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VOLUME NO. LXIX
BLUFFTON MAN ON
U. S. SHIP SUNK
OFF PHILIPPINES
Francis Luginbill Among 65
Survivors Saved After Ship
Is Sunk By Mistake
Former Bluffton Man Worked at
Triplett Co. Serves As
Deep-Sea Diver
Francis W. Luginbill, machinist’s
mate 2/c, of Bluffton, was among
the 65 survivors of the USS Ex
tractor, naval rescue and salvage
ship, which w’as torpedoed and
mistakenly by an American
marine in the Pacific.
sunk
sub-
Lug-
Before going into the Navy’,
inbill lived on North Jackson street
and W’as employed in the machine
shop of The Triplett Electrical In
strument Co.
He is the husband of the former
Mary Morrison, now’ living with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Alva Morrison
near Mt. Cory. His parents are
and Mrs. W. J. Luginbili, who
six miles northw’est of Bluffton.
Mr.
live
last
Lugibill telephoned his w’ife
Friday morning from San Francisco,
where the survivors of the sunken
vessel had traveled by plane from
the Philippines. He arrived in Chi
cago on Tuesday, and is expected
here Wednesday night on a 30-days
leave.
Luginbill’s ship, enroute to the
Philippines, w’as sunk off Leyte in
-error by an American submarine,
which then rescued all but six mem
bers of the crew. The men were
taken to the Philippines, and re
turned to this country by air.
Luginbill, 28, is a deep sea diver
and does under-water repairing of
sunken ships.
His wife has been living w’ith her
parents at Mt. Cory since her father
became critically ill.
Peter Burkholder
Rites Held Sunday
Peter Burkholder, 80, died Thurs
day night at the home of a daughter,
Mrs. Fred Bronson, with w’hom he
had made his home in Bluffton, after
being confined to bed for two w’eeks.
Death was due to infirmities.
Son of John and Elizabeth (Kiene)
Burkholder, he was born near Bluff
ton June 24, 1864. He w’as married
in 1889 to Elizabeth Best, who sur
vives.
Other survivors include Mrs. Bron
son, at w’hose home he died, and the
follbwing additional children: Charles
C., William B. and Louis Burkholder,
all of Bluffton Elmer Burkholder,
Jenera Mrs. Hazel Walters, Lafay
■ettp and Mrs. Fairy Martin, Lima.
There are four brothers: Samuel
Burkholder, Bluffton John Burk
holder, Beaverdam and Enos and
David Burkholder, both of I^ma.
Funeral services
day afternoon in
funeral chapel. Rev. John Esau of
ficiated, and burial was in the Eben
ezer cemetery, west of towm.
Memorial Services
For James Amstutz
Memorial services will be held in
Emmanuel’s Reformed church Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for
Pfc. James Amstutz, 20, who was
killed in action in Germany. Rev.
Oppermann, pastor of the church,
will officiate.
Pfc. Amstutz, w’ith the ninth di
vision of the First Army lost his life
on February 9. He w’as the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz of
Versailles, Ohio, former Bluffton res
idents. Mrs. Eli Amstutz of South
Jackson street is his grandmother
and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell of Orange
tow’nship is a sister.
In New Locations
S. E. Berryhill and family have
moved from the College farm one
mile northwest of Bluffton to the
Warner Newlan property on West
Elm street which he purchased last
fall.
Rev. Ernest Bohn and family of
Millersburg, Ind., moved on the Col
lege farm the first of the week. Rev.
Bohn will operate the farm and serve
as instructor in philosophy at the
College.
Rayon Boutwell and family have
moved from the Andrew’ Gratz farm
south of Bluffton to the farm of the
late T. A. Kitchen in Orange town
ship w’hich they recently purchased.
Robert M. Shafer and family of
Vaughnsville are occupying the
Gratz farm vacated by the Boutw’ell
family.
Snow Is Here Again
As Winter Returns
Bluffton got a preview of spring,
Monday, when the temperature rose
to a high mark of 60 degrees.
The spring weather, however, was
of short duration and followed by
snow* and colder weather Tuesday
afternoon with the mercury dipping
to a low of 24 degrees Wednesday
morning, a drop of 30 degrees in a
24-hour period.
Wet and heavy snow freezing on
automobile windshields added diffi
culties to driving and slush and ice
reduced traction. The snow’, how
ever, was not of sufficient depth to
require snow plows on the highways.
Big and Little Riley creeks, swol
len by recent rains are expected to
recede w’ith the arrival of colder
weather. Fair w’eather with rising
temperature is predicted for Thurs
day.
RED CROSS DRIVE
FOR $3000 OPENS
HERE ON TUESDAY
House-To-House Canvass Will
Be Made To Raise Roll (all,
War Relief Funds
An average .of $5 per family is
needed to meet Bluffton’s quota.
Solicitors who will make a house
to-house canvass of Bluffton for
funds include:
Mesdames William Augsburger,
John Blackburn, H. E. Augsburger,
Edgar
Peggy
Harold
Monroe
C. F. Niswander, Charles Hankish,
Elmer Short, C. A. Biery.
Conaway, John Stonehill,
Martin, Ray Reichenbach,
Beals, George Rauenbuhler,
Amstutz, Rolland Stratton,
Mesdames
were held Sun
the Paul Diller
11 iU BLUE
Letter From Pfc. Berdell Huber
Confirms War Atrocities Of Nazis
Thru
Uampaign Will Continue
March Red Cross Services
Are Expanding
Bluffton’s drive to raise $3000 for
the American Red Cross in its cam
paign for $180,000,000 to continue
its world-wide operations with battle
front troops, in hospitals and on the
home fronts, got under way here
Tuesday night and will continue un
til the end of March.
In officially opening the campaign,
Co-Chairmen Mrs. J. S. Steiner and
Wood row Little pointed out that the
need for Red Cross services in the
coming year w’ill be greater than
ever before.
This year’s drive is a combination
campaign for the regular Roll Call
and the War Fund. Contributions
provide for both local and national
Red Cross work.
Jr.
Robert Coone
is, Wilford
Ralph
Gordon
Mann,.
Bracy,
Gaiffe,
Luginbuhl, Hiram Huser, Ray Camp
bell, Charles Patterson, Robert Non
namaker, Robert Murray,
McCluer.
Edith
Bixel, Amos Oyer,
Eugene Basinger,
Wilford Geiger,
Sidney Hauenstein,
Homer
William
Wayne
Allan
H. R.
Homer
Mesdames Gerald Clever,
Luginbuhl, Leslie Kimmel,
Grove, Rolland Koontz, Donald Rug
gley, Herbert Rupright, Richard
Lewis, Charles Aukerman, Fred
Tschantz, Frank Weinhold, M. C.
Geiger, Gerhard Buhler, A. E. Lich
tenwalter, Cliff West, Howard Stag
er, Emerson Lugibill.
Mesdames Charles Dillman, Joe
Stage, Albert Oyer, Nelson Herr,
Gerald Crawfis, Papl Stauffer, Theo
dore Schultz, Richard Mericle, Gil
bert Fett, Silas Diller, Charles Hilty,
Armin Hauenstein, R. A. Dunifon,
George Linden, Leonard Wingate,
Calvin Steiner, Lloyd Hardwick.
Misses Della Kirchhofer, Phyllis
Hardwick, Dorothy Greding, Dorothy
Lloyd, Edna Ramseyer, Levada Bal
mer, Margaret Diller, Meredith Step
leton, June Sechler, Theola Steiner,
Donna Hagerman, Annabelle Weed,
Hildred Eversole, Joan Clark.
Amos Tschiegg, Robert
David Frick, Robert Stalter,
Tschiegg.
Potts,
Eldon
Services At Bethel
Church Open Monday
Evangelistic services will be held
in Bethel Church of Christ, Orange
township beginning Sunday night
and continuing every night until
Sunday, March 25 at 7:45 o’clock it
is announced by the pastor, Rev. Lee
Remaley.
Rev. Seth Adamson of the Central
Church of Christ, Findlay will be
the speaker.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE
Letter To Wife Here Tells Of
Brutal Slaying of Children,
Men and Women
Account Deals With Bitter War
fare Around Stavelot in
Late December
Pfc. Huber, now
England recovering
the Citizen Bank
in a hospital in
from frozen feet
in
of
in the December issue
Digest’ Well it is all the
could tell you a story of
about the breakthru into
Presbyterian Speaker
On Church Series Here
Historical background and beliefs
of the Presbyterian church will be
presented by Rev. Charles Martz of
Van Wert in a lecture at the First
Mennonite church here Sunday night
at 7:30 o’clock.
The address will be the third in a
monthly series dealing with the his
tory of the various denominations,
arranged by Rev. J. N. Smucker,
pastor of the First Mennonite church.
Rev. Martz is pastor of the Pres
byterian church in Van Wert, one
of the large and influential churches
of that denomination in Northwest
ern Ohio.
The monthly lectures, which began
in January have been growing in in
terest and attendance and provide
an insight into the beliefs, tenets and
creeds of the different church groups.
Nurse Returns With
Overseas Wounded
Miss Jennie Beery, captain in the
Army Nurse corps landed at an
eastern port, Saturday in charge of
a ship load of wounded veterans
from the European theatre of war.
Miss Beery is a sister of Mrs.
Clayton Murray of West Elm street
and has been overseas for the past
nine months. The trans-Atlantic
trip w’as made on the Ernest Hines,
Army hospital ship.
Garbage Collection
Rates Are Raised
Rates for Bluffton’s municipally
operated garbage and rubbish collec
tion system w’ere raised by
cil at its meeting Monday
the coun
night.
per year
year for
The new rate will be $3
for households and $6 per
business places having larger than
average volume of garbage or rub
bish. The service also includes re
moval of ashes.
Wounded Veteran Is
Home For Fortnight
Pvt. Maynard Badertscher who
w’as w’ounded in Germany, December
2 is spending two w’eeks at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Badertscher of Geiger street.
He arrived here last Saturday
night from Billings General hospital
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana,
w’here he has been taking treatment
for shrapnel injuries which have
healed. At the conclusion of his
stay here he will return to the
pital for a hernia operation.
hos-
Elbert Kibele Is
Captain In Paris
Elbert Kibele, formerly of Bluffton
has been promoted from the rank of
first lieutenant to captain, it w’as
learned the first of the week. He is
now stationed in Paris. Kibele w’as
manager of a Kresge chain store be
fore entering the army. Kermit
Kibele residing north of Bluffton
the Dixie highway is a brother.
on
Richard Cookson
Is Now Sergeant
Richard Cookson has been promot
ed to the rank of sergeant, accord
ing to word received by his wife
Mrs. Betty Cookson of South Jack
son street. Sgt. Cookson who has
been in the Army for 15 months is
now’ stationed w’ith a field artillery
unit in France.
BLUFFTON, OHIO, AY, MARCH 8, 1945
SGT. R. F. 1(OONTZ
MISSING IN ACTION
IN EUROPEANAREA
Flying Fortress ISall Turret
Gunner Repoi
of Feb
Son of Mr. and
Koontz Entered
Force in
of
an
a
Nazi atrocities on the citizens
occupied countries is confirmed in
eye-witness account related in
letter received last w’eek from Pfc.
Berdell Huber, formerly of Bluffton,
w’hose wife lives in
apartments.
in
suffered on the Western front
early January, writes in part:
“Did you read “Nazi Savages
France”
Reader’s
truth. I
my own
Belgium on December 17.
“On that day we were ordered to
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lising as
16
my
Sgt. Robert F. Ko
Army Air Corps, is
tion in the Europe,
cording to word rece:
his parents, Mr. aw
Koontz, of three milt
ton in Orange towns
of
in
the
ac
ac-
ntz, 19,
missing
n theatre,
med Monday by
rs. Thomas
I east of Bluff
iip.
Sgt. Koontz was a ball turret gun
ner on the B-17 Flying Fortress,
“Marie Helena”, stationed with the
Eighth Air Force in England.
In the telegram from the War
Department, he was reported missing
as of February 16, presumably in
action over Germany.
The third division of the Eighth
air force, with w’hich he was at
tached, has been cited by the Presi
dent for its now historic England to
Africa shuttle-bombing of Germany.
Sgt. K oontz was graduated from
Mt. Cory High school in the spring
of 1943, and entered the Army air
force shortly thereafter.
THREE AREA MEN
RETAINED IN 1-A
IN DRAFT APPEALS
Nine Appeal Board
Reflect Stricter
Procedure
Need of Men in
Seen in Tighter
Regulations
Decisions
Draft
forces is
lent
men are
Three Bluffton area
among nine Allen County Draft
Board No. 3 registrants w’hose 1-A
classifications w’ere upheld in ap
peals decisions announced this week,
and w’hose inductions into the armed
forces probably are imminent.
Tightening of deferment regula
tions in reflection of the increased
need for manpower for the Army
and the Navy was evidenced by the
fact that in the appeals decisions no
1-A classifications were reversed.
Bluffton area men affected by the
rulings were:
Russell M. Schaublin, Route 2,
Bluffton, classified in 1-A by
Local Board. The Page Dairy
appealed. Classification of 1-A
held by Board of Appeals.
the
Co.
up-
Ray E. Luginbuhl, Findlay, form
erly of Bluffton classified in 1-A by
the Local Board. Ohio Oil Co. ap
pealed. Classification of 1-A upheld
by Board of Appeals.
Freeman Wilson Basinger, Route 1,
Pandora: classified 1-A by Local
Board. Registrant appealed. Classi
fication of 1-A upheld by Board of
Appeals.
Other registrants for whom ap
peals rulings were handed down
w’ere:
John Elmer Scherger, Delphos.
Classified in Class 1-A by Local
Board. Old National Bank, Delphos,
appealed. Classification of 1-A up
held by the Board of Appeals.
Berdine Scholl, Lima. Classified
in Class 1-A by Local Board,
perior Coach Corp, appealed, i
ification of 1-A upheld by the i
of Appeals.
Su-
Class
Board
Clas-
Lloyd Everett Early, Lima,
sified in Class 1-A by Local Board.
Registrant appealed,
of 1-A upheld
peals.
by the Board of Ap-
Sprinkel, Lima. Clas
1-A by Local Board.
Melvin Price
sified in Class
White Mountain Creamery Co. ap
pealed. Classification of 1-A
by the Board of Appeals.
upheld
Clas-
Frank Louis Bosch, Lima,
sified in Class 1-A by Local
Lima Locomotive Works appealed.
Classification of 1-A upheld by the
Board of Appeals.
Board.
Lima. Clas
Local Board.
Classified in
of Appeals,
appealed to
George David Fetter,
sified in Class 1-A by
Registrant appealed.
Class II-C by Board
This classification w’as
the President by the State Director.
Presidential classification, 1-A. Reg
istrant is engaged in agriculture.
Arrives In France
Cpl. Clyde Klingler, Jr., has ar
rived in France with an army unit,
it was learned the first of the week
by his wife residing on Spring street.
ON NEWS
OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
Lieut. Ray Augsburger of Bluffton
was navigator of a plane w’hich
transported his unit from this coun
try to the Italian theatre of war, it
w’as learned the first of the week.
He is the son of Eli Augsburger of
South
Surplus of Steaks While lxw
Point Meat Demands Soar
Higher
Revamping of meat ration point
values is expected to bring relief to
Bluffton meat dealers who have been
plagued with an accumulation of
high point value cuts for which there
w’as comparatively little sale, while
confronted on the other hand with
an insistant consumer demand for
less desirable, low’ point cuts.
Especially in beef, there w’as an
accumulation of choice hind quarter
steaks which have moved slow’ly es
pecially since the drastic tightening
of rationing early this year, while
the lower point value front quarter
cuts moved rapidly across the
ers’ counters.
To keep meat stocks within
onable balance betw’een the
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Funeral services wrere held at 7:30
p. m. Tuesday evening in the Paul
Diller funeral home, with Rev.
Charles Donaldson, of the Bluffton
Presbyterian church, officiating.
Feldman was a native of George,
Iowa, w’here his body was taken for
burial. It was sent from Bluffton
following the funeral service Tues
day night.
Bluffton Man Navigator Of Plane
In Trans-Atlantic Flight To Italy
Jackson street.
group landed in Italy, Feb
23 at an undisclosed location.
The
Thomas
Air
ruary
The trans-Atlantic crossing was un
eventful, Lt. Augsburger wrote in a
letter to his parents here.
In Italy they encountered bitter
Consumers Shun High Point
Value Meats, Since First
of Year
New Meat Point Values Expected To
Move Steaks Faster Other Cuts Slower
deal-
reas
slow
Inspector Here For
Signal Corps Dies
Raymond J. Feldman, 41, chief
resident Signal Corps inspector at
The Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co. here, died in the Bluffton Com
munity hospital at 2:30 p. m. Mon
day, following an illness of seven
days from ulcers of the stomach.
Feldman and his family moved to
Bluffton five months ago from Ells
worth, Minn, .where he was a hard
ware merchant and electrician. He
was born Dec. 18, 1903, in Iowa.
Herman Feldman, of
I
burvivors include the widow, three
daughters, Katherine Helen, Ruth
Mae and Betty Lou his parents
three sisters and three brothers.
Mrs. Feldman and daughters will
return to.their former home at Ells
w’orth, Minn., w’here the three daugh
ters will enter school next w’eek.
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Coral Shick, Ada, a
boy, Wednesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wilch, Bluff
ton, a girl, Gene Marie, Tuesday
night.
Mr.
ton, a
Mr.
Classification
and Mrs. Robert Long, Bluff
girl, Jan Elaine, Monday.
and Mrs. Carl Blackburn, Je­
nera, a boy, James Michael, Friday.
Mr. and
liamstown,
Friday.
Mrs. Luther Wilson, Wil
a girl, Gretchen Marie,
Mrs. Carl Wilson, Jenera,
Mr. and
a girl, Lois Ann, Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Traucht, a
boy, Allen Wayne, born at Brooklyn,
N. Y., Feb. 27. Mrs. Traucht was
formerly Marcene Garmatter of this
place.
Bluffton Youth
Enlists In Navy
Harry R. Minck, Jr., son of Mrs.
Mabel Minck, of South Lawn ave
nue, is one of a group of 17-year-olds
who enlisted at the Lima recruiting
office of the U. S. Navy during the
latter part of February, it was an
nounced by Chief J. B. Sanzenbacher,
recruiter in charge.
Prior to his enlistment, Minck had
been working as a calibrator at The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.
cold weather and improvised a
heating system by rigging up a gaso
line stove made from the oxygen cyl
inder of a crashed plane which they
filled with 100 octane gasoline.
Notwithstanding the cold weather,
Italian children are clothed only in
very short shorts and a shirt with
their legs bare. They all appear to
be hungry and undernourished. The
results of w*ar are apparent on every
hand, Lt. Augsburger w’rites and the
Germans must have taken quite a
beating.
GRANT PETITION TO
TRANSFER $2,500
FOR ROAD REPAIRS
Common Pleas Court Approves
Richland Township Trustees
Request
Additional Funds Needed Be
cause of Heavy Winter Dam
age to Roads
Transfer of $2500 from the Rich
land tow’nship general fund was ap
proved Monday by the Allen County
common pleas court to help finance
the cost of extensive repairs to tow’n
ship roads which have suffered unusu
ally heavy winter damage.
Permission to make the transfer
was asked by township trustees to re
place expenditures made during the
winter from the road fund to clear
roads of snow and repair the town
ship snow plow.
With the transfer of funds effected,
the township will have a road fund
of approximately $3600, which will
barely be sufficient to take care of the
most pressing repairs, it was pointed
out.
Seek County Aid
Should any-resurfiacing be contem
plated additional financial assistance
must be borthcoming from the Allen
county road fund in response to a
petition made to them by the town
ship.
However, county aid probably will
be limited, for every township is faced
with a situation similar to that in
Richland, damage to roads having
been about the same generally in the
entire district.
In contrast to the situation in the
township, Bluffton stre
come thru the winter
condition, it was repo
Commissioner H. L.
Less damage was su
Allen
For
50 far have
streets were dry when
eight weeks of snow and
December 11.
Town Situation Good
town there was less a prob
of clearing the snow’ to permit
nady drainage of melting snow and
ice. Heavy damage to country roads
resulted principally from water from
melting snow’ standing on the roads
and alternately freezing and thawing,
with drainage impossible because of
high snow banks on each side.
In
Bluffton’s street funds are not large
but are believed adequate to cover ma
jur repairs, including the proposed
resurfacing of Spring street from
Elm to Riley, and Harmon road from
Garau street to the Bentley road.
Re-surfacing of the two streets was
contemplated last year, but the town
w’as unable to get sufficient materials
because of wartime scarcity. How
ever, materials for street work can be
more easily obtained now, and a pro
gram limited only by the funds avail
able may be possible this summer.
Auto Tag Sale Is
Off To Good Start
Bluffton’s sale of auto tags got
off to a good start w’ith 250 licenses
sold during
Montgomery
Main street,
new licenses
be put on at any time before that
date.
the
News stand on North
All cars must display
by April 1. They may
In Lima Hospital
Ada, form
a patient in
ill with kid-
Alvin Augsburger of
erly of near Bluffton, is
Lima Memorial hospital
ney stones. Augsburger is instructor
in Smith-Hughes agriculture in Ada
and Lafayette high schools. His
wife is the former Dorothy Benroth,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Benroth of North Main street.
BUY
NUMBER 46
SIX REGISTRANTS
IN BLUFFTON AREA
UP
FOR PHYSICAL
County Boaid 3 Calls 82
Preinduction Physical
Exams
Former Bluffton Men
Three
Also in Heavy March Draft
Call
Six men from the Bhiffton district
are included in a group of 82 regis
trants called for March preinduction
physical examinations 1
County Draft Board No. 3.
by Allen
One of the six, Justin L. Johnson,
of the Pine hotel, Bluffton, is slated
for immediate induction if he passes
the physical examination, it
announced.
was
will
are
The other five from here W’ho
report for physical examinations
Donald D. Dillman
Steiner, Bluffton
macher, Lafayette Doyt A. Yoakam,
Ruote 1, Lafayette, and Raymond D.
Boyd, Lafayette.
and Nelson F.
Wayne R. Schu-
Three farmer Bluffton men also are
in the call for the preinduction phys
ical examinations. They are Richard
E. Bixel, now’ living in Findlay, Al
len Painter, who makes his home in
Lima and Louis Macke of Ottawa.
Others in the March call include:
Elida—Maynard P. Moore, Richard
Ridenour.
Lima—Robert E. Kesler, Roy Fish
baugh, Harold Brubaker, John Stum
baugh, Dee Forest Grout, William
Bectel, David Esmond, Francis Down
hour, Sylvester Dotson, Guy James,
Francis Bloomquist, Roy’ Warner,
James Hughes, Harold Lewis, Lewis
Coates, Robert Harner, Karl Kruse,
Charles Pellegrini, Holland Moyer,
William Terflinger, Raymond Wood
all, John Skobler, Marvin Butterfield,
Robert Hire, Howard Loschert, Pat
Collins, Kenneth Oldeman, Jerry Dye.
Harrod Harry Coolidge, Willis
Spencer, Oren Engle.
Rensselaer, Ind.—Victor Klingler.
Spencerville—John Thompson, John
Collins, Edwin Witherow, Gamerd
Truesdale, Earl Prine.
Delphos—Richard Friemoth, William
Remlinger, Leo Martin, Lew’is Wie
chart, Paul Rahrig, Donald Heck, El
mer Looser, Louis Rode, Coy Drucke
miller ,Eugene Lause .Vincent Oden
weller, Thomas Marks, John Pitsen
barger, Charles Powell.
Salem, Ill.—John Walker.
Oak Ridge, Tenn.—Charles An
drews.
Kenton—Laurence Osborn.
Van Wert—Chester Shafer.
Terre Haute, Ind.—John Pohl.
Coldw’ater, Mich.—Ralph Huber.
Wapakoneta—Robert Zeller, Lester
—Wayne Lehman, Robert Sol-
•n, Ind.—David Smith.
-Francis Throckmorton.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.—Thomas Noonan.
Allen Park, Mich.—Paul Miller.
Elwood City, 1’a.—George Shallen-
Encinita:
Wayne,
Ro
-William Cooper.
Real Estate Deal
sold the residence
the former Cas­
per Herrmann home, at Washington
and Thurman streets, to Reno Ober-
Oberly now residing on the Zanna
Staater farm, the former Hi Hews
place north of Bluffton expects to
move to town soon. The Irwin fam
ily will move to the home of Mrs.
Irwin’s father, George Stepleton on
Riley street.
Award Purple Heart
To Fred Herrmann
Award of the Purple Heart medal
to Fred Herrmann who was wounded
in action in France, w’as announced
the first of the week. Herrmann, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Herrmann
of North Main street has been in a
military hospital in France after be
ing hit in the left leg by shrapnel,
February 1. He also received the
combat infantryman’s badge.
Herrmann, w-ho has been overseas
since last October was a former ace
athlete at Bluffton high school.
Beaverdam Woman
Falls Breaks Hip
Mrs. John Huber of Beaverdam is
patient in Bluffton hospital w’ith a
fractured hip following a fall at her
home, Saturday. She w’as removed
in the Diller ambulance to the hos
pital here w’here her condition is re
ported satisfactory.
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