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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
WATER MAINS
TO BE CLEANED
Work on Three-Mile Network
Of Pipes Will Cost Town
About S2,000
Shut Off
Fmm
City Water Thursday
9:00 P. M. Until
Midnight
of Bluffton’s three-mile
water mains will be ef
spring at an estimated
Cleaning
network of
fected this
cost of $2,000, according to a report
made at council meeting Monday
night by Mayor Wilbur A. Howe.
It will be the first time mains
have been cleaned since the lines
were laid 40 years ago.
Preliminary to cleaning out the
system of four, six and eight-inch
cast iron pipes, it will be necessary
to repair rusted valves so sections
of the city mains can be shut off
whi'e cleaning is being done.
Repairing of the valves will be
started immediately, John W. Swish
er. superintendent of the municipal
water works, said Tuesday.
No Water Thursday Night
City water will be shut off this
Thursday from 9 p. m. until mid
night to permit the repair of valves
on South Main street near High
street and another
near South Main.
Supt.
eight or
replaced
shut off
to effect
Contract
city water
ed by the
with the
on Grove street
said there are
to be repaired or
Swisher
ten valves
and that it is necessary to
the water supply
the work,
to clean out the
mains has been
in order
the large
negotiat-
Board of Public Affairs
National Water Main
Cleaning Co., of New York City.
Members of the council authorized
the work at Monday night’s meeting.
Cost 10 Cents Foot
Cost of the work will be 10 cents
per foot of pipe, and total expendi
ture for cleaning and other services
is expected to be about $2,000,
Mayor Howe said.
Mains are cleaned by forcing a
steel cable with stiff springs on it
through the mains, which are cut
in sections of about 1000 feet each.
Cleanup of the lines is part of a
program planned by the Board of
Public Affairs to make sure Bluff
ton’s water supply is the best ob
tainable. A screen soon is to be
erected over the aerating deck at
the water works to prevent any
possibility of midges laying eggs in
the water with the result
worms, the larvae of the
find their why into the
supply.
Future Homemakers of Bluffton
High school received the Award of
Merit at the State Convention of
Home Economics clubs held in Co
lumbus Friday and Saturday,
award is given to home
clubs in Ohio which have
standing club work during
It was presented to Alice
stutz, president of the local club.
The convention was attended by
approximately four hundred high
school home economics students from
all parts of the state.
Bluffton delegates attending were:
Alice Mae Amstutz, president Dor
othy Long, president-elect
Ellen Same, Ruthella Krouse,
Garmatter and June Ream,
cene Garmatter of Bluffton,
gional delegate, appeared on the
program in a three-minute talk. The
outstanding club achievements were
presented in poster form by Mary
Ellen Bame. The group was ac
companied by their advisor, Miss
Edythe Cupp.
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Dancing May be Included
Program of Junior-Sen’.or
Banquet May 19
Measure Carries by Three
Two Vote in Special Ses
sion Monday Night
Dancing under certain restrictions
may be included in the program of
the Bluffton high school junior
senior banquet on May 19, it was de
cided by majority of the board of
education at a special meeting Mon
day night. The board was sharply
divided on the issue which carried
by a vote
Members
ance were:
panee, Ind.
Ind.
J. R.
that blood
midge, will
city water
Future Homemakers
Class Wins Award
The
economics
done out
the year.
Mae Am-
Mary
Doris
Mar
a re­
Turley Rupright New
Belmore Postmaster
Turley A. Rupright, former Bluff
ton grocer, last week was appointed
postmaster at Belmore, where he is
the proprietor of a general store.
Rupright assumed his new duties
last week after his appointment had
been announced by Postmaster Gen
eral James Farley.
Mrs. Jemima Besheim, whom he
succeeds, resigned as postmistress re
cently because of a stroke of paraly
sis. After taking over his new post,
Rupright moved the post office from
its former location to his
store.
general
has op
for sev-
The former Bluffton man
erated the store in Belmore
eral years. He was a grocer here
for nearly a decade and is well
known in this vicinity.
Board Decides In Majority Vote
Favoring Dance At High School
in
to
of three to two.
of the board came near
of a three hour session
given over almost entirely
Decision
the close
which was
to a consideration of the question
which was held over from the regu
lar meeting a week previous.
the
and
and
in
Before making its decision,
board heard from school patrons
also members of the junior
senior classes divergent views
favor
connection with school functions.
and opposed to dancing in
Many Attend Meeting
To accommodate the group of more
than fifty attending the meeting, the
board sat in the high school cafe
teria and held
an hour and a
retired to the
where sessions
to continue its
an open hearing for
half, after which it
smaller board
are ordinarily
deliberations.
Looming large in the board’si
decision was the influence
room
held,
final
of a
questionnaire sent last week to par
ents of 115 members of the senior
and junior classes, asking their views
on their children attending a school
(Continued on page 8)
College Trustees
Meet Here Tuesday
Members of the Bluffton college
board of trustees held their semi
annual meeting in the Musselman li
brary on the campus Tuesday. Rou
tine business occupied the board’s
sessions in
noon.
the morning and after­
of the board in attend
J. S. Slabaugh, Nap
Jerry Sauder, Grabill,
Wm. B. Weaver, Danvers, Ill.
Fretz, Lansdale, Pa. Earl
Salzman, Topeka, Ind. B. F. Thutt,
Elida I. R. Detweiler, Bloomington,
Ill. E.
Ind. H. T. Unruh, Bluffton, together
with Dr. L. L. Ramseyer, president
of the college and J. H. Loganbill,
business manager, who are ex-offico
members of the board.
W. Baumgartner, Berne,
Fire To Be Started
Under New Boiler
A slow fire will be started this
week in the recently completed new
boiler at the municipal water w’orks
and light plant, Supt. J. W. Swish
er announced Tuesday.
drying out
said, and
made until
The first will be for
purposes only, Swisher
test runs will not be
later. Brick work around the boiler
has been completed and it is believed
the new addition to the plant will
ready for use soon.
be
Real Estate Deals
em­
Harry Bogart, Bluffton postal
ploye, has purchased a building lot
in the Schumacher addition on Col
lege road between Grove street and
Law’n avenue and expect to start
building a residence next month.
Emil Garau has sold his forty acre
farm south of Bluffton to Chris
Gratz. The tract
farm.
ad joins Gratz’s
has purchased
Fox Farm com
on Riley street
Herman Stager
from the Bluffton
pany its residence
which has previously been occupied
by the caretaker of the fox farm.
The residence was vacated some
time ago by Louis Burkholder.
Stager recently sold his residence on
West Jefferson street to his brother,
Howard
into his
on Riley
Stager, and will move soon
newly purchased property
street.
College Vacation
Ends On Tuesday
Classes were resumed at Bluffton
college Tuesday morning following
an 11-day Easter recess.
Members of the A Capella choir
which made an Eastern concert tour
during the vacation period arrived
home from their trip Monday night.
One of the features of the tour
was a broadcast over the National
Broadcasting Co. from studios in
New York City.
Bluffton Woman
Heads Family Of
Five Generations
Mrs. Elizabeth Parrish, one of
Bluffton’s oldest residents, celebrated
her 91st birthday last week in her
home on North Lawn avenue.
She moved into her residence Sat
urday after spending the winter
with her daughter, Mrs. Ella Long
on Cherry street. Mr. and Mrs.
John Garlinger, who returned last
week after spending a year in Cali
fornia, will live with Mrs. Parrish,
the mother of Mrs. Garlinger.
Mrs. Parrish heads a line of five
generations in her family. She re
cently became a great-great-grand
mother with the birth of Karol Lynn
Kell, two and one-half months-old
daughter of Mrs. Bernadine Kell, of
Los Angeles.
Mrs. Kell is the daughter of Mrs.
Gladys Kaltenbach. of Inglewood,
Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Kaltern
bach is the daughter of Mrs. Gar
linger and the grand-daughter of
Mrs. Parrish.
NO SHORTAGE OF
COAL FELT HERE
Large Local Consumers Have
Sufficient Supplies for All
Immediate Needs
Retail Dealers’ Stocks Expected
To Last Until Warm
Weather Arrives
Bluffton has not yet been affected
by the growing nation-wide shortage
of coal caused by suspension of op
erations in many soft coal fields on
account of differences between union
miners and operators.
Retail dealers report they have
coal on t^pnd, although the supply
in some instances is small. Current
shipments are coming from non-union
fields, it is reported.
Local consumers of coal in quan
tities are facing no immediate short
age, it was revealed by a survey
the first of the week.
7,000 Tons
at
Utility
The largest consumer, the generat
ing plant of the Central Ohio Light
& Power company
mately 7,000 tons
is estimated, will
one-half months.
reported approxi
on hand,
last
This it
for two and
light plant
bunkers has
Bluffton’s municipal
with 300 tons in its
enough coal for one month’s opera
tion.
Bluffton college is expecting a
carload of coal this Wednesday,
which with the present supply on
hand will be sufficient to operate its
heating plant for the next three
weeks.
Schools Have Enough
Bluffton’s high and grade schools
reported that they expected to have
a sufficient supply of
bins for the remainder
ing season.
coal in the
of the heat-
not expected
Demands for fuel are
to be heavy insofar as home owners
are concerned, with the normal pros
pects for warm weather in the near
future, and little concern has been
evidenced in the possibility of any
coal shortage.
Redeem Sales Stamps
For Swimming Pool
Used sales tax stamps left in
Bluffton retail stores will be col
lected and redeemed for benefit of
Buckeye swimming pool, it was an
nounced by the Bluffton Business as
sociation officers following a meet
ing Tuesday night.
Recepticles for the stamps will be
placed in stores here and proceeds
will be used for necessary improve
ments at the swimming pool. Re
demption of the stamps after May 1
is permitted under the new Ohio
law.
Retail stores here will close every
Thursday afternoon during the sum
mer beginning May 4, it was decided.
Photographs In
Permanent Exhibit
E. H. Neuenschwander, Bluffton
photographer has been invited by the
American School of Portraiture of
Chicago to send a number of por
traits for hanging in their perman
ent exhibit, it was announced the
first of the week.
Invitation to be represented in the
exhibit is considered an outstanding
mark of merit in photographic cir
cles.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
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SPORTSMEN MAY
LEASE QUARRY
Central Ohio Utility Offers
Sub-Let National Quarry
For Fishing
Sportsmen’s Club May Accept
Three-year Lease Granting
Angling Rights
Fishing privileges in the large Na
tional quarry now owned by the Cen
tral Ohio Light and Power Co., were
offered to the Blufftoz Sportsmen’s
club at a meeting in fl e town hall
Tuesday night.
A three-year lease conveying fish
ing rights to the quarn was present
ed to the club by Don Conrad, repre
senting the utility. Members of the
club w’ill meet this Friday to consider
the proposal.
Under terms of the lease fishing
would be permitted fr n three sides
of the quarry, but the ank adjacent
to the power house vvl re are located
the outlet and intake water tunnels
for the generating plant is
closed to anglers.
Entrance to the quarry premises for
fishing will be permitted ony thru the
gate on the power house side of the
reservoir. It was pointed out that the
quarry is an ideal fishing spot, with
30 acres of water, 40 feet deep in
places, and which is well stocked with
fish.
Initial negotiations relative to the
lease were discussed last Saturday
when A. W. Conover, general mana
ger, Francis Godwin, district mana
ger, and Don Conrad, representing
the utility, met with Mayor W. A.
Howe and officers ot the Sportsmen’s
club.
Membership of the club numbers
about 30 at present.
Fire Department To
Get Additional Hose
Contract was let at the session for
300 feet of I’-.- inch fire hose to
suppement present equipment. The
new line can be used by attaching it
to a “Y” in series with the 1,500
feet of 2% inch hose the department
now has.
Purchase of a “fog nozzel” also
was authorized. This attachment
spreads the stream of water thrown
from the hose, making it more ef
fective in fighting fires.
Illustrated Talk At u.
Radio Club Meeting
An illustrated talk on his trip thru
Mexico was given in an address be
fore the Bluffton Radio club by Nor
man Triplett of the Triplett Elec
trical Instrument company, Monday
night.
Also shown in connection with the
address was a two reel moving pic
ture feature showing the different
phases of instrument construction at
the Triplett plant here.
Sponsor Far East
Student Aid Fund
Bluffton College Y. W. and Y. M.
C. A. are taking over the direction
locally of the nation-wide Far East
ern Student Service fund which is
being carried on in colleges and uni
versities throughout the country
this week.
Proceeds of the fund is to be used
for aid of Chinese students who have
suffered because of war conditions
in China.
Contributions should be mailed or
left at Ropp hall in charge of the
Far Eastern Student Service fund.
BLUFFTON NEWS
to
be
to
Club Responsible
to
be
be
of
No boating or swipiming is
permitted and the grounds are
kept clean and in order. Policing
the grounds and enforcement of pro
visions of the lease would be the re
sponsibility of the Sportmen’s organ
ization.
Leasing of the quarry is not to be
o na rental basis, the lease being for
a three-year period at a total cost of
$1. Privilege to renew the contract
also is provided.
Sportsmen’s club members would be
given full right to fish from the three
specified banks, and also have the
privilege of stocking the waters. They
will be required to ahide by all state
and federal fishing laws. The club
assumes all liability for any accidents.
Open to Members
To fish in the quarry, anglers must
be a member of the suortsmn’s group.
Membership is open any resident
of the community will agree to
terms of the lease, it was announced.
Results of the contest were an
nounced this week from the state.
Certificates of recognition will be
awarded to those who ranked high
est.
Richard E. Wenger, Bluffton, with
a mark of 219, of a possible 300
points, placed first in the general
Eight Bluffton High
Compete In
Group to Enter Ensemble and
Solo Contest at Oberlin,
April 28
Glee Clubs and Orchestra will
Be in Contest at Columbus
This Week
Eight of Bluffton High school’s 10
entries in the Northwest district solo
and ensemble contest at Bowling
Green last Saturday won the right
to participate in the state contest at
Oberlin on Friday, April 28.
In the woodwind quartet competi
tion the Bluffton group qualifying
for the state contest was made up
of William Holtkamp, Joel Kimmel,
Junior Augsburger, Genevieve Fett
and Herbert Oyer.
Bluffton’s mixed ensemble also
won. Its membership consists of
Mary Alice Howe, Jeanne Baum
gartner, Phyllis Steiner, Bonita
Clark, Ralph Short, Herbert Oyer,
Paul Soldner and Kenneth Gable.
In
fighting facilities
1 by purchases au
night at a meeting
Bluffton’s fire
were strengthene
thorized Monday
of the town cou
Bluffton Is First And Second In
County Senior Scholarship Test
students took
Allen county
seniors, con
1 under aus-
Two Bluffton High
top honors in the
scholarship tests for
ducted at Lima, April
pices of the state department of edu
cation. Five Bluffton contestants
were entered.
boys and girls
school’s orchestra
state competition.
go to Columbus
In other district contests, held
earlier, Bluffton’s
glee clubs and the
also qualified for
Glee clubs will
this Friday to compete against other
district winners, and the orchestra
will play in the state finals on Sat
urday.
Fourteen Bluffton High students
made up the group winning the
right to compete in the state contest
when the solo and ensemble meet
was held last week. Another Bluff
ton entrant w’ill be an alternate.
in the district meet in
following: Bonita Clark,
Barbara Jean Triplett,
solo Richard Mumma,
solo William Holtkamp,
Winners
eluded the
alto solo
xylophone
sousaphone
flute solo Herbert Oyer, tenor solo
and Junior Augsburger, bassoon solo.
competition,
Schultz was named alternate.
Give Peace Drama
Here Sunday Night
“Let My People Go”
drama will be preset
school auditorium Sum
7:30 o’clock by a cast of Bluffton
college students.
The group returned Monday from
spring tour thru Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa where they presented the
play which portrays courage and
suffering of the Mennonite people
who for four centuries have held to
the doctrine of non-resistance as
against the method of war.
a
The play is presented by the Bluff
ton College Peace Fellowship under
auspices of the Mennqnite Peace so
ciety and a number of churches in
the community are uniting for the
evening.
The cast includes Wm. Ramseyer,
Betty Keeney, Leonard Metzker,
Anne Schumacher, Melvin Yoder,
Richard Weaver, Karl Schultz, Carl
Landes, Rollin Moser and Bertram
Smucker. Margaret Berky1 will read
poems.
Bluffton Residents
Back From South
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Murray of
Cherry street returned Monday
from St. Petersburg, Florida, where
they spent the past winter. Corn is
in tassel and roasting ears will come
on the market shortly in the far
south, Murray said. During their
stay in Florida they made a sight
seeing trip to Cuba.
Enroute north, the Bluffton couple
stopped in Birmingham, Alabama, to
visit Earl Mohler, former Bluffton
resident, who operates an extensive
greenhouse and seed business.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Deppler, last
of a number of Bluffton people who
spent the past winter in St. Peters
burg, are expected to return home
next week.
scholarship test, with Adelaide Mc
Ginnis, Bluffton, finishing second,
scoring 214.
E. Mumma, Bluffton, was
Rich
Mumma ranked twenty-second
Wade
fifth, with a rating of 108.
a rd
and Edward Schultz thirty-sixth.
In the first 10, Bluffton had three
places, Lima Central five Lima
South one and Auglaize rural one.
Seventy-five seniors from all Al
len county high schools of Class A,
and ratings, participated in the
contest. Subjects included English,
social science, mathematics, science,
reading and language.
Winners To
State Music Contest
With The Sick
Dr. J. S. Steiner has been il at
his home on South Main street for
the past week with infection in his
left arm following an attack of
influenza. He is improving and ex
pects to be in his office the la
part of this week.
Mrs.
three act
in high
night at
Mrs. Zoe
tter
home in Beaverdam with injuries
received when he was kicked by a
horse at the John Zimmerly farm
west of Bluffton, Friday. His con
dition is not serious.
Abr. Sommer is confined to his
Cliff West who is convalescing
from an operation for herina was
on the street the first of the week.
Mrs. Henry Badertscher, Bluffton
nurse, is in Berne, Indiana, caring
for her mother, Mrs. Anna Sprunger
who is gradually becoming weaker.
H. B. Adams continues critically
ill at his home on South Lawn
avenue.
David G. Neiswander, residing
northwest of Bluffton who has been
seriously ill at Bluffton hospital with
infection in his right hand was re
ported somewhat improved Wednes
day morning.
Esther Niswander, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. W. M. Niswander is tak
ing treatment at Bluffton hospital
i for injury received above the right
1 ankle received
flight of steps,
at Fairfield, Pa.,
tour with the
choir.
in a fall down a
The injury occurred
while on the spring
College a capella
Her condition is not serioiis.
Mrs. A. E. Lugibill ill with heart
trouble, continues in a critical con
dition at Bluffton hospital.
Raymond Roth, transient from
Jersey City, N. J. who was injured
in an automobile accident near
Bluffton three months ago is still a
patient in the hospital here with
little change in condition.
Mrs. Goldie West Garner, former
Bluffton resident, is improving after
an illnesis
at her home in Toledo.
J. C. Welty, formerly of
who suffered a paralytic
in Phoenix, Arizona, last
and has
jeen seriously ill
s sufficiently re
Phoenix for her
jolis this week,
while she
on an ex
the south-
home in Minneapolis
Mrs. Welty became ill
and her husband were
tended motor trip thru
west. Mr. and Mrs.
make
stages from
Welty will
the trip in their car by easy
Phoenix to Minneapolis.
St. John Williams, for
resident, now living at
is in a critical con
hospital in that city
reports received here
mer Bluffton
Sedalia, Mo.,
dition at a
according to
the first of the week,
suffered a paralytic stroke last week
with Bright’s disease complications.
Mrs. Williams
Kirby Page Will
Be Here Monday
Dr. Kirby Page, leading lecturer
on social and religious problems, will
conduct a series of meetings in Bluff
ton next Monday under auspices of
the Bluffton College Y. M. C. A.
Tentative plans for the day in
clude three lecture appearances, with
a community lecture and forum in
the evening in the high school audi
torium.
Subject of the evening address at
8 o’clock will be: “What Kind of
World can be Built of the Raw Stuff
of Human Nature’’.
Dr. Page has had a brilliant ca
reer as an author, social evangelist,
lecturer and world traveler.
He has spoken in more than 500
colleges and universities, in hundreds
of churches from coast to coast, and
before an equally large number of
commercial and forum clubs. Dr.
Page also is a prolific writer, author
ing 19 books on international, social,
economic and religious questions.
On his present tour, Dr. Page will
make only three appearances in
Ohio. After spending Monday here,
he will go to Ohio State university
on the next day and will appear at
Derfison university on Wednesday.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 51
TOWN TO LEASE
BUCKEYE LAKE
on tract Will be Signed as
Soon as Liability Insurance
Policy is Delivered
Action of Council Assures
Municipal Swimming Place
This Summer
Blufiton was assured of a swimming
place for this summer when the own
council Monday night decided to sign
the lease for Buckeye Lake offered to
the municipality by the Central Ohio
Light and Power Co., owner of the
promises.
Negotiations will be completed as
soon as a liability insuance policy
contracted for the town is delivered.
Arrival of the policy is expected soon.
At Monday night’s meeting, the
council authorized the mayor and the
clerk to sign the lease, assuring con
tinuation of the waterfilled quarry as
Bluffton’s bathing center. Vote on
signing of the lease was unanimous.
One of the first steps in preparing
the pool for this summer will be to
remove the floats and inspect them,
municipal authorities announced.
practical present floats will be repair
ed. If not. new ones will be built,
according to present plans.
May Sub-Lease Pool
Sentiment of the council now ap
pears to be in favor of sub-leasing the
lake, but no definite action has been
aken as yet.
A community auction to raise funds
for the improvement of bathing fa
cilities at Buckeye Lake will be held
Friday of next week, under auspices
of the Bluffton Lions club.
Plans for the auction are nearing
completion and those in charge of the
program hope to net approximately
$1000 thru the sale of items donated
by residents of the town and commun
ity.
Leasing of the Buckeye by the town
is the result of an announcement
made several weeks ago by officials
of the Central Ohio utility that they
would not sub-let the swimming cen
ter to an independent operator this
summer, but that the lake was avail
able to the town at nominal cost of
one dollar for a five year ease.
Cleanup Drive Opens
Tuesday Despite Rain
Bluffton’s municipal cleanup drive
got under way Tuesday, and despite
the rain that fell thruout most of
the day more than one-third of the
town was covered.
Work was continued Wednesday,
and if necessary the cleanup crew
also will he on the job Thursday.
Those in charge of the program re
ported more tin cans are being
hauled than is usual, but that there
has been less general rubbish.
truck
In the cleanup drive, the
owned by the town is removing de
bris, tin cans and rubbish without
charge to property owners. No
being hauled.
cleanup activities are ben
the town and the cost is
small, Mayor Wilbur A.
ashes are
Annual
eficial to
relatively
Howe declared in commenting favor
ably on the cooperation evidenced by
property owners.
Goats, Bucksaws
On Lions Auction
Bucksaws, goats, bird cages,
crushed stone, pigs, wheat and
hundreds of other items, both com
monplace and unusual, will make the
“White Elephant” sale of the Lions
club Friday, April 28, an event
long to be remembered.
Members of the club are sponsor
the auction to raise funds for
improvement of bathing facili
at Buckeye Lake. All
be turned over to the
ing
the
ties
will
expenditure on equipment
swimming center.
proceeds
town for
for the
the town
Response of residents of
and community to requests for do
nations has been enthusiastic thus
far, but many more items are needed
if the goal of $1,000 is
tained, those in charge of
announced this week.
to be ob
the event
have in­
far
varied in na
is expected to
Contributions thus
eluded articles widely
ture, and the auction
have plenty of color from the view
point of the spectator.
Anyone desiring to donate items
is requested to contact M. M. Bogart
or other members of the Lions club.
Trucks will collect articles the day
before the sale.
Three auctioneers have donated
their services for the sale, Clyde
Warren, Isaac Neuenschwander and
William Amstutz.
Location of the auction and oth^r
details will be announced next week.