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PAGE EIGHT
Errors cost Bluffton Triplett soft
ballers the chance for victory against
Wapakoneta Detjen Grain on the
Moulton diamond last Friday night,
and the Auglaize county team emer
ged the winner by a score of 7 to 5.
Bluffton garnered 12 hits to seven
made by the opposition, but six er
rors proved too much of a handicap
to the locals in their attempt to score
their second league win of the season
over the Wapakoneta crew.
Errors Costly As Triplett Softball
Team Loses To Wapakoneta, 7-5
The victors started strong with a
four-run assault in the first inning,
the result of two errors and four
hits. All the runs were unearned.
Another tally came in the fourth and
two more in the sixth.
Bluffton went scoreless until the
fourth when Fritz Swank singled
and crossed the plate on Lewis’ dou
ble.
In the fifth the locals turned on a
real threat by scoring three times.
Backensto reached base on an error
and scored on Beach’s home run.
Bluffton sports fans will have the
chance to see one of Ohio’s crack
softball teams in action here Friday
night when Pemberton meets the
flashy Triplett outfit under the flood
lights at Harmon field.
Runner-up in the state elimination
tournament last year, Pemberton is
one of Ohio’s strongest teams and
their record this year is as good as
any in the state.
The team which eventually defeat
ed Pemberton in the Ohio playoff
last year went on to the finals in
BIRTHDAY PARTY
A birthday party was given in
honor of Miss Barbara Jean Lewis
on her seventh birthday anniversary
last Friday.
A birthday cake and ice cream
were enjoyed by all and many games
were played. Barbara received many
beautiful presents.
Her guests were Carol Jean
Sechler, Margaret Stratton, Rosella
Shulaw, Beverly Duffman, Peggy
Duffman,
Eileen
holder,
Moser,
Lewis,
Neil Duffman and the hostess, Mrs.
Arthur Lewis.
Beverly Duffman,
Gertrude Mae Gunther,
Mathewson, Genevieve Burk-
Darlyn Garmatter, Carolyn
Mary Lou and Ramon Carl
Mrs. Howard Moser, Mrs.
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Other Tires and Tubes Propor
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LOOK AT THESE BATTERY
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guarantee___ $4.00
prices with your old
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U. S. Balloon Tubes_ ____ .65
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_____Opposite Town Hall
Miller doubled and scored on Fritz
Swank’s single.
Another Bluffton run was made in
the eighth, the result of a single by
Fritz Swank, two sacrifices and Bert
Swank’s one-bagger.
Lewis, who started on the mound
for Bluffton, was charged with the
defeat. Beach worked the last seven
innings.
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Burkholder
Miller
King .............
F. Swank
Lewis
Alspach
B. Swank
Steiner
Backensto
Triplett -....
Beach
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Totals
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Wapakoneta
State Runner-Up To Play Triplett
Softball Team Here Friday Night
Play Triplett
the national softball tournament be
fore bowing in defeat, another indi
cation of the strength of the crew I
which is to play here this week.
Two home games will be arranged
for the Triplett team next week.
Arrangements are being made for a
Lima team to play here on Tuesday,
and Pandora will provide the oppo
sition on Thursday.
This week’s schedule also includes
a league game with Jackson Center,
at that place, on Thursday night.
Bluffton won their first tilt with the
Jackson Center crew.
War Cannot have I
Dpmnprarv Pparp
17UIHUU1 *vj I CaLv I Specjaities few are more
Speaker Charges!
Miss Lester 36 years ago gave up
her social position in a
English family to take up welfare
work in the London slums. She said
that many persons
position assist in
work.
(Continued from page 1) I and lay up in little chambers food
speaker declared, is not from Hitler,! upon which their young subsist,
but from within. We have vast po-l Look closely into e a
.... T-i
xt
tentiahties for Fascism and Nazism I what they are doing in that
within our own confines, and it is I Sultry seasOn when you can think
against them that our resources must I on]y of vacation, for it is then that
be directed.
She now serves
traveling secretary
ship of Reconciliation, and the opin-|
i°ns
represented the extreme pacifist view­1
point.
Ford Lauds Men Over 40.
Henry Ford doubts that there are
“enough brains under
age) to supply the
needed in industry.”
“My own opinion is
not come to full usefulness until
they are 40,” said Ford.
“For years I have advocated the
employment of men over 40 because
their experience, steadiness and
judgment are absolutely necessary
to the best success of industry.”
Swans Down Cake Flour 26c
STEINER’S HOMESTORE
CICADA
KILLERS
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
STINGS
It is quite proper to regard the
wasps and hornets with respect, as
they insist you shall. But do not
let their potent personalities preju
dice you against them. For it is
within this group, taken in the
broadest sense, that is found the
cleverest and most ingenious of all
the insects, as well as the most
efficient and destructive enemies of
our insect pests.
The cleverness and ingenuity of
wasps take numerous forms. Each
of the many thousands of different
I kinds has its own little specialty
Which differs more or less from that
I of every other kind‘
______________ I has happened? One of Na
expressed in her address herel ture’s little tragedies. A cicada has
been surprised by a cicada-killer,
has fled shrieking away, and in all
probability has been caught and
stung, not to death, but into a state
In addition to her talk here, Miss
Lester is scheduled to give a public I of'compfete helplessness.
address at Trinity M. E. church ini jbe cicada-killer is one of the
Lima at 8 p. m. this Thursday. Herl largest and most conspicuous, as
talk will be broadcast over Radiol well as one of the commonest, of
Station WLOK, Lima. burrowing wasps. To many people
i I it is as a hornet—in fact, the
Leaders at the conference
being I?aknown u
., TA I hornet
—and is much feared. But it
held here include: Dr. Edwin Brown,! -s not at all aggressive. it resents
chairman Muriel Lester, Doni undue familiarity, of course, but its
Smucker, Bishop Paul Jones, Rabbi I nature is wholly peaceful—except
Abraham Cronbach, Charles Boss, Jr., I when cicadas are concerned.
and Harold Fey. Cicadas are its only prey. Some
1 times you see it flying about a tree,
hunting for a victim up among the
branches, or pursuing a cicada at
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1 ib. can 5c
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2 rolls 19c
3 rolls 25c
.Bottle 15c
Arfascinating
?on^
than those of the various digger
wasps that burrow in the ground
w.1 some of the common digger wasps
I they display the greatest energy.
„,)l Familiar to everyone in the hot,
wealthy! still, midsummer days is the mo
1 notonous shrill song of the cicada.
Hornets Prey on Cicadas.
of wealth and I Once in a while one of these mo
the settlement! notonoiis triUs stops suddenly You
I hear a discordant shriek that star
ties you for a moment. Then all is
as international I ^he same again—the heat and the
of the Fellow-1 interminable trills of the cicadas.
I high speed through the air. But it is
50 (years of I usuaj]y noticed dragging a cicada,
management I often much larger than itself, along
I the ground on the way to its burrow.
that men do nursery js commonly made
in the higher and drier portions of
lawns, or in sloping grassy banks,
and runs to a more or less spheri
cal cell about an inch and a half in
diameter. The finished nursery usu
ally includes four cells.
After each cell is completed the
mother wasp goes on a hunting ex
pedition. In bringing the cicada to
the cell she frequently hoists her
victim laboriously up a tree, from
which she flies diagonally down to
ward her burrow. Thus she saves
much time and energy, for dragging
a creature as large as a cicada
througn the grass is a herculean
task even for so powerful a wasp.
Usually, though not invariably, a
second cicada is added to the first.
After the cicadas—still alive but
helpless—are stored safely in the
underground cell, the wasp places
an egg on the body of one of them
just under one of the middle legs,
then closes the cell with earth.
Week’s Food for the Grubs.
The egg hatches in three days,
and the grub feeds on the cicadas
for a little over a week. It then
makes a cocoon of earth, mixed
with enough silk to make it rather
dense, and spends the winter inside.
In the spring, after passing through
the pupa stage, the wasp digs its
way out of the ground.
The cicada-killers that you see
walking or flying about a grassy
slope are living evidence of the nu
i merous tragedies that have taken
place beneath the sod.
Only the young of this wasp feed
on cicadas. The adults, as is the
case with nearly all the wasps, are
vegetarians. For many days after
emerging from the ground, the ci-
Birthday Surprise
A family gathering at the home of
Mrs. Henry Sutter of near Pandora
was a surprise on the occasion of
her birthday anniversary last Sun
day. A basket dinner was enjoyed
at noon.
Those present included. Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Sutter and family of
Pandora Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sutter
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
...
Wasp brings home its dinner—a cicada.
Wasps and Hornets Are Efficient
X/GwJUV!
have a high educa­
tional value. After one or
two experiences with these
concealed weapons, the per
sonality of the little sting
wielders is firmly impressed
upon you.
—Insect
Destroyers of Our Fests I
cada-killers, indolent and peaceful, I
wander aimlessly about, lapping up I
nectar from the flowers. I
They are especially fond of the I
sap of certain trees. If truth must I
be told, they much prefer this sap I
after fermentation has transformed I
it into more or less strong beer. I
Idle ease, nectar, and beer satisfy I
these wasps for a few weeks. Dur- I
ing this time they display not the I
slightest interest in cicadas. Then, I
with the attainment of full bodily de- I
velopment, the females somewhat I
suddenly become demons of dynam- I
ic energy murderously inclined to-I
ward all cicadas—full-fledged cica- I
da-killers. I
The cicada-killers are interesting I
because of their great size, and the I
bulk and power of their victims. I
It is a thrilling sight to see one of I
them strike a cicada in full flight I
and, with its prey, go tumbling to I
the ground. But their technique is I
crude—effective, but lacking those I
finer touches that perfect the pic- I
ture. So let us consider the most I
accomplished artists that are found I
among the digger wasps. I
How Wasps Use Caterpillars.
Energy finally gets the upper I
hand, and the female forsakes the I
flowers almost completely. The first I
thing she does on becoming energet- I
ic is to find a patch of bare, stiff I
soil, more or less protected, and I
there dig a burrow ending in an I
enlarged chamber, oval in shape I
and horizontal.
After the burrow is completed the I
wasp closes the opening with a little I
stone or a pellet of earth of just
the right size, or'1 sometimes with
several pellets, filling the hole up
level with the ground and often
kicking some loose earth over it.
Her burrow completed, closed,
and concealed from view, she now
goes in search of prey—caterpillars
found on or near the ground. The
commonest one prefers green cater
pillars much larger than herself.
When a caterpillar is discovered
the wasp knocks it off the leaf onto
the ground. Then, watching her
chance, she seizes it with her man
dibles near its head and gives it a
prolonged sting between two of the
earlier segments. This ends the
struggle of the caterpillar.
The wasp then stings its victim
between the other earlier segments
and between most or all of the
hinder segments. The stinging is
followed by a thorough squeezing of
the neck between the mandibles all
around, this squeezing process last
ing for some time.
Put in Cleverly Closed Burrow.
The caterpillar, reduced to com
plete inertness and lying extended
at full length, is now ready to be
transported to the burrow. The
wasp turns it on its back then, seiz
ing it by the throat, lifts its head off
the ground and drags it along at a
very creditable pace—at least when
the ground is smooth and the way is
unobstructed.
was This
Tl 1 I iance uas as =u‘ ***vj-
w
I
Rather large, very slender, and I
long-waisted wasps commonly are I
seen early in the summer on wild I
carrot and other flowers, about de- I
caying fruit, or drinking at the sides I
of puddles. Indolent and peaceful, I
they are unsuspicious and slow to I
take offense. These are young cat- I
erpillar wasps, for which as yet life I
means little more than feeding on I
nectar in full enjoyment of the sum- I
mer sunshine. I
Lazy, slow-moving creatures, with I
an air of complete boredom, they I
could scarcely appear less iterest- I
ing or more slothful. But while they I
are spending their time in frivolous I
enjoyment they are developing I
strength and energy and acquiring I
a knowledge of the world. I
Way
By LYLE SPENCER
Western Newspaper Union.
Cheap Emeralds I A farewell surprise was tendered
I T) ERYLLIUM is one of those I Mr. and Mrs. Len Miller and son,
strange metals we never hear I Earl, at their home on Jackson
I about except when learned scientists I stree^ Saturday evening by a number
I get together. Practically unKnown I of theJr The family
4 I before the beginning of the Twenti-1
4 eth century, it is about the most un- I will locate in McComb and expect
usual metal yet discovered. I to move there the latter part of
In the first place, beryllium is I this month. Ear! at present has
really made from low-grade emer-1 charge of the grocery they purchas
alds. The formula for beryl, in case 1
you haven’t forgotten your chem
I istry, is Bc„Al,,Si.Oiq. Pure crys
I tals of this complicated compound I Chapel, four
i in the right colors are emeralds. I southeast of
aUoyed with beryllium is as hard
as most stee
fs Such alloyt are
It originally cost $200 a pound, and I organized Sunday, April 7, and the
is still valued at $25^ which puts it following officers were elected: Sup
as­
sistant, Victor Anderson secretary,
well up in the class of semi-precious I erintendent Harrison Anderson
metals.
The most amazing quality of be
ryllium, however, is its lightness.
A 250-horsepower engine made of I Anderson
it would weigh only 70 pounds, and I chorister,
a standard size automobile would I Helen
weigh less than the passengers Mont
In spite ol its light weight, beryl- I e
lium has the rigidity of steel. So Mr. and Mrs. Noah Thut, who re
far its greatest commercial impor- I cently sold their farm near Colum
tance has been as an alloy. Copper I bus Grove, will go to Idaho in the
IvcmcTtdouS"^^
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
SPEEDOMETER
‘WAY BACK WHEN
by Jean
The caterpillar is finally brought
to the burrow, which is opened and
the victim placed inside. Sometimes ...
a single caterpillar is sufficient, but I wh.11* convalesong, he took up
usually two or even more are need-1
ed. If more than one is stored, the I
burrow is always closed after each I
is placed within it. When the store I
of caterpillars is complete and the!
egg is laid, the burrow is perma-|
nently closed with the greatest I
care. I
Now comes the most interesting I
part of the whole proceeding. The I
wasp searches for a little stone of I
just the right size and shape, and I
with this held firmly in her jaws I
she pats the earth down very care- I
fully to obliterate all traces of her I
work. I
and family of Toledo Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson Herr and sons and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul
Bluffton.
Faze and daughter of
Weed Growth
the tremendous strength
Proof of the tremendous strength
of growing weeds was shown at Win
nipeg, Manitoba, when a piece of
lumber an inch thick, through which
had grown a dandelion root, was
found in a lumber yard.
ARTIST WAS A LAWYER’S
APPRENTICE
HENRI
ed there.
The Sunday School at Liberty
and a half miles
often used in making cold chisels I Samue, Niswander.
and hammers to be used in mum- I
tions industries, because they do I Emil Bessire and wife, of Omaha,
not strike sparks when dropped on I Nebraska, are here visiting the for
a cement floor. I mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Beryllium looks so much like gold I Bessire.
that it is already used for gold- I Amos Geiger purchased five
almost’S pmlntS uses, »f ZoPh“r Cherry
has been neglected so far because Uast week at $200 an acre.
of its high cost. I A. Hauenstein will remodel the
I room now occupied by the McGriff
I Barber shop, transforming it into a
I dinins ro°m to be used by Mr-
__ w I Troxel in connection with the Park
jK VI tI I restaurant.
Tine McGriff purchased 14 feet of
the Charles Day property adjoining
the Fett Hardware store.
CTEP on It, boy 1” And the needle I Sandusky, and Waldo Courtad, of
on the speedometer climbs up— I Forest, took the Civil Service ex
up-up-fifty-slxty-seventy-elghty aminations at ToledOj April k
miles an hour! I jacob Fillhart, who recently pur-
It wasn thus back tn 1S46 when I
Brigham Young was leading bls Mormon I cbased the corner lot on Washington
colony across the Great Pl.ilns to their I ar|d Jackson streets, is preparing to
“Promised Land” in Utah. Then the I erect a dwelling on the same at
wagon trains crawled painfully along I once.
and eighty miles was a journey of days. I A baby girl made its appearance
Somewhere In Nebraska the Mormon I at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
leader pushed on to find the best route, I c00k east of town
leaving the slower-.nuvlng wagons be- an(J
hind to follow along the trail which I
he would mark out for them. One of daV for Beebe Arkansas, where they
these parties was in charge of a young I expect to make their future home.
fellow named William Clayton. I Frank Eaton, the real estate
A long road and weary road it was I agent, sold the Roy Ream property
for the westward-faring homeseekers. I on Kibler street to D. C.
Their goal seemed s» far distant and I ■week.
their progress so slow that they prob- Mr’s. Grace Steiner, of
ably pestered young WUUan Clayton a Toled
great deal with their questions of How I ...
far have we come today?” I few weeks vacation with her parents,
So. being an Ingenious young man, he I and Mrs. J. Berry, on Spring
devised a way to answer. He meas-1 street.
ured a mile on the trail that they I Miss Flora Green, who completed
traversed one day, then marked a wag-1 a course in stenography in the Lima
on wheel at a certain point on its clr- I business college, left here Monday to
cumference. Keeping his eye on the look after a position offered her by
marked spoke he counted Its revolu- I
greatest of modern French art
ists, whose works now sell for hun
dreds of thousands of francs, might
have been a commonplace lawyer
had not Fate stepped in when she
did. He was born in a small town
in Picardy in 1869, son of a wheat
dealer. His childhood was unevent
ful and he became a lawyer’s ap
prentice. Then, Fate came along
with an attack of appendicitis
which left him an invalid for many
months. In order to keep
occupied_«
painting and it proved so fascinat
ing that he never opened another
law book.
Matisse’s first paintings, in the
early 1900s, brought but a few
francs. He and the group with
which he associated himself, all fa
mous now, were called “the wild
beasts” because of their mad style.
Their paintings outraged conserva
tives of the art world. Matisse was
accused of willful eccentricity,
senseless disregard of nature, and
a deliberate intent to advertise him
self. His paintings were refused
exhibition space in many galleries,
but slowly he built recognition for
his work. In 1927, his “Fruits and
Flowers” won first prize in the Car
negie International exhibition. In
1928, the Luxembourg galleries bid
300,000 francs for his picture, “Side
board,” but the man who once could
hardly buy enough bread with the
few francs his work brought could
now afford to donate the picture to
them,
order
gal.
accepting only one franc in
to make the transaction le-
©—WNU Service.
I a firm in Cleveland,
tions to the mile. Next he devised a I
ratchet that moved a cogwheel, which I ^he Bluffton High school will be
in turn moved another cogwheel that I well represented in the Northwestern
registered accurately the distance the I Ohio oratorical contest which is to
caravan traveled dally. That same prin- I take place at St. Marys in May.
ciple Is used In speedometers today. I Harry Mohler, of the class of 1907,
1 I fppTO Fnr
MATISSE, one of the
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of April 11, 1907
Bluffton, was re-
Margaret Guider assistant, Helen
treasurer, Bert Bame
Bert Bame organist,
Anderson assistant, Ethel
I I near future where they will reside
^temporarily with their uncles, David
Alcid
acres
street
Frank Diller, a former school
teacher of Bluffton, now located in
Miller, last
the Robin
spending a
Kti YOUR CITY MARKET
yr
I Headquarters For Canning Supplies
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1'340
will enter the contest.
T. G. Scheid moved his
stock and machinery into
room. The vacated room
papered and remodeled,
Hankish, who has rented the room,
will open an ice cream parlor, candy
and fruit store in it.
Headquarters For Canning Supplies
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PAROWAX, Pure White....................................
CAN RUBBERS, Extra Heavy Rubber.........
Gold Medal Flour
BIG MIAMI PEAS.........Case 24 cans $1.78
FRUIT JUICES, Blended....................................
PORK AND BEANS, No. 2«/2 Size Cans...
CITY MARKET
DeLUXE COFFEE SS
LEMONS, Bright Waxy, Californias..............
PEACHES, Fancy Freestones.........................
WATERMELONS, Red Ripe.............................
BREAD a 3 for
SUGAR
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CHEESE
plumbing
his new
is being
and Mr.
ROCKPORT
At the regular meeting of the
Monroe township school board at
Monroe Center, Friday night, Oliver
C. Davidson, of Pandora, teacher of
the Rockport primary department,
was hired to continue at least one
more year.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
re-organized last Sabbath morning.
The following new officers were
elected: Supt., A. H. Marshall as
sistant, W. H. Cupp secretary, Miss
Grace Bowers assistant, Grace
Marshall organist, Arminta Camp
bell assistant, Elnora Marshall
treasurer, Harley Van Meter choris
ter, Eunice B. Trumbo assistant, D.
C. Campbell librarian, Ray Mar
shall assistant, Herbert Marshall
primary superintendent, Mrs. W. R.
Mayberry cradle roll superintendent,
Mrs. F. R. Mason.
Our neighboring village of Beaver
dam is to be congratulated on the
excellent dry victory won at the
recent vote on the saloon proposition.
Former College
Student Married
Wedding of Miss Mabel Clark, of
Lima, former Bluffton college stu
dent and Kenneth Grose of Welling
ton took place Saturday noon in the
chapel of Grace Methodist church,
Lima. The cermeony was performed
by Rev. G. W. Whyman, pastor of
the church.
The bride has been instructor in
home economics at Wellington high
school for several years. Mr. Grose,
a graduate of Western Reserve Law
school is an accountant with an in
surance company in Elyria. The
couple will reside at Wellington.
Our Want-ads bring results.
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a
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Furnished
Every Wednesday at the
Home of John Gerber in
Pandora.
Mrs. Carl Spitnale
(Formerly Rosemary Gerber)
Leave Inquiries at John Gerber
home, Pandora
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JEWEL, Pure Vegetable Shortening
CANNED RASPBERRIES, Fancy..
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BACON, Lean Fancy.
BUTTER, Fancy Roll
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...3 boxes 10c
Large OQp
Sack RrC
.........3 for 23c
.46 oz. can 21c
25c
Lb.
25c
MILK
City Market
19c
3 lbs. 39c
..Gal. 69c
.2 for 25c
2
Oxydol-Rinso 12 2™»37c
Brown Sugar u* 5 Ll»- 25c
19C
Boxes
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...lb. 16c
.. Ib. 28c
3 for 25c
.Doz. 69c
4 for 23c