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THE PAGE EIGHT BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949 wincing landlords induced them to Farmers Pass Up Aaron B. Murray Ralph Speakman, Van Wert, Bluffton Gets $789 HARMON FIELD NOTES anv unusually nice balance seconds; 2nd, Donald Herr, Bluffton, Holiday On Fourth Named School Head 27 seconds; 3rd, Woodrow Herr, From Auto Tag Fees ; on (Concluded from page 1) (Concluded from page 1) Bluffton, 28 seconds; 4th, Herbert high school in the class of 1923 and ?ctea only has ripened the crop nearly Denney, Findlay, 33 seconds. than usual, but received his Bachelor of Arts degree Bluffton this week received $789.75 two weeks Western Gal Pleasure Horse—1st, front Bluffton college in 1927. He in the distribution of 1949 motor age at Helen Ann Harpst, Toledo: 2nd. to experienced also holds a Master of Arts degree vehicle license fees. Beaverdam got in school administration front Ohio Elsa Walters, Rawson; 3rd, Wanda $142.50 and Lafayette received $137 at 6 p. F this week, farm observers. State university. Breda, Lima; 4th, Beverly Sperbeck. in the distribution. and eve is urged to ning at 5 p. m. Moisture test is well below the 14 Murraj has p. background of 22 Lima. attend . With a 1 number from Bluf per cent figurt at which the. crop is the Bluffton Combine Clinics years experience in school adminis­ Golden Balloon Mill—1st, Howard Wood f in the swimmin from G. Anderson, Rawson; 2nd, Howard Tennis club, wil >t Recreation tours, an additional lifeguard Combine clinics are planned tration and is well known among BALLERINA keep in. educators of the state. Starting his Harpst, Jr., Toledo; 3rd, Billy Mur­ Ider with the been assigned to the pool during the for Allen and Putnam counties The Dicken ■d at the career as superintendent of schools phy, Lima; 4th, James Wierwille, instruct All equipment will be time that the local group is in Friday, to demonstrate the three DOLLS the old inn for a while the at Latty following his graduation New Bremen. provide* water. changed and more types of combining. ATTRACTIVE 4 DISTINCTIVE be from Bluffton college, he went suc­ Gold Nugget Race—-1st, Elonald DECO native new mail Allen county clinic will be at axl grease 3 p. m. Fridav at the Bud Mc­ cessively to Plain City near Colum­ Herr, Bluffton, • 43 seconds; 2nd, Attendance High still with burning only Midget Baseball stage, then Clure farm. One of the Putnam bus, then to Georgetown, county seat Howard Harpst, Jr., Toledo 3rd, 6Oc Attendance for summer recreation thirst and a dark brown, morning- activities has been climbing steadily In the first midget baseball game county clinics will be at the of Brown county, and later to Wash­ Herb Ballinger, Lafayette; 4th, Ted [BY MAIL: • kc Post Paid] taste, went on to Dayton, since the program was inaugurated. of the season, Bluffton kiddies lost after David Schroeder farm near Co­ ington, C. H., county seat ®f Fay­ Pfenning, Wapakoneta. where liquor flowed more freely. MRS. ROBE It benroth In the first week of activity at the to Columbus Grove, 14 to 13, in an lumbus Grove at 12:30 p. m. ette county, first as principal for Open Prairie Calf Roping—1st, Their arrival and departure caused Phone 342-Y | 612 S. Main St. grade school and at Harmon field, extra-inning game at that place, Allen county farmers can attend four years and for the next eight Tony Gundennan, Cecil, Ohio, oo little more flurry in sleepy Lebanon Bluff*>n, Ohio Burkholder reported a total of 228. Tuesday. 23 boys under 14 years this clinic, and most from this years as superintendent. seconds; 2nd, Millard IHerr, Bluffton, than would that of a “runner” sell­ During the second week attendance of age played in the game. district planning to attend likely Larger System 27 seconds; 3rd, and 4th, no award ing the newest brand of fertilizer. rose to 292, and last week there At the end of the regulation will find it more convenient to As head of the schools at Wash­ given—no calf roped. Lebanon that early, was blase to ington C. H., Murray administered New Shipment of were 335 at the two centers. seven innings, the score was tied; go to Columbus Grove. Frontiersmen Western stock horse already had a few a system with a staff of 70 teachers Bluffton tallied three runs in the hero worship. It discounted, and weight is 58 to 6112 —First, Rolland Neyens, Toledo; 2nd, SWI® CHEESE which is considerably larger than Swimming Trips Begin eighth but their foes again knotted of its very own. pounds per bushel. With yields so Don Herr, Bluffton; 3rd, Woodrow the Bluffton schools and at a salary Sixty-four youngsters made the the count, and in the ninth the 7 Hours to go 31 Miles far averaging around 30 bushels to Herr, Bluffton; 4th, Beverly Sper­ substantially above that which he 59c Pound first trip of the summer to the Co- winning Grove team came through The Dickens party came into the acre, a bumper crop is assured beck, Cairo. lumbus Grove swimming pool in the with the single tally that meant Lebanon on one of Sellers’ Lebanon for the district, Normal yield is will receive here. Ice Cream Sundaes In discussing reasons for becoming chartered bus provided by the town. victory. and Cincinnati coaches, making trips from 20 to 25 bushels. The best Conveyance of Yesteryear on ex­ I' Coffee interested in the position here Mur­ every other day. The journey took yield to date was 36 bushels per hibition at Rodeo—Gold Cup award­ ray said that despite a smaller sys­ Sandwiches seven hours and the one-way fare acre. ed to Adolph Nordhaus, Glandorf, “Make it a big one” and the little tem and less salary, he has always was $1.25. Incidentally, the dist­ Fourth of July combining of for his 101 year old Morman prairie I " lady to trail along with “Gimme the desired to live in Bluffton which he ance is still 31 miles and today’s wheat was nostalgic in one respect, schooner. Cup awarded by Buckeye Winkelmans Dairy Store same.” described as a community with un­ buses make it in an hour but with for in the old days when the crop Coach and Manufacturing Company, It did not work out that way. The usual advantages in addition to be­ Bfaverdam, Ohio little difference in the fare. Sellers was cut by binders the peak of the Beaverdam. place was a temperance hotel. Dick­ ing the “home town.” Moreover his started his coach line in 1883. harvesting season usually was reach­ ens was mad. W’hen he got away wife comes from this area, being a The Dickens party left Lebanon ed at about the holiday. and finally had time, the novelist daughter of the late Probate Judge BY HARRY U HAU for Dayton on one of Abner Ross’ Crop Ripens Early wrote the thing up in a book, Here and Mrs. Wm. George of Ottawa. Editor’s Note—This w one Concord stages. Ross, incidentally, With combines in use generally, it is, word for word, taken from Mr. and Mrs. Murray have one of a series of articles to appear was the stage coach king of the harvesting normally comes about Dickens’ American Notes: daughter, Janice, who was graduat­ in the Bluffton News dealing Ohio and Miami valleys. In the late mid-July for combined wheat must The couple arrived “on the great ed in music from Ohio State uni­ ALL DEAD STOCK REMOVED with early Ohio history, Others 184O’s he had stage lines running ripen about two weeks longer than mail coach, whose huge cheeks, so versity last March and is now spend­ will appear in forthcoming between Cincinnati and Indianapolis, that cut by binder, in order to as­ ruddy and plethoric that it appears ing her third season at Lake Chau­ We Pay $4.00 for Horses .. . , $4.00 for Cows issues. Cleveland. Toledo, Columbus and sure top quality. to be troubled with a tendency of The agriculture department is tauqua, N. Y., in one of the sum­ According to size and condition. eastern points. Ross also . Main Phone 225-W Denver, Omaha, Chicago and else- There were floats with hill-billy prize. Winner received a golden Monthly Paymenfo Jj^Sulf Bluffton, Ohio where until his chain was immense. singers; recreations of pioneer rooms, horse statue donated by Jo Jo Har­ fyfocke/l cwti/utce. Despite all his successes, Abner and even an old-time western rison, Toledo. Ross returned to Lebanon in 1854 saloon interior, complete with card Second High point contestant— and bought the old Bradley House— game and bar. W’oodrow Herr, Bluffton, 8 points. then called the Lebanon House and Ancient automobiles, one of 1909 Third High point contestant—Al owned by Mat Koogle. He ran it vintage, chugged along in the paracic Ingalls, Bluffton, 7 points. until April, 1863, when his wife died with their more modern counter­ Fourth High point contestant— YORKSI 1IRES Home Killed Meats there, then sold out. Abner Ross parts; and there were outstanding Howard Harpst, Jr., Toledo, 6 points. died in 1885. entries of local business places, in­ Fifth High point contestant—Ed­ It was in the Ross Hotel, then the cluding a model 1949 home. die Reichenbach, son of Ralph BEEF PORK VEAL LAMB Ferguson House, that Eliza Clay, 12, Attracted by the unusual features Reichenbach, 5 points. More Lean Meat and Less Lardi daughter of Henry and Lucretia of the gala event, two Lima radio the solution to t| e Pork Packers’ Problem Clay, died from typhoid August 11, broadcasting stations had field crewi’S Forty-Niner Gold Rush Grand 1825, when the family were enroute here to record descriptions, which Entry—1st, Woodrow Herr; 2nd, Al aired on Sunday broadcasts, from Lexington, Kentucky, to Wash­ were Ingalls; 3rd, Donald Herr 4th, Joe m and see our selection of MILLERS MODEL DAIRY ington, D. C. The child for decades The two broadcasts, each one-half H. Swank; all from Bluffton. Come to the Old Homestead Fai was in an old Lebanon cemetery but hour long, were made over Station Forty-Niner Silver mounted entry Spring Gilts and Boa •s and Bred Sows later was removed to Lexington. WIMA and Station WLOK. —1st, Bill Crooks, Kenton 2nd, Tom Springer, Lima 3rd, Wanda Breda, “The Golden Lamb” MILK 2 Quarts 33c Lima; 4th, Opal Clay Ada. Behind the tavern where Dickens Rites For Sidney Bad Lands Brone Ride- -1st, Wil- All Registered Stock a d Farmers Prices could not get a drink, lurks strange son Kimberly, Defiance; 2nd, tradition. It has had many names Hauenstein Are Helc (Concluded from page 1) Kimberly, Defiance; third, Bill but today, remodeled and still open, NORDIC DAIRY ICE CREAM Andrew and Barbara (Steiner) Hau Speakman, Van Wert; fourth, James it is “I he Golden Lamb,” named All Flavors Zy/f enstein. His father was a pionee Wierwille, New Bremen. back in 1827 by Henry Share—“the Bluffton pharmacist. Great Plains Pony Class—First, C. N. len g & Son ,/ sign of the Golden Lamb.” Robert On August 20, 1913, he married Jimmy Scoles, Bluffton; second, (Bob) Jones, present owner, acquired Huff ton; third, Dolor- Zoe Matthews, who survives with 3 miles west of Ada on t ie County line rotwr Gallons $1.49 Quarts 39c the old tavern in 1926. two children, Mrs. Barbara J. Todd, is Swick, Findlay; 4th, Eddie Reich­ Among notables whose names are Edinburgh, Scotland, and Nelson M enbach, Bluffton. on the old tavern’s faded registers Hauenstein Ann Arbor, Michigan. W’ild Steer Riding—1st, Bill Veal Loaf Cheese Loaf Dutch Loaf weie William Henry Harrison, 1825; Other survivors include th ret Springer, Lima; 2nd, Dan Harrison, Martin Van Buren, 1842: John Quin­ brothers, Edgar and Armin Hauen Toledo; 3rd, Cisco Cole, Findlay; 4th, Minced Ham Souce Picklee & Pimentorimentog cy Adams, 1845; Rutherford B. Hay­ stein, of Bluffton, and Ray Hauen Don Herr, Bluffton. es, 1867; James A. Garfield, 1871; stein, of Los Angeles, Calif. Men’s & Ladies Golden Musical [FOniLASTIN&^lEAU TYUSt-)^ William McKinley. 1889; William Mr. Hauenstein was graduated Keg—1st, Al Ingalls, Bluffton; 2nd, Howard Taft, 1898; Warren G. from Bluffton High school and the N. T. Oberdorf, Bowling Green; 3rd, YOUR CHOICE, LB- 49c I Harding, 1914, and both U. S. Grant University of Michigan school oi Bob Crom, Bowling Green; 4th, Dick and Benjamin Harrison in 1883. pharmacy. He also studied violir Foltz, Cairo. Others the Dickenses in with Mischa Mischacoff at Chau Boys & Girls Golden Musical— 1842; Henry Clay, 1844; Henry tauqua, N. Y., and Samatini in Chi —First, Eddie Reichenbach, Bluff­ Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher cago. ton; 2nd, Smoke Cook, Lima; 3rd, Sirloin Steak Gr*A lb. 69c and Janies Whitcomb Riley, Rev. E. N. Bigelow, of Norwalk, Jack Speakman, Van Wert; 4th, and Clement L. Vallanding- a former pastor of the Bluffton Beverly Sperbeck, Lima. ham, who shot himself in one of it; Presbyterian church, officiated at Homesteaders Obstacle Race—1st, rooms in 1871. funeral services in the church here Such registrations were of more Wednesday afternoon. Burial RIB STEAK lb. 59c recent date. Before them were many in Maple Grove cemetery. of the old days when few could write and fewer could read their own Bov Killed By Contact quill-scratches after they wrote Poison ivy? Sun-Proof Two-Coat House Pair them. Earlier taverns did not keep With Radio Aerial System equals the performance of | CREAM CHEESE lb. 45c registers—no use, because nobody (Concluded from page 1) coats of old type paint while sd could or would write in them. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moser :you the extra material and labor The Golden Lamb inn began in Bluffton. of aYhird coat. Sun-Proof iSt extra' 1807 as Jonas Seaman’s two-story, Funeral sendees were held Friday able because it is made with "Vito' hewed-log tavern. Owned in 1815 in the First Mennonite church in Oil" which stays in the paint film k hv Ichabod Corwin, uncle of Ohio Berne, and on Saturday in the king it live, tough, and elastic. JOWL BACON lb. 25c Ebenezer Mennonite church here. Governor Tom Corwin, it was part The body was brought from Berne brick—the part now the lobby, One [PITTSBURGH PAINTS tooK better longer? family—the Stubbs family, had the to the Paul Diller funeral home in old hostlery far 71 years, And Bluffton. Rev. Howard Landis, pastor of the there—Dickens couldn’t get a drink. SLICED BACON lb. 39c Ebenezer church, officiated at the SPECIAL PRICE IN 5 CALLON LOTS rites here, assisted by Rev. Olen

“Youth is a kind of savings bank, Krehbiel, pastor of the Berne church, Get P. H. D White Primer, Titanic Outside White, Jersey fl* 4 AA iOMM* You put in your experiences, the where services also were held. Cream, Milwaukee Cream, Ivory. Per gallon Fresh Dressed Fryers lb. 49c things you see and learn, and all Burial was in the Ebenezer ceme­ The Poison Ivy Antidote the rest of your life you keep draw­ tery. ing on that savings bank of exper- iences and knowledge, And the Upright silos, 10 feet in diameter Is your home Freezer or locker getting low? wonderful fact is that the more you and 35 feet high, will store enough draw on the account, the larger it silage to feed 12 cows and 10 head Steinman Bros. Lumber Co — See us for replacement of — seems to grow. I am sure that 4-H of young cattle for 175 days at a 1 llaiienslein & Sou members are building a fine savings feeding rate of 2 ¥2 to 3 tons per 236tCherry St Phone 360-W Beef - Pork - Veal - Poultry or Frozen Foods. account.” Secretary of Agriculture. cow, and about half that amount for Charles F. Brannan. calves.