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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Family Heirlooms To Be Displayed
At Schumacher Reunion Sunday

Heirlooms of the Christian Schu-
macher family will be displayed next
Sunday at the tenth annual Schu-
macher reunion on the Bluffton col
lege campus.
Held every third year since 1913,
the event always draws a large
crowd from near and far.
The heirlooms to be displayed this
year and early history of the family
which will be related by Mendelssohn
Amstutz, of Pandora, are attracting
advance attention. Amstutz now is
family historian, a post his father,
the late P. d. Amstutz, held for
many years.
Among the heirlooms to be shown
are the cradle of Peter Schumacher,
and pump he patented.
Samuel Steiner, of near Pandora,
is among the oldest living direct des-
cendants of the Schumacher family.
He is the grandson of Barbara Schu-
macher Steiner.
Mrs. Sarah Zweiacker, of Salem,
Oregon, the oldest of all Schumacher
descendants, and John Schumacher,
of Pandora, are the only living child
den of the John Schumacher branch
The late Mrs. Emanuel Kohl, OF
north of Bluffton, was the last living
descendent of the Peter Schumacher
family.
Christian Schumacher, whose des.
cendents will gather here Sunday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
RawsOn

Mrs. George Cogiey and family re-
turned home after spending a few
weeks with relatives in Albian, Mich.
Mrs. Jasper Dukes and Mrs. Paul
Hugus and family of Muncie, Ind,
were Thursday callers on Mr.. and
Mrs. James Hugus and family.
Bruce Thomas spent Thursday
with James Thomas of Fostoria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Snyder of Anna
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harley Smith and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Thomas and
daughter spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Morris of Findlay.
Miss Marcella Cramer spent Fri
day evening with Miss Marilyn
Battles of Bluffton.
George Folk, E. H. Huffman,
Burrell Bowers and Luther Nc
Clelland attended the ball game
Sunday at Cleveland.
Gilmore and Robert Litten of
Toledo are visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Willoby and family.
Jimmy Rainey spent Sunday with
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Jake Logan.
Recent callers on Mrs. Eta
Crozier were Mrs. Margaret Bum,
Ruth Williams, Mrs. L. R. Forsyth,
Mrs. Jennie Cameron and Mrs,
Luther McClelland.
Mrs. Fred Peralta and daughter
Norma left Saturday for their home
in Oakland, Calf, after spending a
month visiting her aunts, Mrs. Iva
Emery and Mrs. D. E. Huffman and
other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Bauman and
son Albert were Friday evening
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. F,
Bauman.
Mrs. Hannah Eyestone of Gibson.
berg spent the weekend in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Folk.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fret Timens oi
Albion, Mich, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Cogley
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Webster ane
son Robert of Findlay were Sunday
evening supper guests of Mr.. anc
Mrs. James Hugus and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Thomas anc
family and Mrs. Sampson spent Sun
day with relatives and friends il
Toledo.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Marshall Of
Bluffton We're Saturday Afternoon
callers on Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Bau
man.
Mrs. Ed Long, Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
Tracy spent Saturday in Columbus
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ferrel Wolfron
who are in a hospital there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Smith spen
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Beach of Erie, Mich; Mrs
Smith remained for the week.
Mrs. Lottie Hause of Findlay ant
Mrs. Clarence Hause and daughter
visited in the home of Mr.. and Mrs
E. F. Bauman, Wednesday evening
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

Stratton were: Mr.. N. r. Ebay, Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Kramer of Mt. Cory;
Mrs. Nello Steinman of Bluffton;
Mrs. Anna Koontz, Mrs. Arthur
Nonnamaker and daughter Kaye,
Mrs. H. D. Morrison, Mrs. Lucinda
Koontz, Mrs. Henry Koontz and son
Raymond, Miss Bessie Arnold, Mrs.
]. r. Fisher, Misses Mabel, Merilyn,
and jeanne Battles, Mrs. C. w.
Klingler and daughters Gladys and
Jean Ann and Miss Betty Bish, Mrs.
Eli Deppler and the C. w. Klingler
family.
Mrs. w. w. Scothorn is at the
home of her mother in northern
Mich.
Mrs. Ida Gallant, children Joan,
Jimmy and June left Wednesday of
last week for Marion, where they
will reside.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
ElrOse

Mrs. Sina Morrison spent Wednes-
day at the Anna Koontz and A. J.
Nonnamaker home.
Miss Billie Oglesbee of Detroit is
spending her vacation at the Purl
Hartman home.
c. F. Fisher and Mrs. Stella Smith
of Findlay spent Thursday evening
at the ]. R. Fisher home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Fisher, daughter Eliza
beth of Pandora; and Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Halsey of Akron, were Sunday
afternoon callers. Henry Which,
Misses Coda, Mildred and Ila Lee
Which were Monday evening callers
in the Fisher home.
The Black School reunion will be
held this Thursday at the school
house. Come and enjoy the day.
Union prayer services at Olive
Branch Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Nonnamaker,
daughter Kaye, son Roderick and
Mrs. Anna Koontz and Mrs. Sina
Morrison spent Wednesday evening
at the Mrs. Lucinda Koontz home.
The Olive Branch L. A. S. will
meet with Mrs. Golda Battles Tues
day afternoon, August 6.
Miss Donnie Johnson has returned
to her home here after having spent
several weeks at Dola at the home
| of her brother, Nell Johnson. Mrs
Nell Johnson was at the Kenton
hospital after having an operation
for appendicitis.
Recent callers on Mrs. M. J.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Local Dentists To
Attend Convention

Drs. Evan and Francis Basinger,
of Bluffton, are planning to attend
the centenary convention of the
American Dental association which
will meet in Cleveland the week of
Sept. s.
During the convention, the entire
arena of the Cleveland Public audi
torium will be filled with scientific,
health and historical exhibits open
to the general public.
Dentistry in America, heralded as
superior to that of any other coun-
try, takes its beginning from estab-
lishment of the first dental college at
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

Brink; On the Trail with Lewis and
Clark, Howard; Old Testament
Stories, Grover; Daniel Boone, Tous-
ey.
Sixth Grade-Peter Peppercorn,
Phillips; The Silver Fawn, We'll;
Caddie Woodlawn, Brink; Dom
Fender, Lost on a Mountain in
Maine, Egan.
Seventh Grade-Christina of Old
New York, Crownfeld; Mrs. Robert
E. Lee, Macdonald; Real Persons,
Starbuck ct al.
Eighth Grade-Highway Past Her
Door, Thompson; Kentucky Cargo
Dwight; Wings Over the Andes,
Thesis.
High School-What Do You Want
To Be, Waltz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Orange Township Woman Largest
Beneficiary In S5OO,OOO Estate

Seventy-six persons were named to
benefit by the will of the late w. L.
Stouffer, North Baltimore hardware
and furniture dealer and an extens-
i've land holder in Hancock and Wood
counties, who died two weeks ago in
a Findlay hospital.
Largest beneficiary is Mrs. Lenore
Montgomery, of Orange township,
only child of the deceased.
She will receive Stouffer's huge
life insurance; one farm of 140h
acres; another of rs acres; two
dwellings and lots in North Balti-
more; the North Baltimore store
buildings of the deceased and var
ious other buildings in the same
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Church Workers At
School In Tifin

Five members of the congregation
of the st. Johns Reformed church
left Monday morning to attend a
school for Sunday school leaders and
other church groups being held at
Heidelberg college, Tiffin.
Those in the party were Betty
Bracy, Wanda Diller, Buddy Lugin-
buhl, Phoebe Gratz and Jane Baker.
Part of the group will return to
Bluffton following the close of the
first week of the school, and the rest
will remain for two weeks course.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Visit Noted Places
On Week Motor Tour

Scenic sights and points of historic
interest in eight states were visited
last week by Mr.. and Mrs. Noah
Geiger, of this place, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Rene Klay and son, Robert, of
Lima.
Tour of the local party took them
through Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Mary
land, West Virginia and Alabama.
Points of interest visited included !:
Great Smoky Mountains, Lookout
Mountain, Blowing Rock, the Sky
line Drive, Natural Bridge, the tombs
of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E.
Lee and the Gettysburg battlefield.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

town.
The will stipulates that if Mrs.
Montgomery attempts to break the
instrument she is to receive only
$1,000 and all the bequests made to
her be divided equally among the
others named.
Three members of the Findlay po-
lice department will receive benefits,
including a 120-acre farm left to the
chief of police.
It was estimated that the value of
Stouffer's estate is in excess of half
a million dollars. One of the pro-
visions of the will is to the effect
that a $1,500 monument be erected
over Stouffer's grave.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Notice To Bidders

The Bluffton Board of Education
will receive sealed bids for furnish
ing three carloads of coal for the
high school building at Bluffton,
Ohio. Coal to be suitable for use in
automatic stoker and to consist of
nut, pea and slack, not to exceed
twenty (20) per cent slack.
Bidder will be required to submit
analysis of coal he proposes to fur
nish together with price delivered, at
such times as the Board may direct.
All bids to be in hands of the
clerk of the board by noon on Aug
ust 10, 1910.
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
16 LELAND DILLER, Clerk.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
County Has FeUer
Farms; More People

Allen county has fewer farms
than in 1910, but the population has
increased during the 10-year span,
according to district census report
released last week.
In 1910 there were $3.50 farms
within the boundaries of the county,
as compared with 2,684 in 1880, the
census shows.
Population in 1880 was 69,419.
The mark in 1910 is 1920.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

No trials of the effect of feeding
scabby wheat to hogs or horses are
on record in the animal husbandry
or veterinary departments at Ohio
State University. Scabby barley is
toxic but no one is certain about
wheat. 1t is suggested that farmers
watch their hogs when scabby wheat
is first fed and remove the wheat if
the hogs appear to dislike it.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Mother BECOMES MIN

Mrs. Mary Schmidt, formerly of
Liebenthal, Kan, who has three
daughters in Catholic sisterhoods,
has entered the order of Sisters
Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary
at Beaversville, Ill. Mrs. Schmidt,
mother of five children, decided to
enter the religious order after her
husband died.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Pleasant Hill

Miss Bessie Martin of Tulsa, Okla,
is spending few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Huber and son.
The Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid So
ciety and their families will meet on
Thursday evening, August 18th at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Huber.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Italian Kings Guards

Members of the Kings Guards,
personal escort of King Victor EN-
manuel. of Italy, have to be 6 feet
4 inches tall and good looking. There
are 100 men and five officers in the
guards. Each has seven perfectly
tailored uniforms.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

The estimate of the Ohio soybear
crop this year is 100000 acres
There appears little hope of an ex.
port market such as opened up last
year just after the outbreak of war
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

Preventative measures recommend
ed for warding off swine flu at fair
time are: thorough daily cleaning
of pens, plenty of dry bedding, daily
exercise, add bulk to ration by in
creasing amount of oats or bran, and
add a teaspoonful of baking soda to
each pailful of fresh drinking water.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
WARSHIPS
ENTER ADRIATIC
Reported Seeking To Halt
Yugoslav Ships On
Way To Italy

BELGRADE, April B. Up I'm
confirmed reports in shipping cir
cles today said British warships had
entered the Adriatic to halt three
Yugoslav freighters carrying baux'
lite for Germany to Trieste, Italian
Adriatic port.
1t was the first time since the out
break of the war that British war
ships had been reported in the Adri'
attic.
Rome dispatches said there was
no confirmation of a report that
three Yugoslav freighters already
had been halted by British war
ships.)
The German freighter Ankara is
scheduled to sail tomorrow from
|Dubrovnik Ragusa) through Yugo'
slav territorial waters to Trieste on
a test voyage to see if Germany can
establish a new route for shipping
supplies.
German sources indicted they
We're banking or the hope that Brit.
ish warships would stay out of the
Adriatic in fear of offending Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
TIME TO FIGHT

Nazi and British air forces have been call
ing upon each other in the last twenty-foul
hours, leaving cards, but doing little harm
The German flight over Scapa Flow il
which some bombs were dropped without ser
ious damage, and the British raids on Ger
many's northern blight, with equally ineffec
tive consequences, may be accepted, however
as Indication that the sit-down war is de
veloping into something more important.
While the prospect of major warfare is {
terrible thing to contemplate, it is perhaps
best for all nations, including the ~neutrals
that the conflict be pressed to a speedy con
clusion. The world cannot long go on in it,
present state of nerves, with any hope of i'm
proving conditions either for the powers a
war or for civilization in general.
If the only way to make war is to fight
and history reveals no other method-the AL
lies and the Nazis cannot do better than t.
come to actual blows. The damage from
continued ~inaction might be as great and fal
reaching as from a war to the death.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
THIRD REVAMPING

One inevitable consequence of our rapidly
expanding government has been duplication
and overlapping of service.
President ROOSEVELT has set himself the
task of correcting the fault. In two previous
reorganization plans he accomplished good
results, and now he proposes a third revamp-
ing by which seven federal departments and
bureaus are affected.
In submitting his program to congress, Mr..
ROOSEVELT points out that the small amount
of savings in money Gin no way measures
the worth of the proposals." their principal
advantage being Increased effectiveness in
operation"
That effectiveness, of course, is still to be
proved, but the fact that the Chief Executive
is earnestly seeking to better the govern.
ment's efficiency and reduce the great over
head of the departments is s~olacing.
Anything which can ease the tax burden
and at the same time improve the service
is commendable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
LOOKING AHEAD

The stream of motor car tourists north.
bound from Florida is losing volume. Only
the laggards are left. This means that the
summer migration is not far ahead. Soon
thousands of automobiles will be scattering
in all directions, loaded with vacationists
seeking recreation and fun far from the old
home town.
That Wilmington's beach resorts will gath
err a full complement of visitors is a fore.
gone conclusion. That they will total as many
as might be is something else. 1t all depends
on how aggressively we solicit patronage.
It is too late to make provision this sum.
mer for increasing hordes. But it is not toe
soon to begin planning for 1941. Certain OBJ.
vious improvements could be made which
would add materially to our drawing power,
among which none takes a higher place than
the proposed boulevard along the beach from
Wrightsville to Carolina Beach.
With this built, and adequate exploitation
of it, Wilmington might count definitely on
thousands Of additional visitors yearly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
INDICATED

Endorsement of the Jaycee effort by the
Chamber of Commerce is a gracious gesture.
There is no reason why the two trade
organizations cannot be mutually helpful, and
each benefit materially through the existence
of the other.
The experience and advice of the senior
body can be utilized In the shaping of a pro
gram by the juniors. At the same time, the
new viewpoint and young enthusiasm Of the
Juniors cannot fail to act as a tonic upon
the older group.
Wilmington has so much to accomplish, so
many opportunities for development, 1t can
we'll support both organizations and profit
largely by their work.
The energy and ideas of the one will be a
good counterbalance to the conservatism OF
the other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
PORT WORK NEARER

WITH senate mmerce committee appro'a'
w of a revamped rivers and harDors Dill
North Cardinals navigation projects move d
step nearer accomplishment But tnere Is
still much to be done before work can &C
tuallv start. The measure must still go TO
the senate, where passage is reasonably sure
Then the house must approve 1t, ana the
President sign it.
With execution of the senate, the way OF
the hill NAV be beset with obstacles. Unless
the house is thoroughly and carefully can
vassed and the needs fully understood by
the members, passage there may not be easy.
1t will be necessary to consolidate the strength
of water-served areas to assure a majority.
This can be accomplished if the home folks
in all affected regions unite in the effort.
The Presidents attitude is questionable.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT has said that he will veto any
bill for new rivers and harbors work calling
for large expenditures. The COM
mittee in redrafting the bill has been care
full to confine projects to those affecting navi-
cation only, avoiding flood control and the
more expensive undertakings, in an effort to
get within the known requirements the Pres
ident has laid down. Hopefully, the measure
will be acceptable at the White House.
If all these steps are taken, there will be
still an enabling act, providing funds for the
projects, to put through. The present bill is
merely an authorization. The money must
come later.
These matters are cited to indicate that
much hard work lies ahead before Whining
ton and other North Carolina communities
may get their essential waterway projects,
and to encourage wide participation in the
necessary campaign to finish the job which
Senator BAILEY and his committee has start
ed. Every c~ivic-minded organization, every
business group, every individual who recog-
nizes the port as the fount of Wilmington's
progress and prosperity, has a part in the
effort to complete the legislation.
Senator BAILEY has proved his interest in
the states waterways by speeding revision
Of the bill. We must support him in his fur
Their efforts to carry it through, in each sue
cessive step, until the appropriation is avail
able.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
STATISTICS OF THE EEART
Christian Science Monitor

During a career of twenty years the woman
who mak-s a house a home for a family of
six bestows s 1000 kisses, peels $1,000 potatoes,
darns 1O,4OO socks and stockings, makes 29,20O
beds, buffers 172, 200 slices of bread. These
statistics were compiled by the late Canon Ar
thur Sinker, former rector of Bermondsey, a
section of London where the lady of the house
is almost always at home but probably never
lat home"
Probably Canon sinker's lists were much
more extensive than those which are now be-
ing published as representative of his deep
interest in his fellow man. Even from these,
however, we can deduce that the Canon knew
what the giving Of a cup OF cold Water-and
receiving of it-should mean; that ne doubt
less earned his reputation as the "plaln'deal'
ing parson" by such homely responsiveness as
his plain-dealing Master employed in parallels;
and that his conception of love was warn"
enough to take the chill out OF statistics.
10 dwell on the tenderness, the conscientious
ness, the loyalty, the forgiveness, the hope
that went into daily household tasksAthis
husky parishioners. But unsentimental figures
might awaken their sentiment to feel that
which not even a preacher could suggest With
out risk of seeming trespass.
No need to shame the negligent or migrate
full by pointing out as the sharper Shaw would
that home "is the womans workhouse.' But
rather to impart some conception of what goes
into making home into heaven for beginners"
No doubt many a callous, british pride hum
bled itself sufficiently to become through prop
err participation in the a helpful
beginner"
Among grim brick walls, on hard streets
frightened chiefly by the hard stone steps
that women secured with weary arms but new.
er-fla gging self-respect, his figures told truths
as palpable as brick and stone.
FLASHED today across a world Of well-tended
lawns and open meadows, read in country
houses and town houses, they may do as much
to bring new happiness where the old was
| beginning to wear and wane amid aging lux
ury. They are really statistics of the heart,
all the mure comprehensive for being tabulat'
ed in the manner Of the street,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
THUS SPAKE THE O O

There is deep regret among many Will
mingtonians that the seasons book reviews
by Rabbi NJ. M. THURMAN have come to an
end. Throughout the winter, Rabbi THURMAN
has made a practice of reviewing outstanding
volumes as they appeared, and increasing at
tendance has borne witness both to their in
terest and value.
At the closing session on Tuesday night
the book was CLIFTON FAD1MAN's II Betieve,'
now much in the minds of the reading pub
lie. 1t was splendidly handled, as an attentive
audience proved. The large circle of auditors
who have looked forward to each review eve
ming with keen delight could wish that the
summer interruption might be done away
with, despite the tax on the Rabbi their con
tinuation would impose; but it is something
to know that another winter will bring theil
Resumption.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-04
Cannon Mills Reports
Increase In Earning

KANNAPOLIS. April g. Up =
The Cannon Mills company annual
stockholders report revealed a nj
income of $3.595,536 last year, com
pared with $2.277,5SO in 1888.
The report, to be presented TO t'
stockholders at their annual mee'
ing Tuesday, showed that $ti,5S'
1913 worth of goods was sold ID
1889 compared with $37,572,191 ts
previous year.
The firm reported current asseS
of $27,S33,S06, current liabilities 10
662'5l8, cash on hand $3,015, 722 anu
inventories SIT, 1903, 443.