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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXIV
DISCUSS CONTROL
OF MOSQUITOS
Specialist On Mosquito Preven
tion to Address Meeting
Here Feb. 27
Consideration of Bluffton’s Sum
mer Problem Sponsored by
Three Groups
Seeking a solution to the mosquito
problem Bluffton faces every summer,
three municipal and civic organiza
tions are sponsoring a public meeting
to be held in the high school auditor
ium at 8 p. m. Tuesday, February
27.
Feature event of the session will be
the appearance of Louis H. Lewan
dowski, of Toledo, Lucas county san
itary engineer, who is coming here to
give an illustrated talk on mosquito
•control.
A specialist in warring on mosqui
to, Lewandowski last summer effect
ed a remarkable cleanupof mosquitos
in Ottawa Hill, Toledo suburb. His
program was conducted on lines orig
inally practiced by the U. S. govern
ment in cleaning up the Panama Can
.al zone.
80% Eliminated
Levrandowski is said to have effect
ed an 80 per cent elimination of mos
quitos in Ottawa Hills, a community
where residents previously could not
-sit out doors in the evenings. As a
result of the cleanup lawn parties at
night-time became a reality, and the
Toledo engineer’s record established
him as an authority on mosquito con
trol.
Sponsors of Lewandowski’s appear
ance here include the Lions club, the
American Legion and the village
council. They pointed out this week
that the engineer is coming here at
their invitation and that it is not a
commercial proposition with him in
any way.
In connection w’ith his analysis of
mosquito control programs, Lewan
dowski will show pictures provided by
the United States department of ag
riculture.
In view of the seriousness of this
community’s summer mosquito prob
lem, sponsors of the meeting this
week urged all residents of the town
to attend the session.
Joint Orchestra
Will Play Sunday
Presenting an instrumental aggre
gation of more than 100 pieces,
Bluffton and Fostoria High school
orchestras will appear in a joint con
cert at 3 p. m. next Sunday in the
Bluffton High gymnasium.
Presenting of the concert by the
consolidated orchestras will repre
sent an innovation in public school
music circles, and will join together
two of the best high school musical
organizations in this area.
Sidney Hauenstein and Earl Smith,
instructors in instrumental music at
the two schools, will share conduct
or’s duties during the course of the
concert. Smith is a Bluffton col
lege graduate and is well known
here.
On Feb. 25, a week after the con
cert in Bluffton, the same group
will play at Fostoria.
Legion Meeting To
Be Here Monday
district officials
joint meeting of
State and
will
the
and
m.
speak at a
Bluffton post, American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary at 8 p.
Monday night in Legion hall.
Ed Kieffer, state Legion service
officer of Dayton, will bring con
gratulations of the state organiza
tion to Bluffton Legionnaires for the
recent successful completion of a
membership drive in which the post’s
membership was nearly doubled.
Other speakers will be Mrs. Ray
mond Edington, of Mt. Victory, dis
trict Auxiliary president Lloyd Kel
ley, of Canton, second district Legion
commander and W. F. Landes, of
Cairo, Allen county commander.
State and national veterans legis
lation will be discussed at the ses
sion.
Tschiegg Hired As
School Bus Driver
Eldon Tschiegg was hired as a
school bus driver at the meeting of
the Bluffton board of education, Mon
day night. Tschiegg, formerly a
substitute bus driver, will fill the
vacancy caused by
Hiram Burkholder.
Edwin Rice, who
Bluffton college, was
stitute bus driver.
the death of
is attending
hired as sub-
Arrives Overseas
Edna Ramseyer, Bluffton
college dean of women who
has arrived safely in Genoa Italy
after a ten days’ ocean voyage,
according to an announcement
made the first of the week.
Word of Miss Ramseyer’s land
ing was contained in a cable
message received by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ramseyer of
Smithville. She will go from
Italy to France where she will
supervise a camp for Spanish re
fugee children near Marseilles.
Work of caring for these children
is under auspices of the Friends’
Service committee.
PUREBRED HOGS
SELL WELL HERE
Ohio Chester White Ass’n., Sale
Averages $42 Head, Tues
day Afternoon
McComb Offering Tops Sale
$109 Many Out of State
Buyers Attend
Top price of the sale, $109 was
brought by a hog consigned by G. W.
Corron, young livestock breeder of
McComb and winner of considerable
prize money at Bluffton’s Mid Winter
fair. The hog was bought thru
mail bid by a Ft. Wayne breeder.
Deputies from the Allen
Treasurer’s office will be
Citizen’s National
Students Work At Many Jobs
To Defray College Costs Here
at
Current weakness of the hog mar
ket was not reflected in prices paid
for purebred breeding and show stock
at the sale of the Ohio Chester White
association held here Tuesday after
noon.
Twenty-eight head of Chester
Whites offered at auction in the Stein
er Chevrolet garage on East Elm
street, the former Stratton garage,
brought an average of around $42.
a
Buying Crowd
it
Although not largely attended,
was a buying crowd present for the
sale and included in the number were
prominent Chester White breeders
from Michigan, Indiana and Pennsyl
vania.
While the majority of the offering
was purchased for breeding purposes,
some choice individuals are reported
to have been bought for show purpos
es and will be fitted for state fairs
in the Middle West. Corron’s hog
which topped the sale was a prize
winner at the Ohio State fair last
fall.
Consigners of sale offerings num
bered a dozen leading Ohio Chester
White breeders including the agri
cultural college of Ohio State univer
sity, Columbus.
To Collect Real
Estate Tax
Here
County
at the
Bank
Bluffton
Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 20
and 21, to assist residents of the
area in making out tax forms.
Final date for payment of first
half 1939 real estate taxes will be
March 20, according to an announce
ment made last week by County
Treasurer Byron H. Dershem.
Last week’s real estate tax pay
ments amounted to $65,310.29, mak
ing an aggregate of $289,895.94 for
the period.
Last week’s sales tax collections
w'ere $4,624.11, a total for the year
of $27,617.95.
Former Orange Twp.
Woman Is MarriecI
Announcement has been made of
the wedding of Mrs. George Nonna
maker of Mt. Cory, former Orange
township resident, to Willard Kram
er, also of Mt. Cory. The wedding
took place at the home of Rev. O. D.
Myers at Belmore. The couple will
reside in Mt. Cory.
Three of Every Five Bluffton
Students Earn Part of
Expenses
iarnings Average $100 Per
School Year for 11 Hours
Work Weekly
Three out of every five students
enrolled at Bluffton college are en
gaged in campus w’ork activity of
some form to help defray the cost
of schooling.
In announcing the extent of the
collegiate W’ork program, Bluffton
officials pointed out that the venture
is one of the largest of its kind in
proportion to size of the school.
Students in work projects earn
$20 to $67.50 per semester, with the
average being about $50. For a $50
semester salary students work
hours a week.
Six students earn a part of their
expenses by working in the college
library, and three others are as
signed to work in the Bluffton public
library.
Forty students are employed to
handle coal, shovel snow, keeping the
buildings and campus clean, mow
lawns and work at various odd jobs
in connection with maintenance.
In the college dining hall and
kitchen 31 students work as waiters,
dish washers and cooks. This makes
a total of 118 students receiving
part-time work from
self.
the college it-
employ a few
book company
Outside industries
others. A wholesale
located on the campus is using six
students at the present, and four
others are associated with a chicken
raising and marketing project.
Delphos Band Will
Play Here Thursday
Inaugurating a series of inter
school musical presentations, the 65
piece Delphos High school band will
give a concert at 1 p. m. Thursday
in the Bluffton High auditorium.
Immediately after playing here
the Delphos group will go to Lima
Shawnee for a repeat performance.
Shawnee’s contribution to the
three-school affair will be next month
when the Shawnee chorus sings at
Delphos and Bluffton.
Bluffton High’s orchestra will play
at Delphos and Shawnee, early in
the spring, as Bluffton’s part in
program.
the
ex
ago
Delphos’ band is rated as an
ceptionally good one. Two years
in a contest held here the Delphos
band captured top honors in the
Class division.
May Dance At H. S.
Junior-Senior Dinner
By a majority vote of three to two
the Bluffton board of education at
its meeting Monday night granted
permission to include dancing on the
program of the annual junior-senior
banquet at the high school this
spring.
Whether dancing will be a part of
the program will now' be left to the
tw’o classes.
In the decision to permit inclusion
of dancing on the program the vote
stood: Nisw’ander, Short and Stein
man in favor and Hofstetter
Tosh against the proposal.
and
the
Dancing was instituted at
junior-senior banquet a year
permission being given last spring
by the board of education which also
voted three to two in favor of the
proposal.
ago,
The junior-senior banquet, held
during commencement season in May
is the outstanding social function of
the school year at which the juniors
entertain the graduating class.
Dancing previous to last year had
not been included on the banquet
program, although it is said that
numbers of those attending in form
er years left later in the evening to
dance out of town.
Births
been received here of
a daughter, Nancy El
and Mrs. Theo. Cun-
Word has
the birth of
len, to Mr.
ningham of Lakewood, Friday,
and Mrs. Cunningham are former
Bluffton college graduates.
Cunningham is the former Miss
Elizabeth Baumgartner, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Baumgartner of South Main street.
rHE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
SEMINARY BOARD
ORGANIZES HERE
lev. Paul Whitmer of Pandora
President of New Wit
marsum Trustees
With the reopening of Witmarsum
Theological seminary as its objective,
a newly reorganized board of trustees
took over affairs of the institution at
a meeting in the Musselman library
on the Bluffton college campus, Tues
day.
Masonic Father And
Mr.
Mrs,
.’ommittees Working on Plan to I bT hazardous from the time the
Reopen Bluffton Theological |storm brok* early Friday afternoon,
School I until bright sunlight Sunday after
1 noon and early Monday finally broke
the grip of the icy wave.
former board of trustees
had served since the seminary
nine years ago met briefly
The
ii
in
in
Eighteen students are employed
the various offices of the college
clerical and stenographic positions.
Departmental assistants number 20
more, their work including supervis
ion of laboratories, grading of papers
and other related projects.
which
closed
Tuesday morning, wound up its af
fairs and turned over the adminis-.p in Hj Schoo,
tration of the institution to the new|
board which has been appointed for nasium Third Appearance
that purpose by the General andl In Bluffton
Central Mennonite conferences. ______
In taking over affairs of the sem-|
inary the new board of trustees did I Choir Enroute Home
so with the pledged support of the I
two large conferences and additional!
backing from other Mennonite groups)
in prospect.
Prominent Figures Here
Seated in the Mennonite history)
room where the board held its meet-|
ing was a gathering of ministers and|
laymen, prominent in the Mennonite)
denomination and appointed by the|
two conferences to work out a plan)
for operating the church seminary.
Officers elected by the board from)
its number were:
Paul E. Whitmer, Pandora vice
president, Rev. A. S. Rosenberger,
Dalton secretary, Rev. I. R. Det
weiler, Bloomington, Ill., and treas
urer, E. W. Baumgartner, Berne,
Indiana.
President, Rev.
Of the board’s membership of nine,
six are appointed from the Genial
conference and three
tral conference. An
I
rjdllege Booster
Cen
five,
from the
additional
(Continued on page 8)
tsanquei
A new assault by the forces of
winter covered the Bluffton district
with a treacherous coating of ice
over the last weekend—the worst
storm of its kind in the memory of
the oldest resident.
Motoring was at its worst Satur
day morning and afternoon, and at
one time a string of cars a block
long was stalled on the North Main
street hill behind a heavily laden
Eugene Lippincott, Lima attorney,) Moser and Fred Wdty.
will be the speaker of the evening. I Since the cboir«s last appearance
The banquet is an annual affair) here in 1927, it has gained further
which was inaugurated last year.! recognitiOn as the result of a suc
Funds raised therefrom will be used) cessful European tour. Concerts
this year toward the purchase of a) were given in 21 countries overseals,
refrigerator for Ropp dining hall. Composed of 40 singers—men and
The dinner will be adjuorned in women_the choir includes in its of
time for the Westminster choir con-| ferjngs both classical and secular mu
cert later in the evening after which) sic It has sung with the New York
a varsity basketball game has been! Philharmonjc symphony orchestra, at
arranged. I tbe white House and was one of
the groups invited to participate in
Annual Father-Son banquet of the|
Masonic lodge will be held on Thurs-
day night, Feb. 22, in the lodge!
Funeral Rites For
Sylvia Fett Sunday
Funeral services were held in the
Missionary church last Sunday
afternoon for Sylvia M. Fett,
who died Friday at the home
her sister, Mrs. Willis Welty,
South Main street.
54,
of
of
the
Rev. A. F. Albro officiated at
service. Burial was in Maple Grovel
cemetery.
The daughter of Elias and Mary
(Hochstettler) Fett, Miss Fett was
born three miles south of Bluffton.
Dec. 20, 1885. She graduated from
Bluffton High school, and also at
tended Ohio Northern university.
After teaching at an orphanage
near Birmingham for several years,
she returned to Bluffton where she
had been associated with the Page
Dairy Co. for 16 years. She was a
member of the Missionary church.
Ice Covered Highway Jams
Traffic On Bluffton’s Street
Motoring and walking were equal-
World-Celebrated Westminster Choir
Will Give Concert Here On Feb. 24
from
Pacific Coast to Give Two
Concerts in Ohio
The world-famous Westminster
choir, which has sung in Bluffton on
two previous occasions, will present
a concert in the Bluffton High school
gymnasium, at 8:15 p. m. Saturday,
Feb. 24, under auspices of the Bluff
ton college department of music.
On its two former appearance
here the choir scored distinct con
cert successes, and it is expected
that the demand for seating this
year will exceed accommodations.
The concert here will be one of
two in Ohio during the choir’s return
journey from a west coast tour.
Columbus will be the scene of the
other Ohio concert. The choir will
sing at that place on Sunday, Feb
ruary 25.
Dr. John Finley Williamson is di
I rector of the celebrated choir, and
I Mrs. Lorene Hodapp, who has ap
I peared here as a soloist in Bluffton
I peared here as a soloist in Bluffton
college’s annual Christmas rendition
reo. *41 of «The Messiah” is a member of
I the group.
Annual Bluffton college booster) Several former Bluffton college stu
banquet will be held this year on| dents bave been witb the choir altho
Saturday night, Feb. 24, it is an-| none are Jn tbe present personnel,
nounced by Coach A. C. Burcky,) Tbose wbo went from here to join
chairman of the committee on ar-| the unit induded G. A. Lehman,
rangements. The dinner will be at Harold and Verdi Ruesser, John
Ropp hall at 5.30 p. m. and pred Baumgartner, Mrs. Ola
I ceremonies incidental with opening
Son Dinner, Feb. 22\"f th" New York w°rli'8 Fair last
summer.
I Many Attend Bible
dining room. Dinner will be served) _____
by women of the Eastern Star order.! W(H attended are the annual
Principal speaker of the evening will Bluffton CoHege Bible lectures being
be J. P. Sutton of Findlay. Mr. delivrred this week by Dr. Calvert
Sutton is connected with the Ohio) N EHis of Juniata coliege Hunting
Oil company in that city. p& Dr EBis is being beard
twice daily, speaking in the morn
ing in the College chapel at 10
o’clock and in the evening in the
LedUreS This WCCk
First Mennonite church at 7:30.
The lectures will continue until
Friday night. Subjects for the re
maining addresses are:
Wednesday: Evening—"The Church
Today”.
Thursday: Morning—“One Who
Shares” evening, “The Church To
morrow”.
Surviving are her step-mother,I M’*. and Mrs. J. D. Ewing and
Mrs. Eli Fett, of Bluffton two sis-1 family who occupied the Roth farm
ters, Mrs. Willis Welty, of this place,l on the Dixie highway have moved on
and Mrs. A. F. Bartels, of Toledo the Hiram Locher farm northwest of
three brothers, Alvin and Calvin! Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Winfred
Fett, of Pennant, Sask., Canada and! Dunlop who formerly occupied the
Gerhart Fett, of Lima a step-sister,I Locher place have moved to his
Mrs. Christine Harris, of Bluffton I father’s farm near Cairo.
and a step-brother, Dwight Stotts,! Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fleming ex
of Lima. I pect to move soon from the James
Friday: Morning—“One Who Tri
umphs” evening, “The Lord of Life”.
In connection with the Bible lec
ture week, the annual Mennonite
Ministers’ conference is being held on
the campus here this Wednesday and
Thursday. Rev. Alva McLain, presi
dent of Grace Theological seminary
at Winona Lake, Ind., is the prin
cipal speaker.
In New Locations
Her parents and one brother, Levi, I Crow farm north of Bluffton to
preceded her in death. I Lafayette.
truck that could not make the grade.
Residents carried ashes by the
bucketfull to spread on the street,
and the traffic jam finally
cleared.
principal highways and
street, conditions were
somewhat by applications of
by the state highway depart-
On
Main
bportsman S (tub
Other officers
Silas
Dallas
Swank,
Dearth,
ick and
Lions To Celebrate
on
bet-
sand
ment.
thruout most
day, however, to nullify to a great
extent much of the effort to control
the hazardous condition of the high
ways.
A slight rain fell and froze
Friday and Satur-
Most of the ice had disappeared by
Monday evening.
Bogart Is Named For
Board Of Elections
M. M. Bogart, Bluffton De
chieftain, was endorsed as
ber of the Allen County Board of I
Elections, Saturday, at a special!
meeting of the Allen County Demo-1
cratic executive committee at
mem-
Lima.
The endorsement places the Bluff
ton man in line to succeed Neil R.
Poling of Lima one of the two Dem
ocratic members on the board. Pol
ing has been filling the unexpired
term of the late Robert B. Tolan.
Appointment of members on the
board of elections is made by Secre
tary of State Earl Griffith, on recom
mendation of the county committee.
Bogart has previously served two
terms as a member of the Allen
county board.
are: Vice president,!
secretary-treasurer,
Diller
Berry
Albert
Gerald
Dennis Diller.
Berry, Mark Emer-
Purpose of the club is to conserve I
and re-stock the wild game and fish|
of this community. Last year the!
club had a membership of 100 and al
campaign will be started shortly to I
double this figure for the coming!
year. I
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
/o, In the past several years the prac-
Elects Officers]fiIin* of tax
Officers of the club announced the I
first of the week that arrangements I
for fishing in the National quarry!
w’ill continue this summer the samel
as last year under supervision of the cemetery«
cjub I A native of Richland township,
__________ Mrs. Kohler was born March 9,
m______________________I 1864, and had spent her entire life
Charter Night Here I
The occasion will be observed ini Also surviving are a step-mother,
the form of a ladies night dinner) Mrs. Elizabeth Ransbottom, of
meeting in the Bluffton High gym-| Beaverdam five half-brothers, Chas,
nasium at 6:15 p. m., with more) and Jesse Augsburger, of Lima
than 150 expected to attend. Herman, of Findlay Elmer, of De­
District Governor Arthur Koen-| troit Albert, of Bluffton and three
reich, of Canton, will be the prin-| half-sisters, Mrs. Goldie Hook, Mrs.
cipal speaker. Sylvia Robinson and Mrs. Hazel
Among other state officials expect Robinson, all of Lima,
ed are: Henry T. Barnes, of Toledo,
international director Leo L. Urban,
of St. Paris, deputy district gover
nor and Ed Ward, of Lima, zone
chairman I Elmer Burkholder is seriously ill
Invitations have been sent to Lions! b^s home on W est Elm street
clubs in Toledo, Lima, Celina, Rich-| threatened with pneumonia,
wood, Upper Sandusky, Marion, Bu
cyrus, Fostoria and St. Paris.
NUMBER 42
TAX CANVASSERS
NAMED FOR AREA
House-to-House Calls to be
Made in Classified and
Personal Tax Filing
Three Canvassers Will Work in
Bluffton and Richland
Township Area
In keeping with a revised system of
making Allen county’s personal and
classified tax reports, three persons
from this area will make a house-to
house canvass of Bluffton and Rich-
During their rounds, the special
representatives of the county audi
tor’s office will distribute tax forms,
and assist in the filing of proper re
turns.
Assessors named include: Mrs.
I Robert Lewis, Bluffton James Vert
ner, Beaverdam and F. C. Marshall,
of Richland township.
I Thomas Ludwig and William Kidd
I will be the canvassers in Jackson
I township and J. M. Wallace and Har
I n Mayberry were named from Mon
roe township.
I No Inspection of Personal Effects
I Assessors will not be required to
I make an inspection of personal prop
I erty. but merely are to act as liason
I agents between taxpayers and the
I auditor’s office, Auditor Floyd B. Grif
I fin announced.
I House to house canvassing repre
I sents a revival of a system abandoned
I nearly two decades ago, but the
county auditor belives it will increase
the county’s personal and classified
tax collections by as much as $40,000
per year.
|tice has been to permit the voluntary
_____ Deadline for payment of personal
Jesse Mangus was chosen president! an^ classified taxes is April 10, and
of the Bluffton Community Sports- an taxpayers the assessors may miss
man’s club at the club’s annual elec-1 are squired by law to file a return
tion of officers Monday night anyway-
Kohler RitCS
a Are Held Saturday
Funeral rites were held Saturday
afternoon in the Emmanuel's Re
formed church for Mrs. John Kohler,
of Lawn avenue, who died in her
home the preceding Wednesday
afternoon.
Rev. Emil Burrichter, pastor of
the Emmanuel’s Reformed church of
which she was a member, officiated
at the services. He was assisted by
Rev. W. H. Lahr of Ada, a former
pastor. Burial was in the church
I jn tbe Bluffton community.
Special music will
the meeting by the Bluffton High) removed to Jhe home of her aunt
orchestra. During
string ensemble will
the dinner
play.
president
Fred Getties, president of the
Bluffton club, will preside, and N.
E. Byers will serve as toastmaster.
She was married on Nov. 26,
I 1885, to John Kohler, who survives,
Chief officials of the state organi-lwith three sons, Waldo, at home
zation of Lions clubs will be ini Albert, of Bluffton and Harry, of
Bluffton next Tuesday to assist the! Fresno, Calif. and two daughters,
local club in its sixth annual char-1 Mrs. Alma Griffith, of Bluffton, and
ter night celebration.---------------------I Mrs. Lydia Wahl, of Findlay.
With The Sick
Mrs. Dwight Diller who is con
valescing from a major operation at
be provided at! St. Rita’s hospital, Lima, has been
Mrs. I. A. Zay in that city.
B. F. Biery is recovering at his
home on Grove street from a
bruised left knee as the result of a
fall on an icy sidewalk.
Mrs. Martha Radebaugh who has
I been critically ill at her
rum lo Open rar |of Rluffton is somewhat improved.southhome
East Fund Drivel
Clyde Yerger, Bluffton rural mail
carrier, who has been ill at his home
Opening their annual campaign) on South Jackson street for several
for the Far Eastern Student Service) months is slowly improving,
fund, the Bluffton College Y. W.
and Y. M. C. A. will sponsor a film
at the High School
day night at 7:30
Miss Berda Gratz who underwent
an operation for appendicitis at
auditorium, Sun-1 Bluffton hospital last week is conval
o’clock. I escing at her home on South Jackson
“The 400,000,000”! street.
of Chinese stu-| Kenneth Hilty who received leg
The film entitled
depicts the plight
dents under wartime conditions and| injuries in an automobile-motorcycle
gives sidelights
China
in present life in! collision near Bluffton last summer
I underwent a second operation on his
Each year the two college organi-| leg at the hospital here the past
rations sponsor
raise money for
Chinese students whose educational) taking treatment at Lima Memorial
facilities have been cut off since the| hospital for carbon monoxide poison
beginning of the Sino-Japanese con-| ing has been removed to his home
flict. in Orange township,
this campaign to I week.
the benefit of I Madison Stew'art who has been