Newspaper Page Text
LARGE HENS I I STAR HAMS I HAMS HAMS I HAMS I PAGE TWELVfe_______________ The Bluffton Band and Community jkss’n will sponsor a special excur sion to Cedar Point on Thursday, Jluly 24. About 600 are expected to make the trip. Most Bluffton busi ness houses will close. Albert Reichenbach received a bundle of dainty perfumed pink let ters that travelled all the way from California to France and back to Bluffton. Investigation showed the letters were for another Albert Bekhenbach who served in France NEWS OUR FATHERS READ FROM ISSUE OF JULY 10,1916 Home Killed Meats BEEF PORK VEAL LAMB All Our Meats Are City Health Inspected [TURKEY lb. 49c Large Type Roasting Fryers [CHICKENS lb. 55c in a Pennsylvania regiment and not the Bluffton young man recently dis charged from overseas duty. HAMS [ARMOURS lbU55c PICNIC lb. 39c I [CANNED lb. 75c [BONELESS lb. 75c [Pork Chops lb. 39c Edmund Hawk returned home, honorably discharged from the serv ice. Ray Hauenstein arrived in town from France where he served with a hospital unit. Clayton Rupright will provide auto service from Bluffton to the festival at Orange Center Thurs day night for 30c round trip. Dr. Evan Basinger and Dr. Elmer DRESSED poultry ejefovtce. ROAST lb. 39c ■PORK Ikingnut lOLEO 2 lb. 55c WE NOW HAVE LOCKERS TO RENT QUALITY and PRICE TH1 Steiner attended the dental conven tion at Cedar Point. Eighteen little friends of Pearl Raymer gathered at the Raymer home to help the young lady cele brate her ninth birthday. Partici pating in the good time were: Alice Watkins, Edna Clark, Wava Pat rick, Treva Deifendeifer, Meredith Stepleton, George Stepleton, Helen and Grace Hauenstein, Treva Mc Henry, Cleda Binkley, Edna and Mae Iler, Alice Nicholson, Mae Mur ray, Vera Reichenbach, Marjery Bo gart, Mildred Berry, and Elizabeth Shulaw. William Hahn left for Toledo where he will be employed. Mr. and Mrs. Lysle Baumgartner returned from a ten days’ wedding trip to Mackinac Island and Chicago. Mrs. Ella Long returned from a week’s visit with relatives in Lima and Waynesfield. Marion Koch from Orange town ship has been awarded the Croix de Guerre, French military medal for bravery in action. Settlement “A Merry Christmas” Mr. and Mrs. Jess F. Steiner had as their Christmas dinner guests last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Menno Augsburger, Otis and Wilma, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Welty, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Augsburger and daughters Josephine, Mary Ellen Boehr and Lillian Brown of Georgia who is spending her vacation with Wilma. Gideon Basinger, formerly of this community and many years has re sided in Continental passed away Tuesday after a lingering illness. Earl Jones, husband of the form er Eunice Basinger had the misfor tune of falling from a scaffold while at work in Toledo, fracturing a shoulder and also suffering other in juries. Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Reichenbach are the happy parents of a baby girl born to them Sunday morning at Memorial hospital. The girl has been named Roxanne. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Neuenschwan der are also the proud parents of a baby girl born to them recently. The Swiss Male chorus presented their first program of the season at Elida a week ago Sunday night. Joachim Suttor, one of the 14 young men who came here from Germany for a year’s stay in this country last spring, has spent all the time since then at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Moser and son John and is to leave for Nebraska soon after Christmas. In turn an other of the German lads is to ar rive at the Moser home to be there the remainder of their alloted time before returning to their homeland. The Christmas season is again bringing cheer and happiness to the many homes where family circles are again enjoyed. Ruth Boaz of Findlay hospital spent several days with her mother this week. Sherwood Probst is staying in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Steiner during thei rvisit in California. Wesley Welty who has been sta tioned at Naval Air Base, Atlantic City, New Jersey, for some time, arrived at home to be with his par ents and brothers and sisters over the holidays. When leaving home he is to re port for further duty at San Pedro, California. Christmas Season Evokes Spirit of Trust, Faith Indicative of the integrity and trustfulness prevailing throughout the world at Christmas time, peo ple of Holland often entrust gifts to total strangers requesting the passerby to leave the package on such-and-such a doorstep. Half-way across the globe, Negro families in Virginia long have ob served the table-covered-with-a sheet custom. The dining room table is covered with a sheet. Names of everyone in the house hold are written on slips of paper and pinned to the sheet. Gifts are sneaked under the sheet when everybody is supposed to be asleep, and even the youngest child re frains from ‘peeking’ until the gifts are unveiled Christmas morn ing. 1 Christmas i BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO U.S. (Place Names CxpreSS Christmas Sdea Many Ways SANTA CLAUS, INDIANA Beth lehem, Conn. and Christmas, Fla., are a few of the more familiar post offices which each year handle a flood of mail from senders wish ing io obtain yuletide postmarks. Although the federal post office department has now barred extra flourishes by local postmasters using Christmas symbols and mottoes, a town’s own holiday name can still give that festive touch to a greeting or package of toys. Indiana’s Santa Claus is the only town so designated in the United States. The privilege is reserved to its post office by congressional act. There is, however, Santa, Idaho. There is also only one Christmas —the one in Florida—plus a Christ mas Cove, Maine. On the other hand, seven Bethle hems answer the seasonal roll call: they can be found in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mary land, New Hampshire, and Pennsyl vania. The Bethlehem, Conn, post office was one of several stations that figured in headlines recently on the use of especially-designed cancellation stamps bearing the now-forbidden Christmas tree dec oration. The town’s population is about 350. There are two Noels—In Vir ginia and Missouri. Last year, Missouri’s Noel post office re ported hand-cancellation of a record 650,000 pieces of Christ mas mall—SOO for each of the town’s residents. Besides specific Christmas names that dot the land there are dozens that call up Biblical or holiday as sociations. There is Advent, W. Va., for the Nativity. Kentucky has a Mary, and Oregon and Utah a Joseph each. One Wiseman is found in Alas ka and another in Arkansas. The third, it may be assumed, is in Wisemantown, Ky. There are five Stars and four Shepherds. West Virginia contributes Goodwill Mis souri, Peace Valley and there is Joy in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas. For the Christmas party, Tur key is available in four states Cranberry in three. Kentucky has a Mistletoe. Six states count an Evergreen seven a Pine, and three a Holly. Louisiana comes up with Trees, Alabama with Candle and to top the decorations, Pennsylvania has its Angels. Kris Kringle Isn't Really Santa Claus 1 1 z, Special I i fig 1 Trade that old Washer on a i New’51 i Model 3i Large trade-in allowances 1 ii Verl Reichenbach Beaverdam Phone 542 I Popular notion seems to imply that Kris Kringle is a German term of endearment for Santa Claus. Just what motivates this idea is not at all clear, since Kris Kringle is really a modification of Christkind who, although endowed by German legend as a gift-giver, resembles Santa Claus not in the least. Santa Claus, as we know him in America, never really caught on in Germany. St. Nicholas comes around on his liturgical feast day —December 6 with his pockets bulging with candy and nuts and trinkets. Well and good, but Ger man parents maintain, as did their predecessors of the Reformation era, that the central idea of Christ mas, the birth of Jesus, should dominate the observances. Nor is Christkind depicted as the Infant Jesus himself, but rather as his messenger and gift-bearer who comes to earth at Christmastime to bring happiness to good chil dren. The Christkind is usually represented as a child dressed in white robes, wearing a golden crown and having big, golden wings. ... DOLLIES ALL Barbara Johnson (left) and Patricia Abel, both orphans, are in a virtual paradise, seated amid so many playmates. The dolls, more than 800 of them, were dressed by volunteer workers for distribution to charitable organizations as Christinas gifts. the Miracle PlayS Brazilian Christmas festivities embrace an aggregation of mod ern observances entwined with ancient traditions brought over from the mother country of Portu gal. The Christmas season in Brazil begins on Christmas Eve and ends with Epiphany on January 6. And because it is really summertime (south of the equator) festivities and entertainments appropriate to summertime hold sway throughout the season. Miracle plays have always been performed in adoration of the Holy Child. From olden times, the plays have had all the dramatic fervor of a religious performance together with the gracious hospitality of a social function. The scene is at once solemn and fantastic, with costumes bedecked with feathers, spangles, jewels and what-not sparkling in a setting of luxurious tropical foliage and blossoms. I Out of the great variety of mira cle plays, all on different themes, of which many are in the form of elaborate dances meticulously per formed and accompanied by the music of an orchestra, the dance of the Four Parts of the World may be cited as a typical exam ple. The roles are enacted by girls dressed for the part and, in, suc cession, Europe, Asia, Africa and America declaim. The discussion finally involves their respective rights to make obligation to the Christ Child. Eventually, Father Time appears and settles the dis pute to the satisfaction of all con cerned. I I I This Christmas I Dressed I ■I I I 1 1 Serve a I I I I We Deliver Saturday Herman Hilty I 1 Phone 548-R SUNKIST ORANGES DELICIOUS APPLES BANANAS HEAD LETTUCE TANd?DINI?C 1 nil OIL AUl H3 PASCAL CELERY JELLO IS HIGHER In 1825 the Ohio legislature ear marked one-half mill out of every tax dollar for education. The largest endowed laboratory for research, Battelle Memorial Institute, is located in Columbus, Ohio. cooling, ageing, cutting freeze. 1950 1949 1948 1948 1947 i I I I 2—1946 Ford Dlx. 8 41 Ford (2) 37 41 BIXEL US Open Evenings SWEET POTATOES EAT MORE TURKEY USE Every Day Low Prices CRANBERRIES 2 lbs. 35c HOLLY WREATHS each 35c CHRISTMAS WRAPPED CIGARETTES canon $1.75 LARGE ASSORTMENT CHRISTMAS CANDY Hard Mix 49c Orange Slices lb. 19c Peanut Brittle lb. 29c NOTICE Beef quarters, hear^ retail. Also pork sped Sausage hickory smoked by appointment. Deerwood Gelatine 3 pk*» 23c Candled Peels Su 2 Pk««- 25c Cut Up, Pan Ready WHITE ROCK FRYERS lb. 59c ROASTING CHICKENS lb. 59c Wisconsin Large or Small TURKEYS Order Early ______________ CLOSED CHRISTMAS ALL DAY A-l Cars at Bixel’s UseI Ford Custom, 8 Ford Custom 8 Ford Super Dlx, Kaiser, 4 dr., Ij Kaiser, 4 dr., THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1950 There are 2,500,000 telephones in Ohio, more than in all of Latin America. More matches are made in Summit County than in all of Sweden, the former match capital. We are open for modern custom slaughtering service, grinding, wrapping and sharp liver, tongue, etc., wholesale and al quality hams and shoulders, and fresh. Slaughtering service Paymort'd £. MoSer Midway between Col. Grbve and Bluffton Car Lot Bluffton, Ohio At I A URICH’S Three Sizes Washington Box 2 lbs. FANCY FORTUNAS Large Fruit lb. 48 Size TMn Peeling Phone 544-T cyl. 4 dr. Fully equipped. cyl. 2 dr. Fully equipped. 8 cyl. 4 dr., very clean, low mileage. adio, Heater adio, Heater cyl. Tudor, Heater FOR GO( TRANSPORTATION Chevrolets 39 Willys Ford Convertible ED CAR SALES Phone 139-T 45c-55c-65c 2 150 Size Doz. YAMS 4 lbs. FRESH OYSTERS Pint 75c Pandora Fresh or Smoked SAUSAGE_________ Plainview Farm MILK Products BULK DATES pitted u. 25c Plenty of Nuts 3^ 51.00 LlrichS City Mar hut MERR Y CH RIST A S TO ALL 29c 16c 35c Heads Jumbo Stock 4®® 35c 39c SWISS CHEESE________lb. 59c Schmidt’s HAM—Whole or Half