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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Two Pound Per Person Sugar Bonus
Granted; Permanent Bonus May Come
Ration Card Holders May OBJ
tain Extra Allotment Be-
ginning Friday
Sugar Shipments Near Normal
May Result i'm More Grants
In Future

Bluffton residents may obtain a
sugar bonus of two pounds for every
ration card held, purchasable be-
tween July 10 and August %, with
the likelihood developing OF a per-
manent bonus of a pound of sugar
per person every three weeks.
The Office Of Price Administration
announced the two pound bonus as
necessary because OF somewhat
heavier shipments" of sugar into this
country than had been anticipated.
In addition, institutional sugar
consumers win get Is per cent OF
their normal sugar consumption in
September and October instead of
the present so per cent. Industrial
users will get 80 per cent instead
of the 70 per cent figure given now.
Bluffton householders may obtain
the sugar bonus by presenting ration
stamp No. z to the grocery store
any time during the allotted period.
This bonus is in addition to the
regular two pound monthly allot.
ments obtainable with cards 5 and 6.
The permanent bonus is being con-
sidered because of the fact that su-
gar shipments are coming through
from Hawaii and the Caribbean at
about normal rates despite shipping
losses.
The importations and an increased
local production have caused the ma
tons holdings to be about normal,
altho critics have charged that hold
ings were above normal.
The war production board has es-
timated that about so pounds of
sugar would be available for each
person during the next six months.
This is about normal peace time
consumption.
This, however, is not to be taken
as an indication of abandoning the
rationing program. The hazards of
shipping make it necessary to keep
the rationing machinery in operation
should the supplies become material
ly lessened.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Funeral Services
For Glenn R0naer

Funeral services for Glenn Ramer,
SO, Bluffton resident until about a
year ago when he moved to Mt Cory,
were held at the Basinger Funeral
home Monday afternoon at o'clock.
Rev. Gerald Bright, pastor of the
Church of Christ, officiated at the
service.
Mr.. Ramer died at his home in Mt.
Cory Saturday afternoon at $50
o'clock after an illness of three years
with complications.
He was born July Is, 1883, near
Dunkirk and in 1909 was married to
Grace Young of Bluffton.
Surviving are his wife; a daugh-
ter Mrs. Pearl Frantz at home and
a sister Mrs. Bertha Simon of Van
lue. Burial was in Maple Grove
cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
HIGH HOG MARKET
and PRICE CEILING
CRAMP RETAILERS
Shortages in Some Pork Items
Develop as Packers Cur
tail Buying
Hog Prices Drop on Markets
Here After Touching 20
Year High


With quotations for live hogs
touching twenty year highs and sales
of pork to consumers under ceiling
prices, shortages of some meat items
which developed in retail markets
here during the past week may be-
come more widespread if the condition
continues.
Local retailers complained that due
to high prices for live hogs, packing
houses are restricting purchases be-
cause of inability to advance retail
prices accordingly.
Peef, likewise covered by ceiling
prices, is in more favorable posi-
tion since livestock markets have not
shown comparable advances. Mutton
is not under price regulation.
Hog Prices OFF
Hogs at S14.50 on the markets here
Monday touched twenty year high.
Quotations, however, were off thirty
cents Wednesday morning, bringing
prices down to the level of a week
ago.
The lower price followed a drop in
packers demands for live hogs, al
though government purchases still
provided ample support for a strong
market.
Attracted by top prices, offerings at
yards here have been good considering
that this is the season between mark
citing of last falls pigs and the new
spring crop, buyers said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09

Miss Esther Welty, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Welty of North
Main street, and Lynn King, of
Westhope, North Dakota, were unit
ed IN marriage in a double ring cere-
mony at the Bluffton Missionary
church Tuesday night at 7 o'clock
The wedding vows were received
by DR.. H. E. Jessop, dean of the
Chicago Evangelical Institute, where
the couple both attended school
graduating this spring. Rev. A. F..
Albro, pastor of the church, assisted
In the ceremony.
The bride was attired in a satin
gown with a long train and veil
She carried a white Bible to which
pink and blue streamers were tied.
Delphinium were intermingled with
the streamers.
Her sister Miss Ruth Welty was
maid of honor and was dressed in a
blue taffeta gown and a tiara of
flowers in her hair. She carried a
shower bouquet of pink carnations.
Bridesmaid was Miss Lorena Clark,
friend from Chicago, who was at
tired similarly to the maid of honor
and carried a bouquet of pale Law
ender asters.
Rev. Kent Welty, a brother of the
bride from Ottawa, was best man.
Ushers were Harry Welty and Will
mer Basinger from Bluffton.
The wedding party entered the
church to the strains of Lohengrin's
Wedding March played by Miss Ma
bel Amstutz at the piano.
Preceding the ceremony was g
musical prelude of piano numbers
by Miss Amstutz including: "To a
Wild Rose" by MacDowell; "Prelude
in c" by Bach and "Near the Cross
by Auld.
Vocal selections were sung by Mr.
and Mrs. William Wright of Findlay,
former students at the Institute, who
sang We Promise Thee by DeKoven
and Perfect Love by Barnby.
AS the couple knelt before the
altar Mr.. and Mrs. Wright sang
"Seal Us o Holy Spirit" by Mere
dith. Mendelssohn's Bridal Chorus
was used as the occasional.
Mr.. and Mrs. King will make their
residence at South Bend, Ind, where
he is pastor of the Old Time Gospel
Tabernacle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Turbine Financing
Is Under Estimate

Financing of the turbo-generato
unit installed at Bluffton's municipal
electric light and waterworks plant
this spring will require $4,000 it
was disclosed at the meeting of the
town council Monday night.
This is $4,000 less than the orig
inal estimate of $4,000, the amount
believed necessary at the time when
the equipment was purchased early
last January.
A bond issue of $4,000 previously
authorized by the council was order
ed cancelled and the mayor and clerk
authorized to borrow the sum of
$4,000 at the Citizens National bank
here.
The borrowing will be in the form
of a demand note at a rate of in
terest not to exceed four per cent,
according to legislation adopted by
the council.
The bond issue was awarded to the
bank several months ago by the
council but the sale was never con-
sumated.
That the borrowing will be con-
siderably less than previously anti
cipated was due to several factors,
it was stated at the council meeting.
Chief among these were $4,000 re
! ceived from the sale of one of the
plants Skinner steam units being re-
placed by new equipment together
with installation and engineering
costs being less than estimated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Extensive Building Improvement Program
Here Takes Place OF New Construction
All Available Labor Being Used
In Repair and Remodeling
OF Buildings
After Present Stocks are Ex-
hausted Little Lumber Will
Be Available

Representing the first definite
shift in building activity, which for
the past four years centered in the
construction of new houses, Bluffton
area residents this summer are en-
gagged in remodeling, and repairing
work on the largest scale known
here in years, it was stated this
week by local building supply
dealers.
Starting in 1888 the town expert
enced building boom which ran
the total number of residences con-
structed over a four year period to
36. This summer, however, not a
single new house is being built.
Several barns are being built in
the rural section of the community
and many farm buildings are being
repaired. Many residences are be-
ing remodeled and improved here
despite lumber restrictions.
Labor Demand High
Demand for the services of car
penters, painters, plumbers and
masons also is the largest known in
years. Good wages, employment for
all who want to work and the feel
ing that repairs should be made
while materials are still available
have contributed to this situation.
Since lumber was frozen by fed
eral order on May 13, no new lum-
Der may be purchased by dealers
except on special order for con-
structing grain and food storage
buildings. One car for this purpose
has been delivered here since the
new regulation went into effect.
Lumber for the repair and i'm
provement of residences in the
amount of $500 and for farm build
ings not exceeding $1,000 may be
purchased from stocks on hand at
the time of the federal lumber
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Bluffton Army Pilot Circles Over
Fathers Farm Southwest OF Town

returned to the South Carolina
training station where he will con-
tinue army flying.
When he flew over the farm Hoch-
stettler said that he clearly recog-
nized his father in the barn yard.
The elder Hochstettler saw the plane
flying low but had no idea that it
was his son plotting the huge flying
transport. Some of the neighbors,
however, thought that it was La
verne but when they asked Mr..
Hochstettler he dismissed the idea
as unlikely.
Hochstettler, graduate of Beav-
erdam High school in the class of
1888, received his wings at Kelly
Field, Texas, on May 20. Prior to
his enlistment he had been working
on his fathers farm. His brother,
Robert Hochstettler, is manager of
the City Market here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Situation Far More Serious
Than Year Ago Being Met
Successfully
Change of Farm Operations,
Equipment Pooling and
Custom Work Seen

Confronted with the most serious
labor shortage in fifty years, farm
ers in the Bluffton district are prov
ing more than ordinarily resource
full in dealing with the situation
especially at harvest time.
While the lack of help is vastly
more serious than a year ago, farm
ers have foreseen this development
and have for the most part made
such preparations as were possible
to meet the emergency. How sue
cessful they have proven is evident
this year when harvest is already
well under way with a minimum of
extra help.
Profiting from their experience of
last summer when the shortage of
farm hands first became acute, they
have adjusted farm operations and
crops on basis of minimum of
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09

Miss Evelyn Niswander who has
been teaching in mission school in
Hawaii landed in San Francisco last
week and is enroute to her home
here, according to word received by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Noah
Niswander of South Lawn avenue.
Excepting for the fact that she
made the trip from Hawaii by boat,
details were lacking She is expect
ed to arrive here next week.
Miss Niswander for several years
has been instructor in a school on
Maui, one of the smaller islands of
the Hawaiian group. The school is
believed to have been closed since
the outbreak of hostilities.
The island was shelled by a Jap
anese submarine several months ago
at a point some distance from th,
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Funeral Friday For
Mrs. Il. &. ALth0IS

Funeral services for Mrs. E. C.
Althaus, 72, of North Jackson street,
will be held on Friday afternoon at
the Diller Funeral Home at 2 o'clock
and at the Church of Christ at 2:30
o'clock. Rev. Lee Remaley, of Ar
lington former pastor of the Bluff
ton Church of Christ, will officiate
at the rites.
Her death was sudden and unex-
pected, following complications from
a fall at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. A. nj. Rickert of Canton where
she was visiting. She died Tuesday
morning at 6:20 o'clock.
She was born May %, 1870 in
Hancock county, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Jonathan J. Fox. She was
united in marriage in the year 1895
to Ephraim Althaus who died in
1880. Six children were born to this
union. Two of the children preced-
ed her in death.
Survivors are the daughter, Mrs.
Rickert, and three sons, Rev. Elmond
Althaus of Circleville; Rev. Alvord-
an Althaus of Findlay and Devon
Althaus of Bethel; three brothers,
Warren Fox of Bluffton; William
Fox of Findlay and e. S. Fox of
Drumfight, Oklahoma.
Four sisters and two brothers pre-
ceded her in death.
The body will remain at the Dillel
funeral home until time for services
Burial will be in Maple Grove ceme-
terry.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
FIRST WHEAT OF
new CROP SOLD
ON MARKET HERE
Grain Marketed by Oliver
Spaeth on Bertsche Farm
Tests SO
Custom Combining Seen as
Partial Solution of Labor
Shortage

First load of new wheat from the
Bluffton area was marketed here
Tuesday afternoon. The grain was
that of Oliver Spaeth residing on
the Bertsche farm on the county
line. The wheat was combined
earlier in the day.
The wheat tested sixty and Spaeth
received $1.04 per bushel. Altho
wheat prices have dropped within
the past ten days they are still sub
stantially above last years level
when first wheat Of the 1871 crop
brought SO cents per bushel.
Threshing operations will be well
under way by the latter part of this
week, weather permitting, according
to present indications.
Much Combining in Prospect
Altho many fields have not vet
been cut, most of them are awaiting
harvesting by combines. Heavy
rains over the week end have de-
layed harvesting operations to some
extent.
Indications are that an average
crop is in prospect this year with
yields running generally from 20 to
25 bushels per acre. Shortage of
labor for peak harvest season ra-
quirements continues to be the
major farm problem with custom
combining providing partial solu-
tion.
Oats which sustained storm dam
age week ago is making some re-
covery, farmers reported the first of
the week. Corn prospects, also are
seen as satisfactory in view of the
handicap of a late seeding season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Births

The following births at the Bluff
ton hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Hilty, a boy,
Jerry Lynn, Thursday.
Nj. and Mrs. Harvey Phillips, OF
tawa, boy, Thursday.
Nh. and Mrs. Carl Simon, Ada, a
boy, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phares Bixel, Colum-
bus Grove, girl, Monday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Don Smuck-
er of Wadsworth, boy, Timothy, at
St. Thomas hospital in Akron, Sun
day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
NO MORE ASPHALT
TOP STREETS FOR
DURATION OF WAR
New Federal Restrictions Hit
Improvement Program of
Town Council
Use of Tar and Road Oil
Banned; Stone, Cement and
Brick Permitted

There will be no more hard sur
face streets in Bluffton for duration
of the war. This became known the
first of the week when a federal
order was announced banning the
use in road work of bituminous ma
terials such as asphalt, tar and oil
except in cases essential to promo
tion of the war effort. X.
The order, issued by the Public
Roads administration at the time the
town council was making prepara-
tions for its summer improvement
of streets and roads which included
an item of $500 gallons of asphalt
base road oil.
Restrictions on the use of bitum-
inous material for public highway
work have been broadened by the
Public Roads Administration to en-
brace 81 midwestern and southern
states, including Ohio, in addition to
the II eastern states which are
under gasoline and oil rationing, ad-
vices from Washington disclosed.
Program Planned Here
The council had planned a pro-
gram of extensive repair and i'm
provement of roads here this sum-
mer and were ready to advertise for
bids. The government order freez-
ing bituminous materials will not
affect emergency repairs. There are
sufficient materials on hand here for
this type of work, it was stated by
Lee Coon, street commissioner.
Acting at the request of Petroleum
Coordinator Ickes the roads agency
directed that "road or street use of
asphalt, including road oils and tar
products shall be deferred for the
duration of the emergency, except in
the case of projects certified by the
Public Roads administration as
necessary to the successful prosecu-
tion of the war;"
The federal order eliminates the
use of bituminous products only.
Stone, cement, brick and other
products may be used for repair and
improvement work. A considerable
portion of the work, however, will
be eliminated by the order as
asphalt, oil and tar products are
essential road improvement mater
ials.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09

Circling over his fathers farm in
large twin-motored army transport
which he was plotting, Staff Sgt
Francis Laverne Hochstettler, %,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hoch-
stettler, two and one-half miles
southwest of town, saw the old home
sights from the air for a few min
utes Saturday morning about $50
o'clock.
BY an interesting coincidence it
was several hours before Hochstettler
was expected for a weekend visit
at his home. As co-pilot of the
plane he was returning from Flor
ence, S. c., to Battle Greek, Mich,
where he has been stationed.
Army regulations would not per-
NIT landing so he flew the ship
back to Battle Greek and boarded
bus for Bluffton arriving here Sat-
urday night. He visited with his
parents until Monday night when he
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Farmers Resourceful In Coping
With Harvest Labor Shortage
BlufftOn Youth On
Aircraft Carrier
In Mediterranean

HOM ER Steiner, Bluffton
youth in naval service and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. z.
Steiner of Thurman street was
in the midst of history making
events in the Mediterranean
recently.
This became known with the
nayy's announcement that the
aircraft carrier Wasp, on which
Steiner is serving arrived at the
much bombed island of Malta
with aircraft reinforcements for
the hard pressed British gar
rison.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
COST OF RUNNING
BLUFFT0N IN 1913
$96,342 ESTIMATE
Expenditures i'm 1912 are Ex-
pected to Reach Record
Total of S101,735
Principal Increase Includes Ex-
penditure for Light Plant
Improvement

Bluffton municipal expenditures
during the 1943 calendar year are
expected to amount to S96,342.60, ac-
cording to budget approved Mon
day night at meeting of the town
council.
With routine details completed, it
will be submitted to the Allen county
budget commission by Town Clerk
w. o. Geiger, for inclusion in the
county program.
Expenditures in 1912 will amount
to $101, 1854, a record high mark,
according to an estimate made Mon
day night. This represents an in
crease of $14, 4,567.74 over the figure
of Ss7, 7,l67.60, budget estimate for
1912.
INCREASED CosT
This increase was due largely to
expense involved in the purchase of
the turo-generator installed at the
municipal light plant. Also contribut-
ing to the larger figure were in
creased salaries paid to appointive
officers and laborers, an extensive
street repair and improvement pro-
gram and bond retirement.
With increased balances on hand
and receipts anticipated during the
remainder of 1912 amounting to a
total of S110,351.37, it is estimated
the year will end with a balance of
SS,616.03.
In 1910 the budget was S67,859
but considerably more was spent in
1888 when expenditures aggregated
S92,516.20. Approximately $4,000 of
the 1888 sum represented the cost
of an addition to the municipal
water works plant and the installa-
ton of new boiler.
1943 ALLoTMENTs
Allotments in the 1943 budget spe-
city S14,942.60 for the general fund;
50, 800 FOR street maintenance and
repair (from general taxes) $500
fors tTeet maintenance and repair
(from gasoline tax fund.-; $4,000
for the municipal water works and
light plant; S5,400 for bond retire
ment.
In the 1912 budget S15,S35.34 went
into the general fund; $500 for
street work; $4,000 for the water
works and light plant, and S5,400
for bond retirement.
Anticipated receipts for the COM
ing year are expected as follows:
General fund, $15,530.12; street
maintenance and repair, general
taxi S2,859.s9; street maintenance
and repair, (gasoline taxi S3,96976;
municipal water works and light
plant, 75,92705; and bond retire
mcnt, S5,43373.
With estimated receipts totalling
$103, ,720.55 and budgeted expenses
of 96,342.60 there will be a balance
of S7,377.95, the report indicated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
TOlUn Hall Chinaneys
viii Be Repaired

Contract for repairing six Chin
neys on the town hall was let to
Lazarus Basinger by the council at
its meeting Monday night. Repair
will consist of pointing and re-
building when necessary.
Cost of the project, estimated at
$500 will be divided between the
town and Richland township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
To Recruit Doctors
For Army Service

Physicians in Bluffton and other
northwestern Ohio town and cities
seeking commissions in the army
will be interviewed in Toledo this
week until Thursday.
A medical recruiting board will be
authorized to grant immediates COM
missions as lieutenants and captains.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
NeU Red Cross Unit
To Open At School

Bluffton women will be given an
opportunity to make army surgical
dressings in new branch of the
Red Cross to be held at the grade
school building starting August /,
it was announced this week by Mrs.
J. S. Steiner, director Of supplies.
According to present plans the
room will be open four days and two
or three nights every week. A di-
rector of the branch will be appoint
ed in the near future. In the mean
time any volunteers may report to
Mrs. Steiner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Will T'eaoh At Oak
HarbOr High Sch0ol

Miss Josephine Niswander has ac-
cepted a position in the high school
at Oak Harbor as instructor in
mathematics for the coming year.
She was graduated from Heidelberg
college, Tiffin, this spring and is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Niswander residing north of town
on the county line.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Ebenezer Broadcast

The mixed choir, directed by Prof.
Otto Holtkamp of Bluffton college,
will be featured on the weekly broad
cast over radio station WIN Fri
day night at 7:15 o'clock. Miss
Mabel Amstutz is the accompanies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
Crop Ready in August

A large potato of the Chippewa
variety, weighing one pound, is at
tracing considerable attention in the
Bluffton News display window this
week. The potato was dug Monday
at the Menno Schumacher farm
northwest of town.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
NEW NIGHT POLICE

Gideon Schaeublin is serving as
night police under temporary APP
pointment, taking the place of Albert
Reichenbach who will work with =
threshing outfit for several weeks