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NIGHTS A
MOSQUITO WAR
TO COST LITTLE
Elimination of Mosquitoes
Would be Inexpensive
Engineer Says
Expert Presents Program That
Has Been 90 Per Cent Ef
fective in Other Districts
Cleanup of Bluffton’s mosquito
breeding places will be an inexpen
sive and effective program if every
section of the town cooperates in
the work, an audience of more than
100 property owners was told Tues
day night at a meeting in the high
school auditorium.
An analysis of Bluffton’s mosquito
control problem was made at the
session by Louis H. Lewandowski of
Toledo, Lucas county sanitary engin
eer.
The visiting speaker has gained
national recognition as one of the
country’s leading mosquito control
specialists, and his comments on the
local situation indicated a cleanup
could be readily effected with full
cooperation of all citizens.
Lewandowski said he believes
most of Bluffton’s mosquitos are
bred in Big and Little Riley creeks,
and that control work as a conse
quence should start there.
Treatment of Streams
Different forms of treatment were
recommended. In the Big Riley
where there is a quantity of sewage
and industrial waste, which provide
food for mosquito larvae, the elimi
nation of standing pools of water
and the use of insecticide or oil
were suggested.
Fish provide an excellent means
of destroying mosquito larvae, but
it would be hard to stock them in
the Big Riley because of the sewage
and waste matter, the speaker said.
Oil therefore could be used in the
stream without fear of harm to
fish, but insecticide would be equally
as effective and would cost very
little more.
In the Little Riley, stocking of
pools with surface minnows, which
may be obtained thru the state con
servation department, would assist
greatly in controling mosquitos.
Insecticide also should be used in
places where required, but no oil
should be used for it would be harm
ful to fish.
No Stagnant Pools
Continuing the program, residents
should make certain there are no
rain barrels, open cisterns, or stag
nant pools of water anywhere in the
town. Tin cans or other rubbish in
which water may stand also provide
excellent breeding places for mos
quitoes.
Lily ponds should be treated with
insecticide or have surface minnows
placed in them. Damp cellars pro
vide another excellent breeding
place, and should be sprayed sys
tematically. Eaves troughs some
times are breeding places.
Piles of limbs, rubbish under
which the ground will remain quite
moist will permit the breeding of
mosquitoes, Lewandowski said. Ap
proximately 14 days are required
for incubation of the insects.
For the most effective mosquito
control, w’ork should be started
about March 15, continued thru the
summer and into November, the
engineer declared. Rigid control of
one generation of mosquitoes makes
elimination of the second generation
that much easier, he pointed out.
It was Lewandowski’s opinion that
Bluffton’s mosquitoes are of a type
that have a range of about half a
mile which would simplify the local
control program.
Cost is Nominal
Cost of mosquito elimination here
would be nominal, the Toledo engin
eer declared.
In Ottawa Hills, Toledo sub
division where the mosquitoes were
so bad residents could not sit out
doors after five o’clock in the even
ing, the elimination of 90 per cent
of them was effected in one summer.
For this program the cost was less
than 19 cents per capita.
This cost Lewandowski pointed out
is no more than will be spent for
home insecticides during a season.
Lewandowski used the Ottawa
Hills elimination project as a prov
ing ground for a program which he
has drafted after continuous experi
mentation and study starting in
1914.
The outstanding success of the
elimination project there and in
other communities has earned for
the Toledo engineer recognition as
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______________________________A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
News Completes 65
Years In Bluffton
The Bluffton News, a Bluffton in
stitution since 1875, will mark its
sixty-fifth anniversary this year.
Founded by the late N. W. Cunning
ham, the News has passed in suc
cessive ownership to Jesse Huber, I.
N. Heminger and B. F. Biery and
is now operated by the Bluffton
News Publishing & Printing Co.
Present day mechanical facilities
are vastly different from the time
of handset type and to produce the
News every week requires the ser
vices of three intertypes which set
type for the news columns, a mono
type which casts type for advertise
ments together writh modern press
room and mailing equipment.
HEAVIEST SNOW
MELTS QUICKLY
Season’s Deepest Snowfall Dis
appears in Quick Thaw
Monday Afternoon
Six-inch Snow is Heaviest of
Winter Two Deep Snows
In Last Week
Bluffton’s two heaviest snows of
the winter fell during the last week,
but warm weather in both instances
soon removed much of the white
blanket.
Beginning at midnight Monday,
the town’s heaviest snowfall had
covered the ground with a six-inch
blanket on the level by the time
Bluffton residents arose Tuesday
morning.
It was quite warm thruout the
day, however, and by nightfall Tues
day much of the snow had melted
and highways were covered with
slush.
In a storm last week three inches
of snow fell on Friday night, and
driving conditions were hazardous
Saturday morning as the snow pack
ed into an icy coat on highways.
Warmer w’eather followed the snow
storm and little of the snow remain
ed at nightfall Saturday.
Hold Funeral For
Mrs. I. N. Harris
Funeral services for Mrs. I. N.
Harris, 75, were held at the Church
of Christ here, Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. L. B. Remaley, pastor of the
church, officiated at the services.
Burial was in Harmon cemetery.
Mrs. Harris, a former Bluffton
resident, died at her home five miles
southeast of Bluffton, Saturday
night. Death was due to heart
trouble.
Survivors include her husband to
whom she was married fifty years
ago last September 19 and the fol
lowing children:
Ethel Harris, Findlay Floyd Har
ris, Bluffton Harry Harris, Battle
Creek, Mich. Mrs. Joel Basinger,
Pandora Mrs. Clara Stotts, Findlay.
Also surviving are a sister, Emma
Harris and two half brothers Win
ford and Herman Ward, all of Find
lay.
Son Of Orange Twp.
Woman Succumbs
Howard Miller, 23, son of Mrs.
Mayne Miller of Orange township
died in a hospital at Warren, Sun
day morning following a brief ill
ness of pneumonia.
Miller, who was manager of a
pharmacy in a Warren suburb was
removed to the hospital last Thurs
day. Mr. and Mrs. Mayne Miller
left Saturday for Warren after be
ing informed that his condition was
critical.
Funeral services were held in
Warren, Tuesday afternoon.
Besides his mother of this place,
he is survived by one brother and
one sister.
115 At College
Booster Dinner
A gathering of 115 enjoyed the
Bluffton college Booster’s dinner at
Ropp hall last Saturday night.
Eugene Lippincott, Lima attorney,
was the principal speaker of the
evening, delivering an address on
i the advantages of a college com
munity. Fred Getties presided as
toastmaster.
The dinner is held annually, pro
ceeds from which go for some need
ed equipment for the college. The
money this year will go toward
the prchase of a refrigerator for
Ropp hall.
VOLUME NO. LXIV_______________________________________________________ BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940
OLUFFTON—a town of unique commercial, indus
trial and cultural advantages—is presented in
this Booster-Dollar Day edition of the Bluffton News.
Bluffton has long been recognized as an industrial
and educational center and to make it equally widely
known as a trading center Bluffton merchants are co
operating in two gigantic Dollar Days, Friday and
Saturday.
During the two bargain days Bluffton will take on
a holiday air with flags flying throughout the business
section, banners across the street heralding the event
and stores gaily decorated. Retail stores will be open
on both Friday and Saturday nights.
Defenseless Mennonite Church Is
Moved to Nev
Moving of Structure Completed
Monday Brought In
From Country
Remodeling Will Follow Work
On Foundation Ready for
Use In Month
The frame structure of the De
fenseless Mennonite church, moved
to Bluffton from northwest of town,
is being placed on the foundation
at the new church location on the
South Jackson street lot purchased
from A. S. Faze.
Moving of the church, started last
Thursday, was completed Monday.
It will be remodeled after it is set
on the foundation, and it will be
approximately a month before it
will be ready for use.
During the moving process the
building was loaddd on a trailer,
pulled by a tractor.
It was necessary to take the
structure across two creeks, the Big
and Little Riley, by laying steel
beams across.the streams, support
ed by underpinning resting on the
creek beds.
Rev. E. G. Steiner announced that
the congregation will retain owner
ship of the former location three
and one-half miles northwest of
Bluffton, w’here the church has a
cemetery.
Smucker Elected To
Honorary Fraternity
Orden Smucker, furloughed Bluff
ton High teacher who is taking
graduate studies at Ohio State uni
versity this winter, was elected last
week to the Sigma chapter of Phi
Delta Kappa, national honorary pro
fessional education fraternity.
Membership is awarded on the
basis of academic merit, and is
drawn from graduate students and
instructors in education.
Smucker also has been elected to
the Ohio Valley Sociological society,
regional association of members
from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Ken
tucky, West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania.
In addition to taking graduate
studies at Ohio State, Smucker is
teaching introductory and education
al sociology at the institution.
Bluffton Woman Gets
Box Of Citrus Fruit
A crate of fine Arizona oranges
and grapefruit was received here
the first of the week by Mrs. J. J.
Hamilton of Poplar street from her
daughter, Mrs. Andrew Stauffer of
Phoenix.
The oranges of the seedless va
riety were of special interest here as
they were of a strain developed by
the late Dan Diller, formerly resid
ing northwest of Bluffton who later
moved to Arizona and was promin
ent in the development of the seed
less orange.
Diller’s son, Homer, residing near
Phoenix has recently developed a
pink date which he is now success
fully growing and marketing.
Adequate parking facilities in the
business district will be provided
for Bluffton and out-of-town shop
pers during Dollar Days at the re
quest of Mayor Wilbur A. Howe.
At the mayor’s suggestion, per
sons associated with downtown
stores, offices and other places of
business have agreed to not park
Bluffton Booster Edition Two Big Dollar Days in Bluffton, March 1 and 2
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
BOOSTER DOLLAR DAY EDITION
PRESENTS BLUFFTON THE TOWN
OF UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Mayor Arranges Adequate Parking
Facilities For Dollar Day Shoppers
Location In Bluffton
H. S. TOURNEY
OPENS FRIDAY
Pirate Cagers Will Meet Chat
field in Opening Assign
ment on Carey Floor
Bluffton’s Opponents Have Won
15 and Lost Only One So
Far This Season
Bluffton High’s scrappy cagers
will make their first bid for 1940
Sectional Class tournament hon
ors at 9:30 p. m. this Friday when
they tangle with, an aggressive
Chatfield team in the Carey High
gymnasium.
Champions of Crawford county,
Chatfield has won 15 games and
lost one so far this season. In the
Crawford tourney, the Chatfield out
fit soundly trounced Whetstone, the
only team that lihd gained a de
cision over them duriftg the season.
Bluffton will take a record of
eight games won and nine lost into
the tournament, but the Pirates play
a harder schedule, about half of
their opponents being Class A
teams.
Should Bluffton be successful in
their first tourney start, the team’s
opponent will be the winner of the
Lexington-Fostoria St. Wendelin con
test.
In the lower bracket with Bluff
ton and Chatfield are: Salem, paired
with Carey Rawson, paired with
Bettsville, and Lexington, paired
with Fostoria St. Wendelin.
The Pirates played Salem and
Rawson during the regular season,
losing to the former, 27 to 30, and
winning over the latter, 26 to 23.
Ada is in the upper bracket and
meets Harspter in their first assign
ment. McComb, Hancock county
champion, also is in the upper brac
ket.
Post Office Handles
Heavy Mails Here
Bluffton is a good trading point
for a prospective community—and
the heavy volume of mail handled by
the post office here abundantly con
forms that fact. For years past the
volume of mail here has greatly ex
ceeded that of most towns the size
of Bluffton.
Recognizing the need of enlarged
quarters a federal grant' has been
made for a new $80,000 post office
building and construction is sched
uled to begin this spring.
The new building, an $80,000 struc
ture to be located on South Main
and Franklin streets will be con
structed during the coming summer
and with the latest in mail handling
equipment, Postmaster Ed Reichen
bach and his corps of able assistants
will have at their disposal ample
facilities to continue the efficient
service which the office has been
giving its patrons.
their automobiles in the business
area on Friday and Saturday.
Bluffton’s four downtown parking
lots also will be reserved for Dollar
Day shoppers. Signs will guide out
of-town shoppers to the free parking
areas.
Parking facilities are offered to
shoppers as a friendly gesture of
hospitality and courtesy.
A free matinee at the Star theatre Saturday at 2:30
o’clock for children under fourteen will be an attrac
tion provided with compliments of the management to
which all children are invited. The theatre’s regular
Saturday program will be shown.
This issue of the Bluffton News contains outstand
ing bargains in every line of merchandise—something
for every shopper in the Bluffton district. Read every
advertisement in this issue—not only for money
saving items, but also free offers which will be found
herein.
tome to Bluffton on Dollar Days, Friday and Sat
urday and save while you buy.
Veteran Grocer
Aged 85 Years
George H. Barnes, veteran Bluff
ton grocer, was honored on the oc
casion of his eighty-fifth birthday
anniversary with a dinner at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Am
stutz, Sunday.
Present for the occasion were Mr.
Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Am
stutz, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kennedy
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Amstutz and family.
Notwithstanding his advanced
years, Mr. Barnes is actively en
gaged daily in the management of
his store here and is enjoying good
health.
Two Bluffton Men
On Hospital Board
Organization of the executive staff
of the Northwestern County Hos
pital Service association which offers
group hospitalization insurance was
effected Monday night at a meeting
in Lima.
Bluffton hospital is a member of
the association, with seven other co
operating institutions in the dis
trict. Other hospitals are in Lima,
Findlay, Kenton, Sidney and Celina.
Two Bluffton men were elected to
the board of directors: G. R. Bogart
and N. E. Byers.
Forrest Steinman
Talks At Columbus
Forrest Steinman, Bluffton lumber
dealer, was the speaker Monday
evening at a meeting of the Central
Ohio Lumber Institute, in Columbus.
“Three Little Knots” was the sub
ject of Steinman’s address.
The local lumberman is vice-presi
dent of the Ohio Lumber Dealers’
association.
Bluffton College
On Air Twice Weekly
Contributing in no small way to
the public relations program of
Bluffton college are the twice-weekly
radio broadcasts which originate in
the chapel studios located in Col
lege Hall and are heard thru station
WLOK in Lima.
Presenting features both educa
tional and entertaining, the programs
are aired each Tuesday and Friday
afternoon from 4 to 4:30, barring
vacations.
Evangelistic Speaker
Rev. J. A. Weed is assisting in a
series of evangelistic services at Ep
worth Methodist church in Lima, this
week. He occupied the pulpit on
Tuesday night and will also preach
this Wednesday and Thursday
nights.
Births
Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Packer of
Lafayette are the parents of a
daughter bom Saturday at the Com
munity hospital.
Dr. Helen Barnes
In Auto Accident
Dr. Helen Barnes of Findlay, a
former Bluffton resident was bruised
and shaken in an automobile acci
dent at Charleston, South Carolina,
recently, while traveling in the
South.
Word of the accident was received
here the first of the week. Details
were lacking except that her injuries
were not serious and she is now en
route to Florida.
Dr. Barnes, former international
secretary of the Y. W. C. A. has
traveled widely thruout the world.
Her father was a pioneer Methodist
minister here and she was a member
of the class of 1881, the first to be
graduated from Bluffton high school.
Slaw Cutter Plant
Gets Large Order
The Bluffton Slaw Cutter com
pany’s plant at North Main and
Washington streets is a busy place
this week as production started on
an order for 40,032 slaw cutters. The
current order is one of the largest
in the history of the company it
was stated by C. B. Fett, president
and general manager.
The business was placed here by
a nationally known merchandising
organization and the cutters will be
used as premiums. Delivery of the
two car-load order will be made in
May and employment at the plant
is being increased to take care of
the business.
The Bluffton company, well known
manufacturers of the Rapid Slaw
and Vegetable cutter, has been in
the manufacturing field for many
years having established a reputa
tion for the marketing of quality
products.
CATCH BANDITS
IN WILD CHASE
Search Started in Bluffton Ends
With Capture of Youthful
Trio in Lima
Michigan Fugitives Attempt to
Escape After Wrecking
Stolen Automobile
Three Michigan youths, whose
actions aroused suspicion in Bluff
ton last Tuesday night, placing state
highway patrolmen on their trail,
were captured in Lima last Wed
nesday.
Names given by the youths were
Edward Ronan, Cecil Thompson and
Charles Berger, all of Saginaw,
Mich.
Fleeing from highway patrolmen,
after the search was started from
Bluffton, the youths wrecked their
auto in a deadend country road
four miles south of Columbus Grove.
They fled from the scene but police
captured them in railroad yards at
Lima where they were waiting for a
train.
Questioned by authorities the
youths admitted stealing the wreck
ed car and committing several burg
laries, according to police reports.
They were returned to Michigan.
With The Sick
Peter Matter who was seriously
ill at his home on Spring street is
much improved and was down town
the first of the week.
Prof. I. W. Bauman is ill at his
home on West Kibler street.
Mrs. Cecil Hartman, of near
Beaverdam, underwent an operation
at the Bluffton Community hospital
Monday morning.
Miss Ocie Anderson, in charge of
the public library here was called
to her home at Cameron, W. Va.,
the first of the week on account of
the serious illness of her father who
is ill of heart complications.
Tom Murray, son of Mrs. Jean
Murray of this place, who has been
ill since last summer at his home
in Findlay spent several days re
cently in Memorial hospital, Lima,
where he was under observation.
Mrs. Dwight Diller who is conval
escing at the home of her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Zay of
Lima following a major operation in
a hospital in that city is expected
to be removed to her home in the
Stratton apartments here during the
coming week.
College Amateur
Revue Saturday
Skits by students and faculty will
comprise a program of tw’elve num
bers on the program of the annual
Bluffton College Amateur Revue to
be staged in the chapel, Saturday
night at 8 o’clock.
The project is under direction of
the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. of the
college and proceeds will be used
for improvement of the “Y” cabin
on the college farm northwest of
Bluffton.
Young Peoples Rally
At Ebenezer Church
Young people of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church east of Bluffton
will sponsor a Youth Rally April 4
to 7, it was announced the first of
the week. Dr. Roy Brown, noted
Bible lecturer, youth counselor and
business man from Altadena, Calif.,
will be guest speaker.
VV MARCH 1 AND 2
NUMBER 44
AUTO TAGS ARE
ON SALE FRIDAY
Letters on Bluffton Car
Licenses for Coming Year
Are “ZC” and “ZD”
Tags Have White Figures and
Letters on Dark Blue
Background
Ohio’s 1940 automobile tags will
go on sale here this Friday, and
motorists will be permitted to use
the new license plates on their cars
anytime after March 10.
Headquarters for distribution of
tags will be in the Steiner Chevrolet
garage, Robert Lewis, registrar for
the Bluffton district, announced.
All automobiles, trucks, trailers
and motorcycles operated on or after
April 1 must display the new plates,
or owners of the vehicles will be
subject to arrest.
Ohio’s 1940 tags have white fig
ures on a dark blue background. A
new series of tags will be distributed
here this year, and will run from
351ZC to 999ZC and 51ZD to 750ZD.
Rates on tags for passenger cars
will be unchanged, with $7 being
charged for cars up to 25 horse
power $10 for those with horse
power from 25 to 31 and $16 for
all over 31 horsepower. Clerk’s fees
are additional.
Passenger car plates may be ob
tained directly from the registrar.
Applications for truck and trailer
licenses are sent to Columbus by
the registrar, and the tags are mail
ed direct to the purchaser.
In applying for license plates, the
bill of sale or certificate of title
must be presented, and only the
owner of the car can make the pur
chase.
Large Attendance At
Father-Son Dinner
i...............
An attendance of 120 enjoyed the
{annual Father-Son dlimer at the
Masonic lodge last Thursday night.
The affair is held annually at the
time of Washington’s birthday an
niversary honoring the First Presi
dent who was a member of the
order.
Principal speaker of the evening,
J. P. Sutton, executive of the Ohio
Oil company of Findlay delivered an
address on the subject “Young Man
—What Now?”.
Mr. Sutton’s address was directed
principally to the young men pres
ent and he emphasized the neces
sity of getting along with other
people, a sense of the value of
money and the advantage of ac
quiring a useful trade.
Much of the present day unem
ployment that exists thruout the
nation is not due so much to the
lack of jobs as it is to the lack of
skilled men to fill them, Mr. Sutton
pointed out.
While the present mechanical age
has taken much of the drudgery out
of labor, men trained with a degree
of skill unknown a generation ago
are now required to handle these
complicated machines, the speaker
said.
Mr. Sutton’s address followed a
dinner in the lodge dining hall serv
ed by women of the Eastern Star
order.
Representing the fathers, a wel
come was extended to the guests by
Francis Marshall. Evan Soash re
sponded to the welcome in behalf of
the sons. C. A. Biery presided as
toastmaster.
In New Locations
David Garber who recently moved
here from Missouri and purchased
the Jacob Althaus farm west of
Bluffton will occupy the place early
in March.
Roy Herr who occupied the Alt
haus farm has rented the R. E.
Griffith farm south of Bluffton and
will move there shortly.
R. E. Griffith will move to town
occupying the John Kohler property
on South Lawn avenue.
Horace Wilson has moved from
Moffit station to a farm west of
Findlay.
Real Estate Deals
The William Burkholder property
at Spring and Washington streets
now occupied by Ralph Reichenbach
has been purchased by Robert Potts
residing west of Bluffton on the
Columbus Grove road. Mr. and Mrs.
Potts expect to move into the prop
erty this spring.