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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944
Leaves For Camp
In Pennsylvania
Allen County Draft Board No. 3
announced this week that David
Smucker of Bluffton left last Thurs
day to report to the conscientious ob
jector camp at Sideling Hill camp,
Fulton county, Pa., where he was
assigned.
Service
ffirmiKi-
W. H. Gratz Family Shoe Store
Store Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday 8 a. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Closed all day Thursday.
Efficiency Integrity Progress
Ambulance Service
Phone 222-W 239 S. Main St.
Vaccinate Worm
Keep your poultry healthy and ready to lay by vacci
nating for pox and worming with Ovumix in the feed or
Salsburys Rotacaps.
A complete line of remedies and supplies.
Highest prices paid for eggs and poultry.
JORG HATCHERY
Phone 182W
Agricultural Limestone
from Piqua, Ohio
ARTIFICALLY DRIED IN BAGS
Carload Enroute—Get it off Car at Special Price
CLYDE WARREN
Phone 546-R Bluffton, O.
WANTED
EMERGENCY HELP
We need men on a temporary (as well as full-time)
basis to process emergency export shipments con
signed to the fighting fronts.
This emergency is expected to continue for the
next four to six weeks and additional help during that
period will enable the Signal Corps to obtain equip
ment badly needed now.
Jobs are open in the following departments:
PACKING & CRATING
DEGREASING
PAINT SHOP
See Arden Baker or Coach A. C. Burcky
or Telephone 323-W
The Triplett Electrical
Instrument Co.
BLUFFTON, OHIO
Southernaires To
Sing Here Oct. 19
The Southernaires, a noted negro
male quartet, will present a concert
in the Ramseyer chapel at Bluffton
college on Thursday, October 19, it
was announced this week by Prof.
Russell A. Lantz. The quartet is a
well known concert group which re
cently sang at Lima Memorial hall.
within keeping
of present day conditions.
Basinger Funeral Home
G. W. Comb* Licensed Funeral Director in €hare
during absence of Stanley E. Basinger, who la
serving our country in its Armed Forceo.
THE BLUFF
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
B. F. BIERY, Business Mgr.
C. A. BIERY, Editor
Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio,
by th ^Bluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
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six months, $1.25 anywhere in U. S.
Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Mrs. Susan Galloway visited in To
ledo, Sunday.
Adjustable window screens 45c
each at Basinger’s Furniture store.
Mrs. Ella McHenry and Mrs. Trevta
Schmidt spent Tuesday and Wednes
day visiting in Continental.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stettler spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs. P. A.
Wiebe and daughter in Willard.
Special, baby crib, metal springs
and waterproof crib mattress all for
$21.95. Gamble Stores Auth. Dealer.
Harland Swank of the Navy will ar
rive this w’eek on leave to visit his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Swank.
Mrs. Roy Pilkington of Westerville
was a week end guest at the Noah
Niswander home on South Lawn aven
ue.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hilbish and
sons of Cuyahoga Palls are spending
a w’eek with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Steam® and family.
Miss Mary' Stearns of Spring Street
has returned from Camp Mimwanca,
Mich., where she spent two weeks at
tending a youth conference.
Lt. Wade Muinma, stationed at the
Army air base in Syracuse, N. Y.,
spent the latter part of last w’eek
here with his father, Carl Mumma.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Miller and dau
ghter of East Lansing, Mich., visited
the past w’eek at the home of his
mother, Mrs. George Miller of College
road.
Only two of those new modem ice
boxes left at the special low price of
$49.50. Basinger’s Furniture store.
Miss Lucille Hilty, Red Cross staff
aide at Crile General hospital, Cleve
land, spent the week end w ith her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hilty of
Spring street.
Miss Catherine Niswander of Phil
adelphia is visiting at the home of her
brother, C. F. Nisw’ander of South
Main street and other relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Griffith and
daughter Corrine of Schenectady, N.
Y., are visiting at the home of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Griffith
of South Lawn avenle.
Mrs. Susie Kennedy who was en
gaged in nursing for the past three
years left Monday for a week’s visit
in Detroit and from there will go to
her home an Indianapolis.
Only two of those new modem ice
boxes left at the special low price of
$49.50. Basinger’s Furniture store.
Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Cahill and lit
tle daughter of Cleveland visited their
parents the first of the week, Mr. and
Mrs. Orlo Marshall of Rockport and
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cahill of Jefferson
street.
Sunday visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Griffith of South Lawm
avenue were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Grif
fith and son John of Delaware and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Griffith of Schenec
tady, N. Y.
Miss Roberta Biery, civilian em
ploye of the Army Signal Corps, is
home from Washington to spend a
two weeks’ vacation with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Biery' and family
of South Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Deppler of
Columbus visited the first of the week
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Depp
ler of South Main Street. Mrs. Wayne
Deppler of Findlay was a visitor at
the Deppler home here Sunday.
Edw’in Sutter of Detroit visited rel
atives and friends in the Bluffton and
Pandora district the first of the week.
Sutter who attended Bluffton college
35 years ago is now connected with a
large department store in Detroit.
Mrs. Eli Fett of Bentley road has
as guests the past week her nephew
Rev. Weldon Klopfenstein, Baptist
minister of Momence, Ill., and Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Berlingcourt of Mishaw’a
ka, Ind., and their daughter Mrs. Es
sie Wakenshaw of Chicago.
Mrs. Harry Rhoads of Tiffin, Mr.
and Mrs. Eldon Tscheigg and their
son, Pvt. Carroll Tscheigg of Camp
Rucker, Alabama, spent last Wednes
day at the honte of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Read of South Lawn avenue. Mrs.
Rhoads and Mrs. Tscheigg are sisters
of Mrs. Read.
Five gallons Gamble’s Super Qual
ity’ paint $14.45. Gamble Stores Auth.
Dealer.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Johnson of
Drumright, Okla., visited at the homes
of M. S. Stewart and Roy Marshall
the latter part of last week. Mrs.
Johnson will be remembered as the
formdr Gladys Gordon, eldest daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon, form
er Orange township residents. The
family lived here about thirty-six
years ago when Gordon was a fore
man for the Ohio Oil company.
Clark Kidd left Saturday for an ex
tended visit in Texas. He accompan
ied Otto Kidd of Mercedes, Texas,
who was here the past week and vis
ited last Thursday at the M. S. Stew
art home in Orange township. Others
who called at the Stewart home were:
Mrs. Bessie Hefner of Lafayette Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Mayberry, daughter
Rose Lee and Reed Mayberry’ of Col.
Grove and Mr. and Mrs. John Norma
maker and son Jimmie of Great
Lakes.
TON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Misses Marjorie Canaan and Marie
Long of Ada were week end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. James Clark of Lawn
avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lantz of Cam
pus Drive are spending three weeks
with relatives in Nappanee and Howe,
Indiana.
Mrs. Lester Lehman of Berne,
Ind., was a Tuesday night sup er
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clark
of Grove street.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Erskine of
Marion called at the home of Mrs.
Mary Matter of Garau street, Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Donaghue of
Fremont visited Sunday at the homes
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Triblehom and
Mrs. N. W. Cuningham.
Karen Hauenstein of Marion is vis
iting at the home of her grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hauenstein
of South Jackson street.
Red Seal cedarized garment bags,
protects your clothing against moths.
Bags are handy box style, 97c each.
Basinger’s Furniture store.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Gratz of
Ypsilanti, Mich., spent the w’eek end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Gratz north of Bluffton.
Mrs. Rosa Bowsher, who has been
caring for her cousin Mrs. Ella
Long, of North Main’ street, re
turned to her home in Lima, Tues
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bogart and
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Short have re
turned from a visit at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Baumgartner in
Mishawaka, Ind.
Will the person who stole the
green fountain pen and pencil set
Sunday from the Buckeye dressing
room please return same to Don
Badertscher, 356 S. Jackson street.
Mrs. Edith Mann returned Sun
day night from a visit in Ashtabula
and Cleveland. She was accompan
iend by her grandson, Maynard
Mann, Jr., of Cleveland who will
spend two weeks here.
Mr. ami Mrs. John Everett and
family of Beaverdam visited at the
home of Mrs. Lydia Badertscher and
Milton Badertscher, Sunday. Mis.
Ralph Diller of Lima visited at the
Badertscher home, Saturday.
Mrs. Cecil Reynolds and son Da
vid Ray of Albuquerque, New’ Mex
ica, returned to their home Monday
after spending three months with
Mrs. Mary Matter of Garau street
and other relatives and friends.
LaVerne Morrison of Findlay visit
ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eli
Deppler on South Main street, Sun
day. He is recovering from a broken
wrist as the result of a fall in a
Findlay drug store where he is em
ployed.
On your next shopping trip re
member to get Powderene, the
wonder rug clearer and Mirra Moth
Proof, positive protection against
moths. Both at Basinger’s
Furniture store. tf
Misses Carlotte Morey of Cadiz,
Kathryn Lust of McCutchensville and
Mrs. Roy Pilkington were Sunday din
ner guests at the Noah Niswander
home on South Lawn avenue. After
noon callers were: Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Moore and family and Miss
Cordelia Hiestand.
Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Dilley and
sons, Frank Jr. and Jimmy, of Ath
ens, are guests at the home of Mrs.
J. S. Steiner and will remain here
for several weeks. David and Rich
ard Baumgartner, twin sons of Dr.
and Mrs. D. A. Baumgartner, of
Cleveland, also are visiting with
Mrs. Steiger.
Diller ambulance removals: Mrs.
Eliza Fett from her home on South
Main street to Bluffton hospital
Mrs. Richard Arnold and infant son
from Lima Memorial hospital to
their home east of Beaverdam Mrs.
Herbert Reichenbach and infant son
from Bluffton hospital to their home
northwest of Bluffton Mrs. Dennis
Diller, from Lima Memorial hospital
to her home north of Bluffton.
County Tennis Meet
To Be Played Here
Bluffton will be host to the Allen
county tennis tournament again this
year, with tourney play starting Sat
urday afternoon on the Bluffton city
courts.
Entries will be received by W. A.
How’e, of Bluffton, until 6 p. m.
Friday, and pairings will be made
that night.
Competition in the county matches
w’ill be in men’s singles, women’s
singles, junior singles and men’s
doubles
Carl Hutchins, wrho wron the men’s
singles title last year and retained
the county trophy by winning it for
the third time, will be a competitor
again this year, as also will be Nate
Ganger, runnerup last season.
Other defending champions who
w’ill play here are Hutchins and Lou
Zeamans in men’s doubles and June
Widner, women’s singles.
Bluffton Tennis club members
who are serving as a committee in
charge of 4the tournament include
Clair Fett, Homer Bracy and Mar
garet Detwiler.
Trophies for the men’s singles
champion and runnerup are donated
by the Lima News, and the Coca
Cola Bottling Works of Lima is pro
viding the women’s trophy.
All matches will be ended by
August 27, and tournament games
will be played on the local courts
every night next week.
News Want-Ads Bring Results.
Club*, Jodgei
and Societies
Garden Club
The Garden club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Noah Zuercher, Friday
night at 8 o’clock.
The program will consist of a book
review by Mrs. P. E. Whitmer and a
review of a garden scrap book. Mem
bers are asked to bring any suitable
material for the scrap book.
Progressive Mothers Club
The Progressive Mothers club will
meet with Mrs. Helen Anderson on
Tuesday night, Aug. 29.
The program: Devotionals, Lillian
Yoakam Toys, Lucille Habegger
Stories and Poems for Children, Ev
elyn Benroth Polio, Ruth Hamilton.
To Wed Saturday
Wedding of Dr. Robert Oyer, son
of Mrs. Adella Oyer of Bluffton and
Miss Esther Louise Henschen, daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Henschen
of New Knoxville will take place Sat
urday night at 7 o’clock in the Re
formed church in New* Knoxville.
Rev. Bode, pastor of the church will
officiate.
Dr. Oyer is resident physician at
Lima Memorial hospital and his bride
elect is head nurse of the hospital’s
pediatric department.
Farm Bureau Picnic
Annual picnic of the Allen County
Farm Bureau will ‘be held Friday at
Lima City Park. A basket dinner at
noon will be followed by games and
contests. Harry’ Culbreth of the Ohio
Farm Bureau organization department
will be the principal speaker. Farm
Bureau advisory council members, the
youth groups, Co-op patrons and Farm
Bureau members are invited.
Richland Grange
Family night will be observed at
the meeting of Richland Grange next
Tuesday night at 8:4. Roll call will
be answered with homonyms.
Five More Added To
H. S. Roll Of Honor
Names of four additional men who
left last week for induction into the
armed forces have been added to the
Bluffton High school Roll of Honor.
They are Donavin Lee Sommer,
Class of 1936 Wilmer John Leh
man, Class of 1942 William Pugh
Mericle, Class of 1944, and Richard
Charles Rockey, Ex-class of 1945.
Neil Schmidt, ex-45, in navy. Ray
mond Holden is in the marines in
stead of army as previously stated.
Cadet Robert Watkins
Ends Flight Training
Aviation Cadet Robert R. Wat
kins, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Watkins of Spring street has
completed his basic flight training
at the AAF Pilot School, Gunther
Field, Montgomery, Alabama, it was
announced by the commandant of
cadets at this field.
Cadet Watkins received his pri
mary training at Dorr Field, Fla.
While at Gunther Field, Cadet
Watkins has logged approximately
70 hours in basic training ships.
Those flying hours include cross
country navigation flights, night
flights and formation flying. His
advanced training will be given at
another school in the vast AAF
Training Command.
Rev. Unruh Leads St.
John Singspiration
Rev. D. J. Unruh will be leader of
the Singspiration at the St. John
Mennonite church, near Pandora,
next Sunday night, his last appear
ance before leaving for Kansas.
Rev. Dale Sommers has been con
tacted as the Singspiration leader for
the last Sunday in August.
Rationing Calendar
So that you may keep in mind the
numerous important war-time ra
tioning dates, the Bluffton News i
publishing this weekly reminder:
MEATS, BUTTER. CHEESE.
CANNED MILK—Book 4 red
stamps A-8, thru Z-8, A-5, B-5
stamps A-8, thru Z-8 and A-5
thru D-5, good for 16 points each
under token rationing indefinite
ly-
PROCESSED FOODS—Book 4
Blue stamps A-8. thru Z-8 and
A-5 thru F-5, good for 10 points
each under token rationing in
definitely.
GASOLINE—Stamp 12 in A
book good for 3 gallons of gaso
line thru September 21.
SUGAR—Stamps 30, 31 & 32
in Book 4 good for 5 pounds of
sugar indefinitely. Stamp 40
good for 5 pounds under can
ning allotments until Feb. 28,
1945. Stamp 33 good for five
pounds Sept. 1.
Spare stamp 37 must ac
company applications for addi
tional canning sugar asked from
rationing boards.
SHOES—Airplane stamp 1 and
2 in Ration Book 3 good in
definitely.
Reunions
The 22nd annual reunion of the
Rote and Zearbaugh families will be
held at the Orange Center school
n Sunday, Aug. 20. Mrs. Levi
Gable. Sec.
The 37th annual Huber reunion
will be held at Richland Grange hall
on Sunday, August 20. Basket din
ner at 12:30 p. m. Bring individual
service. Mary Mae Huber, Sec.
The 17th annual Augsburger re
union will be held Sunday, August
20 at Lafayette park. Margaret
Griffith, secretary.
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop No. 82
By Morris Groman
Thirteen members of the troop met
at Gaiffe’s grove Monday evening
where they camped overnight. They
were accompanied by Scoutmaster
Wood row Little.
Ralph Stager and Marvin Bronson
have completed their tenderfoot test
requirements and are eligible to join
the troop. Their addition will make
a total of 27 scouts in the troop.
Waste paper will be collected again
this Saturday afternoon by both of
Bluffton’s Boy Scout troops. The
scouts will meet at the town hall at
1 p. m. to start the collection rounds
of the town.
Maynard Pogue returned last week
after spending five weeks at Camp
Defiance on the camp staff.
APPRECIATED
I wish to thank my many friends
for the greeting cards, flowers and
good wishes received while I was a
patient in the hospital.
Noah Basinger.
WANT-ADS
Wanted to rent—House in Bluff
ton. E. J. Wahlie, Bluffton Hatch
ery. Call phone 446-T.
Wanted to buy—Second hand studio
couch. Call phone 513-R.
Wanted—Women to do family wash
ing. Call Bluffton phone 209-W’.
Wanted—Motion picture camera.
Bluffton Community Sportsmen’s
club. See Gene Benroth.
Paper hanging. L. R. Bauman, Rt.
1, Ottawa. Gilboa phone. 18
Save up to 30% on gasoline with
a Varcon Gas SAV-R. Operates
automatically on the super charge
principle. Fits all makes of cars,
only $2.69. Satisfaction guaranteed
or your money refunded. On a
thirty day trial. Get yours today at
Gamble Stores Auth. Dealer.
See me for cleaning septic tanks,
i cesspools, vaults and cisterns. Modern
equipment. Write P. O. Box 1,
Bluffton. 17
Worm your chickens the easy way.
Put Ovumix in the feed. Get it at
Jorg’s hatchery. tf
Notice to owners—Register your
farm or city property for sale with
me, I have a list of cash buyers
for good farms. Thirty years suc
cessful real estate experience. Long
term farm loans at 4% interest.
Terms to suit you. E. D. Collins,
Masonic Bldg., Lima. tf
See me for monuments of all kinds.
Samuel Bixel, representing the Lima
Marble Co., 409 S. Main St., Bluffton.
Phone 429-W. tf
$200 reward—$160 reward will be
paid by the undersigned for any in
formation leading to the conviction
of the thief or thieves who forced
an entrance into the farm house of
my father the late John Boedicker
also $100 reward will be paid for
any information concerning or lead
ing to the whereabouts of the ar
ticles stolen from this house and
their return in an undamaged con
dition. Asa Boedicker, Ada, Ohio,
Route 3.
For sale—Extracted honey also
Hereford sow to farrow soon. How
ard Rickly, 3 miles south on Bentley
road.
For sale—Console radio. Inquire
109 E. Elm St.
For sale—Tomatoes also pure sug
ar cane syrup. Bring baskets for to
matoes. R. A. Boaz, Beaverdam phone
343. 18
For sale—Globe Dutch oven, com
bined coal and wood range with table
top, in A-l condition. Mrs. Harry
Yant, Beaverdam phone 433.
For sale—P o a o e s. Clarence
Steiner, Bluffton phone. tf
For sale—Potatoes. Harold Stein
er, 1 mile west on Grove street road,
then left to first place on left hand
side. Bluffton phone 626-Y. tf
For sale—Eating and cooking ap
ples also vinegar. No Sunday sales.
W. G. Carr, Bluffton phone.
For sale—500 White Rock pullets
also large flock of yearling Leghorn
hens, extra good. Clayton Bucher 2’2
miles west of Bluffton.
For sale—Potatoes 75c to $1.25 per
half bushel. Sam Schey, 5 miles north
on College road. Phone 314-T.
For sale—Building 10 by 20 feet,
suitable for hen house. Call Bluff
ton phone 431-T.
For sale—Small outbuilding suit
able for tool or poultry house. Mrs.
Paul Studler, 224 S. Jackson street.
For sale—White Electric sewing
machine desk model, new condition
also slide trombone. Lloyd Brauen
141 N. Jackson street.
For sale—Day bed, opens to full
size bed also drop leaf table and
small kitchen cabinet. Call Bluffton
phone 578-Y.
Lost—Ration book No. 4. Finder
please return to Mrs. Dora Locher,
503 S. Jackson St. 19
PAGE FIVE
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MUNSON R. BIXEL, M. D.
Office Hours: 8:30-10 A. M.:
1-S P. M. 7-8 P. M.
Office, 118 Cherry St.
Phone 12C-F Bluffton, O.
What Insurance
means to you
Insurance—wisely placed—is
the surest safeguard against
property loss. At a compara
tively nominal cost you can
protect what may represent the
investment of your life’s sav
ings against loss thru unfor
seen and unforeseeable hazards.
Insurance rates are still low—
better see about it today.
W. IUTZI
Insurance Agency
Fire Auto Bonds
Notice
I will receive sealed bids on
the Mrs. W. S. Dearth proper
ty on North Main St., Bluffton,
Ohio. Lot 156 ft. by 58* ft.,
with two houses. All bids to
be in by Aug. 31, 1944. I
reserve the right to reject any
or all bids.
■toy Rogers
RT. 1. BLUFTON. OHIO
WE BUY—
RAGS, PAPER
and IRON
Highest Prices Paid
PAUL SHULAW
Bluffton phone 578-Y
Among men who live in
work clothe® all day long,
this label
As
Advertised
in the
Saturday
Evening
Past
SHIRTS
PANTS
■W
Fred Gratz Store
qtAD theatre
1 ft Bluffton
THURS.-FRI.-SAT.
Walt Disneys
“Snow White and
The Seven Dwarfs”
SUN.-MON.
“SO PROUDLY
WE HAIL”
Veronica l^ake
Claudette Colbert
TUES.-WED.
“9 GIRLS”
with Ann Harding
NEXT WEEK
“A GUY
NAMED JOE”