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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of February q, 19O7

The board of trustees of the Men,
monte college at their executive ses-
sions at the college building last
week, had quite an interesting meet
ing. The announcement is made
that the school will be continued
another year under the so-called ad-
ministration committee. We are
pleased to note that ID. F. Jantzen,
E. J. Hirschler and Miss Elida Zapp,
present excellent instructors, have
been retained.
Margaret Scoles (nee Phillips)
was born in Knox county, Ohio,
Nov. 21, 1928, and died at her late
home in Jackson township, Allen
county, Ohio, February IL, 1907
aged 7S years, two months and &c
days.
S. S. and Mrs. Bixel welcomed q
daughter to their home recently.
1t is reported that George Bieder-
man sold his 78-acre farm in the
Settlement to two of his sons, fol-
$1,000.
On Tuesday of this week, mum.
ber from here, among whom are
S. R., p. D. and S. S. Steiner, Johr
Schultz and others, will go to Brown
vile, Texas, as homeseekers, as the
Mennonites have. started a settle
ment in Bee county in a very goot
climate, soil and other advantages
and where there are large number
of settlers well pleased.
Hector Kibele left Tuesday morn
ing, for Milwaukee, Wis.,, to attend
the funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs
Otto Kibele, which took place tht
following day. She is survived b!
her husband and a one-year-old son
Mr.. and Mrs. Kibele were here {
little over a year ago attending tbs
funeral of Mrs. Mary Kibele.
Oswin Hilty, teacher of the Owens
school, will have a literary at the
school house Thursday evening, Feb
81. An address by d. F. Jantzer
will be one OF the special attractions
of the evening.
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d. F. Wilkins and wife, of near
Pandora, who went west two weeks
ago, returned Tuesday greatly pleas
ed with their trip. Mr.. Wilkins has
rented a farm near Blackwell, Okla,
and with his family will leave here
in about two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Garlinger
are happy over the arrival Of a
baby boy, last Thursday.
Joseph Habegger, living four miles
north of town, purchased twenty
acres from Abe Wilkins Saturday
for $1,000.
w. L. Storer, of Ada, purchased
Julian Doriot's handsome residence
on Cherry street, Tuesday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Storer will move here about
the first of next month.
A gentleman was in town Tuesday
interviewing the representative busi-
ness men relative to opening a glove
manufacturing company here, furnish
ing employment to at least 100 fe-
male operators. Good wages are tc
be paid, being about the same scale
as for the Pandora overall factory
Girls from 16 and upward are de-
sired. The firm agrees to begir
operation as soon as they can Obtain
so or more employees. s 1t
Grandma Hilty, who makes hel
home with her daughter, Mrs. FREQ
Geiger, on Cherry street, met with
an accident from which she probably
will not recover. Mrs. Hilty has
been feeble for some time and ir
walking across the room she fel
over from weakness, resulting in 9
complete fracture of the thigh bone
few inches below the hip. Mrs
HiIty is past 80 years of age.
DR.. and Mrs. Henry Eby, of Gosh.
en-, Ind, are visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Eby
living five miles west of Bluffton.
Cliff West, who has been employ
ed in the Missouri oil field for some
time, returned home last week or
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
Settlement

Rev. and Mrs. John Thiessen, son
Harold and two daughters Enore
and Muriel, Mrs. John Schneck and
daughters Mrs. (Dr.) Pender and
Henrietta were supper guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram NJ. Kohl and
family and E. D. Kohl last Wed
nesday.
The majority of the Pandora High
school seniors are on sightseeing
trip to Washington, d. c., and other
points of interest in the East. They
went in a school bus driven by
Leotus Sutter.
A group of the Intermediate
Christian Endeavor society of the
st. John church presented a program
at the Hancock County Infrmary
last Sunday afternoon.
Oliver Schumacher has been en-
ployed by the Board of Education of
Findlay to teach in the schools of
that city for the coming school year.
Three days of the week are devoted
to his work in Findlay while the
other three he teaches in the FIRE.
mont schools where he has been in
structor for the past several years.
Margery Gratz of Iowa is visiting
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Omer
Gratz and family for several weeks.
She is at home with Rev. and Mrs.
John Neuenschwander and came here
with them as they were enroute to
Rochester, N. Y, where they are
attending conference.
Seth Basinger is at present busy
spraying fruit trees in the COM
munity.
Donivan, Oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Schumacher, made a
splendid showing at the National
Musical contest which was held last
week in Battle Creek, He won
second place in keen eonipetitidh as
cello solist. The lad who won first
position was from Chicago.
A large acreage of corn is being
planted this week. The recent rains
have greatly helped in preparing the
fields for planting.
Quite a few of the Mexican
laborers have come previous to the
work in the sugar beet fields and
| are assisting a number of farmers
in their regular farm work.
Mrs. Barbara Basinger spent Sun
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayden Basinger and family.
Ray Sheidler is making extensive
improvements on the Clymer farm
which he recently purchased. The
home is soon to be occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Francis Nusbaum.
Kenneth, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Enos Walters has been numbered
among the sick for several weeks.
Miss Mary Haas is visiting a
number of churches in Iowa and
Minnesota at present.
| Rev. Henry Ramseyer represent
ing the Northern Bible Society of
Duluth, Mimi, preached at the st.
John church last Sunday evening.
He is brother of the Rev. RAM
seyer of the Ft. Wayne Bible school.
While William Steiner, an en-
ployee at the Westinghouse Plant at
Lima, and his brother Earl Dean
and several others who are working
at the same place were returning
from work one day last week the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
Harmon Field Notes

Harmon field will open next Mon
day for the spring and summer sea-
son, Dale Davidson, Bluffton recrea-
tional director, announced Wednes-
day.
Supervised play will be conducted
at the recreation center from 2 to 3
D. m. and 6 to p. m. daily. With
present plans indicating that only
one supervisor will be on duty this
summer, the field will not be open
in the morning.
New equipment has been purch-
ased, augmenting present facilities of
the field, Davidson said.
Ticket sale for the softball league
was launched this week and will
continue several more days. League
play, on a two nights a week sche-
dule, will be started June a. Tickets
may be purchased from any member
of last years Readrite softball team
Following the close of ticket sale
paid-up members will meet for or.
ganization of the association. Plans
for the league then will be drawn
up, and arrangements will be made
for the erection of backstops. Mem.
bership in the league costs 81 fol
adults and so cents for high school,
students.
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III. s. Tennis Team
Defeats Lima South

Bluffton High tennis players won
Tuesday afternoon by defeating Lima
their third match of the season
South at Lima, to 2.
In the afternoons play, Howe (B)
defeated Cation, 6-2, 6-1; Short (B)
defeated Roberts, 8-6, 6-3; Rolfes de-
feated Clark (B) 6-3, 6-1; Howe
Short (B) defeated Gatton-Rolfes,
6-2, 6-2; and Schultz-Stoots defeated
Todd-Beidler (B) Sc, 6-3.
Bluffton has won three matches
and lost two so far this season. One
more match with Bowling Green re-
mains to be played.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23

Duties will always be more inn
portant than rights.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23

car driven by Mr.. Steiner was struck
by truck and was badly damaged.
Several of the occupants of the car
suffered as result of some severe
cuts about their faces.
Mrs. Peter Basinger, who has
made her home with her son
Clement and family in Pandora for
several years is at present staying
with her daughter, Mrs. Hiram
Wenger and family of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23

U. S. BUILDS BOAT-Preview-
ing Americas largest liner a Is
foot iUorLing model Of the hull OF
the America, biggest maritime con-
struction job in recent United States
history. The design of each shell
plate is marked off in the drought
ing room. Here, draughtsmen make
scale drawings of each plate, Which,
IN turn, are used in the mold loft
for making the full size patterns OF
the plates.
by John Ericsson; her revolving gun
turret set a fashion that still re-
mains feature of present-day bat
tleships. The Confederate Merri-
mack sometimes spelled Merri-
mac) was originally a wooden steam
frigate whose upper works had been
replaced by turtle-backed citadel
faced with armor.
On the day before the fight, the
Merrimack had sent a shiver
through the North by easily destroy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
ROqer HOIUe Loses
To District Chdnap

Roger Howe, Bluffton High repre-
sentative in the Northwest Ohio ten
mis- tournament at Bowling Green
last Friday, was defeated in the sec
ond round by Clinton Stevenson, of
NorwaIk, the district champion.
In first round play, Howe topped
Clifford Dussel, of Maumee, 6-3, 6-1.
Stevenson topped Howe in the next
round, 6-3, Ga, and then went on to
win the district championship.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
Be0Uerda7a School
Pupils Vdccindted

Eighty pupils in the Beaverdam
schools were vaccinated for preven-
ton of smallpox this week by DR.. w.
c. LacoclS under the sponsorship of
the Beaverdam Parent-Teacher asso-
citation and the Allen county board
of health.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
Mt. Cory Seniors
On Southern Trip

Mt. Cory high school seniors who
graduated the past week are on a
seven day sightseeing trip through
West Virginia and Kentucky: They
will visit Mammoth Cave and points
of historic interest in southern Ohio
before returning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23

an extended visit.
Harry Swank and Billy Stewart
are home from the Canadian oil
field at Tilsbury, Ont, for a short
visit.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-05-23
HOME FROM WEST

Mrs. NJ. M. Kibler returned Mon
day from a three months trip to
California and other points of in
terest thru the west.
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BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Wednesday MORNING
Hogs-160 to 220, $5.4O; 220 to
$50, $3.50; $50 to 275, $500; roughs,
S4.25; stays, s3.25.
Calves, $3.50; top clipped lambs,
50.
Grain (bu. prices)-Wheat, 7Sc;
oats, 3Sc; corn, SEC; soys, 76c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22

ton of the state and made a part
of Wilmington's greatest beauty
spot.
Now Turf-Covered
Sloping banks along the road
side, once denuded Of grass and
plants by erosion, have been cover
ed with a substantial turf. In other
places the banks have been cover
ed with seed-bearing grass which
has been cut at other locations.
This grass is dropping seed on the
ground as it dries and is giving
those seed protection against ero
sion and cold. But this grass is
dry and a match carelessly flicked
into it would burn not only the
protective dead grass but the
plants and growing grass beneath
it.
Much work has been done, also,
to reduce the amount of parking
in those where dry grass
and pine straw present a fire haz-
ard and where the incessant travel
of automobiles has killed grass on
the banks of the road. Approx
mately a third of the owners OF
property on the outside of the road
way have given the committee
beautifying the roadway authority
to prevent parking on their pro-
perty and this property has been
so barricaded that automobiles are
no longer able to drive on it.
Members of the committee said
yesterday that if additional pro-
perty owners will contact them,
they will afford their property the
same protection. s
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
WACE-H0UR LAW
ORDER IS SIGNED
Two Wallace Firms Restrain
ed From Employing
Child Labor
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
RY HENRY AVERI


RALEIGH, Sept. 21.-The wage
hour division today showed there
are real teeth in the federal stat
ute banning from interstate COM
merce goods produced by child Ia
Dor.
Major A. L. Fletcher, regional di-
rector, announced that Federal
Judge 1. M. Meekins has issued
restraining orders against two
firms in Wallace, Duplin county.
The Meekins orders restrain
from use of oppressive child labor,
Leslie Rivenbark and the firm OF
Dew and Cavenaugh composed OF
L. M. Dew and R. o. Cavenaugh).
Both are engaged in the manu-
facture of crates, cups and boxes.
The orders, securd complaint OF
Katherine F. Lenroot, chief Of the
| Children's Bureau, U. S. depart.
ment of labor, ri the first Legal
actions in many months involving
child labor. Major Fletcher sale
that North Carolina has long beer
in the forefront of states prohibit
ing exploitation of its youth, with
the result that child labor cases
have been few and far between
'"Thus far, I am happy to say, il
has not been necessary for us tt
bring a single criminal prosecution
against firms found by inspectors
to be guilty of employment of op
pressive child labor" he said.
In the complaint against Dew
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Motorists Asked To Aid Ii
Identification Program
At Greenfield

Work is rapidly progressing
along Greenfield Lake drive to
make it a true beauty spot next
| spring when thousands of tourists
are expected to move through the
city enroute from Florida to more
northerly chimes.
But workers there r worried
by one d~anger:fire
Dry weather has made the pine
straw and other combustible ma
terial in the woods and along the
beautified vistas unusually inflam-
mable and a cigarette or lighted
match ~carelessly tossed from an
automobile window a cause
more damage in an hour than
workers along the drive car over
come in a month Of work.
Eight Times As Fast
Everything possible is being
done to keep down the fire hazard
this winter, for the work of the
past year has shown that where
plants are protected from fire they
grow about eight times as fast as
those which are attacked by fire
but which are able to withstand
the assault. Many of the plants,
Of course, are ruined by the ground
fires.
Don't let anyone destroy your
parkway drive" is an appeal
which is being made around the
lakeside and motorists who drive
along the lakeside road have been
asked to keep a sharp lookout for
fires as well as to take especial
care to see that their cigarettes
and matches do not start blazes.
Police patrol the drive at ir-
regular but rather frequent inter-
walls but, due to the press of bus
mess they sometimes encounter,
there are at times periods of an
hour or more in which they are
not able to make a check of the
road drive. During those period it
is possible for a fire to do hun
dreds of dollars of damage to the
plants which have been placed
along the roadside to make it one
of the greatest beauty spots in
the south.
Consequently motorists have
been asked to watch for fires as
they drive along the lakeside road.
If a small fire is spotted, they
have been asked to fight it per-
sonally. If a fire too large for
them to handle is spotted, they
have been asked to call police
headquarters and report it. Such
a report will Immediately be re-
layed to the workers engaged in
identifying the drive and they will
hasten to the area affected and
put out the fire.
In the absence of extensive fires
this fall and winter, the lakeside
drive gives great promise to being
a really beautiful place this spring.
During the past months tens OF
thousands of plants have been
placed there. Palmettos, mountain
laurel, thousands of exotic wild
orchids and myriads of other color.
full plants have been brought from
over the entire southeastern sec
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Lakeside Drive Fire
Protection Plea Made
Christ Church Burns
Under Nazi Bombing

LONDON, Sept. I'll up -
One of London's largest and
most famous non-conformist
churches, whose Lincoln tower
was built in recent years with
American funds, was burned out
by incendiary bombs last night.
The tower, erected as a menu
Orial to Abraham Lincoln by
American admirers of a former
minister of the church, was UNI
damaged the building itself was
built in 1876 at a cost of approx
mately $3.50, O00.
British censorship forbade dis
closing the name of the church,
church on Westminster Bridge
road.)
Some 500 people, mostly child
rem, were reported in voults be-
meath the church when the
bombs hit, but were led to safety
in another shelter before the
fire spread.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22

apartment," she said, sloucnmg
in the chair near the window. Big
rooms and real windows-nor snts
like these, and a view. But l cam
afford it alone.
"Sue Mary, why don't you move
in with me? Heaven knows We'll
be working together enough these
next few months, with the election
coming along and the Up cam.
! paign in full swing. I think 1t "ouio
be a grand idea"
It came as a surprise to Sue
Mary. She looked a bit nonplussed.
| Natalie was all right. Sue Mary
enjoyed working with her, enjoyed
listening to her unceasing CONVEX
sation that ranged from pictures
to politics, but she had never con
sidered living with her.
you're stuck in that funny, old
fashioned boarding house where
there isn't a soul you know or like.
Half the time you're here anyway,
with Vera and Nick coming over
to work or talk. We could have
fun. a decent place to live and no
more expenses than the way 1t IS
now"
Sue Mary tried to think. She
supposed Natalie was right. Hei
own drab room was simply a place
to escape from when n wasn't
sleeping.
Yet living with Natalie would be
a strange experience. She looked
around the room, at the pictures
Overlooking on the floor, books
streaming from the table, clothes
showed in the closet and, the door
that " shut; the tiny kitchene1
with dirty dishes ever present or
the sink.
Natalie laughed. Eyes, I know
what you're thinking. You're sc
precise, so tidy, that this mus
bring horror to your neat little
soul. Well, you can straighten ur
to your hearts content.
"Why not try it anyway? ]
mean sharing an apartment. Yot
won't hurt my feelings if y
move when you can't take it any
longer"
And so it was arranged. They
all had a hand in it: Vera packing
pictures, records, papers, books
and Nick making endless trips be
tween Natalie's old room, S
Mary's, and the new apartment
And before she knew how it hao
been accomplished, they were set
tied.
She got a thrill out of being able
to move about in a room that wa:
more than a cupboard. The tWr
beds in the bedroom didn't ever
crowd the space, and the big shiny
bath with the deep tub, the shower
with its funny curtain decorated
with fantastic fishes, the tiny kitch
enet with its compact drawers. re
frigerator and stove-all enchanted
her so that she was content just tt
stand and stare about her.
We'll probably never get he1
out" Natalie told Vera. She goe!
around with a dustcloth all eve
ming shining things, and picking
up after me. My clothes have new
er been hung up before and now
can't find anything. She Mary has
them where they belong"
(To Be Continued)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Q SERIAL STORY
This Could Be Your Story
>.,,A>AhI COPYRIGHT. 1910.
~ MARI JFRIIE NEA SERVICE. INC

..My work is going along swell"
he went on earnestly. why o !
We plan on a wedding and be Ike
other people. We're living alone
now and trying to pretend it's fun.
Well. 1 don't think it is. I want
YOU and I hope you want me: Al,
though sometimes-I-I sort OF 1eel
YOU find me pretty dull"
"Oh, no, Joe. It's not that: l
care for YOU Sue Mary pulled
his arm tighter about her. Il 1eei
so safe, and sure of things when
I'm with you, but then there's a
whole week with time on my hands
and what happens? l e other
people and my own life seems
drab. I want something to happen
to me. 1 don't just want to work at
the office, come home and sit and
vead all evening.
81 don't think you're dull. After
I'm with you I wonder about the
others, because what you say IS
so sane, so true. And I think
am in love yith you-but I'm not
sure I want to get married yet
joe"
And you'll never be sure as long
as you play around with those
Reds" he said bitterly. Some
hing will have to wake you up to
the fact that they're all phonies.
But I don't know what it will be.
You see, Sue Mary, I think you
are hunting for adventure.
And 1 think you believe you're
half in love with this Nick"
He was going away for a week
so she wouldn't let anything pre-
cipitate a quarrel. But his words
echoed in her mind. Hunting ad
venture, believe you r half In
love with Nick.
She supposed that was the way
it would look, an dyet, she tolc
herself, this is more than adven'
ture: working at something thai
is worth while, helping people my
own age who have brains a n c
charm, in a cause they are con-
vinced is right.
And as for Nick-but that al
ways left her confused. She tried
to believe his attentions Were the
same with the others, but she coulc
not ignore the look in his eyes,
sound of his voice saying h e I
name, the way he managed tt
take her home after the meetings
The next day Sue Mary went tt
Natalie's after work. It was hot II
the studio bedroom and the girls
tied back the faded window drapes
to catch the slightest possible
breath of air.
"T'd like to get out of here
Natalie said in her low, husky
voice. She was in her white sliI
with her thick, taffy-colored hail
pinned in a knot high on her head
She wiped beads of water from
the pitcher and poured Sue Mary
a glass of lemonade.
II know where there's a CRANE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
All characters, organizations
and incidents of this serial are
entirely fictitious.

and incidents OF this serial are
entirely fictitious.
YESTERDAY: While the office
searches for the missing order,
Sue Mary feels Vera knows about
#. Vera does. Miss Grant had
given her the order to type, young
Ross Clark had come in and she
had showed the order aside until
morning. She explains its disap-
pearance easily. Sue Mary Won
ders at Vera's self-assurance.
TWO LOVES-NICK AND JOE
CHAPTER XII
That one," Kitty said scorn-
fully. as she was powdering her
nose before going home late that
afternoon. She stared at Sue Mary
in the washroom mirror.
"Of course she had that order. l
saw her go in the old mans ONCE
with those papers. And I can guess
lust how surprised she was to dis
cover that they were hunting for
that one in particular, and how IN
nocent she acted. I bet they ate
her abb up: about her being new
and strange here. She's a 90
number" Kitty pulled her rldlcu-
lous Excuse of a hat down over her
black curls. She's smart, but l
bet she doesn't make the grade
with young Ross Clark
Sue Mary hid her smile. She was
glad Kitty was too engrossed with
Vera and young Ross Clark t
think more about Vera and the
paper. That business had upset her
more than she had thought. Her
head ached and the walk home
seemed twice as long.
She didn't want to 60 out that
evening, but Joe called.It had
been a week since they had had a
date and she couldn't refuse now.
Once with him she found her
self swinging back again to the
other side. All the problems at the
office, all the enthusiasms Of the
Up group somehow seemed trivial.
Joe talked of vacation plans, OF
the simpler things that had once
constituted her whole life.
With the war talk, world prob
lens, and politics on e%veryone's
lips, Joe's plans for a camping
trip up north, his attempts to paint
the joys of fishing, and the pres
sure of his hands on hers when he
spoke of the weeks vacation
seemed to give the world a diff
ferent color.
"Sue Mary" he said, some
times don't you get tired of work
ing in that office, n d playing
around with that crazy outfit?
Sometimes don't you think you'd
like to get married and have a
home of your own?
my jobs safe. At least I think
it is, and I'm in a swell depart
ment; there's a future in research.
I think we ought to plan on getting
married.