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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941 In order to pass the time as nightwatchmen on the WPA road re-surfacing project just north of town, Paul Soldner and George Swank decided to count all of the big semi-trailer trucks that pounded over the Dixie highway Monday night between 11 o’clock and seven o’clock in the morning, their work ing hours. Much to their surprise the boys counted 311 trucks of the semi-trailer variety. This did not include numerous lighter trucks. Also, with Monday a lighter than usual night the boys felt that 400 trucks per night would be a safe average. Incidentally, most of the automobiles going over the highways at the late hours bear Michigan license plates. The other night one of the big trucks stopped to ask how strong the bridge was. He said that he felt* concern because he was carrying a nice little load of 27 tons in his trailer. Joyce Nonnamaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Nonnamaker, says that her favorite summer sport is to ride the ponies at the farm of her uncle Oliver Nonnamaker, living in Orange township. Fred Fritchie, Jr., employed as an instrument calibrator at the Triplett plant, says that he really enjoys working the night shift in the sum mer months because he can sleep as late as he wants to. When he was attending Bluffton High school last year it was pretty tough to get up at 7:30 in the morning after going to bed at 2:00 o’clock every morning. Now he has the delicious pleasure of sleeping until at least noon every day. A customer entering Ruff’s store recently was surprised to find the clerks apparently playing some kind of game on a card table near the entrance of the store. Closer ex amination, however, revealed that the clerks, Mary Alice Howe, Elene Basinger and Vera Amstutz, were marking price tags and using the card table for the writing. We have had the experience sev eral times of getting lost while traveling but we can’t recall ever going 130 miles out of the way as did a party of Negroes the other night. Inquiring of Howard Stager as to the distance to Detroit, the whole party began reprimanding the driver for turning off at Toledo. Apparently the group had been driving from northern Michigan to Detroit and turned off at the wrong road in Toledo and were unable to discover their mistake until arriv ing in Bluffton. We were asked Monday night to settle an argument between Paul Greding and Jack Clark as to whether the same person could be physically and mentally at different places at the same time. The argument had been waxing fast and furious for about an hour when we were called in to referee the matter. When we came on the scene the boys were driving their arguments home with a logic that would make a philosopher turn green with envy. When asked for a decision we of fered the weak suggestion that both might be right. Greeted with a look MUNSON R. BIXEL, M. D. Office Hours: 8:30-10 A. M. 1-3 P. M. 7-8 P. M. Office, 118 Cherry St. Phone 120-F Bluffton. O. Francis Basinger, D. D. S. Evan Basinger, D. D. S. Telephone 271-W Bluffton, Ohio D. C. BIXEL, O.D. GORDON BIXEL, O.D. Citizens Bank Bldg., Bluffton EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS Eyes Exmincd Without Drops Closed Thursday Afternoon & Evening Office Hours: 8:30 A. M.—5:30 P. M. 7:30 P. M.—R:3O P. M. Melville D. Soash, M. D. The Commercial Bank Bldg. Bluffton, Ohio X-RAY FLUOROSCOPE Telephone 254-W INSURANCE Ljsure your car with AETNA and know that you are SAFE Also Fire and Windstorm Insurance. Notary Public F. S. HERR AGENT Phone 363-W of disdain for such a retort we quietly sneaked back to work as the argument continued with increasing fervor. A limb from a maple tree made such a perfect landing on another tree at the Forrest Steinman resi dence on Lawn avenue that Forrest didn’t even notice it until a week later. Bob Watkins, who is employed at the Simpson Electrical Instrument Co. in Chicago, says that he cer tainly misses the Buckeye and the quiet evenings of Bluffton. The constant noise of city traffic all night long has interfered with his sleep. Although he likes his work he says that after all there’s no place like Bluffton. Jack Clark, employed at a freight office in Lima, hitch-hikes to work qvery day. He is due for work at 11 in the morning and leaves Bluff ton about 9:30. He usually arrives on the job before most of the people owning cars and has very seldom been late. He quits working at 6:30 o’clock in the afternoon and often arrives in town by 7:00 o’clock by the same route. It’s very interest ing to travel by this method, says Jack. Did you ever notice the hedges at the residence of Dr. M. D. Soash of South Main street? We don’t know who does the trimming but he cer tainly does have some geometrically well proportioned arrangements. One of the characteristics of man is that he always thinks first of his own troubles, whatever major ca tastrophe may befall others. A new silo almost completed on the farm owned near town by Coach A. C. Burcky collapsed in last Wednes day’s high wind. As the structure went down, the carpenter working on the job shouted excitedly, “I’ll bet that broke my ladder.” So far as he was concerned, however, the tale had a happy ending, for when the wreckage was cleared away the ladder was found to be intact. When you see freight trains on the Nickel plate railroad pulled by large Lackawana engines don’t be gin to wonder if the road has chang ed hands. Heavier freight shipments found the Nickel Plate short of locomotives and several have been leased from the Lackawana road for use until new engines can be built. Betty Levingston, of Arlington, employe in the shipping department at the Triplett Electrical Instrument Co., was a surprised girl when she received an answer to a note she in cluded with a meter going to a Georgia army camp. The letter was from a colonel who said that he was sorry but he was a grandfather and that “the fires of romance” had long since burned out in his breast. How ever, he said there were nearly 2000 young draftees in the camp and that he was posting Miss Livingston’s note on the bulletin board, asking all of them to write to her. It was so hot last Thursday that a dog started chasing a rabbit—but the heat got them and what started out as a chase finally ended up with both walking. This column will not vouch for the accuracy of the story —but that’s the way it was told by Chas. Gazette. We were glad to see Charlie Lauby of Van Nuys, Calif., who dropped into the office the other day to shake hands with the boys. It was nearly twenty years ago that Charlie applied for a job and told us his one ambition was to learn the printing trade. Charlie got his chance and he learned all the tricks of the trade in short order. Now he’s superintendent of the printing plant of the McKinley School for Boys at Van Nuys and has built up that department to a model of its kind. About fifteen boys, on the average are enrolled as embryo printers. Bluffton’s home building program is due for new activity, according to reports the first of the week. A block of three lots is said to be in volved in a pending real estate deal which if it goes thru will mean at least one more new house to be built this fall in Bluffton’s east end. Although they’re going to be sailors, Joe Swank and Marion Fisher who enlisted in the navy last June haven’t had as much as a sniff of salt water yet. Both are still on land taking training in Uncle Sam’s naval training station at Great Lakes, Ill. They are due to complete their training the latter part of this month when both are expected home on a ten days’ fur lough. On the completion of their furlough here they w"’ be assigned to a ship. Arrival .fil he Bluffton News is a weekly event that tempor arily eclipses affairs of the navy while the boys perqse the paper from cover to cover. “Can’t get along without the home paper”, write Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gratz of Allen, Mich., in re newing their subscription for an other year. Altho they have lived III Fallen Timbers Monument— Route 24 just south of Maumee Battle of Fallen Timbers, from “Ohio Valley Pioneers” by Harry E. Danford. Courtesy Rand-Mo Nally Co. Assembled in force under Tarhe, Little Turtle and Blue Jacket, their ablest leaders, the red war riors knew that this was their last great effort to keep their hold on the Ohio Country. Opposing them with his Ken tucky cavalry, his buckskin-clad volunteers and his regular troops was “Mad” Anthony, “The Eye that Never Sleeps,” “Mad” only because of the fury of his attack following painstaking and thor ough preparation. It was less than three years since General St. Clair’s army had been disastrously routed at Fort Recovery and now the Unit ed States was again ready to chal lenge the hold which the British, through their Indian allies, were in Michigan for many years, they still think of Bluffton as home and will he here for the Gratz-Coon reunion at Richland Grange, Sunday. We stopped the other day to get a drink at the town pump—maybe you have forgotten it, but it’s still there at the side of the town hall near the fire department entrance. Water good and cold, with slightly sulphur tang—and remember the big iron cup chained to the pump? Well it’s gone as is also the water ing trough for horses which was nearby. And we got to thinking about those days when Alec Conrad was marshal, street commissioner and generalissimo of things political —and then came Warren Fox who kept Bluffton in the straight and narrow—and Roy Pogue was fire chief after the veteran Joe Mumma quit—and Chris Klay going down street on Saturday night in his blue band suit with his shiny baritone horn, yes the band played on Sat urday night then—and Al Swinehart was leader—then came George Tip ton—and Soapy Swerlein ran a barber shop on week days where Swank’s place is now, and sang in the Methodist church choir on Sun days—and Bluffton storekeepers sat outside their business places thru the long summer days waiting for customers—and the Presbyterian church park was full of benches, and peanut shells—and the Quaint club flourished with a membership of prominent local young men—and stag sessions ended at Casper’s— them were the days. Added to the list of Bluffton business men using the bicycle as the mode of transportation is Robert Hochstettler, the genial man ager of the City Market, who has been seen biking to and from work. An old fashioned family picnic with babies, children, all day suck ers, ice cream cones and everything was enjoyed by members of the Lions club at the Buckeye Lake pic nic grounds Tuesday night. Racing shoes on a purebred draft horse have spoiled the new mural in the Bluffton postoffice building for several area farmers who have been frankly critical of the artwork erected last week in the foyer of the building. They claim that a large draft horse shod with racing shoes is entirely out of place in the symbolic representation of the build ing of the first structure in the virgin Ohio wilderness that ’ater was to become the settlement of Shannon, known today as Bluffton. Also, they say, a purebred Percheron as shown in the mural »vould :ot likely be found in a struggling frontier settlement. We’re beginning to wonder if life really doesn’t begin at about 70 rather than after a mere 40. Dr. Steiner, close to 69, and Arthur Amstutz, veteran tennis player of many years standing in Bluffton, disposed of the doubles team of the much younger Woodrow Little and Norman Triplett in the semi-finals of Bluffton’s tennis tournament on the local courts Sunday. Little and Triplett, both champ tennis players, FAMOUS OHIO BATTLEFIELDS Allied Indian Tribes Are Defeated by General Wayne BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS—1794 Hidden behind the trunks of fallen trees and in the dense un derbrush, the Indians awaited the charge of General “Mad” Anthony Wayne’s legion. maintaining on the Ohio frontier. General Wayne, like General St. Clair, recruited his army at Pittsburgh and moved down the Ohio to Cincinnati. Here the sim ilarity ended. Wayne drilled and disciplined his army. Maneuvers familiarized them with Indian methods. Indian-wise scouts were obtained. Late in autumn he followed the route of St. Clair’s army north ward and built his winter quar ters, Fort Greenville. On Christ mas Day, 1793, 23 miles from Fort Greenville, Fort Recovery was begun on the very spot at which St. Clair’s army met de feat. In July (1794) Wayne with his full force marched northward, building Fort Adams, and at the junction of the Maumee and Au glaize rivers, Fort Defiance. On the site of Waterville he erected defenses and by August 20 was ready for “The Battle of Fallen Timbers.” Separating the Indians and the troops was a tangle of forest admit that their elders won a fair and square battle and gave them more than they could take. Just as everybody began to get thirsty at the Lions club picnic at the Buckeye Tuesday night,, the faucet on the root beer barrel froze and for a short period the members thought that they would be deprived of the beverage. Frantic efforts on the part of Bill Edwards and Dutch Augsburger soon had the tap in working order and the root beer was pouring out foam and all. A new version to “sweet sixteen and never been kissed” doggerel was suggested Tuesday night in front of the Bluffton News office where a number of high school students have been congregating. Marcene Stone hill was overheard to say that the line would be more appropriate if it were changed to “sweet sixteen and never been missed.” Pandora Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Schilling and son of Lima visited Mrs. Shilling’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Culp, Sun day. Mrs. Kelly Clark has typhoid fever and is in Lima Memorial hospital. Miss Ortha Tschudy is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Climer and daughter in Dayton. Miss Tschudy and Mrs. Climer are sisters. Miss Catherine Hatfield who works k I A fe’ MAUMEE 1 FALLEN TIMBERS MONUMENT giants blown down in a hurricane. The first shots were exchanged in the early morning hours. At 11:00, Wayne took the offensive and the legion charged. Within less than an hour the Indians* lines were broken. The battle was over. Wayne, destroying homes, villages and crops, marched into Indiana and built Fort Wayne. Their power shattered, the In dians sued for peace. A council was arranged at Fort Greenville for the next summer. On July 15 the council opened, with 1300 chiefs, sachems and warriors in attendance. The Treaty of Green ville was signed on August 3 and all Ohio, except the northwestern portion, was opened to white set tlers. i For nearly two decades there was peace in Ohio. Then in 1813 the struggle for possession of the state opened again. Next Week—How British can-* non balls helped the Americans win at Fort Meigs. in the Findlay hospital spent Sunday with her parents here. Mrs. Lester Finley of Jefferson is visiting her mother, Mrs. Regina Lemley. Miss Glenda Plankenhor who works in Dayton spent last week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Hilty visited friends in Cleveland a few days last week. Mrs. Earl Edwards left Sunday for Ashville, North Carolina where she will attend a camp meeting and visit friends several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hilty, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Schumacher and daught er of Lafayette and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Schumacher had Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Noah Schumacher and family. A number from here attended the Burry reunion in Berne, Sunday. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their aid and sym pathy extended in the illness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Hummon also Rev. Weed who officiated at the funeral, the singers for their services and all those sending flowers. The Family Tree Planting Farm boys and girls in New York state will plant more than a million and a half trees on waste lands this year. r: gj .1 1. FARMALL-H with single front wheel. 2. Powerful FARMALL-M with double front wheels. 3. ”MD," the Diesel powered FARMALL. 4. FARMALL-H with double front wheels. S. FARMALL-M again with wide front axle. 6. FARMALL-H with wide front axle. 7. FARMALL-M with single front wheel. 8. One-row FARMALL-A with "Culti-Vision." 9. Two-row FARMALL-B with double front wheels. 10. FARM ALL-H with 100-inch rear wheel tread. 11. High-clearance FARMALL-AV. 12. FARMALL-B with single front wheel. Mt. Cory The regular meeting of the King’s Daughters class of the Evangelical Sunday school was held with Mrs. C. H. Beagle, Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Flaith and Miss Ruth Ghaster assisting. After the business session the following program was presented: Song, “Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead U rs. Kauffman conducted devo-| tionals by reading the 3rd Chapter of Romans, giving a talk on the lesson and prayer. Miss Ruth Ghaster gaw two saxophone selections, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee Mrs. Lar ena Guin read an article on “What are Ann Lindberg’s Secret Thoughts solo, “Nobody Like Jesus,” Mrs. Ma bel King saxophone solo, “I Need Thee Every Hour,” in memory of Mr. Flaith. Fifteen members and five guests were present. Dainty refresh ments were served. The L. T. L. held their first meeting with Shirleen Wolfrom on Monday af ternoon. Election of officers was held with Susanne Wooley being elect ed president and Marilyn Reiter, sec retary. Program was as follows, de votionals, Shirleen Wolfrom reciting of pledges they are to learn. Story, “Daddy and I Go to the Circus,” Dan na Clymer solo, “The Rally Song,” Marilyn Reiter talk, “Uses of Al cohol, Good and Bod,” Mrs. William son. The meeting closed with L. T. L. prayer. Twelve children and three visitors were present and the hostess, Mrs. Wolfrom. “The Mission Band” presented their summer Christmas tree program on Monday evening at the home of Shir leen Wolfrom song A call to wor ship, Matt. 15:40 prayers by several members, song, Scripture Mark 12:28 34 seventh and eighth Chapters of study book, “Across the Fruited Plain,” was given by Pauline Sim kins playlett, How the Gospel was taken to other lands. At the close of the play little bags with offerings hung on the tree. Forty guests were present at a re union Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Fields and sons in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Trask of Lo rain, who are moving to New Or leans, La. this week. Mr Trask will he employed in the ship yards in New Orleans. Mrs. Trash is the former Tz*von Falk. Mrs. C. L. Green, Mrs. Samuel Light, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Reiter, Mrs. Joyce Rosenfelder and G. C. Steininger attended the funeral of Mrs. Hummon. Saturday in Bluffton. Mrs. Margaret Guinther and Mrs. Garyette Myers of Leipsic called on Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Green, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. White, Mrs. Idella Bailey and Mrs. Pearl Jordan, Sunday. Evening callers in the Jordan home were Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Whistler, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McVey. J. W. Garlinger observed his eight ieth birthday anniversary on Tuesday. His children came and helped cele brate. Mrs. Garlinger is improving from a fall causing a broken hip last fall. Mr. and Mrs. John Kramer of Lit tle Rock, Ark., were over Friday night guests of Mr. an-d Mrs. W. B. Kramer. On Saturday they were din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Benners in Lima. Saturday after they called on friends in Columbus Grove, Ottawa, Leipsic, Deshler and Belmore and were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Avis Gantz in Lima. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McVey of Al bany and Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Stein inger attended the Keel reunion held at the Putnam county fair grounds last Sunday. LATEST PICTURE OF THE FARMALL FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Ulmer Hutchinson & A PAGE THREE and son of Toledo called on Mr. and Mrs. James Hutchinson and daughter Jane Ann and Mrs. Nettie Sheldon, Sunday evening. Lee Naylor pf Flint, Mich., was a week end guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Naylor. Miss Phyllis King attended a Bible school picnic sponsored by the Church of Christ of Findlay, Thursday after noon and evening. Mrs. Walter McVey of Albany Mrs. Lloyd Foltz of Findlay, Misses Louise King and Glenna Mae Reiter enjoy ed a steak roast at Roadside park near Findlay, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ogle and Mrs. Ullmer of Dayton spent Sunday af ternoon with Mrs. Larena Guin. Mrs. Cecil Roach ad children of Cleveland returned home Sunday af ter a pleasant visit in the home of her mother, Mrs. Bessie'Guin. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Baumgardner and Mrs. Bess Berry of North Balti more visited with Mrs. Edith Sanders, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kinstle and dau ghter Onda Mae enjoyed several days outing at Lakeside, Mich., Jackson, Mich, and Camp Custar. Mrs. Brocker of Linden, Mich., was a w-eek end guest of her daughter, Mrs. Charles White. Armorsville Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and daughter called on Mr. and Mrs. Ed Berger and Mr. Harry Battles, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Elenore Hector and daugh ter Nancy, of Chicago, spent several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Moore. Raymond and Helen Montgomery called Sunday afternoon at the Ivan Montgomery home. Mr. John Welsh of Ada called Sunday evening at the Chas. Mont gomery home. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hilty and son of Columbus spent the week end at the H. O. Hilty home. Sunday afternoon callers were: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stryker, Mr. Harold and Orlo Strahm, all of Lima. Sunday visitors at the W. I. Moore home were: Mr. and Mrs. Morris Dye, of near Alvada Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kramer, of Mt. Cory Mr. Lehr Green, Marjorie and Rosella Moser. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore and family of Detroit are spending the week at the Moore home. The L. A. S. and W. M. S. of the Liberty Chapel church will meet with Mrs. O. P. Hartman, Thursday afternoon, August 14. Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Guider spent Sunday evening at the Carl Mc Cafferty home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hinely of Toledo Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Whisler, of Bluffton, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Flynn and son Roger of Swanton spent the week end at the Owens home. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman call ed Sunday evening on Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Wilkins and family. The Styx In Greek mythology, the Styx is the river which encircled the nether world seven times. For Maw of Manhattan In the year ended April 30, 1939, New York city consumed 141,255 freight carloads of fruits and vege tables, which is equal to almost 390 carloads a day. This food is distributed by 35,000 retail outlets, according to the bureau of agricul tural economics. £5 i -w Here are TWELVE sturdy red FARM ALLS, ready to roll into the fields and demonstrate farm power and versatility that can't be equalled. Stop in at our store and see the ones we have on display we'll be glad to give you more details on these great tractors. C. F. Niswander McCormick-Deering Dealer Bluffton, Ohio