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VOLUME NO. LXX
GAME VIOLATORS
WHO KILLED DEER
SOUGHT BY WARDEN
Dead Animal Is Found Hidden
Along Fence Row Opening
Day of Hunting
Killing Deer Or Shooting At
Them with Buckshot Pro
hibited By Law
Something new in local hunting
violations brought an investigation by
game wardens last Friday after a
full-grown deer had been shot by un
known hunters in the Rockport vicin
ity.
Three Dayton hunters found the
dead animal hidden under grass and
leaves along a fence row on the Orlo
and Walter Marshall farms, one mile
north of Rickport about 5:30 p. m.
Friday.
The deer, a doe, had been partly
dressed and carefully hidden, leading
to the assumption that the hunters
who had killed it intended to return
after nightfall and take it away.
After it had been discovered Fri
day evening, the state highway patrol
at Lima was notified, and a patrol
car picked up the animal. The Day
ton hunters who found it were C. W.
Hawk, D. E. Bard and R. E. Wort
man.
Allen County Game Protector, A. J.
Lutterbein, of Beaverdam, who is in
vestigating the case, said the deer
was skinned and the meat was given
to the County Children’s home. He
said the animal weighed about 350
pounds.
It is assumed the deer is the same
which was seen in that neighborhool
the day before near the Hilty school
house and later on the same day by
Mrs. Cal Garmatter in the barnyard
at her home. On Friday morning
Roy Best and Hiram Niswander re
ported seeing a deer go into the How
ard Niswander woods, also in the
area.
There is no open season on deer in
Ohio except three counties, Adams,
Pike and Scioto, where hunting is
perimtted from Dec. 3 thru Dec. 8.
Shooting them with buckshot also is
prohibited and bag limit for the sea
son is one buck per person.
Charles Montgomery
Gets Army Discharge
Sgt. Charles W. Montgomery, 23,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mont
gomery, Bluffton, and husband of
Marjorie R. Montgomery, 214 Spring
street, has been separated from the
Army Air Forces at the San An
tonio District, AAF Personnel Dis
tribution Command.
Sergeant Montgomery served with
the 15th AAF in Europe as a Air
borne Radar Repairman. Prior to
entering the service, Sgt. Montgom
ery was a farmer with his father.
He participated in two campaigns
and was awarded two battle stars.
Peace Declamation
Contest Winners
Winners and alternates in Prince
of Peace declamation contests held
in three Bluffton churches Sunday
night have been announced as fol
lows
St. John’s Reformed—June Hau
enstein Margaret Groman, alter
nate.
Presbyterian—Eleanor Linden
Annie McGinnis, alternate.
First Mennonite—Catherine Bohn
Imogene Wenger, alternate.
Ray Devore Gets
Naval Discharge
Ray Paul DeVord, S. A. O. 2/c,
was discharged last week at the
Naval Separation Center in Toledo
and has returned to his home in
Gilboa.
He served overseas for 27 months
and was wounded two times, once
in the South Pacific and the other
time on Okinawa. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. William DeVore, of
Gilboa, and married the former
Esther Roy, of McComb.
Nurse Added To
Hospital Staff
Miss Doris Garmatter, who recent
ly graduated from the Nurses Train
ing school of the Mennonite hospital
at Bloomington, Ill., has accepted a
position on the nursing staff of
Bluffton hospital. Miss Garmatter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Gar
matter recently passed the Illinois
state examination for nurses held
at Chicago.
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Local Men Released
By Armed Services
Many Bluffton area men have been
released by the armed services dur
ing the past week. Among these
are:
Master Sgt. Robert Root, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Root, has re
turned after 42 months in the South
Pacific. He expects to resume his
former position as telegrapher for
the New York Central railroad at
Toledo.
Staff Sgt. Clyde Mefford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mefford of
Bentley road has returned after 30
months service in England.
Francis W. Luginbill, M. M. 2/c,
has been discharged from the Navy
thru the Toledo separation center.
Of his 34 months in service, 10
months were spent aboard a salvage
boat as a navy diver. He is the
husband of Mary Morrison Luginbill.
They are at home on the Morrison
farm on the Dixie north of Bluff
ton.
T/5 James W. Martin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred H. Martin has been
discharged on the point system after
serving 26 months overseas with the
Army Signal Corps in North Africa,
Egypt, England, France and Bel
gium.
Chief Petty Officer Wade Shook
who was discharged from the Navy
has joined his wife, Mrs. Bonita
Clark Shook and two daughters who
are at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Clark of Grove street.
Sgt. Herbert Stewart, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Stewart has been dis
charged after nearly five years serv­
Kent Boutwell, seaman second
class and son of Mrs. Alice Lugi
bill Boutwell, formerly of Bluffton
who has been hospitalized for three
years is facing another operation at
the. Naval hospital at Mai Island,
Calif., it was learned this week.
Kent suffered a badly injured foot
in the battle for Guadalcanal on
October 11, 1942 and recently it was
learned that bones in Ins foot which
doctors have been trying to repair
for three years are to be broken
again.
BLUFFTON’S MAYORALTY
SITUATION
An Editorial
With the question of who will be Bluffton’s mayor for
the next two years remaining unanswered, political observ
ers this week pointed out that the mayoralty dilemma
marks the culmination of a local trend that likely will have
repercussions in future municipal elections here.
End result of the surprising developments in this No
vember’s election, in fact, are more far-reaching than the
immediate problem of who can be prevailed upon to take
the mayor’s office for the next two years.
Even more vital than the question of who will consent
to serve as mayor is the necessity of finding an answer to
a situation where the chief elective office of the town is
going begging for an incumbent, with every likelihood that
few candidates for the office can be found in future elec
tions.
In view of the local attitude toward those who have car
ried the responsibilities of local government, it now ap
pears that the next election may be one in which no one
will want the mayor’s job, and perhaps few of other elect
ive offices of the town.
Those who in the past have served as mayor and in
other municipal offices have giv^n their time to the posi
tion largely from a sense of civic consciousness and public
duty.
Supplemental income in no way enters into the picture,
for the mayor’s annual salary of only $400 in no respect
is commensurate with the responsibilities of the office and
the hours of work involved.
After tax deduction, Bluffton’s mayor receives less than
one dollar per day, and for the time required to discharge
the duties of his office he is paid less than the 55 cent
hourly rate which the towm pays its common labor.
Local trends toward carping criticism and petty politics
which have the tendency to make a public whipping boy
out of the mayor’s office, signify a failure to understand
that if a mayor serves thru a sense of public duty the
citizenry have equal responsibilities in cooperating with
him and appreciating the problems of his office.
Unless there is public cooperation and understanding
there is no incentive for the type of men w’hich a democ
racy needs to run for public office—whether it be that of
mayor, council, board of public affairs or school board.
Constructive criticism presented as such is welcomed
by public officials, but backstage sniping too often becomes
involved with petty matters and many worthwhile accomp
lishments of city administrations are Completely forgotten.
Veteran In Hospital For Three
Years Facing Another Operation
Mrs. Boutwell, Bluffton native and
widowed mother of eight who were
in service lived in Kenton until two
years ago when she went to Mare
Island to be near her son. She has
since obtained employment and pur
chased a home at that place.
When Kent arrived at Mare Is­
ice in the Army, three of which
were overseas. He is at his home
near Rockport.
Cpl. Wayne Yerger has been dis
charged from the Army at Camp
Hood, Texas. He and his wife are
spending several days visiting here.
Sgt. Francis Reichenbach, son of
H. L. Reichenbach of near Bluffton
has returned after 30 months in
Australia, New Guinea andth e Phil
ippines with the 119th Ordnance
company.
Sgt. Robert Kohli and Ralph
Kohli, sons of Mrs. Eva Kohli, have
been discharged from the Army Air
corps and the Navy respectively.
Pfc. Paul Zimmerly, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Zimmerly north of
Bluffton has been discharged from
the Army at Camp Atterbury, Ind.
He was overseas 23 months and has
been decorated with four bronze
stars.
Real Estate Deal
J. M. Leatherman who recently
moved here from Beaverdam has
purchased from Eugene Basinger a
lot on Cherry street near the Geiger
street junction. Leatherman oper
ates a sheet metal working shop on
South Main street. He and his wife
are living in a house trailer on the
lot this winter.
LIBRARY CLOSED
Bluffton's public library will be
closed all day Thanksgiving day. The
library will be opened from 1 to 5
o’clock on Friday and Saturday
afternoons.
land three years ago he was taken
off the hospital ship Solace by his
brother John, a pharmacist’s mate
stationed then-. Then for three
months Kent’s life hung in the bal
ance.
John is now in Korea as a chief
pharmacist’s mate.
Dwight, another brother, is a mot
or mechanic’s mate at Key West,
Florida. Merlin is a seaman sec
ond class aboard the U. S. S. Lang
ley.
Anna Jeanne, a sister, is a store
keeper first class in the WAVES at
Cleveland.
Wade and Wayne, discharged from
the army, are employed in Hillsboro,
Ohio, and Kenton, respectively.
Clair, trained as ship fitter in the
navy, now is a government civilian
employe, rated as a chief ship fitter.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, NOV 22, 1945
QUIET OBSERVANCE
OF THANKSGIVING
IN PROSPECT HERE
Union Service
Methodist Ch
Be Held At
on Thurs­
day Morning
First Post-Mar Thanksgiving
Finds Business and Indus
try Closed
Bluffton’s observance of Thanks
giving, Thursday will be in the na
ture of a genera! holiday, with
schools, business places and industries
of the town suspending operations for
the day.
Public observance of the holiday
will include a union thanksgiving ser
vice sponsored by tht Bluffton Minis
terial association, at 9 a. m. in the
First Methodist church.
Rev. E. J. Bohn, a former minister
in Pennsylvania who this year joined
the Bluffton college faculty, will be
the speaker at the«one-hour church
service.
Business places of the town will be
closed in observant^ of the holiday,
and industries will* completely sus
pend operations for the first time
since 1941’s last preceding peacetime
observance.
No Mail Deliveries
No mail deliveries will be made on
town or rural routes and windows
will be closed thruoat the day at the
post office. Outgoing mail, however,
will be made up atid dispatched as
usual.
Students in Bluffton High and
Grade schools will fnjoy a vacation
over the holiday weekend, beginning
with the close of classes, Wednesday
night.
Bluffton college will close only on
Thursday, and classes will be resum
ed Friday morning at the institution.
ORGANIZATION TO
BOOST COMMUNITY
IS PLANNED HERE
Organizational Meeting Will Be
Heid Wednesday, Dec. 5, at
High School
Association Planned to Support
Projects Beneficial to Com
munity Welfare
Organization of an association rep
resenting all community interests to
sponsor and support projects benefi
cial to general welfare of the Bluff
ton area will have its inception in a
community meeting at 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday, December 5, in the Bluff
ton High school cafteeria.
A proposed plan of organization
drafted by the Citizens’ Advisory
committee, which recently completed
its work in support of the three mill
school levy, will be presented for con
sideration at the meeting.
Need for a central organization to
lend unified support to measures of
benfit to the community, its schools,
etc., will be presented at the session,
and an association similar to the
community group vfhich functioned
here years ago may grow out of the
present project.
Eleven Groups
All clubs, organizations, business,
etc., designated in 11 groups of inter
ests, are asked to have representa
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No One Injured In
Two-Car Crash Here
Occupants of two cars escaped in
jury at 7:15 p. m. Monday in a
crash on Main street at the Garau
street intersection.
Menas D. Gerber and wife, of
Pandora, were in a car traveling
south, which was in collision with
an automobile driven north by Don
ald D. Emanhiser, of Findlay, when
Gerber turned left on Garau street
to go to the Community hospital.
Emanhiser’s car was damaged in
the mishap, but no one was injured.
New Filling Station Is
Opened North Of Town
Myrel Gossard has opened a new
filling station and lunch stand at his
farm on the Dixie highway two
miles north of Bluffton near the
Nickel Plate crossing. The estab
lishment will be operated under the
name of Dixie View Inn.
It will be the first peacetime
Thanksgiving since 1941, when war
clouds were gathering, and altho the
holiday will be quietly observed
there will be apparent relief from
the grim shadow of the three pre
ceding years.
Customary family gatherings, tra
ditional to Thanksgiving, will again
take their place as the feature at
traction of the holiday for the first
time since the storm of war broke
back in 1941.
With members of many family cir
cles in the armed forces, others
working on holidays in war plants
and gasoline and tire rationing cur
tailing motoring, wartime Thanks
giving dinners in general did not
measure up to one of the country’s
oldest traditions.
All that is in the past, however,
and altho many men stijl are in uni
form, the tension and anxiety which
have marked holiday gatherings
since 1941 can at least be forgottn.
Indicating a return to the “full
house” family gathering for Thanks
giving is a materially stepped-up de
mand for turkeys this year.
During the war years, small
turkeys were sought by the heads
of households, but this yeai- larger
turkeys are. in demand as families
take advantage of their first oppor
tunity in four years to get together
for the holiday.
Couple Is Wed In
M. E. Church Sunday
Miss I.ois Berry, danuhp of Roy.
Berry and James Benroth, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albeit n.oth were
quietly married in the Methodist
church Sunday afternoon.
Rev. J. A. Weed, past-.:- of the
bride officiated in a ring ceremony
in the presence of the immediate
families of the couple.
The bride is a graduate of Blur
ton high school and has been em
ployed at the plant of the Triplett
Electrical Instrument company.
Mr. Benroth, a Bluffton high
school graduate served as corporal
in the Army being stationed for a
time in the India and Burma area
with the air force. He was recent
ly discharged from the service. The
couple will reside for the present in
Bluffton.
NEWS
THANKSGIVING. 1945
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‘’We at-e numbered unlit the victors
^TLaxj we an our allies succeed
in the hardest job in history
world peace.
Traditional Dinners Come Into
Their Own for First Time
Since 1941
Pre-war Traditions and Customs
Associated with Holiday
Suspended During War
Highlighted by the traditional
family dinner at noon, Bluffton’s
Thanksgiving observance this year
will be in keeping with the pre-war
customs and traditions that had to
be suspended during the long, trying
years of the world-wide conflict.
'amily Dinner Again Takes Center
Of Thanksgiving Stage As War Ends
1620 1945
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Morrison, Mt.
Cory, a girl, Wednesday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brown, Pan
dora, a boy, David Allen, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Scott, Bluffton,
a boy, Ambert Eugene, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wolber, Je
nera, a boy, David Lee, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Boehm, Raw
son, a boy, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claire Beucler, Je
nera, a boy, Claire Michael, Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Bliss Reiter, Mt.
Cory, a boy, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs .Bertrand Swank,
Bluffton, a girl, Shirley Avis, last
Wednesday.
Oklahoma Pastor
At Ebenezer Church
A Thanksgiving service at 10 a. m.
Thursday will feature a series of
meetings being conducted at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church by Rev.
H. P. Fast, of Orienta, Oklahoma.
In addition to the Thanksgiving
service, Rev. Fast is speaking each
evening except Saturday in the
church. Services start at 7:30 p. m.
Another feature will be a German
language service in the church at
10 a. m. Friday.
North Main Filling
Station In New Hands
Robert Hochstettler and Paul
Henry have purchased from Ted
Stettler the Gulf sei ’, ice rtat'n at
North Maio and Washington .-fleets
it was announced tl e first tin
week. They will operate the busi
ness as a partnership.
Columbus Man Buys
Old Stratton Garage
E. F. Schmidt of Columbus has
purchased from Adam Steiner the
former Stratton Garage building on
East Elm street is was announced
the first of the week.
Schmidt will take possession next
month and expects to open a farm
implement store in the building. He
expects to move his family here
from Columbus shortly.
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THAKSGIVING MENU
TO COST SLIGHTLY
LESS THIS YEAR
Menu Will Return to Pre-war
Traditions Plenty of Tur
keys and Chickens
Price of Poultry Considerably
Lower Other Items Cost
About the Same
Thanksgiving dinners in Bluffton
homes this year will cost more than
during the pre-war era, but two bright
spots in the picture are seen in the
fact that the menu will veer back
toward the old traditions and cost of
foodstuffs will be slightly lower gen
erally than last fall.
Turkeys are available in abundance,
a complete reversal of the situation
of the two preceding years, and mar
ket quotations are four cents lower
generally than in 1944.
This year’s price for dressed tur
keys 16 pound and up is 47 cents a
pound, as compared with a mark of
51 cents last Thanksgiving. Turkeys
under 16 pounds are selling at 50
cents.
Those who buy live birds from farm
ers, however, can make further sav
ings, for in view of the prevailing
surplus of turkeys dealers can buy
all they want for around 30 cents a
pound.
Chickens, which will compete with
turkeys as the center piece on th©
table, also are lower in price. Top
quality live chickens are selling for
26 cents a pound, five cents lower than
last year’s Thanksgiving price of 31
cents.
Oysters likely will be missing from
this year’s menu, for they have been
scarce all fall and prospects for an
ample supply for the holiday are poor.
Price ,if available, will be around 70
cents a pint, 16 cents higher than
last year when they sold for 63 cents.
Cranberries are scarce but the price
is down, from 38 cents last Thanks
giving to 33 cents this year. Altho
there was a big crop a scarcity of la
bor prevented a complete harvest and
processing, with the result they are
hard to find in local food stofes.
Greenstuff is plentiful and will help
round out the menu. Celery sells at
27 cents a stalk, and head lettuce
about the same in price as last year.
Thankoffering Service
at Reformed Church
Thankoffering sendee of the
Woman’s Guild will be held at St.
John’s Reformed church, Sunday
night at 7:30 o’clock.
Ray Follas and the Gertrude Hoy
sextet will present special musical
numbers followed by a one-act play
“The Disappointment of Maria”
directed by Silas Diller.
Cast of the play: Mrs. Taylor,
Mrs. Ralph Stearns Mrs. Broca,
Mrs. Ralph Badertscher Miss Park
er, Mrs. Arden Baker Mrs. Green,
Mrs. Chas. Hilty Mrs. Darrell, Mrs.
Noah Niswander Maria, Mrs. WI1
ford Geiger.
Women of the church will bring
thankoffering boxes and guests are
invited.
Legion Game Supper
To Be Held Nov. 29
Game now is being collected for
the American Legion Game supper,
open to the community, which will
be held in the Legion hall Thursday
evening, Nov. 29.
Anyone interested is asked to
take dressed game to the Page Dairy
Co. where it will be stored in cold
lockers. All returned servicemen are
especially invited.
An active winter program is be
ing planned by the Legion, including
a series of dances for the young
people of the town. Funds raised
thru the dances will be used to re
furnish the hall.
Membership of the organization
now stands at 90, an all-time high.
It includes 20 W rid War I! mem
1 s. I.t .? -na: i s wishing to ob
tain 1. gion hats may order them
tl .• i ,i sta: Quinten Burk
holder.
Missionary To China
To Speak Here Sunday
Rev. C. Weldon Culver, of the
Oriental Missionary society, will be
the speaker at a service in the De
fenseless Mennonitechur ch at 10:30
a. m. Sunday.
The son of missionary parents,
Rev. Culver has spent 12 years in
China. He will return to China to
engage in missionary work as soon
as conditions permit.