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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXTV
ASK COUNCIL TO
SET "DRY” DATE
December 15 May be Fixed by
Council at its Meeting
Monday Night
Town Required to Refund Un
expired Portion of Liquor
Permits Here
Date when the sale of intoxicating
liquor shall be discontinued in Bluff
ton is expected to be fixed by the
town council at its meeting next
Monday night.
Announcement that the matter
will be presented to the council was
made by Mayor W. A. Howe the
first of the week after receiving a
communication from the state de
partment of liquor control.
To make effective the dry man
date voted at the election here early
in November the department will
cancel existing liquor permits and
refund to the holders thereof the fee
for the unexpired portion of the
permit.
Refund from Town
The town, however, will be re
quired to refund to the department
of liquor control ninty per cent of
the unexpired portion of all permit
fees now in force, with exception of
those which have less than thirty
days to run on which no refund is
required.
Since the procedure involves the
expenditure of public funds the
mayor indicated that it would be
within the province of the council to
set the date for cancellation of ex
isting local liquor permits, from
which date the amount of refund to
the holders thereof would be com
puted.
Permit holders are entitled to
operate under their permits until
such refund has been made, it was
stated by Jacob B. Taylor, director
of the department of liquor control
in a letter to Mayor Howe.
Sets Proposed Refunds
Refund in the amount of $64.71
would be required if cancellation of
permits is to become effective on
December 1. If the deadline is de
ferred until December 15, the
amount required to be refunded will
be $33.44, Taylor’s letter stated.
The mayor indicated that no
special meeting of the council will be
called to consider the December 1
date and since the next regular
council meeting is on Monday, Dec.
4, consideration of December 15 as
the deadline date will be taken up
at that time.
During the past year the corpora
tion has received from the state ap
proximately $900 from fees paid by
local permit holders, according to
Corporation Clerk Carold Steiner.
Steiner estimated that about one
third of this amount represented fees
paid for permits for the sale of 3.2
beer which may continue to be sold
here.
Money received from liquor license
fees is placed in the town’s general
fund and any refund for unexpired
portion of liquor permits would also
be made from that fund, Steiner
stated.
With The Sick
Mrs. G. T. Soldner is ill with com
plications at her home on Cherry
street.
Dr. S. K. Mosiman, president
emeritus of Bluffton college who is
ill with a kidney ailment and compli
cations continues a patient in Bluff
ton hospital with little change in his
condition.
Clyde Yerger, rural route mail car
rier, is ill at his home on South
Jackson street.
Condition of Albert Vermillion of
Orange township who underwent a
second operation at Bluffton hospital
is reported somewhat improved.
Condition of Mrs. D. W. Fox who
has been quite ill at her home on
South Lawn avenue continues un
changed.
Mrs. Katherine Badertscher, regis
tered nurse, is slowly improving at
Bluffton hospital from effects of a
fall down a flight of stairs at her
home on South Jackson street last
month.
In New Locations
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bell and fam
ily will move soon from the Show
alter sisters’ farm near Mt. Cory’ to
the Mrs. Linda Bogart farm near
Columbus Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Snyder and
family will move shortly from their
farm near the Hillville, south of
Bluffton, to the school house on the
Geo. Hutchinson farm south of
Beaverdam.
Beans are Quoted at 94 Cents
On Market Here Wednes
day Morning
Large Crop is Raised in this
District Price Nearly
Double Expectation
Soybeans—formerly regarded as an
agricultural novelty by many farm
ers and at best a minor factor in
agricultural operations—are proving
the bellwether of farm crops this
year.
Prices of the beans which have
been steadily rising touched a top of
94 cents a bushel on the market here
Wednesday morning to the surprise
and satisfaction of growers who still
hold a marketable surplus in their
bins.
Current price is about double what
TOWN’S FISCAL
OUTLOOK GOOD
No Shortage in Prospect for
Corporation or School Dis
trict Coming Year
Lower Tax Rate Here is More
Than Offset by Increase in
Tax Duplicates
Although tax rates in both Bluff
ton corporation and the school dis
trict will be lower during the com
ing year, officials of the two taxing
units expressed themselves the first
of the week as well satisfied with
the financial outlook.
Town officials declared that the
corporation’s finances are in the best
condition they have been for years
while those in touch with fiscal af
fairs of the school district said the
present tax setup would provide ade
quate funds for all normal needs.
Although the tax rate has de
creased 60 cents per thousand dol
lars of taxable property in both the
corporation and school district, in
creases in the valuation of duplicates
of the two taxing units have more
than offset decrease in the rate.
New Plant Hikes Valuation
Increase in valuation, $367,000 in
the town and $360,000 in the school
district are attributed largely to the
new generating plant of the Central
Ohio Light and Power company lo
cated within the corporation limits,
whose buildings and equipment are
on the tax duplicate for the first
time.
Bluffton corporation for the com
ing year will have a valuation of
$2,266,675 for taxable purposes, ac
cording to figures approved by the
town council and the county audi
tor’s office. Total valuation subject
to taxation for the past year was
$1,899,675.
In the school district the valua
tion of $3,701,364 during the past
year has increased to $4,061,364 on
which taxes will be levied during the
coming year.
Foreign Missionary
At Ebenezer Church
Rev. O. Bartcwitz, veteran of the
foreign mission field will deliver a
series of three addresses in the
Ebenezer church over the week end.
He will speak Friday evening at 7:45
and Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and 8:15
p. m.
Rev. Bartcwitz, aged 86, was for
sixteen years a missionary in Chile,
South America, and pastor of
churches in that country for a num
ber of years. During the World war
he was engaged in hospital work in
Europe and has made six trips to
Germany, Czecho-Slovakia and Po
land in the interest of missionary
work. He returned from his latest
trip to these countries last June.
Program Of Sacred
Music Sunday Night
Mild Mannered Grandmother
Is Crack Toledo Policewoman
A special music program of vocal
and instrumental numbers will be
given at the First Mennonite church
Sunday night at 7 o’clock under
auspices of the music department of
the church. The public is invited.
SOY BEANS ARE SURPRISE OF MARKET
AS BIG CROP DEMANDS HIGH PRICE
was expected by7 farmers last sum
mer in view of the large crop being
raised. A price for the crop at
about 50 cents a bushel was gener
ally anticipated.
As a result of this expection of a
fifty cent price level, the crop was
heavily sold by growers in the Bluff
ton district when the market rose
from 75 to 85 cents early this fall.
Dealers here say that the bulk of
the crop earmarked for market has
already been moved from the farms.
The continued demand for soy
beans is attributed to a heavy export
trade, which may be due to war
conditions abroad. The demand, ac
cording to dealers, shows no pros
pect of abating.
The fact that soy bean acreage
during the past year was unusually
large was attributed indirectly to the
government’s conservation program.
Many farmers cutting down on other
crops to qualify for benefit payments
turned the surplus acreage over to
soybeans.
Speaker at Meeting Here Tells
Of Problems of Battling
City Crime
Men are Easier to Arrest Than
Women, Teachers Audience
Here is Told
A mild-mannered and soft-spoken
grandmother, an expert with a pistol
and a dead shot revealed intimate de
tails of how authorities are battling
crime of the city underworlds in an
address here Monday night, when
teachers of the public school enter
tained the Bluffton college faculty
at the high school cafeteria.
The speaker, Mrs. Margaret Slat
er, is head of the woman’s division
of the Toledo police force. She has
been a member of the force for the
past eighteen years and has under
her direction ten women, adept at
detective work whose principal duty
it is to protect women and children
from- human wolves and leeches
which congregate in cities the size
of Toledo.
Smart and resourceful are the
women of Mrs. Slater’s division who
are called upon to take up all kinds
of roles just as a part of the day’s
work.
A complaint of molestation of some
patron in a theatre—-and an attract
ively dressed policewoman is on the
spot in a few minutes keeping a
sharp lookout for the offender.
A call for dancing chorus girls
may be answered by a comely police
woman who could hold a job behind
the footlights in any theatrical pro
duction—just to satisfy the bureau
that the advertisement is bona fide
and not a lure of the underworld.
Armed with pistols, the police
women are trained to use them should
the ocasion demand and in marks
manship competition, Mrs. Slater has
proven herself equal to the keenest
eyed men of the police force.
Men, Mrs. Slater said are easier
to arrest than women. In proof of
this she said that she had never
suffered injury in arresting a man,
but had received several black eyes
while taking women into custody.
Mrs. Slater, head of the bureau,
is on duty nightly about the city
traveling in a police cruiser until
3 a. m. when she turns in and calls
it a day—unless there is a prospect
of need of her services after that
hour.
Thanksgiving Eve
Wedding At Church
Wedding of Miss Norma Lugin
buhl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal
Luginbuhl and Myron Luginbill, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Luginbill was
a quiet event of Thanksgiving eve
at the Ebenezer church in the pres
ence of immediate families.
Preceding the ceremony Mrs. Ola
Moser of Dayton and Miss Esther
Luginhihl, sisters of the bride pre
sented a quarter-hour musicale.
The Rev. P. A. Kliewer performed
the ceremony before an altar of
ferns and pom pom chrisanthemums
lighted by two tall candelbra.
The bride was attired in como
blue crepe with wine accessories.
Her corsage was baby chrisanthe
mums and tea roses. The couple was
unattended.
After the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the bride’s
parents. Following a short eastern
trip the couple will reside in their
newly furnished apartment on Riley
street.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939
Pheasant Comes To
Town—And Leaves
Under Own Power
a pheasant has come to
town tucked away in the
game bag of some hunter, but
there’s one pheasant which came
to town—and left—under his
own power after seeing the
sights in Bluffton's business dis
trict.
It all happened Monday morn
ing at 7 o’clock when Rolland
Stratton heard a rustle in the
hedge of the Presbyterian church
yard bordering the sidewalk at
Main and Cherry streets and a
handsome cock pheasant took off
and flew over the top of the
church in less time than it takes
to tell it.
The pheasant apparently felt
that the center of town was the
safest place during the hunting
season.
Wedding Solemnized
In Home Ceremony
Wedding of Miss Vernice McElroy,
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank A. McElroy and Richard J.
Davies, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland
M. Davies of Vaughnsville was sol
emnized at the home of the bride’s
parents on South Main street Fri
day night at 7:30 o’clock.
Members of the families and
friends were present to witness the
impressive single ring service read
by the Rev. R. C. Hurley, pastor of
the Elida Methodist church, formerly
of Vaughnsville.
Preceding the ceremony Robert
Davies of Vaughnsville, brother of
the bridegroom sang two vocal num
bers “Thine Alone” and “I Love You
Truly”. He was accompanied by the
bridegroom’s aunt, Miss Amelia
Jones of Vaughnsville who also gave
two piano numbers “The Old Re
frain” and “Sylvia”.
Lohengrin’s wedding march played
by Miss Jones marked the entrance
of the bridal party. The bride en
tered the living room on the arm of
her father who gave her away. She
was gowned in white satin with veil.
Her bouquet was of white roses and
carnations.
The bride was attended by her
sister, Mrs. Clyde Evans of Bing
hamton, N. Y., who wore a gown of
tea rose taffeta for the occasion.
Her bouquet was of talisman roses
and asters.
The bridegroom was attended by
his brother Byron Davies of Bloom
dale as best man.
The glow of cathedral candles pro
vided illumination for the nuptials
which took place before a background
of ferns and tall baskets of chrys
anthemums.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion was held after which the couple
left on a week-end trip motoring
thru southern Ohio.
The bride, a graduate of Bluffton
high school and Bluffton college, is
an instructor in Vaughnsville high
school. Mr. Davies, who was gradu
ated from Vaughnsville high school
is employed in the state highway de
partment. The couple will reside in
Vaughnsville.
To Tell Of Life In
State Penitentiary
Life of inmates and routine of
penal institutions will be depicted in
an illustrated lecture before the Bluff
ton Lions club next Tuesday night
at their luncheon meeting in the
Walnut Grill at 6:15 o’clock.
The speaker will be J. J. Boggs of
Columbus, former Ohio penitentiary
inmate. Boggs spent nine years in
the institution before it developed
that he had been wrongly convicted.
Since his release he has been
speaking on life in the penitentiary.
Subject of his address will be “Life
in the Big House”. Pictures will
also be shown in connection with his
talk.
Boggs will also speak in the high
school auditorium in the afternoon
addressing high school pupils at 1
o’clock and pupils in the grade school
at 2:15.
Services At First
Mennonite Church
A series of special services will be
held at the First Mennonite church
during the week of December 10 to
15, it was announced the first of the
week. Rev. Arnold C. Schultz, pro
fessor of Biblical literature at Bluff
ton college will be the speaker. Spe
cial music will be provided. The
public is invited.
Obstacles encountered in plans to
move the Defenseless Mennonite
church building to Bluffton will mean
that the structure twice will have to
be taken thru fields and ford streams
because of bridges too narrow to per
mit passage.
Moving of the building consequent
ly cannot be started until the ground
is frozen, but it is hoped that an early
arrival of real winter weather will
permit the start of the trip to town.
From its present location, three
miles northwest of Bluffton, the
church will be taken thru the bottom
land on the Roy Hofer farm, across I
Little Riley creek, then back on the
road, over which it will move south
Large Volume of Offerings Com
ing on Market Wipes Out
War Boom Rise
Large Scale Feeding Expected
To Continue Because of
Low Corn Price
Hog prices, which dropped last
week to a five-year low are expected
to remain at present levels for some
time.
Qualified observers believe that the
nation’s supply of hogs is one of its
largest in many years, and that as
a result there will be little possibil
ity of pronounced price advances in
the near future.
Average hog prices this week were
about $5.45 per hundredweight, as
compared with $7.70 a year ago, and
the pre-drought low of 1932 when
quotations were under $3. The 1932
prices preceded the government’s
slaughter program.
Large corn crops during the last
threee years, coupled with the fact
that hogs were bringing from $8 to
$11 on the average, prompted in
creased production. This is reflected
in today’s large supply that has
brought prices sharply downward.
With feed abundant in most of
the important hog production areas,
the Bureau of Agricultural Econ
omics recently predicted a possible
further increase in the number of
pigs raised during the next year.
Corn is bringing 44 cents a bushel
and many farmers feel that despite
low hog prices they will get a great
er percentage of profit by feeding
their corn and selling pork.
Present hog prices mark the elim
ination of the last vestige of the
war boom which lifted hog prices
about $2.50 in a single week last
September—the sharpest rise in the
history of the Chicago stockyards.
W. H. P. Huber Dead
Bring Remains Here
W. H. P. Huber, 63, formerly of
near Bluffton, died at his home in
Elgin, Ill., Tuesday morning at four
o’clock. His death came after an ex
tended period of failing health.
The remains will be brought to the
home of his brother, George Huber,
south of Bluffton, Thursday after
noon. Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
Pleasant Hill church followed by in
terment in the church cemetery.
Mr. Huber, a native of this vicin
ity was the son of the late Solomon
and Melisa Franklin Huber, pioneer
residents. He taught in the Elgin
high school for the past twenty-two
years, but was unable to resume his
teaching duties last fall.
Surviving are his wife of Elgin
and two daughters Frances and Alice
Huber at home and three brothers
George of Lafayette Glenn of Co
lumbus Grove and W. B. Huber of
Mansfield.
County Brotherhood
Meeting Here Dec. 6
Allen county Methodist Brother
hood organizations will hold their
monthly county meeting at the
Methodist church on Wednesday
night of next week.
The meeting will be opened with
a dinner at 6:30 o’clock served by
women of the church. Dr, C. C.
Shedd, pastor of the First Methodist
church, Findlay, will be the prin
cipal after-dinner speaker. Special
music is being arranged. Men of
all churches of the community are
invited.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Burkhart of
Pandora are the parents of a son
bom at Bluffton hospital, Tuesday.
Bridges Too Narrow For Moving
Church Will Ford Two Streams
Little Prospect Of Marked Rise
In Hog Prices In Near Future
to the Ebenezer church corner.
The structure will be brought east
toward Bluffton on the Columbus
Grove road, and in order to miss the
bridge over the Little Riley at the
edge of the corporation, the movers
will cut across the lowlands on the
Mrs. S. S. Motter farm, and cross the
creek about 100 yards south of the
bridge.
In moving the building, the struc
ture will be place on three large flat
bed truck trailers, and pulled by a
tractor.
Excavation on the former A. S.
Faze lot on South Jackson street has
been started to prepare the site for
the church.
HOLD BLUFFTON
FAIR NEXT WEEK
Three Day Exhibit of Farm and
Domestic Art Opens Next
Wednesday
Livestock Entries Will Close
Next Monday Night at
Nine O’clock
With nearly $1000 in prizes as the
attraction, Bluffton’s 24th annual ag
ricultural fair is expected to draw an
unusually heavy number of entries
for the showing Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of next week.
Opening of the fair is only a week
in the offing and entries already are
numerous, with inquiries indicating
there will be many more before the
deadline next Monday night.
Following a precedent established
last year, 9 p. m. next Monday will
mark the official closing date of en
tori ng in exhibit classes, officers an
nounced this week. An earlier clos
ind date gives more time for the prep
aration of adequate accommodations
for poultry’ and livestock.
Nine Departments
Residents of Allen, Hardin, Hancock
and Putnam counties are eligible to
compete for fair awards in the three
day showing. Nine departments have
been announced, including: Horses,
cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, grain and
fruit, domestic science, fine arts and
the junior fair.
In addition to the regular showing
by departments, special features will
be the pulling contest, pet parade and
the livestock parade, which for years
has closed the fair.
Tentative assignments of building
for the fair were announced this week
by fair officials, as follows:
Assignment of Buildings
Horses—Locher barn, Vance street
Augsburger bam, Cherry street.
Cattle—Wilkins bam, Cherry street
Schmidt’s Blacksmith shop, Vance
street.
Sheep and Hogs—Steiner Storage
garage (the old Stratton garage on
E. Elm street).
Poultry—Real of Carmack build
ing, South Main street, (rear of West
ern Auto Associate store).
Agricultural Products and Ladies
Domestic Arts—Second floor Hankish
building, South Main street (above
Todd grocery), Tentative.
School Displays—Bluffton H. S.
gymnasium.
Judges Named
Judges have been selected for every
department but that of dairy cattle,
Harry F. Barnes .secretary of the fair
board said.
The adjudicators will be: Horses,
Harry Hoewisher, of Sidney Beef
Cattle, Elam Suter, of Pandora Hogs,
Dale Lewis, of Tiffin Sheep, R. P.
Smith, of Arlington Poultry, E. G.
Trout, of Fostoria Agricultural Pro
ducts, Ralph Brooks, of Columbus
Grove Domestic Arts, Mrs. Kathryn
Ferris, of Hicksville.
Wedding Solemnized
At Home Of Minister
The marriage of Miss Marcella
Basinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D. J. Basinger of near Bluffton and
Isaac Neuenschwander of Columbus
Grove took place last Wednesday
night at 6:45 o’clock.
The service was read by Rev. P.
A. Kliewer, pastor of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church at his home here.
The bride is a teacher in the
Beaverdam school and Mr. Neuensch
wander is engaged in farming. After
a short trip the couple will live on
a farm near Columbus Grove.
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 31
SIX CULLEGES IN
PEACE TALK HERE
Ashland, Earlham. Goshen,
Manchester and Wilming
ton Groups Coming
Speakers to Address Meetings
Friday and Saturday on
College Campus
Bluffton college will be hosts to a
historic Intercollegiate Peace confer
ence participated in by six institutions
this Friday and Saturday on the cam
pus here.
Student representatives from Ash
land, Earlham, Goshen, Manchester,
and Wilmington will join with Bluff
ton in the meetings. All lectures will
be open to the public.
Reports on peace work in the vari
ous colleges will be made at the open
ing session at 4 p. m. Friday. Bert
Smucker will be the speaker for Bluff
ton.
A dinner meeting will be held at 6
p. m., with a program following it to
be opened with devotions conducted
by Dr. I. W. Bauman, Bluffton profes
sor.
Talks On War Relief
Robert W. Balderston, relief worker
for the Friends church in Europe un
til recently’, will deliver the main ad
dress. Preceding his talk a peace or
ation will be given by Charles Ain
sley, of Goshen college, winner in a
national peace oratorical contest.
Saturday’s program will open at
8:15 a. m. with Dr. Harold Bender,
dean of Goshen College, speaking on
“The Pacifist Position in Case of
War.”
Dr. C. Henry’ Smith, of Bluffton col
lege, will lead a discussion on pacifist
beliefs and positions at 9 a. m.
Sayre to Talk
Another feature address will be at
9:40 a. m. with John Nevin Sayre,
chairman of the Fellowship of Recon
ciliation, speaking on “The Role of the
Church in Wartime.” Sayre has been
an active peace worker for 20 years
and was president of the national
I peace conference from 1935 to 1938.
Following the luncheon at noon, the
conference will be adjourned, but the
peace program will be continued into
Sunday by Bluffton college, with ar
rangements having been made for
Sayre to speak at vesper services at
3 p. m. Sunday afternoon in the col
lege chapel.
Three church denominations will be
represented in the meeting here.
Ashland and Manchester colleges are
affiliated with the Church of the
Brethren Bluffton and Goshen col
leges are Mennonite schools, and Earl
ham and Wilmington are sponsored
by the Friends church.
Lectures will be open to the general
public, but discussion groups will be
reserved for delegates from the par
ticipating colleges. Most of the meet
ings will be in the college chapel.
Couple Is Wed On
Thanksgiving Day
In a Thanksgiving day ceremony,
Miss Jean Zimmerly, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Zimmerly of
Pandora and Dale Moore of Detroit,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Moore of
Orange township were married
Thursday morning.
The ceremony took place in Raw
son at the home of the officiating
minister, Rev. Hilliard Camp, pastor
of the United Brethren church of
that place. The single ring service
was used.
The bride wore for the occasion a
street length rose dress. Attending
the couple were Evan Amstutz of
Bluffton and Miss Ruth Shoup of
McComb.
Following the ceremony a wedding
dinner was served at the home of
the bride’s parents attended by mem
bers of the immediate families and
Miss Juanita Weiss of Bluffton.
The couple will reside in Detroit
where Mr. Moore is employed by a
steel corporation. The bride is a
graduate of Pandora high school
and the bridegroom was graduated
from Bluffton high school.
College Choir At
Pandora On Sunday
The Bluffton College A Capella
choir will make its first appearance
of the season in a concert at the
Grace Mennonite church in Pandora,
Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock.
This will be the first of a number
of concerts to be given by the choir
this season. The choir of sixty
voices is under direction of Prof. R.
A. Lantz.
Moon Craters
Thirty thousand craters are visi
ble on the moon.