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PAGE EIGHT
Prof. Samuel Burksard, A. M.,
Columbia university, has rieen secu
to teach the summer school man
training course ottered at the i«
A room on the first floor of the scie
hall has been equipped with bene
team ol horses ai
Jacob Ndsbaum
ESndav to Lena Ro
They will move to the Jacob Amstutz
farm on the county line.
Earl Heckathom is now’ with ^the
Lewisburg Stone Co. at West Lafay
ette, Ind.
S. P. Herr was recently appointed
revenue collector for the district east
of the Allen county district.
Marshal Fox has arrested a num
ber of motorists running on last year s
numbers.
Blutfton’s new industry, the Apex
Skirt Co., is employing 17 people.
H. R. Lugibihl and family left Sun
day for an low’a trip.
The Lima White Stars will meet
the Bluffton basketball team on the
Rink floor. Friday night. A fast
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF FEB. 24, 1916
The Bluffton News presents
another in the series of unus
ual but lesser known aspects of
South America.—Editor
To its vast production of beet
and cane sugar the Western Hemis
phere adds that of honey, another
product with which it helps to sweet
en the world. Honey has been found
in Mexican prehistoric excavations,
onr'inspd in closelv sealed vessels and
excellently preserved. This would
seem to indicate that bees were
known in that country long before
the arrival of Cortes, although scien
tists insist that the bee wras not an
insect native to the Americas.
The European species of bees pre
dominate in America but it is evi
dent that the stingless variety of
bee is a native of South and Central
America and Mexico, where honey
has been gathered by the natives
for many centuries and that many
of the other varieties found were in
troduced from China, Japan and
Palestine, as well as from European
countries.
When the Pilgrims landed at Ply
mouth in 1620 honey wras not to be
found in that part of the country,
and bees were consequently imported
from England in order to meet the
requirements of the time.
Whatever their origin may be,
bees are found today throughout the
Americas and both honey and bees
wax are among the important pro
ducts of some of the American na
tions.
Many millions are added every
year to the wealth of the United
States through the production of
honey which in 1942 w'as estimated
at 180,000,000 pounds. After tend
ing downward through the 30’s, the
production of this commodity has
picked up remarkably in the last few
years, due not only to a broader use
of honey in foods, beauty products,
etc., but also to the sugar shortage.
In spite of the fact that, shortly
after the turn of the century, one out
of every 120 of the entire population
of the country was engaged in the
industry, about 95 per cent of the
honey consumed at that time came
from Latin America. Today with
the increase in consumption and the
loss of the European markets, the
United States once more has turned
to Latin America, to help it face its
enormous demand for honey.
Sixteen American Republics are
known to produce honey to some ex
tent. Among these, Argentina, Bra
zil, Chile, Gutemala and Cuba are
above average in their output of that
commodity. It has been said that
Argentina’s ideal climate and flora
have made that country come close
to occupying first place in the list
of producers of fine honey.
The province of Buenos Aires,
where the thistle and the thorn grow
wild and thick, produces a large
amount of nectar and pollen. In
other provinces flow’ers grow in pro
fusion and the sw’eet-smelling orange
groves are a definite asset.
Perhaps the most productive of all
is the region of the upper valley of
the Rio Negro where fruit orchards
and fields of alfalfa stretch out for
miles and miles.
The Argentine Government en
courages the industry by helping the
bee keepers introduce newr methods.
Honey is in so great a demand in
Argentina that some has still to be
imported from neighboring Chile, a
country which, in 1941, exported
nearly 250 metric tons of that pro
duct, although bees were only intro
duced there from Italy at the end
of the JXIXth century.
A sppc’al effort has been made by
the Department of Agriculture of
Brazil to develop the industry of
apiculture in that country, modern
facilities permitting the transporta
tion of honey to convenient shipping
points. Wild honey is found abund
ly in Nicaragua while the Guatemalan
game is promised. Following is the
Bluffton line-up: R. Patterson and
Hawk, forwards Hauenstein, center
Woods and Amstutz, guards.
The Orange Township Woman’s
club was organized at the home of
Mrs. IL D. Zehrbach, Wednesday af
ternoon with the object of community
welfare. Mrs. H. D. Zehrbach was
elected president Mrs. Dora Mont
gomery, vice president Mrs. John
Warren, sec’y Mrs. John Ewing,
treas. Other officers were Mrs. Jesse
Battles, Mrs. Geo. Rupright, Mrs.'J.
W. Shilling, Mrs. Chester Thompson,
Mrs. Fred Battles, Mrs. John Daft,
Mrs. J. R. Fisher will arrange the
first program.
Harold Bogart was operated on for
appendicitis at the Sanitarium.
Mrs. Nettie Jennings returned from
a trip visiting friends in the western
states.
Mayor J. J. Sutter has made a
proclamation declaring the week of
March 4 to 11 to be celebrated as
baby week in Bluffton.
The Community Ass’n has set up
permanent quarters in the Hauenstein
block.
Prehistoric Peoples In Mexico Enjoyed
Honey, Recent Excavations Disclose
product is of high quality and used
to command a high price in Euro
pean markets.
It is counted among the important
exportable products of that country.
The bee was first introduced in Cuba
in the year 1763 by Bishop Pedro
Morell. In 1815 the first important
shipment of honey through the port
of Havana seems to have taken place
and the industry subsequently in
creased to the point where a century
later it was said that, after sugar
Today, thanks to the island’s flora
and climate, many apiaries are locat
ed over its territory and it produces
enough wax and honey for home con
sumption and an export business
W’hich, in 1939, totalled $750,000.
To detect the presence of added
commercial sugar in money, a test is
made which consists of combining a
certain solution to the product. If
this mixture turns red, the honey is
adulterated.
That Cuban honey invariably took
a mysterious pinkish color when
thus treated, was a puzzle to its
buyers and a source of intense mor
tification to honest Cuban apicultors.
The riddle was solved when it was
remembered that bees in Cuba fed on
sugar-cane flowers, principally, and
so were the innocent culprits in this
case of “natural adulteration”.
With the present trend towards a
greater use of honey in a large
number erf products, the demand in
the Western Hemisphere has become
more important. There is no doubt
that this, together with the reopen
ing of the markets in the rest of the
world in the postwar era, will serve
as an incentive for a greater pro
duction of honey throughout the
Americas.
Three Weeks Drought
Brings Crisis In Crops
(Continued from page 1)
aches over the last three months be
cause of a surplus of eggs.
Corn Affected
Corn, normally one of the last
crops to show the effect of prolonged
dry weather, is beginning to droop,
and many fields seeded late in the
season will need plenty of rain at
the right time during the rest of the
summer to assure the making of a
crop in the fall.
Continued heat, with temperatures
in the “nineties” nearly every day
has further aggravated the situation,
and the hot sun beating down day
after day has baked the surface of
cultivated fields into a hard crust
that light showers cannot help to
any appreciable extent.
Victory gardeners have been
particularly hard hit by the drought,
and the longer dry w’eather lasts
the greater their loss in vegetables
will become. After three unusually
good seasons of growing w’eather,
town gardeners had almost forgotten
the headaches that a reversal could
bring, and altho there has been
some watering of garden plots, for
the most part there has been no
way of providing relief for parched
vegetables.
Prevailing conditions have no
parallel in recent history, and offer
a marked contrast to this time last
year when the area was suffering
from flood water conditions. Last
June and July brought unusually
heavy rainfall, but this summer the
last soaking rain was on June 2,
and the last shower was on June 23.
The only advantage resulting from
the drought has been the uninter
rupted harvest of w'heat, the peak of
which will be past this week, but
rainfall now’ would be welcomed by
the farmers even at the expense of
delaying the completion of the
harvest.
Money can be lost in more w’ays
than w’on.
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WA$ BAKED BY AN
ENGLISH MILLER
BECAUSE A
NOBLEMAN
DEMANDED
BREAD TO
MATCH HIS
TABLECLOTH
/Pretzels
WERE OP 10/HALLY
GIFTS FOR GOOD CH!'. TIN
SHAPED TO PEPPESE/JT
ARMS EOlDED AH PRAYER
Richland Center
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher
and sons spent Thursday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fridley of
Lima spent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. Sam Kohler and daughter
Madaline.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller and
mfaily and Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Cuppies spent Sunday visiting rela
tives in Springfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Faye Isham spent
Tuhrsday evening at the Ed and
Francis Marquart home.
Mr. Calvin Schaublin of Rising
Sun spent a couple of days last
week at the Walter Schaublin home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerber and
family spent Sunday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Basinger and
daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher
and family spent Friday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughters.
Miss Rachel Schaublin spent a
few’ days last week with Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Boutwell.
Mrs. Norman King and Mrs. Hood
and children of Detroit spent Friday
evienng at the Rhuel Kohler home.
J. F. Rowers of Ottawa spent
Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Green and sons.
Miss Irene Snider of Ft. Wayne
spent the past week at the Warren
Americans
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, tfflTO
Aussies Camp on Mountain Top
ON SHAGGY RIDGE, 5,000 feet above the New Guinea jungle awamps, Australian! make themselves at home after
driving out the Japs. This was a key point in the drive to Bogadjim. For weeks the Japs held to this pinnacle and de
layed the advance of Aussie infantry. Fine cooperation on the part of American zVir Force bombers end some accurate
grenade and rifle work by the Auaeiea finally turned the trick
Japs Nabbed on Burma Front
TO BE CAPTURED ALIVE is considered a disgrace by the Japanese and they usually fight suicidally rather than
give in. This makes this picture unusual. The British tommies are bringing in these three for questioning.
PiX
will eat
400.000,000 POUNDS
OF FRANKFURTERS
THIS YEAR
WAS ONCE l/SED
ds MONEY
IN CHINA
SIDE DISH
CAESAR NAMED
THE SALMON. He
saw the fish leaping
in a Gaul river, ate
some, and named it
Sa I mo from Latin
Satire, meaning to
I leap. U. S. LAST
YEAR CONSUMED
il 250.000.000 LBS. OF
BREAD, a 12% gain
I ince Pearl Harbor,
eport A&P Food
I Stores.
Moser home and Dickie Moser of
Columbus Grove also spent a couple
days at the Moser home.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. James and son
Victor and Mrs. Edna Anspach of
Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Nis
wander and son Dean, Mrs. Racine
Warren and son Charles and Mrs.
James Suter were Saturday even
ing supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Schaublin and daughter Ra h
el. Evening callers w’ere Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Schaublin and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marquart
entertained Friday evening for sup
per, Cpl. and Mrs. Clyde Klingler.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Moser and
son Kenneth spent Sunday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Luginbuhl.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Long of
Beaverdam spent Sunday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmer
man and daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green and
sson spent last Tuesday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Creegar and
sons.
Mrs. Edna Anspach of Columbus
is visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Walter Schaublin and family.
Miss Thelma Leaman of Spring
field is visiting this w’eek at the
Rhuel Kohler home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stonehill,
Mrs. Elia Dillman, Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Dillman, and daughter Mari
lyn, S/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Dillman
•y
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and son Larry of North Carolina
spent Friday evening at the Amos
and Weldon Luginbuhl home.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hochstettler
and family attended the Zimmerman
reunion at Findlay park, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son Melvin spent Sunday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Crawford
and family of Ada.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed Mayberry, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Core and family of
Col. Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford
Gratz spent last Wednesday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz.
Mrs. Edna Anspach of Columbus,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schaublin and
daughter Rachel called Sunday even
ing at the Jess Cummins home and
Ernest Gratz home.
Mr. John Boegli of Ottawa called
Monday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Gratz.
Yank Soldiers Popular
With Children
(Continued from page 1)
The family often sends one of the
youngsters down to the corner store
to get a supply for the evening meal.
Candy
for Children
“Only children get candy or sweets
in England. They are rationed to
what would amount to six five-cent
bars per month. Little wonder that
every English kid greets you with
“Any candy, Andy?” or “Any gum,
Chum?”. The Yanks are quite gen
erous and naturally very popular
with the youngsters.
“Bicycling seems to be a national
phobia. Almost everyone rides a
bike and it isn’t unusual to see a
woman of 70 years cycling to the
village market.
“The English really go in for uni
forms. Every town or village of any
size has its bobbies in their digni
fied regalia. Bright buttons, white
gloves, neatly tailored dark blue uni
forms and high-crowned bobby hel
met present an austere appearance.
The postmen also are regaled in
fancy dress.
“It is easy to spot the country
gentleman, an aristocratic land
owner, who frequently is an Earl or
Lord. He offers a debonair appear
ance with his brightly colored tweed
jacket, knickers, bright hose, checked
cap or feathered headpiece and the
ever-present walking stick. He in
variably smokes a fancy pipe.
“England and the Isles are, famous
for their sheep-herding dogs. At the
slightest gesture or word from their
master they will move with speed
and precision to guide and control
large flocks with almost human un
derstanding.
Hollywood Films
“The cinemas here play mostly
Hollywood fare augmented occasion
ally by an English film. They have
four different prices for different
parts of the theatre and present only
one showing nightly. A fair seat
costs at least 35 cents. Customers
may smoke. The British seem to en­
joy Western films and mystery
stories in the provinces.
"It appears that England is al
most a generation behind the United
States in economic and social con
ditions. Wages are relatively low
and taxes high in comparison. Wages
for miners and railroad men, for ex
ample, vary from $14 to $20 per
week, yet food and clothing prices
are as high here as in the States.
“Few farmers own their own land.
It is usually held by a Lord or Earl
leased on a 99-year basis. The land
is passed on to the owners’ legal
heirs, and the man who tills the soil
can only look forward to a renewed
lease at its expiration.
Quaint Homes
“Homes are usually built of stone
and« have thatched roofs. They have
a quaint, almost antique appearance,
yet are very attractive.
“Electric refrigerators, ranges,
electric irons and modern bathroom
facilities are practically unknown to
the typical rural resident. Automo
miles are owned only by those in the
higher financial brackets, and most
of the cars are about the size of an
Austin or a Willys.
“Educational facilities for the
masses are provided only up to 14
years. Usually only the landed gent
ry and professional classes can afford
to send their children to academies
or universities.”
Settlement
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Neuenschwander, on Sunday
evening at the Community hospital
at Bluffton. Mrs. Bachman of Iowa,
is doing housework at the Neuen
schwander home.
Mrs. Milo Lora and sons took her
sister, Mrs. Francis Amstutz and
daughter Anita and Nancy and her
mother Mrs. Edwin Luginbuhl as far
as Angola, Ind., on Tuesday, where
they will visit with the Rev. and
Mrs. Allen A mstutz and family until
Thursday morning when they will
continue their homeward journey to
Wisner, Nebraska.
Another Hancock serviceman
sacrificed his life for his country.
Pfc. Minard G. Deeds, U. S. Marines
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Deeds of Rawson. His mother is
the former Miss Elizabeth Garmat
ter. Pfc. Deeds was killed in action
in the Pacific war theatre, according
to word received by his parents last
week.
Mrs. Milo Lora, rendered a special
number in music at the Singspiration
at the First Baptist church in Ada
conducted by Rev. Dale Summers, of
Kenton on Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hilty and
daughter Wendolyn and Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Hilty and daughter Janice
were Sunday visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gottshall in
Toledo.
Miss Elma Sprunger of Berne, Ind.,
visited in the Rev. P. J. Boehr home
last Sunday.
In honor of James Schey S. K. 3
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A.
Schey entertained in their home at
Sunday dinner, Beverly Hainby, Mr.
and Mrs. John Schey and son Lowell,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schey and son
Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schey and
Eloise Schey, Mrs. Eugene Leinsetter
and daughter Patty, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Ward and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Foster Barr and family all of
Leipsic, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Rankey and family of Rawson, Miss
Wava Plotts and Mrs. Paul Schey of
Findlay, Mr. and Mrs. Esley Bundy,
Delta Mr. and Mrs. Robert Charles
and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Charles.
Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs.
Bracy Crawfis and family of Raw
son and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kes
sler.
Due to difficulties in travel it is
reported that in all probability the
General Conference of the Mennonite
churches which was to convene at
Newton, Kansas, may be postponed
until next year.
Janet Soldner, formerly of Berne,
Ind., who has recently been accepted
as a missionary to South America
will be a guest at the Girls’ Mission
ary society at the Rev. D. J. Unruh
home Wednesday evening.
David Dean Amstutz of Fort Ben
ning, Georgia is spending a ten day
furlough at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rickly and
family of Liberty Center were Sun
day visitors in the home of Mrs.
Samuel Rickly.
THURSDAY. JULY 13, 190
Mrs. Minnie Luginbihl accompanied
her daughter, Mrs. Francis Amstutz
and daughters Anita and Nancy to
their home at Wisner, Nebraska,
Tuesday. Enroute to Nebraska they
expect to visit some time in the
home of Rev. and Mrs. Allen Am
stutz and family at Angola, Indiana.
Growing crops are much in need
of rain in this section of the country.
Light showers W’ednesday morning
were not sufficient to afford material
relief.
Some disastrous fires have resulted
while combining wheat during the
past week. Large acreage have been
totally destroyed and heavy losses
have been sustained.
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS
Medical or health services re
quired in Ohio by migratory agri
cultural workers who cannot pay for
the needed attention can be paid for
from farm labor f/inds provided
under Ohio Public Law No. 229 if
the employer of such a worker sub
mits a proper certificate to the
State.
Applications of nitrogen on Ohio
hay fields at a rate of 41 pounds
per acre increased timothy yields
from the 1.09 tons on unfertilized
soil to 2.06 tons where the nitrogen
was applied. The increase of hay
secured on fields with more than 25
per cent of legumes was 0.38 ten
per acre.
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We’re all in favor of the "pause that
refreshes"—and we’re in favor of
those open-toed shoes that are so
comfortable. However, to wear them,
feet must be free of corns and
callouses.
NYAL CORN REMOVER
stops pain almost at once—a few
applications peel off the dead skin
layers and get at the root of the
trouble. Then you can wear shoes
that fit, be happy when you walk and
keep your feet off your mind!
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