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PAGE EIGHT Settlement Mrs- Earl O. Edwards of McComb, Miss., arrived here the latter part of the week to spend some time with relatives and friends. Rolland Burkhart expects to finish his sheep shearing in this ana soon and then leave with his family for North Dakota to supervise the shear ing of a large number of sheep there. Mary Coleman passed away at the Lima hospital last Friday. Funeral services were conducted at Lehman s Funeral home, Sunday afternoon. Rev. Frank S. Harder was in charge VACCINATE 'POULTRY SERVICE Bluffton BEEF PORK VEAL AUTHORIZED DEALER Rib or Rump Boned and Rolled Beef Roast lb. 55c All Meat Beef Ground lb. 43c CHUCK—Well Trimmed Beef Roast lb. 45c Skinless Weiners of the services. Mrs. Selma Sommer arrived here from Mission, Texas where she had spent several months. Her home is at Ames, Iowa. She plans to visit in this vicinity for sveeral weeks- The Christian Eendeavor society of the St. John church are presenting a program at the Ebenezer church, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schumacher expect to leave in the near future for a trip to Colorado. A large crowd attended the Pan dora high school alumni banquet on Saturday evening. The program that ...-... FOODS FROSTED STEAK (Cubed) E Lunch Meats Macaroni & Cheese, Pickle and Pimento, Veal Loaf Per lb. JvC ........ ..........■*1 Beef or Potk Brains Areeks Dry Beef Cottage Smoked Tongue Cousin’s lb. 35c mod en done go the phone stop in appoint come out *n equip es are do is house 5 fur- ,nd make your nent for us to a th our model lent, and your w ver all you hav lose your brooder be night before, fa Wahlie Good TO AtoZ Meat Market & Locker /Service Home Killed Meats Pandora Know! LAMB READY TO KAT HALF OR W^OLE HAMS lb. 59c ALL KINDS CHEESE 75c ,2 LB. LOAVES lb. 55c lb. 19c Rib Steak lb. 49c lb. 50c y2 Cheese lb. 19c OLEO S™. lb. 35c lb. 43c Canadian Bacon Dog Food 3 cans 29c Lean and Light Bacon lb. 50c In Piece—’i or Whole Soft Drinks to Carry Out.. 6 bottles for 25c WHITE WHOLE WHEAT RYE POTATO BREAD Our Own Make Fresh or Smoked Sausage, Ring or Large Bologna Fresh Lake Trout Fillets- lb. 55c followed was greatly appreciated. Farmers in this locality were again able to prepare seed beds the last few days for sowing oats and sugar beets. A few were able to plant corn the first of the week. The Pandojra high school seniors are leaving Thursday for New York city. They are to make the trip by bus and expect to be gone for a week. Lantz Wynkoop has recently re turned home from Florida where he spent the winter- Clement Suter has recently in stalled a complete hay drying unit also feed grinding and mixing equip ment. Many received invitations to at tend the marriage of Miss Elinor Barkman of Henderson, Neb., to Charley Boehr, youngest son of Rev. and Mrs. P. J. Boehr. The wedding is to be an event of Sunday, June 1. Miss Mary Margaret Soldner, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. N. ‘N- Sold ner was the editor of the Pandora high school “Spy Glass” published this month and the paper won second place in its class at the meeting of the Northwestern Ohio Journalism Association recently held at Bowl ing Green. First Paper Mill The first paper mill in America was built in J690 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, according to the En cyclopaedia Britannica. Van Wert County The Guernsey Center of The Mid-West 23d Annual Spring Sale FAIRGROUNDS VAN WERT, OHIO JUNE 4,1947 25 cows and fresh heifers 25 bred and open heifers 3 bulls, good hardshire prospects T. B., Bangs and Mastitis tested. These cattle have been carefully selected from reliable Guernsey Breeders. For Catalog Write— OTTO GEHRES, Secretary Wren, phio THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON. OHIO POSTS Genuine Tennessee Red Cedar I SAWED SQUARE Suitable for yard posts, anchor posts, grape arbors, clothes lines, rose arbors, gate posts etc. SIZES RANGE: 3, SUzl 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 inch tops and 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 feet lengths. Price: 68c and up Steinman Bros. Lumber Co. 236-246 Cherry St, Phone: 360-W “A$k Steinman's” Public Sale ................................. ........................................■*-... -■■■■■■.................. .. —.............. .. ............. Thursday Evening, Mak 29th In addition to being assured of city delivery service and mail collec tion boxes on the way, Bluffton’s Postal Service took on more city airs when Alfred Sanner, mail carrier be tween the P. 0. and L. E. and W. R. R., appeared on the scene ’with a mail wagon painted the customary grey and trimmed in red. A- D. Gratz began his duties as mail carrier on city route 1, taking the place of Herbert Gottshall, who resigned. Rev. M. E. Todd, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church at Find lay has accepted a call to the Bluff ton and Rockport churches. Mr. and Mrs. Aldine Kohli and two daughters were bruised and shaken up when the auto in which they were riding overturned. Saturday noon. The accident occurred at the intersec tion of College Ave. and College Rd- Bussell Bixel is one of the candi dates for appointment to West Point. Three Riley twp. boys won a free trip to Chicago at the Putnam county fair. Sidney Hilty won for the best pig, Hayden G. Basinger won the trip in the stock judging contest. Stanley Oil wells will be sunk on the N. R. Elzay, M. J. Stratton, and Frank Blackford farms. Earl Arnold purchased a new horse to go with his buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Diller welcomed a baby boy into their home, Satur day. Peter Geiger who owns a plot of ground near Bluffton wall build a new house on it soon. P. A. Basinger and family of Co lumbus Grove will move on John Welty’s farm this week. S. L. Eby, a Settlement young ster, now attending Yale, will be an Sale to siart at 7:00 P. M. U On what is known ks the Allen Thompson Farm 2 miles south of Bluffton ta County Line and 2 1/3 miles east or 2/3 mile west of Route 69 on Orange Center Road. The following property: FARM MACHINERY International manure spreader 14 inch riding plow walking plow single disk Viarrow drag harrow spring tooth harrow corn planter 1 single row cultivator shovel plows rubber tire wagon set work harness heavy duty fence stretcher platform scales fanning mill corn sheller 8-inch feed mill 2 red elm silta, 3 in by 6 in. by 18 ft. hog house 8 ft. work bench two 10 ft. roof ladders two other ladders 22 gal. heavy steel tanks 56 gal. steel drum hog scaffolds top buggy electric fencer 3 cross cut saws 3 range shelters battery brooding equipment 2 lawn mow ers bicycle wheelbarrow 2 dcfyble barrel shot guns ball bearing clothes wringer cheese Wess lard press sausage grinder 2 iron kettles 2 oak mut boards copper boiler corn drier. HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS Two piece living room suite antique bed room suite oak dining table and six chairs library table mirror top table 3 rocking chairs 4 hickory kitchen chairs book rack 2 stands battery cabinet radio table model electric radio piano sewing machine 2 cupboards rug, 11 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. rug, 11 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft. linoleum, 10 by 12 Renown coal range Renown heating stove box stove Eureka electric sweeper Doty electric sweeper 2 burner electric hot plate elctric iron 2 gal. antique iron tea kettle 2 oak vinegar barrels, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—Cash Warren & Thrapp, Auctioneers Russell Ream, Clerk NEWS OUR FATHERS READ FROM ISSUE OF OCTOBER 18,1917 News Our Grandfathers Read From Issue Of March 9, 1907 i, Bixel won in the pig growing contest. Raymond H. Johns wins a trip for the best peck of potatoes Oliver Dil ler for showing the best peck of wheat W. W. Reichenbach, the best dairy scores. Harley Lugibihl landed an 18 inch bass at Schumacher’s quarry Monroe Geiger left for Camp Sher man. Winkler and Roethlisberger report the heaviest cane sugar run in 13 years of business operating a cane mill. Max Griffith is in the Army grad uation school at Detroit. An 8 pound girl, Angiline Leuella, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bracy. Gail Mumma is now associp«ed with Patterson’s Barber Shop. Miss Alice Ludwig has resigned as advertising manager of a Lima dry goods store. Clair Fett returned after a 6 weeks business trip in Michigan. Clyde Van Meter has purchased the John Keller, Sr., farm of 100 acres, souYh of Rockport. Charles Lemley purchased the 80 acre farm of John Jones- instructor in summer school at Woos ter college. Homer Marshall has closed a deal for the Gallant farm in Orange town ship. The 80 acres brought $7,000. Lloyd Basinger who enlisted in the army is now at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and pleased with army life. Dr. I. R. Wetherill, Elmer Ewing, D. S. Flick and wives attended the Billy Sunday services at Lima. Lewis Steiner is teaching at Lu theran college, Winfield, Kansas. Miss Estelle Whisler was host to a merry party of young folks for Sun day dinner. Attending were Misses Maude and Maria Hummon, Zoe Mil ler, Eva Whisler, Mistel and Eliz abeth Hummon, Vera and Hazel Har ris Messrs. Clare and Everett Green, Scott Clymer, Will Gable, Ben Whis ler, and Ray Harris. Jay VanMeter and lady friend Miss Hazel Tayler were sightseeing at Go mer, Sunday. Charles O. Cramer is busy building coops and brooders as he is going in to the poultry business. Miss Lenore Alkire is a music stu- dent at Oberlin. Dave Flick sold the Ed Bums prop erty on Cherry street to Ross Bogart. Put Him in Ki? He will be happier, mor and they are ready Spring wearincI Knit Polo Shirts, low as 89c Long Jumpers 95c and up Short Jumpers $1.45 All timet thown ere Eastern Standard- SHIRTS $1.19 and Long and short sleeves, Spring shades. PANTS .... $1.50 and ELSIE’S BEAUTY SHOP Permanent Waves Shampoos Hair Cutting Manicures Hair Conditioning Sets 1121/2 South Main St., Over City Market Phone 202-W Residence Phone 202-Y THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947 Now that new luxury coaches are being de livered, Greyhound offers you more schedules, greater convenience, and shorter running times on your trips by Super-Coach. Check the convenient, time-saving schedules below which are typical of the new service effective May 20th. DETROIT to LOUISVILLE and Intermediate Points via BLUFFTON Convenient Connections to Destinations Beyond NORTHBOUND Leaving 4:26am 10:16am 2:16 pm 4:26 pm 8:26pm SOUTHBOUND Leaving 1:16am 5:41am 11:36am 5:16 PM 9:16PM For complete information on new schedules call: SIDNEY’S DRUG SHOP Phone 170-W N. Main Street GION TOGS comfortable, safer right now for of 1947. up up Zipper fly front, sanforized. Vat dyed, Spring shades new. Mothers like them because they are a “Safety Legion’s” magazine “The Pilot” is presented with our compliments. GEIGER & DILLER Headquarters in Bluffton for Safety Legion Togs Shirt and Pants to Match per suit, only--------------- $2.49 Shorts $1.39, $1.95, $2.95 cottons—sanforized and fast color. They They’re good, sturdy cottons sanforized and fast color. They are proportioned to fit a growing boy—cut generously for active duty—with detailed tailoring and finishing—such as reinforce ments at point of strain. Safety Legion clothes can take it— through rough housing and washing—and still come up prac tically as good as new. Mothers like them because they are a value plus!