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I BUY UNITED •TATES SAVINGS AOXM VOLUME NO. LXIX HEAT WAVE BRINGS OVER 100 DEGREES THREE DAYS HERE No Relief Before Thursday from Hot Days and Scorching Nights Heat Tuesday and Wednesday Hampers Haymaking and Wheat Harvesting Bluffton, together with all North western Ohio is sweltering in the most severe heat wave of the season •which sent the mercury over the 100 degree mark for three days to es tablish a new heat record for this summer. Farmers busy with haymaking and wheat harvest were driven from the fields during the hottest portion of the day as the heat, intensified by humidity, brought the possibility of heat prostrations, were reported. None, however, the opening as wave when the Sunday brought sault of the heat temperature went to 96 degrees. The record was reached on Monday when a mark of 102 was set at 7 p, m. Tuesday’s high was one degree less with a maximum of 101 degrees which was duplicated on Wednesday. No Tmmediate Relief Little relief is promised before late Thursday when showers may bring a break in the heat wave. ■The heat on Tuesday and Wednes day seemed more oppressive because of the absence of Monday’s still breeze which afforded a measure relief. Temperatures at midnight Monday and Tuesday stood at degrees. of on 81 The unseasonably hot weather has ripened wheat more rapidly than had been anticipated and the crop which is turning rapidly will be dead and ready for combining by the of this week. ripe last had past The com crop which has plenty of moisture during the month is Responding to the hot weather and making notable gains Mnd the stan in this area will be "Ttaiee high by-J^ie 4th of JuO, the. rule of thumb by which growers esti mate the progress which should be made by corn at this time of year. The cherry crop which gave prom ise of a good yield earlier in the sea son is virtually a failure in this sec tion. Growers attribute this to rains some two weeks ago followed by un seasonable heat which has caused much of the fruit to spoil on the trees. Huber-Krautter Wedding At Findlay Miss Lillian Huber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Huber of Bluffton was united in marriage to Kenneth Krautter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Krautter of Mt. Cory in a quiet ceremony performed Wed nesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the parsonage of Trinity Luthern church in Findlay. Rev. W. L. Harmony officiated using the double ring ceremony. The bride wore for the ceremony a blue linen suit with white acces sories and a corsage of red and white rose buds. Her only ornament was a strand of pearls a gift of the groom. The bride is a graduate of Bluff ton high school and at the present is employed at the Triplett Electrical Instrument Co. The groom is a graduate of Mt. Cory high school and is in the navy. He has returned to duty after spend ing an eight day leave here. Rites Sunday For Augusta Davidson Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon in the Paul Diller fun eral home for Mrs. Augusta David son, 50, a Bluffton native, who died last Thursday afternoon in the Allen county hospital after an illness of seven years. Rev. V. C. Oppermann, pastor of the Bluffton Reformed and Evan gelical churches, was in charge of the services. Burial was in Maple Grove cemetery. Survivors include her step-father, Warren Fox a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ellen Burkholder, of Findlay a son, Dale Davidson, of Normal, Ill. and a brother, C. H. Smith, of Lima. Closed Next Tuesday The Bluffton News office will be closed all day next Tuesday, July 4. All news matter, cor respondents’ letters and advertis ing copy should be at the office at 3 p. Monday for publica tion in the current issue. Lt. Cal Workman Missing In Action Lt. Calvin B. Workman, 24, of Lima, a former athletic star at Bluff ton college where he was a senior before he enlisted in the air corps, has been missing in action over Europe since June 9, the War De partment reported this week. He was on his 40th mission over Europe when his B-24 Liberator bomber, stationed in Italy with the 15th Air Force, was lost. At Bluffton college, Lt. Workman was a center on the football team. He w’as a graduate of Lima South High school. BLUFFTON PLANS FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY TUESDAY Independence Day Celebration To Be Quiet Fireworks Will Be Missing Business Will Be Suspended Generally Post Office Also To Be Closed Banging firecrackers, sizzling ro man candles and other pyrotechnic displays, sacred to the boyhood mem ories of Bluffton adults, will be miss ing from the town’s Fourth of July scene this year for the fifth success ive season. The noisy Independence Day cele brations of other years live on now only in the recollection of those who can recall when the holiday would open with a barrage of noise when firecrackers, toy cannon and torped oes cracked all day long and when roman candles, sky rockets and pin wheels, plus sparklers for the little tots, provided a pyrotechnical aurora borealis on the holiday night. In this day and age there are state laws and municipal ordinances pro hibiting the discharge of any fire works on the Fourth, and even if the laws were not in force war needs would have drastically cur tailed the use of powder in the ex plosives. Transformation of 1 u o n’s Fourth of July observances to the present “safe and sane” variety first started back in 1940 when a muni cipal ordinance was passed barring the discharge of any fireworks with in the corporation limits. The same law was continued in 1942, and the next year a state law was adopted, the provisions of which were similar to those incorporated in Bluffton’s code. The combination of these two legal actions sounded the knell for the wide-open, old-time noisy Fourth of July practically unknown to the present generation. Two Graduate From Bowling Green U ai,. Miss Genevieve Fett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fett of Campus Drive and Miss Jeanne Baumgartner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Baumgartner of Mishawaka, former Bluffton residents, were bers of the class graduated Bowling Green State university at commencement exercises last Wednes day. Bluffton Pastor Gets Call For Active Service‘As Army Chaplain Lysle Ind., mem from Miss Fett received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Ad ministration and has accepted a sec retarial position with the Eastman Kodak company at Rochester, N. Y. She expects to leave soon for that place. Miss Baumgartner received the de gree of Bachelor of Science in Edu cation and has accepted a position as instructor in home economics in the high school at South Bend, Ind., for the coming year. Both young women graduated from Bluffton high school four years ago. Among those attending the gradu ation exercises were: Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fett and daughter Marilyn, Mrs. Ross Bogart and Mrs. Albert Baumgartner of Bluffton Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Baumgartner of Misha waka, Ind., and Miss Betty Baum gartner of Cleveland. Arrives .Overseas Cpl. Melvin Long has arrived over seas at an undisclosed destination, according to word received the first of the week by his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Long of Orange township. During Corp. Long’s absence, his wife is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sut ter of Pandora. Rev. Ernest Bigelow Notified to Report for Training at Harvard Final Sermons to be Delivered at Bluffton-Rockport Churches July 16 Rev^ Ernest N. Bigelow, pastor of the fifcffton and Rockport Presby teri^a^ churches will leave Sunday, July 16 for Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., to begin five weeks of training for active service as an army chaplain. Rev. Bigelow, who has been com missioned a first lieutenant, is the first Bluffton area pastor to enlist in either the Army or Navy as a chap lain. He will continue his official connection with the two churches here under a leave of absence rangement. Enlisted ar- tel the The Bluffton pastor received a egram Tuesday afternoon from war department in Washington to leave for training on Sunday, July 16. He will conduct his final services that morning and leave for the east later in the day. in Winter Application for enlistment as a chaplain was made last winter and he was accepted shortly afterward. His call, however, did not come until this week. Rev. Bigelow’s wife and five months old son Bruce will remain here. Officials of the Bluffton and Rock port churches are making arrange ments to call a congregational meet ing in each church to make a formal grant of leave of absence, presum ably for the duration and steps are being taken to supply the pulpits during that time. Rev. Bigelow is a graduate of Wooster college and Yale Divinity school. Schultz-Oyer Nuptials In Mennonite Church In one of the most impressive and Miss Lora Schultz, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Schultz of South Lawn avenue and Russell Oyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Oyer of Con gerville, III., were married Saturday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the First Mennonite church. Smucker, pastor of the ciated. Rev. J. N. church offi- held in the regal lilies, The nuptial program church decorated with ferns, palms and garden flowers de parted from traditional form in sev eral respects. A fifteen-minute organ recital by Prof. Otto Holtkamp preceded the appointed hour. The music included Handel’s Largo, Kamenoi Ostrow and Angelus by Massenet. Laurence Burkhalter of Ypsilanti, Mich., accompanied by Miss Betty Lewis of Bluffton rendered the sec ond movement from Wieniawski’s Second Concerto for violin. (Continued on page 8) so- McCune-Deppler Nuptials Friday Miss Madalene McCune, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burdette McCune of Laramie, Wyoming, became the bride of Weldon Deppler, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Deppler of Bluffton in a simple and beautiful ceremony per formed in Pandora at the home of Rev. H., L. Mitchell, pastor of the Missionary church of that place. The wedding took place Friday at 6:30 o’clock. Attending the couple were Miss Elaine Deppler, sister of the groom and George McCune, bro ther of the bride. The bride was attired in a street dress of poudre blue trimmed with white lace and wore brown and white accessories. The groom wore a navy blue suit. The bridesmaid chose a dress of gold with white accessories and the groom’s attendant w’ore a suit of dark brown. Following the ceremony the couple enjoyed a short honeymoon in Toledo. They, will be at home on the Dep pler farm south of Bluffton on Bent ley road where Mr. Deppler and father are engaged in farming. his In South Pacific Word has been received by Mrs. Samuel Kohler, residing south of Bluffton that her son Pfc. Harley Kohler has arrived at an undisclosed destination in the South Pacific. Real Estate Deal a Eugene Basinger has purchased building lot on Cherry street from Mrs. Gideon Schaublin of Lima, formerly of Bluffton. 4 II IE BLUFFTON NEWS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1944 EARLY HARVEST OF WHEAT UNDER WAY IN BLUFFTON AREA First Cutting by Binder Report ed Last Friday Crop is Ripening Fast Yield is Quite Good Despite Unfavorable Weather of Last Winter With a blazing sun providing un usually early ripening weather, wheat harvesting is under way in earnest in the Bluffton area this week. Cutting of this year’s -crop was started last Friday by William Nusbaum, northwest of Bluffton, and there were many binders in the fields on Saturday, as farmers found the wheat ripening almost overnight in the summer’s hottest weather. Despite the •worries of last winter, there are uniformly good reports of excellent yields of wheat and a better than average harvest is expected locally. Combines Start Next Week Wheat combining has not yet started, but farmers plan to have combines in their fields by the early part of next week if weather permits. More wheat will be combined this year than ever before, because of the shortage of farm labor. Another factor resulting in the trend toward combining is the fact that more pick up balers are available, making it possible to save the straw that ordinarily is lost when a combined. crop is started ripening Cutting generally has earlier than usual, and the of the crop was unexpected for the most part. Hot weather and a scorching sun, however, ripened the crop quickly during the last two weeks, and farmers found it neces sary to start harvesting considerably earlier than planned. Oyer-Suter Wedding In College Chapel Culminating a romance which had its inception on the Bluffton college campus, Miss Magdalene Oyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ayer of North Lawn avenue and Charles Suter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elam Suter of Pandora were mar ried in the Ramseyer chapel of Bluff ton college Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Palms, regal lilies, pink roses and ivy trimmed candelabra formed an effective setting for the double ring ceremony performed by Rev. Forrest Musser, pastor of the Grace Mennon ite church of Pandora. The ivory candles were lighted by Ada May Oyer, youngest sister of the bride who wore a frock of pink dotted swiss over ribbon taffeta trimmed in white lace and blue rib bon. A "halo of baby white roses adorned her hair. Preceding the ceremony an organ (Continued on page 8 85 Attend Owens Reunion School attendance at former teach Owens school Eighty-five were in the annual reunion of ers and pupils of the held at Richland grange hall, Sun day.. Officers elected for the coming year were: President, Russell Huber sec.-treas., Mrs. Maurice Bell. The reunion will be held next year at Richland grange hall the last Sun day in June. Births were: Births at Bluffton hospital Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Reichenbach of Columbus Grove, a son, Wednes day morning. Mr. and Mrs. Reno Baumgartner of Pandora, a son, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Serge Kagy of Mt. Cory, a son, Tuesday. A son, Daniel Ray was born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Anderson of Columbus Grove, Rt. 2, at Lima Me morial hospital, Tuesday. A daughter, Rose Cheryl, was bom to Lieut, and Mrs. Myron Welty of Big Springs, Texas. Lieut. Welty is the son of Mrs. Elva Zimmerly of near Bluffton. Leaving Soon For WAVES Training Miss Dorothy Cribley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cribley, residing southeast of Bluffton, who has en listed in the WAVES will leave the last of this week for Hunter college, New York, to begin her preliminary course of training. Miss Evelyn Niswander, Bluffton woman who formerly was a school teacher in Hawaii will return this summer to that place where she has accepted a teaching position in the public schools. After returning home two years ago, following outbreak of the war she taught in the high school at Ridgeway and afterward at Ada, which latter position she recently re signed. At the outbreak of the war Miss Niswander was teaching in a private school for girls at Paia on the island of Maui. Japanese naval units bom barded the island about ten days after the Pearl Harbor attack. Point of the bombardment was about ten miles from the location of the school. Miss Niswander is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Niswander of South Lawn avenue. Old-Time Noisy Independence Day Celebrations Now Live Only In Memory of Adults Fireworks Were First Banned Here in 1940 State Law Also Prohibits Explosives With automobile travel restricted by gasoline rationing and firecrackers barred by state statute, Bluffton resi dents are making preparations to cel ebrate a quiet Fourth of July at home next Tuesday. For the first time in several yeras there will be an organized community program on the holiday when the town’s rodeo will be held at Harmon field, starting at 7:30 p. m. to climax what otherwise will be a quietly ob served Fourth. Business generally will be suspend ed in Bluffton over the holiday, and there will be no delivery of mail on town or rural routes. The post office will receive and dispatch mail as us ual, however. Bluffton’s major war industry, The Triplett Electrical Instrument Co. will suspend operations for the entire week of the Fourth, to permit employ es to take advantage of their annual summer vacation. Several business places also have announced their in tention of closing for the same period. Recreation preceding the rodeo in the evening will be centered at Buck eye Lake, the municipal picnic and bathing center which will be a haven for young and old providing the day brings favorable weather. Bluffton Woman Will Return To Hawaii As Teacher In Public Schools This Fall Banging Firecrackers, Roman Candles To Be Missing On 4th For Fifth Year Bluffton Red Cross Needs More Workers As the war tempo increases the need for surgical dressings is much greater than ever before the wound ed need these dressings, they can not wait one patient may use many in a single day, they are essential to recovery and there is no substitute, it was stated by Mrs. J. S. Steiner head of the Bluffton Red Cross. These bandages must be made by hand in the United States and trans ported to every point in the world where our boys are stopping the bullets, bayonets and shell-fragments of the enemy with their flesh. Our boys are depending on us to provide all the comfort and aid pos sible, while they are giving every thing to insure our comfort and pro tection there are many women here who have given unstintedly of their time and effort, often at personal sacrifice, to help on this vital ac tivity, yet there are many who have volunteered nothing in the way of help, women whose personal interests and pleasure come first. The only requirements are a wash dress and no nail polish, the hair covering is furnished at the work room, which is located in the grade school building. The room is open every Monday from 7 to 9:30 and every afternoon from Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 4. The surgical dressing you make may cover the wounds of a boy who will wear a Purple Heart. He may be your son, or a neighbor boy. Gas Coupons Stolen From Parked Auto Gasoline ration coupons were stol en from the automobile of Miss Fern Stuart residing on the Dixie high way north of Bluffton, while the car was parked in Lima, Sunday night. Entrance to the car, a convertible coupe, and its glove compartment, both locked, was gained and the ra tion coupons taken. Miss Stuart is an instructor in the Lima schools. Auto Use Tax Stamp Sales Rush Expected Many Bluffton area motorists will be caught in the last-minute rush to buy federal motor vehicle use tax stamps the latter part of this week, Postmaster Ed R. Reichenbach warned again Tuesday. Few stamps have been sold so far, despite the fact that all motor ve hicles operated after June 30 must have the stickers numbered on the windshield. The stamps are ser ially numbered and have provision on the back for entering the make, model, serial number and state li cense number of the vehicle. It has been suggested that in af fixing the stamp, the windshield should be dampened rather than ap plying water to the adhesive side of the stamp. WAR LOAN DRIVE AT $96,326 MARK HERE THIS WEEK Campaign $13,679 Short of $110,000 Goal with 17 Days of Drive Remaining 53,170 of Town’s Quota Raised at Plants of Triplett Instrument Co. raise War com- House-to-house solicitation to $110,000 in Bluffton’s Fifth Loan campaign virtually was pleted Wednesday, with $13,679 re maining to be subscribed before the drive closes on July 15. Bond sales so far have brought in $96,326 in cash, or about 85 par cent of the quota set for the town. However sales for the next IT days must average more than $750 per day to put the drive over the top, and active selling will be continued until the deadline. Of the $96,326 subscribed so far, $53,170 represent sales made in a war bond drive conducted in the local plants of The Triplett Electrical Instrument Co. County Drive Lags In Allen county as a whole the drive is running far behind schedule, which seems to be a duplication of national conditions generally. Norman A. Triplett and M. M. Bogart, co-chairmen of the Bluffton canmaign, said that success of the local campaign had been assured by the conscientious work of war bond solicitors, most of whom are serving for the fifth time. For the Fifth War Loan drive here the town was divided into 10 zones, with zone captains directing solicita tion teams in those territories. Zone captains include Woodrow Little, Gene Benroth, Charles Auker man, Mayor W. A. Howe, C. F. Nis wander, Charles Gazette, Gail Mum ma, N. E. Byers, Jesse Yoakam and Silas Diller. Candlelight Wedding At Mennonite Church Miss Marcile Luginbuhl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Lugin buhl of East Kibler street became the bride of Howard Habegger, son of Noah Habegger residing north of Bluffton in a simple candfelight cere mony at the First Mennonite church, Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. Rev. J. N. Smucker officiated with Mrs. Smucker as the only attendant. The bride chose for her wedding a two-piece dress of white shantung with harmonizing accessories.’ Her corsage consisted of white roses and gypsophila. The couple will make their on the Habegger farm four north of Bluffton. home miles Allen Thompson Rites On Sunday Allen Thompson, 81, a retired farmer, died at 8 p. m. last Thursday at his home in Orange township. Funeral services were held at the late residence Sunday afternoon, with Rev. George A. Rickard, of Pennsyl vania, in charge. Burial was in the Thompson cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, May a son, Cecil both at home. His wife died in 1921. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Bethel Church of Christ, in Orange township. BUY 1TWN NUMBER 10 GALA RODEO HERE FOURTH OF JULY IS HOLIDAY FEATURE Horsemen From Three States to perform Under Lights at Harmon Field Trick Riding, Bronco Busting^ Steer And Calf Roping Among 23 Events Replete with the thrills and color of the old “Wild West”, a gala rodeo of 23 events featuring some of the best horsemen and horsewomen in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana will be held under the floodlights at Harmon field Fourth of July night. All the colorful setting of the old time rodeo will be duplicated per fectly and the many features will include trick riding, “bronco bust ing”, steer riding, high jumping for horses, steer “dogging” calf roping, obstacle racing and musical numbers for horses. Opening event of the gala evening will be an airplane stunting exhibi tion over the field at 7:30 p. m. by Clayton-Bixel, Bluffton pilot. $200 In Prizes One of the features of the show wall be the competition of Bluffton area horsemen and horsewomen against riders from Michigan, In- diana and other parts of Ohio, for the $200 in war bonds and stamps offered as prizes by Bluffton mer chants and industries. Another of the rodeo highlights will be presentation by Mayor W. A. Howe of the Grand Champion ribbon and horseshoe of roses to the con testant garnering the most points. Pre-rodeo activity w’ill start on Saturday night, with a parade of horses and riders and two band con* certs in downtown Bluffton. Inaugurating the Saturday events, (Continued on page 8) Resigns As Pastor At Ebenezer Church Rev. A. C. Schultz has resigned aa pastor of the Ebenezer Mennonite church two miles west of Bluffton. Announcement of his resignation was made by the pastor at the morning service last Sunday. Rev. Schultz' together with his wife and small daughter will vacate the church parsonage on Grove street the last of August and move to Chi cago where he has accepted a posi tion as head of the department of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological seminary. He will enter upon his new duties September 1 as instructor in tha seminary which enrolls 370 students in training for the ministry and ia the largest institution of its kind in the Northern Baptist denomination. Rev. Schultz came here seven years ago as instructor in Bible at Bluff ton college which position he re signed last winter. He has been pastor of the Ebenezer congregation I for the past three and one-half years. No successor to fill the pulpit of the Ebenezer church has yet been named. Show Film In Union Sunday Night Service “The Book for the World of To morrow”, a sound picture, will be presented at Bluffton’s monthly union church service at the St. John’s Re formed church, Sunday night at 9 o’clock. The film produced by the American Bible society depicts the need of the world for the Bible, together with a history of its production and distri bution. The presentation here is un der direction of the Bluffton Minis terial association. Jackson Koontz At Great Lakes Base Jackson W. Koontz, 18, brother of Rolland E. Koontz, 175 Mound street, Bluffton, Ohio, is receiving his ini tial naval indoctrination at the U. SL Naval Training Center, Great Lakea^. Illinois. ‘■’td