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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.
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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.
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