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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Pope and fam
lily of Lima and Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
row Little and son David of Bluffton
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Little.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Carrick and dau-
ghter Ruth, Mrs. Eva Myres of Ft.
Wayne and Leila Moon of Bluffton
spent the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
L. R. Forsyth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Cameron and
family of Lima were Sunday evening
supper guests of Mrs. Jennie Gamer
on and son Charles.
Mr.. and Mrs Everett Timmons, Mr..
and Mrs. Lew Davis and Mrs. Fred
Elston of Albion, Mich, spent the
week end at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Cogley and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Wells and
daughter Cynthia June of Fostoria
were visitors of Mrs. C. E. Wells and
family.
Sanderson Pifer was taken Friday
to the Bluffton hospital.
Donald Longworth of Bowling
Green spent the week end with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Long
worth.
Billy Peterson spent the week end
with Mr. and Mrs Clinton RaItrpr and
family of Mt. Cory.
Buy War Bonds and Defense
Stamps now.
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NOTICE OF EXECUTORS SALE OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY

BY virtue of an order given by the Pro-
bate Court of Allen County. Ohio, in the mat
ter of the Estate of Mary Ann Folet, deceased.
having reference to Case No 1889 in said
Court, the undersigned, Samuel Augsburger.
as Executor of the said Last Will and Testa-
ment of Mary Ann Folet, deceased, will offer
for sale at public auction. on the premises
of the deceased, located Two and one-half
miles Southwest of Bluffton, Ohio. and One
fourth mile East of the Dixie Highway on
the HiIlvile Road. the 23rd day of 0ctob-
er, 1912 at / 100 o'clock p. NJ. the following
described personal property, to-wit: horses
cows acres of Soy Beans: 200 Shocks of
Corn; Hay Loader; Corn Planter; Spring
Tooth Harrow; Spike Tooth Harrow Five
Shovel Cultivator Potato Digger; Single
Disc Harrow Mower; Walking Cultivator;
Grain Drill Oliver Land Plow; Grind Stone
Wagon and Grain Bed Ia foot Ladder Hay
Fork. Rome and Pulleys Approximately II
tons of Hay: Wheel Barrows: Harness and
other personal property. Terms of Sale:
Cash.
SAMUEL AUCSBURGFR.
Executor of the Last viii and Estate of
Mary Ann Folet deceased.
r. s. STEINER. Attorney
for said Executor. 20
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

Norman Jones spent the week end
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emerson Fetters of Arlington.
Miss Hattie Davis of Findlay spent
several days last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Thomas and family and
Mrs. Estell Sampson.
Mrs. James Sommers and daughter
Anne of Pandora were Saturday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W., A. Otto.
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business district dropped in the other
day. Charlie always calls at least
once every five years to renew his
subscription-and as usual he has it
all paid up for five years in advance
may his tribe increase"
The News looks good to Kliewers
out in Albany, Oregon. Writing from
that place, Rev. Kliewer says it's al
ways welcome and thoroly read. A
former pastor of the Ebenezer church
here, ne is enjoying fairly good health
and attends to his duties there.
From Potram, New York state
comes word from Clarence Hans
Lehman who always knew the answers
in college here twenty-five years ago.
Well he is president of the State
Teachers college at Potsdam now and
says their enrolment of 470 this fall
is only six per cent below that of last
year-which is something in these
days of wartime demands for man and
womanpower. Marjorie, daughter of
the Lehmans is somphomore in OBJ
erlin college this year.
x**
"Ride 'em cowboy''-and John Card
er, deputy in the office of Allen
County Sheriff Daley did just that
Altho it might be added that John
rides a motorcycle instead of a COW
pony. But John, called out the other
night to round up some stray cattle
on farm near Lima did it with all
the neatness and dispatch of an old
cow hand and corralled the critters
until their owner could be found It's
all part of the days work, says John.
If you're looking for a substitute
for most anything you might try
Wilford Geiger, Bluffton high schoo
instructor who is doing mighty goot
work as a substitute on two jobs
in addition to his teaching duties
Geiger, who has been deputy village
clerk subbing for Jim West in the
army, added another sub JOB this
week when he is driving school bu:
for Francis Basinger, regular driver
who underwent an operation for ap
pendicitis at the hospital, Tuesday
afternoon.
king for a day"-howeve that
not quite correct-queen for day
was Mary Alice Howe, Bluffton col
lege senior who reigned over the an
nual Homecoming festivities last Sat
urday and then discarded her rega
costume to undergo an appendiciti
operation at the hospital Monda.
morning. Her condition was report
ed satisfactory Wednesday morning
Il
r. o. Shipe, of Leipsic, electe'
chairman of the Putnam county Re-
Cross chapter is no stranger t
Bluffton people-swimmers at Buck
eye lake remember Shipe who TO
many years has driven here severa
times weekly during the summe
season for a refreshing swim.
Fall fishing is going good down a
the Buckeye, say anglers. Larg
mouth bass are the principal catch
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

limits the amount of gasoline that
can be stored in buildings or garages
and such gasoline must be in approx
ed safety containers of one gallon ca
pacity each.
And even the coal oil lamp is to
feel the pinch of war. Kerosene is
included in the rationing order of pc
troleum distillate effective this month.
Dealers are to register next Tuesday
and Wednesday and consumers after
that date.
And gasoline rationing may inten-
sify the farm labor shortage. Mi
grant workers from Texas and Mexico
employed on farms in this section are
reported filing up their tanks and
heading southwark before the ration
ing starts.
And Bluffton high school pupils
shed a tear last Friday night as the
team pulled out for Van Wert--in pri-
vate cars. Nary sign of the big
yellow school buses that have been a
joy to the hearts of the fans for the
past ten years providing transporta-
ton to follow the team.
And speaking of that game last Fri
day night, we haven't heard a single
kick even tho Bluffton was on the
short end of a topheavy score. In
fact report goes that the Pirates
must have been carrying a rabbits
foot or two just for luck. !. 3. and it
worked.
It's Jacob Schnegg who is chief
cook at Miller's cane mill northwest of
town. He's the one who knows all
the ins and out of the fine art of max
ing sorgum molasses. Thru an over
sight last week we said it was Chris
instead of Jacob who filled this spot
Just to get the record straight, Chris
is engineer at the mill-and that's
enough of a job for one man. So if
Miller's sorgum tastes like more
just give full credit to Jacob.
Dean Ferguson and his father, Fred
Ferguson dug a sweet potato at their
garden that weighed two and one-half
pounds. Dean said that he wrote his
mother, who is working for the Trip
lett company in New York iCty, about
the potato. She wrote back and said
that she wouldn't believe any such
story.
Earl and Carl Frick, Kenneth Bracy
and Marvin Bronson had lots of fur
Sunday afternoon building wigwam
at Fox Hill. The boys made frame
out of straight poles and built the
sides with leaves and brush.
#**
Also building shelters were Jimmie
Howe, Harley Steiner, Lancy Logan.
bill, Robert Ramseyer, Gordon Bike
and Addison Myers who constructed
several huts in the Bluffton college
woods near town.
Driving by Clymer's barn and yard
on Vance street we noticed large
quantities of grading equipment and
engines all apparently discarded
Tons and tons of metal are lying there
at the yards unused. We were won
dering why this might not be secured
for war production.
And Charlie Day of Findlay, long
time real estate owner in Bluffton's
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

And Charlie Day of Findlay, long
time real estate owner in Buttons
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Committee To Aid Registrars
In Answering QuestiOnnaires

Assistance will be provided thru a
local advisory committee in the ans
wering of occupational questionnaires
to be sent soon to all men included
in the Feb. 16 draft registration.
Mailing of the questionnaires will
be started soon by Allen County
Draft Board No. 8, under the juris-
diction of which Bluffton and Rich
land township are included.
On the Bluffton advisory board,
which will answer any questions of
registrants, are Supt. of Schools
A. j. B. Longsdorf, A. D. Gratz and
Quinten Burkholder.
Purpose of the QUESTIONABLE is to
provide the government with COM
plete occupational inventory of the
country's manpower to avoid the in
duction into the armed forces of men
who are more urgently needed in
war production.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
College Plans Are
Told At Mt. COru

Agriculture, teaching and aviation
seem to be the main interests for
seniors at Mt. Cory High school, it
was revealed in a recent survey of
the senior class at the high school,
by d. c. Simkins, superintendent.
Most of the seniors are planning
to attend college next year, the sur
vey showed. The major subject and
the school indicated by the seniors
in the survey are as follows:
Lehr Jay Reese, agriculture, Ohio
State; Robert Powell, mathematics
and physical education, Findlay col
lege; Richard Werner, history and
physical education, Bowling Green;
Robert Albro, history and education,
Bluffton college.
Ralph Steiner, agriculture, Ohio
State; Kenneth Green, business ad-
ministration, Bowling Green; Marion
Marquart, agriculture, Ohio State;
James Carl Treese, Jr., mathematics
and aviation, Bowling Green; Loren
Steiner, mathematics and aviations,
Bowling Green; Myrtle Steinman,
elementary teaching, Asbury.
Wanda Montgomery, home econom-
les, Bowling Green or Ohio State;
Edith Stuber, elementary teaching,
Bowling Green; Evelyn Meyer, home
economics, Bowling Green; Carolyn
Meyer, home economics and music,
Bluffton college, Bernice Oberly,
business school.
Won Dale Winger, home economics,
Ohio State; Robert Haas, history,
Bowling Green or Findlay college;
Eugene Jordan, journalism, Bowling
Green or Ohio State; Max Clymer,
aviation, Luscombe school; Norma
Jones, business, Findlay college.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Pandora

Elmer and Ben BURY have pur-
chased the Basinger Meat Market.
They are also installing a locker
system. Joel Basinger, who was
the owner of the meat market, pur-
chased Philip Basinger's interest in
the Bluffton meat market.
Earl Steiner and Shirl Hatfield,
Jr., returned Sunday from Wichita,
Kansas where they have completed
a course in the air craft industry.
The ladies chorus of the Fort
Wayne Bible Institute will give a
sacred concert at the St. John Men
MONTE church Thursday evening at
s o'clock.
Miss Mary Jane Huser accom-
panied Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Steiner of
Bluffton to Monroe, Mich, Sunday,
where she visited her sister, Phyllis
Huser.
Miss Ruth Amstutz, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Amstutz began
to teach home economics in the
Lima South High school last week.
James Sommer is operating a bus
line to Lima. He will make trips
in the morning and evening for the
laborers who work in Lima. The
bus is Chevrolet which he recently
purchased.
Winners at the northwestern Ohio
high school solo and ensemble con-
test held at Ada, recently, are as
follows: Freda Yoder, alto soloist;
Verena Schumacher, French horn
soloist; Stanley Schultz, bass soloist,
and Billy Steiner, piano soloist.
These pupils will represent Pandora.
High school at the state contest in
Columbus, May s.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23

with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton |
and family.
Mrs. Iris Healey of Glendale Calf
and Mr.. and Mrs. David Holman of |
Lafayette spent Friday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Joy X. Huber and dau-
ghter and Mrs. Cora Huber.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. K. Huber and Mr.
- Mrs. Gerald Huber and son of
= ran spent Sunday with Mr.. and
II = fa.x Van de Mark and daughter
plain they a.
n farm equipment sfvall sfvall Huber and an
70 dealers stocks are dangGln on Mr.
E. Officials assert, however,
Of present demand for farm equipnael
r and machinery is far in excess
the actual need, and that mar
e, farmers are ordering equipment n
e. absolutely essential to the job
ed hand
n, WPB has permitted farm equi
70 ment manufacturers to turn out tn
TX year an average of SO per cent
their 1910 production. Making ru
IN ber-tired tractors has been stoppt
" altogether, however.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
ENLISTING THE HOME
IN NATIONAL DEFENSE

Ironing hints worth remembering:
Clean sole plate with salt bag or
paraffin. Don't drop the iron. It's
death to them. Remember it's the
contact of heat with the dampened
garment that removes the wrinkles
not the pressure or weight. So don't
wear yourself out pressing down
Use a light weight iron and let the
heat do the job.
A pail of scalding water poured
down the sink drain once every day
will help a lot in keeping it open
Don't pour lye down she drain as it
may harden the grease.
Ask yourself before buying any
thing for the home, I'D / really need
;t9n
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23

Survey of registrants also is in
tended to replace workers now de-
ferred from military service, wher-
ever possible, and to speed up war
production by promoting the transfer
of workers from non-essential to es-
sential work.
AS start in the survey, question
naires will be sent only to men who
registered on Feb. 16. Later they
will be mailed to men listed in the
first and second registrations.
Contained in each QUESTIONABLE is
list of 228 jobs essential to war
production and each man is asked to
check those jobs for which he has
experience or training.
Registrants also are asked to give
the number of years or months they
have worked at the various occupa-
tions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Restrictions On House Building
Further Explained By War Board

Further explanation of rigid con-
trolls over non-essential residential,
industrial and farm building projects
was made last week by the War
Production Board.
New restrictions effective week
ago will bring curtailment, likely for
the duration of the war, in resi-
Dental construction boom under way
in Bluffton since 1888.
Under terms of the WPB order,
houses which "are begun may be
completed" without asking authority
of the WPB. To comply with this
requirement, however, material must
be physically incorporated in the
building itself.
Any structure costing less than
$500 in financial outlay may be erect
ed without authorization. This COW
ers buildings which may be erected
by an owner and his family who will
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which will rule on the application.
The ration books may be used in
any retail store in the United States,
regardless of where they were issued.
Any member of the family can take
the ration books of all members of
the family and buy the household
supply.
Parents will be responsible for ra-
tion books issued for their children.
If books are lost, mutilated or stolen,
the matter must be reported to the
rationing board.
A person who goes to hospital
for more than 10 days must take his
rationing book with him.
While the registering of all stores,
commercial users and individuals has
been entrusted to the schools, the
administration of the law afterward
will be in the hands of the local ra-
tioning boards named to handle tires
and other commodities.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Presides At Meeting
Of District Bankers

DR.. c. Henry Smith, president of
the Citizens National bank will be
acting chairman at the annual for
um of Group of the Ohio Bankers
association to be held at Ada, Thurs
day, May 7.
Prominent tax, business and fnan-
cial experts will lead discussions be-
fore gathering at which 200 are
expected to attend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Little Ept Hill
fafA Lung spent
and Mrs.

Debate on whether there is aapd
machinery and equipment shofts)
in America ragged this week II
Washington, while farmers thruou'
the country reported they are begin
ming to feel the pinch of curtaileo
production.
With farmers called upon to ster
up food production to help win the
war, the question of shortage re-
mained unanswered as officials OF
two involved federal agencies differ
er in their conclusions.
In the Department of Agriculture,
which has the responsibility for de-
termining what equipment is needed
by farmers in their war program
is the feeling that mo crop will &C
unharvested this year because of lack
of machinery.
Officials of the War Production
Board, however, admitted that grow
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Plumbing, Heating
Sales Prohibited

Further war restrictions affecting
residential building and remodeling
were announced last week when the
War Production Board froze all new
stocks of plumbing and heating
equipment.
Action was taken to prevent dissi-
patton of equipment needed in de-
fense housing and military construc-
ton, it was announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-04-23
Commercial Registration to
Take Place at High School
April % and 20
Home Consumers Will Register
At Grade School May
4, 5, 6 and Z

Initial steps are being taken here
preliminary to the registration of
Buttons entire population for the
rationing of sugar scheduled to start
early in May, it was announced the
first of the week by A. J. B. Longs
dorf, superintendent of schools.
In line with the nation wide plan
the grade school teachers will super
wise the rationing to individual con-
sumers and high school teachers will
be in charge of rationing to COM
mercial establishments.
PRINCIPALS IN CHARGE
Administrator of the program for
the home consumers will be Mrs.
Grace Cox, principal of the grade
school building. Gerhard Buhler,
Bluffton High school principal, will
be in charge of the program for the
commercial establishments. Accord
ing to a survey made the first of the
week, there are Is commercial es-
Establishments in Bluffton using sugar.
According to tentative plans gen.
eral home consumer registration will
take place on May A, 5, 6 and at
the grade school building in the
afternoon and evening from 3 to 10
o'clock. Commercial registration will
take place at the high school on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April rs
and 20.
REGISTRANTS
For consumers the instructions
suggest one registrar for every sc
probable registrants. Using 2,100
as population estimate for Bluffton
the services of about 26 registrars
would be needed. With only eight
teachers employed at the grade
school, it is possible that high school
teachers will assist in the registra-
ton, it was stated by Supt. Longs
dorf.
Many of the details still remain to
be worked out. Supt. Longsdort
stated that he would give specific in
structions in ample time so that
every individual may be informed
what to do and when.
ALPHABETICAL REPORT
He said that in all probability con-
sumers would be instructed to report
| alphabetically on succeeding days OF
in some other systematic manner ir
order to keep a steady flow of appli
cants thruout the period. This wa.
regarded as necessary in order tx
avoid a jam on the final day with
which the registrars would be un
able to cope.
| The order from Washington pro
| vides that school teachers serve a:
registrars without compensation. Ra
ton books for Bluffton are expected
to arrive this week, Supt. Longsdort
said.
Every individual will be entitled tc
have two pounds of sugar in his pos
session at registration time withou
penalty. In addition, he may hav,
four more pounds for which stamp
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Initial Steps Are Being Taken Here
For Sugar Rationing Early In May

will be removed from the ration card
at the time it is issued If he has
more than six pounds in possession
he must register but he will not be
entitled to receive a ration card at
that time, Supt. Longsdorf said
after a preliminary study of his 30
page instruction book received re-
Gently.
The books are printed on ordinary
paper stock, s by 1013 inches in
size and are designed to be folded
twice to form sort of booklet 4 by
5A inches in size.
Across one side of the book are
printed and perforated % Stamps"
approximately three-quarters of an
inch square. Each stamp is num-
bered.
On the book is space for the fol-
lowing information concerning the
registrant: Name, address, height,
weight, color of eyes and hair, age,
sex and date.
The book may be applied for by
the applicant himself or herself or
by husband, wife, father, mother or
other individual directly connected,
but the certificate must be signed by
the person to whom it is issued be-
fore it will be honored. Parents will
sign for children under Is.
ARE Nor TRANSFERABLE
Ration books are not transferable
and must be surrendered in case the
applicant dies or moves from the
United States. Anyone finding a lost
book is required to deliver it to the
nearest rationing board. Punishment
for any violation is fixed at not more
than $4,000 fine or not more than
10 years Imprisonment, or both.
Accompanying the ration book is
the following statement:
"The first stamps in War Ration
Book No. / will be used or the pur-
chase of sugar. When this book was
issued, the registrar asked you, OF
the person who applied or your book,
how much sugar you owned on that
date. If you had any sugar, you
were allowed to keep it, but stamps
representing this quantity were torn
from your book Except for small
amount which you were allowed to
keep without losing any stamps.) II
your War Ration Book No. 1 was
issued to you on application by a
member of your family, the number
of stamps torn from the books OF
the family was based on the amount
of sugar owned by the family, and
was divided as equally as possible
among all these books"
According to the information re-
ceived by Supt. Longsdorf the ration
week will be from midnight Saturday
to midnight the following Saturday
The OPA will designate which
stamps and what period they can be
| used and the amount that can be
bought with them. For the present
each stamp will be good for one
pound of sugar or two-weeks supply
for one person.
TIME LIMIT ON STAMPS
1t will not be possible to save
stamps and purchase large supply
of sugar at one time. The OPA
will designate the time limit fol
their use.
Persons needing more sugar fol
canning or because of sickness may
apply to their local rationing boarc
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receive no compensation, for which
the materials cost less than $500.
No authorization is required to be-
gin construction to replace houses
destroyed by fire, unless the fire oc-
Cured on or after Jan. 1, 1912.
Even though a builder may have
complete materials on hand to build
a house, he will be unable to obtain
authorization to proceed.
Further restrictions to building
and remodeling programs were an
nounced late last week with the
freezing of all plumbing and heat
ing fixtures and equipment on deal
er's shelves.
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Get Relief Funds

Allen county received 1896 and
Lima $1,246 in ALLEGATION of Ohio re-
lief funds for March, with the total
relief bill for the state set at ST.
234,000.
Hancock county's share was 1869;
Hardin county got $1,921, and Put
nam received $685..