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Place To Live
FOR WEEK
SITUATION
Commissioner
Until Next
Morning
One of Total Enrollment
Classes Con-
Absei
Monday
W’ith
Blufftc
absent
Miller,
sioner,
town’s
the
check
disease
a mi
than one-fourth of
school enrollment
illness, Dr. G. E.
health commis
ordei ed closing of the
and high schools for
eek, in aVi effort to
of influenza. The
as generally of
no serious cases,
classes convened
128 absences,out
and
Monday
of high school
In
here,
from
ritual
Ilin
princ
were
and ft
Supt.
Wno
expect
remainder
the
5 attributed
this area,
caused the
tn a, Findlay
Health authorities
of classes for the
this week will clear up
by next Monday.
Chiloren Home
board of health
children be kept
public gathering
one-week period,
that
and
of pupils was attributed
to influenza, altho there
Sew cases of scarlet fever,
students are in the hospital
operations.
Ipsence he^e assumed criti
ftbtions since Wednesday of
app?ndicitis
worse on Thursday
and reached a peak on
dosing order was issued
will not be required to
time missed from classes.
Rluffton College
Debate Thursday
In their first intercollegiate de
bate of the season, the Bluffton col
lege negative debating team will
meet a two-man team from Hough
ton college, Michigan, at 8:30 P. M.
Thursday in the Musselman library.
“Resolved: That labor should have
a direct share in the management
of industry’ ’will be the subject.
On the two-man Bluffton team are
Ronald Rich, Washington, Ill., and
JVIarvin Dress.
Settlement
Mrs. Josephine Moser spent last
week in the home of her daughter^
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Frary and
family in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Katie Basinger has improved con
siderably in the past weeks, after
being confined to her home for a
number of months as a result of a
knee injury.
The death of Aldine Amstutz
came very suddenly at the plant in
Lima where he has been employed
for a number of years. He was aged
63 years. Besides his w idow, the
former Sylvia Diller, he is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. Mary Downey
and three sons. Herbert. David and
Dwight who are at home. Funeral
services are to be held at the
Ebenezer church where he was a
member at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday.
Their many relatives and friends ex
tend their heartfelt sympathy in
their bereavement.
Miss Reva Snavely, student at
Ohio State University spent the
greater part of the week with her
folks here.
Noah Habeggar who spent several
"'onth- in home of his brother,
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Habeggar and
lamily at Alta Loma, California,
returned home recently.
Abraham Suter who has been con
fined to his home for the greater
part of the winter is in somewhat
better health at present.
Geiger Bros, have recently pur
chased a new White truck.
Rolland Reichenbach visited one of
his friends, a former army buddy
who submitted to an operation in a
Cleveland hospital one day last week.
An unusual number of homes at
present in this locality are suffering
from illness.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bushongx Ar
lington, a boy, Wayne Alan, last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stover, Col.
Grove, a boy, Allan Kent, Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Thos Fox, Arling
ton, a girl, Nancy Lou, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Foltz, Bluff
ton, a boy, Thomas Lynn, Friday.
W. W. Carder Dies
Funeral On Friday
W. W. Carder, 84, retired Bluffton
resident of 335 South Main street
died at Lima Memorial hospital
Tuesday night at 9:45 o’clock. Death
due to complications followed a two
weeks’ illness. He had been a pa
tient in the Lima hospital since
March 9.
Funeral services will be held at
the Stanley Basinger funeral home
Friday afternoon at 2 P. M., with
Rev. Paul Cramer of the Methodist
church officiating. Interment will
be in Maple Grove cemetery, Bluff
ton.
Mr. Carder had been a resident of
Bluffton for the past 23 years, coin
ing with his wife and son John from
Findlay where the family had re
sided for four years previously.
Born February 26, 1863 in Old
town, Maryland, on the West Vir
ginia border, the son of John W.
and Julia A .Carder, he was reared
on his father’s farm at nearby
Green Spring, West Virginia.
His early career was spent in op
erating a retail store in Maryland
and managing the family estate in
West Virginia.
He was elected in 1916 to the
West Virginia legislature as repre
sentative front Hampshire county
and was ro-elccted for a second term
Although affiliated with no denomin
ation he was active in work of the
uicsbyterian and M-tl.odist churches
in Maryland and West Virginia. He
was also a member of the Order of
Elks.
He was married in 1896 to Nettie
V. Riegle of Arlington, Ohio, and
the couple lived at Green Springs,
West Virginia, until 1920 when the
family mewed to Findlay and later
ills wife and son are
the only survivors.
The body will remain at the Ba
singer funeral home.
Last Rites Wednesday
For Aldine Amstutz
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday in the Ebenezer Mennonite
church for Aldine Amstutz, 63, Set
tlement farmer, who died of heart
disease at the Lima Locomotive
Works at 7:30 a. m. Monday.
Rev. Howard Landes officiated at
the services. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Survivors’include the widow, Syl
via one daughter, Mrs. Mary Down
ey, Beaverdam three sons, Herbert,
David and Dwight, at home three
brothers, Albert, LaRue and Calvin
al! of Ada, and Lee, of Fostoria
two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Matter and
Mrs. Martha Basinger, both of Bluff
ton, and one grandchild.
Illustrated Lecture
On Europe At Vespers
Dr. Ernest Miller, president of
Goshen college, Goshen, Ind., will
speak at the Bluffton college vesper
service, Sunday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock. He will give an illustrated
lecture on post-war conditions in
Europe as he found them when he
visited there last summer.
Christian Science
Lecture Tuesday
John S. Sammons, C. 8., of Chi
cago will appear in the high school
auditorium next Tuesday night at 8
o’clock in a lecture under auspices
of the Bluffton Christian Science so
ciety. His subject will be “Christian
Science: A Religion of Works.”
Mr. Sammons is a member of the
board of lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston. The public is
invited.
King-Deeds Wedding
Is Held At Rawson
Miss Lois Jeanette King, daughter
of Mrs. Wade Carroll of Lima be
came the bride of Donald V. Deeds,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Deeds
of North Main street, Bluffton, in a
ceremony solemnized Friday evening
at the home of the officiating min
ister, Rev. Walter Purdy of Rawson.
Attendants were Miss Anna Mae
King, sister of the bride and Miss
Betty Elaine Deeds, sister of the
bridegroom. The bride wore a suit
of light blue wool gaberdine with
bridal wreath and corsage of red
State Speech Contest Will Open
Friday On Bluffton College Campus
The bride, a graduate of Beaver
dam high school is employed in the
office of the Lima City Loan. The
bridegroom, graduate of Rawson
high school attended Bluffton college
and Ohio State university. He is
employed at the Lima Locomotive
works.
The couple will live at 737 Holly
street, Lima.
West Half
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE TNT
More Than 100 High School
Pupils To Compete In Two
Day Tournament Here
National Forensic League Con
test Held In This Part of
State For First Time
More than 100 pupils from high
schools in the western half of Ohio
will compete in a National Forensic
League speech tournament to be held
Friday and Saturday on the Bluffton
college campus.
This marks the first time the
western division contest has been
conducted in this part of the state.
In the tournament, contestants
will compete in extemporaneous
speech, original oratory, dramatic
declamation, oratorical declamation,
humorous declamation and debate.
of
During the 1944-45 school year,
Carl Weave:, a graduate of Bluffton
college, was chairman of the western
Ohio division of the league.
A banquet for those here for the
two-day competition will be field at
6:30 P. M. Friday in the Ropp hall
dining room.
Masonic Father-Son
Ranquet Wednesday
Varied entertainment will be fea
tured at the Masonic Father-Son
banquet at 6:30 P. M. this Wednes
day in the lodge hall.
A magician will appear on the
program, pictures of the Orient will
be shown by F. D. Rodabaugh and
there will be a short address by
Clarence Zaenglein, Findlay Masonic
leader.
Preceding the program a dinner
will be served in the newly decorated
dining room of the lodge by the
Eastern Star.
Mt. Cory
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Huber were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Moser and daughter
Carolyn, near Beaverdam.
Willard Kramer has returned to
his home after spending the winter
with his daughter Clara Bauman in
Findlay.
Paul Henry and daughter are ill
with influenza at Bluffton.
Mrs. Dan Sheahan and Mrs.
Chester Huber called on Mrs. Arvin
Sheele in Bluffton, Tuesday after
noon.
Genevieve Beagle, daughter of
Mrs. Dossie Beagle is recovering
from the flu.
The high school is closed this w«ek
on account of the flu. Quite a few
are sick.
Rev. Kauffman has been quite ill
at his home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reiter visit
ed Mrs. Barbara Renninger who is
ill at the Memorial hospital at
Lima, Sunday. They also called on
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wooley and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Renninger.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones were
recent dinner guests of his sister
and family in Cairo.
Mrs. Chester Huber called on Mrs.
Dessie Beagle and daughter Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Williamson
have returned to their home south
of town after spending the winter in
Florida.
Mrs. J. E. Jones called on Mrs.
Chester Huber, Tuesday evening.
Willard Kramer called on his
daughter Clara Bauman and family,
Sunday afternoon.
George Quimby has been on the
sick list.
Charles "’versox, north of tov n is
going to build a new house on his
farm this spring.
Elinor Bowersox has been quite ill
with the flu at her home.
The V. S. herd of dairy qpws on
January 1. 1947, totaled 26,100,000
head, which was a reduction of
500,000 from the total number on
January 1, 1946,
BLUFFTON, OHIO THU1
Ohio Here
During the two-day period, con
tests in the various events will be
conducted simultaneously in college
classrooms. Contestants will be
from schools in .the western half of
Ohio, with the division point at
Newark.
Most competitors will be from
Class A High schools, on the basis
of preliminary registration, which is
being handled by P. W. Stauffer,
director of speech at Bluffton college.
Bluffton High school has no entries.
A sweepstakes prize, usually in
the form of a trophy, will be pre
Stnfed to the sChAOl garnering the
greatest number of points, and in
dividual awards also will be given.
Winners will participate in the na
tional tournament sponsored by the
National Forensic league at Ripon,
Wisconsin.
Bluffton Contestant First
The first National Forensic league
tournament in Ohio was held in 1931
with Mrs. Paul Stauffer, instructor
in speech at Bluffton college, win
ning in one of the events. She also
was in the national contest that
year.
NICKEL
INSTALL
AT
Electrically Op
Proposed at
Avei
Railroad Represe
Traffic Check
section
Whether the warning signals will
be installed will depend on railroad
officials’ interpretation of the survey
and the village administration’s
recommendation citing that tae cross
ing is heavily used and that railroad
cars on adjacent sidiqgs generally
completely block a view of the main
line tracks.
Heavy Traffic
With the Bluffton stock yards,
Farm bureau bulk station and the
new Bluffton cement block plant
just east of the railroad, the
is heavily traveled, it was
out by municipal officials,
blocked view of tracks con
a traffic menace.
10-year-old campaign
signal sy
pointed
slitatos
The
to obtain a signal syste:n for the
crossing was revived a month ago
when Mayor W. A. Howe recom
mended that the villag-e council again
open negotations with the railroad
in the matter.
A traffic survey taken last Friday
and Saturday showed the following
travel for the two-day period: 598
automobiles 109 trucks 42 other
vehicles 66 pedestrians 29 freight
trains and four passenger trains.
Collect Waste Paper
For Talent Project
...
Youth groups of the Presbyterian
chinch will collect waste paper Sat
urday afternoon as part of their
’talent-working project. Household
ers are requested to bundle news
papers and magazines and place
them
oh
the porch or curb by noon.
Rural area residents may leave
bundles of paper at the rear of
town hall. Those in rural districts
having quantities large' enough to
warrant a special trip should call
Sidney’s Drug shop before Saturday
noon and arrangements will be made
for collection.
Reaverdam Junior
Play Friday Night
“Good Gracious Grandma,” a rol
licking comedy will be presented by
the junior class of Beaverdam high
school in the Beaverdam school audi
torium Friday night at 8 o’clock.
Appearing in the cast are: Bob
Bowers, Emil Gratz, Joann Gerde
mann, Emily Gratz, Marcella Stech
schulte, Gerald Weaver, Bob Reichen
bach, Dwight Prowant, Connie Sher
rick.
The play, a three act production,
will be directed by G. Leslie Thomp
son assisted by Pat Bushong.
Piano Concert At
College Next Week
Arthur Dann, pianist, will be pre
sented in a Bluffton college concert
series appearance at 8 p. m. Wed
nesday night of next week in the
Ramseyer chapel. w
Dann has made many appearances
as soloist with orchestras and as a
solo concert artist, and has been fea
tured as a soloist in coast-to-coast
broadcasts on radio networks. Since
1937 he has been a member of the
faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music.
Bluffton Girl Gets
Cosmotology License
Janet Steiner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. N. P. Steiner of North
Jackson street has received her ap
prentice license to practice cosme
tology in the state of Indiana.
Miss Steiner is now at home wait
ing to be called to serve her three
monthes of apprenticeship in Indi
ana, She was graduated from
Warner Beauty college in Ft. Wayne
in February.
Support prices on 1947 potatoes
will be available only to producers
who observe acreage goals.
OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
AY, MARCH 20, 1947
MAY
KER
HERE
Signal
es Make
nter-
sampaign for
iker signals
Iroad's East
has entered
uresentatives
Quest of the
ey of traffic
ig the past
Bluffton’s decade-old 4
electrically operated bib
at the Nickel Plate rai
College avenue crossing
a new phase when re]
of the railroad, at the re
council, conducted a surv
at the intersection duqi
week.
Suit for $5,000 in damages bn
against the village of Bluffton
Mrs. Ho Isham, former resident her
now living in Lima, was not heai
in Allen county common pleas cot
as scheduled Tuesday, pending pri
pect of settlement out of court.
The suit was based on injuries si
to have been sustained in a fall
a precinct voting place in the
department room at the town 1
here on election day, Nov. 5, II
It is understood payment
village of approximately $27
involved in
merit.
esper
ter Pendleton, of the Hancock coun
ty court of common pleas, addressed
a dinner meeting of the Bluffton
Lions club Tuesday evening in the
Walnut Grill.
The common pleas court is a trial
caurt, he told the gathering, and the
court of appeals in contrast serves
only in a review capacity. Court of
appeals for this area, known as the
third district, covers 16 counties,
with the court sitting in Lima. There
are nine judicial districts in the
state.
Ohio’s Supreme court has original
jurisdiction in a few cases but ordin
arily its cases are certified to it by
the lower courts, it was pointed out.
Probate courts are equal in rank
and work to common pleas courts,
except that cases of guardianship
and estate settlement fail under their
jurisdiction.
Justice of the peace courts
limited in matters involving
than $100, but have been the
wark of local governments,
Pendleton told the Lions.
$5,000 Damage Suit
Headed For Se urt
Id
At
fill
10.
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I). R. Trippiehorn, city solid!
said settlement has been agreed
the basis of village payment of I
of the cost of medical services, i
that papers will be drawn this
relieving the town of further
bility
Choir In
Concert March 28
The Bluffton College Vesper choir
will be presented in concert by the
Bluffton Lions club in the* high
school auditorium here on Friday
night, March 28. It wifi. be the first
of the season by the
provides special music
vesper services Ut the
concer
choi
numbering 55 voaces in
Bluffton, Ann MGinnis,
Genevieve Buhfer and
eludes from
Lois Oyer,
Ray Follas.
there will
Laurence Burkhalter.
Besides vocal numbers
be violin selections by
Other appearances of the jhoir are
scheduled for this spring ai Gomer,
McComb, Lima, Wapakoneta and
Berne, Ind. Arrangements^ are also
being made for a two weeks’ mid
western tour in June.
Proceeds of the concert $here will
go to the College’s auditofium-gym
nasium building fund.
Lions Hear Tall
Ry Findlay*
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wn
gainst
lement
Farm
The
by| the
wit be
the prospective
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Frie
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mee
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are
less
bul-
Judge
Pandora
and Mrs. Paul Luginbill are
Mr.
parents of a girl born Tuesday at
Memorial hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Marshall of
O. S. U. fire spending several days at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Don McDowell.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Krohn and
Bernice Anderson recently called on
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Carr and Mary
Jane who have returned home after
spending the winter at Bell, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilkins
have arrived at their home here
after spending the winter in the
West. Mrs. Della Wold, a sister of
the former passed away at her home
in California two days after her
brother had started on his homeward
journey.
Rolland Reichenbach and James
Geiger spent the week end with
friends in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Bernice Anderson, Mrs. Hiram
Krohn and granddaughters Carol,
Janet and Ruth Ann spent Sunday
evening in the Dale
Holgate.
Snavely home at
the owner of a
Gilbert Suter is
new Dodge sedan.
Glenn Cherry is
new “Frazier” sedan.
the owner of a
Aldine Amstutz, 63, a storekeeper
at the Lima Locomotive Works, died
unexpected!} at the plant in Lima
at 7:30 a. m. Monday. He surviv
ed by his widow Sylvia Diller Am
stutz, a daughter, Mrs, Man Down
ey, Beaverdam: and three sons,
Herbert. David and Dwight at home.
There is on grand-on. Tw- sisters,
Mr-. Berth Matter nd Marti a
Basinger, both of Bluffton and three
brothers, Albert of LaKue Calvin of
Ada: and Lee of Fostoria. Funeral
sunk’- were hold ft 2:30 Wed::
day a* the Ebenezer Mennonite
church of which- ho was a me mher.
Rev. Howard Landes, pastor officiat
ed.
Is
Of
Clubif £odjpi
and Sociel
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Masonic Lodge
Stated ccyimunication,
Masonic lodge, Monday ni
in Master Mason degree,
ments. Robdrt Niswanden
Ralph Stear*, Sec.
I Bluffton
It. Work
Refresh-
W. M.
Bureau Council
Scattered Neighbot
w Advisory
council will meet Friday i'ght
Mr. and Mi. Walter Har®ton.
Social Club?
The Presbyterian Socii
meet Thun# ay night wit
Garden Gib
Mrs. J. 3. Schultz will
Garden clab at her honi
afternoon.? The program:
Birds I*v« Seen or Heafri
view “N4w Crops fof
World,” Mrs. P. E. Whifrter.
with
club
Mrs.
will
________ ____ ... Geo.
Linden. Hostesses will beWlrs. Harry
3. Leslie Kimrwl and Mrs,
Barnes, Mif.
Gail Rakosty.
ntertain the
Thursdav
Roll call,
Book re
the New
I
Amico CRih
Mrs. Hdith Motter fill ent
the Amico club ThursddS' night
June Trijplehorn will hfcve chai
Mr
Auxiliary
American Le$
Legion
The
will me* at the Legion hall Tu
night at 8 o’clock. MrsiSylvia
horn and Mrs. Murray Triplehor
be in charge of the program.
Poinsetiia Club
The Poinsettia club? will meet with
Mrs. Ruth Corson diis Wednesday
night. The program I Atomic Medi
cine c4n Lengthen Your Life,
Hazel Biome Gravest Illnesses
Tasks i for Atomic ^Research,
Mary jConrad One Way to
Ijonge^ Mrs. Edna Jichultz.
Task
ssive Mothen
[’rogriss
Tuei
call,
Mrs.
are
Mrs.
Live
Club
others’ club will
iita Swank next
kith Mrs. Jui
ly night. Tlf prograjn: Roll
‘avorite Bookland Author De
als. Mrs. All?e Devier Book
v, Mrs. Chrimne Wenger.
Club
ilghbors clijb will
ladys Beeijier^on
i, March
wilji Mrs.
■day af tern
Explaining the worki of the The
cm
ram: Poem,
__ t’resideiU {Papers
on Plastics by Mrs. Mary Hall, Mrs,
Sibyl Reichenbach and Mrs. Ella Hu
ber.
Bridal Shower
A shower honoring Miss Katherine
Hermon, bride-elect of Gerald Diller
of Findlay was held Thursday night
when Margaret Reichenbach and Mil
dred Marshall entertained at the lat
ter’s home.
Present were Misses Rosetta Price,
Ruby Lehman, Eileen Diller, Selma
Miller, Doris Amstutz, Myrtle Man
ges, Gladys Doty, Gladys Reichen
bach.
Mesdames Dortha Lombardy, Vic
toria McCarty, Lois Lugibihl, Jo Gos
sard, Mozelle Thompson. Lola Hook,
Mildred Henry, Mabel Smith, Dorlhy
Freeman, Gail Miller, Bertha Dep
pler, Flo Cunningham, Roy Doty.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Marshall,
son Jimmie and daughter Arlene. Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Marshall, the host
esses and honor guest.
Those sending regrets and gifts:
Misses Clara Schumacher, Amanda
Welty, Grace Miller, Doris Martz,
Maroa Badertscher, Dorthy Kohl
Mesdames Stella Lichtenwalter, Tre
va Mathewson, Carolyn Hostetler,
Grace Jones, Catherine Maidlow, Vir
ginia Hermon, Mary Davis, Ruth
Moyer.
Youth Federation
Youth Federation choir practice
Thursday night at 8:30 at First Men
nonite church. Anyone from grades
9 to 12 interested should come. The
choir will sing at the Easter sunrise
service.
Band Mothers
Meeting of the Band Mothers club
has been postponed until next Tues
day night at the high school at 8 o’
clock.
Mennonite Church Meeting
The Women’s Missionary society of
the First Mennonite church will meet
jointly with the College Y. W. C. A.
and Girls’ Gospel team this Wednes
day night at the church at 7:15. The
Gospel team will present the program
on various relief centers in foreign
countries where Bluffton students are
located.
Jitsu Tau Club
Mrs. Ross Irwin will be hostess to
the Jitsu Tau club at her home this
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock.
Century Ci cle
Mrs. W. A. Amstutz was hostess
to the Century circle Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. David Risser as
sistant hostess. The program: The
First Lady of 1945, Mrs. Augusta
Steiner The Mother of 1946, Mrs.
H. H. Huser Burma Surgeon
turns,
Re­
Mrs. Mary Smucker.
With The Sick
Mrs. Cal
Main
Balmer of South
became suddenly ill the
week has !wn removed
street who
first, of the
to Bluffton hospital.
rs. M. M. Kibler who underwent
an operation at Bluffton hospital two
weeks ago was removed to her South
Main street apartment, Tuesday.
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BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Trade
NUMBER 48
NEW WATER MAIN
PROGRAM TO COST
BLUFFTON $4,788
Installation of 6,100 Feet Of
New Mains In Program
Mapped For Year
Lines Will Serve New Residen
tial Areas Outmoded Lines
To Be Replaced
Extension of Bluffton water mains
to serve new building subdivisions
and eliminate existing unsatisfactory
installations will involve the laying
of 6,100 feet of new lines at an
estimated cost of $4,788 in projects
planned during the coming year by
the board of public affairs.
New lines will be laid in six parts
of the town, with the program call
ing for 2,000 feet of six-inch pipe,
2400 feet of four-inch pipe and 1,500
feet of three-inch pipe.
In the projects, approved Monday
night at a meeting of the village
council, a new-type concrete pipe
will be used for the water lines.
Run Main to County Line
To serve the new building suh
divi§jun opened by Harley Burkhold
er, 1,000 feet of six-inch line will be
laid on Cherry street to the County
Line road. «s
Water for the Matter and King
additions will be provided b.v 1,000
feet of six-inch mains on Harmon
line of 500 feet of 3-inch ipe will
be laid on Garau street fr Main
street Harmon read, repl acing an
overloaded one-inch line.
Continuing expansion o water
service in the same vicinity, 400 feet
of four-inch mains will bo laid on
Bentley road, east from Harmon
road, and a fire hydrant wi 11 be in
stalled to serve the district.
Larger Mains
Another 1,000-foot pro jetSt is on
Spring strum from Elm o Riley
street where existing twa-irich ines
will
Im- replaced by four-inc
mains.
A new main will be laii to the
Harmon field stadium by running
of 3-jnch pipe iVm Railroad
street in the program.
Two extensions which would serve
districts outside corporation limits
also were proposed. In one, 600 feet
of four-inch main would be laid on
South Main street, south from the
corporation line.
The second involves laying 6(H)
feet of four-inch line on West Col
lege Avenue to College road, and
500 feet of three-inch line south on
Huber road at the rear of College
hall.
Cost of 6,100 feet of pipe specified
in the program is estimated at $3,699
and digging trenches will involve the
expenditure of $1,098 additional.
School Pupils To Get
Tuberculosis X-Rays
Chest X-rays of Bluffton grade
and high school pupils will be given
next Monday and Tuesday by the
Allen County Tuberculosis mobile
unit. Consent of parents is required
before the examination can be given
any pupil, school authorities an
nounced.
Real Estate Deals
James Benroth has purchased the
property in which he lives at Elm
and Spring streets from LaVern
Morrison.
Gerald Huber has purchased from
Albert Garmatter one of the latter’s
newly completed residence properties
on College road north of the Elm
street intersection.
East Orange
Mrs. Ruth Heldman, Mrs. Mary
Heldman called on Mrs. Roscoe
Blaksley at the Bluffton hospital,
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stager spent
Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
J. Boutwell.
Mr. and Mrs. Adrain Van Atta,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Beard and daugh
ter Paulette of Findlay were supper
guests Thursday of Mr. and Mrs.
Byron Boutwell and son Michael
Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Heldman call
ed on Mr. and Mrs. Orlen Gallant
last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Rayon Boutwell and children
Lynn Ray and Lonnie Sue.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman of
Kenton were Sunday dinner guests
in the C. M. Heldman home.
Mrs. Lloyd Bauman and little
daughter Myra called on Mr. and
Mrs. Will Stager last Tuesday.
W. M. Baker is on the sick list.