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Some of the old timers will recall
the visit here last summer of M. B.
“Mose” Cullom of Hartford, Mich.,
pioneer Bluffton resident. Mr. Cul
lom renewed a lot of friendships on
that visit and now has subscribed
for the Bluffton News, just to keep
in touch
with old friends.
in an old book by C. E.
living northwest of town
Found
Greiner,
on the former Clymer farm, now’
owned by W’aldo Hofstetter, was a
literary society program of seventy
three years ago. The
that of the Excelsior
ciety of Vermillion
Hayesville, Ohio, near
date was September
consisted of an essay,
orations and debate. Paper on which
the program was printed show’ed no
signs of fading or discoloration.
program
Literary
institute
Wooster.
29, 1868.
lecture, three
was
so
at
The
Here’s another “Merry Christmas”
to add to the dozens you’ve already
received.
And while we’re on the subject
Christmas, it just occurred to
that it would be nice to believe
Santa Claus—for it would
Christmas shopping unnecessary.
of
us
in
make
And every Christmas someone will
recall the remark made by a small
Bluffton girl not so many years ago
that she did not believe in Santa
Claus—but her mother did.
Maybe it’s the war—but what has
happened to Bluffton’s Community
Christmas observance so popular
about six years ago—we need com
munity spirit these days and a
Community Christmas observance is
worth reviving.
Postmaster Ed Reichenbach who
handles so many holiday greeting
cards that he even dreams about
them in his sleep, firmly resolved
after the holiday rush last year that
he would send no greeting cards this
year—but weakened and according to
the most reliable figure available to
this column, he sent about 75 the
other day.
Those armed guards at the Meter
works will be plenty hardboiled now
—since pilferers ransacked cars in
the plant’s parking lot Monday
night and ev&n stole one of the
guard’s lunch—which is just about
adding insult to injury.
You should see “Frisky” the pet
dog belonging to Charley Kaufman
of Riley street, play the piano. He
nuui
Thru
promise of renewe
sits on tne piano uenui
hind legs and pounds the keys with
the paws of his front feet. The
dog is very responsive to commands
and does a variety of tricks. In
one of them the dog will lie down
at the command and will not get up
until he hears the number five re
peated. When counting, if number
five is left out the dog will lay
prone until the proper number is
called.
We are well aware that children
often give names to the various
farm animals but we never heard
of giving names to musical instru
ments until a number of high school
students started the fad this year.
For example Mary Margaret
inger calls her cello, “Oscar’
Beverly Biery designates her
with the
Peggy
It
Bas
and
flute
name, “Nelson”.
old
Young, nine year
of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
daughter
Young of Lake street, had a real
treat Sunday when her parents
took her to a nearby woods in
Orange township to see Santa Claus’
reindeers. True enough, just as her
father said, two
deers were sighted
from Bluffton.
miles
splendid looking
about three
that Santa
Claus
party
Tradition has it
is a man but not so at the
held at Joan Buckland’s home re
cently. At the height of merriment,
Mrs. Foster Buckland, mother of
Joan appeared in the room playing
the role of Santa Claus to the girls
assembled,
von Wilch,
Schaeublin,
ence Ann
Imogene Bronson,
and Joan Buckland.
At the party were: Le
Joyce Young, Miriam
Helen Burkholder, Flor
Blome,
Alice Santschi,
Frieda Fritchie,
by Mrs. Emmet
A letter received
Scoles south of Bluffton from Mrs.
W. H. Scoles, of West Los Angeles,
Calif., says that extreme precautions
to insure complete blackouts are
being taken in that locality. Viola
tion of the blackout regulations is
subject to heavy fine and prison
sentence. Los Angeles with its
large harbor facilities, oil reserves
and shipbuilding and airplane fac
tories is heavily guarded by
craft against enemy bombing
light brown in
shade of an
was shot by Albert Gar
south of town early last
r. The coon, weighing 14%
has been an attraction to
here because of its unusual
A coon,
about the
Persian cat,
matter,
Thursday,
pounds
hunters
color.
Comes a card from M. M. Murray,
who with Mrs. Murray arrived in St.
Petersburg, Florida where they will
remain for the winter. Dode says
the green benches are full, people
all sober and sunshine bright with
.Merry Christmas
Do they read the News Stock
Sales—-well J. E. Emerick of Bea
verdam says they surely do. He
received sixteen inquiries last Thurs
day in response to a small advertise
ment which he inserted in the Stock
Sale column last week.
Word received by Walter Hoch
stettler from his son LaVeme in
the army air corps that he would
be unable to eat Christmas dinner
with home folks this year. LaVeme
is in training at Muskogee, Olka.,
and is enthusiastic about the air
service.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Garlinger have
received an unusual Christmas gift—
a photograph recording of the voice
of their daughter, Mrs. Gladys Kal
tenbauch, granddaughter, Mrs. Bern
adine Van Black and great-grand
daughter, Carol Linn Van Black, all
of Englewood, Calif. Included in the
record were two Christmas songs,
Jingle Bells and Holy Night by Carol
Linn, aged five.
Although he couldn’t come home for
Christmas, Homer Steiner, in training
with the navy called by long distance
telephone from Norfolk, Va., to say
Merry Christmas to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John E. Steiner of Thurman
street. While Homer is in Norfolk,
his brother, Cleon is way out on the
Pacific coast at Everett, Wash.
It was something of a problem
when Mr. and Mrs. Salame Cordova
of South America speaking nothing
but Spanish, arrived here the first
of the week on a business trip at
the Triplett plant. The Cordovas
come from Lima, Peru, and this
was their first visit to the States.
With no Spanish interpreter avail
able, conversation was effected prin
cipally by sign language and a
Spanish-English dictionary. Cordova
says that the next time he comes
he will first take a preliminary
course in English.
Report To Highway
Heads Made Here
Bluffton
air
man hours
maintaining
attack.
color,
angora
the centuries unchanged in the
ope an
In the friendly spirit of tlie Christmastide we
and compliments of the season to all
municipality used 350
of labor in 1941 for
the streets of the town,
it was reported by Mayor W.
Howe this week to O. C. Kohli,
Lima, divisional resident engineer
the state highway department.
world rings out tins cheery greeting bringing with it a
Friendlv
CENTRAL OHIO LIGHT a POWER COMPANY
Francis K. Godwin
MANAGER
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO
of
of
Other materials used were: 75 tons
of bitumen, an asphaltic road top
dressing 1412 barrels of cement. A
large supply of stone, gravel and
sand were also used but since they
were purchased locally they were not
listed in the report.
The report is required in a national
defense survey of materials used and
will be included in state and na
tional figures on defense materials.
mi
Next Step Here
Sale of new tires and tubes was
banned immediately after the out
break of war with Japan, and these
products will not be released until
community rationing plans are
worked out, it was learned this week.
Farm Women Want
Demonstration Agent
a changing
inger of brighter days to come.
extend best wishes
our Bluffton friends.
Wanted—Stock cattle, weight ____ _______
to 600 pounds. Give breed and price. I Rupright and Audrey Kidd.
Inquire Bluffton News.
Service bulls delivered any time
also male hogs. C. N. Long & Son,
phone Ada Red 1360. if
Call for G. H. Edwards, Route 1,
Findlay, Ohio, phone 4007-R-4, for
dehorning cattle, masculating
ies no breeding.
For sale—Roan shorthorn
breeding age. See S. H.
Rawson.
For sale—Week old calf. Albert
Geiger, 442 Cherry street.
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Unrestricted sale of automobile I ______
tires will not be resumed for the I
duration of the war, and a tire ra-1 In Peru, Christmas is Occasion
tioning committee will be named to I For Noisy Revel Until
function in Bluffton under the local I Mans Starts
civilian defense council.
State recommendations for the I ln no land is Christmas more gen
committee suggest the appointment I erally celebrated than in the Scan
of from five to eight persons repre-l danavian peninsula. This is the land
senting a cross section of tire pur-1 of the Yule log of Christmas stories
chasers from institutions, industries,! and the legends of Thor and Odin,
the public in general, plus one tire I It is customary for every member
dealer or distributor. of the family to take a bath on the
afternoon preceding Christmas and
oftentimes it is the only thorough
bath received during the year.
I
Don’t forget to look at your yellow
label, if it reads Jan. 1942, your sub
scription is now due for next year.
STOCK SALES
When evening comes the Bible is
1 read in nearly every household and
Allen county commissioners have famjly service is held. In most vil
been petitioned to provide funds fori lagea candles are left burning in
the employment of a home demon-|the windowg all night in order to
stration agent, the request coming I give ]ight w Kristine who
from representatives of farm women s I gjfts.
groups.
Mrs. Herbert Marshall, of -I .g ajso customary to set
land township, president of the Al-1 meal out the gnow as
len County Farm omen s Federa-1 mas offerjng The birds of tbe ajr
tion, headed by the committee pre-1 are bought of a]so and a sbeaf of
senting the petition. I wheat is placed on a pole in front of
Under the proposal, the county I eacb house to provide them with
would supply office space and suP*|food.
plies for the home demonstration
agent, who would work in connec
tion with the state and federal agri
cultural extension service. The lat
ter agencies would pay her salary.
For sale—Cow, fresh next month. I during vacation returned to Cleve
Harry Marshall, 1 mile south and I iand iast week where she holds a good
4% miles east of town.
Martin Watkins purchased the Odell
five acre lot near the north corpora
tion line, Saturday for $1350.
Guy Hawk who has had consider
able experience in laundry’ work in
Toledo and other places during
past year, will be in charge of
new Bluffton laundry.
arter-1
351
bull, I
Pifer,l }jOrne from their wedding trip.
251 Miss Flora Green, -who w’as home
alivita iHiuuui nunu
Range From Solemnity To Hilarity
that
All Countries in Accord
Yuletide Season is Time
For Rejoicing
Mayor W. A. Howe, chairman of
the defense council, expects to call I Celebrations ranging from
a meeting this week of the 15 Bluff-1 give solemnity to hilarious
ton tire dealers, after which a ra-l characterize the observance
tioning committee will be organized I Yuletide season in the various climes
for the town. I and regions of the world.
impres
gaiety
of the
brings
Xmas Offering
a cake
Christ-
News Our Grandfatl
From Issue
Will Watkins of Columbus Grove
purchased the Bluffton laundry outfit
of Frank Holmes last week.
The Olive Branch U. B. Sunday
*1 school elected the following officers:
*1 Mrs. Jennie Fisher, supt. assistant,
I W. B. McGeorge secretary’, Gladis
I Burns, assistant, Mary Kidd treas
I urer, Bertha Williamson chorister,
3001 Nora Stratton librarians, Clayton
the
the
are
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zehrbach
position with a commercial agency.
I FOOD STORES
SULTANA
ENGLISH
FRUIT CAKE 2 53c
NAVY BEANS................................4 lbs. 23c
FLOUR, Sunnyfield Pastry 24 Vz-lb. bag 71c
CAKE FLOUR, Sunnyfield........... pkg. 16c
CHEESE, Mel-O-Bit Brick or Am. 2 lbs. 59c
RAISINS, A&P Seeded or Seedless pkg. 10c
BORDO PITTED DATES 2 7!/4-oz. pkgs. 27c
BORDO UNPITTED DATES lb. pkg. 25c
NONE SUCH MINCE MEAT .... pkg. 13c
OLEO, Sure Good ................lb. 14c
LADY BALTIMORE LAYER CAKE each 31c
WILDMERE BUTTER.................... lb. 37c
WALNUTS 27c
SAUER KRAUT, A&P 3 No. 214 cans 26c
PINEAPPLE, Sultana 2 No. 2Vi cons 37c
CRANBERRY SAUCE................2 cans 27c
APPLE SAUCE, A&P .... 3 No. 2 cans 25c
FRUIT COCKTAIL, Sultana 2 cons 27c
PRUNES, Sultana .... 2 No. 2 Vi cans 27c
GRAPEFRUIT, P.L. .... 2 No. 2 cons 25c
KIEFER PEARS................2 No. 2 cans 25c
TOMATO JUICE, Iona 2 46-ox. cans 33c
BEANS, Ann Page, T. S. 23-oz. can 10c
MACARONI or SPAG., Encore 3 lbs. 23c
EIGHT O’CLOCK
COFFEE
TEXAS SEEDLESS 80 SIZE
GRAPEFRUIT
THIN SKIN 120-150 SIZE
TANGERINES
EATMOR BRAND
CRANBERRIES
WINESAP
APPLES
FLORIDA JUICE—250 SIZE
In Peru the celebration of Christ
mas takes on peculiar features. In
the cities, and more especially Lima,
there are bewildering scenes of noisy
activity. The streets and squares
are crowded with a gayly dressed
people. Droves of donkeys are to
be seen in every direction laden with
fruits, boughs from the mountains,
liquors and colorful merchandise of
various descriptions.
As night approaches the streets
are packed with a noisy people who
constantly joke and jest with each
other. Music of guitars, clattering
castanets and pebbles rattling in
gourds fill the air with mindled dis
cordant sounds. No door is closed.
There is music and dancing in every
home and all are welcome to enter.
Christmas Mass
Suddenly all the gaiety ceases.
The midnight bell at the cathedral
summons everyone to mass. The
churches with their decorations and
blazing tapers are thronged with
reverent church members.
Worshippers are kneeling before
the many shrines that line the walls.
The organ peals in dignified solem
nity as the richly vested priests and
plainly attired monks enter the ca
thedral and the celebration of the
mass is begun.
Every region and every country in
the Christian -world has a different
version for the celebration of the
joyous Yuletide season, but all are
in accord on the fundamental truism
—that the anniversary of the most
solemn event in all history should be
a time of thanksgiving and rejoicing.
ers Read
Of January 16, 1908
At the meeting of the board of
health last week, Dr. R. E. Hughson
was appointed health physician and
A. E. Temple, sanitary police.
Frank Ludwig, who visited his par
ents, Mr. an-d Mrs. George Ludwig on
Jackson street for several weeks, left
Sunday for Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Rev. Jacob Quiring of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago, Ill., who
is conducting evangelistic services at
the St. John and Ebenezer churches,
will preach at the First Mennnnite
church, Sunday night in German.
Miss Minnie Amstutz, daughter of
Mrs. Rudy Kempf, and Lancia Powell
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Powell, of
near Rawson, were married at Lima
last Saturday.
Miss Mebel Wyre, a member of the
Sophomore class in Bluffton High
school, invited a number of her class
mates to spend Friday night at her
home in Mt. Cory. The guests were:
Misses Martha Davis, Inez Doty,
FANCY HARD MIXED
bag
Farm Fresh Produce
CALIFORNIA NAVEL 220-152 SIZE
ORANGES 2 39c
DEL MAY
7 for 25c
CHOCOLATES 5’
MARVEL “ENRICHED”
BREAD
20c
25c
d°z.
18c
ib.
4
29c
lbs
ORANGES 2 39c
FANCY MIXED
~...LZ imence
Beeshy, Luella Geiger, Rosa Amstutz,
Carrie King, Harry Beach. Armin
Hauenstein, Wm. Smith, Clarence
Biery’, Glen Spangler, Oliver Kitchen,
Turley Rupright, Earl Heckathom and
Wade King.
Dr. Reuben Hilty is attencing the
Ohio Veterinary Medical asscciation
meeting in session at Columbus.
Peter Hankish entertained a party
of his friends at his fruit store last
Wednesday night in honor of his
birthday anniversary. Guests were J.
C. Burkholder, Scott Edinger, wife
and son, Misses Bertha Edinger, Earn
est Gratz, wife and sons.
Enoch Basinger and wife are the
proud parents of a new baby girl.
Harvey Steiner has just completed
his gasoline engine and says that hd
will make work easier at his father’s
farm.
The enrollment at Bluffton collge
is now 79. Dr. S. K. Mosiman’s lec
ture series on the New Testament
ing given Tuesday evenings in
college chapel are being well
ceived.
be
the
re­
Birthdays Unimportant
No importance is attached to
dividual birthdays in Japan ages
in that country are computed from
the first day of the year, rather
than from the day of birth. Thus,
two Japanese children, although
born 364 days apart, are legally the
same age.
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245
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Bluffton, Ohio
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Merry Christmas
to All
POP CORN, White or Yellow ... 2 lbs. 21c
FLOUR, Iona.................... 24Vi-lb. bag 79c
MILK, Whitehouse Evaporated 4 tall 32c
SWEET CIDER, Mott's.....................gal. 49c
YUKON CLUB BEVERAGES ... 3 qts. 25c
PRETZEL STICKS........................... lb. 15c
VELTMAN COOKIES..............2 pkgs. 21c
PET or CARNATION MILK 4 tall cans 34c
PEAS, Iona or Packer's Label No. 2 con 10c
TOMATOES or CORN 3 No. 2 cans 25c
PUMPKIN, A&P .... 3 No. 2Yi cans 25c
ALP
BRAND
MINCEMEAT 2-19c
PEANUT BUTTER, Sultana 2-lb. jar 29c
GRAPE JELLY, Ann Page 8-oz. glass 11c
OLIVES, Ann Page, PI. 2 3’/4-oz. bats. 25c
SALAD DRESSING, Ann Page .. qt. 33c
SPARKLE DESSERTS..............5 pkgs. 25c
TOMATO SOUP, Ann Page ... 3 cans 19c
HONEY, Blossomdole........... 2-lb. jar 31c
PICKLES, Klein's Sw. Mixed 25-oz, jar 23c
COFFEE, Bokar...................................lb. 25c
COFFEE, Red Circle.......................2 lbs. 47c
CHOCOLATE, Iona Baking 8-oz. cake 12c
NUTS 25c
10c
24lo°azf
COCOANUT, Rajah ..... 16-oz. pkg. 21c
PALMOLIVE SOAP................4 cakes 25c
DATE & NUT BREAD, Dromedary can 15c
WALDORF TISSUE......................4 rolls 17c
DROMEDARY PEELS, ex. Cit. 3-ox. can 10c
CURRANTS, Zanta........... 8-oz. pkg. 10c
ADRIATIC WHITE FIGS .. 8-oz. pkg. 13c
FRENCH CREAMS..............................lb. 17c
100% FILLED CANDY.....................lb. 16c
BRAZIL NUTS .............. lb. 27c
PEANUT BRITTLE..............................lb. 15c
TEA, Nectar Orange Pekoe 8-oz. pkg. 31
OATS, Sunnyfield....................Ige. pkg. 17c
CORN FLAKES, Sunnyfield 3 Ige. pkgs. 23c
CIGARET IES, Popular Brands ctn. $1.45
CAMPBELL'S BEANS 2 23-oz. cans 21c
dexo..........................................3-lb. can 57c