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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
We're Paying For It-Lefs OWn 1t!
CAN EDITORIAL)

One OF the best arguments heard this summer fo
Blufttons buying its swimming pool statement
made by local dad who had just returned from neghbong
city to take the family swimming He unable stay with
them and would have to return several hours later to bring
them home
Well Blufon people paying for poo he said "but
they don't own it,"
Wel all have to admit there lot of truth what he
said If every Blufon family saved the money it spent
recreatonal swimming last summer it would make szeabe
lump might come close in fact to what would take
to meet principal and interest the swimming pool bonds
well vote November Tuesday November g. That wouldn't
have to be very much at that
The $4,000 swimming pool bond issue will be retired
an annual tax levy of less than m-nly cents per
thousand dollars worth of taxable property Since the average
Buton home is valued for tax purposes at less than
$O0O the average annual cost would be less than
family.
IT doe MT take many trips to Fndlay Lima to come to
$495 during the of And there who
simply cannot get there-there many who cannot go
swimming often they would like as often as
it takes to learn the rudents of saving ones life
water.
Blufton is paying for swimming pool why shouldn't
it be conveniently located here in Bluffton?
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Junior, Not Mail
Man, NOlU To Tote
Report Cards Home

Henceforth Junior will be requir-
ed to carry news of his academic
successes or failures to Nom and
Pop in person rather than passing
the job on to the mailman.
A double savings in postage ex-
pense and in office time formerly
spent in addressing and mailing
high school report cards will be eff
fected by a new ruling that Bluffton
high school students will carry their
report cards home to their parents.
Robert Schumann, high school
principal announced the new pro-
cedure this week, stating that the
first report cards for the initial
grading period would be distributed
to the students on October 10.
The schedule for sending report
cards home at the close of each six
week grading period will be as fol-
lows: December z, January 25,
March z, April 18 and May 25.
"The procedure will give pupils
and parents a larger share in a
responsibility that rightly belongs
to them-pupils in seeing that the
reports get home to parents, and
parents in checking the progress OF
their children" Mr.. Schumann said
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13

complaint does not come in until after
the paint starts to wash away. and
that the Bluffton complaint Tuesday
was unusual in giving them a fresh
trail to work on.
The Better Business Bureau asked
school officials to warn home owners
Wednesday through the children. Per-
sons being solicited by strange
painters are asked TO phone a des-
cription of their car or truck or
license number, if possible, to the
county police.
Several persons notifying the
police or Better Business Bureau of
being fleeced, have described the
painters truck as being just about
every color of the rainbow. Appar-
emily they paint their truck every
time they paint a roof, or there is
more than one group working at the
racket.
The charges for the roof work have
varied from SIS to s225 depending
upon the amount they felt they could
obtain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
College Work Day
Scheduled For
Next Wednesday

Need an odd job of cleaning or
work of any type done at your home,
farm or place of business? Here's
your chance to draw help from a
labor pool of some 200 volunteer
students who are offering their SER
vices for semi-annual Work Day
scheduled next Wednesday, October
10.
Joe Smucker, general chairman of
the Bluffton College Student Work
Day program said that his eager
Beavers will be on call all day Mon
day to do such jobs as lawn raking,
grass moving, trimming trees and
shrubs, wash windows, clean wall
paper, shange screen for storm win
dows, painting, repair work, baby
sitting, laundry or just about any
thing you can mention.
The students hope to be able to
raise in the neighborhood of $1,000
for a campus improvement project.
Student help may be obtained by
calling 193-W at Ropp Hall where
Mrs. Kathryn Kolter, housemotherl
will take the call and send a student
on the job. II
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13

With the number of local young
sters participating in the Scouting
movement practically double what it
was just year ago, Bluffton citi-
zens will again be asked. to contri-
butte to the Annual Boy Scout
Finance Campaign which gets under
way Monday evening, October II.
Ralph Reichenbach, chairman OF
the Bluffton campaign, noted this
week that there are now 1O4 Bluff
ton boys taking part in the Scout
ing program. This includes 30 Boy
Scouts, 13 Explorers and 56 Cub
Scouts. The local Cub Pack 256 is
said to be one of the outstanding
groups in the Put-Han-Sen Council.
"With the outstanding job the
Scouting movement is doing in
Bluffton and the wide interest OF
the adults of our community, we are
looking for the current. financial
drive to go over the top" Reichen-
bach said.
The goal for the entire Put-Han-
Sen area is $4,000. The campaign
will be opened with Kickoff Radio
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Births

The following births were recorded
at Bluffton Community hospital dur
ing the past week: ria s.I
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cheney, Ada, a
girl, Patricia Lynn, born last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Motter, Ar
lington, boy, Duane James, born
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Miller, Bluff
ton, a girl, Carol Lee, born last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gareld Van Til
brough, Bluffton, a girl, Karen Sue,
born Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Martin, McComb,
a boy, Ted Steven, born Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Anderson,
Bluffton, a girl, Kathy 10, born Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester j. 10y, Jenera,
a boy, Lester John, born Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Hickle, Find
lay, boy, Terry Lee, born Tuesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell K. Amstutz
colleen Cummins), Bluffton, a girl,
born Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Candidate For New
State School Board
To Address Lions

c. M. Sims, Piqua educator, lectur-
er and writer, who is candidate for
Ohio's first state board of education
from the fourth congressional dis
trict, will be the speaker next Tues
day evening at the Bluffton Lions
club.
Mr.. Sims will speak on the func-
tions of the new board and duties of
its members. He is a former country
school teacher, high school principal
and superintendent of schools.
Active in community affairs, he is
trustee of the Presbyterian church,
director of the YMCA, on the execu-
tive board of the Miami Valley Coun-
Gil, Boy Scouts; a member of the
board of the Piqua Public Library
and various other civic organizations.
His candidacy is endorsed by the
Southwestern Ohio School Boards as
sociation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
More Than 100 Men Prepare To Open
Bow Scout Finance Drive Here Monday

program over Findlay Radio Station
WFIN-FM at 8:15 p. m. Monday. A
local Kickoff meeting is scheduled
for 1880 when the Findlay meeting
will be tuned into. Perle L. White
head, deputy regional executive, will
make the radio address.
More than 100 Bluffton men work
ing in % neighborhood teams will
make a house to house canvass for
contributions to the finance drive.
The men are as follows:
Lamont Diller, Captain: Ben
Schiffke, Wilbur Niswander, Lester
Niswander, William Mericle.
Gail Mumma, Captain: DR.. Wayne
Lutz, Vyrl Neeper, Vern Walker,
Louis Burkholder.
Oliver Zimmerman, Captain: Ray
Reichenbach, Richard Smith, George
Schumacher, Lloyd Braun.
Lowell Habegger, Captain: Rich
ard Weaver, Don Reams, Silas Dill
Ter, Don Patterson.
Harry Bogart, Captain: Joe Urich,
Charles Steiner, Robert Koontz,
James Szabo.
Everitt Sutermeister, Captain:
Raymond Greding, James West, Don
Corson, Robert Deerhake.
Continued on Page 12)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
State AbandOns
Old Route Is
Through BlufftOn

Old Route 25 through BIuffton is
no longer a state or federal route
according to a letter presented to
council this week by the Allen Coun-
ty Board of Commissioners.
Effective October 4, 1855, the
stretch of old U. S. 25 in Allen and
Hancock counties, approximately
6.75 miles, which has been replaced
by the new bypass around Beaver
dam and Bluffton has been abandoned
by the State Highway Department.
The notification was stated in a let
ter sent to the Board of Commission
ers by the Director of Highways,
Columbus.
With the notification of the
abandonment by the state the up
keep of the section through Bluffton
will be relegated to the village.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Hold Final Rites For Three Victims OF
Towns Worst Traffic Crash In Years

Bluffton was shocked Saturday af-
ternoon at 1:05 when word went up
and down the shopping crowds on
Main street of one of the worst auto
accidents this vicinity has witnessed
in recent years claiming the lives of
three persons and seriously injuring
another.
When the sirens of the Basinger
and Diller ambulances had died down
and identifcations were complete, the
town learned that Albert Tschiegg,
56, Route 4, Wooster, and his wife,
Bessie, So, both natives of the Bluff
ton community, and their brother-in-
law, Willis E. Weaver, So, Orrville,
were dead.
In Bluffton Community hospital In
serious condition Mrs. Edna Weaver,
wife of Willis, still remains. Larry
Tschiegg, IL, orphaned by the mishap,
has been released from the hospital
and is staying with his oldest sister
now in Apple Greek, Ohio.
The group was on its way from
Wooster for a visit with relatives in
Bluffton and for the purpose particu-
larly of visiting Amos Tschiegg, who
has been i'll at his home at 233 North
Jackson. Mr.. Weaver had recently
undergone a surgical operation and
was to have returned to work Mon
day.
Almost at their destination, the ac-
cident occurred at the intersection of
the Hancock-Allen county line road
and new Route 25. Apparently Albert
Tschiegg, who was driving, did not
see the stop sign in time or his brakes
failed, and his auto headed north on
the county line, crossed into the path
of a heavy truck and trailer headed
northeast on Route 25.
The front wheels of truck and auto
locked and the auto was dragged
some $50 feet along side the highway
until they came to stop in ditch.
Passengers of the Tschiegg auto were
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
$50 Stolen From
Local Store Safe
In Daylight Job
Thief Escapes Unnoticed In
Rush OF Business At
Marshall & Bixeps

In broad daylight during the rush
of Saturday afternoon business
Marshall & Bixel, appliance and gift
store, was robbed of approximately
$50, and purse of one of the firms
employees, Mrs. John Boehr was
stolen.
Just when the theft occurred nc
one at the store could tell Chief Lee
Coon or the Allen County Sherriff's
deputy who investigated the robbery
Monday morning.
Mrs. Boehr discovered that her bill
fold had been removed from her
handbag when she went Co supper
about $3.50 Saturday, however, it was
not learned until Monday morning
that the thief had also entered the
company safe. The key to a small
metal compartment in the safe was
missing. When it was pried open it
was discovered that $50 in cash made
up for deposit at the bank was gone
The Sheriff's deputy attempted to
get finger prints from the safe, but
efforts were to no avail.
This is the second loss TO sneak
thieves by the Bluffton business place
in recent weeks. Just two or three
weeks ago tools valued at $50 were
stolen from the rear of the shop
where they had been placed 1tp dry
after becoming wet. -
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Busy Week End In Store For Old Grads
Returning For College Homecoming

"Old Grads" of former years will
join friends and, perhaps, even sons
and daughters in this years student
body to make the Bluffton college
Homecoming program this week end
one of the high spots on the local cam
pus calendar.
The activities open Saturday morn
ing at 10:3O with the crowning of
pretty Jan Musselman, senior from
Orrtanna, Pa, as queen of the Home
coming which Includes a week end of
special events such as Parents Day
on Sunday, the traditional Frosh-
Sophomore tug-of-war, the Bluffton-
ONU football game, Homecoming ban
quet, and open house dormitory in
spections.
Chosen to accompany the queen as
her attendants are Joann Slotter,
junior from Souderton, Pa, and Nan
cy Hostetler, sophomore from Smith
vile, Ohio. The queen and her attend
ants were chosen in an election by the
entire student body.
The traditional tug-of-war on the
banks of Riley creek is scheduled to
take place at 1 p. m. and game time
for the Beaver-Polar Bear fracas is
2:15 at Harmon Field.
Doris Diller, former Bluffton res
ident and graduate of Bluffton high
school as well as the college in 1929,
is arriving from New York to make
the address at the Homecoming BAN
quet set for 6 p. m. in Founders Hall.
Miss Diller is engaged in cancer re-
search at the John Hopkins universi-
ty.
Climaxing the day Saturday will be
play, "The Apple of His Eye, to be
presented in the high school auditors
um at BIB p. m. The play directed by
Paul w. Stauffer and offering cast
of Bluffton people, will also be pre-
sented on Friday evening at the same
place.
The Booster presentations held an
nually in connection with the Home
coming have become highlights of the
program, and "Swiss Holiday, also
directed by Mr.. Stauffer last year is
still much discussed.
Parents Day on Sunday will be
featured by a Vesper service at 2:30
D. m. with DR.. Maurice Troyer as the
speaker. DR.. Troyer, formerly asso-
ciated with the college, is now vice
president of the international Chris
tian university in Japan. The Vesper
Choir, under it's new director, Earl
Lehman, will also participate on this
program.
Other features of the Sunday pro-
gram will be open house in the dorms
from 1:15 to 2:15 p. m, and recep-
ton in Founders Hall following the
vesper service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Bentley Road Traffic Insufficient To
Warrant Flashers, Railroad Man Says

A spot check of traffic using the
Bentley road in and out of Bluffton
at the present time does not warrant
the installation of flasher signal
lights at the Nickel Plate railroad
grade crossing w. H. Burr, Lima
trainmaster, told Bluffton city coun-
ell Tuesday evening. 81
The decision by officials of the rail-
road to table the matter for the pres
ent does not constitute a refusal to
install the lights, Burr said. The re-
quest will be reviewed at a later date.
The railroad man said that he felt
another traffic check could be made
after Bentley road improvements are
completed between U. S. Route 25 and
Main street.
Burr told council that the view of
the railroad is excellent approaching
the crossing from either direction.
The railroad man admitted that the
company had not made a complete
check, which, he said, usually covered
a 48-hour period. During that time
anything moving in the vicinity of the
crossing, such as autos, buses, pedes-
TRANS, bicycles are counted and re-
corded.
Burr said that it was felt that the
distance from the new US Route 25
intersection to the railroad, which is
approximately $50 feet, was sufficient
distance to allow motorists to be
aware of the crossing,
Council moved to table the matter
until after improvements are complet-
ed on the Bentley road approach to
the new highway.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Shelter Edits Matt
Assn Year Book

Luther Shelter, professor of math-
ematics at Bluffton college, is the ed
itor again this year of the Year Book
for the Central Association of Science
and M a h EN- a tics Teachers, Inc,
which will hold its annual meeting
November 25 and 26 in Detroit, Mich.
Copies of the Year Book were mail
ed recently to nearly 1000 members
of the association in this section of
the country. The association is mark
ing its 55th year of organization.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13

thrown out of the car on the opposite
side of the impact, and auto and
truck passed over them.
Only 11-year-old Larry Tschiegg
escaped without serious injury.
Mr.. Tschiegg and Mr.. Weaver were
both killed instantly and Mrs.
Tschiegg died in Button Community
hospital at 4:50 p. m. the same day.
Warriet Savage, Jr., driver of the
truck, said that he saw the auto ap-
Continued on Page 12)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Council Ok's Street
Blocking, By School

Giving official village sanction to
action already taken by the Bluffton
schools, an ordinance was adopted by
the town council Tuesday evening
providing for blocking of Jackson
street as play area for the children
between College avenue and Franklin
street.
The ordinance permits blocking the
street between the hours of am. and
pm. Monday through Friday. 1t
also bans parking on the North side
of West College avenue between South
Jackson and South Main streets be-
tween the same hours on school days.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Expect Campaign To
Open For SlUina Pool

A full scale campaign to as
sure a favorable vote on the
Swimming Pool Bond issue was
expected to be the outgrowth of
a meeting of the Community
Progress association Wednesday
evening after the Button News
deadline.
Representatives of the clubs
and organizations comprising the
progress group were to elect a
new executive board, and then
get down to brass tacks on the
swimming pool issue. ws
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
FIRE DRILL SUCCESSFUL

In the first fire drill conducted
since the elementary grades have
been moved temporarily into the
high school building, the building was
cleared in 68 seconds Monday after
noon, school officials reported. The
drill was held in connection with
National Fire Prevention Week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13

operating on the outskirts of town
has this year installed a large new
Diesel power shovel which enables
quarrying of heavier stone on the
bottom of the present pit. Cost of the
equipment is reported to run well into
five figures.
Just last year the company also
added it's third mechanical stone
loader which fills an eight-ton truck
in about two and a half minutes-a
long way from the day when stone
was shoveled by hand into the trucks
when the firm was organized.
During the past "a months the
Bluffton firm has also converted its
electric power system from 1900
volts to 440 volts in the interest of
efficiency and safety for its opera
tors. Installation of new dust-proof
motors, the latest word in equipment
of this kind, made the change-over
possible.
Today's operation with capacity
of producing 500 tons of road stone
a day as well as large quantities of
agricultural limestone represents
many progressive moves in the COM
pany's 25-year history.
At the start, the company did not
own a single truck, hiring their use
as they were needed. Now a fleet of
four trucks is used for hauling the
raw material and finished products
within the quarry premises only.
A fleet of seven other trucks is
hired for transporting the product
into the surrounding counties and as
far as Michigan. These are owned
by Conrad Bros.
The Bluffton Stone company was
born in the depths of the depression
in 1890 after it became evident that
the old National Lime and Stone
company, located at the east end of
Bluffton, would not resume opera
tion after it's equipment was destroy
ed by fire on September 20, 1929.
After it was announced that the
company did not intend to rebuild
its plant, plans were set forth to form
another company by Raymond Con-
rad, now secretary-treasurer and
general manager of the stone COM
pany.
Corporation rights were granted
on the fourth day of January 1880,
and the first meeting of the stock
holders was held on February 8, 1880
in the office of The Bluffton Slaw
Cutter Company in the Fett building.
At the. first meeting of stockhold-
ers, Is were present, and they
elected the following board of direc-
tors: Clair Fett, Gilbert Fett, Alfred
Mueller, Leslie Kimmel and Raymond
Conrad. Oddly enough the same Of
ficers elected by the board at the en-
suing meeting have remained un-
changed even until this time. The Of
ficers were and are Clair Fett, presi-
dent; Gilbert Fett, vice president;
and Raymond Conrad, secretary
treasurer and manager.
The newly born company acted
quickly to obtain land suitable for
location of it's quarry. Twenty acres
of the Noah Matter farm was the
original purchase, and 81 more acres
from the same farm have been added
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
ltinerant Roof Painters
Blk BluftOn HOmeOwners
HIgh Pressure Equipment Proues
Mostly High Pressure Sales Talk

ana county police as well special Investigators for
e Allen County Better Business Bureau are searching for
par OF nerant painters who have aegedy eeced number of
buton home well scores of others in Lima and
oe parts OF the county on bargain roof painting jobs
closest lead the police have on the pair was Tuesday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-10-13
Stone Company In Midst
OF Expansion Program In
Silver Anniversary Year
Business Mems Association To Honor
Firm And Founders At Barbecue TOnite

The Buon Stone company this celebrating its silver
anniversary right middle extensive program of
modenzaton expansion of its quarry equipment
this businessmen prepared the
firm at barbecue dinner
little general knowledge of the community the company
, 1955-06-17

Your host poured out your Scotch with his
back half turned from you now he waits
for the bouquet to reveal his cellar triumph.
What can it reveal I? Scotch is but malt,
barley and water. Yet the distillation of fine
Scotch calls for the purest mountain water.
The sparkling water found in the hills
round the river Spey where Grants have
always had their distilleries. Where fertile
fields grow barley barley that is exactly
right for fine Scotch Whisky.
Grants is still a family concern, sternly,
keeping to its original standards. Blending
with a skill handed down by generations
patiently maturing its whisky for long years.
Grants rare bouquet will recall this history
foryou. So -ifyoureally care fort Scotch
remember that simply asking for Scotch
is not enough. Ask for Grants BY na<4e.
, 1955-06-17
AMENDED RULES AND CONDITIONS
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