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A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXni
No Reduction Possible if Mini
mum Price is Set for
Producers, Claim
Bluffton Paying 22 Cents Quart
Hearings on Price Held in
Toledo
,n in Bluffton’s retail
delivered at 22 cents a
possible if the Depart
grants a mini
dairy farmers
a spokesman
announced this
No reductic
price of milk,
•quart, will be
ment of Agriculture
mum price sought
in Northwestern Ohi
for milk distributors
week.
Milk is being sold here on a carry
home basis at 19 *2 cents a quart.
Bluffton’s milk prices are determin
ed by the level set by the North
western Cooperative Sales associa
tion, a
sought
a-quart
Toledo.
Sales
farm group, which last week
establishment
minimum in
of the 22-cent
a meeting at
Bellefontaine
a quart Mon-
Price of milk in
dropped to 20 cents
day. The new price, a reduction
of one cent, was the second cut
within a month.
An all-day hearing
federal examiner in
was held by a
Toledo on the
establish the
to producers
is the “floor”
and February,
s, milk prices
NCSA request to
September price paid
for milk and cream
for December, January
Under federal orden
for this area are governed by those
paid at certain midwestern condens
eries and in the last three months
the condensery prices have tumbled
83 cents.
Unless the decline is checked by
adopting the minimum price rule,
milk producers will leave the North
western Ohio market in “great
numbers” to seek higher prices offer
ed in Detroit and Cleveland, spokes
men for the NCSA testified at the
hearing.
Smithville Women
Assist In Work Here
Forty women from the Oak Grove
Mennonite church in Smithville will
travel to Bluffton in a chartered bus
Ihis Thursday, to assist in work of
the Ohio cutting room, which cuts
garments for European relief dis
tribution through the Mennonite Cen
tral committee.
Cutting room quarters are in Sci
ence hall
on the Bluffton college cam­
pus, and the visitors from Smith
ville will assist in the cutting, and
observe the work procedure through
out the day.
The visitors will work in shifts
with local directors of the project,
and during the remainder of the time
here will help make comforters for
relief purposes in space set aside for
the group in Lincoln hall, women's
dormitory.
The cutting room operated here
under auspices of the Mennonite Cen
tral Committee is sponsored by four
Mennonite churches of this district:
Ebenezer and First Mennonite of
Bluffton, and Grace and St.
Mennonite of Pandora.
John
Back From Canada
With Big Game
Frank Montgomery of Orange
township and Justin Klingler of near
Ada have returned from a ten days’
Canadian hunting trip at Espanola,
Ontario. Montgomery bagged a 500
pound black bear and
large doe.
Klingler a
this vicinity
others from
the bear and
bagged
The two hunters from
made the trip with
Columbus. Besides
doe, six deer were
Columbus hunters.
six
by the
were at
Mississ­
The party’s headquarters
Birch Grove camp near the
agi state forest area, about 650
miles north of Bluffton.
Wade Shook To Be
Boy Scout Executive
Wade A. Shook, of South Jackson
street, left Monday for Mendham,
N. J., where he will enter a six
werks’ school for professional Boy
Scout leaders.
Shook has been assigned to the De
fiance district in the Shawnee Boy
Scout council, and will work in five
counties. The local man is a gradu
ate of Bluffton college and a Navy
World War II veteran.
Chevrolet Sales
Remodels Quarters
Steiner Chevrolet sales is remodel
ing the sales room of its quarters
on North Main street. Work on the
front of the building is under way
this week.
Retail Milk Price Here Hangs
on Decision o£ Federal Bureau
Winter’s First Snow
Is Seen In Bluffton
Wednesday Morning
riLUFFTON experienced its
first snowfall of the winter
Wednesday morning when a
brief snowstorm swept the area
at dawn. The snowstorm, ac
companied by falling tempera
ture
day
only
ing
mid-forenoon Wednesday.
Coeds Chasing Men Across Campus
Saturday Marks Sadie Hawkins Day
followed a heavy rain Tues
night.
evidence of the early morn
snowfall, was visible until
A skiff of snow.
TAX DUPLICATE IN
TOWN NEARS TWO
MILLION DOLLARS
Valuation
Auditor
Huff ton’s Increase in
Past Year $57,470
Duplicate
Beaver-
Richland Township’s
Over Two Million:
dam $250,790
Bluffton’s 1948 real estate tax
duplicate will be $1,937,130, an in
crease of $57,470 over last year’s
figure, it is announced by Allen
County Auditor Russell L. Hire.
Richland township’s duplicate also
showed an increase, up $26,630 to
$2,082,580.
Beaverdam’s tax will
plicate at $250,790, an
$15,340.
be on a du
increase of
estate tax
Allen county’s real
duplicate was set at a mark of $82,
119,300, a boost of $2,040,410 over
the 1947 to*al. Municipal duplicates
total $54,981,190, and the township
duplicates amount to $27,138,110.
Figures listed include valuations
on both land and buildings, the audi
tor’s office announced. Nearly 37
per cent of the real property valua
tion increase is in the city of Lima.
John Bauman Wins
Peace Declamation
John Bauman, Bluffton High school
junior representing the First Men
nonite church, w’on a Prince of
Peace Declamation contest held last
Sunday night in the Methodist
church here.
Winner of the event received a
bronze medal and the right to repre
sent the village in the Allen county
contest later this fall. The contest
is sponsored by the Ohio Council of
Churches.
contestants were Samuel
Other
Buhler, Miriam Bixe'l, Janette Fin
ton and Susanna Kempf.
HEALTH EXAMINATIONS
Bluffton high school pupils will be
given health examinations by local
physicians on Thursday, Nov. 18.
Bluffton’s winter recreation pro
gram will get under way next week,
with initial sessions in the Bluffton
High school gymnasium Monday
evening and the college gymnasium
Tuesday evening.
Interested men are urgd to be in
the high school gymnasium at 7 p. m.
to organize a winter basketball
league. All registering will pay a
$1 charge to cover the cost of equip
ment. A program will be arranged
for each Monday night during the
winter.
The Tuesday night program is for
men’s volleyball and basketball from
7 to 8:30 p. m. and women’s play
from 8:30 until 10 p. m.
A Saturday morning program for
grade school pupils also is being ar
ranged, with sessions in the gym
nasium from 9 to 11 a. m. Because
of limited facilities, attendance will
be limited to fourth, fifth and sixth
grades.
will be
groups
days.
There’s no occasion to be puzzled
next Saturday aternooa when you
see bevies of Bluffton college coeds
chasing men students across the
campus in foot races that the more
fleeM’ooted men may not try too
hafvj to wia.
The afternoon’s fun merely will
represent coedk^ attempts to line up
their dates for a Saturday night
pa rty,
ance of Sadie Hawkins’ Day on
campus.
Winter Recreation Program To
Get Under Way Here Next Week
Saturday morning program
for boys and girls, with the
meeting on alternate Satur-
The
Richard Q. Lowry, Bluffton High
school coach, will be in charge of the
Monday night and Saturday morning
programs.
climaxing the annual observ
the
After a women nabs a man in
he is hers for the rest of
and a “Marryin’ Sam”
day, and a Marryin Sam will
provide a license duly attesting to
her rights of possession. The license
also will serve as proper credentials
of admission to the all-campus party
in the evening.
During the day, the rules of the
game also provide that a coed may
compel her capture to be chained to
a log, a bucket of cement or any
other heavy object to prevent his
getting away.
Sadie Hawkins Day was originat
ed about 10 years ago in the comic
strip, “Little Abner,4’ and since then
it has become a traditional observ
ance on nearly every college campus.
ago ir
In the comics, Mayor Hawkins, of
Dogpatch, was unable to find a
husband for his ugly daughter. As a
result he proclaimed Sadie Hawkins
Day, which consisted of a race in
which unmarried girls gave single
males a head start. He who was
caught “had to marry the gal.”
Ross Wilkins Rites
To Be On Thursday
Daniel Ross Wilkins, 75, died sud
denly of a heart attack at 8:30 a. m.
Tuesday at the home of Miss Mollie
Niswander, south of Bluffton,
had been in ill health
months.
He
the past six
Union town
of Absolom
Born Oct. 6, 1873, in
ship, he was the son
and Lavina Perigo Wilkins.
Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.
Bert Williams, Mt. Cory and Mrs.
O. O. Hartman, Findlay a brother,
Ira Wilkins, Rawson, and a half
brother, John Wilkins, Bluffton.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Thursday in the Basinger
Funeral home. Rev. V. C. Opper
mann, pastor of the St. John’s Re
formed church, will officiate. Burial
will be in the Clymer cemetery.
The body will be at the Basinger
funeral home until time for the
service.
School Of Religion
To Close Thursday
religion, spon
Ministerial as
closing session
Bluffton’s school of
sored by the Bluffton
sociation will hold its
at the high school Thursday night at
7:30 o’clock.
As a special feature, Prof. Paul
Shelly will show a sound film "The
Synagogue and Passover” and also a
film on the life of Christ.
Rev. Paul Whitmer will lead devo
tions and Charles Emans will teach
the class in stewardship.
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
hospital:
Mr.
son, a
Mr.
Mrs. Bill Peterson, Raw
Michael Lynn, Thursday.
Mrs. Omer Welty, Bluff
Cheryle Marchele, Thurs-
and
boy,
and
girl
ton, a
day.
Mr.
La Fayette, a girl, Betty Louise, Fri
day.
and Mrs. George Clapper
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Diller, Bluff
ton, a boy Jon Nelson, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Moore, Bluff
ton, a girl, Deborah Lynne, Tuesday
Lieut, and Mrs. Robert Bayless, a
boy, Robert Vance, born October 4
at the Cam Lejeune, North Caro
lina, hospital. Lieut. Bayless is a
son of Mrs. Martha Diller Bayless,
formerly of Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Lautsbaugh,
Mansfield, a girl born at Mansfield
hospital, Saturday. Mrs. Lautsbaugh
was Ruth Ryan, formerly of Bluff
ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Ryan of Ada.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOV. 11
TOWN OBSERVES
ARMISTICE DAY
HERE THURSDAY
Mayor Glathart of Findlay to
Speak at Exercises in High
School
Blast of Whistle at 11 A. M.
to Mark Pause No
Delivery
Bluffton
Mail
establish
be closed from 11 a. m.
Thursday /or a one-hour
of Armistice Day, high
a community program in
ments will
until noon
observance
lighted by
the high school auditorium.
the
the
Speaker at the public meeting
the school building will be Ma
Clifford Glathart, of Findlay.
Special music for the Armisi
Daj7 program will be provided
the uniformed Bluffton High set
band. The meeting is sponsored
the Bluffton American Legion posi
in
by
Marking the start of Armistice
the
Day observance, the deep-throated I boundaries of their land.
whistle^ at the municipal light plant
T-, crx I
TAMES Glenn Owens,
Bluffton and a brothe
Claribel Owens and Mr
Oates, both of this place,
this country for Venezuela
will work under spdnsoysh
Rockefeller foundation in introducing
Burns Fatal To Mrs,
at her home seven weeks ago.
8,
of Bluffton.
the memory of those who gave theirl
they have shied away from granting
lives in battles for theii country. I permission to strangers and those in­
Legion officials this week urged I experienced in the use of firearms.
residents of the community to attend
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the gathering in the auditorium. Pheasants a
In observance of the day as a holi-l plentiful this
day, the Citizen’s National bank and| in the fall of
the Bluffton post office will
ed thruout the day.
ForiTier Bluff ton I
Man On Mission I
All Rooming Accommodations
Town Sold Out For
Opening Day
In
Plenty
Ave
Indicating that a big influx of
hunters will make the Bluffton dis
trict their center of operations, all
hotel and tourist home accommoda
tions are reserved for Sunday and
I Monday, and rooms in private homes
are at
handle the anticipated crowds.
I
nailing
nee of
e their
will Jf ’own at tl a. m., signalling I readily give consent to friends hunt"
rhe ■etfKfnnairy pause in reverence of
than a decade.
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To South AmericalX'Z^^hX*1''6
American methods of extension serv-1
ice to farmers of that nation.
In addition to setting up a pro
gram of extension service- methods,
Owens will establish a farm credit
service similar to our Farm Security
program.
next Monday
will continue
Thanksgiving
will be from
ative of
of Miss
Sarah
I
Jackson Center and Mechanicsburg I wjg and Miss Alice Ludwig of Bluff
High schools in Ohio.
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Mrs. Sarah A. Badertscher, 81,
resident of Poplar street for the last
44 years, died last Thursday night
in Bluffton
where she had been a patient after,
being seriously burned in a mishap
Community hospital
Mrs. Badertscher was admitted to I _____
the hospital after suffering burns! proceeds from the election day sale
when her clothing caught fire while I jn a drjve for the benefit of
she was burning rubbish in her gard-1 Bluffton Community hospital netted
en. Her death was attributed to I $257, it was reported this week. The
complications resulting from the I (ag day
"burns- hospital
Funeral services were held Sun-1
day afternoon in St. John’s Reformed
church, with Rev. V. C. Oppermann,
pastor, officiating. Burial was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
Mrs.
Badertscher was born in
Richland
on June
tscher.
in 1946.
township, and was married
1898, to Peter Batter
He
preceded her in death
Survivors
sionary circle of the church.
Solicit Grain For
Overseas Relief
Donations from this ar
taken to Lima where a
loaded the last x»f th’,
shipment to Europe.
Big Influx Of Hunters To Come Here
Monday For Another Pheasant Season
of Hunters And Rela
Scarcity of Game Pre
dicted Again This Year
Last year’s poor hunting is ex
pected to have little effect on the en
thusiasm of an army of nimrods
who will take to the field at 9 a. m.
next Monday for the opening of the
1948 pheasant and rabbit season.
a premium in attempting to
With every prospect of a flood of
hunters taking to the field on the
opening day of the season, more
farmers than ever before are post
ing “No Hunting” signs around the
Although the majority of farmers
I ing on their land in recent years
Tha
e said to be more
'ear than they were
1947 when this dis
orest season in more
More Birds
han
Year Ago
However, birds still
are not as plentiful as they were
eight or nine years ago and the sup-
ply Will not nearly approach normal.
The pheasant season will be three
daily bag limit
ber in pos
the
I firgtpermitted
day
He was accompanied by his wife
who is a home demonstration agent.
Before accepting the position with I Frank Ludwig, 74, native of Union
the Rockefeller foundation, Owens I township, Hancock county, died in
had been in New York State soil I Temple hospital in Los Angeles,
conservation work for 10 years. Pri-1 Tuesday night after a ten days’ ill
or to that time he had been an in-1 ness following a stroke.
structor in vocational agriculture at
Opening
morning, open season
through November 25,
day. Rabbit season
pheasants will be the
well as the num
sion after the
Daily bag limit for rab­
Two cock
bits will be four.
Hunting will be permitted only be
tween the hours of 9 a. m. and
4 p. m.
Union Tup. Native
Dies In California
He was a brother of Elmer Lud-
ton anfj Mrs. Clara Steiner and Miss
Anna Ludwig of Lima and visited
here frequently.
Born August 18, 1874 in Union
Sarah Badertscher]1™™'"’' hiul “ved in L°s An
geles for the past 25 years. Funeral
services and burial will be in that
city. His wife, Twila Lewis Ludwig
and daughter Twila Maxine died
several years ago.
\Commumty Hospital
Tag Day Nets $257
sale was conducted by the
auxiliary.
who are greedy of praise
Those
prove that they are poor in merit.
include a son, Ralph I Bluffton High school and Bluffton
Badertscher five grandchildren and|college football squad members will
a sister, Mrs. John A. Anderson, all be gUests of the community at a grid
be held Tuesday
in the high school
I award
Mrs. Badertscher was a member of|eVpning, Nov. 23,
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed I gvmnagium.
church and of the Edith Lahr Mis-1
dinner to
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Speaker for the
I
,be
1 program will
Dame captain in
will be based on reminiscences of his
experience with one of the nation’s
top grid teams.
Richland township rural churches I Bluffton Community Recreation com
are soliciting donations of grain |mittee are sponsoring the event, all
from farmers in the area for thel residents of the community are urged
Christian Rural Overseas Program I to lend support in making the dinner
sponsoring a European relief pro-1 a success. If there are any proceeds
ject.
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Frank Batterson of South Main I to the recreation committw for re
street, local CROP chairman has an-1 creation purposes.
nounced the following solicitors: Al-1 Business places handling the sale
bert Augsburger, Reese Huber, Mel I of tickets include Sidney’s Drug shop,
Long, Charles Lora, and Wilford|A. Hauenstein Drug store, Patter
Gratz.
Bible Lecturer
DEV. Charles R. Beil, Jr.
pastor of the First Baptist
church of Madison, Wisconsin
who will deliver the annual
Bluffton college Bible lectures
here next week. Program ap
pears on Page 2.
Editor’s Note—This
of a series of articles to
in ths Bluffton News
with early Ohio history,
will appear
issues.
of life that prs
had not gotten
1 a 1 /"i 11 /'y 1 o 1
High School And College Grid Squads
117*11 TT n A
I Will Be Feted At Community Banquet
impressive evening
Paul Lillis, Notre
1939, whose talk
Although the Lions club and the
in excess of cost, the money will go
I son’s Barber shop, Risser Sandwich
a will be I shop, Swank Barber shop, Walter
will be I mire store, Charles Steiner and Nor
ionth for man Edinger. Members of the Lions
also are selling tickets.
club
w one
appear
dealing
Others
In 1820 James Rogers got
ague. He went ■through all
stages until finally he was in
to stay. Lucy prayed—a
tried more to doctor her|| three unofficial.
and there
little—but
husband,
ment.
(Continued on page 8)
Organ Recital At
4 out on
Ann Arbor Sunday\is
sa
Show Pictures Of
Trip To Hawaii
the annual
and farewell
Presbyterian
Bigelow and
night.
The Bluffton couple made the trip
by plane to visit their son Wade
Lape, an officer in the naval air
force stationed at that time in
Hawaii.
Buy Radio For
III Classmate
Bluffton high school juniors
raising funds to buy7 a radio
George Grismore, a classmate,
with polio. Grismore has been a
tient in Lima Memorial hospital
the last two months.
A Good Place To Trade
of new pl
stored at
operated
owned by
in forthcoming
When Lucy Rogers K
Prayed
Lucy Rogers believed in prayer.
Never, she often related, had there
been a predicament in her 19-years
yer, sincerely offered,
her out of. But that I Smith in a hearing in the
1 moved to Crawford I County Probate court, Monday
County, Ohio.
The Rogers family
log cabin near Bug
Lucy, James, her husband, and their months, damage from which was esti
baby in arms. Low wilderness then,I mated at upwards of $300.
the country was a tangled under-l Judge Smith admonished the youths
growth of malaria, chills and fever.I to behave themselves and ordered
Everyone had his “chill time.” Com-I restitution for losses and damage
ing at regular hours, days apart, thel for which they were responsible,
attacks finally narrowed to everyl One or several of the group were
other day, then every day and finally! involved in a series of acts of de
the fever was on to stay. With nol linquency including theft of $29 from
doctor in the backwoods there wasn’tl clothing of members of the Bluffton
much to be done about it except thel football squad during the first half
simple home remedies, which usually|| of a game played here Friday night,
did not work.
moved into
■us in 1819
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NUMBER 30
NEW BUILDING TO
DOUBLE AIRPORT’S
HANGAR CAPACITY
Construction of New Hangar
Here is Being Finished
This Week
Addition Will Provide
modations at Field
18 Planes
Hangar
airport is
I tion of a
of which
Ac com
For
Bluffton
the addi-
capacity at the
being doubled by
new hangar, construction
will be completed within
week, it was announced
y Clayton Bixel, owner of
Tues
the airfield
The new7 hangar will be of metal,
by 100
present
hangar
said.
quonset-type construction, 40
feet. With its addition to
field equipment, there will be
space for 18 airplanes, Bixel
180 feet
ight planes i
Bluffton Fly
E
the
tors
for
sight-se
lerated by
proprie-
They are used
instruction, charter and
10 additional
aft
of that
by the flying service, is
out-of-town fliers.
Places Five
YOUthS On Probation
Five Bluffton youths were placed
on probation by Judge Raymond P.
Allen
after
after-
which
in
tiut here during the past two
October 15, also breaking into and
thel stealing refreshments frojn the Har
thel mon field concession booth and acts
bed| of Halloween vandalism.
ity, Sunday afternoon at 4:15 oclock.| an unsuccessful attempt to force it
He is the younger son of Mr. andlOpen and rjde |be strong box of its
Mrs. Edgar Hauenstein of South I contents.
Jackson street.
The recital is presented in partially
fulfillment of the requirements for|C
the degree of Bachelor of Music.
He is a graduate of Bluffton col-1
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and Mrs.
their trip
shown at
Pictures taken by Mr.
E. S. Lape of Bluffton on
to Hawaii last year were
thankoffering meeting
dinner of the Rockport
church for Rev. E. N.
family last Wednesday
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are
for
ill
P»
for
Two of the cases w7ere official and
The two against
case listings were
There was no improve-1 whom official
1 placed had sentences deferred.
Besides the five, a sixth youth, not
I a juvenile, facing a petty larceny
[charge in the Lima Municipal court
Roger Hauenstein, student in thel The youthg denied cornplicity in
University of Michigan school of burglary at Bluffton high school two
music will give an organ recital in|weeks ago in which the gafe in the
the Hill auditorium at the univers-1
bond. His trial is
for Tuesday afternoon, Decem
ber 14.
office wag badly damaged in
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TOWdS Attracted
I To Night School
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lege and later taught public school Parents and others interested in
music and studied in the music de-|the work of Bluffton public schools
partment of Ohio State university crowded the classrooms Tuesday
in Columbus.
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njgbt to see the regular schedule of
pupil activities in Bluffton’s second
annual Night School observance.
The evening session of regular
classes was sponsored by the Parent
Teachers association and was con
ducted in connection with observance
of American Education week.
In the elementary school, various
phases of the regular school program
were demonstrated for the visitors.
Two rgular day periods were con-
ducted at the high school.
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Members of the student patrol
were on duty to guide parents to
classes they wished to visit.
Librarian Given
Absence Leave
Miss Ocie Anderson, librarian at
Bluffton’s public library has been
given leave of absence until the holi
days to recuperate from an illness of
last summer. She left Thursday for
her home in Cameron, West Va.
Swiss Male Chorus
The Swiss Male Chorus is to hold
its rehearsal each Monday evening at
8 o’clock in the Reformed church in
Bluffton. A hearty invitation is ex
tended to more men of the commun
ity who enjoy singing.