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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
State Inspector
To Examine Site

Representative from the state de-
partment of health will be here to
inspect a five acre tract, part of
the former Fox Farm on Riley street
which purchase the town council is
considering as site for a possible
future municipal sewage disposal
plant.
Purchase of the land was pro-
posed by the council about month
ago to prepare for the likelihood
that municipal sewage disposal
plant ultimately will be constructed
here.
The site has already been inspect
ed by Carlton S. Finkbeiner, of
Champe, Finkbeiner and Associates,
Toledo engineers, who was at the
council meeting Monday night and
reported that in his opinion the land
would be suitable for a plant loca-
tion.
Finkbeiner indicated that he had
contacted state health authorities
and that an inspector will be here in
the near future TO report back to
the board in regard to the present
contemplated site.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Commencement At
BeaUerddnl Friday

Commencement exercises for II
graduating seniors will be held at
s D. m. this Friday at Beaverdam
High school, with DR.. ]. L. Clifton,
of Ohio State university, appearing
as the speaker.
A busy period of commencement
week activity opened last Saturday,
with the annual junior-senior ban
quet. Baccalaureate conducted Sun
day by Rev. Emil Burrichter, pastor
of st. Johns and Emmanuel he
formed church of Bluffton.
In the graduating class are Ruth
Yarger, Vera Van Meter, Rebecca
Marshall, Zerrene Kidd, Esther Hoch-
stettler, Ruth Erect, Luella Bailey
Carol Fern Anderson, Gordon Ali.
son, Stanley Borber, Lewis Bassitt
Carl Beery, Wayne Downey, Richard
Lewis, Joe Lombard, George Mccoy
and Robert McElwain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

dllu fanny w. 1ea41..y S....-e,
supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Schaublin.
Mrs. Dean Myers and family of
Mansfield and Mrs. Joe Parker of
Rockport spent Saturday afternoon
at the Amos Gerber home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Leiber and
family were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blackburn and
son of Columbus were Sunday guests
at the Otto Amstutz home.
Miss Patsy Ann Schaublin is
spending a few days with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schaublin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer
Badertscher and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Badertscher and sor
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Badertscher and son
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Coon OF
Millersburg were week end guests a.
the ]. /. Luginbuhl home.
Rev. and Mrs. Eli Steiner spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
NeUU Toledo Highway
May Be Abandoned

Abandonment of proposal to ere
ate an improved Lima-Toledo high
way following present Route 50 thru
Putnam county appeared likely this
week after a meeting in Ottawa to
discuss plans for financing the pro-
ject.
Each Putnam county village
touched by the highway had been
asked to cooperate by providing funds
for the purchase of rght-of-way
thru the towns.
Approval of the financing was said
to have been voted by three villages,
but Columbus Grove municipal repre-
sentatives announced Saturday that
the town cannot finance any part of
the purchase of right-of-way. OF
tawa, Leipsic and Belmore are the
other towns involved.
Unless villages and Putnam coun-
ty commissioners can reach a salts
factory solution in the financing prob
lem, the proposal will be abandoned,
state highway department officials
have announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
TlCO From BLuftOn
Go To Camp Tuesday

Following a six-weeks' period of
minor activity, Allen county draft
procedure will be speeded up within
the next week, with three Bluffton
area men among % called for select
i've service training on Tuesday OF
next week.
Local men to be inducted into the
army on that date include James
West, Bluffton; Donald E. Crawfs,
Route Two, Bluffton, and Carl l..
Warner, Route Two, Lafayette. West
is Bluffton village clerk.
OF the % men called from Allen
county, Board 3, in which Bluffton
is included, is providing eight. Board
also will send eight draftees, and
the total for Board l is seven.
Breakdown of Ohio induction re-
ports show that " per cent of the
persons drafted for army service un-
der the selective service act have
been in the 81 to 27 year age
bracket.
Largest single group is the %
year-olds, comprising 1875 per cent
of the total. Of the remainder, 14.1
per cent have been % years old;
ia per cent "a; 9.3 per cent 25;
9.4 per cent, 21; 7.6 per cent 26
and So per cent 27.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Wins First In State
Scholarship Test

Joan Huber, student in Wooster
high school and daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. l.. L. Huber of Wooster, former
Bluffton residents, has been awarded
first place in the statewide Glass A
high school competition in world his
tory, it was announced by the state
department of education the first of
the week.
Test in this subject was taken re-
Gently in district contest held at
Kent State university, one of eight
district contests in the state. Work
of the students who took tests in the
various districts was compared to de-
termine state wide ratings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
GrOUe Firm, Exports
ShOrthOrn Heller

Among the So head of purebred
Shorthorn cattle recently exported to
the Dominican Republic was a heifer
from the herd of Benroth G. Griffith,
near Columbus Grove.
Seed stock of only the outstanding
Shorthorn breeders has been selected
and the inclusion of the stock of the
Grove firm marks the area as among
the corn belts leading nurseries of
purebred Shorthorn cattle.
The So head constitute the largest
consignment of purebred livestock
ever bought for export from the
United Stated by single purchaser.
They represent a $4,000 investment
and are being bought by Gen. Rafael
L. Trujillo, ex-president of the re-
public and will be used in his own
herd and for his country's livestock
improvement program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Mennonite Retreat
Staff Is Announced

Teaching personnel of the All-Men-
MONTE retreat to be held at Quaker
Haven, Indiana, August to 10, was
announced this week by the retreat
committee.
The faculty will consist of Prof
A. c. Schultz of Bluffton college
Rev. Paul E. Whitmer of Bluffton T;
Rev. Raymond Hartzler of Carlock,
H.; Rev. William Stauffer, Sugar
creek; Freeman Burkhalter of Berne,
Ind; Rev. Jesse Smucker, Newton,
Kansas.
DR.. /. w. Bauman, of Bluffton col
lege, is chairman of the general
planning committee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

Stimulated by heavy demands of
the United States army for wool uni
forms and blankets, wool prices on
local markets took a jump to reach a
new high mark of AZ cents per
pound.
The average price paid for the pro-
duct in this area has been about 30
cents. In the early twenties wool
commanded top price of rs cents
and it is reported that during the
Civil War this figure scared to the
dollar mark.
Most of the farmers have been
shearing their wool for about a
month now although there still re-
mains a considerable quantity to
come in. Some of the wool producers
of the area have been holding their
product in anticipation of even high
er market prices.
The most common Lreed in the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
III. S. Alumni Engage
Toledo Dance Band

Dick Hansleman and his orchestra,
of Toledo, will provide the music for
dancing at the annual reunion of
the Bluffton High school alumni as
sociation to be held in the gymnas-
ium Friday night, May 80.
The orchestra is 10-piece aggre-
cation and has played at many Ohio
college and university functions.
The band plays every year at the
annual Donnel employees party in
Findlay.
The alumni association this year
has decided to go back to the former
plan of having both the banquet and
dancing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Draft Registration
To Be Next July I

Bluffton area young men who be-
came II years of age since the first
selective service enrolment last Octo-
ber must register for conscription on
July /, it was announced last week
at draft headquarters in Washington,
D. C.
Date for the new registration will
be formally announced in a presi-
Dental proclamation. All who reach
the age of 21 between last falls reg
istration and July l will be affected.
1t is estimated that approximately
one million men will be subject to the
registration call.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

Re-opening of the Witmarsum
Theological seminary will be pre-
sented before the General Conference
of Mennonites at the yearly meeting
to be held at SoudeYton, Pa, during
the latter part of August.
This was decided at the annual
business meeting of the seminary
board held at the Y. M. c. A. hotel
in Chicago on Thursday. Attending
from Bluffton were DR.. L. l.. RAM
seyer, Rev. Paul E. Whitmer and
Rev. H. 7. Unruh. Several possible
sites, including Bluffton, are reported
under consideration.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Work Progressing
On Street Repairs

With repair work on Huber street
nearly completed, the program of
street improvement in Bluffton is
progressing according to schedule, it
was announced by Lee Coon, Bluffton
street commissioner.
New sidewalks are being construct
ed on the street from jefferson to
Mound by property owners.
The coarse stone base on Huber
street will be finished this week and
the tar and stone chips will be ap-
piled the fore part of next week.
The road repair crew will then be-
gin work in improving College avenue
from Main to the first alley past
jackson street. A tar bound and
stone chip top will be applied to the
surface of this section of road.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

The Lima Rescue Mission fed
1,452 men and gave lodging to 449
transients during the month of April
it was announced by Rev. A. D.
Welty, director of the institution.
The mission broadcasts every Sunday
evening over station WLOK in Lima
from $50 to 600 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Stimulated By Defense Needs WOOL
Scars To New High Mark OF Season

Bluffton area is the Shropshire sheep
which is known for its hardness and
its ability to produce an excellent
quality of wool. This general corn
belt area is of the proper climatic
and geographic condition to produce
the highest quality of wool and area
farmers are turning increasingly te
this source of income.
The Bluffton wool goes to brokers
who, for the most part, sell to New
England wooden mills.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Richland Center

Mrs. Eva Stevens of Upper San
dusky spent Friday and Saturday at
the Otto Amstutz home.
Mrs. Clyde Grant and son Gary
were Sunday dinner guests at the
]. /. Luginbuhl home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Schaublin
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

Treasurer Byron H. Dershem.
Statements of taxes now are being
mailed to county property owners.
Sales tax receipts last week
amounted to s7,972.21 for the week,
an aggregate since the first of the
year of S117,794.20.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22


Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Rasinger and
daughter, and Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Basinger spent Sunday in Berne, Ind.
Mrs. Ella Dillman was a Sunday
evening supper guests at the Amos
Luginbuhl home.
Herbert Ream of Seattle, Wash,
Mrs. Myron Foust of Akron, and Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Ream of Lima were
Monday evening supper guests at the
Walter Schaublin home. Evening
callers were Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Niswander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mel Long and
daughter Dorothy and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Marquart and son Melvin spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs
John Marquart and family.
Mrs. Noah Zimmerman spent
Thursday at the Andrew Hochstettlel
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22
Real Estate Tax
Statements Mailed

Last-half 1910 real estate tax pay
ments SO far have amounted to $70,-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-05-22

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Honest Abe
But Lincoln Died Without
Hearing the Nickname

CHICAGO. Feb. 13.-Abraham
Lincoln died without knowing that
he was 10 be known to history as
Honest Abe" it was disclosed
today.
Researchers on the most recent
section Of the Dictionary of Ameri-
can English, now in publication at
the University of Chicago. re-
ported that the first printed refer
ence to Honest Abe" they were
able TO find appeared in a book
published after Lincoln's death in
1865.
This was in an eight-volume
work by Albert d. Richardson, in
which the author said:
"All about the country people
began TO ask about this Honest
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Itchy PimpIes
Kill Romance

Many shattered romances may be
traced directly to ugly skin blem-
ishes. Why tolerate itchy pimples
eczema. angry rod blotches or other
irritations resulting from external
causes when YOU can got quick
relief from soothing Peterson 3
Ointmenfi &c al drueci sts Money
refunded u enc application docs not
delight yul rstsrSsH.s ointment also
snntt,s- irritatrti HnI tired foot and
Crackx -het~epn toes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Art School Seeks Members

The art school of the Crafts
Guild, at 27S East Grand boule-
ward, is sponsoring a Detroit Eel
lowship Of Artists, meeting on
Thursday evenings for the CO.
ordination of talent and patronage
and for the protection of Ameri-
can artists and the fostering of
their work. Qualified artists may
become active or associa e
a7eFahefS-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

IL would be very difficult for IL
to do the same thing here" he
said. ut could be done provided
Hitler has the sympathetic sup
port of only one Latin-Ameri-
can country"
Other prominent Republicans
present were Vernon J. Brown
eral: WILDER NJ
Brucker, former governor. and
Howard Nugent, speaker of the
House.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Dewey Assdi|s Unity Cries
In Lincoln Day Address
International News service wire

capital for the first time in history
A few blocks from the White
House, such COP spokesman az
Thomas f Dewey New York
county district attorney and ar
aspirant for the Republican presi'
dental nomination last year; Rep
Joseph w. Martin Jr. of Massa.
chusetts, COP national committee
chairman, called for a ''re-birth oil
freedom" at a Mayfiower Hotel
banquet.
ASsAILS UNITY TALK
Dewey, defeated for the presi,
Dental nomination by Wendell
Wiifkic, declared the domestic
situation today comparable with
conditions of so years ago wher
Lincoln took oath of office as the
first Republican president
Then there were those, Dewey
said, who said the problems Of
America could only be solved by
dictatorship"
Rapping at Democratic leaders
cries for unity. Dewey said:
"Strong words, instead of
reason and argument, were used
then as they are today. Now we
are again In a period of national
crisis at such a time, grave
responsibility rests upon the
minority party. IL must fulfill
Its democratic function of acting
as a check upon the excuses of
the majority.
UNPRECEDENTED GRANTS,
'In so doing, the minority il
always subject to misunder-
standing. Such misunderstand-
ing IL intensified when the
party in power calls for national
unity in one breath and then. In
the next. launches a program of
first Importance without No
much as a gesture Of cOnsulta-
ton toward the minority.
"Such Misunderstanding are
Inevitable when the administra-
ton de m n d = unprecedented
grants Of power from the Con-
gress and later disavows any In
tention of using one after an
other OF these same grants OF
power.
ION this anniversary of Lin
coins birth i should like to re-
mind those enemies of the two
party system who would create
the one and only super party
that the Republican Party has
a unity of purpose which once
saved the nation from destruc-
ton and il prepared TO do so
again.
BACKS AID BILL NOW
THAT unity OF purpose IL
clear-we are determined, at
whatever sacrifice. that consti-
tutional government, the Su-
preme power Of the people and
human freedom shall prevail w
the United States of America"
Dewey declared the administra-
lions lend-leaSe bill as eIiglRally
was "dangerous, ''un-
wise. and sn many aspects un-
bur added that now, as
he hopes il will pass in
such form that il can be adopted
with the support of both PaFtie
notice on the world that
the American democracy in full
flower IS strong and united ma
ton"
Martin. declaring liberty and
the rights of the people are al
stake again throughout the world,
urged Republicans TO be vigilant
TO battle for the preservation Of
constitutional government; alert
TO protect the individual liberties
Of the people
FOR \ STRONG AMERICA
we are, Of course, for ade-
quate national defense" he said.
we will Fundamentally support
measures which will make
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Re-
publicans throughout the nation
last night observed the birthday
anniversary of Abraham Lincoln
with banquets and speeches, with
high party leaders holding a Lin
coin Day banquet in the national
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

strong America and free
America. We will have the
courage also to demand that
defense he on an honest. Elf
cient, economical and non-par-
tisan basis.
I'VE will not sit and see the
money appropriated for national
defense FILTERED away through
ineffiency, politics, or worse.
We will always fight against
conditions under which a letter
from a party precinct worker
will be the passport for a pa
tronage job on national defense.
+, The American people will not
permit our national defense TO
be used for building up any
political party, or for the per-
petuation OF men In power.
The great objective of the
last campaign must continue 10
be the objective OF the Repub-
lican Party. Truth and justice
will eventually triumph"
ILLINOIS MEN SPEAK
Senator Wayland Brooks fRl
Of Illinois and former Illinois
State Senator William r. King
Of Chicago eulogized Lincoln.
A. Kalamazoo. Mich. Rep
Sterling Cole tR) Of New York
speaking at Lincoln Day dinner
said that he had voted for the
fend-fcaSe bill in lis final form
because he believes the United
States should aid Britain ito the
greatest extent consistent WITT
our own national defense needs,
but declared;
THE lend-lease bill, in Its
frantic grab for power. is
characteristic of the New Deal.
Purposely. the extreme method
was chosen. The good objective
aid to Britain-which gave
rise TO the bill. has been cor
rupted by the New Dealers to
further their lust for power.
Have you ever known the
President voluntarily TO give up
power once attained
Gen. Hugh =. Johns
americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
REPUBLICANS PLACE

Kelly discussed the place the
Republican Party holds in the
state government.
Harry Colmery. who halls from
Kansas, was the last speaker
IF Germany subdues CONT
mental Europe, i can't see why
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

Mrs. Rankin, Republican
cOngresswOman from Mon
tana, pictured In Detroit to
address the Lincoln Day din
ner last night at Masonic
Temple. She considered pas
sage of the lend-lease bill a
definite step towards war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
ep.Rdnkin Says
Militant Minority
Can Avert War

Republicans jammed Masonic Tenn
pie last night TO hear prominent
speakers praise President Lincoln
and eat roast beef at $l.50 a
plate.
The occasion was the annual
Lincoln Day dinner sponsored by
the Wayne County Republican
Committee.
The speakers were Rep. jean
cite Rankin, Republican congress
woman from Montana, Harry w.
Colmery, a past national COM
mander. of the American Legion,
Harry +. Kelly. secretary OF
state, and Louis II. Fead, former
Michigan Supreme Court justice
In addition TO pralslng Lincoln
they affirmed their loyalty 10 the
party with repeated blasts at the
New Deal. the lend-lease bill and
Democrats in general.
REP. RANKIN'S SUGGESTION
Representative Rankin. who
voted against entry of the United
States in the World War, sug-
gested TO the assembled guests:
Send piles of letters to
President Roosevelt and your
Representatives and senators.
"A militant minority with the
right on its side can keep this
country HtLtf- war. she de-
claredy ITO fight we must have
unified nation. BY their let
tiers the people can have il
known that they do not want
war. that they will not support
the President should he try TO
force them into war"
The gray haired little legislator
said she felt that passage of the
lend-lease bill would be a step to-
wards war.
I'VE can't settle disputes by
killing our young men," she
added. I'VE are a great nation
today because we haven't killed
our young men in war. The ma
lions of Europe are going down
because they have"
CANDIDATES INTRODUCED
Judge Fead acted as master of
ceremonies. Besides introducing
the speakers he took time out to
acquaint the assembly with many
familiar and unfamiliar judicial
candidates who were present.
Irked over threats to aspirants
to Circuit Court Bench, Record
er's Court and Common Pleas
Court by so-called pressure groups,
Judge Fead had this 10 say:
"Some judges have been
threatened with political defeat
because they administer laws as
they see IL without favoritism.
call upon the good citizens IF
this county 10 do all in their
power 10 elect these men"
Secretary Kelly, who polled
more votes in the last election
than any other candidate for a
state or national office in the his
tory of Michigan, was honorary
chairman.
REPUBLICANS PLACE
Kelly discussed the place the
Republican Party holds in the
state government
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

Gen. Hugh =. job son.
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
FOR 4 STRONG AMERICA

we are. of course, for ade-
quate national defense" he said
I'VE will intellectually support
measures which will make n