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THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1941
College Students
Home For Holidays
Bluffton young people attending
colleges and universities are arriv
ing in town this week to spend the
Christmas holidays with their par
ents. In most cases the vacation
period extends until January 6.
The holiday period is longer this
year due to the fact that both
Christmas and New Year’s Day come
almost in the middle of the week.
Students thus get the advantage of
the extra days before and after both
holidays.
Those home for the vacation in
clude:
Ohio State university, Columbus—
Elis R. Augsburger, Louis Dunifon,
William Holtkamp, Ralph Marshall,
PaAl Rhoads, John Romey, Wayne
Yoakam, Barbara Carr.
Bowling Green State university—
Mary Marshall, Edwin Rice, Edward
Schumacher, Rachel Beagle.
Miami university, Oxford—Ethel
Jean Marshall, Neil Baumgartner.
Eastman School of Music, Roches
ter, N. Y.—Nelson Hauenstein.
Ohio Wesleyan university, Dela
ware—Betty Lape.
Missouri State Teachers college,
Warrensburg, Mo.—Wade. Mumma.
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University of Cincinnati—Morris
and Ropp Triplett, Charles Schu
macher.
Wheaton college, Wheaton, Ill.—
June Burkholder.
Oberlin college—Roberta Biery.
Heidelberg college, Tiffin—Jose
phine Niswander.
St. Joseph’s college, Collegeville,
Ind.—Charles Hankish, Jr.
Taylor university, Marion, Ind.
Phyllis Steiner.
Bethel college, Newton, Kans.—
Mildred Unruh.
Hahnemann Medical college, Phila
delphia, Pa.—Robert Oyer.
Ohio Northern university, Ada—
Ralph Short, Wade Huber, Joel Kim
mel, Maurice Fett, Harold and
Gerald Augsburger.
Parks Air college, East St. Louis,
Mo.—James Basinger.
With The Sick
Mrs. J. S. Schultz is convalescing
at the Bluffton hospital following a
major operation. Her condition is
reported as much improved.
Jesse Mohler is a patient at the
Blufftonhospital with his condition
reported as fair.
Charles Patterson, of Cherry
street, has been ill at his home dur
ing the past week.
Winners In Poster
Contest Announced
Daisy Basinger and Helen Burk
holder, Bluffton High school students,
were named winners of the poster
contest sponsored by the Bluffton
unit of the Allen county tuberculosis
health association.
Various clubs and societies in the
community are responding to the ap
peal of the committee to buy health
bonds. They are being sold in de
nominations of $5 to $500.
The sale of tuberculosis seals is
still continuing and they may be
purchased at either drug store. Dur
ing the past week members of the
Alpha Gamma club have been spon
soring a booth for the sale of the
seals at the Bluffton post office.
Seals and bangles have been sold
during the past two weeks at the
grade and high school and at Bluff
ton college. In charge of the local
drive is Mrs. Sherwood Diller and
Mrs. Harry Bogart.
Installation At
Richland Grange
Richland grange officers elected
for the coming year will be installed
at a meeting in the grange hall next
Tuesday night. Installation ritual
will be in charge of members of
Bath grange which will be guests for
the evening. The installation will be
followed by a banquet.
would be incomplete unless
we expressed our appreciation
for your patronage throughout
the past years. We wi§h you
and yours
Mevuf and
STE4NER & RESER
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May these be yours in abundance is our wish for all
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS
B. F. BIERY, Business Mgr.
C. A. BIERY, Editor
Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio,
by the Bluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
Subscription rates: $2.00 per year
in U. S. payable in advance.
Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Pure home made candy for Christ
mas. Mrs. Sam Bixel, South Main
street. 36
New Year songs, German and
English. C. W. Roethlisberger, 152
South Jackson St.
Lucille Steiner of Poplar
will visit in Altoona, Pa.,
the holidays.
Charlotte Santschi is spend
holidays in Chicago with her
Miss
street
during
Miss
ing the
father, Arthur Santschi.
Mrs. Elizabeth Risser of New Lon
don arrived Wednesday to spend two
months with her children in this vi
cinity.
Ethel Roberts spent the week
Columbus Grove at the home
daughter Mrs. Myron Elliott
Mrs.
end at
of her
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Stratton and
daughter spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Augsburger
and family.
Mrs. Edith Weipsinger of Fremont
is spending the Christmas season
with her daughter Mrs. Ray Root of
South Main street.
Mrs. Edith Mann of North Main
street is spending the holidays at
the home of her son Maynard Mann
and family in Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Stettler of
Lima and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leh
man of Pandora visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Oberly, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Dickerson of
Anniston, Alabama, are spending the
holidays at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stauffer of
South Main street.
Basinger ambulance removals:
Jesse Mohler from his home east of
Bluffton to the Bluffton hospital
Clarence Steiner from the Bluffton
hospital
ton.
to his home north of Bluff-
Chas. Donaldson of Delta
the pulpit of the Presby-
Rev.
will fill
terian church Sunday morning at
10:50 o’clock. He will also preach
at the Rockport Presbyterian church
at D:30.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Wiebe and
daughter of Willard and Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Cox and daughter of
Ashtabula are spending the Christ
mas vacation with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stettler.
Mrs. Minnie Patrick of North
Jackson street and Miss Besse Pat
rick, graduate student at Western
Reserve university, Cleveland, are
spending the holidays with Mr. and
Mrs. John E. Hartsei and sons of
Springfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cunning
ham and children of Lakewood Mr.
and Mrs. Alan Baumgartner and
children of Orrville are spending the
Christmas holidays with their par
ents Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Baumgart
ner of South Main street.
“The Rebirth of a Nation” a
sound movie film portraying the work
and effect of Christian missions in
China will be shown at the Methodist
church, Sunday night, January 4,
under- auspices of the two JEpworth
leagues. The public is invited.
Lt. and Mrs. H. M. Wagner of
Wright Field, near Dayton were
Sunday guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Wenger and family
south of Bluffton. Lt. Wagner is
assistant contracting officer in the
aircraft radio laboratories at Wright
field.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Aukerman
entertained Thursday evening at 6
o’clock dinner the following guests:
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. King of Find
lay Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce King and
son Robert of McComb and Sgt.
and Mrs. Chas. R. King of Camp
Shelby, Miss.
Diller ambulance removals: Charles
Patterson from his home on Cherry
street to the office of a Findlay phy
sician fend return Mrs. Robert Am
stutz from the Bluffton hospital to
her home near Pandora Mrs. Lowell
Habegger and infant son from the
Bluffton hospital to her home on
West Elm street Carl Beery from
St. Rita’s hospital in Lima to his
home in Beaverdam Joe Davis from
the Bluffton hospital to the home of
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Dean O.
Davis of Ada.
Doneta Good Resigns
Teaching Position
Miss Doneta Good, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Good of South Lawn
avenue, hs resigned her teaching po
sition at Van Buren High school, ef
fective immediately.
Miss Good was instructor in the
English and home economics depart
ments. She will be married in the
near future. She graduated from
Bluffton college in the class of 1941.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estate of Magdalena Steiner Deceased
Jesse F. Steiner of Mt. Cory. Ohio, has
been appointed and qualified as ancillary ad
ministrator of the estate of Magdalena Steiner
late of Allen County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 16th day of December 1941.
RAYMOND P. SMITH
36 Probate Judge
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf will visit
relatives in Wooster during the holi
days.
Mr. and Mrs. James Miller of Me
chanicsburg are visiting at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Miller of South Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Neuenschwand
er and Mrs. Emerson Niswander of
Nappanee, Ind., left Wednesday after
noon for Elizabeth, N. J., where
they will visit Pvt. Emerson Nis
wander who is stationed at the state
armory in that city.
Home On Furlough
Pvt. Herbert Kindle, in training at
Camp Shelby, Miss., is spending his
Christmas furlough with his parents
Mi4, and Mrs. Eli Augsburger of
South Jackson street.
Willard Dillman returned Monday
to Camp Shelby, Miss., after a week’s
furlough with his mother, Mrs. Harl
Dillman of North Jackson street.
Corp. James F. West, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Cliff West of South Lawn
avenue, will arrive this week for his
Christmas furlough from Ft. Bliss,
Texas, where he is in charge of
financial matters of his battalion.
Wayne Yerger of Camp Wheeler,
Macon, Ga., has been called
home here because of the
illness of his mother.
to his
serious
is sta-
Pvt. Gerald Scoles, who
tioned at Ft. Benning, Ga., is spend
ing his Christmas furlough with his
father and brother, Dow Scoles and
son Allen.
Don Berry, of Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas, is spending a week’s furlough
visiting with his brother Dallas
Berry of Mound street.
Pvt. Robert Dillman, of the coast
guard artillery at Ft. Eustis, Va.,
is spending his Christmas furlough
with his wife, and his mother Mrs.
Ella Dillman of North Main street.
Joe Birchnaugh of Camp Shelby,
Miss., arrived Tuesday night for a
Christmas furlough to be spent with
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Birchnaugh of South Main street.
A7. E. Byers President
Of Findlay Concern
In a recent re-organization of the
Bluffton Manufacturing Co., at Find
lay, W. A. Stanton of Chicago, a
successful stoker manufacturer, was
named general manager of the con
cern.
Officers are: N. E. Byers, presi
dent Theodore C”iblez, secretary
Mrs. Henry Zehrbach, treasurer. In
addition to the officers the directors
include Edgar Zehrbach and Mrs.
Edith Mann.
The new management has in
creased production of the Findlay
Stoker and the Woman’s Friend
washing machine and a ready mark
et is found for the products, it was
stated.
Announce Advance
In Hospital Rates
Advance in rates at Bluffton Com
munity hospital will be effective Jan
uary 1, it was announced by hospital
attaches the first of the week. In
creased cost of supplies was given
as reason for the change.
Rates are announced as follows:
Private rooms, now
be $5 to $6.
Eddie D.,
previous
Bryan
er.
of
$4 to $5 will
now $2.75 to
$4.00.
for ten days.
Semi-private rooms
$3.50 will be $3.50 to
Maternity flat rate
Private room $55. Semi-private room
$42. No children under 16 allowed
in maternity department.
Hold Last Rites For
Mrs, Della Painter
Funeral services for Mrs. Della
Painter were held at the Paul Diller
funeral home Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock. Mrs. Painter died
Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock after
an illness
of three weeks.
survived by her husband,
a daughter and son by a
marriage, Mrs. Bertha
Toledo and Charles Cram-
She is
A. Harsh, pastor of the Riley
Baptist church officiated at
Burial was in the Has-
Rev.
Creek
the services,
san cemetery of Orange township.
Leipsic Editor
Expires Tuesday
Harry E. Martin, 59, editor and
publisher of the Leipsic Free Press,
died in a Lima hospital Tuesday
night at 11 o’clock following a heart
attack suffered Sunday.
Mr. Martin, a native of Delphi,
Ind., had lived in Leipsic for the
past 30 years and was owner of the
weekly newspaper since 1918. Pre
viously he was employed on metro
politan papers in Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia.
He was a member of the Lutheran
church in Leipsic from which funeral
services will be held Friday after
noon at 2 o’clock, according to tenta
tive arrangements. He was active
in Republican politics altho he never
held public office.
In addition to his wife he is sur
vived by a son, Lt Donald H. Mar
tin, of the Fourth Armored Division
at Pine Camp, N. Y., a brother
Clarence Martin of Frankfort, Ind.,
and a sister, Mrs. Zulu Wade, also
of Frankfort, Ind.
SOCIETIES
and CLUBS
Christmas Wedding
Marriage of Miss Frances Cooney,
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
C. Cooney of South Jackson street,
to James Patterson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Patterson of South Main
street, will take place on Christmas
Day at the Methodist church. Rev.
J. A. Weed, pastor of the church,
will perform the ceremony in the
presence of the immediate families.
Farm Woman’s Club
The Orange Township Farm Wo
man’s club will hold an all day
meeting at the home of Mrs. Harry
Anderson on New Year’s Day, Jan.
1. The following program will be
presented: Devotionals, Nora Mil
ler Roll call, a Hot Dish To the
Old and the New Year, Pearl An
derson Said the Devil to his Wife,
Nellie Hiestand Nobility, Cathryn
Van Meter Question, Edith Powell
Publisher at the Age of 13, Edna
Crawford Salad Making Demonstra
tion, Iona Marshall.
Miscellaneous Shower
Complimenting Mrs. J.
Merrill, the former Eddythe Badert
scher, a miscellaneous shower was
given at the home of Miss Merilyn
Battles Tuesday night. Miss Mar
cella Cramer was the assistant
hostess.
Philip
Yachti provided the diversion of
the evening with prizes awarded to
the Misses Caris Basinger and Mar
cene Garmatter.
A Christmas color scheme of red
and green was carried out in the
salad course served to the following:
Mrs. Edna Badertscher, Mrs. Bea
trice Conaway the Misses Doris
and Marcene Garmatter, Bette and
Caris Basinger, Rowena Solt, the
honored guest and the two hostesses
Miss Battles and Miss Cramer.
Gifts were received from Misses
Helen Brayton, Dayton Beatrice
Obenour, Lafayette Mesdames,
Ladonna Redd, Jenera Maurine
Geren, Findlay Fern Young, Bluff
ton.
Merry Christmas is the theme of
the meeting of the Alpha Gamma
club to be held at the home of
Miss Rita Hankish Friday night at
8 o’clock. The following program
will be presented: Christmas Story,
Mrs. A. C. Schultz Let’s Sing
Carols, Mrs. Wilford Steiner.
Wedding at Pastor’s Home
Wedding of Kent Howard
Niles and Miss Marie Schaironi
Girard took place at the home
the officiating minister, the Rev.
Gerald D. Bright, pastor of the
Church of Christ, Saturday after
noon.
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The couple was attended by
Schaironi of Girard, brother of
bride and Mrs. Gerald Bright,
and Mrs. Howard are friends
years’ standing.
are
the
Both Mr. and Mrs. Howard
teachers of physical education at
university high school in Columbus.
New Year Party
A New Year party will be held
by thhe Orange Township Farm
Woman’s club and their families at
Orange Center Community house on
New Year’s eve. A pot luck supper
will be held.
Coming Marriage
Announcement has been made of
the coming marriage of Miss Doris
Jean White, daughter of Mrs. Myrtle
White of Findlay, and John Merrit
Gehrisch, farmer living east of town,
the ceremony to take place during the
Christmas holiday season. Rev. A.
W. Bauman, pastor of the St. Paul
Lutheran church near Jenera, will of
ficiate at the wedding.
Miss White graduated from Bluff
ton High school in the class of 1940
and later attended Findlay Business
college. She has been employed at
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co.
Christmas Eve Wedding
Marriage of Mrs. Jeanne Fisher of
Riley street and George Swank, Sr.,
residing one mile north of town, will
take place Christmas eve with Rev.
Emil Burrichter, pastor of the Re
the
at
formed churches, officiating at
services. Mr. Swank is employed
the Bigler Bros. Meat Market.
Legion Christmas Party
Members of the Bluffton post
the American Legion and the Legion
Auxiliary enjoyed a Christmas party
at the Legion hall, Tuesday night.
Dancing and games wer the divrsion
of the evening. Music for dancing
was privded by the Four Kings.
of
Three Named On
Venires For Jury
Three Bluffton area persons were
named to serve on the petit jury
and one on the grand jury, for the
January term of Allen county com
mon pleas court, in a drawing con
ducted last week.
On the petit jury are John Tosh
and G. T. Soldner, of Bluffton, and
Hilda Badertscher, of Lafayette.
Nettie McKinley, of Lafayette Route
2, will serve on the grand jury.
Reindeer Are Here
Saint Nick Should
Arrive Before Long
rp\VO deer have been* seen sev
eral times during the last
week in the Bluffton district, the
nearest approach of wild deer to
this section in several years.
A doe and a fawn were seen
on the William Ryan farm, on
the Haneock-Hardin county line
road, southeast of town, and
the same pair were reported on
the Alva Scoles farm, four miles
east of Bluffton in Orange
township.
In both cases, the two animals
jumped fences with ease,
quickly disappeared when
spotted humans.
and
they
was
Latest report of the deer
made Sunday when Karl Gable,
of Bluffton, saw them near
Lafayette.
Red Cross May
Start Solicitation
With voluntary contributions fail
ing to bring in funds sufficient to
meet Bluffton’s quota of
Red Cross war relief,
solicitation will likely be
the near future, it was
by the local committee.
$1,000 for
systematic
started in
announced
Prompt response is requested in
the present drive and contributions
may be left at either drug store or
the Citizens National bank. The
systematic drive will likely be
started after Christmas, it was stat
ed.
In charge of the local drive are
Mrs. Ora Wetherill and Mrs. Edith
Mann. For Beaverdam village and
the rural districts of Richland town
ship, Mr.c Herbert Marshall is
chairman.
Peterson-Wilch
Nuptials Saturday
Wedding of Miss Margaret L. J.
Peterson, daughter of Purl Peterson,
one mile east of Bluffton and Wal
lace H. Wilch of Jenera took place
at the Methodist parsonage Saturday
night at 9 o’clock.
Rev. J. A. Weed, pastor of the
church, performed the double ring
ceremony. The couple was attended
by a brother of the groom. Mrs.
Wilch is a recent graduate of Bluff
ton high school.
Experiment On Main
Street Rail Removal
Anticipating a possible re-surfac
ing of Bluffton’s Main street next
summer, Lee Coon, Bluffton street
commissioner, assisted by municipal
employes, is experimenting in the
rehioval of the steel rails of the
abandoned Western Ohio Railway
running through the middle of Bluff
ton’s Main street.
The work is being started on a
section of street located near the
Johnson Filling station on South
Main street. A cut is made on
either side of the rail with pick axes
after which an acetylene torch is
used to cut off the “ball” or top of
the rail.
When cold weather sets in it may
be possible to break off the ball of
the rail due to the brittle qualities
of the metal in cold weather, Coon
pointed out. Thus, it may not be
necessary to completely cut the rail
by using the torch, it was stated.
WANT-ADS
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Call me
charge.
Wanted—Hides
price.
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continue to haul Ohio
on Jenera phone and reverse
Elmer Burkholder,
and furs.
N. L. Emick, Cairo.
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Wanted—Girl or elderly woman
for general housework.
Bluffton Implement & Harness Co.
Inquire
For rent—Sleeping rooms, good
location. Inquire News office.
For sale—$40 clarinet, new sell
very cheap. Phone 95-F. Pandora.
For sale—Full blooded collie sable
puppies with white markings. Mrs.
Lloyd VanMeter, Pandora phone.
For sale—30 acres with good
house and outbuildings, 5^ miles
from Bluffton. $3,500 H. WT. Althaus.
For sale—Modern home, corner W.
Elm and Spring streets. Price
reasonable. Inquire 225 S. Lawn
Ave.
For sale—Good eating potatoes.
J. C. Deppler, Bentley road. 36
For sale—Firewood for fireplace or
chunk wood also Irish Cobbler po
tatoes. Clarence Steiner, Bluffton
phone 535-T. tf
For Sale—Modern house at 426 S.
Main street, to close estate reason
able. Paul Faze, executor. tf
For sale—12 varieties of good win
ter apples also good home made ap
piebutter. Steiner Fruit Farm, east
of town.
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Mennonite Relief
Head At Ebenezer
Rev. Jesse Hoover, of Philadelphia,
Pa., and head of the Mennonite re
lief work in France, will describe
activities relating to care of war
sufferers in France at the Ebenezer
Mennonite church Sunday night at
7:45 o’clock.
He will also speak at the Grace
Mennonite church in Pandora at the
regular Sunday morning services.
Through the Mennonite Central
Committee the Mennonite church
aids war sufferers in various war
stricken countries. Food, clothing
and other types of assistance are
given to children and others suffer
ing from the war in various Euro
pean countries.
Rev. Hoover heads the relief work
in France, from which country he
has just returned. He is a member
of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ
church.
Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
to All
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Give Electrical
Gifts for Xmas
An unusually choice selection
Fluorescent Light Fixtures
Also Automobile Accessories
Radio and Electrical Re
pairing a specialty.
Mumma Electric Shop
Car] Mumma, Prop.
Phone 421-W 122 N. Main
CTAP theatre
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sale—Business block on
St., also lot on Spring
L. Mann, phone 187-W.
sale—Sweet cider, apples
For
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and
Main
Edith
For
fresh apple butter. Augsburger Fruit
Farm. Bluffton phone 648-W. tf
Lost—Persian kitten with five
toes on each front foot. Finder
notify Jacob Schnegg, 155 E. Col
lege Ave.
Bluffton
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