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VOLUME NO. LXIV
NO WPA WALKS
HERE THIS YEAR
About 24 Want Walks But
Program Too Small for
New WPA Setup
Last Sidewalk Construction
In 1938 First Such
Program in 1936
was
About two dozen scattered prop
erty owners have indicated their in
terest in having walks built under
the WPA program in which they
pay for the materials and the fed
eral government provides the labor.
However, the project apparently
is too small for consideration by the
WPA, Mayor Howe reported, par
ticularly since officials of the federal
setup of late have indicated a pre
ference for larger programs requir
ing a maximum of man hours.
Unless there should be additional
signers or the WPA policy is
changed there is very little likeli
hood of a sidewalk or curbing con
struction program in Bluffton this
year.
Walks have been built here under
the WPA program since 1936, the
last such project being in the sum
mer of 1938.
In 1938 construction the WPA
crew laid 5,528 feet of new walks,
four feet in width. Work was done
on 73 individual properties and at
13 village street crossings. In addi
tion several blocks of new street
curb were laid. The aggregate cost
was approximately $2,200, including
the federal expenditure for labor.
WPA constructed walks are of ap
proved construction, with a four
inch base of stone and a four-inch
top of concrete.
Fill Vacancy On
Democratic Ticket
Arden R. Baker of the Triplett
Electrical Instrument company has
been named by local Democratic
committee to fill the vacancy on the
party ticket caused by the with
drawal of Orden Smucker, nominee
for town council.
Smucker, instructor in Bluffton
high school, withdrew from the
ticket as one of the Democratic can
didates for council following the pri
mary two weeks ago.
His withdrawal was due to the
fact that he has been given a year’s
leave of absence to attend Ohio State
university, Columbus, where he will
teach and also do graduate work.
He and his wife will leave next
month for Columbus.
Baker, who will take his place on
the Democratic ticket has been con
nected with the Triplett company in
advertising and personnel work for
the past three years.
Set Caucus Dates
For Orange Twp
Orange township Democrats and
Republicans will hold party caucuses
at Orange Center next Monday night
at 7:30 o’clock, to nominate candi
dates for the various township of
fices.
Republicans will hold their meet
ing in the school house and Demo
crats in the township house, both
of which are at Orange Center.
To Direct Mennonite
Mission In Chicago
Rev. Carl Landis, who has been
in charge of student work projects
at Bluffton college will move in Sep
tember with his family to Chicago
where he will have charge of the
Twenty-sixth Street Mennonite mis
sion.
While in Chicago he will also
study at a theological seminary in
that city. Assisting him in work at
the mission will be six Mennonite
students who will attend the semin
ary and the University of Chicago.
Rev. Landis for several years has
been secretary of the Mennonite
Peace society with headquarters
here.
Bride
MISS
Alma Hilty, daughter
ATISS Alma Hilty, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hilty
whose wedding to Russell Mast
of Walnut Creek, Ohio, takes
place in the Bluffton college
chapel this Wednesday afternoon
at four o’clock.
m-
side
year
Bluffton will have no WPA
walk construction program this
acording to present indications,
Mayor W. A. Howe reported Tues
day, following a study of the situa
tion.
Mxe. ii u
The wedding is the culmina
tion of a romance which began
while both were college students
here.
TEACHER KILLED
IN AOTO CRASH
Kentucky Woman Driver Dies
In Crash with Truck at
Beaverdam
Mother is Recovering from In
juries in Bluffton Com
munity Hospital
music teacher
home from De
three other per
one seriously in
collision in
A public school
driving a new car
troit was killed and
sons were injured,
an automobile-truck
Beaverdam last Thursday afternoon
at the eastern intersection of the
Dixie and Lincoln highways.
^Victim of the accident, Catherine
Reid Owen, 33, of Georgetown, Ky.,
driver of the car died almost in
stantly. She suffered a broken neck
and crushed chest.
Miss Owen a former student in
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
had accepted a position as instructor
in public school music at Mariemont,
a Cincinnati suburb, and had pur
chased a car in order to continue
her studies at the conservatory in
addition to her public school teach
ing. She had previously graduated
from Georgetown university, in Ken
tucky.
Mother
in
Hospital
Serious injuries were suffered by
the vicitim’s mother, Mrs. Merritt
Owen, 63, who is in the Bluffton
Community hospital suffering from
a brain concussion, cut over the eye
and a fractured left leg.
dition, however,
she will leave for
the first of next
taches stated.
Her con-
is improving and
her home probably
week, hospital at-
Others less seriously injured who
received first aid treatment at the
hospital here were Miss Elizabeth
Owen, 29, sister of the victim, a
teacher in the schools of Shelbyville,
Ky., who received leg and head la
cerations and Ernest Ashurst, 18, a
cousin, who received head lacera
tions and lost four teeth. The in
jured were brought to the Bluffton
hospital in the Diller ambulance.
The party of four were enroute
to their home in Kentucky after vis
iting in Detroit and were southbound
over the Dixie highway. The car
had turned west on the combined
route of the Dixie and Lincoln high
ways at the eastern edge of Beaver
dam near the Lugibihl antique shop
just before the accident occurred.
Hits Truck
In the collision the car struck a
large truck eastbound on the Lin
coln. Carl Wyatt, 22, of Akron, the
driver and Myron Steiner, 24, of
Orville, the owner, were unhurt.
Deputy Sheriff John Carder and
a state highway patrolman who in
vestigated, reported the auto crashed
into the front of the truck-trailer,
as the turn was being made by the
car. The victim was said to have
learned to drive while in Detroit
after purchasing the car, and was
unused to heavy traffic.
With exception of Mrs. Owen, the
injured were released after receiv
ing treatment at the hospital here.
Body of the accident victim was sent
to Georgetown, Thursday night
where funeral services were held
Sunday.
1
DEER SEEN NEAR BLUFFTON
•e, Nearly Full Grown Sighted
on Emil Garau Farm South
of Town.
Animal Leaps Fences Easily
and Dissapears into Thicket
Near Creek
■r, the first
tri’years,
locality
west of
The
during
half-doz
to be seen in this
w*as sighted south
Friday afternoon,
at various times
by more than a
as it jumped high
rprising agility and fin-
seen
fences with Surprising agility and fin
ally disappeared in a thicket near
little Riley creek on the Homer Gratz
farm.
From description furnished by those
who sighted the animal, it is believed
to be a doe nearly full grown. How
the animal came to be in this locality
has been exciting much comment. It
has not been seen sifice Friday and
its whereabouts are a mystery.
The deer was first reported as hav
ing been seen by Frinris Basinger,
Aaron Messinger and Ufysses Reich
enbach, carpenters making repairs on
the bam at the Emil Garfefc farm two
mlies south of Bluffton on'Jthe Rock
port road, Friday afternoon about 2
o’clock.
The animal appeared to be ild and
fled at the sight of humans.* As it
crossed the Rockport road it seen
by James Davis, Ceasar Klay and
others of a crew of workmen engg
in cutting weeds alongside the hig
way. Later that afternoon it wasr
ported as having been seen
Steiner, farmer residing in that,!
cinity and Philip Basinger, Bluffti
meat market proprietor.
ed
fh
be-
L1
About Forty
Loss Claims Filed
About forty claims for losses in
the rural districts near Bluffton will
be filed as a result of the tornado
which swept this section ten days
ago, it was indicated the first of the
week by officials of the two mutual
insurance companies which insured
most of the property in that locality.
The Richland Township Farmers
Mutual Insurance association officers
states that about 25 claims would
be filed with their organization
ranging from $5 to $100.
The Mennonite Mutual Aid society
will be called upon to settle only
about 15 claims. Included in this
number, however, are two of the
heaviest losses, that sustained by
buildings on the Chris Santschi
farm two miles south of Bluffton
and the Amos Thut hay barn with
in the corporation limits. Other
claims, however, will be under $100,
officials stated.
Drivers9 Licenses
On Sale Sept. 5
Drivers’ licenses for 1940 will got
on sale thruout the state on Sept. 5,
it was announced last week by the
Ohio Bureau of Motor
Motorists
with the
ber 1.
Vehicles,
must provide themselves
new licenses before Octo­
Lewis, deputy registrar of
Robert
motor vehicles, will be in charge of
the issuing of licenses here. He
will open an office at the Steiner
Chevrolet garage.
In applying for new licenses, mo
torists must present their 1939 cer
tificates, according to a new ruling
by the state department.
Licenses for 1939 must be present
ed in order that any convictions
made for violations of motor vehicle
laws may be readily seen by the
registrar.
Births
Announcement has been received
here of the birth of a daughter to
Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Schultz who
are spending the summer in Chi
cago. Rev. Schultz is an instructor
in Bluffton college. The family will
return here this fall and occupy the
Clayton Bixel property on South
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams of
Leipsic are the parents of a son
at the Bluffton hospital, Mon­
born
day.
son, Thomas Bruce, has
to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Joliet, Ill., according to
been
Gib
word
Miss
born
soon
received here. Mrs. Gibson was
Kathryn Harper who formerly re
sided near Bluffton.
1I1E BLUE ON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939
TOWN TO VOTE ON SEWERAGE SYSTEM THIS FALL
JTNDER the caption “A Small
U Town Boy in the Nation's
Capital", Don E. Smucker, form
erly of Bluffton gives a close-up
view of current affairs in Wash
ington. Smucker has been in
the capital this summer in the
interest of neutrality legislation
and has had the benefit of nu
merous official contacts in this
work.—Editor.
By every standard of comparison
Washington is the most unique city
in the United States. It is only nat
ural that more Americans have visit
ed or worked in the Capital than any
other metropolitan center, for here
is the very nerve center of our polit
ical life.
Every day one see a seemingly end
les caravan of
of people with
that awe and
study, interest
affairs of state since the Americans,
sightseeing buses full
craned necks. Behind
w'onder are years of
and anxiety about the
PARTY CAUCUS
OATES ARE SET
Republicans and Democrats
Will Name Nominees
Next Week
Two nominees will be named by
each party for the Bluffton board of
education, with only electors from the
school district participating.
For the township nominations elec
tors from Bluffton,
the rural areas will
take part.
Sluffton Sheep Raiser Ships
Two Merinos To South America
Board and Township
Nominations to be Made
By Parties
Richland township caucuses will be
held next week by Democrats and
Republicans to name candidates for
the Bluffton Board of education, and
six township posts.
Republicans will hold their caucus
Thursday night, August 31 in the
Bluffton town hall, and Democrats
will meet at the same place Friday
night, Sept. 1.
Beaverdam and
be permitted to
will include one
Township nomines
trustee for a four-year term, a town
ship clerk-treasurer for a four-year
term two justices of peace and two
constables.
Leave On Month’s
Tour Thru West
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Romey and
daughter Carolyn of South Main
street will leave Thursday on an ex
tended automobile tour through the
west. They will stop at Minneapolis
to visit at the home of Mr. Romey's
sister, Mrs. J. C. Welty and visit in
Payette, Idaho, at the home of Jesse
Hilty, brother of Mrs. Romey.
Wilmington, Calif., they will
Sam Romey, a brother and also
Kibele, formerly of Bluffton
is prominent in shipping circles
In
visit
Otto
who
of that city,
they plan to visit the San Francisco
exposition and Yellowstone park.
Among scenic spots
In New Locations
who
last
are
Coach and Mrp. Dwight Diller
returned the latter part of
week from Ann Arbor, Mich.,
occupying the Martha Steiner prop
erty on South Lawn avenue. Coach
Diller, in charge of athletics at
Bluffton high school attended sum
mer school at the University of
Michigan.
John Hirschfeld and family moved
Monday from the Ed Marquart farm
south of Bluffton to Lima where he
is employed at the Westinghouse
plant.
Rev. C. L. Grabiil and family who
have been occupying the Mrs. Min
nie Patrick property on Riley street
will move next week to Denair,
Calif., where he has accepted a pas
torate.
HISTORY-MAKING BATTLE LOOMING OVER HOT
NEUTRALITY ISSUE WILL ROCK NEXT CONGRESS
WRITES FORMER BLUFFTON BOY IN WASHINGTON
as no other people, participate in po
litical life.
Indeed, there is no other Capital
quite similar to the basic character of
Washington. In Europe the seats of
government are located in London,
Paris, Berlin, Rome and Moscow, all
the largest cities of the land. If our
politicians had stayed in Philadelphia
prehaps there would be a combined
metropolis-capital in the U. S. A.
No Big City Atmosphere
Washington, however, consists only
of people working for the government,
working for agencies related to the
government or people providing goods
and services to the former two cate
gories. And, as a matter of fact, the
District of Columbia does not have a
big city atmosphere.
Those in the gay activities of dip
lomatic and high-up political society
are in a minority. The average per
son here is just an ordinary mortal
who wishes he would still be living
in the county seat back home.
tourney on Board Ship Requires
19
Days Must Unload
In Baskets
Cohli
Brothers Sell Ram and
Ewe to Prominent South
American Breeder
Two purebred Merino sheep, a
ram and a ewe, shipped by Kohli
Brothers, north of Bluffton, will ar
rive in Peru on August 30 after 19
days on board ship.
The sheep were forwarded from
New York City on the West Coast
Line freighter, “Frida”, consigned to
J. C. Romero Oblitas, of Nunoa,
Peru, a South American breeder, on
Aug. 11, by way of the Panama
Canal.
Nunoa, however, is not on the sea
coast and the sheep will be unloaded
at Mollendo, Peru, where the water
is so rough and the coast so rugged
that it is necessary to transfer
freight from the larger freighters
to smaller boats by basket.
Oblitas made his selection of sheep
from photographs and a description
of the animals forwarded to him by
Kohli Brothers.
correspond
in Spanish,
breeders by
of Rev. and
Translations of first
ence from him, written
were made for the local
the 13-year-old daughter
Mrs. Clarence Jones, missionaries to
Ecuador, who had been visiting with
her grandfather, Rev. A. D. Welty,
of Lima. A reply also was written
by her in Spanish.
Later translations were handled by
Manuel Caragol, former employe of
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co., whose home is in Barcelona,
Spain. After his departure for
Spain in June, translations have
been made by Dr. Wertheim, of the
Findlay college foreign language de
partment. All correspondence has
been by airmail, with about nine
days time required enroute.
On board ship the sheep are being
cared for by an attendant, according
to instructions given by the Kohli
Brothers. They were shipped in
crates five feet by three and one
half feet by three feet, with built
in mangers.
Climatic conditions in the new
home of the sheep will be slightly
different than those in Ohio, because
of the high altitude, but no ill ef
fects are anticipated.
Before purchasing the sheep it was
necessary for Oblitas to obtain per
mission from the Peruvian govern
ment to import them.
Merino sheep originally came from
Spain, but in recent years the
American breed has proved superior
and is widely sought by breeders.
now
the
Most South American breeders
make their purchases from
United States as a result.
Two
made
whose
favor
breeders.
been
previous shipments have
to Uruguay by the Kohli’s,
Merino sheep are held in high
by leading South American
Rev. Clayton Steiner, a missionary
to Peru, is now stationed at Lima,
about 200 miles north of Arequipa.
Hiram Kohli has written a letter to
Rev. Steiner, advising the date the
sheep were shipped and suggesting
that he make arrangements to see
them.
A further paradox is the rapid ex
pansion of Washington in the mo
ments when the remainder of the
country is experiencing a depression.
The statistics on the expansion since
1933 are almost unbelievable. When
the New Deal came to power there
were 65,437 people employed here by
the government today there are 121,
933 or an increase of 85 per cent.
Building Boom
The monthly payroll has increased
from $11,103,449 to $21,458,816, an in
crease of over 93 per cent. Natural
ly, this kind of expansion has called
for an increase in office and apart
ments. Today there is a building
boom here with an endless succession
of new homes and apartments, reach
ing well beyond the actual boundaries
of the District which is 8 miles square.
Thousands of employess live in Mary
land and Virginia suburbs, close by.
Most impressive, however, are the
new and the old government bildings.
(Continued on page 2)
NO TRANSFER OF
ORANGE DISTRICT
lancock County School Board
Takes No Action Following
Court Order
Jase Expected to Come to Hear
ing Before Court of Ap
peals, Sept. 21
At the regular August meeting
last Saturday, the board took no
action relative to the transfer.
According to County Superintend
ent E. E. Ray, members of the board
preferred to let the matter go to a
hearing before the court of appeals.
In a writ issued two weeks ago
by the court,
education was
the Anderson
Sept. 5, or to
ing why such transfer was not made.
It was also provided in the order
that in case the board did not com
ply a hearing would be held in the
Hancock county court house on Sep
tember 21.
Refusal to comply with the order,
one the part of the board, means
the case automatically will be taken
into court for the likely final solu
tion in a battle that has been waged
since Orange township was redis
tricted three years ago following
abandonment of the one-room rural
schools.
Bluffton Pastor To
Leave For California
Rev. C. L. Grabiil of the Bluffton
Missionary church has accepted a
call from the Missionary church of
Denair, Calif., and will leave with
his family for that place next week.
The Bluffton pastor, together with
his wife, two sons and daughter will
make the trip west by automobile.
The vacancy in the Bluffton pulpit
will be filled by Rev. Arthur Albro
of Elkton, Mich. Rev. Albro, with
his wife and three children will ar
rive in Bluffton next week to take
up his pastoral duties here Sept. 1.
Rev. Grabiil has been pastor of
the Missionary congregation here
since it was organized ten years ago
and has been largely instrumental
in the building up of the
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
a
attending
man.
church.
the town
when the
a frame
Meeting were held in
hall until five years ago
congregation purchased
church structure and moved it to its
present location on North
avenue where services have
been held.
Lawn
since
GRADUATES TN PHOTOGRAPHY
Mrs. E. H. Neuenschwander of
South Lawn avenue returned Satur
day from Winona Lake, Ind., where
she was graduated from the Winona
School of Photography in the courses
of portraiture and advanced color
ing.
NUMBER 17
WOULD BE BUILT
AS WPA PROJECT
Toposal Would Include Inter
cepting Sewers and
Disposal Plant
Cost to Municipality is Un
officially Estimated at
$75,000
The question of issuing bonds for
Bluffton’s share of the cost of a
WPA sewage disposal project will
be submitted to voters of the town
at the November election, it was
indicated Monday night at a meeting
of the council.
An engineering firm was retained
by the village governing body to
prepare estimates on the cost of the
program, data which will be neces
sary before machinery can be set in
motion to include the bond issue vote
on the ticket this fall.
Altho the council took no official
(Continued on page 8)
Afternoon Wedding
In College Chapel
A wedding in the Bluffton college
chapel this Wednesday afternoon at
4 o’clock when Miss Alma Hilty of
Bluffton becomes the bride of Russell
Mast of Walnut Creek, Ohio, will
mark the culmination of a romance
that began while both wera students
in the
college here.
wedding which will be wit
by immediate families to
with close relatives and inti-
The
board
With the Hancock county
of education ignoring order of the
Third District court of appeals to
transfer the Anderson territory of
Orange township to the Bluffton
school district, it is indicated that
the three-year-old controversy will
be fought out in the courts this fall.
the county board of
ordered to transfer
area to Bluffton by
file an answer show­
nessed
gether
mate friends will take place before
an improvised floral altar amid dec
orations of ferns and gladioli and
lighted by the glow of tall cathe
dral candles from candelabra on
either side.
Rev. Paul Whitmer pastor of the
Grace Mennonite church, Pandora,
will officiate, using the single ring
ceremony. The bride entering on
the arm of her father, C. D. Hilty,
who will give her away, will wear
the gown in which she was crowned
Bluffton college May queen two years
ago. It is of white lace, princess
style with finger tip length veil.
Her bouquet
iolt
will be of white glad­
attendant will be her
Agnes Hilty who will
only
Miss
gown of peach lace with net.
Her
sister,
wear a
George Stoneback of Goshen, Ind.,
roommate of the bridegroom while
college here, will be best
will be Hiram Diller of
and the bride’s brother
Ushers
Pandora
Harold Hilty of Rising Sun.
A program of wedding music pre
ceding the ceremony will be opened
with Miss Mareen Bixler at the or
gan playing Rubenstein’s “Romance”.
Miss Lucille Hilty, sister of the
bride, will continue the program
with a
“When
Ernest
mance”
will continue the
i group of vocal numbers
I Have Sung My Song” by
Charles and Debussy’s “Ro-
Bixler will be heard in an
by Franz
Miss
organ number “Dedication”
after which W. R. Mast, father of
the bridegroom will sing “Ice Liebe
Dich” by Grieg, ‘‘Calm as the
Night”, Bohm and conclude with
“Believe Me If AU Those Endearing
Young Charms”.
An organ number “Drink to Me
Only with Thine Eyes’ by
ler will be followed by
“O Promise Me”, sung
Hilty.
Miss Bix
DeKoven’e
by Miss
enter the
The bridal party will
chapel as Lohengrin’s wedding march
is played by Miss Bixler who will
continue with a subdued rendition of
“Meditation” from Massenet’s Thais
during the ceremony. Mendelssohn’s
wedding march will be played as the
bridal party leaves the chapel.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion will be held at the home of the
bride’s parents, Mi. and Mrs. C. D.
Hilty on Spring street after which
the couple will leave on a short wed
ding trip.
Both the bride and bridegroom are
graduates of Bluffton college in the
class of 1937. The bride has been
in instructor in the high school at
Tim for the past year.
The bridegroom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Mast of Walnut Creek,
is a student at Hartford Theological
seminary, Hartford, Conn.,
which he will be graduated
the coming year, and the
will reside in that city.
from
during
couple