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THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1945
a—
Silas Diller, general chairman of
the recent Fourth of July Rodeo held
in Bluffton, announces that a final
windup meeting will be held on Fri
day night at 8 o’clock. The direc
tors of the Bluffton Saddle Horse
Club and the Bluffton Community
Sportsmen’s Club will meet in the
town hall. All committeemen and
others interested are urged to at
tend. Outstanding bills must be
turned in to Wilbur Fish or Dallas
Berry before the meeting.
Canadian Soldiers Swoop Down On
Ohio Lake Erie Shoreline
Vacationists and residents along
Lake Erie are venting their wrath
upon the hordes of Canadian Sold
iers swarming the shores of Ohio’s
vacation land. Annually huge
clouds of these winged pests which
are called Mayflies descend upon
the area and are so tremenduous in
number they blot out store window’s,
The tiny republic with high
uplands cooled by breezes from
two oceans, with good schools,
more teachers than soldiers and
a police force whose principal
duty is to serve as a guard of
honor for visiting notables—
that’s Costa Rica, described in
the following article.—Editor
To endow’ it with every gift, some
fairy Godmother must have presided
over the birth of the land which is to
day the Republic of Costa Rica. Na
ture and man have joined to make of
this next-to-smallest of Central Amer
ican countries, a progressive paradise.
With its territory lifted up into the
clouds by the cordillera w’hich crosses
it from northwest to southeast, Costa
Rica is—with the exception of its hot
and humid coastline—a tropical coun
try with a temperate climate.
Locked in between tw’o oceans, like
a beautiful gem that both the Pacific
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CONSERVATION AFFAIRS
Happenings Affecting Woods, Waters and Wildlife
By THE BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SPORTSMEN’S CLUB, INC.
door, screens and cover the side
walks.
Pestiferous as they may seem they
are beneficial for without them the
fish supply wouldn’t be what it is.
Research experts have found-larval
forms of the insects in concentra
tions amounting to 300 pounds per
acre. They live in the silt and loam
which also grows vegetation neces
sary for fish cover.
All bottom feeding fish with the
probable exception of the herring
feed on the larval forms of the
Mayfly.
Winged adults are eaten by sur
face feeding fish during the short
life of the insects w’hich mate, lay
their eggs, then die.
The eggs hatch in about 8 days
and the young Mayfly emerges as a
burrower. The larval form is the
most valuable to growing fish and
lives two years in the bottom soil
of the lake before emerging in
and the Atlantic would claim, its lux
uriant highlands are the habitat of
jaguars and rabbits, orchids and
strawberries.
In a territory roughly the size of
West Virginia it has a variety of cli
mates according to altitude, but most
of its land lies on high plateaus where
reigns eternal spring.
Along the coast are the usual palm
fringed bays, inlets and rivers typical
of the tropics, while in the interior,
high up on the mountains, may be
found scenery rivalling that of Switz
erland and the Rocky Mountains on a
smaller scale.
Those ranges are often covered to
the top with grass and by a network
of streams and rivulets cascading
gracefully down the slopes into fertile
valleys whose exceptionally rich soil is
produced by volcanic ash deposited
over the centuries by the Costa Rican
volcanoes, the great majority of which
are extinct today.
Thus, to a most favorable location
in the heart of the Americas, Costa
Rica adds a rich soil well irrigated by
rivers and streams, an ideal climate
healthy and pleasant with alternate
rainy and dry seasons and a wealth of
natural products among which are
small but productive gold mines.
An essentially agricultural country,
it has as its principal products, coffee,
bananas and cocoa which form togeth
er the bulk of its exports to other re
gions of the world.
Few sights could be more beautiful
than the hills of Costa Rica when the
coffee bushes are in bloom and their
delicious perfume blows over the land,
over hedges made of bamboo clumps
and flaming royal poincianas.
To this land of plenty came hard
working Spanish settlers who in con
trast with their methods of coloniza
tion in other countries, did not inter
marry with the natives but kept strict
ly to themselves which accounts for
the fact that the inhabitants of the
country are practically, all, today,
pure white.
The present President of Costa Rica,
talking about the factors that contrib
uted to the formation of democracy in
his country, once mentioned that the
most important was undoubtedly pov
erty in the colonial period.
This drove aristocrats and plebians
alike to rural tasks and obliged them
to find in agriculture the sole basis for
their modest wealth.
This circumstance and the rapid ex
tinction of the Indians prevented the
formation of great landed estates and
the concentration of capital which in
other countries were the natural out
come of the ‘ecomiendas’ and the ser
vitude of the subject races.
Another factor, Senor Picado sug
gested, was the Costa Rican excellent
system of education. The nation takes
great pride in the fact that it has
more teachers than soldiers and a
most efficient, centralized public
school system, one of the finest of the
Americas.
CoiTW to
Of a recent visit to Costa Rica an
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wingeo form.
THE
July and August Bring Doldrums in
Fishing
Local anglers are concentrating on
the fork tailed cat—the channel cat
fish, w’hich are to be found in local
waters in abundance. Few bass and
crappies have been caught the past
two weeks, but persistent anglers
have been rewarded with sufficient
channels to make fishing worth their
while. Best catches have been made
in the National and it is not too un
common for an angler to snag from
8 to 12 of these fish in an evening.
The Buckeye has been producing
some channels and a few blue gills
are taken, but the best luck has been
at the National.
Best bait for channel fishing
seems to be dead minnows, night
crawlers, liver or small chunks of
beef. Most fishermen advise to keep
the bait active in the water and fish
deep.
American educator writes: “They
seem literally to have a passion for
education. They talked about it every
time we met anywhere. The writers,
too, were thinking about the develop
ment of their own Costa Rica. Al
though every one in the country was
worried about the sale of coffee, even
the son of the owner of a coffee plan
tation talked more about education
than about the price of his coffee.
The Costa Ricans’ solid educational
and democratic background reveals it
self in a remarkably good government,
sound in its structure and successful
in practice, as well as in excellent offi
cial laws which resolve conflicting
claims of owners, workers and con
sumers and put the nation’s industrial
relations on a permanently harmoni
ous basis.
With first class sanitary conditions
everywhere—except perhaps in the
narrow lowlands bordering the coast—
Costa Rican towns are clean and or
derly, they are well lighted, thanks to
natural electric power provided by the
many rivers and waterfalls, and are
graced by attractive public buildings
and lovely homes.
A traveler has said of San Jos£, the
capital city, that “it has a museum
containing a priceless collection of
Central American pottery, a collection
of Maya gold idols as fascinating as
anything from Etruria a theatre that
cost a million dollars and really looks
it (it was erected by a volunteer tax
on coffee) and a delightful new hotel.”
Costa Ricans further pride them
selves on the fact that their police
force has as its principal function the
acting guard of honor for important
personages in a country where “seri
ous crime is the exception and only on
very rare occasions a murder or hold
up claims the attention of the guard
ians of the peace.”
Pandora
Mrs. Maurine Stolberg and baby
are visiting at the C. C. Corson
home. In a short time they will
make their home near Washington,
D. C., where Mr. Stolberg is now
located.
Mrs. Clyde Shawber and Mr. and
Mrs. Lowell Shawber of Malinta,
called on Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Steiner
the 4th. The Shawbers still retain
their farm northeast of Pandora
now being farmed by the George
Shoemaker family. The Shawbers
own the mill and elevators at
Malinta.
Glen Ewing is not working at
Lima at present, and doing mason
ary work with Allen Basinger.
Roy Cook, who has been at war
in the Pacific, returned to the west
coast last week. As he was not al
lowed to return home on furlough
at present, his wife left Saturday
to join him in the west. Their little
son Max is staying with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carrell Don
aldson.
Mrs. Adam Hilty and mother,
Mrs. Fannie Pope are visiting rela
tives in Toledo.
Mrs. Amos Bracy and daughter
Clara, Mrs. Clara Light, Mrs. Lean
ard Sutter and Barbara, Mrs. Melvin
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Long and son Gaty were shopping
at Ft. Wayne, Ind., Thursday.
Mrs. Evelyn Hilty Crow is work
ing in the office of the Page Dairy
firm at Findlay.
Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Niswander
and their daughter, Mrs. Franklin
Rodabaugh, are on vacation in
northern Michigan at present.
Lester Harkness clerk in the Na
tional bank here has resigned and
accepted a position in the bank at
Hoytsville, O. The Harkness family
will sell their home here. They
leave here the last of this month.
Mrs. N. S. Hilty and Mrs. Evelyn
Crow spent Sunday with Toledo
relatives.
Wayne Schumacher and family of
Lafayette, and the Laurel Bracy
family of Pandora, spent Sunday
afternoon in Toledo at the park.
Mrs. Llewellyn Amstutz and dau
ghter Viola are visiting in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Pfc. Hiram Diller who has been
stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass.,
is in Pandora on furlough. Mrs.
Diller and children who have been
with him several months also re
turned home.
The Kempf family returned from
their cottage at Avondale, Sunday
evening. Mrs. Milo Rice and child
ren were with the Kempf’s several
days last week.
Misses Zelma Hager and Isabel
Yeaman have returned from Dallas,
Texas, where they attended a Bible
school. They were also at Grove
land, Ill., several weeks.
Miss Margaret Hilty w’as home
from Findlay over the week end.
Miss Kathleen Alkire released
from the WAC’s recently was mar
ried to P. J. Poole of Van Buren,
an inspector in a Findlay Rubber
plant. They will reside in Findley.
Mrs. Rosella Hilty is taking treat
ments at a Findlay hospital for a
few weeks.
Mrs. Verna Rouse of Lima, visit
ed at the Davidson-Lemley home,
Thursday.
Mrs. Viola Sommer and Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Suter are visiting Sgt.
Lysle Sommer, w’ho is hospitalized
in a South Carolina hospital, after
being injured in the European war.
Dr. Allen Nisw’ander is located as
a health specialist in Germany.
Herman Hilty was placed 7th in
the A. A. U. classic, in the National
Mile run in the A. A. U., recently
held in New York City.
Friday night, July 20th a Home
Talent night will be given at the
school auditorium, the proceeds of
the entertainment to go to the park
recreation fund.
Roy Cherry, who lives northeast
of Pandora, about four miles, lost
his barn Saturday in a fire caused
by his tractor shortly after coming
in from the field. Loss runs into
several thousand dollars.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that on tne 23rd day
of July, 1915 at N p. m., a public hearing
will be held on the budget prepared by the
board of education of Bluffton Exempted Vil
lage School District, Bluffton. Allen County.
Ohio, for the next succeeding fiscal year end
ing December 31, 1946.
Such hearing will be held pt the office of
the Board of Education. Bluffton, Ohio.
LELAND DILLER.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
The personal property belonging to the
estate of (Daymond) Jack Filnart, will le
sold by the undersigned at public auction,
at the lat“ residence of said deceased
(Daymond) Jack Filhart on the 21st day of
July. 194". Sale to commence at 1 :.*’• o’clock
M. Eastern War Time.
At the “ante time the undersigned will accept
bids for the house and lot of said deceased
on the premises.
EUGENE T. LIPPINCOTT,
Administrator
Lippincott & Lippincott. Lawyers 13
Lima, Ohio
The number of combines now’ used
in Ohio is 15,704, and Hancock
county is said to have more of these
machines than any other county. The
first combine harvester in Ohio came
in" 1926.
Flashlight
Rafteries
2 FOR 15c
Thursday, Friday. Saturday
only. No limit.
ED. WALTEDMIDE
Gamble Auth. Dealer
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Richland Center
Pvt. and Mrs. Clifford Steward
and family were Friday evening
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Matter and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Zimmerman and daughters, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Badertscher and sons
and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher
spent Friday evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Cal Burkholder and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dillman and
daughter spent the w’eek end with
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sharp and son
of Norwalk, O.
Mrs. Kenneth Luginbuhl and son
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. I. Luginbuhl.
Richard Schaublin is spending
several days with his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schaublin.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Amstutz and
son Freddie, Mose and Miss Louella
Amstutz were Friday evening guests
at the Otto Amstutz home.
Past week callers of Mrs. Martha
Basinger and David Amstutz were:
Mr. and Mrs. Cal Amstutz of Ada,
Mrs. Solomon Welty and daughter,
Rev. and Mrs. Charley Steiner, Mrs.
Noah Steiner of Lima.
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Luginbuhl,
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Moser and Mrs.
Helen Krouse spent Sunday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Moser
and sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Matter and
son Billy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Contrell of Ft. Wayne, Ind., spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Matter and daughter. Billy is
staying for a few’ weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Menno Basinger and
daughter called Sunday afternoon on
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Basinger.
Mr. and Mrs. W’ilford Gratz and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schau
blin and daughter and grandson
Richard were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz. After
noon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Reno
Gratz and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Core and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Basinger and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mrs. Martha Basinger and David
Amstutz. Afternoon callers w’ere:
Mr. and Mrs. C. D, Amstut? and
Mr, and Mrs. U, S. Amstutz. Even
ing caller w’as Mrs. Amos Luginbuhl.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dirlam and
family of Springfield, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Matter and family. Kaye Matter
returned with them for the week and
Eddie Dirlam remained here with
Jimmy Matter for the w’eek.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughters, Mrs. Sam Badertsch
er called last Monday evening at the
Edw’in Niswander home.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Clemens and
son Teddy of Harleysville, Pa., were
Thursday guests of Mrs, Donivan
Gratz and son Brett. They were all
Thursday evening supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gratz and
daughter.
Honoring George Myers, para
trooper, on leave from Fort Benning,
Ga., a family gathering was held
Sunday at the farm home. Those
present included: Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Ridge, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ridge
and daughters Peggy and Sharon of
Richwood Mrs. Paul Oberdier, and
Miss Leona Thompson of Marysville
Mrs. James Crow, Mr. and Mrs. Duff
Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sheidler,
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Nusbaum and
daughter Jane Ellen, Mr. and Mrs.
John Sheidler and daughters Karen
and Sharon of Pandora, Mrs. John
W. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Merl Miller
and daughter Nancy, Mr. and Mrs.
Cort Miller of Ottawa, Miss Chloe
Agner, Lima, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Buehrer, Toledo and Mrs. George R.
Miller, Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dillman and
daughter and Mrs. Ella Dillman call
ed Sunday evening at the Amos
Luginbuhl home.
Sunday afternoon and supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bader
tscher were: Mrs. Peter Schoneberg
er, Jerry Rouke, Billy Faust of
Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Sarah Finke and
Miss Clara Finke, Mr. and Mrs.
Noah Finke, Sharon Ann Lynch all
of St. Marys, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Frantz and daughters and Mr. and
Mrs. W’ayne Zimmerman and daugh
ters.
Wax Knobs
Brass or other alloy door-knockers
can be kept bright if they are waxed
immediately after polishing.
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REPORT
Of Condition Of The
Citizens National Bank
of Bluffton, in the state of Ohio, at the close of business on June 30th, 1945
published in response to call made by comptroller of the currency, under
Section 5211, U. S. Reused Statutes
Assets
Loans and discounts (including $119.96 overdrafts) $ 374,680.24
United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed 1,635,863.56
Obligations of States and political subdivisions 245,948.71
Other bonds, notes, and debentures 38,570.61
Corporate stocks (including $4,500.00 stock of Federal
Reserve Bank)---------------------------------------------------- 4,500.00
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balance, and
cash items in process of collection 756,422.90
Bank premises owned $13,450.00, furniture & fixtures $4,499.26 17,949.26
TOTAL ASSETS ------------------------------------------------------$3,073,935.28
Liabilities
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 1,370,150.80
Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 1,340,930.66
Deposits of United States Government (incl. postal savings) 1,293.75
Deposits of States and political subdivisions..— 93,881.38
Other deposits (certified and cashier’s checks, etc.) 53,210.01
TOTAL DEPOSITS $2,859,466.60
RATION FREE SHOES
TOTAL LIABILITIES .-$2,859,466.60
Capital Accounts
Capital Stock:
Common stock, total par ___ 75,000.00
Surplus
75,000.000
Undivided profits
57,131.18
Reserves
7,337.50
NO STAMP REQUIRED
Men’s and Women’s Footwear Only
O. P. A. ODD LOT RELEASE
July 9 to 29
QUALITY FOOTWEAR
(Taken from Our Regular Stock)
REDUCED 25% SPECIAL RELEASE
ARRANGED FOR EASY SELECTION
Come early while the selection is reasonably complete.
W. H. Gratz Family Shoe Store
BLUFFTON, OHIO
Store hours (except Thursday and Saturday) 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday, 8 a. m.
to 10:30 p. m. Closed Thursday
Total Capital Accounts 214,468.68
Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts $3,073,935.28
Memoranda
Pledged Assets
Other assets pledged to secure deposits and other liabilities
(including notes and bills rediscounted and securities sold
under repurchase agreement) 51,000.00
Securities loaned 51,000.00
Secured liabilities:
Deposits secured by. pledged assets pursuant to require
ments
law„...... 93,881.38
TOTAL
$ 93,881.38
State of Ohio, County of Allen, ss:
I, E. C. Romey, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly sw’ear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
E. C. Romey, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of July, 1945
Leland Diller, Notary Public.
Correct—Attest:
i C. Henry Smith
M. M. Bogart
H. P. Huber
PAGE THREE
Pleasant Hill
Mr. and Mrs. C. Zahrend and
Vera were Sunday guests of Mike
Gleason and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Badertscher
were Sunday callers on the Dennis
Brauen family.
Past week callers on Willard Jen
nings were:Mrs. Esco Huber, Sandra
Huber, Dean Holmen, Sybil and
Barbara Reichenbach, Clara Jen
nings and Avery W’atts.
Past w’eek callers on the Huber
and Fett home were: Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Smith and son, Mary Nell
and Billy Hess of Findlay.
Nellie Huber and Lillie Fett were
callers on the George Boedicker
home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Zimmerman
were Sunday evening callers on Ed
Althauser.
Ladies Aid will meet Thursday
afternoon with Idonna Huber.
Mr. and Mrs. Frances Younkman
were Sunday callers on Arthur
Phillips. Mrs. Graber was a Mon
day caller.
Honor Returned Soldier
Honoring Staff Sgt. Clyde Mer
ferd who arrived from England on
the Fourth of July, a family gather
ing was held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Mefferd, Sunday.
Present w-ere: Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Mefferd and daughters Helen and
Doris of Ohio City Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Mefferd, Betty and Robert
Mefferd of Port Clinton Sgt. and
Mrs. Wilbur Mefferd of Detroit
Walter Mefferd of Tucson, Arizona
S. Sgt. Clyde Mefferd and Miss
Marian Gillmore of Lima.
Pygmy People
The Andaman Islanders, a pygmy
people, shave their heads with a bit
of glass broken from a bottle.
Directors.