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With practically all of the world
at war, the month of March, which
came in Sunday, is appropriate
ly named after Mars, the god of
war. March is generally a month of
rought and boisterous w’eather which
gives the month a double signifi
cance.
Legend has it that Mars was the
son of Jupiter and Juno, the king
and queen of the gods, and was gen
erally represented in a shining suit
of armor, with a plumed helmet on
his head, a spear in one hand and a
shield in the other
Boisterous Month Of March, Starting
Sunday, Named After War God Mars
His chariot was driven by the god
dess of war, Bellona, who also watched
over his safety in battles which were
constantly raging on the earth. Dur
ing the great fight between the gods
and the giants to decide who was to
rule the world, Mars was captured
by two of the giants who bound him
day and night, the legend account in
dicates.
After a year of captivity he was
freed by the clever god Mercury who
succeeded in loosening the chains so
silently that the giants heard no
sound.
Mars was loved by Venus, the god
of beauty, but wishing to keep their
love a secret from the other gods,
they met only during the night, and
Mars appointed his servant Alectry
on to keep watch and to call him be
fore the sun arose, as he did not
wish Apollo the sun god to see them.
One night Alectryon fell asleep
and neglected to warn the lovers
and Apollo saw them from his char
iot. He caught them in a net of
steel and held them prisoner while
the other gods made fun of them.
As soon as he was set free Mars,
who was filled with anger against
Alectryon for failing in his responsi
bility, changed him into a cock and
condemned him to give warning
every day of the sun’s rising.
During war time the Romans
turned to Mars for help and protec
tion. Before setting out to battle
the Roman general went into the
temple of Mars and touched the
spear and cried, “Mars, watch over
us!”
The training ground of the Roman
soldiers was called Campus Martius
(the Field of Mars) in honor of the
God of War, and it was commonly
believed that Mars himself led their
army into battle and helped to
give them victory.
sacred shield with the point of his News want ads bring quick results.
When the Romans came to desig
nate the third month they could find
no name more appropriate for the
blustery and boisterous time of the
year than the name patterned after
the war god.
MARATHON
Super Service Station
College Students To
Help Feed Squirrels
Bluffton college students are ask
ed to cooperate with the Buffton
Community Sportsmen’s club in the
squirrel feeding program to be in
stituted on the campus this Monday,
it was announced by Silas Diller,
president of the organization.
There are 19 feeding platforms
placed at various points near the
main building and the Musselman
library. Students and faculty are
asked to secure information from J.
H. Loganbill, business manager, or
Rollin Moser, field secretary.
A corn crib is located in front of
the library and students may take
the corn from that location and
place it on one of the feeding plat
fonns. It has been requested that
students place corn on the platforms
whenever found empty.
The red squirrels have been sys
tematically eliminated by members
of the organization and faculty and
the fox squirrel is being re-stocked
by the club.
Squirrel dens are being added at
various points on the campus to pro
vide a satisfactory habitat and nest
ing place. Due to the fact that the
fox squirrels stocked last summer
stayed all winter the local sports
men’s club is endeavoring to con
tinue the program.
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Modernist
/"TARA Verson, one of the lead
ing interpreters of modern
music for the piano will be
heard in a recital on the Bluffton
College Music course in the
College chapel on Wednesday
night, March 11 at 8 o’clock.
Two Are Attending
Protestant Meeting
Representing the Mennonite denom
ination, Dr. C. Henry Smith, profes
sor of history at Bluffton colleg, and
Rev. H. T. Unruh of Bluffton are
attending a national study confer
ence of Protestant church leaders
meeting at Ohio Wesleyan university
in Delaware which started Tuesday
and will continue through Thursday.
More than 300 delegates from 109
cities in 40 states representing Pro
testant church forces thruout the
United States are attending the con
ference called to discuss the respon
sibility of the church with regard to
the post-war xvorld.
The Delaware conference parallels
similar studies carried on by churches
in England and other countries since
the outbreak of the war and is in
keeping with government recognition
that post-war planning is a part of
total war effort.
The conference is divided into four
sections for detailed discussion of
the political, economic, social and
religious aspects of the post w-ar
problem. Recommendations from the
sectional groups will be considered
by the entire group before making
final approval.
Sheriff Moves To
New Headquarters
Offices of Sheriff William V.
Daley in the Allen county court
house were moved last week from
the second story to new quarters on
the first floor.
Headquarters now occupied by the
sheriff formerly housed the juvenile
court and other auxiliaries to the
probate judge’s office.
Sheriff Daley’s new location pro
vides additional space and in addi
tion it is on the side of the court
house adjoining the county prison.
County Receives
$38,075 From State
Allen county last xveek received
$38,075 from the state in the alloca
tion of public utilities and utilities
taxes.
Under the utility tax distribution
the county fund was richer by two
grants of $17,040 and $21,035.
Hancock county received $11,606
and $12,160 Hardin county’s share
was $7,053 and $8,611 and Putnam
county got $6,234 and $7,996.
Class Play To He
Staged At Pandora
“Happy Ending” is the title of a
play to be staged by the sophomore
class of Pandora high school in the
Pandora school auditorium, Friday
night, March 13 at 8 o’clock. The
production is under direction of Miss
Rachel Criblez of the high school
faculty.
What You Should
Knoxv About the
Income Tax
Haxe you filed your Federal in
come tax return? If you come with
in the group from whom returns are
required, you have only until mid
night, March 16, in which to file a
return. Single persons xvho earned
as much as $14.43 a week for the 52
xveeks of 1942 or married persons
living together who had aggregate
earnings of as much as $28.85 a
week for the year, are required to
file returns. The instructions at
tached to the forms describe the
method of preparing returns, but if
further information is necessary it
may be obtained at the offices of the
collector of internal revenue, deputy
collector, or an internal rex’enue
agent in charge. They make no
charge for their services.
If income tax returns are placed
in the mail, they should be posted
in ample time to reach the collector’s
office on or before the due date—
that is midnight on March 16 for
calendar year returns. Taxpayers
subject themselves to a penalty for
failure to file returns on time.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
Raising $500,000 in fense sav
ings from rural Alien county du-ing
1942 was the goal set by the Allen
County Defense Savings council at a
meeting last Saturday afternoon in
the court house.
Mrs. Herbert Marshall, of Rich
land township, is a member of the
board of directors of the group, and
Henry Huber, of near Bluffton, is
the Richland township chairman.
Miss Beery, of the Lima Memorial
hospital, spoke to the junior and
sophomore girls Wednesday morning
on problems and opportunities in the
v-ocation of nursing for girls today.
The students will see the motion
picture “Gunga Din” in an assembly
meeting in the high school auditor
ium Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock.
The fifth six weeks’ period of the
school started Monday morning.
Grade cards will be handed out in
the various home rooms Wednesday
noon.
The school is participating in the
community bond and stamp drive.
Pupils will be given Defense stamp
books and the stamps xvill be sold
in the home rooms Thursday after-
To Canvass Rural Districts
For Sale Of Defense Bonds
Each township chairman will se-
Bluffton High
A Sweetheart Sister party was
enjoyed by the Girl Reserves organi
sation Monday night. The girls at
tended the show, “Belle Star” in
technicolor at the Star theatre.
Forrest Steinman, area “V” man
appointed by Gov. Bricker to pro
mote Civilian Defense, addressed the
public school teachers in a meeting
held at the high school Monday after
school. Techniques in dealing with
various types of bombs and enemy
attacks were discussed at the meet
ing. Plans for pioviding for the
safety of the children were discussed
at the meeting.
Bluffton Co
Members of the Vesper choir
under Prof. R. A. Lantz will sing
in concert at the New Stark Com
munity church, Sunday evening at
8 p. m. The program has been ar
ranged in cooperation xvith Alvin
Beachy, senior at Bluffton, pastor of
the church.
Bluffton college freshmen and
sophomore women xvill vie for cham
pionship honors in the annual wo
men’s intramural basketball tourna
ment Friday ex-ening, at 7 p. m.
Both teams have successfully defeat
ed an upperclass team of junior and
senior women to oust them from the
competition, and have each xvon
txvo of four games between them-
selves.
Miss Joan Warnshius, Youth Sec
retary of the American Friends so
ciety, visited the campus Monday
and Tuesday, to contact students
for Friend’s summer work projects.
A one-act play contest xvill be
sponsored by the Bluffton college
Thespian society Saturday evening,
in the Chapel at 7:30 p. m.
Four playlets will be presented,
one representing each of the four
class groups. Betty Keeney of
Pennsburg, Pa., xvill direct the senior
production Dorothy Beckenbach of
Canfield, will direct the junior play
Robert Neuenschwander of Quaker
town, Pa., is in charge of the sopho
more production and Treva Arrants
of Lima and Evelyn Johnson of
Bucyrus, will direct the freshman
production.
The winning cast will present its
play at the annual Tri-college Facul
ty meeting, March 10 xvhen Findlay
college and Ohio Northern university
faculty members will be Bluffton
guests.
“Our Town,” a drama in three
acts by iton Wilder, has been
selected for the annual Bluffton col
lege junior class dramatic presenta
tion this year. It xvill be given on
the evenings of March 24 and 25,
tentatively, in the Chapel.
“Our Town,” famous for its ab
sence of staging and properties, is
a Pulitzer prize winner. It will be
directed by Professor P. W. Stauffer,
college speech instructor.
Rev. C. H. Suckau, pastor of the
Berne, Indiana, First Mennonite
church, will speak at the monthly
Bluffton college Vesper service, Sun
day afternoon, in the Chapel at 3
p. m. The Men’s chorus from Berne
will furnish special music for the
service.
Bluffton college plans to continue
its weekly Thursday evening broad
casts from station WLOK in Lima
at 9:30 p. m., throughout the re
mainder of this school year. The
original thirteen-week series of
iect his own committee of workers,
and will direct the promotion of sale
of defense savings stamps and bonds
in this area.
Every home will be covered in
rural Allen county, it was announced.
Separate organizations are handling
promotion of sales in Bluffton, Lima
and Delphos.
Pledge cards will be used in the
Richland township solicitation, and
all residents will be urged to pur
chase as many bonds as possible.
School Notes
noon at 12:45 o’clock. Every home
room has an organization for the
sale of the stamps.
The Golden Rule foundation has
sent a note of thanks to the school
for the contribution of $12.37 con
tributed by the students to the
China xvar relief fund.
Motion pictures to be shown at
the high school this xx-eek include:
The Manufacture of Rayon for the
science classes and Outstanding
News of 1939 and 1940 for the
social science classes.
Rehearsals are being held in prep
aration for the district choral con
test to be held in the Bluffton High
school gymnasium on Saturday,
March 21. This year entries are
being made in the class division.
The mixed chorus will sing “O Love
ly Heart” as the required number
and “Open Our Eyes” as the select
ed number.
The girls glee club will sing “Far
and Wide” as the required number
and “It Cannot Be a Strange
Countree” and an “Old French
Carol”. The boys glee club will
sing “Glory to God”, the required
number and “All Through the
Night” and “Joshua Fit the Battle
of Jericho”.
The high school band is entering
the district band contest to be held
at Boxvling Green State university
Saturday, March 28 in class B.
liege Notes
broadcasts ended on February 12,
but with a special invitation from
studio directors, a new series is be
ing planned. Prof. P. W. Stauffer,
instructor of speech, is in charge.
Sweet Potato Flour
Several young chemists in Missis
sippi looked sadly at field after field
of surplus sweet potatoes left rotting
in the ground. Then they put their
heads together and produced an in
expensive sweet-potato flour that
makes light, fluffy, golden-brown
loaves and cakes. After testing the
loaves the chemists announced that
the new flour was a high-carbo
hydrate food, rich in vitamins.
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Old Document Bears Signature
Of Andrew Jackson, Sev
enth President
Issued to John Basinger in
1835 Taxes on 160 Acre
Farm were $1.50
Reminiscent of pioneei- days in the
community of more than a century
ago, an old sheepskin deed issued to
John Basinger in 1835, is in posses
sion of his grandson, Jerry Basinger,
who lix'es in the former William
Wallace property on Cherry street.
The old document bears the signa
ture of Andrexv Jackson, seventh
president of the United States in
office from 1829 to 1837. The deed
is for the Jerry Basinger farm, five
miles northwest of Bluffton just
north of the Morning Star Cider
Press, on xvhich his father, the late
Peter Basinger xvas also born and
raised.
160 Acre Farm
The farm originally consisted of
160 acres, constituting one-fourth of
a section, and xvas ^u/chased by
John Basinger for $200. The farm
is now 47 acres and is being oper
ated by Robert Basinger, son of
Jerry Basinger and great-grandson
of the original owner.
Although slightly yellow with age
the deed, issued by the land office at
Wapakoneta, is in excellent state of
preservation.
Grandfather Basinger at the age
of 43 came to the Settlement from
Wayne county in 1835 making the
entire trip in a Conestoga xvagon.
His wife and three children accom
panied him in the journey which took
more than two xveeks to make.
Farm Animals
Farm animals brought from Wayne
county to the Bluffton Settlement in
cluded: a team of horses, two cows,
a dozen chickens, a brood soxv and
a dog.
Much hard work xvas in store for
the pioneer settlers. The land was
entirely wooded and had to be cleared
before any farming could take place.
There xvas no house for him to move
into so it xvas necessary to construct
a log cabin in xvhich he reared his
family
Quite a contrast to the high taxes
on real estate at the present time
is shown in the first year’s tax on
the property and land of only $1.50.
Three Children
The three children who made the
rather perilous journey from Wayne
county were: Mary, wife of Chris
tian Gerber, mother of the late
David Gerber, and Katherine and
Daniel, neither of whom married.
Peter Basinger, father of Jerry
Basinger, was the first of the child
ren bom here.
John Basinger, the grandfather,
was born in the Canton of Bern in
Sxvitzerland, and came to this coun
try at the age of 30 in 1822. The
passport, also in possession of the
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942
Century Old Sheepskin Deed In
Possession Of Bluffton Resident
family, is in the French language.
A baptismal certificate, in Ger
man, shoxvs that Grandfather Ba
singer xvas given the baptismal rites
in Bern on May 15, 1810.
Mr. Basinger still has in his pos
session a side board and end-gate of
the Conestoga xvagon in xvhich his
grandfather made the trip to Bluff
ton from Wayne county.
Also an interesting relic in the
possession of Mr. Basinger is a
quantity of raw gold presented to
him by his uncle Daniel, who left
Bluffton in 1849 to participate in the
California gold rush. After several
years out xvest his uncle came back
to the Settlement and in later years
gave the raw gold to him.
College Juniors To
Present “Our Town"
“Our Toxvn” a drama in three acts
by Thornton Wilder, will be present
ed by the Bluffton college juniors as
the annual class play to be given in
Ramseyer chapel, March 24 and 25
at 8 o’clock.
Prof. P. W. Stauffer, director of
dramatics, will select the cast in
the near future.
Three From Here
Leave For Army
Three Bluffton area men xvere in
cluded in a contingent that left Lima
last Wednesday for induction into
the nation’s armed services.
From this place were James Allen
Griffith, of South Main streets James
Richard Burkholder, Bluffton Rural
route, and Leland Howard McCrary,
Columbus Grove rural route.
514 Pheasants Are
Released In County
Five hundred and fourteen pheas
ants and 234 rabbits have been re
leased in Allen county during the
past six weeks, Game Warden Jay
Johns announced last week.
Of the 234 rabbits, 92 were of the
wild type trapped on state reserves
and 132 were purchased in Kansas.
News Want-ads bring results.
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Telephone 271-W
Bluffton, Ohio
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