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High School Seniors To Leave Monday
On Sightseeing Trip To Washington
Forty-five Bluffton high school
seniors who will be graduated Thurs
day night, will leave Monday evening
on a sightseeing trip to Washington.
They will return Friday evening.
The seniors will leave Monday,
evening at 5:45 o’clock from the Lima
station on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad line. They will arrive in
Washington the next morning.
Arriving in Washington, a bus will
meet the class at the station and take
them to Hotel Annapolis, where they
will stay during their visit in Wash
ington. That afternoon the group
will visit residential Washington,
Embassies and Legations, Arlington
National Cemetery, Tomb of the Ln
known Soldier, Alexandria, Mt.
Vernon, National Airport and Lincoln
Memorial. Tuesday evening will be
free.
Wednesday, the third day the
seniors visit more of the interesting
places in Washington. They will see
Bureau of Printing and Engraving,
Pan-American Building, White House,
Old and New Museums, U. S. Capital,
Library of Congress, and the Su
preme Court. Then in the afternoon
there will be a bus trip to Annapolis,
Maryland. That evening the seniors
have another evening free.
The fourth day they plan to visit
the F. B. L, National Gallery of Art,
Washington Monument, and Smith
sonian Institute. The afternoon of
this day is free for shopping or re
visiting any of the well known places
of interest. The trip back home will
begin at 8:30 Thursday evening.
Center
Ham Slices lb. 79c
ARMOUR’S STARS
HAMS
ButteaEnnds
Fresh Lake Pickerel
Fillets
Large Assortment of
Kraft’s Sliced Cheese
Tasty Loaf
Cheese 2 lb. box 69c
Limburger lb. 59c
Longhorn
Cheese lb. 39c
Medium Sharp
Cheese lb. 49c
PORK ROAST
On Friday the train will arrive in
Cincinnati and before proceeding
home the class will see Union Station
and visit WLW radio station. The
seniors will return home in the late
afternoon.
Bluffton In West
Ohio Tennis League
The Bluffton Tennis Club joined
with the clubs representing Ada,
Sidney and Lima last Sunday in
Lima to form the Western Ohio Ten
nis League. Officers were elected
and matches were scheduled for the
coming summer.
R. J. White of Sidney was elected
president with Bob 1 schantz of Lima
serving as secretary-treasurer. Bluff
ton will travel to Sidney on May 28
for their first match, with Lima
coming here on the following Sun
day afternoon. Matches will con
sist of five singles and two doubles.
COLLEGE PLANS FESTIVITIES
FOR 50th ANNIVERSARY
(Concluded from page 1)
morning, June 5, will be addressed
by Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, profes
sor of philosophy at Earlham col
lege, Richmond, Indiana.
A class of 71 seniors, largest
history of the institution will
graduated.
Jffea/ yfajiJtet fyfodtell c&wfte
Home Killed Meats
BEEF PORK VEAL LAMB
STEAK lb. 69c
in
be
be
A commencement luncheon will
served following graduation exer
cises for the first time since befoie
World War II.
Lean End
Sliced Bacon lb. 19c
Sliced
Lean
Picnic Hams lb. 39c Bologna
Fresh Dressed Chickens—Home Grown
FRYERS, not Leghorns, lb. 49c
HENS, lb. 39c
Grade A
Swiss Cheese lb. 59c
Velveeta
Cheese 2 lb. box 79c
lb. 49c
2 to 3 lb. Avg.
Cottage Hams lb. 79c
All Meat
OUR OWN MAKE SAUSAGE—Extra Lean
Bulk, lb. 39c--Casing, lb. 45c-Smoked, lb. 49c
lb. 39c
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Pork Chops lb. 49c
Spare Ribs lb. 35c
Pork Liver lb. 35c
Milk 2 quarts 35c
Bread—Your Choice
2 loaves 29c
White
O 1 e o 2 lbs. 45c
Yellow
O 1 e o lb. 35c
NORDIC DAIRY ICE CREAM
Your Choice of flavors
Pints, 23c Quarts, 39c V2 gallons, 78c
Gallons, $1.49 Sherbits, Pt. 19c
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BY HARRY U HAU
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Others
Editor’s Note—This
of a series of articles to
in the Bluffton Newt
with early Ohio history,
will appear
issues.
in forthcoming
a-mouldering in
the tomb”
Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Balaam ha-ha-had
an a-a-ass to speak for him too,”
stammering Owen Brown told an ac
quaintance who cut in and tried to
help him get started on what he was
trying to say. Brown, a Hudson,
Summit County, tanner, was sensitive
about his stuttering and resented any
notice taken of it.
Owen Brown and his father before
him, then living in Torrington, Con
necticut were fervent anti-slavers
and both brought up their children
in the same belief. Back in 1789
Owen Brown had taken part in the
forcible rescue of some slaves claim
ed by a Virginia preacher in Con
necticut.
Owen Brown was the father of
John Brown, “Of Osawatomie and
Harper’s Ferry,” and of the old
song: “We’ll hang John Brown on a
sour apple tree—Glory, Glory, Hallel
ujah.”
John Brown was born in Torring
ton May 9, 1800 and came with his
parents to Hudson, Ohio, when five
years old. Until 20, he worked in
his father’s tannery and at farming.
He then learned surveying and moved
to Randolph, Pennsylvania, where he
was postmaster under President
Andrew Jackson. In 1836 he re
turned to Ohio: removed to Massa
chusetts in 1844 and in 1849 bought
a farm and moved to New York.
Mixes in Anti-Slavery Affairs
In 1854 five
from Ohio to
and next year
hoping to aid
Party.” The
of his sons moved
Osawatomie, Kansas,
Brown joined them,
in the “Free State
Brown
mustered in as
the Free State
actively engaged
slavery troubles
Civil War.
Kansas militia by
Party and were
in the Kansas anti
co-incidental to the
father was a firm
John Brown’s
believer in the hickory whip and ap
plied it correctively on his children
at the slightest provocation. John’s
military strategy materialized early.
Tired
went
plank
would
lightly.
of the boyhood whippings, he
to the barn and loosened a
in the haymow floor so that it
give in when stepped on even
It was only next day when Owen
i Brown took the recreant son to the
barn for chastisement for something
he had done.
The boy maneuvered his father
onto the loosened plank, took his
licking stoically, gave the customary
promise never to “do it again,” then
jumped off his end of the balanced
loose plank. The old man went
through the haymow floor and lit
atop an upside-down harrow—and
every farmer boy knows what har
row teeth are. Bruised and bunged
up for a long time, he never men
tioned the occurrence to his son, but
never took him to the barn or else
where for another whipping.
After marriage and becoming head
of a family of five, John Brown
bought a farm north of Hudson.
When the mortgage was about to be
foreclosed, he asked a neighbor
named Chamberlain to bid it in,
which the farmer did. Brown then
requested to be allowed to remain
on the land a little
found a place where
Chamberlain agreed.
while until he
he could move.
House
Brown refused
Barricades
Time passed and
to vacate. Evictment papers were
filed and officers turned him out of
the house. When the constables had
gone, Brown went back in, barracad
ed the house and armed his family
with shot guns. Repeatedly arrested
and sued, he responded to each sum
mons but left his garrison in posses
sion of the old house.
Finally, on real or trumped up
charges, warrants were issued in
another township for Brown’s “gar
rison” and while Brown himself was
under arrest, were served. With the
whole garrison gone, about 50
friends of Chamberlain took posses
sion of the house, which had little
worth anyhow, and tore it down.
After that Brown engaged in wool
growing. Simon
capitalist, furnished the money ana
Brown put in the brains. He was as
enthusiastic over
later became over the
heads. But when the
out, the share Brown
all that remained.
Perkins, Akron
fine wool as he
wool on slaves’
business closed
had put in was
Harper’s Ferry Illusion
John Brown’s belief that with
handful of men he could take Harp
er’s Ferry and overthrow the insti
tution of slavery came out of pre
natal influence and the mental stresi
over his experiences in Kansas.
His faith was equal to that of the
Hebrew prophets and Brown actually
believed that with a few poorly arm
ed men he could conquer the South
and free the slaves. Jehovah had
so ordered it and had commissioned
him to do the work. It was just to
be as was the blowing of
horns by the priests, the great
ing of the people and the fall
walls of Jerico. Jehovah had
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Sentenced to
Charleston, Va.,
rams’
shout
of the
order-
ed that, too.
Under the pretended guise of
organizing a western colony Brown Mrs. E Sommer returned to
solicited money and personal ad»|her home at Troy on Sunday after
adroitly turning such conversations|spending- the past week in Pandora
to slavery, to his work in Kansas
and then to his divine commission.
I, John Browm, am
tain that the cr—
land will never be purged away
but with blood. I had, as I now. .callers
think, vainly flattered myself that H^ley VanMeter .at .Rockport.
without very much bloodshed it I
might be done.”
Many men of the day believed
that because of the meager means
and the great magnitude of Brown’s
enterprise, the man was insane. But
to those who knew him, old accounts
relate, “The depth and fervor of his
religious sentiments his unwavering
trust in the Infinite his strong con
viction that he had been selected by
God as an instrument in his hands
to hasten the overflow of American
slavery”—to such he seemed inspired
rqther than insane.
HIGH SCHOOL TO GRADUATE
CLASS OF 45 THURSDAY
from page 1)
boys and 26 girls,
(Concluded
family was
Dorothy Rae Amstutz, Marilyn I.
Amstutz, Josephine Miriam Augsbur
ger, Sara Lee Badertscher, Mary
Louise Balmer, Winifred Joyce Bau
man, Virginia Kay Berry
Arlene Bixel,
Dolores Anne Burry, Raelene Joyce
Campbell, Ruth Irene Diller, June
Elizabeth Habegger, Dorothy Lee
Hardwick.
Miriam
Marilyn F. Brunn.
Willa Ann Hilty, Wanda Mae Hoch-
stettler, Imajean Irene Klass, Carolyn
Mae Matter, Charleen Rae Miller,
Rosella Jean Moser, Ada May Oyer,
Lena M. Preto, Mary Jean Ramseyer,
Jane Risser, Janet Anne Stover, Peg
gy Ann Young.
East Orange
Mrs. Ed Rettig of Arlington, Mrs.
Rufus Wilson, Mrs. Maggie Wilson,
Gretchen Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ker
mit Boehm and sons, Mrs. Freda
Guash, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman,
Mrs. Mildred Trippiehorn, Findlay
Mrs. Ethel M. Boutwell, Mrs. Katie
Neff, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell,
Mr. and Mrs. Ted W. Smith and Jane
were callers the past week in the C.
ML Heldman home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Marquart and
daughters were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. John Caris and
grandson Joe of Findlay, Mr. and
Mrs. Matt Stewart were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. W.
Nonnamaker and son Max.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolber, Mr.
and Mrs. John Boutwell, Mrs. Hazel
Romick and Mrs. Mary Baughman of
Dayton spent Saturday with Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Boutwell of Shelby.
Callers in the Charley Baker home
the past week to see Sam Gorby who
is quite ill were Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Wagner, Mr. and Mrs. George Wag
ner, Mrs. Ethel Boutwell, Mrs. Mild
red Trippiehorn, Elva Bishop, Mrs.
Inez Baker, Mr. and Mrs. B. J.
Boutwell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gorby,
George Bower, Mr. and Mrs. George
Bame and children, Mr.
Daryl Baker and Eddie.
Pandora
with the James Sommer family.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Bracy and
I family had
The scheme worked—partly.
the night of October 16, 1859, Cap­I
tain John Brown
captured Harper’s
United States
zens of the town
and penned Brown
maining men
Next day Col. Robert E. Lee arrived
with a company of United Statesl ly entertained at the newfly-built
marines.
When Brown finally was captured,l and seven guests were present. As
two of his sons were dead and hel sisting the hostess in serving the
was seriously* wounded. Tried in a| dinner were hei two daughters.
Virginia court and sentenced to deathl Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hilty, Jon
by hanging Brown on the day oi I and Heddy of Indianapolis and Mr.
his execution handed a guard this| and_Mrs. Lysle Crow and childern
signed paper:
So came the Glory, Glory song— I ])owell Mrs. Edison Diller, Mrs. M.
Battle Hymn of the Republic, lineal Rice, Mrs. Leah Bracy, Mrs.
of which originally began “Johnl Mary Pifer, Mrs. Arthur Burry,
Brown’s body lies a-mouldering ini Misses Clara Bracy and Betsy
the grave” and “Hang John Brown| zucrcher.
on a sour apple tree” but ended:
“His soul goes marching on.”
seniors are 19
They are:
Lowell Keith
Lynn Balmer, David Edward Basing-1 fende
er, John Howard Bauman, Donald H.lr
Burkholder, Cleo R. Diller, Mickey D.U1(? Bluffton College library.
Gleason, Peter Eugene Hankish,
Charles Dwayne Hauenstein, Dwight
G. Hauenstein, Charles Evans Joseph,
Donald James Kuhn.
Howard James Landes, Roger Gene
Lehman, Larry Lewis Mathewson,
Kenneth Dean Parish, Don Herman
Schmidt, Donald Eugene Shumaker,
Edgar E. Wenger.
for their Sunday guests
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Neill and
and his 16 mr»l family.
Ferry and thel Mrs. N. N. Soldner will be host
Arsenal. Then citi-l ess for the May meeting of the
armed themselves I W. C. T. U. which will be held in
i and his six rr-|her home next Wednesday evening
in the engine-house. May 24 at 8 o’clock.
The Au-Revoir club was pleasant-
home of Mrs. Joe Basinger at Find
lay last Tuesday. Fifteen members
U----
Hang
I of Benton Ridge
Dec. 2, 1859. the home of Mrs. Allie Hilty.
now quite cer-| Miss Mary Jane Carr spent the
rimes of this guiltv|week end with a friend at Dayton.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd VanMeter
were Sunday evening of
spent Sunday in
meeting of the year
the Federation of Wo
of Pandora on Monday
The final
was held by
men’s Clubs
evening at the school auditorium.
Miss Florence Inbody, Findlay,
World Red Cross worker and Trav
eling Teacher was the guest speak
er. She chose for her subject,
“People.” She has traveled in many
countries.
A sextet from the Asi No M^s
club provided music. Election of
officers was held for the coming
year.
Hostesses were, Mrs. Donald Mc-
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Collar are
in New Jersey this week on a busi
ness trip, while there they will visit
in the M. D. Headington home.
Mrs. Gid Nusbaum was a Sunday
ifternoon caller in the home of Mr.
land Mrs. Dave Steiner.
I
Mrs. James Suter, Mrs. Gilbert
Amstutz, Roderick guter and Mrs Lloyd VanMeter at
-------j1 a mother-daughter tea on
Sunday afemoon which was held in
Charmin
and Mrs.
Lake wood,
Anna Bal-
Mrs. Silva Chidester of
Mrs. Libbie Balmer, Mrs.
ber and children of Bluffton called on
Mrs. Alice Mae Boutwell and Mrs.
Mildred Amstutz one day last week.
Mr. Will Boutwell of Ada called
on Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell, Sun
day.
Mrs. Alice Mae Boutwell and child
ren Lynn, Lonnie Sue and Ronda
Kae, Mrs. Edith Stager and Nancy
Price were callers on Monday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Shearer and sons
of Pandora were Sunday dinner
guests of Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Pum
mel 1 and son Garry.
John Greenleaf Whittier’s first
poem was published when he was
nineteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hilty received
a belated “Mother’s Day” telephone
call on Sunday from their son Rev.
Myron Hilty and family living in
Winton, Calif. The Hilty family
are well and said that the weather
was very hot. The call was de
layed due to ✓the telephone service
the previous Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wamshere,
Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wam
shere, Jr. and son of Toledo were
six o’clock dinner guests in the home
of Mrs. Adam Hilty on Thursday
evening.
Chipper Potato Chips
Deerwood Dill Pickle
Foodcraft or Elf PORK & BEANS
Miss Carolyn Krohn visited her
cousin Miss Jean Hilty a student
at Wheaton College the past week.
Diamond PAPER PLATES .... 2 29c
Guest Stuffed Olives
Evans FRYERS 59c
HOMER BASINGER’S—HOME MADE
TRY ARMOUR
BOLOGNA .... 59c
Mild Longhorn Cheese
Lemke Swiss Brick
Skinless Regular
Have a Weiner Roast
616 of the Ameri-
Pandora Post
Legion will sponsor Decoration
services at
at 10 a. m. Tuesday, May 30.
.Warren R. Powell, a chaplain
can
Day
ium
Rev
in World War II, will be the speak
er. The program will include spe
cial music, readings and In Memor
iam with taps sounded by three
trumpeters.
the school auditor-
The alumni banquet and program
.will be held at the Pandora school
gym Saturday evening, May 27.
30 MAYORS AT AVIATION
MEETING HERE
(Concluded from page 1)
ipality in Ohio to erect air markers.
He pointed out that it is not the
policy of these government agencies
to compel compliance, although the
necessary authority has been granted,
but rather to solicit cooperation
through emphasizing the advantages
of such a program.
Emphasis this year, according to
Brown, is being placed on the value
of agricultural aviation. Use of the
aircraft in spraying, dusting, fertili
zation, and seeding is becoming more
and more prominent. These agencies
are also working with the Conserva
tion department to combat erosion,
soil deficiency, etc.
Dick Burwell, also from the Ohio
Aviation Board, explained the re
quirements of
system, and how proper marking can
be of aid in reducing the number of
air accidents. He also explained the
penalties provided in the law, and
cited the splendid cooperation they
have had without having to use these
powers.
the air-marking
Lt. Ernie Webb, of the State High
way Patrol, Air Division, cited the
1947 law passed to curtail reckless
operation of aircraft. This law places
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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950
much of the authority in hands of
local and area jurisdiction. This
type of authority, according to Lt.
Webb, has been most effective, es
pecially in the curtailment of “buzz
ing”. The State Highway Patrol is
working with the local areas to help
them perform their functions.
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ac-
Lt. Webb stated that reckless
ing helps to discredit aviation in
eyes of the public. He pointed
that good pilots do not have
cidents. Proper air marking helps
to avoid the necessity of buzzing too
low to get the name of a town
a train depot or other building.
from
just
Farm-to-market airways are
as important now as highways
years ago, when Ohio was famous
for its highway transportation facili
ties, according to Ralph Young, presi
dent of the “Flying Farmers” and
Agricultural Aviation Coordinator
for the Ohio Aviation Board. He
stated that secondary airways are
just as vital as secondary roads form
erly were.
were
Y’oung also pointed out the value
of educating the farm communities
to the utility of the airplane. Citing
the spread of the spittle bug, a new
threat to legume products, he ex
plained that aircraft can dust six or
seven acres a minute and do a one
hundred percent effective job.
This area of Ohio, he said, with its
outstanding farm communities,
should be especially interested in this
type of agricultural aviation.
Civil Aeronautics Director Weaver,
from the Toledo Office, complemented
the other agencies on their fine work
and explained that they learn from
each other by working together, for
the good of aviation.
Reunions
Reunion of the family of the late
Henry Augsburger will be held at
Pandora high school building May
28. Bring your basket and own
table service.’ Menno Augsburger,
President. 6
Eleventh annual Owens school re
union in Richland Grange hall, four
miles southwest of Bluffton, Sunday,
June 4. Basket dinner at 12:30 p. m.
Pres., Willard Jennings sec., Mrs.
Lillie Anderson.
Spallinger-Garmatter 20th annual
reunion at Ada park, Sunday, June
11. Basket dinner at 12:30 p. m.
Pres., Eli Garmatter sec., Leland
Basinger.
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