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Mid-February Lincoln’s birth day and Valentine day at hand and Lent being next Wednesday which means that Easter comes early this year and according to old timers brings with it an early spring hard to believe that spring’s just around the corner after last Friday night when the temperature went two degrees below zero and first early hatched chicks about to appear —and they say that some of those gaily colored chicks sold last Easter for kiddies’ pets grew up to make some fine Sunday dinners more seed catalogs cluttering up the mails —the stuff we raise in our garden never looks like the pictures and politics after a hectic round of pre deadline jockeying relapsing into its usual quietude until next fall Bluffton college putting final touch the new gym, driv Bluffton’s former prestige a ketball tournament spot as some twenty-five years ago speaking of basketball, all ro lead to Ada next Monday nig John birthday- the ACOUSTICON ONE Case-y- nils (sAu You Wear! DependabilBy Assured by 44 Years*, Experience WE INVITE COMPARISON Fittings by appointment at 110 So. Law _______ Bluffton, lOhio i fee vn aV ANEW ngr UNIPAC church, carried Ave., by Mrs. Walter Gratz VMtOOM FROM CUAN-Uf* WO«IY- your wtomatic GAS water heater sees to it chat there’s always plenty of hot water, even on wash day. And hot water deans so much faster. in a news broadci burgh radio one and has evoked a side the Bluffton lation seeps never Tuesday. A birthday is ete for John unless he skating, which he did o in the evening, just to an be young after three day doing guard duty at the Triph plant. And on Friday, Valentin day, he and the Missus will celebrj their 52nd wedding anniversary. Jo birthday an: terinarian and John Whisler rthdays were on the same been gone thes ilentine’s day, a delight birthday, we think. And Mrs. Levi Gable, always bers it with a gift subscription to the Bluffton News. birthday is tha1 bom in Zurich 11 be 89 on Sat e a family gath Mel Lant the distir ndchildrer tending Bluffton believe establishes kind. The seven Esther and Helen hildren arc of Pandora lucker of Bluff ■r of Smithville Weldon Lightner, a te now living in ies the first page ’s edition of the th an account of the of Blufl Also the n accounl Cleveland, tan pape: ibyterian Chicago Tribune of the project as Toledo and other rs. It was in ast over the evening last lot of interes Tor Women Who Want Their Freedom EEDOM KITCtiEH •The CP seal denotes ranges built to exacting laboratory standards that asaure better cooking per formance Where food’s the finest it’s cooked by gas. West Ohio Gas Co program, as you may recall involved the distribution of $2,000 in $10 bills to the congregation on Sunday of last week with the pastor’s injunction that the money is to be put to work on the biblical principal of the par able of the talents to raise a fund of $8,000 for a church improvement ier supply pastor here argestion that the sale Bluffton be banned—it the unpro: wrap up h: daily Maynard is minus part of hirttail—it being a time-honored o cut off the an after com- jr morning. We hope more than thotlessn the pilot in the rep notored plane flying ondition 1 Chicago talent” ?luded Pitts week HtUDOM FROM COOKIHQ Ail UMS because your modern, glistening CP* GAS range roasts and bakes automatically at the right temperature for the right length of time. The oven lights auto madcaUy, too. COMi and let as give you full details about a New Freedom Gas Kitchen for you cool, dean, comfortable, modern. The vol ther- pages 4 by 7 inches and in thickness. It is printed rman type on paper made and is in a remarkable •eservation. Many of the 100 yea ilumes paper of the older books is made from rags, usual ly linen rags which has never been surpassed as a material for quality paper. Paper usually used in books today is made partially or wholly from wood pulp. Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred others away. —Chinese Proverb STATE OF OHIO Joseph T. Ferjruson—AMitor HEIH 1 Fund ha Grand Total* to the NOT! THE STATE Allen Cot NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT THE STATE OF OHIO Allen County, sb. Estate of Dbnald E. Hefner, Decease Com High Egg Pedigree Sired Chicks BIG TYPE WHITE LEGHORNS “Master Deluxe” 310 to 346 Egg Blood Mating “Quality Deluxe”...2f() to 299 Egg Blood Mating HEAVY BREEDS-225 to 334 Egg-Blood Matings (New Hampshire, White and Barred Rocks) SUPER AAA-Sons of Individ ual Pedigreed Male Matings Big-Type Leghorns, White and Barred Rock and Buckeye Cross breeds. NEWEST CHEVROLET! See it and you see BIG-CAR QUALITY AT LOWEST COST now made even bigger-looking, even better-looking even more beautiful and desirable Today, we and all other Chevrolet dealers are displaying the newest creation of America’s largest producer of automobiles—the new Chevrolet for 1947—offering you an even greater measure of BIG-CAR QUALITY AT LOWEST COST! See it and you will agree that it’s the biggest-looking and best-looking Chev rolet ever built. It’s more beautiful in every way, both inside and out. It’s designed to out-style, out-value, out-save all other cars in its field. And above all, it reveals that sterling Big-Car quality—in* every phase and feature, in every part and pound of material—which buyers agree is exclusive to Chevrolet in its price range. Yet here’s the lowest-priced line in its field! Make it a point to see this newest Chevrolet at our showroom—/? STEINER CHEVROLET SALES BLUFFTON, OHIO for divorce on the rf doty and extreme maiden name and Bluffton Hatchery and Pandora diately began importing breeding CIFIC, TRAPNEST PEDIGREE I and dollars have been spent for flo ton, Ohio, has been appointor an Executrix of the emato Conrad Into of Alien County, Kentucky “Well begun is half done.” Start right your order for moderately priced AMSTUTZ chicks today Get our SPECIAL DISCOUNT information on all EARLY ORDERS booked by FEBRUARY 15th for future delivery. First hatch February 13tl SPECIAL DISCOUNT Ful-O-Pep and STATE PILOT poultry and qualified Donovan B, Lio, dec u«d, ry. JH47. ant-ads bring' i ’suits. Not irgmia, lia and y coal. Ohio quali Howard stag Coal Yard on A. C. & Y. R. R. Phone 354-W or 265-Y J. Wahlic purchased the •hery in 1944 they imme ockof DEFINITE, SPE EEDING. Several thous improvement. All Amstutz baby chicks come from 100% blood tested rigidlv culled flocks. All “DELUXE GRADE” Matings are Definitely headed by INDIVIDUALLY WING-BANDED PEDI GREED INDIVIDUALS, purchased from "Record of Perform ance” Breeders. All hens in our “DELUXE” Matings are in turn also the offspring of such well bred matings. We are proud of the records our chicks 8 of our customers. W'hen we say they we mean profitable business. make in the lading are “bred for busi- in 1947 by placing ill brooders with any chick order. Amstutz Hatcheries E. J. WAHLIE, Co-owner & Mgr. Bluffton, Ohio and Pandora, Ohio every way tock Feedi