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THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948
rKUNG BEAUTy
THAT
STAYS WHITE
WU BE M/GHTy PROUD Of youp HOME!
GREDING HARDWARE
Father’s Day
Sunday, June 20
One day out of the whole^year your “Grand Old Man
conies into his own
Make his annual “coining out party" the best! Give
Pop a remembrance from Steiner & Huser's—his store—
and you know that it means much more.
Our Father’s day stocks afe full of unusual items—
just what you’ve been wanting.
JA* I
Don’t delay—drop in today or tomorrow and make
your Father’s day gift selection.
Steiner & Huser
Gifts that Father will Like
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We’ll hove it Friday The Car of the
Tear, the Ford Forty Ninerl It’s the one
□nd only NEW car in its field, and you
can see it at Jour showrooms Friday!
There never was an automobile like
this before. There is no other like it today.
The revolutionary, new ‘49 Ford is a
complete break with the past. It was
designed by you—all the way through.
Yes, in surveys, letters and personal
interviews, you told Ford what you
wanted. And it’s on its way! It looks like
a custom-built car!
Just for the thrill of it, look at the list
of new features. And for an even bigger
thrill—your biggest thrill of the year—
see the ’49 Ford, “The Car of the Year”,
at our showrooms Friday!
131 Cherry Street
June IS!
BIXEL MOTOR SALES
Telephone 172-W
Summer due to arrive officially
next Monday—that’s right—we look
ed twice, just to make sure and
after that the days begin to get
shorter—and before we know it
there will be the chirp of the katy
dids—and farmers on the anxious
seat and here comes Father’s
day, next Sunday when Dad is king
for a day, receiving the annual
shower of neckties, sox and smokes
which makes him a lot happier than
he will admit—so don’t forget dad
next Sunday.
With wheat harvest in the offing,
you’ll find modern machinery doing
the job in the Bluffton district—
which is a far cry from the primi
tive equipment back in grandfather’s
day. There are some oldtimers who
can recall the following sequence of
grain cutting methods: sickle, cradle,
dropper, reaper, wire binder, twine
binder and today the combine. It’s
interesting to ponder whether the
next two or three decades will see
progress correspondingly great.
The Hauenstein bakery in the
location of the former Barnes
grocery keeps up an old tradition
of a bakery in Bluffton. There have
not been many years that Bluffton
was without a bakery. Morris Mum
ma operated a bakery and delicates
sen on North Main street in the
early days. He sold out some 50
years ago and moved to Fostoria
where he ran a restaurant. And in
FARMERS!
PAINT YOUR
IMPLEMENTS
NOW!
k
Prolong their life and useful
ness! Repairs are costly re
placements hard to get!
Use Kurf^es Wagon, Truck
and Impleniou^ Jpiarnel.
Preventf/rj^4rig9 warping and
breakik^rts. Keeps metal
parts from rusjjng ... in
creases farjjjZ’^Jrofits.
Brushes on smoothly, easily,
evenly, Dries overnight.
KURFEES
FARM PAINT
for all farm implements is made
with a tough elastic base to stand
up under hardest wear and weather.
Six colors to choose from: Green,
Black, Blue, Yellow, Red and
Tractor Gray. Economical first and
last. One gallon covers approxi
mately 550 square feet. Buy now!
Beaverdam Hardware Co.
Phone 175-221 Beaverdam, Ohio
NEW I You wanted ROOM. So we
gave you a 57* front, and 60* rear
seat, new frame, extra head room.
_REW! You wonted SAFETY. Sc we
gave you a 59% more rigid “Life
guard" Body, "Magic Action” King-
Size Brakes, and new "Picture
Window" Visibility.
NEW! You wonted COMFORT.
You GET comfort in a new “Mid
Ship" Ride, new "Hydro-Coil" Front
Springs, "Para-Rex” Rear Springs,
NEW! You wanted ECONOMY.
New V-8 and SIX engines. Up to
10% more gas economy. (Up to
25% greater savings with new
Overdrive, optional at extra cost.)
NEW! You wanted BEAUTY. Wetl,
you’ll see for yourself June 181
N’s “The Car of th* Year!”
Bluffton, Ohio
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
the Charlie Day building now oc
cupied by Waitermire’s, the late J.
L. Doty ran a grocery with the
rear of the place fitted up with a
brick bakery oven. Another and
probably the best known was the
bakery on Cherry street operated by
the late Henry Ruhl in the quarters
now occupied by Rauenbuhler’s
plumbing shop. Ruhl’s hearth bread
was the standby for those Bluffton
homes which didn’t do their own
baking. Bread was fiv? cents a loaf
in those days, or for a quarter you
could buy six brass bread checks,
each redeemable for a loaf of bread.
Hancock county’s Orange township,
36 square miles without a village,
nevertheless has no shopping
troubles. Huckster wagons are the
answer. Eley’s store at Ada has
two of them and Pore & Baumgart
ner’s of New Stark offers the same
service. One doesn’t see so many
huckster wagons on the roads any
more.
Oldtimers in the business section
said it was the first time they could
recall seeing automobiles with head
lights on in the middle of the after
noon—but that’s what happened last
Saturday when the sky became omin
ously dark before a heavy electrical
storm about 3:30 o’clock in the after
noon. So dark was it, that objects
on the opposite side of the street
were barely visible and the boule
vard lights were turned on at inter
vals.
The world moves—and so does
Uncle Sam’s postal service. Chester
Stauffer, Bluffton plumber,# back
from a visit at the home of his
daughter Mrs. K. J. Dickerson of
Torrance, Calif., says that a heli
copter twice daily .drops down in a
field near the Torrance post office
delivering pouches of mail from
nearby Long Beach.
And speaking of postal affairs, the
Bluffton post office staff was regaled
Monday with a generous portion of
the cake which centered the table
for the Silver wedding anniversary
celebration of Assistant Postmaster
Ralph Stearns and Mrs. Stearns at
their home on Spring street, Sunday.
Supplementing the cake were big
helpings of ice cream provided by
Postmaster Ed Reichenbach and his
clerks to make up the delectable
combination of ice cream and cake.
Stogies, once a top-seller on the
shelves of every tobaccoist are a
slow moving item now, altho there
is still a demand for them, says
Charlie Dillman of Dillman’s store
of North Main street which has
handled them for years.
The long, slim six-inch smokes, a
favorite here some fifty years ago
were peculiar to the Middle West.
They were improvised by drivers of
the Conestoga wagons—those vehicles
drawn by a six-horse team which
were the 19th century counterpart
of the modern truck and trailer. The
wagons were used principally for
hauling freight from Baltimore to
the western terminus of the nation
al pike at Wheeling, West Virginia
and returned loaded with frontier
produce.
To while away the time on the
long haul, the teamsters would roll
cigars from leaf tobacco which con
stituted part of their load. At first
Electrical
Service
Commercial and House
Wiring
Electrical Repair
Estimates Given Free
For Prompt Service
Call
Harvey M. Bayinan
Phone 545-T
or write
P. O. Box 9, Blufftrtf, Ohio
CONTRO
EDS
A PROVEN
ESTER FORMULA.ION
OF 2,4-D
Proved on more than 500,000 farm acres
penetrate* weed leave* within 5
minutes—won’t wash off!
Cleans Reids ft higher yisidsl
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C. F. Niswander
Bluffton, Ohio
called Conestogas by smokers along
the route, the word was later short
ened to stogas and finally to stogies.
Manufacture of the stogie was begun
commercially about 1820 in Wheel
ing, still a center of production.
Stogies were a favorite of oil men
here about the turn of the century
when Bluffton was one of the oilfield
centers of Northwestern Ohio.
And if you can remember back
there when stogies were popular,
you’ll be back in the days when the
oil boom gave Bluffton something
of the atmosphere of a wide open
western frontier mining town—yes
it had a baker’s dozen saloons—and
poker games ran far into the night
for stakes that weren’t hay and
the center of oilfield gossip was the
National Supply company’s store
where Doc Ludwig’s shoe repair
shop now stands and Main street
was a stretch of pike road pitted
with chuck holes—a sea of mud or
a cloud of dust, depending on the
weather with flagstone crossings
—and hitching racks ... and the
five o’clock waterworks whistle
started the day for teamsters
wages jumped from §1.50 to $4 a
day which ushered in an era of
golden prosperity and crude oil
was refined for kerosene to burn in
lamps—gasoline was a nuisance and
dumped into the creek and
Frank Scott had the town’s only
automobile—a little one-lunger
and there wasn’t any sales tax
or withholding tax ... or radio
programs nobody ever spent a
dollar for auto tags—or a driver’s
license folks going out of town
rode the L. E. & W. or the Narrow
Gauge and the Democrats elect
ed all the town offices—that is, the
men did—woman’s place was at home
and she stayed there thru it all
Bluffton was growing up from a
straggling crossroads hamlet and
getting acquainted with the influx
of oil men—a new strata of popula
tion principally from western Penn
sylvania—some good—some other
wise—but by and large a hale and
Notice
Have your Singer sewing machine
repaired by factory trained mechan
ics. Genuine Singer parts used. We
repair other makes, too. Free esti
mates given. All work guaranteed.
Our representative will be in Bluffton
Monday each week.
Phone or write:
Singer Sewing Machine Co.,
114 W. Market St., Lima, Ohio
tf 1dma phone 4-1271
D. €. BIXEL. O. D.
GORDON BIXEL. O. I).
122 South Main St., Bluffton
EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS
Office Hours: 9:00 A. M—5:30 P. M.
Open Evenings Wed. & Sat. 7:00 to 8:00
Closed Thursday Afternoon.
PERFECTION
OIL STOVES ^dt’ARTS at
Basinger’s Furniture Store
Forty-five years of Dependable
Service
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More Milk!
1
More
The demand for more and better
is continuing and The Page Dairy Co.
additional milk from th’e farms in the
area.
The Page Dairy Co. plant at Bluffton, Ohio, Is the
logical place to sell your milk haulers tnkerse
every road within a wide radius of Bluffton ut is
just good business to take advantage of the shorter
farm-to-plant haul The Page Dairy Co. has seen
buying milk in the Bluffton area for more thai\ a
quarter of a century our long record of faithful
service to our patron-producers together with consistent
ly paying the high price for farm milk, makes t^e
Bluffton plant of The Page Dairy Co. the logical pla
to sell your milk.
Bluffton, Ohio
FARMERS PRODUCE
Bluffton Ohio
Offers Friendly Service
Buyers of
Cream, Eggs and Poultry
ROUTE SERVICE
CLAYTON HARKNESS, Mgr.
322 NJ Main Street Bluffton Phone 284-W
MR. FARMER:
1
See Us for
Custom Slaughtering
AM/ i
dairy products
still is peeking
Blufftoni Ohio,
The Page
lluffton Cement Block, Inc.
Bluffton Stone Co.
Farmers Crain Co.
Master Feed Mill
Milk!
teinman Bros. Lumber Co.
More Milk!
PAGE SBVXN
Summer or Winter i
Here is a convenient and economical service for
lose who have home freezers or lockers.
All slaughtering done in our city inspected quart
rs—everything prepared ready for freezing.
Ask us about this service which is available to
ou at any time in the year at a worthwhile saving.
A to I Meat Market
& Locker Service
27 N. Main Street Phone 276-W
Closing
Notice
The following firms will
close at 3:00 P. M. on
Saturday starting June
12th.
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ASK ANY HAULER ....
drop a postal
card or
phone one
of our field
men will visit
your farm.
William Lahman
Guy Carmean
fieldmen
airy Co.
Phone 489-W