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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

Tmove or less dld the talking. tell- ing her about my outfit and home.
 The lady asked me how I liked this country and I said t was a flne place for s vacation. but there is no place like home.
 This lady seemed awfuliy nice and interested ln American boys over here. She asked me a lot Of gues- tons about my outfit tyou know I'm sn a special branch attached to the air forcel but they were real intelligent ones.
 About this time we were getting pretty near where I wanted to gel of. We must have been riding to- gether about ia miles.
 The lady turned to her c0mpan- ion and mgized for Q package. Iaai1 other lady said ''xen. your majesty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

All my pals are Taxzlrg me now, but don't care. It Isn't every sol- dier who can ride with the queen.
 I was out on the road trying to bum a ride to camp and not having any luck. All of a sudden this great hlg ear comes whixxlng along and I gave it the thumb.
 Out stepped the chauffeur and opened the door for me to get into the back seat. There were two ladies ln there and up front there was some British colonel at least he had enough plps on his shoulders to be one.
 One lady asked me where l was going. when ! told her, she told the chauffeur Co let me oR there. We started talking right away. This lady wasn't hard to talk t0 and she talked ny language.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03
Germans Got Within 90 Miles When Big Artillery
 Guns Hit Them NO ADVANCES WERE MADE YESTERDAY Germans Started Off We'll Last Monday, But They
 Are Slowed Up .
BY LEON KAY United Press Stan Correspondent,

United Press Stan Correspondent,
 Cairo, September 3. (UP) = American heavy, medium and light bombers and squadrons of fast U. s. fighters joined the Royal Air force today in a nonstop bombardment of Marshal Erwin Rommel'S concentra- tionS and bases that set a new record for desert aerial warfare.
 The attacks ranged from the big Nazi concentrations at the south end of the Alamein line to the Axis held base at Tobruk which was pounded by American heavy DomD' CTS during the night.
 The American attack on TobruA was concentrated on the docks and shipping in the harbor. Returning airmen reported that huge explo- sions and fires were started.
 An official spokesman estimated that the Allied air attack was at least 20 per cent heavier than apy previous air bombardment staged by the British in this theater os war.
 The biz American bombers rar into Nad fighter squadrOfas tn thcil Tobruk attack and encountere0 moderate anti-aircraft fire but all managed to return safely.
 The light and medium American bombers concentrated on German armcred forces, supply columns and troop concentrations.
 Heavily Escorted
 Each bombardment group was heavily escorted by fighters. includ- ing American pursuit units.
 Photographs taken by bomber crews showed scores of bomb bursts in an accurate pattern in the mid- de of a great Nazi concenfration of transports. One stick o1 bomnE was shown falling among German troops who were also under heavy bombardment from the big Brit- ish desert guns.
 British medium bombers were re- ported to have carried out equally successful attacks, dropping many large bombs into 6 Nax motor transport park where they set xAreg which could be seen for miles. 1n one particularly heavy attack the asrmen said fragments from the ex- piosions set of by bombs blew 1000 feet into the air.
 The Royal Air Force reported that with the enemy planes shot down in the past 24 hours. iis score in desert air warfare ssncg the start of the second Libyar campaign was sos Axis planei destroyed.
 American bombers. 1t was re vealed, carried out constant attack in the past ls hours upon the battle area at the south end of the Ala mein line as well as other fargeta in the desert and along the North Afflca coast.
 They flew ln Joint formations with British and South African air. craft while American fighter squad rons escorted the bombers ca man of their missions.
 Despite the heaviest kind of Ger man anti-aircraft fire. it gas xe' ported. light bombers of the AnneEi' can Army Air Force joined fhl RAP in carrying out 20 per cen more attacks than ever made ~ a 2a-horr period, even at the hel9hl of the big desert battles Of last Mag and June.
 Within Twenty Miles
 The German Afrika Kcfps ep' preached the main British deleneel on the 20~niie battle line befwens the Hlmelgnat peak and the Rn weisat ridge just before dusk Tues day, to find massed ned aFftilek' and antl-tank guns facing them
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03
FIVE AMERICAN
 HEROES IGNORED
They Didn't Come Back in One Battle; Others Alive
 Also Get Awards
By ROBERT DOws0N

AOhAA&@W V A&S@ @AN~@~ WI ~AT~~~-~~~NNf
 London, Sept. g. WP) - Five American air force heroes. the first fatal casualties announced in &C., tion in the European theater, were awarded posthunlously today the Order of the Purple Heart.
 : Hero awards to those who did not come back and to others who did told a story of heroism under fire by men of all ranks and wrote a new page in the brief glorious his- tory Of the flying fortresses which have always come back. sometimes shot full of holes. with members of their crews dead or wounded, in the first army force attacks on enemy held Western Europe.
 They revealed also that the fort reses which met and defeated a big German fighter plane fleet over the
 CContlnued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03
William J. Pape May Have Lost In
 Lieut.. Gov. Race
Report From Hartford Says Ex.Lieut. Gov. McCOn aughy Will Be Nominated; Three Places on
 GO. P. Ticket Still Open

William J. Pape local publisher and woodbury resi- aen appears ito be out of the race" for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, the United Press reported today from Hartford The UP reported it lkey that the nomination would go to Lieutenant Governor The Hartford story confirms reports that state c. O. F. leaders are opposed to having Mr. Pape the ticket
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

gcoFp. 0Fa A. Poster. the first soldier Ge thumb . ride with Queen Mother Mary, has become the most puhllel1ea man in the American Army overnight. htls- takenly identified ln liEat accounts as . private. Corporal Testers home is ln Rochester, Asieh... s suburb oa Pentiac. un the fellow Ing dispatch. he tells abens hts ride with the queen motheT.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03
By CORP. ORA A. FOSTER Written faF United Pressl

4 United states Army camp in the British Isles. Sept. s.-(uP)-I think I'm more excited now about my ride with Queen Mary than ! was when sne let me out of her car lest aatprdaY nighk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

The German Afrika KcTps epr preached the main British delensei on the 20~mile battle line between the Hlmelgnat peak and the Ha' weisat ridge just before dusk Tues day. to find massed neid aEfilieky and antl-tank guns facing them
 (COntlnued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13
Family Dinner

A family basket dinner was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Memo
Geiger of Cherry street on Sunday.
Present from a distance were
Mrs. Louella Geiger Temple of Mon
rovia, Calf; Mrs. Mabel Geiger
Nordstrom and children, Boston,
Mass; Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Thut,
Charleston, ILL.,; Stanley Geiger, To-
ledo; Mr.. and Mrs. Orrie Harsh
barger and Kathleen, West Liberty;
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Zehrbach and
children, Mrs. Nancy Geiger, Mrs.
Frank Joseph and children, Reuben
Thut and daughter Pearl of Lima;
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Brenneman,
Conner, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bixel,
Pandora.
The Bluffton guests included: Rev.
and Mrs. G. T. Soldner and daugh-
ter Louise, Mrs. Alma Bixel, DR.. and
Mrs. j. S. Steiner and grandchild-
rem, Frank and James Dilley, Mr..
and Mrs. Christ Bixel and Truman
Bixel, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Baum
gartner, and Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard
Geiger and daughter Nancy.
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istry of their former pastor. And
talent from the two Bluffton
churches will be heard on the after
noon program.
MOVING TO BLUFFToN
Rev. Lahr's fiftieth anniversary
will also mark his retirement from
the ministry, altho he will continue
to serve the Ada charge until a sue,
cessor is chosen.
After that he and Mrs. Lahr will
move to Bluffton where they have
purchased from Walter Stratton the
former Steiner property on Harmon
road.
Rev. Lahr's ministerial career o.
half-century is filled with activ,
service among churches principal,
throughout the Middle West, as wei
as doing other service in the in
terest of his denomination.
LETTER DIDN'T COME
Rev. Lahr, aged rs, was born il
Huntington county, Indiana. Aftel
attending country schools of his hom,
community, young Lahr at the agt
of seventeen had ambitions to become
a teacher and applied for teaching
certifcate-but through miscar
riage of mail the letter containin,
the certificate which would hav
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13

itching and miserable feeling with
the hay.
In a way it was, but not exactly
in the way the people at that time
thought. Hay is usually cut during
our shortly after the blossoming Of
the grass, because it is then at it!
highest point of growth.
1t has reached its maximum
growth and has the highest pos
sible content of starches, sugars anC
proteins. Cut and cured at thi!
period it offers the best nutrition fol
livestock.
Wind Borne Pollens
At the same time, however, bios
soming grass is shedding its poller
freely. All grasses are wind pol
linated and wind borne pollens are
the main cause of the itchy noses
smarting eyes and stuffed up heads
suffered by the hay fever victims.
Therefore because of this coinci.
dence many people blame the hay
for what the pollen does. Grass
pollens are responsible for a minor
number of hay fever cases in this
country.
The big tide of sneezes comes
when the wind carries away the
pollen of the ragweed. This weed
comes into bloom at high summer.
In Bloom Here Soon
The ragweed as yet has not come
into bloom in the Bluffton area be-
cause of the prolonged wet weather.
A few days of warm weather, how
ever, will bring the pesky weed in
to full bloom and the pollen will be
on the way to bring its annual
misery to numerous people here.
Physicians tell US that nine-tenths
or more of all hay fever cases in
the United States are traceable to
ragweed pollen. If the patient shows
the typical symptoms during the
month of August, it is easy to trace
the cause to ragweed.
Pollen Tests
If, however, he becomes afflicted
before that time it may be one of a
score of plant species, so that the
victims arm has to be scored with
many pollen-tset scratches in order
to determine the cause.
Medical science is still graphing
for cure for this malady and so
far the efforts have been ameliora-
tive rather tl.an having definitely
effected a cure.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13
Injured In Auto
Crash Near Carey

Miss Georgia Fisher, 10, of Bluff
ton received severe neck and back
injuries in an auto accident in which
Findlay youth was instantly killed
on U. S. Route %, north of Carey,
Saturday night at 1880 o'clock.
Miss Fisher is in a Findlay hos
pital where she is convalescing from
the injuries. Bernadette Krout,, 10,
and Clyde George, %, other occu-
pants of the car, both of Findlay
were treated for cuts and bruises at
the hospital and then released.
Driver of the car was Donald
Eugene Orwick, of Findlay, who was
killed in the accident when he was
thrown $50 feet from the car.
The accident occurred on a curve
two and one-half miles north OF
Carey, when the car, driven by Or
wick, travelling north, sideswiped a
southbound car driven by Earl Todd
35, of Columbus.
The northbound car went off the
road over an embankment and rolled
500 feet. 1t was completely de.
| molished.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13
SpOrtsmen'S Club
Releases Phedsdnts

One hundred and thirty-three
pheasants raised from chicks by
members of the Bluffton Sportsmen's
club were released this week in sur.
rounding hunting territory, it was
announced by Silas Diller president
of the club.
The chicks were received here
June 10 from the state hatchery al
brownsville. During the growing
they ate 200 pounds of mash, pellets
$50 pounds of screenings and 10(
pounds of cracked corn.
Participating in the growing pro
gram were: Lawrence Hosafros
Morris Fett, Jess Manges, Eugene
Benroth, l.. ]. Hauenstein, Oliver
Zimmerman, Armin Hauenstein, 81
las Diller, Herman Stager and Rich
ard Burkholder.
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Aoh Oiu W NEW
Silver service given to the gover-
nor's mansion when the old U. S. S.
North Carolina was decommissioned
is now in service aboard the new
battleship North Carolina.
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New Plan Now in Operation to
United Kingdom, Middle
East and Australia
Letter is Photographed on
Micro-film and Only Mega
tive is Sent

Bluffton resident are using V-mail
service now in operation on a two
way basis to the United Kingdom,
the Middle East and Australia, it
was announced this week by postal
officials here.
The service is for use in writing
members of the armed forces over
seas only and can not be used for
mail within the continental United
States.
Under this plan the letter is writ
ten on special letter sheet supplied
free of charge at the Bluffton post
office and is photographed by a
micro-film process at the dispatching
centers.
REDUCES LETTER
This reduces the letter to a frac-
ton of its former size and weight
and only the small negative is ship
ped abroad where it is then printed
and enlarged to normal size.
This plan facilitates the dispatch
of mail to the overseas stations and
makes available many tons of pre-
cious cargo space that would other
wise be needed for the bulky letters
and mail sacks.
Letters can be written as usual to
other points in the foreign service
but their bulk will likely cause q
slower dispatch, it was stated
Altho the reduction process is
available at only the three foreign
areas it will be extended elsewhere
as rapidly as equipment can be in.
stalled.
Since the service was started 81,
weeks ago almost a quarter of a mil
lion letters have been delivered.
1000 LETTER SHEETS HERE
A supply of 1000 V-mail letter
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V-Mail Service Is Available Here
10 Correspond With Boys Overseas

sheets was received at the post office
here last week and are being dis
tributed to the public without cost.
To facilitate delivery of V-mail,
army postal officials urge that those
using the service carefully follow
the instructions printed on the sheets.
1t is imperative, they point out,
that the complete address of the adj
dressee and the sender be printed
plainly in black letters in the panel
provided for this purpose.
Unless this is done, there is no
address on the film reproduction
when V-mail is photographed on
microflm, and mail without the
proper address is held up.
DISPATcHING CENTERS
The letter is then stamped and
sent to the dispatching center in the
United States thru which the mail
is then shipped to the foreign points.
The main centers are in New York
City, Boston, Mass, San Francisco,
Calf, and New Orleans, La.
1t is also important that on all "
mail addressed to army personnel
serving outside the continental limits
of the United States the grade, first
name, middle initial and last name
of the person addressed, followed by
his army serial number, if known,
be used.
The address also should include the
letter or number of the company or
similar organization of which the ad-
dressee is member, the designation
of the regiment or separate battalion,
if any, to which the company belongs
and the army post office number in
care of the appropriate postmaster.
Postal officers warned that moth
ing must be enclosed in the V-maiI
envelope as the original letter may
not be delivered to the addressee, but
may be photographed on microfilm
and Photographic copy of the let
ter be delivered.
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Ninety Year-Old Stove Will Be Sold
In Scrap Drive To Aid In War Effort

1t was in this cabin that John ID.
Anderson, father of the present
Anderson brothers was born. Sever
al years later the family moved sew
eral hundred yards back away from
the road to the site now occupied by
Harry Anderson.
NEW STOVE
1t is believed that the old hearth
stone, now about to be converted into
war materials, was purchased at the
time of moving back away from the
road. The old cabin was heated by
a fireplace and in the establishment
of the new home the cast iron stove
represented a definite improvement
The old stove was a wood burner
and the wood on the farm furnished
the heat for the cooking and warm
ing the house on the cold winter
nights many years ago.
More than ordinary sentimental
value is attached to the stove in
that all of the vegetables cooked on
the stove were raised on the farm
and all of the meat prepared on the
stove was raised or caught in the
wooded area which made up large
part of the 240 acres.
FARM DIVIDED
Grandfather Anderson died in 1864
and his son John ID. Anderson CON
tinued the farming of the home.
stead. Father John d. Anderson
died in 1913. The land was parcelled
out to the three boys: John, 10C
acres; Jesse, 80 acres; Harry, sc
acres. The remaining 20 acres was
sold to J. w. Montgomery.
John d. Anderson was married in
1870 to Miss Eliza Montgomery. TIC
this union were born two children
John A. Anderson and Mrs. Eliza
"a. CO. Spangler. Mrs. Anderson
died in 1872. In 1884 Mr.. Ander-
son married Miss Emma Ruggley OF
Wayne county and to this union
were born four children: Jesse and
Harry Anderson, Mrs. Mabel Cook
son and Mrs. Helen (Shirley) Non.
namaker.
TAUGHT SCHOOL
Father John d. Anderson was q
school teacher when only 19 years OF
age and taught for four terms al
the old Black and Ewing schoo
houses in Orange township.
One of the relics at the Jesse And
erson home is the old handbell usec
| by his father to call the schoo
children in after recess and at ths
morning and afternoon hours. Mr.
Anderson has had the bell converted
into an attractive lamp which grace.
the living room of his home.
Also at the Jesse Anderson home il
a coat rack made out of one of tn,
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Annual Season For Hay Fever Will Be
Here Soon With Ragweed Ready To Bloom

It's just around the corner, folks,
and we don't mean prosperity.
We're talking about that annual
plague that gets its share of Bluff
ton people about this time of the
year, hay fever.
Soon as that pesky pollen of rag
weed, flowers and other vegetation
starts permeating the air, life will
come to an end for many souls.
Their annual misery will be here.
English Origin
Hay fever originally got its name
in England, due to the fact the
severest outbreak in that country
came at the time of the hay harvest
and the people associated their
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Teaching Personnel
At Mt. Cory Named

The completed teaching personnel
at the Mt. Cory public schools is an
nounced this week by Supt. D. C.
Simkins. The assignments are as
follows:
d. C. Simkins, superintendent,
science.
Carroll P. Cole, principal, coaching,
history and physical education.
o. E. McKitrick, mathematics, in
dustrial arts.
Miss Olive Obee, speech, English
and French.
Miss Isabelle Stewart, music, Eng
lish and Latin.
Miss Laura Ebersole, vocational
home economics and Latin.
Miss Dorothy Rothrock, CONNER
cial and girls physical education.
Miss Thelma Jordon, fifth and sixth
grades.
Miss Lillian Hards, third and sec
ond grades.
Miss Genevieve Beagle, first and
second grades.
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~ Our fighting men are doing
% their share. Here at home
the least we can do is put 1Oqo
'H OF our income in War Bonds
- for our share in America.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13
Slip In Mail Service 80 Years Ago
Changes Vocation Of Former Pastor

made him a Hoosier schoolmaster at
the age of 1S-never reached him.
81 have been thankful ever since
to Uncle Sam for that Slip, said
Rev. Lahr, in reminiscing, for that
fall found him a student preparing
for the ministry at Mission House
college, a small denominational SEM
mary of the Reformed church at
Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Graduating from the Seminary in
1892 he began his ministry in Clay
City, Ind, that summer and was or
dained a month later in Louisville,
Kentucky.
1t was on his first charge at Clay
City that he met Miss Ottilie Baum
gartner-his future wife. The cou-
pie will shortly celebrate their 49th
wedding anniversary.
Later years found him serving Re-
formed churches in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Waugegan, ILL; Frostburg, Md; and
Curtiss, Wisconsin.
1t was from the latter charge that
he moved with his family to Bluff
ton in December, 1911.
From Bluffton, he was called to
Indianapolis and from there to Whet-
stone, near Bucyrus. Here it was
that a call came from his former
Alma Mater to Rev. and Mrs. Lahl
to serve as house parents at the Mis-
sion house at Sheboygan. Here he
also served as business manager, and
director of farm operations, over.
seeing a student body of $50.
Arduous duties in connection will
administration of the Mission hous,
later led the couple to turn over tn,
work to younger hands and they
moved to Ada to accept the presen
pastorate.
Five children of the couple al
have been identified with some phas,
of christian work.
Edith, Mrs. Homer Moser, ha
with her husband been engaged fo
many years in mission work in Bra
zil, South America. The couple ar
now spending a years furlough il
Denver, Colo.
Cordelia, Mrs. A. J. Martin, i
now engaged in mission work wit
her husband in Brazil.
Marie, wife of DR.. j. c. Stuck
, previously engaged in mission wor
: in China was obliged to return t
this country because of unsettle
conditions. She and her husband re
side in Denver where he is a prac
tising physician.
Evelyn, wife of Rev. ]. P. Koch
: ner, resides in Buffalo where he
, husband is pastor of st. Johns Re
, formed church.
, Franklin, the only son, is paste
, of an influential church in Indian
apolis and will deliver the sermo
: at the anniversary service in hi
2 fathers church, Sunday morning.
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Stove Unused for 52 Years at
Harry Anderson Farm in
Orange Twp.
Was Bought by Grandfather
Andrew Anderson Who Came
Here in 1910

After lying unused for over a
half century in the woodshed at the
Harry Anderson farm in Orange
township, an old hearth type cooking
stove, family heirloom, will be sold
for scrap in the current collection
campaign to aid the war effort.
The stove, with an 1850 patent
date on it, was used for about 40
years in the old Anderson homestead
where lived Andrew Anderson, grand
father and John d. Anderson, father
of the present occupant Harry An
derson.
REMOVED IN 1890
Consisting of several levels, the
stove is very low and stands only
% inches in height. 1t is 25 inches
wide and three and one-half feet
long. 1t was removed from the
kitchen of the home in 1890 and has
been resting idle in several of the
farm buildings ever since that time
The stove has no CRATE, the fire
being built in the front hearth por-
ton. The flames were carried under
the heating portion of the stove by
the draft of the chimney.
Altho the stove will likely be sold
in the current scrap collection, the
three brothers, John, Jesse and
Harry Anderson all living on ada
cent farms have indicated that ii
will be pretty hard to let the old
family heirloom go.
1t is estimated that the stove
weights a minimum of 500 pounds
and with scrap iron bringing prem
ium prices it would net a neat little
sum of money.
CAME IN 1910
Grandfather Anderson came tt
Orange township from Pennsylvania
in 1840 and secured from the United
States government under the home.
stead agreement the 240 acres now
farmed by his grandsons.
One of the early pioneers IL
Orange township, he erected a los
cabin from trees hewn by his owl
hands at the entrance of the Ian,
leading into the present Harry And
erson farm three miles southeast O
town.