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EBENEZER MENNONITE
A. C. Schultz, Pastor
Thursday, 8:30 p. m. Teachers’
meeting and prayer sendee. -Choir
rehearsal.
SUNDAY:
9:30 a. m. Sunday school.
10:30 a. m. Morning worship.
Sermon topic, “The Manner of God’s
Love.”
7:30 p. m. C. E. programs.
8:30 p. m. Evening senice. The
message will be on “The Tragedy of
a Useless Life.”
The public is cordially invited to
attend the sendees of the church.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Sunday services at 10:30 a. m.,
subject: “Substance.”
Testimonial meeting at 7:30 Wed
nesday evening.
The reading room at the church is
open every Wednesday from 2:00
to 4:00 p. in. The public is invited
to all services and to visit the
reading room.
This society is a branch of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED
CHURCHES
Emil Burrichter, Pastor
Emanuel’s:
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
Public worship at 10:30 a. m.
The G. M. G. meets on Thursday
evening of this week.
St. John’s:
Public worship at 9:15 a. m.
Sunday school at 10:15 a. m.
Choir practice Thursday at 7:30
p. m.
Offering for Religious Education
in the Sunday school on Sunday.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
J. A. Weed, Minister
THURSDAY:
3:45 p. m. Junior Choir rehearsal.
7:30 p. m. Epworth League
Cabinet meeting (at parsonage).
Sunday, 9:00 to 10:30 a. m.—
Church school and morning worship
services combined: Opening wor
ship, lesson presented to entire adult
department, and sermon. Sermon
topic, “The Cost of High Living.”
6:00 p. m. Devotional meeting of
Senior Epworth League.
DEFENSELESS MENNONITE
E. G. Steiner, Minister
Sunday school 9:30 a. m.
Preaching 10:30 a. m.
Christian Workers Band 7:30 p.
m. followed by sermon.
Children’s meeting 7:30 in church
basement.
Bible study and prayer service.
Thursday evening 8 p. m.
FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
H. T. Unruh, Pastor
Thursday—715 P. M. Choir rehearsal.
Come for the first rehearsal and
stand by thru the year.
Sunday—9:00 a. m. Church school.
10:00 A. M. Church services.
This will be our church Rally Day.
Vacation days are over. Let us
fill our church pews again.
6:00 p. m. Intermediate C. E.
with a
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John Deere-Van Brunt
7.'15 p. m. Evening sendees. The
delegates to our Gen. conference will
give reports.
Instead of inviting the College
Freshmen into our home at the open
ing of school, as we have done in the
past, the Christian Education Com
mittee has decided to entertain them
in a group with a basket dinner.
Church members will please bring
their baskets and table service. Let
us all share in this fellowship and so
welcome the new students into our
midst. Come to the College grounds
back of the Library’ immediately af
ter the morning session.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Charles M. Armentrout, Pastor
Rockport—
9:30 a. m. Morning Worship.
10:30 a. m. Sunday School.
Bluffton:
9:30 a. m. Sunday School.
10:50 a. m. Morning Worship
6:00 p. m. Tuxis.
The subject of the sermon is “The
Glory of Christian Fellowship.” A
cordial invitation is extended to all to
come and worship with us.
MISSIONARY CHURCH
A. F. Albro, Pastor
SUNDAY:
9:30 Sunday school, Harry Welty
Supt.
10.30 Morning worship.
7:00 p. m. Young People’s society.
7:00 p. m. Children’s meeting.
7:30 p. m. Evangelistic service.
WEDNESDAY:
8:00 p. m. Prayer meeting.
9:00 p. m. Street Service.
Armorsville
The L. A. S. and W. M. S. of the
Liberty Chapel church meets this
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. L.
Hilty.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman and
granddaughter Miss Treva Grismore
returned home Wednesday after
spending a week with relatives in
Ann Arbor, and Detroit, Mich., and
Toledo.
Mr. Raymond Tuttle spent the
week end with relatives in Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hartman and
family were Sunday dinner guests
at the O. P. Hartman home. After
noon callers were Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Grismore and family.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hilty and
Harry Katchke called Sunday even
ing at the Chas. Montgomery home.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Klingler of
Findlay spent Sunday evening at the
C. E. Klingler home.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter Sue, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Redfern were at Port Clinton,
Sunday and in the afternoon they
called on Mr. and Mrs. Laurence
Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Huber
Jennings and family, of Clyde, Ohio.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen ounty, bs.
Estate of Aaron Diefenderfer, Deceased.
A. I). Gratz of Bluffton, Ohio, has been
appointed and qualified as administrator de
bonis non with will annexed of the estate of
Aaron Diefenderfer late of Alien County.
Ohio, deceased.
Dated thia 9th dav of September, 1941.
RAYMOND P. SMITH,
2___________________ Probate Judjre.
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Pandora
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cupp and son
moved from Findlay into the former
A. C. Coates property, Saturday.
The Pandora business men had a
supper at the school park, Monday
evening.
Ruth Geiger, Ada Frankhouser and
Earl Steiner left this week to attend
the Ft. Wayne Bible Institute.
Phyllis and Sherwood Huser, who
work in Monroe Mich., spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Philemon Huser. ....
The Pandora canning factory is
running and cans several thousand
hampers of tomatoes a day. Many
people are employed.
Levi Hager was in Toledo, Monday.
Miss Catherine Hatfield who is em
ployed at a nurse’s aid in Findlay hos
pital spent Sunday with her parents
here.
The marriage of Miss Anne Schu
macher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Schumacher to David Reichen
bach, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Reich
enbach took place at the Grace Men
nonite parsonage, August 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard McDowell
and family of Vaugnsville visited here
Sunday.
Mrs, Cordell Whitney who spent
the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Vem
McClintoc has returned to her home
in New Kensington, Pa,
Miss Margaret Niswander, daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Niswand
er will leave this week to attend Ob
erlin college.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hilty and Mr.
and Mrs. George Fruchey and daught
er called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hil
ty, Sunday afternoon.
Miss Phyllis Lehman visited Mr.
and Mrs. Gaylord Lehman in Fleet
wood, Pa. last week.
A piano recital was given in the
school, Sunday afternoon by pupils
of Mrs. Francis Marshall.
Miss Grace Steiner, Maxine Fridley
and Clorinda Luginbill were Col
umbus, Friday evening and Saturday
where they attended Future Home
Makers association meetings.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Leightner cele
brated their 62nd wedding anniver
sary last week.
The High School class of 1940 had
a shower for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Fruchey at the home of Nettie Mae
Basinger last Friday night. Mrs.
Fruchey was formerly Kathrine Van
Scoder of that class.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Bauman and
family are moving to a farm near
Hoytville.
Organization Of New
Scout Troop Planned
In anticipation of starting the new
Boy Scout troop to be sponsored by
the Bluffton post of the American
legion, three organization meetings
for adults will be sponsored by the
Shawnee council of Scouts to be held
at the Legion hall starting Wednes
day night of next week at 7:30
o’clock. Successive meetings will be
held on the two following Wednesday
nights.
The first meeting will be devoted
to a discussion of “Scouting, Its
Aims and Objectives” the topic for
the second meeting will be “The
Troop and Its Set-Up” the third
meeting will give consideration to
“Using the Program of Scouting”.
The discussion will be in charge of
Shawnee council executives.
The troop will be open to boys in
the community and Woodrow Little,
Bluffton rural mail carrier, will be
the scoutmaster. Members of the
troop committee will consist of
Ralph Stearns, Chm., Ralph Bader
tscher, Wilbur Howe, Clair Fett and
William Edwards.
Howe Is Member Of
Sewage Conference
Mayor W. A. Howe was voted into
membership of the Northwest Ohio
sewage conference according to a
communication received from offi
cials of the body this week.
A paper read by the mayor at a
recent meeting of the conference
held at the town hall was judged by
the group as outstanding and Howe
will read the essay in the state con
test at the state convention to be
held at Mansfield Thursday and Fri
day of next week.
Birthday Surprise
In honor of her fourth birthday
anniversary, Margaret Faze, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Faze was
pleasantly surprised when her friends
called at her home on South Main
street last Thursday afternoon.
Dainty refreshments were served
and many beautiful gifts were re
ceived.
Guests enjoying the affair includ
ed:
Jeannine Benroth, Colleen and
Raymond Cummins, Jean Wells, Jim
my Berry, Brucie Hauenstein, Su
sanna and Jean Kempf, Margaret
and Dorothy Stratton, Denise Scoles,
Nan Locher, Keith Bixel, Sonja Kay
Harris, Donny Alspach, Bret Trip
lett, Jeanne Armentrout.
Mrs. Dan Alspach, Mrs. Wayne
Harris, Mrs. Guy Scoles, Mrs. Willis
Cummins, Mrs. Donald Stratton,
Mrs. Richard Bixel, Mrs. Harold
Kempf, Mrs. Robert Benroth, Mrs.
Charles Armentrout, Mrs. Oliver Lo
cher, Mrs. Millen Geiger and Mary
Alice Geiger, i
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OH
Pleasant Hill
Mrs. Howard Turner of Cleveland
who has been spending the past two
weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Lyman
Barnes and Jo Ann Seigg returned
to her home Sunday with her daugh
ter Marie and son Alva, who were
also week end guests in the Barnes
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber and
son called Sunday afternoon at the
Paul Winegardner home in Harrod.
Mrs. Paul Winegardner and dau
ghter spent Wednesday with Mrs.
Cora Huber.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Zerbe and
son were Wednesday visitors, and
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lugibihl and
daughter called Thursday evening at
the Wm. Lugibihl home.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Jennings
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Avery
Wett were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Close of
Sycamore, Ohio,
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber and
Mr. and Mrs. S dney Hauenstein
were Sunday aftemoon visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Matt
Stewart.
K. Huber, Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. J(y
Dave Holman, Mr. Raymond Strat
ton and Jack Klingler attended the
DeKalb Seed Corn Convention held
the past week at Lake DeLavan,
Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips, Mr.
and Mrs. F. G. Younkman and Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Younkman and
family were Sunday afternoon visit
ors of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Younk
man and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt Scoles and
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Thompson
were Sunday dinner guests of the
Norval Scoles family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Althauser were
Monday evening visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Coy Binkley and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman
and baby and Mr. H. P. Zimmerman
called Sunday at the Norman
Switzer home.
The Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid
Society will meet this Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. Lily Fett and
Miss Nellie Huber.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Long and
children called Tuesday evening at
the H. P. Zimmerman home.
Mr. and Mrs. Orton Stratton call
ed Monday evening at the Wm.
Lugibihl home.
Sunday evening visitors in the
George Huber home were: Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Huber and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Stuart Berryhill and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winegard
ner and family, Mr. ard Mrs. Dennis
Brauen and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cluis called
Sunday afternoon at the Lyman
Barnes home.
Pleasant View
Noah and Joseph Habegger spent
Saturday and Sunday with relatives
in Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McVey have
moved to McComb where he has
been employed as teacher in the
high school for the coming year.
A number of families from this
community attended the Hancock
County Fair at Findlay last week.
Merl Driftmyer is constructing a
foundation for a new barn. The old
one was destroyed by fire, recently.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Carr and
family entertained relatives from
Chicago over the week end.
The Misses Pauline Carr, Mildred
Wynkoop, Edith Zimmerly, Wanda
Jean Newton, Frances Jean Habeg
ger and Livona Harris attended a
picnic and vesper service of the
United Brethren young people of
Findlay district at Van Buren Park,
Sunday evening.
Miss Marjorie Carr left Monday
for Tiffin where she has enrolled as
a student in Tiffin Business Univer
sity.
Clarence Jones has rented the O.
B. St. Johns farm for the coming
year.
The Ladies Harmony Circle will
meet this Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. Florence Windle.
The following officers have been
elected for the Pleasant View Sun
day school for the coming year:
Supt., John Wesley Harris Ass’t
Supt., Waldo Hanna Treas., Mildred
Wynkoop Sec’y., Edith Zimmerly
Attendance Sec’y., Frances Jean
Habegger Pianist, Mrs. Robert Mc
Vey Ass’t Pianist, Kenneth Green
Chorister, Livona Harris Librarians,
Jimmy Green and Jane Dukes.
When plenty of peaches are avail
able, it is a good policy to put on
the shelves an ample supply because
Ohio does not always produce bump
er crops of this fruit.
STOCK SALES
Service bulls delivered any time
also male hogs. C. N. Long & Son,
phone Ada Red 1360. tf
For sale—Eight feeders. A. F.
Albro, 3 miles north on Dixie. 20
For sale—Shropshire ram lambs
also yearling. Orville Matter, 1 mile
south of Gratz crossing.
For sale—6 registered Chester
White boars. Millard Herr, Bluffton
phone 642-W.
For sale—Spotted Poland China
sow due to farrow soon. E. P.
Steiner,
Settlement
Honoring the birthdays of Mrs.
Eli Schumacher and twin daughters,
Mrs. Milton Reichenbach and Mrs.
Denver Zimmerly, a covered dish
supper was held at the Eli Schu
macher home last Wednesday. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Denver
Zimmerly and sons Larry and Junior
and daughter Ann, Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Reichenbach and daughters
Claudia and Jolene, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Benroth and daughter Jean
nine and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Schu
macher.
Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Amstutz and
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Amstutz and
family, all of Wisner, Neb., visited
relatives here the past week. Mrs.
Francis Amstutz and children are
remaining here for an extended
visit while the others have returned
to their home. Both U. S. and
Francis Amstutz are in the chicken
business, the former operating a
large hatchery while the latter has
an extensive poultry ranch.
Many from this locality attended
the county fairs held at Van Wert
and Findlay last week.
The Living Links class of the Eb
enezer Sunday school held their an
nual meeting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Amstutz, last Friday even
ing.
A number of our young folks are
taking work at Bluffton college.
Class work will begin on Thursday.
Earl Steiner, Ruth Geiger and La
Vaun Augsburger are attending Ft.
Wayne Bible school at Ft. Wayne.
The privilege of leadership in any
industry carries with it heavy respon
sibilities and obligations. Honest dis
charge of these duties, we feel, is
imperative to the maintenance of an
orderly, going business—a business in
which management shares with its
employees and customers savings ef
fected through efficient operation.
Such a business is ours.
The necessity of taking stock is
recognized in all business by employee
and management alike. In the A&P
organization, however, there is con
siderably more to this routine “must”
than counting the number of cans of
foodstuffs on the shelves of our
stores the tea, coffee and butter
poundage. Stock-taking with us means
consideration of all the interests of
our customers, suppliers and our em
ployees.
Officers and directors of A&P
are confronted by this tremendous
responsibility every day. Careers,
human personalities and scores of
other “intangibles” are in the bal
ance. Shelves are easily re-stocked
not so these other factors.
After a series of “stock-takings,”
with pardonable pride we announce
that, effective this week, all of the
some 4.500 full-time store clerks in
this area will share with fellow em
ployees from coast to coast what we
believe is the first 5-DAY, 48-HOUR
WEEK in the history of the retail
food industry, labor contracts and
other local variables permitting.
To our employees in this division
whose untiring efforts and efficiency
have made possible the position we
enjoy in the food industry, and to
hundreds of thousands of satisfied
customers whose cooperation we
respectively seek in making our new
work schedule a success, we take this
opportunity to reaffirm a few of the
cardinal principles upon which A&P
was founded 82 years ago by the late
George Huntington Hartford, father
of its present day owners.
The new work schedule is in line
with a long-standing policy of A&P
to give its employees the shortest
working hours and the highest wages
in the industry. It provides that
wages of all employees will be the
same as for the 52-hour week which
has been in effect for several months.
It was in the cracker-barrel period
a quarter-century ago that A&P
boldly defied tradition and broke with
the dawn-to-dusk hours of the grocery
The first meeting of the Pandora
P.T.A. is to be held on Wednesday
evening, Sept. 17th.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Amstutz and
daughter Aneta and Nancy arrived
here from Wiesner, Neb., the last of
the week. Mr. Amstutz returned on
Monday, while Mrs. Amstutz and the
children are remaining for an extend
ed visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Luginbihl and Mr. and
Mrs. Eph Amstutz.
A baby boy was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. Leland Basinger on Sunday af
ternoon and died shortly afterwards.
Brief rites were held on Monday af
ternoon at the grave in Ebenezer
cemetery.
Eda, twelve year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sharp of Nor
walk, drowned while bathing in Lake
Erie off Old Homstead Beach last
Saturday. The girl’s mother was Al
ice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos
Lugibill. The deeply bereaved fam
ily have the sympathy of their many
relatives and friends.
Omar Gratz has recently purchased
a new Dodge truck.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Bauman who
have lived on the farm north of Pan
dora for several years are moving on
a farm near Hoytville in Wood
county.
Ben Amstutz and son are having a
hog sale some time in October.
Homer Zimmerly is building a gar
age.
A few farmers are cutting corn at
present. The prospects for this
year’s crop in this locality are very
encouraging. Some silos are being
filled also.
DISCHARGING A
RESPONSIBILITY
A Statement of Employee Policy by the Central Western Division
of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Stores Will Be Open Six Days A Week As Usual
But No Employee Will Work More Than Five
A&P FOOD STORES
CENTRAL WESTERN DIVISION
THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1941
Announcement was made from the
Grace church pulpit Sunday of the
coming marriage of Floyd Neiswand
er and Miss Virginia Ricker of New
ark, Ohio. The event is to be one of
the near future.
Many’ from the St. John congrega
tion attended Sunday morning and
evening services at the Grace church.
Rev. P. J. Boehr preached at the
evening service.
Gerhardt Wiebe of Ohio State uni
versity at Columbus visited with his
parents here for several day’s last
week.
Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Green of Marion,
Ind., visited in the home of Dr.
Green’s parents in Mt. Cory last Sun
day. Mr. Chester Green, the father
is at present rather feeble.
Harold Boaz is spending several
weeks with his mother and sister.
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business by reducing the work week
from 72 hours to 65.
Regardless of the highly-competi
tive nature of the food business, A&P
has always felt work hours of retail
food store employees were too long. It
has constantly sought ways and
means of reducing them so that A&P
employees could enjoy more leisure
and, to a greater degree, the w’armth
and comforts of home life with their
families.
Our recent decision to further
reduce employee working hours once
again has paced the industry in rais
ing the living standards of retail
clerks. But the management is confi
dent the continued efficient support
of its employees will prove, as it has
in the past, that better working con
ditions, fewer hours at the store and
more at home, and higher wages will
in no way endanger the savings we
have alw’ays made available to our
customers.
Wage increases and added com
pensation during the last year, coupled
with a recent shortening of working
hours, have given A&P employees the
best average wages and the shortest
general working hours in the industry
—dramatic evidence that through effi
cient operation it is possible to achieve
both low prices to consumers and
good working conditions for em
ployees. Wages of full-time clerks in
the Central Western Division alone
have risen approximately 65 per cent
since 1934, at which time they exceeded
appreciably the average for retail
food store employees in all sections
of the country.
During the last decade, A&P has
effected a considerable reduction in
working hours, inaugurated vaca
tions with pay, provided free and ad
ditional group insurance, sick benefits,
half-days off, hospitalization and com
pensation to employees joining the
nation's armed forces as well as many
and frequent increases in the wage
scale.
The A&P management has always
been keenly conscious of its respon
sibility to its employees, many of
whom have devoted their working
lives to its interests.
The company will continue to main
tain the same interest in its employees*
welfare it has always shown. Addi
tional improvements in working con
ditions and benefits will continue as
rapidly as increased efficiency in
operation make them possible.