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Settlement
Otto Badertscher who had not
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been well for several weeks has
again resumed his work at the Mas
ter Feed Mill.
Clyde A. Sommer
PHONE 147-W
108-10 South Main Street Bluffton, Ohio
Wilbert Schumacher is numbered
among the sick at present.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Kohli spent
Wednesday in Columbus where they
attended the annual meeting of the
American & Delaine Merino Record
association.
and church officers
and" tKeir wives enjoyed their afifruaF
pot luck supper at the Grace church
last Wednesday evening.
.In honor of the birthdays of Lar
ry and Carol Sue, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Verl Reichenbach, the mem
bers of the Hiram Reichenbach fam
ily enjoyed their Sunday dinner at
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schey of Lans
ing, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. James
Schey of Findlay spent the week end
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel Schey and daughter, Mary.
Bessie May Coleman who submit
ted to an appendectomy at the Com
munity hospital was taken home the
first of the week.
The local Guernsey cattle breed
ers plan to attend the annual meet
ing of the Blanchard Valley Guern
sey association that is to be held at
the Y. .C. A. building in Findlay
Thursday. Following a basket din
ner there are to be talks and dem
onstrations by state officials of the
Guernsey association.
Ohio producer cooperatives acting
as selling agents for fluid milk have
been fishing for price bids on flush
season milk next spring. Fishing
has been poor because manufacturers
have the opinion they will be able
to buy milk at lower prices within
Qte next few months. Manufacturers
bid early a year ago.
An Evening of
fun frolic Laughter
Presented to the Members and Friends of
The farmers Grain Co.
Wednesday Night, feb. 5
School Auditorium, 7:30 P. M.
’ranciH Hittle, 1st Tenor Roy Kester, 2nd Tenor
Earl Inttle, Baritone Edw. L. Schwartz, Bass
Glenn Hartzell, Pianist
Greenville Itfwanis Quartette
Presenting a Full Evening’s Program of Music and Fun
This popular quartet of Harmony Makers and Funny Bone
Ticklers have made mpre than 500 appearances all over Ohio
and Eastern Indiana.
Featuring old-time barbershop quartettes and semi-classi
cal numbers also solos, duets, novelty and comedy numbers,
jokes, musical saw and yodeling features.
Come and bring your friends—don’t miss it—it’s free.
It’s our party—and there’s no admission.
Sponsored by:
The farmers Crain Co.
Bluffton, Ohio
BY HAR.R.V L. HAIB
Editor’s Note—This is the
fifth of a series of articles to
appear in the Bluffton News
deaHnp with early Ohio history.
Others will appear in forthcom
ing issues.
The Ohio and Michi
gan War
How the armies of Ohio and Mich
igan battled over a strip of land a
few counties long and eight miles
wide, with bloodshed averted only by
timely government intervention, will
I be real news to most Ohioans, even
if the story is 111 years late in get
ting to them.
It was genuine, undeclared war
with all the trimmings and the gov
ernors of both states in personal
charge of their troops on the battle
field. Just as in most wars, the cause
wag a dispute over territory.
Raids by Michigan soldiers into
the eight-mile no-man’s-land in which
prisoners of war were taken, and re
taliating movements by Ohio soldiers
in which the prisoners were recover
ed, high-lighted the hostilities.
Though Ohio was to blame for the
conflict, Michigan was the aggressor
and actually sent her troops into To
ledo where some property was des
troyed, a prisoner of war captured,
and withdrawal accomplished without
casualties.
Governor Robert Lucas hurried
from Columbus to head the Ohio ar
my, and Governor Mason, of Michi
gan, took personal command of the
troops from his state.
The war was about the strip of
land between Michigan and Ohio that
extended from the southern tip of
Lake Michigan to an imaginary line
in Lake Erie. Each state had fixed
its own boundries to it and each
state maintained that its boundary
was the right one.
Michigan held out that the Ordin
ance of 1787, which provided for div
ision of the Northwest Territory in
to not less than three and not more
than five states, and stipulated that
if divided into five states the three
southern states should be divided
from the two northern states by a
line running east from the southern
point of Lake Michigan to the terri
torial line in Lake Erie, was correct
arid final.
Ohio contended that the line was
an impossible .one which would leave
most of the Western Reserve tn
Michigan instead of Ohio.
Consequently the Ohio constitution
fixed its own boundry line which
made the disputed strip of land part
of Wood, Henry and Williams coun­
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
ties. It placed its own dividing line
as going as far north as the cape of
Maumee Bay and running west to the
southern tip of Lake Michigan. Under
that constitution Ohio was admitted
into the Union.
While Michigan claimed the strip
under the Ordinance of 1787 and O
hio claimed it undor its own consti
tution, some persons living in it
wanted to live in Michigan, and
others, in Ohio. So a double set of of
ficials were elected and the war was
on.
In congress, 1836, John Quincy Ad^
ams made an elaborate decision a
gainst the claims of Ohio. Despite
that ruling, the Ohio legislature pass
ed a resolution extending Ohio law’s
into the disputed territory. Then a
sheriff’s posse fr Monroe, Mich.,
moved into the strip and carried off
some of the Ohio officials as prison
ers of war.
That brought on the raising of
troops in Ohio and the mustering in
of soldiers in Michigan—all for bor
der warfare. Both armies moved to
the scene of conflict.
While Governor Lucas and his Ohio
soldiers were encamped at Old Ft.
Miami, eight miles above Toledo and
four miles from no-man’s land, Gov
ernor Mason, with his troops, moved
into Toledo, overran the watermelon
patches, looted the chicken coops and
tore down an ice house. More Ohioans
were carried off prisoners of war, the
door of one home being broken in and
the occupant taken to Monroe.
Toledo in 1837 was not much of a
town, Its trampled melon patches and
stolen chickens meant much loss. The
demolished ice house was the city’s
only one. After the war had been over
10 years Toledo had only 1,322 popu
lation, five churches. 37 stores, twro
banks and a hope that the steamboat
line from Buffalo would do enough
business to stay in operation.
While all the raiding was going on
Lucas and hi$ army remained in
Camp Miami, eight lies away from
Michigan’s objective. If the hostilities
could have been decided an points, as
in a prize fight, Michigan won the
war. But it was Ohio that got the dis
puted territory.
Richard Rush, Pennsylvania, and
Colonel Howard, Maryland, were sent
from the White House to arbitrate
the fuss. Old newspapers relate that
they w’ere successful chiefly because
Michigan was satisfied with the laur
els she had won‘and Ohio was will
ing to stand on her dignity.
At the next session of Wood
County court, bills of indictment a
gainst Governor Mason and all his
army w’ere presented, but were
thrown by a grand jury. And thereby
Ohio also lost its legal battle against
Michigan, just as it had the passage
at arms.
In its next session congress again
took up the dispute and after able
arguments for the state were made
by Samuel F. Vinton and Thomas
Ewing, Ohio won.
Michigan, instead of the narrow’
strip of land at Its southern border,
I was given the large peninsula be
tween Lakes Huron, Michigan and
Superior. Later it was found to con
tain rich deposits of copper and other
minerals.
The most value Ohio ever received
from the territory the states had
fought over was the harbor at Tole
do, formed by the mouth of the Mau
mee River. For a time it w’as essen
tial to the state in reaping the rich
harvest of canal boat freight traffic
between Cincinnati and the Great
Lakes.
This, until the Coming of the rail
roads, made Toledo the most import
ant point where north and south lake
traffic and canal transportation met.
Now, with trunk line railroads en
tering the city from every direction
and great lake freighters moving out
of the Toledo harbor laden with every
kind of commodity, Ohio eyes Michi
gan’s rich peninsula and wonders if,
after all, if the spoils did not go to
the vanquished—that is, if, which the
state never has admitted, it lost the
war.
East Orange
Mrs. Emma Boutwell spent Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. Virginia
Boutwell and son Dennis of Ada.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Guthria and
children of Delphos, Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Shroats and children, Marion,
spent Sunday in the W. M. Baker
home.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell were
dinner guests Thursday of Mr. and
Mrs. Orlen Gallant of near Findlay.
Mid-week prater services will be
held in the horiie of Mr. and Mrs.
Wick Baker.
Mrs. Margaret Boutwell of Lima
spent the week-end in the John
Boutwel home and attended church
services at RilCy Creek Baptist.
Miss Ether Wolber of Columbus
spent the week end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolber and sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Adrain Van Atta of
Findlay, Mr. and Mrs. Rayon Bout
w’ell and children Lynn and Sue, Mr.
and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell were supper
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Byr
on Boutwell and son Michael Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Agin and son
Evan were Thursday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wooley of
near Van Buren.
Mrs. Ada Williams formerly of
this place is seriously ill at her home
at Van Buren.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Agin spent
Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Milt Marquart end Esther and
Martha.
Arnold Klay and Miss Vera Stoner
were quietly married at Newport,
Ky. The wedding came as a surprise
to their many friends.
Waldo Basinger is the owner of a
new Empire touring car.
A happy surprise awaited Miss
Ida Winkler when she returned from
visiting her grandparents. Thirty
of her friends were awaiting her ar
rival as a surprise for her birthday
anniversary.
Leo Nelson has received a com
mission as Second Lt. at Fort Har
rison.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Studler left
for Toronto to visit their son, Rene,
who is attending aviation school at
that place.
The annual Hunters Reunion will
be held in Hasner’s Park at Leipsic,
Sept. 8.
A local quartet sang at the Lima
Rotary Luncheon. Those who again
brought renown to Bluffton were:
Miss Stella Lugibill, Miss Vera
Coburn, C. O. Lehman and G. A.
Lehman.
In honor of the twelfth birthday
of Miss Beatrice, Mrs. Harry Swank
entertained 12 young ladies at her
home. Those present were: Misses
Grace Burkholder, Ora Spangler,
Naomi Stettler, Dorothy Balmer,
Helen Sutter, Velma Traucht, Grace
Leightner, Carrie Wittkofski, Nellie
After the defeat of the loyalists at
Granada during the Nicaraguan rev
olution,. Richardson rode far ahead
of his column to get away from the
dust. Unknowingly, he reached the
outskirts of Managua and was
seized by federal soldiers who sur
prised him.
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF AUG. 16,1917
mencan
Adventurers
By Elmo Scott Watson
Lone Captor of a Town
^FrACY RICHARDSON was a
quiet-speaking boy before he left
Missouri to become a machine gun
ner in the Latin American revolu
tions 30 years ago.
Young Richardson fought in six
armies, including two in the World
war, was wounded 16 times. But
his single-handed capture of Mana
gua, capital of Nicaragua, was his
most spectacular feat.
No machine gun could get him out
of this—nothing but just plain bluff
was even worth considering. “I am
a messenger from the commander
of the revolution to your command
ing general,” he said quickly. “Take
me to him.”
When he arrived, he said, "We
outnumber you ten to one and have
artillery and machine guns. Gen
eral Mana has no desire to kill his
brother Nicaraguans without need.
Surrender to me and he spares your
lives.”
The bluff worked! All men who
were under arms were marched to
the jail, under Richardson’s orders,
and deposited their guns in the cells.
They marched away unarmed and
the keys were turned over to the
quiet young lad from Missouri!
Western Newspaper Union.
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS
Alfalfa pastures have been used
for the Trumbull County Experiment
Farm dairy herd, for several years
without any cases of bloating. The
cows had access to bluegrass pasture
while they were on alfalfa but the
bluegrass probably did not make
bloating more or less probable.
Hungry’ cows will eat enough of
several roughages to cause bloating.
The Trumbull herd always had
plenty of feed.
Field trials extending over 32
years indicate Ohio sandy soils can
be kept at a high productivity level
even under intensive vegetable grow
ing. Near Marietta, sandy soil has
produced higher yields of vegetables
in the last four years than in the
first four years of the 32-year
period. Manure fortified with some
commercial fertilizer has been a
little superior to commercial fertil
izer alone in maintaining soil fertil
ity.
Late blight on U. S. tomatoes in
1946 caused a loss estimated at
about $45,000,000, which would be
almost half the total amount paid
out far insecticides and fungicides to
protect all farm and orchard crops.
Growers usually do not spray or
dust tomatoes although it has been
proved that adequate applications of
common fungicides will control late
Hight on the crop. Commercial
tomato growers may have to adopt
such protective methods.
The rotenone supply to be avail
able in the 12 months beginning
October 1, 1946, will be about the
same as the 1942 supply. Some
states have planned extensive pro
grams this winter for the control of
cattle grubs with retenone, but the
supply may have to be allocated so
those states will share with others
where individual farmers treat single
herds.
Final figures on 1946 Ohio 4-H
club enrollment show a total of
51,466 members, of which 42,294
finished all work required to com-
Coon, Alma Agin, and Geraldine and
Beatrice Swank.
Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith who are
touring the west, visited Yosemite
Valley in California.
Miss Ella Green of this place, Mrs.
Armstrong and Harry Eaton of Lima
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. William
Euller at Rapid City, Mich.
Lowell Gratz, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Amos Gratz, broke bones on both
legs below the knees while playing.
This is the third time the lad has
suffered broken bones.
A number of younger boys have
completed a swimming pool at the
Kraft quarry near the Water Works.
The public contributed about $40 to
clean up the place and supplying
sand. A bathhouse is needed.
W. H. Gratz has returned from
Chicago where he has been taking
the special summer course in Practi
pedics (foot science) given by the
American School of Practipedics.
Training w’as taken under Dr. Wil
liam M. Scholl. Mr. Gratz is as
sociated with the Economy Store.
The Ohio Oil Co. is preparing to
put down well No. 1 on the Keel
farm east of town.
Misses Lillian, Burdella, and Rhoda
and Messrs. Clarence and Wilis
Amstutz spent Sunday at the Noah
Basinger’s and Ezra Baumgartner's
in Orange Twp.
plete their projects. The year’s en
rollment wasy a gain of 20.9 per
cent from the 1945 total, and state
club leader W. H. Palmer expects
another healthy increase in club
membership for the year 1947. Older
club members were in service during
war years.
The U. S. grain export program for
January, 1947, calls for a total of
725.500 long tons or 28,000,000 bush
els of wheat, corn, grain sorghums,
and oats. Of that total the United
Kingdom and India will get 186,00Q
tons, Germany 178,500 tons, Italy
110.500 tons, Japan and Korea 68,000
tons, and China 8,500 tons.
“When the frost is on the pumpkin—
and the fodder’s in the shock” t:
it’s time to have a bottle of that good
NYALYPTUS
Cough Syrup In thfettoedlclne cabinet.
Because—alongwith frost, snow, sleet
:\and winter weather come coughs
and colds. Nyalyptus contains all of
eucalyptus which cuts Ihe phlegm
and mucus In the throat, also sooth
I Ing ingredients whllh ease the cough
A. Hauenstein & Son
Frozen Foods
I iwr 1
POTATO BREAD
THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1947
Prevents Pants Shine
An office worker can prevent
shine by putting a firm pad on his
chair. A reminder to drivers—slid
ing across the car seat causes shine
and wear.
Fresh Drugs
and
Quality Drug Store
Merchandise
of All Kinds
Prescriptions Care
fully Compounded
Sidney’s Drug Shop
Phone? 170-W
KODAK FILM
StartIlyour
picture­
making rilht with depend
able Kodak Film in the yel
low box—Ihe film that geta
the pictuile. Then send u»
theexposdl rolls for expert
developing and printing.
SIDNEY’! DRUG SHOP
FARMERS PRODUCE
Bluffton Ohio
Offers Friendly Service 7
Buyers of
Cream, Eggs and Poultry
ROUTE SERVICE
CLAYTON HARKNESS, Mgr.
322 N. Main Street Bluffton Phone 284-W
A to Z
Meat Market & Looker Service
Home Killed Meats
also Custom Butchering and Processing
POULTRY, FRUITS, FISH
I VEGETABLES,
whole wheat
RYEJ
Large Variety Smoked Meats
We Buy Hides also Waste Fats