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Allen county’s underground water
level rise was the least of 74 coun
ties in Ohio reporting gains from
February thaws and recent heavy
rains, it was reported by David
Harker, chief of the staff of the
Ohio Water Supply Board, Columbus.
Harker reported that the water
table recovery for the state as a
whole was 3.86 feet, with Allen coun
ty reporting the least gain at .86 of
a foot, and Gallia county reporting
the greatest increase with 10.38 feet.
The underground water level,
which supplies deep wells and
springs, is the chief source of sup
ply for farmers and rural districts.
Harker predicted that by April 1
the water table would be back to
normal thruout the entire state.
Thc Bluffton News presents
another in the series of unique
features of South America.
—Editor.
The Americas have contributed to
the world more than new riches, new’
products, new lands. They have—
among other things—graced civiliza-
unknown to wl
advent of Colur
Hemisphere.
Most of thesi
are now so common in other regions
of the world that their origin has been
SMARTNESS
FOR
COMFORT,
TOO!
Underground Water Level Rise In
County One Of Smallest In Ohio
EASTER
SW^O.W?
Many Garden Flowers Now Common
First Found In South America
e men before the
us to the Western
... and lasting
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And that’s the kind of
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today, drop in and let
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just try on a pair of Jarmans
—and discover their
distinctive friendliness of fit.
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Ground water was restored by the
heavy rains, and farm wells report
ed dry during the droughty summer
and fall months are now back in
service, he said.
During the next summer, he ex
plained, ground water will be more
plentiful, especially in the valleys
which are flooded now where the
waters have access to gravels sealed
off from the stream channels them
selves.
Reports for the county were com
piled by the department from sta
tistics sent in by cooperating farm
ers in the area on the underground
levels on their farms. In this dis
trict, Auglaize county reported a rise
of 1.29 feet, Hardin county a rise
of 1.08 feet, and Hancock county
2.31 feet.
forgotten and few would think of
being grateful to the Americas for
their contribution to the realm of
flowers.
Mexico—known even today for the
beauty and abundance of its flora—
is the native land of probably a
greater variety of decorative plants
than any other country of the hemi
sphere,
include
regions of the continent if wc want
to make a Pan American bouquet.
but we find that we may
flowers from many
other
No American flower is probably
better known and admired through
out the world than the
numbered among the
flowers of high rank
special societies and
Europe and America.
dahlia. It is
dozen or so
which have
exhibits in
Named after the Swedish natural
ist Dahl, its birthplace, however, is
Mexico. It was cultivated in the
gardens of the Aztec emperors who
knew not only the single species but
also the varicolored and the semi
double ones.
Yet, in spite of the fact that the
early Spanish conquerors must have
come in contact with it, it
lieved to have been taken to
only in 1790.
is be
Europe
are the
Other Mexican-born blooms
light and delicately-colored cosmos—
one of whose varieties is called
“gallitos”—little cocks—and the bril
liant poinsettia w’hich has become
throughout the Americas the symbol
of Christmas.
In some tropical regions of the
continent this flow'er is almost as
abundant during the month of Dec
ember as roses are in early summer
in the temperate zone, and its
red blossoms decorate gardens
hedges at Christmas time.
gay
and
the
Also native of Mexico are
yellow prickly poppy and the sturdy,
colorful zinnias so popular now all
over the world for table arrange
ments.
So-called French and African mari
golds are—in spite of their name—
of Mexican and Peruvian origin, a
fact little known by
gardens are graced by
summer or early fall.
those whose
it in
the late
the
United
in this
The golden rod of
States has, also, its place
garland of Western Hemisphere
flowers, being a native of North
America.
Many a bride will be surprised to
hear that her bouquet of white
orchids, tuberoses and bouvardia is
a strictly American one.
Although orchids are almost uni
versally found in tropical and tem
perate regions, the Americas are
responsible for some of the loveliest
species. Among these are, for in
stance, two varieties of white orchids,
the “Espiritu Santo”—Holy Ghost—
of Panama and the “Monja Blanca”
—White Nun—of Guatemala both of
which have been chosen by these
countries as their national flower.
As for the lovely wax-like, heavy
scented tuberoses, they come—amaz
ingly enough—from a plant allied to
Pfc. James H. Amstutz
Memorial services were held at
Emmanuel’s Reformed church last
Sunday afternoon for Pfc. James H.
Amstutz who w’as killed in action in
Germany, February 9. He was the
first service man of the St. John
Emmanuel churches to lose his life
in action in the present conflict. Rev.
V. C. Oppermann, pastor, officiated
at the services.
the Mexicarf agave and are native
to that country, while bouvardia is
believed to have originated in the
Western Hemisphere.
To South America is the world in
debted for one of its most popular
garden flowers: the nasturtium. Thus
is this gaily colored little plant
mentioned in a European botanical
book of the end of the 18th century:
the nasturtium “is a native of Peru,
and is said by Linnaeus to have been
first brought to Europe in the year
1684.”
Another South American flower
which is mentioned in European bo
tanical treaties of the last century
(1830) and one which is also today
a favorite, is the petunia, “a native
of Buenos Aires”—some say that
the first were gathered upon the
Uruguay near the Rio-Negro—“and
like other herbaceous plants from the
same country, quite hardy in Eng
land during the summer”—to quote
one author.
The four o’clock—“romatically
known as Marvel-of-Peru” comes,
naturally from Peru and was intro
duced to the Old World “at an
early date, being very much admired
there”, it seems.
Also from South America are a
number of
though the
has now
mongrel.
species of Verbena, al
common garden variety
become practically a
poinsettias, tuberoses, na
.these are but a few’ of
ornamental blooms that
Dahlias,
stutiums
the many
have spread from the Americas to
the rest of the world. How’ they
were carried from this continent to
the others is not always easy to
trace.
They tell of European wild flowers
whose seeeds came over to the West
ern Hemisphere in the heels of boots
that had tread the fields where they
grew in the Old World.
By other such strange roundabout
ways some of our indigenous plants
may have reached land of cultivation
in the other hemisphere, while many,
we know were taken over as price
less treasure and treated as such by
loving naturalists.
Oblivious of their origin, they—the
flowers grow, spontaneously, and will
ingly as soon as they find themselves
in an appropriate medium. They
share alike their beauty, their color,
their brilliance with the Old World
and with the New.
Armorsville
and Mrs. Ervin Moser
Mr.
daughter
Hunlock,
Saturday
The Hiram Ste
Benton Ridge, h:
Clyde Shawber’s
Pandora.
Pandora and Ri
churches held thi
conference sessioi
church Sunday af
Dr. W. C. Hickey
of the Defiance
the services.
Rev. Russell
Mennonite churc
will conduct the
at the Grace chi
day, March 18,
week.
and
son
family, Mrs. Edith Fox and
Jimmy spent Sunday afternoon
Chas. Zerante and
Mr. and Mrs.
family.
Mr. and Mrs.
daughters called
the Chas. Montgomery home.
with
Wilf
ord Geiger and
Monday evening at
Mrs. B. J. Stratton and children
spent Monday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Moore.
O. P. Hartman and
Dorothy and Geneva
the week end with
Mr. and Mrs.
granddaughters
Grismore spent
Mr. and Mrs.
Toledo and also called on Mr.
Mrs. Will Feel also of Toledo.
Harold Hinely of
and
and
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hall
children called on Mr. and
Harry Moore and family Sunday
evening.
Mrs.
Mrs. Victoria McCarty and son
spent Monday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Moser.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Klingler were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Klingler.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore spent
Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Marshall.
Mrs.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Fred Davidson, who has been with
the Marines in the Pacific, will be
given an honorable discharge because
of ill health. Fred is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wes Davidson.
Dale Snavely
Charles Andersoi
guests in the Hiram Krohn
Saturday and Sunday.
Pvt. Ralph Steiner, who was at
Camp Robinson, Ark., left here for
Ft. Ord, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hilty and Mr.
and Mrs. C. D. Steiner were dinner
guests of Miss Margaret Hilty at
Findlay, Sunday.
Prof. H. W. Berky, of Bluffton
College will be the guest speaker at
the P. T. A. meeting, Wednesday
evening, March 14.
The Misses Christina, Emma and
Clara Basinger entertained the Au
Re voir club at their home southwest
of Pandora, last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Shaw, of Win
nameg in Fulton county, called at
the C. D. Steiner home, Friday.
Mrs. Don Sommer and daughters
will occupy the Melvin Hilty apart
ments north of his harness shop.
Pandora Lenten Speaker
and family and
of Holgate, were
home,
family
county
Hubert Plankenhorn and
will move onto a farm on the
line north of Bluffton.
Oberly family are moving from the
farm.
The Reno
Miss Minnie Hilty, missionary
from China, is expected to reach her
home here Tuesday, March 13.
Mrs. Charles Reese entertained the
Bi-Centennial Club last Wednesday
evening.
er family of near
moved onto the
arm northeast of
jy Creek Methodist
fourth quarterly
at the local M. E.
?rnoon at 3 o’clock,
lew superintendent
district conducted
nd family, who have
he John Hall farm
Earl Winters ai
been living on
southwest of Pandora, are moving
to a farm near Vaughnsville. Harry
Hauenstein and family are moving
onto the Hall farm.
Kathleen Alkire, who has
with the WAC in Washington,
honorably discharged from
service.
been
w’as
the
Run
Pa.,
Mast, of Deep
:h, Bedminster,
pre-Easter services
urch beginning Sun
and continuing one
rshall will entertain
ab, Saturday after
Mrs. Orlo Ma
the Advance Cl
noon, March 17.
Mrs. Lavina Grismore entertained
the W. C. T. U., Monday evening.
Mrs.
of the
ing.
James Sommer was hostess
W. S. C. S., Thursday even-
Gerdeman and family will
Neil
move onto the farm vacated by the
Hubert Plankenhorn family, south
west of Pandora and owned by Mrs.
Fortman of Columbus Grove.
Mrs. Rita Burry, Elmer Burry and
family, Arthur Burry and family
were dinner guests of Mrs. Clara
Light and Mrs. Zella Hilty, Sunday.
Carl Light and family of Ft. Wayne,
Ind., w’ere afternoon visitors.
Cpl. D. J. Harkness, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Harkness of Pan
dora, is a medical technician in a
troop carrier unit known as the
“Jungle Skipper”, the first troop
carrier outfit to land in the Philip
pines.
Technician Walter Plankenhorn
and Mrs. Plankenhorn have returned
to Camp Bliss, Texas.
Mrs. Steve Morvay recently visited
Mr. Morvay two weeks in Nebraska.
Mr. Morvey who accompanied his
wife to Pandora on a three days
furlough is expecting to be assigned
to another camp or overseas.
Miss Mary Ellen Gerber of New
York City, is visiting her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Nance Gerber, north
west of Pandora.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Basinger, who
recently sold their farming equip
ment have moved to Mt. Lake, Minn.,
where Mr. Basinger will work for
his brother, Dr. Harvey Basinger.
The Floyd Snavely family of Mc
comb bought the Dr. Harvey Basing
er farm and are now’ living on same.
Richard Frantz recently
to service is stationed
Camp as a cook.
and
Chas. Montgomery
Sue called on Mrs.
Mrs. Cleo Smith of
afternoon.
Ward
Lima,
Miss
Mrs. Carl McCafferty and
Margaret Guider called on Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Guider and daughter,
Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter Sue called on Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Schantz and son, Mrs.
Hattie and Earl Turner, Sunday
afternoon.
Window Device
A window over a coal bin can be
shut without clambering over the
coal if a piece of rope or insulated
wire is nailed just above the window
and allowed to dangle below the silh
After coal is dumped, reach in from
outside, grasp end of rope and pull.
Wedged between sash and sill, the
rope will hold window shut.
called in
a Florida
at
Gilboa, a
Pandora
of
Mrs. Olan Hoffman,
former employee of
First National Bank, i
the bank since March I
the
is working at
1.
charge
C. E. Sommer has
sales of the 1945 automobile
tags.
of the
license
a new
Mrs. Harry Schumacher is
employee at the First National bank.
Mrs. Elizabeth Risser of New Lon
don, is visiting the, David Risser
family, Bluffton Walter Cupp family
of Rockport and the Aaron Hilty
family of Pandora.
Mrs. Verna Rouse, of Lima, visit
ed her mother Mrs. Sarah Davidson
last week end.
Mrs. Jessie Davy McBumey, of
Amsterdam, Mo., who is visiting her
sisters here, Misses Mary and Har
riet Davy, leceived word that a little
grandson was bom to her son, Mr.
and Mrs. Davy McBumey at Amster
dam, Mo., last Thursday. Davy at
present is in the Philippines.
Robert Cahill, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Cahill is now in Hawaii.
News Want-ads bring results.
Rev. Russell Mast, pastor of the
Deep Run Mennonite church, Bed
minster, Pa., who will conduct a
week of special services at Grace
Mennonite church in Pandora, March
18 to 25, it is announced by Rev.
Forrest Musser, the pastor.
Rev. Mast will be accompanied
here by his wife, the former Alma
Hilty, and family, who will spend the
week with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Hilty of Spring street,
ton.
Opening
Bluff-
Grace
10:30
services at the
church will be held Sunday at
a. m. and 7:30 p. m., followed by
services every night except Satur
day. Special music for the services
will be in charge of Prof. R. A.
Lantz of Bluffton college.
Farm Machine Ceiling
Will Curb Speculators
Many items of used farm equip
ment were placed under price ceil
ings more than two years ago “to
help farm production and keep such
machinery out of speculators hands”,
according to H. G. Bogart, district
O. P. A. director.
“Dealers, auctioneers and farmers
have been cooperative in keeping
farm production prices down by com
plying with the regulations,” added
Mr. Bogart. “In only a few in
stances has it been necessary to im
pose sanctions for violations.
“Recently, Federal Judge Kloeb of
Toledo granted a ninety day injunc
tion against Donald Day of Egerton,
Ohio, restraining him from the sale
of farm equipment above ceiling
prices.”
Mr. Bogart also pointed out that
price clerks of War Price and Ra
tioning Boards are always glad to
give complete information on the
ceiling price of used farm machinery.
Presbyterian Sunday
School Officers
The following officers have been
elected by the Presbyterian Sunday
school to serve for the coming year:
Supt., N. A. Triplett assistant,
Sidney Hauenstein treasurer, Armin
Hauenstein assistant, Mrs. John
Blackburn secretary, John Warren
assistant, Carl Frick chorister, Mrs.
Sidney Hauenstein assistant, Mari
lyn Fett organists, Edgar Hauen
stein, C. A. Biery librarians, Robert
Stalter, Keith Kirtland Supt., pri
mary dept., Mrs. Armin Hauenstein
Supt. home department, Mrs. Susan
Galloway cradle roll department,
Mrs. Woodrow Little.
IN APPRECIATION
Your kind expressions of sympathy
will always be gratefully remembered
and deeply appreciated in the bereave
ment and Memorial Sendee of our be
loved son and brother, James H. Am
stutz.
Wfe are very thankful to Rev. V. C.
Opperman for officiating at the mem
orial sendees and American Legion
for their part in the services Paul
Diller for his arrangements, the sing
ers also those who remembered him
with flowers and everyone w’ho aided
us
in the service and otherwise.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz
Mr. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell
Mary Jane Worthington
Mrs. Eli Amstutz.
Notice To Bidders
Bids w’ill be received by the Bluff
ton Board of Education for painting
and puttying sash and window
frames, etc., of the Bluffton high
school building. Specifications may
be obtained by calling at the ad
ministration office at the high school.
All bids to be in hands of the
clerk of the board of education by
April 9, 1945 at 7 p. m. The right
reject any or all bidsJMbrhg:shlv3
is reserved to reject any or all bids.
By order of the board of educa
tion.
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Leland Diller, Clerk
New’s Want-ads bring results.
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Joint Meeting Held
G. R. and Hi-Y members met in the
cafeteria last Wlednesday evening for
a joint meeting. Rev. Gaar Davis,
pastor of the Lima A. M. E. Church,
spoke on the subject of race relations.
Rev. Davis stated that the hope of
improving inter-racial relations
in the young people of today.
Bluffton High School Notes
lies
B. H. S. on the Air
Of the ten scheduled broadcasts
from Bluffton High School, eight more
remain. Each week one department
of the school is featured. The first
broadcast featured the Art Depart
ment the second placed the Home
Economics Department in the spot
light and the Music Department will
be featured in this week’s broadcast
to be heard Friday afternoon from
1:15 to 1:45 over station WFIN.
Dorothy Dunbar and Don Augsburger
are in charge of collecting advertis
ing material from the sponsors, and
jobs as ad writers, continuity writers
and announcers are taken care of by
the Dramatics Class under the direc
tion of P. W. Stauffer.
Honor Roll Announced
The following students are members
of the Honor Roll for the fourth six
weeks which ended last week, leav
ing only 12 more weeks of school.
Honor roll for the fourth grading
Although there is much legend and
uncertainty about St. Patrick, famed
Irish Bishop and religious organizer,
a great portion of the civilized
world commemorated his life with
observances of various types on Sat
urday.
There is probably no other saint
about whom so much uncertainty ex
ists. It is not even
March 17 is the date of his birth or
the date of his death, though it
sometimes is
known whether
said to be both.
to the best authorities
born about A. D. 386.
as an organizer were
According
Patrick was
His talents
soon developed and in a short time
he understood how to adapt the su
perstitions and the pagan rites which
he found to the teaching
church.
of the
proma
in bis
His organizing genius and
tional ability can be seen
founding of 365 churches, numerous
schools and colleges and many other
contributions to the civilization of
mankind.
The most popular of the legends
regarding St. Patrick is that which
gives him credit for driving all the
snakes and vermin out of Ireland.
The story as current today is told
in one of the
songs, of which
extract:
“There’s not
most popular Irish
the following is an
a mile in Ireland’s
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945
Life Of St. Patrick Commemorated
Here With Observances Saturday
period:
7th Grade—John Bauman, Richari
Steiner, Dorohy Amstutz, Mary Balm
er, June Habegger, Dorothy Hard
wick, Willa Ann Hilty, Wanda Hoch
stettler, Ada Mae Oyer, Lena Preto.
Mary J. Ramseyer, Jane Risser.
8th Grade—Roger Linden, Robert
Neuenschwander, Colletta Badertsch
er, Joe Haller, Susanna Kempf, Bea
trice Leiber.
9th Grade—Harriet Burkhart, Mary
Jane Burkholder, Marilyn Fett, Dora.
Luginbuhl, Marilyn Stratton.
10th Grade—Malcolmn Basinger,.
Harriet Amstutz. Mary Bauman, Jo
anne Buhler, Admeda Fenn, Eleanor
Linden, Alice Pennabecker.
11th Grade—John Luginbuhl, Rob
ert Ramseyer, Elmer Stonehill, Ann
McGinnis.
12th Grade—Otto Klassen,
Amsutz, Juanita Bame, Alice
Bixel, Genevieve Buhler, Lois
holder, Eileen Haller, Esther
macher, Jean Ann Steinman,
Weinhold.
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FUNERAL HOME
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Fun for the fisherman—but not so
pleasant for the fish. And yet a fish
hook in the nose might not feel so
much worse than the congestion and
irritation caused by a bad head cold.
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Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Jean Ann Steinman, haring the
highest scholarship rating of 92.39 in
the senior class, has been chosen a?
valedictorian Juanita Bame, ranking
second with an average of 91.76, has
been chosen the salutatorian for the
Class of 1945.
isle where the
musters:
Wher’er he put his
he murdered them
The toads went hop,
went flop, slap dash into the
water,
And the beasts committeed suicide
to save themselves from slaugh
ter.”
It seems that wherever St. Patrick
went he w’as preceded by a drum.
One time when going up a hill to
preach a sermon that was to put an.
end to snakes, he beat the drum so
vigorously it burst.
dirty vermin
dear forefoot
in clusters.
the frogs
According to the legend, the snakes
then started to glide out of their
hiding places. Suddenly an angel
patched the drum, the sermon pro
ceded, and all the reptiles vanished
as if by magic.
The shamrock, which is the sym
bol of the celebration, is worn in
commemoration of the fact that
when St. Patrick was preaching of
the doctrines of the Trinity, he made
use of this plant bearing three
leaves on one stem as a symbol of
great mystery.
Despite the legendary character of
the account, the fact remains that St.
Patrick accomplished much good and
that he remains in the minds and
hearts of countless millions at this
time of the year.