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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-06
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Mrs Elmer knight called on Mr..
and Mrs. E. ID. Knight Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Brenner
of Fostoria were Saturday dinner
guests of Mrs. Ola Brenner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Cameron of
Leipsic We're Tuesday afternoon
callers on Mrs. Jennie Cameron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Wilson and
family were Saturday evening call
ers on Mr.. and Mrs. Rockford
Cochrane and family of near Nc
Comb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Knight spent
Tuesday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. d. Knight.
Elmer Brenner of Fostoria and
Albert Butts of Findlay were Sun
day dinner guests of Mrs. Ola Bren-
ner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Knepper of
Toledo were Saturday evening call
ers on Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Wilson
and family.
Mrs. Henry Little spent Saturday
evening with Mrs. Mae Dennis and
Mrs. Emma Guin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Zoll of Toledo
and Kay LaJean Gamble were Sun
day dinner guests of Mrs. Sadie
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BIuffton High School Notes

more will be required to complete
the task.
Boys engaged in the project in
clude: James Martin, Fred Fritchie,
Bob Watkins, Clyde Fisher, Francis
Marquart, Bill McCafferty, Eugene
Newlan, Gerald Bowers, and Don
Clark.
Grade cards will be handed out
for the fourth six weeks Thursday
afternoon. This announcement from
the office reminded the students that
the school year is rapidly coming to
the final stages.
Hobbies" will be discussed at
the weekly meeting of the Future
Home Makers of America at the
meeting Wednesday night. Veldean
Moser and Doris Garmatter will be
in charge of the discussion.
Plans for a coming banquet with
the F. H. A. will be discussed at
the weekly meeting of the Future
Farmers of America to be held
Wednesday night.
The Cutlass, school newspaper,
will be in charge of Margery Mis-
wander, associate editor this week.
A new plan is being used this Sc
mester whereby the various associat-
ed editors are given responsibilities
of the editor-in-chief for one issue.
Pictures to be shown in the visual
aids program this week include:
Frontier Women, "On to Jupiter,
Salmon Fishing, Wheels Across
India
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ness ahead, he would kill.


ness ahead, he would kill.
His greatest concern was that
he might stumble upon the cattle
and jump the herd before finding
the men who guarded it. He want
ed the men. One man. jeff Stod-
dard.
It was perhaps an hour, half-past
three, when the biting wind came
laden with something besides the
cold-the odor of cattle, not un-
pleasant to cowman's nostrils.
Candy drew his horse in. He rested
the hide roll across his saddle. His
wounded left leg bothered him and
he let it hang straight for a mo-
ment.
He sat absolutely still. To one un-
initiated in working range cattle, it
would not seem possible that two
thousand head might be lying there
within stones throw. He could
imagine them with noses tucked
back against bent forelegs avoid
ing the cold. the herd giving off no
sound whatever if it was comforta-
bly, bedded. An outsider would not
know, either, the lightning swiftness
with which these same animals
could rise and hit the ground, run
ming. Any foreign noise could start
that jump, or even the unexpected
stamp of a horses hoof too near
some light sleeper.
Walt Candy sat waiting for some
time, until certain he had the bed
ground located straight in front of
him, off perhaps couple of hundred
PAGES.
Stiffiy he drew his left foot up to
the stirrup. He shifted the rolled
hide over and let it down onto the
ground, leaving his rope looped
about it. There might be some
difficulty in finding the hide again,
yet edging forward once more, he
could mark the gray blob it made
against the dark prairie.
A little later, certain that he was
close to the bedded herd and in the
route of night guards who would
be riding circle, Candy halted, slid
from his saddle and dropped the
blacks reins.
The horse stood anchored, head
lowered into the unbroken sweep of
fall wind. Candy moved back half
a dozen steps and crouched down.
Now from this position, melted into
the earth, he could family make
out the animal in front of him and
sector of prairie horizon lined
against the overcast heavens.
He did not have long to wait.
Ito be continued)
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II OLLISTER was dead; but what
- he had started to do could still
be done. He had wanted to settle
this trouble single-handed, without
risking the lives of more C c peo-
pie - young Champion, Horsethief
Fisher, Helen herself. Walt Candy
believed he could carry it through.
Some time between half-past one
and half-past two, riding HOLSTERS
black, he returned up the west cut
and topped out upon the prairie. The
stiff steer hide that had been hang
ing on a limb of the water-hole
cedar was now in roll beneath his
left arm and held by loops of his
rope. His right hand guided the
black away from the ravine head in
course quartering sharply north
ward.
The drive of n cattle which he
had seen this afternoon would move
toward the sink at about two miles
an hour. That gave them perhaps
five miles before they had bedded
down for the night. They would still
be couple of miles short of the
sink rims. Yet there was consid-
cradle chance for error, Candy
knew, in this figuring.
Here on the prairie top he could
hardly see his hands in front of his
face; his northward course was cho-
sen more out of instinct than any,
thing else. Only family. at rare
times, could he distinguish a divi-
sion between the level earth and
the overcast sky, and know at least
he was not riding toward jump
off. Wind generally swept from the
northwest this time of year. He
kept his face into that.
Every move Walt Candy made
was mechanical, with cold deadly
calm. Never had his feelings been
so close to those of a killer. He
looked forward with no fear nor mis-
giYinss. The thing was merely fact
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Walt Candy jerked forward, hands
on his knees. "Then you mean
Cash."
Hollister nodded. "Only two days
earlier Cameron lost his temper
over the forest argument and threat
ened Powell. I heard it. Then the
only thing could see afterwards
was that he had carried out his
threat, and Chino Drake was un-
lucky enough to be witness"
$50 you lied at the inquest to
shield Cash Cameron!"
mo. The day Drake and Powell
were killed was some place that a
girl like Helen would never under
stand. But you-you know times we
had on the border. Mexican fiesta,
dances +. 5. There's a place here
called Mexican Hole. That's where
I was, trying to forget I could never
make Helen Cameron marry me.
couldn't tell that in front of her"
Bitterly Walt Candy said, "Oh,
Lord, oh, Lordl Helen thinking all
the time you did it, And Cash let
ting you carry the guilt" But then
he stared down through the flicker
of candle light "Or actually believ-
ing you did. | wouldn't say even
yet that Cameron pulled off those
killings"
Il don't think he did myself,
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Sims ami Mrs. Emma ZoIl.

Sims and Mrs. Emma ZoII.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Brenner and
family Of Findlay were Sunday even
ing callers on Mrs. Ola Brenner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Cameron and
daughter Beverly and sons Erdene
and Darsey of Leipsic were Sunday
dinner guests of Mrs. Jennie Cam
eron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Huffman and
grandson, Of Ottawa were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Little and son Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Wilson and
sons Junior and Dwayne and Mr..
and Mrs. Dow Wilson and daughters
Lola and Retta spent Sunday after
noon with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Coch-
rane of Alger.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Knight spent
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Anna Treece and family of Airing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Zoll and FAM
lily of Toledo ard Mrs. S. H. Pifer
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Zoll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Smith spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Beach of Erie, Mich.
June Miller of near Fostoria
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Harley House.
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With tourney play starting this
Thursday, most of the talk around
the school deals with basketball
topics and Buttons chances in the
current campaign.
Principles of journalism were dis
cussed at meeting of the Cutlass
staff in the cafeteria Monday after
noon. Orden Smucker, advisor,
talked to the group and answered
questions concerning the structure of
news stories. The class is planning
to visit the press room of the Lima
News in the near future.
Members of the staff are: Marilyn
Hofer, Harriet Blome, Bill Amstutz,
Carol Bame, Mary Stearns, Mar
gerry Niswander, Carolyn Stonehill,
Kenneth Oberly, Norman Beidler,
Richard Berky, Ruth Core, Bette
Murray, Florence Hofer.
Neil Neuenschwander, Eloise Som
mer, Doris Garmatter, Norman Lug
inbuhl, Barbara Triplett, Maynard
Badertscher, Harold Augsburger,
Billie Bechtol, Geo. Myers, Betty
Steinman.
Eileen Wenger, David Tosh, Ros-
ann Hilty, Rebecca Hofstetter, Doris
Dunifon, Raymond Schumacher, Dar-
lene Truax, Mary M. Basinger, Alice
Santschi, Otto Klassen, Donald Root,
Harold Santschi, Clayton Weiss,
James Reichenbach.
Work of wiring the grade school
building by the boys of the voca-
tional electricity class under the di-
rection of George Sigg, instructor,
is proceeding nicely. About a month
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now" Hollister answered. 10 YOU
know about JEFF Stoddard being at
the house lately?"
Candy frightened. "When did you
find that out, Bill?"
only this morning-that he'd
been there, and what he had baited
Helen into promising. Walt, don't
you seel"
II do" said Candy. "Stoddard
has been almighty certain of the
way things were going to fall. Only
they haven't quite. What is it he
can hold over Helen?"
Nothing, if Cameron isn't guilty.
and I'm not. AS long as suspected
Cash, thought Stoddard might have
got hold of the truth somehow. He
made Helen believe it-that he held
proof against someone on the c c."
Hollister drew a sudden choking
breath. ''Wish to God I'd reached
Stoddard today!" He turned his
head into the light. "Any more cof-
fee?"
In the opposite of his true feel
ing, Candy turned back to the bunk
with burst of anger. "Why the
hell did you come out alone like
this, Bill! You could have told mel"
Hollister smiled family, reaching
for the tin cup. 81 have other plans
for you, boy"
He lifted his head, drank and lay
back. His voice had weakened when
he said in a few minutes: 81 wanted
to clean it all up myself without
you getting into any gunfght, be-
cause you're going to carry on this
place. You and Helen
"What do you mean?"
''The c c." HOLSTERS smile light
ed at Gandy's puzzled stare. s'It's
yours, most of it anyway. My part.
What did you think I got you into
this country for!"
Walt could say nothing.
Whats the difference?" HoIIister
went on. 'Things have all been the
same, haven't they, yours and mine?
Helen :" He seemed to be switch
ing onto another trail, but managed
after pause: 81 was too solemn
cuss, that's it. You're her kind,
Walt. | knew" Then later, That
two hundred dollars you gave me
settled lien and cleared your title.
Papers are in my war bag at the
ranch"
Walt Candy had risen, not want
ing to show his face, as strangely
in a single moment there appeared
before him every detail of the years
that he and Bill Hollister had been
together. Camps. Times they had
fought their border battles side by
side. And now He glanced
down. Hollister had shut his eyes
and rolled his head over as if to
sleep.
For a long time Walt looked on,
then moved to the stove and put
more brush stems in the fire. There
was>no need for light, and he blew
out the candle, leaving only red
flicker from cracks in the stove. He
remained standing and after while
held his watch down to one of the
cracks.
Hollister had not spoken again,
but at the creaking of floor boards
he opened his eyes. Midnight"
"Yes," Walt told him. 'tNeed any
thing?"
There came no answer. 1t was
all of half an hour later when Bill
Hollister struggled suddenly, trying
to sit up.
His voice grated. "Walti Bent
Lavic knows something! If you can
get him to talk :" He dropped
back, rigid as steel under the re-
straining pressure of Walt Gandy's
hands.
At one o'clock Bill Hollister was
dead.
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Amos Schumacher has purchased
the Mrs. Walter Geiger property
where Enos Suffers are now living.
Miss Lucille Lehman is now en-
ployed at the Triplett Meter Works,
on the night shift.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Miller and
sons of Smithville, and Ruth Bixel
of Fort Wayne visited their father,
Noah Bixel, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Lightner of
Fort Wayne are the parents of a
baby boy born TO them Monday.
Clinton Lightner, son of Ed Light
ner was formerly of this place.
Our fire truck was called to as
sist in putting out the fire of the
Evangelical church in Benton Ridge,
Sunday morning. The church was
burned to the ground.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Basinger of
Columbus Grove called on Mrs.
Regina Lemley last Friday after
noon.
The sophomore class will present
the play, "The Lone Eagle" Friday
night.
Mrs. Mertie Reese came home
Monday after spending quite some
time with DR.. and Mrs. Waldo
Suter and daughter in Waterville.
Richard Armstrong has purchased
the small house owned by Sidney
Agner. Mr.. and Mrs. Armstrong
and son will move from the Tschudy
home which has been purchased by
Raymond Walters, to their home in
the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Baumgartner
and daughter were Sunday dinner
guests in the Philemon Huser home.
Misses Mary Steiner, Gladys Schu-
macher, Grace Steiner and Margaret
Hilty attended the program by Miss
Helen Keller, blind and deaf speaker
in Fort Wayne, Friday night. Mary
Steiner remained there and returned
home with Dorothy Lehman, who
came to visit her father, Sunday
evening.
Richard Lehman of Alganas, Mich,
spent the weekend at home.
Lysle Suter has gone to Camp
Shelby, Miss, where he will spend
a year in Military training.
Pandora lost a close game with
Ottoville in the tournament Friday
night, the score was 36-39.
Hubert Plankenhorns have moved
from the Mrs. Walter Geiger farm
to the Henry Diller farm. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Benton will live on the
Geiger farm.
Noah Bixel has purchased large
truck for hauling eggs.
Harvey Burkholder has rented the
Kiene farm east of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Steiner,
Mabel and Earl Steiner visited
friends in Fort Wayne, Sunday.
The home economics girls and
agricultural boys of our high school
attended a soybean demonstration
in Columbus Grove, Monday MORN
ing.
The Company Store has been re-
arranged, making a section for
electric appliances near the end of
the store.
David Lehman of Lima, brother
to Emma Lehman of this place,
passed away Monday night at his
home after being sick for several
weeks.
Dan Sommer, brother to Mrs.
Lew Lehman, Chris and John Som
mer of this place, died at his home
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Monumental Granite

The quarries of Mount Airy, N. c.,
are the largest producers of monu.
mental granite in the United States.
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in Decatur, Ind, last Friday from
heart attack.
Mrs. Mary Burkhart
Mrs. Mary Burkhart passed away
last Thursday morning at the age
of 81. Mrs. Burkhart, for many
years has been the oldest resident
in Pandora. She is survived by
four daughters, Miss Mary Burk-
hart and Mrs. Nettie Lehman, of
this place; Mrs. Lena Smith, and
Mrs. Harry Roth, of Goshen, Ind.
The funeral, held at the Missionary
Church, Sunday afternoon, was
largely attended. Bishop Algire of
Elida officiated.
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Straight-run baby chicks will cost
anywhere from 71z to Is cents this
year and sexed chicks will cost
about double those amounts. A
premium above those prices usually
is charged for chicks from known
matings of high producing birds.
The reliability of the hatcheryman
is the best protection buyers can
get, and it is easier to settle diff
ferences with hatcheries which can
be visited than with those at distant
points.
Evening star., 1941-09-22
Some Art Products Get
Waqe-Hour Exemption

Products in which graphic art sis
the exclusive medium through which
the product functions" are not COW
cred by the wage order for the
converted paper products industry,
Brig. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, admin
istrator of the Wage and Hour Di-
vision, announced today. The ex-
clusion from the order applies to
all graphic arts products, whether
made by specialists or job printers,
he said.
Among items that fall within the
exemption are sales slips, bank pass
books, checks, manifold forms, cal
endars, and greeting and announce
ment cards. The exemption does
not, however. apply to the job print
ing of such products as paper boxes,
bags, wrapping paper, book matches,
and playing cards.
Whether a particular item is a
graphic arts product or not depends
on the uses to which il is put, the
Wage and Hour Division pointed
out. Printing on paper bag, or a
paper box does not make such items
graphic arts products, it explained.
Evening star., 1941-09-22
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY

BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
Another destructive pest that
makes the cotton grower gray
headed prematurely is the red spider
or mite. Some years this enemy of
cotton seems to give the planter a
little respite. then without any rea-
son whatever, the mites appear in
vsst numbers and trouble a-plenty
b on hand. This condition is es-
pecially true in the Southeast.
The red spider, so small that it
has also been called mite, is hardly
visible to the eye, and it may be
greenish or yellowish but is usually
red. The female Is always red and
any variation will be found among
the males.
These troublemakers work in an
mderhanded fashion from more
than one angle. The females lay
their eggs on the under side of
the leaves. They spin dainty web
and live out of sight of their victims
as they suck the sap from the
tender leaves. depriving the plant
of its rightful nourishment. Soon
the foliage attacked shows unmis-
taxable signs that the secret worker
Is on the job for the leaves are
thickly dotted with tiny punctures.
There may be as many as II
generations a year! With such a
record for multiplying, the red
spider is, of course, of considerable
economic Importance.
About 200 species of plants, which
include garden and field crops, orna-
mentals and weeds, are acceptable to
the red spider. This is an imposing
array of plants that can supply
liquid refreshment.
In the South the spider can
manage to survive the winter by
living on such leaves as may remain
green, and the farther South it
travels, the more food can be found.
PokeWeed and the English violet
have been hosts to this pest and
from this source of supply it mi
CRATES to the cotton plant when it
comes along. Too tiny to see, yet
this creature can find the cotton
plant without guidance from any
one. All winter it has been living
at the expense Of some weed not
far removed from the cotton field.
Close, very close, observers, those
on the trail of the pest, have OBJ
served them trekking it over the
rough ground toward their destina-
Evening star., 1941-09-22

Affected areas should be plowed
under. The plant in this form will
be of some value to the soil and
the spiders career cut short.
Spraying the under sides of the
leaves in order to reach the secre-
tive workers is a difficult and un-
certain task, though it has been
done successfully where the infeSta-
ton is small and just begun.
So tiny the human eye can just
make it out, yet the combined efforts
of millions of them can cause
enough damage for the cotton
planter to lose more than half of
his crop, if not all!
Evening star., 1941-09-22
Natures Children
Red Spider
(Tetranychus telarius)

ton. Water and wind have at times
been the means of transporting
them to their new territory.
Hot, dry conditions are the most
favorable for the rapid multiplica-
tion of the red spiders, while heavy
fains are known to have fatal re-
suits on hundreds of thousands Of
the leaf suckers in a very short
time.
All weeds and underbrush that
offer a harbor during winter for
these pests should be destroyed by
burning. If but few plants show
the work of the red spider, these
can be pulled up at once and burned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29

Branch No. 4, will hold memorial
exercises at IL am. tomorrow at
the Water Gate on the District side
of Arlington Memorial Bridge with
Rear Admiral George C. Pettingill,
Navy Yard commandant, as the
principal speaker.
Glen Echo and other amusement
parks in the Washington area pre-
pared for the biggest holiday week
end of the season.
More than so different attrac-
tions were in readiness, park Off
Gals announced to entertain rec
! ord crowds. Dancing begins in
the Spanish garden ballroom each
night at 8 o'clock and the Crystal
Swimming Pool has been thrown
open to the public.
National Gallery Open.
The new National Gallery of Art
will be open tomorrow from 10 am.
to S pm. for the benefit of visitors
and residents who may take ad-
vantage of the holiday to visit the
institution. The gallery will be
open on all holidays, it was an
nounced, except Christmas and
New Year.
Gushing Camp, Sons of Union Vet
Grams, will hold memorial services at
2:30 o'clock tomorrow at Holy Rood
Cemetery and at $3.50 pm. at Oak
Hill Cemetery.
The Georgetown Law School was
to hold exercises at 10 am. tomor-
row in honor of the % students who
lost their lives in the World War.
Guests will be Col. Granville Mum
son, professor of military law and
procedure. and Representative Kill
day of Texas, who was graduated
from the school in 1922.
A wreat hwill be placed on the
memorial tablet in the law school
library.
Memorial services will be held in
Harding Hall of the Government
Printing Office tonight at o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
Mrs. Roosevelt 10 Use
Vacation 10 Promote
Home Defense Work
Recreation Facilities
For Service Men Here
Going Forward, She Says

Mrs. Roosevelt will make her sum-
mer vacation a model of home de-
tense activity.
Before going to Hyde Park, N. Y,
for the summer, she told her press
conference today, she will consult
with civilian defense authorities
here. Then she will try to promote
the work in her own community,
Duchess County.
Discussing the development of
Farm Security Administrator small
homes in cities overpopulated
through defense housing, Mrs.
Roosevelt said the housing problem
was also being felt at Catholic Uni
verSity, where students were being
pushed out of the neighborhood by
the influx of defense workers.
The university, she said she had
been told, had asked for housing
units, but had been offered a loan.
She thought it possible that the
three-room homes might be deyel-
open in that neighborhood.
Recreation Facilities.
Asked if any progress had been
made in developing recreation facil-
tiles for men coming into WASH
ington from nearby Army camps,
Mrs. Roosevelt reported that Army,
Navy and Marine officials were dis
cuSsing the possibility of having
band concerts on Saturdays and
Sundays, with the Office of National
Capital Parks cooperating. The
National Youth Administration, she
said, also was interested in deve.-
oping choruses and entertainers for
Army and Navy programs. Mrs
Roosevelt said she had also inquired
into the possibilities of opening
public buildings for recreation.
She also told her press confer
ence that the Roosevelts summer
home at Campobello, New Bruns-
wick, would be turned over to the
international students service for a
flve-week institute on democracy,
beginning at the end of June.
Admitting that totalitarian forms
of government also will be discussed