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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27
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Editor Tall Tower Topics: This week will usher the basketball at the Waterbury Boys Club and the boys and girls in charge of the arrangements are planning on making this event huge success. They have also arranged to have local orchestra to play for dancing which will follow the main game on Friday, November 29. Among the committee members you will find such pleasant and wel-liked persons as William Delaney, Dan Denehy, Celeste Petrillo Rita Palmerin Paul Burgio Anthony D Maria, Vic Manneo, Jean and Josephine Caparaiso Rose De Leon Paul Cree Knowing that you have will receive ducats for this affair and hoping to you and yours at this date, we are Sin cerely, The Committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

Viewing with alarm the huge sums donated to the Republican cause in Connecticut during the late election. Al Treat has come
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

After holding the tenancy of a farm for seven generations, a fam fly near Cheshire, England, has just given it up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

China and British India now sup ply AS per cent of the goat and kid skins used in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

John A. Cluney sports ed, can't wait for Thanks will be his birthday. That poor turkey will certainly catch the dickens tomorrow when John wraps that napkin around his neck Vivien KellemS, president of KellemS Products, Inc manufacturers of wire and of KellemS Products, Incorporated, manufacturers of wire cable and conduitS proved to service club members this noon. at the Hotel Elton
 few weeks ago. put her in the four class of those appearing before their club and that's why she invited to the joint barley today Her subject Women In Business" was just what the doctor ordered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

Mr. and Mrs Edward GrOOdy of Wilson Street celebrating another wedding anniversary tomorrow It is their 21st and they have been 21 of the most happy ones. Ed is the popular fireman at the Highland Avenue house. They have ideal family of four Edward Frank, Bob, and Jackie - and the idol of them all is little sister - Helen The Tower extends best wishes for many, many more happy anniversaries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

them all is little sister Helen The Tower extends best wishes for many many more happy anniversaries
 Editor Tall Tower Topics: wish you would find space to print this incident in your column On Monday evening the 5:3O Baldwin Street bus about to up the bus stand to take passengers and at the time there three busseS preceding ours. They at standst and taking passengers also. The Baldwin Street bus was partly parked upon the crossing at Leavenworth and West Main streets which unavoidable at that moment with the traffic being congested it The officer doing duty at that time up to the driver and spoke in very sarcastic, uncaledfor tone, the passengers all thought. He presented the driver with ticket for The bus driver deserves banquet for what he had to take from him. do respect in their line of duty, but also think the driver of the bus is human being alSO
 give big hand to the driver whose number found to be 733 hope this may help him, because there need for the abuse he did take for something that he could not avoid Thank you. I was passenger on that very bus at the said time. M s.
 Helen Lahey is chairman and Virginia Collins chairman for the second annual dinner hop of the Alpha Kampa sorority at Three Cups Inn in January Shirley French of South Elm Street will have 13 candles her birthday cake tonight but she's not the least bit SuperStitiOuS. Charles L. HOebel has been named chairman of the senior banquet committee at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Oliver James, John Gubaitis, Eddie StepOnatiS, M McGraUh, Tony Vitas and Nicholas OrsilO spent the weekend in New York City. They're active members of the Lakeside Bachelors Club
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-27

Maurice J. Swetland journeyed to Waterbury last Friday evening and presented General John Y. ORyan with a copy of the new book. THESE MEN. General 0.Ryan was Jacks old 0. O. and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

No. 3. FARMING. One of ia
pans chief needs at the present
time is food for its soldiers on
China's Uar fronts. NotU, as at no
other time in history, japanese
,comen hare turned to the fields
to prouide this food. Pictured here
are young girls picking toeeds from
a field OF rice.
ing and banging of heavy machin-
cry. A few of these illustrate how
vast numbers of Japan's women are
employed.
In a glass factory in Tokyo,
housed in fragile wooden buildings,
women sort, wash, and pack the
glassware. Floors are simply we'll
packed earth, and the window open
ings small. The furnaces make
the heat insufferable even on a cool
day.
Tokyo also has q concern which
makes metal fixtures, heads for
electric-light bulbs, tops for candy
bottles and vanity cases-heavy ma
chine work. Machinery is placed so
close together that you fear to pass
through room lest you be caught
by some part of your clothing.
Women and girls with rounded
shoulders squat before machines
crudely made by the concern itself,
fashioning the covers and bulb
ends. Some of the girls are barely
IA or Is; some are middle-aged
or old women. One woman with
bad eyesight bends and squints over
her work.
AS you ascend the scale of en-
ployment, the Japanese woman is
not missing. Telephone girls, typ
lists, or copyists throng the business
offices. The telephone girls are, on
the whole, older than the clerks.
Many of them are married. The
typists are higher school students,
ranging in age from 18 to 20. Some
use the native instrument; others.
who know English, are trained TO
use the modern machine.
The oriental typewriter has a
board containing more than 1900
symbols, including some 1000 Chi
nese Geographic characters, two
kama, or syllabary systems of 81
symbols each, the English alphabet
tboth small and capital letters),
- 80 Asese numerals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
FROM ISSUE OF SEPT. Ii, 1918
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ

Agnes Jacobs, the 10-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Jacobs,
residing on College Avenue near the
Lake Erie railroad, died of lockjaw
Thursday evening, resulting from
the effects of stepping on a nail.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. d. Nonnamaker,
of Arlington, Neb., are visiting their
brother, Jacob Nonnamaker, and
other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Garner, of
Toledo, are visiting the West famil-
les and other relatives here.
Miss .Wineland, of the high school
faculty, spent part of her vacation
with a camping party in Switzer-
land.
Prof. |. w. Geiger assisted in the
high school until another teacher
could be secured.
Miss Miller, of the high school,
spent six weeks of her vacation
teaching English at the summer
college of Wittenberg college, after
which she spent three weeks visiting
in the East.
ID. H. Carr, j. r. Dray and j. r.
Cunningham expect to leave Sunday
to attend the National Soldiers En-
campment at Chattanooga.
Miss Gertrude Lewis, of Ashley,
Mich, is visiting her father, George
Lewis and family, since Saturday.
Misses Jessie and Grace Murray
left Saturday for Monroe, Mich.
Miss Jessie who graduated at the
above named place last spring, has
accepted a position as a teacher in
one of the schools for the ensuing
year.
Mrs. Matt Sweeney and children
and Miss Emma Benroth left last
Wednesday for their home in Beau
mont, Texas.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
Mrs. ID. d. Diller sold her farm
Saturday to her sons, John and
Henry.
Peter Kohl has rented the Bucher
farm and will move in the near
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Burkholder
welcomed a little baby girl into their
home on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lauby will
return next week to Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
ON THE MOSQUITO
BATTLEFRONT

With the municipal cleanup drive
marking completion of the first step
in Bluffton's mosquito elimination
drive, every householder of the town
will find much of the responsibility
for future work resting squarely on
his shoulders.
A cleanup of premises early in
the spring, or sporadically thruout
the year, will not be sufficient to
make the battle on Bluffton's mos
quito infestation a success. In
eliminating m osquito breeding
places, it is necessary that each
citizen make a close inspection of
his property at least once each week
particularly following heavy rains.
Bluffton householders will be able
to obtain advice on control problems
from the towns anti-mosquito forces
who have been working quietly, but
diligently, in mapping the plans for
this summers war on the pests.
Each individual problem will be con-
sidered carefully.
Control of mosquitoes requires
that their breeding places be located
early in the spring, and appropriate
measures taken before the adults
have an opportunity to emerge. 1t
is an easy matter to destroy the
mosquito in its water stage, but
next to impossible to control the
pests once they are on the wing.
Adults of spring mosquitoes are
vicious biters, are long-lived and
altho most abundant in the spring
they will linger on into July and
August. The spring mosquito forms
the most abundant single group,
altho it is of one generation only;
therefore, destroying the spring
mosquito will go long way toward
giving adequate relief thruout the
spring and early summer.
Cooperation of every resident of
the town is sought by Mayor Will
bur A. Howe, and if careful vigi-
lance is maintained the entire COM
munity will benefit.
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No. 4. after HOURS. Vest
ern ideas haue made inroads into
the ,oorkaday life of the japanese
girls but toith these netv ideas Il
uork has also come a trend to-
iUard neiU recreationnI activity.
These ttoo japanese girls are walk-
ing out on the court for a game OF
tennis. The one on the left eyen
tUears shorts like many an aspirant
for court honors among american
Uomen players.
prietor answers that the girls live in
the neighborhood and have lunch in
the factory.
One of Japan's largest industries
is the preparing of the raw silk
(skeins of silk thread) to be sent to
Europe and America. This work is
done in factories called silk filatures
which are practically stated with
girls and young women.
To the onlooker. t',o - s.9'f
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Remains Brought
Here For Burial

Interment services for Mrs. Clara
Josephine Cramer, 81, of Findlay,
wife of Edd Cramer of that place,
were held at Maple Grove cemetery
in Bluffton Saturday afternoon.
The remains were brought here
following funeral services held at
her late home in Findlay, earlier
in the afternoon.
Mrs. Cramer died at her home
Wednesday afternoon following a
six months illness.
She was born in Bluffton Janu-
ary 6, 1879, the daughter of Henry
and Margaret Reiter. Her marriage
to Mr.. Cramer was May 8, 1897.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by two sons: V. L. Cramer
and Karl o. Cramer and one daugh-
ter Mrs. Margaret Heuer all of
Detroit.
Also surviving are a brother,
Lewis Reiter of Findlay and two
sisters, Mrs. Altha Garrett and Mrs.
Callie Keppler both of Bluffton.
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No. ?. MANUFACTURE. Be-
cause the army needs men fac
tories of every type haze been
forced to replace male workers
Nth young girls. Here is a Japa-
nese maid bringing in Uood to be
made into charcoal. Other indus
tries in tohich these girls find en-
pEoyment include the manufacture
OF shoes, clothing, glass, pottery,
toothpaste and a host of others.
stand at long tables from in the
morning until in the afternoon.
Forty minutes for lunch and two rest
periods of ten minutes each are their
only chances to sit down.
The manager who shows you
around points proudly to the rooms
where the employees change from
street to work clothes, and to the
laundry with running water where
the uniforms are washed.
Outnumber Men 4 to 1.
In stocking and rubber shoe fac
tory near Osaka again the majority
of workers are women and girls
1000 girls to 1000 men. Some work
at sewing machines, others pack the
finished product. The girls wear
white cloths over their hair, but no
masks to protect their lungs.
To uI1eetionS aS IN 400 hn,,rc of
work, and living conditions, the pro-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

A goodly number were at the
Lutheran services in the Presbyter-
ian church Wednesday evening at
tending the installation services of
Rev. r. Richards, the newly ap-
pointed pastor of the Bluffton, Mt.
Zion and Arlington Lut h er n
churches.
Althaus, Ewing and Co. have
taken charge of the Pandora plan
ing mill and the same will be
operated in connection with their
Bluffton plant.
Miss Mary Owens, who was tax
ing special instruction at Bridgeport
Conn.,, returned home Sunday even
ing on account of poor health.
Bert Clark left Sunday evening
for Alliance to attend the funeral
of his brother, Thomas, who was
buried yesterday.
Miss Pauline Hammond and 7. j
Hesser left for Cleveland, Tuesday
At the meeting of the Aller
County Agricultural Society, held a
Lima Saturday, Harry Patterson o.
Richland township, was chosen al
one of the directors, to serve on'
year.
Miss Minnie Mckinley, of Rawson
has resigned her position in th'
Knox store at Findlay, and will soor
take up her duties as a milliner il
Toledo.
j. C. Owens, who made his home
with his sister, Mrs. Sarah Doyle
south of town, since September, left
for Indianapolis, Ind, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ostendorf, Of
TT. Jennings, visited the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Owens
several days last week.
Roy Lippencott and family, oi
bennington, Ont, returned to Bluff
ton Saturday, and will again make
this their home.
With the advent of the new poo
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Notice

The trustees of Richland township
will receive bids for the care and
moving with lawn mower of the fol-
lowing cemeteries:
Old Cemetery in Bluffton.
Old Mennonite.
Gratz.
Old Cemetery in Beaverdam.
Pleasant Hill. All inside driveway
must be moved with lawn mower;
the east part of which must be
rolled.
Woodland. All inside the drive
way must be moved with lawn now
er. The west part must be rolled
first.
Bids must be in hands of the clerk
by April 13, 1910, at s p. m.
so N. w. Basinger, Clerk
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

No. l. BUSINESS. The CONNER
ciat field in Japan has claimed
many young girls as stenoraphers
and clerks. Some OF these girls are
educated in the United States and
haze adopted american office tech
nique. Howeuer, the stenographer
pictured here is using typewriter
toith an oriental keyboard. This
keyboard has 2,200 symbols and
as a result is much slotUer than the
Western type machine.
,s..ss1s,-s.essS .esst s-t~
seems most trying, since each girl
has to watch constantly the silk
feeding onto 20 spindles. To do this,
she must stand all day, and her
hands are continually in and out of
basins of hot water, pulling the silk
strands from the cocoons and direct
ing them over the tiny wheels to
the spindle above. The workers of
the silk filature are on a contract
basis and live in one part Of the
factory called the dormitory.
To any section suffering from
famine managers of factories go and
make contracts with the families Of
girls. The family receives a sum
of cash to help them carry on until
the next good harvest, and the girl
pays tor it by serving three or four
years in the filature. After her con-
tract is fulfilled, she goes home
and is married to a young man
whom her family has chosen.
BY far the greater number of
Japan's factories are small work
shops manned perhaps by two or
three workers, or at most by 10 to
25. Some of these are family con-
Germs, in which the women and girls
of the family help. Others are
neighborhood enterprises, to which
the local girls and women flock.
Tokyo Glass Factory.
In any street may be heard the
soft whir of looms or the clang-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

Jerry Sauder, secretary. The board
is composed of the three Mennonite
conferences, Middle, Eastern and
Central, and alumni representatives.
Matters being handled were the
regular reports by the college off
cials and a statement of the budget
for next year. Officers of the board
of trustees for the coming year
were chosen at this time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

A partial solar eclipse between
2:35 and 5:16 o'clock next Sunday
afternoon may be seen in this dis
trict, it was learned this week.
Maximum stage of the eclipse will
be at 1859 p. m. when it will be
about 80 per cent total.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Japan S Girls
Replace Men
In Industry
Women Fill Factory, Farm
Jobs as Army Claims
Manpower.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, d. C.-WNU Service.


Washington, d. C.-WNU Service.
When a Japanese soldier leaves
his native soil to fight an "unde-
clared" war what happens to the
job he left behind him? For just
as important as a battle against
some Chinese war lord is the battle
on the nations labor front. Japan,
struggling for national self-sufficien-
cy, is finding the answer to this
problem by filling vacant jobs with
its native girls and women.
In the large cities such as Tokyo,
Osaka, and Nagoya, are many west
ern-type factories. Some of these
are thoroughly up to date-cement
buildings, large windows, running
water and modern toilets, clinics,
and lunchrooms.
In a toothpaste factory in Tokyo,
the majority of jobs are filled by
girls-350 girls and only 70 men.
The girl workers fill tubes, paste
on labels, and pack the cartons.
on labels and pack the cartons. They
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF January 81, 1907

room, opened Saturday night in the
Owens block, Bluffton now lays
claim to having four temporary
pool rooms within its limits.
Allen Patterson, president of the
Bluffton Stone Co., who has been
suffering from a severe attack of
rheumatism, is in Florida with his
family, since Jan. z.
Cal Gratz and family, residing on
the Mrs. Mary Whistler farm, north
of town, expect to move to Van
Vert county next week, where they
have rented a farm.
Robert Mollett, who was connect
ed with the Bluffton Stone Co.'s
plant the past season, left Monday
accompanied by his sister, Miss
Lena, for Indian territory where
they will visit. From there they
will go to Phoenix, Ariz., the present
home of their mother.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Baumgartner, Martinsburg, Pa, were
glad to hear that they expect TO
locate in this neighborhood in the
spring.
John r. Marshall, of the White
Haven farm, will lead the discussion
on Wheat Culture" at the Farmers
Institute to be held in the Ottawa
River church, Feb. IL and IL.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
Joel and Mrs. Diller Amstutz had
a son added to their family recently.
We learn that Peter Zimmerly has
sold 20 acres of his homestead to
his son-in-law, Will Balmer, and also
the 40 acres that he owns in Riley
township.
Hiram Basinger and Miss Minnie
Davis were quietly married last
Thursday. They are spending their
honeymoon with relatives and friends
in Lucas county and taking in the
sights of Toledo.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
Partial Eclipse Of Sun Due
Here Next Sunday Afternoon

Scientifically speaking the eclipse
will be of little value in this section,
for it is only when an eclipse is total
that a view of the gaseous area is
seen about the sun.
In this area there may be a
slight darkening of the sky, but
residents will have to remember the
date if they particlarly want to no
tice it. Those who want to watch
the eclipse are cautioned to use a
silver of smoked glass or a photo
graphic negative to protect the eyes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

The dumping of rubbish, trash
and junk along roads and highways
is prohibited by law. The Trustees
of Richland Township hereby serve
notice that anyone dumping along
roads or highways will be prosecuted.
BY order of the Board of Trustees.
49 N. w. Basinger, Clerk.
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Board OF Trustees
Hold Meeting Friday

The semi-annual meeting of the
board of trustees of Bluffton college
was held Friday in the Musselman
library.
The officers to head the board are
DR.. ]. S. Slabaugh, president, DR.. B.
F. Thutt, vice-president, and Rev.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

where Mr.. Lauby will again spend
years study in the Bible school.
Mr.. Lauby was quite successful in
his evangelistic work during his
summer vacation.
The house of John Sutter caught
fire last Friday afternoon. AS Mr..
and Mrs. Sutter were absent the
fire gained such headway that very
little could be saved.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04

Package bees to replace winter
killed colonies or to strengthen weak
colonies should be installed into Ohio
apiaries during the first 10 days of
Anril
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-04
AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE
TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUS-
TEES OF MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY TO
DEED LOT NUMBER 165 IN SECTION G IN
MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY TO THE HEIRS
OF DIR. SAMUEL X. MOSIMAN. SAID LOT
BEING THE PLACE WHERE SAID DIR.
SAMUEL X. MOSIMAN IS BURIED.
WHEREAS, recently all the village and
community shocked by the death of DIR.
Samuel X. Mosiman, President Emeritus of
Bluffton College. and approaching the great
good that DIR. Mosiman did effecting the people
of our community Now, therefore.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
THE VILLAGE OF BLUFFT0N, OHIO:
Section /. In consideration of One (S1.00)
Dollar and other valuable consideration that
said Board of Trustees of Maple Grove Gene
terry are hereby authorized TO deed lot num-
bered 165 in Section in Maple Grove Gene
terry to the heirs of DR.. Samuel X. Mosman
for a burial lot
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after the earliest
period allowed by law.
Passed April 1st. 1910.
G. A TRIPLETT,
President of the Council
approved April 1st. 1910
w. A. HOWE,
Mayor.
Attest: JAMES F. WEST.
so Clerk.
La gaceta., 1940-12-04
"JuiciOs de los Mdrtires"

En- Belleville, Illinois, ilenoI
de simpatia por un hombre alto
en- ropas raidas'', Delmar Davis
cOmpr6 un juego de cuatro to-
mos de los "Juicios de los Pri-
meros Martires Cristianos"
(costo de la edici6n regular "a.
9S) en- su Oficina, un dia. Esa
noche, cuando lego a su casa, su
mujer alegremente lie anuncio
que habia obtenido una ganga
(de un vendedor con la descrip-
.ci6n del anterior) al adquirir un
eSplendido juego de libros de los
"Juicios de los Primeros Mar
tires CristianoS" Ola edici6n de
lujo, en- $6.9S y rebajada desde
$500.
Davis salt6 inmediatamente
en- su autOm6vil para encontrar
al persuasive vendedor y devol-
verle uno de les juegos. 10 VIC
EN- una estaci6n Y lie grit6 a an
La gaceta., 1940-12-04

Atenas, Grecia, Die. al
preslonamiento del ejerciito
griego sobre Port Edda y Ar
girocastro es cada vez mayor
v la resistencia italiana conti-
h1a debilltandose. Esperase la
caida de esas ciudades de un
momento a otro. LAS tropas
,fascistas, dice un funcionario
griego, Sc retiran, en- la region
de Port Edda y las unidades
griegas de avance Sc italian a
milla y cuarto de la poblacion
Otras fuerzas griegas, en- Ell
extreme opuesto del frente de
batalla de Albania, dicese
que mantienen su Marcia por
las montanas cubiertas de ME
We Y siguen ell rumbo de FL
bansani y la capital albane-
sa, Tirana. En- ell area de Ar
girocastro ell fuego de la ar
tilleria ha neutralizado la re-
sistencia italiana y la carrete-
"a que CORE hacia ell nordes-
tie desde Port Edda sgfre tam
bien ell ~bombardeo de la arti-
Iberia, AL norte de las monta-
mas de 0strovitza, en- Ell sector