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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1916
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Hunting season here—no, it’s not
what you’re thinking of we
mean open season for hunting meat
and soap and a half-dozen other
items last Saturday, opening
day for squirrel found more hunters
in meat shops stalking a roast for
Sunday dinner than there were in
the woods—results none too good,
however—looks as if we’ll have to
shoulder a musket like great-grand
pappy did if we want fresh meat
and Friday the 13th was a
lucky day in high school football
with the Pirates trouncing Kenton
but there’ll have to be more
rookies in the band if we’re to have
that marching outfit that’s promised
and everything from trucks to
motor scooters going thru town on
high since the traffic lights signal
a steady caution after something
went amiss with the control mech
anism equinox coming Saturday
which brings fall officially here—
but no damaging frost yet and every
day now adds thousands of bushels
to the corn crop Bluffton’s new
airfield that Clayton Bixel is fitting
up on the old Owens farm in Orange
township will soon be ready—and so
will George Carmack’s new Carma
theatre and looks as if cider
mills in the Bluffton district will not
be turning a wheel this fall—which
will be the first ciderless year as
far as we can remember and
apples will be scarce and an
nual request from the mayor asking
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householders to burn their leaves
somewhere else than on the pave
ment as heat from the fire is bad
for the asphalt surface.
Limb from a cocoanut tree bear
ing a cluster of four large cocoanuts
is attracting attention in the Bluff
ton News window. The cocoanuts
were grown on a tree at the home
of Don Davis in Miami, Florida,
and brought north by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. I,) a vis formerly
of Bluffton now’ living in Miami who
are spending several weeks with
friends here. The cocoanuts, which
attract much attention are enclosed
in a tough fibrous outer shell, re
quiring an axe or other sharp heavy
instrument to open it.
Current meat shortage isn’t affect
ing Sam Stepleton whose fishing
prowess has provided him a locker
full of frozen bass and bluegills
which he hooked at the Buckeye the
past summer and there’s Twyla
Carnicom who went to the woods
instead of the meat shop last Satur
day morning and got her limit of
four squirrels before noon—which
made a tasty Sunday dinner.
Two former Bluffton
Evan Soash and Dale Reichenbach,
atl
iletes
teaching this fall in AIgcr high
school have convinced the rupils
there that they grow ’eni big and
husky in Bluffton. Eva n, ai six
footer and Dale who topi5 six feet
by several inches haven’t had any
discipline problems. “Gee, but he’s
a big guy,” one youngster rem irked
on sighting Soash for the first time.
“Yeah,” rejoined another, “but wait
till you see the other one.»
Days of some fifty years ago
when C. D. Amstutz operated a mu
sic publishing business in Bluffton
were recalled when Mrs. Henry Hu
ber brought to the News office one
of the song books from the Amstutz
press. Music for several of the
songs was written by the Bluffton
man who possessed a marked nat
ural talent for vocal music. Also
contained in the book were adver
tisements of local firms of that day.
Baumgartner, Locher & Co., featur
ed “finely tailored suits from $10
to $18” while J. F. Adams, local
merchant tailor w’ould fit you out in
a made to order suit for $18 to $20.
Other advertisers were J. C. Welty,
buggies Will Triplett, photograph
er Dr. J. J. Sutter, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist Commercial
Bank & Savings Co. A. Hauenstein
& Sons, druggists, stationery and
baseball supplies D. C. Bixel Jewel
ry & Music Co. W. P. Agin, poul
try dealer “at Johnson’s old stand on
Jefferson street Phillips & Huber,
proprietors of Park restaurant A.
D. Lugibihl, hardware, stoves and
enamelware.
Of all things—who should turn
up at the mayor’s office early Mon
day evening with a ticket for park
ing violation but Esmond Griffith,
Bluffton’s night police. Habitues at
the office looked twice just to be
sure—but there he was and also
there was the ticket—and what’s
more there was Marshal Lee Coon
waiting for him. Lee who usually
equal to any situation was caught
a bit off guard and explained that
he didn’t know it was Griffiths auto
parked in a space at the side of the
town hall reserved for police cars.
Explanations disclosed that Griffith
had originally parked his car there
Monday afternoon while he was
looking for Coon. The violation
charge was quashed and the custom-
ary one dollar fine was remitted.
He was a homely man with a
large nose which he said got that
way because he kept it out of other
people’s business which gave it a
chance to grow. Starting life as a
blacksmith, a wealthy man observed
him one day as he was giving first
aid to a wounded rabbit and offered
to send him to medical school which
proved the start of his professional
career.
Patients in Hertzler’s clinic were
charged according to their means
and one patient, unable to pay was
taken care of for three years free.
During the depression when the gov
ernment ordered little pigs slaught
ered, Hertzler who operated a large
farm near Halstead refused to com
ply instead he opened the gates
and invited his neighbors and towns
people to come in and help them
selves.
Comes words from the Geo. Hu
bers formerly of Bluffton, now com
ortably settled and ready for Ohio
visitors in a cozy little white stucco
house at 413 N. 12th St., McAllen,
Texas, way down in the Rio Grande
valley in the midst of the citrus
growing region. McAllen, they say
is a fast growing city with friendly
people, beautiful homes, wide streets
and palm trees, shrubs and flowers,
together with a large and modernly
equipped high school where their
son Jim is a student.
LaFayette
Mrs. Florence Rodney was a Fri
day evening guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Herr.
Miss Ruth Scoles of Lima was a
Friday evening guest of Miss Lillian
Desenberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brackney
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Maynard Brackney and daughter of
Battle Creek, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carroll and
Mr. Homer Carroll were Wednesday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Grady.
The Allen County Farm Bureau
Advisory Council No. 13 met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Andrews
Wednesday evening. Members pres
ent w’ere Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hefner
and children, Mr. and Mrs. David
Obenour, Mrs. Chester Patterson,
Mr. and Mrs. John Thayer, Mr. and
Mrs. Leon Inskeep.
The ladies of the group will meet
Tuesday evening at Mrs. Russell
Brackney’s to pack friendship packs
to send abroad.
Mrs. Viola Richeson of Spencer
ville was a Wednesday guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey Albert.
Mrs. Glenna Bullock of Findlay
was a week end guest of Mrs. Lou
ise Cloore and other friends.
House Without Bricks In 3 Weeks
WITHOUT LAYING A SINGLE BRICK, Britain is about to replace
many of the 1,500,000 homes (1 out of every 3) destroyed or damaged
during the w’ar with the new two-story, semi-detached, permanent
Cranwell House. Now ready for mass production, these white
stuccoed, red-roofed houses will go up on blitzed sites, about $13,000
a pair. Each pair can be built in 3 weeks, largely by unskilled work
ers, regardless of weather. A framework of steel girders supports
the sloped roof, pictured top, after which hollow slabs of burnt clay,
3 ft. by 9 ins., are dropped into position and plastered over. The stair
case arrives complete, takes 15 minutes to install. The finished prod
uct, pictured bottom, features for home comfort a coke fire in the
living room, electric wall fires in the 3 bedrooms, labor-saving
kitchen with gas stove, a well-equipped bathroom, lots of cupboard
space.
Newspapers thruout the country
last week carried the photogrcph of
Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, 76-year-old
surgeon and writer, who died at the
clinic which he founded in Halstead,
Kansas.
Dr. Hertzler, who achieved nation
wide acclaim as author of the book
“Horse and Buggy Doctor” was per
sonally known to Mrs. Robert Mur
ray of Thurman street, a native of
Eldorado, Kansas, some 60 miles
from Halstead.
Mrs. Murray’s father, H. L. Sat
terlee, of Eldorado, was a patient in
the Hertzler clinic some 20 years
ago, and the Bluffton woman re
called last week some of the many
anecdotes connected with the eccen
tric doctor.
THE BTlKFFro\ NEWS./ BLUFFTON. OHIO
Pandora
Mr. and Mrs. Iner Basinger spent
the week end in Parkersburg, W. Va.
The Gilboa W. C. T. U. members
were guests of the Pandora W. C. T.
U. Tuesday evening in the home of
Mrs. Walter Geiger.
Jack Gibson of Cincinnati was a
guest of Rolland Reichenbach last
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Menno Amstutz of Wapak
formerly of this place is visiting at
the Kempf home and with other
friends here.
Ben Leiby of Akron, formerly of
here, is calling on friends this week.
Word has been received that Al
bert Deitler formerly of here suffer
ed a heart attack recently. He is at
Percy Jones Hospital, Battle Creek,
Mich.
Mrs. Alvin Longsdorf of Bluffton
entertained the Pandora Advance
Club in her home on Saturday.
Mrs. Zella Krohn spent Monday in
Findlay.
A recital given by the pupils of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Lehman on Monday
evening was well attended.
Rolland Reichenbach spent the
week end in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Miss Jane Davies of North Balti
more spent the week end at her home
here.
Bernard Davies and Don Gratz en
listed in the service and went to Col
umbus one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Seitz and
sons of Ottawa spent Sunday even
ing with her brother Mr. and Mrs.
Marion Stoody and Nancy.
Eddie Neuenschwander has been in
disposed the past week.
Elrose
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Schaller and
family spent Friday evening with
the Emerson Neff family.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer and
Miss Barbara Ellen Meyer of New
Knoxville and Miss Meyer of Lan
caster, Pa., called Sunday evening
in the Thomas Koontz home.
Union prayer services at the Olive
Branch church Thursday evening.
Mrs. George Kimmel entertained
the Liberty Chapel L. A. S. last
Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bame and
family were Sunday dinner guests
at the Emerson Neff home.
Callers at the Arthur Nonnamaker
home the past week were, James
Anderson, Eugene Bish, Robert
Koontz, Mrs. N. B. Steinman, Meri
lyn Neff, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Stauffer, and Lendon Basinger.
Mrs. Wright Klingler and Mrs.
Thomas Koontz called on Mrs. How
ard Eddinger and new daughter
Jean Ann, Wednesday afternoon.
Callers on Mr. and Mrs. Ami
Nonnamaker the past week were
Mrs. Cora Nusser of Findlay, Rev.
and Mrs. Irvin Kauffman, Mt. Cory,
A. S. Pifer, John and Fern Koch,
Bessie Arnold, of Bluffton, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Elzay, Clifford Koontz,
Chas. Nonnamaker, Jack Klingler,
of Ada, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Non
namaker and sons, Mr. and Mrs.
Chauncey Klingler, Mrs. J. C. Cly
mer and Mrs. Arthur Nonnamaker.
No man ever got lost on a straight
road. —Abraham Lincoln.
LOCAL AND LONG
DISTANCE HAULING
Every Load Insured
STAGER BROS.
Bluffton. Ohio
Rockport
Rev. and Mrs. E. N. Bigelow of
Bluffton were entertained at dinner
Monday evening of last week in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall.
Mrs. Roscoe Aiderman of Port Clin
ton spent a couple days the past week
with Mrs. Walter Cupp and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Marshall and
daughter Malinda of Urbana were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mar
shall one day last week.
Farm Bureau Council No. 4 will
meet with Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Bucher
Wednesday evening of next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Downs and
sons Paul and Wallace of Lima were
Tuesday evening dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and their
son Pfc. Robert Marshall of Grand
Island. Neb., who is here on furlough.
Miss Edythe Cupp who underwent
surgery at Cleveland Clinic Hospital
in Cleveland several weeks ago, con
tinues to slowly improve at her home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Cahill and
daughter Lynne of Cleveland spent
the week end in the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. Orlo Marshall of this place and
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cahill in Bluffton.
An interesting meeting of the Pres
byterian missionary society was held
in the home of Mrs. Guy Mayberry
ist Wednesday afternoon at which
new’ programs were handed out and
plans made to attend the Presbyterial
meeting to be held at the First Pres
byterian Church in Findlay, Tuesday
of next week.
Mrs. Walter Cupp, Mrs. William
and Mrs. Harold Marshall were a
mong those who attended the Sept
ember meeting of the Au Revoir Club
held in the home of Mrs. Aaron Ililty
in Pandora last Thursday.
Mr. A. F. Fullerton spent the past
week w’ith his grandson Mr. Connor
Stewart and family near Bluffton.
Mrs. Alice Bodell returned Friday
after spending the week with her son
Mr. George Harsh and family in To
ledo.
Mrs. Donald Rockhill w’as brought
to the home of her mother Mrs.
Thomas Foulkes last Friday after be
ing a patient in Memorial Hospital
in Lima for nearly a week.
Mrs. Charles Van Meter underwent
a goiter operation at St. Rita’s Hos
pital in Lima, Saturday, after taking
treatment there for more than a week.
Miss Madeline Bixel of Fostoria,
Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Cahill and daugh
ter Lynne of Cleveland, and Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Marshall and their son
Pfc. Robert Marshall of Grand Island,
Neb. were Friday evening dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Mar
shall.
Mr. and Mrs. Gid Burkholder of
Bluffton were Sunday dinner guests
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of Mr. and Mrs. John Burkholder.
Mr. Thomas Foulkes has been in
rather serious condition the past week
following major surgery in Lima
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Lysle Cahill of Cleveland,
Miss Madeline Bixel oLFostoria, Mrs.
F. C. Marshall and Mrs. Orlo Mar
shall attended a meeting of the Ad
vance Club of Pandora which met
w’ith Mrs. A. J. B. Longsdorf in Bluff
ton Saturday afternoon. The meeting
and program w*as in honor of Charter
members of the Club.
A group of friends who have an
annual get-to-gether, motored to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George Harsh
in Toledo, Sunday Sept. 8, for a pic
nic dinner and day of visiting. Those
present included Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. Madison
Stewart of Orange Twp., Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Rockhill of Napoleon,
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fruchey, Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Hauenstein, Mr. and
Mrs. Cloyce Kidd, Mr. and Mrs. Ern
est Freet and Mrs. Alice Bodell.
The Equity Union Creamery Com-
pany put on an even
ment and refreshme
trons at a meeting I
and Mrs. Delmer I
Mrs. Walter Cupp
and daughter Marj
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A group of relatives from this
community attended the wedding of
Miss Dortha Bridenbaugh daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Err Bridenbaugh of
this vicinity, and Mr. Robert Gratz
son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gratz of
near Bluffton which took place in the
Methodist Church in Pandora Friday
evening September 6th, with Rev.
A. C. Schultz of Chicago receiving the
The group included Mr. and Mrs.
Cloyce Kidd and daughter Helen, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Freet and daughter
Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook and
daughter Betty, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Fruchey and son Emerson and daugh
ter Martha, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Kidd, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Van
Meter, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cook, Mr.
and Mrs. Byron Anderson and Mrs.
William Weick.
The Friendly Neighbors Club will
gather in the home of Mrs. William
Stephens for the September meeting
and the following program will be
given: Song Roll Call Our Price
less Heritage “McGuffey and His
Readers” Mrs. Charles Cook “My
Personal Pioneering” Mrs. Stan
ley Salter. The meeting was in charge
PAGE SEVEN
of the new officers who are: Pres.
Mrs. Willard Cherry V. Pres.-Mrs.
Clyde Van Meter Secy.-Mrs. Frank
Hall Treas.-Mrs. William Stephens
Pianist-Mrs. Charles Beemer Choris
ter-Mrs. Stanley Salter Flower Com.
-Mrs. Louis Van Meter.
The Abraham Taylor descendents
held a family reunion at City Park in
Lima Sunday, which was attended by
about 75 relatives. There were ten
children in the family and all but one
of the ten family groups were repres
ented at Sunday’s gathering. Mrs.
Albert Mayberry of Beaverdam is the
only survivor of the original family.
Among those who attended who are
well known to our readers are Adrian
Taylor who flew here from his home
in Santa Anna, Calif., Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Taylor of Fla., Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Bassitt of Dayton, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Mayberry’ of Beaverdam, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Freet and daughter Ruth,
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fruchey and
son Emerson and daughter Martha,
Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Kidd and
daughter Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Cook and son Lloyd and daughter
Betty’ and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gratz
of Bluffton.
Mr. and Sirs. Clarence Cook of
Lima. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Welty of
Bluffton and the Walker and Pike
evangelists who are holding services
at the Missionary Church in Bluffton,
were Saturday’ afternoon callers in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Am­
that Mr.
rmer resident of this
of Canton, had been
Dr. and Mrs. M. R. Bixel and
son Paul Don of Bluffton. Miss Mad
eline Bixel of Fostoria and Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Marshall and son Pfc.
Robert Marshall of Grand Island,
Neb., were Sunday dinner guests of
Eli, Mary and Barbara Steiner of
near Pandora.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and
son Robert were entertained at din
ner Monday* at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Downs of Lima.
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GORDON BIXEL, O.D^
122 South Main
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Telephone 271-W
Bluffton, Ohio
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