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THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1950
COMING-
FEBRUARY 10-11
Brighter Days for youV Kitchen
WATCH FOR THEM
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Save $75.00
Save $100.00
On Many Coats the
Saving is More Than
$150.00
OPEN
EVENINGS
UNTIL 9
ONE DAY
ONLY
Monday,
FEB. 6th
Bluffton college eagers finally
cracked the victory-circle last Satur
day night when the Beavers trounced
Giffin Junior college by a 100 to 61
ONE DAY
WRITES A NEW DEFINITION
OF VALUE-THE MOST DARING
REDUCTION EVENT IN RUTH
28 YEARS OF FUR SELLING!
AT
Lucille’s
ONE DAY ONLY!
Bluffton College Five Tops Giffin,
100-61 First Win In 10 Starts
Monday, February 6
RUTH FURS of Toledo
ALL COATS MUST BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF LOSS
NO CARRY OVERS
CLOSING OUT
s, 178 FUR COATS
Choice of the House One Price Choice of the House
Of Course They’re Mostly One of a Kind—Style—But They’re in Such Grand
Variety That You Are Sure To Find the Coat You Like!
COME EARLY HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MANY SENSATIONAL VALUES!!
Formerly $299—Silver Fox Jacket
Formerly $289—Mink Dyed Marmot.......
Formerly $249—Black Persian Paw .......
Formerly $159—Checkian Caracul.........
Formerly $190—Lapin Coat ....
Formerly $189—African Kid Skin...........
Formerly $199—Pony Coats.......
Formerly $189—Northern Seal ....
Formerly $199—Dyed Squirrel ...
Formerly $189—Beaver Mouton ...
Formerly $259—Red Fox Coat...................
Formerly $199—Mouton Dyed Lamb ....
score on the high school court here.
It was the first Bluffton win in
10 starts so far this season.
AND MANY, MANY OTHERS
TAKE A YEAB TO PAY!
85-00 WILL RESERVE AM COAT
Taking an early lead, the colle-
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
gians ran up a 54 to 22 score at
halftime. By the time the game
ended the entire Bluffton squad had
seen action.
Manufacturers of fertilizer in Ohio
are doing the best they can to make
the limited supplies of potash go
as far as possible.
ONLY
LUCILLE’S
BLUFFTON
ONE DAY ONLY!
Window Pieces
Samples
Many From
Regular Stock
Exactly 36
FUR
COATS
Save $75 to $150
ON SALE
'50
January bowing off the stage—
and with it all those warm days,
showers and flowers that put a dash
of spring into midwinter and
that batch of rough weather the first
of the week may presage something
different for February anyway
it stepped up interest in Groundhog
day come Thursday, which may
furnish the tipoff to the answer to
the $64 question as to what we may
expect for the remainder of the
winter that cold snap and sleet
Monday night and Tuesday served
ample warning that winter still
packs a big wallop—wonder if there’s
some way to distract a groundhog’s
attention so he won’t see his shadow
if the sun shines and Groundhog
day is only one of the high spots in
event-packed February’ shortest
month of the entire twelve—per
haps they figured that 28 days
weren’t enough time for all these
things, so they threw in an extra
day every four years or so just for
good measure it’s the month of
clearance sales, real estate taxes and
valentines besides being the birthday
month of three great Americans—
Edison is the third one, born
February 11 used to be a sea
son of stealthy politics back in the
days when precinct warfare thrived
and politicos indulged in the pleasant
pastime of gunning for each other’s
scalps and high school basket
ball teams pointing for the tourna
ment—and the varsity drew double
column scare headline in the Toledo
Blade after racking up their first
victory of the season.
It’s a good old Pennsylvania
Dutch tradition—grundsau tag—
groundhog day to you. We’re not
sticking out our neck to argue its
merits as a weather forecaster—
however it’s a pleasant bit of old
time folklore which persists—a
nostalgic survival of an era when
life was simpler—when a buckeye in
your pocket would ward off rheuma
tism and a lot of things of which
we were certain—those were the
days when we knew all the answers
to about everything that was neces
sary for life and living—as con
trasted to the scene of uneasiness
and insecurity in these modem days
of the atomic age.
And just because it’s Groundhog
season, don’t begin looking for
spring—oldtimers who knew a thing
or two about seasons recognized
Groundhog day as the halfway point
of the winter season—all neatly
wrapped up in the following jingle:
You should have left
On Groundhog day
Half your corn
And half your hay.
Speaking of state universities,
don’t overlook the University of
Florida. Levi Gratz, former Bluff
tonite, one of the top men in the
Florida state agricultural experi
ment station in connection with the
university at Gainesville says they
have a faculty of 1,000 and a stu
dent body of 10,000 in a city of
30,000 population. It requires two
post offices to handle the volume of
mail.
It was a double treat for Bluffton
high school basketball fans—that
Bellefontaine game here last Friday
night. They saw the game at the
high school gym when Lowry’s ram
paging Pirates racked up another
victory—and at home on the radio
they heard a broadcast of the same
from WIMA in Lima. The broad
cast which began at 9:30 came from
a recording made by a direct wire
from the gymnasium to the WIMA
studio arranged by the telephone
company. The announcer spoke from
the playing floor here and the re
rding was made in Lima.
In our mail:
The G. W. Benroths of Vivian,
Louisiana, formerly of Bluffton will
soon celebrate their 51st wedding an
niversary. It’s spring down there
early shrubs and flowers in full
bloom also appearing in a re
cent issue of the Shreveport (La.)
Times was a mention of Bluffton’s
baby derby as well as mention of it
in a radio broadcast.
And from the Rev. Elmer Basing
ers, formerly of Bluffton, now in
Donnellson, Iowa, where he is pas
tor of Zion Mennonite congregation
—one of four churches there which
work together to make possible
many union services during the
year.
Benjamin F. Fairless, president
of the United States Steel corpora
tion whose name has been in news
paper headlines the past week in
connection with a projected raise in
the price of steel was formerly a civ
il engineering student at Ohio North
ern, Ada, from 1900 to 1912. North
ern, which by the way was the only
college he ever attended, called him
back in 1935 to award him the de
gree of Doctor of Enginnering.
The rise of Fairless, son of a
miner at Piegeon Run in the south
ern Ohio coal fields, is a tale strang
er than fiction. After leaving Ada he
took a job with the Wheeling &
Lake Erie railroad. Later he be
came a civil engineer for Central
Steel and advanced rapidly to general
superintendent and vice president. In
1935 he was made president of Car
negie-Illinois Steel and three years
later president of United States
Steel. He lives near Pittsburgh.
A check from a Bluffton visitor
was one of those included in loot of
Boston’s famous million dollar rob
bery of Brink’s Express agency, it
became known here the first of the
week.
The check, for payment of Blue
Cross hospitalization was written
by Mrs. A. I). Martin of Martha’s
Vineyard, Mass., who spends the
winter months with her son-in-law
and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. Harry
Yoder.
Mrs. Martin received a letter from
the Boston office of the Blue Cross
that her check received there Janu
ary 17 was included in the day’s re
ceipts collected by the Brink agency
and subsequently became part of the
robbers’ loot. The letter requested
that Mrs. Martin notify her bank
to stop payment on the check.
Benefit Game Nets
$125 For Two Bands
Bluffton business men trimmed a
public school faculty team, 45 to 30,
and the band mother’s organization
was richer by $125 as the result of
a benefit cage game played last Wed
nesday night on the high school
court.
The performance, including a band
concert and a demonstration by the
Faberettes, an organization of baton
twirlers, was staged to raise funds
for the grade and high school bands,
sponsored by the band mothers or
ganization.
The win by the businessmen gave
them revenge for a setback suffered
in a similar contest a year ago.
W. Amstutz with 13 points and
Luginbuhl with 10 were high for
the winners and Landis topped fac
ulty scorers with 10 points.
BUSINESS MEN
Luginbihl, f............
K
0 10
Dillman, f............. ..... 1 s 3
Basinger, f.............. 2 1 5
Koontz, c.................. .... 3 o 6
W. Amstutz ............ 6 1 13
D. Amstutz ... ........ 2 0 4
Balmer, g................. 2 o 4
Totals 21 3
Faculty
Lowry, f__ ____ .. 3 0 6
Landis, f..... ............. .... 3 4 10
Gratz, f............... .. ... 4 0 8
Lehman, c........ ....... ... 2 1
Kettlewell, g______ .... 0 1 1
Totals ................... —....12 6 30
One Michigan farmer is believed
to have set a new record in yield of
potatoes per acre from an unirrigat
ed field. His yield was 1,038 bush
els.
Household Electric
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Electrical Supplies for
House Wiring
Lighting Fixtures Radios
Mumma Electric Shop
Carl Mumma
122 North Main
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
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PAGE THREE
Chances are you haven’t
appendicitis or any
other serious malady. But
it’s best to know. If your
question, cow­
health is
suit and/Co-operate with
your Ph^sici? a. And, we’ll
co-operate if you’ll bring
prescriptions to us.
MODERN
iTCHERING
SERVICE
ing Wrapping
harp Freeze
Coo
Bet f—Pork—Veal
Choice
I eef Quarters
For Sale
Sped
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on Heart, Liver and
Tongue
FARMER’S QUALITY
FARMER’S PRICE
Raymond Moser
5 Miles West of Bluffton
Bluffton phone 544-T
Beginner’s Sunset
Rose Offer
1 Rich Red, 1 Old Golden Yellow Var.,
1 Pink. 1 wlite. 1 Rich Yellow, 1 Gold
with Red Varg-., 1 Glory Pink,
1'Apricot Yellow
They will bloom this summer
Oily $1.98 net
NEW ROStS—Peace $2 Lowell
Thomas $lj50 Charlotte Arm
strong $1.50 Slitter’s Gohl $2.50
Tallyho $2 Taffettia $1.50. Others
59c to $1.25.
I will he in the Bluffton area this
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Phone 146-X for appointment.
PAUL a. DILLER
Landscape Consultant And
Fru Advisor
P. O. Box 450| Piqua, Ohio
Lm
Block Assemblies
for Chevrolet Tracks
Steiner Chevrolet
Sales and Service
201-206 N. Main St. Phone 135-W Bluffton