BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXTV
VOTE AT PRIMARY
Democrats and Republicans
Go to Polls on August 8,
New Ruling
Miss
teacher
in this
morial
remains
terment
to
One Contest on Republican
Ticket and None on
Democratic Ballot
in
A regular two party primary
which both Democrats and Republi
cans will participate will be held in
Bluffton on Tuesday, August 8.
This announcement was made the
first of the week by the Allen county
board of elections, contrary to the
previous supposition that the pri
mary would be limited to Republi
cans only.
Although there are no contests on
the Democratic ticket the regular
party primary will be held with a
ballot bearing names of
nominees. Likewise the
Republican ticket will be
to party voters, although
will contain only one contest—for
the board of public affairs.
all party
complete
submitted
the ballot
Attorney General Ruling
The change in procedure for the
primary followed an opinion from
the attorney general’s office that in
asmuch as one contest had developed
it would be necessary to hold a reg
ular primary for both parties and
submit the entire ticket to the voters
of the respective parties.
With no contests on the Demo
cratic ticket, little interest is expect
ed to be attracted to this part of the
primary. What activity there is will
be centered on the Republican race
of four aspirants for the party’s
nomination for three members of the
board of public affairs.
The four Republican candidates
seeking the three places on the party
ticket as candidates for board of
public affairs are: Eli Deppler, A. E.
Kohli, E. S. Lape and Charles Lloyd.
The three elected at the primary will
be the party’s candidates for board
of public affairs at the November
election.
Former Teacher In
Schools Here Dies
Clara Greding, 64, former
in Bluffton and rural schools
vicinity died in Lima Me
hospital, Sunday morning.
Class
five weeks’
Her death followed a
illness.
Miss Greding taught
the public schools and
high regard by her former pupils.
Besides teaching in the Grade schools
some twenty-two years ago she
taught in most of the district schools
of Richland township and also taught
in Monroe township. She was a
graduate of Bluffton high school in
the class of 1894.
for years in
was held in
She was the daughter of the late
Rev. and Mrs. Peter Greding of this
place. Her father was a pioneer
minister of the Reformed churches
here. Following her retirement from
the teaching profession she made her
home in Lima.
Surviving are one brother, L. T.
Greding, Bluffton hardware merch
ant and four sisters: Mrs. William
Huber of Ada, Mrs. Noah Diller of
Bluffton and Mrs. Bertha Rhoda and
Miss Amelia Greding both of Lima.
Funeral services were held in the
First Reformed church, Lima, Tues
day afternoon. Rev. Paul Graeser,
pastor, who officiated was assisted
by Rev. W. H. Lahr of
erly pastor of the
churches here.
Ada, form
Reformed
services the
Following the funeral
were brought here for in
in Maple Grove cemetery.
“4” Radio
Amateur License
R. V. Wentz, employe of the Trip
lett Electrical Instrument company
here, h^s been granted a class “A”
amateur radio license by the Federal
communications commission, it was
announced the first of the week.
Wentz, active in amateur radio
circles for many years had one of
the first amateur station
cinity. His station call
signed him ten years
W8EBG.
in this
letters
ago
vi
as-
are
Family Picnic For
Lions At Buckeye
Members of the Bluffton Lions club
and their families will enjoy the an
nual club picnic at Buckeye lake
next Tuesday night at 6:15 o’clock.
The affair will be informal and no
program will be arranged for this
meeting.
Wheat On Orange
Twp. Farm Yields
40 Bushels Acre
/'YRANGE township came back
strong this week to claim
honors for
section. A
Eight and One-half Miles
Road South of Town to
Be Improved
Bids to be Submitted by August
8 Work to be Finished
By Sept. 30
Improvements of 8.48 miles of the
Dixie highway between Bluffton and
Lima will be effected this summer
over the same stretch which was re
surfaced and widened last year.
The new program for which bids
for contracts will be taken on Aug.
9 calls for placing a new bituminous
concrete surface on the highway. All
work is to be completed by Sept. 30.
Surface treating will be started at
the south corporation limits of Bluff
ton and continue three miles to the
beginning of the stretch of new pave
ment
when
ated.
Cost of this summer’s improvement
has been estimated at $5,864.
Road Widened Last Year
Last year the highway department
spent approximately $75,000 widening
the same stretch of road and placing
on it an alsphalt concrete surface.
State route 81, west of Ada, in
Jackson township, Allen county, also
will be re-surfaced in this summer’s
program. Three miles of the road
will be bituminous treated at an esti
mated cost of $1,975.80.
In Hancock county, among other
projects, one mile of Route 69, south
from Mt. Cory, will be re-surfaced.
The estimated cost is $560.
Enters Professional
Photographic School
Mrs. E. N. Neuenschwander of the
Neu-Art studio left Sunday for
Winona Lake, Ind., where she will
remain for several weeks for an in
tensive study in advanced coloring
and photography, having been ac
cepted for the 1939 portrait class in
the Winona Summer School of Pho
tography, conducted exclusively for
professional photographers.
The school offers an exceptional op
portunity to study under noted pho
tographers and artists and to obtain
a knowledge of latest ideas in the
profession.
How Many Bridges
Guess Again,
With 11 bridges within the village
limits, two others on the corporation
line and another just outside, Bluff
ton can justly claim to be a town
of many bridges.
Two streams flowing through this
town of 2,000 have resulted in the
demand for an unusually large num
ber of bridges, considering size of
the village.
Six bridges span Big Riley creek
within the city limits. These include
the Nickel Plate railroad bridge, E.
College avenue, Cherry street, Jef
ferson street, North Main street and
Spring street bridges.
Little Riley creek is crossed by
three bridges in the town, including
Wheat Market At 59 Cents Drops
To Seven Year Low Here Tuesday
wheat yields in this
six-acre field on the
by
of
40
John Warren farm threshed
James Fisher made a yield
240 bushels—an average of
bushels per acre.
TO RE-SURFACE
DIXIE HIGHWAY
Of
constructed several years ago
the Gratz crossing was elimin-
Improvement in Beaverdam
Improvement will be started again
at the other end of the new brick
pavement near the Henry Gratz
farm, and continue to Beaverdam.
Some work will be done in Beaver
dam, principally over the route of the
Dixie at the south side of town.
From Beaverdam the re-surfacing
wil be continued to a place a short
distance past the road intersection
known as “Five Points.” The pro
ject will end at the point where the
uncovered brick road begins about
one-quarter of mile south of “Five
Points.”
Major Portion of Harvest Sea
son Sales are Made at
Higher Figure
Price Recovers One Cent
Wednesday Corn Prices
At Six Year Low
terial
trict,
weeks
which
summer.
Leave On Motor
Tour Thru
on
Wheat prices which have fluctuat
ed in the low sixties for more than
a month plunged to 59c a bushel on
the market here Tuesday, the lowest
price in seven years,
made a six year low
bushel.
Com, likewise
at 37 cents a
recovered one
The wheat market
60
cent Wednesday morning when
cents a bushel was quoted.
Bluffton dealers said the drop
price was not due to the quality
wheat or other local factors, but
rather to world conditions, of which
the bumper Canadian crop is
influence.
in
of
be-
Drop
although
had little
lieved to be a large
Escape Price
The drop in price,
cou raging to growers,
effect on farmers in this
most of whom sold several
ago that portion of their
they intended to market
dis
ma-
dis-
crop
this
dur-
Majority of wheat sales here
ing the harvest season were made
at 62 and 63 cents per bushel, ele
vator men stated. A few received
as high as 64 cents, the top price
quoted during threshing time. Sales
at present have dwindled to negli
gible proportions here.
Volume of wheat marketed here
this season is considerably less than
last year, which leads to the belief
that many farmers may be storing
their grain for livestock feeding pro
grams or in prospect of government
loans.
Corn Price Low
Unsatisfactory market action of
corn will have but little direct effect
on the local situation. Although
there is every prospect for a large
corn crop, there is almost no corn
sold on the local markets.
Corn provides the foundation of
hog feeding projects which are un
dertaken on nearly all of the farms
throughout this section. Although
the outlook for a raising hog market
is not promising, it is expected that
cheap and abundant corn
most of its usual outlet
this channel.
will find
through
West
Schaublin
Hilty left
sight see-
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wednesday morning for a
ing motor trip through the west.
see the important
and visit the fair
and will also visit
brother, Harry
They expect to
points of interest
in San Francisco,
Mr. Schaublin’s
Schaublin of Salinas, Calif., and Mrs.
Schaublin’s and Mr. Hilty’s brother
Walter Hilty of Glendora, Calif.,
and their sister Mrs. Charles Strahm
of Seattle, Wash., besides other rela
tives throughout the west.
Band Concert At
Emanuel’s Church
The Ft. Wayne Orphans’ Home
band, on a week’s tour of Ohio, will
give a concert at Emanuel’s Re
formed church south of Bluffton,
Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The
concert is sponsored by the Men’s
Brotherhood of the St. John’s and
Emanuel’s churches and members of
the congregations are invited.
Bluffton is the last stop on the
itinerary of the band which will re
main here over night and return to
Ft. Wayne, Friday morning.
In Bluffton?
You’ll Be Surprised
those at Riley street, W. Elm street
and W. College avenue. This does
not include a span, Krehbiel bridge,
for pedestrians only, on the Bluffton
college campus.
In addition, there are two bridges
across Marsh Run within the cor
poration, one on North Main street
and the other an A. C. & Y. rail
road bridge.
Bridges located on the town cor
poration line are over the Little
Riley on College road, at the inter
section with Campus drive, and the
Marsh Run bridge on the Allen-Han
cock county line.
Another bridge, the Grove street
bridge spanning the Little Riley, is
just outside the village limits.
rHE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939
MAY REGULATE
BARBERS’ HOURS
Majority of Bluffton Barbers
Ask Council to Enact
Legislation
Claim Measure Would Eliminate
Alleged Unfair Competi
tion Here
Hours during which Bluffton bar
ber shops may remain open for
business will be regulated by a town
ordinance, if the council complies
with a request of a majority of the
barbers here.
Appearing before the council at
its meeting Monday night, owners of
three of Bluffton’s four barber shops
asked for passage of such legisla
tion. The ordinance, it was stated
before the council, would eliminate
alleged unfair competition which it
is claimed now exists.
The alleged unfair competition, it
was brought out in a discussion of
the proposal, appeared to lay in the
claim that the fourth shop is
regularly open evenings, altho it
was admitted that this shop does
not open in the
eral hours after
in operation.
The measure as proposed to the
council, would effect barber shops
only and would not apply to the
operation of beauty parlors.
During the meeting some of the
council members expressed the opin
ion that if such legislation were
constitutional, passage of such
ordinance might open the way to
attempt to regulate other lines
business here.
A
morning until sev
the other three are
Schedule
Hour
A sixty-four hour week schedule
which the council was asked to in
corporate in the regulating ordinance
is:
Monday and Tuesday, 8 a. m.
6 p. m.
Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.
to 10 p. m.
to
m.
Thursday, 8 a. m. to noon.
Friday, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.
The proposed schedule, it is
would make little change in the
total number of hours per week the
shops here are open. It would,
however, result in all shops operat
ing at the same time.
said,
Seek Solicitor’s Opinion
Whether such legislation will be
considered by the council will depend
largely on the opuai^c, as to its
legality to be obtained from City
Solicitor Francis Durbin. This was
the position taken by the council
after a discussion of the measure.
an
an
of
Musselman To Head
Mt. Gilead Schools
Dwight Musselman, formerly of
Bluffton, will be superintendent
schools at Mt. Gilead next year.
of
Musselman who was head of the
schools at Arlington for the past
year and under contract for two
years more was given a release
the Arlington board of education
accept the Mt. Gilead position.
by
to
S.
Musselman is the son of Mrs.
M. Musselman of Pretty Prairie,
Kansas, formerly of this place. His
father, whose death occurred some
time ago, was pastor of the First
Mennonite church here for a number
of years.
Forrest G. Warner, superintendent
of schools at Wayne, in Wood coun
ty has been employed as superin
tendent of schools at Arlington for
the coming year.
Woman Is Recovering
From Fall Injuries
Mrs. George Howe, formerly of
Bluffton who was seriously injured
in a fall down a flight of stairs at
her home in Tippecanoe City ten
days ago was reported convalescing
satisfactorily, Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Howe who was rushed to a
hospital at Troy following
dent has been returned to
after it was found that no
tions were likely to arise.
the acci
her home
complica-
The injured woman, formerly Miss
Margaret Kimmel of this place, is a
sister of Mrs. Homer Bracy of North
Main street. Her husband, George
Howe, of the Tippecanoe City
schools, is a brother of Mayor W. A.
Howe of Bluffton.
The accident occurred during the
night when Mrs. Howe, walking
without a light into another room
where her two months’ old baby was
sleeping, made a misstep and
plunged down a flight of stairs at
her home.
As the result of the accident she
suffered a possible skull fracture,
broken collar bone and body bruises.
homing pigeon carrying a mes
in code appears to have adopt
new home at the Charles Auker
residence on Cherry street.
The bird was first noticed in the
Aukerman barn about six weeks ago.
It has remained there since and is
so tame the neighborhood children
can play with it.
sage
ed a
man
In good health, the pigeon seems
to have relinquished the ardors of
flying for the peace and quiet of its
new home.
Mayor
riders shall:
Ride more slowly, especially in
the business district.
Sound warning when overtaking
pedestrians.
Ride near the curb.
Keep off streets on Wednesday
and Saturday nights.
Findlay Licenses Wheels
system of licensing bicycles was
recently adopted in Findlay to deal
with the situation. Under this meas
ure, each bicyclist must purchase a
twenty-five cent license tag and re
place it with a new one for fifteen
cents on or before the first day of
July of each odd numbered year.
2.
3.
4.
A
City police have authority to re
move plates from any bicycle and
impound it for a period not to exceed
five days if the bicycle is operated
in an unsafe manner on streets or
sidewalks.
Council Postpones
Ban On Fireworks
Legislation banning fireworks on
the Fourth of July here, scheduled
to have been taken up by the town
council at its meeting Monday night
was postponed.
It was announced by Corporation
Clerk Carold Steiner that a draft of
the proposed ordinance had not yet
been received from City Solicitor
Francis Durbin.
FLUTE, ORGAN PROGRAM
A program of flute and organ
numbers will be given in the First
Mennonite church Sunday night at
7:30 p.m. by Otto Holtkamp of the
Bluffton college department of music
and his son William Holtkamp.
The program is sponsored by the
C. E. society of the church.
TAKES TEACHING POSITION
Donald Wenger who was graduated
from Bluffton college last month has
accepted a position as instructor in
mathematics in the high school at
Woodville for the coming year. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Wen
ger of East Kiber street.
Real Estate Deal
Robert Murray has purchased the
M. M. Murray property on Thurman
street occupied by Joseph Pence.
Murray expects to occupy the prop
erty shortly.
Homing Pigeon Stopping Here On
Flight Remains In Bluffton
Involves Safety
Bicyclist and
Pedestrian
Situation
Both
Riding of Bicycles on Sidewalks
To Continue Under
Restrictions
Traffic and safety problems pre
sented by bicycle-riding youngsters
which have given Bluffton officials
many a headache in past years, were
tackled by the city administration
the first of the week.
Although there is a town ordinance
prohibiting the riding of bicycles on
the sidewalk, it is pointed out that
the ordinance was enacted years ago
when congested automobile traffic
on hard surfaced highways was un
known.
To enforce the ordinance and re
quire bicycles to use the highway it
is admitted would be dangerous un
der present traffic conditions,
the other hand bicycle riding on
sidewalks involves peril to pedes
trians, especially in the business dis
trict.
Issues Regulations
For Riding Bicycles Here
of
On
Mayor Given Authority
In a consideration of the matter
at the council meeting Monday
night, Mayor W. A. Howe was given
authority to formulate a program
to deal with the situation.
In announcing the regulations the
mayor stated that bicycle riding
would still be permitted on side
walks under the following conditions
that
1.
band on the pigeon’s
found a message in
At-
In the metal
leg Aukerman
code that cannot be deciphered,
tempts will be made to locate the
owner of the fowl by members of
the Bluffton Radio club who in con
versation with radio amateurs in all
parts of the country are spreading
word of the lost
pigeon.
by some that
important and
made to find
It is thought
message may be
forts should be
person who dispatched it with
pigeon.
the
ef
the
the
AWAIT ACTION
IN SCHOOL CASE
Orange Township Group Holds
Conference with Findlay
Attorney
Action for Transfer of Terri
tory Expected before Open
ing of School
Leaders in the Orange township
school controversy who have been at
odds with the Hancock county board
of education went over the situation
in a conference at the office of their
attorney, A. G. Fuller in Findlay, Fri
day.
Although there was no statement
issued following the meeting, it was
known that the conference was called
with a purpose of outlining policies
in the four year old fight to have a
portion of Orange township trans
ferred from the Union township (Mt.
Cory) school district to Bluffton for
school purposes.
It is believed, however, that some
action will be taken shorty as it is
known that the Orange township pro
testers are seeking to have a transfer
of the disputed territory made before
the opening of the fall term of school.
Action Anticipated
Action by the Orange township
group was anticipated after a pro
posed “compromise” in the school dis
trict transfer was rejected by the
Hancock county board of education
at its July meeting.
Atty. Fuller, together with Jesse
Anderson and a number of other
Orange township residents seeking
the transfer of territory were present
at the meeting.
Folowing the meeting at which the
board failed to take any action on the
proposed transfer, it was announced
that Attorney Fuller would make a
detailed study of the case in order
to make recommendations at the con
ference last Friday.
To Show Hawaiian
Pictures At Church
Pictures of life and customs in the
Hawaiian islands will be shown at
the First Mennonite church here on
Thursday night at 8:15 o’clock. The
pictures are those taken by William
Geiger, formerly of near Bluffton
who has
schools on
of years.
Showing
in the
been instructor
the island for a number
of the pictures is a part
of the program of the regular meet
ing of the Men’s Brotherhood of the
church. Officers of the brotherhood
have extended an invitation
one interested to attend.
street.
to any-
the pic
enjoy a
Preceding the showing of
tures the Brotherhood will
hamburger fry at the outdoor grill
at the home of Paul Diller on South
Main
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
Community hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Diller, a
daughter Mary Jo, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hahn, a son
Rolland Thomas, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hart, Pan
dora, a son, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Crawford,
Ada, a daughter, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Augustine,
Rawson, a son, Tuesday.
NEW POSITION
has
Miss Martha Niswander who
been instructor in home economics at
Spencerville high school for the past
three years has resigned to accept a
similar position in the high school
Milan, Ohio. She is the daughter
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Niswander
South Main street.
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of
of
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 13
TOWNSHIP ROADS
HARD SURFACED
Six Miles of Richland Highways
In Summer Schedule Now
Being Finished
i Im
is
One-sixth of County’ s
provement Program i
Allotted Here
of Rich-
Hard surfacing of six miles
land township roads,
divided______sixinto
projects, is nearing completion as a
part of a summer highway improve
ment program entailing work on 36
miles of the Allen county road sys
tem.
Work is being done in Richland
township on six roads with the county
bearing the cost of the improvement.
The complete schedule is as follows:
Grismore road, one mile near the
Diller school.
Bluffton-Columbus Grove road, one
mile west of the Hilty school.
Phillips road, one mile south of the
Lincoln highway.
Bentley road, one mile south of the
Lincoln highway.
Hillville road, one mile west from
the Gratz school house.
Road south of Rockport, one mile
on the Monroe-Richland township line.
Hard surfacing is being effected on
six roads, which vary in width from
40 to 60 feet. Work on the project
will be completed very shortly.
Last year the county paid for im
provements on five miles of Richland
township roads, four miles on the
Philips road from the Gratz school to
the county line, one mile on the Augs
burger road near the W. A. Amstutz
farm.
Golden Wedding And
Birthday Observed
Golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Murray and the birthday an
niversary of Lloyd Murray were ob
served at a reunion of the Murray
family held at liivevsiiia park. Find
lay, Sunday.
Friday of this week will mark the
fiftieth anniversary of the wedding
of Mr. and Mrs. Murray who
married in Bluffton, July 28,
Mrs. Murray was the former
Ola Peppell of this place.
were
1889.
Miss
here,
Mr. Murray, ex-postmaster
is one of the Murray triplets, now
aged 71. The other two are Medlow
and Horace G. Murray, also of Bluff
ton. The Murray triplets are the
survivors of quadruplets,
whom died at borth.
lived in Bluffton when
were born.
one of
The family
the babies
Sunday of
Pictures were shown
the three brothers, taken at birth,
again at thirty-five years and again
at seventy.
Friday will also mark the seventy
third birthday anniversary of Lloyd
Murray, two years older than the
triplets.
Following the picnic dinner, Sun
day, a program of accordion selec
tions was presented by Misses Mar
jorie and Wanda Murray, daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Murray of
Findlay.
Present for the reunion were:
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Murray, Med
low Murray and H. G. Murray, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Murray, Mr. and
rs. Clayton Murray and son John,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Amstutz and
daughter Mary Ann, Mr. and Mrs.
Nile Murray and children Roger,
Scott, Jeanette and Morris, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Murray and children
Robert, Jr., and Betty, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Triblehorn, Mr. and Mrs.
Murray Trippiehorn and children
Charles, Don, John and Lora Jean
of Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwain Murray and
children Sue and Joe, Marietta Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Murray and child
ren Marjorie and Wanda, Mr. and
Mrs. Scott Woods and daughter Inez,
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Murray and
daughter Patricia, Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Crawford and son Ronald,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hochstettler and
children Marion and Carol, Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Trippiehorn and daugh
ter Carol Ann,
Lora, Mr. and
Findlay.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Mrs. Frank Grant,
Mr. and Mrs.
land
Mrs. Thos,
and Mrs.
David Uhl
Lima Mr.
Cincinnati
Young, Leipsic.
Dwight Palm, Cleve-
Miss Ruth Murray, Tiffin
Donaghue, Fremont Mr.
Harry Mohler, grandson
and Mrs. Mary Lehman,
and Mrs. Frank Young,
and Mr. and Mrs. Orval
HOME NEZXT WEEK
Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Kliewer of
Grove street who have been visiting
in Montana for the past month are
expected to return home the latter
part of next week.