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PAGE SIX
Coal
Notice
Kentucky, Virginia,
West Virginia and
Ohio quality coal.
Order now for next
winter’s supply.
Also Automatic Heat
Controls for any type of
hand-fired heating plant.
Howard Stager
Coal Yard
on A. C. & Y. R. R.
North Main St.
Phone 354-W or 265-Y
A gala Cross-Section of
Ohio’s Progress in Peace
Though gay with fun and entertain
ment. the great Ohio State Fair ia
plenty solid in substance. Exhibits
booked are far beyond expectations in
quality, scope and extent. Agriculture,
industry, science and education com
bine to provide every visitor, old or
young, with an abundance of things to
aee, to do, to learn and to enjoy.
THOMAS J. HERBERT
Governor of
Ohio
EDWIN J. BATH
Slat, fair Managor
FRANK FARNSWORTH
Director of Agritvifuro
Editor’s Note—This is one
of a series of articles to appear
in the Bluffton News dealing
with early Ohio history. Others
will appear in forthcoming
issues.
Wooster’s Bad Man
“I can lick anybody in this here
town!” blustered the bully of Wayne
County, swaggering around the dirt
road that was the main stem of the
group of log and frame buildings
which clustered around the conflu
ence of Apple and Killbuck creeks—
the Wooster of 1815. Nobody disput
ed hinr.
Big, 280-pound John Driskel meant
what he said. Already he had
polished off most of the male citizens
of the hamlet and the crowd of
spectators discreetly kept their dist
ance along the line of little stores
on either side of the road. Driskel
was all man and he was all there—
all but the tip of his nose which had
been bitten off in a previous brawl
Columbus
Aug. 23-29,
1947
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of
INTEREST
TO ALL u
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FWd, Dairy, Gordan end
Orchard tadwtr
Modem Farm Machinery
farm Youth Adl»inw
Neweil Homo Appliances
Cvllvri and Fine Am
Free Bond Concerts
Radio Broadcast Shows
Midway AmusamMts
Homess Norse Racing
Night Horse Show
Groat Croodslond Show
ADMISSION AT GATE:
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Fret parking oppasit* Vlh Aw. witanct.
Up
Wednesday to Saturday
September
Four Big Days and
RODEO TEAM PULLING CONTEST LIVESTOCK AND IN
DUSTRIAL EXHIBITS 4-H CLUB F. F. A. HOME ARTS
EXHIBITS FARM DISPLAYS MACHINERY EXHIBITS
PONY RACES
GRANDSTAND ATTRACTIONS-Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday Afternoons.
FREE EXHIBITION—Vaudeville stars of today and tomorrow.
(Changed daily.)
EVENING ATTRACTIONS—Latin-American Fiesta Broadway
Varieties of 1947.
at Lisben, Columbiana County1.
The citizens wished they could do
something about Driskel, especially’
“Ginneral” Spink, town marshal, and
Deputy McComb, wh knew they
could not.
McIntire Comes To Town
It was just about that time when
Smith McIntire, who had been clear
ing off land on the old Robison farm,
south of Wooster, walked into the
picture. McIntire had run out of
tobacco and had come in to buy
some.
Warmed up from his walk to
town, and his bulging muscles rip
pling under his hickory shirt, the
young man might be able to tame
Driskel down a bit, the marshal and
deputy thought. They moved over
to McIntire.
“See that man there? Do you
think you can whip him?” the of
ficers asked the youth.
“I can whip anybody but I don’t
know that man and I am a stranger
here,” McIntire surprised them by'
answering. Then he added: “More
than that I am a peaceful man.”
Spink and McComb knew he was
right. McIntire was a quiet citizen,
industrious, honest and honorable.
Challenger Appears
Finally in response to the men’s
entreaties, McIntire agreed to whip
Driskel “to preserve the peace and
quiet and establish order.”
Pointing the McIntire, Spink yell
ed to Driskel: “Here’s a man you
have not yet whipped.”
Driskel walked over. “Do you
think you can handle me?” he asked
McIntire. “Yes,” the young fellow
answered.
“Well,” the bully proposed, “let’s
go take a drink then get down .to
business.” McIntire refused to drink,
so Driskel took his drink alone. Then
the two men faced each other.
Somebody yelled “Ready!” and
McIntire hit Driskel so hard that he
was unconscious for three hours.
They had to get Dr. Bissell to bring
him to. That was all there was to
it.
Asks For Repeat Performance
Next day, in the barroom of
Naylor’s tavern, Driskel asked Mc
Intire for a repeat performance. He
got it. This time McIntire picked
his insensible opponent up off the
floor and started for the fireplace.
It took Spink, James Hindman, one
of Driskel’s sons and son-in-law,
Steve Brawdy, to get the man away
from him. “I was going to make a
burnt offering out of him,” Mc
Intire explained to them.
Driskel lost his nose the day after
he had jumped on bony, old Isaac
Pew, who lived in Lisbon, without
warning, beat him badly and bit off
his ear. Pew had followed him
around, watched for an opportunity
sprang on the bully and bit off the
nose. “He has my ear, now I have
his nose,” he told the crowd which
intervened.
COME TO THE FAIR
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, 01
The Driskels were among the first
settle rs of Waym* County. They
moved there shortly after the War
of 1812, from Col'i- .biana county.
Settling near Joseph Stibbs’ mill, on
Apple creek, about a mile from
Wooster, they had been regarded as
honest, respectable citizens for a
few years.
Driskel Gang Leader
An epidemic of thefts and other
crimes led authorities to suspect
that the county was infested with a
gang of outlaws. The arrest and
conviction of a young man named
Ben Worthington for stealing a yoke
of oxen from Reasin Beall revealed
that Driskel and Brawdy were the
leaders of the gang.
Brawdy was sent to the penitenti
ary for stealing a heifer and making
a murderous assault and stabbing
Moses Loudon when the latter was
assisting in his arrest. Driskel final
ly was arrested and sent to the
penitentiary for stealing horses in
Columbiana County.
With a fifty-six pound ball chained
to bis leg he was sent to work on
the Ohio canal. He picked up the
ball and ran. Though fired on by
six guards he escaped to a farm
house, found an axe in the woodshed
and cut the ball from the chain.
Slipping back home he eluded
capture, burned barns, fired houses,
stole horses and concealed them in
the thickets until he could run them
away, and eventually left the county.
Arrested in Ashland County, he
again was started to the penitentiary
but escaped from his guards at Sun
bury, Delaware County, where they
were stopping for the night.
He went west and his family and
gangsters followed him but they
■were not heard from for several
years. Then, in a drive against a
crime wave in Northern Illinois, the
“regulators” captured Driskel, his
son, William, and others of the
gang. All were immediately shot.
’His youngest son, David, soon was
sought and lynched.
Most crimes attributed to Driskel,
his sons, Draw’dy, and his gangsters
were burglaries, incendiarism and
horse-stealing. They concealed the
horses in the woods, stole corn from
the farmers to feed them, then
smuggled them out of the country.
They were men of undaunted
courage, powerful build, great
strength, and enjoyed nothing so
much as a brawl and knock-down.
The Driskel gang held sway when
Wooster was only five years old. The
town was laid out where the creeks
met in 1808 by John Beaver, WH
liam Henry and Joseph H. Larwill
on a site 337 feet above Lake Erie.
The first house in the county was on
Liberty Street, Wooster, and was oc
cupied by William Larwill and Abra
ham Miller. Lt was of logs. Miller
had come from Stark County. In
1810 the entire county had but 320
inhabitants.
"Old Mill Stream”
Fair Grounds
FINDLAY, 0.
Family Membership.. $2.00
(Sales by mail close August 27. After that date
tickets may be obtained at Fair Grounds.)
Gate Admission .... 50c
Membership Tickets admit husband, wife, and
children under 18 years of age to each session of
Fair. Also, parking for car and voting privilege.
For tickets see Clyde Warren, Director, or Citizens
National Bank, Bluffton.
Nights
MEETYOtm
FRIENDS
AT THE
Pres., A. N. Hochstettler
Sec., R. D. Newcomer
IO
Pleasant Hill
Rodney Jennings and Ronald Watt
spent the past week with Mr. and
Mrs. Winston Jennings and family,
Mrs. Peter Hartman was a Tues
day evening dinner guest in the
Cecil Hartman home helping her
grandson Donald celebrate his 6th
birthday.
The Manahan and Hardesty re
union will be held at Richland
Grange hall, Sunday August 24th.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes call
ed Sunday afternoon on Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Traucht.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher
and family spent Sunday evening
with Mr and Mrs. Wayne Zimmer
man and family.
The Clarence Gleason family spent
the week end at Portland, Ind. Dan
ny Gleason stayed for a few days.
Norman and Richard Younkman
of Columbus spent the past week
with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips.
Mrs. Sarah Oates and Miss Clari
bel Owens were visitors over the
week end at Cincinnati, Middletown
and Franklin.
The W. S. C. S. of Pleasant Hill
church will hold an ice cream social
on the church lawn, Friday evening,
August 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncy Spallinger
entertained with a picnic on their
lawn Sunday evening the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber, Mr. and
Mrs. Burdell Huber and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Trout, Mr. and
Mrs. Rolland Ernest and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Ernest, Miss
Mae Huber, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Clausing, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Schick and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Spallinger, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Spallinger and daughter, Mr,
and Mrs. Otis Fett and daughters.
Burdette and Marlene Boyd of
Detroit, Mich., were Friday evening
visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Burdell
Huber and Anita and Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Huber and son Dale.
Dale Owens and family of Lima
are spending the week with Miss
Claribel Owens, Mrs. Sarah Oates
and son Don.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Mack Andrews and family
were Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Kipner
and Mr. and Mrs. Ward Chiles and
daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Younkman
were Sunday evening callers of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Phillips.
Gary and Karen Zimmerman spent
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Frantz and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer
Francis Basinger, D. D. S
Evan Basinger, D. D. S.
Telephone 271-W
Bluffton, Ohio
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LYNN
irse.
Badertscher were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Badertscher.
Mr. and Mrs. James Phillips and
family of Lima spent Sunday even
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Lyman
Barnes.
Marion and Tommy Bell spent a
few days the past week with Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Bell.
Mrs. Cora Huber and Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Winegardner were Sunday
evening callers at the Maurice Bell
home.
Here, There, and
Everywhere
Mrs. Chester Huber of Bluffton
will broadcast over WF1N from the
bandshell at Riverside Park, Find
lay, on Sunday evening between 7
and 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. John Cuppies of Mt. Cory
was struck by lightning while wash
ing dishes during the electrical storm
Thursday evening. The shock knock
ed her to the floor.
Ed Althouser of Bluffton was a
visitor in Toledo, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Huber called
on Mr. fhd Mrs. Homer Marshall at
Beaverdam, Friday evening.
The Huber reunion was held Sun
day at Paulding Center school house.
The Reichenbach family reunion
was held Sunday at Pandora.
Mrs. Levella Steiner of near Lima
fell and broke her ankle last week.
Mrs. Chester Huber has been in
vited to play in the Pandora band
concert Saturday evening.
The storm Thursday evening did
some damage around Beav.erdam and
vicinity.
Arthur Bowers, east of Beaverdam,
will teach this fall at Columbus
Grove.
Mrs. Chester Huber was a Tues
day dinner guest of Mrs. Virginia
Wilson and daughter Hope at Benton
Ridge.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the Common Pleas Court of Allen
County, Ohio, Case No. 37733. Margaret F.
Shaffer. Plaintiff, vs. William A. Shaffer,
Defendant. The Defendant. William A, Shaf
fer, whose place of residence is unknown,
will take notice that Margaret F. Shaffer
has filed in said ceurt nr ion against him
for divorce on the gropAd* of gross neglect
of duty and extrefne cioeTty. Said cause will
be for hearing onvhnd after six weeks from
the date of the firrft publication of thia
notice, to-wit: on and after the 19th day of
September, 1947.
Margaret F. Shaffer,
By I. B. Steele, Her Attorney 21
THURSDAY, AUG, 21, 1947
Ohio normally has a 154-day
growing season but there were 168
days between the -last spring frost
and the first fall frost in this state
in 1946.
EGGS
WANTED
We need more Quality
Eggs.
WE PAY
HIGHEST
MARKET PRICE
PLUS PREMIUM FOR
QUALITY AND SIZE
Call or write our buyer,
Robert Murray, 430 Cherry
St., Bluffton, Ohio, for quo
tations and arrange for
pickup service.
Bluffton phone 285-R
Caii W. McCabe
Egg Co.
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GRAIN TRADERS
What effect will the Marshall
plan have on the present price
level? Will farm exports in
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No one who buys or sells grain
or grain products can afford to
entirely disregard the study of
price movements. Be able to
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change. Get both sample letter
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Brick $25 per thousand and up
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