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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Zero Weather On Sunday Ends
Unusually Warm Early
Winter Period
Cold Wave Continues Unabated
For Four Days; Relief
Slow in Coming

Real winter weather swept out of
the west with unexpected severity
last Saturday night, bringing with
1t setting of ice, snow and near
zero temperatures for the advent of
the New Year.
Since arrival of the cold wave in
the wake of a near-blizzard, the
Blutfton district has been held in an
icy grasp very much in contrast to
the unseasonably warm winter
weather of the preceding month.
A roaring wind brought the sea-
sons heaviest snow storm last Sat
urday night, and the mercury start
ed falling early in the evening.
SEVEN ABOVE ZERO SUNDAY
On Sunday morning thermometers
in the area a low of seven degrees
above zero. Weather thruout the
day was very little warmer, and the
cold wave continued unabated thru
Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday
morning the thermometers stood at
zero, the coldest mark of the winter.
Weather predictions indicated the
possibility of some relief late We'd
nesday, but at noon there had been
no definite indication of a trend
toward higher temperatures.
Ice and snow during the last four
days have given an opportunity for
Bluffton residents to brush up on the
technique of driving on treacherous
streets and keeping their equilibrium
on slippery walks. Despite plenty
of ice and snow, there were no ia
tai crashes in the area, and few
mishaps of any kind were reported.
CARoLERs BRAVE COLD
Near-zero temperatures made New
Years Eve caroling anything but a
pleasant diversion last Sunday night,
but bands of bundled-up singers
traversed the town and countryside
on their traditional rounds despite
the inclemency of the weather.
Hundreds of motorists were caught
without the necessary preparations
for winter, and filling stations re-
ported brisk business during the 72-
hour holiday period.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Hold Funeral For
e> John K. Marshall

Funeral services largely attended
were held for John R. Marshall, 8S,
at the Rockport Presbyterian church
Tuesday afternoon. Officiating at
the services was Rev. j. Norman
King of Dayton, a former pastor
assisted by Rev. Chas. Armentrout,
present pastor of the church. Burial
was in the Rockport cemetery.
Mr.. Marshall, prominent retired
Monroe township farmer died at his
home west of Bluffton Sunday morn
ing after an extended period of fail
ing health.
He was for many years leader
in the Rockport church, serving as
an elder and also member of the
building committee when the church
was built in 1908. He also served
on the boards of trustees of Rich
land and Monroe townships and the
school boards of the two townships,
was a director of the former Com
mercial Bank & Savings company of
Bluffton and once had taught school.
A native of Mahoning county, he
was the son of Cyrus and Mary
(Reed) Marshall and lived in Rich
land and Monroe townships since he
was six months old.
Surviving are three daughters
Mrs. J. o. Cupp and Mrs. J. c.
Begg both of near Columbus Grove
and Miss Elnora Marshall at home
two sons Harold and Herbert Marsh
all both of near Columbus Grove anc
a brother Albert Marshall of neal
Beaverdam.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
MAYOR MAKES
Appoint MENTS
No Changes in Buttons 13
Appointive Offices for
Coming Year
Incoming City Administrative
Officials are Seated at
Meeting Tuesday

All of Bluffton's municipal ap-
pointees will be continued in office
for another year, it was determined
Tuesday night at the first meeting
of the towns new council in munich
pal chambers at the town hall.
Appointments made by Mayor Will
bur A. Howe were confirmed unani-
mously by members of the council, as
the first official administrative action
of the new year.
Appointees named at the session
include:
Lee Coon, street commissioner,
500 per month. Named for one
year.
Guy Corson, fire chief, 5000 per
year. Named for two years.
Members of the fire department.
II. E. Augsburger, Isaac Brobeck,
Ed Badertscher, Fred Martin, Lester
Niswander, C. V. Stonehill, Harold
Stonehill and Charles Young.
Albert Benroth, caretaker of the
town clock, $50 per year. Named for
one year.
Albert Reichenbach, nightwatch,
500 per month. Named for one
year from five applicants.
Francis Durbin, city solicitor, 800
per year retainer. Named for two
years.
In his appointment of standing
committees for the council, Mayor
Howe selected the following:
Finance committee-E. w. Basing-
er and Armin Hauenstein.
Street and roads committee
Memo Badertscher and Ralph Pat
terson.
Fire and light committee-M. R.
Bixel and C. A. Triplett.
In organization of the new council.
C. A. Triplett, serving his first term,
was elected president.
One other appointment remains to
be made, the term of j. A. Thompson
as member of the board of trustees
for Maple Grove cemetery having
expired. Other members of the
board are E. L. Diller and Mrs. w.
E. Diller.
Preceding seating of the new
council, retiring councilmen met
briefly and adjourned sine die, mark
ing their official retirement from the
affairs of the municipality.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
illustrated Talk
On Africa Here

An illustrated talk on Africa will
be given in the Bluffton Presbyter-
ian church Sunday at 7:30 o'clock
by Miss Mary Haas of Pandora.
Miss Haas, who recently returned
from the African mission field will
speak of the life and her work in
that region. The talk is sponsored
by the Women's Missionary society
of the church here. The public is
invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Near-Gale Brings Severe Cold Wave
Into Area For Advent OF New Year
Woman, SO, Reads
The Bluffton News
Without Glasses

A GED 93 years and reading
The Bluffton News every
week without the aid of glasses
is the unusual feat of Mrs. Mary
Il. Zeiders of Beaverdam.
Not only is Mrs. Zeiders one
of the oldest readers of the
Bluffton News, but she has been
constant subscriber since the
early days of the paper. Not
wIthstanding her advanced age
she takes an active interest i'm
community happenings and is en-
ioying good health.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
PRICE OF HAY
CLIMBS HIGHER
Quotations More Than Double
Those of Last Fall as
Shortage Develops
Top Grades Bring S14 Ton, But
Farmers with Hay Hold
For Higher Price

With scarcity of hay Unexpectedly
developing almost overnight, prices
commanded in the Bluffton district by
forage crops have more than doubled
over last falls quotations.
Buyers are paying from So to S14 a
ton to farmers for hay at present, but
little is being sold altho reports from
farm observers indicate a large guam
tity is stored in mows thruout the
area.
Most of the present available crop
is being held for higher prices that
are expected, and in other cases the
hay is needed for winter feeding pur-
poses.
Last fall, hay sold for as low as SIS
ton with $3.50 the peak. For long
time straw brought prices the equal
of those being paid for the forage
crops.
Prices Climb
Hay quotations jumped upwards
rapidly within period of few weeks
in December, with the demand sud-
denly exceeding the available supply.
Alfalfa is commanding a top price
of $14 ton at present. Red clover
hay is selling at $40 ton from the
farm, and timothy brings about the
same price.
Straw is practically unobtainable in
the Bluffton district and before the
snowfall there were several reports of
uncut fields of old alfalfa being cut
for bedding and for other purposes
generally requiring the use of straw.
Shortage of straw this year likely
will result in less harvesting of wheat
by combine in the Bluffton area next
fall. In combining, straw cannot be
reclaimed, and the demand of this
year will make it advantageous for
farmers to harvest, then thresh their
crop next fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Golf Course May
Be Laid Out Here

Possibility of establishing a golf
course in the Bluffton area this
coming summer is being considered
by local interests.
A meeting will be held Monday,
Jan. Is in High School study hall
to which golfers and others inter-
ested in the game are invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
First Baby Of New
Year Is Born Here
Monday Afternoon

IT'S girl-BlufftOn's first baby
to be reported in 1910. Born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Conner Stewart
of Columbus Grove at the Bluff
ton hospital, the new arrival was
officially recorded as having ar
rived Monday afternoon at sos
o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Business Outlook Brighter Barring
War, Lions Told At Dinner Meeting
Zero Weather,
First In Four
Years Is Here

IERO weather-the first i'm
four years-swept down on
the Bluffton district Wednesday.
The cold wave which sent ther-
mometers down to zero Wednes-
day morning came after three
days during which the tempera-
ture stood at about ten degrees
above the zero mark. The cold
wave arrived Saturday night
accompanied by snow. Slowly
rising temperatures are forecast
for Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Real Estate Deal

The Mathewson property on Cherry
streeth as been purchased by Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Patterson, it was an
nounced the first of the week. The
deal was made by the Althaus &
Collins agency.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
ReU. Thiessen To
Address u. r. A.

Rev. John Thiessen of Bluffton
college, returned missionary from
India will address the Bluffton Par
ent- Teacher association meeting in
the high school cafeteria next Tues
day night at 7:30 o'clock. Theme of
the meeting is Fathers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04
Frog Business

Frogs give every indication of
eventually becoming "big business"
in the West. One company capital
lied at $4,000 has filed articles of
incorporation for the opening of 20
frog ranches near Modesto, Calf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-04

Remember 1t?

Additional reviews of Bluff
toms activity during the past
year appear on Page 2 of this
issue of the Bluffton News.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14
} STAMP, NEWS

THIRTY-THREE stamps com-
 memorate Italy's first Over seas Exposition, heralding the spread of the empire. Libya, Ital- ian East Africa and Italy's Aegean Islands have each. issued sets of seven postage and four airmail values.
 Manchukuo has announced the issue of two stamps, for release in November; marking the national census.
 A portrait of Sir Rowland Hill will form the design of Portugal's issue of eight values honoring the centenary of the postage stamp.
 The Louisa May Alcott 5-cent stamp tops all others in the Fa- nous Americans series in total covers handled in first-day sale. There were 213,620 Alcott covers dispatched from Concord, Mass, Feb. 5. The Horace Mann stamp has the second largest total of covers and the Ralph Waldo Emerson stamp is third.
 |
 Germany has released two semi-postals for the Red Cross.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14

There was something different
 about Joe and Nick which Sue
 Mary couldn't quite understand.
 It was Mitzi who spoke. You're from fathers off1ce?"
 heard the music surging around her in waves of beauty, she ex- perienced an entirely new sensa- ton - almost heady feeling of danger.
 The office seemed bleak and dull the next day. The f1ve-day week made it necessary to double up on work. Kitty was gone and Miss Grant kept Sue Mary busy. It was late afternoon when Miss Grant asked her to go to the Clark home.
 MT. Ross isn't feeling well and he wants to give some dictation," she explained. "Just notes," she added quickly. You can do it easily. I can't leave because some clients are coming in. Now go along. When you're through there you can go home and finish up that work in the morning"
 It was the first time Sue Mary had been in such a home. The butler who admitted her took her to a small library with book-lined walls and dark polished furniture. Flowers gave a touch of color to the room and pictures of family groups in heavy, old-fashioned silver frames, desk ornaments, and faint odor of good tobacco made it livable.
 Like a movie set, she thought, wishing she could relax and en- joy, if only for these few mo- ments, the luxury about her. How strange it must be to live in such house day after day; accepting these things without even seeing them, taking them for granted as she took for granted her small room, her tiny radio, her few cakes of good soap and her one small bottle of perfume.
 Someone had entered the room and Sue Mary came back to real- ity with start. It was Mitzi Clark, last years orchid debutante and the oldest daughter. She looked like her brother: blond hair, exquisitely groomed, poised and unself- conscious.
 With her was Joan Brant. Sue Mary recognized her, too, from the roto pictures. This year she was society's No. 1 glamor girl.
 Sue Mary's voice seemed strange to her own ears. She tried to be calm and assume the young business woman role, but she felt terribly gauche, awkward, wrongly dressed.
 He'll be down eventually" Mitzi said, taking some books from the desk. He won't exer- else, you know" she explained, turning to the other girl, "and now he's working harder because of all this war stuff."
 I'm sick of hearing war all the time" Joan Brant said. Its cut a terrible crimp in the social season. I would get lousy break the year came out"
 Mitzi laughed. Could be worse. Well, we have to get along" she said to Sue Mary. Miss Brant's being a deb, I'm being former deb. This is my afternoon at the day nursery. Funny, but I get sort of kick out of it. Working with those dirty, smelly little kids,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14
CHAPTER VI

CHATTER VI
 It was a benefit concert to help war refugees and it was held in a small hall crowded with intense-faced young people and a scattering of older men and wo- men whose foreign faces were Seri- ous until the music began. Some of it was familiar to Sue Mary; most of it was strange.
 "Thats by the modern Rus sian," Nick told her during inter mission. "You get the feeling of power, and freedom, and mass happiness"
 q liked the Tchaikowsky," she said softly. T know that one"
 Lavender and old lace" Nick and very young - and sort of sweet. Different.
 Maybe there is something to this stuff about the sheltered girl. You're not like Vera or aNtalie. They know what it's all about, and they'll get what they want. They're real workers. No illu- sions. You'll be a good worker, too. And yet you're sweet the way you are"
 He wasn't making love to her. It was as though he was talking to himself. There wasn't that something in his voice that came to Joe'S when he said goodby after kissing her good night.
 Somehow it was hard to think of Nick ever being sentimental; not with his usual cynicism, his worldiness, his drive and force.
 Yet sometimes that evening, when she looked into his eyes and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14

II mean. They have so little and are SO grateful.
 T think I'll help Slice Simpson campaign for new social center. She's up to her neck in welfare work and social reform. Oh, well, it's something to do besides play bridge and go to cocktail parties"
 They were gone with a swish of perfumed frocks and gleam of silken hose, the clicking of their heels tapping tune on the polished floors. Sue Mary decided she liked Mitz; liked her more than she liked her blond. polo-playing brother. She didn't seem to pretend. and she looked healthy and clean and as though she might have become a little tired of being called an orchid deb.
 Sue Mary wondered what Vera and Natalie and Nick would say about the girls. In the few times she had been with them she had come to sense the bitter under current of their talk about the upper classes.
 At first she had thought it just the natural desire to have the luxurieS, the ease, the fun that went with that life: desire that she had and took for granted. But she wondered now little if it wasn't something that went deeper. They were so bitter about the idle rich"
 She didn't feel that way. She didn't hate Mitzi Clark because she had looks and wealth and all the good times. that went with money. And she didn't hate old M. Ross Clark because he was rich man. After all, he was re- sponsible for her pay check each week.
 Her thoughts were interrupted by his appearance at that very moment and from then on she was too busy to think of anything but keeping up with his dictation. While her fingers flew and she covered sheet after sheet in her notebook, she thought of the work for which he was responsible.
 He was worried about the war. At attorney for the plane and auto factories, the war boom tripled his work at the office. New designs, new contracts, new patents; and more noticeable veil of secrecy descending over it all. A rigid guarding of files; a closer guard on carbon copies; even a stricter check on shorthand notes.
 It brought & sense of world up- heaval closer somehow. Sue Mary had discovered that by simply switching off the war broadcasts and merely skimming the stories the situation could remain remote. But it wasn't so easy now with the feeling of tenseness existing in the office.
 (To Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14
In The Local
 Theate1S
STATE

Right up on top of your must see" list goes the spectacular thrill film Foreign Correspondent" which has drawn thousands of amusement seekers to the Warner Bros. State theater since its opening Wednes- day afternoon.
 And here's good news for those who have not had the opportunity to see this picture to date, and also for those who intend to enjoy tho thrills & second time. Foreign Correspondent" will be held-over by popular demand and will continue showing at the State through per- formances Tuesday evening, and, of course, at regular State prices.
 Foreign Correspondent is defi- nitely the thrill spectacle of the year and has become an overnight sensation. Wherever you go, people are talking about its thrilling story and critics are praising it to the skies.
 Starring Joel McCrea with Lar aine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Robert Benchley, Albert bdSSCTLI1du dIlu EuudIQO SAnL1C4A this stirring production brings to the screen scene after scene of mag nitude rarely equaled on the screen.
 Tn picture was made in recognl- tion of the intrepid group of American newSpapermen who are serving as the nations eyes and ears during the European debacle, risking their lives daily in order to keep their own people informed of the rapidly shifting panorama of war.
 Most elaborate and extensive settings, constructed for any pro- duction in Hollywood in several years are those provided as back grounds for this exciting film.
 The second big hit of the pro- gram is smash laugh hit Five Little Peppers In Trouble" which brings to the screen the latest laughs and thrills of fiction'S ire pressible family the Peppers. Edith Fellows, Dorothy Peterson and Ronald Sinclair head the cast.
 Rounding out the program will be the latest newsreel scoops as brought to the screen by Paramount News, "the eyes and ears of the world" Don't miss the news!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14
POLI's

Thrills of the pioneer West min gled with uproarious comedy brings Wallace Beery to the Loew Poli screen today in fast-moving drama of the great outdoors, wyoming"
 Amid Indian battles, raids, on cattle thieves and other exciting detail, played against the majestic Teton mountains in Wyoming, Beery engages in a courtship with Mar jorie Main that provides him with his most comical romance since 'Min and Bill" serenadeS his lady, love with 8 harmonica and engages In comedy episodes with Leo Car rillo. The young romance is between Ann Rutherford, of the Judge Hardy Family series, and Lee Bowman.
 Wyoming" is laid almost entirely outdoors, the country about Jackson Lake, Wyoming, providing scenery of breath-taking beauty. Beery's bad-man characterization is com- pel1ingly dramatic at times, whims- 3cally humorous at others, in a story ideal for his particular talents.
 In addition to the players named already, the cast includes Joseph Calleia, Paul Kelly, Bobs Watson, Russell Simpson and Sara Haden.
 On the same program is another smash hit, "Dr. Kildare Goes Home" in which comedy, heart interest and the drama of science mingle to pro- vide entertainment and thrills. Fea- tured in this hit are Lew Ayres. Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day and John Shelton.
 Metro Goldwyn-Mayer has pro- duced the latest in the series on an important scale, and the young doc tor and his veteran preceptor in- wade the important field of preven- tive medicine to disclose many valu- able truths, grapple with a new mystery malady and, between thrills, create laughs.
 One of the high points of the pie ture is when the plan of Ayres and Laraine Day to elope collapses hilariouSly when k's discovered that the whole town knows their secret.
 Coming In October, to be pre- eented ih person on the stage for three days-the list, 2nd and 3rd is George Whites Scandals, spectacu- lar Broadway revue with cast Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14

75 persons, including such stars as Ella Logan and Ben Blue. Plan now to see this sensational show when it is presented at Loew,s Poli,
 Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney are coming soon in Strike Up the Band" the years biggest musical, with Paul Whiteman and his Band, and lovely June Preisser heading the supporting cast. Don't miss Mickey & Judy, your Babes in Arms" in this youthful, tune-fllled spectacle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14
Cn AmaaSlM CRACK EnS

SOME MENTAL ILLS Here are the names of five mental ills. Can you define each in simpler language?
 1. Amnesia.
 2. Schibophrenia. 3. Claustrophobia. 4. Megalomania. 5. Pyromania.
 Answers on Back Page.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-14

All characters, organizations and incidents of this serial are entirely fictitious.
 
 YESTERDAY: Sue Mary goes to Youth Progress headquarters, helps Vera with typing. The place Is a surprise to her, with young people intent upon affairs she has considered entirely out of her scope. Nick comes in, Is glad to see her there, asks her to go to . concert with him. SUE MARY MEETS IDLE RICH
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