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PAGE EIGHT u Basketball season is just around the corner for Bluffton fans, and the town’s scholastic and independent teams are drilling religiously for their opening contests. Bluffton Boosters, an independent outfit, will be the first to get in action. They will play Thursday night of next Xveek in Lima league play, opposing Bradfield Center. The high school Beason will open Friday, Dec. 1, in a tilt at Vaughnsville, and Bluffton college will swing into action Satur day, Dec. 2, when the Beavers enter tain Bowling Green on the Bluffton floor. Two players from this section are among Ohio’s leading high school grid scorers, according to a compila tion announced last week. Eldon Bluffton High eagers will play 17 games during the 1939-40 cage sea son, opening on Dec. 1 at Vaughns ville and making their first home ap pearance on Dec. 9 against Rawson. For the most part the schedule is made tip of familiar foes, but two NOor VTT Par-T-Jel SHORT SPORTS Bluffton High Cogers Will Play 17 Games During 1939-40 Season matter how stormy the weather may be how bad the fire may rage our Comprehen sive Policy will insure your home and household goods against all losses caused by fire and wind. Our insurance is as good as the best and better than the rest. Try us for friendly Service S. P. HERR Phone 363-W ECONOMY... You get it in a Bixel Motor Sales Authorized Ford Dealers Bluffton, Ohio YOUR CITY MARKET HOME OF FINE FOODS City Market imirfSV Fresh Canned Brown Sugar KELLOGG’S CORN FLAKES Bisquick Uall.Mall J- Bash, of Mt. Blanchard, is in third place, with a total of 123 points, and “Taters” Basinger, Pandora High’s star was fourth high with 119 points. Basketball play is under way in earnest among Allen county teams. In last week’s games Lafayette top ped Beaverdam in a thriller 21 to 19, and Harrod won from Elida, 26 to 19. Mt. Blanchard blasted Mt. Cory last Friday, 39 to 0, to win the championship of the Hancock county Little Nine league for the second year in a row. The Mt. Blanchard outfit, coached by Howard Yawberg, formerly a mentor at Rawson, has been unbeaten in league play for the last two seasons. Rawson lost to Arlington on the same day, 34 to 6. new opponents appear on the card. Salem Centralized, of near Upper Sandusky, will play here on Dec. 13, and on Feb. 24 the Bluffton outfit will journey to Gallipolis for a game with a team coached by Gar Griffith, form Bluffton High mentor. The schedule, announced this week by Faculty manager Sidney C. Stet tler, is one of Bluffton’s heaviest in several seasons. It is as follows: Dec. 1—at Vaughnsville Dec. 8—at Lima South Dec. 9—Rawson here Dec. 13—Salem Centralized here Dec. 20—at Ada Jan. 5—at Wapakoneta Jan. 6—Shawneee here Jan. 12—Celina here Jan. 13—at Willshire Jan. 19—North Baltimore here Jan. 23—Columbus Grove here Jan. 26—at St. Marys Feb. 2—Bellefontaine here Feb. 9—Ada here Feb. 16—at Van Wert Feb. 23—Wapakoneta here Feb. 24—at Gallipolis Ne«'L»"8 Cigarette 717X7X2 Our Own WI’X’ILXL Sunrise GOLD MEDAL FLOUR sr OXYDOL ^:u AkS Grapefruit mr A /*UV?Ct FORD Fresh Creamery Michigan Freestone Iceberg Lettuce lOc MR. FARMER— HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR YOUR EGGS 6 35c 5 Lbs. 35c "L2™ 19c lE 31s 2 FOR 39C 3 us. 39c li 3 FOR IOC 89c Large 1^® Golden Yellow, Ripe lb. 10 FOR 39c m». 3Oc S±S5« Opening their 1930-40 season, a strengthened Bluffton Boosters cage team will meet Bradfield Center in Lima recreational league play at Lima, Thursday night of next week. The Boosters will compete this year in the American league, one of the divisions in the Lima recrea tional winter program. Games will be played each Thursday night at the Lima South gymnasium. In addition to Lima league compe tition, the Bluffton Independent team is scheduling inter-city games to be played at home and on foreign courts. An impressive lineup is assured by the return of seven veterans from last year’s squad, in addition to seven newcomers. What is believed to be one of the tallest teams in About six weeks ago the Pandora and Bluffton Mennonite churches ex tended a call to Rev. Otto Lichti, one of the abest and best instructors in the Theological Seminary of Bloom field, N. J., to come and be the pas tor of the two orgranizations, which he has accepted. On Monday morning bright and early George Feltz, Allen county au ditor, will turn over the keys of his office, which he has handled for the past six years, and Prof. E. C. Aker man, of Bluffton, elected last fall, will accept the county trust. Among the properties that changed hands last week were the Zehrbach property on Railroad street, pur chased by Frank Scott, for a consid eration of $1000, and the R. B. Day property on Riley street, purchased by Henson Good for $900. The deals were made thru Real Estate Agent F. A. Eaton. D. S. Burkholder sold his Mound street residence Monday to Noah Diller. Consideration, $2, 350. Gilboa people have signed a peti tion with enough names to call for a vote on local option, and will have an election soon. Gilboa was a dry town a good many years until two years ago when it went wet. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Steiner, on Jackson street, a daughter was welcomed, Saturday morning. E. A. Armentrout and wife are rejoicing over the arrival of a new baby boy, which came to their home Friday. Born, to John Moser and wife, a fine boy Sunday. Miss Fairy Slusser and Mell Bush ong entered school at the O. N. U., Tuesday. Harry Niswander, Harry Baumgartner and Miss Lois Niswan der also resumed their work there. Eli Hartman has the foundation laid for a new house on Jefferson street, near the L. E. and W. cross ing. The most elegant electric car that ever passed thru Bluffton passed thru Sunday afternoon. It was bound for Columbus from Toledo and was the first to run between these two cities Nation’s Thanksgiving Observance History (Continued from page 1) From the time of Washington to Lincoln, however, there was no cus tomary procedure. President Thomas Jefferson, for example, who felt that religious observances had not part in activities of the state, refused to designate any such holiday during his years in the White House. President Madison, on the other hand, proclaimed four Thanksgiving Days in his term—but set them all in different months. In addition to the traditional November date, Thanksgiving have been observed by the United States in July, April, May and October. Custom prescribes that the date of Thanksgiving shall be set by a special proclamation of the Presi dent. However, it remains for each state to stamp it as a legal holiday, and if governors of states so desire they may not follow the President’s recommendation. Up to Governors This is the situation this year, with the President’s proclamation, but in other cases, governors are ad hering to custom and have set No vember 30 as Thanksgiving Day in their states. The celebration of Thanksgiving has a long and curious history. Days set aside for special Thanksgiving were known to the Israelites and are mentioned in the Bible. Such ob servances also were common in England, particularly after the Re formation. North America’s first Thanksgiv ing was held in 1578 on the shores of Newfoundland by an English min ister named Wolfall. The earliest record of a similar observance with in the present territory of the Unit ed States was held by the Popham colony on the coast of Maine in August, 1607. First Pilgrim Thanksgiving It remained for the Pilgrims in Plymouth colony, however, to give us the basis of our present day ob servance. Following the plentiful harvest of 1621, Governor Bradford THE BLUFFTONNEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO Bluffton Boosters Open Cage Season Next Week With Tilt In Lima League News Our Grandfathers Read From Issue Of October 18,1906 this section will be placed on the floor by the Boosters. They have two complete teams which will aver age well over six feet. Last year’s veterans include Herb Kindle, Dwight Dille r, Marion Fish er, Bert Swank, Bob Murray, John Stonehill and Evari Soash. New comers are Jim Mon ison, Jim Miller, Hank Detwiler, Piml Todd, Sam Trippiehorn, Jack Clark and Willie Trippiehorn. Charles Steiner is managing the team again this sea son. Bluffton will play in the American league against Equity Union, Jack’s cafeteria, Westinghouse, Vaughns ville and Bradfield Center. Flashy new uniforms were do nated for the independent team this year by Bluffton merchants. in one continuous trip. It was ele gantly furnished ind consisted of three separate parts: a sleeper, a diner and a parlor car. T. J. Cornwell, w to Al Waltz returned to Celevland, Sunday evening after a few days’ visit with his mether. Mrs. M. A. Waltz. David Miller and family, of Desh ler, will move to Bl iff ton in the near future. Frank Swank, of Robinson, Ill., re turned here Tuesday. The following day Mr. and Mrs. Swank stored their household goods and for the present will make their home with the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Back. Miss Hazel McKinley, who is em ployed as compositor in The Clip per office at Columbus Grove, was home Sunday. Charles Danner .recently of St. Louis, Mo., returned home Saturday evening ,and is clerking in his fath er’s grocery store. David Steinbrenner and family moved on a farm near Spencerville the latter part of last week. Gid Oberly has rented the Althaus Oberly farm, just north of town, and will farm it the ensuing season. Mrs. W. B. Low ry and children of Ada are visiting at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Owens, before leaving for their new home in Duluth, Minn. George Montgomery, of Newport, Ky., a former Bluffton resident, left for his home Tuesday -morning, after a pleasant visit here for several days. The Reformed churches will cele brate their annual Harvest Home and Mission festival next Sunday. A spe cial program will be rendered. Rev. B. Huff, of the Orphans’ Home of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Abraham Schneck, a former pastor, will take part in the exercises. proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving on December 13 (old style) of that year. The turkey made his appearance at that first truly American Thanks giving—hunters having shot many of them in their search for meat for the banquet tables. At the break of dawn on that Thanksgiving Pay, one of the can non on the hill top thundered forth a salute and residents of the colony gathered in the meeting house. Three-Day Celebration Friendly Indians came for the din ner, and before the observance was ended, the period of Thanksgiving had stretched into three days instead of one. Entertainment was varied ranging from religious services and the singing of psalms and songs to war dances by the savages and ex hibitions of military drilling by Cap tain Miles Standish’s well-trained soldiery. Games and sports also found their way into the program. Observance of Thanksgiving was common thruout New England from that early start, but it was slow in spreading to the rest of the country generally. The first impetus for a national observance proclaimed by the Presi dent was launched by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, of Boston, who brought the matter to the attention of President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, following the Battle of Gettysburg. At her suggestion President Lincoln set Thursday, August 6, as a day of na tional Thanksgiving. In the next year Thanksgiving was observed on the last Thursday in November, following the example of President Washington’s precedent, and that date has been observed since then, with the exception of President Johnson’s slip in 1865, which resulted in a December cele bration. Longest Beach Longest ocean beach in the world is said to be 28-mile long Long Beach in the state of Washington. It is one of the principal recreation centers on the Pacific shoreline of Wash ington. w left Van Wert some time ago, and located at De fiance, where he enp aged in the hard ware business, later removing to To ledo, is again a resident of Van Wert, having accepted his former po sition with the Jon es and Tudor Co. Auache Agent HEN, in 1873, old-timers In Arizona learned that a twenty two-year-old Easterner, fresh from Rutgers college, had been appointed agent for the San Carlos reserva tion, a gale of laughter swept that section or the Wild West. “Why, them Apache devils will skeer that tenderfoot out inside a week,’’ they guffawed. But they didn’t know the stuff that was in John Philip Clum. Taking charge at San Carlos, he decided that the “terrible Apaches” weren’t so terrible if they were treated like hpman beings instead of animals, as the Spaniard, the Mexican and the American fron tiersmen had regarded them. So he made them self-governing by founding the first body of Indian police ever organized to keep or der on the reservation and by estab lishing courts, presided over by In dian judges, to try offenders. He made them partially self-supporting by teaching them the arts of peace instead of war and paid them for the work they did. And above all else he proved to them that he was one white man who didn’t “speak with a split tongue.” As a result Clum, within three years, was ruling 5,000 of these In dians, who had been regarded for 300 years as “untamable,” without the aid of a single soldier. A physi cian and a commissary clerk were the only other white men on the res ervation. Next he was given a bigger job— that of capturing a party of hostile Apaches, led by the notorious Ge ronimo. WiTh a selected party of his loyal Apaches, he marched 400 miles across the deserts and moun tains of the Southwest, trapped Ge ronimo and his followers in New Mexico, captured them without fir ing a shot and marched them back the whole 400 miles without a sin gle one escaping. This was the only time Geronimo was ever forcibly captured. Several times later he voluntarily surrendered but John P. Clum was the only man who ever took him prisoner when he didn’t want to be a captive. Clum’s career of usefulness as agent for the Apaches ended in 1877 when politics brought about a crisis which forced him to resign. He later won fame as an editor and public official in the town of Tombstone but until his death in 1932 he was proudest of the record he made when he was “Apache Agent.” Western Newspaper Union. uriosa Americana1 By Elmo Scott Watson Punctuation INthe AN old-time schoolbook, used in early days of the repub c, the importance of proper punctuation was illustrated with this verse: Wrong Every lady in this land Hath twenty nails upon each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet. And thia is true without, deceit. Right Every lady in this land Hath twenty nails: upon each hand Five and twenty on hands and feet And this is true without deceit. Now, test your skill on the following bit of nonsense (from the same source) which becomes sensible when punctu ated properly: I saw a pigeon making bread I saw a girl composed of thread I saw a towel one mile' square I saw a meadow in the air I saw a rocket walk a mile I saw a pony make a file 1 saw a blacksmith in a box I saw an orange kill an ox I saw a butcher made of steel I saw a penknife dance a reel I saw a sailor twelve feet high I saw a ladder in a pie I saw an apple fly away I saw a sparrow making hay I saw a farmer like a dog I saw a puppy mixing grog I saw three men who saw these too, And will confirm what I tell you. Western Newspaper Union. =j=Curiosa Americana •J» By Elmo Scott Watson Double Meaning IT FIRST appeared in a Philadelphia newspapei in 1776 thus: Hark! hark! the trumpet sounds, the din of war's alarms, O’er seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms Who for King George doth stand, their honors soon shall shine Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join. The acts of Parliament, in them I much delight, I hate their cursed intent, who for the Congress fight. The Tories of the day, they are my daily toast. They soon will sneak away, who Inde pendence boast Who non-resistance hold, they have my hand and heart. May they for slaves be sold, who act a Whiggish part On Mansfield, North, and Bute, may daily blessings pour, Confusion and dispute, on Congress evermore To North and British lord, may honors still be done, I wish a block or cord, to General Washington It was reprinted in many other Col onial newspapers. “That’s fine!’’ said British army officers and Tory offi cials. “The man who wrote that is certainly ioyal to His Majesty and he has very wisely condemned this foolish Revolution.’’ If any Patriot heard one of them say that, he must have smiled to him self. For it be_wns “in on the^know,” he didn’t read the poem as It is printed above. He read each line as far as the comma in the middle, then he read the next line the same wi .’ and so on. Or lie began reading at tlie comma in tie first line, then dropped down to the comma in the next and so on. That gave the poem a very different meaning indeed. Try it and see for yourself why the Patriots read it that way! Western Newspaper Union. Radio Club Grants Honorary Membership Robert Gleanson of Van Wert was awarded the 1939 honorary member ship of the Bluffton Amateur Radio club at its meeting Monday night. Gleanson, active in amateur radio circles, on several occasions has been a guest speaker at meetings of the club here and is well known among radio men in Bluffton. The honorary membership award is conferred annually by the Radio club on the one who in the opinion of the membership has contributed the most toward advancement of amateur radio in this locality. New Tax Rates Will Be Lower (Continued from page 1) mill limitation as apportioned among the various taxing units of the town and school district: Inside Outside Total Bluffton— County ............. .. 3.35 3.90 Township ........ .. .35 .00 .35 School ............... 3.05 6 95 10.00 Corporation __ 3.25 1.50 4.75 -.... 10.00 9.00 19.00 School District— County ............ .- 3.35 .55 3.90 Township ____ .. 1.30 .00 1.30 School ............... .. 3.05 6.95 10 00 7.70 7.50 15.20 Pandora Gridders Enjoy Dinner Here James Miller, coach of the Pan dora High school football team, en tertained senior members of his squad at a dinner last Sunday at his home on South Main street. Coach ing at the school for his first year, Miller developed a team that gave Pandora its most successful season in years. STOP WINTER discomforts'^ 'LNflL ... By “Window Conditioning” THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1939 Recreation Center City ^pin-pong tournaments to de termine champions in boys, girls, men and women’s classes have been an nounced by Dale Davidson, Bluffton recreational director. The tourna ments will be played in the recrea tional rooms in the grade school build ing. Plaques made by Davidson will be presented to the winners. Opening tourney play will be next Tuesday night and will feature boys competition in two classes. One age group will be for boys in the first six grades, and the second group for youths of junior and senior high school age. Tournament play for girls in the same age classifications, and also for men and women will be held in the recreation center Thursday night of next week ,to conclude the series. Gene Zuber, who was senior recre ational director in Bluffton for the last tow years, now’ is serving as re gional supervisor over four counties. 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