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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
African Pygmies, Strangely Dressed,
At Church Of Former Local Woman

Peculiar clothing worn by natives
at Sunday church services in the
mission station conducted in the
pygmy district of the Belgian Congo
by Rev. and Mrs. Henry A. Sehff is
described by them in an article APP
pearing in a recent issue of Inland
Africa, published by the African
Inland Mission board.
Mrs. Senff was formerly Miss Lii
liam Welty, daughter of john Welry,
OF Cherry street. ~
She and her husband wereL lere on
furlough in 1889, and repufned to
Africa in the fall of that year for
another tenure of five years in the
interior of the Dark Continent.
In the article Rev. and Mrs. senff
write in part:
"Abure, the chief, who put aside
two of his three wives and asked =
come for Bible training Ito become
an evangelist, walked 120N miles ito
obtain his government permit and is
now in training.
an addition he walks from day to
day to nearby villages to HeacE 9TH
ers and also works in his own gard
ems. While he was a chief, |big veg
getable gardens were raised for him.
His wife and daughter also have en-
tered whole-heartedly into mission
life.
'The Christian people in one viii
lage have raised enough money to
have a burned brick chapel Many
calls have come in for evangelists.
Two of these have been from gov
ernment lener camps.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Registered Borrowers At Bluffton
Library Read 3O,195 Books In 1910

of Education, w. A. Amstutz, Sid
ney Stettler, Theresa Slusser, Mrs.
Fl. B. Adams, r. L. Triplett, Mrs.
Grace Cox, Mrs. Elmer Fett, Mrs.
Clair Fett, Mrs. w. E. Marshall,
Mrs. C. A. Biery, Edgar Hauenstein,
Leland Diller, Methodist church of
Bluffton and different publishing
companies.
NEW BOOKS
The new books include fiction for
both adults and juveniles, and non
fiction books of biography, history,
travel, religion, literature, science,
fine arts, useful arts, and social
science. Purchases are made from
requests of teachers, members of
clubs, students and other patrons.
Requests for book purchases for
both study and pleasure reading are
always welcome from all patrons.
The purchases also include &C
magazine subscriptions, while many
valuable files of magazines have
been donated by patrons. The popu.
lar magazines suitable for young
folks are bound in red rope binders
and circulated.
One hundred and fifty books were
rebound in certified binderies, and
many were repaired within the Ii.
brary.
New equipment includes a new
steel fling cabinet for pamphlets
Pamphlet material is filed by subject
and cataloged, so that it may bC
used by patrons.
| NATIONAL Book WEEK
National Book Week was oh
served in November. A number o.
new juvenile books were purchased
and posters were displayed. A one
act play entitled "Why Are Librar!
Lessons?" was given by eighth grade
library students. 1t was given fol
the arent-Teachers Association ant
for Grade School assembly.
Bulletin boards advertising nev
books and books of interest on var
ious subjects were arranged by stu
dent library assistants and Mis-
Anderson, the librarian.
A course of instruction in the us
of books and libraries is given in tn
seventh and eighth grades and a
an elective course for student assist
ants is offered to high school stu
dents. The total number enrolled i
these classes is 120.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Little Change In
Ohio Fishing LGIC

Except for a reduction in the
daily bag limit of game fish, Ohio
fishing regulations for 1941 will be
substantially the same as in 1910.
During the current year the bag
limit for game fish per day will be
%, and not more than so can be in
possession at one time. Last year
the limits were 40 and so fish, re-
spectively.
Five of the states 12 fish propa-
cation farms were ordered closed by
the conservation commission. Facili-
ties of the other seven plants are to
be expanded. Closed fish farms are
at Millersport, London, Bucyrus,
Piqua and Defiance.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
made to buy rabbits, supplementing
the Ohio trapping and replanting
program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
More To File Income
Tax Under NelU LalC

Revisions in income tax regulations
are expected to bring filing of ac-
counts by approximately 4,o0O Allen
county residents who never before
have had to worry about making re-
turns.
New income tax regulations re-
quire filing of returns by single in
dividuals, or married individuals not
living with husband or wife, having
a gross income of $500 per year or
more.
Married individuals living together
who have a gross income of S2,O0O
or more per year also must file tax
reports.
Last year the exemption for a
single individual was $1,000, and for
a married couple $4,000.
Income tax will be computed at
the rate of four per cent on that
part of each individuals income
which is not covered by exemption
or credits. In addition there is a
defense tax to be paid, amounting to
10 per cent of the amount paid in
income tax.
Federal authorities have pointed
out that net income does not deter
mine the liability for the filing of
income tax returns, as in previous
years.
Under the new law every person
must file whose gross income is $500
per year or more if he or she is
single, and $4,000 per year in case
of married individuals. Returns must
be filed even though by reasons of
allowable deductions from gross in
come it develops that no tax is due.
Employers are required by law to
report the wages received by en-
ployes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

"Our Sunday services at the sta
tion are we'll attended. Last Sunday
our church was filled. Perhaps you
would like to see our Sunday con-
gregation.
after the church-drum is beaten,
in they come. One came in wearing
fringed rug for a shirt. The rug
had a hole cut out of the center,
slipped over the head. Another had
on a sweater upside down which he
was wearing for trousers.
"One came in having her collection
coin in her ear Others had eggs or
arrows intended for the collection
plate. One man had on his wife's
skirt. Her husband had decided to
take his turn in wearing it.
Next came the paramount chief
-..s.:siving at the door on a carrying
chair and as he entered many eyes
were focused on his fashy red,
green, Dlue ana WillIe SOCKS. ABOUT
10 minutes later his wife came in on
foot. In between time the majority
arrived in everything from cheap
silks to birthday clothing.
when all were in, the outside of
the church was lined up, not with
cars, but with bows and arrows.
Aitho unmarked, these are easily
identified by their owners.
Church services open with a
prayer, followed by singing, after
which there is the reading of the
scriptures. Individual prayers by
the congregation also are an import
a nt nh af Tie .al..,..l.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
'Paunhaus' Delectable Swiss Dish,
Peculiar To BlufftOn Community

Whether "paunhaus" is food
product peculiar to this immediate
community is not known for sure,
but difficulties encountered in at
tempting to obtain it elsewhere in
cline one to think of the dish as an
almost exclusive Bluffton delicacy.
The name "paunhaus" presumably
of Swiss origin, does not appear in
English dictionaries.
Former Bluffton residents report
that a request for "paunhaus" at a
meat market or grocery store in
other towns and cities is usually
greeted with look of blank amaze
ment on the part of the clerk. Not
only is the term entirely foreign to
their vocabularies but also is any
product of a similar description.
Consequently local meat markets
report that many returning former
Bluffton residents take advantage ot
their visit in the town to stock ur
on the food due to its inaccessibility
elsewhere.
LOCAL PRODUCT
In addition to the preparation Of
the product by local meat retailers
many farmers in the area count
"paunhaus" as one of their regular
preparations around butchering time
Difficulty in obtaining the tast,
food elsewhere would indicate tha
the product is exclusively Swiss il
origin. Early residents of the com
munity point out that it has beer
obtainable here as far back as the,
can remember.
1t lis prepared by boiling heat
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

meat, liver, heart and similar cuts
of meat and making a broth of it.
Corn meal is stirred into the broth
and settings. 1t is favored with
salt and pepper, with some adding
sage, garlic or caroway seeds. 1t is
then poured into pan moulds to cool.
The resulting product is the tasty
dish known here as "paunhaus".
BLOOD PUDDING
Another similar product, not as
well known, but nevertheless usually
found in Swiss communities is blood
pudding. 1t is prepared by beating
the blood of hog to remove the
fibrous structures. The heart, head
meat and liver are cut into small
pieces and then placed in the blood
and allowed to simmer. The mixture
is then placed in castings and is
smoked.
A dish similar to blood pudding is
a speciality known as "schwartenmag-
en-" for which there is no English
equivalent. The preparation is
identical to the blood pudding except
that no blood is used in the boiling.
LIVER PUDDING
Another popular meat dish here is
liver pudding. This is prepared by
boiling head meat, ears, heart and
spare meat in a big kettle. 1t is
then ground to fine sausage meat
and placed in castings or, as some
prefer it, in jars and crooks.
Most of these dishes are known to
be practically unobtainable except in
| the Swiss communities.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
ElrOse

Preaching services at the Olive
Branch church were cancelled due to
sickness. Rev. Zimmerman is con-
fined to his home with the influenza.
Walter Williamson of Detroit,
Mich, spent a few days this week at
the home of his parents d. D. Will
Hanson and wife.
Wade Marshall and Alva Rickley
of near Pleasant View, spent Thurs
day evening at the Thomas Koontz
home.
Mrs. VIM. Wilson, Mrs. Chas.
Heldman and son Charles, Jr., of
near Jenera, spent Wednesday after
noon at the Peter Kurtz home, both
Mr.. and Mrs. Kurtz are suffering
from severe colds.
Mrs. Anna Koontz spent Monday
and Tuesday with her daughter Mrs.
Nello Steinman of Bluffton.
Mabel and Marilyn Battles OF
Bluffton spent the weekend with
their mother Mrs. Goldie Battles.
Union prayer services at the
Olive Branch church, Thursday even
ing.
Glen and Faery Nonnamaker spent
Sunday afternoon with the c. Y.
Klingler family of near Ada.
Mrs. Enaiine Nonnamaker, Mrs.
Lendon Basinger, daughter jeanette
and son Gareth, spent Friday after
noon with Mrs. Howard Stauffer of
Bluffton.
Rev. Thomas Koontz spent Sunday
in Leipsic. He is to have charge of
the services of the u. B. church
there during Rev. Watts leave of
absence due to serious illness.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Organ In New College Chapel
Serviced "a Years By Same Man

last Sunday during dedication serv-
ices.
Pipes of the organ have been re-
set and re-voiced. They range in
size from 16 feet in length and one
foot squire to the smallest which is
no bigger than a tiny program pen
Gil.
READRITE METER
The new organ is equipped with a
Readrite voltmeter above the key
board on the left side of the console
This enables the performer to de-
termine whether or not too much
current is being used for the volume
of the music. An electric motor o1
three horse power is used to oper.
ate the mechanism necessary to pro
vide proper air pressure for the
organ.
The organ has two manuals anC
is equipped with 10 speaking stops
1t has been in constant use for q
years for recitals, choir accompani
ment, student practicing and othel
musical activity.
$4,000 GIFT
The organ was made possible by /;
$4,000 gift from Mrs. Harriet Hum
miston of Pontiac, Ill. Funds 70,
the instrument were obtained b,
Mrs. S. K. Mosiman.
Dedication of the organ was mad
in April, 1917, in a special recita
by the late James H. Rogers, a wei
known organist from Cleveland
Dedication speeches were made b,
Mrs. Mosiman and the late J. +
, Lehman of Berne, Ind, then presi
. dent of the board of trustees VIII
accepted the gift on behalf of tn
II institution.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Allen County Sales Tax Receipts
Amount To S617, 7,S35.54 During 1916

Allen county retailers did nearly
10 per cent more business during
1910 as compared with the previous
year, according to sales tax receipts
reported last week from the office of
the state treasurer.
Sales tax receipts in the county
during 1910 amounted to $617,835.54.
This represents a gain of 98 per
cent over the 1889 figure of $685.
67T.30.
Gain in sales tax receipts was
statewide, the treasurer's office re-
porting that the 1910 Ohio total was
S52, ,562, the second highest T.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher and
son were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Badertscher and son.
Mrs. Keiner, aged SO, passed away
Thursday afternoon at the Amos Ger
Der home. Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at the Ebenezer
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reno Gratz and dau-
ghter called on Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Gratz, Monday evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Mrs. Alta Garau and Mrs. Glen
Steiner and family.
The America Back to God" quar-
tet of Detroit, Mich, will be at the
Pleasant Hill church next Tuesday
night. The general public is invited
to attend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Radio Quartet To
Appear Next Week

The America Back to God" quar-
tet, popular radio feature, will be
heard in series of evening services
in churches in the Bluffton district
next week. All services will begin
at 1880 o'clock.
The schedule follows:
Monday, Jan. 27-Lafayette Chris
tian church.
Tuesday, Jan. 28-Pleasant Hill
NJ. E. church, miles south OF
Bluffton.
Wednesday, Jan. 29-Westminstel
NJ. E. church, 5 miles southeast oil
Lima.
Thursday, Jan. 30-St. Paul's
church, 212 miles southwest of Ada
Friday, Jan. 31-Ada Baptist
church.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

month total since the law went into
effect in 1885.
Redemption of cancelled sales tax
stamps last year amounted to $685..
OLA, as compared with a figure OF
$126,694 in 1889.
Hancock county reported a gain
of 1928 per cent in sales tax re-
ceipts; 1852, ,46645 in 1910, against
S233, 3,67C.66 in 1899.
Hardin county had S114,608.61 il
1910 and $1o3, ,341.79 in 1899. II
Putnam county, 1910 sales amounted
to $81 ,03229 in contrast to S73,-
974.57 in 1889.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Bluffton Is Third Largest City In
Allen County, Census Report Shows

Bluffton is the third largest city
in Allen county, according to the off
icial United States census report re-
leased in Washington, d. C.
Only Lima and Delphos exceed the
local municipality in population.
Delphos reported 5,746 residents,
more than twice as large as Bluffton
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

which has population of 2,077.
Spencerville was the fourth larg-
est town in the county with popu-
lation figure of 1923. Elida's popu-
lation was 551, and Harrod and La
fayette were about the same in size,
the former with 422 inhabitants and
the latter with 411.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Myers Is Named
Labor Chairman

L. H. Myers, Allen county's repre-
sentative in the general assembly,
last week was appointed chairman of
the labor committee, and also will
serve on the liquor control and pub
lie welfare committees.
Jackson E. Belts, the Hancock
county representative, was named
chairman of the legislature judiciary
committee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Automobiles with soybean plastic
accessories may soon be running on
highways marked with soybean paint.
Slow drying properties previously as
sociated with soybean oil paint can
be eliminated by methods discovered
in the research laboratory at Urbana,
Illinois, so the paint now will dry
fast enough for use in traffic mark
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

All methods investigated to make
land previously cropped suitable for
tobacco plant beds have failed to re-
veal any way of making such ground
as satisfactory as new ground. Ohio
farmers are advised to continue us
ing new ground for beds until some
successful alternative is discovered.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Standardization of design, as
sembly-line methods of construction,
and use of new equipment has per-
mitted reduction in costs of erecting
rural electric power lines built by
r. Z. A. loans to less than $500
mile.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-18
High Council
Masons To Meet
At Allen Univ.
33rd Degrees
To Be Conferred
Upon Several

BALTTMORE+(A CAMP The unit
ed supreme council Of the sovereign
grand inI ectors general of the 33rd
and last degree of the Ancient ano
Accepted Scottish Rite OF Free
masonry for the southern jurisdic-
ton of the United States of Amer
;ca, Prince Hall affliation, of which
Willard w. Allen is the most puis-
SAINT sovereign grand commander
and James T. Beason the secretary
general, will assemble in its 55th
annual session in the auditorium Oh
Allen university, Columbia, S. g.,
the home of Scottish Rite Free
masonry, Oct. 1921.
The delegation will leave by
special train from Baltimore, Md
on Saturday at 5:42 pm. over the
Pennsylvania railroad 2nd from
Washington, D. C. at 7:04 p.m.
over the Southern railroad, arriving
in Columbia at 800 a M Sunday
morning.
The session will open with a
memorial service to the deceased
members, Sunday night. The SER
mon will be delivered by the Rt.
Rev. Monroe H. Davis, bishop OF
the Second Episcopal district of the
AME church. The music will be
furnished by the chorus Of Allen
university, assisted by Graham
Jackson of Atlanta, noted singer
and radio artist.
The session will cpen proper
Monday morning at 900, at 11:0c
the sovereign grand commander
will deliver his allocution.
The honorary 33rd degree will be
conferred on Monday at 400 pm
In this class will be Bishop j. S.
Flipper, senior bishop of the AMF
church, Graham jackson and
others.
DR.. Summer A. Furniss of the
northern jurisdiction, Bishop David
Sims and James A. Jackson. 33rd
degree, and one Of the deputies at
large, have been invited to he the
guests CT the council
This supreme council covers y
states. C. C. Johnson consistory
Of Columbia, will host this body.
J. E. picken is the deputy for the
state and j. S Stanback the
grand master.
Willard w. Allen, in addition to
being the sovereign grand COM
EDanGer and grand master cf the
state of Maryland, is one Of the
regional vice presidents Of the Ma
ticnal Negro Business League and
a member Of the executive commit
tee of the National Negro Insur-
ance association. He is also trus-
tee of the Morgan State College
and one Of the most active citizens
in Maryland.
The delegates will leave Columbia
on Tuesday and will arrive III
Washington and Baltimore Wed
nesday morning.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-18
The Globe TrOtter
Bv cliff Maekay

thus far been able to thwart the carefully laid
plans of the woud-be world conqueror.
NoNSENSICAL ARGUMENT
Nonsensical is this plea that we not help Rus.
sia fight the NaZis because the Russians not
christians" If bandit is holding gun in your
face and another armed man appears would you
keep your rescuer from sho otlng the bandit long
enough to ask him whether or not he believed in
freedom of religion? Hardly. Just silly in
this catechism of the Russians
You would be entirely too gratefully to your
rescuer for getting that gun out of your face.
Too, before pointing SO hard at Russia, 1t
might be well for some of our religious Americans
to put III everyday practice some Of the Christian
principles they So ardently profess
1t is no secret that the section of America
that boasts the most churches the most preachers
and the most christians" is the section which can
also boast the most bitter hatreds and the most
blind ntoleranceS.
One American churchmian sneered at the Rus
sian constitutional provision of religious freedom
"hollow mockery," forgetting that the Russians
could Justly sneer back at certain provisions of the
United States Constitution say the 14th and 18th
amendments, being "holow mockeres"
THESE ARE NOT MoCKERIES
1t certainly could be argued thai correspond
ing provisions of the Russian Constitution dealing
with racial issues are not mockeries, but are
ligiously and rigidly enforced.
Surprising to most Americans will be the
knowledge that Russia unquafiedly outlaws the
discrimination and Jim crow statutes that plague
the American scene
Article 1913 of the Russian Constitution, which
not even the non-nterventionsts can argue is a
'hollow mockery," reads:
"The equal rights of citizens of the u S.
S. r., Independent of their nationality and race,
IN all fields OF ~copomic, State, cultural and
public-political life is uralterable law.
"Any direct or indirect limitation of
rights conve roa'- any ests sblishment of di-
rect indirect rref0rences of citizens depend
ent upon their ~acal md tional membership,
we'll all preaching of racial national
exclusiveness, &C hate and contempt, is
punishable by law.
Strong words are these. Stronger by far in
insuring democracy 20 oil neople, than those pro
vded by our own constitution. In Russia, by now
Governor Eugene Talmadge arch-stirrer of racial
animosities, would be cooling his heels in dun
geon
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-18

meetings; (4) School parades; 60
Distribution of posters and plac-
ards, etc, by Negro Boy Scouts.
The Lichtman chain Of Negro
theaters in Washington, D. c., has
inaugurated the sale of Defense
Savings Stamps in their theater
lohhies. and a notice on the screen
asks patrons to take their change
in Defense Stamps.
Many business organizations,
churches and social clubs are ac-
lively interested in promoting the
sale Of Defense Bends and Stamps,
the reports show. In addition,
special meetings designed to slim
ulate interest in the Defense Saw
ings Program have been arranged
in Cleveland, Columbus and Gin
oinnati, O., Indianapolis, Ind.
Braddock, Pa, Durham and
Greensboro, N. c., ST. Louis, Mo-,
st Paul, Duluth and Minneapolis,
Mimi, Spokane, Seattle and Ia
coma, Wash, Portland, Ore, Stock
ton, Sacramento, Salinas, Venice,
Los Angeles and Pasadena, Calf,
Ell Paso, Tex, Pueblo and Denver,
Colo, and Omaha, Neb.
The Phoenix index., 1941-10-18
FuII-Tir1le 0PM
Field Man Need
OF Detroit Area
Suggestion Is
Made by NAACP
Labor Committee

DETROIT Mich.-(SNS) - To
awaken the Negro workers of this
city to the problems involved in
the scheduled lay-off of 100000
men which has already begun in
plants here, the Labor and Indus
try Committee Of the local branch
of the NAACP held conference
TO discuss the training, apprentice
ship and employment of the Negro
in defense industries in Michigan,
Saturday and Sunday, October 4
and S.
Out of the conference came re-
quest for a full-time Negro repre-
sentative of the Office of Produc-
ton Management to be stationed
in Detroit.
1t was complained that there
could be no effective follow-up of
FEPC Investigations and other ef-
forts to stop violations of the Pres
ident's Executive Order under the
present plan where the present
representative has to cover three
states-Ohio, Kentucky and Mich
igan.
A number Of outstanding speak
ers, including Horace r Cayton,
labor expert and newspaper col
ranniSt; Walter Hardin, Interna-
tional representative of the UAW-
CLIO and Horace White COM
missioner of the Detroit Housing
Commission, acquainted the audi
ence with steps to be taken in get
ting job training and referrals,
union and plant procedure and the
work of the Office of Production
Management and the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee in con-
nection with employment Of Ne
groes.