THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1954 TH E BI A FFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO SECTION 2, PAGE 1 Risser Names Appointees For Key Posts W! In Sportsmen’s Rainbow Trout Derby \USED DOLLAR DAYS W Committee appointments for key Numbered cylinder tags for mark­ posts in the 1954 Rainbow Trout ing trout and walleyes have arrived Derby were announced this week by and work will open next week to con- Dave Risser, who has accepted the appointment again this year as tagged fish in this year’s derby. supervisor of the derby committee. Last year/178 trout and walleyes Mr. Risser’s appointments include were tagged for prizes. At the close roraHMNCE Harry Bogart and Gene Benroth in of the derbr on Labor Day more than rived on their Onio woods land. charge of tagging the fish; Vyrl 90 per ce^t of the tagged fish had The Centurion In the early] days salt was the It was a spring day just 100 years Neeper, radio publicity; Arden Baker been checljed in at Risser’s> Sandwich ago and the half-dozen weather- principal produtt of Liverpool Town­ and Milt Edwards, newspaper public­ Shop, offi/ial tag checking station.« boarded log cabins grouped on Rocky ship and Warier got into the salt ity; Maynard Geiger aryd Don Reams, Approximately the samle number In November and December we were in a Ford dealer contest to sell New Ford River bank between Hardscrabble business early] Though he never public address system; William Gaif- will be tj/igged this year. The prize and trucks. We won that contest which jneans we sold and traded more cars than any and Valley City in Literpool Town­ admitted that the reason he tried so fe and Joe Swank, luiich concession; bearers rill be released in the quarry dealer our size in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. ship, Medina County, were crowded. hard to detou^ Rocky River was to Edwin Rice, first-aid' station; Wade along w th hundreds of others in time From all over the /township the leave the sal^ deposits on his own Bechtol, quarry police; Norman for the derby opening on the first In order to get our plans ready for the year of 1954 to do even a better job—we are Warners, Demings, Stovells, Clarks, side of the stream, neither did he Triplett, derby anpouncer; W’illiam Sunday following Easter. going to clean out our Used surplus in February Dollar Days! deny it. >rship cards and badges are Seeleys and other Warner kinfolk Edwards and Harold Balmer, tag and Memb Take advantage of our large volume of business and trade your old used car for a had come and some j of them from Justus Warner’s own salt well was prize checking station. available at Mumma Electric Shop, mma, membership secretary, better one. It doesn’t cost you anything to stop in and SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO. We further away. one of the best producers in the C. V. Stonehill,/aerial bombs; Gil­ Carl Mi will show you our entire selection of cars. ♦ From piddling around his little salt country and besides making the bert Montgomery, parking; Ed Root urges e irly registration in order to well on the opposite side of the river Hardscrabble neighborhood one of and Ray Reichenbach, electricians; licient funds to pay for the Remember—we want to sell you the car you want to buy. ' * Grandpappy looked pp and saw the the best known salt districts it gave Vern Walker, photographer; Silas restock i ifr program. The fee is $3 All cars carry our regular S. E. I. months or 6,000 mile warranty! Ask us about it. multitude. He had spent most of his the Warner group of houses the name Diller, decorations quarry and Main for all n rsons 16 years of age artd life in trying to detour the river so “Salt Spring Town.” street; Maurice Fett, special attact- older. tions on derby day. Customline 8 Cyl., 4 Dr., Radio. Custom 8 Cyl., 2 Dr., Radio, the well would be on the same side In Liverpool Township salt was Heater, Fordomatic Dr. as the cabins but never quite had money and was accepted as legal Ruth Diller, Pianist Heater. (2 to choose). been able to devise a way that work­ tender throughout. When Warner Colled $154 In Rawson 1952 Ford Mainline 8 Cyl., 2 Dr., Radio, ed. So again the old man walked the built his own larger and newer frame For II heaton Choir 1919 6 Cyl., 2 Dr., Heater. Diller, daughter of Mr. and Heater, Two-tone paint. long footlog and made directly for house he took 300 j|ounds.of salt to March Of Dimes Fund Ruth I. Mrs. Cla ience Diller of Bluffton, a 11M9 Ford Dlx. 8 Cyl., 2 Dr., Heater (2 Aunt Sally Warner’s cabin, on the Cleveland and traced it .for 100 March of Dimes contributions in senior at Wheaton college, Wheaton, 1952 Ford Mainline 6 Cyl., 2 Dr., Heater. creek, to see what it all was about. pounds of nails to hold the house to­ to chooseU the Village of Rawson with an Illinois, S pianist for the Chapel Aunt Sally was his youngest daugh­ gether. It was the/first frame house 1951 Ford Dlx. 8 Cyl., 4 Dr., Radio. Heat­ estimated 149 fampies have averaged Choir. S je will accompany the choir 19AS Mercury 8 Cyl., 4 Dr. ter—born during thf War of 1812 in the township. The fence came out er, O/Drive. / about $1.94, Mr.| Kenneth Bame, as they n pke their mid-semester tout­ and still unmarried. of the big oak trap that stood near Rawson chairman |aid this week in end Southern Illinois, and 1951 Ford Dlx. 6 Cyl., 2 Dr., Ra^io, J947 Ford Super Dlx. 8 Cyl., 2 Dr., Radio, the well—it made ^60 rails. of Iowa “Who’s dead? What are all these announcing results of the drive in the annual spring tour which will in­ Heater. * floater. Four years before he died Grand­ people doing heref” he panted to that community.- / clude Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, pappy Warner failed to show atfcup- Aunt Sally. Then his mouth dropped .Mrs. Bame reported that the Louisiana, ’ Mississippi, and Tennes­ 1950 Ford Custom 8 Cyl., 4 Dr., Radio, 1947 Nash 6 Cyl., 4 Dr. (2 to choose). open, his tobacco <|uid fell out, and per and as twilight came oij his Mnsorfa CCL drcle/of Rawson col­ see. Heater, O Drive. daughter Minerva went dthvn t| the a grin mingled with the other wrink­ lected $154821 IhfcV'Thursd/y evening » The Chanel Choir is sponsored by 1947 Packard 8 Cyl., 4 Dr., Clean. Low salt well with a great deal off mis­ 1950 Ford Custom. 6 Cyl., 4 Dr., Radio, les on his face. “I know,” he told bi the MotWrs* March. From clubs the Wheatoji College Conservatory of mileage. giving. The old man had veey cau­ Heater. the daughter, “They’ve come because ahd organizations an additional $46 music as pert of their broad train­ I’m 100 years old today.” tioned many times lot to fail- mto his has been collected for the total of ing program for degrees in bachelor 1950 Ford Dlx. 6 Cyl., 2 Dr., Radio. 1916 Ford Dlx. 8 Cyl., 2 Dr., Heater. own salt well but always laughed off So Grandpappy scrawled his name $200.82. of music with either a performance Heater. and the date on a fly leaf of the the warning. “Shucks”, he counter­ Anyone stiil wishing to contribute 1916 Oldsmobile 66 Series, Club , or a chubch music major, or a bache­ 1950 Chrysler Club Coupe, Radio, Heater. family Bible—“Justus Warner, one ed, “Haman was hanged on his own may contact Mrs. Bame. lor of mus|c in education. Radio, Heater. hundred years old today.” Just scaffold but I know what I am about. 1950 Ford Custom 8 Cyl., 4 Dr.', Radio, twenty days later a wooden slab on a I can take care of my own affairs.” Heater. A few lower priced cars to choose from. new grave in the family burying- He always was like fhat—if the other Two Are Fined In Schooll Enrollment ground read: Justus Warner, aged fellow thought of something first, it Beaverdam Court Up 45 Jn 5 Years Blufftonfs school enrollment has 100 years and 20 days. was wrong. But if lit was Warner’s A Pandora mail, Richard H. Arm­ increased slightly more than 10 per ON-THE-SPOT FINANCING A Waterbury, Connecticut, wooden own idea nobody coijld convince him strong, 42, was fined $10 and costs, cent in thf last five-year period, Supt. clock maker, Justus Warner and his that he was wrong about it. and a $20 bond was forfeited by Aaron B. Murray pointed out this family had arrived May 18, 1811, In the shadows Minerva peeked in­ Bruno Plcolin, 22, Madison, Wise., in week in a comparison of school reg­ with a few horses and wagons, 11 to the salt well and there was Grand­ Mayor Wayne R. Trippiehorn’s istration for the 1949-50 and 1953-54 head of cattle and some household pappy up to his armtits in the salty, court in Beaverdam last week. MOTOR SALES O! goods. There were 13 persons in the thick brine. Hurrying back to the Armstrong Was fined on a charge terms. \ From a n»ark of 507 in 1949, school party, including Warner’s son, Al- house she brought a portable ladder of failure to signal when making a enrollment has increased by 55 pheus and his wife, Minerva: and and help to get the old man out of turn. Picolin was cited on a charge Warners daughter, Rijth, and her the well. He was in bad shape and of improper passing. pupils. husband, Moses Demini. nearly frozen. Virtually all of the increase in the The men peddled xfooden clocks After being dried out, put into He got over it in a week. W’hen school population, however, has been all the way from Waterbury to Har- fresh clothing and given a few hot he was 80 he fell out of a tree and in the grade fcchool, which now shows USED CAR LOT s-'rabble and thus paid the expenses toddys Warner explained that he had was hurt some—but when he fell out an enrollment of 341 pupils, as com­ of the trip and accumulated some­ not. fallen into the wel£ at all—he of another at 96 it nearly had killed pared with an enrollment of only 286 N. Main St., Bluffton Phone 139*T thing to start out on vfhen they ar- just had slipped into it, that was all. him. five years ago.

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