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i A Good Place To Live VOLUME LXXni THREE NAMED TO NEW DRAFT BOARD IN ALLEN COUNTY Two Lima Men and Perry Twp. Farmer Will Serve On Allen Board Barr, Fitzgerald And Tabler Will Direct Draft Of 18 To 26-Year-Olds Allen regis- Organization of the new’ county draft board to handle tration and induction of 18- through expected the w’ake 25-year-old selectees is ■within the next week, in of appointment of the three-man board last Saturday. On the single board which has the responsibility for the entire county are: O. O. Barr, president and manager of the Barr hotel, Lima. James A. Fitzgerald, a West inghouse Electric Corp, employe, ill so of Lima. J. Reed Tabler, Pefry township fanner and president of the Allen County Township Trustee and Clerks association. They were notified last Saturday of their appointment by President 'Truman, upon recommendation of the governor. The letters received from Ohio Selective commended that earliest possible tion, which will of a chairman board clerk also of notification they Gen. C. W. Goble, Service director, re they meet at the date for organiza include the election and secretary’. A w’ill be employed. Recommendations for the appoint ments were made by a special com mittee named by the governor. It consisted of Judge Moran B. Jen kins, of common pleas court Judge Raymond P. Smith, of probate court, and A. D. MacDonell, president of the Lima Metropolitan bank. The Allen county board is one of 127 in Ohio which will administer the 1948 Selective Sendee act. Three boards handled World War II regis tration and induction in the county. First duty after organization will be the registration of 18 to 26-year cld men, beginning August 30 and ending Sept. 18. Movies On Palestine At St. John Church Life in war-torn Palestine will be pictured in sound movies and de scribed in a lecture by Walter J. Field, English educator and mission ary, John dora. at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in St. Mennonite church near Pan A missionary in Palestine, Field is on his first visit to the United States to appear in a series of lec ture dates. In the pictures and lecture, Field •will depict the explosive problem of Palestine, and speak of his exper iences while living and working with both Jews and Arabs. He also will show pictures of the work of the mission which he represents. Bluffton College Alumnus Is Dead Charles Trachsel, 58, Bluffton college alumnus, died at his home in Iowa City, Iowa, according to word received here the first of the week. Since his graduation here in 1917 he has been connected with the Iowa City schools and was head of the science department since 1921. Trachsel came here as a student in the academy thirty-eight years ago. He was a native of Pulaski, Iowa. Surviving are his widow and two daughters, Patricia, student at Curtis Institute of Music, Philadel phia and Annette, a high school student. Funeral For Father Of George Carmack Funeral services for James Car cark. Sr., 81-year-old Toledo resident and father of George Carmack, Bluff ton motion picture theatre owner, were held at Gibsonburg last Wed nesday afternoon in the V home. Burial was in th burg cemetery. He for :h funeral a retired store ational Supply oil field equipment and of a number of line of which he company iventor in that appliances held patents. Besides his son three other sons: James, Jr ledo Clarence of Columbus Floyd of Niagara Falls and one daughter, Mrs. Glenna Andrus of Toledo. living here are of To- Jim Howe To Play In All-Star Tilt James Howe, stai* tackle on Bluff ton High’s 1947 football team, is in Canton this week, practicing with the Northern All-Stars for the high school all-star tilt to be played there this Friday night. Howe and a Lima South tackle are the only all star representatives from this the only school. New Feature Will Be Contest Between Two Six-Man Grid Teams Bluffton, Columbus Grove, Ada Clyde, Bellefontaine, Wayne, Upper Sandusky, Forest Here An action studded presentation, including a clash betwt man football teams in three contests between teams, will mark Bluffton’s annual football preview* at field Friday night, Sept. 10. Two Six-Man Teams Six-man football provides a wide open, high-scoring type game, stress ing fundamental Wayne have Ohio’s finest proximately nation have popularity of the game continues to increase. Rolling Clang Of Grade School Bell To Be Stilled This Fall After 72 Years area, and the local boy is selection from a Class ir, Neil Schmidt, ace Bluff prominent in the all-star ton back classic, was the first Class player ever to qualify for the all-star squad. EIGHT TEAMS IN FOOTBALL PREVIEW HERE ON SEPT. 10 and Clyde and two of Northwestern teams. At present ap 2,300 schools in the six-man teams, and Of the eight teams appearing in this fall’s preview, Ada, Columbus Grove, Forest and Bluffton will be holdovers from last year. Sponsored by the Bluffton board of education, proceeds will be turned over to the mittee for purposes. Bluffton Recreation com community recreation of the preview will be Manager Richard Lowry, new Bluffton High coach with Roger Howe serving as Bluffton Band Mothers the assistant. will operate the concessions for benefit of the high school band. Funeral Held For Former Resident Miss Larkie Quaintance, 82, former Bluffton resident, died at McVey convalescent home in Sycamore last Wednesday night. The family lived here about 45 years ago. Funeral services were held at the Bringman funeral home in Upper Sandusky, Saturday afternoon fol lowed by burial in Oak Hill cemetery at that place. Surviving is one brother Walter Quaintance of Upper Sandusky. Home After Two Years In India Mist Mary Elizabeth Amstutz, Bluffton college graduate, has re turned to her home in Pandora after spending two years in India where she the was engaged in relief work under Mennonite Central committee. Real Estate Deal Augsburger of the Fett has purchased the Mor Lawn and expects to occupy the apartments ton Riegle property on North avenue place sshortly. Mrs. Riegle and son Robert va cated the house Tuesday, moving to Patuxent River, Maryland to join Mr. Riegle who is employed there as a civilian at the naval air station. Riegle who was in naval service dur ing the last war was stationed at that place. The family lived here for two years during w’hich time he was employed in the engineering de partment of the Triplett company. Riegle and Sell Will Be Removed Because Of Unsafe Conditions In Belfry Plans To Remove Bell Bring Expression of Regrets From Community Residents Bluffton's ancient grade school bell, which has rolled its sonorous clamor across the town for three-quarters of a century, will not be rung to mark the beginning of morning and afternoon class sessions this fall, thereby ending a custom observed since the school was built in 1876. At a meeting Friday night, mem bers of the board of education took action to have the bell re the belfry, after it had that the installation no safe. InSTAl Th addition to 11-man second Harmon On the preview program this year there will be four 16 minute games, as follows: Clyde vs Wayne Ada vs Columbus Grove Bellefontaine vs Upper Sandusky Forest vs Bluffton The Clyde-Wayne six-man football tilt will add a new7 turn to preview competition, for no teams in this immediate area hatfe been engaging in that type of play. moved from been found longer was the bell re It is planned to have moved before the opening of school, and the board is offering the big iron bell free to anyone who will take it down without damage to the build ing. was ring aid the frorr iron frame bell is sus se from its pended ii moorings An ins finned the report, the body said extensive repairs would have been necessary to shore belfry with necessary supports tw’o-ton bell. Cost of the they added w’ould have been proportions to any benefits accruing. board con members of up the for the repairs out of As far as is known, the bell has hung in the belfry ever since the school was built in the 1870’s, and except for routine repairs and main tenance the bell and belfry have stood through the years substantially as originally placed. Day the bell is to expressions of Served Its Announcement that be removed brought regret from many residents to whom its ringing had come to be a part of community life. Board members pointed out this week that a purpose paratively method of Now with clocks and watches plenti ful and radio giving a check on correct time the a bell is past, they say. the bell originally served when clocks were com rare, and there was no maintaining correct time. constant need for gong will An electrically operated be placed outside the building to summon children from the play ground w’hen school sessions convene at morning, noon and at the of recess. close Named Assistant Hospital Head Here Miss Elnora Basinger of Pandora has been appointed assistant superin tendent of Bluffton hospital, it was announced by Miss Sylvia Bieder man, Wednesday. Miss Basinger was graduated from the Ohio State university school of nursing in March been connected with the here since last spring. hospital and has hospital Graveside Services For Charles Sweet Services at Maple Grove cemetery were held Wednsday morning for Charles Sweet, 85-year-old Bluffton resident who died Sunday in the Allen county home hospital. Rev. Martz Snyder of Lima officiated. Sweet, a long time Bluffton resi dent was admitted to the home in 1947. He was born in Richland township April 16, 1363. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Perry Knox and Mrs. Guy Knox, both of Celina. Bluffton Man To Be Grand Rapids Coach Dale Reichenbach, high school coach for basketball, football and track at Wayne, the past year has resigned to accept a coaching posi tion in the high school at Grand Rapids, Ohio. He will have charge of basketball and baseball. Clyde Ream Hurt In Fctfl At Son's Home Clyde Ream, 63, of Ne1 former resident of Bluffton, a deep gash in his face wht while helping his son, carpenter work at the here. differed he fell Donald, with latter’s home the He was treated at Community hospital, turned to his home at Ne’ Blufftor later re Stark. I THE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY’ BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AU( BOARD AS ON ONE MILL TAX FOR COUNTY FAIR Want Proposal For Levy to Run For Five Years on November Ballot Measure Will Require Only Majority Vote to Become Effective A resolution requesting the county commissioners to place a proposal a one-mill tax levy for five November ballot was years on the approved by the Allen County cultural society in Delphos Wednesday evening. President Renner and secretary Paul will present the resolution commissioners. This action is the first vote option i a the societ 109-acre' Hi on the Allentown-road we complete project The a modern center and a fieldhouse stock shows and athletic proval of th majority vote, as in the pas agricultural commute A by Dale Archer. Assist) Walter Burgett, Delphos of Grange publicity Herl county extension agent, of 4-H club: of Delphos corporation Ted Rupert, corporation, and Arthur Lima. 12, 1948 VOTE Oscar Long, o thwe charge Dr. F. A. Young, city Silas Diller, Bluffton Spencerville Selma Suter Sommer Succumbs In Iowa Mrs. Selma Suter Sommer, 63, Pandora native and graduate of Bluffton college |n the class of 1916, died unexpectedly of ’I l*eart attack in the University hospital at Iowa City, Iowa, last Wednesday. Wash in the tests aronary Mrs. Sommer, who lived in ington, Iowa, was a patient hospital undergoing allergy when she was stricken with co occulsion and died almost instantly. She was born in Pandora, May 27, 1885, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Suter and was a student in Bluffton college in the early days of the institution. She w-as a member of Grace Mennonite church, Pandora. She was married September 22, 1916 to Chris Sommer of Wayland, Iowa who died in 1924. She was an instructor in the Way land, Iowa, high 1936 when she asthma. to of school from 1926 retired because of of two sons Otto Surviving are North Newton, Kansas, and Irvin Alameda, Calif., and a daughter Mrs. Dora Dettweiler of Washington, Iowa, together with six grandchild ren. Brothers surviving are: Edwin of Lima Gilbert of Pandora Peter, Arlington and Otto, Crawfordsville, Iowa. Surviving sisters are Miss Martha 'Suter, Mrs. Della Amstutz and Mrs. Hulda Schumacher, all of Pandora. Funeral services were held at Washington, Iowa, Sunday afternoon with burial at Wayland, Iowa. Among those attending the funeral w-ere Miss Martha Suter, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Suter and Mr. and Mrs. James Suter all of Pandora and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Suter of Arlington. Orange Twp. Native Dies in Home At Ada Funeral services were held in Ada Friday for Mrs. Dora May Bauman, 84, a native of Orange township, who died last Wednesday at the home of a son in Ada. A daughter of Hiram and Eliza beth (McKelvey) Thompson, she was born in Orange township, 1864. She was married to Bauman on Feb. 6, 1883. in 1918. Burial was near April 16, Frank L. He died Ada. Crowds Throng Shops On Dollar Days Here Bluffton's first Dollar Days sale since the close of World War 11 at tracted throngs of shoppers here Friday and Saturday to take advant age of the unusual money-saving op portunities offered in diversified lines. Merchants who cooperated in spon soring the Dollar Days were enthusi astic regarding success of the pro ject, and similar merchandising events are being planned for the future. Heavenly Sh ow Of Shooting Stars Visible throughout all of n hemispl The meteors usually are about 40 50 miles from the earth, but in smuch as they are about the size of to o Editor’s Note—This of a series of articles to in the Bluffton News with early Ohio history, will appear in issues. settlements, antedating seat, was Caesarsville, on the creek bank near where the Wilmingtow Xenia road, State Route 68, crosses. Will Reach Peak This Wednesday 1 a grain of s. be burned ot earth. They parts of the pear to come Perseus, whic come play of shooting stars will Wednesday night, in the ai put on each August by the north best view of the shooting stars is obtained after mid night. Astronomers say that as many as 50 meteors may be observed each hour if the sky is clear. is one appear dealing Others forthcoming The Story of Caesar Legends are but too often \vrong. This is the true story of Caesar’s creek, Caesarsville and of Caesar. Caesar’s creek is a pretty good stream. It flows through the south era part of Greene County and through the northwestera portion of Clinton County With an important role in the his tory of Clinton Coun ty, it enters ften into the annals of that county’s past. Greene County’s most central southern township was named for the creek and one of its earliest the county Caesar’s Legend Early histories of both Greene and Clinton counties have it that the creek was named for Caesar, a negro slave of an early surveyor, who died while on a trip with his master on its other legend published, me, too. from Caesar all right, but not in the way tradition has it. and was buried somewhere bank. The writer too, like historian: and it has related the has, been widely all were wrong— its name We The creek got Caesar was a slave, not one who died in the service of his master but an escapee from Kentucky who ran off and took up with the Indians. Learning their language, he became an interpreter. But, interpreting facts as of his own ideas instead of merely repeating what was said, he got the Indians and white men into a mess of troubles before he got through. Caesar tried to “carry water on both shoulders.’’ In Caesar’s Creek township, Greene County, lived the band of Shawnees of which the old negro was a member. Caesar’s pole shack itself was somewhere near where Thomas Carneal, in 1800, founded Caesars ville. Caesarsville, about five miles south of Xenia, was designed to be the Greene County seat but, though older and a bit larger than Xenia, it lost out in the race and eventually dwindled to nothing. Interpreter at Murder Trial Caesar was a man of note in the two counties and his fame extended much further than that. He was the negro who served as interpreter at the Indian trial and execution of the Black Chief’s son near Upper Sandusky in 1840, for the drunken murder of John Barnet, a half-breed. He then was very’ old. The young murderer’s grave, into which he fell backwards after the rifle fire, still is a sunken spot in a cornfield along the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was Caesar who, at the Indian village near Caesarsville, gave Simon Kenton the tip which saved his life when running the south of Oldtown, was had the take Chillcothe- in September, been captured Ohio River bank and was n to the large village now Oldtown. party stopped for rest r’s cabin, the old negro i that, if he could escape the Indian gauntlet council house in Old it When tl near Caes while 'running and get to the Chillicothe ahead of his pursuers, of the savages not to him run the gauntlet. was a law again make Running Gauntlet Running the gauntlet was a tor- ut befi Perseid th Mel ,ima legion, pretty stories Usually com- ing through u ord of mouth from generation to £generation, they gain a little in each telling until in the finality they wind up as pretty good yarns. Utten however, the factual tale, when it :an be unearthed, is better than the traditional one. u Improv 11 p. The Perseid meteors are left in the ormit of Tuttle's of 1862, and th show is one best of the year. The new its first quarter, should not fere with the view of the shower. Often the brilliance moon interferes with good ance. oh With The Sick Cleveland clinic hospital. 'om Ht u the Triplett Harold Ci condition Bluffton who Bluffton ho olved in an tient was cident, Jul Amstutz, wh unconscious s, is regainin s reported or brief inte .ciousness, it night. Mrs. Lou Eaton, former Bluffton resident is reported seriously ill at the Kohlmeyer invalid home in Findlay BLUFFTON MARKETS Butterfat—77c. line and for Old hundred suit. gauntlet a mih near Xenia. Tha 1778, after Kentoi by the Indians oi ?injg After Kenton h. had somewhat rec exhaustion, the bringing thing 1 able tc to the n Id A Good Place To Trade I Miss Lorena Young is a surgical| Coa* Lowry will have eight letter patient at St. Rita’s hospital, Lima.l men and 18 numeralmen. Dr. N. S. llilty ift. ^patient ini Lettermen expected back in uni Lima Memorial huspitaT^foflowfirg heart attack the first of the week. II Seniors Marquart., Dean Dr. Hilty, retired Pandora physician,! Sommer, Ray Lee Wilch. makes his home with his son, Rayl Juniors John Bauman, Cleo Dli Hilty of West Kibler street. I 1 I Wednesday Morning I Grain (bushel prices) Wheat! $2.04 corn $1.90 oats 68c sm s I $2.50. s ar^el I I When Kenton reached that part of! a boy, this Wednesday morning. the line where the Indian with the| knife stood, he broke made, with all his Chillicothe, nearly screaming Indians in pur-1 Just as he entered the town and turned towards the council house, Kenton met a blanketed Indian I Thirty-ninth annual reunion of the walking leisurely towards the gaunt-1 Black School will be held Thursday, let. being fresh pinned the There the him, kicked nearly was He threw off his blanket and I August 12. Pres., Ruth and Kenton exhausted, I Sec., Helen Pifer. captive to the ground. I The White reunion will Indian pursuers caught I Riverside park, Findlay, Sunday, and beat him until he Aug. 29. unconscioui his clothing, then v ing Kenton nearly •alked away leav dead. ad lain overed some water and some As soon as he was they took the captive house to determine his Death Sentence Kenton was sent and because of his execution was to one. He was to be taken to Wapa tomika, County, through two Indian NUMBER 17 NEW HIGH SCHOOL TAKES OVER HERE NEXT WEEK Richard Lowry, Former Findlay Assistant, Replaces Coach Kent Cotterman I Cotterman Leaves Monday For ,, I New Post at Bryan Lowry he I Has Eight Lettermen Richard ioo! O. Lowry, an assistant on ng staff at Findlay High will move to Bluff- last year, i next week to replace K man, who leaves for two successful years Charles Bucher, 14, Bluffton’s only I High school head coach, reported case of polio is improving I Cottennan, who resig! at the home of his parents Mr. and Ito accept a position as Mrs. Clair Buchex* of West Elm |and athletic director i street. The youth w] with the disease a i removed to Lima Mt July 9, was removed pital’s isolation ward nd I Cot- Bryan after as Bluffton ist June coach ryan, a ve from st Mon- Coach Lowry for all high candidates to athletic room for issue of equip ment. Juniors and seniors will report Wednesday night, Aug. 18 at sophomore Aug. 19 Lowry, i by Cotten Belle Aug: has been spital sii automobi has issued a call school football report at the Juniors and Wednesday o’clock and freshmen and Thursday night at 8 o’clock. A graduate of ate university, ,wry will come hi lary of $2,800. until children, vacated mer Mrs. Col- urger property wn avenues. Bowlini Green year-old annual Start Grid Workouts He ing fall footb missable date I ediately of plans for open I practice, in order of the first per ■orkouts on August For his 1948 Bluffton grid squad, Dwayne Hauenstein, Larry Mathewson. Sophomore—Leland Garmatter. Among the 18 numeralmen are: Seniors—Ralph Dunifon, Joe Good man, Lee Hursey. Juniors—David Basinger, Robert Bixel, Donald Burkholder, Dwight Hauenstein, Paul Purcell, Donald Schumacher, George Grismore, Eu i gene Hankish, Don Schmidt. I Poultry—Heavy hens 32c leghorn I hens 30c heavy broilers 40c leg-| horn broilers 35c. Eggs—Large white browns 51c. Sophomores Bill Augsburger, I Kenton had not run far when hel Pandora, a girl, Rebecca Jane, Fri noticed that an Indian up the linel{jay had his knife drawn, ready to plunge I Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crawford, into him. All the other savages had! Findlay, a girl, Sharon Lee, Sunday, clubs and the line was a long one.I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schmidt, Ada, The Indians were about six feet I a boy, Glen, Tuesday. apart. James Badertscher, Lynn Carmack, Paul Cramer, David Hochstettler, |john Tri ppi ehorn. ture the savages inflicted on all male captives. The prisoner was forced to run between two lines of Indians armed with clubs, whips, stones and other weapons not designed to kill I The following births at Bluffton and the savages all took a whack at I hospital: him as the prisoner ran past. The I Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cramer, faster you could run, the better you I Findlay, a girl, Sue Ann, last Wed could dodge and the more you could I nesday. endure, the better off you were. Ini Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cotner, a large band of braves the gauntlet I Findlay, a girl, Waneta Louise, Fri was pretty long and the Indians en-l(]ay joyed the toruture race immensely. I Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lehman, Births Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Hover, Lima, through the! Mr. and Mrs. Dale D. Suter, Cen spoedl terville, a girl, born at Dayton hos threel pital. Reunions Don Pres., White. tore off al will be held south of Bluffton Basket dinner furnished. Pres., Mae Huber. until he from his returned, Sec. Steinman be held at Basket dinner at noon. White Sec., Bernice annual Huber reunion at Richland grange hall Sunday, Aug. 15. noon. Coffee The 41st Sidney Huber sec., The 7th annual Burkholder reunion has been cancelled because of the polio situation. Mrs. Wilford Stein- death I The 21st reunion of the Augsbur- prominence the I ger family will be held at Riverside be an auspicious park, Findlay, Sunday, Aug. 22. Pres., Joan Augsburger Sec., Mrs. now Zanesfield, Logan I Thelma Schctter. On the way he passed I The Gromann family reunion will towns and was I be held at Jackson Grange near jed on page 4) I Arlington, Sunday, Aug. 15.