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Morning, Afternoon, Evening Sessions
At Mt Cory Institute Next Wednesday
Rev. E. N. Bigelow and Mrs. J. S.
Steiner ,both of Bluffton, will be two
of the speakers at Mt .Cory’s annual
Fanner’s Institute program Wednes
day of next week in the Mt. Cory
High school auditorium.
Morning, afternoon and evening
sessions are planned, with separate
meetings of men’s and women’s in
stitute organization in the morning
and joint sessions thereafter.
Officers of the institute include
Clyde Warren, Bluffton, president
Leland Frantz, Mt. Cory, vice-presi
dent Mrs. Howard Benroth, Bluff
ton, secretary Mrs. Stanley W’ag
ner, Mt. Cory, treasurer, and Mrs.
Milton Steininger, Mt. Cory, hostess.
In addition to Rev. Bigelow and
Mrs. Steiner other featured institute
speakers include Rev. Tennyson
Guyer, Findlay, and Rev. Hilliard
Camp, North Baltimore.
Program is as follows:
Men’s Session, 10:00 A. M.
Clyde Warren, Chairman
Music America
Devotions Rev. Seth Lenhart
Remarks _______. President
Music Boy’s Glee Club
Address ______ Rev. E. N. Bigelow
Women’s Session, 10:00 A. M.
Mrs. Floyd Moyer, Chairman
Group Singing
Led by Mrs. J. D. Clymer
Declaration by President Tiuman
that the end of the war removed
need for some emergency measures
on January 1, 1947, indicates that
wartime price control supports for
farm products will end two years
after Congress passes resolutions to
make the President’s declaration ap
ply to all war measures.
The Stegall Act which provides
support prices for most important
farm products guarantees support
prices for two years after the close
of the war. Probably, there will be
some arguments whether the war
ended with the President’s declara
tion or with the concurring resolu
tion of Congress, but Ohio farmers
are advised to have as little need of
artificial price levels as possible.
Rural economists at Ohio State
University explain that price levels
established by the Stegall Act were
Per Quart
A Policeman!
Guards The Milk Page
Sells In Bluffton
This “policeman” is the board of health of the
city of Findlay, Ohio, whose inspector carefully
checks the cows and barn of every farm-producer
... he checks our plant .he is your assurance
of “the best” in wholesome, vitamin-packed milk,
the healthiest and richest of all foods for you and
your family.
You Pay The "Top” Price
"Better Get "Top” Milk
i9c (Pgg*)
Liberal
Hassocks
Breakfast Sets
Bookcases
Devotions Mrs Harry Anderson
Welcome Chairman
Response Mrs. Clarence Schaefer
Music Girls’ Glee Club
Reading Mrs. Nellie Turner
Address Mrs. J. S. Steiner
Question Box
Dinner will be served by P. T. A.
Afternoon Session, 1:30 P. M.
Group Singing Led by Dale Clymer
Business and Appoinment
of Committees
Music Girls’ Glee Club
Address Rev. Hilliard Camp
Music Boys ’Glee Club
Evening Session, 8:00 P. M.
Clyde Warren, Chairman
Music .. Cupples-Reese Orchestra
Business, Committee Reports,
Election of Officers
Address Rev. Tennyson Guyer
Music „. Cupples-Reese Orchestra
Dismissal Rev. Kaufman
Committees
v
Music Committee—Miss Chloie W’ar
ner, supervisor of school music
Lynn Cuppies and Lehr J. Reese.
Com Show Chm.—P. J. Reese
Poster Chm.—Carson Marshall.
Program Committee—Mrs. A. E.
King, Mrs. Floyd Moyer and Rus
sell Elzay.
Finance Committee Chairman
Clarence Reiter.
Wartime Price Measures Will Not
Guarantee Present Farm Price Levels
below prevailing November, 1946,
prices for every protected Ohio farm
product except hay, wool, and po
tatoes. The national price support
law would have permitted price
drops from the November, 1946,
market level of 17 cents a bushel on
wheat, 19 cents on corn, and $1.63
on soy beans.
Livestock producers would have
fared even worse under Stegall Act
prices. There could have been drops
of $9,36 a hundredweight on hogs,
of $7.58 on cattle, $7.54 on veal
calves, and $9.20 on lambs. The
Stegall Act is intended to guarantee
farmers 90 per cent of the average
purchasing power which the basic
products had in 1910-14.
Ohio poultrymen would have taken
cuts of 6 cents a pound on turkeys
and 9 cents on chickens but would
have received 9 cents more a dozen
In order to make room for new stock which we are buy
ing at the Chicago Furniture Market, we offer
Liberal Reductions During January
on the following items:
Tilt Chairs
Living Room Suites
Living Room Tables
Here are bargains in quality merchandise at money sav
ing prices. Stop in and see them today while selections are
good.
Basinger’s Furniture Store
Forty-five Years of Dependable Service
on eggs if Stegall Act prices had
prevailed in November, 1946. But
terfat prices would have been 29
cents a pound less under government
price supports.
Economists point out that prices
for farm products under the Stegall
Act are affected by prices for goods
farmers buy. The Act guarantees
90 per cent of parity which means
that, if prices for manufactured pro
ducts drop, the prices for farm pro
ducts also can go lower than the
level used in figuring the price dif
ferentials for November, 1946.
In Memoriam
In loving memory of Cpl. Robert
Milburn Criblez who died at Percy
Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek,
Michigan, January 7, 1946, from
wounds received in the battle for
Okinawa, May 16, 1945.
Happy, and smiling, always content,
Loved and respected wherever he
went
Always thoughtful, willing and kind,
What a beautiful memory he left
behind.
Gone is the face we loved so dear
Silent the voice we loved to hear
Too far away for sight or speech,
But not too far for thought to reach.
A happy home we once enjoyed,
How sweet the memory still
But war has left a loneliness,
This world can never fill.
Sleep in Peace all thoughts of men
hence must be
As sentinels to keep your rest from
danger free.
Your silent tent of green we deck
with fragrant flowers,
Yours has the suffering been the
memory shall be ours.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Criblez
and Family
Miss Ida May Arnold
Annual Meeting
Notice
The annual meeting of the policy
holders of The Richland Township
Farmers Mutual Insurance Associa
tion, will be held in the coimcil room
in the town hall at Bluffton, Ohio,
on Saturday, January/ 11, 1947, at
1:00 P. M., for the norpose of elect
ing officers, and transact any
other business that would properly
come before the meeting. All mem
bers are earnestly requested to at
tend.
ESj/l L. Matter, Secretary
Deliveries ...
every
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Thursday
Saturday
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BU FFTON, OHIO
Editor’s Note—This is the
third of a series of articles to
appear in the Bluffton News
dealing with early Ohio history.
Others will appear in forthcom
ing issues.
Ohio’s Underground
Fire
While the rest of Ohio shivers in
swirling snows the falling flakes melt
and flowers bloom out of season a
round New Straitsville, Hocking
County, where an underground coal
mine fire has raged unchecked for
more than 60 years.
Rills of hot water run through the
woods, cisterns steam and dry up,
vegetables are dug partly cooked, and
heating systems are unnecessary in
the 12-square mile area under which
the flames still spread.
Pavements in the district buckle
and sink and little jets of smoke and
gas spit from fissures in the baked
earth like so many miniature volcan
oes. There is the smell of charred
carbon all over the area.
Strikers Started Fire in 1884
The subterranean fire started in
1884 after striking miners had
drenched some loaded coal cars with
oil and dumped the whole blazing
mess down five different mine
shafts. That ended forever the
chances of them or any oflrier miners
working in that coal mine.
Millions of tons of coal, worth
more than $50,000,000 already have
been consumed. Despite repeated at
tempts to extinguish or retard it, the
fire threatens to bum for hundreds
of years unless some successful way
to stop it it is contrived.
Old timers around New Straitsville
recall seeing a huge beech tree
growing on Queer Creek, in the west
ern part of the county, where the
stream runs for several miles be
tween 120-foot cliffs of solid rock, on
the bark of which some unidentified
traveler had carved “This is the
road to hell—1782.” That was done
102 years before the mine caught
fire.
Shaft Mine
The blazing mine is a shaft mine.
In shaft mining large columns of
coal are left standing in every cham
ber and passage to bolster the over
lying rocks while the balance of the
coal is being taken out. The deeper
the shaft, the larger such columns
must be. If the coal is “tender” the
columns must be larger still. That
is because of the heavy weight of
the ceiling.
Miners wtek forward taking out a
bout 66 per cent of the coal, opening
new chambers and passages and
leaving new columns until the limit
of the plant has been reached. Then,
beginning in the far end of the ex
cavation, the columns are cut away,
one by one, and the coal composing
them is sent to the surface.
When an area of several acres has
been worked out the miners seek
safety around a strong column still
supporting the ceiling while the roof
falls in. They appear unperturbed by
the resounding crashes and seem to
think little of their danger. As col
umns are cut away crash after crash
occurs until the miners have worked
to the bottom of the shaft.
Ground Sinks
If the seam of coal is five or six
feet thick and the workings are only
150 or 200 feet underground, great
chasms frequently open up directly
over where the coal has been mined
out. Houses and parts of villages a
bove mines often are displaced or
damaged by the sinkings below’ them.
Coal strata in the Ohio coal field,
which is part of the Appalachian coal
belt running from Pennsylvania to
Georgia through parts of nine states,
are divided into upper, lower and
barren measures 400 to 600 feet
thick.
In the lower measures there are
12 to 15 different beds of coal. The
upper measures have nine beds of
coal, of which the lowest, Pittsburgh
coal, is the most valuable. The bar
ren measures have no coal worth
reining and only one bed that can be
worked at all.
Ohio Coal Fields
Coal mined in the Mahoning Val
ley, Tuscarawas Valley, and in the
Salineville, Coshocton, Sherrodsville,
Cambridge, Jackson, Jackson, Iron
ton, Dennison, Steubenville, and
Zanesville regions all is from some
one of the lower beds.
Coal in the Hocking Valley is
mined from the Nelsonville or great
vein of the state’s lower measures,
which is the most extensively mined
in Ohio.
The Nelsonville vein is the thick
est vein in the state and rises in
many places in the Hocking Valley
to 10 feet or more. Nowhere in the
region is it less than five thick.
Mines in 29 Counties
Ohio has more than 12,000 square
miles of soft coal land from which
coal is extensively mined in 29
counties. They are Athens, Perry,
Jackson, Hocking, Stark, Belmont,
Guernsey, Columbiana, Mahoning,
Jefferson, Medina, Trumbull, Tusca
raw’as, Carroll, Meigs, Lawrence,
Wayne, Muskingum, Summit, Gallia,
Portage, Vinton, Coshocton, Harri
son, Hohr«s, Washington, Morgan,
Noble, and Scioto counties.
Coal in Ohio first was discovered
near Pomeroy in 1770. Some Ohio
maps made in 1788 show coal fields
on them. A mint- was opened on the
Ohio River in 1809 to supply coal to
the growing river steamer traffic. In
1S25 the first canal boatload of Ohio
coal was sent from Briar Hill, near
Youngstown, to Cleveland to fuel
Great Lakes steamers.
More Pomeroy mines were opened
in 1832 and that year 1,000 bushels
of coal were shipped dovn the Ohio
River. The operation grew until it
had a fleet of 25 boats and a force
of 200 men, one year’s shipment to
taling 2,000,000 tons.
Pomeroy Coal Shipping Center
Until 1850 Pomeroy was the only
Ohio town sending coal down the O
hio and Mississippi rivers. However,
by 1937 the mines along the Hocking
River were producing 3,000,000 tons
of coal a year.
Mines in the Mahoning Valley
were opened in 1845. Most coal from
there went by canal boat to Cleve
land to provide fuel for Great Lakes
steamers.
It was from a canal boat handling
coal from Briar Hill to Cleveland
that James A. Garfield, then 15, was
thrown into the water when the boat
upset. He had a job driving a tow
mule, and though a “canal boater,”
could not swim. After the ducking
he quit the job and got another
teaching a log cabin school on Back
Run, near Duncan’s Falls, Mahoning
County.
Richland Center
The Richland Grange officers
were installed at Bath Twp. school
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Matter and daughter
Carolyn and Mr. and Mrs. Roily
Moser and sons spent Friday even
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schaublin,
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Strahm were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Ream of Lima.
Mrs. J. I. Luginbuhl returned home
Wednesday from Columbus where
she had been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Coon and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Core and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Gratz.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Lora, Mr.
and Mrs. Rosco Trout, Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Schaublin anr Mrs. Warren
Moser, Mrs. Mabie Hilty spent Sun­
day evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Orton Stratton.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Matter and
family spent Sunday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz and
daughter.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the many
friends and neighbors for their ex
pressions of sympathy and aid in
Charter No. 11573
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Citizens National Bank of Bluffton
IN THE STATE OF OHIO, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEM
BER 31ST, 1946. PUBLISHED IN RESPONSE TO A CALL MADE BY
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY. UNDER SECTION 5211, U. S.
REVISED STATUTES.
ASSETS
Attention
Ex-Service Men
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance,
and cash items in process of collection $ 915,418.06
United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 2,030,451.80
Obligations of State and political subdivisions 294,348.72
Other bonds, notes and debentures 66,538.51
Corporate stocks (including $6,000.00 stock of Federal Re
serve bank)
6,000.00
Loans and discounts (including $24.30 overdrafts) 563,402.65
Bank premises owned $12,300.00, furniture and fixtures $3,000.00 15,300.00
Under the G. I. Bill of Rights you are
eligible to receive a course in Airplane hj
Flight Instruction without cost to yojc [J
This course, when completed/frill en
title you to a Private Pilot’s License and
qualifies you to go further iiyflie field of
aeronautics which offers nptfst attractive
careers.
We are now prepared to offer you such
a course at a field conveniently located near
Bluffton.
This course provides for a maximum of
86 hours ground school and flight instruc
tion.
In order for a veteran to comply with
requirements it is necessary for him to take
his certified copy of his discharge to Veter
ans’ Administration either at Lima or in the
county in which he resides to make appli
cation for a letter of eligibility. This letter,
when presented to our flying school consti
tutes your authority to begin training.
Bluffton Flying Service provides the
only opportunity in this area for complete
training in the three major types of air
planes: the stick control, wheel control and
the new simplified two control Ercoupe.
See us for details. Learn to fly at
Bluffton
Bluffton Flying Service
Clayton C. Bixcl Harold Carey, Mgr.
Bluffton Airport, Rt. No. 1 Bluffton, Ohio
THURSDAY, JAN. 9. 1947
the death and burial of our beloved
husband and father also Rev. Paul
Cramer who officiated at the funer
al, the various Masonic bodies and
others w’ho assisted in any way and
all those who sent the beautiful
flowers.
Mrs. Donavon Conrad
Jan and Sharon Kay
Women are fools to marry—but
who else can a guy marry?
Reserve District No. 4
Total Assets $3,891,459.74
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations $1,793,300.76
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 1,541,400.22
Depositis of. United States Government (including postal savings) 5,180.56
Deposits of State and political subdivisions 220,815.57
Other deposits (certified and cashier’s checks, etc.) 76,268.99
Total Deposits $3,636,965.98
Total Liabilities $3,636,965.96
CAPITAL ACCOUNT
Capital Stock: Common total par $100,000.00 100,000.00
Surplus------------------------------------- 100,000.09
Undivided Profits
46,493.76
Reserves (and retirement account for preferred stock) 8,000.09
Total Capital Account 254,493.76
Total Liabilities and Capital Account $3,891,459.74
MEMORANDUM Z/X
Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and forother
purposes
State of Ohio, County of Allen, ss:
I, E. C. Romey, cashier of ^1e above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the b/st of my knowledge and
belief.
Correct—Attest: C. H. Smith, H. P. Huber ana C. F. Niswander, Directors
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th/day of January, 1947.
LelMnd Diller, Notary Public.
210,000.00
E. C. ROMEY, Cashier