Here's a plaque not often viewed. It's the builder's plaque of the Beaverdam District School, erected in 1934. Names listed include, board of education members:
W.C. Lacock, president
J.B. Leatherman, vice-president
M.S. Stewart
O.W. Huber
H.F. Clausing
S.M. Vertner, clerk
S.R. Salter, superintendent of instruction
Thos. D. McLaughlin & Associates, architecth
Clarence L. Knowlton, builder
Bluffton pioneer photographer, Will A. Triplett, had an interesting sense of humor. This photo is a photographer's "set up."
There are several items to check.
For example, the colt on the ground is playing dead, the boy in the chair holds the horse harness, but so does the dog - also sitting in a chair - behind the boy.
There are probably other set ups in this photo and unfortunately the joke is on us, because people of 2012 may not see what else is going on in the photo.
Trains are running on time on the Bluffton Western Terminal Railroad. Dr. B.W. Travis handles the Union Pacific City of San Francisco. The Travel O gauge model railroad was a Bluffton from the late 1940s to late 1970s.
Here's perhaps the most frightening Bluffton post card of all time. The identification line on the right reads: The burning oil tanks Bluffton Ohio (publishinged by Sidney Hauenstein).
Sorry to say, we know nothing about this fire. The message side of the card does not clearly show the postmarked year. The message has nothing to do with the fire. It reads: Have forwarded box of fresh prunes from Santa Rosa, Ca. for yourself from Gwendolyn Lenore and Mary (?).
Here's a Bluffton scouting snapshot that we've never seen.
The photo shows member of Bluffton Boy Scout Troop #56 in the summer of 1944. The photo was taken in front of the Bluffton grade school, likely before departing for a week of summer camp at Shawnee Camps, now Camp Lakota, near Defiance.
Back row: Scoutmaster A.C. Burcky
Second row from left: Assistant scoutmaster Charles Triplehorn, Ronald Diller, Gene Patterson, and assistant scoutmaster Donivan Augsburger.
