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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1948 AMBULANCE PHONE 160-W YOUR INSURANCE— THEIR INDEPENDENCE A National Asset The Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co. A. C. Burcky—Local Representative It costa no more to call us. The House of Perfect Sound THURSDAY—FR1 First... in Reader’s Digest! Then...a Beloved Best-Seller! Then... a Hit on the N.Y. Stage! witkSliCEDWCHAroWICKE-EDSAKB Executive Producer and Director GEORGE Hsr br PeWin »odun»om MANY times a family is FACE TO FACE with unexpected funeral expenses. In such an emergency, our MODERATE PRICE SCHEDULE is a helpful arrangement. The total cost may be kept strictly within a budgeted limit WITH NO CURTAILMENT OF SERVICE. BASINGER FUNERAL HOME BLUFFTON, OHIO Confused (MnWna ABOUT FUNERALS MAY BE AVOIDED Secure a clear understanding of funeral mat ters by having a talk with us. Learn how you can arrange for a service of impressive char acter at a cost yoi can afford. We're here to an w rite or call. wer your questions. Phone, Paul Diller FUNERAL HOME 'Ph/nu. 222 Notice To Our Patrons Water meters are now being read monthly. Water bills will be issued monthly at the same rate schedule as before, with the exception of the minimum, which will now be $1.00 per month. Water Service for June 1948 will be due August 1st to 10th 1948. Water bills not paid by the 10th of the month in which they are issued, are subject to 10% surcharge. When a water bill has not been paid the 2nd month, water service will be discontinued. The Board of Public Affairs BLUFFTON, OHIO €. R. Emans, Clerk E. P. Conaway, Pres. CARMA THEATRE DAY—SATURDAY DOM SCMARY pnttnH IRENE DUNNE GEORG* STEVENS’—. I Rl Selected Short Subjects MEMBER MAMA’ co-tfa rrirt 5: Won* SUNDAYS FRED MacI The Miracle Valli BARBARA BEL GEDDES HOMOLKA PHILIP DORN GEN RUDY VALLEE- BARBARA O’NEIL EVENS -Produced by HARRIET PARSONS Jpoo «h* p|«y by VAN P«VTEN MONDAY IURRAY in of the Bells ank Sinatra TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY JAMES CAGNEY in The Fighting 69th .................I I"—........................................ THE BLUFFTON NEWS C. A. B1ERY, Editor Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio, by thf^Bluffton News Publishing and Printing Co. Subscription rates: Year, $2.00 six months, $1.26 anywhere in U. S. Entered as second class matter at the pustoffice at Bluffton, Ohio, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Misses Louise Kibler and Edna Muhl of New Washington spent the week end with Mrs. M. M. Kibler. Mrs. Harold Shappel and son Dean of Tiffin visited Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Cramer. Ice cream social Friday night at Paulding Center Community house, 6 miles south on Bentley road. Miss Gaynell Basinger is recover ing following a major operation at Lima Memorial hospital last Friday. Grove cannery open Tuesday and Friday for custom canning. Phone 311, Columbus Grove. 13 See me for memorials of all kinds. Samuel jBixel, 409 S. Main St., Bluff ton. Phone 429-W. Representing the Lima Marble & Granite Co. tf Mrs. Helen Worthington of Cherry street has gone to Lakeside for the summer where she will be hostess at a tea room. Mrs. Ralph Steams is attending the Guild conference at the Tiffin Evangelical and Reformed church this week. Mr. and Mrs. James Basinger and Wade Mumma of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., spent the Fourth here. Mr. and Mrs. J. Norman Beidler of Cleveland spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Beidler of South Jackson street: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Blackwood of Detroit spent the Fourth here with her mother, Mrs. Albert Benroth of North Main street. Miss Marilyn Fett, student in Mi ami university summer school visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fett of Campus Drive over the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Geiger of Cleveland, former Bluffton residents, spent the week end with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Jesse Bracy of South Lawn avenue and Mrs. Dennis Diller of Pandora are visiting in Washington, D. C., this week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Newman. Rockport Methodist youth will hold an ice cream social July 9 beginning at 5:30. Ice cream and chicken sandwiches, cake, pie, coffee and iced tea. Carroll Tschiegg who is enrolled in Bowling Green State university sum mer school visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tschiegg over the week end. Mrs. Frank Armbrecht and Nancy and Eddie Armbrecht of Mt. Cory spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Deerhake and son Donnie and Mrs. Bertha Matter. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stettler are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Stettler in Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Wiebe and daughter in Willard. Mrs. Mildred Dally visited Monday at the home of Mrs. Corda Oehrli of Poplar street. Mrs. Dally, who taught for the past three years in the Fos toria schools is a student in Ohio Northern summer school at Ada. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Badertscher, Jr., have returned from a wedding trip to Niagara Falls and points of interest in Canada and are residing I in their newly furnished home at Rawson. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Althaus and daughters Kathy and Beth Ann of Hillsdale, Mich., were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Triplett and family of Grove street, Thurs day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Mont Euller, Misses Madeline Euller, Minnie and May Benroth all of Lima, are on a motor trip to Dallas, Texas where they will be guests of Mrs. Matt Sweeney and Mrs. Emma Metzger. Also present will be Mrs. Marie Buchanan of Cortemabera, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Jule Benroth of Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Amstutz of Ada pleasantly entertained the following guests Sunday at dinner and supper: Mrs. Florence Lora, South Main street, Miss Susan Diller, South Jack son street, Mrs. Mary Luginbuhl, west of Bluffton Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Amstutz, Pandora Mr. and Mrs. Wil lis Amstutz and daughters, Col. Grove and Mrs. Carl Simon and child ren, Ada. Visiting last week at the home of Mrs. Wm. Althaus and daughter Bernice were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Althaus and daughters Kathy and Beth Ann of Hillsdale, Mich., Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Huber of State Col lege, Pa., and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Butler of Wooster. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lape of Grove street had for their guests recently their son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wilson and family who have since returned to Oxford where Mr. Wilson is enrolled in Miami university school of architect ure for the summer. Also visiting at the Lape home were their son Lt. Commander Wade Lape, together with his wife and famMy who are enroute from Haw’aii where he has been stationed to his new assignment at Newport, Rhode Island where he will enter thy, Navy school. THeIbLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stratton spent the weekend at Carpenter lake, Mich. Dale Good of Detroit, spent the weekend at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller of Cleveland are visiting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Wilch of Toledo spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Todd. The Amstutz cannery will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays until fur ther notice. Bluffton phone 635-Y. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Crouse and daughter of Ada visited Saturday evening with their mother, Mrs. Verna Crouse. Basinger ambulance removal—Mrs. Semiah Niswander from her home near Pandora to Lima Memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Stratton left Sunday eve for Philadelphia for a two weeks’ visit with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. O. Herbert Meyer. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ludwig are on a two weeks’ vacation trip to Jacksonville, Florida, visiting at the home of her brother, Lt. Francis Camicom and family. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Stalter, daughter Elaine and son Roger Stalter and wife of Findlay spent Saturday with Mr. anc Bogart of Cherry street Mrs. Ross Mrs. Edwin Niswandt and Mrs. Fred Badertscher spent last Thurs day afternoon with a former school mate, Mrs. Lesta Hoc:hstettler in Col. Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Gare th Todd of Cleveland are spending a week’s va cation at the home of their parents, Mrs. Ora Biome and 5(r. and Mrs. F. L. Todd. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Huntley of Blytheville, Ark., visitec1 over the Fourth of July weekerid with Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hilty. Mrs. Huntley is the former Ila Grint ell of Bluff ton. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Franklin and son Roger of Los Angeles are visit ing at the home of Mrs. Franklin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Nis wander of South Main street. Mrs. Franklin was formerly Miss Martha Niswander. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Fretz and daughter Donna Mary of Wadsworth were Tuesday evening supper guests in the home of Mrs. Florence Lora of South Main street. They stopped here enroute home after visiting Mrs. Fretz’s sister, Mrs. Lenora Woodworth at La Grange, Ind., over the Fourth. Diller ambulance removals—Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carr from Bluffton hospital to Lima B. & O. station Mrs. Louise Kilgore from Rts. 103 and 69 to Bluffton hospital, then to Monroe, Mich. Mrs. Buster Grave line from Beaverdam to Lima Me morial hospital Mrs. Alice Marshall from Bluffton hospital to Lima Me morial hospital Geo. Clymer from Benton Ridge to. Findlay hospital. Mrs. DeLos Kervin and children Michael and Patricia left Tuesday on a motor trip returning to their home in Annapolis, Maryland, after visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs| C. A. Triplett of South Main street. Accompanying them to Annapolis, was Mrs. Kervin’s father and also her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carts of Cleveland who will spend several weeks at that ulace. Those from a distance attending the funeral of Mrs. Nora Stratton were: Edgar Koontz, Wilmington. Del. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sharp, Dun dee, Ill. Mrs. Floyd Welty, Malta, Ill. Mrs. Haney Larson, Sycamore, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Stratton, Longview, Texas Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kloetzly and June, Salem S. T. Mc Cabe, Columbus Mr. and Mrs. Rus sel Stratton and family, West Jeffer son Mrs. Ida Stratton, Tiffin Ralph Stratton, Waynesville Mr. and Mrs. Chester Baker, Ft. Wayne Mr. and Mr.s Terry Bell and family, Marys ville. Former Resident Dies In Colorado Mrs. Mary Whisler West, 83, former Bluffton resident, died at her home in Steamboat Springs, Colo rado, last Wednesday following a year’s illness. She was the widow of Orlo West, brother of Cliff West of South Lawn avenue. Mrs. West was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eli Whisler whose residence formerly stood at the cor ner of South Main and West College avenue now occupied by the high school building. She and her husband left here about 45 years ago for Oklahoma and later to Colorado where he died eight years ago. Funeral services and burial were at Steamboat Springs, Friday after noon. Surviving are one son Alva of Granby, Colo. four daughters Mrs. Florence Luekins, Steamboat Springs Miss Vaden West at home Mrs. Hazel Butler and Mrs. May Palmer both of California and one sister Mrs. Sarah Cox of Plymouth, Ind. BLUFFTON MARKETS Wednesday Morning Grain (bushel prices) Wheat $2.14 com $2.10 oats 90c soys $3.70. Poultry—Heavy hens 30c leghorn hens 27c. Eggs—Large white 46c large brown 44c. Butterfat—82c. Clubs, dodges ana Societies Olive Branch Aid The Olive Brunch Ladies Aid society will meet with Mrs. Evered Bish, Wednesday afternoon, July 14 at 2 o’clock. August Wedding Engagement of two Bluffton col lege students, Verda Gardner, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gardner of Goshen, Ind., and Robert Ewing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ewing of McComb, is announced by parents of the bride-elect. An August wed ding is planned. To Wed Thursday Miss Eileen Moser, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moser, Bluffton, and Camillus Knott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Knott, Columbus Grove, will be married Thursday. The nuptial mass will be celebrated by the Rev. A. A. Hoff man, of New Washington, uncle of the bridegroom, at 8:30 o’clock in St. Anthony’s Catholic church, Columbus Grove. Attendants will be Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knott, brother and sister-in-law of the bridegroom. To Wed Sunday Mrs. Dessie McCullough, Pandora, is announcing the engagement of her daughter, Donna Gene, to Clyde Augsburger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Augsburger, Pandora. The couple will exchange their vows at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, in the Gilboa Methodist h. The Rev. George W. Whynlan will per form the ceremony. Both the bride-elect and bride groom are graduates of 1 ’andora high school. The bridt‘-elect is em ployed at the Alice Beauty shop in Findlay. Mr. Augsburger is engaged in farming. Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sommer an nounce the engagement and ap proaching marriage of their daugh ter Marcile May to Edward Bernard Duehr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Duehr, Bloomington, Ill. Miss Sommer is a graduate of the Mennonite Hospital School of Nurs ing in Bloomington and is now em ployed in the office of a physician of that city. Mr. Duehr is employed by the Bloomington Pantograph. The wedding will take place August 1 at the Park Methodist church, Bloomington. Stitch & Stir The Beaverdam Stitch and Stir 4 club met Wednesday afternoon when a demonstration of how to put in a zipper was given by Mary Lou Amstutz. At a meeting of the club last week Maryellen Van Meter gave a demon stration on the making of bran muf fins and Marjorie Van Meter and Janet Amstutz demonstrated hem ming of a towel. Orange Twp. Champs Orange Twp. Champs 4-H club presented a play at a meeting of Friendship Grange, Thursday night. The club will hold its regular meet ing this Wednesday. Hospital Auxiliary The quarterly Hospital Auxiliary meeting will be held next Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock in the liv ing room of the nurses’ quarters. Legion Auxiliary The Legion Auxiliary will meet in their hall next Tuesday night when Coletta Badertscher, representative from Bluffton to the Girls’ State will give a report. College Graduates Wed In Indiana Announcement has been made of the wedding of Miss Vera Soldner, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Soldner of Berne, Ind., and Henry Grimm, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Dawn Grimm of Lima Rt. 4. Both the bride and bridegroom are graduates of Bluffton college. The wedding took place June 17 in the First Mennonite church at Berne, Indiana, w’ith Rev. O. A. Krehbiel officiating. The bride was attended by her cousin, Miss Alice Neuenschwander and Lloyd Grimm served as best man for his brother. Ushers were Wallace Turner, Antwerp Ray Whetstone, Lima Samuel Habegger, Ft. Wayne and Ellwyn Hartzler, Chicago. During the past year the bride taught in the Vaughnsville schools and Mr. Grimm was a student in Bonebrake Theological seminary, Dayton. The couple are living in Chicago where he will enter Mennonite iBble seminary this fall. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all those who helped in any way during the illness and death of our wife and mother, especially do we thank Rev. Purdy for his consoling message, the sing ers, those helping with the meals and all those sending flowers. M. J. Stratton & Family WANT-ADS 4c Wanted—I war coins. Also scarci found in circulat paid. Robert Bei Street. Telephone Wanted—To re anywhere in Bli] D, Bluffton New Beef sold by tl half or whole home freezer. Kaiser-Frazer and oil. Blufft Main & Jeffersc For sale—7 known as the comer of Soutl streets, Bluffto Deppler, 515 Hi Shoes repairec have Shirley N for you. All wi ray Upholsterinj Bluffton phone. A to buy old U. S. dates of coins now on. Highest prices roth, 612 S. Main 342-Y. her-Seal combina ndows, made from ua redwood. For 1 W. J. Reagan, 175-472. tf nt 2-bedroom house Iff ton. Write: Box !, Bluffton, Ohio, tf e quarter also pork for your locker or to Z Market. tf cars.’ Mobile gas n Motor Sales. N. a Sts. tf room modern house For sale—Wei tion doors and v kiln-dried Califoi free estimate Beaverdam phone Jeppler property at i Main and Poplar i. Inquire James pe St., Lima, O. tf Bring them in and innamaker fix them rk guaranteed. Mur shop, Thurman St. Furniture repairing and upholster ing of all kinds. Make your old furnishings look like new at a worth while saving. Estimates without obligation. Murray Upholstering shop, Thurman St., Bluffton phone. Wanted—Custom baling with John Deere wire tie Baler also combining with self-propejled combine. Clyde Hauenstin & Sons, 5 miles south of Bluffton, mile east on Bentley road. 13 Wanted—To rent bam or large A. L. Wai A. L. For with Mrs. W raw ttager, Bluffton ^d—To buy ha Stager, Bluffton nd 40,000 mijes. May J. S. Steiner’s. nted—Piano for er community house For sa typewriter. Ave. Phone 376-R For sale—7 roo except bath, to present location. east and mile of Rts. 69 and 30 49-F-2. tudor -1939 Chevi be Pj be in Mrs. right good condition and priced C. M. Gleaison, Wanted—-Dish restaurdnt. Bluffton phone 575-Y. washer at Pine Phone 368-W. lie—Remington portable Inquire 249 W. College house, modem be moved from Be Shilling, 1 mile north of junction •N. Jenera phone cobbler potJ liles southwei For sale—New Arthur Miller, 2 n Bluffton. For sale—Eleven room modem house, hot water heat, hardwood I floors, plenty of fruit, on N. Main St. Mrs, Elsie IBuckland, at Elsie's Beauty shop orlHi-Speed service sta tion. For sale—Baby buggy priced to sell. Inquire Geiger Diller store. For sale—New Perfection kero sene range, 5-bumers with oven at tached. Claribel Owens, Bluffton phone 547-R. For sale—New modern 4-room house. Mrs. H. W. Althaus, phone 238-W. F. Gametson, broker. Greeting cards for all occasions also stationery. Phone 419-R. Wanted—To buy large trunk also china closet. Mrs. Bechtel at Com munity Market. For sale—Johnson 2^ H. P. 2 cylinder outboard motor $45. Joel Kimmel, 537 S. Main St. For sale—Rock Island side deliv ery rake also McCormick mower, both in good condition. Henry Shell enberg, Pandorq. For sale—Eight tray Indiana fruit drier low wheel Turnbull wagon with implement bed and 40 gallon crock. Mrs. Edwin Niswander, north on county line. For sale—1941 Willys 4-door sedan, reasonable price. Call phone 438-W or 207-W. Wanted—High schooUCgi/^-wants work. Phone 578-Y. For rent—Furnished modem home located in Mt. Cory. Phone 1-11. “Enuff” D. D. T. insecticides, used on vegetables, fruit trees, ornament al trees, flower ets. 3 lb. bag I powder $1. Oi D. D. T. wetta $1.25 per bag. spray. One poui wettable spray Eleven ounces Gladiolus-dahlia cans makes 25 can. Kermit 4 slants, cattle, barns, r'.' D. D. T. dusting e pound bag 50% de spray powder, Specialists in Ohio State Univ indications of th tive marketing is the announcer Makes 50 gallons bag 75% D. D. T. wder $1.50 per bag. makes 50 gallons, spray powder in gal. spray $1 per err, 123 S. Lawn Ave. Phone 33( -W. A new bulletin lists 19 potato caused by paras caused by some other causes. Pi the only medici ills. an potato production diseases which are tes, nine which are drus, and 11 due to ris green once was ,e given for potato farm marketing at rsity say one of the growth of coopera i the past 25 years ?nt that a committee at the Univers: y of Massachusetts is preparing to welcome 2,000 dele gates to the 2Tih annual American Institute of Cooperation to be held on that campus August 30-Sept. 2. The Cooperative Institute has 500 farmer cooperatives as members. Del egates will be housed in dormitories of the University and of Amherst College. PAGE FTVE Reunions Sixteenth annual reunion of the Christian Stettler family will be held at Richland Grange hall, July 18 with picnic dinner at 1 o’clock. Pres., Russell Criser sec., Florence Smith. 12 The Moyer reunion will be held at Findlay park shelter house No. 2, Sunday, July 18. E. Reese, Sec. NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received by the Council of the Village ol Bluffton, Ohio, until 8:00 a T-ru,3r 12 1948’ for one U) All bids to quoL delivery date. By order of thi Council of the Village of Bluffton, Ohio. I vuiage C. R. EMANS. I Village Clerk 12 OUTSIDE PA INTING Experiei ced Estimates witl out obligation Clair Schumacher Pand ra phone 63-K ndora, Ohio jhU IM •W PERFECTION OIL STOVES and PARTS at Basinger’s Furniture Store Forty-five years of Dependable ,■: Service CUT COST OF BOYS CLOTHES ER 4 fine lathes at remarkably reason able prices, n to pay mu when I first s Expected \h m.p.re tw them." arin. Penn. Mrs. S. T. SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY GEIGER & DILLER Bluffton, Ohio Crossed fingers don't help KEEPING your fingers crossed will never prevent your property or posses sions from being damaged by fire pr some other cause. Rather than trust to such “blind luck” it is far wiser to depend on stock fir^ insurance through Leland Diller, Insurance Phone: 295-W U3'/j S. 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