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PAGE EIGHT
Ira Mack and Rosa Ingalls were
married by the Rev. W. A. Brundige.
Amos Diller and family spent Sun
day at Sarn Bame’s in Arlington.
Benroth Auto Co. have secured the
agenev for the Reo car. Jule Benroth
Saunders left for Lan
sing, Mich., returning the next day
with a newt Reo touring car.
E. B. Stuber left for New Haven,
Conn., to ake up studies at Yale.
Eli Hartman is buying timber.
Mr. and Mrs. Lem Black left for
California tp spend the winter.
J. A. Thompson represented the
Presbyterian church at the Lima
Presbytery meeting at Turtle Creek.
I. B. Stith will do custom sawing
BEEF PORK
AUTHORIZED DEAL!
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of September 28, 1911
Miss Martha Suter is in charge of
the cookingj at the ladies dorm at the
John Sclmeek purchased the Herr
man Waiters farm and will move
Harvey 1P Basin e’er leaves for Chi-
A M. Mb VI 1 n o 1 I Al.
Gid Scflumacher and Miss Lily
Hilty will be married Sunday at the
home of he brides parents.
Edwin ftisser of Pandora is spend
ing severa1 days at Boston, where he
went to clispose of a car load of
horses.
The oil well shot on the William
Elzay farni) is a good producer.
Hunters are making preparations
for their annual outing in Maine.
They always bag their share of big
mo in 11he Maine woods.
Edmund Hawk fell from a hickory
nut tree and sprained his ankle. He
is obliged to use crutches.
yq
Notice
The Bluffton
Welding Shop
will be closed
Thursday, Friday
and Saturday,
July 8 to id
I
Dana Mathewson
FOODS
Sweetened 1 Lb.
Apple Sauce Pck. 10c
N A I
ICE CREAM
Pints, all flavors, 23c
Quarts, Vanilla 45c
Y2 Gal., all flavors, 89c
Gal., all flavors, $1.69
All Flavors
Sherbets Pint 19c
PICNIC
HAMS
Blue Bonnet Delrich
No Bone—No Fat
at his new sawmill bordering the
railroad on College ave.
Mrs. George Steams visited Mrs.
Simon Herr at Upper Sandusky.
Floyd Everett of Angola, Ind., vis
ited his family on Grove street.
Rev. Wm. Brundige purchased the
Sarifli Goble farm in Union Twp. for
Settlement
Kenneth and
er Patricia of Springfield, Ill.,
ne of Mr. and Mrs.
visited
Willis over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Augsburger
and ds ughter riam visited at the
home o Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leichty
and family near Berne, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schneck
and fa mily and ohn Schneck visited
for several days in the home of Rev.
and rs. Aubrc y Henderson and
family
in 1 lir, Michigan.
Sonic wheat is being cut this
week. The far greater acreage is
to be harvested with the combine.
Pota to fields ir this area are sur
in beauty perhaps those of
any pr•evious vc1 ar. Prospects are
bright for a big yield.
The trustees of the St. John
church have purebased the parcel of
land between the church and the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Burk
holder from Hiram Schutz and is
to be ised as a parking space.
s Dukes aiid sons have recent
ted a Qi onset barn on the
farm o replace the large barn that
was torn down by the storm this
spring. The new structure is 40 ft.
by 100 ft.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Filhart and
family moved o their new home
near Pontiac, chigan, last Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. William Habegger
and fa mily and Miss Lucile Stuckey
of Beime, Ind., were Sunday and
Monday,r visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernerson Basinger and
family.
NOTICE of APPOINTMENT
THE S7
Allen
Estate
ATE OF OHIOI
County ss.
of Ira A.' Slusser, Iteceased.
E Slusser of East Gherry Street,
Olive
Bluffton
tied as
A. Slusier
Ohio, has been a^Mir»edlend qualL
Administratrix oV tM Mate of Ira
la'te of Alien] QpW’ity, Ohio, de-
ceased. I
Dated this 21st day ofWune, 1948.
Raymond P. Smith
Probate Judg-e 13
fy&tJteA, c&i/vfce
Home Killed Meats
Ready to Eat
Vi or whole
Oleo lb. 45c
Steak lb. 75c
All Beef
Beef Ground lb. 55c
VEAL LAMB
Your Choice
LUNCHEON
MEATS
Minced Hani Dutch Loaf
Pickle & Pimento Veal Loaf
heese Loaf Souse.
v’AII
For
lb. 49c
No Skins
Weiners lb. 39c
Bologna, large lb. 39c
lb. 49c
We have a Large
assortment of Cheese
Real Wisconsin
Grade A Swiss lb. 89c
LARD (pu»E« 2 lb. 49c
Is your home Freezer or locker getting low?
See us for replacement of
Beef Pork- Veal -Poultry or Frozen Foods.
BY HARRY
U HALfc
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.
Allen County’s Ghosts
When and if, on some moonlight
night, you have the old jalopy loiter
ing along on some southwestern Al
len County road near Harrod, look
ing east over the Scioto Marsh with
the motor purring at four miles an
hour and your arm around the girl
friend’s shoulders, you see a spook—
don’t be frightened, the banshee has
been dead for a long time.
It also should be much emaciated,
have dragging white whiskers and
exude the fragrance of chewed-up
Spanish onions. Then you might see
another and still another—any num
ber from 388 down to none whatever,
most of them in glaring red British
uniforms and a few in walnut-stained
home-spun. The specters, if any, have
been lost in the Black Swamp for
136 years.
Nineteen-year-old Lieutenant Wil
liam H. Raper, that was “Holly”
Raper, of Bethel, Clermont County—
felt pretty proud of himself. He was
in sole charge of his 100-man com
pany, the Williamsburg Rifles, part
of the Third Regiment, First Brigade
of the First Division, Ohio Volunteers.
Raper’s superior officers had been
worse needed elsew’here so the young
officer was put in charge of his com
pany, marching 400 British prisoners
taken by Perry and Harrison at Lake
Erie, through the wildnerness to the
barracks atj Newport, Kentucky.
Outnumbered four to one, the
American volunteers got along all
right until they were crossing the
Black Swamp. There the whole party,
prisoners and guard, got lost. The
swamp at that time almost was
covered by water.
For three days and nights the 500
men floundered around in the swamp,
without food and with only the brack
ish water to drink. They became so
scattered that on the morning of the
third day Lieutenant Raper found
himself with only a guard of 12 men
and out of his 400 prisoners, but one
hundred remaining.
Seeing the guard’s weakness the
prisoners mutinied and refused to
march. They were only going around
in circles, they declared, and may as
well starve to death sitting down
where they were as to do it wander
ing around in the morass.
Raper drew his soldiers up, with
fixed bayonets and cocked guns, and
gave the prisoners five minutes to
decide whether they would obey him.
At the end of the last minute the
soldiers were ordered to present arms,
take aim and—but before the order
to fire could be given a large Scotch
soldier cried “Hold!” and stepped for
ward, asking that he be permitted
to speak to the other prisoners.
“We have been taken in a fair fight
and are prisoners of war, honorably
so and this conduct is disgraceful to
our king’s flag—not becoming of
true soldiers,” he told his compan
ions. “I have no hand in raising this
mutiny and I suggest that all who are
in favor of behaving themselves as
honorable prisoners of war shall rally
around me and we will take the
others in hand ourselves. The
American guard, with loaded guns,
may stand by and see fair play.”
That ended the mutiny and Raper
delivered what remained of his prison
ers to the army at Newport. The
band only got out of the swamp by
forcing at sword’s point, two Indians
who were among the British prison
ers to lead the party out of the
marsh.
In 1819 Raper became a Methodist
preacher and when swimming his
horse across a swollen creek on the
way to one of his appointments, the
animal became entangled and sank.
Raper got hold of a tree limb over
head and managed to hold on to rest
and keep his head above water. While
hanging onto the limb he suddenly
thought “My mother is praying for
me and I shall be saved,” so he let
loose, swam ashore and soon the horse
also wallowed out of the flood water.
Later his mother related that, 90
miles away that day, she awoke sud
denly in fright with the thought
“William is in great danger.” She
jumped out of bed and prayed
earnestly that her son be saved. Both
Raper and his mother declared that
when they met and compared notes
the time of the prayer and accident
was the same.
The episode is mentioned by histor
ians for what it is worth and with
no comments.
Not long after the swollen creek
incident Raper was given a new cir
cuit to ride in Indiana. On approach
ing one of his first stops a large, fine
looking man approached him, calling
him “brother,” and said: “I suppose
you have forgotten me bint I knew
you the minute I saw you. I am the
Scotch soldier who made the speech
to the prisoners of war the morning
of the mutiny in the Black Swamp.”
The man related that after he had
been exchanged as a prisoner his en
listment terminated and that he, hav
ing realized the justness of the
Americans’ cause and the greatness
of tfie country, reeolved to remain and
become a citizen.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
“I came to this state, rented some
land and opened up a farm,” the
former British sohher related. “I
joined the church anc now have a fine
wife and a wonderfu 1 child. Come on
home with me—dinner will be ready
by the time we get there.”
The Reverend Will
went.
iam Holly Raper
Over plentfully iled platters of
fried chicken the tw vid soldiers re
newed their acquaintance, swapped
memories and becanie fast friends—
an attachment wh ch lasted until
death. Raper died i
What became of the 300 British
prisoners and the 88 missing men of
their American gua •d is not related
in old accounts. Wh ther they, widely
scattered and hopelessly lost without
food or drink, ever got out of the
marsh is a matter for conjecture.
Aftyhow, there w■re no Indians
among their number to lead them out
of the morass with
back.
a sword at their
Of course those little blinking
lights Which go on and off and dance
by the roadside ma v be just will-o
the-wisp or lightnin hugs. And the
dismal howl away back somewhere
among the black acres which grew the
big onions may be only that of some
farmer’s hound instead of the cry of
a banchee shrieking ‘‘Chloey—I want
to go W’here you are.” Anyway it is a
good tale, a tall one, old and true.
Maybe the black dust that sweeps
off the marsh isn’t raised by shuf
fling feet at all—jus by the wind.
Beaverdam
The Methodist Youth Fellowship
will have an ice cream social on
Friday evening Jul
basement.
v Hi in the church
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis of
Cleveland, Mrs.. 1 lonald Cregs and
daughter Faye of Minneopolis,
Minn. Mrs. RaIph Sneary and
daughters of Bradei.town. Fla. Mrs.
I. W. Byerly and IHrs. Haskell Coffin
of Lima, Mrs. Cat lorine Bassett, Mr.
and Mrs. Delmer Beery, Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Van Meter and family,
Mr, and Mrs. De mer Beery, Jr.,
were Saturday linner guests of
Mrs. Cynthia Ellio
Mr. and Mrs. (.’haries Lewis and
family spent th past week at
Indian River, Mic
Mrs. Maud ConIrey was a Thurs
day guest of her sister, Mrs. Flor
ence Parker at
Mr. and Mrs. Ci al ounkman and
daughter Loretta Dayton, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Younk man and Bernard
Gratz spent Sum ay with Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Youi
at Clyde.
kman and family
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Michael and
family accompani' Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Beery and daughter of Lima to
Clearwater, Mich,
end.
over the week
Miss Ruth Durkee spent the week
end with Mr. and
shall at Lima.
Mrs. Charles Mar-
Mr, and Mrs. Ed Hochstettler and
family of Detroit, Mich., were week
end guests of Mrs. Etta Yant.
The Women’s Society of Christian
Service met on Thursday afternoon
at the Methodist church. Mrs. T. V.
Stirn was program leader and Mrs.
Wm. Amstutz had devotional service.
Twenty-three members responded to
roll call.
Mrs. Mary Davis and Mrs. Westa
Ramsey were Tuesday visitors of
Miss Addie Yoakam.
Pandora
Miss Betty Motter spent the 4th
of July weekend in the home of her
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Verle Reichen
bach and children of Beaverdam.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schumacher
and baby were Sunday and Monday
guests in the home of Rev. and Mrs.
Charles Boehr of Goshen,* Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert* Cahill of
Washington, D. C. are spending
their vacation with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Cahill.
Bernard Davies who has been
stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C., is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Virginia
Davies for 15 days.
Richard Basinger who is stationed
in Arizona is visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Basinger and
family.
The Zuercher Reunion held at the
i Pandora Park on Monday was well
I attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Lavem Badertscher
and family of Orrville, Ohio, spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Donaldson and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrey Gaskins and
David Thrapp of Fort Wayne were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Thrapp
one day last week.
Mrs. Yirginia Kempf and Mrs.
Francis Kempf and children are
spending some time at their summer
home on Indian Lake.
Roy Crow was taken to Lima
Memorial hospital for observation.
Campaigns for the eradication of
flies by spraying farm buildings
with DDT should also include the
elimination of grain weevils by using
the same material. That insecticide
applied to the floors and walls of
empty grain bins will kill adult
weevils which hide in cracks and
crevices but sally out to feed. Weevil
infestations are carried over from
year to year by insects hiding in the
buildings and can be ended by kill
ing those skulkers.
Record Crowd At
Fourth Celebration
(Concluded from page 1)
best ever staged here” by most of
those who lined M?in street from
Jefferson street to College avenue
to view the two and one-half block
long procssion.
Replete with horsemen, floats, in
teresting business entries and led by
the brightly uniformed Bluffton High
school band, the parade set the stage
for the elaborateness of the Inde
pendence Day celebration.
First prize for the most interest
ing parade entry went to a float en
tered by the Herr Bicycle Shop sec
ond prize was taken by a decorated
surrey driven by Elmer Fett, and
third prize to cowboy-garbed Jackie
Rogers mounted on a miniature
pony.
Indicative of the large crowd in
town for the parade were north
and south streets lined with auto
mobiles from Jefferson street to
Grove street, and with intehsecting
streets equally crowded.
Rodeo Closes Celebration
Closing event in the weekend cele
bration came with a gala rodeo,
Monday night. Seating space was
crowded, and hundreds lined the
fence around Harmon field for the
night-time spectacle that proved it
still holds plenty of appeal for com
munity residents.
In the 12-event rodeo, $250 in cash
prizes were awarded to competing
horsement from Northwstern Ohio,
and the show was critically adjudged
one of the best ever staged here.
There was a total of 130 horses
and riders in the grand entry parade
which opened the evening show, 98
of which participated in competition
for prizes.
In the stand with Clyde Warren,
official announcer was Ray Patterson
of Findlay, who organized the Sad
dle Horse club when he lived here
six years ago and was one of the
prime movers in putting on Bluff
ton’s first rodeo.
Tony, winner of the western stock
horse class owned by Donald Herr,
originally belonged to Patterson and
was the first horse ever to appear
in Harmon field in connection with
a rodeo.
The balloon race, always a feature
of Bluffton’s rodeo, was first seen in
this area at local rodeos and since
had been widely adopted.
In connection with the celebration,
the Bluffton High school band had a
busy weekend. The school musicians
played a concert on the Presbyterian
church lawn Saturday night led the
parade marched and played at the
air show, and played again for the
rodeo on Monday night.
Rodeo Prizes
Rodeo prizes are announced as
follows:
Grand entry—1st, Guy Foltz, Ft.
Wayne 2nd, Eugene Harman, Ft.
Wayne 3rd, Wm. Alstaetter, Cairo
4th, Ralph Vandervlack, Jr., Moline.
Brone riding—1st, Clarence De
Tray, Defiance 2nd, Tony Gunder
man, Cecil 3rd, Bill Tooley, Raw
son 4th, Donald Niedermier, Bucy
rus.
Pony class—1st, Beverly Graves,
Ft. Wayne 2nd, Guy Foltz, Jr., Ft.
Wayne 3rd, Jackie Rogers, Bluff
ton 4th, Beverly Sperbeck, Lima.
Musical .keg, boys and girls under
16—1st, Pee Wee Ketner, Bowling
Green 2nd, Jo Jo Harrison, Toledo
3rd, Tom Nichols, Ft. Wayne 4th,
Merwin Rush, Ada.
Steer riding—1st, Bill Springer,
Lima 2nd, Paul Troyer, Miami,
Texas 3rd, Jack Powell, Ada 4th,
Jim Rainey, Ratfson.
Balloon race—1st, Howard Rutter,
Bowling Green 2nd, Ralph Vander
vlack, Jr., Moline 3rd, Donald Herr,
Bluffton 4th, Norman Foltz, Cairo.
Obstacle race—1st, Merlin Steed,
Lima 2nd. Ray Crouse, Bluffton
3rd, Tom Nichols, Ft. Wayne 4th,
Wm. Alstaetter, Cario.
Men’s Musical Keg—1st, Harry
Clean
outside from
the INSIDE!
the
Sgt. Walter Klay has arrived safe
ly in France with a regiment of
mechanical engineers.
A fire in the Tine McGriff barber
shop attracted a large throng of
people. A roof fire the next day at
the Charles Stratton home on Elm
street was also quickly extinguished.
Patriotic enthusiasm ran high at a
farewell reception in the Methodist
church, Thursday evening for Lt. J.
S. Steiner, Edmund Hawk and Edwin
Hauenstein. Sup’t. C. C. Nardin
delivered the principal address of the
evening
Dr. Cliff Wetherill, who enlisted in
the army medical corps, will leave for
Hoboken, N. J. His family will stay
in Bluffton.
Miss Ladonna Dearth was an over
night guest of Miss Kaske of Arling
ton, teacher at Owlsburg.
Tess Curry said that during the
recent windstorm he fled to the cel
lar, and if anyone wants him at any
time during a storm look for him in
the cellar.
Ketner, Bowling Green 2nd, Alfred
Basinger, Bluffton 3rd, Norman
Folk, Cairo 4th, Bill Springer,
Lima.
Ladies Musical Keg—1st, Louise
Kleinhenz, McComb 2nd, Mary Jane
Gustin, Bowling Green 3rd, Rita
Keinhenz, McComb 4th, Jean Main,
Ada.
Ladies Pleasure Horse—Mary Jane
Gustin, Bowling Green 2nd, Wanda
Breda, Lima 3rd, Joan Baker, Bowl
ing Green 4th, Betty Sterling,
North aBltmire.
Calf Roping—1st, Woodrow Herr
2nd, Tom Surles, Wapakoneta 3rd,
Jo Jo Harrison, Toledo.
Western Stock Horse—1st, Donald
Herr, Bluffton 2nd, Ray Crouse,
Bluffton 3rd, Wanda Breda, Lima
4th, Gene Franks, Van Buren.
Visiting Air Pilots
Visiting air pilots and planes reg
istered at Bluffton airport Monday
in connection with the air show in
cluded:
Rick Emick, Dayton, Cessna Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Winterrowd, Lima,
J-5 Cub Harry Ebinger, Cincinnati,
Taylorcraft Joe Uhlman, Fostoria,
Flying Tiger P-40 Paul Zorn, Jack
son Center, Aeronca Geo. W. West,
Kenton, Piper Cub Robt. Lape, Fos
toria, Cessna Dick Thomas, Fos
toria, Cessna.
Otis Leist, Kenton, J-3 Cub Clair
Hilty, Pandora, Piper Cub Capt.
Raymond Papson, Dayton, Army Air
force Helicopter J. Beck, Montpel
ier, Cub Paul Bohmer, Montpelier,
)Cub John Nonnamaker, Lima, Cess
na John York, Kenton, Cub Cruis
er Virgil Myers, Kenton, Cub Cruis
er Leroy Katterheinrich, Kenton,
Cub Cruiser.
B. G. Hawley, Ada, Aeronca Jerry
Doyle, Cleveland, Ercoupe Robt.
Drake, Bowling Green, Taylor Craft
F. A. DeLong, Lima, PA-12 W. O.
Wilt, Anna, Ercoupe Donnet Wilt,
Anna, Ercoupe Jay Snyder, Fos
toria, BT-13.
Leslie Davis, Toledo, PT123 For
rest Wilson, Fostoria, Aeronca 55
Ernie Baker, Kenton, Waco Jerry
Enders, Upper Sandusky, Taylor
Craft Ross O. Brown, Wapakoneta,
Luscombe Paul Hannum, Upper
Sandusky, Cruiser D. A. Wood,
Dayton, Piper PA-15 Ray Carter,
Dayton, Aeronca Champion James
Shaw, Maplewood, Aeronca Chief
Ernest Shaw, Maplewood, Aeronca
Chief Bob Shelly, Lima, Cub Jim
Hanley, Columbus, Luscombe.
The Ohio 4-H Junior Leadership
Camp will be held at Camp Ohio
July 5-10. The training course is
sponsored by the Ohio Extension
Service and the Ohio Fanner’s In
surance Company.
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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1948
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF MARCH 28, 1918
Miss Minnie Benroth is employed
at the county treasurer’s office.
In honor of their son Armin who
will leave for Camp Sherman soon,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hauenstein will,
entertain a number of friends at their
home, Wednesday night.
The contract for wrecking the Gid
Locher home to make way for the
new post office building has been let
to Med Murray.
In honor of his 29’th birthday a real
surprise was given R. E. Griffith at
his home south of town. A large party
of friends and relatives called to cele
brate the occasion.
In honor of her 7’th birthday Cleda
Binkley entertained 15 little friends
at her home after school, Friday.
Present were Zoa Manges, Evelin
Watkins, Wanda Brown, Alice Stith,
Florence Hahn, Helen Jacobs, Fran
ces Stratton, Lillian Dillman, Sylvia
Watkins, Margaret Jacobs, Helen Am
stutz, Edna Graham, Pearl Ramer,
Kenneth Henry, Glenna and Cleda
Binkley.
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS
Officers in charge of registrations
say that 25 per cent of all Guernsey
cattle now being registered are pro
duced by artificial insemination. That
method produces a greater number of
progeny from the best bulls.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics reports that, in years when
the December futures price of corn
was markedly lower than the June
price, the hog-com ratio improved an
average of 2.4 points by the follow
ing April.
More and better vegetables can
be produced in the home garden if
the gardener applies three or four
pounds of 5-10-|0 or 4-12-8 fertilizer
in 100 feet of row. Care must be
taken to keep fertilizer from coming
in contact with newly planted seeds.
Put the fertilizer a little lower than
the seed.
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