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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-30

Mr.. and Mrs. George Cox of Lima
spent the weekend at the home of
her father, Henry Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Eddy and
daughter Bonnie visited Saturday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Balmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Huber of
Wooster spent the week end with
her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Althaus
of North Jackson street.
Special communication, Bluffton
Masonic lodge next Monday night.
Work in Fellowcraft degree. Stan
ley Basinger, w. NJ; Ralph Stearns.
Secretary.
C. E. Gottshall of Lamartine and
Mr.. and Mrs. David McCann of Ca
diz spent the week end with Mr.. and
and Mrs. Ross Gotshall of South
Main street.
For your Victory garden-strong
transplanted vegetable plants and
seed; also flower seed. Grove Street
Greenhouses.
Mrs. Estella McGeorge and Cecil
and Winifred McGeorge visited Sun
day at the homes of Mrs. Maggie
Heltebrand of Pemberville and Mr..
and Mrs. Delbert Reed and family of
Bowling Green.
Mrs. Ralph Locher and little
daughter Virginia Lynn of Cleveland
are spending the week here with
Mrs. Locher's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. 7. Worthington.
Mrs. Ida Burkholder and daugh-
ters entertained at dinner, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Burkholder of
Lima; Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Burk-
holder and daughter of Findlay and
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Burkholder
and son George Alan of this place.
Large blooming pansy plants.
Grove Street Greenhouses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stage of North
Lawn avenue, accompanied by their
house guest, Bessie Goettel and Mr..
and Mrs. C. B. Kaufman motored to
Michigan where they spent the week
end at the home of Mrs. J. A.
James, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kaufman and also visited various
places of interest.
Sunday visitors at the Rayl home
in Orange township were: Mrs. Ed
Robnolte and daughter Martha, Mrs.
E. j. Lamb and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cloyce Robnolte all of Findlay; Mr..
and Mrs. Daryl Robnolte and son
Gene of Toledo; Miss Phyllis Winget
of Bluffton, Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon
Downey and sons Robert and Wayne
of Beaverdam; also Pvt. Marion
Downey of MacDill Field Aviation
Corps, Tampa, Florida, who is home
on furlough.
Remember Mother on Mothers
day, May 10. Tighten her burdens
and cheer her heart with flowers.
We would suggest cut flower ar
rangement, plant or corsage.
Grove Street Greenhouses.
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Inducted Into High
School Honor GrOuD

Jean and Joan Huber, juniors in
Wooster high school and daughters
of DR.. and Mrs. Lawrence Huber,
former Bluffton residents, have been
inducted into the Wooster chapter
of the National High School Honor
society, it was announced here the
first of the week.
Members are elected to the society
on a basis of scholarship, leadership,
character and service, being deter
mined on a basis of extracurricular
activities and a combined vote of
faculty and students.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-30
Orange Scrap Iron
Collection Success

Cooperating in the nationwide
scrap iron salvage campaign, Orange
township trustees collected several
tons of metal during the last week.
With the campaign completed the
Orange Center community house was
filled more than one-third full of
light scrap metal, rags and paper.
A large quantity of heavy iron scrap
and wire was on the outside.
Township officials said they plan
to sell the salvage material to a
Findlay junk dealer. Brice Main
was hired by the trustees to do the
collecting.
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SOCIETIES
and CLUBS

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Hold Mothers Meeting
The Gertrude Hoy Missionary
Circle will entertain guests at its
annual Mothers Meeting" Monday
night at 500 o'clock in the St.
Johns Evangelical and Reformed
church basement.
Miss Meredith Stepleton will be
leader and Mrs. Kenneth Luginbuhl,
Mrs. Louis Wynkoop and Mrs.
Wayne Lugibihl will be hostesses.
Benefit Card Party
A benefit card party will be given
by the st. Mary's Altar and Rosary
society this Wednesday night in the
basement of the church. The fol-
lowing committee is in charge of
arrangements: Mrs. Vern Dardio,
chairman; Mrs. Ed. Reagan, Mrs.
Joe Gerdeman, Sr., Mrs. Dave
Fisher, Mrs. j. w. Jackson, Mrs.
Albert Klass. The public is invited.
Legion Auxiliary
The Bluffton unit of the American
Legion auxiliary was awarded two
citations of merit from the national
and state departments for quota
membership by Armistice Day, it
was announced at the meeting of
the organization Tuesday night.
Bluffton was the first unit in the
district to send in quota member
ship.
Nineteen members and two guests,
Mrs. Brown the department presi-
dent and Mrs. Houser of Kenton at
tended the dinner meeting of the
group at the home of Mrs. J. S.
Steiner preceding the regular meet
ing.
Surprise Shower
A surprise shower was held for
Mrs. Raymond Crawford, formerly
Miss Treva Harris, at the home of
Miss Doris Garmatter Friday night
The evening was spent in playing
games and contests after which re-
freshments were served. Attending
were: the Misses Betty Bracy,
Faery Bronson, Marjorie Buckland,
Olive DeCamp, Winifred Fett,
Georgia Fisher, Dorothy Greding,
Geneva Hankish, Marilyn Hofer,
Mae Huber, Madlyn Isham, Bette
Murray, Carolyn Stonehill, Marjorie
Stratton, Frieda Vandemark and
Lois Harris.
The Mesdames Floyd Harris and
Dale Crawford, the honored guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Crawford
and the hostess Miss Doris Garmat-
Ter.
Gerald and Harold Augsburger,
Maynard Badertscher, Francis Mar
quart, Harry Turner and Clyde
klingler.
Regrets were received from the
Misses Harriet Blome, Veldean Mos
er, Charlotte Santschi, Betty Stein
man, Helen Soldner and from Dale
Grismore, Kenneth Hartman, Will
liam McCafferty, Kenneth Oberly
and Harold Santschi.
Wedding Friday
Marriage of Miss June Burkhold-
er, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Burkholder of West Elm street, and
Rev. Paul c. Whaley, minister of
youth in the ST. Paul's Union church
of Chicago, will take place at the
college church at Wheaton, Ill. Fri
day night at o'clock.
Rev. E. B. Welsh, pastor, will
officiate at the services. Mr.. Whal-
ey is a graduate of Wheaton college
and Denver Bible Institute. Miss
Burkholder graduated from Bluffton
High school in 1888 and attended
| Wheaton college for three years.
The couple will make their home
in Chicago.
Poinsettia Club
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Eight Past Masters
H0Hored By MdsOns

Eight past masters of the Bluffton
Masonic lodge were honored at a
meeting in the lodge hall Monday
night.
Masonic emblems and Bibles were
presented to the eight in the annual
observance of past masters night.
Those honored were C. G. Coburn,
Alfred Muller, F. C. Marshall, Cliff
Stratton, Armin Hauenstein, Ross
Bogart, S. v. Heckathorn and
George +. Miller.
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BluftOn Singers
GiUen High Rating

High ratings were given to the
boys and girls choruses in competi-
ton at the state high school choral
contest held at Ohio State university
in Columbus last Friday.
In the class BIB division the boys
chorus was given the top ranking
with a rating of excellent. In the
class B division the girls chorus was
also given rating of excellent
ranking below st. Clairsville, Kent,
Jackson and Logan.
Miss Elizabeth Higley, music
teacher, directed the Bluffton choral
groups.
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WANT-ADS

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Wanted-Wool. Government prices
paid. Russell Amstutz, 161 Mound
st. Phone 441-W. 2.
Wanted-Outside toilet in good
condition. Inquire News office.
Wanted-Carload of wool. See us
before you sell. Master Feed Mill,
phone 317-W.
Section knives and cast pillow
points ground. Also see me for
lawn mower grinding. Call even
ings. Dana Mathewson, 12S Riley
st.
Lawn mower sharpening and gen.
eral repair. Rel Potee, S. Mound
st.
Lawn mower grinding, oiling and
adjusting. Chas. Young at rear of
Habegger Filling station. N. Main
st. Phone 214-T.
| For rent-Six room house in
country with electricity, garden and
chicken house. Inquire Lloyd Kroft,
miles south on county line.
For rent-Four room furnished
apartment for summer months. Call
| phone 339-R.
For rent-Three rooms. Inquire
328 Cherry st.
For sale-Four compartment re-
frigerator, rs lb. ice capacity, excel
lent condition, priced right. Inquire
120 Riley street.
For sale-About 100 bags home
grown potatoes size B, suitable for
seed, S1.50 per bag. Bring bags.
Clarence Steiner, Bluffton phone. If
For sale-Universal hay car. Good
as new. Edwin H. Niswander lie
miles north Of town on the county
| line.
For sale-Cabbage and head let
tuce plants. A. S. McCune. 160
Geiger street.
For sale-Extra good soy beans
for seed; high termination when
tested at state laboratory. Coral
Schick, miles south of Bluffton on
Bentley road.
For sale-Vegetable plants. Mrs.
r. E. Griffith, South Lawn Ave.
For sale-Used barb wire. Chris
Locher, Pandora phone.
For sale-75 ib. ice box. Call
phone 44S-W.
| For sale-Early frost proof cab
bage plants. Gid Luginbuhl, West
Elm street, Bluffton.
| For sale-1935 Plymouth deluxe
! sedan $125; also modern design Coca
Cola ice box SO. Phone 655-T after
4:30 p. m.
For sale-Bedroom furniture Call
phone 418-W.
! For sale-11 window sash 20 by
30, good as new New ones cost 90c
each; these are 40c each Aaron
Geiger, S. Main street, Button.
For sale-Used Woman's Friend
| Washing machine with double wiring
er, good condition and priced for
quick sale. Basinger's Furniture
store.
| For sale-Seed and eating potatoes,
good planters. s1.25 per basket.
Bring your own containers. Also
milk goat fresh soon, and younger
female goat. Mae Schifferly on
Route 103.
i For sale-Seed potatoes. North
Dakota cobblers $500 bag; Cert.
Main Katahdins 1885 bag. The low
est prices in the county. Don Forche
Market, Beaverdam. Open evenings
until Q p. m.
For sale-Good home rendered
lard; also used buffet and dining
table. Albert Winkler, Blufftor
phone.
Found-Small female beagle hound
Hancock county license 4438. Owner
: may obtain same by calling Blufftol
!. phone 407-T and paying for adver
!. tisement. Ross Gottshall.
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Warming

Repeated complaints of the viola
tion of the county regulation con-
cerning the keeping of dogs on the
owners premises may force the town
council to call the county dog ward
en- to impound all stray dogs. This
together with reports of rabies in
the county make necessary stricter
enforcement of this regulation.
w. A. Howe, Mayor
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College Broadcast

A vocal solo by Miss Dorothy Bur-
ner and several numbers by an en-
semble will be broadcast by Bluffton
college musicians in the weekly col
lege broadcast over Lima station
WLOK Thursday night at $50
o'clock.
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Poinsettia Club
The Poinsettia club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Edgar Conaway
this Wednesday night at 7:30
o'clock. The following program will
be presented: History of Bluffton,
Mrs. Arthur Amstutz; Industries of
Bluffton, Mrs. Robert Murray; Spec
ial Feature, Mrs. Ralph Patterson.
Farm Woman's Club
The Orange Township Farm Wo-
mans club meeting scheduled for
Thursday of next week has been in
definitely postponed.
y
Eastern Star Chapter
An Addendum honoring Mothers
Day will be the feature of the
Eastern Star chapter meeting to be
held Friday night at 8 o'clock.
Theresa Slusser, w. NJ.
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Notice

All kinds of furniture repairing
and new furniture made to order; :;
stepladders with 10 inch wheels and
handles; also saw fling; lawn NOW
ers sharpened and cleaned 75c
Aaron Geiger, S. Main St., Bluffton
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Notice

See me for sharpening steel or
cast plow points; also general black
smithing. D. E. Basinger, 125 Riley
street. 3
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
MAIL THAT PACKAGE
EARLY

(Riverside PreSS)
As we approach the holiday season
each year the editorial column is used
to remind readers that gift parcels,
Christmas cards and letters should be
mailed early if they are to reach their
destination on time.
The warning is more important this
year than in any other recent year ac-
coYding to postoffice authorities. If
thousands Of men in the service and
thousands Of civilians as we'll, are not to
be disappointed by the failure of said
gifts, parcels and holidays reminders to
arrive en- or before Christmas day, the
public must cooperate both in the mail
ing of letters and packages earlier this
year than ever before, and also in taking
care that they are properly addressed.
Postmasters voice this appeal, report
ing various dependable indications that
TIE volume of yuletid9 mail will be great
er than ever before-the greatest in his
tory.
Prior to November I, tons and tons of
Christmas mail for the men in the fight
ing forces overseas were forwarded. Now
we face like remembrance for the m2n
in the training camps at home. They
should have these remambrances reach
them before Christmas day. Why not
start YOUR letter or package early in
December? Even though such letters or
packages are delivered ahead of the great
day. that would be better than to have
them reach their destination after the
time
It is going to be a gigantic task for
the poStoffices over The nation to care
for tie expected rush Of Yuletide mail
this wear especially the letters packages
and cards sent to the training camps,
while maintaining the great flow of regu-
lar nail.
Mail YOURS early and ease up tho great
strain the postoffice employees will have
placed on them during the holiday season.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
JoPs
Ships
RY BRYDON {. TAVES

GEN MaCARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia. Nov 80 -
tUPl - Gen Douglas MacArthur's
flying fortresses have repelled n
] fifth japanese attempt to land re-
Inducements on their Buna beach
head, in New Guinea, scoring di.
rect hits on two deStroyers in the
Nltiaz straits northwest of Buna
ard forcing two other destroyers
to retreat northward, it was an
nounced today.
The japanese had been sending
fresh marines to New Guinea, load
ine 200 on a single destro 'er
Beaufort fighters raided Lac, Jap
anese base in northwest New
Guinea. destroying seven enemy
planes. damaging and probably de-
stroying eight others.
JAPS USE SUBS
There were Indications that the
japanese might be trying in des-
peration to send fresh troops to
Buna by submarine. Flying fort
resseS on reconnaissance over the
Huon gulf Saturday sighted num-
bel of them moving toward Buna.
All made crash dives when the
American planes emerged from
clouds.
Japanese naval losses in attempts
to reinforce the Buna garrison now
total one cruiser and four destroy
ers believed sunk and another de-
stroyer damaged.
EASY TARGET
The VitiaZ straits were referred
tc today oy a military spokesman
as "hari kari alley" he said that
the shallow narrow waters make
maneuverS difficult and that ships
become a much easier target for
bombers.
It was believed here. however,
that the japanese ships repelled
tcdar were bringing reinforcements
and not coming in to evacuate the
beleaguered garrison.
The siege of Buna, in its 18th
Gay, admittedly had been slowed
because the japanese still had con-
|
and New Britain, enabling them
to slip in some reinforcements, and
because they had much well-placed
artillery.
DEFENSES IMPROVED
Flying fortress crews discovered
that the japanese had had time.
while American and Australian
ground forces made their way over
tie owen Stanley mountains and
through the jungle down the So
puta track. to install antiaircraft
guns and a radio station on a
wrecked transport off Buna. The
fortresseS bombed the hulk.
The Allied forces closest TO Buna
were the Americans at Cape
Endaiadere. two miles southeast of
the town. Other Americans held
positions along the Sojuta track,
southwest of Buna, only some 800
Yards from the Buna mission house.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
A DANGEROUS
ASSUMPTION
(Ontalio Report)

(Ontario RepOrD
Too many people assume that an all
out war has TO be fought by an all-out
dictator GOV arnment. This is not true.
And it could never be true because mod
ern war requires gigantic production and
governments are not producers. At best,
under compulSiOn, after the citizen has
failed to do SO for one reason or another.
America Is outproducing Europe'S
slaves because free men are doing the job.
If they are allowed to finish the war as
such. there is not the slightest doubt as
to the outcome. Victory will ta ours Our
industries are rolling at an unheard-Of
pace. But they could do even more if
bureaucratS and the people would once
and for all realize who must keep mines
and factories going full blast. Let gov
ernment place the orders under proper
uperviSion-American industry will do
the rest.
Our armament and plane makers. our
utilities, our railroads have proved they
can accomplish miracles. The oil indus
try has been ready for months to begin
production of synthetic rubber. awaiting
only the go" signal from officialsm.
Our metal and timber resources are be-
ing utilized to the fullest by the ingenui-
ty of private management and the coal
industry has provided the nation with the
biggest stock pile of fuel in history.
All of these things have been and are
being done by private citizens. They,
and not the bureaucrats, should get the
credit.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
100 MUCH RED TAPE
TO GAS RA1ICNENG

The Office of Price Administration )
public relations corps at Washington Is
not working overtime these daXs-or, Il 1t
is, there have been no signs Of unusual
intelligence in the result
1t is good let that two-thirds Of the
growing unpopulality of gasoline ration
ing has nothing whatever IL do with
gasoline Most Of it comes from the red
tape with which OPA has surrounded
the gas-gatting procedure.
Rubber Director William Jeffars said
recently that. in his opinion. the OPA
setup for cas rationing was too cum
berSome." / begins To appear that JEFF
fers underStated the facts badly.
There Was no great furore when the
American people found they were going
to be rationed in gasoline. There would
be little more furOre now, we believe, II
the average American could get his coup
OnS with minimum Of trouble and there
after simply turn in his coupons for his
gasoline ration.
But that isn't the way the New Deal
bureaucratS believe in doing things That
would be too simple. They've attached
so many riders. ifs. and, butts and mustS
to gasoline ratoning that a lot Of people
are honestly wondering whether il is
rubber they ara trying to save, after all,
or if it isn't lust something to keep the
civilian minds occupied,
TIE first nagging little addition to
rationing, announced at the last minute
before the signup, was the inclusion of
the federal auto use tax stamps number
on the rationing book as an absolute
must before the motorist could obtain
gasoline. Now that use tax STAMP has
no more relation to gasoline rationing
nor rubber saving than Imperial Valley
l 70 h., lor,+ f,-
the automobile. because there is no link
between the stamp and the identity either
of the motorist or his car Its intrusion
upon gas rationing was nothing in the
world but tidy little tax collection
scheme
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
MORE RED TAPE
FOLLOWS ALONG

The use tax stamp was not the end
of the red tape, nor the beginning. in
gasoline ratiCning. There was the cock
eyed provision that where one member
of a tWo-car family gets an ~ ration
book and another gets a b book, part
of the latter'S allotment must be taken
from the former No regard is shown
for the fact that both may be entitled to
the full measure of their allotmants.
Then there was the provision that the
motoriSt must write the license number
and stat OF registration Of his auto on
the back of every gas coupon.
Every day seems to bring some new
proviso from OPA to the luckless motor
ist. who once thought that getting gas
was going to be Il matter simply of need
ing it, signing up and getting his book.
OPA seems determined to make skilled
bookkeepers q,lt OF every Americ2n-or
else.
Although there is a question in cur
minds that the devious brains Of the
bureaucrats could devi:2 a simpler sys-
tenn there IS no question whatever that
a simpler system could be devised. Unless
it is devised, there are going to be more
unwittirg l"w yiOlators in these United
States during ga rationng than there
were intentional cnes during prohibition
Gas rationing necessary though It
seems to i. is doing more to undermine
the popularity Of the federal government.
under the present system, than anything
olrc that has come out Of the War
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30

suffering" War is your ruin" and
italians, stop the war"
While the flames still roared af-
ter British air raid on Turin
Saturday night, during which the
new triple block buste" bombs
weighing 3OO0-pounds each were
dropped on Ital% for the first time.
Churchill made his world speech.
The prime minister made a guard
ed suggestion that the war might
end in Europe first. If it did. he
promised we should at once bring
all our forces to the other side
of the world to the aid of the I'm
ited States, to the aid Of China
and above all to our kith ard kin
in Australia and New Zealand"
PEACE CONFERENCE
While the japanese were being
beaten, he said, the Allies, still
bound in the cOmradShip of war
riors. could start to discuss tho
fate of Europe. He suggested that
such a peace conference, while
Pacific war still ragged, would be
better than the last Cne when all
sense of danger had passed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
BY JACK CHAMBERS

LONDON, Nov. 30-UP British
radios rebroadcast again and again
today Prime Minister Winston
Churchill'S solemn warning to italy
to overthrow Benito Mussolini and
his Fascist regime and sue fer a
separate peace or endure a merci-
less, Shattering Allied air attack
from North Africa.
The grim speech was rebrOadcast
in 25 languages in all, but it was
sent over and over again in Ital-
ian, German, and French, and the
government ordered that the parts
of it calculated to appeal to war
weary Italians be broadcast at in
terValS all week.
Berlin broadcast distorted versions
of the speech last night but not
until early morning did the Ital-
ian radio mention it, saying then
mat Italians were not impressed.
GHOST VOICE
Routine Italian radio programs
we're interrupted during the night
by ghost voice which shouted such
statements as:
"MuSsolini is the cause of your