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FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
J. N. Smucker, Pastor
Thursday—
Bible Study: “His Last Week”
6:30 High School group
8:15 Adult group
Sunday—
9:30 Sunday School, Carl Smucker,
Supt. Classes for all ages.
10:30 Worship service. Rev. An
drew Shelly of Kitchener, Ontario,
will preach.
6:30 Junior and Intermediate C. E.
7:30 Evening service: Y-Teens and
address by Rev. Andrew Shelly.
EBENEZER MENNONITE
(Two miles west of Bluffton)
Rev. Howard T. Landes, Pastor
Thursday—
7:30 Prayer and Bible study
Sunday—
9:30 Sunday school, Phares Bixel,
Supt.
10:30 Morning worship
Guest speaker, Rev. V. Sprunger
7:30 C. E. programs
8:10 Evening service.
EVANGELICAL MENNONITE
E. J. Shady. Pastor
Friday-
World Day of Prayer
Sunday—
9:30 Sunday school
10:30 Morning worship
There will be no evening services
in the church this week as we are
cooperating with the Appelman
meetings in Lima each night at 7:30
in Memorial Hall.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Sunday services at 10:30 e. m.
Testimonial meeting at 7:30 Wed
nesday evening.
Subject: Soul.
The reading room at the church
is open every Wednesday from 7:00
to 7:30 p. m. The public is invited
to all services and to visit the read
ing room.
This society is a branch of The
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
The Rev. E. N. Bigelow, Pastor
Rockport:
Morning Worship 9:30
Church School 10:30
Mr. Lawrence Begg, Supt.
Bluffton:
Church School 9:45
Mr. Gayion Thwnas, Supt.
Morning Worship 11:00
Communicants class 2 p. m. in the
pastor’s home.
Evening Bible Hour 7:30, down
stairs in the church, open to all.
The World Day of Prayer sendee
will be held in the Presbyterian
church on Friday, Feb. 13, 2 p. m.
All the churches of the community
will participate in this service con
ducted by the women of the several
churches. The whole community is
welcome.
Sermon for Sunday: “When Are
We Free?”
MISSIONARY CHURCH
Robert R. Welch. Pastor
Wednesday—
7:30 Prayer service
Thursday—
Afternoon work meeting in the
home of Mrs. Bronson.
Sunday—
9:30 Sunday school
10:30 Morning worship
6:30 Prayer service
7:00 Young People’s Meeting.
Greve Gleaners
Bluffton phone 579-G
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Children’s meeting in basement.
7:30 Evangelistic service.
Everyone is welcome.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Robt. Luginbuhl, Supt.
Bible School, 9:30.
Communion service, 10:3Q.
A welcome awaits you at these
these services.
Brother Harold B. Monroe, Gener
al Secretary, O. C. M. S., Cleveland
will be with us Sunday evening, Feb.
15 at 5 o’clock. All church organ
ization members are urged to be
present. Refreshments. Bro. Monroe
was with us Homecoming.
Pickup Monday and Tuesday
Deliveries—Thursday and Friday
CLIFFORD HOUTS
RILEY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
Robert C. Turner, Pastor
Sunday school 10:00 A. M. O. E.
Zimmerman, Supt.
Morning worship 11:00 A. M.
Choir singing “Is It The Crown
ing Day”. Message “Peace With
God.”
Evening service, 7:30 P. M. Pa
geant by choir.
Once Again We're
Playing Cupid on
Valentine’s Day
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Phone 129-A
Notice To Our Patrons
RULES AND REGULATIONS
All new and past delinquent patrons must make a de
posit before current is turned on. For domestic patrons this
amount shall be S5.00. For commercial patrons the charge
shall be according to the estimate of current to bd used.
Deposit to be returned when account is closed and paid in
full.
There will be a service charge of S2.00 to turn on
cunent after it has been discontinued due to a delinquency
in payment of account.
Service will be discontinued when a billed account is
not paid the second month.
Meters will be removed and checked at the request of
the patron provided a deposit of $2.00 is made at the time
of the request. If, when checked, meter is within 2% of
perfect the deposit WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
All electric accounts are subject to a 10% surcharge
after the tenth of the month.
The Board of Public Affairs
Bluffton, Ohio
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Phone 404-W
The choir will not meet
Catechism instruction
morning at 9:30 A. M.
THE
EVANGELICAL & REFORMED
CHURCHES
V. C. Oppermann, Minister
Emmanuel’s:
9:30 A. M. Church School
10:45 A. M. Morning Worship
The members of Emmanuel’s
church will mee| with St. John’s in
the Lenten service on Thursday
evening of this week at 7:30 P. Ms
All are invited to attend.
this week.
Saturday
Friday at
church.
World Day of Prayer,
2:00 at the Presbyterian
The Cornelia Missionary Circle will
meet with Mrs. Clara
Monday evening, Feb.
o’clock. All members
are invited.
Andrews on
16, at 8:00
and friends
be held at
Lenten services will
Emmanuel’s next Wednesday even
ing at 8:00 o’clock. Date, Feb.
Plan to attend.
St. John’s:
9:30 A. M. Morning Worship
10:30 A. M. Church School
M., Wor
fielders ou
pace, altho Blufftc
18,
obse
on Friday afternoon of this week
2:00.
share
be
The first Lenten service will
held on Thursday evening at 8:00
o’clock. Members of Emmanuel’s
church will be our guests. We hope
all members and friends will plan
to attend.
The choir will meet immediately
after the service on Thursday even
ing.
Catechism Instruction Saturday
morning at 9:30 a. m.
World Day of Prayer will be
■d at the Presbyterian church
at
to
We invite all of our people
in this service,
day serving at the home
Ralph Diller on Wednesday,
needles and
All
Mrs.
Pot luck dinner bring
thread.
of
Sales Tax
The Girls’
A meeting
Please bring your
stamps with you Sunday
Guild will collect them,
of the Girls’ Guild will be held Sun
day afternoon.
Be in Church each week during
this Holy Season.
r.
Bluffton
10 P.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Paul II. Cramer, Pastor
Sunday school 9:30 A. M.
Morning worship 10:30 A. M.
At this sendee a roll call will
■corded of all those present.
Methodist Youth Fellowship 6:301 cannot hallow this
bo
Youth Fellowship 8:30
Allen
7:30
Fellc
hurcl
the
Christian Sendee meeting at
home of Mrs. Murray Trippleh
Program leader, Mrs. .M. Thomas.
Leader of worship.
Berryhill.
Batterson.
and Mrs. John Althaus.
Choir Practices:
Mrs. Stewart
Hostesses, Mrs. Frank
Mrs. Helen Worthington
Senior choir, Thursday 7 P. M.
Junior choir,
Friday, 2 P.
Prayer at the
church.
Friday after school
M., World Day of
First Presbyterian
will
Going on their hottest scoring
rampage of the year, Bluffton col
lege’s improving eagers defeated De
fiance’s sharpshooters here Tuesday
to 64. It
in the last
night by a score of 74
was Bluffton’s fourth win
seven games.
For the first half of t!
me
18 points as Defiance netted 27 goals
from the field.
At halftime it
48-31.
Defiance
Fritz, f......
Canfield, f.
Walsh, c.
Siket, g.
McDonald
Rosendale.
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BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
Editor’s Note:
article by John B'. Vance de
scriptive of Lincoln’s Gettysburg
address appeared originally in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It was a bright day for Novembr
and the crowd that stood on the hill
side near the new graves rustled in
comfortable appreciation as Edward
Everett boomed thru his polished
peroration.
The gaunt man in the black suit
who sat restlessly on the platform
put on his spectacles, rustled his man
uscript nervously and waited for
Everett to finish. He knew the
people out yonder had not come to
hear him—even the casualness of
his invitation showed him that—but
he wanted to get it over and get back
to Washington, to the White House
where hs son Tad was ill and his wife
was having hysterics.
Everett, unbelievably, was done at
last after an hour and 57 minutes.
A voice said, as the gaunt man arose:
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Presi
dent of the United
befon
dead
that
last
this
new birth
governmen
people and
perish from the earth.”
caus
full
natio
be any
Note: There
special sendees at the church, Thurs
day evening.
Bluffton College
Trims Defiance
said for
the sun
Bluffton with
(oals and four free
points paced Bluffton’s
It. McDonald hit for
Bluffton
was
...27
I
.. 3
... 3
.... 8
... 4
... 8
Totals _____
Bluffton
Russ, Gratz, f.
Howe, f......
Dickey, c.
Leichty, g.
Rich Gratz,
Stahl, g.
Yoder, c.
Hartman, f.
Schertz, g.
Smucker, f.
g.
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Some 84 Years Ago A President
Made A Short Talk At Gettysburg
The following
stepped forward
ovember 19, 1863,
slightly and look
'd for dedica-
Abraham Lincoln
that afternoon on N
spread his big feet
ed at the crowd gath
tion of the cemetery at Gettysburg.
Speaks Slowly
“But in a larger
dedicate—we cann
I men, living and
tolhere have conseci
our poor power I
“The world wi
remember what
tk in the high,
which was his
aors, a voice too
He began to spt
thin, metallic voice
when he talked out
small for his great bod:
“Fourscore and seven
fathers brought forth
nent a new nation,
erty and dedicated
that all men are cr
“Now we are en
civil war, testing wl
or any nation so co
cated, can long endure,
on a great battlefield
We have come to dedic
of that field as a final
for those who here ha’ive
the nation might live,
er fitting and proper tl
do this.
ars ago our
this conti
lib-
on
iceived in
3 the proposition
ated equal.
aged in a great
■ther that nation,
ved and dedi-
We are met
of that war.
:ate a portion
resting place
failoL that
It is altogeth
hat we should
se, we cannot
onsecrate—we
nd. The brave
who struggled
it far above
it
for which they
easure of devoti
under God, shall have
freedom—and that
of the peopjle, by
for the people, shall
been just
paper cm
by teleg
two of thi
dicated aj
been none
Lincoln
the
Crowd Merely Surprised
ss then three minute:
to pronounce those
re was some little crowd
s he finished. You could
all it applause.
people would say the
greatly moved. But
n’t. It was surprised
It took
him slow!
words. T1
movement
n’t rightly
fo
26'
Years later
crowd was t(
the crowd wi
that he had quit when he should have
tting started. The news
pondents filed his speech
at the end of their
the dedication. One or
i, in friendly fashion in
ause where there had
back to his train
the seat with a
is eyes and his
It
no’
war v
it wa
He iwB
the
no
army now,
unpopular.
Out in Ind
cle had sj
and resist
dark
futi
ad
and the draft I
There had bee
ana and the neighboring
nights of the Golden Cir
ung up to aid the south
he draft.
Not Very Popular
riots.
He was not a popular president.
The very Abolitionists were turning
against him. They thought he should
have signed the emanepation procla
mation sooner than he had. The
Democrats were sure to noninate
Gen. George B. McClellan and Mc
Clellan would campaign by claiming
that he had been discriminated
against for political reasons, instead
of removed because he would not
fight. j.,-j f-
Any general who could fight a bat
tle that would end the war could steal
his own party’s nomination from him.
For that matter there was Salmon P.
Chase, his own secretary of state,
ng for the Republican
openly
nominal
He moved the towel a little. Why
had he come? Well, perhaps he had
wanted to see the place. He had
thought that he, himself, could have
ended the war after the battle of
Gettysburg by following Lee.
Then there had been his visit to
Antietam field. An ugly story that
he had behaved with levity on that
awful ground had been circulated.
It was false, of course, but it was
widely believed. Perhaps if he went
to Gettysburg—.
Then there was the party split in
Pennsylvania. The newspapers had
intimated broadly that he had come
to this battleground, filled with fresh
skeletons, in order to patch up a par
tisan feud. That was not true, either,
but it had been said.
There was his speech. It hadn’t
been much of a speech, but he had
taken pains with it, tried to make it
what a president’s speech ought to be.
He had written part of it at the
White House, finished the rest of it
last night at Mr. Wills’ house in Get
tysburg. He had even gone next
door, late at night, to read a draft of
it to Seward.
He had been rewriting it this
morning when John G. Nicolay, one
of his secretaries, interrupted him.
He was glad, anyway, that it had
been a fine day He wished that Ev
erett had not held up the ceremonies
a half hour by his tardiness. He wish
ed they had given him a bigger horse
to ride in the little parade to the
cemetry. He was pretty nearly all
in.
Well, it was over now. The train
was pulling into Washington. It was
midnight when he reached the White
House.
The next day they brought him a
little note from Everett. He thought
then it was just a compliment. He
could not know that it would be rec
ognized as truth many years later
by his own people and by strange
lands. It read:
“I should be glad if 1 could flat
ter myself that I came as near to
the central idea of the occasion in
two hours as you did in two min
utes.”
Abraham Lncoln sighed a little and
sat down to copy out in his scrawling
hand the speech he had made at Get
tysburg, November 19, 1863, as a lit
tle present for that great orator, Ed
ward Everett.
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Those sweet missives of Valen
tine’s day which will be exchanged
Saturday have a long history, dating
back to the period of the Roman
empire, albeit they have departed
considerably from the original con
ception of the day.
No reason for the sentimental
practices associated with the day can
be found in
is made to
his name,
love songs
eyes on the Roman maidens.
the life of the saint who
endorse the custom with
St. Valentine wrote no
nor even cast wistful
He was a bishop in Rome who
stood steadfast during the Claudian
persecutions and lost his own life
for his faith. Later many of the
holy fathers engaged in special cere
monies in which they balloted for
names of saints in an attempt to
have a heavenly partner by which
they could pattern their
lives.
The clergy, however, failed in
their attempt to make the ceremonies
popular among the youth of the day.
The young people were not satisfied
and instituted a secular version of
the religious practice.
In various times the churches
stepped in in an attempt to sanctify
the rites of St. Valentine’s Day. Al
ways after a temporary relapse the
custom would spring up again with
a new vigor. The custom finally be
came firmly established on the con
tinent.
In the days of quill pens and high
postage rates the transmission of
valentines was an expensive luxury.
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THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1948
Sweet Missives Of Valentine Day
Originated Far Back In Roman Era
The amorous swains of the early
period had to content themselves and
their idolized fair ones with thick
sheets of gilt edged paper.
The first page of each sheet was
adorned with a gilt cupid carefully
gummed on. As postal rates were
reduced, Valentines came into wide
use generally until today every cityr
town and village follows the senti
mental
tradition.
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