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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXV
MANY CANDIDATES'
NAMES APPEAR ON
PRIMARY BALLOTS
Tickets to be Voted on are Two
Largest in Nearly
Thirty Years
Of
Voters
To
Will Have Opportunity
Express Preference
For President
tl
offices, and party
teemen.
by
Bluffton electors will be faced
a “man-sized” task when they go to
the polls next Tuesday, to mark
their selections on name-congested
ballots representing the combined
May primary and presidential pref
erential vote.
Ballots for the spring primary will
carry one of the largest tickets pre
sented for a vote since 1912, accord
ing to advance indications.
Listed for the voter’s choice will be
the names of candidates for delegates
at large and alternates at large to
the state and national party conven
tions candidates for presidential
preference vote candidates for gov
ernor and other state offices can
didates for representatives to Cong
ress candidates for the United
States Senate the Fourth District
et candidates for Allen county
commit-
precinct
Ticket
lengthy
Lengthy
tickets,
the im
the day,
Because of the
election officials will stress
portance of voting early in
to avoid the last minute rush which
is likely.
It is expected that it will take most
voters from five to ten minutes to
mark their selections for candidacy.
On the long Democratic ballot will
be the names of 113 candidates.
Republican ballots will carry 71
Heading both tickets will be the
presidential preferential ballot, which
may be confusing to a number of vot
ers because it is encountered only
once every four years.
Presidential Preference
This is a ballot on which voters
may express their preference for
president and vice-president, either
by voting for candidates listed, or by
writing in names. However, this
represents strictly a complimentary
gesture.
On no part of the primary ballot
will it be possible to vote a “straight
ticket” by making only one mark.
That is possible only in the November
election.
The Allen county slate to be nom
inated includes two county commis
sioners treasurer prosecutor
iff recorder probate judge and
of courts.
Stauffer Head Of
Lions Club
sher
clerk
Two Local Candidates
are
Two Richland township men
seeking county offices, one on
ticket. P. W. Amstutz is a candidate
for commissioner and Stanley Vert
ner is seeking nomination as record
er on the Republican ticket.
each
Of particular interest to Allen
coutny Democrats is the race for
nomination as congressman-at-large,
in which Francis Durbin, Lima attor
ney and Blufftip city solicitor, is a
candidate. 4
eUn ticket there is a
ign to write in the
On the Rep-Jjj
state-wide cam
name of a party-favored candidate for
secretary of state. Earl Griffith, de
ceaser holder of the office, who had
been a candidate for re-election, died
after the legal filing date, occasioning
this move.
P. W. Stauffer, Bluffton college de
bate coach and instructor in speech
at the high school was elected presi
dent of the Lions club here for the
coming year. Stauffer succeeds Fred
Getties, president for the past
twelve months.
Other officers elected are:
1st vice pres., Homer Gratz 2nd
vice pres., Edgar Chamberlain 3rd
vice pres., N. E. Byers sec., I.
Beeshy treas., C. G. Coburn tai’
twister, Forrest Steinman lion tarn
er, E. S. Lape directors, C.
Smith, I. W. Bauman.
Former Bluffton
Teacher
Miss Grace Beyer, former teachei
in the Bluffton Grade schools wai
married to Clyde Knight at th
Church of Christ parsonage in Lan
caster, Ohio, according to word re
ceived by friends here.
Miss Beyer, an instructor in th
school here some twelve years ago
has been teaching at
during the past year,
will reside on a farm
in Fairfield county.
Eaton,
The
near E
Sound Alarm—
Mosquito Is Seen
Here Tuesday
TLUFFTON’S arch- enemy—
the mosquito, was sighted
here Tuesday morning for the
first time this season. The
winged pests against which
Bluffton is organizing were
anticipated this week, according
to Mayor W. A. Howe, who said
that members of the town’s
anti-mosquito committee have
been searching for them in the
larva stage.
Plans have been made for
spraying stagnant pools and
other mosquito breeding places
this spring and active work on
this project will be started
shortly, the mayor stated.
SPEAKER WARNS
OF HARD TIMES
FOLLOWING WAR
Former Rawson Man, Now New
York City Business Execu
tive Addresses Lions
Present European War to Last
Several Years, is Belief,
Speaker Declares
Present national business trends
were analyzed by J. D. Runkle, New
York City business executive, in a
talk given at a dinner meeting of
the Lions club, Tuesday evening, in
the Walnut Grill.
A native of Rawson, Runkle had
extensive business experience in
Dayton, and later went to New York
City as one of the executives of the
Middletown Silver Co.
The present European war, the
domestic political situation and a
psychological reaction are the three
factors influencing present business
trends, Runkle told the Lions in his
address.
Long War Expected
It is the general belief in New
York that the war will be drawn
out for at least two or three years.
Should fighting continue until next
spring, chances of United States’
participation will become more pro
nounced, he said.
At the opening of the war, prac
tically all prices in the United States
followed an upward trend, until it
became apparent that the rise was
unjustified. In the reaction the
prices dropped, but there now are
distinct signs that an increase will
be apparent again in the near fu
ture, according to Runkle.
A retarding effect on business is
the result of the present political
situation, the speaker said.
Business In Fall
General business indices show ac
tivity has been on a decline since
last fall, but the present concensus
of opinion is that there will be a a
distinct upward trend by fall. Re
tail business at present is much
better than the wholesale or
manufacturers’ business.
The psychological factor involved
is the fact that people generally feel
business will improve in the fall, and
this sentiment alone will have a
bearing on conditions.
Agricultural prospects are espec
ially bright, the speaker said. Corn
today is commanding a price 27 per
cent higher than a year ago, and
wheat is up 36 per cent. Farm
prices generally are likely to stay on
a higher level as long as the war
lasts.
Runkle declared that the best
policy to follow now is to save all
the money possible during good
times, for as soon as the war is
over it is likely that we will experi
ence the worst depression in history.
Former Beaverdam
Man Dies In Fire
Glen Calvin Bassett, 50, former
Beaverdam resident, died in a hotel
fire at Kilgure, Texas, Monday
where he had resided for the past
fifteen years, according to word re
ceived by relatives.
Bassett had been in the oil indus
try since leaving Beaverdam. He is
survived by two sisters, Mrs. V.
Buchanan of Springfield, Mo., and
Mrs. E. J. Gierhart of Beavrdam.
Also surviving are two brothers,
DeWitt of Venedocia and Otis of
Beaverdam. Another brother, the
late Lewis Bassett, was a brother
in-law of the Murray families here.
THE BLUF
Another Bluffton Landmark Passes
With Wrecking Of Old Business House
Century-old Structure at Main
And Jefferson Streets
Being Dismantled
Old Frame Building Housed
Many Pioneer Bluffton Busi
Establishments
Wrecking of one of Bluffton’s earl
iest business houses, a frame struc
ture at the corner of North Main
and Jefferson streets, started this
week, marks the passing of another
of the town’s oldest landmarks.
Erected approximately 100 years
ago* the building was used thruout
the years by many varied esablish
ments. It has served as quarters for
a hardware business, a dry goods
store, a bowling alley, an early pic
ture theatre and a garage. Lately
the building was used for storage.
It was one of the town’s first
business structures, and none of the
“old-timers” can recall when it was
built. It is thought, however, that
construction was completed about
100 years ago.
Older residents recall that Beriah
Ewing’s hardware store was quar
tered in the building some 68 years
ago. It was succeeded by the W. J.
Staater Dry Goods store, which oc
cupied the structure when Staater
moved from Mt. Cory and first went
into business here.
The building always has stood at
its present location, commonly known
about town as the old Peppell place.
Albert Reichenbach, the present
owner, expects to erect a new busi
ness structure to replace it.
In wrecking the structure it has
been found that much of the timber
is of the finest native walnut, which
little shows the effect of years of
service.
Sidney Garau is in charge of the
wrecking program.
Mrot Hwncr Marshall
Dies in Monroe, Mich,
Mrs. Homer Marshall, 60, a form
er Bluffton resident, and later a res
ident of Monroe, Mich., died at that
place Tuesday morning, according to
word received by relatives here. Her
death followed a stroke four days
previous. Mrs. Marshall was a sis
ter of Mrs. Otto Bigler of South
Main street.
Funeral services will be held at
Monroe on Friday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock followed by interment at
that place.
Mrs. Marshall was born in Union
township, the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. George Hummon. She
resided in this vicinity until about
fifteen years ago when the family
moved to Michigan. Her husband
died two years ago.
Surviving are four sons: Veril,
student at the University of Michi
gan, Ann Arbor Ciair, in Tennessee
Olan at home and Elgin of Wash
ington, I). C.
Besides Mrs. Bigler she is sur
vived by another sister, Mrs. Otis
Goble of Findlay and two brothers
Alva and Grover Hummon both of
Los Angeles.
Pari Eckels, Former
Resident Succumbs
Pari O. Eckels, 65, former Bluff
ton resident died suddenly in Cleve
land, according to word received here
the first of the week. He was
found dead in bed, Sunday morning.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete Wednesday morning. There
is a possibility that the body may
be brought here the latter part of
this week for interment in Maple
Grove cemetery, it was stated.
Eckels was a member of a pioneer
Bluffton family. His father Horace
Eckels was a buyer of poultry and
farm produce in the early days of
the town. Eckels left Bluffton
about thirty-five years ago. He was
a Bluffton high school graduate in
1896.
Surviving are his wife, one son
and one daughter all of Houston,
Texas.
Completes Mechanical
Engineering Course
Harold Schultz, eldest son of Dr.
and Mrs. J. S. Schultz of South
Lawn avenue who recently completed
the mechanical engineering course at
the University of Cincinnati has ac
cepted a position in the research
department of the Bendix Manufac
turing company at South Bend, Ind.
Schultz began his work at South
Bend, Monday. He will return to
Cincinnati next month to receive his
degree at the university commence
ment exercises.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTE OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
MAY 9, 1940
0 BUILD NEW
BUSINESS ROOM
THIS SUMMER
instruction of Building at
North Main and Jefferson
Sts., is Announced
Frame Building on
Reichenbach Prop
Being Torn Down
Albert
erty
Construction of a new business
■oom in Bluffton was announced
ruesday by Albert Reichenbach,
Bluffton night police, who is tearing
iow’n an old frame structure at North
Main and Jefferson streets to make
vay for the new structure.
The new building which will occupy
he site of the one now being remov
ed, will be of two story brick con
struction with dimensions 22 by 60
feet. With a business room on the
irst floor, the second floor will be fit
ed up as a living apartment.
Construction will start in August,
according to present plans and the
auilding is to be under roof before
printer. Reichenbach said he was not
ret ready to disclose the idenity of
he tenant.
ter Bluffton
Resident Is Dead
Mrs. Elizabeth Call, 76, former
luffton resident who has lived in
ima for more than twenty years,
ed in Lima Memorial hospital, Fri
iy afternoon.
Death followed shock and internal
Juries
received in a fall at her
home in that city on Thursday. She
was the widow of the late H, J.
Call, who was in the insurance busi
ness here for many years.
Requiem high mass was celebrated
Monday morning at St. Johns fhurch
in Lima with burial in the 'Catholic
cemetery at Kenton.
Surviving are one son Leo at
home five sisters, Mrs. John Kline
of Lima Mrs. Adnes, Evans and
Mrs. Joseph Kelly of Ad A Mrs.
Helen Mooney of Cleveland and Mrs.
John Diehl of Kenton. Also sur
viving are two brothers Joseph
Quinn of North Baltimore and John
Quinn of Ada.
Sportsmen's Club To
Hear Two Speakers
Plans for Bluffton’s proposed fish
hatchery will be discussed by two
specialists at a meeting of the Com
munity Sportsmen’s club to be held
at the council room next Monday
night at 8:30 o’clock.
Speakers who will be here are
Foster Roszman, of Bowling Green
State
agent for this district and Robert
Wilson, sportsmen’s representative of
the Allen County Conservation com
mittee.
university, fish management
The members will also vote at this
meeting on acceptance of the ar
ticles of incorporation recently draft
ed and also rules and regulations
for government of the club.
Inter-City Ball
Team Is Planned
Organization of a Triplett softball
team to represent Bluffton in inter
city’ league play appeared likely this
week, with play expected to get un
der way within the next month.
Representatives of the local team
will attend an inter-city league meet
ing in Lima this Friday, at which
plans will be mapped for the sum
mer’s schedule.
Fifteen new’ uniforms will be or
for the team, membership of
is largely made up of the
outfit which played last
the Readrite name.
dered
•which
same
under
year
Findlay College
“Y” Group Coming
Members of the Findlay College
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W, C. A. will
hold a joint meeting with the Bluff
ton college “Y” organizations in the
chapel here this Wednesday night.
The evening program will be pro
vided by the Findlay visitors after
which an informal mixer and recep
tion will be held.
Berne Chorus To Be
Here Sunday Night
The Men’s Chorus, of Berne, Ind.,
noted
pear
First
night
nounced the first of the week.
musical organization will ap
in a sacred program at the
Mennonite church, Sunday
at 7:30 o’clock, it was an-
ON NEWS
Belated spring weather finally ar
rived in Bluffton the first of the week,
and there are signs other than yel
low dandelions, blossoming trees and
bright sunshine to prove it.
Two bathing suits were sold Mon
day by a local clothing store, and sev
en hardy swimmers took their ini
tial plunge in Buckeye lake Monday
afternoon.
Neil Duffman, fishing at the County
Line bridge over Riley creek landed
a mammouth seven pound carp.
Even,’ farmer in the district was
busy in his fields from dawn until
long after sundown.
Name Committees
For H, S. Alumni
Committees for the Bluffton high
school alumni reunion to be held on
Friday night, May 24, have been
announced by Rolland Stratton, pres
ident of the association as follows:
Program—James West, Mrs. A. R.
Baker, Carolyn Romey.
Refreshments—Mrs. Edgar Hauen
stein, Theola Steiner, Mrs. Robert
Ewing.
Decorating—S a n 1 e y Basinger,
Dwight Diller, Dale Reichenbach,
Melvina Amstutz, Mrs. Don
son, Doneta Good.
Properties—Gene Benroth,
West, Justin Gratz, Donald
buhl, P$»l Schumacher.
Dance—Charles Steiner,
Diller, Richard Cookson,
Balmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Jennings have been
active members of Richland Gn
since its organization more
twenty years ago and are
known in grange circles.
versity, Columbus, last
Stauffer succeeds L. C.
Ohio university, head of
zation for the past seven
Spring’s Here With Bathing Suits,
Lawn Mowers And Busv Gardeners
Patter-
Robert
Lugin-
Lamont
Robert
Grange Honors Couple
On 50th Anniversary
In honor of their 50th wedding an
niversary, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Jen
Beaverdam
sings
were enter
of Richland
of
at
Monday night.
ed at a candle lighted table,
the couple was presented with a gift
in remembrance of the occasion by
the grange lecturer, Mrs. Raymond
Stratton.
After the package was opened by
Mrs. Jennings, an old fashioned bell
ing was
members
ed with
present.
staged by junior grange
and Mr. Jennings respond
cigars and candy to all
ange
than
well
The next Grange meeting will be
held Tuesday night, May 21, when
Bath township grange from near
Lima comes to confer the first and
second degrees upon a good number
of candidates.
Bluffton Man Heads
College Debate Ass'n
P. W. Stauffer, Bluffton college
debate coach, was elected president
of the Ohio Men’s Intercollegiate De
bate conference at a meeting of par
ticipating schools at Capital uni­
Saturday.
Staats of
the organi-
Stauffer who has been secretary
of the Ohio Women’s Intercollegiate
Debate conference was also re-elect
ed to that office. During the past
year he has been a member of the
executive committee of the Ohio
legiate teachers of speech.
Col-
College Club Hears
Talk By C. G. Coburn
Coburn, Bluffton repre
The Ohio Oil Co., was
Charles G.
sentative of
the speaker at a meeting of the
Commerciers, Bluffton college com
mercial club, last week.
An oil man for more than 35
years, Coburn briefly explained the
early history of oil development in
this country and talked on the hand
ling of men.
Racine Warren, of Bluffton, newly
elected president of the club, was in
charge of the meeting.
Baccalaureate At
Beaverdam Sunday
Baccalaureate services of Beaver
dam high school will be held Sun
day night at the high school audi
torium at that place at 8 o’clock.
Rev. Chas. Armentrout of the Bluff
ton Presbyterian church will deliver
the class sermon.
The baccalaureate service will open
graduation events of Beaverdam
high school which will have its com
mencement the latter part of next
w’eek.
Residents of the town oiled up their
lawn mowers, preparatory to tackling
rapidly growing grass.
Gardening enthusiasts had their
hands full in attempting to make up
for lost time during an extended per
iod of inclement weather.
Maximum temperatures Monday
was 85 degrees, and on Tuesday ther
mometers climbed to a mark of 78.
Definite spring indications follow
ed in the wake of another assault by
winter last week. On Thursday,
weather resembled late November or
early December as the mercury sank
to a mark of 30, and there were snow
flurries in the district.
TOWN GARBAGE
COLLECTION TO
START MONDAY
Council Advances Date for In
auguration of New Service
To May 13
Hauling Away of Ashes A
cumulated During Past Win
ter Now Under Way
Bluffton’s system of municipal gar
bage and rubbish removal
operation next Monday
when Russell Trlpplehorn
awarded the contract for one year
will begin making his rounds.
goes into
morning
who was
Decision to advance the date for
putting the system in operation from
May 15 to May 13 was reached at I
the council meeting Monday night
when final plans were made.
Trippiehorn who was awarded the
contract for a one year period be
gan the first of this week the work
of hauling away the accumulated
ashes and rubbish of the past winter.
Gets Extra Pay
For his work this week Tripple
1 horn will receive extra compensa
tion, as his contract does no^ become
effective until next week. Cost of
his bond in the sum of S500 wjjl
also be paid by the council.'
To collect the fee, 50 cents quar
terly, Bertran Smucker, Bluffton
college student, has been engaged to
visit every Bluffton residence. Smuck-
DEAD CATS NOT GARBAGE
Dead cats are not garbage—
neither is Fido, the family canary
or rats which may be found dead
about the premises. This was the
decision of the council Monday
night when it reversed its pre
vious stand and ruled that dead
animals may not be chucked into
the garbage pail.
started
and expects to have the canvass com
pleted by the last of this week.
The fifty cent quarterly fee, it is
explained, will apply to householders
only. Resturants, groceries and
other places having large amounts of
garbage will pay a higher
which has not yet been definitely
termined.
de­
College Senior Is
Given Scholarship
Karl Schultz, Bluffton college
senior, has been awarded a graduate
scholarship in economics for the
coming year at Haverford university,
Philadelphia, it was announced the
first of the week. Schultz who
be graduated next month is
joungest son of Dr. and Mrs. J.
Schultz of South Lawn avenue.
will
the
S.
With The Sick
Barnes, veteran
recovering from
at his home on
George H.
ton grocer is
weeks’ illness
Jackson street.
Bluff
a two
South
Dr. Gordon Bixel, Bluffton opto
metrist has resumed his practice
after an illness of several weeks at
his home on Spring street.
Mrs. S. H. Pifer of Rawson, form
er Bluffton resiftmt, is recovering at
Bluffton hospital from a major1 oper
ation which she underwent the lat
ter part of last week.
Mayor’s Notice
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
with
Complaints have been filed
this office that street light globes
and bulbs are being broken malic
iously by groups of boys about town.
This destruction of property must
stop and parents are hereby notified
that offenders will be subject to
prosecution before the proper au
thorities,
8
W, A. Howe, Mayor
PART OF ORANGE
SCHOOL DISTRICT
IS ORDERED HERE
Appeals Court Orders Anderson
Area Transferred to Bluff
ton District
decision Will Add Five and
One-half Square Miles to
School Area
Indication that the three year old
fight of the Anderson area of Orange
township be attached to Bluffton for
school purposes has at last been
crowned with success is seen in a
ruling handed down at Lima Satur
day by
appeals.
the third district court of
preemptory order of man
the court commanded the
county board of education
In a
damus,
Hancock
to transfer to the Bluffton school
district that area of Orange town
ship represented in the petitidri of
transfer filed by Jesse Anderson
others.
The area involved comprises
and one-half square miles in
western part of the township.
and
five
the
Appeal Only Alternative
Failure to comply would mean
county board of education would be
compelled to take the case into the
supreme court, thereby incurring
further legal expense. Also, appeal
on the board’s part is not considered
likely in view of the fact that re
cent supreme court decisions indi
cate that the transfer would be up
held.
the
Approximately 40 pupils of school
age reside in the area which
court has ordered attached to
Bluffton school district.
the
the
that
A survey this week indicated
38 students from the district will be
enrolled in Bluffton schools next fall.
27 Already Attend Heid:
The change will not gr^aQy affect
Bluffton's enrollment total, however,
for 27 from the disputed section
have attended school heste during the
1939-40 term. It was n
the parents of the stud|
vide individual trYns^P
ing the last year, be^n
of the county board if! Assigning the
area to Mt. Cory.
Sessary for
to pro
ation dur
of action
Next fall regular Bluffton school
bus routes will cover the area, for
the court order makes it mandatory
that the transfer be effected.
Last Saturday’s order makes per\
manent a temporary writ of man
damus, issued immediately upon
filing of the case in the court of ap
(Continued on page 8)
Win Honors In H. S.
Scholarship Meet
Eleven of 31 Bluffton High stu
dents competing in the district
scholarship contest at Rowling Green,
last Saturday, won honors in their
divisions.
Two first places were captured by
Bluffton students, and the nine
others finished among the first 10
to win recognition.
Results
French
Charlotte
announced as fol-
Schaublin, first
I—Lois
Santschi, eighth.
Thiessen, first
Biology—Arthur
Neil Neuenschwander, seventh.
French II—Phyllis Steiner, eighth
Kathleen Niswander, tenth.
Latin II—Carol Bame,
ninth.
Physics—Eleanor Berky,
tied for
tenth.
Dellinger,.„
General Science—Arthur
fourth Kenneth Geiger, fifttf*
Chemistry—John Stettler, ninth.
Bluffton’s 31 representatives com
peted with students from 20 schools
in the division for schools with
rollment of 400 and under.
en-
Build New House
On Campus Drive
Construftion of a new residence on
Campus Drive for Prof, and Mrs.
Russell Lantz will be started shortly.
Excavation for drainage lines wras
started the first of the w’eek. The
new’ home will be located between
the R. L. Triplett and Prof. Sidney
Hauenstein residences.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher
residing south of Bluffton are the
parents of a son born at Bluffton
hospital, Saturday.
A son waa bom to Mr. and Mrs.
John McVetta of Mt. Cory at the
Bluffton hospital, Tuesday.
Word has been received here of
the birth last Wednesday
daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
Drury of Marysville, Mich.
Drury will be remembered aa
erly Miss Louise Durck of this
of a
Lyle
Mrs.
form­