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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1950
Before You Buy A
Lawn Mower
See the Line I have in stock
Very resonably priced and
guaranteed in. every way.
lawn mower
See me for
sharpening.
Dana Mathewson
Riley Street
322 N. Main Street
COMPLETE INSURANCE
Automobile Life Health & Accident
Liability Fire Theft
SIDNEY C. STETTLER, INSURANCE
I Telephone 194-W
Buyers of
Cream, Eggs and Poultry
ROUTE SERVICE
CLAYTON HARKNESS, Mgr
RECENTLY an increasing num
ber of families we
before have permitted us to attend
them in their bereavement.
We appreciate thife expression of
confidence. Needless |o say, we shall
make every effort to deserve it.
Kasinger
Over 100 Attend High
School Alumni Dinner
Attendance at the Bluffton high
school alumni dinner went over the
100 mark last Friday night when
tables at the cafeteria were filled
by members of the graduating class,
former graduates and friends.
Officers elected for the coming
year are: President, Joel Kimmel
vice president, Rolland Stratton
corresponding secretaries, Dorothy
Anderson and Lois Hauenstein re
cording secretary, Edith Mann
treasurer, Eileen Haller.
AMBULANCE SERVICE
Our ambulance is equipped with the
latest type Oxygen Inkalator and
Resuscitator.
FARMERS PRODUCE
Bluffton, Ohio
Offers Friendly Service
Bluffton Phone 284-W
,ve never served
funeral home
^Ambulance Phone 160-Wj
SA BLUFFTON, OHb
Wherever You Mav Roam
Use Travelers Checks!
Prompt refun
if lost or stolen
75c per $100.00
The Citizens National Bank
Member Federal Reserve System
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
C. A. BIERY, Editor
Published weekly at Bluffton, Ohio,
by th ^Bluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
Subscription rates: Year, $2.50
six months, $1.50 anywhere in U. S.
Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Memorials of all kinds. Call
Samuel Bixel, phone 429-W. 54
Free show at Gossard’s filling sta
Ttion, Thursday night, June 1.
Notice—The Johnson Barber shop
will be closed June 4 to 24.
Francis Hutchins of Bellefontaine
was a Sunday dinner guest of his
uncle, Roy Rogers and family.
Basinger ambulance removals—
Mrs. Paul Clark from her residence
to Bluffton hospital and return.
Atty. Clarence G. Fischer is again
observing his Bluffton office hours
Wednesday and Saturday after sev
eral weeks illness.
Mrs. Edith Mann of North Main
street has as her guests Miss Ger
trude Lewis of St. Johns, Mich., and
Mrs. R. E. Hughson of Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nonnamaker
and daughter Kaye of Orange town
ship were Sunday dinner guests in
the home of Nello Steinman of South
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Suter were
called to the home of her sister, Mrs.
W. T. Marsh in Lima, following the
death of the latter's husband who was
struck by a Pennsylvania train at a
crossing in that city Saturday night.
Funeral services were held there
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner, Jr., of
Harmon road visited Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oswin
Luginbuhl, of Allentown, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Woods of
Detroit visited here over the week
end and attended the high school
alumni reunion, Friday night.
Waldo Bixel of Portland, Oregon
is visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bixel of South
Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Coon and
family of North Robison visited Sun
day with Mrs. Lydia Badertscher and
Milton Badertscher.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Steams of
Spring street and their week end
guests, Mrs. A. B. Castanien and Dr.
and Mrs. H. R. Carbin of Toledo,
attended the Castanien reunion at
Upper Sandusky, Sunday.
Rev. Howard Landes and family
are visiting relatives in York, N. Y.,
and Philadelphia and Pipersville, Ta.
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Spangler of
Columbus visited relatives here and
attended the high school alumni
dinner, Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter Sue and Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Zerante and family were Sun
day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Ervin Moser and daughter.
Diller ambulance removals—C. D.
Hilty from Bluffton hospital to his
home on Spring street Mrs. Bryan
Basinger and infant from Bluffton
hospital to the home of Walter Som-.
mer, S. Jackson street Mrs. Carl
Devier of South Main street to Lima
Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Med Murray entertained at
a family dinner at her home on
North Jackson street, Tuesday: Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Augsburger, Lima
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ebersbach,
Dayton Miss Ruth Augsburger, Co
lumbus and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Madden and son Bill of Dayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Muller and
family of Cleveland Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Snyder and children of Akron,
Pa., and Miss Marcille Steiner of
Columbus are visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Steiner of Pop
lar street and will attend College
commencement events over the week
end.
Among those attending funeral
services of John Owens were Mrs.
Esther Wagner and Mrs. T. A. Con
way of Eustis, Fla. Mrs. Hortense
Lowry and Miss Corrinne Lowry,
East Chicago, Ind. Mr. and Mrs.
Owen Conway, Toledo Mrs. Harry
Heineman and family and Mrs. Joe
Parker of Put-in-Bay Mrs. Chas.
Solt, Arlington Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Campbell, Kenton.
See Lester Hahn for piano tuning
and repair also all kinds of musical
instruments repaired. Please remem
ber I have been repairing musical
instruments for 25 years and hold a
diploma from the largest and best
school of piano tuning in the world.
I also have a full stock of accessories
and one of the best equipped repair
shops in Ohio. Lester Hahn, 488 W.
Elm St. Phone 227-Y.
Poison Swallowed
By Three-Year-Old
Cheryl Yat^s, 3, granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Rupright, of
Findlay, who formerly lived on
Washington street in Bluffton, is in
critical condition in Children’s hos
pital, Columbus, after swallowing a
commercial drain cleaning prepara
tion in her home in Findlay Tues
day of last week. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Yates.
The tot was taken to the Colum
bus hospital, after her condition be
came critical the latter part of the
week. She found the preparation
in a cupboard at her home.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS. BLUFFTON, OHIO
Clubi,
and Societies
Rose Grower to Speak
Melvin W’yant, Jr., of Rose Spec
ialists, Inc., Mentor, Ohio, will ad
dress members of the Men’s and
Women’s Garden clubs on the grow
ing and culture of roses. He will
speak in the high school agriculture
room on Wednesday night, June 7
at 8 o’clock.
Eastern Star
Inspection of Bluffton chapter next
Tuesday night in the Masonic Temple.
Also inspection of Rawson chapter
this Thursday night at Rawson high
school.
Legion Auxiliary
The Past President’s parley has
been postponed until Friday night,
June 9 at the home of Mrs. Nina
Fritchie.
Engagement Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kempf an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Susanna Eileen to Robert
Edwin Wilch, son of Mr. Harvey
Wilch and Mrs. Chas. Fisher.
Richland Community Circle
An all day tour of the Lima Woolen
mills and other places of interest has
been arranged for Thursday, June 8.
Members are requested to meet at
Swiss Inn at 9:45 a. m. If unable to
go notify I’auline Zimmerman, presi
dent.
June Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Stengel of
St. Louis announce "The coming wed
ding of their daughter Shirley to
Mark Diller, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarente Diller of Bluffton.
The ceremony will take place Sat
urday evening, June 10 in Hope
Congregational church, St. Louis at
7:30 o’clock. The couple formerly at
tended Wheaton college, Wheaton,
Ill. Mr. Diller is now a student in
Bowling Green State university from
which he will be graduated in August.
Church Wedding
Wedding of Miss Carolyn Stonehill,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Stonehill and Richard Bucher, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Bucher of Lima
will take place Saturday afternoon
in the Methodist church here at 2:30
o’clock.
Rev. Paul Cramer pastor of the
church will officiate and the couple
will be attended by Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Ruggly of Lima. Following
the ceremony a reception will be held
at the home of the bride’s parents on
South Main street from 3 to 5 o’clock.
July Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Diller of
Bluffton announce the engagement of
their daughter Cathryn Ann to James
R. Kiene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos.
Kie»e of Pandora.
The wedding will take place in St.
Anthony’s church, Col. Grove, Sat
urday morning, July 1 at 8:30 o’clock
with Rev. Karl Finsel officiating.
Both the bride-elect and bride
groom are graduates of Pandora high
school. She is employed at the
Triplett plant here and he at the'
Russell plant in Pandora and also
engaged in farming.
Family Gathering
Sunday noon a basket dinner was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Fox, of College avenue, in
honor of Mrs. Myrtle Stout, of Sul
livan, Mo., and son Paul Stout, of:
Milan, Mich.
Those present to enjoy the occasion
were: Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Smith and
Mrs. Zada Broshes, of Lima Mr. and
Mrs. John Rupright, Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Rupright and family, of Find
lay Mr. and Mrs. Coy Binkley and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Clate Scoles, of
Lafayette Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kenton and family, of New Stark
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Scoles and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Burkholder and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Garau and
son, Mrs. Alta Garau, Mrs. Naomi
Steiner and children, Mrs. Levi Hau
enstein, all of Bluffton.
To Wed Sunday
Wedding of Miss Roberta June
Manges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Byron Manges, Bluffton and Donovan
E. McKinney, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Donovan S. McKinney of Lafayette,
will take place Sunday afternoon in
the Bluffton Church of Christ at 3:15
o’clock. Rev. O. Merrill Boggs, pas
tor of the bride will officiate.
Both Miss Manges and McKinney
are teachers in Pandora high school
and will attend Ohio State university
in Columbus for the summer term.
Church Wedding
Mrs. Metta Dean announces the
coming wedding of her daughter
Mary Louise to Theodore Toews,
Monday evening at 7 o’clock in the
First Mennonite church. Both are
students in Bluffton college. Rev.
J. N. Smucker and Rev. Beno Toews
will officiate in an open church
ceremony.
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Olive Branch Ladies Aid
Meeting at .the home of Mrs. Flo
Clymer, Wednesday afternoon, June
I 7.
The United States was the great
est candy-producing country in the
world in 1948.
WANT-ADS
flowers ai corsages. Herr’s
Cut
Flowers & Seed:
Shoes repaired
have Shirley N
for you. All w
ray Uphelsterinj shop, Thurman St.
Bluffton phone.
For sale—Fryers
pan or live weight,
phone 395-T. Call
or after 5 p. m.
in and
Bring them
nnamaker fix them
•k guaranteed. Mur-
stock. Horses, $2.50
Wanted—Dea!
cows, $2.50 ho s, 25c cwt Collect
94566 Lima. A lien County Fertiliz
er. Small stock
removed promptly, tf
Don’t dig—sa|’e money on clogged
sewers by call
Phone 219-R, 2 1 hour service. Work
guaranteed. 54
ng Frank Zuercher.
Still a few jegetables and flower
plants left al^o last week to buy
gladioli bulbs. Herr’s Flowers &
Seeds, Bluffton.
For rent—Storage space forhouse
and dry. Inquire
fice. tf
and used Ferguson
ison tractors
repairs.
hold goods, clean
Bluffton News io:
For sale—New
and Ford Ferg
equipment algo
Tractor Sales,
phone 143.
Pandora.
Furniture repel
ing of all kinds’
furnishings look like new at a worth
while saving. Estimates without
obligation. Murray Upholstering
shop, Thurman St., Bluffton phone.
For sale—2-piece wine mohair liv
ing room suite Sellers breakfast set
in white 6 ft. General Electric re
frigerator Magic Chef table top gas
range oil heater 4 or 5 room size
280 gal. oil tank off the floor play
pen baby bed. Inquire 145% Riley
St. Phone 151-W.
For rent—3 room furnished apart
ment, bath, garage space for summer.
Reasonable. 239 S. Lawn. Phone
419-W.
Why worry if afflicted with any
skin disease.
Sidney’s Drug Shop.
Ask about V-J-O.
17
For sale—Combination storm wind
ows and doors. Custom built and
guaranteed. For free estimate call
W. J. Reagan, Beaverdam phone 472.
No down payment. tt
Wanted—Good 80 to 160 acre
farm, must have good modern build
ings. Write c/o Box E, Bluffton
News 7
Rugs, carpets and upholstered fur
niture cleaned right in your own
home. Nonnamaker Rug Cleaning
Co., 306 S. Jackson St. Phone
465-T. tf
For sale—Modern 7 room house in
Bluffton, with acre of ground,
sell together or separately.
Berryhill, 360 W. Elm St.
Will
S. E.
9
Wanted—Floor sanding 10c per
square foot, standard dustless equip
ment used also floor finishing. J. E.
Wiess, phone 368-W. tf
For sale—Vegetable plants. Wiess’s
for Flowers, 127 Riley St Phone
310-W. tf
My business is to clean cesspools,
septic tanks and toilets $1 for open
ing and $1 for closing, $8 for not
over 10 bbls. also repair work, All
work inspected by street commission
er. J. E. Wiess^ phone 368-W. tf
Washer service—Wringer rolls and
parts, new and used washers. Verl
Reichenbach, Beaverdam phone 542.
tf
Wanted—Lawnf to mow. John
Hauenstein. Phfjne 298-W until 6
p. m. After 6 p. m. call 539-R. 7
Vegetable, flower and lawn seeds
fertilizers, insecticides, garden tools
and supplies, an:
plants, bulbs, roo
Herr’s Flowers &
St.
For sale—1931
condition. Mrs.
Bluffton,
ual and perennial
s and
Seeds,
cut flowers.
126 S. Main
clover and
acres
|. Gid Schumacher
iG. 8
Ford sedan, good
Emma E. Geiger,
For sale—13
timothy hay mixe
Pandora phone 1!
s i
Foi’
Pleasi
o plants 20c dozen,
igs after 5 p. m.
For sale—Early -and late cabbago
plants, 15c dozen or $1 per 100. S. S.
Burkholder, 150 Cherry St. 8
ressed ready for
Kenneth Bracy,
uring noon hour
aid, perfect con
jster Hahn, 488
For sale—Hearing
dition, like new.
W. Elm St.
somewhere in
irsday.
i-Speed
Lost—Pipe wren cl
Bluffton 1 ast Th
please leave at
Station, N. Main St
For sale—Modern
2-car garage. Mrs.
phone 453-W. F.
For lawn mower I
repairs call Chas.
217- W. Pickup
service.
Finder
Service
house,
8-room
H. W. Althaus,
rretson, broker.
For sale—Modern 110-room house
with wood burning ft
room. Hot water 1
with stoker 2-car g|
W. Althaus, phone 4
retson, broker.
eplace in living
leating system
rage. Mrs. H.
i3-W. F. Gar-
For sale—Fryers
try farm or order a
ery, the only sto|
handling our chicken
For sale—400
Rock pullets 11 wee
Poultry farm.
Triangle poul
Amstutz groc
in Bluffton
tzapple White
s old. Triangle
iite feed sacks
oultry Fann. 7
sell minerals,
uplies proposi
and sales ex
car. Midwest
od, Ind. 7
happening and
For sale—1,000 w
10c each. Triangle I
Wanted—Man to
Free worm treating
tion. Write livestocl
perience. Must have
Mineral Co., Greenwi
Young, phone
and delivery
tf
Farmers—Have plenty of feeder
and water space for your hogs. We
sell the Star-Goshen line of feeders
and fountains,
phone 317-W.
Master Feed Mill,
7
For lawn Imower sharpening and
repairs call! Chas. Young, phone
ijickup and delivery
217-W
service.
For sale—
materials for
garden. Seth
^praying and dusting
orchard, potatoes and
Basinger. 9
nower sharpening and
Chas. Young, phone
ickup and delivery
tf
las, can be planted now.
tiful bed of these fine
re now making a come
Lmerican home. Herr’s
eds, 126 S. Main St.
Triple window, opening
8 feet with copper
venitian
For lawn
repairs call
217- W.
service.
Started car
Make a beai
roots which
back in the
Flowers & S
For sale-
31 inches
screens an
same. M.
For sale­
salt
$10.
Rt.
rent-
For
Ed
blinds to fit
Soash.
of 10 ft. oak
Benton Ridge,
9
2,000 ft.
vin Kidd,
lumber. Ii
O.
For
tires
corner
—Man’s bicycle. Good
Lawrence Rodabaugh,
103 and County line.
-Pasture and water for 6
Kempf,
cattle.
Rt. 103.
Wanted
Phone 578-
and
Steiner
Pandora
modern 7
double gar:
2 families i
121 Thurmj
For sale-
chen table 1
N. Lawn A
For sale
stove, used
used typewriter.
To buy
f.
-Large
room house and large
ge. House arranged for
desired. Wilford Gratz,
n St.
-Used porcelain top kit
nd 3 chairs. Inquire 243
re.
For sale
upholster
your old
dng and
Make
corner lot with
Perfection kerosene
-------me season, good as new
also want to buy few days old calf.
Roy Lehman, Bluffton phone 555-Y.
See me for
power sprayer.
390-R.
weed spraying with
M. B. Johnson, phone
9
do custom hay and
Wanted—To
straw baling,
sliced and wired by Minneapolis
Moline baler. Robert Basinger, first
house north of Morning Star Cider
Press. Pandora phone 29-J. 8
Bales automatically
Bingman’s phenothiazine and salt
mixture, a combination of phenothia
zine, salt and minerals with cobalt
now added Keep before your sheep
while on pasture to control internal
parasites and prevent pasture con
tamination. Come in and see us
regarding your needs. Master Feed
Mill, Leland Basinger, Mgr., Bluffton,
Ohio, 106 E. Cherry St. (Rear).
Phone 317-W.
Here’s your chfince to buy the best
labeled dahlia plants and roots,
valued from $1 to $5, each variety.
These dahlias are made a^a
a low price of 50-cenifs l-a
they last thru the
Garden club. The 200
will contain sizes A, B, miniature and
pompom varieties. .All are strictly of
exhibition quality. Many have been
recent winners in tehows and were
grown by member^ of the dahlia
society of Toledo. All proceeds in
excess of cost win go into the
treasury of the Bluffton Men’s Gar
den club who are c^-sponsors of a
flower and garden show to
September 2. Planks for
Herr’s Flowers & Seed'?, 126
St., Bluffton.
iflably at
^btX-hile
•n Men’s
plants
be held
sale at
S. Main
Ruggley Golden
Wedding Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. William Ruggley,
146 Thurman street, will celebrate
their golden wedding anniversary
next Sunday with a family dinner
at noon followed by open house in
the home from 2 to 6 p. m.
Married June 3, 1900, Mr. and
Mrs. Ruggley have lived in Bluffton
for the last 44 years.
Mrs. Ruggley, 72, is the former
Dora Hall, of Lafayette, and Rug
gley, 78, is a native of Orange town
ship. Both are in very good health.
They have four children: Mrs.
Gusta Cheney, of Ada Mrs. Ethel
Durck, at home Harold Ruggley,
of Bluffton, and Donald Ruggley, of
Lima. There are nine grandchild
ren and six great-grandchildren.
Anniversary Alumni
Banquet Saturday
Reminiscences of years of Bluffton
college student activity will high
light a Golden Anniversary alumni
banquet at 5:30 p. m. Saturday in
the Ropp hall dining room.
Reflections on college activity over
the years will be voiced at the session
by D. W. Bixler, class of 1910
Wilmer Shelly, class of 1920 Harold
Ruesser, class of 1925 Oliver Diller,
class of 1930 and Donald Gundy,
class of 1940.
Also on he program will be re
marks by President L. L. Ramseyer
music by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hilty
welcome, Alumni President Hiram
Diller response, Alford Diller, senior
class president Toastmaster, Willis
Beidler and group singing by Prof.
Russell A. Lantz.
Alumni officers this year include,
Hiram Diller, president W. O.
Geiger, vice-president I’auline
Sprungor Bauman, secretary-treasur
er Harry Yoder, executive secretary.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
THE STATE OF OHIO 1
Allen County, ss.
Estate of David Nusbaum Deceased
Gilbe-t Nusbaum of R. D. No. 8,
Ohio, has been
Executor of the
late of Allen Qfunfr, Ohio, decei
Lima,
pointed and qualified aa
■=3ite of David Nusbaum
da* of May 19S0i
Dated this W
JO.*PH jB.
QUATMdJ4
pLbaW/JdHra
NOTICE or/APPOINTMENT
to
THE STATE OF OH)
Allen County, M.
Estate of Ruth Steiner Deceased
Dated this IKth day of May H50.
JOSEPH B. QUATMAN
Probate Judge
has
Noah P. Steiner of Bluffton. Ohio,
been appointed and qualified as Executor of
the estate of Ruth Steiner late of Allen
Oounty, Ohio, deceased.
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