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Clubi, J^odg.eS
ana Societies
Century Circle
Mrs. Chas. Hankish was hostess to
the Century circle with Mrs. M. D.
Soash assisting, Wednesday after
noon. The program: The Family,
Mrs. I. W. Bauman What Juvenile
Crime Reflects, Mrs. Ross Bogart
Can Youth and Age be Friends, Mrs.
Noah Basinger.
BACON
Picnic
HAMS lb. 49c
No Shank
Cottage Rolls lb. 69c
Pork Chops
Loin Pork Roast
The finest meat market in this town is the A TO Z MEAT
MARKET & LOCKER SERVICE. We will always stock your
needs and desires. Our aim is to please!
Home Killed Meats
BEEF PORK VEAL LAMB
Aim.ORIZEP DEALER
P^BIRDS EYE^
y_ B«ANO_
FROSTED^^- FOODS
Spinach Pack 25c
Green Beans Pck. 27c
|Mixed Fruits Pk. 37c
.Green Peas Pack 31c
1 Strawberries Pk. 58c
Xmas Party
Members of Bluffton Legion and
Auxiliary and families will have a
potluck supper followed by gift ex
change and program at the Legion
hall next Tuesday night at 6:30
o’clock.
Engagement Announced
At a Thanksgiving day dinner at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Sutter, Pandora was announced the
engagement and approaching marri
age of their daughter Heloese to
E. L. Trussell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Trussel of Atlanta, Ga.
fy&c&eJl a&iMce
ece or sliced
Shoulder
|b. 55c
VEAL STEAK lb. 49c
Lean & Meaty
SPARE RIBS lb. 49c
Smoked Ham e- lb. 52c
lb. 59c
lb. 49c
BABY BEEF
Roasts lb. 49c
Round Sirloin T-Bone
1 Steaks lb. 65c
Beef Ground lb. 45c
Beef Boil lb. 39c
Beef Liver lb. 39c
Nu-Maid
Oleo lb. 38c
E-Z Color Pack Oleo
Delrich lb. 40c
Oysters Fish Our own make Fresh or
i -$moked Sausage
We Do Custom Slaughtering or Processing
Beef Sold by the Quarter
Poultry Custom Dressed Each Tuesday
Alice Freeman Club
Miss Florence Duffield was hostess
to the Alice Freeman club W’ednes
day afternoon. Numbers on the pro
gram: Wonders of Plastic Surgery,
Mrs. Kathryn Bixel Musical Thera
py, Mrs. Joyce Steinman.
Poinsettia Club
Mrs. Hazel Biome will entertain
the Poinsettia club this Wednesday
night. Mrs. Grace Longsdorf will
review the book Saints and Sinners.
Orange Twp. Farm Women
Mrs. J. A. Warren will entertain
the Orange Twp. Farm Woman’s
club Friday, December 12, at an all
day meeting.
The afternoon program follows:
Devotionals, Lillian Anderson
Roll call, Christmas Memories Our
First Christmas Tree, Edna Craw
ford Christmas Poem, Maude Fish
er Solo, Cleo Hursey Christmas
Significance, Pearl Anderson Christ
mas exchange.
Amico Club
The Amico club will meet with
Mrs. Gladys Burkholder this Wednes
day night at 7:30 o’clock.
Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Gerald Huber this
Wednesday night at 8 o’clock.
Christmas Wedding
Dr. and Mrs. V. H. Allman an
nounce the engagement and forth
coming wedding of their daughter
Nadine to Rev. Mahlon D. Wenger
of Findlay. The wedding will take
place on Christmas eve at the All
man residence near Bluffton with the
bride’s father hearing the exchange
of vows.
Miss Allman, a graduate of Bluff
ton high school, is a senior in Otter
bein college, Westerville where she
is president of Tau Delta sorority.
Rev. Wenger, a graduate of Find
lay college has been serving the
West Findlay charge of the Evan
gelical United Brethren church. Fol
lowing the wedding the couple will
reside at the Allman residence until
fall when they will enter Bonebrake
seminary at Dayton.
Travel Class
The Travel class met with Mrs.
Edith Mann, Wednesday afternoon.
Numbers on the program included:
Atomic Power—Progress, Mrs. Mabel
Koch Humanities in a Scientific
World, Mrs. Julia Oppermann.
December Wedding
Mrs. Lona Hoffer announces the
coming marriage of her daughter
Rachel Anna to Richard Kuhn, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kuhn of Bluff
ton. The ceremony will take place
December 20 with Rev. Paul Cramer
officiating.
Holiday Nuptials
Mrs. Hazel Biome of North Main
street announces the engagement and
approaching marriage of her daugh
ter Harriet to Gareth Todd, son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Todd of South
Lawn avenue.
The wedding will take place
December 28 at 2:30 p. m. in the
Presbyterian church. The custom of
open church wall be observed.
Miss Biome, a graduate of Bluffton
high school is employed as a secre
tary in Chicago. Mr. Todd attended
Bowling Green university and is
continuing his studies at Cleveland
College of Mortuary science.
Miscellaneous Shower
Mr. and Mrs. Heidelbaugh of Del
phos entertained Sunday evening
with a miscellaneous shower honoring
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Steiner, re
cently married.
Present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Steiner,
Mr. and Mrs. Gid Steiner, Jr., and
Shari Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Wisely, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wisely,
Walter Nichols, Verena, Ruth and
Hilda Steiner.
Bridal Shower
Honoring Mrs. Marion Hendrick
son, the former Luella Luginbuhl,
Mrs. Floyd Basinger recently enter
tained with a miscellaneous shower
in her home.
Attending were:
Mrs. Lowell Habegger, Mrs. Robert
Luginbuhl, Dora Jean Luginbuhl,
Wilma Hamilton, Roberta Klingler,
Vera Smith, Myda Jane Manges and
the honor guest.
Entertains for Bride
A shower honoring Mrs. James
Steiner, the former Geraldine Mont
gomery, w’as given Tuesday night by
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON. OHIO
Ann Montgomery, sister of the bride.
Games were played with prizes
won by Margaret Basinger, Norma
Montgomery and Mrs. N. P. Steiner.
Many lovely gifts were received by
the bride.
Present were:
Mesdames Grover Montgomery,
Ray Guider, Arthur Swank, Russell
Montgomery, N. P. Steiner, George
Kimmel, Kenneth Dearth, Leland
Badertscher, John Warren, Clyde
Warren, Edgar Montgomery, Wood
row Barclay, Margaret Basinger,
Gilbert Montgomery and Edith
Powell.
Misses Helen Montgomery, Lucille
Barclay, Lucille Shrum, Norma
Montgomery, Jean Ann Klingler and
the honored guest.
Regrets were sent by Mrs. Dora
Montgomery, Mrs. Harold Montgom
ery, Mrs. Orland Wilkie, Mrs. Lloyd
Van Meter, Misses Janet Steiner and
Carol Montgomery.
Richland Community Circle
Richland Community circle will
hold an all day meeting, Thursday,
Dec. 11 with a pot luck dinner at
the home of Mrs. Sam Badertscher.
The program will consist of
Christmas carols, contests and read
ing by Mrs. Addie Graber followed
by a Christmas gift exchange.
Settlement
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wenger and
family were Sunday dinner guests
in the home
family.
?f Mrs. Mary Miller and
Fanny Basinger passed away early
Sunday morning at the home of
Mr. and Mr.5. Elam Basinger after
an illness of six days at the age of
88 years. Funeral services were
held at the St. John church Tues
day afterroo
a lifelong
n where she had been
Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Reichen
bach are sett ing up housekeeping in
the apartnu above the City Mark
et grocery st,ore in Bluffton.
Farmers have again been able to
resume work with corn and soybeans
during the last few days. Some
sugar beets are still to be taken
from the fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Filhart have
recently sold their home to Mr. and
Mrs. Dorman who are at the Pan
dora telephone exchange.
Lock Whitis was taken to the
Bluffton hospital on Thanksgiving
day because of injuries he sustained
when the tractor he was operating
fell on its side and pinned Mr. Whit
is beneath it.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank S. Harder
and sons Roger and Charles, Rev.
Waldo Flickinger, Mr. and Mrs.
Haydn Basinger and sons Teddy and
Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Schneck, Barbara, Donald, Billy and
Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kohli
were Sunday dinner guests in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Kohli
and son Junior.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Henkener of
Columbus were over the week end
visitors in the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Amstutz and
family.
Mrs. Frank Diller of McComb
passed away Monday at their home.
Funeral services were held Wednes
day at McComb.
Mrs. Dwight Plankenhorn has not
been well during the past few weeks.
Ohio experiments indicate that
either a change in feeding time for
calves on Sunday or some other
change in management over the week
end is an important factor in starting
digestive troubles.
Oats can be fed as the only whole
grain for laying hens when other
grains are scarce or are higher priced.
Egg production and body weight can
be maintained with oats as well as
with corn.
Fuel prices now make the farm
woodlot a profitable piece of property.
Over the period of the past 15 years,
the value of fuel and a little syrup
obtained from the L. S. Sanor wood
lot in Columbiana county was $9.75
per acre per year. He removes only
tre s which are dead or are hinder
ing the growth of others.
Home gardeners can have more
tomatoes to arouse their neighbors’
envy if stakes are used to keep
plants off the ground. Anthracnose
which defoliates the plants and
starts decay in the fruits is more
likely to get started when tomato
vines are in a tangled mass which
dries slowly and does not get much
sunlight. Copper dusts or sprays
also help prevent anthracnose dam
age to tomatoes.
Visit Waltermire's Toyland
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR LIONAL AND AMERICAN FLYER TRAIN DISPLAY?
True Tales About Ohio
(Concluded from page 1)
roof.
Opens Tavern
The hunter brought his family
from Deerfield, cleared a patch of
ground around the cabin, planted it
with corn and pumpkins and began
to prosper. By 1803, when more
settlers had come into the forest, he
opened a tavern in one room of the
cabin, his family living in the other.
Later he built a log mill near it on
East Fork.
It was the first tavern and first
mill in Clinton County and no more
w’as it necessary for the settlers to
grind their corn in hand mills or to
take it on horseback to Deerfield
or Waynesville for grinding. Besides
Venison and bear steaks, corn
meal and flour provided most of the
settlers’ food. Sifted through hand
made sieves, the finer flour was used
for johnny cake and hoe-cake and
the coarser meal for mush and corn
pone.
Pioneer hunting business was
profitable and Van Meter’s primeval
forest home provided him with a
sort of “mint” all his own. There
w’as little or no money in the early
settlements and skins were legal
tender there. All the frontier stores
accepted pelts and whisky in lieu of
money. Corn also was taken in by
the early merchants.
A bear skin was worth $1 a deer
skin 50 cents a fox skin 50 cents
a coon skin w’as a quarter and even
a rabbit skin a five-penny-bit—six
and one-fourth cents. And besides
the value of the hides there were
heavy bounties paid for the scalps
of wolves, panthers and wildcats.
Little is known of Van Meter’s
family. Though no descendants now
live in Clinton County and through
more than a century the family
strain has run out. It is known
that Van Meter had fne son—-Abner.
After his father’s death the water
mill on East Fork was known as
Abner Van Meter’s mill.
The Van Meter settlement grew to
be Morgantown then slumped awav
and now is farmland. When the
first early road was being blazed
there, Van Meter met the surveyors
with a jug of whisky and persuaded
them to “bend the line” so it w’ould
pass his tavern. When he died in
1813 he was buried beside that dirt
road and later, when it was im
proved and widened, it covered his
grave.
News Want Ads get results.
"SKIP'S
NURSERY"
Living Christmas
Trees
Also Evergreens, Fruit trees,
Shade trees, Roses, Shrubs
and Imported Holland Tulip
Bulbs.
Free Landscape estimates.
Open evenings until 8:00
P. M.
Located 5*4 mi. West of
Gratz’s Crossing.
Willard Cherry
Proprietor
Phone: Cairo 3517
R. 2 Columbus Grove, Ohio
102 South Spring Street
East Orange
Mrs. Harry Amstutz of Harrod,
Mrs. Rayon Boutwell and daughter
Lonnie Sue called on Mrs. Earl Rup
right and daughter of Arlington,
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Chidester and
children spent Tuesday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell and
children.
The Riley Creek Baptist Woman’s
Missionary Society will meet on
Wednesday, December 17th, for an
all day meeting. Pot luck dinner
and Christmas gift exchange at the
home of Mrs. Emanuel Boutwell.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman of
Bucyrus, Mr. and Mrs. Ted W.
Smith and daughters Ann and Jane
were supper guests Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Heldman.
Mrs. Alice Mae Boutwell and Lon
nie Sue called on Mrs. Alta Potts
and daughter Rene, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes Sanders, Mr.
and Mrs. Ferd Morris and sons Ted
and Joe spent Thanksgiving day
with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Leiber
and sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz of
Harrod, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Bout
well and son Michael Dale of near
Findlay, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Bout
well were Thanksgiving dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rayon Bout
well and children Lynn Ray and
Lonnie Sue.
Hancock county has 1,200 miles of
open ditches which were dug to pro
vide outlets for farm drain tile.
Drainage failures in that area cut
crop production to almost nothing.
VERY GOOD with 547 lbs. fat and 14,419 lbs. milk. Bred to
Elmcroft Monogram Echo. This is a real good daughter of the
SOVEREIGN.
5. SOVEREIGN BLACK MAGIC: Her dam classified Very Good
and made over 17,000 Tbs. milk. She is bred to GLENAFTON
RAG APPLE HISTORIAN whose dam ABEGWEIT MILADY
EX and is a WORLD 305-Day Champion, regardless of Age or
time milked. With 1085 lb. fat, 24,935 lb. Milk, test 4.35 as a
Jr. 4-yr. old.
6. LESTRANGE R. A. JINNY: 5 yr. old, Record 15,741 lb. milk
and 592 lb. fat. Test 3.76%.
7. SPEEDSIDE MAY QUEEN: 14,397 milk, 492 F.
8. SCHULING SUPREME: Record as a 2-yr. old, 13,828 lb. milk,
522 lbs. fat, and she is bred to MONTVIC LOCH INVAR SON
whose dam is an Excellent Cow.
MANY MORE HAVE GOOD R. O. P. RECORDS
Many are bred to Sons of Sovereign and to Sons of Marksman and
Monogram. You are invited to come and Look Them Over before
the sale. Four generation pedigree furnished with each cow.
Sold to be as represented with money-back-guarantee. If you are
looking for real type and production attend this SALE.
BOWERS & STONE, Owners
R. 1, MEDINA, OHIO
S. C. SPRUNGER & J. O. FENSTERMAKER, Aucts.
Kidron, Ohio, Phone 37
ATTENTION LADIES
’’Special Announcement!”
In order to meet the unusual demand for special “Quality” ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS
of ingenuity, I have added to my former supply, thirty-eight (38) varieties of all de
scription flowers, Duplex, Velvet and Chenille texture, the nearest thing to nature
available, along with a large selection of Vases, Novelties, Corsages, Hand Painted
Luncheon Cloths and Crochet Pieces.
A SPECIAL SHOWING FOR CHRISTMAS WILL BE HELD
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 4, 5, and 6 10 A. M. to 8 P. M.
You really have to see this newiy attractive display to appreciate what can be had to fill
that bare spot in your home, at a low cost.
“BEAUTY SEEN IS NEVER LOST”
Mrs. E. J. Wahlie, Prop.
THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1947
For Christmas
Give A
fauilt
The Finest Radio
BRADEN
RADIO SERVICE
Open Every Day & Evenings
CUSTOM
BUTCHERING
Beef for sale by
the quarter
Reasonable prices
—AUCTION SALE-
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN COWS
Friday, December 12, 1947
Starts 12 M. Lunch served. Sale inside heated building.
Location 21X miles south of Medina, Ohio, on Route 3, west 1
mile on State Route 162, or 2 miles east of 42.
80 COWS AND HEIFERS 80
From 2 to 6 years old—State T. B., Bang’s and Mastitis Tested
within 30 days of the Sale. Heifers mostly Calfhood Vaccinated.
40 FRESH COWS 40 CLOSE SPRINGERS
Many of these cows classified GOOD PLUS and VERY GOOD
and majority of the others if classified, Would Do Likewise.
THREE OUTSTANDING SONS OF MONTVIC
RAG APPLE SOUVEREIGN
SOME OF THE OFFERINGS:
1. SPEEDSIDE SOVEREIGN POSCH: His dam stood 4th in fat
5th in milk in her class in Canada.
2. ROCKWOOD R. A. SOVEREIGN: His dam classified VERY
GOOD and made over 18,000 pounds in milk.
3. WOODALE PONTIAC SOVEREIGN: His dam classified GOOD
PLUS as a Jr. 2-year old and made 572 lbs. fat tested 4.32.
4. BROWNHOLME MARY SOVEREIGN: Her dam classified
Always ready to serve you.
SWANK BROS.
Fresh and Salt Meats
pr
SV
Bluffton, Ohio