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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

Dayton spent from Thursday until
Sunday in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
ID C. Campbell.
Mrs. Hugh Oakley and daughter
Joan of Midland Mich, were over
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen
Mayberry and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lemley of
Findlay and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lem
ley of Pandora were Sunday dinner
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Marshall and family.
Ray Marshall of Orange Township
who is well known here, underwent an
appendectomy at Bluffton hospital
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Roby and fam
lily of Blue Lick, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sylvester of Marion and Ed Reichen-
bach were supper guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Glen Huber and family and Mrs.
Mary Sylvester, Thanksgiving day
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Mayberry, son
Roger and daughter Rose Leigh spent
Thanksgiving day with Mrs. Anna
Bowers and Mrs. Grace Jones in Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Marshall, dau-
ghter Rebecca and son John Joined in
a. Lemley family dinner in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Bucher near
Pandora for Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Glen Mayberry and Mrs. Hugh
Oakley of Midland, Mich, were among
the guests at a luncheon given Mon
day IN the home of Mrs. Ed Liable of
near Lima, honoring Mrs. George Tarr,
Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall op-
ened their farm home near McGuffev
on Thanksgiving day to a group of
friends and relatives who had a most
enjoyable time. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Stewart of Besse-
mere, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. May
berry of Columbus Grove; Mrs. Ralph
Marshall and daughter of Beaverdam;
Rev. and Mrs. Z. n. Bigelow of Bluff
ton; Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Cupp, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Begg, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
gar Begg and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Begg and family; the Miss
es Filnora Marshall and Edythe Cupp,
the host and hostess and their son
Don.
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ROckpOrt

Mrs. d. c. Campbell who was a
patient in Lima Memorial Hospital fol
three weeks following an operation
was brought to her home the first OF
last week, where she is getting along
nicely.
The Misses Elizabeth and Lena Ris-
ser of Pandora were Thanksgiving day
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cupp
and family.
Miss Madeline Bixel who teaches in
Rittman spent part of her Thanksgiv-
ing vacation with Mrs. Lillian Rust
and family in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Stewart who
visited relatives in this vicinity for
more than a week, left Friday for
their home in Bessemer, Pa.
DR.. and Mrs. M. r. Bixel, daughter
Alice Jean and son Paul Don of Bluff
ton, Miss Madeline Bixel of Rittman,
Mr. and Mrs. F. C Marshall and son
Robert and Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Mar
shall were Thanksgiving day guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo Marshall.
A family dinner was held at Wit
tenborg's dinning room in Columbus
Grove Monday evening of last week
honcring the birthday anniversary of
j @ .Cupp. The guests were: Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Cupp and daughter
Nancy of Pandora Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Cupp, Miss Edythe Cupp, Mrs. ].
o. Cupp and the honor guest.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Delmar Reagan OF
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mattresses. Hulces uncle To1e back
into port, still playing his clarinet.
That was the goldbricking uncle.
The other uncle served as a kay
pee on the trip across. Carrying
tray around the deck, he was heck
led several times by a person he
soon grew to loathe. Eventually the
Irish wrath of the Smiths rose to
boiling point. Uncle Smith lifted
the tray high overhead and wrapped
it around the heckler's neck. He
spent the rest of the war in con-
finement.
Then there was the cousin. grand
mas sisters boy. Serving in the
front-line trenches, he grew suddenly
hungry one morning. Looking out
of the trench, he saw a peach tree
growing there in the midst of the
fiery hell, and there were still
peaches on it. He tried to sneak
into the tree, but the enemy's bull
lets found him. He was carried be-
hind the lines. Just as the stretcher
bearers laid him down, an enemy
shell exploded in the center of their
little group and none of them were
ever seen again.
This happened at exactly ten
o'clock on the morning of Novem-
Der Il, 19l8-one hour before the
Armistice was signed.
LINGERIE NOTE: Our winter
uniforms were issued to us today.
and, since we had the afternoon
off, we spent all our time until re-
treat trying on the pretties and pa
rading before each other. The
clothes were all-wool and the tenn
perature was all-heat, but all was
vanity.
We knew what the trousers, shirts,
ties, blouses, and overcoats would
look like, but the remainder of the
wardrobe came as a complete sur
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a truck to take him to Headquar-
ters Battery, FARO"
Sergeant Thomas w. Israel looked
up in faint amazement. / looked in
sheer bewilderment.
''They had to figure some way to
stop his cooking career and save
the morale of some battery as
would get him as cook" said Ser
geant Goldsmith. $50 he's being
palmed off to Center Headquarters
as public relations man."
The word buddy" hasn't come
into popularity yet in the new army
/ suppose that if there were such
things, Maury Sher would be mine.
Sher and l occupied adjoining hunks
when was in Battery A. bummed
most of my cigarettes from him
and we always got into trouble to-
gether.
Private Sher is smart and lik
able Jewish boy from Columbus,
Ohio. He went to school at South
ern California, until he learned that
all the worlds knowledge doesn't
come from the intellectual invalids
who usually teach the $3.50 class.
Then he went back to Columbus,
had an idea patented, and built him
self a restaurant shaped like a
champagne glass.
Came the fateful Sixteenth of Oc-
tober and Sher enrolled for the Sc
lective Service System. His appli-
cation was accepted last July and,
since he had been the successful
proprietor of restaurant, he was
classified as promising student for
the Army cooking course.
The two of US got together when
he was sent to the Replacement Gen.
ter here. We started an acquaint-
ance when l topped all his Jewish
jokes and began teaching him how
to speak Yiddish. I was attracted
by his native intelligence, his pleas
ant personality. his sense Of humor,
the similarity of his likes and dis
likes to mine, his subscription to
PM, his well-stocked supply of Gig
arettes (my brandt, and the cookies
he constantly received from home.
So we became more or less con-
slant companions. We made the
rounds here together, went to Char
lotte together, made goo-goo eyes at
the same waitress in Fayetteville,
and swapped valuable trade secrets
in goldbricking.
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prise to us. We were especially in
trigued by the woolen gloves and
the pretty gray-blue socks.
But the piece de resistance was
the underwear, if l may be indeli-
cate. Private Huber and some Of
the other less fortunate citizen-sol-
diers were issued simple, unglamor-
Gus longies in color that could
best be described as lemon Gus
tard. The cut of these pale beau
ties was the orthodox, one-piece de-
sign such as one sees hung on the
washlines of all comic strips.
From wrist to ankle, we will be
clothed this winter in two-piece en-
sembles of a color halfway between
baby blue and rabbit gray. The un-
dershirts are cut on a sweat-shirt
pattern and are form fitting enough
to send any Hollywood designer into
frenzies of envy. The neither gar
ments, which are called "shorts" for
some unfathomable reason, look like
the tights worn in medieval days
and show off the shapeliness of
masculine leg to best advantage
or otherwise.
Next to the Bugler, I suppose the
battery clerk has the goldbrickin' est
job in the battery. You could cut
his pay to ten dollars a month and
he'd still be defrauding the govern
ment.
Just watch the battery clerk for
while and you start wondering
why he's in the Army, when he's
SO evidently cut out to fit the lean
ing end of a WPA shovel. While
the rest of the battery is earning
its daily bread with sweat, the bat
terry clerk sits in the orderly room
hob-nobbing with the powers that
be, typing the daily worklist with
original spellings for all the nameS
and wondering how long it is until
lunchtime.
Our battery clerk is a beardless
youth named Howard Miller. l
tripped over him yesterday evening
on my way back from a hard days
work and stopped to chew the con-
versational fat
Junior" l asked him, chow does
your conscience feel about this six
day goldbricking schedule every
week? Don't you feel twinge on
payday?"
Corporal Miller made move to
draw himself up Indignantly, but de-
cided it wasn't worth the effort ''If
you're insinuating that l don't have
to work you're off your bean, sonny
! do two or three times as much
work as you happiness boys"
I yawned and sat down. after
listening to Ussery shooting off his
mouth fifteen hours a day, I can
take yours. Go on with your fam
tastic story"
Boy" said Miller, "the RESPONSE
bility is enough to kill an ordinary
man. I'm a one-man information
bureau for the whole battery. l
have to know who everybody is,
where everybody is, where every
body's going and how long he's 60
ing to be there.
s'I have to know the answer to
every dumb question you guys come
popping up with. Where's my mail?
When do I get my furlough? Where
are we ~o;nrr to ha sent whe-. we
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News Notes From
Four Counties
Continued from page 81

Continued from page 81
county line roads near the James Ir-
win farm.
Doyl Figley and his father, James
Figley, of Rockport were hospitalized
for observation after sustaining cuts
and bruises.
The Figleys accompanied by Will
lam w. Pontius, also of Rockport.
were northbound on a hunting trip TO
the Findlay vicinity, and Lewis Miller
of Russell's Point was eastbound at
the time of the COLLISION. Pontius
and Miller escaped with minor bruises.
Both cars suffered extensive damage.
Four dogs in the Figley car escaped
unscratched.
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SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Edward Thomas
Marion Lawton Hargrove. feature
editor of the Charlotte IN. CO News,
receives notice from his draft board
mat ne is to be inducted into the
army. Before he begins an account
ing OF his actual experiences in
framing camp he issues his quota
OF Tree advice to prospective in
ouctees. After his induction Har-
grove, with his new buddies. leaves
1or Fort Bragg, where he is to re-
ceive his basic training.
CHAPTER H-Private Hargrove
tells of the physical exam, the first
lew days of army, how he was out
htted with his uniform, and how on
the sixth day he received his first
NJ duty. He is classified as semi
skilled cook.
CHAPTER III-Hargrove relates
ms conversation with his sergeant
VINO is trying to find out why he
spendS so much time on KIP duty.
he also reports on the session the
frances are put through by the ex-
erclse sergeant He has trouble
learning how to handle his rifle and
IS given plenty of special attention
by the sergeant and corporal.
CHAPTER Iv-priva:e Eargrove
relates some of the incidents sur
rounding the advancement in rank
by some of his friends. Why he
fails to so advance is a puzzle to
MS sergeant. who inquiries about il.
CHAPTER V-Hargrove is given
q review of his faults by his SER
geant who tells him to snap out of
it and start working for his cor
poraPs stripes. He also gets les
son in the art of goldbricking.
CHAPTER VI-Private Hargrove
lists series of army slang defini-
tions for the enlightenment of the
civilian population. He also tells
how he and two of his pals spoil a
perfectly good date for one Private
Zuber. Going home on furlough he
goes to visit newspaperman friend
who dominates their conversation
recounting his experiences in the
first World War. He also under
goes another trying experience at
inspection.
CHAPTER Vn-Private Hargrove
continues to relate the incidents sur
rounding his camp life and tells
about being outfitted for an over
coat. A weekend is spent on man.
euvers on the South Carolina coast.
He gets a good case of sunburn.
CHAPTER VIII-Hargrove gets
his first taste of army cooking
school reports on his daily activi-
ties there. He tells also about the
real meaning of army morale and
how it affects new inductees.
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"Son," he said, "you're going to
make perfectly breathtaking Hor-
rible Example" / had nothing more
to say.
doing in the kitchen l put you imp"
Making jerk-ade," l explained,
'chopping celery, peeling onions.
They say l get in their way They
say keep spirits too high and pro-
duction too low"
Il feel for you," the sergeant
said. Il deeply sympathize. You're
going to be a mighty unpopular lit
tie boy in your new home. If that
supper tonight don't melt in them
boys mouths and send them clam
oring for more, they'll either mas
sacre you or run you over the hill.
That's one thing the boys won't al
low-bum cooking!"
Sergeant Goldsmith, SIR" l i'm
plored him. Cant somebody else
60 in my stead? Somebody who can
cook? Look at me-a digger of
bitches, mopper of floors, a scrub
ber of kitchens, ministering angel
to undernourished grass plots, but
cook never! You don't know what
you're doing to mel"
son." he said, you're going to
make perfectly breath-taking Hor-
rible Example!"
Then he rose and walked back
into the supply room. Thomas"
he said, "check in this yardbird's
equipment.
Sergeant Israel looked up from
his Form Thirty-Two records.
Don't he like his equipment"
''Check in everything but his
clothing.',, the tor kick sa;d. Get
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BY this time, the evening bull ses-
sions have worn themselves into a
very definite routine. If Corporal
Ussery is there, he lectures on how
he'd run the Army; if it's Private
Terrence Clarkin, he tells how he
used to direct the intricate traffic
affairs of Radio City Music Hall
when he was assistant chief doorman
there. Unless Private Henri Geld
ers is stopped, he'll start violent
argument among the butchers over
how to cut steak.
McGlauflin will talk for hours
about the beauties of the lakes in
Minnesota. Grafenstein will deliver
diScourses on how he would run the
Wisconsin football team; Pappas,
about Alabama's Crimson Tide. Ma
ciejewski will sermonize on the ut
ter baseness and treachery of wom-
anhood.
Lately, however, the sessions have
come more and more under the
sway of Private Merton Hulce, a
mad Irish lad from Muskegon, Mich
igan. Private Hulce apparently
didn't stop at kissing the Blarney
Stone. He must have stolen half
of it to carry with him.
Hulce's chief topic of converse
tion is his mothers fabulous family,
the Smiths, all of whom seem to
get enmeshed in every war that
comes along. His grandfather, who
was a captain in the Coast Guard
at the outbreak of the last war, was
transferred to duty at guarding mu-
nitions dumps and such for the dura-
ton of the war.
According to Hulce, one of the
munitions guards with his grandfa-
theirs detail was approached late
one night by an officer of the guard.
"Halt!" shouted the sentry, and the
officer halted. Advance to be rec
ognized!" said the sentry, and the
officer advanced. The sentry for
got to order "halt" again and the
officer came within a foot of him.
Suddenly the officer reached out and
snatched the rifle from the guard
hand.
This was an exceedingly uncom-
Portable position for the guard, espe-
cially in that time of war. He might
even have been sentenced to death.
The officer stood there just looking
at the guard for fully minute.
'What would you have DONE" he
asked in a terrible voice, IF an
enemy had got your gun like that?"
The guard trembled for a moment
and recovered. 81 would have
snatched it back, SIR" he said, "like
THAT" And the officer stood there,
empty-handed.
Hulce's grandfather, who told that
story, is now about sixty-five, his
grandson says. He was asked to
come back into the Navy three
months ago as captain. Being a
Smith, he's back. With him in the
armed forces today are two of his
sons and two of his grandsons.
Merton had two uncles in the last
war. both of whom Jared exceeding
ly well when you take a practical
view of it. Neither tired himself
out. The first crossed the ocean
nine times playing the clarinet in a
troop ships band. The Germans
.torpedoed the boat once and the
holes in the side were stuffed with
-.-~----.--.
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Grove Seniors Conduct
Bond Campaign

The Senior class of the Columbus
Grove high school is conducting a war
stamp and bond selling campaign in
the school.
Total sales to date are S1S220. The
fifth grade is leading all grades with
an average purchase of As cents per
student. Three bonds have been pur-
chased.
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American laboratories producing
hog cholera immunizing agents
manufactured 597 ,230,941 cubic cent?.
meters more serum and 81,000,00C
c. C. more virus in 1943 than in 1941
Veterinarians worked day and night
in some areas to immunize hogs be-
fore outbreaks of cholera could get
started. Immunization is the only
known hog cholera control.
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MinA
DeAoIsoI

Time to write your letter to
Santa Claus better not put it
off this year cause everything
is stepped up to wartime tempo .
| they're mailing Xmas cards early
and stores are in the midst of
holiday shopping .and maybe
you'll be asking for a ton of coal
this Christmas = but how'd YOU
suppose Santa could get down the
chimney with load like that -
anyway coal is supposed to go up
| the chimney not down or
some smokes and holiday cigars
are just about off the list and
none too plentiful are Luckies which
rate as favorite among the popular
brands, so the boys say but if
you can't reach for a Lucky - this
year you may be able to get a
sweet instead for candy is
gradually coming back no. it's
not coming in abundance = but
more promised than last year - so
don't be a hoarder and therell be
a reasonably sufficient supply to go
around and watch your step
and don't cash checks for strangers
- several Bluffton merchants vic
timized lately for sizeable amounts
/. farmers having headaches with
the federal income tax man here
the first of the week pending the
December 15 deadline but may
be they'll find a raise in the ceiling
price of corn in their stocking for
; c hr S t m flash - Dode
Murray announcing to all and sun
dry that he will never vote the
Democratic ticket cause his new
shoes had eyelets instead of hooks
for the laces whatta world.
There's a Bluffton woman looking
for hunter who wants to trade
a pheasant for a box of .22 rifle
cartridges. Her husbands too busy
to go hunting-but the prospect of
ending the season this week without
a pheasant is a dismal one. So
in event you're interested in a
trade, contact Gene Benroth, presi-
dent of the Sportsman's club for
details.
Thanksgiving was last Thursday
but the high spot came on We'd
nesday night for Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew (Joe) Herman of North
Main street when their son John
unexpected called them by telephone
from New York city, Wednesday
night. John is serving in the navy
and this was the first they had
heard from him for several months.
He is expected home on leave soon.
The shop early for Christmas
slogan is really taking hold this
year-veteran merchants say that
the early volume of buying is the
heaviest they have ever witnessed.
One local business man stated the
first of the week that he didn't ex-
! pect to do as much Christmas busi-
ness after the first of December as
he had done before that time.
Twelve carrots-a dozen of 'em
in one, is attracting attention in
| the News window. And fully as
unusual as the exhibit is the fact
that it comes from the garden of
Mrs. Joe Mumma, 80, of North
Jackson street. Mrs. Mumma, des-
pite her years, raises a fourishing
lot of garden truck every summer,
being assisted by her nephew Ray
Mumma.
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Came a letter the other day from
r ugene Augsburger, Beaverdam
youth, that he hadn't received any
mail for seven weeks-so in re-
sponse number of his friends have
been mailing letters, poems and
cartoons to him, which should cheer
HIM up around Christmas time.
Sorry we can't print his address
censorship regulations prohibit-but
you can get it by calling Mrs.
Leonard Green, Bluffton telephone
central operator.
Improvement noted in the coal
situation-three cars arrived in the
first of the week which should re-
lieve the stringency. No, you can't
have your bin filled-but looks as if
there will be no heatless homes on
Christmas.
Word of the scarcity of pheasants
in the Bluffton area brings a re-
proof from Dale "Heinie" Davidson.
erstwhile Bluffton hunter, now at
Illinois State Normal UNIVERSITY.
Heinie chides Bluffton sportsmen for
complaining and says they ought to
come out to Mclean county in the
heart of the Illinois corn belt where
he tramped for two consecutive
days with an aggregate bag of one
rabbit and one quail, and never
sighted a single pheasant. All of
which he says recalls the old days
of hunting near Bluffton when he
and Sgt Denver Augsburger, now
soldering in North Africa got their
limit in pheasants in less than
minute after they took the field.
Thought for the week-"Do the
best you can with what you have
where you are. Meet your pro-
blems head-on." Theodore Roosevelt.
-
Congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs.
d. c. Bixel who will observe their
fifty-second we d d ing anniversary,
Friday. They were married in 1891
at the Adam Bixel homestead near
the Schumacher quarry and have
resided all their married life at
their present location on Lawn
avenue.
And just to recall days of more
than a half-century ago, theirs was
one of the few houses on that
street. From the Noah Basinger
residence there were no houses
south until the Mrs. Mosiman home
at Lawn avenue and Grove street.
The intervening space was the cow
pasture of Judge Eaton's farm.
By strange coincidence both Mr..
and Mrs. Bixel's parents were mar
ried 81 years. Mr.. Bixel estimates
that he has 223 first cousins of
whom los are still living.
Il
When you buy a ticket to a NOV
ing picture show, how much of the
price you pay goes for taxes-we
didn't know and being curious we
asked George Carmack, manager of
the Star Theatre.
He told us-how much do you
suppose-almost One-third. To be
exact, thirty-one per cent-thirty-
one cents of every dollar taken in
at the ticket office window goes to
pay the various taxes levied on
motion picture theatres by state and
federal governments.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

The State of Ohio
Allen County
Estate of Minnie H. Henry, deceased.
Kenneth r. Henry of i64 Mound street
Bluffton. Ohio. has been appointed and quail
fed as Administrator of the estate of Minnie
II. Henry, late of Allen County. Ohio. de-
ceased.
Dated this 10th day of November. 1943.
Raymond p. Smith
33 Probate Judge.
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
State of Ohio,
Allen County,
Estate of j. Norman King, Deceased.
Ruth Irene King of Button. Ohio. has
been appointed and qualified as Executrix of
the estate of J. Norman King, late of Allen
County. Ohio. deceased.
Dated this 22nd day of November. 1943.
RAYMOND SMITH
"a Probate Judge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-01-29
Hold Trio in City Jail
On Federal Charges

Assistant u. S. Marshal John +.
Vargo revealed Thursday that
three federal prisoners are now in
custody in Tacoma city Jail. One
of the prisoners, Charles W.
smerks. ls-year-old Kaiser ship
yard worker, was being held pend
ing removal To Great Falls. Mont.
for trial on a charge of driving a
stolen auto from there TO the ship
yards at Vancouver, Wash. where
he was arrested by Vsrgo, His
bail Is $1,000.
The other two men. Barney o.
Sachse. 22-year-old Kaiser ship
yard worker from Vancouver. and
Norman A. Fuller, 36-year-old
Kelso resident, are selective service
violators. Fuller's bail has been
set at $4,000 while sachse has not
yet had a hearing before u. 8.
Commissioner Stewart Elliott.