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A Good Place to Live
VOLUME LXXV
ESTIMATE $3,000
LOSS AT HOME OF
RUSSELL AMSTUTZ
Roof Fire is Started by Sparks
from Chimney, Monday
i Morning
Household Goods Saved Bluff
ton Fire Department Ans
wers Call
A roof fire Monday morning de
stroyed the upper floor of the Russell
Amstutz farm home, three and one
half miles southeast of Bluffton in
Orange township.
Damages in the blaze were estimat
ed at approximately $3,000, only part
of which was covered by insurance.
Bluffton’s volunteer fire depart
ment, called to the scene by Mrs.
Amstutz, after she discovered the
fire at 9:15 a. m., saved the lower
floor of the house, but the upper
story was left in ruins by the con
flagration.
Damage to household goods was
slight, and most of the furnishings
were removed from the residence by
the family and neighbors.
It was the eighth alarm answered
by the Bluffton fire department in
the last three weeks, altho six of the
calls were to fight grass fires, which
have proved a nuisance this spring
along the Nickel Plate railroad
tracks.
High School Spring
Music Concert Here
Bluffton High school vocal and in
strumental groups and solo and en
semble winners in district contests
will appear in a spring concert to be
presented Friday night at 7:30 in
the school auditorium.
Appearing in the music festival
will be the school boys’ and girls’
choruses, the mixed chorus and the
Bluffton band and orchestra. They
will present the numbers used in
competition at district and state
auditions.
Students who received No. 1 rat
ings in the district solo and ensemble
contests also will be featured.
An offering will be taken to
fray expenses of traveling to
contests.
10:00
12:00
P. M.
P. M..
7:15
9:30
de
the
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jones, Raw
son, a boy, Richard Ray, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schaaf, Ar
lington, a girl, Jennifer 'Jane, Fri
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Amstutz, Pan
dora, a girl, Dianne Eileen, Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Swisher, Wil
liamstown, a girl, Diane Marie, Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Featherin
gill, Jenera, a girl, Mary Suzanne,
Sunday.
and Mrs. Glenn Seyer, Ot
a girl, Constance Jane, Mon-
Mr.
tawa,
day.
Mr.
er, Toledo, a girl, Mary Jill, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Stoody,
Leipsic, a boy, Herbert Amos, Tues
day.
and Mrs. Walter Grant of
a girl, Linda Kay, bom at
Mr.
Lima,
Lima St. Rita’s hospital, Thursday.
Mrs. Grant is the former Marilyn
Lauby.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Porter, a girl,
Cynthia Margaret, bom April 29 at
Lima Memorial hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schumacher,
Mansfield, a girl Jennifer Lane, born
Sunday in Mansfield hospital. Mrs.
Schumacher is the former Kathryn
Thutt, daughter of Dr. B. F. Thutt
of Elida. Mr. Schumacher is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Menno
macher, Pandora.
Second Story of Farm Home
A. M.
Noon
2:00
5:30 _____
7:30-9:00 P. M. Faculty Musicale, Swiss
and Art Display, Reception
8:15 P. M.
7:15 M.
A. M.
M.
M.
10:45
11:30 M.
RICHLAND AND
ORANGE BOARDS
APPROVE TERMS
Agreements with Bluffton Coun
cil Made for Two Year
Period
Each To Whship to Pay Fee
$250 for Protection
Annually
Under
Bluffton
calls at
for each
and Mrs. Wilbur Shellenbarg- past
Schu-
Piano Recital
Mrs. Jean Ann Szabo will present
a group of pupils in a public piano
recital at the Methodist church, Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock. Appear
ing* on the program are Jimmy Bur
ry, Judy Tschantz, Shirley Burry,
Karen Hauenstein, Bruce Triplett.
Judy and Norma Frankhouser, Carol
Ackerman, Bret Triplett, Ann Thom
as, Colleen Cummins, Elise Chamber
lain, tfathryn Dill and Nancy
'Tracy. i
Is Badly Damaged By Fire
(Eastern Standard Time)
Friday, June 2nd
Swiss Day Ramseyer Chapel
Swiss Day Luncheon
Baseball Green
Swiss Day Ramseyer Chapel
Pi Delta Banquet Menn. Church
Men’s Varsity “B” Breakfast
Walnut Grill
Baseball Game- Baseball Diamond
1950, 40, 30 Box Ceremony
However, three of
speeder were injured,
speeder is used by th
with maintenance of the
of
Bluffton village’s fire protection
contracts with Richland and Orange
townships have been renewed for the
coming year and payment in advance
for the service has been made by the
board of trustees of each politicial
subdivision.
the contract terms, the
fire department answers all
a flat annual rate of $250
township.
Renewal of the two contracts was
effected this week when signed
copies were returned to City Clerk
A. J. B. Longsdorf. The terms and
coverage are the same as in
years.
Supplementary Contract
In addition to the contract
Bluffton, Orange township also has
a supplementary agreement with the
Ada fire department to also answer
calls in the extreme southern por
tions of the township, laying beyond
the Lincoln highway.
with
service was
any dissatis
service, but
The supplementary
set up not because of
faction with Bluffton’s
because that part of the township Is
much closed to Ada, according to
Orange township officials.
A supplementary Richland town
ship agreement with Beaverdam for
fire protection in the extreme south
ern portion of the township beyond
Beaverdam also is being considered,
it was reported.
Huffton Violinist
On Radio Sunday
Laurence Burkhalter, instructor of
music at Bluffton College, will play
several
WFIN
“Alt
“Schon
violin selections over station
Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock.
Wien” by Godowsky-Heifety,
Rosmarin” by Kreisler, and
Intermezzo by Provostare the
gram numbers.
Allan Dudley of the WFIN
will accompany at the piano.
pro­
staff
50th Anniversary Commencement
Week Events at Bluffton College
Chapel and Library
“Macbeth” H. S. Auditorium
Saturday. June 3rd
Women’s Varsity “B” Breakfast
College Hall Walk
12:30 P. M. Luncheon for
Everyone Baseball Green
Class Reunions ’40, '30, ’25, ’20, TO
1:15-3:15 P. M. Anniversary’ Program
Ramsey’er Chapel
3:30 P. M. Crowning of May Queen
Baseball Green
Senior Class Exercises
’Baseball Green
5:30 P.M. Alumni Banquet
Ropp Hall Dining Room
P. M.
8:15
A. M.
A. M.
P. M.
9:30
Baseball Green
8:00 P. M.
10:00 A. M.
12:15 P. M.
If
School Pupils Escape Injury In
Bus Crash at
pupils were badly
uninjured when the
were riding collided
on the A. C. & Y.
Fifty Rawson school
shaken up but otherwise
school bus in which they
with a speeder motor car
railroad at a grade crossing three and one-half
miles south of Rawson,
4 o’clock.
Tuesday afternoon at
the occupants of the
The motor powered
railroad in connection
right of way.
Weekend Bargains
Again Offered Here
Offering a wide selection of extra
special weekend bargains for Friday
and Saturday shoppers, another spe
cial sales
this week
merchants
town as a
tire area.
event is sponsored again
by a group of Bluffton
in the promotion
trading center
of the
the en-
for
he
on
special
Page 5
series of
are listed
Shoppers can find
Second in a
week-end sales
of this issue,
many real money-saving values listed
each week and will find it worth
their time to plan shopping in Bluff
ton, to take advantage of these out
standing bargains.
High School Girls
Style Show Friday
Girls in the high school home
economics department will present a
style show at the assembly program
of the school in the auditorium Fri
day morning at 8:30 o’clock open to
the public.
The girls will model garments
made in their sewing classes during
the year including sportswear, sun
dresses, playsuits, cotton
skirts, dress-up dresses, coats
formals.
\ew York Pastor To
Speak Here Thursday
Dr. George A. Buttrick, pastor of
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York City, will give
a lecture on “Our Shaken World” at
8:15 p. m. Thursday in the First
Mennonite church.
Bluffton appearance of the well
known lecturer and writer is spon
sored by Bluffton college.
Educated in England, where he
was born, Dr. Buttrick has been a
pastor in this country since 1915
and has served the Madison Avenue
church in New York City since 1927.
Dr. Buttrick’s book on “The Para
bles of Jesus,” published in 1929,
was chosen as the religious book of
the month. He has written many
other volumes, including his two
most recent, “Prayer,” published in
1942, and “Christ and Man’s Dilem
ma,” published in 1946.
Attends Clinic
Dr. Gordon Bixel, Bluffton optom
etrist, is in Minneapolis this week
attending a clinic on visual problems
and difficulties of school children.
The final appearance of an English
king in battle took place in 1743.
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BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950
“Macbeth” H. S. Auditorium
Sunday, June 4th
Sunday School in Churches
Church Services
.“Messiah” Practice-*Baseball Green
Baccalaureate Services
’Baseball Green
Address: “The Golden Age”
Pres. Lloyd L. Ramseyer
President’s Reception
President’s Home
Student Christian Association
Vesper Services Baseball Green
“Messiah” Concert-’Baseball Green
Monday, June 5th
Commencement Exercises
First Mennonite Church
Address: “The Responsibilities of
the Enkindled”
Dr. D. Elton Trueblood
Professor of Philosophy’
Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana
Commencement Luncheon
Ropp Hall Dining Room
weather does not permit, in H. S. Gym.
Railroad Crossing
The school bus, driven by John G. Tracy,
46, collided with the speeder on the Rawson
road as the bus was southbound returning
pupils to their homes after the close of the
afternoon school session.
Three of the railroad crew injured were:
Elmer Hagley, 50, Carey, operator of the
speeder, lacerations of the legs Elmer Rothgieb,
46, Carey, lacerations of legs and body and
Calvin Callahan, 53, Carey, head lacertions.
Both the bus and speeder were badly
damaged.
Townships Renew Fire Protection Contracts
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Construction of a sixth house in
Bluffton’s spring building boom was
launched during the last week, with
the start of work on a new residence
being built on the Garau street
tension in the Matter addition
Charles Patterson.
Net
dresses,
5 and
Aggregate sales of the municipal
operation were approximately the
same for the two years, $126,629.50
in 1949 and $127,423.86 for 1948.
The 1949 year-end report, how
ever, shows a net gain to the city of
only $2,495.85 for the year, in com
parison with reported earnings of
$10,456.64 in 1948.
Sales Costs Up
Cost of sales last year amounted
to $105,571.20. In 1948 the cost was
$101,519.12.
Administrative and selling expense
in 1949 totalled $9,313.24, as compar
ed with $8,157.60 in 1948.
Sixth New House Is Started In
Bluffton’s Spring Building Boom
ex
by
lot
for
Patterson’s new home is on a
at the rear of the building site
a new residence being constructed
on Harmon road by Everett Suter
meister. Garau street, on which the
house stands, was extended into the
addition last summer.
Municipal Light and Water Plant
Files Report Of Operations For Year
profit of the Bluffton
municipal light plant and water
works for 1949 amounted to
$2,495.85, a decrease of $7,961..T9
from earnings of the preceding year,
according to the report of the board
of public affairs released this week.
Total sales figures announced for
A class of 14 seniors will be grad
uated at commencement exercises of
Beaverdam high school on Thursday
night, May 18, it was announced this
week. Class speaker will be Dr. J.
E. Hartzler of Goshen, Ind., former
ly of Bluffton and now special lec
turer at Hartford Theological sem
inary, Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Merrill Boggs, pastor of
Bluffton-Beaverdam parish of
Church of Christ will deliver
Beaverdam Schools Will Graduate
14 Seniors At Exercises May 18
the
the
the
IP
COLLEGE TO ADD
NEW BASKETBALL,
FOOTBALL COACH
Kenneth Eugene Mast, Heidel
burg Athlete Coming
Next Fall
Burcky to Head Physical Educa
tion and Coach Base
ball
Kenneth Eugene Mast, 24, who will
graduate this spring from Heidel
berg college in Tiffin, has been em
ployed by Bluffton college as head
coach for football and basketball
teams, and will take over his duties
here with opening of the 1950-51
school term next fall.
At Heidelberg, Mast was a four
year varsity basketball player and
last winter was rated one of the
best collegiate eagers in Ohio. He
also was a member of the Heidelberg
football team for one season, and
was active in other college sports
including golf, softball and swim
ming.
A physical education rn'ajor, Mast
will receive his A. B. degree in this
spring’s commencement exercises at
Heidelberg.
Mast is married and has a three
year-old son. His home is in Sugar
Creek, O.
Football, Basketball Mentor
In his Bluffton assignment, the
new Beaver mentor succeeds A. C.
Burcky as football coach and Walter
Zimmerman as basketball coach.
Burcky remains at the school as
head of the physica, education de
partment and also will continue to
coach baseball. Zimmo^pjan has been
handling the basketb coaching as
signment up until nfcw chile com
pleting his schooling.
Bluffton sports teAjns compete in
the Mid-Ohio coliemate athletic
league which includes Mnland, Find
and
play
and
the Mid-Ohio collemau
league which includes Asn__
lay, Ohio Northern, Defiance
Cedarville. Beaver teams also
other small Ohio, Michigan
Indiana schools.
Other new residences started in
Bluffton during the last month in
clude those of Sutermeister, John
Herrmann, Cherry street Ivan John
son, county
nis, in the
Miss Dawn
son street.
line road D. A. McGin
Garmatter addition, and
Stonehill, on South Jack-
In addition to the residential con
struction program, C. F. Niswander
is building a new warehouse at the
rear of his farm implement and
home appliance store in the down
town business district.
the year also include free electric
and water service and maintenance
provided for the town, amounting to
$9,249.21 in 1949 ($7,290.50 in 1948).
Plant Improvements
In the plant’s sales last year,
were from electric cur
($110,771.84 in 1948)
from water patrons
1948), according to
$109,752.47
rent accounts
and $16,877.03
($16,652.02 in
the report.
During the past two years exten
sive improvements were completed to
the plant, aggregating an outlay of
$260,677.02. Of this sum $200,000
was obtained from a bond issue.
expansion program
New boiler, $41,200
$804.46 softener,
and motors, $4,300
Cost of the
was as follows:
new chimney,
$7,850 pumps
heater, $5,200 wiring, $8,000 piping,
$20,000 turbine, $40,000 switch
board, $10,700.
sermon at baccalaureate services on
Sunday, May 14.
Valedictorian will be Marilyn
Gratz and salutatorian, Roy Reichen
bach.
Members of the class are: Gloria
Beemer, Reita Beemer, Jane Bridges,
Jack Briggs, Betty Bushong, Park
Cherry, Marilyn Gratz, Merlin Leath
erman, Phyllis Lentz, Arthur Recker,
Roy Reichenbach, Marvin Reigle, Jr.,
Mary Stephens, Joan Van Meter.
Car Hits Train
B. H. S. Students
Win Test Awards
Eight Bluffton High school stu
dents won ratings and certificates of
awards in Northwestern Ohio dis
trict scholarship tests last Saturday
at Bowling Green State university.
Compeing in Physics (Division III)
John Bauman rated first, and was
fourth in school in all divisions.
Barbara J. Lewis was fourth
French I for all school sizes.
BACCALAUREATE TO
OPEN HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION WEEK
Baccalaureate at Union Church
Service Will Be Held
Sunday. May 21
Commencement Exercises On
Thursday, May 25, Mark
Week’s Culmination
A busy six-day program of Bluff
ton High school commencement week
activity will be opened Sunday night,
May 21, with baccalaureate services
for the graduating class at a union
church service in the high school
gymnasium.
Other events in the busy schedule
planned for graduation week include
two presentations of the senior class
play, commencement exercises ana
the annual alumni dinner and dance.
(Continued on page 12)
Twenty-fifth anniversary of week
day religious education in Bluffton
public schools will be observed at a
special evening union church service
at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in the First
Mennonite church.
The grade school choir, many of
the grade pupils in religious educa
tion classes and two former religious
education teachers will participate in
the program. Pictures of religious
education classes over the 25-year
span also will be shown.
Miss Ruth Yoder, a former teach
er of religious education here, who
is now residing in Bellefontaine, will
tell a story for the children attend
ing the service. Miss Alice True
schall, another former instructor,
who now is taking advanced work
at Ohio State university, will talk
on the significance of week-day re
ligious education.
Bluffton’s religious education pro
gram in the schools has been con
ducted continuously since the fall of
1924. The series was preceded by
four years of daily vacation Bible
school from 1921 through 1924.
The 25-year program of religious
education has been conducted under
auspices of the Bluffton Council of
Religious Education, composed of
representatives of the cooperating
Protestant churches of the commun
iy. Thru their cooperative effort an
annual budget is raised to pay the
(Continued on page 12)
Two school clerical positions—that
of office secretary and clerk-treas
urer of the board of education—will
be combined, it was decided by the
Board of Education at its meeting,
Tuesday night.
A Good Place to Trade
Three Injured
Eugene
and
in
in
R.
Other Bluffton students rating
Division III included Charles
Hilty, sixth in World History Ruth
I. Diller, seventh in English XII
Jane Risser, seventh in Senior Social
Studies Shirley I. Derringer, 15th
in English IX and Don M. Triple
horn, 15th in Biology.
Program Sunday Night To Mark 25 Years
Of Religious Instruction In Schools Here
School Board Moves To Combine Two
Clerical Jobs Following Resignations
The two positions will become va
cant on June 1, because of resigna
tions of both incumbents. Mrs. Don
na Koontz, office secretary, present
ed her resignation to the board Tues
day night, effective the first of next
month. James F. West, clerk-treas
urer of the board submitted his
signation last month effective
first of June.
re
the
out
Supt. A. B. Murray pointed
that the new position will require a
full time employe and V. C. Opper
mann, president of the board said
applications would be received on
that basis. No salai-y for the posi
tion has been announced.
NUMBER 4
BLUFFTON MEN IN
COLUMBUS GROVE
CROSSING CRASH
Kohli
in
Newlan, Francis
Donald George
Accident
Car■ Occu-
is
Demolished and
Taken to Lima Me
morial Hospital
pant
Three Bluffton men narrowly es
caped possible death Sunday at 2 a.
m. when their automobile crashed
into a moving D. T. & I. freight
train at the Main street crossing in
Columbus Grove.
Taken to Lima Memorial hospital
following the crash were Eugene B.
Newlan, 28, and Francis Kohli, 23,
both of Bluffton. Donald E. George,
27, the other occupant of the car,
was released after medical treatment.
Newlan, driver of the car, suffer
ed a fractured right knee cap and
head contusions. Kohli received
multiple lacerations on the face and
head. George’s injuries were confin
ed to cuts. Their car was demolish
ed.
According to state highway patrol
men, who investigated
into a southbound train
ing.
the car ran
the cross-
at
to
his home
however,
Kohli was retomed
here Tuesday. Newland,
will remain at the hospital for an
indefinite time with his legt in a
cast.
Green, who sustained only minor
injuries returned to his work Mon
day as a pipe fitter employed on the
new addition being built to the
Woodcock generating station of the
Central Ohio Ligh and Power com
pany here.
Will Huber Hurt
In Fall At Home
Will Huber, 91, is in the Bluffton
Community hospital with serious in
juries sustained last Saturday even
ing when he fell while walking in
the front yard of his home on Wash
ington street.
In the mishap, Huber suffered a
broken hip and rib on his right side
and a possible fracture of the right
wrist.
He was removed to the hospital on
Sunday in the Stanley Basinger am
bulance, where- his condition is re
ported as good as can be expected.
Pre-School Clinic
Here This Friday
A pre-school health clinic for pu
pils entering the first grade next fall
will be held in the Bluffton grade
school building Friday morning be
ginning at 9 o’clock.
A parent or guardian must ac
company each child to the clinic,
where physical examinations and
“booster” shots will be given under
the direction of Dr. Gail Miller, Al
len county health commissioner.
Chicken and pork head the plenti
ful list for May.
Graduating Recitals
At Bluffton College
First in a series of two Bluffton
college senior graduating recitals
will be presented at 3 p. m. Sunday
in Ramseyer chapel on the college
campus, it was announced this week
by Prof. Russell A. Lantz, director
of the department of music.
Appearing in Sunday’s recital will
be James Hilty, tenor, pupil of Prof.
Lantz Mary M. Maust, piano, pupil
of Pearl Bogart Mann and Mary
Lou Dean, violin, pupil of N. Laur
ence Burkhalter.
Second concert in the recital series
will be held Friday evening, May 19.
Appearing will be Gus Yoder, clari
net Robert Ewing, violin, and James
Hilty, tenor.
The public is invited.
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