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THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1941
Bity the poor civilians who happen
to live near one of Uncle Sam’s big
army training camps. Robert West,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff West who
is furloughing at home this week
tells of the plight of a small city
of some 8,000 population located
only a few miles from Camp For
rest, Tennessee, where there are
60,000 men in training.
During week ends when the boys
swarm in from camp one hardly
sees a civilian and it’s all but im
possible to get into a moving pic
ture show, restaurant, drug store or
soda fountain, so great is the num
ber of soldiers.
And while we are on the subject,
comes a card from Bob’s elder
brother, James West, erstwhile city
clerk, who has been transferred
from Camp Callan in California to
Fort Bliss, Texas. The change was
made at the expense of sleeping
comfort, says Jim. At Ft. Bliss, his
outfit, the 423rd Coast Artillery is
sleeping five men to a tent, while
in California they occupied new bar
racks. The Bluffton News looks
mighty good when it arrives at the
Fort every Saturday morning, Jim
writes.
In a letter to his dad Gerald
Scoles writes of attending the
Columbus, Ga. fair. He says that
the Bluffton Mid Winter fair has it
all over the southern city’s display,
altho Columbus has a population of
some 35,000. Gerald is in military
training at Ft. Benning, Ga., only
20 miles from Columbus.
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Poetry honors have come to the
mother of a Bluffton woman, it was
learned the first of the week. Three
of six poems submitted by Mrs.
Ewing Porter of Columbus Grove
were included in the “America
Forever” edition annually published
by Avon House, New York city pub
lishers. Mrs. Porter is the mother
of Mrs. Ralph Reichenbach of
Bluffton. Of 30,000 poems submitted
for the edition 842 were chosen.
The annual Halloween season
headache has started for Marshall
Lee Coon with youngsters already
staging pranks thick and fast. Lee
says harmless pranks are O.K.—but
if it gets to destruction of property
there will be a crackdown, swift and
certain.
They take their politics seriously
in Richland township—yes sir. Al
though politics in town has been
this far about as dead as a door
nail, the political bee has been right
busy out in the rural hustings. Some
of those candidates for trustee are
putting on a really well organized
campaign. Looks like they will
show the town candidates a thing or
two about practical politics.
Jacob Amstutz of Hillville takes
exception to an article which ap
peared in last week’s edition telling
of a snake milking a cow. Jacob
says that it can’t be done—all fre
quent tales to the contrary notwith
standing. We’re sidestepping that
one—since we never milked a cow’
and don’t know much about snakes.
Maybe some of our readers can
supply data on the subject.
Another accident in Bluffton
caused by bicycle riding in the busi
ness district. With heavy Dixie
highway traffic going over Main
street, it’s hazardous for bicycles on
the pavement—on the other hand
the sidewalk is for pedestrians. If
the youngsters are to continue to
ride on the sidew’alk, they should
realize that pedestrians have the
right of way and cut down speed
ing, especially in the business dis
trict.
Talk about ambitious young men
two boys with the first name of
Eddie, one Rice and other Schu
macher, are holding down a full
time night job at the Triplett Co.
and commuting daily for their
classes at Bowling Green State uni
versity. How’ would you like to
have a schedule like this: Work at
Triplett’s from 6:00 p. m. to 2:30 a.
m. Study several hours for classes
at Bowling Green. Attend classes at
the university from 10:00 a. m. to
5:00 p. m. and then a dash back
to Bluffton in time for work at the
For Vigor and Health—
include meat in your menu.
Always ready to serve you.
Bigler Bros.
Fresh and Salt Meats
Triplett plant. P. S. A little sleep
is squeezed in in the early morning
hours.
Until tv recent death of his
great-grandfather Adolpn Badert
scher, littiv Jessie Lee Badertscher,
8 months old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lyle Badertscher of Mound street,
had four sets of great-grand par
ents. Great-grand parents living are
Mrs. Adolph Badertscher, Mr. and
Mrs. L. S. Hochstettler of Bluffton
Mr. and Mrs. William Rainey and
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Logan of Raw
son.
Ihizzled when subpoenas were
served upon them, several Bluffton
High school faculty members were
quite disturbed until further reading
of the subpoena showed that it was
a unique invitation from an athletic
supply house in Toledo. Sidney
Stettler, Dwight Diller and Gerhard
Buhler were recipients of the fol
lowing summons: Subpoena on the
part of the Grand and Benevolent
Order of Cider Drinkers Doughnut
Dunkers to appear on the 24th day
of October 1941 between the hours
of 8:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. at the
court headquarters.
Inside the folder read “You are
required to attend, under penalty of
forever hereafter keeping silent
about your dunking and eating
prowess, before said court, and to
demonstrate your technique of afore
said dunking and your methods of
properly holding the lusciously
browned doughnut. The present
record of 7 glasses of cider and 11
doughnuts held by an unnamed de
fendant, is the mark which you are
to attempt to surpass. After testi
fying and demonstrating your abil
ities at the above named activities,
you will be held without bail, to
mingle with your old friends and
cronies who will be here, attending
the Northwestern Ohio Teachers
Convention.” The supply house has
furnished cider and doughnuts to the
athletic fraternity for many years
and the Bluffton men have usually
taken advantage of the opportunity
at the annual convention.
Richard New’lan, Bluffton Junior
High school student, is just recover
ing from a severe case of poison ivy.
In playing football one day last
week he came in contact with the
leaf which sent him to bed for sev
eral days with a badly swollen face.
Many people are allergic to the ivy
and in some cases actual contact
with the leaf is not necessary to
contact the poison. Especially on a
hot day is the infection more likely
to take place.
You should see the attractive
rings and decorative objects that the
boys in the industrial arts depart
ment at the high school are making
from plastic materials.
Gene Patterson is the proud pos
sessor of a new' Boy Scout uniform
which his father bought for him
Saturday. Gene now has the rank
of tenderfoot in Bluffton Scout troop
No. 56.
Not satisfied with what they found
at the haunted house on Bentley
road last week another group of
boys continued their investigation of
the house on Sunday. Among the
items uncovered by the boys was a
Findlay Enquirer with the date 1879.
The following boys biked out to the
old deserted home: Dick Kuhn, Joe
and Marvin Bronson, Francis and
Harold Kohli. Nothing exciting de
veloped at the house so the boys
biked out to the farm home of a
classmate, Stanley Miller. Here they
had a much more exciting time rid
ing ponies and horses.
Louise Soldner had the scare of
her life when she visited at the
country home of Phyllis Marquart,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley
Marquart. While she was walking
near the barn one of the mules gave
a blood curdling scream. Never hav
ing heard such an animal before
Louise was almost beside herself in
fright until Phyllis explained that
the terrifying noise came from a
perfectly harmless farm beast of
burden.
If you see Fred Getties limping
down street it is not due to fallen
arches but rather it is due to dog
hairs. It seems that Getties w’hile
in his stocking feet at home has a
tendency to pick up dog hairs in
his stockings which work into the
flesh causing considerable pain.
Mebbe Irvin Woods got his direc
tions confused when painting at the
front of Pine’s restaurant Monday.
Anyway his paint bucket fell from
a considerable height and the side
walk and the display ads at the Star
theatre w'ere literally splattered. As
Woods was attempting to clean up
the mess he was heard to mutter,
“Yeah, and I spose this will get in
Mainly Personal.” Well, here it is
Irvin.
We don’t know’ whether Bluffton
will eventually get its sew’er sys
tem, but we do know that few who
are not directly in touch with the
situation have any idea of the
amount of work that has been put
on collecting engineering data and
blueprints for the proposed system.
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This is required before the matter
may be submitted to the federal
government for aid. C. S. Finkbein
er, Toledo engineer who met with
the council Monday night had a
large brief case jammed with papers
all relating to the Bluffton sewer
project. He said he had only re
cently gone -thru the file and dis
carded everything not absolutely
necessary, in order to keep it within
reasonable limitations.
And while we’re on the subject of
plans and blueprints you might be
interested to know’ that it takes a
carload of blueprint paper—30,000
pounds—for construction of a mod
ern battleship.
Mumma’s garage—a landmark on
Cherry street for the past thirty
three years will disappear after this
week. The building, former Mor
rison livery barn, will be remodeled
by its present owner, Clayton Bixel.
Because of lack of a suitable loca
tion Ray Munima, proprietor of the
garage will discontinue business, he
announced the first of the week.
Bixel has announced no plans as to
what he expects to do with the
place.
Mr. and Mrs. James Elvin, recent
ly returned from a wedding trip
were given an old-fashioned belling
at their home on Poplar street by
friends and neighbors, Monday
night. After the customary noise
making din the crowd was invited
in for an informal reception and
congratulations and best wishes.
Sam Stepleton, one of Bluffton’s
top flight anglers provided fish for
a family dinner when his daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mervin
Springer and family of Peoria, Ill.,
visited here. A large bass and
channel catfish freshly caught from
the National quarry were evidence
enough of Sam’s prowess with rod
and reel.
Comes program of the recent ban
quet of the Oceanside (California)
Chamber of Commerce, featuring a
dinner and program accompanying
installation of officers for the com
ing year. Alvin Whisler former
Bluffton man who has been one of
that organization’s boosters for a
good many years appears on the
official roster as retiring treasurer.
He has also been twice president of
the commerce body.
A picture on the front page of
the Minneapolis Star Journal of
October 11 featured Richard Geiger,
youngest son of Prof, and Mrs. I.
W. Geiger of Minneapolis former
Bluffton residents, and Richard’s pal,
Jimmy Bierman, 15 year old son of
Bernie Bierman, Minnesota U. head
coach listening in on the radio dur
ing the Minnesota-Illinois football
game. With the two boys was
Richard’s dog, Foxy. The Geigers
and Biermans are neighbors in
Minneapolis, W’here Prof. Geiger is
on the faculty of the University of
Minnesota.
A three-generation combination
working together as members of a
crew’ of carpenters was broken up
by the death of Adolph Badertscher
last Thursday. Mr. Badertscher, a
skilled workman taught the trade to
his son Albert Badertscher and
grandson Lysle Badertscher. He
was active until his death at the
carpenter trade and was particularly
apt in unusual construction work in
volving intricate detail.
In a Gilbert and Sullivan sound
picture presented to the student
body at Bluffton High school Tues
day afternoon, Vera Ross Coburn, a
former Bluffton residerit and student
in the schools here, appeared in one
of the leading roles in the presenta
tion of excerpts of H. M. S. Pina
fore and The Mikado. She is the
daughter of C. G. Coburn of this
place.
The presence of Tesla “Tubby”
Stearns at the meeting of the Lions
club Tuesday night inspired Coach
Burcky to pick an all-star Beaver
basketball team. The team which
would give the best offensive and
defensive balance would be as fol
lows according to the Beaver men
tor: Bill Williams and Donivan
Baumgartner, forwards J. J. Miller,
center Tesla Stearns and Jim Creel,
guards. While we admit that this
would be a great team we w’onder if
any Beaver fans have other selec
tions or combinations. We invite
your contributions.
W’hile on the subject of Beavers,
we heard today that members of the
Bluffton college football team have
agreed not to shave until they chalk
up a victory.
A persimmon placed in the News
window by Robert A. Potts attracted
lots of attention over the week end.
It was really surprising the number
of people who had never seen or
tasted a persimmon.
Oil for the Buttons
Button controls on the dash, such
as the choke, are disposed to be
come’ difficult to operate with the
passage of time—a drop of light ma
chine oil will effect a quick correc
tion of the condition, according to
automobile experts.
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The members of the Junior and Sen
ior class of the High School spent
Saturday in Columbus and attended
the Ohio State-Purdue football gome.
Last Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Amstutz and daughter
Evelyn were Mr. and Mrs. George
W’right, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wright
of Spencerville, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Amstutz and daughter of Akron, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Amstutz and family,
Mr. anr Mrs. J. E. Emerick and Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Amstutz and family.
Rev. and Mrs. Dwight Nichols of
Johnstown, Pa., were Tuesday visi
tors of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Suin
ney.
The Farm Women’s Improvement
club held their annual guest day at
Gratz Grange hall on Thursday after
noon. Judge Raymond P. Smith ot
Lima was the guest speaker.
The Women’s Society of Christian
Service of the Methodist church will
sponsor a Father and Son banquet or.
Wednesday evening, October 29 in the
basement of the church.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Arnold enter
tained last Sunday, Mrs. Emma Baker
of Chicago, Miss Christine Baker of
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis of Cleve
land were Saturday visitors of Mrs.
Synthia Elliott and Mrs. Netta Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Darst Yant of Gilles
pie, Ill., visited the past week with
the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Yant.
Mr. and Mrs. Print Kilgore of Col
umbus visited Friday with the latter's
mother, Mrs. Mary Zeiders.
Dwight Yarger of Camp Custer.
Mich is ejoying a 12-day vacation with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Yarg
er.
Orin Grant and daughter Evelyn
and Mrs. Sam Law of Tulsa, Okla.,
visited the past week with Mrs. Wm.
Lenney.
Phillip Piper spent a few days the
past week with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Foltz.
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Celina, Mrs. Lenore Hullinger of Li
ma, Mr. and Mrs. John Augsljurger,
and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Larue.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kramer and Mr.
and Mrs. Scott Kramer spent last
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Maus at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Mrs. Emma Barber is spending
several weeks with Mrs. Gordon
Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Pursley and family
moved on a farm which they purchas
ed recently near Mt. Cory.
The Vesper!an S. S. class was en
tertained Wednesday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pugh.
Those present were Rev. and Mrs. W.
H. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. I .M. Jen
mngs, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Huber,
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Trout, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Hall and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Brackney, Mrs. Wilbur
Sumney and children, Mrs. Ed. Cook,
Mrs. Russell Wolfe, Mrs. Harmon
Downey, Mrs. Everet Rowland, Mr.
and Mrs. Gail Arnold, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Hall.
Mrs. Mae Stewart of Sturgis, Mich,
is spending a few days with Mrs.
Rosa Stoodt.
Mrs. I. C. Paul attended Homecom
ing, Sunday at the Pleasant iVew
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Younkman and
family of West Unity were Sunday
visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Moser.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Pash of Troy
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Dally.
Registration System
To help in identifying and in lo
cating bodies of climbers, superin
tendents of all national parks have
been asked to install a registra
tion system for climbers before they
start out.
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Bluffton Boy States
(Continued from page 1)
members o’, the National Guard with
only a small number of selectees.
West took part in the Red versus
Blue army maneuvers fought on
swampy Louisiana terrain. Camp
Forest men were a part of the group
known as the Red army under Gen
eral Lear. The maneuvers simu
lated actual war conditions and last
ed 55 days from August 16 to Sep
tember 30. The games took place
on the same territory as used by
General Pershing during the World
War.
Army Umpires
All guns use blank ammunition
and airplanes use sacks of flour in
their bombing attacks. Wherever the
flour sacks fall the area is consid
ered bombed and all soldiers within
a certain area are considered killed.
Umpires determine the casualties re
sulting from the use of machine
guns, cannon, howitzers and all types
of guns.
How FORD MEETS TODAY’S DIG NEEDS
As in actual warfare scouts are
sent to the front and report back to
the gunners from observation posts.
West’s division operated about six
miles back of the front lines. With
the help of the observation posts
distances were calculated and im
portant enemy positions were hit.
Howitzers Accurate
The 155 mm. howitzers are highly
accurate anywhere within a range of
12 miles and fairly accurate up to
18 miles. The guns throw a shell
six and one-fourth inches in di
ameter. If the guns happen to hit
a bridge or a company of soldiers
they are declared destroyed by the
umpire. Whether an object is hit
or not is determined by mathemati
cal calculation based on the deflec
tion and elevation of the guns in re
lation to the object.
Army ordnance experts are able
to determine where the missies would
have hit had the guns been really
loaded instead of using only blanks.
The machine gunners arc the sol
diers who are in the dangerous spots,
West stated. They are usually at
the flanks of the advancing lines and
are often alone and in exposed spots.
Dive Bombers
Many airplanes and dive bombers
took part in the attack and valuable
experience was gained in coordinat
ing land and air units. During ma
neuvers life is no bed of roses, West
pointed out. Practically all of the
movements of the army are made
at night under black out conditions.
The truck and tank drivers are es
pecially under a strain since the
terrain is unfamiliar and the land
is swampy. Hundreds of tons of
i equipment and supplies jnust con
stantly be on the move in modern
mechanized warfare.
For two nights it rained continu
ously in a drenching downpour and
West’s tent was located on a hill
with the result that the boys were
completely soaked. Most of the next
day was spent in drying out equip
ment and clothes.
Use Hammocks
Adding to the discomfort during
the entire maneuvers were mosqui
toes, jiggers and snakes. The jig
gers came to be such a problem that
the boys could no longer sleep on the
ground and improved hammocks were
made for better sleeping arrange
ments.
For the most part the food was
good during the war games, although
At WILLOW run is rising a giant plant
with an assembly line nearly mile long to
produce the Consolidated B-24 Bomber
which is considered by experts
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PAGE THREE
there were times when the supplies
ran low and canned foods were sub
stituted. West also did clerical work
during combat operations. Routine
reports of advancement in position,
reports of casualties and other mat
ters of a similar nature were hand
led by West.
Life Magazine
A report of the war games was
given in a recent issue of the Life
magazine. The presentation was
highly accurate. West pointed out,
except for the report that the Blue
army won. No official verdict has
been given by the war department
on the outcome of the maneuvers,
he stated.
Although the war games relieved
monotony of training, the boys were
glad to get back to the drill and
routine of camp life.
Back at the camp increasing atten
tion is being given to the recreation
al needs of the soldiers. Various
athletic games are provided and a
store is maintained where soldiers
may buy candy, tobacco, beer and
other needs.
Army Dances
A dance is given for the soldiers
every Saturday night but with thous
ands of soldiers on the grounds and
only a few hundred girls for danc
ing partners one does not get to
dance very long at a time, West
stated. Music at the dances is pro
vided by regimental dance bands.
As battery clerk West makes out
the pay roll, has charge of the filing
system and assists in the numerous
details of regimental business. As
clerk he is not required to partici
pate in drill. Life in camp has
agreed with the Bluffton youth as
he has gained about 12 pounds since
engaging in camp activity.
Boy Scout News
By Robert Stratton
Gene Patterson was installed into
Troop 56 as a tenderfoot Monday
night.
John Schmidt was named on the
executive board of the unior Lead
ers conference to be held at Ohio
Northern university in Ada on No
vember 1.
The troop at the present time is
engaged in a project of making
fancy designs on plyboards.
Members of the troop are looking
forward to attending the Ohio State
Northwestern football game at Co
lumbus, Saturday.
Collects Maps
Prof. Burton M. Varney, history
professor at the University of Cali
fornia, is collecting and cataloging
maps from every possible source.
The collection to date numbers
more than 10,000 maps.
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