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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
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You do a faster, easier, 1-man
job of making forage with the
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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
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that you will appreciate
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efforts
to please you
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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.
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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
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Ohio
year as the
moves to market.
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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:
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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.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Tschiegg, Mr. and Mrs. Al
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