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VOLUME NO. LXVH
TOWN
FROM
HEAVY
RECOVERING
EFFECTS OF
ICE STORM
Electric Light and Telephone
Lines Sustain Greatest
Damage from Ice
Fruit Trees Break Down Street
Lights Out Damage Be
ing Repaired
Bluffton and its surrounding area
are reovering from effects of one of
the worst ice storms in recent years.
Rain falling Sunday with temper
atures at freezing point blanketed
the entire district under a coating of
ice which damaged electric light and
telephone lines, broke down fruit tres
and rendered travel hazardous for mo
torists and pedestrians alike.
Altho streets were comparatively
free of ice Wednesday morning, more
than a week wil be required to repair
damage done by the storm.
Streets Dark
A number of homes, principally in
the rural district, served by the
municipal electric light plant were
without current Monday when branch
es of trees fell across power lines.
Aggravating the situation was the
fact that the street lighting system
was out of commission in more than
half of the town, including the Main
street boulevard section. This was
due, light plant attaches explained, to
grounded circuits in the cable supply
ing the boulevard lighting system, as
a result of unusually wet weather of
the past week.
Most of the street lighting service
was resumed Tuesday night and the
entire system is expected to be in op
eration by this Wednesday night, it
was stated by Supt. John Swisher,
Tuesday.
Estimate Damage
Damage sustained by the municipal
system from grounded circuits, to
gether with fallen lines and about a
half-dozen broken poles is estimated
at between $300 and $400. Emergen
cy repairs to supply residences with
currrent were made Monday and per
manent repairs are expected to have
been completed by the last of this
week.
Heaviest damage as a result of the
storm’s depredations was sustained by
the telephone system. Eli Deppler,
manager of the system here estimated
that some 200 telephones were out of
service on Monday
Rural Damage Heavy
Damage was greatest in rural areas
were between 60 and 70 poles were
reported down. Long distance tele
phone service was hit hard with many
lines down. Operation of Lima and
Ada circuits continued without inter
ruption but service to Pandora and
other points north and east was dis
rupted.
Engineers have been called to Bluff
ton to make an estimate of the dam
age and it will require services of an
outside crew for at least a week to
make repairs, it was stated by Depp
ler.
With a slippery sheet of ice cover
ing sidewalks, travel for pedestrians
was hazardous Monday and many
persons reported falls. Most serious
accident was that sustained by Mrs.
Eva Patterson of South Main street
who sustained a broken hip as the re
sult of a fall on the sidewalk on West
College avenue near the high school
building Monday night. She was
taken to Bluffton hospital for treat
ment.
Chas. Dillman, news stand proprie
or also fell Tuesday noon while on
the way to his North Main street
place of business and suffered a brok
en bone in the left wrist.
Most of the ice on sidewalks had
disappeared by Wednesday noon but
with the below freezing temperatures
there were still isolated spots which
made walking none too safe.
Damage to fruit trees thruout the
rural district north and east of town
was reported heavy and lawns, swept
bare of snow glistened brilliantly as
the sun shown on ice coated blades
of grass and shrubs.
In Naval Training
Richard Caris, pharmacist of Alli
ance, formerly of Orange township
who recently enlisted in the navy
hospital corps, left the first of the
week for Northwestern university,
Evanston, Ill., where he is now in
training.
His wife, the former Miss Betty
Triplett has arrived here from Alli
ance and will make her home with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Triplett of South Main street. Caris
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Caris of Orange township.
Beaverdam Youth
Is With Overseas
Forces In Africa
Z^ORPORAL Marion Downey of
Beaverdam is serving with
the U. S. forces in North Africa,
according to word received by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Downey of Beaverdam.
Another son, Corporal Royal
Downey has been stationed at
Panama for the past year while
a third son, Pvt. Wayne Downey
and Pvt. Richard Lewis, both
from Beaverdam who recently
enlisted in the army are station
ed at San Francisco.
HOLD BLUFFTON
FARM INSTITUTE
JAN. 18 AND 19
Enlarged Program WiU be Pre
sented in Annual Two Day
Session Here
Speakers from State Agricul
tural Extension Service to
Address Group
Featuring a two day discussion of
rural community probems, Bluffton’s
annual winter farm institute will be
held Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 18
and 19.
Speakers well qualified in the field
they represent will appear in the in
stitute program, and in addition many
entertaining features have been plan
ned. Complete details of the program
will appear in the next week’s issue of
the Bluffton News.
Speakers have been secured with
the help of the agricultural extension
service of the Ohio State university.
Joint Meeting
ening. Separate sessions
ned for Tuesday with the
ing in the high school and
at the Methodist church.
U
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Town’s Street Repair Program
May Be Dropped For Duration
and
Opening on Monday, men’s
women’s institute organizations will
hold joint meetings in the E’—T'.-xi
High school auditorium. Students of
the high school will also attend
Monday morning meeting.
the
al
ev-
Sessions at the high school will
so be held Monday afternoon and
are plan
men meet
the women
of
of
of
of
Speakers
Heading an impressive Visit
speakers are William M. Manahan
Defiance Mrs. Florence Eickmeier
McClure and Dr. L. L. Huber
Wooster.
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Monday morning’s session at 10
m. will open the institute with a din
ner following at noon in the high
school cafeteria. The afternoon pro
gram will start at 1:15 o’clock.
Varied presentations on Monday
night are expected to attract a capac
ity audience. Special music, a play
let and talks by two state speakers
will be headliners on the evening pro
gram at 7:30 o’clock.
Officers
Officers of the institute organiza
tions: Men—Edgar Herr, president
Jesse Anderson, vice-president Quin
ten Burkholder, secretary-treasurer.
Women—Mrs. Raymond Stratton,
prsident Mrs. Harry Anderson, vice
president Mrs. William Althaus, sec
retary.
Union Meetings To
Continue This Week
continue
Bluffton churches will
their observance of the National
Week of Prayer in union meetings
to be held in various churches here
the remainder of the week. All of
the meetings commence at 8 p. m.
The series started on Sunday and
will close next Sunday.
The following will have charge of
meetings the remainder of the week:
Wednesday—Rev. E. G. Steiner,
Methodist church.
Thursday—Rev. Gerald Bright, De
fenseless Mennonite church.
Friday—Rev. Ernest Bigelow,
Church of Christ.
Sunday—Rev. J. A. Weed, First
Mennonite church.
No service will be held on Satur
day night. The public is invited to
attend the remainder of the meet
ings, it was stated by the Rev. Emil
Burrichter, president of the Bluffton
ministerial association.
Real Estate Deals
Peter Matter has sold his 100
acre farm in Richland township to
his son Earl Matter who occupies
the place.
No Answer Received in Reply
To Application for Mater
ials, Mayor Says
Materials Used are Ordinarily
Unobtainable Except for
Military Roads
Victory’ speed of thirty-five miles
per hour may be faster than most
motorists will
ton’s streets
street repairs
coming.
care to drive on Bluff
unless materials for
this spring are forth-
Application
pair of streets
limits has been made, Mayor W. A.
Howe informed the town council,
Monday night. Whether the applica
tion will be granted, is another mat
ter and the mayor said that he had
no way of determining at this time
as to the outcome.
will
Request Minimum
Materials asked for the street
ject are one-half ton of asphalt
1,500 gallons of tar. These amounts
are the minimum necessary for re
pairs.
In operation, chuck holes in hard
surface pavements
with a mixture of
the latter serving
keep the filling in
here are filled
asphalt and tar,
as a binder to
place.
Without this repair material the
only alternative is to fill holes in
the pavement with crushed stone
which is soon thrown out by pass
ing traffic. This method was tried
recently by Street Supervisor Lee
Coon who reported results unsatis
factory.
Need Extensive Repair
Alternate freezing and thawing
this winter has been particularly
hard on roads and an extensive pro
gram of street repair would be
planned ordinarily for the coming
spring.
Materials used in street construc
tion work are unobtainable under
ordinary circumstances except for
military roads, since last fall. Any
materials which might be obtained
here would be used entirely for re
pairs only. No new surfacing of
streets is expected until after the
war.
Bluffton Boys Take
ar Dept. Positions
John Stettler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Stettler, south of town, and
Wayne Luginbuhl, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gideon Luginbuhl of
street, have accepted positions with
the aircraft radio laboratory of the
War Department at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio, effective Monday.
Both of the young men were
ployed at the Triplett Co. for
year at which time they took
radio course given under the
pices of the local plant.
Elm
Both of the young men completed
six months’ training course in
radio and electrical engineering at
Purdue university last Saturday and
received the Wright field appoint
ment at once.
a
Luginbuhl graduated from Bluff
ton high school in 1940 and Stettler
graduated as the valedictorian of his
class in 1941 and attended Bluffton
college.
em
one
the
aus-
Township Trustees
Organize At Meeting
Trustees of Orange and Richland
townships organized at their respect
ive annual meetings during the past
week.
The Richi. nd township meeting
was held at th’ town hall Saturday
night. The following officers were
named: W. E. Marshall, president
Allen Grismore .vice-president: Fred
Badertscher, trustee N. W. Basing
er, clerk.
Albert Balmer was re-hired by the
trustees to operate the stone truck
for the repair of Richland township
roads.
John Warren was named president
of the Orange township trustees at
a meeting held in the township house
Friday night. Others named were:
Henry Wilch vice-president Henry
Hilty, trustee Mell Long, clerk.
Births
The following births at the Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Hug! Niswander, a
boy, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bridges, Lima,
a boy, Tuesday.
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1913
DRAFT QUOTA TO
LEAVE FOR CAMP
PERRY ON JAN. 14
Twelve from Bluffton Area In
cluded in Call, Draft Board
Announces
Another Bluffton Area Group
Takes
Final Physical Ex
amination
selectees from the Bluff
will leave on January 14
Twelve
for materials for re
within the town
ton area
for induction into military service,
it is announced by Allen County
Draft Board No. 3. The group will
report at Camp Perry for induction.
Leaving for camp e:
Hobart
Cafferty,
Bluffton.
Ellis Hall, Am. Jay M.
Orin Sylves Johnson, uf
Franklin Ackerman, Rich
Kermit
Ernest
re
the
the
Bluffton’s entire spring street
pair program is dependent upon
obtaining of these materials
mayor pointed out and unless they
can be had, the repair program
necessarily be given up.
s'
itanley Boyd
ard Kermit Kline, I
Wirt of Lafayette.
Gerald Wayne Bowe
dam.
rs of Beaver­
Otis Dale Struble. I
dore Mikesell, Oro
Elderry, Delmar Jamt
Columbus Grove.
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and
Richard Theo
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es Dunlap of
Stanley Charles An
Another contingent
Draft Board left Wt
Toledo to take final
amination, preliminary
induction. Among these were Noah
Zimmerman, Jr., Victor Bucher,
Robert Hinkle and Ralph Stewart.
:h of Ada.
ailed by the
dnesday for
physical ex
to call for
Mary Marshall Is
Married In Texas
In an impressive military wedding
at the Madison Square Presbyterian
church of San Antonio, Texas, Miss
Mary Marshall, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Marshall of Rockport,
became the bride of Aviation Cadet
Robert E. Barnett, Hondo Field,
Texas, on Christmas e-e. The bride
groom is the son of Mr. and
Paul Barnett of Waterville.
Mrs.
read
open
The
The Rev. Samuel L. Terry
the double ring at an
church service at o’clock,
chancel was decorated with ever
green and holly and bouquets of
white chrysanthemums, and at either
side were tall wrought iron candela
bra holding ivory tapers.
Mrs. R. W. Whiteside, church or
ganist, sang “At Dawning”, “Be
cause”, and “The Lord’s Prayer”.
Mrs. C. Allan Cooper presided a
the organ and played the traditional
wedding marches.
The bride entered the church es
corted by her father, who gave her
in marriage. Her dress of white
satin was fashioned with lace panels,
basque bodice, sweetheart neckline
and long sleeves tapering at the
waist. A coronet of orange blos
soms held her long veil of tulle, an
heirloom belonging to her aunt Mrs.
F. C. Marshall.
For ornament she wore a gold
necklace set with pearls, which be
longed to her paternal grandmother
and carried an arm boquet of bride’s
roses. i
Miss Virginia Bussa, of San An
tonio, W’ho was maid of honor, wore
a rose lace dress made with fitted
bodice and full skirt and carried a
bouquet of blue delphinium and pink
gladioli.
Cadet Gordon Amos, of Hondo
Field, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind.,
was best man for his roommate.
For her daughter’s wedding Mrs.
Marshall wore a frock of soldier
blue lace and corsage of gardenias.
An informal reception was held on
Christmas day in St. Anthony’s
hotel in San Antonio for the bridal
party.
The bride was graduated from
Bluffton High school and Bowling
Green State university and is now
a teacher of public school music in
the Rising Sun consolidated schools.
At Bowling Green she was a mem
ber of Phi Sigma Mu and Kappa
Delta Pi fraternities and the Seven
Sisters sorority.
Cadet Barnett was graduated from
Whitestone High school and Bowl
ing Green
a member
and Delhi
enlistment
age High school.
gation training camp at Hondo Field
and will receive his commission in
the spring.
State university. He was
of the Kappa Mu Epsilon
fraternities. Prior to his
He was a teacher in Port-
He is in the navi-
To Receive Special
Training In Denver
Sgt. Robert H. Green ,son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Green of Beaver
dam, a graduate of the aerial gun
nery school at Tyndall Field, Flor
ida, has been transferred for special
training to Lowry Field in Denver,
Colorado.
Cream Station Here Closes Poors
Tenth Business Casualty Of W
Bluffton’s tenth business closed its
uuvrs this week as a direct result of
labor shortages caused by the war.
The cream station at the Steiner
Hatchery closed Saturday night be
cause of the drafting of an em
ploye, Noah Zimmerman, Jr. The
cream station has been operated in
connection with the hatchery for
several years.
The hatchery, however, will con-
Chinese Are Busy V
To Slow
Bluffton Missionary, Formerly
In China, Shows Pictures
At Lions Club
Roads are Destroyed and Walls
Around Cities Torn Down
By Chinese Natives
Schools, hospitals, churches and
other property belonging to Amer
ican missionaries in China have been
largely taken over by the Japanese
or the Chinese puppet government,
it was stated by the Rev. S. F. Pan
nabecker, returned missionary from
China who addressed the Lions club
at the Walnut Grill Tuesday night.
Colored pictures of the missionary
activities in China were
a screen by Rex
took the picture
of the Chinese actually at work sab
otaging the efforts of the Japanese
military regime were shown by Rev.
Pannabecker.
The Japanese took over the mis
sionary property first with some
caution before the attack on Pearl
Harbor. Their domination of all
missionary property, however, was
fairly complete even before the ac
tual war broke out.
Present status of the property is
not known since there have been no
communications with anyone in the
area now completely under Japanese
control.
Eleven Firemen
Re-appointed Here
Eleven firemen, to serve in the
Bluffton fire department for 1943,
were re-appointed at a meeting of
the town council Monday night.
These are: H. E. Augsburger, Ed
Badertscher, Isaac Brobeck, Wilford
Gratz, Ross Irwin, Fred Martin,
Lester Niswander, Claude Reams,
Clarence Stonehill, Harold Stonehill,
Charles Young.
Guy Corson is fire chief and
re-appointed last year for a
year term.
Annual Meeting Of
Hospital On Tuesday
Three members will be elected to
the board of trustees of Bluffton
hospital at the annual business
meeting of the hospital corporation
next Tuesday night. The meeting
will be held at the high school cafe
teria at 7:30 o’clock.
Election of three trustees will fill
vacancies caused by expiration of
terms of three members now serving
on the board.
Again surpassing their own state
record of $14 per capita purchase of
war bonds, the sale in Bluffton dur
ing the month of December jumped
to $33,919.75 or $16.15 for every
man, woman and child in the com
munity, it was announced by Nor
man Triplett, chairman of the Bluff
ton bond committee.
This is a slight increase over the
November total of $33,471.80 or
$14.99 per capita. The average sales
have been about $14 per capita since
the bond campaign started last Feb
ruary.
Tractors,
Limited
rejected on
Pannabecker, who
himself. Pictures
Most of the roads in the interior
of China have been torn up to hind
er the progress of the Japanese
mechanized army.
around the cities have been
down because the walls offer
tection to the Japanese after
capture the city but not to
Chinese.
Large walls
torn
pro
they
the
For awhile the missionary com
pound was a refuge of safety for
the Chinese when the Japanese forces
the citv but after the Jap
anese took over everything even the
mission headquarters were no longer
safe.
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tinue business
as in the pfc.
Rev. E. G. Stoner, proprietor.
in regular operation
it was stated by
proprietor.
Other BluffttMi business firms to
close because of the war are: Sie
field’s Bakery, Cal Balmer A Son
Sawmill, Swank’s Barber shop, Neu
Art studio, Sutie’s Haberdashery,
Beatrice Beauty Shop, and the fol
lowing filling stations: Gulf, Mara
thon and Johnson.
ith Sabotage
p’s Military Machine
CEILING PRICE IS
PLACED ON USED
FARM MACHINERY
Combines, Binders
to 85 Per Cent of
New Price
More
If Used Equipment is
Than One Year Old it is
Limited to 70%
All used tractors—with the ex
ception of crawler tractors—combines,
com pickers, corn binders and motor
or tractor operated hay balers have
been placed under price control start
ing Saturday. Announcement was
made by the Office of Price Adminis
tration in Washington.
The action by OPA came when bid
ding for used machinery at farm
auctions was beginning to get out of
hand. In many cases farmers were
paying n nre for the used equipment
than the hew list price.
Private owners and auctioneers are
limited in the selling of the five types
of equipment, less than one year old.
to 85 per cent of the list price if it
is more than one year old it may not
be sold for more than 70 per cent of
i the 1st T"
These maximum prices also apply
to dealers, but if the machines are
thoroughly re-conditioned and are
guaranteed for 30 days the dealers
may charge 95 per cent of the list
price.
There have been numerous instan
ces here of a price boom in used farm
machinery where good used imple
ments have been bid up to figures
above what the same piece of machin
ery would be worth new, if obtain
able.
Freezing of farm machinery for ra
tioning and curtailment of 1943 pro
duction to 23 per cent of 1940 output
has caused farmers to turn to the
auction market for their machinery
where the prices have soared to what
has been termed unreasonable bounds
With The Sick
Mrs. Eva Patterson is convalescing
at the Bluffton hospital from a frac
tured hip received in a fall Monday
night.
Hiestand, of Lowell, Ind.,
been visiting his brother in
received a fractured hip in
Joseph
was
two
who has
Rawson,
a fall Monday and is convalescing at
the Bluffton hospital.
Condition of Forrest Mum ma, who
is ill at his home on Mound street, is
somewhat improved.
Bond Sales In Bluffton Jump To
$16.15 Per Capita During December
At the Triplett Electrical Instru
ment Co. 82 per cent of the employes bond campaign.
Charles Dillman is suffering from a
broken left wrist sustained in a fall
Tuesday morning.
Robert Potee, who has been located
with an artillery detachment of
United States army at Honolulu,
waii, is here on sick leave.
the
Ha-
his
Oliver Zimmerman is ill at
home on South Main street.
Wm. Mericle, Bluffton high school
junior is convalescing at the hospital
from an operation on the bone of his
left arm, Tuesday.
have pledged themselves to buy bonds
in the amount of at least 10 per cent
of their earnings on the payroll de
duction plan. Another 8 per cent of
the employes are participating in the
pay roll deduction plan but for a
lesser amount, it was stated.
Triplett employes in the 10 per
cent deduction plan have more than
doubled their purchases during the
month of December, it was stated.
If there are any other Bluffton
firms who have new totals to an
nounce in the pay roll deduction plan
they are requested to notify Wood
row Little, secretary of the Bluffton
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uff ton’s
Mayor’s Appolntmen
firmed by Council
Named City Solic
Finance—Charles Aukerman and E.
S. Lape.
Streets and Roade—William Am
stutz t.nd Fred Hofer.
Fire and Light—Cleon Triplett and
Jesse Yoakam.
Marshal Lee Coon was re-appointed
to the post of street supervisor at a
salary’ of $50 per month. He was al
so continued as temporary’ caretaker
of Maple Grove cemetery.
New Regulations
The office of marshal which Coon al
so holds will continue v. *der new state
regulations in which incumbents of
several municipal posts remain un
changed following the original ap
pointed by the mayoi.
ABo included under the new regu
lation is the office of night watch
held by’ Albert Reichenbach, who will
continue in that post.
Albert Benroth was re-appointed
caretaker of the town clock at a
ary of $50 per year.
New Year’s Wedding
At Methodist Church
In a ceremony at the Methodist
church here
Miss Margie
ter of Mr.
Peterson, 402
came the bride of Berdell Huber, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber re
siding
on New Year’s night,
Jean Peterson, daugh
and Mrs. Eugene E.
South Main street, be-
south of Bluffton.
wedding took place at 7:30
in the presence of the imme
families and a few close
The
o’clock
di ate
friends.
Rev. J. A. Weed, pastor of the
church, in the single ring service.
The vows were received by
The bride wore for the occasion
black velveteen with gold accessories
and white rose corsage. Attendants
were Mr. and Mrs. Winston Jen
nings.
The bride was graduated from
Ada high school last spring and is
now employed at the Triplett plant.
Mr. Huber was graduated from
Bluffton high school in 1939 and is
engaged in farming.
The couple will reside at the Hu
ber farm south of Bluffton.
Radio Sermon Series
“This Chaotic World” is the sub
the radio address in “Living
radio addresses to be given
ject of
Today”
by the
College
of the
over
Friday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock.
Rev. A. C. Schultz, Bluffton
Bible professor and pastor
Ebenezer Mennonite church,
Findlay radio station WFIN
Infant Dies
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Bucher, west of town, died at
the Bluffton hospital Tuesday morn
ing
the
and
and
Columbus Grove,
ments are incomplete.
at 9:30 o’clock. Survivors are
parents and grandparents, Mr.
Mrs. Albert Burry of Pandora
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Bucher of
Funeral arrange-
Ebenezer Broadcast
A trio composed of Mrs. Milo
Lora, Mrs. Wilford Steiner and Wil
liam Herr will be featured in the
weekly broadcast of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church over Findlay radio
station WFIN Sunday afternoon at
4:15 o’clock. Mrs. William Althaus
is the accompanist.
STUDENT RECITAL
Public school instrumental students
of Prof. Sidney Hauenstein, of the
Bluffton High school and Bluffton col
lege faculties, will be presented a
recital to be held at Ramseyer chapel
at the college Monday night at 7:30
o’clock. The public is invited.
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Con
»in
Re-organization of Bluffton’s mu
nicipal government and confirmation
of the mayor’s appointments were ef
fected at the first meeting of the town
council of the new year at the town
hall Monday night.
E. S. Lape was named president of
the council and the following com
mittees were appointed by Mayor H.
A. Howe:
sal-
The mayor’s reappointment
Frtmcis Durbin, Lima attorney,
cit^, solicitor u-i Nonfirmed by’
council. The reta-iYr fee is $100.
of
as
the
All other offices A town govern
ment here are holdovers from the year
of regular local elections. Election
i for local offices will be held again
next fall