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BLUFFTON NEWS
The Advertising Medium for
Bluffton Trade Territory
VOLUME NO. LXVI
YOUTHS REGISTER
NEXT TUESDAY AT
LIMA FOR DRAFT
Men Aged 21 Since Last Octob
er to Report at County
Board Office
Preparations Made to Register
200 From Allen County
Outside Lima
Registration for selective military
service will be conducted at Lima next
Tuesday for all Allen county young
men, including those from Bluffton
and Richland township, who have be
come 21 since last October 16.
Those in the age limit are required
to report at headquarters for Draft
Board No. 3 in Room 201, National
Bank Building, at Lima. Hours of
registration will be from 7 a. m. until
9 p. m.
Registration will include all men
who have reached the age of 21 be
tween October 16, 1940, and July 1,
1941, inclusive, it was announced by
draft officials.
Change Procedure
The registration procedure this
summer differs from that of last fall
when registrants reported at their
respective precinct voting places and
the regular election machinery was
used.
Under the present arrangement the
registration next week will be taken'
care of at the office of the county
draft board and all those required to
register will present themselves at
that place.
To Be taken Soon
Co-incident with announcement of i
details of registration, draft adminis
tration officials in Columbus said that
men who register on July 1 can ex
pect to be classified at once and, if
advisable, will be inducted into the
service soon thereafter.
Youth of the new registrants, plus
generally good physical condition and
from economic rospcnsibil~
itiec Sported to mV ?r
portion of the new registrants sub
ject to immediate induction. As a re
sult, induction of older men whose
order numbers are far down the orig
inal registration list is expected to be
delayed.
200 Will Register
It is expected that approximately
200 men will be registered in Board
3.
Anyone in a hospital or ill, thereby
being unable to report for registra
tion, is required to notify the board
headquarters before next Tuesday,
draft officials said.
Hancock county young men will
register at Findlay.
Registration procedure will be the
same as last October, with the excep
tion that any registrant who has more
than one place of residence may
choose the one he wants recorded on
his registration card.
Delegates Elected
By Mennonite Church
Fifteen delegates to the Middle
District Conference and five dele
gates to the General Conference were
elected at a business meeting of the
First Mennonite church after the
services Sunday morning.
Both conferences will be held dur
ing the middle of August. The Mid
dle District meeting will be held at
the Ebenezer Mennonite church, west
of town, and the General Conference
will be held at Souderton, Pa.
Delegates elected to attend the
Middle District conference were: Mrs.
Ed Amstutz, Miss Edith Augsburger,
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bixler, Gerhard
Buhler, Laurence Burkhalter, Ezra
Moser, Mrs. S. K. Mosiman, Mrs.
Lenore Myers, Mrs. S. F. Panna
becker, Dr. L. L. Ramseyer, Dr. J.
S. Schultz, Orden Smucker, Rev. G.
T. Soldner, John Tosh and Rev. H.
T. Unruh.
Named to attend the General Con
ference were: Delvin Kirchhofer,
John Tosh, Orden Smucker, Mrs.
Lenore Myers and Rev. H. T. Unruh.
Lions To Meet At
Golf Course Tuesday
The Bluffton Golf course, on the
Fred Wenger farm south of town,
will be the location of the next meet
ing of the Lions club Tuesday night
at 6:15 o’clock.
No program has been planned and
members of the club will enjoy the
evening in golf, tennis, kitten ball and
other informal sports. The program
committee has asked that members
of the club dress informally for the
occasion.
Bumper Cherry Crop
But No Time To Pick
Them, Growers Say
WITH haymaking and corn
cultivating pressing and
wheat harvest in the offing
there is no time to give to a
bumper cherry crop which is
ripening this week, say district
farmers.
Because of the urgency of
other work many farmers are
selling cherries on the tree to
prospective buyers who will
undertake to pick them.
In addition to cherries, large
yields of raspberries, currants
and gooseberries are reported.
FIRE DESTROYS
FRICK PROPERTY
NEAR BLUFFTON
Farm Home on County Line
South of Town, Completely
Razed Sunday Morning
Antiques of Unestimated Value
Included Among Contents
Destroyed by Blaze
Fire completely destroyed the Mrs.
Clark Frick homestead, one mile south
of town on the Allen-Hancock county
line, and most of the outbuildings,
Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock.
The barn, only remaining stand
ing building, also caught fire but was
extinguished by volnteer fire fighters/
Practically all of the contents of the
home were destroyed in the blaze
which caused damage estimated at
$2,500.
Also destroyed were many antiques
of unestimated value in the family for
many years, formerly the property of
Mrs. A. G. Frick, mother of the late
Clark'Frick. Included among these
were personal letters from two form
er United States’ presidents, Garfield
and Hayes rare old silver dishes,
andle moulds and early kitchen uten
sils, early newspapers, one of which
carried the account of Lincoln’s as
sassination and many other valuable
antiques and mementos.
Defective Flue
The fire originated likely with a
spark from a defective flue. Mrs.
Frick had been baking pies in the
kitchen range Sunday morning. The
blaze was discovered by a daughter,
Miss Leia Frick who noticed smoke
rising from the roof on the south side
of the house.
The Bluffton fire department was
summoned by telephone from Myron
Trippiehorn residence near-by. Thru
a misunderstanding, however, the
Bluffton fire truck went to the Clark
Frazier residence in Rawson. By the
time the truck arrived at the Frick
residence a half-hour later, the blaze
had made so much headway that it
was impossible to save any of the
buildings except the barn.
A son, Robert Frick, had left the
home just a few minutes before the
fire was discovered and returned af
ter the house was almost completely
destroyed.
First at Scene
Myron Trippiehorn and Gilbert
Fett were the first persons at the
scene of the fire and assisted in re
moving some of the household goods
from the living room and dining room,
although most of the contents of the
buildinug were destroyed because of
the extremely rapid spread of the
blaze.
Mrs. Frick, aged 72, is suffering
from shock and is convalescing at the
home of a son, George Frick of
Cherry street.
The house was built more than 60
years ago and has been in possesion
of the family ever since. The prop
erty was partially covered by insur
ance.
Ruth Oyer Graduates
From Nurses School
Miss Ruth Oyer, South Jackson St.,
graduated recently in the nurses
training course from the Evangelical
hospital in Chicago. Miss Oyer will
complete the remainder of the work
for the R. N. degree by September,
it was announced here this week.
WITH THE SICK
E. S. Lape, Bluffton merchant, is
convalescing at the hospital here fol
lowing a major operation Tuesday
morning.
Prof. H. W. Berky, of West Col
lege avenue, is ill at his home with a
kidney ailment.
Bluffton Man, Member Of Military
Police, Has One Of Army’s Tough Jobs
John Stdnehill One of Select
Group Entrusted With
Keeping Order
Monthly Pay Day in Army
Keeps M. P. Force Busy
Enforcing Discipline
One of the “toughest” jobs in the
army is that of military policeman,
Private John Stonehill, a member of
the army police force at Ft. Knox,
Ky., said this week during a visit
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Stonehill, cf South
Main street.
Most of the trouble in enforcing
discipline comes on pay-day, the red
letter occurrence of every month for
the boys in the service.
Many of the soldiers head directly
for Louisville, the nearest city, as
soon as they receive their pay, and
with them goes a detachment of 40
military policemen to ensure keeping
the servicemen orderly and prevent
them “running wild”.
Altho the military policemen also
have the right to arrest civilians,
most of their work is with the sold
iers themselves, Stonehill said.
Appointment to the army police
force cannot be regarded a move
toward popularity, for many soldiers
threaten revenge when it is necessary
to enforce regulations and discipline
violators.
Stonehill was named a military
policeman because of his physical
qualifications and the result of ap
titude tests. He was appointed last
February, after going to Ft. Knox
following preliminary army training
at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Military policemen can be identi
fied by the black shoulder straps
and belts of their unimforms. They
also carry automatic pistols and
blackjacks.
Part of their duties include cover
ing all traffic wrecks within five
miles of Ft. Knox. In cities they
keep constantly on the move, check
ing the behavior of soldiers in res
taurants, canteens and on the high
way.
Rated as a non-combantant unit,
the military policemen have separate
quarters and receive better food
than field forces.
Stonehill will return to camp this
week at the close of a furlough to
visit his parents.
Army Man Here For
Recruiting Thursday
Applications for enlistments in
ground units of the regular army air
corps will be received by a recruit
ing officer to be in Bluffton at the
post office Thursday morning from
10 o’clock until noon.
Eligible for enlistment are men be
tween the ages- of 18 and 35 years.
Those accepted for this branch of
service will have choice of air fields
at Oklahoma City, Okla. Jefferson
Barracks, Mo. Charlotte, North
Carolina, and Bowman Field, Ky.
They will also be given an oppor
tunity after enlistment to study var
ious trades among which are air
plane mechanics, aircraft armorer
work, aircraft machinists and metal
work, aircraft welding, clerical work,
linktrainer work, parachute rigging,
photography, radio operating, tele
type and weather observing.
New Tar Surface On
Kibler Street Soon
Grading of Kibler street has been
completed between Jackson and Grove
streets and new stone ballast has
been laid, preparatory to placing a
new surface on the two-block stretch.
Preliminary oil treatment of the
street likely will be made before the
end of the week, weather permitting,
following which a tar-chip stone
surface will be added.
Tar application will be added at
the same time to the newly improved
block on Jackson street, south from
Kibler street. Approximately 100
feet of Jackson street south of Kib
ler also will be improved.
Vacation At Meter
Works Next Week
Plants of The Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co. and the Readrite
Meter Works, Bluffton’s major indus
try, will be closed next week for the
annual summer vacation of employes.
Beginning with the close of work
by regular shifts this Saturday, the
vacation will continue until Monday
morning, July 7, when operations
will be resumed. Approximately 450
employes will enjoy the vacation
plan.
II IE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1911
FOOD STAMP PLAN
FOR RELIEF TO BE
IN EFFECT MONDAY
Orange and Blue Stamps Will
Be Accepted by Groceries
As Food Payment
Forty Families in Bluffton Dis
trict Will Receive Aid,
Is Estimate
Food stamp plan for the distribu
tion of federal relief under the gov
ernment’s surplus commodities setup
will be inaugurated in Bluffton and
Allen county- next Monday. About
forty families in this district are ex
pected to receive aid in this manner,
it was estimated by those familiar
with the relief procedure.
Eligible to participate in its bene
fits are all persons who have been
receiving federal or state relief, it
was stated the first of the wv?ek by
(Continued on page 8).
WHEAT HARVEST
TO GET UNDER
WAY SATURDAY
First Wheat of District Expect
ed to be Cut by the End of
The Week
Better Than Average Yield
Anticipated by Farmers
Rain Improves Quality
With hot weather of the past
week ripening the crop rapidly, cut
ting of wheat in the Bluffton district
is expected to begin towards the
end of the week with the harvest
well under way by the middle of
next week, unless rains interfere.
The harvest this year is fully a
week earlier than last year. Reason
for this can be found in the heavy
rains and the continued warm wea
ther of the past week. Last year
harvest of the wheat crop did not
begin until the first week in July.
General forecasts are optimistic
indicating that the yield will be
about 20 to 25 bushels to the acre,
which is somewhat larger than the
average crop. Most of the stalks
are said to have headed nicely.
Good Quality
In general the quality is expected
to be better than that of last year
when it tested around 59 pounds to
the bushel. This year observers
predict that the test will be 60 or
61 pounds.
Recent heavy rains have brought
no report of damage in this area.
Quite to the contrary, wheat farm
ers here generally report that wheat
along with many other* crops bene
fitted very definitely by the recent
rainy season.
No wheat rust has been noted in
the district and infestation by the
Hessian fly has been negligible.
Straw is of average length and of
general good quality.
Combine Popular
Although most farmers in the
area are still using the grain binder
in their wheat fields and later
threshing the grain, the combine is
becoming increasingly popular.
Farm observers predict with farm
labor growing scarce that the trend
towards the use of the combine will
continue.
Marketing Quotas
Another factor entering the wheat
picture for the first time this year
is the recent federal marketing
quota approved by a majority of
farmers in a national referendum
the the latter part of May.
Although Richland township vot
ers rejected the quota plan by more
than two to one, the wheat produc
ing states in the nation approved
the measure by more than-the two
thirds majority required.
Growers who planted within the
1941 AAA acreage allotment will be
permitted a quota for the total
amount of wheat grown. Sales in
excess of the quota will be subject
to a federal penalty.
Those having less than 15 acres
of wheat or produce fewer than 200
bushels will not be affected by quota
restrictions.
HOG PRICES SOAR TO HEW HIGH Of $10.30
OH BLUffTOH MARKETS WEMESDAy M0RHIHG
Hogs—bellwether of the upward
surge of farm prices—reached a top
of $10.30 per hundred pounds on the
hoof in the Bluffton markets Wed
nesday morning.
The price, highest of the present
market movement, is nearly double
that of four months ago when a top
of $5.50 was paid here.
Wednesday morning’s quotation,
sixty cents above last week, reflected
a large federal buying program of
pork and lard, a considerable por
tion of which is reported earmarked
for export to Britain.
Robert Oyer, in Charge of Pro
gram, Makes Inspections
And Sprays Infestations
Aid of Householders is Asked
In Cooperation with Muni
cipal Campaign
Mosquito larvae are sometimes so
numerous at various points on the
Riley creeks in this locality that they
make a patch of water a yard in di
ameter look brown, was the com
ment bf Robert Oyer as he began
full time work this week as super
visor of Bluffton’s mosquito control
program.
Although Oyer arrived in town last
week, the heavy rains made it im
possible for him to devote full time
to the work. The recent rains have
kept the Little Riley creek clear of
larvae but have not had much effect
on Big Riley, Oyer reported after
making a round of inspection.
Inspection
A regular routine is followed by
Oyer in the control program here.
The forepart of the week is devoted
to inspections of creeks, quarries,
catch basins, lagoons and other
places where the larvae are likely to
thrive.
The swarms of larvae usually will
not change location considerably over
a period of several days and once
spotted a note is made of the location
for future treatment.
Mosquito larvae look like very
small tadpoles about one-quarter to
three-eights of an inch in length.
They are grey on the under side and
brown on the back. They congregate
in large swarms and apparently are
not molested by fish as the group is
usually found intact at a later time.
Larvicide
Oyer then sprays the larvae with
the specially prepared larvicide trans
porting the equipment in the truck
loaned to the town by the Bixel
Motor Co. The larvicide is diluted
with creek water at the place of
(Continued on page 8)
Mosquito Larvae Found On Riley Creeks
So Numerous That V ater Appears Brown
Nine From Bluffton
Lakeside Delegates
Nine delegates from the Bluffton
Church of Christ will attend the an
nual young peoples conference at
Lakeside, beginning Sunday.
Those who will go from here in
clude: Roberta Manges, Mida Jane
Manges, Fred Fritchie, Edith Stuber,
Allene Stuber, Marcene Stonehill,
Robert Luginbuhl, Wayne Luginbuhl
and Earl Dean Luginbuhl.
Richland Grange
Confers Degrees
Richland Grange’s newly organized
degree team will confer the first and
second degrees on several candidates
at the regular grange meeting next
Monday night. Following the ritual
istic program refreshments will be
served. All members and past
grangers are invited to attend.
Lima Presbytery To
Meet Here Monday
Quarterly meeting of Lima Presby
tery will be held in the Bluffton Pres
byterian church next Monday, it was
announced by Rev. Chas. Armen
trout, pastor of the church here.
Lima Presbytery consists of 22
churches and delegates from each
church will include the pastor and
elders. About 35 are expected to
attend.
Morning and afternoon sessions
will be held at which time routine
business will be transacted and work
outlined for the coming year. Rev.
Charles Muir of Findlay, moderator,
will preside at the sessions and Rev.
Walter Condon of Ada is clerk.
The upsurge of hog prices, how
ever, has brought little response
from farmers, dealers reported call
ing attention to the fact that hogs
on farms are comparatively few.
Bulk of marketable hogs, it is
pointed out were sold off when the
market stabilized recently around
the eight cent level and the later
rise to a dime has consequently
found offerings light.
Other farm commodities were
comparatively stable, wheat quoted
at 97 cents and corn 73li cents per
bushel. Oats and soys were quoted
at 40 cents and $1.25 respectively.
HOT WEATHER MAY
BRING CITY WATER
SUPPLY SHORTAGE
Delay in Delivery of Pump
Halts Quarry Water Supply
To Page Dairy
Emergency Pumping System
Would Supply Only Half of
Dairy Requirement
Continued hot weather may re
sult in prospects of a water short
age at the municipal plant unless
steps can be taken soon to put in
operation an additional supply line
from the quarry of the Bluffton
Stone Co. to the plant of the Page
Dairy Co.
Installation of the new water
line was completed two weeks ago,
but officials of the board of public
affairs have been unable to obtain
delivery of a new centrifugal pump
oidered..qu June 9.
Pumping has not been started,
awaiting arrival of the new equip
ment, and if shipment is not made
soon, it will be necessary to install
a temporary emergency pump to re
lieve the town’s water consumption
load.
Question of Capacity
Emergency pumping, however, will
only partially solve the water works’
problem, for it will have a capacity
of only 200 gallons per minute. The
pump which is on order has a ca
pacity of 400 gallons per minute.
If the emergency pump is put in
use, water taken from the stone
quarry for Page Dairy cooling must
be supplemented water from the
plant reservoir.
Of approximately 250,000 to 300,
000 gallons of water pumped daily
at the municipal plant, the Page
Dairy uses more than 120,000 gal
lons, thereby making it the town’s
largest water consumer.
Alleviate Shortage
Pumping water thru an 800-foot
main from the stone quarry to the
Page plant is expected to alleviate
any threatened shortage of water
during the summer season.
Water from the quarry will be
separate from the municipal supply
and will be used at the dairy for
cooling purposes only. Altho the
quarry water is believed to be en
tirely free from contamination, it
will be kept separate from the pres
ent regular city supply which is used
for drinking.
Bluffton’s present city water sup
ply is obtained from two wells which
are being pumped continuously.
Evelyn Niswander
Here For Summer
Miss Evelyn Niswander, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Niswander
of South Lawn avenue and instructor
at the Mauna Olu seminary at Paia,
Maui, in Hawaii, arrived in Bluffton
Thursday to spend the summer at
the home of her parents.
Miss Niswander has been an in
structor in the junior high school
division of the Hawaiian school for
girls for the past two years. She
has been teaching music, arithmetic
and social science.
She sailed from Hawaii on June 5
and arrived at Portland, Oregon, on
June 12 and from there went to Red
mond, Oregon, where she visited for
several days at the home of her
cousin, A. L. Houmard.
Miss Niswander will be at home
until the middle of August. She
graduated from Blu^ton-High school
in the class of 1924 and from Bluff
ton college in the class of 1928.
A Good Place to Live and a
Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 9
NEW COUNCIL TO
CONSIDER SEWAGE
SITE PURCHASE
Present Town Council Will Not
Take Action in Purchasing
Disposal Plant Site
Option On Power Company
Tract, Held by Council, Ex
pires Next April
Action relative to the purchase of
the five acre tract owned by the Cen
tral Ohio Light and Power Co., at the
north edge of town, as a site for
Bluffton’s much debated sewage dis
posal plant, will likely be left to the
new council taking office in January,
it was stated this week by Mayor W.
A. Howe.
The town holds an option which
will expire next April on the tract
owned by the power company. Should
action on the matter be postponed un
til the new council take office, as sen
timent in the present council indi
cates, the new governing body will
have about three months to set the
machinery- in motion before the option
expires.
Several Sites
Several sites have been under con
sideration for the proposed sewage
disposal system, but the power com
pany’s site best answers all of the
state health requirements, according
to a report of an investigation made
by Chief Engineer F. H. Waring, of
the state board of health.
In indicating reasons for the state
board’s preference for the power com
pany’s site Waring pointed out that
topography of the land is “well adapt
ed to construction of a sewage dispos
al plant of the type proposed for
Bluffton.” In ^iddition the site is
close to the village proper but isolat
ed from present built up areas. No
construction of homes are anticipated
in that district.
Purchase Price
In previous discussions, a price of
$2,000 was put on the Central Ohio
site. The site is triangular shaped
and is located at the western edge of
the Buckeye lake, bounded by the
Bigler road, the A. C. & Y. railroad,
and western edge of the ^quarry. It
is the strip on which the old “dyna
mite house” is situated.
Indication that the state board of
health is watching Bluffton develop
ments in regard to the construction
of a plant here is seen in a recomen
dation made by Waring in a commun
ication with Mayor Howe:
“We urge that village officials take
action to acquire the site for a sew
age treatment plant, as the first step
in the program toward providing an
adequate sewage system for Bluffton,
and toward eliminating the excessive
pollution of Riley and Little Riley
creeks.”
Thelma Marquart
Weds Earl Rupright
Thelma Marquart, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Marquart, of neat’
Bluffton, became the bride of Eatl
Rupright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Rupright of Arlington, in a single
ring ceremony last Sunday afternoon
in Emmanuel’s Reformed church at
4 o’clock.
Rev. Emil Burrichter, pastor of
the church, received the vows of the
parties.
For the occasion the bride was at
tired in a gown of rose lace of taf
feta, with white accessories. Mrs.
August Pulcheon, sister of the
groom, and the bridesmaid, was
dressed in white.
August Pulcheon, brother-in-law of
the groom, served as best man.
Folowing the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the groom’s
parents with the immediate families
attending.
Mrs. Rupright was graduated from
Mt. Cory High school in 1939, and
the groom graduated from Arlington
High in 1937. He is employed at
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co. The couple will reside with his
parents near Arlington.
Births
The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Packer, La
fayette, a girl, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Scoles, a boy,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rhoads, a girl,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Luginbill, a
girl, Monday.
Bom to Rev. and Mrs. Harold
Burkholder of Quakertown, Pa., a
son, John Thomas, June 10. Mr. and
Mrs. Burkholder are former Bluff
ton residents.