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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Trade
VOLUME LXXIV
Windows of Myrel Gossard’s
Place North of Bluffton
Are Smashed
Truck Overturns in Crash:
Damage in Accident Esti
mated at $1,200
A Lima Packing Co. meat delivery
truck made its regular stop at the
Myrel Gossard general store, one
mile north of Bluffton on the Dixie
highway, in spectacular fashion at
6:30 a. m. Monday morning by
crashing into the front of the build
ing and causing aggregate damages
estimated at $1,200.
Skidding into the store porch, the
truck overturned, breaking a large
plate glass window and demolishing
the door at the front entrance.
Damages to the truck were estimated
at $700, and repair of the store will
cost about $500.
Richard W. Schulz, the driver, ot
Lima, said that brakes of the truck
locked as he attempted to make the
stop, causing the vehicle to skid
into the building. He had to break
the glass in a jammed door on the
overturned truck in order to get out
of the wreckage.
The truck was making a regular
stop at the store to make a meat
delivery. No one was on duty at
the establishment, for the store had
not yet opened for the day’s business
at the time the mishap occurred.
Escapes From Wreckage
After escaping from the cab of
the truck, Schulz came into Bluffton
to telephone for another vehicle to
nick up his cargo. Driver of a
Plezol bread truck who came along
35 minutes later, awakened Gossard,
who lives nearby, to notify him of
the crash.
Meat, oysters and other food were
scattered around the wrecked truck.
Later in the morning when the
truck was righted and taken away
by a wrecker, the Bluffton fire de
partment was called to stand by ar
the scene. Gasoline from th ewreck
ed truck had soaked into the ground,
and th'' fire truck was summoned to
be on hand in case of fire. Services
of the firemen were not needed.
An investigation of the accident
was made by the state highway
patrol.
Crash Victims Still
In Findlay Hospital
Four Wayne county residents in
jured a week ago in an auto-truck
collision are still in Findlay hospital
where they will remain for an in
definite time.
They are Mrs. Zelda Hoover, 48,
of Rittman, mother of Mrs. Morris
Triplett of Bluffton Mrs. Pearl
Clippinger, 55, and Ora Lance, 35,
both of Rittman, aunt and uncle of
Mrs. Triplett and Elmer Smith, 31,
of Doylestown.
They were injured when their
auto was involved in a collision with
a pickup truck driven by Lawrence
Haley of Rawson. The Wayne coun
ty party was enroute here for a
day’s hunting and visit at the Trip
lett home. A fifth member of the
group, Lloyd Hoover, father of Mrs.
Triplett was not hurt.
Lance, whose condition is the most
serious, has undergone several oper
ations for internal injuries. Smith
is suffering from complicatons and
possible internal injuries. Mrs. Clip
pinger, who sustained leg fractures
is reported in satisfactory condition
and Mrs. Hoover with fractured
pelvis and other injuries will prob
ably be removed next month to a
hospital nearer her home.
Chalk Talk At Youth
For Christ Meeting
Rev. Ken Cumings, representative
for Youth For Christ International
in the Great Lakes Region, will be
the speaker at a Bluffton-Pandora
Youth For Christ rally at 8 p. m.
this Saturday in the Pandora High
school auditorium.
Rev. Cumings will report on in
ternational activities of the Youth
For Christ movement. Activity of
the organization now is under way
inu.46 different countries.
In addition to speaking, Rev. Cum
ings will sing a program of the old
gospel songs. As an added feature,
Wanda Cumings, chalk artist, will
give a religious chalk talk. Colored
lighting and black lighting also will
be used in the art portion of the
program.
Arrangements for the program
were made under the direction of
Karl Gierman, local Youth For
Christ director.
Delivery Truck Wrecks GflRfl ,N EEDERAL
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Front of Country Store
Bluffton Couple Wed
63 Years On Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Geiger,
living south of Bluffton on the
Dixie highway will observe their
63rd wedding anniversary, Fri
day.
The couple were married at
the home of Mr. and Mr® John
Moser near Dalton, Wayne
county, parents of Mrs. Geiger.
Rev. Christian Sommer, pioneer
Mennonite pastor at that place
officiated.
They have the three children
living—a daughter, Miss Martha
Geiger at home and two sons
Allen of Orrville and Harry of
Lima.
QUIET OBSERVANCE
OF THANKSGIVING
IN PROSPECT HERE
Union Thanksgiving Service At
St. John’s Reformed Church
Thursday Morning
Traditional Family Dinner Will
Be Highlight of Holiday
For Most Families
With interest focused on the
traditional family dinner at noon,
Bluffton’s obgervance of Thanksgiv
ing this Thursday will be a quiet
one, in keeping with the age-revered
custom of family gatherings amid a
general cessation of business and
industrial activity.
Public observance of the holiday
will be centered in a union Thanks
giving church service at 9:30 a. m.
in the St. John’s Reformed church,
under auspices of the Bluffton
Ministerial association.
Speaker at the Thanksgiving serv
ice will be Rev. Merrill Boggs,
pastor of the Bluffton Church of
Christ. Special musical features al
so will be presented.
Offei ing at the morning service
will be sent to the Christian Rural
ersu
is Program (CROP), which
ollcels
whole grain crops in this
country and transports them to
needy’ areas throughout the world
for processing and distribution. Last
year’s offering, $63.25 was also sent
to CROP.
Business Suspended
Bluffton business establishments
and industries will suspend opera
tions for the holiday, and there will
be no mail delivery on town or rural
routes. Windows at the post office
also will be closed, but outgoing
mail will be made up and dispatched
as usual.
Bluffton public schools and Bluff
ton college will be closed for a
Thanksgiving weekend vacation,
beginning with the end of regular
classroom schedules on Wednesday.
Classes will reconvene next Monday
morning. The library will be closed
on Thanksgiving day only.
Weekend vacations over the
Thanksgiving holiday season have
been customary in the past for
Bluffton grade and high school, but
this is the first year the college
classes have been dimissed for mote
than one day.
Bible Conference
At Pandora Church
A Fall Bible Conference opening
next Tuesday at the Pandora St.
John Mennonite church will be ad
dressed by Rev. H. P. Fast, pastor
of the Saron Mennonite church at
Orienta, Okla.
Services will be held beginning at
7:30 p. m. every night except Sat
urday through Thursday, Dec. 4, in
the conference. Theme of the series
of Bible meetings will be “God’s
Plan of Redemption.”
Richard Lewis Heads
Masonic Lodge Here
Richard C. Lewis has been elected
new master of Bluffton Masonic
lodge, and will be installed at a
meeting early in December.
Other new Masonic officers in
clude Kent Amstutz, senior warden
Robert Ewing, junior warden Evan
Basinger, treasurer Ralph Stearns,
secretary Charles Steiner, senior
deacon Carl Marshall, junior dea
con Oscar Wenger, tyler, and Ed
gar Cook, trustee.
paroled, report
Violator of Peace-time Draft
Law Expected to be Out
December 6
Will be Connected with Dairy
Co-op Near Detroit is
Present Plan
Larry Gara, former Bluffton col
lege history instructor who is serv
ing a sentence in the federal peni
tentiary at Milan, Mich., for viola
tion of the peace time draft law is
expected to be paroled December €.
it was learned here this week.
Gara was convicted in the Federal
District court at Toledo of advising
a student to refuse to register for
the draft and received an 18 months
prison sentence.
Prisoners are eligible for parole
after serving one-third of their
sentence and Gara has served seven
months.
No Connection With Appeal
His parole has no connection with
his case which is now before the
U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
at Cincinnati on which no decision
has been handed down.
Following his release on parole,
Gara expects to join his wife here.
Later the couple will go to Wyan
dotte, Mich., a Detroit suburb where
he will be connected with a dairy
co-op. Future plans of the couple
disclosed their intention to go post
graduate work at the University of
Wisconsin.
NEW OUTLET FOR
STORM SEWERS IS
BEING LAID HERE
New Lines Will Serve Spring
Franklin and Vine Street
Sewer Network
Half of Work Completed On
Two-Block Program: Work
Will End In Next Week
Installation of two blocks of new
storm sewers is underway in the
Spring street section at Franklin
and Vine streets by Roy Miller and
Son, Findlay sewer contractors,
successful bidders on the $1,963
project.
Excavation and laying of a new
18-rnch concrete sewer main already
has been completed from Franklin
street to Little Riley .creek, and
work has been started north on
Spring street by the Findlay con
tractors.
Construction of the new sewer
outlet is aimed at helping to relieve
flood conditions over a 12-block area.
A total of 680 feet of new sewers
will be laid, and two manholes and
one headwall will be constructed.
Replace Outlet
As one part of the program the
existing outlet for the Franklin
street, Spring street and Vine street
sewers was replaced from Spring
street to Little Riley creek by lay
ing the new 18-inch sewer pipe.
This is expected to help relieve
water congestion occasioned at the
point where Franklin and Spring
street sewers make a junction.
In addition to construction of the
new outlet, the sewer program calls
for laying of 350 feet of new sewer
on Spring street north from Frank
lin street, to intercept with the main
storm sewer coming down Vine
street toward the creek.
Larger sewer on Spring street will
help relieve water congestion backing
up in the Vine street sewer all the
way to Main street, and also effect
ing interceptors along the route.
New Sewers Needed
Eventually new sewers will be re
quired all the way to Main street, on
both Vine and Franklin streets, but
sufficient funds are not available to
complete the entire project this year.
Last year .the village constructed
two blocks of new sewer on Cherry
street from Mound street to Big
Riley creek, replacing one of the
oldest sewers in the town.
Real Estate Deal
Don Eddy who recently purchased
the Ralph Patterson property on
Riley street is now occupying the
place. The deal was handled by
Mrs. H. W. Althaus. Patterson is
living in the former Mrs. Elizabeth
Diller property on North Jackson
street which he purchased last sum
mer.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1919
■rpOR the Lord, thy God bringeth thee
into a good land wherein thou
shall eat bread without scarceness,
thou shalt not lack anything in it
When thou hast eaten and art full, then
thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the
good land which he hath given thee
Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy
God, in not keeping his commandments
and his statutes
With the thermometer falling
Tuesday morning to a mark of 15
degrees, low for the season, win
ter’s advance guard finally broke
the spell of unusually warm weather
which had prevailed all fall in the
Bluffton area. 3
Early winter’s first severe on
slaught represented by the cold
weather of this week followed by
only 10 days a period of unusual
weather in which temperatures
soared to the high seventies and new
HIGH SCHOOL WILL
OPEN FARM COURSE
FOR SERVICE MEN
Night Classes in Agriculture
Will Start on Monday
December 5
Ralph Marshall, Formerly of
Rockport Named As
Instructor
Night courses to provide training
in agriculture for ex-service men
will open in Bluffton high school
Monday, December 5, it was an
nounced this week by Supt. of
Schools Aaron B. Murray.
Murray said that provision is be
ing made for a class of 20, and En
rollment for more than half of that
number has already been received.
Other eligible applicants desiring to
take the course should contact the
high school office at once, he stated.
Ralph Marshall, formerly of Rock
port, will be instructor in the course.
Marshall, a graduate of the college
of agriculture of Ohio State uni
versity has been for several years
manager of a large farm near Done
rail, Kentucky.
Moving to Rockport
He is in Columbus this week con
ferring with agricultural authorities
in regard to openng the course here.
He and his family will move early
next month from Kentucky to the
farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Marshall of near Rockport.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall are
living near Alger where they oper
ate, a large farm.
The veterans course will be con
ducted in the high school agricul
ture department which has sufficient
equipment and facilities for such in
struction, Superintendent Murray
said.
Texas is the largest wool produc
ing state in the United States.
Winter Finally Makes Belated
Debut As Mercury Hits 15 Here
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High School Is Voted Back Into
Membership In Athletic League
November records were established.
After reaching the low of 15 de
grees early Tuesday morning, cold
weather continued throughout the
day and temperatures never climbed
above the freezing mark, nipping
the cars and noses of those who had
to go outside.
Most motorists were prepared for
the advent of winter, with inclement
weather which came the latter part
of last week giving plenty of advance
warning that a cold wave was on
the wav.
Not Have
Be Thankful—You’ll
To Mix Oleo After December 7
Bluffton housewives together with
all others throughout the state will
have a special reason to be thank
ful this year—manufacture and sale
of colored oleomargarine can start
in Ohio at 12:01 A. M., December 8,
it was announced by Secretary of
State Charles F. Sweeney, Tuesday.
The announcement came after he
certified the official vote removing
the 62-year old ban and the state
canvassing board reviewed and ap
proved an official vote in the last
election.
Show Former Local
Man's Film Here
A sound film “The Other Side of
the Fence,” by Dr. William Al
brecht, head of the department of
soil of the University of Missouri,
will be shown in the First Mennon
ite church this Wednesday nigl^t at
8 o’clock.
The film points out relation be
tween soil and foods and the dan
gers in exploiting the soil.
Dr. Albrecht, a Bluffton college
graduate is a nationally known au
thority on soils and consultant on
soil improvement.
Firemen Called As
Rear Porch Burns
Bluffton fire department was called
after the rear porch at the A. L.
Baumgartner residence on South
Main street was discovered on fire
Saturday morning just before noon.
The blaze is said to have originated
from sparks in a wastebasket on
the porch. Damage was estimated
at $200, Chief Corson said.
With The Sick
Mrs. C. H. Smith, who has been
a patient in Harding Memorial san
itarium at Worthington has returned
to her home on Campus Drive.
Mrs. Emma Amstutz, a surgical
patient at Bluffton hospital since
last Friday, was removed to her
home on the County line road, Mon
day.
When planning a windbreak,
determine the direction of prevailing
winds.
I V'
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full,
and hast built goodly houses, and dwell
therein And when thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multi
plied
Then thine heart be lifted up and thou
forget the Lord thy, God which brought
thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from
the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy—8 :7-14
ACTION TAKEN BY
LEAGUE OFFICIALS
MEETING IN LIMA
Reinstatement in Western Buck
eye League Closes
Controversy
Application for Readmission
Gets Unanimous Affirmative
Vote
Bluffton High school once again
officially is a member of the West
ern Buckeye league, finally bringing
to conclusion an unusual fall series
of events including resignation from
the athletic loop, reconsideration by
school officials three weeks later, re
application for membership and the
formal vote on re-admission by other
league members.
The “out-and-in-again” policy per
taining to membership, however,
never got so far as to affect league
play, for Bluffton had intended to
complete this year’s WBL football
and cage schedules.
Except for the official vote re
quired at the November league meet
ing, held last Wednesday at the Lima
Y. M. C. A., Bluffton’s resignation
from the league lasted only from
Sept. 13 when it was presented un
til October 3 when the school’s ath
letic board decided to apply for re
admission.
Wei.comEd Member
Representatives of other league
schools voiced pleasure at the pros
pect of having Bluffton remain as a
member, but the matter could not
be officially decided until at last
week’s regular loop meeting.
Bluffton’s desire to return to full
status in the league was one of the
first items of business at last Wed
nesday’s session, and the Pirates
were re-admitted by affirmative vote.
All league school were represented
at the meeting.except Kenton, which
telephoned its vote.
Representing Bluffton at the meet
ing were Principal Gerhard Buhler,
Coach Richard Q. Lowry and Facul
ty Manager Robert Ewing.
Bluffton’s September resignation
from the league, decided because of
dwindling school enrollment was seen
as a serious handicap in league com
petition against Class A schools,
but rescinded because of a storm of
protest from the community. Bluff
ton is the only' Class school in the
league.
Show Film Of Africa
Missionary Activity
Rev. and Mrs. Don Baker, re
cently returned missionaries from
Africa will give an illustrated talk
on their work in that country at
the Beaverdam Church of Christ,
Sunday night at 6 o’clock. Mrs. Bak
er is the daughter of Walter Barber,
living west of Beaverdam.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live
.NUMBER 32
PROSPECT FADES
FOR FEDERAL AID
ON SEWER SYSTEM
General Ban on Federal Aid
Dims Hopes of Government
Assistance
High Lost is Big Hurdle as
Town Anticipates Crackdown
by State
Bluffton’s hopes of obtaining feder
al aid for a new village sewage
disposal system remained dim this
week, following announcement from
Washington, D. C.. that a general
ban on federal-aid construction pro
jects likely will continue thru 1951.
Meanwhile state enforcement of a
new Ohio law is expected to bring a
crackdown demanding a start on
sewage disposal facilities here, and
the present situation indicates that
the program will have to be entirely
locally' financed.
Federal-aid building construction
is expected to be kept at a minimum
through 1950 and 1951, according to
an announcement by' the House
Public Lands committee, apparently
eliminating and possibility of federal
funds for sewage plants such as re
quired in Bluffton.
No Federal Aid
In a statement bv the Burp.fi”
of the Budget, government spokes
men pointed out, “the President’s
Budget policy* for 1951 does not
contemplate the initiation of any’
new activities unless required by law
or urgent public need.”
With a showdown nearing on the
local sewage disposal project, the
government announcement apparent
ly eliminates the possibility' of
federal financial assistance and
Bluffton likely will have to work out
its own financing problems.
Estimated cost of intercepting
sewers along Big and Little Riley
creeks and construction of a disposal
plant, the min mum required in the
state crackdown, has been se at
$450,000.
Cost $450,000
Bluffton’s cist in installing the
system consequently will be far
heavier than it would have been
during the “th irties” when the own
several times turner down fed ?ral
aid projects w hich would have cost
ths munieipalit y less than $50,000 as
its share of tl e installation.
Details of fi the inst illa
tion of interce intr sewers and the
di.- posal plant roman to be woiked
out and a site must be purchased.
In a proposa subn itted to council
last summer by the Toledo engineer
ing firm of Finkbeiner, Pettis and
Strout, about one-third of the cost
of the $450,000 system could be
financed from general obligation
bonds, voted at the polls as a tax on
real estate.
Revenue Bonds
Revenue bonds, or sewer rental,
would defray' nearly half the cost,
with $200,000 earmarked from that
source. In addition there would be
a special assessment against each
village lot amounting to about
$91,000.
The revenue bonds calling for
sewer rental charges and the special
assessment against lots can be put
into effect by the village council, and
approval of voters is not required.
Intimation that sewage disposal
action here cannot be deloyed In
definitely was indicated last August
when Bluffton was one of 91 Ohio
unities agai 1st which the state
department announcoc tt
V
ago lisposal fac
ion requiring sew-
The new state measure effc‘CtlVO
in August, prohibits the discharge of
untreated sewage in any' stream
under penalty of a $500 fine for
every 30 days the offense continues.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Neiswander,
Pandora, a boy, Ronald Lee, last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crawford, Ot
tawa, a boy, Allen Jay, Friday'.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Frantz, Raw
son, a boy, Danny Lee, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Baughman,
Findlay, a girl, Sherry Lynn, Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wilson,
Findlay, a girl, Diane Sue, Monday.
Mrs. Wilson is the former Laoma
Oberly of Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Grose, Findlay,
a girl, Alona Ann, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Lugibihl,
Bluffton, a girl, Tuesday. Mrs. Lugi
bihl is the former Lois Long.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fritchie, Jr.,
Hagerstown, Md., a girl, Diane Es
telle, born Monday at Hagerstown
hospital. Mr. Fritchie is formerly
of Bluffton.