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PAGE EIGHT Two victories were scored by the Triplett softball team in a double header at Hannon field last Monday night, Kenton Elks going down to defeat in the curtain-raiser, 10 to 5, and the locals edging Upper Sandus ky Wyandot Vaults, 1 to 0, in the night-cap. Heavy hitting in the first two frames assured Bluffton of a victory over the Kenton outfit. Three runs were scored in the first inning when Steiner walked and B. Swank was safe on an error. Lewis struck out, but Fritz Swank’s single scored Steiner, and Crawford’s single per mitted Swank to cross the plate. In the second inning, Miller grounded out to open the stanza, but Wenger doubled and scored on Spaeth’s single. Steiner and Spaeth each were safe on a fielder’s choice and Bert Swank walked. Lewis flied out to center field, Spaeth counting and Fritz Swank was safe on an error that permitted him to go to second, Bert Swank scoring. Fritz Swank then crossed the plate on Craw’ford’s double. Bluffton counted another run in the fourth, Lewis doubling and scor ing on Fritz Swank’s single. In the sixth inning, the tenth Blufftoi^j^, was added, Wenger being safe vi it' error and scoring on Spaeth’s smgR?. Bluffton’s night-cap game with'thtb Upper Sandusky team was one of the finest played here in many a day. Spaeth continued on the mound for the Triplett crew, and altho he was pitching his second game of the evening he gave up only four hits in an air-tight hurling battle with Frederick, speed ball pitcher of the visitors. Upper Sandusky got one man on base in each the first, second, third and seventh innings, but Spaeth bore down in each instance to prevent a score from crossing the plate. Bluffton was having its own run getting troubles, however, and until the last inning the crew had been unable to get runners on bases, with the exception of the third, when no scores resulted altho two men were safe at first. In the last half of the seventh frame, Fritchie was out at first but Bert Swank drew a base on balls. He went to third and Lewis went on to second when a toss to first to get Lewis went wild. Fritz Swank then drove a sharp grounder to the left of the third baseman, and altho he managed to get his hands on the bail his throw was too late at the plate, and Bert Swank scored the winning tally, giving the Manges-outfit a 1 to 0 decision. TRIPLETT AB Steiner ..............-.......... 3 2 0 B. Swank 2 2 0 Triplett Ball Team Wins Two Games In Double-header Here Through special arrangements with the mag azine publishers we offer America’s finest farm and fiction magazines—in combination with our newspaper—at prices that simply cannot be duplicated elsewhere! Look over this long list of favorites and make YOUR selection today! This Newspaper 1 Year, and Five Magazines ALL FOR PRICE SHOWN ALL SIX ONLY FOR BOTH NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINES This Newspaper, 1 ^ear, BOTH Grower Lewis -------__ 4 1 1 F. 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Niswander truck and were accompanied by Scoutmaster and Mrs. Karl Gable and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Niswander, all of whom re turned to Bluffton the same day ex cept the scoutmaster. Visitors at the camp were: Wed nesday-Mrs. Harley Augsburger and son Buddy, Mrs. Nelson Herr, Mrs. Karl Gable, Mrs. Levi Gable, Mrs. Carey Niswander and daughter Mar cella, Mrs. Cliff Stratton, Mrs. Harry Mericle, Millard and Levi Oberly and Sarah Mae Oberly. Thursday—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zehrbach, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Bixel and daughter Betty David Bixel, Mrs. Mildred Hartman and Harold Hartman. Friday—Mrs. Carey Niswander. Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Harley Augsburger, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Herr, Mr. and Mrs. Harl Mann and Mrs. Florence Bogart, Mrs. Mabel Minck. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Niswand er, Bobby Bixel, Gene Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Burnap. A treasure hunt on Thursday was won by Gordon Bixel, Robert Fisher, Dean Niswander, Otto Klassen, Rob ert Oberly. Harry Minck won the watermellon prize. 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Each couple was given a package which had a supper to cook together Daily routine of the camp was as follows: 7:00—First call. 7:30—Flag raising ceremony. 8:00—Breakfast. 9:00 to 10:30—Instruction period. 10:30—Tent inspection. 11:00 to 1:00 Swimming. 1:00—Dinner. 2:00 to 5:30—Merit badge study, exploration hike, nature hike, boating, canoeing, games. 5:45—Retreat. 6:00—Supper. 7:00 to 9:45—Night games and Campfires star study. 10:00—Taps. More details of the awards given and tests passed will be reported in this column next week. Attending the camp were: Bill Amstutz, Robert and Richard Oberly, Bill Mericle, Raymond Schumacher, Otto Klassen, Harry and Richard Minck, Donavin Augsburger, Paul and Gordon Bixel, Robert Fisher, Evan Herr, Dean Niswander, Robert Strat ton and Charles Trippiehorn. Bluffton Netters Defeat Lima, 8-4 Bluffton Tennis club surprised Lima Lost Creek netters by captur ing an 8 to 4 match decision on the Lima courts last Sunday afternoon. In the afternoon’s play, the Bluff ton team won five singles and three doubles decisions. Two women’s matches were included. Results included: Roger Howe de feated Norbert Knostman, 10-8, 6-4 Woodrow Little defeated Bob Cupp, 6-3, 7-5 Dale Reichenbach defeated Morris, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 Ralph Short beat Julius Long, 6-0, 6-3 Triplett beat Cliff Wood, Jr., 7-5, 6-1 Wilbur Howe and Reichenbach beat Cupp and Al Hollander, 6-0, 6-3 Art Amstutz and Dale Good beat Don Adkins and Long, 6-1, 6-1, and Short and Roger Howe won from Wood and George Baldwin, 6-4, 6-3. Norleen Guthrie and Hilda Wine miller accounted for two of Lost Creek’s victories by defeating Gene vieve Fett and Elizabeth Weinhold. Miss Guthrie won, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, and Miss Winemiller won, 6-1, 6-4. In the other Lost Creek games, Mere dith Morris and “Hank” Campbell won a doubles match from Norman Triplett and Woodrow Little, 6-3, 6-3 and Campbell won his singles match from Wilbur Howe, 6-2, 6-2. 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Gentlemen: I enclose S------------ I am enclosing the offer desired with a year’s subscription to your paper. I 2M True Romances.....- True Story 3 n World Digest ......... s go Your Lite „ILF.D... THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO I TDelta,” The late John Sharp Williams, senatorial “sage of Yazoo,” he of ready response and rapier wit, famed in Washington for World war and states’ rights orations, won many home votes, they say, by sheer eloquence about Delta dirt. You drive out to the cotton planta tions on cotton-reinforced auto tires, steered by a part-cotton wheel, to take a picture of a cotton gin with films that utilized cotton linters. The pharaohs of this former flood plain are the affluent planters, also the corporations and northern insur ance companies that now operate thousands of acres they took over during the cotton price slump. “But we are not in the cotton business we don’t want to go into the cotton business,” insisted a Bos ton banker one day in 1931. “Well, you all mixed in the cotton business in the sixties anyway, you are in it right now,” drawled a Delta planter as he laid a pile of mort gages on the banker’s desk, bowed low, and set forth for a trip to Europe. Scott Farm Is Example. The Scott farm, north of Green ville, illustrates how share cropping operates on a well-managed planta tion, where owners find it profitable to keep workers healthy, happy and contented to remain year after year. The Scott establishment is the principal holding of the Delta and Pine Land company, British-owned biggest cotton plantation in the Unit ed States. It uses mules, not tractors pays its workers by shares and not in daily wages and picks by hand, not by machinery. Thus it is typical, except for its size, of many of the larger Delta plantations. The Scott farm alone, exclusive of two subsidiary holdings (at Dee son and Estill), spreads over an area nearly as large as the District of Columbia. On it live about 900 fam ilies, aggregating 3,300 people. In 1936 it sold 13,200 hales of cotton APPLICATION for depository 1331: GC 2296-7) v j] be received by the under 1 ce -t the trustees of Rich land Township. Alien County. Ohio, until s P. M. on th* seeoad day of AuffUCt. 1941, from any bank legally eligible which may desire to submit a written application to be designated as a public depository of the de posits of the public money of said township, for a period of two years commencing July 30. 1941. as provided by the Uniform Dejoa itory Act. G. C. 2296-1. Said application shall be made in conform ity with a resolution passed on the 19th day of July, 1941, copy of which is on file at the Old South’s Cotton Industry Emerges in Modern Setting I But Traditional Share Cropper Persists in Delta Region Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. —WNU Service. O THE Mississippian “the spelled with capi tals, is not the Mississippiseed) ’s marshy mouths, but the Greek letter-shaped triangle between that river and the Yazoo. There patient Nature laid down the tar-black alluvium and decayed leaf mold that form the richest cotton land this side of the be nign Nile. This Delta “begins in the lobby of the Peabody hotel in Memphis and ends in Catfish Row in Vicksburg.” It is as flat as a Netherlands land scape. In August towns loom like mirages on the pancake level of fluffy fields dotted with black men, women and children, trailing their bags and singing as they pluck the white gold. Vegetation Is Lush. Rows of willows, honey locusts, gleaming birches, cypress, and swamp hickory mark the mesh of rivers, creeks, lakes, and bayous that make this an area of thousands of inland islands. Like a lazy field hand the river drops its silt along its banks, then the channel narrows, twists and bends. An endless array of Negro cabins, some neat and ’vhitewashed, others unkempt and dilapidated, surround the planters’ homes, stores, gins and barns. Any Delta citizen will talk about soil with the fervor of a California^ praising sunshine, or a Gloucester fisherman sizing up a nor’easter. They teach soil in the schools, and talk about it before Rotary clubs. A banker will as^ay the fine, sandy loam between thumb and forefinger as he passes upon a plantation mort gage. And when it comes to Yazoo clay and the underlying “buckshot” stratum—then the paeans well to the tenderness of poetry. Delta Dirt Wins Votes. Above photos show the old and new in cotton picking. At top, Negroes going through the fields picking the blooms by hand, earning from 75 cents to $1.00 a hundred pounds. Be low is the new mechanical picker which will glean one bale (about 1,500 pounds of lint cotton and an hour at an approxi mate cost of 21 cents per 100 pounds. and more than 5,000 tons of cotton seed. Employ Researchers. Managers of each of its 11 units report to a general manager and his staff. Among its experts are research scientists in breeding and a “mule buyer” who cares for its 865 animals. There is a head black smith with a gang of helpers, a building crew to keep its more than 1,000 houses in repair, a meat-curing plant for its croppers, and a savings department where they may deposit their earnings. A physician is always on call and presides over the hospital where 97 babies were delivered last year. Workers’ children attend seven county schools on the premises. Airplanes are hired to fly low over its fields and dust the plants with powdered calcium arsenate to poison the boll weevil. For the share cropper and his family the management furnishes a cabin, mules, fuel, water, tools, cot tonseed, and credit for clothing, food, and other necessary provi sions. Each worker of the family is allotted six acres to grow cot ton, and two more acres for his own corn, vegetable garden, cow and Pigs. Shares Divided. At the end of about 125 days the worker receives exactly one-half of the current price of the cotton he The cotton plantation’s black smith working on shoes for the mules. raised, the amount of his rations account is deducted, and he is hand ed the balance in a lump sum. In some poor years he may re ceive less than his store bill. Then the account is closed and the planta tion takes that loss in addition to overhead. In 1931 the Scott farm wrote off $80,000 in unpaid tenant accounts. Last year it paid a single tenant family of man, wife, and four chil dren $1,480 for their share of a good crop. The Scott general store annually reports about $260,000 gross sales. Negro families at Scott own 280 automobiles, ranging from new cars to museuni pieces. At pay-off time some thrifty crop pers buy a patch of land, some de posit their savings, others indulge their fancy for such characteristic Delta Negro luxuries as gold teeth, riding on trains, and the inevitable “rolling the bones.” office of the clerk of said township. Applications should be sealed and endorsed “Application for deposit of public moneys”. N. W. BASINGER, 14 Clerk of Richland Township Maximum prices on hides went in to effect by government order June 16. This was the first price ceiling set on a commodity that would tend to limit the price of an agricultural product. The large high school auditorium was too small to accomodate those who wished to attend the baccalau reate exercises Sunday night. Long before the appointed time the house was completely filled. The Rev. Dr. Hundley of Findlay delivered the ad dress. The flunior-Senior banquet was held Friday night. Lysle Baumgart ner, the junior president acted as toastmaster. Mrs. Edgar Hauenstein spoke on “The Hundred Percent Student.” Ralph Stearns Vie senior president responded and Prof. Conser gave an interesting talk. Excellent music was furnished throughout the evening by George Klay, Paul Strat ton. Homer and Osca'r Luginbuhl. Dr. Mosiman tgsvtewed Winston Churchill’s latest book “Inside the Cup” at Bluffton college Vespers Sunday. Sunday will be the last day for services in the old Methodist church. The building was erected in 1873 and is being torn dowji to make ready for a modem edifice costing $20,000. Last Friday the hoard, of trustees of Bluffton college let a contract for the construction of a heating plant on the college premises. Not only will the college buildings be heated but also many surrounding resi dences. The pupils of Miss Pearl Bogart and Prof. Evans will give a public recital at the college chapel, Tuesday. Prof. H. B. Adams of Lima has rented the Myers property on South Lawn avenue and expects to move his household goods in June. Two of the best softball team in this area will provide the opposition for the fast-traveling Triplett outfit in home games under the floodlights at Harmon field Friday and Monday nights. In the Friday assignment, the lo cal outfit will be host to Lima Brad field Center’s strong team, and the Delphos Capitol crew' will play here on Monday. Bradfield Center has a team eom posed of the outstanding negro ball players in Lima, and airtight play always has been the feature cf Trip lett-Bradfield games of the past. Another top-notch team will op pose the Triplett crew on Monday when the strong Delphos Capitol outfit is scheduled to play here. Timer Spaeth who won a double header for the Triplett team last Monday night is expected to draw the starting assignment in both games of the coming week. In the contests, Triplett will be seeking their ninth and tenth vic tories of the season. So far, the lo cal outfit has been defeated only once in nine starts, and the Manges coached crew appears to be on its way to one of the best season rec ords in the history of organized soft ball play here. NEWS OUR FATHERS READ FROM ISSUE OF MAY 21, 1914 Triplett Softbal Team To Play Bradfield Center Here Friday Your City Market A Few of the Many Bargains You Will Find In Our Sanitary Market SfllAD BOWL S’ .... 27c TEA—Green or Orange Peko OLEO, Factory Fresh............. CORN—PEAS........................... HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE Large Cans THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941 w——*—»--- --------------------------------------------_.■£ John Lauby will graduate from the Ft. Wayne Bible Institute this June. W. J. Staater is making substan tial improvements in his dry goods store. Miss Metta Kohli resigned her position in the Lima schools and has accepted the principalship of the Bluffton grade school. T. G. Scheid left yesterday for South Dakota, and in about two weeks his family, who have been re siding on a homestead in that state for over a year will return w’ith him and will again occupy their home on Main street. H. R. Lugibihl and family, now residing in the residence will move into the Lugibihl flats. German Settlement Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Amstutz welcomed a baby boy into their home. C. M. Steingraver, mail carrier on route 2, is making his route with an automobile. We appreciate this very much as we now can read the daily papers at noon. E. J. Neuenschwander, who is a student at the Therdogical seminary at Naperville, Ill., and who was given a cal! as assistant preacher in the Mennonite church declined the call. Leonard Zimmerly and Miss Ida Mann were united in marriage at the parsonage' of Rev. W. D. Bishop of Rawson. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Zimmerly and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mann and is well known having been employed in the phone exchange at Bluffton. First on your Vacation List Be sure to take along ?lenty of Kodak Verichrome. ou’ll encounter a host of vaca tion snapshot opportunities that call for a thoroughly de pendable film. Verichrome is I’ust that. Its wide latitude rings practically every picture taking situation well within its grasp—makes good snapshots easy to get in almost any kind of Light. & Let us supply you with Kodak Verichrome Film from our fresh stock and carefully de velop and print the pictures when you return. 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