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PAGE TWO 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 Tuesday Thursday Saturday At Your Door or At Your Store The Page Dairy Co. For Door Delivery Phone 489-W Barrel Chairs Studio Couches Mirrors 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