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THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943
Bass fishing since the opening day
last Wednesday has been slow due
largely to a full moon apperaing.
The moon is of such brilliance that
bass are discernable swimming near
the banks of the Buckeye. This
light intensity is hard on night fish
ing, for the bass in a land locked body
of water are usually very wary, es
pecially in a body of water fished as
much as the Buckeye quarry.
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Some bass were caught and the
following folks can testify that “there
are bass in them tfiar waters!”
Fred Hermann snagged three nice
bass Friday evening, landed two of
them which were in the neighborhood
16 inches. Night crawlers were used
as bait and the fish were caught in
the Buckeye.
Last Wednesday evening Fred
Tschantz and Byron Stratton each
hooked a bass in the same quarry.
The fish were several inches over the
10 inch minimum. Small, some would
say, but excellent eating. Stratton
used a flat fish casting and Tschantz
made his catch with a night crawler.
Frank Weinhold and Merlin Mumma
the afternoon of the opener travelled
to a spot north of Pandora and made
a nice catch of crappies. Frank had
most of the luck and caught 8 while
Merlin brought three home with him.
Several times Frank and Merlin swap­
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FISHERMEN!
WITH THE
SPORTSMEN’S CLUB
Register now with SILAS DILLER for
the AMATEUR CASTING CONTEST
JULY 5th at the BUCKEYE QUARRY.
5-8 Ounce Casting Plugs Furnished.
Use Your Own Rod.
Prizes for Accuracy and Distance Events.
ped places thinking Frank’s good luck
could be passed around, but even this
maneuver fdiled to even the score.
Ed Root nearly lost a stringer of
catfish in the creek 'uth of the Rail
road bridge a short time ag. Root
happened to look down at his stringer
and saw a large black snake attempt
ing to swallow one of the bull heads.
The snake, as big around as Ed’s arm,
had a fish by the head and was at
tempting to jerk it loose from the
stringer. The snake’s tail looped
around a tree root gave the critter
good leverage, but not enough and Ed
was able to rescue the string of fish
from the snake’s clutches.
Dari Garmatter, small son of Wal
ter Garmatter, has his own ideas ab
out fishing. Using a dip net the
youngster caught a nice fat crappie
out of the horse tank at the farm.
Taking the fish to the house he
wanted his picture taken. On learn
ing there was no film on hand he was
much disgruntled, but later he was
all smiles for he figured out a better
plan brought the fish all cleaned back
up to the house to be eaten for sup
per. (Only one guess as to how the
fish got in the tank.)
Della Krebill, president of the
Archery Club, annuonces that arch
ery meetings will be held regularily
at Harmon Field each Tuesday and
Friday evening from 7:30 to 9:00.
All interested are urged to attend.
Field targets are set up for prac
tice shooting.
Bluffton Community Sportsmen’s Club
Insurance Real Estate
This is a good time to list your properties and farms
for sale. a
A. E. KOHII
Phone 165-W 235 W. College Avenue
PROPERTY
FOR SALE
Proposals will be received until July 1 by the under
signed as administrator of the estate of the late Adam
Amstutz, deceased, for the sale of his residence at 232
North Spring Street, Bluffton, Ohio.
This properly consists of 6 room house with running
water and electricity, together with garden and fruit trees.
House will be opened for inspection to interested
parties.
Immediate possession will be given when sale is com
pleted.
WILLIS AMSTUTZ
Administrator of the estate of Adam Amstutz, deceased.
Route 2 Bluffton, Ohio
THE
Plans for the Sportsmen’s Round
Up to be held at the Buckeye Quarry
Monday, July 5 are progressing in
great shape and there will be a well
rounded program to interest not only
sportsmen, but the public in general.
The feature attractions for the day
will be a swimming meet for the
swimmers of the area, and a Bait and
Fly Casting Show to be given by the
Lima Bait and Fly Casting Club.
The former event will be directed
by Mary Alice Howe, manager of the
Swimming Pool at theBuckeye quarry.
The Bait and Fly Casting show will
be directed by Bob Wilson of Lima,
a well known sportsman.
Forty Bluffton merchants are of
fering a variety of prizes to be given
for the winners of each of the swim
ming and bait casting events. All
entries are to be strictly amateur so
there will be opportunity for all to
share in the prize list.
The swimming contest managed by
Mary Alice Howe and assisted by
Life Guards Richard Roekey ami Neil
Schmidt will lx? a colorful exhibition
with many events on the program.
The program for this event is as fol
lows:
Diving Events:
Demonstration of
various types of dives—Jack-knife,
Swan, Backdive, Distance, Under
water Distance.
Diving Flips: Single Flip, Back Sin
gle, Cut-a-way, Gainer, Flip and a
half, Double Flip,. Other Flips—
Tower diving.
Competitive Swimming: Australian
Crawl. Flutter Kick. Breast Stroke,
Free Style. S.le Strike, Pack S.roke,
Long Distance.
Feature Swimming
Water Polo
Life Saving Demonstration
The events are open to all men and
women swimmers. There are class
groupings in the swimming events
with boys and girls up to 12 years of
age in one class and the other group
boys and girls from 13 years on up
in age.
Registration Is Urged Immediately
At The Buckeye Quarry For The
Various Events.
On the program the day are
many other attractions. There will
be a pony ring for the kiddies. Al
bert R. Blair of Lima will be present
with six gentle ar. 1 well trained
Welsh Ponies. Blair has operated a
pony ring for at least 16 years and
has operating licenses for three st
ates. This concession will start at
11:00 A. M. and be on hand until
evening.
The fly fishing and bait casting
LaFayette
Mrs. Ella Heiser of Harrod spent
a week with Mrs. Belle Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bargs of Lima
were Wednesday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. O. B. May.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hitchens of
Lima and Mrs. Ella Heiser of Har
rod were Thursday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Biteman.
The W. S. C. S. of the Methodist
church met Wednesday evening at
the church. Those present were:
Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Arthur, Mrs.
Ivaloo Black, Mrs. Inez May, Mrs.
Louella Koogler and children, Mrs.
Ethel Heiser, Mrs. Rowena Sandy,
Mrs. Edith Downing. Mrs. Laura
Biteman, Mrs. Cathryn Schmacher,
Mrs. Dale Murray, Mrs. Dile Arnold,
Mrs. Martha Ransbottom, Mrs. Belle
Bradley, Mrs. Brackney, Mrs. Daisy
Ludwig. Mrs. Della Bartsche, Mrs.
Delma Watt, Mrs. Mildred Carey,
Mrs. Irene Stumpp and daughter,
Mrs. Josie Hall, Mrs. Ivaleen Urich,
Mrs. Hilda Dadertscher.
Adrian Smith of Lima was a Wed
nesday guest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Adam.
Nancy and Beverly Sue McGinnis
are spending several weeks at In
dianapolis, Ird.
Miss Alice and Miss Miriam Knob
le, students at Bowling Green, are
spending the week-end with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Nob
le.
Scott Fisher and Mrs. Pearl Chid
ister of South Bend, Ind., are visit
ing reatives and friends here.
Mrs. Louisa Cloore is spending the
week with her brother, William Bul
lock of Findlay.
Mrs. Grace Vorhees of Lima was
a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs.
D. P. Hall.
Bruno Maloney of Dayton was a
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show to be conducted by the Lima
Bait and Fly Casting Club will be a
feature attraction for the day. The
club which has been active for 26
years, has many experts on the mem
bership rolls. Bob Wilson, a former
resident of Bluffton, will direct the
exhibition.
James Thompson of Lima, Pres
ident of the association, promises a
generous display of fishing technique
in accuracy and distance fly and bait
casting. Five/eighth ounce and
three'eighth accuracy events are
scheduled.
The demonstration will appear in
deep water at a point between the
swim floats and the creek bank. A
special platform will lie constructed
for use of the demonstrators and
contestants.
Fishing enthusiasts are invited tn
participate in a bait casting contest
for merchandise prizes. Bob Wilson
will loan five/eighth ounce casting
plugs to all contestants participating
in the event. This demonstration
will be judged by the Lima Fly and
Bait Casting Club. Register with
Silas Diller for the event. The con
test will be conducted with the con
testants using their ordinary bait
rods, and professionals are not to
register for the event. The contest
will be held for accuracy and distance.
The program as arranged will be
an afternoon and evening affair and
the public is urged to bring well fill
ed picnic baskets and be prepared for
an all day vacation. Tables, bench
es, and fire places are available for
public use.
The Sportsmen’s Club will operate
a lunch concession selling soft drinks,
ice cream, candy and other food for
the public.
Swimming is open to the public
during the entire day's program.
The Bluffton Archery club will
share in the program at the
Roundup and an archery range will
be laid out at the Buckeye Qua ry
grounds to give the public an oppor
tunity to try their hand at this fast
developing sport.
William Edwards and Clarence
Stonehill will be in charge of the
range and equipement will be fur
nished on the grounds for use by the
the public. Here is an excellent
opportunity for archery minded per
sons to try out this fascinating rec
reation Prizes will be awarded for
h’gh scores.
Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Watt.
Pvt. Lester Hall of Ft. Nou’trie,
S. C. spent the week-end at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Coon and son.
Dale of Lima were Thursday after
noon callers of Mrs. Bertha Desen
berg and Miss Lillian Desenberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Guthrie and
family of Delphos were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Guth
rie.
Mr. and Mrs. Oak Bassitt, Mr. and
Mrs. Alva Bassitt, Miss Dorothy
Bassit, Miss Florence Bassitt and
Miss Donna Bassitt and Mr. and Mrs.
John Griener of Waynesfield were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Franklin of
Ada and Mrs. Lucy Yoakum were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. Peterson.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Fleming were: Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Fleming and Mr. and Mrs.
Avery Watt of Lima and Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Fleming.
Thursday evening callers of Mrs.
Carey Younkman were Miss Edna
Mae Ketnpher and Lieut. Clarence
Burwell of Ft. Sill, Oklohoma.
Miss Georgia Fackler, Mrs. Carey
Younkman. Mrs. A. L. Bergman, Mrs.
Alice Fackler attended the Commen
cement exercises at Lorain, Ohio,
June 9th. Harry H. Fackler, Jr.,
was a member of the graduating
class.
S 2/c Waldo Long of the East
Coast is home on a ten-day furlough.
Leonard Ackerman is home on fur
lough from a camp in California.
Miss Elizabeth Guthrie returned
from a recent visit at Iowa City,
Iowa.
Mainlif,
P&iAofial
Longest days of the year
suntan and sunburn shorts
slacks and crowds at the
Buckeye wonder how many of
the oldtimers remember Hoover’s
swimmin’ hole that was forty
years ago and Big Rock doesn’t
look as imposing as it used to
and the Sulphur Spring is all but
forgotten and the younger set
swapping gossip over cokes fish
really biting—so they say Fourth
of July in the offing but no fire
works on sale sane Fourth in
prospect—and looks like the real
thing.
Some of the summer hihglights of
oldtime Bluffton that we miss:
that big covered ice wagon with pic
tures of the polar bear and ice fields
painted on its sides and Bert
Watkins, the driver always had chip
pings of ice for the kids ... a de
licious cooling mouthful didn’t
seem to be any germs in those days
and the sprirfling wagon that
rumbled around in the afternoons
and laid the dust before Bluffton rat
ed paved streets and John Sloane
the colored college youth who sold
peanuts Saturday night in front of
Wiz Troxel’s restaurant—where Irvy
Long is now—and Hauenstein’s drug
store and concerts every week
by Al Swinehart’s band on the Pres
byterian church yard and then
George Tipton led the band and
afterward Sidney Hauenstein
and then there was the topflight
event of the summer when every
body took in the band excursion to
Cedar Point and Walter “Hooli
gan” Locher, piccolo player, carried
his instilment in his coat pocket and
kidded the bass horn footers because
they couldn’t.
If you follow the news reels on
the motion picture houses you may
have seen Col. Rene Studler, former’
Bluffton boy, who has attained na
tion-wide publicity in connection with
his invention of the army’s newest
small arms weapon, a “pocket size”
machine gun. Several Bluffton peo
ple reported having seen his picture
recently.
Soldiering has its advantages, too.
Fred Herr, home this week on fur
lough from Vancouver, Wash., says
they are enjoying cool and pleasant
weather there—in contrast to Bluff
ton’s temperatures which went over
the 90 degree mark, Tuesday.
Fred, who holds a medal for
marksmanship, says there are lots
of pheasants right in their camp,
but it’s strictly against military reg
ulations to shoot them, which must
be quite a temptation to an expert
rifleman when he has a gun handy.
If Fido turns up missing some of
these days, he may be waiting for
you down at the town hall. Word
was passed out this week that the
town ordinance requiring all dogs to
be confined to the premises is being
violated and a crackdown is coming
soon. Dogs with tags will Le im
pounded here others will ba turned
over to the county dog warden.
“That was a heckuva place to
park”, was the disgusted comment
of the truck driver who parked in
front of the Dr. Steiner residence
on South Main street the other after
noon just as a portion of one of the
big maple trees there fell over dam
aging the lights and radiator of the
truck. The truck driver had his
truck parked for just a few seconds
when the big tree started to break.
The noise of the breaking wood gave
the driver sufficient warning to pull
the truck back far enough to avoid
serious damage although not far
enough to entirely clear the tree.
It seems that the trees in front of
the high school and the Steiner resi
dence have had a high mortality rate
this year. In the past several months
two other large ones have been dam
aged by trucks or automobiles suffi
ciently to cause them to topple over.
Speaking of post-war planning,
wouldn’t it be a good idea for the
community to do a little of that sort
of thing and plan to get a sewage
disposal plant just as soon as the
materials are made available. The
town now has an expensive law suit
on its hands and regardless of the
outcome the matter will never be
settled until the voters approve the
funds fur some definite action along
this line. Then there’s the odor nui
sance and the health angle which
alone could make a long storyr.
Lee Coon’s propensity for doing a
variety of jobs has caused an out-of
town paper to nominate him as the
busiest man in Allen county. He
holds seven jobs in addition to being
“boss”, (he says) of his own home.
He is chief of police, street super
visor, garbage collection supervisor,
truant officer of the public schools,
janitor at the St. John’s Reformed
church, caretaker of Maple Grove
cemetery, and repairs the equiment
at Buckeye swimming lake.
In addition he has many other re
sponsibilities like taking care of the
jail, watering the Nickel Plate loco
motives, handling the accounts of
the garbage collection system, and
then finds time to have a Victory
garden.
Coon is busy all week but his two
heaviest days are on Wednesday and
Saturday when the stores are open
nights. On these days he works
from 7:30 a. m. to 11:30 p. m.
The war is responsible for many
people taking other jobs, although
few can equal Coon’s record. Does
anyone else equal this record? This
column would be glad to know of it.
It’s interesting to drive through
the countryside on any of these
evenings. The fields are literally
marked by tractors’ headlights which
can be seen, in many cases, until the
wee hours. The farmers are making
up for lost time and such a matter
of getting one’s sleep at the present
time seems to be on the list of un
essential activity.
Hats off to Mayor Howe who is
doing a good job in the mosquito
control program this summer. At
first we thought there was very lit
tle control in view of the fact that
we were bitten about every time we
went out-of-doors several weeks ago.
This was the woods mosquito, how
ever, and that variety has disappear
ed with the dry weather. The con
trol program really is in operation
now and anyone who can rid the
community of the pesky insect is a
real public benefactor.
Have you ever noticed what an
accurate indicator of weather your
radio makes. A clear radio means
clear weather and lots of static in
variably means bad weather.
Shortage of painters doesn’t make
any difference as far as painting the
J. E. Steiner residence on Thurman
street is concerned. Miss Theola
Steiner, grade school teacher and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steiner,
has taken over the job together with
her sister, Mrs. Al Hinson and the
latter’s husband of Cincinnati who
are spending their vacation here
helping with the work.
Elrose
Rev. George Lilly of Port Clinton
called on friends in this neighborhood
last Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nonnamak
er and family and Howard Klingler
of Ada visited Sunday with the Ami
Nonnamaker family.
Pvt. J. O. Koontz of Camp Carson,
Colorado, is spending a few days at
the home of Frank Dray.
Union Prayer services at the Olive
Branch church. Thursday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Graham
and son David, daughters Saron and
Bertha Ann of near Dayton spent
Tuesday and Wednesday with Mr.
and Mrs. D. D. Williamson. They
were entertained in the Wade Mar
shall home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Nonnamaker
of Bluffton and Faery’ Nonnamaker
called Friday evening on Mrs. Libby
Klingensmith at the Will Filer home
in Findlay.
Mrs. Henry Koontz and son Ray
mond spent Wednesday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Elzay of
Ada.
Observing Mrs. Lucinda Koontz’s
79th birthday, the following called
at her home Monday: Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Marquart and Dortha Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Brownmiller and family
of Jenera, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Mar
quart and family Arlington Mrs.
Clifford Marquart and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson Marquart from
Eagle township Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Bayless and family, Mrs. Le
verne Marquart and son of Findlay
Henry Koontz and family and Cliff
ord Koontz.
Clean Water Necessary
Clean water in plentiful amounts
is one of the cheapest materials to
help produce pork in hot weather.
Hogs need water to drink, to cool
them in their yards, and to keep
them alive on the road to summer
markets.
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PAGE THREW
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 56 My Malcolm Basinger
The first part of the meeting wag
in the form of a pot-luck supper in
honor of Ass’t Scoutmaster Paul
Wingate who is leaving for the army
on Wednesday.
The opening exercises were led by
Ass’t Scoutmaster Wingate and con
sisted of the Scout oath and law.
This was followed by the roll call.
Plans for the ice cream social are
completed. It will be held on Church
street (between the Methodist and
Memionite churches) this Wednes
day night from 7 to 10 o’clock.
A soldier’s traveling kit was pre
sented to Ass’t Scoutmast Wingate
in appreciation of the four and one
half years of excellent service to the
troop.
Four or five scouts will participate
in the Court of Honor to be held in
Lima this Wednesday night. The
group will leave from the church at
7:15 p. m. They will be back in
time to assist in the ice cream social.
The meeting was closed with the
Scoutmaster’s benediction led by
Ass’t Scoutmaster Paul Wingate.
Troop 82 By Dean Ferguson
The meeting was held at Harmon
Field where a game of softball was
played. The Moose and Blackbear
patrols defeated the Coyote patrol
12-11.
Roll call and dues were taken on
the stadium and the camping fund
money was taken in.
A net profit of $49.10 was realized
after expenses were deducted as the
result of the ice cream social held on
the Presbyterian church lawn last
Wednesday night.
Court cf Honor will be held at
Lima Central High school auditorium
this Wednesday night at 8 o’clock.
The Black Bear patrol received
200 points for doing jobs around the
scout hall, and the Moose received
150 points for an ice cream social.
Second Class Scout Lanoy Logan
bill left for Oklahoma last Friday
and will be gone for the summer.
Air Traffic Signals
Aviators will have to obey traffic
lights, if light signals designed for
airports come into general use.
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