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THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1917 MEN’S GARDEN CLUB Formation of an Allen County Men s Garden club was announced here the first of the week. The club consists of men thruout the county interested in gardening. Two Bluff ton men charter members of the organization are W. A. Amstutz, secretary and Robert Potts member of the committee on constitution and by-laws. The club will meet next Tuesday nigljt at 8 o’clock in the of fice of County Agricultural Agent Warner in the basement of the Lima postoffice building. AMBULANCE PHONE 160-W I BLUFFTON CITY 7/2 ..............-.............. SOAP FLAKES 1 33c ALL POPULAR BRANDS CIGARETTES SI.U2 U. B. C. BRAND COFFEE Any Grind 39c PRIDE OF LIMA FLOUR PET CARNATION Evaporated Milk 3 39c Did Dutch I CLEANSER I 2 Cans 19c CRISPY THIN I Nabisco Saltines 1 24c & TO WED IN PANDORA Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Schumacher of Pandora announce the coming marriage of their daughter Ruth to Ormel Schaublin of Pandora, son of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Schaublin of Findlay. The wedding, invitational, will take place at Grace Mennonite church, Pandora, Saturday. Miss Schumacher, a graduate of Bluffton high school, is employed at the Pandora Lumber company office. Mr. Schaublin is employed oh the farm of his aunts, the Emans sisters northeast of nandora. CAREFUL SELECTIONS In making arrangements for a funeral service, there is no occasion for great haste. The family may spend as much time as they like, in comfort and privacy. There is no hurry, no impatience, and NO PRICE PRESSURE. BASINGER FUNERAL HOME BLUFFTON. OHIO MRRKEtI^ MA/fif T. 48 C-W New Crop, Sweet & Ripe, Florida Seedless, 96 Size GRAPEFRUIT 1 5 24c ..... ................. Sweet and Juicy Valencia—252 Size California Oranges 33c U. S. No. 1 Grade Michigan POTATOES 59c ............... 1 ..........-"I....... The King of Sweet Potatoes—Puerto Rican Sweet Potatoes 3 27c Extra Fancy, and Ripe Canadian Delicious Apples. 2 29c Mushrooms Green Peppers Squash Pascal Celery Grapes Lemons Radishes Fresh Spinach Garlic Onions .......— Head Lettuce Cabbage Cauliflower Celery Cabbage Cranberries V- l.are e Tender Cooking Great Not 2 them Beans Lb- 39c For 25 Lb. Bag Baking or Waffles Kfl1R0 SYRUP 1,4 Lb. OC Can Deerwlod Little Elf Fnlit 21■ Cocktail 1JL Wash Day Specials !H Swifts Quick Arrow A Really SHARP Tasty Cheese SAVORY CHEESE 49c K No. 1 Tall Bl Can IVORY SOAP 2 Lge. Bars 31© 2 Med. Bars 21C DREFT 34c Bov NU MAID BRAND OLEO 33c Lb. S2.09 THE BLUFFTON NEWS C. A. MERY, Editor Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio, by the^Bluffton News Publishing and Printing Co. Subscription rates: Year, $2.00 six months, $1.25 anywhere in U. S. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mrs. Joseph Fenty of New York is spending several weeks with Mrs. B»ssie Edgecomb. I Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Amstutz and family of Lorain were guests of Miss Sarah Amstutz, Sunday. Mrs. W. C. Berryhill of Lima was a guest of Mrs. E. C. Romey of South Main street, Tuesday. Mrs. Bertha Wetherill of Weston and Mrs. Golda Battles of Findlay visited friends here last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Augsburger and John Swisher spent the week end at Carpenter lake, Mich. Bake sale by Pleasant Hill W. S. C. S. at Prosser & Prosser store Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. end Mrs. Ira Garner of Toledo were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff West of South Lawn avenue. Mrs. C. W. Newman of Washing ton, D. C., attended the funeral services of Jesse Bracy here last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Edgecomb and daughter Susan of Cincinnati spent several days with Mrs. Bessie Edgecomb. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Aukerman and family were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hilty and family. Mr. and Mrs. E mmet Clark of I Lima spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wingate at their home on Mound street. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hilty and family were Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr. end Mrs. Wm. Adams of Mt. Cory. Robert West of Toledo spent Mon day evening at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff West of South Lawn avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Zuercher and family of Lima visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zuercher and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. John Burkholder of Terre Hill, Pa., were dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Lida Burkholder of Mound street, Tuesday. Diller ambulance removals—Mrs. Edwin Luginbihl from South Main street to Bluffton hospital, Saturday afternoon following auto accident. Mrs. Yola Van Orsdall of Van couver, British Columbia is spending several weeks with her father and also her sister, Mrs. Clyde Snyder of Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stearns of Spring street spent the week end with Mrs. Sadie Stearns and daugh ters Misses Erma and Mamie Stearns of Upper Sandusky. Mr. and Mrs. Orden Smucker and family of East Lansing, Mich., spent the week end here with their parents, Mrs. B. D. Smucker and MrtP and Mrs. Albert Klay of Lawn avenue. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Lahr of Harmon road had as their weekend guests his sisters, Mrs. Lydia Thorn and Mrs. Margaret Sigg of Hunting ton, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Struble and Mr. and Mrs. Nile Althaus of Toledo together with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Koch and family and Mrs. Winona Althaus spent Sunday with Mrs. Dan Althaus of Gilboa. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holmes of North Wales, Pa., were guests at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bogart of Cherry street, Mon day. They stopped here enroute to their home after attending home coming weekend at Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware. i Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ruggley and daughter Ethel entertained Sunday in honor of Mrs. Ruggley’s sister, Mrs. Will Martin and the latter’s husband of Archer City, Texas: Mr. and Mrs. W’ill Hall and son Lester of Lafayette Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Drury and family of Harrod Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ruggley of Lima and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ruggley and son Ray. See me for memorials of all kinds. Samuel Bixel, 409 S. Main St., Bluff ton. Phone 429-W. Representing the Lima Marble & Granite Co. tf Visitors from a distance at the Oscar Lora home, Sunday, were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Southwell of Adrian, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Meter, Findlay Mrs. Caroline Amstutz, Col. Grove. Callers Mon i day included his mother, Mrs. Nancy i Basinger and granddaughter Miss Ernestine Basinger of Lima John Shaller of Jenera Rev. and Mrs." J. J. Esau, Mr. and Mrs. Wulli man of Berne, Ind. n k 1 Basinger ambulance removals— Mrs. Russell Greiner from her home on Rt. 25 to Lima Memorial hospit al Miss Sarah Nusbaum from Bluff ton hospital to her home on College road Mrs. Nancy Basinger from Lima to the home of her son Oscar Lora, South Main street and return. G. A. Lehman, formerly of Bluff ton college, now director of music in Colgate-Rochester seminary, Roch ester, N. Y., visited relatives and friends here Saturday. He stopped in Rluffton enroute home after at tending a conference at Sandusky the latter part.of last week. THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO Rev. Guthrie Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will! be held Thursday at 2 o’clock at the' (bounty Line church of the Brethren for Rev. Joseph L. Guthrie, 68, pastor of the church for the last 16 years, who died at his home six miles south of Bluffton at 6:30 P. M. Monday. Rev. Guthrie, well known in the rural community between Bluffton and Lafayette ,was taken ill during homecoming services being observed in his church on Sunday afternoon, October 12. Death was caused by pneumonia. One of his daughters, Esther, who lives at home, is a student at Bluff ton college, and several other mem bers of the family have attended college here in th past. Rev. J. J. Anglemyer, of Wil liamstown, will officiate at the fun eral rites Thursday. The body will be at the Guthrie home until time for the services. Rev. Guthrie was born in Jackson township, March 15, 1879, and had been a pastor of the Church of the Brethren for 51 years. He had been in poor health for five years. Survivors include his widow, the former Elsie R. Teegarden, and the following children: Dr. Morris Guth rie, Columbus Rev. Ellis G. Guthrie, Marion Mrs. Helen Myers, Hume William Guthrie, at home, and Esth er Guthrie, a Bluffton college stu dent. Settlement Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Suter and Mr .and Mrs. Harry Suter spent several days of last week visiting in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Forrest Musser and family at Rockville, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. James Suter and daughter were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs .Harold Steiner near Sterling, Ohio. Mrs. Edwin Luginbihl is in the Bluffton hospital as a result of an accident in which she and her hus band w’ere involved Saturday after noon as they were returning from Lima. When making a turn from Main street in Bluffton to Kibler street their car was struck by a car driven by Ivan Clements of Bluffton. Both cars were damaged. Mrs. Mary Miller, son Paul and Selma and Howard Diller were Sat urday supper guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Lora and family. Mrs. Solomon Welty and daugh ters Amanda and Susie and Mrs. Philip Flaeth were Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Welty and family in Ft. Wayne. The Ebfmezer male chorus pre sented a sacred program in one of the Ada churches ^Sunday evening. Jacob Haas has been numbered among the sick the past week. Barbara Bauman is assisting with the house work in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Schneck. Mr. and Mrs .Donavin Amstutz of Columbus were visitors in Bluff ton over the week end. He is a student at Ohio State university. Mr. and Mrs. James Basinger, Wade Mumma and Neil Schmidt all of Purude university, West Lafay ette ,Ind., spent the week end at their homes here. Mrs. Ella McHenry of North Main street spent the past ten days in Lima visiting at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Baechler, Earl Bogart and family and Mr. and Mrs. Faye Isham. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lowenberg and family of Chicago spent the week end with Prof, and Mrs. Raid of West Elm street. Mrs. J. A. Hochstettler, former Bluffton resident, now living in Up land, Ind., underwent a major opera tion in a hospital at Marion, Ind., Sunday. Her condition was reported satisfactory the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wenger and son Edgar and Roland Flythe of Spring street visited Old Man’s cave and other places of interest in the hills of southern Ohio, Saturday and spent Saturday night and Sunday with Prof. Paul Wenger and family in Lancaster, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pifer of Will iamstown and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hathaway and children of Ada were Sunday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher and children. Dr. and Mrs. D. R. Trippiehorn of South Main street are visiting at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Newland and family of Columbia, Mo. Callers on Mrs. Roscoe Blakesley at the Community hospital the past week included Mrs. Marvin Kennedy, Mrs. Edward Shulaw and children of Benton Ridge Mrs. Golda Battles, Findlay Mrs. Bertha Wetherill, Weston Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edwards, Col. Grove and Mrs. Jacob Nusbaum, Orange township. Russell Flythe and son Compton of Newport News, Va., spent part of last week with his father Roland Flythe and his sister, Mrs. Oscar Wenger and family of Spring street. They returned home Saturday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rusher of Berea, Mrs. Blanche Roberts of Col. Grove, John Schmidt of DeGraf and Mrs. Ella McHenry of ithis place were Sunday dinner guests of Mr, and Mrs. Hervey Rusher and family of Ada. *of For sale— 2 miles southwest phone. For sale—Va with box s£ri® two piece Perfection X)il heatb’ig stove. Zoe Zehrbach, apartment above Vel’s Beauty Box, corner Main & Vine Sts. tf WANT-ADS ited—-1 wai Fuelthat mire’s. Foryear to buy old U. S. dates of coins now ion. Highest prices troth, 612 S. Main 342-Y. light hevrolet house be used iloyed mother and lild. Child attends ring the day. Ad 247, Lima, Ohio, home for a stray male wire haired ccustomed to child iquire 356 S. Jack- coins, found paid. Robert Be: Street. Telephom in circulai Wanted—Good black and white terrier. Dog is i ren friendly. I son. Wanted—To with Massey-Ha: Clyde Hauensteir Bluffton on Bei mile east. Over 1,000 title Music & Record Buy work glov save. Geiger & Extra special, full fashion rayo Waitermire’s. We’te all going big International store"’ will be clot 29 while we’re wander, McCorm For sale—Winter a apples. W. G. Carr, of town. For sale—Road g|*ader, 20' or grain conveyor, 1| heavy 10 trailer, 3 range boil|rs, 1 coal 1 kerosene water eater, Ferguson tractor tir|?_ sink, 3 |I lOp Over 75 record albums of choice music. Hahn’s Music & Re cord Shop. Wanted—different Clean pound. Steiner Wanted—Empt ment can quarters for em three old nursery school di dress: P. O. Box Sales. 27 or apart as living phone 238-W. F. Glrretson, broker. custom combining ris self propelled. 5 miles south of tley road and Ms 28 s on records. Hahn’s Shop. s by the dozen and filler. tf ladies’ 45-gauge i hose, 59c pair at to Chicago for the Harvester day. Our td all day October fcway. C. F. Nis fk-Deering Dealer. 27 Honey, strained hnd blended 5 lbs., $1.95. Allen Fail'll 377-W. For sale—Eight Beaverdam good ably priced. Mrs. Bureau, phone trip tickets to F. Niswander’s Inter Get your roun Chicago now at implement store fir the bij national Harvester 1 day October 29. Spelial train Lima, round trip Chicago and return Wednesday, from fare, Lima to only $7.10. room house ocation real H. W. Althaus, 27 in 6-tlard extension Bryan, Ohio. Auto floor mats s For sale—Beautifu scaped, one acre in mediate possession. Schumacher, Pandora pumps, engine pump jack, |tank pump, Fordson fenders, 1’4 ton Ford truck child’s desk, Vertner, Be Beaverdam, For buffet, Corsor 861-W swivel cl|air. Stanley M. a verdam Ohio. -Potatoes, phone Arthur Miller, town. Bluffton 29 and bed all wool resser oehler fe livjlig room suite Mrs. For sale—Quii c^l. Addison Myers phone 4I2-T. For sale—Att ictive one-floor plan house on main ah way. Has 5 rooms full basement, ■nt air furnace 9 acres of fruit tr es. Immediate pos session. Mrs. i W. Althaus, 208 S. Main St. F. Gar etson, broker. We invite yoi to use our Lay-A Way plan. Wa termire s. For sale—3 lirs maroon drapes. Good condition Inquire Bluffton News. Over 1,000 ti es on records. Hahn’s Music & Recoi Shop. For saie—T vo piece living room suite in good mdition bafce burner large size kit 1len cabinet and 7 ft. electric ref rig rator like new. In quire 119H Main St., Bluffton. For sale—E e:tric range, 30 gallon water tank wi coal heater, excellent condition, che, if taken immediate ly. Carl Cahi 1. For sale—E ihiwin apples also pie pumpkins. Ioseph Habegger, 3 miles north a town. 2 Ft. la 1 hog troughs at Waitermire’s. Over 75 difl erent record albums of choice music. 1dahn’s Music & Re cord Shop. For sale— ?uttonhole attachment for Singer se vi ng machine, good as new. Mrs. Do i Eddy, Bluffton phone 586-T. For sale—V te enameled Monarch coal range. Ii be ire 140 Cherry St For sale— v’ 5 Ford convertible also pair won (In’s white roller skates size 6 and pdiir men’s black roller skates size ?l Inquire 503-A, S. Main St. 1 For sale—Tio piece living room suite, good clndition. Joseph L. Thompson, pholie 566-Y. The first imp! rted classical records of European nj isters in ten years. Concert!: Bach, 1 poncerto in D-minor Ravel, piano for the left hand alone Stravinsky, coi certo in D-minor. Instrumental: Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Debuss r, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, Chop in, etc., Prince Igor (Boradin). The le are too many to list. Hahn’s MiIsic & Record Shop. For sale—For1 hot water heater, excellent conditi In. Priced to sell. C. Sommer, 101V1 N. Main St. For sale—Roulid corrugated steel corn crib, cheap If taken soon. Also winter apples. ■ears 75c per bushel if you pick them E. P. Steiner fruit farm mile east of town. For sale—Sorghum molasses. Clay ton Basinger, pbione 579-Y. For sale—Wintet apples and cider daily. No Suriday sales. Albert Augsburger frtlit farm south of town. tf For sale—Bal)y walker, excellent condition. Call phone 459-W. Wanted—To tol.lnc z»Fi nst a For sale—Shrops lings and lambs. 1 Son. Realty listings—1 and buildings 80 farm land with si within 5 miles of by 150 with good stories and baseme clothing and hat sh 124 E. Jeffersfcn^y broker. Home IZtfh a modern with 3 roo stairs 5A. good lai fruit trees, berries, lent location at edg Bame, 124 E. Jeffer broker. For sale—Slip lac crocks and jugs, co room size home n tree, antiques, dishe St. For sale—42 combine 1944 model Kimmel, 3 miles s Bentley road. at Walter- z»il heaters $76.95 sale—Pair girl’s For sale—Pie farm. Robert M. miles northwest of ice skates Susanna size 5, good condition. Kempf or call Bluffton phone 313-T. For sale—Single bed, walnut, complete with springs. Call Bluffton phone 449-W. sale table Oak Mining room suite, and 4 choirs. Mrs. Guy N. Jackson St. Phone For sale—75 -f AA White Leghorn yearling hens i# production. Mrs. Edgar Herr, Bentley road. Phone 641-Y^ For sale—Good eating potatoes. Clarence SteineK Bluffton phone, tf For sale—Weather-Seal combina tion doors and ivindows, made from kiln-dried California redwood. For free estimate tall W. J. Reagan, Beaverdam phone 175-472. tf The new maniscript series of Key note records with a frequency (from 30 to 12,000 fycles) never before equalled in cognmercial recordings. Hahn’s Music Record Shop. For sale—Extracted elover honey 5 Tbs., $1.50. I Howard Rickly, 3 miles south on r^entley road. 28 i Cobbler potatoes molasses. Stanley sink, porch swiig, 5 auto tires and tubes size 5:50fby 17. Sam Steple ton, I For sale—4 ares with tubes 6:00 by 16. Guy Selles, 1 mile north of Bluffton. We have ratios styled for every room. Wai terra ire’s. Wanted—To buy room suite. Rober Ada, Ohio. For sale—Two s hay feeders ready prices 30 hog size $26. Joe Follas, 5 14 mile east of Be For sale—' Karl Huber, on Bentley uy 2-piece cupboards, lani oil in tables, chests, stan( walnut or maple 4 milk glass, dolls or currier & Ives Indian relics, 100 reverse, or write I O. s, all in cherry, Iso pretty china, doll heads, vases, ints, oil lamps, items. Phone Howe, Kenton, lire rams, year )rvillp Matter )0 A. good land .. excellent level Yck shed. Both Buffton. Lot 50 barn having 2 it. Small ladies p. C. 1). Bame, A. D. Gratz, reage—R room :i apartment, up with plenty of grapes. Excel of town. C. D. on. A. 1). Gratz, ler, garden tools, nforts and rugs, ide carpet, hall etc. 142 Mound good shape. Carl uth on Bluffton mpkins at the X’eiswander, 2^4 Buffton. good used bed- Cochran, Rt. 3, lall and 2 large for delivery. New j$21 60 hog size miles north and iverdam. 2s available. Mrs. Avon gifts now Fred Hahn, W. F^n For sale—HousJ brakes, two stoves/ water, built-in i furnished. Blufftot St. trailer: electr* two beds, ice box, upboards, nicely phone 543-Y. a rd coal burner. Wanted—Good Bluffton phone 54.'1-Y. For sale—Nice neth Diller, 7 n Bluffton. e pumpkins. Ken liles southwest of Wanted—Experii good housing act man with family! Bluffton phone. need farm hard ommodations for V. H. Allman, I Wanted Experienced woman typisi in executive o'* icc of established manu facturing coiirern. An op portunity to[advance to a position of! considerable responsibility! Please write details of experience and udary expected to Box 21, Bluffton. PAGE FTVR eating Son, rish cobbler C. Deppler e 580-W. Sundry stove like 4 miles south of oad. new. town NTED To do custom cornpicking with I Massey-Hariis self-propelled corn picker. HIRAM NEljENSCH WANDER 527 4 Main St. Bluffton, Phone 153-R give chocolates They’re fresh*—direct from the makers The Corner Drug Store APPLES RED DELICIOUS YELLOW DELICIOUS GRIMES GOLDEN JONATHAN WINESAP Other Varieties Sweet Cider Made Every Wednesday Fisher Fruit Farm l’/j miles north of Bluffton on county line. KODAK FILM K^TART year picture making right with depend able Kodak Film in the yel low box—the film that gets the picture. Then send ua the exposed rolls for expert developing and printing. SIDNEY’S DRUG SHOP Tulip Bulbs Imported direct from Holland Also, varieties grown near Mt. Vernon, Washington. SKIP’S NURSERY M&et Changing Conditions E CjA U S E insurance is your Safeguard against loss due to destruction to your property, be sure you have a sufficient amount to meet (today’s changing con ditions. This Hartford agency is ready to help you check up youn insurance to make sure? it is adequate. No ob ligation on your part. May we- Phone: 295-W ^13/2 S. Main Street Bluffton