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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943 The archery club will meet at the town hall archery range Friday night at 7:30 o’clock for practice shooting. The meeting is open to the public. It is earnestly hoped by the edi tor of this department that the com munity will realize the value of a conservation program in the school curriculum, and that subjects along this line will be a part of the pro gram. Ohio boasts a nationally famous conservation laboratory at Tar Hol low in the Ross-Hocking state forest. This summer training camp situated cut in the wilds has dormitories for men and women, dining hall, labora tories for nature study, class rooms and many other modern facilities for an excellent summer vacation. Pub lic school teachers and other inter ested individuals are invited to par ticipate in the training program. Instructors on the camp staff are highly specialized in their work and teach a program of national welfare and its dependency on sound conser vation. The Lions club invited the Sports men’s club as guests at one of their meetings a few weeks ago. The speaker for the occasion was Ar thur R. Harper, Field Supervisor of wildlife of Ohio. Color plates of flowers and Ohhio’ wildlife program were projected on a screen at the meeting. The illustrated talk by Harper, one of the principal instructors at Tar Hollow Camp, gave to the people of Bluffton a first-hand view of the teaching method at the con servatory. 0U*5 iNTHE Ztoir'l Hints The session this year at Tar Hol low runs from June 17 to July 23rd. For additional information on this vacation program see Wilford Geig er, club director. Bass season opens again on June 16th and until that time al! boating activity on the waters of the Buck eye quarry must be at a minimum. The bass and blue gills are now in the midst of the spawning season and any molesting of the spawn bed will bring disastrous results to the fish propagation program. Extreme care must be taken against the pushing of large stones or throwing stones at the spawning bass along the quarry edges. Boats under no circumstances Francis Basinger, D. D. S. Evan Basinger, D. D. S. Telephone 271-W Bluffton, Ohio 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. Don’t forget-- You can’t buy in surance when you need it. Insure with F. S. Herr and be SURE. I Feet Hurt? SEE W. H. Gratz Foot Comfort Service BLUFFTON The Family Shoe Store WITH THE should be rowed promiscuously along the edges of the quarry so that the keel on the boat can come in con tact with the shore. At some seasons of the year the use of a motor in the quarry may be permissible for testing purposes, but at this time of the year during spawning season the use of a motor is out of the question. The directors of the club went so far as to adopt a measure two years ago to ask the public to not use a motor in the Buckeye on any occa sion. This measure has been modi fied to a degree for a motor may be used with caution so that no harm can come to the spayning beds of the quarry. The public is urged to observe the regulations and cooperate with the club in use of the parry for boat ing purposes. The only good fishing hole we have for the duration is the Buckeye and this quarr yis the only spot where boating is permissible at any time within the town limits. Bird lovers of the area are greatly perturbed over the presence of so many stray cats. With young rob ins, blue birds, and many other young feathered friends making their appearance, bird lovers are worrying about the cats getting the fledglings. Without a doubt cats are the greatest enemy we have of our feathered songsters. In the field great inroads made upon our wild life is due largely to the presence of stray cats. Folks owning a house cat and litter of young kittens feel that they cannot support so many meat eaters so in their way of thinking the hu mane thing to do is carry kittens to the field and turn them loose. This practice is the worst thing that can happen in the opinion of the conservation department. Cats must eat and when there is no friendly person to feed them they will do the next best thing—start preying on wildlife! Nothing escapes their at tention young quail, haf-grown rabbits .pheasants, all kinds of birds are easy victims of these slinking marauders. Most hunters, sportsmen, and oth ers will kill cats on sight in the field or along the roadsides, and many persons in town and in the cities will kill a cat without hesitation. If you own a pet cat place a small bell around the animal’s neck this act will mean the saving of a great many bird lives (and maybe a cat’s life also( for animal will not have nearly the chance of catching a bird without a warning signal. The sight of a bird in a cat’s mouth is sufficient excuse for many persons to do away with the cat. The archery club is getting under way in good shape now since equip ment for the most discriminate archer is now available at dealers in the area. This sport is really taking hold this year due to the shortage of am munition. Last year there were sev eral hundred archers in the United States and this year the Archery Equipment manufacturers are run ning behind with orders. The sportsmen taking up the sport al ready number in the millions. Practice shooting at the Swiss Inn by the club was enjoyed last Fri day and Tuesday. The Bluffton Archers all new at the game are having a good time enjoying the dis comforts of each other as learning the sport progresses. Much time for the beginner is spent hunting ar rows that clear the target and go sailing away to become concealed in the high grass and weeds. Many arms sport red welts resulting from the bowstring slapping the wrist of the forgetful archer neglecting to adjust his arm guard properly. “Bulls Eyes” are made, but not too frequently at this stage of the game. It takes practice to get a grouping of arrows and shooting a mow takes steady nerves, practice, and determination. One of the youth ful archers was even jublilant over her success in hitting the pile if baled straw at ninety feet let alone getting an arrow into the target. So the sport progresses and the club will in the near future set up a range within the corporation with practice for members on designated evenings each week. An archery club is beifig organized at Columbus Grove and shooting »°S /n minnow buckets 5O'F MEANS 50% MOAE LIVE MINNOWS THAN events between the negotiated. Young archery learning the sport vision of Wm. Edwards. The young folks are urged to contact him for necessary information as to practice nights and membership in the or ganization. in this Last year the club sold 373 fish ing licenses, this year the club has already sold better than 250 llicenses. Sales will give a big spurt this week end. The impetus for the upswing in sales is the opening of bass seas on on the northern zones next Wed nesday, June 16th. Club dealers for licenses are Carl Mumma. Gail Mumma, Sam Steple ton, Charles Dillman and Don Forche at Beaverdam. Buy from a club dealer—the fees are rebated to the club for the Under onio Skies As told by Conservation Division AND means 50% MOAE THAN MF restocking purposes. Open enthusiasts are under the super- Senior archers will contact Della Krebill, club president, or Mrs. Dal las Beery, sec’y-treas. ship for member organization. a news Harold In dispatch from Washing L. Ickes, as coordinator and at the same time ton, of fisheries petroleum administrator, made this statement: “We still think it’s a good idea for sportsmen to fish when they can and where they can with out extra gasoline.” Ickes stated there is no possibility of getting extra gasoline rations for sport fishermen. Anglers are ad vised to try brooks near home. and The director of the U. S. Fish Wildlife Service, Dr. Ira N. Gabriel sen, said that although it will be dif ficult for many fishermen to get to their favorite spots, those who can do so ought to be well rewarded because the draft and longer work ing house have lessened competition from other fishermen. The effect of gas rationing on fish ing is reflected in local fishing license sales. Gail Mumma, sales di rector for the club, states that the local demand for fishing licenses will be greater chan previous years. have the greatest of the Flicker possibly Some birds patience and ranks among the best for this char acteristic. This bird conspicuous for its size and handsome markings, among which are a black crescent on the breast, the red nape, white rump, and yellow shafts to the tail and wing feathers has many popular names, as yellow hammer, high hold er and golden wing woodpecker. E. C. Stultz of Grove street can couch for the bird’s patience. A Flicker spent several weeks picking a hole into a dead limb of a maple in his front yard Day after day the bird toiled at the hard task. When the home was completed it was promptly takekn over by a pair of starlings. These pirating birds drove the flicker away. Stultz, sizing up the situation, provided the starlings with an untimely end and eliminated the thieves through a little target practice. Shortly after the flicker returned and set up housekeeping. A nest of eggs were laid and everything seem ed serene for the woodpecker, but the inevitable always happens—some more starlings apeared and took over. The eggs were thrown out of the nest and the flicker again was ousted. Stultz again came to the rescue and the starlings were bump ed off. At latest reports the flicker has not yet returned, but Stultz has high hopes and after all the trouble the starlings have caused we hope time BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO season ON BLACK BASS BEGINS CN JUNE I IN THE SOUTHERN ZONE AND ON JUNE 16 IN THE NORTHERN ZON E HOHTHt IN TONS v&tN ZC.Vf toads GftEAT IN A Common ARE A HELP VEGETABLE GARDEN. TOADS SPEND THE DAY IN A DAMP CORNER APPEAR AT NI&HT TO FE2D ON HARMFUL INSECTS- THEY ARE FRIENDLY HARMLESS 'v HANDLING THEM DOES NOT PRODUCE WARTS- Mill two clubs will be Link says that a good many years ago the Buckeye was known as the Siddall quarry. Plans were under way by a group of men to pump the quarry dry in preparation for quar rying stone. Charles Fruchey and another party hearing of the propos ed plans hopped right down to the officials and purchased the rights to all the fish that would accumulate on the bottom after the water was re moved. The deal was made and the price was to be $20.00 for exclusive rights. Everyone thought the two men had made a good deal and when the big day arrived a good crowd was present to see the fish as they were carried from the pit. The men ex pected at least a ton and everyone was anxious to place an order for one of the big ones that inhabited the quarry. The men were so interested in making the haul that time was scar cely allowed for dinner for fear the quarry might be emptied while they were absent. Soon the big moment arrived and the last fish swam into a pocket as the water receded, the men were busy picking them up, but this pro cess was short lived for the accumu lation of fish present were not suf ficient to fill a barrel. Seems like we have an abundance of fish in the quarry now but the ever-present schools of minnows and abundance of craws along the banks gives ample indication that the quar ry can still stand considerable legal size stock. Joan Mayberry music recital in also this the flicker returns and remains unmolested. most sportsmen’s mind runs a In thought thhat if the Buckeye were emptied of water and all the fish ac cumulated in one heap be possibly several tons there would of them. in many in this nature. The “old timers” also stances had visions of Link Hauenstein narrated an inci dent last Sunday at the quarry that has more than ever convinced yours truly that our quarry needs fish, and not a few fish, but thousands of fish all legal size at the time of resock ing. Mainlu, more Rockport Mrs. Edgar Begg and Mr. Travis Page and family Mr. and and Mrs. spent Sunday with the Page rela tives in Marion. Mrs. Ray Shank of Portland, Ind. spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marshall and family. They are attending the Lemeley Steiner wedding urday evening. in Pandora, Sat- participated in 3 Columbus Grove, the Sunday afternoon, given by pupils of Mrs. H. R. Day. Dr. and Mrs. Munson Bixel, ghter Alice Jean and son Paul and Miss Madeline Bixel took day dinner with Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and son Robert. dau Don Sun- been Herbert Marshall, Jr. has transferred from Clemson, S. Nashville, Tenn, for further training in the Air Corps. Herbert, Jr. will remain in Greenville for the present where she is engag ed in nursing. C. to basic Mrs. Herbert Marshall was a witness in the Federal Wednesday. Court in Toledo last and Pleasure club will home of Mrs. Mary 16th. The Profit meet in the Mayberry, Wednesday, June The program follows: Roll call—A Vitamin and its source Dividends on Ice-Locker Plants—Hazel Marshall Recent Ad vances in Vitamin Knowledge—Mary Begg What’s Your Allergy? or Strange Malady?—Grace Kidd. Children’s Day will with a program by the Sunday evening. June Presbyterian church. be observed children next 13th at the spent a few Mrs. Mary Sylvester days last week with her daughter, Mrs. Dennis Roby and family Blue Lick. Mr. and Mrs. John Sylvester Marion spent one day last week the Glenn at of at Huber home. in the Ohio Poultry Im Association essay contest Winners provement and their awards in bonds or stamps are Jack E. Carpenter, $100 Leon Hord, $50 Malcom A. Smith. $5. all three from North Fail-field High School Harold Schwendeman, $25 Frank Lloyd Stacy, $15 Bernard De Long, $10, all from Lowell High School Clarence Schiefer, $5, Bloom ville John Ross, $5 and Harry Dailey, $5 both from Gambier High School. Don’t forget to buy War Bonds and Defense Stamps. Thursday—last day to file if you want to run for a town office—also last day to get canning sugar and looks like canning sugar is more popular from the way everybody went for it town offices sadly neglected—with everybody busy most of them holding down two or three jobs the municipal paycheck doesn’t have the glamor it did during the depression looks as if we won't need a primary this year—lucky if the boys get the tickets filled and with no marshal to be elected, council and board of public affairs will be the hot spots all of which goes to show that times change and if you don’t think so, you didn’t see the meat markets closed Satur day night at 11 and if your cellar hasn’t any water it in—well, it’s just different than most of them and the boys lined up at the money order window at the post of fice can’t realize that it’s been three months since they paid the first in come tax insallment astonishing how time flies when there’s a pay ment coming due maybe there won’t be corn knee-high by the Fourth of July—can’t tell yet but there’s waist-high oats now. Flag day next Monday—but there will be only cotton and rayon flags on the market for civilians. No silk flags nowadays and wool may be used only for flags for the armed services. Also metal flag accessories for civilian use are out. housewives—your gar last longer and be in condition if you put a To Bluffton bage pail will more sanitary newspaper in the bottom. Remember, garbage sticking to the can subjects it to a lot of hard knocks—which means shorter life. The newspaper in the bottom of the can will help a lot, says Lee Coon in charge of gar bage collection. Shortage of manpower on the farm doesn’t worry Chancey Spallinger over toward Lafayette. Chancey’s boys are on the job—and the young est, Don, aged 10, handles a tractor drawn disc like an old hand. Of course you know about the famous 57 varieties of pickles—but did you know that there are 67 va rieties of mosquitoes. So says H. W. Berky, Bluffton college science in structor. Personally, they all alike to us and they all bite, ones that have been making life erable the past two weeks are sifted as “woods” mosquitoes—those which breed in wet forests and un derbrush. These, it is said, will be here onl ytemporarily. Mayor Howe, who is personally in charge of the town’s anti-mosquito campaign says that a careful check has revealed no “rain barrel” larvae in streams and ponds here. These are the type most commonly found here during the summer. If this type can be kept from hatching, the town should be comparatively free of mosquitoes soon after the present wet spell has passed, the mayor says. look The mis clas- Lumber has gone to war—and be lieve it or not, there are some kinds of lumber which are harder to get than steel, so says Forrest Steinman, Bluffton lumberman, just returned from a buying trip thru the south. Lumber in prodigiously large amounts is going for military purposes and will continue probably for the dura tion. Altho it didn’t last long, that rain Sunday just before midnight was one of the heavies this season—which by the way has been noted for hard rains. According to local amateur weather observers about two inches of water fell in the course of an hour. Arch Griffith of Madison, W. Va., former Blufftonite has recently pur chased a farm near that place—Arch says it’s one of those West Virginia farms of 175 acres that stands on edge and one acre of river bottom land. Arch says he is farming the one acre—maybe he will use the other 175 acres for a ski course in winter. A number of Bluffton people the first of the week received letters written last Wednesday by Mrs. J. C. Stettler of Indianapolis informing them of the death of her brother Emile Bessire of Cleveland. On the day the letters arrived here also came news of Mrs. Settler’s sudden death which occurred late Saturday in an Indianapolis hospital presum ably from a heart attack. Mrs. Stettler, formerly Alice Bessire and her brother, were both former Bluff ton residents and well remembered by older residents. Fred Wenger, of the United States army signal corps, tells us that the housing shorage is so acute in Wash ington, D. C., that he has found it necessary to rent his hotel room per manently rather than take a chance on getting a room at the time of his trips to the nation’s capital. The transportation problem is just as bad. You don’t get in a taxi any more and go where you like. You get in a taxi and wait until there are five people in the car and go only to des tinations designated by the govern ment as essential. Wenger was form erly an engineer at and lives on Beaver the Triplett Co. street. problems to be One of the chief faced by ocean swimmers, so writes Chief Petty Officer Dale Reichenbach of San Diego, Calif., is rip tides. There is little on the surface of the water to warn a person of the rip and the minute a person swims or steps into one a strong seaward motion pulls him away from shore. The inexperienced person invariably becomes frightened and tries to swim to short against the rip and finally loses his strength and sinks. The best method of escape is to float or tread water and drift to the outer most point of the rip after which a person can swim around it and then to shore, being careful not to re enter the rip. Rips change their location frequently and most of the rescue to this work of the guards relates type of action. Gene Benroth’s face red the Was other day after he had finished tell ing Bill Edwards about the big blue gills he had just caught at the Buck eye Lake. He even went so far as to tell the strength needed to land the whoppers when right at the cli max of his sory his fish basket came open and out fell the tiny fish Gene had caught. Bil said the fish were about the size he minnows to bait laughed and Gene usually uses for the hook, blushed. Bill The army really has a most unique educational system, so Rolland Swank, in training at Camp Davis, North Carolina, reports here this week while on furlough. The army is one place where what you know OPENING SOON Bluffton’s New Roller Rink We aim to make this rink unsurpassed Ohio and for that reason we are waiting opening date until everything is in readiness for your pleasure. Our obj’ect is to make this a recreation spot that Bluffton may well be proud of in every way. Watch for the opening date—it’s worth waiting for BLUFFTON ROLLER RINK North Main and Elm Streets Former Bixel Motor Sales Building Ray Clark, Prop. PAGE THREE has to be related to immediate ac tion. Swank, a school administrator at Elida High school, believes that the schools might learn something from army tactics although the prob lems are different. The school, un fortunately, does not have much op portunity to translate its academic program into realistic experience. The army is all action and all real ism. There’s a neat problem for school curriculum builders—how to put more realism and life into the school situation to us that the school will vital community agent to to which realism is the dominant emphasis. experience It appears grow as a the extent Cuby Basinger was dismayed at the Buckeye Swimming lake the oth er day when a bunch of gals des cended on him and painted him with lipstick. Pictures, mottoes, names and what have you adorned his body after the attack had subsided. The favorite topic of conversation on the streets of Bluffton Monday morning was the deluge that flooded the town Sunday evening from 11:30 to about midnight. Many cellars were flooded, some so deep that muni cipal water plant apparatus had to e called for pumping purposes. Gardens were over-run, washed out, chickens waters flower over curbs the worst down pours of the Wade Bechtol property on Grove street the dog was marooned in a pen where he was swimming around and barking loudly for a rescue. driveways drowned, in one of years. At The deluge proved to be another illustration of the inadequacy of the town drainage and disposal system. The drainage system proves to be in adequate to carry off the excess water whenever there is a heavy downpour. The coin collectors and stamp col lecting enthusiasts are advising in vestors in stocks and bonds to give some consideration to coins and stamps purely from the investment angle. Bill Edwards told us the other night that the coins he pur chased las tyear have already doub led in value and that he is consider ing selling the whole lot and pur chase the same group back when the prices come down to normal after the war. Stamps always go up in price, war or peace. With your best bonds paying only two or three per cent why not look into these items which will often return 100 per of the money invested. cent fre who We have been asked very quently in the past week as to is operating the small yellow train ing planes flying over Bluffton. Al most ever yday they circle and circle over the town and occasionally en gage in a few stunt maneuvers. Anyone who knows who is operating these planes would render a favor by giving us that information. We sus pect that Bluffton boys in aviation training are at the controls. Yes, they were only two dolls— that were left on the doorstep of the oiiceof Dr. B. W. Travis last Wed nesday afternoon, altho some pass ersby stopped and took a seocnd look to be sure they weren’t babies, so lifelike were they in appearance. How they got there seems to be something of a mystery. seed will one-half feed and One bushel of 1943 clover produce in 1945, nine and tons of 16 per cent protein still leave in the soil 300 pounds of residual nitrogen that will boost corn yields 60 to 80 extra bushels in 1946. in Northwestern to announce our