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Bluffton Gets
Tax Distribution
Bluffton village received $1,300 in
personal taxes, and $466.89 from
classified taxes in a distribution
made last week by the office of Al
len County Auditor Floyd B. Griffin.
In personal tax distributions, the
Bluffton school district received $2,
584.45 and the Bluffton library got
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Notice To Dog Owners
Dog tags are now on sale in Bluffton at Community
Market, Zelma Ingalls Trippiehorn, deputy.
Males and Spayed Females .... $1.00
Females...................................................$3.00
January 20, 1947, is the deadline for buying tags
without penalty.
RUSSELL L. HIRE
Allen County Auditor
ALL DEAD STOCK REMOVED
We Pay $5 for Horses $3 for Cows
BUCKEYE REDUCTION COMPANY, Findlay, Ohio
Phone MAIN 475 Colleet
BRANCH OF FOSTORIA ANIMAL PRODUCTS, INC.
Whenever you want a quick loan
You can get it by using the phone
Just give us a call
The following property:
Two-piece living room s
chairs 2 beds dresser Vic
stands 2 rockers combinati
mestic sewing machine kitch
cabinet high chair comm
sweeper electric Graybar
burner oil stove Maytag wi
bench with wringer attache
fence stretcher jugs crocks
good.
a check for $1,750 from the classi
fied tax division.
Beaverdam village received $12.24,
personal tax and the Beaverdam
school district $278.14, personal tax
and Beaverdam village also shared
in classified tax distribution to the
amount of $1,348.
Richland township’s share of the
personal tax distribution amounted
to $144.88.
For a sum large or small
In a flash raise the cash “on your
own”
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Paul Schoenlein, Mgr.
Market & Elizabeth Phone 73511
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Public Sale
The undersigned will sdl at public auction at 368
South Jackson street, Bluffto i, Ohio, on
Saturday, January 18
AT 1:01
P. M.
lite dining room table and
rola library table 3 small
in book case and desk Do
en table and chairs kitchen
ide baby crib Electrolux
inge cook stove range 3
shing machine folding tub
I porch swing and bench
cans many other articles.
TermTsh
Della I. Henry, Administratrix
of Ania E. Gromann Estate
Thrapp & Warren, Auctioneers Ream & Marshall, Clerks
In order to make
ing at the Chicago Fi^rniture
Liberal Rei
on thie
Liberall Reduction
Bookcases Living Room Tables Mirrors
room for new stock which we are buy-
Market, we offer
Hassocks I Tilt Chairs Barrel Chairs
Breakfast Sets living Room Suites Studio Couches
True Tales
About Ohio
Editor’s Note—This is
the
second of a series of articles to
appear in the Bluffton News
dealing with early Ohio history.
Others will appear in forthcom
ing issues.
THE HORSE-POWERED
RAILROADS
When they unhitched the horses
and coupled on a locomotive back in
April, 1837, officials of the Erie &
Kalamazoo Railroad broke the dawn
of an era of fast transportation in
Ohio. The locomotive, they explained,
would be faster, and besides it
could pull a heavier load than the
horses.
The train now could make nearly
10 miles an hour, and the locomo
tive, “if it had to,” could run as fast
as 12 miles an hour. This, officials
said, would speed up the schedules
and modernize the road.
The Erie & Kalamazoo line was
Ohio’s first railroad and was six
months old when the horses were un
hitched. They had pulled the train all
through the winter—and now it was
up to steam.
First Train in 1836
The 33 miles of wood and strip
iron track between Toledo and Ad
rian, Mich., ran its first train in the
fall of 1836. Nicknamed the “Pioneer
Line,” it was built by Dr. Samuel O.
Comstock, with Edward Bissell, To
ledo, and George Crane, Adrian,
looking after most of the actual con
struction.
The track was of oak rails four
inches square, on which strips of
strap-iron two and one-half inches
wide and five-eighths of an inch
thick were spiked to “make it wear
longer.” The strap-iron was an im
provement invented after the rails
were down.
A tall funnel-shaped smokestack
fronted the locomotive, which had an
immense upright boiler and ran on
two pairs of guide wheels under its
front and a single pair of drive
wheels behind. The engineer stood on
an open platform back of the boiler.
The engine had neither cab nor
whistle and was a “wood burner.”
Toledo to Adrian $1.50
The schedule called for a trip and
one-half every 24 hours. The rate for
hauling freight was 50 cents a hun
dred pounds and the passenger fare
$1.50 between Toledo and Adrian.
Fifty pounds of baggage were hauled
free.
About the time the horses were
changed to a locomotive the road
landed a government contract to
carry the mails and thus also became
the first railroad mail line in the
state, operating the first mail train.
Another improvement was made
late in 1837 when officials announced
“the arrival of a new passenger car
of pretty, though singular and fanci
ful design, that would hold 24 per
sons—eight in each of its compart
ments.” They named it the Pleasure
Oar.
Railroad a “Fanciful Object”
The railroad was projected in the
winter of 1832-3 but was not char
tered until 1835 when the State of
Michigan decided that “on the
grounds of its being a mere fanciful
object from which could come no
harm and would greatly please the
Comstocks of Toledo,” the charter
should be granted. The road was
completed the next year.
The Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad
antedated two years the Mad River
& Lake Erie Railroad, the first line
chartered in Ohio. The M. R. & L. E.
R. R. charter was issued in 1832
authorizing that line to operate be
tween Sandusky and Dayton.
Its track was not down and
trains running until 1839 when the
16 miles between Sandusky and Bell-
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vue were finished. By 1844 the road
had been extended to Dayton.
Dayton Gets Railroad
At Dayton it was to connect with
a line being built from Cincinnati,
which would complete the 211-mile
rail link between Cincinnati and San
dusky.
The wheel-span of the Mad River
& Lake Erie’s first locomotive, “the
Sandusky,” was used by the legisla
ture in fixing the standard gauge of
railroad tracks in effect today. The
standard gauge enables trains of any
railroad to operate over tracks of any
other railroad in the state. It later
was extended over the nation.
The first dividend checks of the
Pioneer Line were mailed out in 1846.
A statement of earnings for the year
showed the following freight hauled:
“The railroad has hauled during
tne year from Nov. 27, 1845 to Nov.
27, 1846, 184,120,091 barrels of flour
360 barrels of whiskey 260 barrels
of pork 57,632 bushels of wheat
2,896 bushels of com 164 bushels of
grass seed 388,905 bushels of ashes,
pearl and potash 43,925 pounds of
wool 7,371 pounds of butter 1,236
pounds of lard and 10,669 pounds of
hides.”
Passenger Service “Ornamental”
Nothing was included about pas
senger service. The railroad had
found out, as have the rail lines of
today, that the freight department is
the producer of revenue and the pas
senger department is the “ornamen
tal one.”
“If the locomotive and cars had
been in better condition,” the state
ment explained, “the railroad could
have hauled more freight.”
In 1842, when the track and rolling
stock had gotten into good condition,
the Erie & Kalamazoo line was in fin
ancial difficulties and was levied on
by the sheriff. It became a part of
the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Railroad and now is a part of
the New York Central Lines.
Wabash Road Started 1846
Another railroad was chartered in
1846 to run from Toledo west to the
Indiana border where another line
under construction would complete a
rail link with Chicago. That now is
the Wabash Railroad.
In the same year railroad tracks
were finished from Cleveland to
Pittsburgh, and the junction of Cleve
land, Columbus and Cincinnati was
made by 263 miles of rail over which
trains soon were running.
In Southern Ohio, by 1857, the
Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad had
been finished to Parkersburg, W. Va.,
where it joined the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad had been finished westward
where it also joined the B. & O. R. R.,
thus providing a rail line between
Baltimore and St. Louis.
When the Civil War began Ohio
had more miles of railroad trackage
than any other of the United States.
Pleasant Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Younkman
spent Sunday evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Phillips.
Mr. Oscar Zimmerman and family
were Xmas guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Cal Herr.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hauenstein
and daughter called on Mr. and Mrs.
Winston Jennings, Sunday p. m.
A group of cornshredders and
their families met last Monday even
ing at the home of Willard Jennings
and son. Following a covered dish
supper and settlement of all bills,
Christmas carols were sung and a
good time had by all. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber
and daughters Karen and Joyce, Mr.
and Mrs. Otis Fett and daughters Jo
anne and Doris, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Shindeldecker, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Ga
rau and Roy Blosser and the host and
hostess Mr. and Mrs. Willard Jen
nings and son Rodney.
The W. S. C. S. of Pleasant Hill
church will meet Thursday p. m.
Jan. 9th with Mrs. Mildred Gleason.
Mrs. Donna Barnes and daughter
Joanne called Sunday p. m. on Mrs.
Betty Faze and daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes and
daughter Joanne spent Christmas and
the week end with relatives in Cleve
land.
The Christmas dinner and family
get together of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Mefford was held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Mefford of Lima,
Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mefford
called on their new grandson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mefford at St.
Ritas hospital in the p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips ate
Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Younkman and were supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Younk
man and family of Beaverdam.
Miss Claribel Owens and Mrs. Sa-
rah Oates and son Don were Christ
mas dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Owens and
family of Lima.
Joy K. Huber and
and Mrs. Cora Hu
on several in this
Mr. and Mrs.
daughter Sondra
ber have called
vicinity the past week. They are now
living at 28 Cooledge Place, Hacken
sack, N. J. They were Xmas guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winegardner
and family of Harrod.
Word has been received here of the
death of Mrs. Emma Scoles of Los
Angeles, Calif. She was the
of Rev. Wm. Scoles and was
at the home of her daughter,
causing a broken hip resulted
death. She will be remembered by
the Ladies of the Farm Womens’
Improvement Club as
in the year 1923. She
the first 2 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Avery
Ronald and Mr. and
Gratz spent Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Willard
son Rodney.
widow
living
A fall
in her
organizing it
was Pres, for
There will be a New Year’s eve
party at Paulding Center. Everyone
invited. Bring covered dish and
per at usual time.
Don Oates spent last week
with Tommy Owens of Lima.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman
and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Zimmerman and family and Mrs.
Dorothy Zimmerman and family
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. El
mer Long.
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Jennings
and sons Larry and Tommy were X
mas dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Watt and family and Xmas sup
per guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Jennings and Rodney.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Huber and
son Darrel Lee and Mr. and Mrs. El
lis Vandemark spent their Xmas with
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Huber.
Myron Vandemark of Ada and Miss
Jane Marshall of Lima called on Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald Huber Thursday eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen and
family will leave Thursday for their
new home in McAllen, Texas. They
will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Hauenstein who will assist
them in moving.
Call or Contact
Paul E. Whitmer, Agent
245 W. Grove St., Bluffton, O.
phone 350-W
fWv"* life Inturanca Ca.
V Mutual Fira Insurance Co.
Mutual Automobile Insurance Cq.
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Attention^
Ex-Service Men
Learn to Fly under the
G. I. Bill of Rights at No
Cost to You.
For details see
Bluffton Flying
Service
Clayton Bixel Harold Carey
Bluffton Airport
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HAPPY NE
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and with it our appreciation for
and patronage of friends and
past year.
FOR A
cMcppfUf, New ‘IjeaA.
IIAIIVS
MARIMBA-TONE
for children. Full chromatic scale—20 sharps and flats.
BIBLETONE Records and Albums. FULL LINE of
Children’s Music.
NEW AND FACTORY REBUILT BAND
INSTRUMENTS
Open every Saturday night until 11 P. M.
216 W. ELM STREET LESTER HAHN
Best Wishes
A good beginnin
is a good wish—and
Our good wish
happiness and prosp
And our resolu
better service in
Rolland Koontz
Corner Main & College Ave.
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CHARLES KIA!SINGER
CREAM EGGS
Next Door to Town Hl
May Good Luck and Happiness
shower your home this bright and p^ace-filled New Year
We too, look forward to supplying yoi|r home with the lat
est in nationally advertised appliance^
Bluffton’s newest store on the grand o|
nounced soon. When it comes to qualit
ELLENBERGER BROS. ELECTRIC SHOP
HOT POINT FARM AND HOME APPLIANCES
FLUORESCENT LIGHTING RADIO REPAIR EVERYTHING
SUNBEAM APPLIANCES THOR WASHER#
105 South Main Bluffton, Ohio
LOOK for the HOT POINT SIGN across from the Bank
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for the New Year, we believe,
a good resolution.
is for you—more health, more
srity!
lion—resolved to give you still
nclair Station
the many favors
atrons during the
POULTRY
YEAR!
Plan now to shop
tening date to be an
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