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BLUFFTON NEWS The Advertising Medium for Bluffton Trade Territory VOLUME NO. LXIII OBSERVANCE OF EASTER SUNDAY Union Services to be Held in Afternoon and Evening of Good Friday. Sunrise Service Sunday Morn ing Many Churches Plan Services Here. Friday church, of the Opening with Union Good services in the Presbyterian Bluffton’s annual observance Easter season will be continued thru Sunday, with special programs plan ned by most of the churches of the community. Principal Easter presentations will be on Sunday, with a sunrise ser vice, special music and dramatic offerings included on the day’s pro gram. Bluffton kiddies will enjoy the an nual Easter egg hunt Saturday afternoon at Harmon field, if the weather is favorable. This is a regular event of the Easter season sponsored Auxiliary. by the American Legion Easter vacation at Bluffton col begin with the close of regular classes this Thursday after noon and will continue until Tues day morning, April 18. Bluffton public school students will have a one-day vacation, over Good Friday. Special Easter programs have been announced as follows: Good Friday Service Good Friday services will be held from 1 to 3 p. m. in the Presbyter ian church, with pastors and lay men representing the churches of the community participating. Resi dents are welcome to come to the service at any time during the two hour period, as in past years. Candle Light Service Sunrise Service A one-act play, “The Symbol of a Cross”, will feature the sunrise ser vice at the St. John’s Reformed church on Easter morning at 6:30 o'clock. Young people’s societies of the district are presenting the pro gram with Miss Lueila Luginbuhl, district president in charge. Musical features will include an instrumental quartet and a prelude and a male quartet and mixed chorus from the Ebenezer Mennonite church. Prayer will be offered by Richard Mumma and Scripture read ing by Mary Elizabeth Davidson and Ralph Short. Cast of the play follows: Abdiel, a carpenter Patricia, his wife Lois, their daughter Reuben, their son Chloe, maid servant Ruthella Caius, Roman official Paul Phillip, disciple of Jesus An Illuminated Cross and Candle an investigation now being conduct Light service will be held at 7:30 p. |ed by the town council. m. Friday in the Church of Christ As a part of the project the coun under auspices of the young people’s I cil is seeking permission to remove societies of the Bluffton district. I the two floating beaches from the Jeanne Baumgartner, district vice-1 water and Choir to Sing president, will be in charge of the I the extent of repairs that might be program, and the speaker will be I needed. Miss Janet Henderson. Special I Another musical selections will be offered by I 1S ’n checking over, liability i Lueila Luginbuhl, Lucille Steiner, Frances Cooney, Eugene Weed, Mar vin and Gordon Hilty and a boys| quartet. Others appearing on t._. program will be Vera Amstutz, Louise Dunifon, Darwin Luginbuhl and Elizabeth Campbell. 7:30 as part of the Easter observ ance of the church. Easter Program All classes and departments of the St. John’s Reformed church will be represented in an Easter program to be given Sunday night at o’clock. Klay and Lucille Hilty. rection w... Mumma. Queen Is Named For Annual College She Is Queen ESTHER Ramseyer, Bluffton college senior, who elected queen for Bluffton campus week. was day, fete Her annual open air during graduation home is in Smithville. Ohio. COUNCIL STUDIES BUCKEYE LEASE Investigation of Liability Insur ance and Repairs is Now Being Conducted Council Delays Action on Pro posal municipal will be contingent on the results of Insurance Considered This insurance, designed for the protection of the municipality in case of an accident, xvould provide protection in the amount of $5,000 for an accident involving one person and $10,000 for two persons or more. The Freeman Junior College choir “wbjte elephant” sale at which items of Freeman, South Dakota, will ap- donated by esidents of the town pewr in a sacred concert at the First wil] be soid. This is planned for Mennonite church Sunday night at tbe latter part of April. Cost of the insurance will be $100 per year. Extensive repairs will be required for the two floating beaches, and it was disclosed that there is some question as to whether the floats in their present condition are suitable for repairing for further use. $1,000 for Repairs Should new floats be required it is estimated that approximately $1000 would he needed to cover that phase of the program and to make other James Miller iin|)r()Venu,nts. Size of the proposed Juanita Lora floats wou]d be 34 by 60 feet, Harriet Cooney e|m wood used. Wilhelm Am-1] council leases the swimming [stutz, Jr-] center for the municipality, several Krouse I organizations are expected to Soldner assist jn bnaucing the improvement Eugene prOgram that would be necessai y. [Weed Members of the Lions club are sponsoring a community auction or The Bluffton Sportsmen’s advised the council it is contribute $25 or $30 for gram. Sunday night at 7:80la decision in the matter of leasing the swimming center appear to be Easter Play the assurance of obtaining satisfac “Release”, an Easter play will be] tory insurance, and also the cost of presented at church, Sunday o'clock. Mrs. Lloyd Van Meter xvill|] the Presbyterian! necessaiy repairs to put the place in night at 7:301condition for the summer season. Draft of a proposed lease under charge of the production with! which the municipality would take special music by Misses Frieda Jean| over operation of the quarry owned Stage di-l by the Central Ohio Light and Power rilfbe in charge of Richard] Co. has beim before the council since early in February The cast follows: Centurion R^’ine Warren Soldier Dysmis Sothmes Bar Abbas Rev. C. M. Armentrout Mara Mrs. Harry Bogart Tamah Betty Triplett Dumal Lloyd Van Meter Lehman of of a daugh- Under terms of the proposal the town would operate the swimming Edward Rice center for a period of five years, on Paul Faze payment of the nominal Wilbur Sumney| dollar per year. 'o Preside Over Festivities of Bluffton Day, Graduation Week 7. that Municipality Lease Quarry of Buckeye Lake as a bathing and fishing center Leasing inspect them to determine phase of the investigation insur ance provisions. R. W. Knightley, of Cleveland, insurance representative, who appeared before the council sev the I eral week« a#°, soon have a policy here for perusal by the coun cil, it was announced. He was Stager, ing are ence at a rd of The Bluffton Day Queen has been] physician and member of the county active in many college organizations,] health board, including the Y. W. C. a orchestra and other campus groups. I In commenting She is a sister of Miss Edna Ram- here, Tuesday, Dr. Bixel stated there seyer, dean of women of the college] is no indication of any contamination who was Bluffton day queen in 1932. in the city water supply Frequent Bluffton Day, with its colorful fes-] laboratory tests by the slate board of tivities, is held annually the day be- health have always shown Bluffton's fore commencement and is one of the city water to be sati^a fr in a outstanding features of the gradua-] health standpoint, tion week program. Latest Test in February P. Moser Funeral Friday Afternoon Brothers and Noah, Amos and John Moser all of Beaverdam and Mrs. Elizabeth Alt haus of Bluffton. Funeral services will be held Fri day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Diller Funeral home and at 2 o’clock i at the Reformed Mennonite church, Rev. Peter Steiner of Lima official-1 ing. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body may be view at the funeral home. Last Rites For Dorsey Amstutz Funeral services for Dorsey Am stutz, 78, a lifelong resident of this community were held at Ebenezer Mennonite church, Saturday after noon. His pastor, Rev. P. A. Klie wer officiated at the services. In terment was made in the Ebenezer cemetery. Mr. Amstutz, a retired farmer and woodworker, died at his home one mile night, tions. west Death was He near and stutz. stutz, years work Mennonite years. club has ready to the pro- Obstacles Reviewed Principal obstacles in the way of sum of one Births Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pandora are the parents It’s not so much how long you] ter born at the Bluffton hospital last live, but how well. I Thursday. of Bluffton Thursday due to complica- Hancock county, son of Abraham Am- was born in Bluffton, the Elizabeth (Augsburger) His wife, Anna Elizabeth Am preceded him in death eleven ago. and Also surviving are the brothers and sisters: Jacob Beaverdam Mrs. Lydia Zurfluh and! Mrs. Rose Nichols, Lima Mrs. Em I ma Cavanaugh, Bluffton, Ind., and! Mrs. Lizzie Kauffman, Buck Creek,! Indiana. Form New Farm Bureau Council The Bluffton Farm Bureau advis ory council met at the home of Henry Gratz Tuesday night at which time a new council was formed the Beaverdam area. rHE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939 RAI I FYPFRT FOR CITY WATER HERE isther Ramsever of Senior] Two Bluffton High student groups Class Elected by Vote of of Health to 7°? h°TrS ’‘^J*’** c,’,pe‘iti“n I Ask State tJOara VI neaitn lO|last week, one in dramatics and the Student Body Determine Source of other in music. “Wrigglers” Miss Esther Ramseyer, Bluffton] I trophy presented college senior from Smithville, will] |Blade. Two other finalists, one from reign as queen in charge of the col-] An engineer from the state board Convoy and the othei from Toledo, orful Bluffton Day festivities duringl health will be asked to come to |competed. the commencement season on the] Bluffton to determine the source of Bluffton playeis presented Thorn campus this spring, it was decided] “wrigglers” which have been found U°n „W ilder s play, The Happy Jour in popular vote of the student body.|’n the city water supply. |ney In the cast were Zitella Get- In winning the distinction of the| Request that an expert be sent here |tles Mark Niswander, Bettye Ix wis, leading co-ed of the graduating class,] from Columbus will be made by the Miss Ramseyer polled more than half] Allen county board of health, it was the total votes cast. stated by Dr. M. R. Bixel, Bluffton In the festivities the queen will be Latest test of the city xx iter, made escorted by the most popular man Feb. 11. confirmed previous test.s and the maid-of-honor. Identity of showed absence of cortiuimnation. the most popular man will not be Official cognizance of thf situation made public until release of The was taken by the town council at its Ista, college yearbook. The maid-of- meeting, Monday night when Mayor honor will be elected this month. |w A Howe stated that earlier in the|llunt day he had turned over to a repre-1 sentative of the county board of health a wriggler found in the city water suj, the mayor is an instructor. Theo. P. Moser, 71, residing two! The wrigglers, usually from one miles noitheast of Beaverdam lied|balf to three-fourths inches in length at Bluffton hospital Tuesday night |are somewhat similar in appearance at 8:30 o’clock. Death was due to Lo an angleworm. For a number of pneumonia. years they have been found at inter- He was born in Wayne county but L,a|s ,n tbe cfty water, usually in the resided here during the greater part of his life, tion, he has years. by occupa for several A farmer been retired married to 1 who* survives. Also surviv five sons: Vernon and Clar home Duett of Lima How Bluffton and Orlo Moser of Cincinnati and David Steiner Sylvia Amstutz The board is sched- A„ theluled to hold its regular monthly meet- capella choir, women’s gospel team, ing in Lima this Wednesday. on the situation 1100 Dozen Colored Eggs Will Used in Setting Stage spring season. Water From Deep Wells How they enter the city system is .not known as the water is obtained Mary J^nn|from deep wells arttf pumped into concrete reservoirs until it goes into the mains. John Swisher, superintendent of the municipal electric light and water- two daughters Mrs.l orkf. plant which furnishes the city at home and rs.1 atI of Bluffton. sisters surviving are water, stated Tuesday that tests of the water by the state board of health] have invariably been satisfactory. Choir To Broadcast Prof. R. A. Lantz is director of the choir with Mrs. Lantz chaperone. The choir will be heard in cast from Radio City next day afternoon from 1:15 o’clock over the NB( Blue While in New York city the group will also visit the World’s Fair grounds and witness the broadcast of Fred Alien’s radio feature “Town Hall Tonight”. Funeral In Lima For Former Local He was active in church] afternoon, with Re E. J. Penhor teacher in the Ebenezer] wood of the South Side Church of Sunday school for many] Christ of that plate officiating. Surviving are two foster daugh-| ters, Mrs. John Dunbar of Bluffton! ton some thirty years ago, died at and Mrs. Martha Artus Texas. for co be A film depicting methods of operatives in Nova Scotia will shown in the Beaverdam high schooll gymnasium, Friday night, April 14 at 8 o’clock sponsored by the Bluff ton Farm Bureau group. The public is invited. Campus Spring Fete fjj"1 J*” Honors In Dramatics And Music ",NA1 I City Supply Shows no Evidence c!ety frWay niRht ,won campion .------------™ Iship of a one-act play contest. Of Contamination, Tests Emblematic of Disclose cast received a Swisher said that samples of city] water taken from the fire hydrants] recently by employes of the municipal] Signing of contracts for compli plant disclosed no wrigglers. ance in the federal AAA program Over NBC Network Making an extended concert tour of the east, the Bluffton College A Capella choir left Saturday after noon. The group is traveling in a chartered bus and two private cars. I as girls’ I Funeral services tor Mrs. Libby I Vaughn, 75, former Bluffton resi dent were held in Lima, Saturday Burial in West »ter cemetery, Rod Mrs. Vaughn, a n .-ident of Bluff-100CS of Poth,I her home in Lima, Thursday. I Those from this place attending followingl the funeral were: Mrs. Mary Mann, Amstutz,! Mrs. Ella Ixmg, Mrs. Mary Stein ----1 man and Alfred Landis. Real Estate Deals H’Sh School Groups Win District In the Northxvcstern Ohio district finals, actors representing the Thes pians, Bluffton High dramatic so- play contest. their success, the handsome silver by The Toledo Easter Egg Hunt To Be Held At TT i i i For Egg Hunt Participation Limited to Kiddies And I Children in First youngsters will frolic of the Easter rabbit Bluffton in at to the wake Harmon field Saturday afternoon participate in the annual Eastei Egg sponsored by the Bluffton American Legion post and Auxiliary. If weather proves unfavorable the hunt will be held in Legion hall in it pplv at the high sdKM.l where] 8tead of at th(‘ nrreation center, 1 was announced. the event will be 2 p. m. Starting time of Those in charge estimate that ap proximately 100 dozen colored eggs will he used in laying the stage for the annual egg hunt. Participation in the afternoon’s festivities will be limited to children up to and including the sixth grade. Special contests are being planned. and prizes will be offered. Legion and Auxiliary members will provide most of The’eggs, But others interested in making donations may leave them at the Fett hardware un til Saturday noon, it was announced. I Bluffton Boy Scouts will assist J| conducting the event this year. in Record Number Of A A A Signers Here I was ended this week, with a record 1 number of Richland township farm ers partici pating. With the month-old campaign closed, more than 200 Richland farmers, 60 per cent of those in the I township, I pliance. have signed for full com- Approximately 30 per cent more have agreed to partial compli ance. This report was made by Amos Moser, chairman of the township AAA committee. He said that last a bioad-l eaj. on|y about pvr cen( of tbe Wednes tow nsbjp’s farmers to 1 -30 conipliance. net\xoik.| Major provisions ance provide for wheat and corn acreages (soil deplet ing crops). Under maximum com pliance, benefits may amount to as much as $2.50 per crop acre. signed for full for AAA compli the limiting of Members of the Richland town- ship AAA committee included Amos IFoman TT""' Hiram Wenger, engineer at the! Wednesday morning from an extend municipal light and .iterxvorks plant! trjp through South America, has purchased the Dan Nusbauml Aftel residence on East Kibler street.! visiting Wenger will occupy the property the! America latter part of this month, vacating] western the John A. Rogers property on South Main street. Kogers who now! day. resides on his farm north of Bluff-1 Itinerary took them down the east ton expects to move to town next! Cl,ast of South America, and up the full. I west coast, through the Panama 1 Canal and back to New York city from which, port they sailed late in OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT Beginning this week, Bluffton re-1 tail stores will be open every Wed-! nesday night during the summer! season. s‘Jenningss""T ,’' ,e’ 1-red Mueller, Willard and i i k., I Virgil Bowers. Keep your troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to linger over your ills and sorrows. ISCSI area larger than the best South Brazil with an this country, has American trade possibilities for the United States, is the opinion of R. L. Triplett, Bluffton manufacturer, who with Mrs. Triplett returned traveling 17,000 miles and principal cities of South on both the eastern and coasts, Mr. and Mrs. Trip lett landed in New York city, Tues- January. Brazil is developing rapidly, es pecially in the southern part of that country, Mr. Triplett said, with The lone contestant in the Class division, Bluffton musicians received a rating of superior, the only such mark accorded by adjudicators. In Class C, with four schools com peting, Ada and Fayette orchestras were rated as excellent, and both will appear in the state contest. District glee club competition was held three weeks ago, with Bluffton Mrs .Emil Garau quite ill with heart home on South Main Robert Marshal!, who has been ill I “In both directions the-e at his home in Orange township for are somewhat in excess of the past month was reported in a I cent. r,"i, •, Mt. Co., has ton Bum- Mrs. Agnes Warkentin of Pandora pneumonia hospital. ton J. Tuesday night for observation. Elbert Kohli is confined home with a severe case of Mrs. Hamilton Berry is a at the Bluffton hospital. Mrs. S. T. Gorby is quite ill at her home east of Bluffton. BEAVERDAM P. T. South American Trade Prospect In Brazil BLUFFTON A Good Place to Live and a Good Place to Trade James Landis, Paul Soldner and I Bonita Clark. Bluffton High’s orchestra won the! Nickel Plate May Benefit From right to compete in state orchestral Proposed Re-Routing of competition in Columbus on May 6,1 Erie Railroad as the result of the Northwest Ohio1 contest in Ada last Friday. boys and girls singing organizations jn a brjef with the Interstate qualifying for the state finals. Commerce Commission. Both roads are owned by the Ches a peak and Ohio Railway, which filed a Harmon I ield Saturday Aiternoon The Sick With be Mrs. Peter critical condition Wednesday morn-|can safely be loaded on the basis of ing. I 5 per cent grades. It is Mrs. A. E. Lugibill who has been that some 52,000 carloads critically ill with heart trouble the past week was removed from home on South Lawn avenue to Bluffton hospital, Tuesday, daughter, Miss Nelle Lugibill Cleveland and son Waldo Lugibill of Hope, North Dakota, were hero thelfits .runs from Lima thru Bluffton, past week, on account of the serious I Findlay, Fostoria, Bellevue, Vermil condition of their mother. Ilion, Lorain, Cleveland and Ashta- Maynard Mann who underwent an|bu)a. op.ratum for appendicitis at the! Erie-S niain Une froni whivh the Bluffton hospital two weeks ago was|trafTk. W(uld be diverted, runs from iemoved Sunday to the home of his|jjnia ^hru Marion. Galion, Mansfield, mother, Mrs. Edith Mann of North I Ashland, Akron. Kent and on into Mam street. I Pennsylvania. Mrs. John Todd, formerly of Bluff-1 ton, is ill at her home in Cleveland! and her daughter Mrs. A. M. Shif- I moned. Mrs. Todd resided in Bluff-1 ton some thirty-five years ago dur ing xvhich time her husband John Todd was pastor of the byterian church. Rev. Pres- NUMBER 49 TRAI(IS flN NI(P HINT AT MfiDC MUKt I. (. C. Told That More Traffic May be Put on Road Thru Bluffton Possibility that main-line thru traf fic of the Erie railroad may be re routed over the Nickel Plate railway thru Bluffton was disclosed last week n, |the brief- !t was indicated that the Nickel I late will benefit in the event of consolidation. A reduction in distance of 32 miles, which in aggregate savings of at least I). Bixel of Pandora would accrue should operation for ampu-|ed from the Erie to left arm between the between Lima. Ohio, and Buffalo, N. underwent an tation of her elbow and shoulder at the Bluffton! V, it was pointed out. hospital, Monday afternoon. The op-| Such a dixersion, and O. officials oration was found necessary as theldeclare “would also avoid the much result of a blood clot in an artery I heavier grades on the Erie near the elbow. I Maritin, Ohio, and Meadville, would result in $468,000 a year traffic be divert the Nickel Plate has been Api’il under auspices of the Bluff trouble at her|ton jjons c|ub. street xvas im-| ,s boped that proved the first of the week. $1000 can be ram- .i Mrs. Wilson Hawk who has been|tion. The entire proceeds will be ill at her home on South Jackson turned over to the village council street is improving. patient at the Bluff-1 Residents of the town have been asked to cooperate by donating any of Orange township|_of va,u’ that be O. Koontz removed to the Bluffton hospital P0*** of at the action. Suggesteii items include food, canned goods, vegetables, furniture, grain, chick to o lens, coal, etc. Persons interested in mumps. I •. x- building activity much New homes and office modern as any in the United States] completion of twenty-six years are being constructed in Rio de| foreman of the Bluffton News. Unstable government and indiffer ence of the people are the greatest deterrents to South American prog ress, in the opinion of the Bluffton man. relation will meet between grades one per Over the Nickel Plate, trains probably a year for I could be handled by the shorter and her I more economical route." the! Roughly, this would be 1 -26th of Herl the total Erie tonnage, but would of comprise most of the through freight. The Nickel Plate route, which bene- Community Auction For Buckeye Fund A community auction to raise funds for the improvement of bash ing facilities at Buckeye lake will be held here the latter part of approximately thru the auc- for expenditure in improvement of the swimming center. I making contributions are E. M. Hostettlci, assistant cashier of the Citizens National bank xvho|club have pledged $2- toward the has ler I he Beaverdam Parent Teacher] considerably lower price than in pre associat ion Will meet in the Beax er-1 vious veais dam high sdtool gymnasium next] Officials of the Central Ohio Light Monday night at 8 o’clock. Special |aIllt Power Co., owner of the Buck numbers will be a play by the com-|eye quarry, have offered to lease the men ial class and a number When swimming center to the town at a Polly Put Pepper in the Tea by tho|nomjna] sum, and have stated that Improx-ement club. a private operator will not be con sidered by them. The matter of the lease is still under consideration by the council. requested patient tx) contact any Lion. Other organizations of are asked to cooperate in gram to improve the swimming pool. the town the pro Members of the Bluffton Sportsmen’s been ill at his home in East Kib-lfund, and one member of the Lions street is improving. I has offered $•(. it was reported. The greatei the proceeds from the auction, the less swimming tickets will cost, it was pointed out. If pos.obb tiek‘ts will be sold at a Twenty-six Years Here in evidence.! Fred Getties xvas receiving con buddings, as! gratulations Wednesday morning on as Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Santos. After visiting in they traveled across train to Valparaiso, they went through Chilean earthquake Train service in that district had! Gilead and Wellston, Ohio, been only recently restored, he said.] Mi. Triplett, president of the Trip-1 School auditorium. Tuesday lett Electrical Instrument company! 7:30 o’clock. Rendition of and the Readrite Meter works, visit-1 “Happy Journey’’, will be ed representatives of the txvo com-1 the high school cast which panics in the principal South Amer-1 several district prizes in its presen ican cities. I tation recently. Mr. and Mrs. Getties came here Buenos Airtel in April, 1913, when In became pro the continent by I duction superintendent of the Bluff Chile. Enroute! ton News plant, which position he the de\as(ated| has livid since that timv. lit- pie region by night.] viously held similar positions in Mt. The Bluffton Parent Teacher as sociation will meet in the High night at the play given by has won