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THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1941 Mainly PeManal Who’s the oldest person in Bluff ton A bunch of the boys were over heard arguing the matter the other night and no definite conclusion was reached although it was agreed that the person probably could be found among the following three all of whom are known to be in their nine ties: Z. T. “Zach” Showalter, John Garret, Mrs. Elizabeth Parish. Also mentioned in the discussion were Mrs. Peter Oberly, Mrs. Joseph Mumma, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Schwab, Levi Bender and several others. Anyone knowing additional names of people in their nineties is requested to com municate the information to the News. It is quite certain that it is not customary’ procedure for James A. Griffith to arise at 6:00 o’clock in the morning. Since he has been working in the office of the Triplett company he has found it necessary to set his alarm clock in order to get to the plant on time. But the difficulty arose when Jim dreamt that the alarm clock went off. It was so real istic that he hurriedly dressed and started down for breakfast when granddad John Rogers yelled upstairs and wanted to know the reason for all of the disturbance at 2:00 o’clock in the morning. Was Jim’s face red as he quietly sneaked back to bed mut tering something or other about not being able to trust himself anymore. “The next time I go horse-back riding it will be on a merry-go-round,’, was the indignant statement made by Harriet Biome after she was thrown off a horse while riding recently at the Triplett farm, west of town. It seems that she and Gareth Todd were horse back riding when one of the horses got a bit sprightly and threw Harriet in a mud puddle. Robert Cooney is planning to ac company his father on a business trip next week through West Virginia.1 Bob says that he likes to go along especially to do the driving. Bob Coon, 12 year old son of Mar shal and Mrs. Lee Coon, has rigged up an ingenious trailer that he hitch es to his bike. He uses the outfit to drive to the country to gather greens for his rabbits. We walked into the public library the other day and our eyes were greeted with an almost blinding flash of the bashiest red sweater that we ever saw. We rubbed our eyes when we saw it was “Sid” Stettler, dignified mathematics instructor, who was so daringly attired. Inquiry re garding the reason for the raucous raiment revealed that Sid was trying out the new crimson sweaters that Bluffton H. S. football fans will see on the backs of Pirate gridders dur ing the fall athletic season. Joe Bronson has solved his trans portation problem by’ hitching up his goat to his wagon. It works all right says Joe, except the goat doesn’t al ways follow orders as to which di rection to turn. Many comments were heard after the Bethel college choir sang in the First Mennonite ehurch, Sunday night not only for their outstanding choral presentation but also for the splendid, tall, blond physical specimens typical of vigorous Nordic peoples of the mid-western settlements. This was one gift that Bert Swank didn't appreciate. Some friends seining for minnows in Big Riley Creek, caught a two-foot carp in their AllC nets. They put it under the front seat of Swank’s car, standing nearby in the Triplett parking lot. Swank did not discover the firsh until late the next day, when the aroma was be ginning to be pronounced. P. S.—He’s still trying to find the unknown donor. First indication of the rapidly ap proaching football season is the newly painted score board at Harmon field. It stands out more prominently than ever in its new coat of red and white. Harry Bogart, Woodrow Little and Ross Bogart, who left Monday for the national convention of rural mail car riers in Columbus, took with them several pocketfuls of buckeyes. These are to be the distinguishing marks of all Buckeye state men at the meet. Don’t be surprised if you meet a stranger on the Bluffton Golf course. Located adjacent to the heavily-trav eled Dixie highway, the course proves too much of an attraction for many hard-bitten golf fans. It is common for tourists to stop and relax from driving by playing a round. Cars in the last week hav been from Cali fornia, Connecticut and many other states. Greetings were received this week from Francis W. Durbin, Bluffton City solicitor and Lima attorney who is vacationing in LaJolla, Calif., in a card addressed to M. M. Bogart and Fred Getties. Anyway it wasn’t tainted money-— that dollar bill turned in at the Citizens bank the other day looking somewhat the worse after going thru the family washing. The bill, found in an overall pocket was still legible, although the ink with which it was printed had turned yellow, probably because of action of wash ing powder or aoap. The bank sent the bill to the treasury department for redemption. A caravan of four passenger buses enroute from Detroit to Louisiana was parked along Bluff ton’s Main street Monday night while the drivers rested a bit. Look ing thru the trim conveyances, we commented that there was no sign indicating the “Jim Crow” section for the colored passengers. At this one of the drivers, a lanky Missis sippian chirped up “Them niggahs don’t need any sign—they know their place is in the back seats and they know they’ll get their heads busted if they don’t stay there”. Continuing the discussion another driver offered the comment “Your no’thern boys down at Camp Shelby don’t think nothin’ of ridin’ beside a niggah—but it just burns we-all up”. Last week appeared in this col umn comment that folks nowadays want their bread sliced and peanuts shelled—well here’s another to add to the list—a Bluffton dealer in electrical refrigerators is displaying a miniature electrically driven ice cream freezer which will freeze a quart of ice cream right in the re frigerator while you wait. You put the freezer, which looks like a thermos bottle, in the cold compart ment, plug the electric connection in the light socket inside the refrigera tor—and there you are. Buddy Augsburger, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Augs burger, who with his parents spent several days in Michigan returned home with a small menagerie. It consists of a small cat fish, a turtle and a little black and white dog. Buddy is now kept very busy as he also has 13 chickens to take care of. “It looks more like Illinois corn than I ever saw it before”, was the comment of A. C. Burcky, Bluffton A MAGNIFICENT GRAND STANDS HOW PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR IF STATE FAIR COLUMBU5AUG 23-29-1941 *^pAfiEAHTPV k STAR-STUDDED CAVALCADE AN outstanding feature of this year’s Ohio Sure Fair. Navor before shown anvwhare. Howard Tooley’s gifsmic ninsi cal revue “BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGnT.” Presented each evening on a mammoth stage before the grandstand. Offering such stars of the entertainment world as John Charles Gilbert, Maxine Cassaretto, Charles N. Lum, Flo aid Ted Vallett, John B. Ratto and many more. An amaxing musi cal drama depicting the glory of America. Be sure to see it as a fitting climax to a happy day spent in viewing the thousands of other attractions at this greatest of all Ohio Slate Fairs. (100 Acree of froa Pariting Space JOHN W. WICKER ftevecaar at Ohio JOHN T. MOWN Dir. e* Agriculture STAGE SETTING 500 FEET LUNG-SO FEET HiSH WIN H. KINHAN State Pair MeMger college athletic coach, in summing up the promising crop outlook in this district—and for a native Illnoisian to admit that Ohio corn even compares with the stalwart Illinois product is something. Just by the way, Burcky knows his way around in the farming business, be ing the senior member of Burcky Bros, who own and manage a 200 acre farm in Van Buren township east of Bluffton on Route 103. This is confidential—so much so that we can’t mention names—but the story is going the rounds of the bride who in a fervor of patriotism gave away her new aluminum ware when it was collected here for na tional defense last month—and now the cooking is done in graniteware. Gene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wells attained his sixth birthday an niversary the other day and was presented with a silver spoon, an heirloom in the family for 130 years. The spoon, fashioned from a silver dollar by a silversmith, originally belonged to his great, great, great grandmother, Mrs. Isabelle Reese who lived north of Biffton on what is now the Zanna Staater farm. By the way when Gene enters the first grade next month he will be the fourth generation of his family to attend school in the Grade building here. It was an unusual coincidence last Friday afternoon when two parties of former Bluffton people, now' re siding in California called at the office within a half-hour. First to drop in were Dr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Eby of Los Angeles. Dr. Eby is associate professor of education in the University of California. He and his wife were accompanied by his brother, Dr. S. L. Eby of Cin cinnati. Less than thirty minutes later we were shaking hands with Gottlieb Schnegg who sold Studebakers here back in the twenties and migrated to California twelve years ago where he now lives in Alhambra. Schnegg and his w’ife made the trip of 2,378 miles east in three days. No trouble at all, he says—the roads are ideal and you have to drive 65 to keep from being run dow’n by traffic. Old timers recall when Schnegg made local history by driving to Lima in forty minutes—a record that was almost incredible at that time. Yes, they read the Bluffton News classified ads—Mrs. W. C. Augs burger advertised an apartment for rent—and had 18 inquiries for it after it was taken. Pandora Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Roth and children of Detroit, Michigan, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Schu macher. Mary Alice and Delores Burry had their tonsils removed at the Bluff ton hospital last Wednesday. Miss Ruth Bixel will present a program of organ and piano num bers at the Grace Mennonite church Sunday evening, August 24. A number from here attended the Frantz reunion at Findlay, Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hostettler and daughter of Mansfield, and Mrs. Blunk, of Forest, visited in the Chris Basinger home several days this week. Miss Martha Matthews of near Dayton is visiting her father, James Matthews. Aaron Roth of Detroit purchased a 1941 Oldsmobile from Sommers garage. Joel Basinger purchased the Wm. Baumgartner property and William Baumgartner purchased the former Mary Burkhart property. Rev. and Mrs. Musser and family and Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Boehr and family are attending the Mennonite Conference in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Davidson are the parents of a son born at St. Rita’s hospital in Lima, Aug. 10. Vernon Schellenberg visited rel atives in Piqua last week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Basinger and Lloyd Frankhouser accompanied by Miss Evelyn Hale, of Vaughnsville, spent last week in northern Michi gan. Dr. and Mrs. H. Niswander are on a trip in Canada this week. Miss Judith Lehman of Chicago is visiting relatives here. A large number from the Mis sionary church attended the Mis sionary church convention in Fort Wayne, Sunday. The marriage of Kenneth Som mer, son of Mrs. Viola Sommer, to Miss Samsal, of Columbus Grove, will take place Sunday at the Grace Mennonite parsonage. Dr. and Mrs. M. B. Rice and sons were on a vacation last week at Wampler’s Lake in Michigan. Leland Gerber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Gerber, of this place and Miss Winifred Sprunger, of Berne, Indiana, were married in Berne, Sunday. Mrs. Barbara Steiner and daugh ters Elvina, Grace and Susie are on a trip in the East. They also visited in the W’alden Hilty home in East Orange, N. J. News Want-Ads Bring Results. THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO Pleasant Hill Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips and Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Younkman were Sunday visitors in the Earl Younk man home at Rising Sun. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Zerbe and son, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Montgomery and son and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lugibihl and daughter were Sunday evening dinner guests in the Wm. Lugibihl home. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Amstutz of aPndora called in the evening. Miss Dorothy Lugibihl is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Zerbe and son of Sylvania. H. P. Zimmerman and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman and daughter spent Sunday afternoon at the Findlay park. Mrs. Emma J. Martin of Collins ville, Okla., who has been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. George Hu ber and family for several weeks re turned to her home, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Brooks Huber called Tuesday at the George Huber home. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes and Jo Ann Seigg and Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Haenstein and daughter called at the Geo. Huber home, Monday evening. Mrs. Emma Martin and grandson, Jimmie Huber called Saturday after afternoon on Mrs. Clara Traucht. Mrs. Goldie Scaggs of St. Clairs ville is spending a few days with the Arthur Yoakum family and other rel atives. Those of this neighborhood who at tended the Huber reunion held at Green Springs, last Sunday were: Mrs. Cora Huber and son Joy and family, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber and sons, Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Huber, Mrs. Lily Fett and Nellie Huber and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Huber and fam ily. Elrose Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson of Grand Rapids, Mich., Phil Johnson of Lake Odessa, Mich., spent Friday night with Mrs. Goldie Battles and family. Joan, Jimmie and June Gallant of Marion are spending some time at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Fisher. The Black school reunion was held last Thursday. A goodly number of scholars and teachers attended a program was given in the afternoon. Thomas Koontz was elected president and Mrs. Henry Koontz, sec’y-Treas., for the coming year. Little David Graham of Rushsyl vania is visiting at the D. D. Will iamson home. Marylin Klingler of near Ada spent the week end with the Ami Nonna maker family. Celebrating the birthdays of Miss Joan Battles and Howard Marquart a party was held Sunday evening at the Goldie Battles home. The follow ing guests were entertained: Misses Avis Marshall, Dorothy Klingler, Ida Mae Arnold, Dorothy Long, LaDonna Hartman and Mary Jane Worthington of Bluffton, Robert Moyer, Norman Eddinger, Wayne Westall and Robert Cribley. Misses Jeanette Basinger and Kaye Nonnamaker spent Thursday evening and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. How ard Stauffer of Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Benroth and family are spending their vacation visiting friends in Michigan. Mrs. Anna Koontz is spending sev eral days in Bluffton with her daught er, Mrs. Ruth Steinman. The following enjoyed a picnic sup per wit hthe M. J. Stratton family, honoring their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kloetzley, son Joe and daughter June of Salem: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Klingler and family, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Stratton and family, Mrs. Goldie Battles and daughter Ma bel and J. D. Clymer. Evening call ers were Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Koontz and son Robert. Howard Nonnamaker and family spent Sunday afternoon at the Ami Nonnamaker home. Mrs. C. W. Klingler daughter, Jean Ann, son Don, Mrs. M. J. Stratton and Mrs. A. E. Kloetzley son Joe and daughter June of Salem spent Friday with Mrs. J. C. Christman and fam ily near Findlay. There will be an ice cream social at the Black school house Tuesday evening, August 26. Sponsored by the people of that district. Prices of fats and oils have been increasing rapidly since March, due to a variety of causes. Crop statis tics show Ohio soybean acreage is considerably lower this year than in 1940. Lard stocks have been re duced by exports to England under the lend-lease law. Chick Diarrhea FREE /SAMPLE At Our Store—FOB YOU I Every local poultry raiser Via invited to call at our store for a free ram pie of Avicol. A. Hauenstein & Son The Corner Drug Store Out Of The Rough Bluffton Golf Course Happenings Olive Schumacher, of Findlay, last week turned in the best card report ed in two years on the Bluffton course. He went around the nine holes in 39 strokes, three over par. Plans are nearing completion for a Labor Day tournament to be held at the course. Entry is open to everyone. It will be the second tournament of the year 16 players having completed in one held on the Fourth of July. The preceding tour ney was won by Dr. Boyd Travis. Players enjoying advantages of the local club do not hail from this dis trict alone. Many Lima and Findlay golfers play here regularly, and a lot of tourists relax from motoring by stopping for a round or two. In the last week cars stopped from as far away as California and Connec ticut. Richland Center Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Frantz and daughter spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wickard and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Hirschfeld and son spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and sons. Mr. and Mrs. Joe O’Bryan and son of Findlay and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Icenogle of Lima spent Wed nesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Core and family. Betty and Allison Niswander spent Wednesday afternoon at the Amos Luginbuhl home. Evening callers were? Mrs. Ella Dillman, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dillman and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dillman. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schaublin and grandson Richard Schaublin spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz. Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boegli of Gilboa Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bixler and daughter Phyllis and Miss Verna Bixler of Orrville were Sunday morning callers at the Amos Ger ber home. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hochstettler and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hochstettler and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and son Melvin were Columbus Grove callers Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Malcom Ewing and family spent Friday evening at the Amos Basinger home. Mr. and Mrs. W’ilmer Badertscher and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman and daugh ter were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher and son. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hood and son of Detroit Mr. and Mrs. John Blackburn and son of Columbus, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter King and son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rhoads and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Yerks of Lima spent Monday evening at the Amos Luginbuhl home. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hochstettler and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerber and family spent Sunday at Berne, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hochstettler and family spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Reno Oberly and family. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hochstettler and family of Detroit spent the week end visiting relatives here, Mrs. Hochstettler and family re mained to spend the week here. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher and family and Ruth Hartman spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sharp and family of Norwalk spent the week end at the Amos Luginbuhl home. Mrs. Sharp and family remained to spend the week here. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Moser and sons are spending a week’s vacation in Michigan. Sam Luginbuhl and Alice Balmer spent Sunday evening at the Amos Basinger home. Mrs. Gust Basinger received word that her mother and brothers, Mrs. K. L. Oard and sons Ernest and Thomas arrived at Burns, Oregon, near their former home, on Monday of last week. Mrs. Oard will visit her father, J. H. Heinz, who is past 90 years of age, and whom she has not seen for over 30 years. Miss Daisy Basinger is visiting at Foster this week with her sister Mrs. Ray Schumacher. LaFayette Mrs. Daisy Hall spent the week with Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Watt of Beaverdam. Miss Betty Kinsey and Miss Jean Graham of Crafton Pennsylvania were Thursday guests of Mrs. La vina Kinsey. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Schumacher are spending several days with rel atives and friends at Peoria, Ill. Mrs. Jennie Eversole is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eversole and family of Toledo. Mrs. Ivy Miller of Lima is visiting her sister, Mrs. Laura Biteman. Mr. and Mrs. Harl Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff West, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Short, Mr. Wilson Hawk, Mrs. Edith Mann, of Bluffton Mr. and Mrs. Edison Hall and sons, of Lima Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Vorhees, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hall were Thursday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hall and sons honoring Mrs. Edith Bixler and children of West Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Guy Moore of Cincinnati is visiting his mother Mrs. Mollie Allerding. Mesdames Carrie Lentz and Daisy Hall motored to Toledo Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eversole and family. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nocolet and son, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roberts and family of Lima were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawk. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Burden of Lima and Bud Binkley of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Robinson left Sunday for a trip through the Eastern States. Mr. and Mrs. Walter King of Akron were Friday guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Adam. Mrs. Harry Haley was a Friday night guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Robinson. On August 3 W. H. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Long and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Long and daughter, e?S€liIl»TO” SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd bronzeWREGULAR-LEADED-POLYMERIZEDbrilliant—eitherofgallonssixofpurchasethewithawaygiven■ ETHYL GASOLENE SAVE FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE BEST LOW PRICE HIGH QUALITY BRILLIANT BRONZE STATIONS RALPH PILLER South Main Street and Bentley Road, Bluffton, Ohio Phone 455?Y for Tank Truck deliveries. Third Grade (CHEAP) Gasolene is NOT sold at Brilliant Bronze PAGE THREE Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Binkley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawk and family, Mrs. Mildred Mil ler, Mr. and Mrs. Don Hefner, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Korn and family motored to Fort Wayne and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Holman and sons. Grange Banquet The losing team of the member ship drive contest at the Richland Grange with Reno Gratz as captain, will entertain the winning team with Roily Moser as captain, with a ban quet next Tuesday evening at 6:30 at the Richland Grange hall. Announcement The Western Auto Associate store is closed. We wish to thank the public for their valued patronage, while we were in business. Mr. Geiger will continue his agency for Motorists Mutual Insur ance at his home address, 4141a South Main street. (Signed) Mr. and Mrs. Millen C. Geiger. Ohio farmers will approve the ap pointment of Robert M. Salter as chief of the Division of Soil and Fer tilizer Investigations in the national Bureau of Plant Industry. Professor Salter has a long record of service in Ohio as former chairman of the de partment of agronomy, Ohio State university, and as assistant director of the Wooster Experiment Station. He goes to the Department of Agri culture from the position of director of the North Carolina Eyperiment station. Government regulations set a moisture content limitation on ex tracted honey. Unripened honey may have more than the legal amount of moisture. The remedy is to leave honey in the hive a few days longer. Commercial hatchings of baby chicks for the first jsix months of 1941 were 25 per cent greater than for the same period in 1940 and were 24 per cent greater han the previous record for hatchings made January 1 to June 30, 1939. MUNSON R. BIXEL, M. D. Office Hours: 8:30-10 A. M. 1-3 P. M. 7-8 P. M. Office, 118 Cherry St. Phone 120-F Bluffton, O. Francis Basinger, D. D. S. Evan Basinger, D. D. S. Telephone 271-W Bluffton, Ohio D. C. BIXEL, O.D. GORDON BIXEL, O.D. Citizens Bank Bids-. Bluffton EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS Eyes Exmined Without Drops Closed Thursday Afternoon & Evening Office Hours: 8:30 A. M—5:30 P. M. 7:30 P. 8:30 P. M. Melville D. Soash, M. D. The Commercial Bank Bldg. Bluffton, Ohio X-RAY FLUOROSCOPE Telephone 254-W Kit