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PAGE TWO Spring Fisherman .... Stag fish Try FRIDAY, APRIL 28 8:00 P. M. Third Floor Bluffton Town Hall Amusements Entertainment Lunch Ticket $1.00 xflOnK SHOES WITH EXTRA •u pi $6.50 X-Ray Fitted SHELBY SHOES W. H. Gratz Family Shoe Store Bluffton, Ohio TWO-DO-WHOLE—JOB! LAUNDROMAT is a Trad«-M*rk, Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Save Hot Water! saves up to 10 gallons of water per load I in the WESTINGHOUSE |k* LAUNDROMAT Save hoi water and soap? i Exclusive washing action. Soiled water drains away from clothes. Not through them. No bolting to the floor. Five-year guarantee on the Sealed-in-Steel transmission. Saw tin*? Save wertd DRY-DIAL makes Westinghouse the only completely automatic clothes dryer in the WESTINGHOUSE CLOTHES DRYER The Westinghouse is the only Clothes Dryer that shuts off automatically when clothes are dry or just right for ironing. Clothes are tumble-dried soft and fluffy. No more work or weather worries. ACT TODAY! GFT PROOF B£F0R£ YOU BWt Phone us and make arrangements to see a load of your clothes washed and dried in the Westinghouse Laundromat and Clothes Dryer. Moyer Refrigeration 133 S. Main Bluffton Phone 225-W Supreme Court Gets I John IV. Clark Rites Safety Rules Listed Larry Gara Appeal! Held At Beaverdam! For Kite-Flyers Larry Gara, former instructor of I Funeral services were held Sunday I Kite flying can be dangerous, history at the college here who was I afternoon in the Beaverdam Metho-[especially when near overhead power convicted a year ago of violating the|dist chinch for John W. Clark, 80, [lines, Bluffton youngsters were warn 1948 Draft Act, was granted a su-| retired fanner of the Beaverdam|ed this week, prone court hearing in Washington,[ community, who died last Thursday Every child Monday. Gara had been sentenced to 18 heart disease. months in prison in U. S. District He js survived by his wife, court and the decision was upheld by former Elnora Yoakam, whom the U. S. court of appeals in Cin*[ married Nov. 28, 1900, and the cinnati. [lowing children: Mrs. Glen Wagner, contact with high voltage wires. In appealing to .the supreme court, Lima Miss Helen Clark, at home Gara declared: Harold Clark, Lima Wilbur H. “Here the court of appeals has| Clark, Irving, Texas, and six grand held that a dean of men, whose duty chiidren it is to counsel students, cannot tell Surviving brothers and sisters in such student to follow his conscience I lude Mrs Della MiIey Toiedo Mrs. without thereby having committed a|Dora Lonff Lima Mrs Anna Myers, crime the case presents sin- Allentown Howard and Irvin Clark, ister threats to freedom of speech both of Routc Uma. Clarence| and freedom of religion. I ciarki Toledo and Ezra Clark, Oklahoma City. Mr. Clark had been a school teacher for 45 years Beaverdam Methodist church. was in Woodland cemetery Beaverdam. The Paul Diller funeral home handled the funeral. Sunday in the Burial at College Style Show Set For April 19\ Plans for the annual Bluffton Col lege Home Economics style show on April J9 are progressing under the chairmanship of Diana Diaz. Dorothy Clemens and Joann Beck were appointed to write the script, which Margaret Diller will narrate. Completing the list are Anita Alt haus and Elaine Yerger, who are in charge of publicity and refreshments, respectively. Models for the show, as announced by Miss Hitz, include Joanne Miller, Anna and Mae and June selected to model the styles are Lila Deane Jackson, Ann Rosenfeld, Gene Ann Roth, and Phyl lis Clayton. Hilma Rdhard, Mae Williams, Miller. Also many different Fellows will be “modeling” in the show, also. Harold Spoerl, Bob Smucker, George Eicher, and Wendell I Metzler will serve in this capacity. ln i Beaverdam Soldier I I 'I Receives Award! I I an(j Mrs. Otis Basinger. Robert M. Burkholder, Corporal, [_________[ I HQS Co., 9770 TSU Chemical Corps,[ Western Chemical Center, Tooele,[ the state of “Achievement pf purpose,” excellence! I of edltonal content and effectiveness! I of design in wimuxig “The Pat On| I The Back Award” stateside mimeo-ll graphed Post newspaper. I This recognition of achievement isl awarded monthly to the outstanding! service publications chosen from ap proximately eight hundred armed forces publications from the office of the Secretary of Defense, New York Branch Office. Corporal Burkholder has been managing editor for the past six months of this post newspaper, “The Smoke Screen.” His parents reside on Pearl St., Beaverdam, Ohio. Bluffton Gets $131 From 1949 Auto Tat/sl! Bluffton village last week received! a check for $131.75 as its share of! Allen county’s final distribution off 1949 auto license and revenues. gas tax Beaverdam got $40.75 Tn the distribution received $29 Lafayette and Cairo’s share was $20.50. A worse pain A COLLAR a few sizes too small will give you a pain in the neck—but not nearly as serious as the pain in your pocketbook if your insurance is a cou ple of figures too small and fire cleans you out. Have you enough? check up. Let us Agency Pay” Agent Diller Insurance “Diller’s Policies Clarence D. Diller, Phone 239-W 125 N. Main St. Bluffton, Ohio THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO tired farmer Of the Beaverdam led this week. sions, community, who died last Thursday I Every child should be cautioned sions, in Bluffton Community hospital of I regarding the dang* Garden Club To Give Color Slide Show A demonstration on various phases of plant cultivation, cutting and in sect control will feature the open meeting of the Bluffon Men’s Garden Club at Herr’s Flowers store tonight at 7:30. Representatives from society of Toledo, will Miss Diaz has announced the fol-| lowing committee chairmen. Yoder will be in charge of the staged s^on follow. Clarice Basinger, properties, and| Featured also will be colored slides Barbara Hitz, modeling. Lighting is|^rom the American Dahlia society, undei’ the supervision of Mickey[ the American Rose society and other Ross, while Shirley Glenhill will take|^mzattons^ showing charge of the music. Mrs. A. C. Burcky and Mrs. H. W. I Berky will model adult clothes. I Several other models modeling high|gjnce she went so suddenly away. I school and children’s clothes—are yet Ito be selected. |Our hearts ache with sadness cr I God alone knows how we miss her lAt the end of one sad year. Sadly missed by her parents, Mr.[ notice of To APPOINTMENT OHIO I Utah, has been awarded or cited for| I I Estate of iinert bchumacner Deceased I Hulda Schumacher of R. R. No. 1, Pandora,! .. I Ohio, has been appointed and qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Wilbert S^^her late of Alien County. Ohio. flying kites I portunity to view missions from an for there have insider’s experience are the three where youngsters[ fold objectives of the Missionary’ Inear a power line the! been many cases he I have fol-| injured when kite strings came into|ton College campus April been electrocuted or seriously Conference to be held on the Bluff 14-16. conference and Japan. the Dahlia conduct the Margel demonstrations and the open discus- LOCAL CATTLE SALE In Memoriam Our eyes shed many a tear— Speakers for the Safety rules for kite flying pro-1 represent China, India, posed by the state safety council are Among these is Rev. J. as follows: 1. lines. I trip to Japan and was formerly a 2. Keep string and tail dry and I missionary to India. At present he never fly when wet. I is secretary and field worker for the 3. Don’t use metal or wire on any I Mennonite Board of Missions and part of your kite, and don’t use kite I Charities located in Elkhart, Indiana, string with wire or tinsel on it. I China 4. Never climb a pole or tree I pr and Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker near an electric line to recover a[were missionaries in China many kite. Better lose a kite than Hsk[years and are now jn charge of the injury or death. Mennonite Biblical Seminary in and^ Seeds I ^ra’n*n8 before returning to this ?t 1 field. Rev. J. the local and also rieties, gardens and arrangements. I agriculture missions. He Slides of specimens grown locally I living in Newton, Kansas, will also be shown. I First in a series of talks The public is invited to attend I sions will be Friday evening at this meeting. I when Rev. Graber will speak “The Challenge of Our World To day.” Following the meeting an in formal gathering for students and Ray Marshall & Son of Bluffton, I leaders will be held in Lincoln Hall recently sold a purebred Aberdeen-1 lobby refreshments will be served. Angus bull to H. C. Spitanaugle &|Joe Richards is responsible for this [Son of McComb, and two cows to L. I evening’s program. [S. Preston of Alger. Saturday’s Agenda I In memory of our little girl, Kay devotional message by Rev. Smucker, Elaine, who departed this life one yea rago April 15, 1949. It’s lonesome here without Kay. We miss her more each day, Somehow life doesn’t seem the same II 4th day of April, 1950. JOSEPH B. QUATMAN Probate Judge Dated this We Aim to Satisfy Every Load Insured G. E. Spallinger Trucking COAL Lump, Egg and Oil Treated Stoker LAFAYETTE, OHIO Local and Long Distance Hauling P. U. C. O. 6204-Irr. Phone 14-2635 SAVE 41c SPECIAL “TRY-A-PINT” OFFER! IYH GIO Trade Mark STAY-WHITE Regularly $1.39 YoC PT Until May 31, 1950 of KEM-GLO, in stays white, at Today! A pint Try a pint white that only 98c, covers up to 50 square feet. 10 lovely colors in quarts and gallons. Pints in Stay white only. $2.39 Qt $7.98 Gal Get your PINT of KEM-GLO Stay-white at only 98c, TO DAY! Bring this ad to RUFF’S 5c to $1.00 Store Missionary Conference On Bluffton College Campus Opening April 16 acquaint students with mfs to present the cause of mts and to give students an op- D. Graber, of the Old Mennonite denomination, Don’t fly kites near electric I who has returned recently from a Chicago. Besides being president of this institution, Dr. Pannabecker is also a member of the General Con ference Foreign Mission Board. Also at the Seminary are Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ratzlaff, who completed one term as missionaries in India. They are now* obtaining additional N. Smucker is pastor of First Mennonite Church president of the General Conference of Mennonites. India Another missionary who served in India for many years is Rev. John Thiessen, who spent his time in is now on mis 7:30 on Saturday morning’s agenda includ es three messages, with Esther Guthrie presiding. Following a “Educational Mission Work” and “Evangelistic Mission Work” will be illustrated by Dr. Pannabecker and Rev. Ratzlaff, respectively. Discus sion groups for college, high school, and adult groups will be held separately with different leaders in charge of each. Kenneth Bauman is chairman of Saturday afternoon’s program, be ginning at 1:30. Here Mrs. Ratzlaff, former nurse in India, will present “Medical Mission Work.” After a short intermission a panel discussion on “The Functions of the Mission ary Work in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century” will be surveyed by Rev. Graber, Rev. Thiessen, Rev. and Mrs. Pannabecker and Rev. and Mrs. Ratzlaff. Counseling with these leaders will be arranged by Rev. Shelly following the program. International Party An international party at Ropp is planned for Saturday evening, decorated booths representing different countries will serve characteristic of each nation. Hall Five five food Games, skits, and singing will make up the evening’s program, with Joanne Buhler in charge. The Missionary message Sunday morning will be delivered by Rev. Smucker in the First Mennonite church. J. A. Leatherman Roofing and Spouting All Joints Soldered Furnace Repair THESE Lyre Base Lamp Table AT $15.95 A SPECIAL Chairside Table A SPECIAL AT BARTON $14.80 s. Formerly located at 107 Main St. Now at Sohio Station, South Main St. and Bentley Road Leave orders at new location Phone: 199-W they’re so Liveable! THAT’S (THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 195(1 Old at 40,50,60?" Man, You’re Crazy Forget your ace Thousand'? are peppy at 70. Try pepping up” with Ostrex. Contains tonic tor weak, rundown feeling due solely to body’s lack ot iron wi-.lch many men and women call "old.’’ Try Ostrex Tonic Tablets tor pep, younger feeling, thia very day. New "get acquainted' size osfy 50c. For sale at all drug stores everywhere. 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