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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1904
Page
4
The river offers first class fishing with authorities predicting a better year than in recent seasons. Improvements such as eliminating raw acid dumping by the glycerin factory give fish a fighting chance, while high waters bring fish from the reservoir increasing summer angling stories.
Bluffton ferries its timber industry toward decline as Myers and Fetters, J. M. Buck, the hub factory, the folding chair plant, and Mercer Lumber near collapse from timber shortages. Once a hub of work, the town now sees sporadic mill operation and looming shutdowns, prompting calls for smaller factories to stabilize jobs.
In Portland the ladies of the Eastern Star raising a dollar each faced a chorus of tales at the event. One member boasted earning her dollar by kissing a man not her husband sparking curiosity and tears when she refused to reveal his identity. Other notes mention Rev. C G Miller’s Presbytery trip and local visitors and departures.
Superintendent A R Huyette attended the Keystone class day for the graduating class. Three graduates presented theses: Leone Marsh on A Few Eminent Americans Maggie Walker on The Influence of Music and Julia Black on The Girl of Today. The program included songs speeches and devotional exercises ahead of commencement next Thursday at M P church with Dr Aley of the State University delivering the class address.
Pugney community reports Sunday school next Sunday morning and evening preaching by Marion Garton who is able to sit up. Several sick people are recovering. Mabel Owens returned home from Bluffton. Lawrence Garton visited from Marion. T J Sowards and wife moved to Henry Garton's home. they spent winter in Bluffton. Pugney friends welcome them back. Simeon Bickel and wife from Six Miles and Arnold family visited Silas Wisner. John Sowards and wife now reside in Pugney. Lew Trenary from Michigan visiting relatives. Farmers in boots plow and prepare to sow oats. Jim Sturgis returns to Marion College after a home visit.
Prospect B 8 Cotton and wife visited relatives in Huntington Saturday and Sunday. Mrs Levi Osborn is on the sick list. James Lepper was home for an over Sunday visit with his parents. Miss Zola Keplinger is seriously ill with typhoid fever. Mrs Randall Schoonover is not better and growing weaker. her daughter Mrs George Selbold of Fort Wayne assists in caring. Dora Hoppengardner of Ossian visited with her uncle Wm Lepper over Sunday. Rev Lacey will preach next Sunday evening and Epworth League officers will be installed. Clarence Longshore is recovering from measles. Eva Hart will teach a subscription school if enough pupils are secured.
Program notes for the Lancaster township Sunday school convention at Lancaster Chapel on May 8 at 2 oclock. Includes songs prayer by Reverend J K Borkert reports from Sunday schools a talk Heart Work in the Sunday School by BE Snyder county secretary music and a talk How to Succeed In Country Sunday Schools by Rev J K Borkert each subject followed by discussion contribution and election of officers. Mary Wisner president requests prayers for inspiration and readiness to help.
Miss Grace Grove informs friends she will depart for home next Monday. She has been staying with her brother in Phoenix Arizona during the winter.
The shooting gallery will close soon as the new proprietor will not continue the business and seeks a buyer. No prizes will be offered as part of the sale.
Harry Dunham rests sick while Herb Fuller works on the Chopson lease. Griffin Oil drilled a fair well on the Wm Minnich lease. I L Jone family dined with Ed Monce near Jeff. H J Roby plans move to Jay county after selling Warren farm. Isaac Laymon shifts to Penn Oil pumping. Spring tasks include fence building and woodcutting as the Salem school closes and D R Harman departs for Montpelier. A horse ran away during tool transport, injuring no one.
Funk Miller and Co moved their sawmill to Robert Chalfant's farm near Bluffton. Clifton Haughton returned from Wisconsin after three years away. Rev Erhardt preached farewell at Salem church and joins Greenville circuit. Several residents attend services at Linn Grove. young people gather for the Young People's alliance.
An advertisement touts Push-Kuro as a radical, science-based cure for numerous ailments. It promises fixed principles, no guessing, and claims to treat weakness, pain, debility, blood diseases, catarrh, kidney and liver disorders, heart trouble, malaria, and female complaints. Available by mail for one dollar, with a cold-Push variant.
Next Friday April 22 marks the end of the four months term in Craigville. The high school hall team will play the sluggers in the afternoon south of town, followed by a school entertainment in the evening. Last Saturday a diploma examination was held at the school house. John Blair, the section foreman, authorized Mr Christ to supervise his men while away. Robert Berry visited the city Sunday night.
The Six Mile Woman's Christian Temperance Union hosts another popular oratorical contest in the church next Tuesday evening. Seven contestants will compete for prizes, five girls and two boys. Contestants include Hazel McCleery Zella Higgins Grace Markley Hattie Snow Zanna Arnold John Prillman and Merle Arnold.
Two long tributes outline the lives of Henry A Mann of Poneto Wells county Ind and William Stahl of Maryland born 1818 who died 1904. Mann served in the 53rd Indiana during the Civil War and held church leadership roles while Stahl farmed in Wells county and left a large family including five children and twenty grandchildren. Both men are remembered for integrity faith and public spirit.
Funeral services for two elderly residents were held Friday morning April 15 at 10 in Poneto Baptist Church conducted by Rev. J. C. F. Scherich. Interment followed at Stahl Cemetery with about six hundred in attendance as the community offered sympathy amid a sad bereavement. An Irishman at Fort Wayne was
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