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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-06-10

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it has good pianp the customers
may play when they get the
urge.
A Geography Lesson
Ask native Haligonian Hali-
faxer to YOU why it takes war
to push his city into prosperity,
and he'll answer you short and
easy.
Geo Apply. Halifax has one of
the Fl / natural harbors in the
w Further inland, connected
with .te outer harbor by a deep
narrows, lies a huge anchorage
basin, where scores of ships may
lie, awaiting convoy. The port is
ice-free all winter.
Geography also made Nova SEQ
tia. and more particularly Halifax
harbor. British perch TO flank
the French in North America IN
the 18th century. Parliament SUBJ
sidized a colony in l749, sent il to
the Harbor of Chebucto in Aca-
dia. That colony became Halifax.
There followed the French and
Indian wars. when Brstasa Navy
paymasters brought prosperity to
Halifax Then the American rev.
olution Halifax remained loyal
to the end. supplied blockading
fleets and privateers for the Brit
ish And made money.
During the Napoleonic wars,
the ROYAL Navy kept big fleets in
the harbor Wolfe planned the
capture of Quebec here. And it
was here during the war of 1912
that the worlds first modern com
voys were made up and escorted
through the American blockade
by British men o war.
The 1914 puSh
The story was the same in the
Crimean and Boer wars. The Big
Push of prosperity came in 1914.
1t was the same business of sup
plying rendezvous for conveys, a
North Atlantic base for the Brit
ish fleet, and later for the Amer
leans. Supplies for great waves
of France bound soldiers were fur
nished here, too Halifax was IN
the money again.
Through il all, Haligonians
have moi rested content 10 reap
the profit Of war They've also
taken the risks You can name
hardly battle fought by British
forces anywhere in the world,
without running into a HaIigonian
hero.
And IL was al Halifax that a
munitions ship explosion IN the
World war killed 1000. left 10000
homeless.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-06-10

lite Nova ScotianS, and soldiers
and sailors from ev rywhere rub
shoulders. It's Haiifax's nearest
approach to nigh club. Because
it has good piano the customers
may play when they get the
urge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-06-10

Key West. Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

day last week.
The Henry Reichenbach family is
quarantined on account of scarlet
fever.
John S. Geiger has not been well
during the past week.
Ralph Augsburger and Ebert
Hilty left Thursday for camps of
military training.
Mrs. Waldo Hofstetter submitted
to an operation at the Community
hospital last Friday.
Pandora school was dismissed last
Thursday on account of icy roads.
Mrs. d. j. Basinger fell on the
ice at her home last Thursday morn
ing when she stepped out on the
porch and received badly wrenched
knee and had to be in bed for some
time.
Those from out of town attend
ing the funeral for Mrs. Mary Ann
Kiener last Sunday were: Mr.. and
Mrs. John Burky, Mrs. Clayton Nc
Cune of Berne, Ind; Mr.. and Mrs
John Bixler, Mr.. and Mrs. Mennc
Hanni, Mr.. Ben Bixler of Geneva
Ind; Mr.. and Mrs. George Bixler
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF August s, 1907

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Diller, Misses
Zoe Lugibihl and Loa Bame were
Niagara Falls excursionists over the
Western Ohio, Tuesday.
Donald Flick is spending the week
with ]. d. Ewing and famil yat
Carey. t
Mrs. Tillie Stockhart, who with her
husband spent several months in
Germany visiting the former home of
the latter, returned and writes to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. P.
Lugibihl, from New York city, that
they expect to be in Bluffton today,
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Lugibihl
came up from Pandora, with a lot
of good things to eat Sunday morn
ing and took possession of a beauti-
full spot in the shady college grove
In response to an invitation they
were met by their children and fam
lilies, making family group of 40
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Zullinger
moved here from Winchester, Tenn.
last week, and are now living in
their home on Lawn avenue, recent.
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not we'll at present. She is to re-
turn to Pandora in the near future.
She is being accompanied by her
niece, Mrs. Sam Diller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lluellyn Zimmeriy of
Orrville, O., were here to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Ben Kiener.
Gilbert Suter sold $50 hogs last
week that brought fancy price. He
has again purchased his feeding
cattle in Denver, Colorado, recently.
moved from this place to Martins
vile, ILL.,, was in town last Monday.
Nr. and Mrs. N. N. Soldner and
family were in Berne, Sunday visit
ing in the J. f. Springer home,
Melvena Gerber accompanied them
and is assisting with the work in
the Springer home.
:. Charles Stewart is delivering coal
to a number of his neighbors. He
obtains it from the mines near New
| Lexington, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram M. Kohl
were in Columbus last Wednesday te
attend meeting of the Merinc
Sheep Breeders association.
/ Ben Amstutz was in Dayton one
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

" purchased of VIM. Leichty, for
merly occupied by d. F. Jantzen and
family.
Miss Cora Greding is spending the
week with her grandparents, Rev.
and Mrs. p. Greding, at Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaiah Beeshy and
daughter, Miss Vivian, are seeing the
sights of Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Miss Nellie Goble was given a
surprise party Friday evening to re-
mind her of her birthday annivers-
airy. The guests were Misses Nellie
Eaton, Bertha Amstutz, Kathryn
Mitchell, Zoa Hilty, Zoe Bentley,
Edith McPeak, Mildred Niswander,
Marguerite Keegan, Flora Plattner,
Mabel Fett, Clara Wilson, Ruth
Dukes and Florence Kohl.
Mt. Cory is coming to the front
with new banking institution and a
$1,000 grain elevator.
Thomas Buchanon and family, OF
Elida, spent Sunday at the George
Benroth home.
Miss Reigh Brandenburg, of Ok.
ford, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
c. A. Arganbright. Miss Branden.
burg is one of the newly elected
high school teachers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

ing, and the custom business operated
by the Badertschers is popular with
them. Facilities at the Cherry street
plant enable the handling of hs many
as II hogs daily.
During the week of Jan. 6 t6 II, the
Badertschers butchered Al hogs. The
largest was 730-pound porker owned
by L. 7. Greding. n
For the butchering, the local men
charge one cent a pound. Farmers
bring the animals to them in trailers,
and take the dressed meat home via
the same mode of transportation.
The butchering sequence is much
the same as that followed on farms
for generations. After the hog is
killed and weighed, the animal is
scalded in vat of hot water and the
hair scraped from the skin. r.
The hog is hung on hooks to be cut.
Grinding of sausage and rendering of
lard marks the final step in the oper-
alton.
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Winter Butchering On Farms
Replaced By Custom Butchering

That butchering is becoming lost
art on many of the farms in the Bluff
ton area is indicated this week by the
activity of a busy custom butchering
concern operated in a shop on Geiger
street by Adolph and A. c. Bader-
fischer, father and son.
This continues a trend of recent
years in which farmers now hire
specialists to do much of the work
formerly done by each individual farm
resident.
No longer is bread baked on most
of the farms of the district. Many
do not churn butter, selling their
cream instead and buying butter in
town. At one time much of the farm
family's clothing was made at home.
Now modern styles are purchased in
the towns leading clothing stores.
Much home canning is also being re-
placed by custom work of the Amstutz
cannery north of town.
With the change in times, few
farmers are doing their own butcher
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Settlement

A cahlegram from Miss Mary
Haas from her mission station in
Nigeria Africa, has just been receiv-
ed informing her folks OF her safe
arrival ii her field Of work.
Mr.. I'D Mrs. Austin Shelton of
Bowlind Green are rejoicing over
the birih of a baby girl born to
them recently.
The Rev. John Thiessen family is
soon to leave for India. Rev. and
Mrs. Thiessen occupied the St. John
pulpit last Sunday morning at which
time they brought their farewell
message. In the, evening they spoke
at the Grace church. Their sons
Harold and Arthur are remaining
here to attend Bluffton college.
Large crowds are attending the
Bible lectures which are being given
at the Ebenezer church from Sunday
night until Wednesday night. DR..
DeHaan is a forceful and able
speaker.
Mrs. Grabill Davidson who has
been in Florida for several weeks is
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
STOCK SALES

Service bulls delivered any time.
Also male hogs. C. N. Long & Son,
phone Ada Red 1860. If
Wanted-Unlimited amount of fat
cattle connected with Eastern order
buyer. Call N. P. Steiner, Bluffton
phone 582-R. IF
For sale-Choice feeding cattle;
also bulls for rent. Ira Moser.
For sale-Bay mare coming 2 years
old, good one. Jacob Conrad.
Beaverdam.
For sale-25 shoats, avg. 10 lbs.;
also shoats avg. 120 lbs. l.. E. Alt
haus, IL mile south of Lafayette.
For sale-2 Jersey cows. Howard
H. Rickly, 3 miles south of town on
Bentley road.
For saIe-41 shoats: 21 avg. 85 lbs;
20 avg. so lbs. Ed PaIte, 2A miles
west of Beaverdam on Lincoln.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

A number of Bluffton musicians
attended the Winona Lake Musical
contest, held at Winona Lake, Ind,
Aug. / and 2. Among those who
had entered the contest was the
Bluffton- Pandora mixed chorus under
the leadership of Prof. J. F. Jones.
There were other entries of indi-
vidual musicians who appeared in
solos and instrumental selections.
Miss Zanna Staater, daughter of Mr..
! and Mrs. w. J. Staater, secured first
place in the rendition of "Haymak-
ing, mezzo soprano solo, no
Frank Whistler, of Wapello, Iowa,
who has been visiting Ohio friends
since the oath of July. visited his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Phoebe Steiner
and daughters, Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
M. B. Sweeney, of Beaumont, Tex,
arrived here Saturday to join his
family at the George Benroth home.
After a months vacation Mr..
Sweeney and family will again re-
turn to Texas.
Hal Cain, who with his family
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
|'Twas This Way
By LYLE SPENCER
A Monument to a Beetle
@ Western Newspaper Union.

Frs hard to believe, but til e
citizens of Enterprise, Alabama,
have erected a fine-looking monu-
ment in their town to a beetle.
The beetle is the boil weeviI, about
the most destructive insect there is.
On the monument is engraved
these words: I'm profound appreci-
alton of the boil weevil and what
it has done as the herald of pros
perity." What happened in Enter
prise was the boil weevils got so
they ate up so much of the local
cotton crop the farmers in despair
finally began to grow other crops
the weevil didn't eat. Much to their
surprise, their total income from
crop sales soon jumped to triple
the amounts they had received in
the best cotton years. So the boil
weevil had done them a left-handed
good favor.
The boll weevil was imported into
the United States from Central
America. 1t was first noted near
Brownsville, Texas, about 1892. Be-
cause it is immune to most ordinary
insecticides, it has run rampant
throughout the cotton fields of the
South, eating up millions
of dollars worth of crops every year.
Literally thousands of small farm
ers have been ruined through its
ravages.
In addition to the boil weevil, the
price of cotton has been SO low
in recent years as to render its
growing Improbable for many
farmers. Thus they have been
forced to diversity their crops.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Americana
First Football Helmet

y ACK in the early days of football,
ID the days of flying wedges" mass
plays and no forward passes, its husky
players wore little of the protective
armor of later days. They went into
the fray bare-headed-and hoped for
the bestl
So on December 2, 1898, when the
Navy team trotted out on the field for
the fourth game of the first series
played with the Army, spectators
looked with amazement at one of the
Navy players. 1t was Capt. Joseph NJ.
Reeves and he was wearing a clumsy
contraption on his head. 1t was
heavy felt pad, covered with doeskin,
and tied with leather straps under his
chin, which made him look very much
like a Tibetan lama.
But there was good reason for his
wearing 1t. The hard-hitting captain
had suffered head injury, and If he
didn't play, defeat of the Navy was
almost certain. So the coach had the
trainer fashion this helmet--the first
ever used in football-for him and it
enabled him to stay through the whole
game which the Navy won by a score
of 6 to 4.
The Captain Reeves Of 1S93-94 in la-
ter years became Rear-Admiral Reeves
and a member of the general board in
the Navy department at Washington.
Another member of that team was also
marked for future distinction. He was
known then as "Spooney' Churchill
right guard. A later generation of
Americans was to know him as Win
ston Churchill, author of "The Cross
Ing" 1.-THE Crisis" and number of
other distinguished novels of American
life.
G wastarn Nar-srna rnar HMM
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
Fdze Property Is
Left To Children

In the will of A. S. Faze, Bluffton
filling station proprietor, who was
Allen county's first 1941 traffic vic
tim, his entire personal and real
property was left to his wife, who
preceded him in death several years
ago.
No change was made in the will
following the death of Mrs. Faze. 1t
provides that in case of the wife's
death the real estate is to be divided
among six children, Floyd, Ruth,
William, Agnes, Isabel and Dorothy.
Faze was killed in an automobile
collision near Cairo on Jan. II.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED
CHURCHES
Emil Burrichter, Pastor

Emil Burrichter, Pastor
Emmanuels:
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Public worship at 10:45 a. m.
We invite you to register in the
Leadership Training School begin
ming this Thursday at 700 p. m. at
the High school.
Mems Brotherhood meets at St
Johns church Thursday evening at
500 p. m. Mayor w. A. Howe will
speak.
Joint Consistory meeting after the
Brotherhood meeting.
st. Johns:
Public worship at OILS a. m.
Sunday school at 10:45 a. m.
Choir practice Thursday at 7:3C
p. m.
Announcements of Leadership
Training School, Mems Brotherhood
and Joint Consistory made above.
Catechism instruction Saturday at
900 a. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bixler, Miss
Judith Bixler of Ft. Wayne; Mr.. and
Mrs. LaHellyn Zimmerly, Mr.. Elias
Kiener, of Orrville; Mr.. Leonard
Bixler, Mr.. Paul Kiener, Dalton; Mr..
Ira Sommers of Millersburg; Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Geise, of Lima; Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Basinger, of For
est; Mr.. and Mrs. Aldine Rothles-
berger, of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
j. A. Weed. Minister

THURSDAY:
3:45 p. m. Junior Choir rehearsal
700 to 500 p. m. First session OF
Leadership Training School, at High
school building. See details else
where in this issue. "a -
SUNDAY: III
900 a. m. Church school.
1000 a. m. Morning worship. Ser.
mon topic, "Convicting the World"
11:15 a. m. Official Board meeting
Important that all members be pres
ent.
1115 a. m. Young Peoples Choir
rehearsal.
600 p. m. Epworth League Devo.
tional service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

E. G. Steiner, Pastor
9:30 Sunday school.
1880 Preaching. ~ 81
7:15 Christian Workers Band.
500 Sermon.
No Thursday evening service this
week. Come to church Sunday. We
invite you to hear the old-fashioned
gospel, presented for this modern
day.
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EBENEZER MENNONITE

EBENEZER MENNONITE
p. A. Kliewer, Pastor
THURSDAY:
No Teachers meeting or Bible
study.
Mixed Chorus rehearsal $50 p. m
SUNDAY:
Sunday school 9:30 a. m.
Sermon 10:30 a. m. Text: "Jehovah
Reigneth"-and Miss Viola Welty
who has been accepted by the Sudar
Interior African Mission Board fol
Africa, will give her testimony.
Christian Endeavorers 7:30 p. NJ.
Message: IL Peter Hip" 500 tC
8:45 p. m.
"If American democracy is to re-
main the greatest hope of humanity
it must continue abundantly in the
faith of the Bible"-Calvin Coolidge
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23

Sunday services at 1890 a. m.
subject: Truth"
Testimonial meeting at 1880 Wed
nesday evening.
The reading room at the church is
open every Wednesday from 200 to
400 p. m. The public is invited to
all services and to visit the reading
room. ~ #
This society is a branch of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Lee b. Remaley, Pastor

Sunday school 9:15.
Communion 1915.
C. z. Sunday evening 6:30.
The Ladies of the church will meet
Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Guy Corson. Ill
The Ever Ready Class will meet
Thursday evening at the HON e of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Habegger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES


Rockport:
9:30 a. m. Morning Worship.
10:30 a. m. Sunday school. The
young people will take charge of the
Sunday School in observance of
Youths Sunday. Richard Cupp will
be the Superintendent and he will be
assisted by his class.
1880 p. m. Christian Endeayor.
BIuffton:
$3.50 a. m. Sunday School Mr.. Nor
man Triplett, Supt.
1850 a. m. Morning Worship.
600 p. m. Tuxis.
1880 p. m. Evening service, the
radio drama, "Diana of the Ephes-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-01-23
IT, This Sundayin the
kyl f1urrflR8H

ians" will be given under the auspices
of the Tuxis.
The subject of the sermon is "The
Christian Response" The medita-
ton is in keeping with Young Peoples
Day. 81
"Thy word have I laid up in my
heart that l might not sin against
Thee"
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MISSIONARY CHURCH
A. f. Albro, Pastor, ial
SUNDAY:
$50 Sunday school.
1890 Morning worship, Rev a.
No Sunday night services dueoSo
union meeting with the Pandora Mis-,
sionary church.
Wednesday, 7:30 Prayer meeting.
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Wilson'S sssf steT z l6-ox. cons 2le
Peas .sultana z No. z cons 19c
Peas A&P -. z No. z cons 25e
Pumpkin 3 No. 2Iz cons 25c
dexo Tsnft.n,ns Pure Vegetable 3-ib. con 3oc
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g Western Newspaper Union.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
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Evening star., 1941-12-07

hands at Ed Duda," southeast of
Tobruk, after three heavy Axis at
tacks had failed to seize that posi-
ton.
Scattered Clashes Emphasized.
British communicates emphasized
scattered clashes which, they said.
took heavy toll of Axis manpower,
machines and air strength.
More than 5000 Italian and about
1000 German prisoners have been
taken to the rear, the general head
quarters communiQue said.
IN one of the forward prisoner
of war cages" is added, there are
another 1000 Germans and 1.5OO
Italians. In addition to these,
there are numbers of prisoners
still in forward areas and on lines
of communication who have not
yet been counted"
Formation Is Routed.
One Axis formation of 400 in
fantrymen and $50 motor vehicles
was routed by British planes, artil-
lery and machine guns in a concert
ed attack, 1t said, and heavy cas-
ualties also were reported inf1ict-
ed on another infantry and trans
port column attempting to edge
westward along the coastal escarp-
ment.
West of Bardia, British mobile
column was credited with destroy
ing 60 Axis motor vehicles and a
supply dump
Also cited specifically was an In
dian detachment said to have de-
stroyed IS Italian tanks, $50 We
hicles and $4,000 gallons of fuel
oil and captured 400 Italians, 2
batteries of artillery. 5 anti-tank
guns, so supply trucks and a large
quantity of ammunition at Bir Ell
Gobi yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Where They Are Fighting

The reported evacuation of Rus
sian troops from Hango returns to
Finland the control of this strate-
gic military and naval base won by
the Soviet Union in the war of
1939-40.
The peninsula of Hango, on the
tip Of which is set Hango port, is
a slim, 20-mile finger of land point
ed from Southwest Finland into
the Baltic Sea.
In 1889 this territory was one
OF the issues of pre-war negotia-
tions between the Soviet and Fin
nish governments. After the con-
f1ict between the two countries,
Russia was given use of the base
under a 30-year lease.
The port of Hango is less than
200 miles from the Swedish CAPT.
tai Of Stockholm, southwest across
the Baltic. It guards the north
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Truly Divine Miracle
Saved Musso|ini in
Plot, Trial Is Told
Beautiful Blond, Invisible
Ink and Master Mind
Turn Up in Case
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Dec. 6.-The beautiful
blond, the invisible ink, the mas
ter mind and the mysterious pass
words essential to every well-ordered
spy kit turned up today in the
Trieste trial of 60 alleged revolu-
tionary terrorists accused-among
other things-of trying to assas-
sinate Premier Mussolini.
Testimony showed, in the words
of the newspaper La Tribuna, that
"a truly divine miracle" saved Mus
solini from "the horrible attempt
which was prepared in every slight
est detail' during II Duce's visit to
Caporetto in 1888.
The confession of Francesca Klaus,
28-year-old shopkeeper of Plezzo,
was read in court as the climax to
the trial. He said he abandoned
the plan to throw a bomb at Mus
SOIlnl When MS StepmOIner dlS-
covered the plot and started scream
ing on the morning of the fateful
day.
Instead, he said, he went to Cap
oretto and saw the Duce pass un-
molested after his stepmother had
searched his clothes before he left
the house.
Newspapers said Communist
baker, Vittorio Bobek, testified that
he received books. money, a bottle
of invisible ink and spy passwords
late in 1899 from a certain Zelen.
described as 'the master mind Of
a Yugoslav espionage ring"
Bobek, who the prosecutor said
was to supply information on Ital--
ian troops stationed near the Yugo-
slav frontier, declared he did so