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Triplett Softball Team Will Play
Pandora Here This Thursday Night
Softball rivalry between Bluffton
and Pandora will be renewed under
the Harmon field lights this Thurs
day night when the fast-traveling
Triplett team tangles with the crew
from Riley township.
Last summer Bluffton’s largest
crowd of the season turned out to
witness the clash between the old
rivals, and a repetition is expected
this week.
Interest in the game is further
heightened by word that AVillie 1 rip
plehorn, a Bluffton pitcher, may be
on the mound for Pandora in the
game with the Triplett outfit.
The contest with Pandora will be
one of two home games scheduled
for this week. On Friday, Lima
Loco, leader in the Inter-City soft
ball league, will be here.
Bluffton, in second place in the
Miss Lucretia Marshall leaves this
week on an extended visit with rel
atives in Missouri.
A number of Sharp club ladies
called at the D. S. Beeshy home on
Riley street, Thursday evening, and
gave Miss Florence a very generous
shower in honor of coming nuptial
festivities.
Fred Beil sold his house east of
town to William Harkness, for
12,( )00. Roscoe Blakesly purchased
the one and one-half acre lot for
$150. Mr. and Mrs. Beil and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Cox will leave in
about one week for Wausaugee, Wis.
The Rev. R. C. Townsend will de
liver the College vesper address Sun
day afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock. Sub
ject: “Music and Worship.”
Ed Altman and family, who re
sided in Michigan the past year,
were guests at the S. P. Hummon
farm, Tuesday. The Altman family
will spend two weeks in this section,
after which they will go to Wash
ington to take up their future abode.
Mesdames Edgar and Sidney
Hauenstein were at Ottawa, Friday,
attending the funeral of Charles M.
Godfrey, the young man who was
burned to death.
Mr. and Mrs. Forest Mumma are
happy over the arrival of a daughter
at their home, Tuesday night.
HOW A LOAN CAN HELP
YOU: Pay everything you owe
with a cash loan and have money
left over to buy the things you
need. Get the money you want
promptly and privately on thrifty
City Loan terms. It’s the sensible
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league, lost only to Loco in first
round play, and the locals hope to
even the score in this week’s as
signment on the home diamond.
Two victories were scored by the
Triplett team in last week’s play.
They journeyed to Jackson Center
last Thursday to defeat the team of
that place handily, 9 to 2, in an
Inter-City league game.
A victory of signal proportion was
scored at home Friday night, with
the Triplett crew besting Pemberton,
8 to 5. In last year’s state tourna
ment, Pemberton advanced to the
finals before being eliminated.
Manager Dale Davidson, who pilot
ed the Triplett team thru a success
ful June and July schedule, resigned
last week because of other duties,
and a new manager has not yet been
named to take over the reins.
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF NOV. 13, 1913,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bixel are
happy over the arrival of a son,
born Saturday.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
Grandmother Anna Suter, who
makes her home with her son, Adam
Suter, southeast of Pandora, cele
brated her ninetieth birthday an
niversary, last Monday. She is said
to be the oldest woman in the Settle
ment.
Levi Oberly had the misfortune
of losing his right hand in a corn
shredder last Friday afternoon. Mr.
Oberly and sons were at the barn,
shredding fodder, using a gasoline
engine to furnish the power. Sud
denly his mitten caught in the
machine, drawing in his right hand.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Sutter wel
comed a little baby boy into their
home last week, their first-born.
Milton Locher, of Cleveland, spent
over Sunday with relatives in this
vicinity.
One manufacturer was fined $1,000
for violations of the law regulating
the sale of serum for the treatment
of animal diseases. The court found
the manufacturer was selling a serum
worthless in preventing hog cholera
and capable of injuring hogs receiv
ing treatment.
thing to do. Then you can see for
yourself how much simpler it is
to meet just one payment instead
of half a dozen. We’re making
hundreds of these personal loans
every day. And we’ll be glad to
okay one for you any time.
CityLojin
AND SAVINGS COMPANY
Cor. Market & Elizabeth Sts., Phone Main "351, Lima, Ohio
Prices Slashed
on Used Cars
A Harvest of Outstanding Values for the
Motorist Who Knows Value
1939 DeLuxe Chevrolet Town Sedan was $575
now ................................................................................
1938 DeLuxe Chevrolet Town Sedan was $450
now ................................................................................
1938 DeLuxe Chevrolet Town Sedan was $485
now ................................................................................
1936 DeLuxe Fordor Ford was $295
now ...................... .........................................................
1935 DeLuxe Chevrolet Town Sedan, with radio,
heater and defroster was $290 now..........................
1935 Two-tone DeLuxe Plymouth Coupe was
$265 now .............................................................
1934 Chevrolet Tudor was $195 now priced to
sell at ....................................................................
1933 Ford Tudor was $110 now priced to
move at ..............................................................
AU these cars have been reconditioned in our shop and
will give excellent service—come in and select your car—
then try it on the road yourself.
Steiner Chevrolet Sales
$545
$430
$465
$270
$270
$175
Masonic Lodge Ancient
Rites Mark Occasion
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since early summer making arrange
ments for the event.
Two Hour Ceremony
The parade moved a few minutes
after 2:30 o’clock and the entire
ceremony scheduled for two hours
was concluded at 4:25 when with
the National Guardsmen standing
rigidly at attention the assembled
audience stood and sang The Star
Spangled Banner with a fervor that
formed a fitting conclusion of a
memorable occasion.
Site of the postoffice building was
ablaze with the national colors. The
place which twenty-four hours pre
viously had presented the usual
spectacle of a building under con
struction was transformed for the
afternoon with flags and bunting.
Concrete poured several days be
fore for the first floor, formed the
speakers’ stand with those partici
pating in the program and officers
of the Bluffton lodge seated in the
foreground near the corner-stone.
Back of them was erected a bank
of bleacher seats for members of the
lodge flanked on either side by the
Bluffton high school band directed by
Prof. Sidney Hauenstein and the
Findlay Masonic chorus directed by
Russell Barnhill.
Program
Bluffton’s civic interests were rep
resented in the opening of the pro
gram with the invocation by Rev.
J. A. Weed president of the Bluffton
Ministerial association following
which was the address of welcome
by Mayor W. A. Howe. The re
sponse was given by the presiding
officer Forrest L. Steinman, chair
man of the Masonic general com
mittee on arrangements and past
commander of the Findlay Knights
Templar.
C. G. Coburn, acting Grand Mar
shal, opened the ritualistic cere
monies on the program announcing
the invocation by Rev. W. L, Har
mony of Findlay, pastor of Bluffton
Lutheran church, representing the
Right Worshipful Grand Chaplain.
Presentation of the trowel was
made by G. R. Bogart, acting master
of the Bluffton lodge, to Charles
Wilson of Ada, deputy grand master,
representing Dillon Crist of Alli
ance, Grand Master of the Ohio
Masonic order who was unable to
be present.
Deputy Master Lays Stone
Ralph Stearns, representing the
Grand Treasurer, announced the con
tents of the copper box to be de
posited within the corner-stone fol
lowing which the stone was laid in
place by Deputy Grand Master
Wilson.
Ceremony of the consecration of
the stone with corn, wine and oil, to
gether with the testing of the stone
by the traditional tools of operative
masons was in charge of Deputy
Wilson representing Grand Master
Crist, together with Dr. B. R. Herr
ing, Chas. Aukerman and Stanley
Basinger representing state dignitar
ies.
The ritualistic service was closed
with the invocation of consecration
by Deputy Wilson.
Postoffice Department Speaker
Attorney Francis Durbin of Lima,
Bluffton city solicitor, opened the
final part of the program with the
introduction of John E. Lamiell, di
rector of the division of Internation
al Postal service at Washington who
in an address presented a compre
hensive review of the growth and
development of the postal service
thruout the nation and Bluffton in
particular. The speaker congratu
lated the town on the new federal
building and brought with him the
well wishes of the postoffice depart
ment.
Ed R. Reichenbach, Bluffton post
master, speaking in behalf of the
local postoffice personnel thanked all
who had assisted in making the
occasion the success that it was and
acknowledged the widespread public
interest manifested on the construc
tion of the new building.
The program was brought to a
close with the benediction by Rev.
H. T. Unruh, representing Bluffton
college.
Musical selections were interspers
ed thruout the program by the Bluff
ton high school band and the Findlay
Masonic chorus.
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS
Farm population increased 2,076
,000 in the decade 1930-49. The west
north-central states had a decrease of
268,000 people in the drouth years
occurring during the last half of the
decade.
In the division of the $50,000,000
fund provided to make loans to ten
ants wanting to buy farms, Ohio has
been allotted $1,176,299 for use in
1941. It is estimated that sum will
finance the purchase of 145 farms in
41 Ohio counties.
Chester N. McGrew, club agent in
Medina count says all the soybeans
in the United States 60 years ago
were a handful brought from China
by a missionary. In 1939, 10,000 car
loads of soybeans rolled into one city
for processing.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Two Gunmen Hold Up
Drug Store In Robbery
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enstein convinced them it was not in
the store they gave up the search
for the key to the inner compartment
which was not locked. It is believed
by authorities that the men were
hoping to get opiates. The store,
however carries no opiates.
Locked in Basement
Miss Hilty and Hauenstein then
were locked in the basement. The
latter attempted to escape by way of
the back door to give an alarm, but
as he stepped from a side entrance
at the rear of the store he saw the
two gunmen walking down Cherry
street. They made motions as if they
were about to draw their guns, and
he retreated into the store again.
A few seconds later they heard an
automobile start and drive away, and
assumed it was the gunmen making
their escape.
Description of the holdup men giv
en by Miss Hilty tallies almost ex
actly with the description of two men
in a Plymouth automobile who stop
ped at the Johnson filling station on
South Main street shortly before
12:30 to buy gasoline.
Drive in From North
Ralph Diller, proprietor, said they
drove into his station from the north,
coming from the business section.
After getting the gasoline, they turn
ed around and went back in the di
rection from which they had come.
Diller said that while he was ser
vicing their car, one of then went in
the wash room at the station and took
a drink from a gin bottle.
Authorities reported that a drug
store in Marion was robbed in a simil
ar manner last Thursday and it is
believed that the holdup here was the
work of the same duo.
Last Saturday’s robbery was Bluff
ton’s first daylight holdup since the
Dillinger gang looted the Citizens
National Bank in August 1933. They
staged their holdup just before the
noon hour.
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
nd ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Nobel Prize
'T'HERE’S more than a little irony
in the fact that the most famous
of all prizes for the person or or
ganization who best serves the in
terests of world peace each year
is paid out of a fund that had its
origin in the sale of a product which
adds to the horrors of war. Yet
such is the case of the Nobel prize.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish
chemist and in
ventor, born in
1333, was educat
ed in Russia and
sent to America
to study engineer
ing. But within a
year he returned
to Europe to aid
his father in de
veloping military
and naval mines
and torpedoes. In
1862 he helped the
elder Nobel in
perfecting the
manufacture of
nitroglycerine, called “Nobel’s blast
ing oil,” and later the production of
dynamite, originally known as “No
bel’s ignites.”
Alfred Nobel
When Nobel died in Italy in 1896
he left a large fund, from the inter
est of which annual prizes were to
be awarded achievements in various
fields, including physics, science,
chemistry, medicine and literature.
But the most humanitarian, the No
bel peace prize, is paid from the
profits of a “merchant of death.”
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
SPENCER
Jazz Music
HE music goes down around
whoa ho -ho ho -----That
tune swept America from coast to
coast recently until its very sound
made radio listeners grind their
teeth. It also marked the return
to popularity of “swing” music.
“Swing” or real jazz reached its
first peak during the 1920’s along
with short skirts and flappers.
Whether it originated among the
natives along the gold coast of Af
rica, or in colored orchestras along
the gold coast of our larger cities,
is still a matter of dispute.
At any rate, the first black hero
of jazz was Louis Armstrong, who
created a sensation in Chicago with
his wild trumpet solos of such pieces
as “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue,”
“Gully Low Blues,” and “A Monday
Date.” His early records are still
as highly prized by jazz lovers as
a Beethoven symphony.
After Armstrong came many
other famous swing bands like Jean
Goldkette’s and Frank Trum
bauer’s. But the popularity of jazz
began to crumble about 1929 with
the stock market. Maybe it is as
sociated with business prosperity.
The beginning of its comeback dates
from the winter of 1935, when “The
Music Goes Round and Round” ran
riot through the nation.
In spite of the fact that jazz has
become an American byword, no
one seems to know exactly what
the word means.
Glass Eye Manufacture
In downtown New York descend
ants of the first man to manufacture
glass eyes in the United States are
still carrying on the same business.
Seend And Heard At
Corner Stone Laying
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crowd. Although at times it was
difficult to see the ceremonies inci
dental to the laying of the corner
stone, there was no difficulty in
hearing.
Wm. W. Cooke, government in
spector representing the Public
Buildings Administration in the con
struction of the building who is an
operative mason as well as a member
of the order assisted in some of the
technical details of the corner stone
laying.
Bluffton was proud of its high
school band of more than thirty
youngsters directed by Prof. Sidney
Hauenstein. The band, in white uni
forms with scarlet trim, led the
parade in fine form as well as fur
nished instrumental accompaniment
for the community singing on the
program.
How they could sing—that Findlay
Masonic chorus directed by Russell
Barnhill. Bluffton audiences know
good singing and they gave the Han
cock county group a big hand. This
male chorus has distinct possibilities
in the a-capella field and probably
at their next appearance here they
will sing without accompaniment.
It will be carefully preserved
among the mementos of the Bluffton
Masonic order—that trowel which
Deputy Grand Master Charles Wil
son of Ada used in the laying of the
corner-stone. Deputy Wilson is a
favorite of the Bluffton lodge and
with Grand Master Dillon Crist of
Alliance unable to attend Sunday,
his appointment of the Ada deputy
met with complete approval here.
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The color guard of Bluffton Legion
post and some sixty National Guards
men from Ada under command of
Capt. McElroy gave a military
touch to the occasion and with the
Knights Templar contingent added
precision to the parade line of
march.
Orchids to the Boy Scouts some of
them directed traffic—some played in
the high school band and others
were doing the dozen and one odd
jobs that need to be done to carry
out a successful parade-program. No
matter what the job, there was al
ways a Scout ready and willing—
and able to do it. Mighty good
Scouts—those Bluffton youngsters.
An interested spectator Sunday
afternoon was M. M. Murray, ex
postmaster, who ran postal affairs
around this town for ten years—
from 1924 to 1934. Gideon Locher
who served as postmaster before the
I Murray regime was unable to be
present on account of illness. He
has been confined to his home on
Cherry street for more than a year.
How many people were there at
tending the affair Sunday afternoon?
Well there’s no way to fix an ac
curate number. Best estimates
place the crowd as between two and
three thousand. It is believed that
2,500 is a conservative and fairly
reasonable figure.
The Masonic order which is seen in
public on comparatively rare occa
sions was in attendance with nearly
all of its more than 100 members of
the Bluffton lodge in the line of
march. The ancient Masonic ritual
traditionally based on the building
of King Solomon’s temple was well
exemplified by Bluffton lodge officers.
Visiting Masonic lodges were also
in attendance and marching in the
parade were representatives of Mt.
Blanchard, Findlay, Lima and Leip
sic Blue Lodges.
Visiting postal delegations crowded
around Postmaster Ed Reichenbach
after the ceremony Sunday after
noon and congratulated him on his
new quarters-to-be. Among this
number were Homer Rider of Spen
cerville, Findlay’s postmaster Ault,
H. Montooth of Leipsc, Hiram Ba
singer of Pandora, J. W. Brown of
Gilboa, C. D. Hindall of Ada, Chas.
McCrate and Ernest Oard of Colum
bus Grove H. D. Coate of Cold
water, Helen McGuire of Rudolph,
George Winemiller of Lima and
Kirby White of Harrod and others.
They say he never overlooks any
detail—Wm. W. Cooke, building in
spector who is representing the fed
eral government in the construction
of the post office here. Cooke’s busi
ness is to check—and double check
all materials and workmanship going
into the building—and that also in
cluded the laying of the corner stone
Sunday afternoon. Yes, it was done
according to Masonic tradition but it
also measured up to present day ap
proved construction standards. Cooke,
who was present wearing an apron
of the ancient order, sow to that.
Sorry—but it happened that last
Sunday afternoon was the occasion
of the annual picnic and get-together
of the three Lima Masonic lodges.
Otherwise the size of the Lima dele
gation in attendance here would have
been materially increased, according
to word from the county seat.
East Orange
Miss Margaret Boutwell of Find
lay spent last week with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boutwell.
Mrs. Jessie Brown a returned mis
sionary of Africa will speak at the
Riley Creek Baptist church, Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell and
son Byron Leo spent Thursday even
ing with Elizabeth Boutwell west of
Bluffton.
The Ladies Aid of Dola met in the
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home of Mrs. Edith Stager for their
July meeting. About twenty-five
members and visitors were present.
BRILLIANT BRONZE
POLYMERIZED—LEADED—REGULAR or
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stager, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Stager spent last
Wednesday at the Walbridge Park,
Toledo.
SAVE every day at all—
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stager, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Stager visited Sunday
afternoon in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Daniels of near Ken
ton.
Mrs. Edith Stager called in the B.
J. Boutwell home Monday afternoon.
JOHNSON
ETHYL Gasolene
FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE BEST
BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS
Ralph Diller Service Station
South Main Street & Bentley Road
Phone 455-Y for Tank Truck deliveries.
Third Grade (CHEAP) Gasolene it NOT sold at
BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS.
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BUY NATIONALLY ADVERTISED BRANDS
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MASON JARS 55c t,s 65c
KING NUT OLEO, Factory Fresh...........................2 lbs. 25c
BACON, Extra Lean....................................................... lb. 16c
BOILED HAM. Swift’s Premium............................*/2 lb. 19c
BREAD s« 3 25c
MATCHES, Carton of Six....................................... Carton 18c
SUNRISE COFFEE, Our Own Brand...................3 lbs. 39c
SCOURING POWDER, Watch Dog.........................3 for 10c
CRISCO-SPRY ST 3 Lbs. 48c
PAR JEL, Gelatine Dessert...............................3 Boxes 10c
NAVY BEANS, Choice Hand Picked.................... 4 lbs. 19c
BROOMS, Good Grade............................................... Each 29c
SUGAR
Pure Granulated
25 K8 $1.15
Pork & Beans
2/2 Size Can
3 Cans 25c
MILK, City Market.............. .....................6 Large cans 35c
CATSUP, Large 14 oz. Bottle................................... Each 10c
PEANUT BUTTER, Fancy.......... .......................... Quart 21c
Oxydol—RinsoS’53c s£e 2^ 37c
BOLOGNA, Fresh Jumbo........................................ 2 lbs. 25c
WATERMELONS, Red Ripe................................... Each 35c
PAPER CUPS, Heavy Fancy.................................. Pkg. 10c
City Market Flour
FLY TOX........................ Pint 19c..........................Quart 31c
BROWN SUGAR, Light...........................................5 lbs. 25c
POTATOES, U. S. No. 1...................................... .Peck 29c
JAR RINGS X"*"’’ 3 10c
GOLD MEJbiE FLOUR................................... Large sack 89c
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JUNKET jffiEBZING MIX.................................... 3 for 25c
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