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PAGE TEN
Orange Twp. Area
Petitions
(Concluded from page 1)
quarter miles to the south, including
the Albert Marquart farm. From
there the eastern boundary jogs west
to follow the road on which John
Warren lives.
Petitions Filed
and Harold W.
first petition
Jesse E. Anderson
Marshall filed the
January 25 with the
board of education,
affected comprising
quarter square miles, or 2750
of farmland. It was signed by
48 qualified voters in the
representing 89.58 per cent of the
vote it is claimed.
Hancock county
with the
four and
11 fl III v
aren
one
acres
43 of
area,
Second petition, filed January 30
by William Beagle, carried the names
of 51 signers
voters, 85 per
fected. This
acres of land.
out of 60 qualified
cent of the area af
petition covers 2800
Copies of the petitions were for
warded to James F. West, clerk of
the Bluffton board of education, seek-
Auctioneer
J. Leonard Gratz
Reserve date now for your sale
Bluffton phone 549-G-l
Bluffton, O.
BEEF
Pork Chops
Tenderized
y2 or whole
Pork
Tenderloin lb. 63c
in piece
LEAN, MILD CURE
Bacon in Slab
End Slices
Bacon 6 lbs. $1.00
Lean Jowl
Bacon 6 lbs. $1.00
LONGHORN
Boneless
Cubed Steak lb. 69c
ing information as to whether trans
fer of the territory would be accept
ed by the board.
Vacant Classrooms Here
Unofficial expressions by represen
tatives of the Bluffton school board
this week indicated that the return
of the two Orange township areas to
Bluffton territory would be accept
able, particularly in view of the fact
that there are vacant classrooms
here both in the grade and high
school buildings.
In case
for
be
of
Under state law, petitions
transfer of school territory can
made only during the month
January in any even-numbered school
year. These petitions must bear the
names of at least 75 per cent of
the qualified voters in the area.
When petitions are submitted ac
cording to law, the county board of
education must make a ruling before
the first day of April following.
This means that the Hancock county
school board before next April 1
must either approve or reject the
transfer.
State Review
the Hancock county board
make the petitioned trans-
refuses to
fer, all information on the matter
must be submitted by the Hancock
County board fo the state depart
ment of education.
If on review, the state department
is not in agreement with the county
board, a hearing on the matter must
be held in the county prior to the
first day of August. For a period
of 10 days following the hearing, any
petitioner will have the right to
request that his name be removed.
Following the 10-day period of
y/faritet ^ocJie/L c&i/vtce.
Home Killed Meats
PORK
PICNIC
II A
VEAL
Sliced
Bacon lb. 39c
BEEF BOIL lb. 29c
Milk 2 quarts 35c
Large
Bologna lb. 25c
Skinless
Weiners lb. 39c
O 1 e o 2 lbs. 39c
Pure
Pork Lard 2 lbs. 25c
SMOKED
lb. 33c
Loin Cut
Pork Roast lb. 39c
lb. 35c
Brick Cheese lb. 43c
i/2 or whole
Cream Cheese 1/2 or whoIe lb. 39c
Rib Steak lb. 69c
Your Choice
LUNCH MEATS
Veal Loaf, Minced
Ham, Pickle Loaf,
Dutch Loaf, Spiced
Ham, Cheese Loaf,
Souse
lb. 39c
Ice Cream Gal. $1.49
All Flavors
HAMS 2 or"hole lb. 49c
Country Fresh Fresh
E s Doz. 29c Perch lb. 39c
PLENTY OF BEEF BY THE QUARTER
Fores 35c Hinds 39c
WE NOW HAVE LOCKERS TO RENT
grace, the state department of edu
cation either will approve or refuse
the petitioned transfer. If the trans
fer is approved, it becomes effective
within 30 days after the decision is
made.
ter
the
the
Any debts of the transferred
ritory must be assumed by
receiving board. Consequently
Orange township area’s proportionate
share- of the new Mt. Cory-Rawson
school building bond issue approved
at the polls last fall, would be retir
ed from tax receipts levied by the
Bluffton board, should the transfer
be made, after assets of the area
transferred have been applied on the
bonded debt.
Payment of the assessment for
school building bonds, however,
would take only a fraction of the
total tax levy in the transferred
area and the Bluffton board would
receive approximately eight addition
al mills from the new territory, plus
state grants made per pupil under
the school foundation act.
would be collected in the
Bluffton district for the
bond retirement.
Nothing
original
building
Previous Attempts
Action of Hancock county school
authorities placing the Orange town
ship area in the Mt. Cory school
district back in the thirties has re
mained a sore spot since
for many residents who
Bluffton.
3
LAMB
lb. 29c
time
near
that
live
their mail
The petitioners receive
from the Bluffton post office, trade
here and regard the village as their
community center, those sponsoring
the petitions pointed out. In addi
tion, many of those signing work In
Bluffton, receive electric power from
the town, use local bank and tele
phone facilities and other business
enterprises such as the grain
elevators, etc.
A previous attempt by the peti
tioners to seek re-affiliation with
Bluffton school district about
years ago was disqualified
technical grounds.
the
10
on
Enumerators Will
Be Named
(Concluded from page 1)
taking the census some persons
be asked a lot more questions
others. That’s because a
In
will
than
“Sampling” technique will be used to
get detailed information.
Special Questions
For example, eVery fifth person
will be asked how far he got thru
school what country his parents were
born in how many hours he worked
the week before the questioning
how many weeks he worked during
1949, and what his individual and
family income amounts to.
One out of every 30 persons will
be asked some personal questions
about the number of years of their
present marriage their children and
the number of times they’ve been
married.
The housing census will check
every dwelling for certain informa
tion. This will describe the type of
structure number of rooms how
many people live in it, whether it has
toilet, bathing and vyator facilities,
including the kitchen sink, what the
rent amounts to, whether the dwell
ing is delapidated and the value of
the place.
Television Questions?
Every fifth householder will answ
er special questions about heating,
cooking, lighting, refrigeration
television equipment.
and
the
and
and
Farm families will be asked
value of their land, equipment
machinery the bushel amount
dollar value of their farm output,
and the number of birds and beasts
in their flocks and herds.
Census enumerators will be politic
al appointees, nominated by the
Democratic county central committee.
Settlement
Esther Reichenbach, student at
Taylor university, Upland, Indiana,
spent the week end with her home
folks here. She was accompanied by
Eldora Rempel of Mountain Lake,
Minn., who is also a student in the
same school.
Noah Schumacher is leaving the
middle of this week for Miami, Fla.,
for several weeks. The trip is being
made by plane from Dayton.
The Riley
Council No. 2
Mr. and Mrs.
day evening.
Township Advisory
met at the home of
Dennis Diller Tues-
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Burkholder of
Smithville, lr. and Mrs. Dan Miller
and family of Wooster, Marilyn
Burkholder of Chicago and Gerald
Miller student at Bluffton college
were Sunday dinner guests in the
homes of Mr. and Mrs. Rawmond
Miller and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Alcus Pate and son
of Detroit were visitors in the home
of Mrs. oJsephine Moser for a num
ber of days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Iner Basinger who
so ably assisted in the two weeks’
services conducted at the St. John
church and Bluffton high school
auditorium in the musical phase of
the meetings, left for Hopewell, Va.,
where they are to assist in similar
work.
Mrs. Edgar Bundy left for their
home in Wheaton, Ill., for a week’s
stay and are to return to Marion,
Ohio, to assist in a week’s confer
ence beginning Sunday, February 5.
Monday morning Rev. and
Leader
North Carolina ranks first in the
United States in number of lumber
and basic timber products plants.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
True Tales About Ohio
(Concluded from page 1)
the girls off with nothing.
Shortly after Starling’s manipu
lation of his will, one of the girls
lost her recently devoted sweetheart.
He too, was a boarder at the Amer
ican House and had become very
attentive after the sox knitting epi
sode. The young
that he had been
the old and the
Starling.
knitter never knew
a witness on both
amended wills
of
Medical College
Benefactor of
Lyne Starling was born in 1784
Mecklenburgh County, Virginia-Ken
tucky, from where he came to
Franklinton, Fralklin County, Ohio,
in 1806, formerly was Kentucky
County. Starling became assistant
to his brother-in-law, Lucas Sullivant,
clerk of the Franklin County court.
Later he had the office himself. A
successful merchant and
perpetuated his name by
Starling Medical College.
in
first town
Franklinton was the
laid out in the Scioto valley north of
Chillicothe. Sullivant laid out the
town in 1797. On the west side of
the Scioto River, opposite Columbus,
which it antedated, the town grew
rapidly and was the county seat
from 1803
was formed,
county was
1824. By
dwindletL to
became West Columbus and then was
absorbed by the city, slower in los
ing its characteristics than any other
community so near the center of the
city.
when Franklin County
until the capital of the
moved to Columbus in
1840 population had
394 persons. It later
Lucas Sullivant was a Kentucky
surveyor making surveys for land
warrants in the Virginia Military
Lands district west of the Scioto
when he became interested in tWe
ground around the present Columbus.
Little hills of the mound builders
were on the tract where Columbus
stands and there too, had been a
sizable village of the Wyandotte
Indians.
Darby, Alum, Walnut
Lick creeks and had villages on both
banks of the Scioto and Olentangy
rivers.
The tribe lived all along
and Black
Surveyor Lays Out Town
Sullivant had a party of 20 men
with him, all surveying tracts for
Col. Richard C. Anderson, surveyor
genci’s! of the Virginia Military Land
District of Ohio, when they found
the wilderness site of the present
state capital. That fall Sullivant
laid out Franklinton, built his cabin
there and lived on it until he died
in 1823 at fifty-eight.
Sullivant left three sons: William
Starling Sullivant, born 1803 Mich
ael L. Sullivant, born 1807 and
Joseph Sullivant, born 1809, all in
Franklinton. They died in 1873,
1879 and 1882, respectively,
achieved prominence.
In
All
Columbus was laid out in 1810 by
Lyne Starling, with James Johnson,
Alex McLaughlin and John Kerr,
especially to
capital. All
Franklinton.
become the state
four men lived at
when the Ohio Legis-
From 1803,
lature first convened, until 1816 it
had no regular home but held its
sessions temporarily at Chillicothe.
In 1810 it moved to Zanesville for
two sessions, then back to Chillicothe
until 1816. Dublin, Worthington and
Delaware also wanted the state
capitol but were not as suitably lo
cated as was Columbus.
Columbus State Capital
St. Valentine’s Day, 1812, the
legislature, then at Zanesville, fixed
the state capital as Columbus—
Starling’s new town. An influencing
factor had been Starling’s offer to
give the state two 10-acre tracts,
one for the State House and the
other for the Penitentiary.
In addition they agreed to build at
their own expense the capitol, pen
itentiary, and
as should be
lature, net
$50,000.”
was built
House, its
historic mound nearby,
From the mound the
named—Mound Street.
“such other buildings
directed by the legis
exceed a total cost of
1813 the penitentiary
and in 1814 the State
brick made
to
from a pre
was put up.
street was
The State House burned Sunday
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morning, April 1, 1852.
Columbus was incorporated Feb
ruary’ 10, 1816, as “the borough of
Columbus,” with John Kerr, who
had helped Starling lay out the
town, as one of the first councilmen.
The others were Henry Brown, Mich
ael Patton, Jarvis Pike, Robert Arm
strong, Jeremiah Armstrong, John
Cutler, Caleb Houston and Robert
McCoy. The first census, taken in
1815, showed the burough
population of 700. In
corporated as a city, its
was 4,000—of which only
electing John Brooks mayor,
were four other candidates.
Starling died, still unmarried,
American House in 1848.
to have a
1834, in
population
449
voted,
There
Lyne
at the
Pleasant View
fro
Butterfat—60c.
Eggs—Large white 27c
brown 25c medium white
medium brown 20c pullets 18c.
mi
E. Y. Frantz is recuperating
recent operation in his home.
Rev. Walter Purdy, who under
went a serious eye operation at
Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati,
two weeks ago is expected to return
to his home at Rawson this week.
He is improving satisfactorily.
a
trader,
bounties
he
to
Mrs. Leonard Augsburger spent
Monday and Tuesday of last week
with relatives at Dayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dukes re
turned home Saturday from a two
weeks’ vacation trip through the
western states.
Mrs. C. J. Whisler is assisting in
the care of her mother, Mrs. J. J.
White of Mt. Cory who was
in a fall several weeks ago.
injured
met in
Myron
The Friendly Couples class
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Reichenbach for its January meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cook and
family of Milwaukee, Wis., visited in
the home of her parents, Mr.
Mrs. Nile Newton and Stanley,
day.
and
Sun-
The Ladies Harmony Circle
meet Thursday afternoon, Feb.
with Mrs. Ruth Dukes. Mrs. Vir
ginia Dukes will be assistant hostess
and Mrs. Ethel Frantz program lead
er with the topic “Christian Horizons
in Japan.” The project committee
have arranged for a l^itchen shower
for the church. Each member to
bring a new or used kitchen utensil
to
the meeting.
will
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BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
$1.96 corn $1.23 oats 70c soys
$2.09.
Poultry—Heavy hens, 22c leghorn
hens 15c heavy fryers 23c
stags 14c leghorn stags 12c.
heavy
large
21c
Norweigian Freighters
Shipbuilders at Oslo are putting
heroic-size prow figures on stream
lined motor freighters built for the
far-flung trade of Norway’s all-im
portant merchant marine.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Price spent the
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Mr. and Mrs. Orlen Gallant were
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