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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
BIuffton High School Notes

With basketball now definitely out
of the picture at Bluffton High
school, thoughts of the students this
week turned to the matter of spring
musical and forensic contests.
Bluffton ranked tops at the North
western Ohio district choral contest
held at Bowling Green State univer-
sity Saturday. Wanda DiIIer reach
ed the semi-fnals in the district ex-
tempore speech contest held at Ere
mont Saturday. Betty Steinman,
who had planned to enter the decla-
nation contest at Fremont, was
forced to cancel her entry due to a
sore throat.
The Government class is planning
to visit the Court of Common Pleas
at Lima Tuesday where they will be
privileged to witness an accident
trial. This fits in with the discus
sion of the jury system which the
class is having under the direction
of Dale Reichenbach, student teacher
from Bluffton college.
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Seasonal Astronomical Pheno-
mena" was the title of the talk Civ
en- by Sidney Stettler, high school
instructor in mathematics, at the
regular meeting of the science club
held in the chemistry room Tuesday
night. Mr.. Stettler discussed the
magnitudes, motions and distances
of the heavenly bodies in their or
bital revolutions.
The Future Farmers of America
of Bluffton will entertain their
brother organization of Columbus
Grove in the agricultural room and
gymnasium at the high school We'd
nesday night.
The Recorders, graphic arts club
of the high school, will hold a pot
luck supper at the general shoI
room, Thursday night, it was an
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

for Mr.. Leo Sylvester who died
Wednesday night from a skull frac-
ture received earlier in the day when
he fell under a moving tractor at his
home.
Mrs. C. d. Mounts, Mrs. E. L.
Michael, Miss Edythe Cupp, Mrs. L.
J. Lemley and Mrs. Regina Lemley
of Pandora were guests at a meet
ing of the Profit and Pleasure club
held in the home of Mrs. Harold
Marshall last Wednesday after noon.
Miss Jean Marshall who is attend
ing Miami University in Oxford is
expected home the latter part of the
week to spend the spring vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo
Marshall.
Elizabeth Campbell and Kenneth
Marshall students at Ohio State
University Columbus are spending
the week with their parents in this
vicinity. Herbert Marshall, Jr.,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Farewell Party

Friends and neighbors recently
gathered at the home of Jesse Welty
and Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon King and
family to give them farewell party.
The evening was spent in playing
ping pong and chinese checkers.
Music also proved to be a special
feature and refreshments were
served at the close of the evening.
Present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Meyer and sons Keith and Kent, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Rogers and sons John
and Jack, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Ander-
son and son James, Mrs. Nevada
Cronin, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Frantz,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Jones and
children, Martha Jane, Clarence, Jr.,
Ruth and David.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Harper, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Kempf, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. ]. Balmer and children,
Evelyn, Kathryn and Donald, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Adams, Philip Flath,
Mr.. and Mrs. Raybern Rupright and
daughter Shirley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Carr and children Mary Lou,
Joan and Darrell.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Haas and
daughter Lenna, Miss Marilyn Reiter
and honored guests Jesse Welty and
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon King and daugh-
ter Virginia and son ROLAND.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
ReU. Forrest MIsser
Accepts Grace Charge

Rev. Forrest Musser, graduate OF
Bluffton college in the class of 1929,
has accepted call to the Grace
Mennonite church of Pandora, it was
announced here the first of the week.
Rev. Musser has been pastor of the
First Congregational church in Port
land, Connecticut.
Rev. and Mrs. Musser and their
two daughters, will arrive in Pan
dora about June /, when he will as
sumo his new duties, according to
Rev. Paul E. Whitmer, retiring min
lister.
Both Rev. and Mrs. Musser are
graduates of Bluffton college in the
class of 1929. They continued their
studies at Hartford Theological Sem
mary, where both received B. d. de-
grees in 1882.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Button College Notes

The Bluffton college Y. M. C. A.
and Y. w. C. A. were guests of the
Findlay college "Y" groups last
Thursday evening. The visiting
group of approximately 40 students
presented a variety program as
Findlay had done last year when
they were entertained on the Bluff
ton campus.
The Bluffton college music depart
ment will be host to the North
western District Orchestra contest,
Friday. The contest will be in
charge of Prof. Russell A. Lantz of
the music department and is spon-
sored by the Ohio Music Education
Association.
Prof. Lantz, will address the Ohio
Music Teachers Association on the
subject of "Choral-conducting". The
meeting will be held next Tuesday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

completed his work there this semes-
ter and was among those who
graduated last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cupp and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Kohl
and family attended family night
for members of the Pastime Club
of Columbus Grove and their fam
lilies at the high school building in
Columbus Grove last Thursday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy c. Mayberry
entertained at their home Sunday
in honor of the birthday anniversar-
les of their daughters Nancy Anne
and Joan and Mrs. Mayberry's
father, Mr.. F. R. Mason of Column
bus Grove. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. w. J. Porter and son Billy
of Marysville, Mr.. and Mrs. F. r.
Mason of Columbus Grove and the
Misses Mary Jane Mayberry and
Ruth Mayer both students of Bluff
TON ColieBe.
The annual congregational meet
ing of the Rockport Presbyterian
church will be held Wednesday
evening, April 2, with a covered
dish dinner at $50. The reorgani-
zation of the Sunday school will be
held Sunday morning.
Among those from here who ac-
companied their school groups to
Bowling Green last Friday to parti-
pate in the contest for choral groups
were: Nancy Anne and Franklin
Mayberry, Richard Cupp, Robert and
Rebecca Marshall, Ruth Freet, Ruth
Price, Zerrene Kidd and Dolores
Bowers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

Only one Allen county young man
of draft age has so far been placed
in the 4-E classification for conseien-
tious objectors, it was announced last
week from state selective service
headquarters.
Allen county's lone objector was
from Board No. 1, and none have
been reported yet from Boards 2
and 3.
In Ohio's $50 draft boards there
have been only 222 objectors so far,
the report showed. Of these so
were from Holmes county where
there is large Amish settlement.
National draft officials have indi-
Gated that objector camps, similar to
those of the CCC, will be set up for
the objectors. No military training
will be given at the camps, but men
must serve the one-year service
period prescribed by the selective
service act.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

nounced by Maynard Badertscher,
president of the organization. A
short business session will be held
afterward.
The wiring project at the grade
school will be completed this week
by the boys of the vocational cleo
tricity class under the direction of
George Sigg, instructor.
Members of the class undertaking
the project are: Bob Watkins, Jim
Martin, Bill McCaferty, Eugene
Newlan, Clyde Fisher, Gerald Bow
ers, Francis Marquart, Don Clark
and Fred Fritchie.
Basketball letters will be awarded
to the players of the highly touted
Red and White aggregation at a
special assembly to be held Friday
morning.
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School will be dismissed Friday
afternoon for the Northeastern Ohio
Orchestra contest to be held in the
gymnasium in the afternoon and
evening. The Bluffton orchestra is
preparing for the event.
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The busses will make their reg
ular routes leaving the schools Fri
day noon at IL o'clock.
Principal Gerhard Buhler has as
signed various home rooms to serve
as centers for the different schools
entering the contest.
The senior scholarship contest will
be held at Lima Saturday morning
The students are tested for general
knowledge and comprehension OF
high school subject matter.
Two films will be used in the
visual aids program this week: "The
Romance of Glass" and a March oi
Time news reel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Reformed Calendar In 1864 Brought
Adoption OF All Fools Day In France

the view of making fools of those
who might have forgotten the
change in date.
Custom Spreads
Once started, the custom con-
tinued and soon became very pop
ular in the entire country. From
France, the observance spread to
England, and thence to this country
and to many other parts of the
world.
In England, April fooling did not
make its appearance until the early
part of the eighteenth century, but
it became very popular there in
short order.
April Fool jokes was that played
about 1860 by a group of humor-
loving spirits.
April Fool Joke
Impressive invitations bearing a
seal cast by an inverted coin for
official effect were sent to many
prominent families of London.
The invitation read: "Tower of
London-Admit Bearer and Friend
to view the annual ceremony of
washing the White Lions on Sun
day, April L. Admittance only at
the White Gate"
Needless to say there was nc
white gate and no washing of the
lions, but large crowd turned out
for the affair, nevertheless.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

Lost in antiquity is the origin of
All Fools Day which every April l
brings a renewal of amiable tricks
and tomfoolery from the young in
years and the young in spirit. The
event this year viii occur next
Tuesday.
One old theory takes the custom
back to the time of Noah and the
Ark, claiming it arose from Noah's
action in sending the dove out be-
fore the water had abated. 1t is
claimed this occurred on the first
day of the Hebrew month corre-
spending to our day of April.
However, the most plausible con-
lecture is that which attributes the
origin of the custom to France.
Change New Years Date
This nation was the first to OBJ
serve the beginning of the New
Year on Jan. 1, instead of March
25, which for years had been the
custom.
Prior to the change in the celebra-
ton of the New Year, the New Year
feast had eliminated on April /,
when visits were paid to friends and
gifts were bestowed.
With adoption of the reformed
calendar in 1864, New Years Day
was carried back to Jan. 1, but pre-
tended gifts and mock ceremonial
visits were made on April /, with
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Community Council
TO Meet April Is

Next meeting of the newly formed
community co-ordinating council will
be held at the high school cafeteria
Friday night, April 1S, at TOO
o'clock, it was announced this week
by A. j. B. Longsdorf, chairman.
Discussions will be in charge of
DR.. II. W. Nisonger, professor of
adult education at Ohio State uni
versity and Harrison Sayre, Cover
nor Brickers appointee to the chair
manship of the Ohio commission for
democracy.
The meeting scheduled for last
Sunday was postponed due to the
death of Mrs. Longsdorf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Local Mans Auto
On Fire In Lima

Quick action on the part of two
Lima fremen who were off duty last
Wednesday helped save the automo-
bile of Samuel Blosser, Of near
Bluffton, which caught fire at the
edge of Lima on the Dixie highway.
Oil and grease about the carbure-
tor were afiame when the two fire
men stopped at the scene, obtained a
pan of water in restaurant and
extinguished the blaze. Damage was
slight.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27
Mayors Notice

Beginning next week garbage col
lections will be made twice a week,
every Monday and Thursday, as was
the procedure two months previously.
The regular rubbish collection will be
made Friday of this week. Patrons
are urged to have their receptacles
in order.
Quarterly payments are now due
and may be made to the mayor or to
Lee Coon, marshal. Service will be
discontinued if payments are not
made in full.
w A Howe Mavor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

Rev. p. A. Kliewer, pastor of the
Ebenezer Mennonite church west of
town, who has accepted call to the
pastorate of the Grace Mennonite
church at Albany, Oregon. Rev. and
Mrs. Kliewer will leave Bluffton
April Ia and enroute to their new
post they will visit their children at
various points of the journey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

Charles Wesley was the author of
more than 5000 hymns. More than
300 hymns of John and Charles Wes-
ley are in common use today.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-03-27

News Want-Ads Bring Results.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

news reports on Kate Smiths mid
day commentary. News breaking
up to within two minutes of air
time will be relayed to Collins di-
rect from the news association Of.
fees in New York.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
WHEAT PRICES ADVANCE

Sharply higher wheat futures prices
in Midwesteln markets was reflected
in an advance in the July delivery
at Portland during the week ended
June q, according to the Department
of Agriculture, Cash wheat prices
were relatively finer than futures,
with principal classes showing advanc
es of around 8 IL cents per bushel at
Portland compared with the previous
week Trading in cash wheat however,
was reported light, due Largely ia
very light offerings by growers at
country points, since current values
are still well under the announced
Government loan values. Demand at
terminals was light and mostly con
fined to special qualities for current
needs of millers.
Export flour sales under the in
demnity plan Increased over the pre-
vious week and totaled around 26,-
900 barrels, about equally divided
between the Philippines and the Am
ericas. Indemnity payments held at
60 cents $ 1.35 per barrel, respec-
lively.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

topmost joint causing blighted heads,
simetimes called whiteheads'' or
"bald heads -. Splitting the stem
down just above the topmost joint will
usually reveal the maggot. The maggot
is produced by a tiny fly about Is
inch long, yellowish green in color
with three broad black stripes ON it's
thoTax and abdomen. This fly lays its
eggs on the leaves of the plant.
Advice from the State College of
Washington is that there is no success
full method Of controlling the maggot
on this years wheat crop. Control of
the maggot lies in cultural practices at
the time of and after harvest Including
crop rotation, use of trap crops
destruction of volunteer grasses and
grain, late planting of fall grain, and
destruction of crop residue,
~ hTe wheat -stem maggot attacks not
only wheat but rye, barley, timothy,
and a number Of grasses. Most sew
eve damage however, has been done
in infestation Of wheat.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

Receipts of wheat by rail at Puget
Sound and Columbia river terminals
totaling SS3 cars, represented largely
deliveries on earlier sales and move
ment to terminals to relieve storage
conditions at country points, rather
than current marketings. Wheat mill.
feeds held very firm at recent advan4
ces.
Crop prospects in the Pacific North.
west continue very favorable, with ad-
ditional moisture received during the
period, although some lodging is report
ed i'm various districts. The damp,
cloudy weather retarded ripening of
winter wheat and spring wheat is
mostly headed in warmer areas in
Oregon.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
WHEAT MAGGOT CONTROL
NOT POSSIBLE NOW

An outbreak of western wheat mag
got has been reported in the last few
days in Grant, Douglas and Lincoln
counties and farmers may find the
insect attacking grain in this area.
The western wheat stem maggott has
been reported in Washington since
1919, but the present outbreak is the
first of serious proportions on record
in this area. The insect has done con.
siderable damage in past years in the
Dakotas and other Midwest areas
The maggot is about IA in long
and pale green in color The mag
gots feed in the soft tissue within the
wheat stem, Immediately above the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

Among the best customers of the
out-of-town newspaper stand in
Times Square are I'VE, the Peo-
pie" guests who stroll over from
the CHS theatre and pick I'D a
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

If motorists would stop heaving
cigarets and other lighted objects from
their cars'', said Mr., Goodyear, "ths
cost of forest fire suppression in this
State would cut approximately one
third
This is a simple fortnight statement
by man who ought to know what he
is talking about. SURPRISING forest
fires didn't start. But another fire
season is with us. SO are the summer
tourists both imported and domestic
We like tourists even though they have
the bad habit of tossing any old thing
out their car windows. Plain rubbish
is bad enough Lighted objects are a
crime.
Now what we ID like to know Mr..
Motorist is this: Is there any deep
seated possibly subconscious objection
I to an ash tray in a motor car Is the
ash tray in general use difficult to
use9 eve take it for granted, of
course, that your automobile does have
an ash tray, for if it hasn't, il is
illegally on the highway in this State)
If your answer to both of these cues
tons is "No" then we will have to
look elsewhere for rational eXplana-
ton of the GAL forest fires caused in
Washington last year by motorist who
did use their ash trays.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03


day nights for Kate Smith during
the summer is graduate of the
Mia Mack juvenile programs on
CHS.
As if she didn't have enough
work to do already - with her
movie acting, newspaper and mag
azlne column writing and "Iedda
Hoppers IIollywood' radio show
-Hedda Uoppcrs newest activity
is fostering the California Junior
Symphony, 100-piece orchestra of
high school boys and girls, which
is currently crashing the films.
Andre kostelanetz, pictured
here, is the latest Sunday evening
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

daughter and son-in-la law. Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Kallenberger.
Linda Lee, small daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Dan schell, passed away
Sunday night after sending some
time in Spokane hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. Eckhoff of Davenport
r. E. A. engineer, spent Sunday at
the Ed Engle home.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
MARLIN ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Pfiefer and Mr..
and Mrs. Phil Schmierer were Sunday
dinner guests at he Henry Zimbclman
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kneckt of Warden
spent Sunday at the home of their
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
ASH TRAY ESSAY

Mr.. Motorist, this query is address,
ed to you, for you and you alone are
the only person who can do anything
to remedy a situation we have in mind.
This situation was brought suddenly
to our attention by one sentence in a
public statement made recently by T..
s. Goodyear, Washington State Forest
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

paper to find what is going on at
home in their absence
Billy Mills, the bandleader.
usually heard from California
with the F'lbber MCGEE and Molly
program, is now doing his network
batoning from Chicago on the sum-
mer show which replaced the
fibber and is starring Hap Hazard.
Patricia Ryan, who has the title
role in Claudia the Rose Frank
en- story which will carry on Fri
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
! RIGHT OUT OF THE AIR
BY EARLE FERRIS

\ A AxINE, pictured here, is vocal
wi soloist on Phil Spitalny's Hour
of Charm" Sunday nights over
MIC, and evidently one Of the fav-
Evening star., 1941-07-05
Sketches "Creditable" History
OF Russia in Series of Wars.
To the Editor of The Star

49, NAiN AA-eOA "a liz Sbd4'
Holy Russia" several times has been
the graveyard of great military reputa-
tions. Napoleons ul-success is known
to all Q812). But a hundred years be-
fore, another one fell off his pinnacle.
He was Charles XII of Sweden. the
'Madman of the North" After defeat
ing the Russians repeatedly in the Nor
die war tabout 17G0 ADD, he invaded
the distant Ukraine There he met his
Waterloo 1709) at Poltava. Vastly
outnumbered by Peter the Greats army
the young hero king (26 at the time),
had to leave the field beaten man.
He never recovered his former prestige.
In the Seven Years War the Russians
fought as allies of the AustrianS against
Frederick the Great The king had
neither the time nor the men to carry
the war into Russian territory. And so
he waited for them to come his way.
The armies met at Leondorf Q758), and
the king won. But the Russian squares.
for hours, stood as firm as stone wall
and finally retired in good order. In
the following year, at Kinnersdorf, the
combined Russians and AuStrians de-
feated Frederick. But within two days
he was in the fight once more.
During the early French Revolutionary
wars Q790), the Russians, as allies OF
the Austrians, and captained by the
famous Suvorov fought with credit
all over South Germany, Switzerland
and the north of Italy. A war against
Napoleon Q8OO they lost (Friedland.
In 1872 the Cars armies, in the wake
of the French retreat, marched into
Germany and, combining with the Prus-
slams and Austrians, brought about the
liberation of all of Europe.
The Western powers CF'rance, England,
Sardinia, also Turkey in 1853 attempted
a descent upon Russia via the Black Sea
route-the invasion of the Crimea. One
fortress, Sebastopol, held them at bay
for two years. A peace of negotiation
and concession (Treaty of Paris, 1866
followed Russia did not concede much.
During the 18th and 10th centuries the
empire fought number of winning wars
against the Turks. 1t helped in estab-
fishing the independence of Greece Q825)
and, later on, of all of the Balkans.
In the Japanese War Q905), the Rus
slams lost every action on land and sea.
But while still going strong, the Car
accepted Theodore Roosevelt's offer OF
a negotiated peace Portsmouth).
In the World War Russias military