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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

are James Green, Karl Klassen, Dave
Gerber, Don Badertscher, Mari Wat
kins, Tom Bucher, Bill Montgomery,
Tavern. Moser and Bill Ramseyer.
Following the preview assignment
against Pandora, the Button team
will swing into regularly scheduled
eason play on Friday, Sept. IL, in a
contest with Kenton under the arc
lights at Harmon field.
Schedule of play for the coming
season, exclusive of the preview
workout, will see the Pirates in ac-
ton in five home games, and four
tits on the road.
In his work with the 1862 Button
team, Coach Schmidt is being assist
ed by Joe L. Harris, assistant men.
tor. Both Pirate coaches are in their
first year here, altho Schmidt, q
graduate of Button High school, II
"a hometown boy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Lions Club Hears
DR.. Ran,seyer Tell
OF Trip Abroad

If DR.. Lloyd Ramseyer, president
of Button College, had to live in
Europe rather than America, his
choice would be Switzerland or the
Netherlands, he told a Lions club
audience Tuesday evening in COM
menting on his recent trip abroad.
Paris would be his last choice.
DIR. Ramseyer compared the condi-
tions in the countries he visited with
a similar trip made five years ago
shortly after the close of the war.
England, it appeared to him, had
made less progress in rebuilding
bombed areas than in most countries
he observed.
He spoke at length on the Neither
lands and explained many American
misconceptions of the country. Re-
elimination of lowlands from the sea
continues there, he said, relating q
visit to one reclaimed area of 1885, 0
acres.
at have never seen wheat, oats OF
cereal crops look better anywhere
he said.
The government reclaims the lane
and rents the farms To tenants
Many of the farm buildings r o
prefabricated concrete construction
he explained.
The practice of combining homes
and barns in Switzerland was touched
| on as well as other rural customs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
|NaQe ]. A. Thompson
To COP Committee

John A Thompson was named to
the Allen County Republican Cen
trail Committee from Bluffton Pre-
|cinct A, it was announced this week
following a meeting of the partys'
Executive committee at which Is out
of the 10 vacancies on the Central
committee were filled.
At the same meeting tentative
plans were discussed for a caravan
of candidates and party workers to
tour outlying areas of the county
near the close of the campaign.
Registration efforts also were
stressed and there was discussion OF
the possibility of formation of small,
sectional women's organizations thru
cut the city and county.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
BluftOn Cattle
Take Ribbons At
Ohio State Fair

Brown Swiss cattle exhibited
last week at the Ohio State fair
by Maurice Criblez, south of
Button, won five prize ribbons,
including one first and two
seconds.
A two-year-old COW took first
place; second, honors were copied
by a three-year-old bull and a
two-year-old bull; fourth place
by a junior yearling heifer, and
sixth place by a senior yearling
heifer.
Criblez is a past-president of
the Adult Farmers class at Bluff
ton High school.
In the junior fair division, a
tool carrier shown in the II. F. A.
Farm shop exhibit by Fred Am,
stutz took a f~rst-place award
Amstutz also won fourth witty a
nail tray. II
Tavern Moser won third
honors on soybeans he Uttered
in the F. F. A. grain show.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Births

The following births were reported
during the past week at Blufftor
Community hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Kibele, Bluff.
ton, a boy, Don Kermit, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Marshall, Bluff.
ton, a girl, Marsha Kay, born Fri.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Sierra, Find,
lay, a girl, Elva, born Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. Max McCaferty
Bluffton, a girl, Eileen Rae, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Pitney, Nc.
Comb, a girl, Martha Anita, born
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Stump
Lafayette, a girl, born Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Steiner, Bluff.
ton, a bly,, Mark Henry, born Wed.
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin S. Regehr
So. Gate, Calf, a girl, Pauline Ann
at st. Francis Hospital, Lynwood
Calf, Sept. Bird. Mrs. Regehr i.
the former Lois Steiner Of Pandora
The maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis Steiner Of Pandora
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Library To Add PhOnO Record Collection
To Top Ranking Audio-V Visual Department

The Bluffton-R ichland Public Lii
brary, which has already earned the
distinction of ranking second in the
state in the number of flm-strips
IN its collection of audio-visual study
aids, and which is eighth in the state
in the number of projection slides in
its possession, this week announced
plans for adding a collection of re-
cordings to it's audio-visual depart
ment.
Miss Ocie Anderson, Bluffton Ii
brarian, said Tuesday that she hoped
to enlist the aid of Button residents
in compiling a record library. I'm
doubtedly, she said, many local fam
lilies have collections of children's
records which their youngsters have
%outgrown. Instead of gathering dust,
they might be useful at the library.
To Pool Classic Records
The same thing applies to col
lections of operate and other classic
recordings. She is hopeful that
Rluffton residents may wish to pool
their collections at the library where
others may enjoy them and they may
enjoy the collections of other per-
sons. Records would be loaned out
just as books are.
Persons wishing to cooperate in
the new record program at the Ii
brary are urged to contact Miss
Anderson.
Film Strips Total 464
The film strips, which are used by
individuals as well as organization
and school classes, now number 464
The Cuyahoga county library, first
in Ohio, has GAL strips available tt
patrons, while the Cincinnati ane
Hamilton county library has AIS
less than Button.
In ranking second and eighth il
film strip and slide collections re
spectively, a total of 1872 Ohio Ii
braries were counted. OF them ct
are public Libraries, IS college Ii
braries and SO special Libraries o
various types.
Miss Anderson recently complete,
an index of the strips available il
the local collection. Subject matter
varies from A to z, Aesop's Fable.
to Zeller's Selecting and judging
Breeding Hogs"
Individuals may borrow the strips
on subjects in which they r inter.
ested, and even a protector is avail.
able at the library.
Another new project in Miss And
erson's charge is the new reading
room for children of first through
sixth grade level. New low book
shelves have been set up in a sep.
arate room and low reading tables
are provided. The room is being re.
decorated with n part to be paper
er in an interesting pictorial design
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
To Follow Steps OF Her
Mennonite Missionary
Parents

Educational service work among
the Hopi Indians on a remote Ari-
IONA reservation in a setting akin to
pioneer days is the life in which
Miss Mary Ellen Boehr will eAabark
this week when she leaves the huff
ton college campus to take up her
duties in the. West. "
A 1852 graduate of the collesa
Miss Boehr has remained here this
summer b take additional scholastic
work. ~
AS a tesfher in Mennonite mis-
sion school ION the Hopi reservation
in the Arizona wilds, the Button
graduate will be following in the
footsteps of her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. P. j. Boehr, of Winona Lake,
In, who spent a lifetime in church
work, including many years as mis-
sionaries in China. At one time Rev.
Boehr was pastor of the St. John
Mennonite church near Pandora.
The acknowledgements school in
which Miss Boehr will teach the
third and fourthA grade is at Oraibi,
about 100 miles last of the Grand
|Canyof. 1t is mote than so miles
from the nearest paved road. I
Oraibi is believed one of the oldest
Indian towns still i'm existence in
the country, for~experk say it is
on the same site it occupied in 1540
whes~theI indians were discovered
there by Tobar of Coronado's Span
ish expedition.
The Hopi form part of the Peublo
Indians and the Hopi Snake Dance is
| perhaps the most-famous native cere.
mony still practiced in the United
States. Hopi Indians also r the
last of the Pueblo group to grow,
spin and weave a native cotton.
On the reservation for the Hopi
the Mennonites maintain a modern
| school for students from the first
through the seventh grades.
Miss Boehr plans to teach in the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
COry-Rawso Dist.
Schools Rel Open
Monday, Sept. s

Cory-Rawson schools will open on
Monday, Sept. s, as also will the
grade school at Benton Ridge, ac-
cording to an announcement made
this week by Hancock County Supt.
of Schools E. j. Joseph.
Teaching assignments made at the
Cory-Rawson school by Supt. r. K.
Derrickson are as follows:
High school: Kenneth Bame, Eng
lish, commercial law, world history;
Miss Martha Barnhart, vocational
home economies; Raymond Clevi-
dence, commercial; Franklin Deeds,
vocational agriculture; Miller Fink
mathematics, physics, science, foot
ball; Carson Marshall, industrial
arts, general science; Clifford Myers
instrumental and vocal music; Mrs
Nellie Oswald, English IL and /:
and Latin; Howard Trostmiller
American history, driver training
physical education, basketball; Wade
Knight, principal, public speaking
English 10, advanced mathematics.
Mt. Cory: First, Mrs. Martha
Folk; second, Mrs. Betty J. Rosen-
dale; third, Mrs. Georgia Zurz;
fourth, Miss Ruth Folk; geography,
history, physical education grades
1918, John Howard; English, read
ing spelling writing, grades 5-6-7-s,
Mrs. June McVetta; music, art
grades 5-6-7-8, Mrs. Alice Niswand-
err; principal, eighth grade mathe-
mates and science, Harry Kanuck.
Rawson: Mrs. Helen Benner, first
grade; Mrs. Helen Zimemrman, Sec
ond grade; Mrs. Clara Garman,
third; Miss ,Gayla Gerwin, fourth;
Herbert Traucht, mathematics and
science, grades 5-6-7-8; Mrs. Lavon
Trask, music and art, grades 1913;
Mrs. Floren Ernest, English, SPELL
ing, reading, grades 5-6-7-8; James
Slough, principal, history, geography,
physical education, grades 5-6-7-8.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
|IOWdn To Speak At
Harvest Home Festival

The Rev. Emil Burrichter of New
ton, Iowa, former Bluffton pastor,
will be the guest speaker at the An
nual Harvest Home Festival services
of st. Johns Evangelical and Re-
formed church this Sunday, the Rev.
V. C. Oppermann, pastor, has an
nounced &.
Rev. Burrichter will speak at the
morning service, 10:45, and in the
evening at 1880.
Special committees are preparing
an exhibit of the fruits of the har-
vest and special music is being pre-
pared by the choir for the services.
Former members and friends are in
vited to join with the congregation
in these festivities.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
TWO MORE HOMES
IN FALL
BUILDING Squirt
New Residences Going Up
On Bentley Road And
On Cherry Street

An early-fall squirt in Buttons
residential building activity has been
marked by the start of construction
On one new home, excavation for an
this week, and plans for sew
era additional projects before cold
weather. &c
Already under way is work on a
new ranch-type home being built by
Walter Badertscher three miles south
of Blufton on the Bentley road. The
home is a six-room structure with
an attached garage.
The residence is Sc feet wide, in
Gliding the garage. 1t has a full
basement. Floor joists are in and
Sidewalks for the new home will be
completed this week.
Weather permitting, excavation will
be started this week for a new home
to be built by Maynard Badertscher
on a Cherry street lot he recently
purchased. Badertscher viii erect
a 81 by 80 five room house with full
basement. 1t will be II brick veneer
| construction.
In the meantime, bne other new
home started this surner is virtually
completed. This is the West Elm
street residence erected by Rev. Grow
er t. Soldner. Only painting and
small amount Of finish carpentry re
main to be done.
The new home of Chris Gratz, on
mile west of town just off Route 2s
is ready for plastering, as also is tn
new addition to the Karl Gable hom'
on South Jackson street.
C. v. Jones, three miles east o.
town on the Happy Hill farm, is re
modelling his house by replacing win
dows, applying new white asbestos
siding and completely renovatine
| three inside rooms.
| Robert Artman on the Bentley
road has completed footers for q
frame garage and storage building,
Is by %.
Two Button churches also have
summer Improvement program S.
White asbestos sidewall shingles are
being applied to the Church of
Christ, and exterior walls of the st,
Johns Reformed church have been
painted. There are planx to repair
the st. Johns parsonage 70 the ex-
tent of replacing roof slatA, repair
ing the porch and adding new sup
ports for xirders.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Harry BOgart Buys
Old Augsburger Farm

Harry Bogart, rural carrier out of
the Button post office, has purchas-
ed the old John Augsburger farm
from Abe Baumgartner, who with
his family, has moved to Missouri.
The farm consisting of 72 acres is
located one and a fourth miles west
of town. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Boehr are the present tenants in the
farmhouse and nearby neighbors
have been farming the ground.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

practice sessions for Pirate grid
hopefuls will continue until school
opens next Tuesday, the Bluffton
mentor said.
BY the first of this week the Bluff
ton squad numbered "a, but so far
emphasis has been on fundamentals
and conditioning and there has been
no chance to get a line on varsity
possibilities, according to Coach
Schmidt.
For his team this year, Coach
Schmidt has nine lettermen return
ing to action. The veterans around
whom this years eleven will be built
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

ing. They will play two eight-min-
ute quarters in their assignment.
At the meeting drafting plans for
the 1852 preview, the eight compel
ing teams voted to play in Button
September of next year.
In addition to the Bluffton-P andora
contest, other games on the Septem-
Der 5 schedule will pit McComb
against North Baltimore; Cory-Raw-
SOP against Leipsic and Vanlue
against Columbus Grove.
Meanwhile, Coach Pete Schmidt is
hard at work with candidates for the
1852 Button team. Twice-daily
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Local Photographer
Receives Matt Honor

Leland w. Gerber, well-kno~n
Button photographer, Was been
awarded a certificate of merit<for his
Photographic technique by e<NPhol
tographers' Association of America.
The award was made at the groups
61st annual convention in Chicago
last week.
The certificate is the highest single
award given by the association. Gen.
orally it 10 awarded for a particular
ly outstanding picture chosen by a
jury of world-renowned Photographic
leaders.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

The room, when completed, will prob
ably be opened for public inspection
in November during National Book
Week.
Summer reading in Button was
on the increase this year. Miss And
erson said that an average of II
books were checked out of the Ii
brary daily during June, July and
August. This is an increase of six
books per day over last summers
demand.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Draft Takes Teacher
Pandora ilbOa Hi

Burl Short, mathematics and sci
ence instructor at the Pandora-Gil
boa nigh school, was notified last
Thursday that he is to report for in.
duction into the armed forces next
month.
The notice left the school faculty
one teacher short when school open
ed Tuesday. C. o. Cox, superintend-
ent of the local school was busy
last week trying to round up a re-
placement at the last minute.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Mems dprden Club
APicnicS At Lima

NMembers of the Bluffton Mems
Garden club and their families
Joined with the Allen County Mems
Garden club in an afternoon and
evening picnic outing at McClintock
park, near Lima last week.
Allen County Agricultural Agent
Herbert H. Hadley was the speaker
at a short meeting, taking as his
subject, Lawns"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
ENROLMENT GAINS
rs over 1851 In
BLUFFTON SCHOOLS
531 Pupils Register
But Figure Still Far
Short of 81 Peak

With an opening-day registration
of $50 pupils when classes convened
for the fall term Tuesday noon,
Buttons public school enrolment
made one of its greatest single-year
gains since q downward trend in
school population set in here back in
1887.
This years total of 531 pupils is
Is more than the number enrolling
on the opening day last fall, and
represents an Increase of 81 over
registration Of asa b 195O.A 1
For two consecutive years. enroll
ment here has topped the SQNtmark,
but school attendance stillNs off
nearly 14O pupils from <he 1887 reg
istration of 669.
Enrolment Up
In this years school population
boost, grade school enrolment has
gone up sharply from 276 pupils in
1851 to a total of 308 this year. AS
a direct contrast to this gain of 80,
however, enrolment in the high school
building, grades eve through IL,
declined by seven, from 230 last
year to 223 this fall.
Peak enrolment in the II grades
is a bumper first-year class of IS
pupils, the largest since 1948. Last
year there were only 40 first-graders.
In the six upper grades, top en-
rollment is a class of At freshmen,
closely followed by Al eighth grad
ers. Smallest class in the IL grades
is the seventh, with 33 pupils, altho
the 10th, 18th and IL grades each
have only "a students.
1852 Enrolment
School enrolment figures for the
opening day, announced Tuesday by
Supt. Aaron B. Murray, were as
follows:
Grade /, 65; Grade 2, 40; Grade
8, 45; Grade a, 81; Grade 5, 81;
Grade 6, 40; a total in the grades
of 308 pupils.
Grade z, 80; Grade s, Al; Grade
8, At; Grade 10, 81; Grade IL, 81;
Grade IL, "a; q total in junior and
senior high school OF 223.
In the first six grades there are
lab boys and $50 girls. Junior and
senior high school enrolment in
cludes los boys and 118 girls. Total
public school figures, grades n thru
IL, 253 boys and 278 girls.
16-Year Trend
Only in 1852, 1851 and 1949 since
1941, three yearse of II, has public
school enrolment here topped the 500
mark, in contrast to the twenties
and early thirties when Button
schools had student bodies close to
TOO in number.
The downward trend has been al
most continuous since 1887, with only
four exceptions in 1945, 1949, 1851
and again this year.
Enrolment over the 16-year period
has been as follows: 1887, 500; 1888,
648; 1889, $40; 1910, 585; 1941, $50;
1912, 494; 1943, 487; 1914, 484;
1916, 491; 1916, 486; 1947, 485;
194s, 4s3; 1949, SOP; 1850, 4s0;
1851, SOC.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Mr., Mrs. FOHz At
Legion Convention

Mr.. and Mrs. Garnette Foltz re-
turned last weekend from New York
City where they were Ohio delegates
to the Saith annual national conven-
ton of the American Legion and the
32nd convention of the Legion Aux
iliary, from August % through 80.
Legion sessions were held in Mad
ison Square Garden and Auxiliary
sessions were held in the Commodore
hotel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
kindergarten Opens
Monday, Sept. 81

The morning kindergarten class
will open on September s at Q q. m.
in the grade school building, It was
ANNOUNCED this week by Mrs. w. A.
Howe teacher. Persons wishing to
enroA pupfs are asked to call her
at 47otR. 49,
1 The AfternoonA class under the d.
srsction a. Mrs. Walter Gratz will
aleo open Che same day at l p. m.
Mr.. Gratz said that her class is
filled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
TRAINING

Pvt. John F. Triplehorn, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Triplehorn of
554 South Main street has completed
basic training at the Chemical Re-
placement Training Center, of the
Chemical Corps Training Command.
at Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
5 Mary Ellen Boehr Takes First Teaching Job
In 4l2-Year-Old Arizona Hopi Indian Town

many years while her parents were
missionaries to China, the Button
graduate is familiar with the Chinese
and is a fluent speaker of their Ian
guage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
LITTLE BUYS sPAYTN Hour

Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Nttle ef
South Main street, have pdlchas6
the West Kibler street residence of
1t. and Mrs. A. Dwight Spayth.ET hey
will occupy the KILLER street home
after the Spayth family moves to
Hanover, N. H., where 1t. Spayth
will be an instructor in the Naval
Reserve Training school at Dart
mouth college.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Pirates Slated To Tan9MW VIII hndera
In Grid Season PrevieMSept. 5 At McComb

Bluffton High schools 1852 grid squad will get its first taste
of interscholastc competition this Friday night when
the Pirates tangle with Pandora in an eight-team. football pre-
view at McConb.
In the preview, beginning at 7:45 p. m, Pandora and Bluff
ton teams will engage each other in the last contest of the even
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

Indian school for the next two years.
By that time she hopes plans will
be completed for her to go to For
mosa in mission work.
Having lived in the Far East for
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04
Mayor Calls Special Council Meeting
To Detail Finances Of Disposal Plant
Contractors Bids Appear To Be Within
$500 Cost Estimate Of Engineers

Button municipal councnmen at a special meeting this
"wednesday night will coEahflete the details of financing the towns
new sewage disposal system, while engineers are proceeding with
their analysis of the IA bids on the proposal opened last Thurs
day noon in the office of Mayor Wilbur A. Howe.
On the basis of bids submitted, construction of the sewage
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-04

Machinery for a 160 to 200aacr'
farm costs more than $4,000.
Evening star., 1952-02-21
Oil Industry Strike
is Sci for March 3
By Cl0 Unions
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

DENVER, Feb. 2l.-A strike In
the oil industry was called last
night for March 8.
Were going to hit where IL
hurts" declared o. A. tJack)
Knight, president Of the Gloon
Workers international Union, one
of % unions joining together in
the strike.
Want 25-Cent Raise.
Mr.. Knight and other members
of the strike committee refused to
reveal where the strikes. in support
of a demand for q 25-cent-an-h hour
raise. will be called.
"The time Is 1901 am. local
time.
We've got approval OF the strike
from enough men to. make II
effective, and we're not going to
tell the oil companies where we
are going to HIT" said J. J. Nc
Kenna, Whiting, Ind, who rep
resents independent unions on the
strike committee.
Just how much the strike might
cut down gasoline and oil produc-
ton was unknown.
win Provide Emergency Gas.
Nor would any one say for sure
how long it would be before a
shortage of gasoline would appear
I'VE can say that there will be
enough for hospitals. police cars
and such because well arrange
that" said Mr.. Knight.
The extent of the strike will not
be known until some a hours be-
fore the men are called out.
A New York spokesman for
STANDARD Oil Company of New
Jersey, which has more than IL
per cent of the Nations refining
capacity. doubted that the threat
ened strike could close ESQ down.
Most of our contracts are with
independent unions" he said. I'VE
have no reason to believe our
independents would 60 out"
He said many other companies
also have contracts with inde-
lpendentS.