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PAGE TWO Household Electric Appliance Repairing Also Radio Servicing Electrical Supplies for House Wiring Lighting Fixtures Radios A Full Line of Fishing Tackle Mumma Electric Shop Carl Mumma 122 North Main HEYf this is private property WE KNOW IT and we want TO BE PRIVATE You do a faster, easier, 1-man job of making forage with the Massey Harris Forage Clipper and 2 speed Blower. There's no stopping to straighten out the oad. You direct material to front or rear, left or right of the wagon from your place on the tractor Beat. The Blower is roller chain MODEL C-10 10 Cu. Ft. Holds more than 350 lbs. of food. HOM BUOtl Storage dividers Stettler Reunion Held At Ada Park The seventeenth annual reunion of the Christian Stettler family was held August 7 at Ada Memorial park wim iz in Bluffton, Indiana, York, Alabama and year’s reunion will same place the first ust. ice, coi Kentucky, New Cleveland. Next be held at the Farmers’ prices milk products are crease during the year, because total passed the peak will decline season Sunday in Aug- for milk and expected to in balance of the milk output has for 1949 and iiy. IT IS THE PRIVATE OPINION of BAUMAN ELCCTRK SERVICE that you will appreciate -rneiQ efforts to please you /-x—' driven delivers constant, even ppeed. Sprockets are inter changeable to provide a suitable fan speed for light or heavy crops. There's plenty of power for green forage reduced scat tering in dry hay. Stop in the next time you're in town. We have full details. BLUFFTON FARM EQUIPMENT CO. E. F. Schmidt, Prop. MASSEY-HARRIS SALES AM) SERVICE Bluffton Phone 260-VV 105 East Elm St. tteesfrecre __ HOME FREEZER'| Serving tray Three ice cube trays «io u rin oh Other models available to fit the needs of every family. From $229.95 to $599.50 TFfc Ret.i Retail Price Delivered and Installed. THESE FEATURES For Better Eating, Better Living! Fast freeze compartment Storage baskets Lid lock Plastic breaker frame Interior lights Wai ter mire’s ^0/44 Counter-balanced lid Positive-action latch Temperature control Temperature indicator Five year operating mechanism warranty Food protection plan tyuetMif Stc^lA Annual Saddle Club Picnic Held Sunday A large crowd attended the an nual picnic of the Bluffton Saddle Horse Club on Fox hill south of town last Sunday. The program started with a basket dinner at the noon hour. A large farm wagon creaked and groaned under the weight of dozens of dishes of food. Heaping plates of fried chicken, meat loaves, salads, sandwiches and innumerable variety of cakes, pies and other tempting delicacies graced the table. The afternoon was spent in devour ing chilled watermellons, iced pop and ice cream. Games were played by the young sters and all attending enjoyed an afternoon of visiting in the shade and coolness to be found on the peak of Fox hill. Pony rides for the youngsters were top attraction and the younger set played follow the leader on ponies and riding horses. Edgar Herr shot up the place with his camera and motion pictures were and Mrs. Janette Mr Earl and Hamilton Raymond and Mrs. Mr, and Mrs. Billie. ture nd Mrs. George Frick, ie Mr. and Mrs. Earl and Kenneth Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton and Karen Mr. Roy Rogers and Jackie Edgar Herr, Ddfo and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Montgomery and Sue Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Reich enbach, Sally, Douglas, Eddie, Ralph and Mary Mr. and Mrs. Art Swank Don Caughman and Dianne Caugh man Mr, and Mrs, Howard Benroth, James, Judith ami Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown, Emily and Ni Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gallagher and Mrs. Horman Mr. and Mrs Dorothy, Stephan and Jane Mr. Mrs. Wade Bechtol and Darlene and Mrs. T. F. Hill and Jan Mi Martin Breda Mrs. Mickie Millard Herr, On Fair Program The “Pleasant Valley Boys’* will be at. the Ohio State Fair in Colum bus Saturday night, August 27, as a major attraction in WLW's “Mid western Hayride.” “The Hayride” will be presented as the grandstand feature on the opening night of the fair. "Let’s buy Ohio grown fruit, the slogan this fruit crop AUTO is Ohio year as the moves to market. Wood litter for makes the best shavings make the egg nests oats straw WE BEND BACKWARDS We have added all kinds of NEW 'SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT to oar •bap. so YOU CAN HAVE BSfcVlCS POSSIBLE. ... ,' Gen- nine Factory Parts Everything tort is BEST FOR TOUR CAR. unu... service wh a SjWWG WFDf MTM4CTKW Steiner Chevrolet Sales Phone 135-W N. Main St. Bluffton, Ohio |THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO Editor’s Note—This of a series of articles to in the Bluffton News with early Ohio history, will appear issues. Ohio durin Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Leland Frantz, Roger, Jerry and Bobbie Mrs. John Manahan, Lonelle, Patsy and Barbara Sue Em ma Manahan Roger Martin Barry Corson Mr. and Mrs. Joe Walters Forrest Herr. is one appear dealing Others in forthcoming The First Real Ohioans Because so many stories of early Ohio have an Indian angle and so frequently refer to the red men as savages and barbarians—the uncivil ized—let’s take a little one-column vacation, forsake our broad paved highways and tall skyscrapers, and go out and live with them—imagina tively, during the late 1700’s early 1800’s when all Ohio was backwoods. and the and The pill would be a bit bitter without much sugar-coat but would cure the prevailing impression that the Ohio Indians were savage heath en and the white pioneers were lt was the w for the Indians’ occupy it undis’ fired the first spear and the be Indian, preme. guns by trading pelts for them to white traders, the warfare became more even. his flint-lock gun was fu Afte the Indians procured Moravian Missionary First Settler In 1761 Christian Frederick Post, a Moravian missionary, built the first whiteman’s log house in Tuscarawas County, land and remained Post liked the In ly thus got into his church. celibate, he mar’ied too of'-m and th* wrong kind J’ women. He first married on Indian squaw named The Indians during the there treat? When the first boatload of settlers nosed in at Marietta, April 7, 1788, Chief “Captain Pipes” and nearly one hundred of his tribe greeted them with a friendly welcome. Later, after discovering their hostili ty, he became one of the whites’ most bloodthirsty enemies. At Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County, nearly 100 doomed Indians spent the night of March 7, 1782, prayer while their 200 white volun teer militia captors got beastly drunk and reveled. Next morning they massacred 96 of the unarmed Indians in a body. Logan, later chief of the Mingoes, a gangster-tribe composed of the worst Indians of all nations, was a devout friend of the whites until 1774 when all his relatives, including women and children, were killed by soldiers of Colonel Cresap. Chief Killed Old Cornstock, noble and powerful Shawoeness chief, was shot down from ambush on the street at Point Pleasant in 1777, where ho had gone to try to make peace with the whites. There is the substantiated story of the two surveyors who, without food for four days, came to the cabin of an Indian family in Northern Ohio. The Indian’s father had been killed by the whites and one of the sur veyor’s relatives had been killed in a battle with the Indians. The Indian willingly gave them all the food the family had—two rabbits and a small piece of venison. Among the Indians, the white renegades Elliott, the two Girtys and Chief Blue Jacket, captured when 12 and later elevated to a chief, were the most malicious enemies of the white settlers and were responsible for the death of many. Nearly all Ohio Indians were farmers and hunters, living in log or pole cabins equal to those built by the whites and surrounded by their fields of corn and pumpkins, and in the hundreds of small Indian villages which dotted the state. They fertiliz ed their corn by putting a small fish or minnow into each hill with the seed grain. From it they made meal with pestle and morter and baked johnny-cake on stone hearths just like the whites. Indian Villages Their cabins lined either side of the village skin hung door and a smoke out. the center was no furniture but the skins on which they slept and the big brass kettles, sometimes holding five gal lons, which they had obtained from traders. streets and had a deer over the opening for a hole in the top to let the The fire was exactly in of the house and there The men did the hunting and loaf ing and the women worked in the fields or carried in and prepared the game. Incidentally, it sounds queer to the white people but in all except the Shawoenese, Indian genealogy descended through the female, who was head of the family. Among the Shawoenese the male genealogy pre vailed. Indians were monogamists, with regularly prescribed marriage rites and provisions for divorce. Their language, other than that of the Iroquois, was limpid, musical and Iroquois was gutteral easily learned. and somewhat harsh. rography was a sort fewer Indi' any Against the .rrow of the he g-hou: to Rachel aitd when she died in 1747, married another named Agnes. In 1851 he married a white woman. Indian chi of picture writing with chalk, coals or clay, on bark. It was much simpler than that of the Chinese, which also originated from a series of pictures. In the Indian villages were coun cil houses and larger cabins which were places of worship. To the Great Spirit they were devout and had a great respect for the White Father at Washington, head of the Thirteen Fires—in which the average white settler did not share. Execu tions did not take place without trial and murder quickly was punished— as was stealing and other against society. Their songs and dances customs, no adults ever w and war paint was but the uniform—just today and the crimes green of of red a count Ohio's Progress Shown At Fair DIRECTOR A. W. MARION The 1949 Ohio State Fair August 27 through September 2 in Colum bus will be the show-window of another year's advances along many lines, predicts Director A. W. Marion of the Ohio Department of Agri culture. “Instituted and organized in 1850 to encourage the development of agriculture and industry, successive State Fairs have marked the mile stones and mirrored Ohio’s advance ment up the broad highway of prog ress,” Director Marion says. “Nowhere on the face of the earth is there a comparable land area that even approaches Ohio in the total agricultural and industrial wealth produced. It is only natural, there fore, that the Ohio State Fair has become one of the world’s great ex positions.” Bike Derby Fair Feature The All-Americn Newspaper Boys' Bicycle Derby will be held at the Ohio State Fair all day Sunday, August 28, as a feature of “Press Day.’’ Forty-seven U. S. papers, in cluding one from Puerto Rico, will have entries. Admission Set For Fair Admission to this year’s Ohic State Fair opening August 27 ir. Columbus will be 50 cents plus tax, according to Managei H. S Foust. Children under -12 will lx admitted free August is the month for clean ing out hog pens and spraying or dusting with DDT for flea control. FEDERAL LAND BANK LOANS i IN Allen, MewJr, I a(ieCb unties 4% t? 33 Years Fees or Commissions Loans made to buy land, pay debts, buy livestock, machinery, re pay any or all at any time. make improvements, Mercer-Wapak NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION A. W. KOENIG Secretary and Treasurer Younger Bldg. N. Main St. Celina, Ohio, Phone 1199 Wapa Theatre Bldg., 3rd Floor Wapakoneta, Ohio. Phone 9361 1106 Cook Tower Lima, Ohio. Phone 40791 Riding through town in an open surrey reminiscent of the gay nine ties was one of the highlights of the golden wedding anniversary cel ebration of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hahn of West Elm street, Sunday. The innovation, unannounced, came during the afternoon open house attended by some 300 guests as Elmer Fett, residing east of Bluff ton, attired in livery and driving a spanking team of palominos drew up in front of the house of the couple. Accompanying them was Mrs. E. W. Johnson, Crookston, Minn., cous in of Mrs. Hahn attired in a gold and black satin and lace costume, a family heirloom. Other highlights of the day includ ed morning service at the First Methodist church dedicated to the couple after which women of the church served dinner to thirty mem bers of the family. Surrey Ride Reminiscent Of Fifty Years Ago Marks Golden Wedding Celebration of the afternoon A feature opped by cort: Wav 12 CORGCOUS COLORS cake photograph of the ust on FLATLUX BtfO. A N V S (1 L.b Make your kitchen modern land I Mite attractive with gleaming 4 Y oungstown equipment. kitchen1 AT LOW COST THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1949 ent is employed by the Steinman Bros. Lumber Co. They have three sons, William, Lima Lester, Bluffton and Howard, Findlay, and two daughters Mrs. Glen Eichelberger, Toledo, Bnd Mrs. Nelson Steiner, Bluffton. There are also 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. The couple are enjoying good health and are active in church and community affairs. They expressed appreciation to all who assisted in making the event a success. Family Reunion The Tschiegg family held a picnic dinner at the Eli Garmatter home on Sunday. It was the first time the entire family was together in eight years. 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