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Winter Recreation
Program
In Monday night cage play, the
Midgets conquered the Tailenders by
a score of 73 to 29, after leading
at halftime 35 to 9.
For the other game scheduled on
the evening’s card, the Cornhuskers
failed to have enough on hand to
play against the Rockets.
Next Monday, the Rockets will
play the Tailenders and the Midgets
will meet the Cornhuskers, with
Herb Kindle gunning to get enough
of his Cornhuskers team out to start
league play. First game will start
at 7:30 p. m., and the second tilt
will get under way at 8:30 p. m.
In the Midget-Tailender clash
Monday, Moore and Zuercher set
the scoring pace for the victors with
24 and 21 points respectively. Oth
ers in the lineup included: Dwayne
Amstutz, 11 Irv Fisher, 7 Kirt
land, 6 Earl Frick, 4.
For the Tailenders scoring was:
Roger Bell, 14 Burkholder, 7 Herr,
6 John Herrmann, 2 Jim Herr
mann, Carl Frick and Clyde Fisher,
0.
No league games will be played on
Monday, Dec. 27, with competition
being resumed on Monday, Jan. 3.
Saturday morning play for grade
school pupils will be held this week,
with the Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 per
iods, falling during school vacation,
being suspended, according to Coach
Lowry. Play will be resumed on
Saturday, January 8.
Union Choir To Sing
Messiah At Pandora
“The Messiah” will be presented
at the Grace Mennonite church,
Pandora, Sunday night at 7:30
o’clock by a union choir of Pandora
churches.
Co-directors will be Russe1! A.
Lantz and Earl Lehman with Mrs.
Pearl Bogart Mann at the piano
and Miss Eulalia Steiner at the or
gan.
Soloists are: soprano, Mrs. Chris
tine Habegger Purves, Berne, Ind.
contralto, Mrs. Catherine Welty,
Lima tenor, Dale Marshall, Lima
bass, Walter Treadway, Bluffton.
For the elght-month period ending
September 1, farm cost rates rose
14 per cent over the same period a
year ago, compared to a 7 per cent
increase in prices received. Farm
wages were up about six per cent,
fertilizers 10 per cent, and farm
machinery 14 per cent up from one
year earlier.
•I.g U.S. Pot. Off,
$69.50
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Rites In Toledo For
Samuel Welty, Jr,
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon in the Ira Gamer
funeral home, Toledo, for Samuel J.
Welty, Jr., 50, a former Bluffton
resident, who died unexpectedly at
his Toledo residence Saturday morn
ing.
Welty had lived in Toledo for 25
years, and was a substation operat
or for the Toledo Edison Co. at the
time of his death.
Survivors include his wife, Vera
a son James, of Columbus, Ohio
his mother, Mrs. Cecelia Welty,
Bluffton five brothers, Fred and
Cleo Welty, both of Bluffton Ethrin
Welty, Gilboa Edward Welty, Plain
City and Oliver Welty, Columbus
Grove and eight sisters, Mrs. Dave
Reichenbach, Mrs. Harry Tripple
horn, Mrs. Monroe Amstutz, Mrs.
Edith Burkholder, Mrs. Emory Ben
roth and Miss Cecil Welty, all of
Bluffton and Mrs. Tersis Good and
Mrs. Bertha Althaus, both of Ash
land.
Burial was in Toledo.
True Tales About Ohio
'(Concluded from page 1)
Amos Ogden, a New Jersey Indian
trader, and a heavily armed band in
possession of Wyoming.
Then the hand to hand war was
on. There were arrests, repeated oc
cupations of the land by each side,
then in an attack by Ogden one Con
necticut man was killed and several
were wounded.
It was a family matter—-the family
of William Penn was impoverished
and kept trying to recover the lands.
Definitely repulsed and after his
surrender, Ogden again was sent by
the Penns to break up the settlement
and in September, 1770, another
battle occurred in which several Con
necticut men were killed, many
prisoners taken and the survivors
fled to Connecticut,
More War
The next spring they were back,
with Colonel Butler in command and
war began in earnest. Ogden was
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—Fred Waring
Merry Christmas—Bing Crosby
Merry Christmas—Ray Block &
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Christmas Carols—
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Christmas At The Organ
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Beloved Church Solos—Bibletone
The Lord’s Prayer—Bibletone
The Messiah—Bibletone
Elijah—Biblet one
The Bible Speaks—Bibletone
Christian Science Hymns—
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David and Goliath
Bugs Bunny
Goldilocks And The Three Bears
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Songs of Safety
Beethoven For Young People
Alphabet From A to Z
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Snow White And The Seven
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1812 Overture—Tschaikovsky
Chopin Waltzes—Jacques Abram
Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor
Mozart String Quartet in E. Flat
Minor No. 11
Ravel—Piano Concerto for Left
Hand Alone
Tschaikowsky No. 4 in Minor
Op 36
In A Persian Market—Kefelbey
Clair De Lune—J. Iturbi
Liebestraum—J. Iturbi
Toccato—Shura Cherkassky
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All I Want For Xmas Is My Two
Front Teeth
Twelfth Street Rag
Cornbelt Symphony
Lavender Blue
The Whistler and His Dog
Buttons and Bows
Fiddle Faddle
The Money Song
On A Slow Boat To China
And Hundreds Of Other Titles
Any record you want can be
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Hahn's Music
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Open Wednesday and Saturday
Night Till Christmas
defeated, nine of his men killed, and
there were four years of peace.
In January, 1774, Wyoming was
included in Westmoreland County.
Pennsylvania, and became a town—
Wilkes-Barre. There now were 6,000
persons there.
In 1775 the Penns had 700 men,
with a field piece or two, attacked
the Connecticut settlers but after a
stiff battle Colonel Butler routed
them. The settlers meantime incurred
the enmity of the Tories by expelling
some 40 of the British sympathizers
from the settlement.
Enmity against the Wyoming set
tlers centered in the Penn family
Sir William Johnson, British boss of
the hired Indian allies his paramour,
Mollie Brant, sister of Joseph Brant,
head of the Six Nations Brant him
self Col John “Indian” Butler, a
relative of Zebulon Butler and the
colorful half-breed, “Queen Esther,”
Catherine Montour, daughter of a
French governor of Canada, widow
of an Indian chief and a seeress
among the savages. William John
son died and Sir John Johnson, a
relative, assumed his share of the
quarrel.
4th July Massacre
On the Fouth of July, 1778, came
the attack, battle and then the mas
sacre. Led by “Indian” Butler and
Queen Esther, 1,200 Indians, British,
Tories and renegades battled the 300
Connecticut settlers—all the males
left in it after the others had joined
the army—and the extermination be
gan.
The attackers were wild. Persons
were tomahawked right and left.
Some fled and swam the river.
Others were shot from the shore or
tomahawked in the water. A few,
promised quarter, were tomahawked
as they climbed the bank. In the
battle 160 old men and boys were
killed and 140 escaped, most of them
to later be captured and killed. One
Tory killed his own brother.
Men’s thigh bones were broken to
keep them from escape and others
were thrown on piles of blazing logs
and held down with pitchforks until
roasted alive. Sixteen were forced
to kneel around what still is called
“the bloody rock” and Queen Esther,
singing a wild Indian song, danced
around the circle tomahawking each
one in turn.
When night fell the savages strip
ped the remaining captives, drove
them back and forth through the
flames and then thrust them into the
embers with spears. Nearly 300 were
killed and more than 150 widows and
600 orphans left. Up and down the
valley the Indians swept, burning
every cabin they found.
Then came the 60-mile trek of the
survivors to Stroudsburg, then on to
Pittsburgh and, after the tract was
reserved, into the Ohio Fire Lands.
The Connecticut Western Reserve at
first extended from the Delaware
River, across Ohio and Indiana and,
Connecticut believed, “to the Pacific
Ocean.”
Such is the tragic story behind
Ohio’s 500,000-acre Fire Lands.
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