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PAGE EIGHT
That poinsettia which added so
much of festive atmosphere to your
home this Christmas will bloom
again next year at holiday season if
it is properly cared for.
Although the care of a
plant is simple, there are
tively few who take the
precautions to insure its
for more than the one season.
Your Poinsettia Plant Will Bloom
Next Xmas If Properly Cared For
poinsettia
compa ra
necessary
blooming
The poinsettia, America’s distinct
ive Christmas flower, owes its popu
lar name to Joel R. Poinsette, at one
time U. S. minister to Mexico, who
found there what had in the past
been only a roadside weed that was
destined to find fame and fortune as
a Yuletide flower.
Burdened with the proper- botanical
name of Euphorbia Pulcherrima, the
tall shrub which grew in profusion
in Mexico owes its introduction into
the United States entirely to Poin
sette.
The shrub was not restricted to
Mexico, however, for it also is well
known in China, where it assumes
the proportions of a tree and towers
as high as second floor windows.
Grown in this country as Christ
mas pot plants, the poinsettias and
their large red-flower bracts convey
a true holiday atmosphere. Their
actual period of decorative growth,
however, is short.
After warmer weather on Thurs
day had considerably dimmed Bluff
ton’s prospects for a white Christ
mas. large flakes of snow starting
to fall about Friday noon, gave the
Bluffton district the blanket of snow
for a traditional Yuletide setting.
With some snow remaining from
the previous cold spell and the fresh
new snow falling on the afternoon
of hristmas Day, the town and
countryside were covered with at
least two inches of snow by mid
afternoon.
Basketball in Bluffton, under the
spell of the Yuletide holiday season,
is in for a brief respite until classes
are resumed at the high school and
the college after the advent of the
new year Bluffton High eagers
will face Lima St. Rose here next
Tuesday., and the collegians will
'play Wilberforce on the Bluffton
floor January 8.
Although Late In Coming, Bluffton Area
Is Blanketed With Snow On Christmas
How effective Bluffton High’s Pi
rates are operating as giant-killers
can be determined from their 47 to
31 romp over Ada, which had been
heralded as one of the best outfits in
this area Earlier in the week
Ada humbled Wapakoneta, 62 to 35,
with sharp-shooting guard Lee Tres
sel garnering 30 points Against
Bluffton scored 15 points,
nearly half of his team’s total.
Celebration Of New
Years Not Always
Observed On Jan. 1
(Continued from
SPORTS IN SHORTS
page 1)
our September.
In England, Dec.
Year’s Day until the
liam the Conqueror,
happened to occur on Jan. 1. Hence
the year was ordered to commence
on tnat day. The English, however,
fell into the practice of the rest of
medieval Christendom which began
the year with the spring equinox,
the 22nd of March.
25 was
time of
His coronation
January 1 Chosen
The Gregorian calendar in 1582
restored Jan. 1 as the opening of the
year. Catholic countries adopted the
change immediately and the Protest
ants followed suit somewhat lateer.
Among the Romans, after the ref
ormation of the calendar, the first
day of January, as well as the en
tire month, was dedicated to the
eponomic god Janus. He was rep
resented with two faces, one looking
forward, the other backward, to in
dicate that he stood between the old
and the new year, with a regard to
both.
Throughout January the Romans
offered sacrifices to Janus upon 12
altars, and on the first day of the
month they were careful so to reg
ulate their conduct that their every
word and act should be a happy
omen for all of the ensuing days of
the year.
Good Cheer
Ovid and other Latin writers re
fer to the suspension of all litigation
and argument, the reconciliation of
differences between friends, the
smoking altars and the white robed
processions to the capitol upon the
first day of Janus or New Year’s
day as it is now commonly known.
In the Old World the custom was
established of sitting up on New
Year’s even to see the old year out
and the new year in and was carried
over to United States. It is prob
ably more general in this country
now than in any European country.
New Year’s is also the time of
After two or three weeks, unless
the plants have been carefully wat
ered and protected from draughts
and sudden
ture, leaves
to fall.
changes of tempera
turn yellow and begin
the dropping of the
Following
leaves the plant remains in a dor
mant or resting condition until
spring when it will resume activity.
Dormant poinsettias should be kept
in a warm place thruout the winter.
In May, divide the roots and cut
back to six inches, using the top
cuttings as well as the roots. A
three-stemmed plant, for example,
will have three good, easily separat
ed roots, and
a fine plant,
top cuttings.
these will each make
as also will the tree
plantings, prepare a
For spring
soil mixture of one-half loam one
fourth humus or peat, and one
fourth dried cow manure. Then pot
the new poinsettia plants and keep
them in a sheltered place, well moist
ened, until growth begins.
If they are sunk into the ground
during the summer,
will take good
it is time to
basement in the
cared for they
at holiday time.
Mother Nature
of them until
them into the
When properly
care
take
fall.
will bloom profusely
The snow was wet and although it
provided the much desired white cov
ering for Christmas day, most of it
was melted and gone with the ris
ing temperatures of the next day.
Temperatures moved steadily up
wards to a maximum of about 52
degrees on Sunday. A temperature
fall started the first of the week and
with an excessive amount of mois
ture in the air a dense fog occurred.
A movement toward colder weath
er is predicted which may be at
tended by a light rain or a light
snow.
A record of two undefeated sea
sons in Hancock county league play
was broken last Friday night as Ar
lington beat Mt. Cory, 37 to 26
Jim Morrison, Arlington coach, was
mentor at Mt. Cory during the last
two seasons when his team emerged
unbeaten in league play Before
succumbing Friday, Mt. Cory had
won 18 straight league games.
On the basis of early season play,
Bluffton and Bellefontaine loom as
the favorites in the Western Buck
eye league cage race, which will get
under way with the start of the
new year Last week Bellefon
taine beat Kenton, 49 to 26
Wapakoneta lost two games last
week, a 62 to 35 decision to Ada
and a 40-28 reversal to Lima South.
resolutions and with the
war there no doubt will
who will start the new
resolutions in the hope
will come to the world
too distant future.
country at
be millions
year with
that peace
in the not
Sawmill Closes
Wil-
Doors
Because Of Labor
Shortage
(Continued from page 1)
the
war production has necessitated
use of native lumber for purposes
served previously by steel. For ex
ample lumber planks are being used
now for the road bed of bridges and
many boats are being made now of
oak planking.
The saw mill here has a heavy
backlog of orders which it was un
able to meet even in full production.
Some of the orders were in units of
150,000 feet each, it was stated
James Balmer, present manager.
22 Men Employed
by
re
22
In normal operations the firm
quired the full time services of
men. The minimum number of work
ers needed
plant would
ed. These
four men in
the woods, one yard man, one truck
driver and the general manager who
would supervise plant operations and
arrange for the purchase of the logs.
to operate the present
be 11 men, it was stat
would be composed of
the mill, four cutters in
If something near this number of
workers could be secured, it is very
likely that the plant would resume
operations in the near future because
of the very heavy demand for the
firm’s products, Balmer stated.
the
Many sawmills throughout
country are faced with similar prob
lems with the result that hundreds
of mills have closed down with oth
ers operating only on a part time
basis,
is that
a time
it was
The paradox of the situation
the difficulties have arisen at
when the demand is greatest,
stated.
At the present time Balmer is con
tinuing the purchase of quality
standing timber in the district and
sending it to other mills, still in op
eration, in nearby cities.
HV
Corp. John Stonehill was Mili
tary Police With Traveling
Army Show
Show Set Unparalled Attend
ance Records in Presenta
tions in 16 Cities
Anxious to get into action on the
fighting fronts, the United States
army war show, of which Corp. John
Stonehill is a member, played its last
date at Atlanta, Ga., Sunday, after
completing a run at that city.
U. S. Army War Show Disbands Sunday
Bluffton Soldier Was Detailed To Unit
Corp. Stonehill, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Stonehill of South
Main street, has been a member of
the show since its inception and has
traveled extensively to the large cen
ters where it has played to large and
enthusiastic audiences.
Record Set
The show set a record unequalled
in the field of professional enter
tainment or sporting events when it
played to 912,462 persons in 11 days
at Soldiers Field, Chicago, Id., for
an average attendance of 82,951
daily.
At the Cleveland municipal stad
ium, where several Bluffton residents
saw the show, there were 377,807
persons who attended in five days
for a daily average of 75,561.
More than 3,500,000 people attend
ed the show in 16 cities. The Army
Emergency Relief fund received $1,
000,000 from the show. These fig
ures do not include the last two
dates at Birmingham, Dec. 7 to 11
and at Atlanta, to Dec. 16.
Unique Display
The show featured mock battles
with big guns, flame throwers, tanks
and all types of military equipment
and activities that the army was wil
ling to show without revealing any
military secrets.
Corp. Stonehill had been a member
of the Military Police at Ft. Knox,
Ky., when he was given the new
assignment with the traveling army
show. He was detailed in the same
capacity with the show as a mili
tary police.
Men in the show were picked by
reason of certain military, mental
and physical qualifications. Physical
ly all of the men were at
in height and 170 pounds
least 5:10
in weight.
Housing
the show
The 2,000 soldiers in
lived in hotels while stationed in a
city with sufficient accommodations.
If they could not be provided the
unit was quartered in army tents.
Thousands of rounds of blank am
munition and shells were shot
each performance to provide a
alistic action of military drama.
in
re-
in
Corp. Stonehill was engaged
guarding the military equipment and
during the presentation of the show
assisted in keeping the crowds back.
All performers in the show will
be assigned to field units soon and
have declared themselves as desirous
of putting on the next show in
Tokyo or Berlin.
Shortage of Baby
Buggies Stirs Action
Bluffton mothers who have had to
carry their babies because of baby
buggy shortages may find the situa
tion relieved, it was indicated in
press dispatches this week.
The National Retail Furniture as
sociation announced that it would
ask the federal
something about
baby buggies.
government to do
the shortage in
here have been
Some mothers
forced to carry their babies and in
addition are faced with shortages of
other baby equipment.
The combination of an increasing
birth rate and the decreased furni
ture production have caused an acute
situation in many homes. The les
sened production threatened the sup
ply of high chairs, bassinets, cribs,
play pens and other types of baby
equipment.
In a small community like Bluff
ton the situation is not as acute as
in some of the larger centers. Here
where one’s needs are generally
known there is a considerable amount
of loaning of baby equipment.
Residents Are Asked
To Aid Commission
Bluffton residents are asked to as
sist in the collection of historical
data of the community for the Ohio
War History Commission, it was an
nounced by Miss Ocie Anderson,
Bluffton public librarian in charge
of the local collections.
Interesting material relating to the
community in
since the war
Miss Anderson
ward it to the
the organization in Lima.
its past activities
should be given to
who will then for
Allen county unit of
Newspaper clippings of local
activities, pictures of soldiers and
sailors, letters, diaries, war commit
tee reports and anything relating to
community activities in war time
should be saved and turned in to
Miss Anderson.
Indebtedness on goods purchased
on the installment plan was reduced,
$1,500,000,000 in the first six months
of 1942.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON. OHIO
ML Cory School Notes
The chapel program was in charge
of Miss Ebersole. The following
program was given: Group song,
“Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”
Devotionals, Elizabeth Cook Group
song, “Silent Night” Trumpet solo,
Chloette Wagner Group song, “Deck
the Hail” Talk,
Bethlehem”, Rev.
Evangelical church
“The Road to
Shepherd from
in Benton Ridge.
The amount of war stamps sold
last Wednesday
was $27.90.
dismissed Thursday
for Christmas Day.
School will be
at three o’clock
This schedule will be also observed
for New Years Day.
The P.T.A. meeting will be held
at two-thirty p. m. Tuesday after
noon.
Several classes are planning to
hold their Christmas partys during
school
ing.
to the gas ration-
hours due
sophomore
at the John Bowersox
The
class will hold its
home
party
next Wednesday evening.
their
The senior class received
class pictures, Wednesday.
Graduates of the 1942 senior class
who visited school
Lucille (Shafer) Steiner,
Powell, Loren Steiner, Junior Treece,
Gene Jordan, Lehr Jay Reese, Rich
ard Herman, Richard Werner, Ken
neth Green, and Robert Haas.
last week were:
Robert
The annual Farmers’ Institute
will be held January 6 and 7. The
students participating in the poster
contest
grades:
Benroth, Elinor Bowersox, Charles
Crow, Jimmie Dray, Dick Flora,
Ester Hartman, Mary Ann LaRoche,
Nora Mae Powell, Sue Ann Rada
baugh,
Shafer,
Klingler, Jeanette Shafer, Joanne
Steiner, Marilyn White, Betty
Green, Jimmie Klingler, Mary
Marquart, Richard Marquart,
Eugene Steiner.
7th, 8th, and 9th grades:
Anderson, Dotty Bowersox, Bernita
Bracy, Betty Bruce, Bernice Crawfls,
Howard Hamilton, Mary Ellen
Hector, Marilyn Kitchen, Jean Ann
Klingler, Virginia Klingler, Junior
Bowersox, Evelyn Ferrall, Wilma
Hamilton, Helen Hartman, Ivan Mar
quart, Emma Jean Miller, Francis
Nusbaum, Reed Radabaugh, Arlene
Schaller, Paul Stucky, Marilyn
Waltz, and Irene Marquart.
10th, 11th, and 12th, grades:
James Anderson, Robert Bowersox,
Kathryn Peterson, Alice Basinger,
and Leo Basinger.
are: 4th, 5th, and 6th
Jimmy Anderson, Jimmie
Marietta Ripley, Janice
Robert Alspach, Roberta
Lou
Jane
and
Ann
Those people living in the Mt.
Cory school district or those having
students who attend the school are
asked to display their handmade
needlework, baked goods, or canned
fruit and vegetables in the school
commercial room during the Farm
ers’ Institute. Prizes will be given
in each classification of exhibit.
The alumni played Mt. Cory’s
basketball team Thursday noon. The
alumni team was: Robert Powell,
Bob Haas, Lehr Reese, Richard Her
man, Richard Werner, and Gene
Jordan. An exciting game
played the score being tied at
third quarter 19-19. The game
won by Mt. Cory’s team with
score being 35-33.
was
the
was
the
Van
The game scheduled with
Buren, January 8. has been advanced
to Tuesday, January 5. This change
has been made because the Farmers’
Institute is to be held at Van Buren
on January 8.
The various classes held their
class parties in the school building
Thursday. Each ciass had a gift ex
change in its assigned room. A
good time was reported by each
class despite the gas rationing.
A $100 bond was sold last Wed
nesday. The amount of war stamps
sold was $36.10.
School will be dismissed Friday
for New Year’s Day.
We wish you a very Happy New
Year.
AND MIDDLINGS—
sows kept through the
a straight corn ration are
be slackers at and after
time. Extra pounds on
SHORTS
Brood
winter on
likely to
farrowing
sows detract from the national meat
supply.
Perhaps some of the Russian
soldier’s fighting ability is due to
his fondness for cvinaya tushonka,
which is lean pork flavored with
salt, pepper, onions, and bay leaf.
Lend-lease has placed an order for
3,000,000 pounds for overseas ship
ment.
Sudden changes of temperature in
dairy barns or in poultry houses re
duce production of milk and eggs.
Cows and hens do not work overtime
to replace shortages from the day
before.
of the U. S, military secrets
method of ridding soldiers
of lice and their eggs in one
Equipment used in the pro­
One
is a
clothes
hour,
cess is light enough to follow soldiers
up to the front lines.
Troop 82 by Maynard Pogue
The meeting, 100 per cent attend
ed, started with inspection, after
which roll call was given. There
were three visitors: Burl Moyer,
Kenneth Bracy and Jimmie Howe.
Jimmie Howe passed his tender
foot test. Earl Frick advanced to
rank of second class scout.
In the game period following, the
Black Bears won in Steal
Ralph Stearns presented
charter
Little.
the Bacon,
the troop
Woodrow
to Scoutmaster
exchange.
came the gift
Nonnamaker had 100 per
Then
Roderick
cent attendance during the past
year.
Troop 82—Maynard Pogue
Meeting opened with Rod Nonna
maker leading troop with Scout
Laws. Earl Frick followed with the
Pledge of Allegiance. A picture of
scout history in the U. S., before the
present scout plans were brought to
this country from England, was
given by the Scout Master.
Plans were made for games
played in the
ing. Games
shuffle board,
discussed and
to be
meet
darts,
hall before the
of volley ball,
and ping pong were
decided upon.
As many Scouts as possible from
the troop will meet in front of the
bank next Monday at 6:30 to go
after the ping pong table to be used
in the hall.
Calvin Dudgeon has been doing an
excellent job of fire building in the
meeting hall stove. The room is
always warm for the arrival of the
scouts at 7:30.
Soap carving will be on the pro
gram for next Monday evening. A
diagram of the animal or object to
be carved will be prepared before
the meeting and the actual carving
will be started in the patrol period.
A game of Black Man was enjoyed
by all, followed by the closing cere
mony.
Harry Burkholder led the scouts
in the scout circle with a new pre
sentation of the scout oath. The
meeting was closed with the scout
masters benediction led by Rod Non
namaker.
Troop 56 by Malcolm Basinger
The meeting was held in the Men
nonite church basement at 7:30 Mon
day evening. It was opened by the
scout oath and law led by Richard
Oberly. This was followed by a
game of stalking in charge of Scout
master Karl Gable. A short patrol
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Final examinations for the first
semester will be held on Wednesday
and Thursday, January 13 and 14,
it was announced this week by Prin.
Gerhard Buhler. Most of the ex
aminations will be given during the
regular class schedule
days, it was stated,
semester will start on
18.
Seniors Robert Pannabecker,
David Smucker, Dorothy Anderson,
Harriet Fett, Aline Hilty, Adah
Lehman, Mary Ellen Luginbuhl,
Alice Oyer, Barbara Jean Triplett.
Juniors—Mary Margaret Basinger,
Beverly Biery.
Sophomores—Otto Klassen, Sarah
Amstutz, Juanita Bame, Esther
Berky, Alice Jean Bixel, Genevieve
Buhler, Eileen Haller, Mary Lou
Schmidt, Jean Ann Steinman, Eileen
Weinhold.
Freshmen—Kenneth Moser, Robert
Ramseyer, Leonard Smucker, David
Stearns, Lucretia Johnston.
Student teachers from Bluffton
college are teaching in the high
school classes as follows:
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program was in charge of
Patrol leader John Schmidt,
The
Senior
and after the dinner many games
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THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1942
Bluffton High School Notes
Bluffton High school students are
enjoying a week's vacation and will
return to their classes Monday morn
ing at 9 o’clock.
on these two
The second
Monday, Jan.
in the upper
school honor
The
Twenty-six students
four grades made the
roll for the second six weeks,
rating system is somewhat stricter
than in the honor rolls of previous
years. A student taking four sub
jects must have ten points and one
taking five subjects must have 12
points.
The numerical equivalents are as
follows: A, 5 points A—, 4 points
Bt, 3 points B, 2 points B—, 1
point,
on the
The following students are
honor roll:
Robert
Lora Schultz.
Biology—Lysle Messner.
Chemistry and Algebra—Robert
Heiks.
English—Mabie Hill.
Latin
Home
wander,
II—Magdalene Oyer.
Economics—Ruth Neuensch
Grace Adams.
Science—James
Social
Starting at
the standard
home nursing
students
enough
One of
Ernest
School
The
Mabel
Music—Ruth Burkhard,
Amstutz, Sara Moyer, Bettye Lewis,
session was then held in which the
patrol’s plans for the Christmas va
cation were outlined. The Cobra
Patrol decided on a hike to be held
Tuesday, Dec. 29. Roll call and dues
were in charge of Scribe Paul Don
Bixel.
after which the meeting was closed
with the Scoutmaster’s benediction
led by Jr. Asst. Scoutmaster Rob
ert Oberly.
More games were played,
Next week’s meeting will be in
charge of the Eagle Patrol, Dean
Niswander, patrol leader.
A pot luck was enjoyed by the
scouts
6:15.
in the church basement at
Welty.
season of
climaxed at
An unusually busy
Christmas activities was
the school with a Christmas party
and dance in the gymnasium last
Wednesday night and a Christmas
play Thursday afternoon.
the second semester
Red
will
the high school, if
Cross course in
be offered to the
of
are interested in the course.
the instructors will be
Bigelow, graduate of
of Nursing.
Mrs.
Yale
be
Pre-induction courses will
taught the second semester in
nection with the physics classes in
charge of Prin. Buhler and the shop
classes in charge of Haydn Steiner.
In addition a course in aeronautics
will be
enroll,
by Mr.
con*-
taught if enough students
The course will be taught
Buhler or Mr. Stettler.
Girls’ Athletic Association
basketball team will play the Bluff
ton college girls' team on Monday,
Jan. 11, it was announced by Doro
thy Anderson, club president.
Class basketball tournaments will
begin in the
nounced this
near future, it was an
week.
straight victories, bas-
With five
ketball enthusiasm at the high school
is running high. The first game of
the new year will be with Lima St.
Rose on the local court Tuesday
night.
were played. Roll was then taken
by Assistant Scoutmaster Paul Win
gate.
Dan
award
ceived
Niswander received his Life
while Robert Ramseyer
his Star Badge.
re­
the
by
meeting was closed by
benediction led
The
Scoutmaster's
Assistant Scoutmaster Paul Win
gate.
Price ceilings have been removed
from whole dried eggs during the
months of January and February.
The purpose is to insure an adequate
supply of eggs moving to dehydrat
ing plants to fill the needs for the
armed forces and the Allies in 1943.
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