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PAGE EIGHT
Beaverdam
Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Beery spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Beery and daughter at Portland,
Sugar Shoot
2 miles north of Bluffton on
Dixie highway at Gossard Filling
Station and store
SUNDAY, JULY 4
12:30 P. M.
25 pounds first
10 pounds second
Grand Prize 100 lbs.
BLUFFTON GUN CLUB
t'. V. Stonehill. Sec.
Plenty of 12 Gauge Shells
Latest Hit Tunes
Popular Hill Billy Polish
Polka
Nature Boy
Baby Face
Shine
My Happiness
You Cail Everybody Dartin'
Haunted Heart
Who Put That Dream in
Your Eyes
The Woody Woodpecker Song
Take It Back and Change It
For A Boy
I'll Hold You In My Heart
I Miss A Little Miss in Miss
issippi
Clarinet Polka
Sushine Polka
My Sweetheart Polka
Limited Supply so get Your
Selections First
Ellenberger Bros.
Hot point Sales & Service
105 S. Main St.
Sweetened
Ind.
Marilyn and Carolyn Younkman of
Clyde spent the week here with
relatives.
Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Peterson
entertained the Home Builders S. S.
class of the Church of Christ at their
home on Wednesday evening. Present
were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Vanmeter,
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Barber, Mr.
and Mrs. Kent Amstutz, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mrs. Ralph
Vertner. Mrs. Wm. Ellenberger Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Keiffer, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Amstutz, Mr. and
Mrs. Grant Barber. Mr. and Mrs.
Delmer Beery, Jr. Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Cynthia Elliott. Mi's. Kath
erine Bassett and Mrs. Delmer
Beery, Jr., attended the Bums re-
on
Blaken
Merrill
Miss I
and MIrs.
Richar
Mrs. ’Willis
Arthur Pugh and
md Mrs. Richard
Mr. and Mrs.
son Frederick,
of Lima, Mr.
d, Mr. and Mrs.
fanjily, Mr. and
and family of
Mrs
Mr.
1 Arnold and
Ruth Orchard
Gail Arnol
•d Arnold and
Arnold
Mr. and Mrs
Sunday even in
and Mrs. W. A. Ar
the birthday
Arnold.
spending the week with Mr. and
Mrs. John Clark and Miss Ellen
Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Rupright
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Orin Sawyer at Van Wert.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Herr, Mrs.
Lillie Anderson and Mrs. Clara
reunion on ounuay
Richland Grange Hall.
Here, There, and
Everywhere
Eugene Gander of Col. Grove, at
tended a television school in Toledo
YOUR INSURANCE—
A “Creditor free” Investment.
Complete information without obligation.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tindall and
daughter of Gallant’s Ferry, S. C.,
and Miss Viola Radabaugh, Colum
bus. the guests of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Thos. Radabaugh of Gilboa.
They also spent several days in the
The Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
A. C. Burcky—-Local Representative
fy/pcteti (faiMCe.
Home Killed Meats
BEEF PORK VEAL LAMB
AUTHORIZED DEALER
Strawberries Pk. 49c
Chunk—Sweetened
Pineapple Pack 38c
Sweetened 1 Lb.
Apple Sauce Pck. 10c
Sweetened
Cherries Pack 19c
Bologna or We
S E I A
Beef for Holiday
Week End
Steak lb. 75c
No Bone—No Fat
Beef Ground lb. 55c
All Beef
Smoked Ribs lb. 15c
Cottage Cheese 25c
Spam per can 49c
Picnic Hams lb. 49c
or whole
Your Choice
LUNCHEON
MEATS
Minced Ham Dutch Loaf
Pickle & Pimento Veal Loaf
Cheese Loaf Souse.
All For
lb. 49c
Without
ners
mam
Alvin Rodabaugh
Creek. Mich.
Harl Mann,
lajor operati
aturday.
Mrs. Dan
le readv-to
ordon’s stor
of Ada has
the Board of
it 1
39c
skins
OUR CHEESE
DEPARTMENT
Swiss, Limburger, Wisconsin
Cream, Aged Chedder, Old
Fashion Brick.
American Pimenta
2 lb. Loaf 99c
Plenty of our own make
Fresh or Smoked Sausage,
Sausage, Ring Bologna,
Pure Pork Lard.
Oleo lb. 31c
Fresh Dressed Fryers or Hens
A large assortment of Containers for
Your Home Freezers or Locker.
Is your home Freezer or locker getting low?
See us for replacement of
Beef- Pork Veal Poultry or Frozen Foods.
home at Battle
north of Beaver
from a 4-H camp
dam, has returned
outing near Archbold.
Mrs. Virginia Wilson and daughter
Hope of Benton Ridge were Tuesday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel
Suter and family of Pandora.
Harry Nemire and Mrs. Err
Bridenbaugh were re-elected presi
lent and secretary respectively of
i held at River-
were
the
reunion
Sunday.
park, Findlay,
Bluffton underwent a
jeen
made manager of
department of
Findlay.
Mrs. Schmidt’
Mrs. W. K. Voight
Born to Mr. ai
Arthur Arnold
dinner gi
Id.
Misses
Watkins
pen
Wednesdays and Frii
4 and 7 to 9 p. m.
week. For appoints
been close
less of Mr
ire attending a junior high church
lamp near Celina this week.
J. E. Smith of Arlington was in
jured when he fell 10 feet from a
scaffold while working in Findlay.
Settlement
Ruth Boaz left Friday for
Wheaton, Ill., where she has taken
up studies at the college where she
had in previous years been enrolled
as a student.
Mrs. Lee Amstutz of Fostoria
spent several days last week with
her sisters Katie and Marian and
brother Irvin.
Mr. and Mrs
Indiana, were
the home of Mi
daughters.
Paul Barkman representing the
Grace Children’s Home of Hender-
home
and s
Mis
Mr. and
Robert 1
8th.
Saturda
th
some notion picture fi
and its activities.
returned
Friday morning after having ac
companied Rev. and Mrs. John
Neuenschwander and family of Pop
lar Bluffs, Missouri on a trip to the
Pacific coast. His granddaughter.
Marjorie Gratz returned with him
and is spending several weeks in the
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Gratz
5, Arthur and Allan.
Eileen Moser, daughter of
Mrs. Harvey Moser and
nott of Columbus Grove
arried or July
evening
Pandora,
ater of
was uni
in the hon
Suter and Mr. and
bill and family.
it the Grace
Miss Agnes
Mr. and Mi's,
■d in marriage
Harry Suter
to Roger Be
Mrs. H. W. Berkey of Bluffton.
son of Prof, and
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Green of
Bowling Green were Sunday visitors
)f Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Mrs. Paul Lugi-
Elvina Steiner who has been em
ployed in the high school at Belle
vue, Ohio, is spending the summei
months with her mother.
Pandora
Sunday dinner guests of the
Hiram Krohn family were: Dr. W.
G. Stover and daughter Margaret of
Columbus Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Bow
man Col. Grove Mrs. Dale Snave
Iv and children of Holgate Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Krohn and daughters
and Mr. and Mi's. Lori I vs Krohn and
children.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Green and son
of Elkhart, Ind., were weekend
guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Corral Donaldson and her sister, Mr.
These Smashing
Low Prices for
This Week Only!
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
and Mrs. Roy Cook and son Max.
Harry Schumacher
day from Philadelph:
ing the Republican ('onvention.
Harold McDonald,
church, Des
ne in that ci
bride wore
printed ski
blouse and v
starting
tents call
sage. Miss
of honor w
gown and
A. Day
■r Carol Sue of
liting Mr .and
and family of 1
Mra. carnati
Delos Rach of Lynn,
weekend visitors in
5. Barbara Welty and
returned Satur
a after attend-
’eter Hilty and
Clara
:ugh the
Mr. and Mrs. 1
daughter Margaret and Mrs.
Light are on
Laurel Bracy and Lawrence Am
stutz are owners of new Oldsmobiles.
Thrapp-Rapp Wedding
Miss Audrey Claire Thrapp,
daughter of Mrs. __
Gaskins of Ft. Wayne
daughter of Mr. and
Thrapp of Pandora wai
Bernard Rapp, son of
Clark of Allen Park. 3
evening, June 11 at 7:2
Melvena Thrapp
and grand
Mrs. H. M.
married to
in-law of the groom
Following the ceremo
was held at the hon
Mrs. Ted Sutherland.
Mrs
Mrs. Glenn Sehum
Arnold Schmidt of
sit at the hom
parents. Dr.
in Detroit.
1 Mrs. Wa
of
and
Col. Grove, Rt. 1, a
Memorial hospital, Friday.
Barbara Hamman, Ruby
and Mariellen Shidemantel
Grove Presbyterian church
Mrs. Rapp is a gr
dora high school,
attending a
school from
received his .__
engineer’s license.
Mrs. Robt.
[ich., Friday
The double ring ce
ister, Rev.
the First
Mich., at
it with him were James
Campbell and Dr. Coates
Ross County capital. It
them several days to
miles to Waverly and e
ing they had to '‘raise
out the boat.”
sank regularly every night.
and
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Suter
daughter Ann Margene of Water
ville. were Sunday evening supper
guests of Mrs. J. G. Reese and Miss
Harriet Krohn.
maid
el low’
a
lue for
brother
a reception
jf Mr. and
The couple are at home at
Flint St., Melvindale, Mich.
True Tales About Ohio
(Concluded from page 1)
until the gravel bottom became
waterlogged did the water reach
Waverly. In the meantime the bands
had played all the pieces they knew,
the polititians had whooped them
selves hoarse and the crowd of cele
brants were ravenous.
First Boat Arrives
Right in the wake of the first few
waves of amber fluid came the first
canal boat—a private craft owned
by Edward Edwards, Chillicothe. In
we, James
all of the
ike the 25
ery morn
and pump
Crude and leaky, it
The first regular passenger and
freight boat was right behind the
Edwards vessel. It was “Governor
Worthington,” owned by Michael
Miller and Martin Bowman, Chilli
cothe, and had a little brass cannon
on its deck. Several passengers from
Chillicothe made the first trip on it.
Incidentally, in the election which
followed the opening of the canal,
Lucas was defeated in his race for
governor by one vote—probably cast
The gravelly Pee Pee
tending along both sides
creek, got its name from
“P. P.” cut on the bark
tree on the creek bank by an early
Irish settler whose name is
gotten. Waverly is in Pee
township.
Piketon, founded in 1814, wras first
named Jefferson. Bigger than
Waverly in 1834, it had four stores,
a printing office, an academy and
three churches, with 507 population
to Waverly’s 306 inhabitants.
The canal gave Waverly water
power for its mills and transporta
tion for its output and the town
Kiddies Sizes
I to Years
began to grow and to covet the
county seat, an honor Piketon had
enjoyed since formation of Pike
County from parts of Ross, High
land, Scioto, Adams and Jackson
counties in 1815, when the town was
a yearling.
In 1850 when a railroad from
Columbus to Portsmouth was propos
ed and every county through which
it was to pass voted $100,00- or
more towards its construction, Pike
County voted it down. The road
was to go through Piketon—which
blamed the defeat on Waverly vot
ers. It w^s completed from Ports
mouth to Jackson and called the
Portsmouth Branch” of the C. W.
B. R. R.
I of its
near
te of Pan
husband is
television
radio
which
first
radii
17380
&
Pioneer B. & O. Railroad
The Marietta & Cincinnati Rail
road, now the Baltimore & Ohio,
also missed Piketon,
built to Hillsboro
Hillsboro retaliated by projecting a
rail road
River near Galliopolis
spending more than $2,000,000
the roadbed and right-of-way,
out of money and abandoned that
enterprise. That again left Piketon
out in the cold.
A branch was
then abandoned.
the Ohio
but after
on
ran
The last big brass pin was jabbed
into Piketon’s home-spun pantaloons
in 1861 when Waverly got the
county seat away from that town.
As to the general store Robert
Lucas ran in Piketon thereby hangs
another tale. Lucas sold the store
to Duke Sw’earingen. Swearingen
started to New Orleans with a flat
boat loaded with flour and meat.
After he passed out of the Ohio
onto the Mississippi River, he never
was heard from again.
After months had passed and he
did not return home a search was
made for him along the Mississippi
and in New Orleans and newspaper
advertisement after advertisement
was run without result.
Shortly afterwards another Pike
ton merchant, a man named Willard,
disappeared in an identical manner.
Your Opportunity To
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Business
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appliances radios,
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write or phone us
Valley, ex
of Pee Pee
the initials
of a beech
for
Waverly Was Uniontown
Waverly’s maiden name
Uniontown. Founded in 1829,
name was
Grover Cleveland’s uncle, who had
been reading Scott’s Waverly novels.
He was Francis Cleveland, an en
gineer for the Ohio & Erie Canal.
He died at Portsmouth in 1882.
was
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Youth’s Sizes fiA
18 to 20 Years
SPECIALS
Neither he nor Swearingen ever
were heard from.
Waverly now has 1,753 population
and is the center of a good farming
territory. Piketon has 734 and a
lot of memories.
Last Rites Held Eor
Milton Alva Gratz
Funeral services w’ere held last
Sunday in the Gilboa Methodist
church for Milton Alca Gratz, 56,
farmer of near Gilboa, wTio died of
cerebral hemorrhage at his home
last Thursday.
He was the father of Helen Gratz,
who is employed in the office of The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.
here. There are four other children.
)1
Ui
11,
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Prescriptions
DEMAND KNOW-HOW
Almost anyone can wrap o package
end moke change •.. but to prop
erly compound a prescription r»»
quires years of education, training
and experience, plus thorough
examination by the state, PreJi
scriptions demand know-how. We}
have it.
SIDNEY’S DRUG SHOP
Prescription Pharmacy
Available!
Combination
Screen and
Storm Doors
2 ft.-8 in. by 6 ft.-9 in., 5
light l-»/8 in. gal- d»in FA
vanized wire ....
3 ft. by 6 ft.-9 in. 5 light
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Sanforized 8 oz. Blue Denim Copper-Riveted
DUNGAREES
Everybody Wears them ... Dad ... Brother.. Sister... the Kids.. 1 and now even Mother
Sl.49
GEIGER & DILI ER
Closed all day Monday, July 5, to attend Bluffton’s Big Air Show and Rodeo. Open Thursd
We close every Thursday afternoon except those weeks in which a holiday
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1948
Public Sale
of Household Goods
of Ed Bogart,
Beaverdam,
Saturday, July 10
Watch next peek’s Bluffton
News for further
announcement
CONTROL WEEDS
WITH
AGRICULTURAL
WEED
■NO*
MORE
A PROVEH
ESTER FORMULA.ION
OF 2,4-D
Proved orj more than 500,000 farm acres
penetrates weed leaves within 5
minute®—won’t wash off!
Cleans fields for higher yleldsl
Goes on fait—farmers spray 7 fa 15 acres
per hourl
Goo# fai—% pint to 2 pints In 5 gallon*
of water cover* 1 acre when applied by
proved now method. Use light, low-cost
spray attachment.
C.l F. Niswander
I Bluffton, Ohio
Steinman Bros. Lumber Co.
“Ask Steinpian’s”
Hours: 7:30 a. m. to 5 p. m.—Saturday 7:30 a. m. to 3 p. m.
236 Cherry Street Phone 360-W
Children's Sizes
4 to 14 Years
Men’s Sizes I
ABE MARTIN
Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Office
It’s th’ feller that works when
her’s nothin’ t’ do that lands on
Easy Street. Ther’s few things
is expensive as a cheap plumber.
[Build your house1" to* last. Use
lonly the best in lumber and other
Ihuilding supplies. Buy from the
STEINMAN BROS. LUMBER CO.
Don’t Miss the Big
Round-up at
Geiger & Diller’s
We’ve got High Prices
Lassoed and Tied Down
Waist 28 to 46-lnseams 30 II 36 CP
y afternoon, July 8.
:curs.

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