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Bluffton Plans Home Gardens
This Summer To Meet Food Needs
Intensified Gardening Program
Seen as Aid to Food
Production
Residents Here Beginning to
Plan Gardens for Spring
Planting
With every evidence that farm
fields alone will not be able to meet
the nation’s food needs, Bluffton resi
dents are making preliminary plans
for an intensive spring and summer
gardening program here.
This together with the rationing
of processed foods will likely stimu
late home gardening here on a scale
considerably larger than previous
years.
Not only will home gardening save
a considerable amount of money with
rising food prices, but it will enable
families to obtain a balanced diet of
vegetables which would be difficult
to obtain otherwise, it has been
pointed out.
Preliminary Plans
Many Bluffton people are begin
ning to buy seeds and to plan their
gardens in order that they may be
prepared to get under way as soon
as the weather permits the first
spading.
Vegetable gardening should never
he a hit and miss enterprise but es
pecially in 1943 is it urgent to plant
■wisely and according to a carefully
conceived plan. A well arranged
garden will supply fresh vegetables
from May to late October, which is
half a year.
In addition to the continuous har
vest to be anticipated, plans should
he made to sow enough of such crops
as carrots, beets, cabbage, and others
so a supply can be stored over win
ter. Canning or freezing will pre
serve peas, corn, beans, tomatoes and
some greens so enough of these veg
etables should be planted to provide
food during the growing season and
surplus for winter.
Other Factors
Victor Reese, extension specialist,
Ohio State university, points out that
the amount of food which can be
produced on a garden plot is not the
only factor to consider. Vegetables
are one of the most economical
sources of vitamins, and a variety
of vegetables will supply more vita
mins and also will permit selection
so the family does not become tired
of being served the same one day
after day.
Vitamin A can be obtained from
yellow, green, or leafy vegetables.
There are many of these. For vita
min C, plant spinach, beets for
greens, peppers, cabbage, kale, Swiss
chard, collards, and hrotali. Most
of these have a relatively short pro
ductive season so plans should be
made to plant several of them which
mature at different periods.
Succession plantings of lettuce,
fpinach and mustard can be made so
one planting will be ready for food
as soon as the previous planting has
been harvested. It is possible to
make two or three plantings of
these crops, spaced widely enough
apart so tender greens will be avail
able all summer.
Growing Period
The gardner should know the grow
ing period needed by all vebetables
before they are ready to eat. Quick
crops such as radishes, green onions,
lettuce, mustard, beet greens, Swiss
chard, spinach, garden cress, and
parsely will be ready for the table
in as little as six weeks after plant
ing, if conditions are favorable. No
gardner can make plants hurry, so
those people who grow Brussels
The March fill?
Issue of
PTHE
SATURDAY EVENING
OST
Tells the Story of
PITTSBURGH'S
Every home owner will find it to
his interest to read about this re
markable paint development.
Our store has a dependable stock
of Pittsburgh’s Live Paints for
every surface. We would appre
ciate the opportunity to show
you the tests which prove the
long term efficiency of Live Paint
Protection. You can make your
homes and equipment last for
years to come.
Steinman Bros.
Lumber Co.
sprouts, parsnips, squash, corn, on
ions, tomatoes, late cabbage, and
many others, will have to wait for
three or more months after planting
to get their vitamins.
Not only are town families urged
to intensify their garden production
but farm gardens are also expected
to produce vegetables for the mark
ets
Garden-Use Plan
A plan is being worked out in the
county whereby people with unused
i garden plots make them available to
those who would like to garden but
'do not have the land. More detailed
announcement of this plan will be
made at a later date.
There are numerous pamphlets
available concerning home gardening
and many of these may be obtained
through Harry Barnes, instructor in
vocational agriculture at Bluffton
High school.
Those who plan and start gardens
should be prepared to take care of
them consistently through the season
as the country can not afford to
waste seed, fertilizer, insecticides and
effort this year.
Things we’ve seen..........housewives
trying out their new ration books....
and believe it or not soup beans seem
to be favorite on the ration list here
.........and that worried look around
the high school since Bluffton is slat
ed to meet undefeated Middlepoint in
the opening round of the basketball
tournament at Celina.........Sid would
draw a tough one......... and with
Schmidt added to the injured list
doesn’t help prospects......... and that
wild rumor Saturday about impend
ing clothes rationing resulted in a lot
of foolish buying......... some of it
bordered on hysteria—and yet we
pride ourselves on being fairly intel
ligent—or are we?......... and seed
buying has started......... looks like a
lot of home gardening..........or may
be it’s just early spring enthusiasm
that will evaporate as the days get i
warmer......... and the town council
making “fast” time official—the
farmers still don’t like it....just a
friendly advance tip—the glue is on
the right side of the new paper auto
license tags, even if it doesn’t look
like it.
Biggest surprise since the ration
ing program went into effect this
week has been the demand for soup
beans. Mrs. Bluffton housewife evi
dently was caught short of one of the
old standbys which was a late addi
tion to the list of rationed foods.
While most families had their allow
ance of canned goods, beans, appar
ently were overlooked.
If these jeejps run as wild on the
battlefield as they do on the highway
it looks as if enemy casuulty lists will
mount. Another of them got coltish
and out of control Friday morning
going thru the business district and
struck the corner of the Risser Sand
wich shop. Nobody hurt but the jeep
got the worst of the encounter with
the brick building.
Worried new mothers combing the
town for baby buggies—another war
time scarcity—and used baby car
riages like used farm machinery are
bringing top prices. If you hve a
baby buggy stored in the attick it’s
a good time to dispose of it—and you
will also be helping some young moth
er out of difficult situation.
And while we’re on the subject of
wartime scarcity—just remember that
you don’t throw away your old license
plates this year—and if you happen to
lose them it may be difficult to get a
replacement. To help solve this dif
ficulty finder of license plates are re
quested to turn them in at the
Mayor’s office and officials will con
tact the registrar who issued them,
who in turn will be asked to notify
the owner.
Chalk up another one for the small
towns—since wartime food rationing
the big city eating places are exper
iencing difficulty with their menu and
traveling men are deserting them for
smaller places where foodstuffs are
more plentiful. Bluffton has lost none
of its eating places and the quality of
its rstaurant meals is making the
town an increased favorite with the
traveling public.
Not all prices are up—as one farm
er learned to his sorrow the other
day. It all happened when a calf died
on his place and the farmer paid a
dollar to have the animal skinned—but
he only received a quarter when he
sold the hide. Seventy-five cents loss
charged up to experience.
Comments on the News’ Fifty Year
subscribers club brings to light what
we believe to be the only living orig
inal subscriber—J. Neiswander of
Williamstown—who has been reading
the News every week since it was
founded in 1875. Mr. Niswander, 86,
recalled that he helped “Dick” Cun
ningham in canvassing for subscribers
68 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Neiswan-
A MERICAN girls who do not
worry about dishpan hands”,
and can stand the odor of frying
doughnuts in their hair and clothes,
are winning popularity with U. S.
troops in the British Isles and North
Africa.
They are the girls who operate the
Red Cross “clubmobiles”, newest de
vice of the American Red Cross to
carry the longed for “home away
from home” atmosphere to service
men overseas.
One of the services made possible
by the contributions of the American
people to the Red Cross, the club
mobiles are equipped with a dough
nut-making machine, coffee urns,
radio, public announcing system, a
phonograph and records, and a li
brary of books and magazines.
Staffed entirely by Red Cross girls
der moved from Bluffton in 1880 to
their present farm west of New
Stark where they have since resided.
Congratulations to the couppie who
are well remembered by many of the
older Bluffton residents.
Congratulations to Mrs. Cliff Strat
ton on her birthday anniversary Tues
day—and one of the appreciated gifts
was a yer’s subscription to the Bluff
ton News from her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Don Stratton.
Comes word from Fred Herr, erst
while Bluffton insurance man now in
army training out in Vancouver,
Washington. His camp is in sight of
Mt. Hood, one of the high peaks of
the west coast. Fritz says the army
surely makes a man out of you with
strenous drills—even on Sunday.
Well, New York city has heard of
Bluffton—the other day in the New
York Times appeared an account of
that old stove, an heirloom in the
Anderson family, which Hary donat
ed to the scrap iron drive here last
summer and hauled in from Orange
township. Beats all how Bluffton do
ings get around in this world.
Another snow Tuesday afternoon—
and the old timers predicted when it
snowed on the 28th of last November
that there would be 28 snows this
winter. And they say that the count
is now in the lower twenties.
Bluffton spent in round numbers
$64,000 in its schools during the past
year, according to reports compiled
recently. Of this amount slightly
over $40,000 went for salaries—etach
i ers, administrators, janitors, etc. The
largest amount spent in one year was
$69,000 in 1929.
Enclosed with a subscription re
newal was the comment from Mrs.
John J. Reiss of Columbus, former
Blufftonite, that “the News is always
a welcome visitor every Thursday.”..
..and from Roger Hauenstein at the
Maxton, North Carolina air base,
“it’s the proverbial letter from home.”
Sgt. Edwin Rice, now with the
armed forces in West Africa, maV be
a fighting Yankee soldier hut he’s
wearing a British uniform, so we hear
from correspondents. It’s this way—
a ship bearing supplies of uniforms
for the American soldiers in Africa
was sunk and the British supply or
ganization furnished the American
soliders in Rice’s unit with the Eng
lish military outfits.
When people complain about ra
tioning here they should think of
their English brothers across the wat
ers. They are on much stricter ra
tioning on all commodities. A ten
room house can get at the most only
two tons of coal which means heat
ing only two or three of the rooms
and then keeping those at a temper-,
ature of about 60 degrees.
Generally, however, people here
have taken their restrictions in stride
but there are always a few who com-
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Red Cross Clubmobile Hostesses
Must Ba Skilled Cooks And Mechanics
A Red Cross worker examines the doughnut making machine. part of the equipment of the “clubmobile” of which
■she is a crew member in the picture at left. At right: Miss Fern Maddox of Oklahoma City, serves doughnuts to
a soldier at an airfield “somewhere in England.” Center: Members of a Red Cross mobile unit distribute coffee
and doughnuts to U. S. soldiers in the British Isles.
who are skilled drivers and trained
in motor mechanics, the clubmobiles
visit isolated j«sts in the British
Isles and North Africa, where the
girls distribute free doughnuts, coffee,
chewing gum, and cigarets to the
men. Often the posts they visit con
tain a personnel no larger than a
platoon. Sometimes they are inland
air bases, staffed by hundreds of
men. Men at these stations rarely
get leave and frequently are far
from a city or town where there is
a Red Cross club.
The girl-crews operate from a
central point from which they can
cover five or six of the isolated out
posts. Rising at 6 a. m. they mix
their doughnut batter, start coffee
urns boiling and head for the sta
tion to be visited that day. If pos
sible, they visit two posts a day.
Once at their destination, the dough­
The Men’s Gospel team quartet
will conduct services in Lafayette at
the Church of the Brethren on Sun
day morning. Stanley Hostetter,
freshman from Dalton, will give the
morning address and the quartet
will have ch^^e of devotions, and
will provide spet ial musical numbers.
Personnel of the quartet includes:
Ed Zehr, junior from Gridley, Ill.,
first tenor David Weaver, freshman
from Danvers, Ill., second tenor
Hostetter, baritone and Ben Rider,
freshman from McComb, bass. Ellis
Guthrie, vice president of the Gospel
team, and son of Rev. J. L. Guthrie,
pastor of the church, will accompany
the group.
Mrs. Rosa Page Welch, colored
Mezzo-soprano from Chicago, will be
heard in sacred concert at the
monthly Vesper service in Ramseyer
chapel, Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock. She has given concerts of
both sacred and secular music
throughout the country, and is fast
approaching the goal set for her by
many who have heard her perform
ances—that of ranking with Marian
Anderson in the musical world. Mrs.
Welch’s program will include two
groups of Negro spirituals, and also,
such favorites as Shubert’s _“Ava
Maria,” and Adams’ “Holy City”.
Miss Edythe Cupp, home eco
nomics instructor at Bluffton high
school, will speak to members of
the Bluffton college Home Economics
club, at their monthly meeting this
plain about “inconveniences and sac
rifices’ ’they are making.
It was interesting to see the large
number of different newspapers rep
resented in the declaration forms pre
sented at the high school to obtain
War Ration Book No. 2. Most of the
people clipped the form from the
Bluffton News, but there were others
from the Unia News, the Findlay Re
publican-Courier, the Toledo Blade,
the Cleveland Plain Dealer and some
from papers as far away as Newton,
Kansas.
We were pleased to overhear sever
al people speak of their appreciation
of the service rendered by the Bluff
ton News in presenting a complete
and accurate picture of the rationing
procedure. One woman remarked
that she learned more about the pro
cedure from the Bluffton News than
any other paper.
Further evidence of the changing
conditions. From the early files of
the Bluffton News there are many ac
counts of numerous Bluffton people
who went on prospecting trips to var
ious points in the west and south
where land was undeveloped and
cheap. With the frontier gone and
the country fairly completely settled
such a situation is never heard of
anymore.
nuts are cooked to the tune of the
latest phonograph records, accompan
ied by the “hurry, hurry hurry”
calls from impatient soldiers. A
home-like touch is the china coffee
cups in contrast with the soldiers’
mess tins.
Although many of the clubmobiles
are already in operation, additional
units will be outfitted from funds
obtained through the $125,000,000
Red Cross 1943 War Fund. Red
Cross officials plan to have 48 of the
clubmobiles, named for the 48 United
States, in Great Britain. Twenty-five
more will be sent to North Africa.
Perhaps the greatest thrill Amer
ican soldiers get from the clubmo
biles is that of hearing and seeing
an American girl. If she comes
from the home state, it’s something.
If she comes from the home town,
it’s terrific!
Bluffton College Notes
Wednesday evening. She will talk
to the club concerning careers for
home economists.
Members of the college Vesper
choir appeared in sacred concert at
the Rawson tinted Brethren ghurch
last Sunday evening. Other engage
ments scheduled for March and April
include concerts at Salem high
school near Upper Sandusky, on
Friday evening, March 12 at the
St. John Mennonite church, north of
Bluffton, on Sunday evening, March
14 and at the Bluffton Presbyter
ian church, Sunday evening, April
11. The choir will also appear at
the monthly college Vesper service,
Sunday afternoon, April 4.
Four one-ace plays will be pre
sented in the Ramseyer chapel at
Bluffton college on Saturday even
ing, as the second annual college
one-act play contest gets under way.
Directors for this year’s plays are:
Stanley Hostetter, freshman from
Dalton Miss Treva Arrants, sopho
more from Lima, and Miss Evelyn
Johnson, sophomore from Bucyrus
Miss Viola Amstutz, junior from
Pandora and Miss Dorothy Becken
bach, senior from Canfield, directing
the freshman, sophomore, junior,
and senior presentations, respective
ly. The contest is sponsored by the
college Thespian society. Miss Lucia
Grieser, president of the society, will
act as hostess. The Amil Tellers
Dramatic club of Lima will furnish
the judge.
Pandora Missionary
Expected This Week
Miss Irma Schneck, missionary
stationed in Nigeria, West Africa,
is expected to arrive at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Schneck of Pandora this week.
A telegram was received by her
parents Sunday from Miami, Florida,
stating that Miss Schneck arrived in
Miami from Africa by plane. She
had been stationed in Africa as a
missionary for the Mennonite church
for the past four years.
The telegram was a surprise as
her parents were unaware that she
was coming home.
Nancy says—
Guess what Sluggo! My dad just did
the sw el lest thing ... he signed up
10% of his pay for War Bonds and it
ain't even New Year's yet!
"Up That 10% by Naw Year's"
The Dluffton News presents
another in the series of inter
esting, but lesser known aspects
of South America.—Editor.
So close to the sky that fleecy
white clouds appear to dip into its
cold, bluegreen waters, Lake Titicaca
approaches the celestial not alone in
physical location. For Titicaca has
been interwoven into the whole fab
ric of Aymara-Quechu religious wor
ship and, today, is a paradise for
the tourist.
Situated high in the Andes moun
tains between Peru and Bolivia, at
an altitude of some 12,500 feet, Lake
Titicaca is the largest lake in South
America and the highest steam-nagi
gated lake in the world. It is vir
tually a sea imprisoned between
snow and rocks, 140 miles long and
70 miles wide. When its waters are
lashed by winds that sweep from
peak to peak, Titicaca’s fury rivals
that of turbulent seas.
Lake Titicaca is the legendary
birthplace of the “Children of the
Sun”, the rulers of the ancient Inca
people, for legend says it was upon
the island of the Sun, in the lake,
that the Sun placed Manco Capac,
first rulei’ of a mighty realm which
included most of the west coast of
South America when the Spaniards
arrived there. Religious festivals of
the Indians have always centered
about Lake Titicaca, and amazing
remains of stone temples still exist
on the islands of the Sun and Moon,
the two most important of Titicaca’s
many islands. Indeed happy is the
traveler who is there to witness the
fiesta of the Aymara Indians, a gay
and colorful ceremony influenced by
his contact with the white man and
by legend handed down from ances
tors.
A truly picturesque sight it is to
see balsa boats ferried along by the
breeze, guided by the sure hand of
a stoical Indian, as Lake Titicaca
mirrors surrounding mountain peaks
I and seemingly absorbs the rays of a
sun which seems so near at hand.
Balsa boats are children of necessity,
for when Nature failed to provide
trees in the region, the Indians
turned to the reeds, called totora,
found growing along the banks, and
fashioned them into boats. The
reeds are first woven into rolls and
they are then bound together to form
the “planks” for balsa boats. Pushed
through shallow water by a long pole,
the boat also has a sail for deep
water travel. These sails are raised
and lowered much as
blinds. When balsa
water soaked they are
an| dried.
YES’
our Venetian
boats become
hauled ashore
existing
Ancient civilization
by side with the modern—steamers
play the same waters as the balss
boats, here in Lake Titicaca, thous
ands of feet above the sea. The
Inca, queen of the fleet, is largf
enough to accommodate
passengers and carries a
thousand tons. Built in
land, the Inca was sent
Atlantic in parts, assembled, and pu
into a service from which there ii
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943
Lake Titicaca, Idyllic Spot High In
Andes Mountains Is Scenic Attraction
eighty-six
cargo of a
Hull, Eng
across the
no escape except the vessel’s utter
exhaustion. An older sister-ship, the
Yavari, was carried up the tortorous
ascents of the Andes on the backs of
mules and sturdy Indians, in the days
before a railroad was constructed.
Lake Titicaca serves Bolivia well.
Products of her mines and soil are
transported along and across the
lake, particularly to and from Gua
qui, the chief lake port. Even balsa
boats bear a share of this commerce.
As an ever-popular tourist attrac
tion, Lake Titicaca provides addition
al revenue to the people and gov
ernment of Bolivia.
Romantic names and picturesque
places—Lake Titicaca, Island of the
Sun and Island of the Moon, ruins
reminiscent of past glories—all with
an allure that is difficult to resist.
Pandora
Pvt. Earl Steiner, who had a 15
day furlough, left Saturday return
ing to Camp Carson, Colo.
Mr. and Mrs. Philemon Huser and
family were Sunday dinner guests
in the Melvin Hilty home at Bluff
ton. The dinner was in honor of
Mrs. Huser’s mother, Mrs. Theo.
Basinger, who celebrated her birth
day.
Peter Hilty is ill at this time. His
daughter, Margaret who teaches at
Old Fort, Ohio spent the week-end
at her home.
“Week of Dedication” services are
being held at the Methodist church
this week.
Mrs. Ruth Geiger Reilly of Nap
anee, Ind., spent the past week at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram Geiger.
Earl Grismore who is in the U. S
Marines is home on a furlough. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lennos
Grismore.
Armstrong’s Linoleum
AT PRE-WAR PRICES
The “Spiritual Crusade” at the
Missionary church with the Amstuta
Brothers of Royal Oak, Mich.r
preaching and singing, closed Sun
day evening.
Miss Irma Schneck, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck, mis
sionary to Nigeria, Africa, arrived
in this country unexpectedly a week
ago last Friday.
Miss Melvena Gerber of Berne,
Ind., spent the week-end here with
her parents.
The local Red Cross chapter is
giving a program at the school house
this Wednesday evening. A play
will be given and a moving picture
shown.
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AHO cOV __
there are many things
and prices on many items
BUT YOU CAN STILL BUY
QUALITY LINOLEUM FLOORS
.... and at Thrifty Prices
Perhaps, because of government restrictions on many building ma
terials and home furnishings, you thought you had to postpone all
home improvements until after the war. Well, you don’t. Come in
today and let us show you how you can use many of the things you
already have, and give your rooms the effect of a complete redecor
ating job with a smart new linoleum floor. Yow can save a lot of
valuable time these busy days, too, with easy-to-care-for Armstrong's
Linoleum in your kitchen.
EXPERTLY CEMENTED OVER LINING FELT
Large Supply Inlaids and Printed Patterns
Basinger’s Furniture Store
Mr., and Mrs. Noah Amstutz aniL
family who lived in the Amstut^
apartment moved close to Bluffton,
Monday.
Pre-Easter services will be held at
the Grace Mennonite church during
the week of March 7 to 14 with Rev.
Paul Ross Lynn of Portland, Conn.,
as the speaker.
Ohio farmers will need to take
extreme precautions to prevent de
structive disease epidemics among
hogs in 1943.
A'
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k
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you can’t buy today,
are way up