The Bluffton News, 1939-07-13

State Department Reverses Stand I check in like amount will be Reversing its previous stand, fol-1 s«nt to O. E. Bowers, manager of lowing a decision last month by thePhe Farmers Elevator company, here, Ohio Supreme court in a similar case,! !°ca’ representatives of Allied Mills the state department notified the I £Uayne’ sPonsors of the con conboard - board conboard here that it is prepared tol ,‘ make necessary adjustments on re- The two men, accompanied by the.r eeipt of a certified copy of those "lv% make ‘he trip to Orange township pupils attending AuKUSt’ aut° school here who reside one and one-half miles from the Union The contest ,n whlch Montgomery i Iwas a winner was open to poultry township school at Cory and near- raisers jn er the Bluffton school I in

The Bluffton News presents the twenty-eighth installment of the “Centennial Series" dealing with early Bluffton history and published in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Bluffton's founding.—Editor. Shut off from the outside world by impassable roads and woefully in inadequate - adequate inadequate modes of transportation, early Bluffton was hard pressed for diversion and it is little wonder that when traveling shows, lecturers or musicians stopped here that the en entire - tire entire town turned out en masse for an evening of entertainment.

Tuition in the chool here, based onl shower boquet of white roses. actual cost, amounts to approximately! Following the ceremony a reception i $3.35 per pupil per month. For eachljn honor of the bride and groom was pupil attending school here the board! held at the home of the bride’s par parof - of parof education is entitled to receive!entSt after which Dr. and Mrs. Long from the state foundation fund a pay-1 ieft on a motor trip thru Michigan, ment of approximately $6 per month.I por her traveling ensemble

Bluffton’s experiment with a modi modified - fied modified Fourth of July celebration with no legislation to enforce its provis provisions - ions provisions proved a failure last week. A proclamation by Mayor W. A. Howe asking that no firecrackers be dis discharged - charged discharged in the business district was flouted and on the evening of the Fourth the downtown section took on all the a«pcts of the old-fashioned wide-open celebration which continued until well toward midnight.

At that time the state department I Montgomery was notified the first held that where no tuition was paid I ^he week that he will receive by an out of the district pupil, there I shortly a check to cover railroad was no obligation on the part of thel^are and Pullman accommodations to state department to make payments I ^*ew York city and return and also to the board of education on the bas-lmoney cover three days’ expenses is of that pupil’s attendance. I at the fair. ...

Action of the state department in I Frank Montgomery, Orange town townwithhoulding - withhoulding townwithhoulding the money was based on I sb’P farmer, was one of seven prize the fact that the Bluffton board of I "’inners to be awarded a free trip education had failed to collect tuition I ^ew ^ork city World’s fair from 37 Orange township pupils who|’n a nationwide contest conducted attended school here in 1937-38. |by a manufacturer of poultry feeds.

It was this $6 per month for the 371 Long wore a black and white pin Orange township pupils which thelstripe(j dress with white accessories, state department of education con-1 The bride is a graduate of Rawson tended it was not liable by reason of I high school and Bluffton college. For the failure of the Bluffton board of I the past four years she has been home education to collect the monthly tui-l economics instructor in McComb high tion of $3.35. I schoo.

Orange Pupils Sent Here I ship and Dr. Robert Long, only son At that time a number of Orange! of Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Long of Lima, township residents who objected tol The ceremony was solemnized be bethe - the bethe transfer of the district to Unionl fore an altar banked with flowers at township sent their children to the I the home of the bride’s parents, Sat SatBluffton - Bluffton SatBluffton schools. I urday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev.