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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
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[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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SUNKIST ORANGES
DELICIOUS APPLES
BANANAS
HEAD LETTUCE
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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.
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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
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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
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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