Wednesday with
Mrs. Blanche Kelchner.
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Second Polio Case
ReDOrted In Allen Co.

Bluffton was crossing its fingers
this week with the report that the
second Allen county polio case of 1852
was reported last Thursday in st.
Rita's hospital as the state count
SCARED to new heights at the end OF
the week.
Allen county's second victim was
10-year-old youth, Larry Mcbride,
of Delphos r. r. 2. A Lima girl
and Putnam county girl had been
admitted to Memorial hospital for
polio treatment earlier this year.
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CARD0R THANKS

We wish tp thank the Bluffton Fire
Department, lneighbors and all others
whip so ably helped to sate our barn
from being destroyed BY fire when
it was struck by lightning last Sat-
urday afteEaoon, We greatly appre-
ciate all help given during this crit
ical period v
Mr[ and Mrs. Harvey Gratz.
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SOLDIERS ADDRESSES

Friends of Cpl. T. S. Stepleton
will be interested to know that he is
serving now in Korea as a section
leader in C. Company, F. D. c.
Those wishing to write may address
him under serial number u. S.
52157145, End Cml. Mortar Bn., &C"
Co., APO 301, San Francisco, Calf.
A3/c Kenneth d. Parish, 15465769,
may now be reached at 1912 AACS
Group, APO 407, Postmaster, New
York, N. Y.
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MENNONITE MEN PICNIC

MEN NUNIIE MEIN IIONIC
The Mems Brotherhood of the
First Mennonite church held their
annual picnic supper at the Albert
Winkler Farm west of Bluffton, Mon
day evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24
CARD OF THANKS

I wish to thank all Of those send
ing me cards and flowers while /
was a patient at Memorial hospital.
''a..-p-a..-..-.....-lA Mrs. Lester Binkley
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-07-24

About $4,000 farm residents die i'm
rural accidents every year.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-10-25

Lcdr. Glenn o. Thompson, nSCG, has relieved Lcdr. Donald Lucius, USCG, as executive officer at the Coast Guard Air Detachment at ko- diak Naval Station.
 The new executive officer came here from Miami, Flori- da. Lcdr. Lucius has assumed command of the co station at Corpus Christi, Texas,
Kodiak mirror., 1952-10-25
Kodiak Included
 f1 New Construction

Kodiak was included in the 13 million dollars worth of new construction which will be started in Alaska under the 1853 program of Alaska Public Works.
 The Kodiak Independent School District has applied for $346, 900 to construct a general purpose room addition to the school now under construction. Bid invitations are to be is- sued in December, according to the APW in Juneau.
 Bid calls are also to be ad- vertised on sewer and water improvements here, a con- tinuation of work now under way. The estimated cost is $9O1, 200.
Kodiak mirror., 1952-10-25
KODIAK, MIRROR

CHI. Duckworth has added his voice to a discussion of America's northernmost coun- try in a volume of verse, The Call of Alaska. It is published by Exposition Press of New York and sells for $2.5O.
 Duckworth was born in Maryland and has lived and travelled over much of Ameri- ca. Today he lives in Seward.
Evening star., 1952-07-26

monkey meetings among them
selves.
Look at advertising pages.
They had control of big buSi-
ness. 1t has always been against
President Roosevelt and it has
always been against me. We
have gone ahead in spite of it.
because the people, in five elec-
tions in a row. have shown they
don't pay any attention to what
the newspapers tell them. The
smart writer's can't fool the
hard-headed voter of the United
States of America.
Now, the Republicans have a
bad record and they have no
program. People are not going
to pay any attention to men
who have been opposing every
thing the people have wanted
for the last 20 eyars. They
know that the Republican reac-
tionaries have fought against
every measure that has made
our country prosperous at home
and powerful abroad.
Now, here is what they have
been against: The Republicans
have been against social Secur-
ity. They have been against
price supports to farmers. They
have been against fair labor
standards laws. They have been
against the iva and Rural Elec-
trification and low-cost power.
They have been against housing
programs and rent control,
against measures to strengthen
national defense and against
measures of peaceful co-opera-
ton with the other nations of
the world.
This year they have made it
perfectly plain they are going
backward and not forward.
They have their 1920 model in
reverse, just to be sure.
The 1852 platform, the Re-
publicans indorse the Taft
Hartley Act, lock, stock and bar
rel. Well, here we are. They
are out for something-Taft
and Hartley. They have come
out against Federal aid to edu-
cation. They promised to cut
the farmer loose and take his
chances in the market place.
They want to put him in the
hands of the loan sharks and
have the courts foreclose him
again.
Evening star., 1952-07-26
Can Turn Miracles
OF Science to Peace

The program that the Demo-
cratic Party faces is toward
this new day. This administra-
ton has been working to bring
this new day into being. We
have put the resources of the
Government behind the de-
velopment of these miracles of
science. At present we must
devote these new inventions in
great part to defense, but if we
can establish world peace, and
we are going to establish it.
then we can turn these new in
ventions to improving the lot
Of mankind. We can look for
ward to the day when the peo-
pie to this land and Of all the
world will have a better life
than they have ever known be-
fore. The prospects are simply
fantastic and simply beyond
the imagination.
It is Gods will, ! am sure,
that all this new scientific prog
ress and research should be
placed at mans disposal for
reasons other than mans
destruction. You and I are
determined that they shall be
used to make a better world for
all of Gods children: a world
Of peace and plenty, a world of
freedom and understanding, a
Evening star., 1952-07-26
Invites Comparison
OF Civil Rights PIonks

They are against civil rights.
Read their civil rights program
and then read our paragraph on
civil rights.
They promise to remove price
controls. They are always for
something that they hope for
the people that will invoke a
special privilege.
Now, wonders of wonders, this
Is one you can write home
about: They even indorse the
8Oth Congress. Well, the Re-
publicans are for two things:
They are for Hartley and
they are for that discredited
80th Congress. That is just
about as forward looking as they
ever get. They are looking back
all the time.
This country won't listen to
men who want to turn back the
clock, men who want to run
the country in a state Of high
gear. That is what they want
to do. The country is not GO
ing to choose leaders who have
no faith in the people. This
country is not going to turn
over the prosperity to men who
would sacrifice the many to
protect the privileges of the
few, and that is the Republican
policy from start to finish.
I don't think the country is
going to turn the safety Of this
country over to men who are
more concerned in cutting the
budget than they are In stop
ping communism.
Now, it is plenty determined
to go forward and to go forward
in high gear. The people of
this country are far ahead of
most of the politicians, and they
always are. People are not
afraid of new ideas. They want
the Government to go ahead
with the measures that are nee
essary to realize the unlimited
opportunities America offers for
increasing the happiness and
welfare of the people Of this
great country.
That is why the people will
turn this year. as they have in
the past, to the party Of prog
ress, to the Democratic Party,
the party Of the people. They
will turn to US because we have