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PAGE EIGHT
Armorsville
Mrs. Delta Hagerman, Mrs. Myrtle
Payne of Ada called Sunday after
noon on Miss Clarabel Owens and
Mrs. Sarah Oates and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clauss and fam-
BLUFFTON
ROLLER RINK
Corner N. Main & Elm Sts.
Skating Every, Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday Night,
7:30 to 10:30.
Old timers night, Wednes
day, 7:30 to 10:30.
Sunday Afternoons 2 to 4.
Rink available for private
parties on Monday and
Friday nights.
MRS. RAY CLARK
Notice!
The Amstutz
Cannery will
operate Friday,
October 6 for
the last day this
season
FARM
EQUIPMENT
IN STOCK—READY FOR
DELIVERY—NO
WAITING
McCormick-Deering Potato
Diggers
Clipper Fanning Mills
Celina All-metal Champion
Hog Feeders
Celina All-metal Stock
Tanks
McCormick-Deering Binder
Twine
Platform
Fairbanks-Morse
Scales
Fairbanks-Morse
Hammer
Mills
Tires
Rubber Tractor
Genuine Mobiloil Tractor
Oil & Grease
Genuine I-H-C Repairs
C. F. NISWANDER
McCormick-Deering Dealer
ily spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Tayleor and family of Criders
ville.
Mr. and Mrs. Hairy Moore and fam
ity spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Hall and family of Carey.
Ed Vermillion and daughter Alice,
Mr. and Mrs. John Good of Ada called
Sunday afternoon at the Levi Hauen
stein home.
Sgt. Lysle McCarty spent a three
day pass with his wife at the Ervin
Moser home.
Cpl. and Mrs. Robert Ewing of
Farmingdale, N. Y., spent Sunday and
Monday at the H. O. Hilty h^me.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ewing, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Young and family, Mrs.
Mabel Hilty were Sunday dinner
guests of H. O. Hilty and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cornwell, Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Klingler called Sun
day afternoon on Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Wiilkins and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty, Miss
Margaret Guider, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Guider and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Flem
ming and family of Ada, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Guider and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Guider and daughter of
Harrod spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Radcliff of near Mt. Vic
tory.
Mrs. Chas. Montgomery- called on
Mrs. Hattie Turner of near Ada Wed
nesday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ohlen Freedly of
Dunkirk spent Monday evening at the
H. O. Hilty home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clauss and family
called on Mrs. T. C. Boyd of Findlay,
Wednesday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Turner, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Hauenstein, Mr. and Mrs.
Roily Moser and family were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Levi
Hauenstein and son Ellis.
Sunday afternoon callers at the Er
vin Moser home were Ly-dia and Mary
Jane Blosser, Mrs. Edith Fox and son
Jimmy, Jean Hover and Mrs. Marjorie
Hover and son.
The L. A. S. and W. M. S. of the
Liberty Chapel church will meet with
Mrs. W. I. Moore, Thursday afternoon,
October 12th.
Cpl. and Mrs. Robert Ewing were
Monday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Ewing of Bluffton.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Motter of
Dayton, Mrs. Chas. Montgomery, Jr.
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and daughter
Sue, in honor of Sue’s 7th birthday.
Settlement
Mr. and Mrs. David Niswander,
Mr. and Mrs. John Nusbaum and
daughter Donna Jean, Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Niswander and daughter
Doris Ann spent Sunday in Mt. Cle
mens, Mich. Several Miller families
from Flint, Mich., also gathered in
the W. E. Miller home for a basket
dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Risser, of
Vaughnsville, are the parents of a
daughter Diana Charlene, born last
week at the Memorial hospital,
Lima. Mrs. Risser is the former
Miss Melvena Lugibill of Columbus
Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Zimmerly of
Orrville are spending this week vis
iting with their many relatives and
friends.
Amos Gerber who has been quite
ill again is slowly improving.
Dr. Raymond J. Schutz, of Indian
apolis, president of the State Life
Insurance Co. and an internation
ally known educator, traveler and
lecturer, will speak in the Findlay
high school auditorium this Wed
nesday evening.
Pvt. and Mrs. Victor Bucher of
Illinois who spent a week’s furlough
with their parents, returned to camp
again late Saturday evening.
WHILE YOU CAN'T REBUILD YOU CAN PROTECT
PROTECTION
MAKE THEM LAST
7*’ NOW THAT physical replacements are Impossible it is im«
portant to check up on your property screens, plaster walls, metal
flashings and gutters, hardwood floors, metal equipment, wooden
shingles or siding, foundations of concrete, brick or stone, so that
necessary maintenance work may be taken care of and properly
protected. For each, we have a Pittsburgh Live Paint specially
developed to give the longest possible service on that particular
type of surface.
Let us show you scientific tests which prove that the improved
“Vitolized Oils’’ (used to enrich Pittsburgh Paints) remain in the
paint film, keeping it young, elastic, LIVE retarding cracking,
peeling and blistering giving the extra protection your property
needs in wartime.
Pittsburgh Paints
Steinman Bros. Lumber Co.
Phone 360-W Bluffton, Ohio
Lucile and Louise, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Wenger of
Salem, Oregon, are spending several
weeks here visiting relatives and
friends.
Pvt. Ray Amstutz who has been
overseas service and now of late
a hospital at Battle Creek, Mich.,
at present spending several weeks
the home of his parents Mr. and
in
at
is
at
Mrs. Ezra Amstutz.
Mrs. Rev. Eli Steiner and two
sons, Mrs. eLinda Fett and Bernice
Zimmerman were
guests in the
home.
The members
Wenger family
enjoyed
of Mrs.
day in
of Mr.
Sunday dinner
Noah Hochstettler
of the late David
and their families
dinner at the home
a basket
Mary Miller and family Sun
honor of the two daughters
and Mrs. Wilbert Wenger
of Oregon. Ensign Donald and
Wenger and their son Tommy
have been at Little Creek, Va.,
also present for the occasion.
Mrs.
who
were
been
Mrs. Forrest Kessler has
sick for a
among the
days.
Mrs. Peter
Mrs. Paul
numbered
number of
Mr. and
Mr. and
Wayne county were here to be pres
ent at the golden wedding annivers
ary of Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck.
A great many relatives and friends
called at the Schneck home Sunday
afternoon to express their good
wishes and congratulations on this
memorable occasion.
Amstutz and
Amstutz of
Frank Porter who spent some
time visiting with his wife and the
Reno Oberly family the past week
became quite ill on his return to
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and is
at present a patient in a hospital
in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Suter and
son of Bellefontaine visited Sunday
with relatives in Pandora.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Habegger and
Noah Habegger attended the funeral
of Philip Tilmar at Nappanee, Ind.,
last Friday. Mr. Tilmar was the
husband of the former Ella Kohli,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Kohli.
Word has been received here re
cently of the serious illness of Mrs.
C. J. Ba singer at Mountain Lake,
Minnesota.
Ellen Bixel had the misfortune of
having a part of a finger taken off
one day last week while working at
the Amstutz cannery.
Dennis Diller is assisting as fire
man at the Wenger Sorghum press.
A large number from this section
of the country are attending he
Putnam county fair at Ottawa. Fine
exhibits in the various departments
are being displayed.
A heavy rain during Monday
I night marked the greatest rainfall
here since last May. Fields that
were sowed to wheat will be greatly
helped as a result of it.
The Amstutz Cannery is to oper
ate the last day of the season this
Friday.
Ben Amstutz is planning to have
his next hog sale October 17.
Mary Leichty of Berne, Indiana,
was a visitor in the Menno Augs
burger home over the week end.
Aneta Steiner of Chicago is
spending a two weeks’ vacation in
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hilty
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Herr and
family were Sunday dinner guests of
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Herr.
The Community meeting will be
held this Thursday night at the Paul
ding Center Community House in hon
or of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips
whos 50th wedding anniversary was
celebrated recently. Supper at 7:30
prompt. Everyone be on time. Pro
gram is in charge of Josie Huber,
Donna Barnes and Mildred Gleason.
Callers Monday afternoon of Mrs.
Paul Faze were Rhea Scoles and
Mary Lung. Mrs. Harvey Welty was
a caller last Friday.
Callers Sunday in the Willard Jen
nings home were Mrs. Avery Watt
and son of Lima Raymond Stratton
and daughter Marilyn, Mrs. Arthur
Bowers, Mrs. C. M. Gleason, Danny
and Marlene Gleason, Mr. and Mrs.
Winston Jennings and son Larry, Mr.
and Mrs. Clair Huber of Findlay, Mrs.
Clara Jennings of Beaverdam. Mrs.
Jennings is visiting a few days in her
son’s home.
The condition of Sam Barnes,
fell recently at the home of his
is reported as fair.
10
Amos
and other relatives.
Pleasant Hill
who
son,
Hill
The young people of Pleasant
church will meet in the Gleason home,
Wednesday evening.
Callers the past week of Mr. and
I Mrs. Russell Huber were Mrs. Bendell
Huber and daughter Anita, Mrs. Joy
Harris, Mrs. Mary Balmer, Mr. and
Mrs. Orton Statton, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Blosser and daughter Shirley and Mrs.
C. M. Gleason.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Blosser and dau
ghter Betty Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son McBain, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Win
gate were callers Sunday at the Ly
man Barnes home.
Word has been received this week
by his wife that Pvt. Burdell Huber is
now in Holland. His group was
among the first to arrive in Holland.
Since being sent over sesa Pvt. Huber
has been in England, France, Belgium
and now Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Stratton were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hirschfield of Lima. Adoline Grabe
was a Sunday caller in the Stratton
I home.
■UFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON. OHIO
EBENEZER MENNONITE
J. J. Esau, Supply Pastor
Thursday:
8:00 p. m. Bible study and Prayer
meeting.
Sunday:—
9:30 a. m.
10:30 a. m.
3:30 "Radio
Findlay, Ohio.
7:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
8:15 p. m. Preaching service.
p. m. Services in charge of
& Neal” who are herad over
Monday thru Friday.
Singspiration in charge of
& Neal”. Everyone welcome.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
W. L. Harmony, Pastor
a. m. Sunday school.
7:30 p. m. Holy Communion.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Ernest N. Bigelow, Pastor
Rockport:
Morning worship 9:30.
Church school 10:80
Mr. Nelson Wells Supt.
Bluffton:
Church school 10*:00
Mr. Norman A. Triplett, Supt.
Morning worship 11:00.
The Rev. Charles Donaldson will be
the preacher.
Wednesday, October 11, at 2 p. m.
Women’s Missionary society at the
home of Mrs. William Reichenbach.
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Rev. Robert R. Welch, Pastor.
Wednesday—7:30 Prayer Meeting.
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school.
10:30 Morning worship.
6:30 Prayer meeting.
7:00 Young Peoples’ meeting.
Children’s meeting in basement.
7:30 Evangelistic service.
This Sunday in
Sunday school
Morning worship.
Broadcast from WFIN,
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Sunday services at
Subject: Are Sin,
Death Real
hurrbesH
10:30 a. m.,
Disease, and
This society is a branch of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
J. N. Smucker, Pastor
9:30 a. m. Church school, with class
es for everyone.
10:30 a. m. The Worship service.
The Rev. Russel L. Mast of Bedmin
ster, Pa. will be guest minister.
6:30 The Intermed de Christian En
deavor.
7:30 The Junior Christian Endeavor.
7:30 The Evening senice. Prof. J.
P. Klassen will speak, and show pic
tures.
DEFENSELESS MENNONITE
Stanley Rupp, Pastor
Thursday
7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting. I Thes
salonians 1st Chapter.
Sunday:
9:30 Sunday school
10:30 Morning worship.
Rev. Harry Wood,
Orient for twenty-sev
7:30
“Frank
WLOK
9:30
“Frank
The
EVANGELICAL & REFORMED
CHURCHES
V. C. Oppermann, Pastor
Emmanuels
No sen-ices this Sunday. The peo
ple of Emmanuel’s are joining in the
Harvest Home and Rally Day Festi
val at St. John’s church in the morn
ing and evening. All are cordially in
vited to attend.
Choir rehearsal on Thursday- even
ing at 8:15 o’clock.
Catechism instruction will begin at
St. John’s church on Saturday morn
ing at 9:30 o’clock.
St. John’s
9:30 a. m. Church school and Rally
Day service.
10:45 a. m. Harvest Home Service,
Dr. Allen O. Miller of Heidelberg col
lege is the speaker.
8:00 p. m. Evening Worship, Rev.
Sunday
Restaurant
Schedule
Wilch’s and Pine’s Res
taurants will be open every
other Sunday from 7 to 9
a. m. and 11 a. m. to 2
p. m.
Beginning Oct. 8, Pine
Restaurant will be open.
Pine’s will also be open
every Sunday night from
5 p. m. to midnight.
H. C. Kellermeyer, Supt. of the Home
for the Aged at Upper Sandusky, will
be the speaker.
Choir rehearsal Thursday evening
at 7:30 o’clock.
Consistory of the church meets on
Thursday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
Ladies Aid meets on Thursday af
ternoon at 2:00 p. m. at the home of
Mrs. Caroline Matter.
Catechism instruction begins on Sat
urday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the
church.
You are cordially invited to wor
ship with
us.
Speaker—
isionary to the
n years.
METHODIST CHURCH
A. Weed, Minister
FIRST
J.
at 7:30 Wed-
Testimonial meeting
nesday evening.
The reading room at the ohurch
is open every Wednesday from 2:00
to 4:00 p. m. The public is invited
to all services and to visit the read
ing room.
Wednesday
7:30 p. m. County Rally of Youth
Fellowship, at Wesley- church, Lima.
Thursday:
7:00 p. m. Junior Choir rehearsal.
Sunday
9:30 a. m. Church school.
10:30 a. m. Morning worship. Ser
mon topic—“Looking Unto Jesus.”
10:30 a. m. October meeting of the
King’s Guards, downstairs.
6:30 p. m. Youth Fellowship even
ing meeting.
Pandora
The business houses closed here on
Friday afternoon during the football
game with Bluffton in which our team
scored 23 to 6. It is estimated that
the crowd surpassed the five hundred
mark.
Captain Sheldon Hall, of the Air
forces and who lives north of Pandora
several miles, on the Gilboa- Ottawa
road, is home on furlough from a
Florida camp. Captain Hall returned
home a year ago from the South Pa
cific area where he had some harrow
ing and narrow escapes from death,
being a drift on the ocean and res
cued by natives.
Mrs. J. A. Diehl and mother, Mrs.
Alexander, who have been visiting rel
atives at Akron, returned home last
week.
Mrs. Amos Hilty has charge of the
school cafeteria again this year. Miss
Grace Steiner, Home Economics teach
er is manager.
There is such a shortage of lumber
that prospective builders are dis
couraged, and some are purchasing
houses at an advanced price just to
own their own homes.
There is much talk of people at
eding the Putnam county fair this
week. Families are planning to have
“get together” reunions with basket
picnic like in years long ago.
It is reported that Dr. Milo B. Rice
and Robert Reese, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Reese, got together for a good
talk in Germany recently.
Pandora business men are planning
for their annual banquet to be held in
November.
Dale Snavely and family and Chas.
Anderson of Holgate spent the week
end at the Hiram Krohn home.
Spring chickens are being canned at
the cannery to send to our boys in the
Army Camps abroad.
Butter is very scarce, only one-half
pound to a customer.
Mrs. Milo Rice, Mrs. S. W. Steiner
and Mrs. H. L. Mitchell are the pro
gram committee for the P. T. A.
A number of Riley township roads
have been improved greatly by resur
facing.
Dortha Bridenbaugh heads the high
school student council as preskient
Ellen Risser, vice president Maurice
Schutz, secretary-treasurer Russell
Suter, reporter Mrs. Evelyn Hilty,
council
adviser.
Miss Clara Bracy entertained the
Pricilla Circle of the M. E. church,
Tuesday evening. Mrs. Laurel Bracy
is their leader.
Dale Welty, Gordon Lugibihl and
James Frey were recent inductees in
the army.
Daniel Schneck of Canton attended
the Schneck anniversary, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck cele
brated their golden wedding Sunday.
The anniversary dinner was served at
the home of their son and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Schneck. The re
ception was held at the couple’s own
home in the afternoon. Mr. Schneck,
a former Pandora business man was
bom near Dalton, Ohio. His wife,
Anna Basinger Sehneck is the daught
er of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter C.
Basinger who lived north east of Pan
dora. Both have been active in church
and community work.
Mrs. M. Sewell Pender of Miami,
Fla., attended the anniversary cele
bration of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Schneck.
Henry DeVore, who was Beverly
burned on the left shoulder and arm,
while working last week at the Otta
w*a cannery is improving slowly.
Little Frances Ellen, the infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. How-ard De
Vore, who lives north-east of Pandora,
recently was placed in a cast at hips
to keep the hip joint from slipping
out of place. She will have to wear
the cast for good many months.
Rev. Forrest Musser of Grace Men
monite church is instructing at Beth
el College, Newton, Kansas this week
by giving a series of lectures.
Miss Lucille and Louise Wenger of
Salem, Oregon, are here for an ex
tended visit with relatives. They
moved to Oregon from the community
a number of years ago.
C. D. Steiner, who lives on a farm
just west of Pandora, is having a sale
of farm implements, poultry and dairy
cows, Thursday afternoon, October 19.
Mr. Steiner was high-school principal
and school superintedent here eight
years, 1902 to 1910 and went from
here to O. S. U., Columbus, where he
was assistant professor in Agricultur
al Education work. Was State club
leader at Manhattan, Kansas Agricul
tural college one year and professor
of Agricultural Education 9 years at
the University of Utah, Salt Lake
City. He came back to Pandora
schools in 1922 as superintedent and
retired from teaching in 1936 after
being in the profession 38 years. Un
der his administration the present
high schools were erected in 1909. The
schools were centralized in 1926 and
the new addition built in 1927. Mr.
Steiner retired from teaching eight
years ago and has been a dirt farmer
ever since.
The Steiners have lived at “Krohn-
Terms—Cash.
THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1944
lands’* 20 years. They have rented
the fields out to Robert Cook for the
coming year.
Allen M. Larson is here on furlough
after being over seas two years. Mrs.
Larson and son are with her parents,
the Will Welty family, south-east of
Pandora.
Promoted In Italy
Wayne Habegger, 22, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Habegger has been
promoted to the grade of staff
geant while serving with a B-24
erator group in Italy, it was
nounced the first of the week,
begger enlisted in the army
force two years ago.
PUBLIC SALE
OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS
Household goods of the late Isaac Stauffer will be
offered at public auction at the residence on South Lawn
avenue, on
Saturday, October 7
to Beginning at 1:30 P. M.
Dining table, E-mail settee, oak rocker, combination
book case and desk, dresser, library table, odd chairs, 2 old
clocks, round stand, hall tree, pictures, iron bed, stands,
old chest, Edison phonograph and records, chest of car
penter tools, push cart, cross cut saws, used house shut
ters, few dishes and numerous other articles.
While it’s a pleasure to eat the things
we like, only the youngsters with
"cast-iron” stomachs seem to be free
of the aftermath of over-indulgence
which leaves a painful memory. Now
a scientific formula—
BEFORE and AFTER TREATMENT
—corrects these conditions by com
bining a ’’before meal capsule’* to
increase the flow of bile, with an
’’after meal tablet” which counteracts
acid conditions and aids digestion.
A. Hauenstein & Son
Taxpayers Notice
The Classified and Personal Tax Books for
the Last Half of 1944 will close on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1944
STAUFFER HEIRS
Leonard Gratz, Auctioneer C. A. Stauffer, Clerk
RAY W. BARNETT,
ALLEN COUNTY TREASURER
ser
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Fresh Drugs
and
Quality Drug Store
Merchandise
of All Kinds
Prescriptions Care
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Phone 170-W