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A I iCTORY BUY UNITED STATES DEFENSE 'BONDS AND STAMPS VOLUME NO. LXVI SEASON OF EASTER IS AT HAND WITH VARIED ACTIVITIES Sunrise Meeting at Mennonite Church to Start Special Services of Day at Union Good Friday Services Presbyterian Church Egg Hunt on Saturday Easter—an outstanding event on the church calendar, traditional har binger of spring and not without significance in mercantile circles— will be observed in Bluffton next Sunday. Preparations for the occasion are seen in pre-Easter activities which are absorbing the interest of the community this week. Special pro grams in churches, new Easter ward robes, the perennial interest in home gardens and an Easter bazaar for the benefit of the Bluffton hospital all are in evidence. Good Friday Service Union Good Friday services will be held in the Presbyterian church from 1 to 3 p. m. Friday with the program consisting of seven 15 minute periods. Pastors in charge of the seven individual services will be the Revs. Gerald Bright, Paul Wenger, Bauman, man and Floyd Pannabecker, I. W. A. C. Schultz, V. H. All Dr. L. L. Ramseyer. music will be presented at Special Those attend- each of the sessions, ing may enter or leave as they de sire since each quarter hour will be presented as a separate service. Also on the Good Friday program are the services sponsored by the Young People’s Federation to be held at the Reformed church Friday night at 8 o’clock. Various young people’s organizations in the com munity will have parts on the pro gram it was stated by Lora Schultz, in charge of the program. Easter Bazaar An Easter bazaar for the benefit of the Bluffton hospital will be held all day Saturday at the C. F. Nis wander implement store. The church es of Bluffton, Orange township, Beaverdam, Mt. Cory, Jenera and Pandora are cooperating bazaar, it was announced Lloyd Van Meter of the auxiliary. in the by Mrs. hospital Harmon An Easter Egg hunt at field Saturday afternoon will be one of the high spots of Bluffton kiddies. All invited to take part under the direction of Auxiliary of the American Legion. Mrs. Marie Stonehill is chairman of the arrangements. the year for children are in the frolic the Women’s Sunrise Service Easter will be ushered in with a sunrise service also sponsored by the Bluffton Young People’s Federa tion at the First Mennonite church Sunday morning at 6:30 o’clock. Mrs. Paul Wenger will speak. Music will be furnished by the Bluffton High school A Capella Choir. Because of time lost in the closing of the school for the state basketball tournament games at Springfield, the public schools will not close for Friday as is usually the case. In stead the high school will have an Easter chapel program sponsored by the speech department to be given in the auditorium Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Bluffton college will sus pend classes in the afternoon only. Close Wednesday Nigth Until June 1 Bluffton retail stores will remain closed on Wednesday nights until June 1, according to a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Busi ness Men’s association, Thursday night. Stores will be open Wednesday nights from June 1 to Oct. 1 when they will be closed until two weeks before Christmas. Business places will also be closed on Thursday afternoons during the months of June, July and August, it was decided by the association. Cail Is Issued For Red Cross Knitting A call for Red Cross knitting was issued the first of the week by Mrs. Paul Studler in charge of the pro ject here. A large supply of yarn for making clothing for refugees has been re ceived here also yarn is available for knitting sweaters for army and navy men. Knitters may obtain supplies at the home of Mrs. Studler on South Jackson street, Four Bluffton Men Leave For Army James Benroth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Benroth of North Main street, and Rob Paterson, son of Mrs. Harry Paterson of South Main street, will leave Lima for the To ledo induction center of the United States army Thursday morning. Benroth has been employed at Dayton and Patterson has been working at the Westinghouse plant in Lima. ORANGE TOWNSHIP FAMILY HAS THREE SONS IN U. S. ARMY Mr. and Mrs. Ray Crawford Believed to Have Bluffton District Record ’vt. George Crawford Likely On Foreign Soil Two More Sons of Draft Age With three sons in Uncle Sam’s armed forces, it is believed that the champion Blue Star mother living in the Bluffton district is Mrs. Ray Crawford of Orange township. Tw’o more sons and one son-in-law’ are also in the draft age and should these boys be called it is possible the record of Mrs. Alice M. Bout well, the champion Blue Star mother of Ohio would be nearjy equalled. State Record Mrs. Boutwell, formerly of Orange township and now of Kenton, has six boys in the service, number in this state. Pvt. George Crawford is believed by his parents to be in some foreign land w’ith one of the expeditionary forces since he has not been heard from for a long time. George left for Camp Shelby, Jan. 30, 1941. He was home on a short furlough last Jan. 18. Before enter ing the army he was engaged in the raising of beets and onions. He graduated from the high school here in 1930. His last address was: Co. C. 148 Inf. A.P.O. 37 c/o Postmaster New' York City. Bluffton Residents Have No Intention Of Shelving Autos, Tag Sales Indicate Rice and Edward Schu have left their studies at Green university, to enter Edwin macher, Bowling the army service at Camp Perry. Both men left Lima Saturday morn ing for the camp. a record and Mrs. now are The three sons of Mr. Crawford in the army Alvin, 30 George, 29, and Thomas, 27. Pvt. Alvin Crawford graduated from Bluffton High school in 1929 and since that time until induction into the army has been working on his father’s farm. He left for camp February 21, last, and is now7 at tending the airplane mechanical school at Sheppard Field, Texas. His address there is: 317 T.S.S. (S.P.) Ft. He six Pvt. Thomas Craw’ford left for Sill, Oklahoma, on last March 12. had been farming for the past years but disposed of his stock and implements before leaving for camp. Bluffton High 1932. He was to the former Pandora. His He graduated from school in the class married February Miss Jane Sutter wife' w’ill stay at parents for the duration of the war. His address at Ft. Sill is 26th Battalion E. (Pack). of 14 of the home of her Tw'o more sons in the draft age are Willis, 25, married and living on a farm west of Bluffton, and Rich ard, 24, married and one child, liv ing in Shelby. A son-in-law, Elmer Fett, Jr., 21, is living employed Navy is in Cincinnati where he at an airplane factory. Recruiting Officer Coming Schwartz, navy recruiting E. M. officer will be at the Bluffton post office Thursday from 11:45 a. m. to 1 p. m. for the purpose of interview ing men between ages of 17 and 50 who are interested in applying for enlistment in the navy or naval re serve. Births following births at Bluffton The hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Morris Grismore, son, last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clauss, daughter, Friday. a Total of 1,100 Licenses Sold by Wednesday Morning, Registrar Reports irst Large Reduction in Sales Expected ring Next* Year, Bar New Factors of 1942 automobile li- With sales cense tags about equal to last year’s figure, it appears that the average Bluffton motorist expects his tires to last and his car to continue in running order for another twelve months—and he has backed up his opinion with a ten dollar bill. A total of 1,100 license tags was sold by Wednesday morning, it was announced by Clayton Bixel, Bluffton An increase in the sale of passenger car, truck and trailer tags was shown in figures re leased Wednesday morning by Clayton Bixel, deputy registrar. Seven more passenger car tags were sold this year than the corresponding time last year. Sales amounting to $12,715 were recorded Wednesday morning as compared to $12,262 last year. A considerable increase in this figure is expected this week, Bixel said. area deputy registrar. This Wed nesday was the first that new tags were required by the law to be dis played. Reduction Next Year substitutes there is a Unless satisfactory for rubber are found strong likelihood that there will be a material reduction in the sale of tags in 1943, according to reports. There is every evidence that Bluff ton automobile owners are giving more attention to the care of tires, filling station operators here report. Regular checking of tire pressure and inquiries concerning methods of prolonging the life of tires are fre quent, it is reported. Even though Wednesday was the deadline date, it is expected that many more tags will be sold, Bixel said. As a matter of fact, for the first few days after the deadline there usually quantity of out. considerable was pointed is a business, it Tags Still Buy may continue to pur- May Residents chase tags at the Bixel Motor Sales until fall. There is a reduction in the price of the tags every quarter. Sale of the 1942 tags was delayed about two weeks in Bluffton because of an explosion in one of the enamel furnaces in the Ohio where the tags are caused a considerable of buying in the last March, Bixel said. Penitentiary made. This concentration two weeks of Same Series Tags this year have green letters on a white background. The Bluff ton series runs from 51-ZB to 900 ZB and 51-ZF to 900-ZF. Sale of the ZF series did not start until the first of the week: most of the Bluffton cars are in the ZB group. Many of the purchasers of the tags have been turning in their old license plates in receptacles provided at the sales headquarters. All of the Bluffton filling stations are cooper ating in the collection and may be left at any of the The steel in the tags will for vital war production, pointed out. Easter Music On Ebenezer Broadcast Special Easter music sung by a mixed quartet will be featured in the broadcast of Ebenezer Mennon ite church over Radio Station WFIN at Findlay, at 7:15 p. m. Friday. Singing in the quartet will be Mrs. Milo Lora, Mrs. Francis Niswander, Clayton Bucher and Francis Nis wander. Mrs Vinton Bucher will be the accompanist. A solo, “I know That My Redeem er Liveth” will be sung on the gram by Mrs. Milo Lora. FHE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942 ri'mrJsr- In The w------ the tags stations, be it used was pro Corp. A. R. Holden Now In Australia Corp. A. R. Holden, Jr., Bluffton High graduate, has been moved from Honolulu to an airfield station in Austialia, according to word received here this week. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Holden, of Toledo, former Bluff ton residents. Corp. Holden is the second Bluffton youth reported in Australia, word having been received from there last week by Private Emerson Niswander, son of Mr and Mrs. Noah Niswander, of Lawn avenue. EASTER SHOPPERS 1“Widow’s fjQ EFFECTS OF WAR RESTRICTIONS More Money pend This]been Year, But Market Offers Bluffton dentist and Fewer Things to Buy The Selection in Maliy Lines of Easter Finery Reflects Mili tary Program No fancy trimmings can be ex pected in “Easter wrappings” this year, women find hose and footwear limited, and men, to£ will feel ithe pinch, for new suits will me made up w’ith cuffless trousers. Plenty of food is available however, altho restrictions apply to sale of sugar and there is a noticeable short age of tunafish and pineapple. Prices of foodstuffs have net in creased particularly thus far in the wartime economy, and Easter tables this year likely w’ill repasts the equal of year. Latest restrictions include the ban|wjth 244 having children on trousers w’ith cuffs, and new or- schools, or an average of ders bar the manufacture this spring] cent of the total families in of radios, electric refrigerators. lawn]ance at the schools here, mowers, electric irons and all elec trical appliances. l^eppier-lJlirK O a night at Lima, Miss Marjorie Dep pler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Deppler of Bentley road, became the bride of Marion Burkholder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cherry street. An ancient coin, common in Judea at the time of Christ and known throughout the world by the Biblical e .parable of the Widow’s Mite has More money for Easter shopping, but fewer things to buy because of wartime restrictions mark this year’s pre-holiday scene, bftiness observers pointed out Tuesday. Figure in Line With Nation-] With practical? no unemployment in the district, farm|income at high School Enrollments levels, and wages on n upward spiral there is more money in circulation this spring than in many a year. Merchandise offered foi sale, how ever, has been sharply curtailed with shortages even materializing in the supply of gay finery traditionally as sociated with the Easrter season. Egpns, one of the Easter season are commanding prices separa£e se^g of statistics for both! ranging from 26 to cents per doz-1 the Bluffton corporatiOn and rural •en. This compares JHth last y®31"81 territory outside the corporation in-1 quotations of 23 to 26 cents. eluding portions of Richland, Orange! In line with the nation wide trend of smaller families and reduced school enrollments, only 34 per cent] Rural staples of the Shortages in Eastex|finery serve as and Monroe towmships. a reflection of the general business] In the Bluffton corporation thel picture in w’hich the Binch of war is survey showed that there are 4591 gradually becoming mon- and more] families with 147 of them, or 32 perl apparent. cent, having children in i________ Barred for weeks from purchas-l at the Bluffton schools. In the out i’..g new automobiles,’ tires nr tubes lying rural districts there are 255 typewriters and many standard items] families with 97, or 38 per cent, hav of rubber goods, residents of the area] ing children in the schools, are finding fewer and fewer things on] 714 Families which their increased income can be] The totals for the district expended 714 families in the school I Nuptials Saturday}' home of Rev. Clinton Moser, pastor] the proportional totals, of the Lima Missionary church. A Attendance figures at single ring ceremony was by the unattended couple. For the event, the bride wore a sky blue pink ensemble and carried a| white Testament and a corsage pink sweet peas and yellow tea roses. The groom wore a brown tweed suit, with a white carnation boutonniere. Mr. and Mrs. Bluffton High school and both are Ask Donations For I n X'aaffir Fnn Hunt\who roaster Jjg Donations of colored eggs for the annual children’s Easter egg hunt on Harmon field Saturday afternoon have been asked by the American Legion Auxiliary which sponsors the event. a Easter Speaker At Missionary Chur chi evening. trict who have children in attendance at the public schools. Sharp Decline vious years it is believed It has been pointed that there have been ^Burkholder" Attended I inAuencing the steady decline. Chief] tUre for drafting equipment. ,| of these is the Orange township] Jt is planned to hold class Employed ^ThTTriplrtt El'ectric'a'il sch°o1 dist,,ct in whicbl Bions each Monday, Tuesday lXUumentU Co. "'They’will Ti've with I‘I** a f=w Mudents have trans-l Thursday nights, similar his parents in Bluffton, for the pres-l fcrred t0 Han''k ““"‘V schools- Accuracy Legion and Auxiliary members and the public were requested to cooper-I states Bureau of Census was] ment thru the sponsorship of Ohio ate in a statement by Mrs. ^aiie|used. The bureau considers a fam-1 Northern university. A certificate Stonehill, chairman of the Auxiliary I .jy be a group of persons re-| committee in charge. Eggs should I ^a^ed by blood or marriage or adop be left at Fett’s hardware. I who ilve together as a house in event of unfavorable weather, I hofd usua]ly sharing the same table’”, the egg hunt will be held at the I jbc R]uffton figure of 34 per cent Legion hall. I ,s a]most identical with the figure of I 35 per cent, which is the general o I average of several other school ltrict3 in Ohiom aking similar veys for the Columbus bureau. Rev. J. E. Ramseyer of Ft. Wayne,! president of the Missionary Chureh association will be guest speaker at I croge comes from cane and beets. Easter services at the Missionary] j^aitose comes from cereals. Mite” Coin Of Biblical acquired by Dr. Evan Basinger, Fame Possessed By Bluffton Man coin collector. of copper and thinner than a value of three- coin made slightly smaller and dime has a present twentieths of one cent It was found] coins and other generally in circulation throughout] month during national coin week, Palestine, although more especially] April 19 to 26. Thirty-four Per CentjOf Families Here Have Children In (School, Survey Shows wide Trend of Reduced I Totals Show 714 Families in District with 244 having Children in School At the request of the Bureau of|land township’s road building pro Educational Research of the Ohio|gram for the coming summer, it be State university at Columbus, a sur-|came hnoWfi the first of the week vey of the Bluffton school district] following a conference of the towm w'as made by students in the junior] sh*P trustees with County Engineer .high school social science classes un-|R°^ar^ Mumma. bear bountiful der the direction of Orden Smucker I The road program now being map any previous instructor. ped out will consist largely of main- and Town Figures in Judea about the year 24 A. D. Several other coins minted before the birth of Christ are among the rare specimens recently acquired by Dr. Basinger who owns one of the largest coin collections in this section and is affiliated with national and and state numismatic associations. He expects to exhibit his ancient rare items this TOWNSHIP ROAD CONSTRUCTION IS STYMIED BY WAR Program for Coming Summer |Christ’ preaching Will Consist of Mainten ance and Repair Road Building Materials are of the total number of families in| Scarce No Reinforcing the Bluffton school district have] Steel for Concrete children in attendance at the public] ______ I schools here, it was announced this] week by Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf. I War conditions have stymied Rich- I trance and The survey was made to include will be governed largely by the materials obtainable. Thus no assurance for the delivery of materials has been received showed district in the 34 per attend- -. ai me munum scnoois. in me out- Schmidt, Ned Schultz, Herbert Sie lying rural district,there are_ 2MI mj]es| field. Wesley Sommers, Evan Steiner, on the Rockport road three miles! James Steiner, Janies Stratton, on the Fett road one and one-half I David Tosh, Carroll Tschiegg, Clay miles on the Yant road and one and! ton Weiss, Merlin Zuercher. one-half miles on the Swaney road.| The total cost of this project be $4,000 of which the county pay one-half, trustees said. Most of the county program 1 be that of applying drag mix The 34 per cent figure does not in'| sead coat existing roads. Only I Rosann Hilty, Rebecca Hofstetter, elude children younger or older than I concrete work contemplated will be I Betty Holtkamp, Edna Huber, school age, it was stated by Supt.l construction of small culverts I Glenna Kohler. Treva Matter, Elaine Longmlorf. Neither does it show] and reinforcing walls. Inability tol Mitchell, Marjorie Moser, Margery anything concerning the size of thel obtajn reinforcing steel will prevent! Niswander, Marjorie Ream. The Columbus research bu-l jarger new concrete construction. I Ruth Shumaker. Eloise Sommer, I reau wanted figures only on the pro-1 Mary E Stearns, Marcene Stonehill, a quiet wedding last Saturday I Port’onoffamihesin the schooldis-l ^ngUieeiUiy I .... While there has not been a survey] Plans for a night school course in i. S S. Burkholder, of|°f this nature conducted here in pre-1 engineering drafting were announced] that this] this w'eek, with evening classes to redding was solemnized at the| figure represents a sharp decline in] meet three times a week in Bluffton] i High school. the high] Instruction in the course will be] “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s observed] scho°l have shown a steady decline] free and will be under the direction] Pulitzer prize play, will be presented for the past several years. Attend-] of Paul DeLamater, who has charge] by the Bluffton college junior class ance totals, as of September for each] of the standards department at The|at the Ramseyer chapel, Wednesday year, are as follows: 648 in 1938f. 610 in 1940 532 in 1941. I of schedule for the radio class Survey der way at the high school. _________ While there may be some errors] Date of the preliminary in the survey, it is believed that] to lay plans for the course will be] aid Hester, Ruth Burkhard, Grace Drafting I Wava I OU) St I 1011111 U IT (I I I these are slight because the students] announced next week. In the mean- Geissingei, Esther Geigley, Robert conducted the survey were as-] time anyone interested is requested] Ramseyei, David Stearns. sjgned tke districts afid section in|to contact Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf] The dual cast is as follows: the town and rural areas in which] or DeLamater. Zitella Getties, Dorothy Becken they lived or with which they were] High school graduates and seniors, bach, Lucia Grieser, Adelaide McGin familiar. In most cases the students] or others with an equivalent in ex-|nis, Laurence Burkhalter, Leland were helped by their parents in de-] perience, will be accepted for the| Lehman Margaret Shelley, Ruth termining the families having child-] class. Zuiderhoek. ren in the schools here. With one of today’s greatest needs] In making the survey, the defini-| in the field of drafting, the course] tion of family as made by the Unit-1 is financed by the federal govern-! .. Former Resident I A ®Uf*I BUY UNITED STATES savings ffcoNDS Iamb sunk NUMBER 49 LARGE CLASS TO GRADUATE FROM BLUFFTON HIGH Tentative List of 66 Seniors Announced This Week for Graduation Commencement Address to be Delivered by Pres. J. Rus kin Howe Sixty-six seniors will graduate from Bluffton High school at com mencement exercises to be held Wed nesday, May 27, according to a tentative list released the first of the week. Speaker for the graduating ex ercises will be Dr. John Ruskin Howe, president of Otterbein college. Baccalaureate services will be held on May 24 with Rev. Gerald D. Bright, pastor of the Church of the sermon. Final Exams examinations at the high Final school will be held May 25, 26 and 27. Seniors who have a good con duct and attendance record are ex cused from final examinations for the second semester. The senior play will be presented on May 25 and 26. commencement season the alumni banquet May 29. far I Beidler, any I ^ark» by I Crouse, Wayne Dailey. County Engineer Mumma. No new roads are contemplated in the present program. 1---- ----of road which had received the prime coat last fall will be finished this| Wilmer Lehman, LeRoy Lugibihl. Climax of the will come with scheduled for List Tentative Tentative list of graduating sen iors follows: BOYS James Amstutz, Wilhelm Amstutz Richard Augsburger, Richard Balmer, n, Balmer, repair. Extent of this Nine miles Gratz, Russell Gratz, John Herr mann, Roger Howe, Paul Klassen, attendance! spring 11 was stated- A sealing coat |,of stone and tar will be applied tol wander, James Reichenbach, Peter Ralph Norman James Harold Evan Burkholder, Robert Cooney, I James Deppler, James Fett, Byron 11 Fritchie, Kenneth Geiger, Richard Neil Neuenschwander, Lysle Nis- GIRLS will] Carol Bame, Daisy Basinger, Betty will I Bish, Harriet Burkholder, Margaret I Burkholder, Hildred Eversole, Ruth will I Garmatter, Virginia Geiger, Ruth and Hankish. Only Stotts, Kathryn Swick, Mar- jean Todd. Eilene Triplehorn, Eileen wVng-er, Margaret Young, Marjorie zuercher. 669 in 1937 Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.I and Saturday nights. April 8 and 11, 1939 585 in] DeLamater is a graduate of the Ohio] at 8:30 o’clock. Northern University school of en-| out, however,] gineering. 1 other factors] rolling will be a minimum expendi-| now College Juniors Will Present "Our Town" I The play is conspicuous for its Only host to those en-| lack of staging and properties and is ’i-| under the direction of Prof. P. W. I Stauffer. ses-l Playing for both nights will be and I the following cast: the I Lora Schultz, John Thutt, Paul un-1 Soldner, Lloyd Hunsberger, Herbert I Fretz, Lee Boyer, Darvin Luginbihl, meeting I Harold Thiessen, Helen Graber, Don- Missionaries From will be awarded to all completing the|and son» returned missionaries from, course. ’I A-PPOintea apt dill] dis-| Word has been received that Rich- of Mennonites landed in New York sUr-| ard Euller, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.|last Saturday and stopped here en R. Euller, former Bluffton residents] route to Minnesota and Kansas now living in Lima, has been ap-| where they w’ill spend their furlough* pointed captain in the maintenance] _________ division of the United States army. Euller, former lived in Capt. church here Sunday morning and| trose comes from corn and Man-| v«c»nity. He is a nephew* of Mr. and] dish of cold water to which a quan-» nose comes from berries. Mrs. Albert Benroth. tity of salt has been added. Dex-1 Bluffton and *s known in this] ly if its container is placed in India Stop Here_w Rev. and Mrs. Ferdinand Isaacs fnd*a were guests Wednesday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Schultz of South Lawn avenue. lsaacs and family who have been in India under the foreign mis sion board of the General conference Cooling Pudding The pudding will cool more quick- a r------ __ __