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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXV
PARADE TO MARCH
THRU FLAG LINED
STREETS OF TOWN
Uniformed Knights Templar
And National Guardsmen
In Line of March
Parade Forms at Town Hall at
2:30 O’clock Street Closed
To Traffic
One of the largest parades in the
history of Bluffton, against a color
ful setting that will include decora
tion of the entire town, will mark
the opening of ceremonies incidental
to laying of the cornerstone for
Bluffton’s new $80,000 post office
building here next Sunday afternoon.
With Ohio National Guardsmen,
uniformed Commanderies of Knights
Templar, visiting Masonic bodies,
civic organizations and federal and
state officials in the line of march,
the parade will be an impressive
spectacle as it moves from the city
hall to the site of the new post office.
An additional touch of color will
be added to the parade by symbolic
paraphernalia of the Masonic lodge,
which will be used in the dedicatory
ceremonies.
Decoration of the entire town with
Ajnerican flags and bunting hai been
requested, and there will be special
decorative hangings in the down
town area. Windows of business
places also will be specially decorated
for the occasion.
Close Main Street
Main street will be closed to traffic
between Kibler and Riley streets
from noon until 5 p. m., and no
parking will be permitted on the
street. All streets crossing Main
street also will be closed from paral
lel alleys next to Main. Traffic will
be detoured down Jackson street with
Boy Scouts and state highway pa
trolmen in charge.
Opening the impressive afternoon
program, the parade will form at
2:30 p. m. and march from the town
hall to the post office.
Heading the procession will be the
Bluffton High school band, and next
in the order of march will come the
Ada National Guard unit, 60 strong.
Uniformed Commanderies
Bluffton Civic organizations and
visiting federal and state officials
will follow, imediately preceding vis
iting Commanderies of Knights
Templar in uniform, under the com
mand of Captain General Fred N.
Price, of Findlay.
Past Masters of Masonic lodges of
the Bluffton district will march next
in the procession. They will be fol
lowed by visiting Masonic lodges and
Bluffton Masons. The end of the
parade will be reserved for the
Grand Lodge of Ohio, represented by
Acting Grand Master Charles Wil
son, of Ada.
The Masonic committee in charge
of parade arrangements includes C.
G. Coburn, Forrest Steinman, Dr.
Evan Basinger and Rolland Stratton.
Appointment of committees was
made by Dr. B. R. Herring, master
of the Bluffton lodge.
Resigns Teaching To
Take Up State Work
Miss Martha Niswander has re
signed her teaching position in the
Milan schools to go into state exten
sion work in home economics. She
w take up her new position in
September.
Miss Niswander is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Niswander of
South Main street.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
Community hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Hilty of Pan
dora, a son, Garry Gene, Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Staley,
Bluffton, a daughter, Marsha Ann,
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Spaeth,
Lima, a daughter Connie Lou, Fri
day.
IN NEW’ LOCATION
C. M. Gleason and family have
moved from Geiger street to their
home, the former Owens school prop
erty south of Bluffton which they
sgcently remodeled.
Postmaster
U’D R. Reichenbach, Bluffton
postmaster since 1934, will
have the responsibility of mov
ing Bluffton’s postal facilities
into the new $80,000 post office,
the corner stone of which is to
be laid Sunday. It is expected
that the new structure will be
ready for use early next winter.
WAR CANNOT SAVE
DEMOCRACY PEACE
SPEAKER CHARGES
Muriel Lester, Noted English
Pacifist Addresses Confer
ence Here
State Peace Groups Holding
Meetings at Bluffton Col
lege This Week
Citing the folly of going to war to
make the world safe for democracy,
Muriel Lester, noted English writer,
Tuesday night addressed, a public
meeting scheduled as one of the ses
sions of the state-wide peace confer
ence being held on the Bluffton col
lege campus. She spoke in the
college chapel which was filled for
the occasion.
Approximately 100 delegates are
registered for the six-day conference
arranged by the Fellowship of Recon
ciliation, which opened Monday on
the local campus.
Morning, afternoon and evening
discussion periods are being held for
delegates, and two public meetings
have been arranged.
Talk
on
Long War Peril To Democracy,
Warns Speaker At Lions Chib
Orient
In addition to Miss Lester’s talk on
Tuesday, Harold Fey, associate edi
tor of Christian Century magazine,
is scheduled to address a public
gathering at 8 p. m. Friday in the
college chapel. Fey has just re
turned from an extended tour thru
the Orient and his talk will deal
with conditions in that hemisphere.
In assailing wars to preserve
democracy, Miss Lester Tuesday
night declared that the last world
war served only to provide the set
ting for the dictators that today
jeopardize European democracy.
Mistakes were made in settling the
last war, she said. Even the com
mon people of England were gener
ally opposed to the Versailles treaty,
particularly after England continued
the blockade of Germany for nine
months after the Armistice, she
maintained.
Danger
from
Within
America’s greatest danger, the
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Horned toads are the center of in
terest in The Bluffton Newrs window
display this week, and far from their
native habitat of Texas the oddly
shaped creatures survey the every
day life of Bluffton with an air
tinged with wonder.
Twelve fine specimens of the toads
were brought to Bluffton by the
Aldine Weiss family, following a 10
days’ visit in Wichita, Texas, and
were put in the window display.
Weiss reported that the toads can
be found everywhere in the section
of Texas where he visited, and that
it is an easy matter to capture
them.
Texas Horned Toads Are Strange
Curiosity In Bluffton News Window
United States Should Stop All
Aid to War, Declares Bis
hop Paul Jones
Last World War, Fought to
Preserve Democracy, Pro
duced Dictators, Claim
Citing the need for clear, rational
thinking in the present world crisis
as it affects the United States,
Bishop Paul Jones, of Antioch col
lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, was the
speaker at a dinner meeting of the
Bluffton Lions club Tuesday evening
in the Walnut Grill.
Bishop Jones is college pastor and
professor of religious education at
Antioch.
In commenting on intervention in
the European war, Bishop Jones de
clared that he has every respect for
the idealism of those who would en
ter the war to save Democracy, but
has no respect for their judgment.
War Brought Dictators
Results of the last World war only
served to produce the Hitlers, Stal
ins and Mussolinis of today, the
speaker said.
To preserve democratic institutions
in a shaky world it will be necessary
that the present war be brought to
an early conclusion, Bishop Jones
said. He advocated that to gain that
end we should stop all aid to war,
which is now masquerading under
the guise of aid to Britain.
It is impossible to preserve de
mocracy by fighting for it on the
battlefield, the speakei’ continued.
After the last war we had less
democracy than at any time in his
tory. It is a forgone conclusion that
under a military rule there is no
such thing as freedom of speech or
any of the other principal attributes
cf democracy.
Bishop Jones expressed opposition
to any move toward peace-time con
scription, citing it as the prelude to
dictatorship. Conscription has never
before been used in this country ex
cept as a final measure, and under it
every citizen becomes only a pawn
of the state.
Combat Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is efficient because
it exploits the residents of a coun
try, regiments their lives and makes
them subsercient to interests other
than their own.
To combat totalitarianism, it is es
sential that we preserve democracy
by cooperation between labor and in
dustry, consumer cooperation, indi
vidual sacrifice and socialized ownei
ship of some ^activities, the Bishop
declared.
Next meeting of the Bluffton Lions
club will be at Findlay on August 1,
when members of the local organiza
tion attend a charter presentation
meeting at that place.
Tax Deputies Here
On August 5 And 6
Representatives from tne Allen
county treasurer’s office will be in
Bluffton Monday and Tuesday, Aug
ust 5 and 6, to assist resioei.t.i of
the area in filing last half 1938 real
estate tax returns.
Deadline for payment of the last
half taxes has been set for Sept. 10.
During their stay in Bluffton the
treasurer’s representatives will estab
lish quarters in the Citizens National
Bank.
Real estate tax collections !a»'t
week amounted to $62,917.22, a total
for the period of $242,822 34. Last
week’s sales tax receipts we-* $4,
528.35, with an aggregate for the
year of $145,357.03.
They eat very little in fact there
are recorded instances in which
horned toads are known to have gone
for years without food or water
and still remain alive.
In appearance, the animals seem
to be about a cross between our com
mon garden variety to toads and
lizards. On the back of each toad’s
head are the horns from which the
species derives its name.
In addition to the toads, Weiss is
exhibiting several unusual specimens
of lead, zinc and piff ores which he
obtained in the Tri-State mining dis
trict in Oklahoma, and several types
of cactus.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO‘THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY JULY 18, 1940
LARGE CROWD EXPECTED FOR CORNER STONE LAYING
FIRST WHEAT OF
NEW CROP SOLD
ON MARKET HERE
Grain Marketed Monday by
Aaron Messinger from
Garau Farm Tests 60
Oats Prospect is Best in Past
Four Years Com Outlook
Is Good
First load of new wheat from the
Bluffton area was marketed at the
Bluffton Milling Co. at 3:30 p. m.
Monday, altho a survey of the dis
trict reveals that many fields have
not yet been cut.
The wheat sold here Monday
afternoon came from the farm of
E. E. Garau, south of Bluffton
which is operated by Aaron Mes
singer. It tested 60, and the price
paid was 68 cents per bushel.
Threshing was done by Eldon
Tschiegg.
FIRST THRESHING MONDAY
Threshing in the Bluffton dis
trict started Monday morning
when threshing crews swung in
to action. Eldon Tschiegg who
operates an outfit got into
practice by threshing a field of
wheat on his farm early in the
morning before starting on his
regular rounds.
Threshing operations will be at the
usual mid-season peak by the middle
of this week, weather permitting,
according to present indications.
Altho many fields have not yet
been cut, most of them are awaiting
harvesting by combines. Wet grounds
and the conditions of this year’s
crop have delayed combining to some
extent this year.
Prospect 20 to 25 Bushels Acre
Reports from rural observers in
dicate the yield this year will be
from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre
and that quality of the crop will be
excellent. Straw is quite rusty in
many fields but there has been little
damage to the grain.
THIRTY BUSHELS TO ACRE
Wheat in the Bluffton district
made a record of thirty bushels
to the acre, according to thresh
ing reports from the David Neis
wander farm four miles west of
Bluffton. The farm is operated
by Robert Neiswander.
A fine piece of fifteen acres of
wheat threshed by Lehman Bros,
on the Neiswander farm, Tues
day, showed a yield of 450
bushels.
In some districts of the state
wheat scab is prevalent, but there
have been no reports of damage
from that source in the Bluffton
area.
Oats fields, altho seeded late, give
prospects of a heavy yield this year.
Observers report that it appears the
crop will be the best in the last four
years.
Corn also is making excellent
progress in the Bluffton vicinity, and
a fine fall yield is expected. In
other parts of the state corn pros
pects are not so good, but the con
dition of the crop locally is quite
promising.
Ray Hilty Weds In
Pandora Ceremony
Announcement was made the first
of the week of the wedding of Ray
S. Hilty, assistant registrar of Bluff
ton college and Miss Mary F. Hornal
of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, and
Pasadena, Calif.
The wedding took place in Pan
dora, Friday at the home of the
officiating minister, Rev. P. E. Whit
mer, pastor of the Grace church of
that place. Following the ceremony
the couple left for a wedding trip
thru Michigan and Canada.
Mr. Hilty is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. N. S. Hilty of Pandora and
for several years has been in charge
of the administration office of Bluff
ton college. He has also been act
ing registrar during the illness of
Prof. E. J. Hirschler, registrar of
the institution.
NO UNION SERVICE
Due to the afternoon program
next Sunday there will be no union
church service in the evening.
The list of contents to be placed
in the copper box receptable at the
laying of the corner stone at Bluff
ton’s new post office building, Sun
day afternoon, has been announced
by the committee in charge consist
ing of Ralph Stearns, E. C. Schultz
and A. J. B. Longsdorf.
The box will be placed in a niche
in the wall at the rear of the cor
ner stone at the southeast corner of
the building fronting South Main
street.
The following articles will be
placed in the copper container:
Bible names of post office offi
cials, architect, engineer and con
tractors.
Pictures—Post office building,
Bluffton churches, public buildings,
industrial concerns.
PANDORA YOUTH IN
HOSPITAL AS BUCK
RAKE OVERTURNS
Paul Lugibill Recovering from
Injuries Received in Ac
cident Tuesday
Youth Discovered in Ditch at
Side of Road Fifteen Min
utes After Mishap
Paul Lugibill, 22, son of Mr. and
Mrs. David Lugibill of near Pandora
was found helpless in a ditch at the
side of the road Tuesday afternoon
when a buck rake which he was
driving overturned two miles east of
Pandora.
Suffering from eight fractured ribs
and a punctured left lung he was
taken to the Bluffton hospital where
his condition was reported satisfac
tory Wednesday morning.
The accident occurred as Lugibill
was taking the rake from his home
to Pandora. Near the Albert Schutz
farm the vehicle swerved from the
road and overturned in a ditch.
Lugibill, alone at the time was
found by Roy Cherry of near Pan
dora about a quarter-hour after the
mishap. Cherry took the injured
youth to the office of Dr. Milo Rice,
Pandora physician from where he
was removed to the Bluffton hospital
in the Diller ambulance.
Buck rakes, manufactured in Bluff
ton, are coming into common use in
this section for gathering hay and
hauling it to the barn. The rake is
made from an old automobile with a
frame constructed on the rear for
carrying hay and other crops.
To Be Teacher In
Schools At Celina
Miss Letha Niswander, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Niswander
of South Jackson street has accepted
a position as instructor in the second
grade of the Celina schools for the
coming year. Miss Niswander was
graduated last spring from Bowling
Green State university.
Real Estate Deal
Mrs. Gladys Shaw of Springfield,
Mo., has purchased the Ralph Ewing
farm in Orange township.
Here Is List Of Contents For
Post Office Corner Stone Box
Roster and History—Bluffton Ma­
Shop Courses For National
Defense Will Open Monday
Luxuriant growths of roadside
grass and weeds have resulted in a
new hazard to motorists this sum
mer.
Men have been hired by the town
ship trustees to cut the fence-high
growth along roadways, particularly
where highway signs and stop signs
have been obscured. In some cases
the grass represents a traffic menace
where stop signs at the intersection
of side roads and a main highway
cannot be observed.
Heavy growth of grass and weeds
is attributed to the wet, cool weather
which has prevailed so far this
summer.
sonic lodge, Bluffton American Le
gion post, post office officials and
employees, city officials, board public
affairs, Community hospital board
and staff, Board of education, offi
cials and teachers, Bluffton Federa
tion of Women’s clubs, Bluffton Boy
Scout Troop.
Publications—This edition of the
Bluffton News Bluffton high school
Cutlass, Lions club Jungle News,
Bluffton College Witmarsum, Bluffton
College catalog.
Envelope from Bluffton’s first air
mail delivery.
Addresses—F o e s Steinman,
chairman of program John E. Lam
iel, Canton, representing post office
department.
List of committees in charge of
cornerstone laying.
Arrangements Being Made for
Enrollment of 20 to 25 in
Industrial Class
Instruction to be Given Five
Nights Weekly at Plant of
Triplett Company
Industrial training classes in the
national defense program will open
in Bluffton next Monday for an in
tensive 15 weeks course.
Classes will be held five evenings
a week in the modern machine shop
of The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co., with George Klay and Charles
Hilty, supervisory employees of the
company, acting as instructors.
Enrollment has exceeded the mini
mum of 10 students, required by the
Bluffton board of education, and it is
expected that approximately 20 to 25
will have registered for the work by
the time classes convene next week.
Registration will continue for the
rest of this week, Supt, A. J. B.
Longsdorf announced.. Any who
wish to enroll may do so at the high
school office until next Monday.
Classes Five Nights Weekly
Classes will be held five nights a
week, Monday thru Friday, from 7
to 10 o’clock. A 200-hour program is
required, which means that the
course will continue until the close
of October.
There are two classes of enrollees,
those who are employed and those
who are unemployed. Before un
employed persons can enroll it s
necessary that they register at the
unemployment office in Lima. No
one under 18 years of age will be
accepted.
Rank Growth Of Grass Along
Roadside Obscures Stop Signs
Instruction will be in the various
phases of shop work, technical draw
ing and design, pattern making and
training in various mechanical oper
ations. Tuition, textbooks and ma
terials are free to those selected for
the course.
Couple Is Wed In
Kentucky Sunday
Wedding of Miss Naomi Shrider,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Shrider of Bluffton and Lee Basing
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ba
singer of Pandora took place at
Newport, Kentucky, Sunday.
The couple will reside for the pres
ent at the Shrider home on West Col
lege avenue.
The bride is employed at the plant
of the Triplett company here and
Mr. Basinger is employed at the
Westinghouse plant in Lima.
WINDOW EXHIBITS
Four carrots, intertwined to make
almost perfect braid is an exhibit
attracting attention in the News
window. The exhibit was brought
in by Beulah Burkholder of West
Elm street.
DOLLAR DAY SUNDAY
Dollar day will be observed at the
Methodist church here Sunday.
Each one attending is asked to
bring an extra dollar to help meet
conference claims.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 12
HOLD PROGRAM AT
NEW POST OFFICE
HERE ON SUNDAY
Ancient Ritual of Masonic
Order to be Used in Im
pressive Ceremony
John E. Lamiel, Director of
International Postal Ser
vice, Speaker
Laying of the cornerstone for
Bluffton’s new $80,000 post office
next Sunday afternoon will be an
impressive affair combining a civic
program, ancient Masonic ritualistic
ceremonies preserved during the cen
turies, and the presentation of fed
eral and state officials coming here
for the event.
Opening with a parade thru the
gaily decorated downtown area at
2:30 p. m., the program will he cli
maxed by elaborate ceremonies at the
site of the new post office.
Civic representatives will open the
program, folowing which the Masonic
litual will be exemplified in laying of
the cornerstone for the structure,
with the acting Grand Master of
Ohio Masonic lodges officiating.
Many Celebrate Here
In the third phase of the ceremony,
visiting federal and state officials
will be presented, and an address
will be given by John E. Lamiel, of
Canton, Ohio, director of the Inter
national Postal Service.
An amplifying system will make
it possible for all attending to hear
the speakers, and traffic will be
barred from Main street during the
afternoon to give plenty of roum
for the large audience which is ex
pected. In addition to local resi
dents, the attendance will be swelled
by visiting Masonic organizitions
from the surrounding district.
In addition to the more formal as
pects of the program, the Bluffton
High band will play several selec
tions and the Findlay Masonic chorus
will sing.
Forrest L. Steinman, chairman cf
the general committee in charge of
arrangements for the cornerstone
laying, a past commander of the
Findlay Commandery, Knights Temp
lar, will preside at the afternoon’s
events.
Civic Participation
In the civic program, ceremonies
will be opened by the singing of
“America”, led by the Findlay Ma
sonic chorus, directed by Russell
Barnhill.
Mayor W. A. Howe will deliver the
address of welcome, fallowing the in
vocation by Rev. J. A. Weed, presi
dent of the Bluffton Ministerial Asso
ciation. Music then will be pr vidtd
by’ the Bluffton High band, Sidney
Hauenstein conducting.
Masonic rites will be opened by the
invocation by Rev. W. L. Harmony,
representing the Right Worshipful
Grand Chaplain, and selections by
the Findlay Masonic chorus.
Trowel Presentation
Presentation of the trowel will be
made by G. R. Bogart of the Bluff
ton lodge to Deputy Grand Master
Charles Wilson, representing Dillon
Crist, Grand Master of Ohio Masons.
Following the presentation, reading
of the record of archives in the the
box to be sealed in the cornerstone
will be made by Ralph Sterans.
Laying of the cornerstone by
Grand Master Wilson, with the an
cient Masonic ritual and symbolic
paraphernalia, will follow. Music
for this phase of the rites will be
provided by the Bluffton High band.
Presenting of federal and state
officials will follow the introduction
of Francis W. Durbin, of Lima. The
address will be by John E. Lamiel,
of Canton, a director of the Inter
national Postal Service.
In closing the program, Dr. L. L.
Ramseyer, president of Bluffton col
lege, will ask the henedicton. Group
singing of “God Bless America” will
be led by the band, which will follow
with playing of “The Star Spangled
Banner”.
Should rain interfere with the cer
emonies, the program is to be held
in the high school gymnasium, it
was announced.
TALL TIGER LILIES
Abundant moisture and excellent
growing conditions this summer have
resulted in some unusually tall tiger
lily stalks measuring five feet one
and one-half inches at the home of
A. E. Tempi on Vance streefc.