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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
OIL BURNING LAKE HOME
OF TWO FORMER BLUFFTON RESIDENTS

Concern was expressed by relatives
and friends here Wednesday for the
safety of two former Bluffton people
residing on Lake Maracaibo, Vene-
zuela, one of the worlds largest oil
producing centers when according to
press dispatches a film of oil cover
ing water of the lake caught fire and
destroyed the town of Lagunillas,
built on stills on the edge of the
lake Tuesday with a loss of from
500 to 800 lives.
The two former Bluffton people
are Walter Locher, %, employed by
the Lago Petroleum corporation,
South American subsidiary of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
and his mother, Mrs. Eph Locher of
Cleveland who has been visiting at
the home of her son at Lake Mara
caibo since last summer. Word from
them is being anxiously awaited
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ThankOfering Meet
IS At Reformed Church

Miss Ruth Heinnirler iof Cleveland,
will be the principal sspeaker at the
annual thankoffering service to be
held at the st. Johns Reformed
church, Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Miss Heinmiller is secretary of the
Girls Missionary Guild of the Cen
eral Synod of the Reformed church
and has travelled extensively in ia
pan and China.
The meeting will be under auspi-
ces of the Woman's Missionary So
ciety and the Gertrude Hoy Mission
ary circle of the church here.
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PLAN OBSERVANCE
FOR THANKSGIVING.
Union Services i'm Morning at
st. Johns Reformed
Church
Public Schools and College Will
Dismiss Classes Over
Week End

Thanksgiving-one of Americas
best-loved holidays-will be observed
in Bluffton, Thursday of next week,
with the traditional dinner at noon
the high spot on the program for
most of the families in this area.
An early-morning union church SER
vices will attract many to the st.
Johns Reformed chruch at $3.50 a. m,
the meeting being held an hour earl
ier in the morning this year in order
not to interfer with the holiday din
ner. Rev. Chester Armentrout of the
Columbus Grove Presbyterian church
will be the speaker.
Bluffton's retail stores will be closed
generally thruout the day. but will re-
main open late Wednesday night to
accommodate the unual holiday trade
rush. Business activity will resume
Friday monring.
No mail will be delivered on
Thanksgiving Day in the town or on
rural routes, Postmaster Ed r. Reich
enbach announced. Outgoing mails,
however, will be made up and dis
patched as usual.
Students Get Vacation
Students in Bluffton High and
grade schools and Bluffton college
will enjoy vacation over the holiday
week end. Glasses will be dismissed
Wednesday night in the three insti-
tutions and will not be resumed until
the following Monday morning.
With evidences of fairly moderate
weather and no indication yet of ice
and snow, many Bluffton residents are
making arrangements to motor out of
town to the homes of relatives and
friends for the day. Others are pre-
pairing to entertain guests in their
homes.
Thanksgiving is being celebrated
early this year, as result of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's decision to set up
the date of the holiday one full week.
According to tradition, Thanksgiv-
ing would have been celebrated on
Nov. 80, the last Thursday in the
month and incidentally the last day.
BY moving up the date one week,
however, seven days remain in the
month following the holiday. =,
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TURKEY PRICES
SHOW DECLINE
Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner
Next Week VIII be Less
Than Year Ago
Turkeys and Chickens Lower;
Prices of Other Foodstuffs
About the Same

Thanksgiving dinners in 1889 will
be cheaper for Bluffton families who
are bound by tradition to serve
either chicken or turkey as the main
dish on the holiday table.
With large number of first-grade
turkeys on the market the demand is
brisk, but prices are three cents less
a pound. 1t is the lowest price since
1884.
Chickens also are cheaper, two
cents less a pound than last season
The cost of geese and ducks is
slightly lower, also.
Turkeys 20 Cents
Turkeys, which sold on the retail
market at % cents pound alive last
year, are bringing 20 cents a pounc
this fall for choice birds. Farmers
are getting from 16 to 18 cents {
pound.
/ Chickens, priced at Is cents /;
pound last Thanksgiving, may b.
bought for 16 cents alive retail thi,
year. Prices paid farmers are /;
cents a pound.
Light breeds bring farmers from
|8 to 10 cents a pound alive, and sci
at IL and 13 cents.
Supply Adequate
Supply of chickens and turkeys il
quite adequate for the Thanksgiving
trade, altho many turkeys are re
ported not far enough along to b.
marketed before Christmas. Qualit,
of both types of poultry is reported
excellent, and the demand as a re
suit is expected to be active.
With this years poultry prices
generally lower, and the cost o
other foodstuffs no higher than las
fall as a rule, advancing costs will
not mar the Thanksgiving dime
picture.
Cost of side dishes and garnishe
for the holiday repast will not var,
greatly from those prevailing in tn
past few years. 1t is estimated tha
a full course turkey dinner for
family of five will cost considerabl
less than five dollars, including
everything.
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here.
The town, destroyed by flames, is
said to be inhabited principally by
natives employed in the oil field.
Whether Locher's residence was in
or near this place could not be i'm
mediately determined.
FLAMES SPREAD QUICKLY
The flames were assumed to have
spread quickly over the oil film on
the lake in which hundreds of der
ricks stand. The fire roared thru
some 1000 dwellings which had been
built out over the water as homes
of the oil workers of the great Mara
caibo field
Conflicting reports were given as
to the origin of the fire. Some were
that it started after warehouse ex-
plosion, while another stated the ex-
plosion of kerosene lamp in bar
Continued on page 81
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Family Night At NJ.
e. Church Monday

Family night will be observed at
the Methodist church here next Mon
day evening beginning with a cov-
cred dish supper at $3.50 o'clock fol-
lowed by program.
Everyone in any way connected
with the church is invited to attend
the dinner and program which is be-
ing held as part of the observance
of Fellowship week by churches of
the denomination.
The program, consisting in part
of special musical numbers will be
unique in its presentation of num-
Der of Methodist notables in proxy
on the witness stand for questioning
by a hearing committee. A feature
will be skit portraying work among
the Mexicans given by three men
and two women of the church.
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Meeting of Ohio and Indiana
Institutions Scheduled for
Dec. | and 2
Two Mennonite, Two Friends
And One Brethren School
To Send Delegates

Bluffton college will be host to a
Historic Peace Church Conference,
represented by the five area denom-
national colleges, tentatively set for
December l and 2.
Two Mennonite colleges, two
Friends colleges, and one Bretheren
college will be present for the meet
ing, the first of its kind ever to be
held on the Bluffton college campus.
The Mennonite institutions will be
represented by Bluffton, the host, and
Goshen college, located in Goshen,
Indiana. Earlham college, situated
at Richmond, Ind, and Wilmington
college, of Wilmington, Ohio, will
represent the Church of the Friends.
The Bretheren denomination will be
represented by Manchester college
of North Manchester, Indiana. Both
faculty members and students will be
present with a ratio of ten stu
dents to five faculty members from
each college participating.
The two-day conference will be de-
voted to lectures by leading peace
leaders and group discussions or
varied peace topics. Peace programs
of the various colleges will be pre-
sented the first day of the meeting
Some subjects to be taken up at the
meeting include: "The Christian
Philosophy as the Basis of Pacifism"
"Ways and Means to Preserve
Peace, and other related topics.
Several outstanding men will be
on the campus to deliver the main
addresses of the conferences. Ar
rangements are being made to get
J. N. Sayre, president of the Eel
lowship of Reconciliation, and one of
the outstanding peace leaders of the
nation. R. w. Balderston, a mem
Der of the Friends Service Commit
| tee, will lead discussions on relief
work in war areas. He has had
wide experience in this field of the
peace movement.
Other prominent peace speakers
and leaders are being contacted for
resource purposes in the conference.
Several meetings will be open to
the general public. Other sessions
will be held by the delegates and
the respective leaders. The repre-
sentatives will also meet in small
seminar groups, according to present
plans. 80
Purpose of the conference is tc
unite the peace activities of the re-
spective colleges of the Historic
Peace church group, according tt
President Lloyd L. Ramseyer, who
is making arrangements for the
meeting. 1t is very likely that the
conference will be made an annua
Injecting. 4ue
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FLIES ATLANTIC
ON CLIPPER SHIP
Former Bluffton Resident Radio
Officer on Transatlantic
Air Line
WintOn "Slim" Modin on
America to Portugal Flight
Of Pan-American Line

Winton "Slim" Modin, who was
employed here at the plant of The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.
until late in 1888, is radio officer
on one of the Pan-American Clipper
ships flying between Baltimore and
Lisbon, Portugal.
Modin has been associated with
Pan-American airways nearly year,
but last week he completed his first
round-trip flight to Europe as a
member of the crew of one of the
Clipper ships.
In the future he is expected to
make regular trips as one of the two
radio operators assigned to each
giant plane. A radio officer must be
on duty constantly during the ocean
crossing, and the two operators al
ternate at the radio board.
Pan American air flights between
Baltimore and Lisbon have not been
disrupted by the European war, altho
the northern route that took planes
to London was discontinued after the
outbreak of hostilities.
All Clipper ships making European
flights now have very large Ameri-
can flags painted on each side of the
cabins to denote the nationality of
the ship and prevent any possibility
of being fired upon by warships or
attacked by other planes.
With conditions as they now are
in Europe, more passengers are
carried from Portugal to the United
States than from this country to
Portugal.
During the time he was in Bluff
ton, Modin was an active member of
the Bluffton Radio Club. He came
here from Chicago.
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Talk To Solicitor
On Liquor Ban Here

Mayor w. A Howe stated the first
of the week that a conference will
be arranged with Bluffton's City So
licitor Francis Durbin of Lima to
outline procedure in carrying out
the mandate against liquor sales
which was voted here in the election
week ago.
Attorney Durbin was absent from
his Lima office the first of the week
end and definite date for the con-
ference will be arranged as soon as
he returns, Mayor Howe said.
The vote here last week which
banned liquor will not effect the sale
leof 80 beer which was not an issue
at the election.
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Hunter Bags Red
Fox On Farm In
Union Township

First red fox of the season to be
bagged in the Bluffton district was
killed on the Earl Frantz farm in
Union township by a party of Bluff
ton hunters Wednesday morning.
The fox, a young female, was shot
by Forrest Harmon of South Lawn
avenue. With Harmon on the hunt
ing expedition were Fred Hofer and
Raymond Conrad.
The fox was located by dogs in a
clump of brush on the Frantz farm
and shot by Harmon before it could
make a getaway. Foxes are rare
in this vicinity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Red Cross Roll
Call Opens Here

Annual roll call of the Red Cross
opens in Bluffton this week. Solici-
tors have been appointed to cover the
various sections of the town can
vassing for one dollar q year MEM
berships. The work of solicitation
will continue until the last of this
month. A portion of the funds coll
lected are used in local work of the
Bluffton Red Cross chapter which is
in charge of the roll call here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
BLUFFTON FAIR
DECEMBER 6-S
Dates Announced for Annual
Three-day Showing Early
Next Month
Premium Lists Ready; Commit
tees Busy with Arrange
ments for Showing

Premium lists are being distributed
and plans are nearing completion for
Bluffton's Oath annual agricultural
fair on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, December 6, and s.
Residents of Allen, Putnam, Han
cock and Hardin counties are eligible
to compete in the three-day farm
show that is widely recognized as one
of the best in this area. Entries will
close at 9 p. m. Monday, Dec. 4.
Showing this year will be in nine
departments, including the junior fair
and total awards offered aggregate
nearly $1,000. Divisions in which
competition will be open are: Horses
cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, grain ane
fruit, domestic science, fine arts ant
the junior fair.
Features Planned
Arrangements for places of exhibit
and the selection of adjudicators will
be completed within the next week, il
is believed. Among features will be
a pulling contest, pet parade and the
livestock parade closing the fair.
For the three last preceding years
the Bluffton fair has been held in Oc.
tober, but this summer the board OF
directors voted to hold the agricul
tural show in December, as customary
in the first 20 years of the fairs ex.
istance.
Officers of the fair board include
Hiram Kohl, president; Clyde King
Ter, vice-president; Harry F. Barnes
secretary and Ray Marshall, treasur
er.
On the board of directors are: Hir-
am Kohl, Clyde Klingler, Ben Am
stutz, Ray Marshall, Carl McCafferty
Joe Powell, Harold Carr, Albert
Winkler, Clyde Warren and Edgar
Herr.
Department Superintendents
Superintendents in charge of the
various departments of the fair have
been announced as follows:
Buildings-Hiram Kohl and Ray
Marshall.
Horses-Ray Marshall and Joe
Powell.
Pulling Contest-Ray Marshall anc
Joe Powell.
Cattle-Clyde Klingler and Clyde
Warren.
Hogs-Ben Amstutz and Carl Nc
Cafferty.
Sheep-Harold Carr and Hiram
Kohl.
Poultry-Albert Winkler and VIII
lam B. Luginbuhl.
Agricultural Products-Francis Ba
| singer and Edgar Herr.
| n Domestic Art-Mrs. Joe Powell an,
Mrs. H. F. Barnes.
| Junior Fair-Harry F. Barnes an,
Miss Edythe Cupp.
Auditing Committee-Albert Wink
Ter, Joe Powell and Ben Amstutz.
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To Hold Religious
Education PrOqrdna

Religious education classes in the
public schools will hold their annual
thankoffering service in the First
Mennonite church on Wednesday
afternoon of next week at 2:3C
o'clock The public is invited.
The program will be under direc-
ton of Miss Janet Henderson, re-
ligious education instructor in the
schools here. Donations of fruit and
vegetables brought by the pupils will
be given to the Bluffton hospital
following the program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Hawk Shot By Bluffton Hunter
Drops Hen Pheasant I'm Flight

Shooting at hawk while hunting
pheasants brought surprising results
for George Combs, Bluffton funeral
director, in a hunting expedition on
the Harold Carr farm in Union
township last Saturday.
Unsuccessful in his days hunting,
Combs was about to return to Bluff
ton when he glimpsed hawk flying
high overhead.
Although he thought the bird was
out of shooting distance, Combs fired
at it, and before his astonished eyes
the hawk appeared to be falling to
pieces.
The hawk went flying on, however,
but what at first had appeared to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
High School Has -
"NO Smoking" Signs

"No Smoking" signs made their
appearance in corridors of the high
school building this week. School
officials explained that the notices
were intended for adults attending
athletic contests and other evening
gatherings in the building. There
has been no smoking in the building
by school pupils, they said.
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Former Orange TUp.
Boy Is Bridegroom

Announcement has been made of
the wedding of Richard r. Crawford
of Shelby, formerly of Orange town
ship. and Miss Eilene Rernice Rob.
inson, of Trio.
The wedding took place in the
Methodist Episcopal church at Ply
mouth, Ohio, Sunday, November S.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Crawford of Orange
township. The bride is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Robinson OF
Trio, Ohio.
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Presbyterian Services
Close Friday Night

A week of special services now be-
ing held at the Presbyterian church
here will close Friday night. Var
ious ministers of Lima Presbytery
are speaking each evening at 7:30
o'clock.
Rev. Chester Armantrout of Co
lumbus Grove will be the speaker
this Wednesday night. Speaker on
Thursday night will be Rev. Ray
mond Bair of Rockford and Rev.
Robert Bowman of Ottawa will speak
on Friday night.
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be part of the bird came fiuttering
to the ground. Combs went to a
bean patch in which it fell and
found crippled hen pheasant, which
the hawk had been carrying away
for his dinner.
The pheasant was alive, but un-
able to fly because of injury suffer
ed from the talons of the hawk.
Combs left it hiding in the grass
in the hope that it would recover.
1t is believed the shot of the local
hunter hit the hawk smartly enough
to make it drop its prey, thereby
giving the hen pheasant a welcome
reprieve from eventual death at the
hands of the larger bird.
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Five College To Participate
In Bluffton Peace Conference
Hunters Home
From Canada
With Two Deer

PRINGING with them two
deer, a buck and doe, three
Bluffton big game hunters re-
turned home Saturday after two
weeks in Canada where they
hunted in the wooded district of
northern Ontario.
The hunters were DIR. j. 5.
Steiner, Leland Sechler and Roll
land Stratton. Enroute home
their car was damaged when it
skidded on an icy road and over
turned. None of the occupants,
however was injured.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Masonic Lodge
Elects Officers

Officers to serve for the coming
year were chosen by the Bluffton
Masonic lodge at the annual election
of the order, Monday night.
Those elected were:
Master, B. r. Herring; senior
warden, Chas. Alderman; junior
warden, Stanley Basinger; sec., G..
r. Bogart; treasurer, Ralph Stearns;
senior deacon, Fred Wenger; junior
deacon, Donavin Conrad; tyler, ]. A.
Thompson; trustee, Fred Mueller.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Announce Schools
Holiday Vacation

Holiday vacation for the Bluffton
high and grade schools will begin
on Friday afternoon, December %,
and continue until Tuesday morning,
January 2. Dates for the holiday
recess were fixed at a meeting of
the Bluffton board of education, Mon
day night.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
GRID DINNER SPEAKER

Coach A. C. Burcky was the
speaker Tuesday night at the Column
bus Grove High school football ban
quet, held at the school. Columbus
Grove ended their 1899 season last
Saturday when the team lost to
Pandora.
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Chicken Dinner For
College Grid Squad

Members of the Bluffton college
football squad and Coach A. C.
Burcky will be the guests of DR.. and
Mrs. Gordon Bixel at chicken din
ner served in the Bixel home this
Thursday evening.
DR.. and Mrs. Bixel entertain the
college and high school grid squads
on alternating falls, following the
close of regular scheduled play.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
STUDENT RECITAL

A student recital of the College de-
partment of music will be held at the
chapel next Monday night at 7 o'clock.
Appearing on the program will be
high and grade school pupils of Mrs.
H. p Mann and Prof. Sidney Hauen-
stein. The public is invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
tuberculosis Hospital
Head To Speak Here

DR.. Z. w. Laboe, superintendent
of the District Tubercular hospital
at Lima will present an illustrated
lecture at the dinner meeting of the
Bluffton Lions club at the Walnut
Grill next Tuesday night at 6:15
o'clock.
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
Community hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Williams of
Jenera, a daughter, last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Cramer of
Findlay, daughter, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Welty of
Bluffton a daughter, Monday.
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In New Locations

C.. B. Kuhn and family have moved
from the Central Ohio Light &
Power company residence on the
county line to the Battles property
on Cherry street.
John Dunbar and family have
moved to the former M. L. Perkins
farm east Of Bluffton which they re-
Gently purchased.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Morrison who
occupied the Harry Morrison farm
in Union township have moved to
Bucyrus.
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Chimney Sparks
Start Roof Fire

Sparks from a chimney started
fire on the roof of the residence of
Gideon Locher on Cherry street,
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. The
fire department responded and ex-
tinguished the blaze. Damage was
negligible Xd
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BLUFFTON

A Good Place to Live and q
Good Place to Trade
Evening star., 1939-10-18
TwizzIer Answer
By Fred keher

The two numbers are 3 and 8.
Their sum Is which Is half Of their
product, 10. \.