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A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXIII
REGISTRATION FOR
NEW DRAFT BEGINS
AT LIMA MONDAY
Alien County Youths 18 Through
25 Will Register In Old
PostofTice Building
Classes of Deferment Announc
ed by President For Guidance
of Draft Board
Registration of men 18 through 25
for the new 21-month peacetime draft
will start next Monday and continue
Wed]
Th
dun
Allen county
larters in the
at Lima.
selective service headqi
old postoffice building
■quired’to register on
lose bom in the year
ter next Tuesday and
brae
afte
?ted, wiith the exce]pt
o aro ]:8 years old,
d. Yout]hs of 18 are
the cIraft, but n
all By Age Groups
mg up candidates
1 be no lottery invlived
orld Wftr IT, it was 3
age gr
plans
The law passed by Congress auto
matically exempts war veterans who
have at least 90 days service between
Pearl Harbor and V-J Day, or with
12 months service between Sept. 16.
1940, and June 24, 1948, the day the
draft law went into effect.
Also exempt are ordained minis
ters, students studying for the minis
try and conscientious objectors (from
combatant service.)
Completing the list of automatic
deferments are high school students
up to graduation or the age of 20
and college students for the rest of
the academic year.
Deferments Set
The President last week also de
ferred others, including: II-A, men
involved in study, research or medical,
scientific or other endeavors consider
ed necessary to the national health,
safety or interest. These deferments
will be for one year or less, and may
be changed by the President or by
local boards.
II- C—Farm workers or men en
gaged in agricultural occupation. The
same deferment period and qualifica
tions prevail.
III- A—Anyone with dependents—
including a wife, divorced wife, child,
parent, brother or sister. Men mar
ried between now* and registration
periods will be exempt, officials said.
IV- A—A registrant who has com
pleted service and those who are sole
surviving sons.
IV-B—Almist all
elected to office.
Other classes of
for aliens, ministers
scientious objectors,
tally
over
service.
public officials
deferment w’ere
of religion, con
physically, men-
or morally unfit, registrants
ige for the liability of military
Wade Mumma On
Purdue Honor List
Wade E. Mumma, son of Carl
Mumma, Bluffton, was among 1772
to win honors on the distinguished
student list of Purdue University for
the second semester of the past aca
demic year, according to a list re
leased from the office of C. E. Dam
mon, legistrar and director of ad
missions.
To attain this honor, a student
must have attained a grade-point
index average of five or better in all
subject® carried during the semes
ter.
Neuenschwander Is
Scholarship Winner
He
Neuenschwander, an
of Bluffton High
announced as the
scholarship to Ohio
where he will en
student this
Arthur A.
honor graduate
school, has been
winner of a $200
State university,
roll as an agriculture
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Neuenschwander, of west of
During seven years of 4-H
town.
club work he has speialized in feed
ing steers which have been shown
at the Cleveland Livestock exposition
and the International in Chicago.
His entries were awarded 26 ribbons,
including three receiving champion
ships.
Two Hurt Slightly
in Mishap On Lincoln
Albert Myerson, 28, Atlantic City,
N. J. and Martin Thuerk, 19, Chicago,
escaped with minor injuries at 5:45
p. m. last Friday when their automo
bile was demolished in a crash on the
Lincoln highway near the Bentley
n•oad
intersection.
Myerson received treatment
Bluffton comunity hospital for ai
jured shoulder,
first aid for
yvere taken to
ler ambulance,
The two were tray’eling east, en
■oute to Myerson’s home when their
•ar crashed.
BARN BURNS TO
GROUND TUESDAY
CONTENTS LOST
re Levels Barn on Green
Farm North of Bluffton on
Dixie Highway
.OSS
as
id the call to uniform will
ined by classification, de
y the local board, and by
a
Oldest, men will be taken
ced induction
Placed at 87,000
Combine and Farm Ma
chinery Burned
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
barn on a farm owned by Lehr
?n of Mt. Cory locat
north of Bluffton on
morning
estimated
ed three
the Dixie highway Tuesd
at 11:30 o’clock,
at $7,000.
Lc
The place is
Dukes farm anc
ployed at the Jc
the tenant hous
A nearby hog house owned by
Lanning also was destroyed.
Edward LugibiH Hurt
in Mishap In Lima
Edward Lugibill, 67, of Bluffton,
suffered lacerations on the head, face
and arms at 6:30 a. m. Monday when
the car in w’hich he was a passenger
was involved in a three-car collision
in Lma.
Taken to Lima St. Rita’s hospital
for treatment, he later was released
and reurned to his home here.
According to police reports, Lugi
bill was a passenger in a car driven
by Fred C. Skidmore, also of Bluff
ton when it was struck by another
vehicle.
Bluffton Youth On
Stock Judging Team
Harry Burkholder, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Quentin Burkholder, north of
Bluffton on the county line has been
named a member of the Allen Coun
ty 4-H team to compete for livestock
judging honors at the state fair next
week.
Burkholder is one of three youths
making highest marks in the county
contest last week. Other members
are Wm. Feigh, Lima, and Barnard
Beckman, Delphos.
At the state fair they will com
pete for honors in livestock judging
against teams from every county in
the state.
The high scoring county team will
receive $250 toward their expenses
to Chicago to participate in the na
tional non-collegiate judging contest.
Bell Likely Will Ren
.. School Belfry
After two weeks of uncertainty
regarding the future of Bluffton’s
65-year-old grade school bell develop
ments
likely
belfry
this week indicated that it
will continue to hang in the
without being removed.
proposals have been received
No
relative to removal of the bell, de
scribed as a
and the exp
the building
greater than
it in its moorings.
job of some magnitude,
ense of taking it from
likely would be much
again safely anchoring
Members of the board of education
said there had been no fakers of an
offer to give the bell free of charge
to anyone removing it. Neither has
THE BLUF
Each Draftee To Fill Out Ansyvers
To Sixteen Questions On Simple Form
I
m-
and Thuerk received
a hand injury. They
the hospital in the Dil
and released following
lev
?red under
ervice Act
the former Merl
Fred Lanning em
•g hatchery occupies
The blaze wa
roof
but
and
viic
dwelling TOO feet' 1
caught fire.
s discovered in the
too late to save the structure
fire departments from Bluffton
Mt. Cory prevented a spread of
flames when the roof of the
mi’ the bam
Contents of the barn lost in the
fire included a seeder, combine swat
ter, baled hay, oats and smaller
equipment.
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE
Card Four by Six Inches to be
Sent to Every Registrant
for Draft
ittle Time Will be Required to
Fill Out Form, Officials
Predict
form must be ansv
through 25 in reg
new 21-month peact
Cards measuring
and officials predict
lure is so simplified
strants can answer tl
i a matter of minute
The registration ca
Thi
study up in
16 Question.*
nd
armed forces? (Yes?
13—Marital status.
dower? Father
Then you sign it, and the regis
trar for your local beard will
it and put in the date, county,
and state.
BLUFFTON, OHIO,
duty in the armed
States or a co
since Sept. 16,
if you qualify, you
14—Active
forces of the United
beliggerent nation
1940 (under thi
fill i
the branch of service, your
or serial number, date of
name of last organization,
entr
date of separation.)
15—Present membership in a re
serve component of the armed forces
(and you list the branch of service,
service or «erial number, date of
entry, grade anef organization.)
Classification Next
16—Color of eyes, color of hair,
complexion, height, weight, race,
other obvious physical characteristics
that will aid in identification.
sign
city
men
After registering, draft-age
will wait for classification forms
which should be received within a
week or two. These are much more
detailed, and must be returned with
in 10 days.
classification is deter
these
A man’s
mined by local boards from
second forms.
Condition Of Polio
Patient Improving
Improvement is reported in the
condition of Sue, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kent
Hauenstein, of Marion, a polio pa
tient at
bus.
Children’s hospital, Colum-
the granddaughter of Mr.
Edgar Hauenstein, of South
Sue is
and Mrs.
Jackson street.
The child, w’ho became ill two
weeks ago, has been removed from
the
and
isolation ward, it was reported,
is on the road to recovery.
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
$2.06 com $1.80 oats 72c soys
$2.45.
Poultry—Heavy hens 32c leghorn
hens 30c heavy broilers 40c leghorn
broilers 35c.
Eggs—Large white 54c large
brown 52c medium white 47c
medium brown 45c: pullets 37c.
Butterfat—72c.
ain In Grade
Board Members Say
informal recommendation that the
old bell be preserved as a relic pro
duced any logical proposal regarding
its removal from the tower.
A meeting of the board of educa
tion to be held Friday night, post
poned from last Monday, likely will
write the last act in the school bell
case, and ^spokesmen said Tuesday
that it appears as if the bell will
remain in its present location.
At the same time it was pointed
out that intermittent ringing of the
bell should be expected within the
next two weeks, as contractors make
tests to determine the extent of work
required to again anchor ft safely.
Derrick Is Completed For Test
Well On W. Cart Farm,
Three Miks North
Drilling Financed By Same In
terests Which Put Down Well
On Boehr Farm Last Fall
other attempt to locate
district three miles v
ton on the College road,
r-producing area at the
.vas launched th
of drilling op
W
11
of a st
nent.
farm during the oil boom of
One was on the adjacent fan
Chris Zimmerly, now owned
Homer, Leonard and Arden Zim
a gas prodi
other w
the I
between the two
of the century,
from the old Zimmvrly
Mrs. J. S. Slabaugh, wife of Dr.
Slabaugh, president of the Bluffton
college board of trustees, died
day morning at her home in
panee, Indiana. She was a
ber of the women’s advisory
to the college trustees.
'AY, AUG. 26, 1948
ILLING
WELL
START
SECOND
NORTH OF TOWN
of
Carr farm,
a the Carr farn
ge road, is the
■d in the same district
kt year by Findlay and
a 1325-fiwt well
le John Boehr fa:
nile south of
as and a trace of
the well never
Start Second Welt
of reviving the
il producing dis'
started t’
by
Habegger
iped s
and operated
hood.
Later cai
salary and
turn
Baer, Rev
E
is the second
e form of a
Findlay and
Drilling this summer i
of the past year in th
test well, financed by
Toledo capital, which
drilling rights to some
of adjoining farmland.
Mon
Nap-
mem
board
Those fr6m Bluffton attending fun
eral services at Nappanee, Wednes
day afternoon included Dr. and Mrs.
J. S. Schultz, Dr. L. L. Ramseyer,
Dr. N. E. Byers, Miss M’Della Moon,
Prof. Paul Shelley, and Rev. Harry
Yoder.
Amstutz Hatcheries
Staff At School
Clarence Amstutz, Noah Zimmer
man, Jr., and Manager E. J. Wahlie,
staff of the Amstutz Hatcheries,
Bluffton and Pandora, have returned
from the 24th annual flock selecting,
culling and pullorum testing school
being held this week by the poultry
husbandry department at Ohio State
university.
Instruction at the school is hand
led by the regular faculty of the de
partment, plus other professors from
Cornell university and representa
tives of the State Poultry Associa
tion of Indiana and the Ohio Poultry
Improvement association.
Putnam Polio Epidemic
Reaches Pandora Area
Improvement was
week in
remains
ward.
ON NEWS
OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
Morning, Afternoon and Even
ing Services to Mark Three
Score Year Event
hurch, Third Built in Settle
ment Has Long and Dis
tinguished Record
lennonite church, five miles north
est of Bluffton, will be marked at
pecial services next Sunday morning,
fternoon and evening.
Founded in 1888, the church was
le third built by Mennonite con
regations in the Settlement and re
tains active with a membership of
St. John Mennonite Church Will
Observe 60th Anniversary Sunday:
D. J. Unruh, of Newton, Kan
rmer pastor, will speak at al!
3 and the evening program
marked by musical selections
and
Ebe
dos
Dil
heir liv
pastors who yvere on
evoted all their atten
torate, including Rev. J.
C. C. Hege, Rev. W. S.
A. S. Rosenberger, Rev.
Rev. D. J. Unruh, Rev.
and the present pastor
Peter Boehr,
Rev. Harder.
Many Missionaries
the
Although oil was found in
area about 50 years ago, wells soon
were abandon^ because the lew
price of oil at that time made oper
ations unprofitable.
Wife Of College
Trustee Succumbs
Missionaries from the congregation
include Mrs. Irma (Schneck) Lambie, for
merly in Africa and Palestine, now home
on furlough Miss Mary Haas, now in
Africa: Mrs. Lillian Wel’ty Seneft. home
from Africa on furlough Misses: Frieda and
Norma Jones,
Sommer, now
now in Africa Miss Lulu
in Germany and Holland.
Ellen Gerber, now enroute
Miss Mary
home from Africa Rev. and Mrs.
Boehr. now in China Rev. and Mrs. William
Cox, home on furlough from Hawaii Mrs.
Anita Steiner Warren, now in India Dr.
and Mrs. Bradford Steiner, in India and Mrs.
Ruth Geiger Riley, in India.
Lehman
The
first
Chris
Hilty:
Firsi
Mrs.
epidemic
last week
who lives
town, was
Putnam county’s polio
reached the Pandora area
when Harold Steiner, 29,
two miles southeast of the
taken to Lima Memorial hospital on
Thursday for treatment.
reported this
his condition, although he
in the hospital isolation
is married and the father
He is the son of
Steiner
of two children.
Clarence Steiner.
At the close of last week, Putnam
county had 27 polio cases more per
capita than any other county in Ohio.
Two have been fatal.
In view of the spread of the epi
demic, opening of Putnam county
schools has been postponed until
September 13, upon recommendation
of Dr. H. A. Neiswander, county
health commissioner.
Bluffton Business Men’s
meeting in the council
Wednesday night at 7:30
associat ion
room this
o’clock.
Peter
These from the church in the ministry are
Rev. David King, deceased Rev. Elmer Bas
inger, Summerfield, III. Rev. Kenneth Geiger.
Goshen, Ind.: and Rev. Myron Hilty, Win
ton, Calif.
Church Officers
Present
Deacons,
Hiram
church officers
Schneck, Hayden Basinger.
Trustees Omer Gra’tz,
Clarence
Kohli,
mother,
enbach
Dale Reich
ias Music
Anna Ruth
Elljs Steiner. Treasure
Secretary. Milfoi-d
Earl Lehman: Pianist
and Wava Geiger.
in 1888, were
Oberly, Peter B.
and the first deacon was P. P. Steiner,
were Miss Mary Steiner,
the first
anists
deceased, daughter of P. P. Steinei
deacon Mrs.
Berne,
bihl. ol
Lizzie
Lugibihi Rueeser of
Susie Basinger Lugi
ve.
superintendents in­
.nd Mrs.
umbus Gio
nday-school
Early
eluded
King
P. C.
Suter, Peter B. Hilty and David
song leaders. P. D. Amstutz
and Adam Lugibihi.
the first wson
p. c.
early
Suter
David Sommer was
in the cemetery adjoining the church
the first marriage on Dec. 18,
of Dr. and Mrs. P. D. Bixel.
second wedding was that of Mr. and
Solomon Welty in June, 1889. W
still living.
Program for the day’s services:
buried
and
Church
(Continued on page 10)
1888.
The
Mrs.
Welty if
Mominig Service 10:30 A. M.
Prelude—Annaru'ch Lehman, pianist
Invocation, scripture
Ladies choyus
Message- Rev. D. J.
Closing prayer. Rev.
lesson.
Wm. Cox
Afternoon Service# 1:4S P. P.
Violin ensemble­-Annaruth anT Deh
man. W’ilma. Augsburger. Mr*. Rob
Bowersox.
Hymn No. 55O---Congregation
Invocation. Rev. Howard Landes. Ebeneze
Thermometers hit 97 degrees Wed
nesday noon for the hottest weather
of the summer—the top registering
one degree more than Tuesday’s max
imum with no relief in sight.
A southerly breeze blowing inter
mittently since the first of the week
has pushed heat into the Bluffton
area on a scale unprecedented this
summer which until this time has
been comparatively mild.
Cloyce Barnes Are
Xenia
Moving To
Mr. aiid Mrs. Cloyce Bam
ferson si:reet who are havin
lie sale Friday night are
'atHfduy
to Xenia. They
plopt 1
Mericle. Mr. Bame w*ho ha
of a hea rt ailment is impro
At the*ir new location
will be associated with her
in-law and sister, Mr. and
Gueltig, florists, operating
and Day ton.
Their elder daughter,
Ba me v’ill leave for Sai
Calif., w here she has accep
sit ion as
an.
Third Chur
founding of
instructor in an el
school. The younger daugh
nita wil return to Bowlin
State university this fall w
is a senior.
AGE BRACKET TO
DETERMINE DATE
FOR REGISTERING
Oldest Group Included in Sei
Registration of Younger Groups
to Continue Through
September 18
by President Truman in
mation setting registrati
men between the ages
from August 30 until S
All men born in 1922
ust 30 will register on
and the proclamation als
following dates for the
of other youths:
1. Persons born in the
■r A
ust
the
the year 1929
September
Boys born on or after
19, 1930, under the
will be registered on the
are 18 years old or within
thereafter:
proclamation,
day they
five days
years of
the draft
Although young men 18
age will not be subject to
until they become 19 years of age,
they have the privilege of enlisting
for military srvice for a period of
one year. That
elude training in
no overseas duty,
listments may be
cruiting office.
service would
this country,
it is stated.
made at any
and
En­
na-
Maj. Gen. Lewis R. Hershey
tional director of selective si
under the law passed by the
congress, has stated that men will
be drafted by age groups, with men
25 down through 22 taken first in
the initial six months of the pro
gram.
Under the law’ actual drafting can
not start until September 22.
Local Man's Widow
Dies In New Orleans
Word was received here this week
of the death of Mrs. Epsie Steiner,
widow of Gideon Steiner, a native of
Bluffton who had lived in New Or
leans for many years prior to his
demise.
Mrs. Steiner, who died Monday at
her New Orleans home, was bur
ied at that place Tuesday,
and her husband often
in the past. She was
Nashville, Tenn.
She is survived by
Fritz, Gideon, Jr., and
New Orleans.
Bluffton Scorches In 97-Degree Heat
Wednesday, Hottest For This Summer
She
three sons
Allen, all oi
Farmers, however, say that weath
er such as this is what is needed to
mature the corn crop which promises
to be one of the best ever grown in
this area.
As for relief, the best the Ohio
weatherman at Columbus could pre
dict is possible scattered showers
Thursday afternoon *and increased
humidity.
A Good Place To Trade
surrounding
averdam, Mt.
NUMBER 19
SEEK TO ENLARGE
SIZE OF BLUFFTON
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Annexation of Parts of Beaver
dam. Mt. Cory, Rawson, Pan
dora Districts Proposed
Suggestion To State Prompted
By Proposal to Re-District
School Areas
I to Bluffton’s
innexing parts
now served by
Rawson and
forwarded this
of
Lan-
trict
Hold Flower Show
Here Friday, Sept. 3
Bluffton Gai
18
Mrs
year 1923
August 31, and September 1.
2. Persons born in 1924 Septem
ber 2, and September 3.
3. Persons born in the year 1925
September 4 or September 7.
4. Persons born in
September 8th-9th.
5. Persons born in
September lOth-llth.
6. Persons born in
September 13th-14th.
7. Persons born in
September 15th-16th.
8. Persons born 1930 before
September 19 September 17th-18th.
the year
the year 1927
ed by the
Fri
nk
without charge
A new' feature
open to child
age.
to anyone interested,
is the junior displa
ren to 12 years of age. Their ex
hibits may be miniatures, an ar
rangement description of the title of
a child’s book or general arrange
ment.
Farmer Lacerates
Hand In Accident
Dwight Frantz, Union township
farmer, suffered lacerations and a
broken bone in his left hand as the
result of an accident while repairing
a pump at his home north of Bluff
ton, Monday.
Real Estate Deals
The 78-acre Orange township farm
belonging to the Jacob Haas estate
was purchased by Archie Hartman
& Son for $12,948, Saturday. The
tract was sold at public auction by
Milford Haas, administrator. The
Hartmans’ farm is located across the
road from the Haas tract.
James Whittemore of Royal Oak,
Mich., has purched one of Lester
to properties on his lot
vn avenue and Vine
frame property, the
at Noi
street,
former
vacant,
while his new
lot was under
summer,
will occupy the residence,
was handled by Mrs. H. W. Althaus.
The
Wm.
Lewis residence, now
ccupied by Niswander
brick residence on the
construction early this
The
Whittemore family
The deal
Births
The following births at Bluffton
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snavely, Bluff
ton, a girl, Dona Marie,- last Wed
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Suter, Pan
dora, a boy, James Lee, Thursday.
Mr.
ton, a
day.
and Mrs. Lyle Everett, Bluff
boy, Richard Wayne, Thurs-
and Mrs. James Saltz, Mt.
Mr.
visited here
a native of
Cory, a girl, Pamela Kay, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wiess, Bluff
ton, a boy, Davik Frederick, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lafferty,
Arlington, a boy, Jon Alan, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reamsnyder,
Arlington, a boy, Robert Dean, Fri
day.
Mr. and rs. Maurice Strabm,
Bluffton, a boy, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simcox, Gil
boa, a boy, James Robert, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crawford,
Williamstown, a girl, Loretta Kay,
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Smith, Harrod,
a boy, Jerry Ray, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Wiess, Marion,
Ohio, a girl, Ellen Roberta, born at
Marion City hospital, August 11.
Mrs. Wiess is the former Laveta
Clymer of Bluffton.