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PAGE EIGHT
Oats grow 5 feet 9 inches on the
Chris Balmer farm w’est of town
proving his farm is within the dis
trict where the rainbow comes down.
Melvin Steiner and Edward Worth
ington ,two of Bluffton’s young boys
who joined Co. G. of the National
Guard, returned home. Both were re
jected for Steiner was under age and
Worthington failed to pass his phys
ical. “One more good breakfast at
home ma,” said young Steiner as he
shoved his feet under pa's table.
Hitching racks on Main Street
from Church street to the alley inter
secting Main at the Thompson and
Barnes Grocery and Western Ohio Sta
tion are to be tom out, the council
said Monday night.
OHIO’S FAMOUS MOUNDS
Albert Reichenbach had his purse
lifted while on the Cedar Point Ex
cursion. The crook kept $77 in cash
contained in the pocketbook and then
mailed the empty purse to Albert
with a note enclosed saying “Thanks,
come again.”
Francis Marshall, J. A. Stoner,
Frank Huttinger and William Burden
left Sunday morning for Indiaw Riv«
er on a fishing and camping trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hauehstfein
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ault of
Ottawa motored to Norval, Michigan
where they are spending a week at
'Ws
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Serpent Mound, in Adams County
Ohio’s mounds, relics of that race popularly known as the Mound Builders,
number about 10,000, and are more numerous in this State than in any other
equal area in the world. Serpent Mound, pictured above, is located in Adams
County on State Route 73. The form of the serpent measures 1300 feet in
length* and is from three to five feet in height. It is the outstanding effigy
mound in the world. This and other Mound Builder relics worth seeing are
described in a booklet “Enjoy Yourself in Ohio,” copy of which may be had
by mailing request to tlie Ohio Development and Publicity Commission,
Wyandotte Building, Columbus, Ohio.
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF JULY 27,1916
the Michigan lakes.
Ross Bogart is attending the state
convention at Ohio mail carriers’ con
vention at Springfield.
C. B. Kauffman has purchased the
Blork Cigar store at the north end of
the business section.
Andrew and Sidney Hauenstein and
S. P. Herr attended the dedication of
the Masonic Temple at Urbana.
Three cows were instantly killed
when lightning struck a tree under
w’hich they were standing at the Roy
Marshall home in Orange township.
The annual hunters reunion to be
held at. the Curt Moffit home has
been postponed due to the death of
Mr. Moffit.
Milton Benroth, Lem Black, John
Johnson and son Melvin are Mr.
Welty’s helpers on the big bam which
is being erected by Eli Diller on the
Elzay farm.
Bluffton’s summer chautauqua will
open with a six day program next
Tuesday on the grade school grounds.
Clyde Bucher, son of Gid Bucher
was kicked above the eye by a horse.
The stuccoing and plastering at the
Menno Bixel home on Grove street is
nearly finished.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hampson and
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Miller from Can
ada were guests at the W. B. Murray
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home last week.
Mrs A. T. Worthington and baby
Eleanor are visiting friends in Col
umbus and Newark.
The Bluffton band has been making
tours to neighboring towns promoting
the chautaqua to he held here.
Coat, Mars
The enormous size of modern
fighting aircraft is emphasized by a
computation that 453 gallons of pro
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the salt air and salt water which
are prime causes of corrosion in
naval aircraft, which have to oper
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intervals between suitable facilities
for refinishing. Coatings on such
aircraft have to be as durable as
the skill of expert paint, varnish
and lacquer chemists can make
them. They actually form part of the
armor of the navy’s great sky fleets.
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the cellulose base of cotton or rayon.
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
The Bluffton News presents
another in the series of inter
esting and unusual features of
South America.—Editor
Not all ambassadors wear top hqts
and carnations in their button-holes.
We know of one in his shirt sleeves
with trousers that have slipped down
to a decidedly “low tide” limit, a
rag draped elegantly over one should
er and another knotted about his
neck.
This little man has done more for
“humorspheric solidarity” than many
a high-ranking official, and you may
have seen him if you like Mexican
movies. His name is Cantinflas and
he is Mexico’s greatest film come
dian.
Still unknown to the vast majority
of movie-goers of the United States,
the rising popularity of Latin Amer
ican films in this country and his
success as an actor are sure omens
of his great popularity throughout
the Americas in the very near fu
ture.
Together with Liberated Lamarque,
Arturo de Cordova, Nini Marshall
and several others, he is getting
ready to—so to speak—“return the
call” paid to Latin America during
the last quarter of a century by
motion pictures and motion picture
artists of the United States.
Most of the Latin American coun
tries are, particularly in the upper
classes, as acutely “movie conscious”
as the United States. Gossip, news,
pictures of American movie stars ap
pear in magazines and papers and
are followed with the same fascin
ated interest as in this country.
The motion picture industry has a
profound effect on the culture, the
life and the pocketbooks of the peo
ple—who, by the way, believe firmly
that what they see on the screen is
an exact portrayal of the American
way of life.
For well over a decade, however,
Argentina* Mexico and in a very
minor scale Cuba, have been trying
their hands at motion picture mak
ing.
Argentina pioneered in the field
and was the first country south of
the border to have a full-fledged mo
tion picture industry, hence Buenos
Aires’ one time appellation of “Holly
wood of Latin America”.
Today the Argentine accent has
become the one which most Latin
American movie-goers are accustom
ed to hear on the screen, an obstacle
that has to be overcome by other
movie-making countries.
The first Argentine talkie was
produced in 1933 and only six years
later that country was already put
ting out seventy-five or more feature
films yearly.
Most productions were very much
below United States’ standards until
producers realized the importance of
using their own backgrounds, their
own local flavor and of creating out
of their own lives,.
When in 1942-43 a number of
truly good pictures were turned out,
many of these,—“la Guerra Gaucha”
(the Gaucho War), for instance—
were the result of this new trend.
However, in Argentina itself, as
well as in most other Latin Ameri
can countries, the public still prefers
American films. In Argentina eighty
per cent of those shown are Holly
wood productions and only ten per
cent Argentine ones.
War has hampered Argentine
movie production greatly by causing,
among other things, an acute short
age of American raw film. With an
excellent record behind it, the in
dustry is confident, however, that a
brighter future awaits it in the post­
A Cat Looks ai a King
....
AN UNIDENTIFIED CAT wan an attentive observer when Norway’s Kmg
Haakon VII recently became an honorary citizen of Largs in northern Scot
land. Provost John Lindsay is shown officiating at the ceremony when the King
reaffirmed the strong bonds between the two peoples.
South American Movies May Make
Post-war Competition For Hollywood
war world.
While Argentina pioneered in the
field of motion picture production,
Mexico has been, of late, a close and
very successful follower. Long gear
ed to a low-cost easy production
standard, with poor scripts, inexper
ienced technicians, and a repetition
of the same actors, the Mexican film
industry has grown up in the last
few years and seems to be conciliat
ing its enlargement with its artistic
value.
In Mexico, war has not disturbed
vitally the production of motion pic
tures but has rather stimulated it
by causing a boom in the country—
and therefore a demand for enter
tainment—while lowering the output
of American films.
Here good neighborliness has once
more been put into action, the Unit
ed States agreeing to help the Mex
ican motion picture industry by sup
plying it—within war-time limita
tions, of course—with material* film
and instructors until it can go on
completely on its own.
The growth of the Latin American
film industry far from being dan
gerous to Hollywood’s production is
beneficial to it. There is still a
large percentage of the Spanish
speaking population of the hemis
phere not interested in going to the
movies simply because they do not
understand English and either can
not read or do not follow the often
unsufficient explanatory subtitles.
A well-known American motion
picture company realizing the neces
sity for “talkies” in Spanish is
planning to produce a series of
films in South America with both
English and Spanish sound tracks.
American and Latin American
concerns are uniting in an effort to
make available motion pictures
which will be understandable to all.
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Famous in Triplicate
POURING the recent celebration of
“I Am an American” Day, s
group of church dignitaries and
members of the American Legion
gathered at a monument in the little
city of Carrollton, Mo., to pay trib
ute to a man who has been called
the “most honored American.” His
name was James E. Shields and he
is described on the monument as a
“soldier, jurist and statesman.”
But those three words are only a
slight indication of the factors which
made his career so remarkable. A
quotation from a recent book, James
Gray’s. “The Illinois/’ a volume in
The Bluffton Progerssive Ass’n
held its first meeting in the Bluffton
reading room, last Wednesday even
ing, with about 70 citizens present.
Nearly all the business firms were
represented. Dr. S. K. Mosiman was
chosen temporary president and B. F.
Biery temporary secretary. The
Ass’n was formed to formulate plans
for the organization of a commercial
Ass’n for the general advancement
and improvement of the village.
A very unexpected surprise was
given Mrs. O. A. Ludwig at her home
on South Jackson street by a number
of friends and neighbors. The oc
casion was her 47th birthday anni
versary.
Miss Hallie Thutt entertained a jol
ly crowd of young people at the
country home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Thutt. One .of the prin
cipal attractions of the entrtainment
was a funny paper read by Miss Ag
nes Amstutz. Those present were
the Misses Hallie Althaus, Alice San
tschi, Agnes Amstutz, Dorthea Bixel,
Lillian Gratz, Flora Gottshall, Hulda
Moser, Mildred Bixel and Betty Geig
er of Pandora, and Messrs Clarence
Steiner, Walter and Harvey Gratz,
Homer Moser, Edmunk Hawk, Ray
mond Stauffer, Harry Hall, Hiram Al
thaus, and Monroe Geiger of Pandora.
BRIG. GEN. JAMES E. SHIELDS
office, but gave up civil life at the
outbreak of the Mexican war to ac
cept a commission as brigadier gen
eral of Illinois volunteers in 1846.
Shot through the lung at the Battle
of Cerro Gnrdn and breveted major
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of December 2,1909
Miss Louise Ruhl was a guest at
the “Rivers of America” series,
published by Farrar and Rinehart,
sums it up more adequately. It
says: “With a thoroughness charac
teristic of his executive tempera
ment, James E. Shields seems to
have done everything in triplicate.
He fought in three wars and repre
sented three different states as Unit
ed States senator.” No other Ameri
can, it might be added, holds such a
record.
Born in Dungannon, County Ty
rone, Ireland, in 1810, Shields came
to this country at the age of 16. He
enlisted in the army, served in the
Seminole Indian war, then went to
Illinois, where he was elected to
the legislature in 1836, made state
auditor in 1839 and appointed a judge
of the State Supreme court in 1843.
Two years later he was appointed
commissioner of the general land
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THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1945
the home of David Risser in Pandora
over the week end.
Robert Wilson entertained a num
ber of young ladies in honor of Miss
Evelyn Shondell of Ottawa, who is
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Luke Myers.
Mrs. Jack Parrish, Mrs. John Gar
linger, Mrs. Ed Long and Alfred
Landis visited Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Clymer at Deshler over Thanksgiving.
Ray Hauenstein spent several days
with Wilbur Althaus at Lewisburg
last week.
Elgar O. Eaton of Michigan Uni
versity at Ann Arbor, spent several
days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Eaton.
Miss Fanny and Bertha Steiner are
visiting relatives in Wood county for
several days.
Daniel Reichenbach was quietly
married to Miss Cahill on Thanksgiv
ing day.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Matter re
siding south of town had as their
Thanksgiving guests, Messrs Aldine,
Bert and Cal Amstutz, Amos Bucher,
Will and Gid Luginbuhl, Ed Reichen
bach, and Amos Gerber, Misses Bes
sie Burkholder, Fanny and Bertha
Steiner, Clara Gerber, Fanny and
Lydia Luginbuhl, Emma Keiner and
Dora Reichenbach.
general, after his recovery he served
in the Valley of Mexico as com
mander of a brigade, only to be
wounded severely again at the
storming of Chapultepec.
Mustered out of the service on
July 20, 1848, he was immediately
appointed territorial governor of Or
egon, but resigned this office when
he was elected senator from Illinois.
He served in the senate from 1849,
to 1855, then moved to Minnesota.
When the state government was
organized there he was again sent
to the United States senate where
he remained until 1859. He next
moved to California, and at the out
break of the Civil war he was com
missioned a brigadier general of
volunteers in August, 1861. At the
Battle of Kernstown, Shields was
wounded, receiving a broken arm
from a fragment of shell.
On March 28, 1863, weakened by
the wounds which he had suffered
in two wars, Shields resigned from
the army. Going to California he
found that the lands granted to him
for his military services had been
lost by his trusted agent and he
bought a farm near Carrollton, Mo.
Although he had decided to retire
from public life, he was soon back
into politics. In 1868 he was Demo
cratic candidate for congress, and
although his friends declared that he
had been elected, he was not seated.
Six years later they elected him to
the legislature, and upon the expira
tion of his term, the general, aged,
weakeped and impoverished, sought
the hutnble position, of door-keeper
of the United States senate.
But this was denied him and he
returned to Missouri. That state
promptly honored him by electing
him to the senate. He held this posi
tion until his death, which took place
on June 1, 1879, at Ottumwa, Iowa.
One of the most famous incidents
in Shields’ career was his “duel”
with Abraham Lincoln while he was
state auditor, Lincoln wrote an
anonymous letter to the Illinois State
Journal, ridiculing the financial pol
icies of Shields who challenged him
to a duel. Lincoln accepted but chose
as weapons cavalry broadswords
and specified that the fighting be
done over a plank set in the ground
with the duellists standing on op
posite sides “at the distance of the
whole length of the sword and three
feet additional.” They didn’t fight!
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