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FARMERS PRODUCE
Bluffton, Ohio
Offers Friendly Service
Buyers of
Cream, Eggs and Poultry
ROUTE SERVICE
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for serenity and
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Add a touch of the
Easter Bunnies and you
have e. gift of marked
warmth and distinction.
See us today. Easter
flowers and designs
delivered anywhere.
BASINGER FLORIST
Ralph Basinger, Prop.
Bluffton, Ohio 109 Grove Street
Florists' Telegraph Delivery Florists
Say It WITH FLOWERS BY WIRE
Once you
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WALTER MIRE’S
YOUR FRIENDLY STORE
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Appliance is Designed
From the Woman's Anglo
To Speak Here
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REV. B. R. Lakin, pastor of
Cadle Tabernacle, Indianapolis,
who will speak in the high school
auditorium Friday night at 7:30
under auspices of the Bluffton
Pandora Christian Laymen’s as
sociation.
Vocalist
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vocalist who will be heard in the
Bluffton College Booster concert
at the First Mennonite Church,
Tuesday night, April 11.
Wilbert Schumacher
Rites Held Sunday
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon in the Grace Mennonite
church for Wilbert Schumacher, 57,
retired Pandora area farmer who
died last Thursday evening in a Gal
lipolis hospital.
Born in Allen county April 6,
1892, he was the son of David and
Marian (Geiger) Schumacher. In
1914 he married Hulda Suter, who
survives.
Five children also are living: Mrs.
Jeanette Lehman and Mrs. Esther
Anderson, both of Pandora Mrs. Vi
vian Geiser, Lima Ray W. Schu
macher, Bluffton, and Mrs. Ruth
Schaublin, Ottawa.
Surviving brothers and sisters in
clude Amos Schumacher, Mrs. Noah
Gerber, Mrs. David Luginbill and
Miss Fanny Schumacher, all of
Pandora and Mrs. Gideon Niswan
der, of Ottawa.
Business Men To Aid
In Cleanup Campaign
Bluffton Business Men’s association
cooperation in Bluffton’s Paint Up
Fix Up-Clean Up campaign this
spring was decided at a dinner
meeting of the organization last
Wednesday night in the Elk Resau
rant.
Committee named by the associa
tion to work on the drive included
Ed Chamberlain, Paul Greding and
Paul Emmert.
George B. Hammond, of the Ohio
State Council of Retail Merchants,
was the speaker at the session.
Silas Diller, president of the asso
ciation, presided.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my appreciation
to all who sent flowers, cards and
letters or visited me during my stay
at Bluffton hospital.
Mrs. Carl Kimmel
tines arp
SO
Expensive
When it comes to spending
YOUR money it is hard to find
anyone more liberal than the
twelve folks who will make up
the jury selected to hear your
defense in a damage suit. And
the basis for that suit may be
just about anything under the
sun. We write the broadest
forms of liability insurance and
can fit that protection to your
specific needs.
'talking it over puts you under
no obligation.
Diller Insurance Agency
“Diller’s Policies Pay”
Clarence D, Diller. Agent
Phone 239-W
125 N. Main St. Bluffton, Ohio
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
T. N. T. Changes Wilderness
By Harriett Burkhart
Dynamite and a battle over barbed
wire fence were instrumental in the
making of Bluffton College’s baseball
diamond.
Wild thorn trees, and bushy under
growth covered the tract of land
where the diamond is located today.
The land was purchased in 1910 by
the college, lay dormant for four
years, and then in 1914 clearing of
the tract began.
Dense trees and bushes were
dynamited by instructors, and stu
dents. Classes were dismissed while
students with the help of a team of
horses and farm implements leveled
the field. A towering 20 to 25 foot
pile of roots and brush was collected
and burned. Girls served refresh
ments to the laborers and a holiday
spirit invaded the campus.
College Cow
the students in clearing
were instructors, H. W.
Leading
the field __ _____ .v
Berky, G. A. Lehman, and Hugh J.
Ridge. Grass was sowed. The grass
grew luxuriantly thick and green—
so luxuriant, in fact, that the super
intendent of grounds and buildings
decided that it would make a wonder
ful pasture for the college cow.
Bluffton’s team rapidly developed
an original type of baseball when a
barbed wire fence was put up to keep
the cow from wandering. Players
were forced to climb over or go under
the wire when fielding and indigna
tion arose over ripped pants.
“I believe fence posts would pull
pretty easy,” hinted Prof. Herbert
Berky to a group of students one
rainy evening. A muffled disturb
ance arose about 11 that night and
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Prof. Berky, then Dean of Men,
didn’t bother to investigate.
Vanishing Fence
Wire and fence posts had com
pletely vanished next morning. Col
lege authorities pulled out long faces
and proceeded to “investigate.” The
culprits were never found but, dis
covered in the woods surrounding the
diamond was a roll of posts and wire
eight feet high. Not daring to put
the fence up again, the superintendent
of grounds and buildings was forced
to leave the
rust and rot.
day.
fence in the woods to
Remains are there to-
baseball diamond has
Bluffton’s
used foi* ball games exclusively
since the battle over the barbed
fence. Freshmen level the field
year and get it in condition for
been
ever
wire
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the season’s games.
done this year and baseball season is
about to start.
Work is being
West Ohio Gas Co.
May Get More Gas
Plans to double the 25,000,000
cubic feet quota of gas received daily
in Ohio by the Ohio Fuel Gas Co.,
which serves Bluffton through West
Ohio Gas Co., were disclosed last
week at a power commission hearing
in Washington.
Officials of West Ohio Gas Co.
said that any increase granted Ohio
Fuel would be an indirect boost for
their distribution network.
The increase will be made pos
sible through additional gas provided
from the Panhandle Eastern Pipe
Line Co.
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