The Bluffton news. [volume], February 20, 1947, Image 2

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SOHO
STATION
On South Main Street
under new management
thru Friday
11 P. M.
Open Monday
6 A. M. to
Open Saturday and Sunday
until midnight.
Atlas Tires
6.00 by 16 and
Also tubes.
6.50 by 16:
5.50 by 17
We carry Champion Spark
Plugs, Oil and Fuel lines
and other auto accessories.
Vaugh Joe Bronson, Mgr.
CONSERVE
yourCLOTIIES
42" HIGH
29" WIDE
21" DEEP
other
in Loui:
to ordin
fish me
THE IDEAL WARDROBE FOR EVERY DAY USE OR
SEASONAL STORAGE.
STRONG WOOD REINFORCED.
ATTRACTIVE 3-PLY, WOOD GRAIN, WALNUT
FINISH FIBRE BOARD.
FULL LENGTH, EASY SWINGING DOORS.
MAU AND PHONE ORDERS FILLED
Basinger’s Furniture Store
Forty-five Years of Dependable Service
couple
travt
Flo:
Fowl Fare
leal, fed to baby chicks
gave results superior
neat scraps, shrimp and
On a chemical basis,
musk
were hai
Much
.duate of Bluff-
id at Feldman’s depart
Lima. The groom is a
Pandora High school
re building supply busi
s father.
ave
greater gams per chick up to
weeks old. Broilers fed rations con
taining dried muskrat were served
to 26 families who found no objec
tionable flavors in the meat.
•on.
away, and 75 wagons loaded with
wheat were counted passing through
Bucyrus in one day. These returned
loaded with goods and thus did much
to develop the entire
settler. He broughl
e in 1819 and built
bin. Up to that timt
white family in th
county,
cabin and that of James 1
a later arrival, in it, he
Bucyrus.
Three years later, with hi!
Kilbourne
laid ou
Nearest Flour Mill
Wayne County
meal. When the meal gave out the
Nortons often ate meals made with
out flour, meal, vegetables or meat.
They had to use the “grater.”
Hard Work
The grater was made by punching
holes close together in one-half of
anold tin bucket,t hen nail the piece
of tin onto one side of a board so
that it bulged a little in the middle.
Meal could be made by rubbing ears
of corn along the grater’s surface
until there was enough for supper
and breakfast. The children went
to the corn patch and picked the corn,
then the mother rubbed the meal.
It was hard work.
If the meal was mixed and baked
in a Dutch oven it was called “pone.”
If it was baked on a board by or
over the fire, it was called “Johnny
cake.” When it was made into balls
and baked in the oven, they were
called “corn dodgers.” Often the
meal was boiled into mush and eaten
with milk.
Norton family could se
flour nor meal from the
or grater, they would
nearest settlers,
in the neighbor’s
When the
cure neither
mill, pestle
borrow from
The food situat
cabin usually was as bad as the
Nortons. Descendants of the family
related their forefathers had liv^d
for weeks without*bread, subsisting
on wild honey, wild turkeys and a
few potatoes.
As sett’
began to move into the
privations and hunger
Not
of food
to be
pion-
region tl
increased with the newcomers,
only was there a shortag
and money—there was nothing
bought with the money if the
eers had it.
homespun cloth
family and mu
neighbors.
Norton went
ty and bought
back
few
wolve
bount
region.
ery that the
old to newcom
s of Crawford
itions of every
rved to death,
annals of the
weave a
Until their disco’
cranberries could be i
ers, the first settler
County suffered privi
kind and nearly sta
Carefully preserved
Norton family, Bucyru:
story that should bring thankfulness
into the heart of every farmer of
today’s fertile Ohio acres that he
was born 100 years too late—for
that sort of farming.
brought
After a
killed bj
a small
every wolf kill*
trip to the
ford County
little bounty.
Cranberri
So, when
cranberries cm
tiers diligently
Some of the s
bushels grew
ually were all
season closed.
were at
The nearest flour mills
Fredericksburg, near Wooster, Wayne
County, and Lexington, near Mans
field, Richland County. The man
or boy who went to the mills walked
the entire distance over Indian
trails and led a horse loaded with
two or three sacks of wheat. When
the Nortons could not go to mill
they made flour by pounding the
grain in a mortar
with
brought
nia both
looms
those
First in the Hearts
men
Farmer.general,president,GEOR.GE WASHINGTON
WHEN HE LEFT HIS HIGH OFFICE, TURNED AGAIN
TO THE LAND AND HOME HE SO DEARLY LOVED.
I HOPE TO SPEND THE REMAINDER OF MY DAYS IN
CULTIVATING THE AFFECTIONS OF GOOD MEN AND
The cranberry marsh yielded other
things besides cranberries. Swarms
of wild bees were there. Also bears
and smaller animals, and many rat
tlesnakes. While most settlers gath
ered berries, others always were de
tailed to guard the berry piles, keep
off the animals and
tiesnakes.
One ma
Hahn, wh
1838, in
ferct skel
made
big en'
.ater
found
How
hat
tACTICE OF DOMESTIC VIRTUES... TO
•0 SELLA LITTLE FLOUR ANNUALLY.
JIBUTE TO THE NEATNESS OF MY FARMS
ONG PLEASES ME BETTER THAN TO SEE
GOOD ORDER AND EVERYTHING TRIM,
IN THE Pl
MAKE Ah
TO CONTI
FOR NOT!
THEM IN
HANDSOME AND THRIVING ABOUT THEM.”
tVAS^f/A/GrCM
entire
eep which
pioneer fa
all had I
the scalp of
it was a long
or the Craw
to collect the
ce
ITTLERS
i be sold, the set
picked cranberries,
tiers devised home
plements and work
y, picking 15 to 20
ugh hundreds of
the marsh, they us
cked long before the
The cranberry sea­
son began the latter part of Septem
ber and lasted all winter and spring.
Few were picked in the winter be
cause they were frozen in the ice.
watch for rat
rich. Abraham
a mill race in
struck it
i digging
yrus, uncovered the per
on of a mastodon. He
$1,800. It later burned
Barnum museum fire.
mastodon bones were
Bucyruse xcavations.
it was
Crawford
from that
of the
ts citi
Helen Brayton Gets
Nurse's Certificate
Helen Brayton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. O. O. Brayton, of Mt. Cory,
a former secretarial employe at The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.,
has received a certificate as a regis
tered nurse, after passing the state
examination.
Miss Brayton entered cadet nurses’
training in September, 1943, at St.
Elizabeth School of Nursing in Day
ton and was graduated in May of
this year.
After leaving the Triplett com
pany in 1941, Miss Brayton was em
ployed two years in the personnel
department at Wright field, doing
secretarial work.
Ohio beef cattle need little prob
tion from cold but they do enjoy
shelter which provides a windbre
for them.
AU State of
KODAK VILM
OTART yoor picture
making right with depend
able Kodak Film in the yel
low box—the film that gera
the picture. Then send ua
the exp osed robs for eipert
developing and printing.
ongralulate Couple
On Golden Wedding
ceived many congratulations on the
occasion of their Golden wedding an
niversary Saturday, when they ob
served the event with a dinner in
the Walnut Grill
Among those who helped them cel
ebrate
Charles C. Burkholder of Bluffton
filed Saturday in the Allen county
common pleas court an appeal from
a ruling of the Industrial Commis
sion of Ohio.
Burkholder is asking that he be
allowed to participate in the state
insurance fund for
cerved April 6, 1945
for the Farmers
claim be disall
record did not
dition was the result of an injury
course of and arising out of his
ploymeht.
include meat in four menu.
furnace repaired
Allen
The McClure
settled on I
miles northea
and a tradin
on the site o»f
Stettler
and Mrs.
ly of Ashtabula.
rs. J. C. Hochstettler
r. and Mrs. Clyde Cox,
Ned Cox and daughter
and Mrs. Noah Nis
V. C. Oppermann, Mr.
ssell Leiber and sons,
Mr. and Mrs
of Weston
wander, Rev
and Mrs.
Mrs.
ber,
Donnie,
Mary Stearns and Mrs. Amos Suter.
Edna Leiber, Mrs. Gladys Lei
Robert Deerhake and son
Mrs. Bertha Matter, Miss
Bluffton Man Files
Appeal From Verdict
1
an injury
while wor
lrain comi
is a navi
number o1
Amanda
ts along the Maumee
a and Wood famiilej
[dog creek, about fiv
.st of Lima, about 1825
post was establishe
Lima in 1828.
sale of lots took plac
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AJways ready serve you.
SWAN&V BROS.
Fresh and Salt Meats
Do you need your
oh s repaired,
SEE
J. A. Leatherman
The Sheet Metal Man
107 S. Main Street
Bluffton
JORG HATCHERY
Phone 182-W Bluffton, Ohio
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Sell your eggs to
firm known for service
Phone me for top
truck will stop at yoi
ROBERT.
Bluffton phone 2S5-R
Take advantage of tne greatest feeding
development in years, M-V (Methjo-Vite).
Build up a healthy, fast-growing flock that
will show more profits for you. Stop in.
Let us show you what M-V has proved in
actual flock tests!
THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1947
County, Also, Has Birthday
In February It’s 127 Years Old
Ittend Church Board
Meeting In Kansas
Prices1•'
college
THE ARISTOCRAT OF
PRESSURE COOKSRSI
$13”fSite4«t.
Economical
for largo or
small famUiet
WEAR-EVER ALUMINUM
Saves time, flavor, color, fuel, money.
Cooks green beans In 2!A minutes, beef
stew in 15 minutes—etc
Patented Snap-Tite Cover—can't be
opened while pressure is on.
Easy to use—on any range.
Made of the metal that cookt batt
easy to dean.
Greding Hardware
Brood atraight chicks, pullet chick*, broiler
chick., poult* ... with low mortality .. wwick
growth and rapid feathering the
Warner Electric way!
COME AND SEE OUR DfSTVA Y OF WARNERS!
k Sara money, work, worry by brood
pi nndm Warner radiant heat. Chro
1 analoa boat amita and patented Warner
an old established
and quality.
market prices—our
ir farm.
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ASTER
tk Starter
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